Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy

Chapter 607

"Among the students, you can count on one hand the number of guys who have succeeded with such an absurd proposal."

"So there are people who have succeeded?"

The skull principal's gaze completely returned to normal.

"Just hear what you want to hear. Why. Do you want me to tell you what kind of proposals there were?"

"I was just curious. Can I ask one more thing?"

"What is it?"

"What happens if you accept a proposal and then say you can't do it after some time has passed?"

"...Are you asking because you're thinking of running away after just receiving the sponsorship money!?!"

The skull principal was shocked.

This disciple had no intention of taking on reckless challenges from the beginning.

While other arrogant and conceited guys were rushing in without knowing their place, he was coldly planning to receive the sponsorship money alone and run away! 𝑅�

It was truly a chilling coldness.

'The future is frightening!'

"No... I might not be able to do it halfway through. And the used sponsorship money can't be helped. I'm not trying to run away on purpose."

"You are truly a crazy guy. Give it up. A mage who only covets the fruits in front of him won't last long. If you accept a proposal and fail, it will damage your reputation."

For an imperial mage, reputation was as important as skill.

No matter how skilled you are, who would entrust a large sum of money to a mage like Verduus?

The reason Verduus was working under the skull principal now was because he had failed to manage his reputation.

"I think it would be okay once or twice, right?"

"...Do it. Do it! Make sure to do it! Just try not doing it."

"If you keep getting angry like that when I ask a question..."

The skull principal shuddered and changed the subject.

"The sponsor we're going to meet now will be a bit different from the ones we've met so far, so be careful."

"?"

Yi-Han was surprised by the principal's words.

A different sponsor?

"Is their personality eccentric?"

"Eccentric... You could say they're eccentric. It will be different from what you think. They are the third of His Majesty the Emperor's nine children."

"!!!"

Since the current emperor's children numbered over a hundred, there was no great authority for each one of them.

In fact, Yi-Han, who had met the emperor in person, felt like he knew why the heads of the great noble families were indifferent to the imperial family members.

From the perspective of the family heads, the emperor who should rule forever and ever was in place, but the imperial family members who were too young and unqualified were saying, 'I want to be the next emperor!', so how absurd would it have been?

Rather, Yi-Han was more curious about the loyal noble factions gathered under some of the imperial family members.

Didn't they firmly believe that the imperial family member they served would become the successor?

'Do they really believe they can become a better emperor than the current emperor?'

They probably didn't know the true identity of the current emperor…

Anyway, the mass-produced imperial family members had no special authority, and quick-witted people all knew that, but some of the imperial family members were a bit special among them.

From the first to the ninth.

They were the real children that the emperor had conceived and given birth to alone.

Although they lacked the qualifications to be emperor, they had tremendous potential as dragons.

Above all, the fact that they were of the dragon race, unlike the imperial family members below them, was very important.

In fact, these nine children were the ones the emperor considered his true children.

Naturally, not only the skull principal but also the great noble families had no choice but to pay attention to these true children of the emperor.

"I think I know. So these nine are all rich thanks to such favor, and we're going to extort that money."

"...Excellent!"

The skull principal was startled by Yi-Han's intuition.

Usually, when talking about these nine children, people only focused on the fact that they were dragons or the emperor's beloved children and became nervous.

But this disciple wasn't swayed by such things and immediately grasped the real purpose.

"You're really amazing. I'm happy to see your growth!"

"Haha. It's all thanks to the principal's guidance."

Alcicle, who was walking next to them, shook his head.

The work of a grand mage was a little, no, very different from Alcicle's imagination.

***

'I'm nervous.'

Yi-Han, standing in front of the mansion's wall, took a deep breath.

Facing a dragon was something that made him more nervous if he knew in advance.

The emperor was rather fortunate to meet without knowing, but the emperor's third child made him nervous as much as he knew.

What kind of dragon would they be?

'They said eccentric.'

There were many types of eccentricity.

Eccentricity like Verduus, eccentricity like the skull principal, eccentricity like Professor Bagrak…

Since they were one of the emperor's first nine children, they would easily be over a hundred years old, so there was a high possibility of eccentricity like the skull principal.

Yi-Han imagined an old man with white hair in good health angrily shouting.

'How should I flatter them?'

"Ugh."

"Are you okay, Mr. Alcicle?"

"Ugh."

Alcicle's complexion didn't look good. His beak was drooping and his shoulders were hunched.

Thinking it might be due to the burden of meeting a dragon, Yi-Han asked.

"Is it because of the meeting...?"

"Ugh. I'm embarrassed to say it, but yes. Actually, I met them once before."

Yi-Han was startled by Alcicle's words.

"You have?"

"It was terrible back then."

"What kind of person were they..."

"Please come in!"

The knight guarding the entrance signaled.

Yi-Han stopped the conversation and followed the skull principal through the main gate and walked across the front yard of the mansion. Since the site was so large, it took quite a while just to walk across the front yard.

"Are they awake now?"

"Yes. Fortunately, they are awake."

The knight spoke to the skull principal with a sincere look of relief.

The skull principal clicked his tongue and patted the knight's shoulder.

"You must have had a hard time."

"...N-no! This is my honor!"

"Getting spit on your face is not an honor. Don't exaggerate."

"...???"

Yi-Han, who was behind, doubted his ears.

Getting spit on your face?

'Do they spit?'

The image of a crazy old man with white hair rampaging intensified in Yi-Han's mind.

No matter how much of a dragon and the emperor's child they were, spitting on a subordinate because they were in a bad mood.

"Principal. Isn't this too much?"

"What can you do? They're His Majesty's child."

"No..."

Yi-Han was disappointed by the skull principal's reaction, which was different from his usual self.

He thought that if it were the skull principal, he would immediately hang them upside down and throw them into the punishment room even if they were His Majesty's child if they acted arrogantly.

"Can't you put them in the punishment room?"

"...Sometimes, even though you're my disciple, you really surprise me, you know?"

The skull principal shook his head in disbelief and opened the door.

The inside of the mansion was similar to the emperor's residence.

Instead of being divided into various areas and rooms like where ordinary imperial races lived, it was widely constructed like a large single cave.

The inside looked several times wider than the outside, perhaps due to the use of space expansion magic, and dark, humid air flowed out. If you closed your eyes, it wouldn't be surprising to say you were in a deep cave somewhere.

-Wow! Alcicle!!!-

"Please!"

Along with Alcicle's scream next to him, a large dragon's front paw snatched up the penguin mixed-blood.

The golden dragon threw the penguin mixed-blood up, caught it, threw it again, caught it, and then hugged it tightly.

The skull principal cast a powerful protection spell on Alcicle without blinking an eye.

Nevertheless, the sound of the force field shattering was vividly heard.

"Your Highness. Please maintain your dignity."

-Wow! Gonadaltes too!-

"Your Highness."

-O-okay. Alcicle... Why didn't you come for so long? Didn't you miss Jourin?-

"Ugh... I was... busy with work... For a mage... magic is a mission... Please spare my life."

-Stop talking nonsense about magic! Magic is boring!-

Although she casually said something that was almost taboo in front of a mage, Alcicle couldn't say anything back and only flapped his flippers.

Yi-Han, who was blankly watching a young dragon torturing a penguin mixed-blood mage, belatedly realized.

So that dragon was…

"How young is she!?"

"What are you talking about? Ah. Don't tell me you thought Her Highness the princess would be grown like other races?"

The skull principal finally understood why this disciple had suggested putting that young dragon in the punishment room.

Before that, he just thought he was a crazy guy.

"It will take a few more centuries for Jourin's head to grow a bit."

Dragons could surpass the knowledge accumulated by decent races and exert strength to collapse walls with their bodies in just a few decades, but their mental age was not like that.

Even a dragon that had lived for hundreds of years had the mindset of a teenage brat.

Princess Jourin, the emperor's third daughter who was in high spirits, lifted the penguin mixed-blood with her front paw.

-Alcicle, fly! Fly!-

"I can't... These are not flying wings!"

-Fly!-

Seeing her briefly use the potential to cast an imperial decree spell, Yi-Han shuddered.

As expected, the bloodline of a true dragon was on a different level.

Jourin released Alcicle only after playing with him to her heart's content. Alcicle, who had become completely exhausted, lay down sobbing.

"...You worked hard. Go and rest."

"Sob sob..."

Alcicle walked away with heavy steps, grieving that his pride as a mage had disappeared and he had become a penguin trickster.

Jourin, who was in high spirits, flapped her small wings and belatedly noticed Yi-Han.

He was an amazing guest with an enormous amount of mana.

-Is he your new brother, Gonadaltes??-

"No, Your Highness. He's just a human."

-Did Gonadaltes modify him?-

"Your Highness. If you don't maintain your dignity, I will leave right now and never visit again."

At the skull principal's words, Jourin let out a scream. It was a scream that shook the cave.

The skull principal unconsciously looked at Yi-Han. He was worried that he might have been hit by the powerful scream just now.

However, Yi-Han was standing calmly. The skull principal nodded as if he had done well.

"?"

-J-Jourin was wrong. Don't leave!-

"Yes. Please maintain your dignity."

-Human with a damn lot of mana. What is your name?-

"Your Highness. That expression is wrong."

-Wr-wrong? Mana that's damned a lot...?-

"Don't forcefully insert curses you don't know the meaning of into sentences."

The imperial family member drooped and nodded her head.

"I'm Yi-Han from the Wardanaz family."

-I've never seen a mage with this much mana before. A mage like this could play with Jourin.-

The gold dragon looked at Yi-Han with sparkling eyes.

Yi-Han, reminded of the cave penguin show Alcicle had just shown, called the skull principal with an ominous feeling.

"Will I have to do something like what Mr. Alcicle did just now?"

"No. You're not a penguin mixed-blood and you're just average in everything. Don't be confident that you can do something like Pengerin."

"...That's not very comforting."

Jourin excitedly brought a silk handkerchief.

Then she threw it to Yi-Han.

-Infuse it with mana!-

"It will tear."

-It won't tear! Infuse it with all your might!-

Yi-Han infused mana into the handkerchief made of silk with puzzlement.

Surprisingly, this handkerchief endured the massive influx of mana without tearing, but instead remained sturdy.

'Amazing!'

It must have been possible because the magic structure inside focused solely on mana dispersion.

But even considering that, it was amazing.

To think mana dispersion was possible to this extent.

Compared to this, it seemed easier to disperse the impact so that an egg dropped from thousands of kilometers in the air wouldn't break.

-Right? Gonadaltes made it for me! He made it for me, but I had no one to play with, so I've been using it alone. Here!-

The dragon firmly fixed the handkerchief between the claws of her front paw and made Yi-Han hold the other end.

-Mana tug-of-war! It's mana tug-of-war!-

"...Uh, principal?"

Yi-Han called the skull principal, but the skull principal had already set up a table and chairs in the corner of the cave, sat down, and was sipping coffee.

"Play with her diligently."

"...!"

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