Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy

Chapter 666

"Ah. I should buy some snake food."

Eandurde tilted her head.

The snakes in her hair didn't particularly need to eat.

"I'm fine?"

"Ah. Not for you, for this one here."

Yi-Han rolled up his sleeve to show the tail of a baby basilisk wrapped around his arm.

The basilisk made a dissatisfied hissing sound at Eandurde and threateningly waved its tail.

'Why does he raise such a thing?'

Eandurde didn't quite understand.

Perhaps Yi-Han didn't have an evil eye, so he kept such a thing with him?

Surely he didn't have a hobby of collecting strange and rare beasts...

"Wait here. I'll be right back with the food."

"I want to look around too."

"You can't eat anything."

Eandurde pounded her chest as if to say not to worry. Yi-Han and Dolgyu secretly exchanged glances.

'We'll have to stop her if necessary.'

'I know, Yi-Han.'

located in Flaher City had secured a pasture-sized area inside the building using space expansion magic.

Of course, they didn't just deal with horses to match the scale. They also handled various rare animals and monsters from the empire.

Yi-Han looked around the interior of the stable, which seemed to be roughly made of crudely assembled wood.

-Flying ones.-

-Walking ones.-

-Crawling ones.-

...

Just looking at the signs scrawled in bad handwriting above the doors leading to each pasture, one could guess the owner's personality.

'Hmm. The owner's personality seems far from kind, like Einroguard professors.'

"I'm looking to buy a horse..."

"Go over there and look for yourself."

"Yes. I've looked. But which one is sturdier between the brown horse and the black horse?"

"They're both sturdy."

"No, but surely one must be sturdier than the other."

"Don't call them 'it'."

"Pardon?"

"I said don't call them 'it'. I hear it."

"What do you hear? The horse? What does the horse hear? Are you crazy?"

The customers around them smirked and started to slowly back away.

Yi-Han, sensing something ominous, stepped aside with Eandurde.

BANG!

One unfortunate customer flew out of the stable. The owner spat and turned back.

Dolgyu muttered in shock.

"Even in the north, people who do business like this are rare!"

"You're right."

"Yi-Han. There seem to be quite a few regular customers here, why on earth?"

"Maybe because his skills are excellent?"

"Even if his skills are excellent, still..."

'Well, that's true too.'

He wrote 'flying ones' on the sign, but got angry when a customer called a horse 'it'.

He was as nonsensical as Einroguard professors.

"Well, they probably aren't personally close. There wouldn't be such people..."

Creak-

"Bungaegor! Welcome!"

The owner greeted Professor Bungaegor as if his earlier huffing and puffing had been a lie.

Professor Bungaegor, wearing a leather jacket and pilot-style goggles, waved her hand.

"Have you been well, Skull Destroyer?"

"Bungaegor! I'm embarrassed. That's an old nickname."

"Ah. I'm sorry."

The two seemed very close. The Einroguard students who saw the professor shaking hands with the owner quietly turned their heads.

However, Professor Bungaegor's eye for detail was very sharp.

"Wardanaz. Choi. What are you doing there?"

"We came to buy some pet food."

"Go upstairs."

The Skull Destroyer, no, the stable owner, yawned and gestured towards the stairs at the back.

That's where he had organized the food that pets liked.

However, Professor Bungaegor stopped them and asked.

If it was Yi-Han's pet, it wouldn't be an ordinary pet.

"What kind of pet?"

"Uh, um, is it okay to say here?"

The owner yawned once more and said,

"This is a place where all kinds of rare animals come and go. No one will be surprised, so you can say it."

"It's a basilisk."

CRASH BANG CLATTER!

As soon as Yi-Han's words ended, customers quickly began fleeing out of the stable.

Professor Bungaegor looked at the owner reproachfully.

"There's a limit to underestimating Einroguard students."

"Ah. No! I've sold animals to Einroguard students several times, but none of them had a basilisk!"

The owner felt very wronged.

No matter how rare the animals they kept, who on earth would keep a basilisk?!

***

With all the customers gone, the owner hung a sign saying the business was closed for the day and then introduced the stable.

"This meat is from a low-rank imp."

"What effect does it have?"

"It's delicious! Your basilisk will love it."

"..."

"This meat is from a kelpie."

"What effect does...?"

"It's delicious! Your basilisk will love it."

Yi-Han shook his head.

He saw Eandurde licking her lips next to him, so he set aside a chunk.

'I'll have to grill it for her later.'

While feeding small pieces of finely chopped raw meat to the basilisk, Yi-Han asked Professor Bungaegor, who was looking around the pasture,

"Is it not possible to bring these animals to Einroguard?"

"Officially, it's impossible. The principal doesn't like it."

The skull principal was someone who greatly disliked students trying to make their school life easier with possessions brought from outside.

If he confiscated artifacts, there was no way animals would be allowed.

"Then unofficially...?"

"It might be possible."

Professor Bungaegor grinned.

Yi-Han's seniors were already secretly bringing in various external animals for different purposes.

For use in ball games, to help with research, just because they were cute...

Professor Bungaegor didn't care much. As long as it wasn't something huge like an Immortal eater, it was fine to bring anything to school.

"But don't you already have Niffirg? If you bring another mount, Niffirg might get jealous."

"I asked more for my other friends than for myself. But why did you come to Flaher City, Professor? Perhaps to tour duel clubs?"

"Do I look like Professor Bagrak to you, why would I go to duel clubs?"

"..."

Yi-Han squeezed his eyes shut at the already famous eccentricity of his teacher among the professors.

'I shouldn't mention that I got banned along with him.'

"The reason I came to Flaher City is... Hmm."

Professor Bungaegor, who had been speaking, looked Yi-Han up and down and asked,

"Are you interested in doing a job together during the break? The pay is quite good, but you can refuse if you don't want to do it."

"No, if the pay is good, who would refuse?"

At Yi-Han's question, Professor Bungaegor looked at her disciple as if he were crazy.

"Normal students want to rest and play during breaks..."

"That's prejudice. My friends and I all like working."

"..."

Dolgyu looked at Yi-Han with gloomy eyes.

That's not true!

"So what's the job? If it's too dangerous, I'm not sure..."

"It's not dangerous. But it might be a bit troublesome. We'll have to wander around mountains and camp. We need to find a unicorn."

Professor Bungaegor held out an old mission form.

[Person Wanted!

Einroguard Professor, Bentozol

Went missing while searching for a unicorn in the Grief Mountains!

Reward paid regardless of alive or dead

-Principal Os Gonadaltes]

"..."

"..."

"Do professors go missing too?"

Professor Bungaegor kindly answered the junior's innocent question.

"They actually go missing more often than students. They're less afraid and go to more dangerous places."

"I see. So you're going to search for the professor."

Yi-Han nodded.

Come to think of it, he had heard before that the original professor in charge of the lecture was Professor Bentozol.

But because Professor Bentozol went missing while wandering around looking for a unicorn, Professor Bungaegor had urgently participated as a substitute.

Last year she was too busy with lectures to search, but now that she had some free time during winter break, she was setting out to search like this...

"What are you talking about, professor?"

"Huh? This is a mission form to find a professor, isn't it?"

"Ah!"

Professor Bungaegor laughed heartily at Yi-Han's misunderstanding.

"I didn't explain enough! I told you, didn't I? That we need to find a unicorn. Two weeks ago, rumors spread that a unicorn was spotted in the Grief Mountains. I came to meet the unicorn."

"Then why did you give me this mission form?"

"Because the map is well drawn."

"..."

Yi-Han checked the old mission form again.

Perhaps because the skull principal had made it himself, the map of the Grief Mountains was better drawn than expected.

Imperial maps weren't free, and maps of harsh and remote places like the Grief Mountains had to be bought from adventurers who made them. Since they were made by individuals, errors due to mistakes came as a bonus.

In that respect, the map made by the skull principal was reliable.

"Aren't you going to search for the professor?"

"It's not like Professor Bentozol is a child... He'll come back fine on his own. If I go looking for him, he'll get angry instead."

Yi-Han sent a very disbelieving look. Professor Bungaegor protested with indignation.

"It's true. You just don't know Professor Bentozol."

"Professor Verduus would probably say something similar about Professor Bentozol's disappearance, but..."

"That's different! Why are you comparing me to Professor Verduus of all people?"

Professor Bungaegor grumbled and put a pipe in her mouth.

"So, are you going or not?"

"I'll go. We just need to find the unicorn, right?"

"Find the unicorn, and at the same time, find other guys who came looking for the unicorn and..."

"Cooperate?"

"What cooperation are you talking about. We need to beat them up and drive them out of the mountains."

"..."

When Yi-Han sent a similar look as before, Professor Bungaegor had to explain again.

"Those guys are poachers. Poachers trying to kill the unicorn and get its corpse!"

By imperial law, unicorns were creatures prohibited from hunting.

Professor Bungaegor's purpose in going to the Grief Mountains now was not only to meet the unicorn but also to protect it from other poachers.

"I see. Professor. I believed in you."

"Did you know Uregor sometimes badmouths you?"

***

The friends immediately became excited and accepted when they heard about going to meet a unicorn.

The Einroguard students, who had gathered on the outskirts of the city after packing necessary preparations, waited for Professor Bungaegor.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Where's the professor? When will she come?"

"She should be here soon..."

In the distance, a herd of wyverns began walking with thunderous steps accompanied by a fierce sound.

People who were startled by this scattered in all directions.

"It's an attack! A wyvern attack!"

"N-no! There are people riding on top!"

"It's an attack! A wyvern bandit attack!"

As people screamed and fled, the hunters and patrollers riding on the wyverns shouted loudly.

"Don't misunderstand, citizens! We're not bandits!"

"I'm from The Wasteland Stargazers, and this friend here is an adventurer..."

"We've gathered here today to protect Professor Bungaegor and the empire's unicorn! We borrowed these wyverns for that purpose!"

As soon as the words ended, merchants began throwing tomatoes and eggs with angry expressions.

The hunters and patrollers were terrified and hid behind the wyverns' wings.

"Hey, you crazy bastards! Who brings wyverns all the way here!"

"L-look, there's a flag hanging here!"

"You bring large monsters all the way here just because you have a flag? You lunatics! You must be from the Shadow Patrol!"

"I'm from The Wasteland Stargazers...!"

Yi-Han and his friends quietly turned their heads and pretended not to see.

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