Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy
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chapter-442
Yi-Han gestured to his friends with his eyes.
Since they didn't know what kind of personality the huge being in front of them had, they had to be as careful as possible.
Didn't they learn in the <Language and Logic> lecture that quick-witted and well-spoken mages survive longer than mages with a lot of mana and excellent magic skills?
"Yes. It's the sea. The sea."
-The water... doesn't seem salty…-"It seems the salinity has decreased due to the spirits going wild."
-According to the contract... your request, mage…-
The sound of the water gurgling kept getting cut off, but a look of relief returned to the students' faces.
Seeing the devouring-ship fish saying it would listen to the request like that, it was clear that the summoning had succeeded properly.
"Quickly! Wardanaz!"
"Make it stop this flood!!"
"I know. Of course we have to stop it during the exam period.""...Ah, no. We have to stop it even if it's not the exam period!"
Yi-Han's madness slightly flustered his friends.
"O devourer of ships! Do you see the rampage of these spirits now?"
-I... feel it…-
"Stop the rampage of these spirits and make the rain cease! Block the flood and send the water back to the underground where it originally was!"
Gulp-
The sound of one of the students swallowing was heard loudly.
The devouring-ship fish was quietly silent.
-...-
When only the sound of the water gurgling was heard again, Yi-Han carefully asked.
"O devourer of ships! Is my voice perhaps too small..."
-No... I heard…-
The devouring-ship fish answered slowly.
-But... it's a difficult task... my power is not complete…-
'Oh no.'
Yi-Han clicked his tongue.
It was unexpected, but thinking about it, it was possible.
The devouring-ship fish summoned now was in a spiritual state.
It would have lost most of the power it had when it was alive, so it wasn't surprising that it couldn't fulfill Yi-Han's request.
'Then...'
Yi-Han calmly modified his request.
"O devourer of ships. Then I won't ask you to block this flood. Instead, please change the direction of the rain clouds and storm!"
Currently, the rising water was a problem in Einroguard, but the rain clouds and storms that raged from time to time were a bigger problem.
1st year mages could cross a calm sea, but there was no way when rain clouds and storms struck.
-That much... is possible... where to…-
"Please send them all to the upper floors of the Einroguard main building over there."
"..."
"..."
The friends listened quietly and then were shocked.
Hey...!
'Is it okay?'
'Shouldn't we stop him?'
Isn't the upper floor of the main building the domain of the principal and professors?
Isn't sending rain clouds and storms there a declaration of war?
"No. Wardanaz's choice is right about that."
Salko spoke in a heavy voice.
"What are you talking about, Tutanta?"
"Who do you think caused this flood?"
"...!"
The students thought of one person's name.
Who else could have caused the flood if not the owner of this academy?
'Huh? No?'
Yi-Han, who was concentrating on the devouring-ship fish, tilted his head.
This incident really wasn't the skull principal's fault.
The spirits just periodically became stronger and went out of control...
"Principal!"
"That's right. It can only be the principal. Then are we going to keep getting hit one-sidedly? Do you think the principal will be satisfied with doing that?"
"No! Absolutely not!"
"That Tutanta guy is right. We can't keep getting hit anymore. Let's show them that we can retaliate too!"
The 1st year students who had a lot of pent-up frustration shouted in unison.
Sending water to the skull principal's residence.
Just thinking about it was thrilling.
"Devouring-ship fish! Please send all the water over there!"
"That's right!"
In response to the students' shouts, the devouring-ship fish slowly responded.
-...Rather... I will try to block the flood... and make the rain stop…-
"..."
"..."
The devouring-ship fish was more timid than expected.
Rather than sending water to the residence of the grand mage who dominated this area, it declared that it would somehow block the flood.
'Isn't the former better?'
Yi-Han thought so, but since the devouring-ship fish chose the latter, there was no way to do anything about it.
"How are you going to block the flood and make the rain stop when your power is not complete?"
-It's difficult... but temporarily…-
The devouring-ship fish explained with a gurgling sound.
Even if it was difficult to permanently put the spirits to sleep and send the water back, it was possible to temporarily put the spirits to sleep and block the water.
-Of course... power will be consumed... so I have to keep recovering…-
Every time it did it, power would be consumed, so it would recover, and then temporarily block it again next time.
The devouring-ship fish said it would try to repeat this as much as possible.
"..."
Yi-Han was dumbfounded.
'No, really, isn't the former better?'
Once summoned by a contract with a mage, the summoned being usually wanted to fulfill the contract as quickly as possible and become free.
Then it should choose the faster method, but it refused and said it would stay until it ran out of power.
How scary was the skull principal...
"If you can do that, I don't mind."
The devouring-ship fish spewed water as if it was finally relieved.
"Then will you do it right now? We need to move."
-Okay…-
"While you're at it, can you give us a ride? We need to go to the lecture hall, and we might be late."
-...-
The devouring-ship fish glanced at Yi-Han with eyes filled with annoyance.
However, it couldn't refuse.
It was afraid that the mage would bring up what he had said earlier.
-Okay…-
Professor Rosine Fluerwerk, who was teaching the <Basic Imperial Language and Logic in Depth> lecture, was standing in the lecture hall with a slightly troubled face.
"Sigh..."
The demon Orifulas, who had served as an imperial legal officer for 131 years, said as if he couldn't understand.
-Mage. I don't think this is a good environment for education.-
"..."
-I've seen a demon duke training young demons before, and even there, they didn't deliberately cause natural disasters like this.-
"Be quiet."
Professor Rosine silenced the demon next to her.
What she had heard from the skull principal over the weekend was quite shocking, so it still rang in her ears.
-Professors. The spirits have gone wild and caused a flood in Einroguard. It's a periodic phenomenon, so don't be too surprised, new professors…-
Seeing that the experienced professors were not surprised at all, it was indeed an explanation considering outsiders like Professor Rosine.
In fact, Professor Ingurdel, who taught swordsmanship, asked several times in bewilderment, "No, shouldn't you block the flood?"
-Professor Ingurdel. Calm down. This flood originally occurs once every ten years or so, and it unfortunately happened…-
-But don't you have to drain the water for the students to come and take the exam?-
-Why?-
-No... for the students to take the exam…-
-Why?-
-...-
-Why?-
The skull principal strongly expressed his intention to absolutely not do it.
Professor Rosine accepted it for now, but she was worried if the students would be able to come properly.
Looking out the stained glass window, the wind and rain were raging like crazy, and high waves were rushing in succession...
'If students are absent, should I have only the attending students take the exam separately? No matter what, isn't it too harsh?'
-After preparing so hard…-
Orifulas pointed to the center of the lecture hall in a slightly disappointed voice.
The midterm exam this time was for the students to directly make simple and trivial contracts with powerful beings.
Of course, 1st year students couldn't summon and face such evil and powerful beings without any help, so Professor Rosine and Orifulas had worked hard to gather such beings, weaken and seal them, and then cage them and display them in the lecture hall.
The students would talk and converse with these various beings, understand the other party well, and if they could make a contract with at least one, it was a success.
-Do you know how expensive that demon knight is? The imperial bureaucrats giving that demon…-
"I know. I know. You worked hard to borrow it."
-That eight-headed beast was also quite difficult. It was so rough and fierce…-
-Mage, demon. I'll kill you! Grrr! I'll rip out your heart and devour it! Release me! You lowly and stinking creatures!-
The monster trapped in the cage made a vicious threat in a boiling voice. Orifulas, tired of it, took a spear and mercilessly stabbed the monster.
-Kraaah!-
-Didn't I say I'd release you if you stayed still! Why are you doing this? Is it hard to endure even that short time? I've been keeping a contract for over a hundred years!-
-Demon. Kill. Demon. Kill. Kraah! Kraaah!-
-I don't want to use violence, but I have no choice for the young mages. Reflect and speak.-
Orifulas kept stabbing the monster without stopping. Such powerful and violent beings had to be firmly grasped from the beginning, because if they were released even a little, they would climb up.
"...Mr. Orifulas."
-Why? Should I stab harder? But if I stab too hard and the guy gets annihilated…-
"No. That's not it..."
Rosine couldn't finish her words and pointed outside.
Orifulas also turned his gaze out the window. And he dropped his spear with his mouth wide open.
In the distance, a huge summon was approaching, splitting the sea and suppressing the rain clouds.
-A devouring-ship fish?! We're seeing something rare! Which professor summoned it?-
"The students are on top of it."
-...-
"..."
The mage and the demon were silent.
Orifulas recalled the young student he had met last semester who was able to make a contract with a demon without any special conditions.
As expected, that student was sitting on the devouring-ship fish, approaching the lecture hall.
"Wait, Wardanaz! Won't the school building be damaged if such a large creature goes inside?"
"The principal will fix it. O devourer of ships! Please go inside!"
Yi-Han had no intention of getting off the devouring-ship fish despite his friends' worries.
As expected, waves and rain clouds were raging fiercely even inside the main building.
'I can't let my guard down just because it's inside the building. It's even more dangerous if you get swept away here.'
If you got swept away by the currents and pushed into the punishment room, there was nowhere to complain.
Yi-Han had no intention of ever getting off the devouring-ship fish.
Swish-
As the devouring-ship fish pushed through the door and entered, the entrance of Einroguard suddenly widened and the corridor expanded.
A student riding next to him exclaimed in admiration.
"Ah...! I see!"
"Indeed, a building like Einroguard wouldn't be damaged by this! Wardanaz. You trusted this, right?"
"No. I just thought the principal would fix it even if it was damaged. To the right!"
The whale-like devouring-ship fish raced on the calm water surface where the waves and rain clouds had stopped.
The students cheered, forgetting the current difficult situation.
Swish!
Suddenly, the wall on the side opened and a waterfall began to pour down fiercely.
The water from somewhere had connected and flown here.
Yi-Han shouted urgently.
"O devourer of ships! Now..."
-I know…-
"If you can't block it, you have to send the water to the principal's room!!"
The devouring-ship fish hurriedly blocked the waterfall with a gurgling sound.
The waterfall flowed back up and re-entered the wall.
"Thank you!"
The devouring-ship fish was too exhausted to even answer.
Seeing that from inside the lecture hall, Orifulas shouted loudly without realizing it.
-Perfect score... Perfect score!-
"???"
The students were startled by the sudden shout from the lecture hall.
