Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 1100

Chapter 1100

'Then His Excellency must reflect.'

The inspector of the noble race decided he would need to inform the skull principal of this fact and sternly point it out upon returning to the main building.

For a disciple receiving teachings from a great mage to respect and cherish another mage more.

This was due to the great mage's own habitually indulgent attitude.

"Professor, must you go this far to gain the dragon's favor?"

Yi-Han asked seriously.

Of course, Yi-Han didn't particularly like Professor Bentozol.

If dividing Einroguard's professors, Professor Garcia was at one end and Professor Verduus at the other, and Professor Bentozol was definitely positioned toward the latter.

But even for someone he disliked, seeing him plead so desperately made his heart ache a bit as a disciple.

Was a dragon's attention that important?

"Shut up!"

Professor Bentozol glared at Yi-Han with eyes full of resentment.

"No. What did I do wrong..."

"How could someone like you who receives a dragon's love understand my feelings!"

"......"

Though Yi-Han usually didn't lose even in arguments with professors, this time he was overwhelmed by Professor Bentozol.

Such appeal was contained in Professor Bentozol's voice.

"Professor."

"What!"

"Actually, receiving a dragon's love isn't entirely good."

Yi-Han advised sincerely.

Just considering the status dragons held in the Empire made that clear. The moment you got involved, troublesome matters naturally followed.

For example, being invited to a mansion then having handcuffs put on...

"Yi-Han. That doesn't seem like very good advice."

Yonaire whispered beside him.

It seemed like advice that would pour oil on fire no matter how you looked at it.

Though her friend surely meant it sincerely, it would absolutely not sound that way to the narrow-minded professor.

"You... this... grrrk."

"P-professor!"

At the disciple's boasting that crossed the line, Professor Bentozol finally clutched his chest and collapsed forward. Foam even rose from his mouth.

"Wardanaz assassinated the professor!"

"No, you crazy fools!"

Yi-Han strongly objected.

To be suspected like this when he was the only one here who advised for the professor's sake!

"Ah, I see! Sorry, Wardanaz. I understand. Wardanaz didn't assassinate the professor! Everyone remember! Wardanaz didn't assassinate the professor!"

"......"

Though unsure what had been understood, Yi-Han kicked his friend's shin once then borrowed a potion from Yonaire.

"Yonaire. Can I borrow a potion?"

Yonaire briefly considered whether he wanted a potion to completely send someone away or one to restore consciousness, but trusted her friend and handed over the latter.

'Hope I gave the right one?'

Fortunately, it seemed she had given the right one. When Professor Bentozol regained consciousness, Yi-Han sighed in relief.

"Professor. Are you alright?"

"You... this... urgh... dog..."

"Professor Bentozol. Perhaps you are unwell?"

Just then Uman appeared, having looked around the surroundings once. This dragon inspector in large human form cast a worried gaze at the professor.

Professor Bentozol, startled, tried to answer while moving his stiff tongue.

"I-I am very... healthy. Please do not worry."

The professor escaped his paralyzed state by transforming his own body through superhuman willpower.

Then he assured Uman several times that he was completely fine.

"Look! There's no need to worry. Teaching Einroguard students is this Bentozol's joy and mission!"

"......"

"......"

Though students looked on with bewildered and contemptuous gazes, Professor Bentozol paid no mind.

To the professor, this place contained only a dragon and some pebbles.

"I understand. I, Uman, shall trust Professor Bentozol."

"It's an honor! Sniff!"

"However Professor, there is one thing I'd like to ask."

"Ask anything!"

"About the barghest you brought..."

Before Uman could finish speaking, Professor Bentozol quickly flattered him.

"It's a completely harmless baby barghest. Because I am a professor who cherishes students!"

As soon as he heard a dragon was coming as inspector, what Professor Bentozol had done was search the mountains for two days straight to find a baby barghest.

If he brought out a fully grown barghest and the inspector saw it, he would obviously say something like:

-Professor Bentozol. I am very disappointed you would put such a dangerous animal before students. I will never contract with you. Also, I will spread rumors to all dragons I know.-

-No!!!-

Since he couldn't arbitrarily change the lecture contents reported to the skull principal, he had tried to at least change to a baby.

Fortunately, his efforts searching through the night for a baby barghest paid off. To think he would receive praise from the dragon race like this.

"A baby barghest's power is too weak to be much help in learning how to handle them. Perhaps there is some secret Uman doesn't know?"

"......"

Even a mage witnessing the sky falling probably wouldn't make the same expression as Professor Bentozol now.

Professor Bentozol was so dumbfounded he couldn't speak a single word.

'I must die.'

The professor decided inwardly.

To miss a once in a lifetime opportunity to gain a dragon's favor (though for such an opportunity he had met Her Highness Jourin last year too), and show such a shameful mistake.

This life had no more value. It seemed he would have to go somewhere with few people and many monsters to die.

However, at that moment came the small voice of his vicious, arrogant, vile, and most enviable disciple.

"Professor. Get a hold of yourself. It's not over yet."

"You..."

Professor Bentozol choked up.

He wondered how this person could say such things when he was the cause of his collapse.

But the professor with weakened heart unknowingly listened to his disciple's words.

"...What's not over?"

"You can just make up a good reason for choosing a baby barghest. Not some reason like trying to flatter."

"How could I tell lies before a dragon?"

Professor Bentozol asked as if the mere thought was horrifying.

To have to speak falsehoods before such a beautiful being.

'Isn't it easy?'

Yi-Han thought inwardly.

Just Yi-Han himself had told lies like 'I'll definitely play with you tomorrow' to Jourin several times...

"Then just remain remembered as a shameful person forever."

"......"

Professor Bentozol's expression was stained with agony.

It was an expression like cutting open his own stomach with a knife.

"...I shall begin the lecture now! Your Highness. I will show you! The reason I chose a baby barghest!"

"Ohhh...! Professor Bentozol. I look forward to it!"

  *

"You bastards, no, you babies, no..."

"...Just say 'students'."

Yi-Han whispered as if dumbfounded.

How rarely must he have called students to stumble over this?

"Right, you students! You students must be wondering now. Why a baby barghest instead of a fully grown one."

"Didn't you choose a baby barghest to flatter?"

"I thought you couldn't afford anything but a baby barghest."

"Everyone shut... urk. Everyone has excellent sense of humor."

Professor Bentozol forced out the words while suppressing his anger. At that sight, the students' eyes sparkled.

Could they perhaps torment Professor Bentozol without him being able to resist?

"Everyone stop. The professor is lecturing."

"Wardanaz. After being treated like that, don't you feel like getting revenge?"

"...Be quiet."

Yi-Han, who almost wavered, covered his ears. His friends' words were quite persuasive.

"I think Wardanaz... as someone contracted with a dragon, pities Professor Bentozol who couldn't contract with one."

"Indeed. That makes sense. Though he's only second year he already contracted with a dragon, while seeing a professor who never could in his whole life might make him feel pitiful..."

The students casually exchanged insults that would give Professor Bentozol a second heart attack if he heard.

Fortunately, Professor Bentozol was too busy soothing the baby barghest.

"Look! Actually today's lecture isn't about learning how to handle adult barghests, but about taming baby barghests to make them follow you!"

"......"

At the professor's sudden exclamation, the students' atmosphere turned cold.

It was too abrupt.

"...Can barghests be made to follow?"

"First time hearing this? Is it really a monster that can be tamed?"

Despite its cute appearance, this death-bringing wolf-dog had quite a notorious reputation. From the start, appearing in the <Just Terrible Creatures> lecture meant it wasn't an ordinary monster.

Considering the dark mana wrapped around its whole body, it shouldn't be a monster that could normally be tamed...

"You bas... you students' doubt is understandable! But there exists a secret method no one knows."

"Is that true?!"

Dolgyu asked in surprise. Professor Bentozol immediately flared up.

"You bastard! You're planning to poach baby barghests aren't you!"

"...N-no..."

The orc friend, suddenly accused of being a future poacher, was at a loss for words. Uman beside him asked as if not understanding.

"Are you suspecting students who have done nothing wrong?"

"It-it was a joke! A joke!"

"Hmm. Still please be careful, Professor Bentozol. There is a clear difference between professor and student, and too frequent jokes can disrupt academic discipline."

"I will keep it in mind! I will engrave it in my marrow, Your Highness!"

"No need to go that far."

Having barely survived, Professor Bentozol revealed his secret method without further hesitation.

It was a method unknown to most mages, but Professor Bentozol, having spent long time with monsters, knew how to tame baby barghests.

"First you must reduce the mana wrapped around their fur. This mana makes barghests keep distance from normal living beings."

"But... isn't that connected to the barghest's life force?"

This wolf-dog's negative mana was like blood flowing through the body if comparing to humans.

Just as a person would die if all their blood was drained trying to remove blood color, so too with barghests.

"Listen carefully to the potions and magic I'm about to tell you. When combined, they can suppress a barghest's mana while preventing that mana from leaking out!"

Professor Bentozol named three potions and four magics and explained their combination.

While the potions respectively reduced mana quantity, reversed its properties, and suppressed its flow, the magic acted as a stopper trapping that mana inside and preventing leakage.

'Amazing.'

Yi-Han listened in admiration. As expected of a mage who had chased only monsters his whole life, Professor Bentozol's secret method was truly surprising and creative.

Though those potions and magic could be used by mages of sufficient level, to combine them to tame a monster like a barghest.

Whine-

While listening, the baby barghest crawled close to Yi-Han's leg and clung to him.

The baby basilisk flared up and extended its tail trying to drive it away. Yi-Han quietly warned the tail that had slightly poked out of his sleeve.

"Ah ah."

-Hmph.-

Yi-Han picked up the clinging dark wolf pup with one arm and hugged it while continuing to listen attentively to the lecture.

'Indeed. Until feeding it the three potions its ferocity won't fade, so caution is needed even with a baby...'

"......"

Jijel sitting beside stared blankly.

She looked at the baby barghest her friend was holding once, then at her friend once, then at the lecture contents once more.

"What's wrong? Did the White Tiger Tower guys cause trouble again?"

"...Don't you notice anything strange?"

"Strange?"

Yi-Han tilted his head.

"Are you talking about how after reducing quantity and reversing properties there's no need for flow suppression? But considering the magic's duration, suppressing flow is quite essential..."

"Never mind. Just listen to the lecture. Idiot."

'No!'

Yi-Han was very indignant at the sudden insult.

Indeed White Tiger Tower students were unmatched in rudeness.