How to Live Comfortably as an Abandoned Prince

Chapter 109. The Ordeal of Hellington Magic School

Hellington Magic School.

Located in Levarsen, the capital of the Cretian Empire, it was a magical educational institution that produced outstanding magicians every year.

The students attending Hellington always had subtle feelings toward the Imperial Magic Academy.

Of course, it wasn't like that from the beginning.

At first, it was just the uncomfortable comments they heard whenever they said they were attending a magic school to become a magician.

"So you go to the Magic Academy? That's amazing!"

"The academy entrance exam is so difficult, how did you pass?"

People's reactions were almost the same.

When they said they attended a magic school, people thought of the academy in Marcellent.

After experiencing these things repeatedly, a strange feeling arose in the Hellington students.

Are the academy students really that outstanding?

They were also talented individuals in magic, who had been called prodigies and geniuses.

They had entered Hellington Magic School with difficulty and were studying hard under excellent professors.

The more they attended Hellington, the more that thought became firm.

They also felt a curiosity about just how great the classes the academy students were taking were.

Was it that their feelings were felt?

Radel, who was guiding them around the academy, made a proposal to the Hellington supervising professors.

"I've heard that Hellington students have never participated in an academy lecture before."

"Yes, that's right. We have observed, but we have never participated directly."

"If it's alright, how about attending a lecture with us this time?"

The supervising professors asked back in surprise.

"With the academy students?"

Radel nodded.

He had already gotten permission from the academy's professors.

"Yes, since you've come all this way, it would be good to experience a lot before you go. Of course, we'll have to ask the students for their opinions too…… but that's what I think as the grade representative."

Naturally, the Hellington students who heard the proposal were also in favor.

To be able to attend a regular academy class that they had always been curious about.

It was an opportunity to confirm the academy's true skills.

Radel's heart also warmed at the sight of the Hellington students, who seemed full of motivation.

He wanted to let them experience the academy's classes as soon as possible.

"That's great. Looking at the schedule, there's a lecture nearby that you can attend."

Radel took the Hellington first-years and headed somewhere.

* * *

The academy's back hill.

Twice as many students as usual were climbing the mountain.

They were the academy first-years and the Hellington first-years.

"Gasp, gasp."

"This is a class?"

The Hellington first-years felt like they were going to vomit blood.

The academy's professor and students were so fast that they couldn't keep up even if they squeezed out all their strength.

At first, when they heard it was a Cryptozoology lecture, they thought of the classes they had at Hellington.

They thought it was an ordinary lecture on riding or taming magical beasts.

However, what appeared before them was a huge professor riding a wyvern.

"Hahaha! This time, there are brats from Hellington too!"

The Hellington students were even more surprised when they heard the professor's name.

Donton Murr?

It was a name they had often seen in Cryptozoology books.

He was a pioneer and authority in Cryptozoology who would discover new magical beasts or spend months in the nests of dangerous magical beasts that were difficult to approach, overturning existing hypotheses about them.

The academy students didn't realize it, but Donton Murr's status in the academic world was immense.

"Welcome to my Cryptozoology lecture! Today, I will let you experience the best lecture!"

A Cryptozoology lecture taught by an authority they had only seen in books.

The Hellington students couldn't help but have expectations without even realizing it.

This was the result.

"Gasp, is this, for real?"

"Don't talk. Gulp, I think I'm going to throw up."

The Hellington students, who were struggling up the mountain, glanced at the academy students.

Somehow, the academy first-years weren't even panting.

They were even chatting leisurely.

"Don't you think he'll end it early today since we have guests?"

"What are you talking about. Don't you know the professor? It will never end until we find a monster."

"What did he say we were looking for earlier?"

"Wasn't it a Giant Poison Bear?"

If you climb the mountain continuously for a semester, your stamina is bound to improve.

On top of that, since it was mandatory to take at least one physical training class at the academy, the first-years were stronger than when they had entered.

Now they had reached a point where they wouldn't get out of breath when climbing the mountain during the Cryptozoology lecture.

However, it was an incomprehensible sight for the Hellington first-years.

‘Why are magicians so physically fit?’

The Hellington students even felt it was unfair.

Weren't magicians originally closer to researchers or scholars?

Beings who delved into books and clung to spells to reach the truth of magic.

But they couldn't understand why a barbarian-like class like this was being held at an academy that nurtured magicians.

They even suspected that they were being tricked as a group.

‘There's no way they take a rough class like this every day.’

‘Could they be doing this on purpose because we came?’

However, the Hellington first-years' suspicions were cleanly dispelled by the next incident.

"There's a fork in the road here!"

Professor Donton suddenly stopped walking.

A forked road had appeared before their eyes.

Just looking at it with the naked eye, there was no noticeable difference.

He couldn't find any magical beast footprints or traces of broken trees.

"The Giant Poison Bear definitely chose one side at this fork! You brats, try to guess!"

The Hellington first-years, who were standing there catching their breath, were flustered by Professor Donton's words.

It was a nonsensical statement.

There were no traces, so how could magicians, not hunters, track it?

But there was someone who could do it.

Radel had bravely stepped forward.

"Professor, I will try to guess."

Of course, Radel had only raised his hand because he was afraid the lecture time would be prolonged if no one stepped forward.

He had to find the monster as quickly as possible to get down the mountain quickly.

He knelt in the center of the forked road and touched the soil.

‘How is he going to guess?’

The Hellington first-years watched Radel's actions.

Radel, who had been touching the soil with his fingers, even picked up the soil and smelled it.

And then he said this.

"It's the right side, professor. The Giant Poison Bear passed by on the right."

How does he know that?

The Hellington students' eyes widened in astonishment.

"Are you sure, brat? If you're wrong, I'll feed you to my wyvern."

Professor Donton growled and glared fiercely at Radel.

But Radel was unshaken.

He even nonchalantly peeled off the bark of a nearby tree and chewed on it.

Radel, who was chewing on the tree, nodded his head once more.

"I am sure. It seems to have passed by about an hour ago."

The Hellington students were horrified, seeing Radel even chewing on a tree.

That was not a sight one could put on for show.

"Hahaha! You got it right! As expected of my student!"

And he even got it right……?

The Hellington students were experiencing an incomprehensible event.

* * *

Next was Alchemy time.

“This time, we will be going to an Alchemy lecture. Professor Cailin Gamenter is in charge of the lecture.”

At Radel's words, the faces of the Hellington first-years brightened.

If it's an Alchemy lecture, at least they won't be climbing a mountain!

At most, it would just be putting ingredients in a pot and boiling them in a workshop.

On top of that, Cailin Gamenter?

He was the rising star of the Alchemy Society, who had patented countless potions.

His unique and creative recipes were evaluated as having completely overturned the existing paradigm of alchemy.

The academy's faculty was certainly splendid.

The Hellington students couldn't help but acknowledge that point.

Moreover, the female students had heard a rumor that Professor Cailin Gamenter was handsome, so their expectations grew even more.

However, what unfolded before them at the Alchemy workshop, which they had arrived at with high hopes, was a vast herb garden…….

And in the herb garden, the academy first-years were squatting, wearing straw hats and pulling out weeds.

"W-what in the world is this……?"

The Hellington first-year representative asked Radel with a dazed expression.

His following words could only trail off.

Why are there people in the herb garden?

Are you sure this is an Alchemy class?

What's with the straw hats?

Because he didn't know which of the many questions that popped into his head to ask first.

"We cultivate the ingredients used in alchemy ourselves. To secure better quality ingredients. At first, it was hard to take care of the field, but now everyone has become skilled."

Radel explained to the Hellington students in a kind voice.

"Professor Cailin taught us that you can only study alchemy well if you know the herbs well. We learn a lot thanks to the professor."

Radel, with a smile, took out a hoe from a box on the floor and handed them out to the Hellington students, saying.

"It will be difficult at first because you're not used to it. In that case, you can ask me."

"So now…… what do we have to do?"

"Didn't you say you were attending an Alchemy lecture?"

Radel asked back as if he were asking something obvious, and then his expression changed as if he had realized something.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you something important. To get alchemy ingredients, you have to pull out weeds."

"Weeds?"

The Hellington students, most of whom were from noble families, had naturally never done such a thing.

Climbing a mountain was one thing, but to be told to do menial work?

They doubted if this was really an academy class.

But seeing Radel enter the herb garden and pull out a weed in one go, saying he would show them a demonstration, their doubts were also uprooted.

"Aack! A flying golem!"

"Did you touch the herb? Are you crazy to want your wrist cut off?"

Just from the sounds they heard, it was confusing whether this was a forced labor camp or an academy, but the Hellington students had no choice but to squat down and start digging for weeds.

And then they all understood why they were wearing straw hats.

The blazing sun was too hot.

Unable to stand it, the Hellington first-year representative approached Radel and asked.

"Um, can we also get straw hats?"

"These are not given out, but sold."

"Then where can we buy them?"

Radel, hearing his words, quietly set up a stall in the corner.

What he put out was a Beginner Alchemy Set that included a straw hat and a lightweight hoe.

"For your information, if you buy two, you get one more. Since you're from Hellington, I'll do this specially for you."

"If we buy two, you give one more?"

The Hellington students, while wondering if this was right, couldn't help but buy the Beginner Alchemy Set as if enchanted by the groundbreaking offer.

The professor, Cailin, was watching the scene from afar.

The sight of his student, who not only brought new workers but was also doing business, was dumbfounding and yet admirable.

Before long, all the Beginner Alchemy Sets Radel had were sold out.

‘……I feel like I've been tricked somehow.’

The Hellington students felt something was strange as they put on their straw hats, but it was already too late.

In front of them awaited a vast herb garden and the weeds they had to pull from now on.