Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 106
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Chapter 106
Yoner, understanding the situation, patted Lee Han’s shoulder consolingly.
Spirits were like fickle unrequited love interests—no matter how well you treated them, you often couldn’t win their hearts.
When that happened, you just had to accept it.
“Yoner. I’m fine.”
“Mmm…”
“I’m really fine.”
“Sure, sure.”
Usually when someone added “really” in front, it was often a lie. Yoner decided to just let it slide.
Nilia was flustered when the water spirit clung to her.
Since it was the one Lee Han wanted to contract with, she couldn’t accept it.
“Hey. Go away! Go contract with Wardanaz over there!”
Nilia pushed the water spirit away, but it persistently clung to her. It seemed to really like her.
That sight made Lee Han feel slightly sad.
‘All I got was a senile lightning spirit.’
But even when sad, there were times when you had to congratulate your friends.
Lee Han said coldly.
“Nilia. I think there’s a misunderstanding, but I have no intention whatsoever of contracting with that water spirit.”
“What? Really?”
Nilia perked up her ears in surprise.
“But you were trying to contract with it earlier.”
“You must have misheard.”
Yoner was inwardly amazed.
Lee Han had many various talents, but the one absolutely impossible to imitate was lying shamelessly with that face.
When he lied seriously without even breathing, even opponents who had been suspicious would waver and think ‘Is… is that so?’
“Nilia. I have no particular interest in that spirit.”
“But… you’ve wanted to contract with a spirit since before. And you said water spirits were good too.”
‘Having such good memory for useless things.’
Lee Han cursed Nilia.
She should have good memory when doing assignments, so why did she only remember such trivial things well?
“You seem to be mistaken. Of course I said I wanted to contract with a water spirit. But that was about a named water spirit. Nilia.”
“Ah…!”
Nilia clapped her palm with her fist as if it made sense. Certainly with Wardanaz’s talent, that wouldn’t be strange.
The water spirit beside them also clapped in amazement, asking if that was the case.
Lee Han wanted to hit the spirit.
“You understand, right? So if you want to contract with that spirit, feel free to do so. I don’t mind since it doesn’t concern me.”
“Hmm… what should I do…”
Nilia pondered.
It wasn’t that she hadn’t thought about contracting with a spirit, but she hadn’t expected it to be this sudden.
“What do you two think?”
At Nilia’s question, Lee Han and Yoner looked at each other.
In their view…
‘Nilia needs more friends.’
‘A spirit friend would be even better, right?’
The two finished exchanging opinions and nodded.
“A water spirit seems like it would be good.”
“I think so too!”
“If you two say so…”
Nilia nodded. The water spirit bounced happily.
* * *
After spending the weekend on the island with undead summons, it was possible for Professor Boladi’s face to feel welcoming.
Lee Han was scared of himself for being happy to see Professor Boladi.
‘They say there’s no cure for Stockholm syndrome.’
“Hello…”
“You used lightning magic last time.”
“…”
Professor Boladi didn’t exchange greetings or ask how his weekend rest was.
He went straight to the point.
“Yes…”
Lee Han sighed inwardly.
Actually, he had been prepared for this.
From the moment he met Professor Boladi in front of Professor Garcia, he had a sad certainty.
-Ah, this professor is going to teach lightning magic too.
And such sad premonitions were never wrong.
“The lightning element is different from the water element—few mages handle it well.”
“I see.”
“It’s harder to handle than the water element.”
“Yes.”
“But since you used lightning magic last time, you can accomplish what I’m going to teach from now on.”
“…”
Lee Han was about to recommend that Professor Boladi take some 【Basic Imperial Language and Logic】 classes, then stopped.
‘What kind of logic is that…’
“I heard the story.”
Professor Boladi said, looking at Lee Han.
Lee Han was startled.
Was Professor Boladi now trying to have casual small talk with students—no, a student—instead of giving the lecture he was supposed to give?
They say when people suddenly do things they’ve never done before, they die…
“I heard you defeated Gonadaltes’ summon, Zorban II.”
“…”
If the Skeleton Principal had been nearby, he would have been delighted.
He had succeeded in making Lee Han angry.
Lee Han was furious at the Skeleton Principal.
‘How many hours have even passed…!’
He had seen the Skeleton Principal in the morning, and now it was after lunch when he entered Professor Boladi’s lecture hall, so he had really diligently spread the word in that short time.
Truly amazing!
“Yes… I was able to defeat it thanks to what you taught me, Professor.”
“That’s only natural. And that’s not why I brought it up. I heard you were ambushed by the summon and injured your arm.”
‘Damn it.’
Lee Han had a vague idea of why the Skeleton Principal had told him.
“An unexpected situation occurred.”
“That’s always the case in battle. But no matter what excuses you make after being hit, the enemy won’t listen.”
Professor Boladi was most annoying when he said things that were correct and impossible to refute.
“So I prepared something.”
Lee Han no longer asked ‘What is it?’
Instead, he gripped his staff and focused on every minute movement of Professor Boladi.
The moment Professor Boladi started causing trouble, he was thinking of responding.
The professor was rather satisfied with Lee Han’s reaction. A faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Sparks flew in the air and a small lightning bolt was created. And it aimed at Lee Han.
Lee Han tried to block it first by launching a water orb, but Professor Boladi launched an identical water orb to cancel it out.
“!”
He had no choice but to dodge directly. Fortunately, avoiding the incoming lightning bolt wasn’t completely impossible.
The lightning bolt shooting out in a straight line was much faster than other elements, but it didn’t reach the speed of actual lightning.
Moreover, its trajectory was simply straight.
Compared to the ever-changing attacks of swordsmen like Alarlong or Professor Ingoldel, the lightning bolt flying in a straight line was quite fast but predictable.
Predict the trajectory it shows just before crackling and flying!
Lee Han skillfully tilted his head back and completely avoided the lightning bolt.
The lightning bolt that shot out passed by Lee Han’s side, hit the wall, and disappeared with a crackling sound.
Professor Boladi nodded slightly as if that was exactly it.
“Don’t use magic to block it.”
“…You want me to just dodge?”
“Yes.”
The professor didn’t give Lee Han time to question and immediately launched the next attack. The number of lightning bolts increased.
Lee Han was amazed at himself even while dodging.
‘Did I get this good at dodging?’
How terribly had he suffered since coming to magic school for his evasion abilities to improve this much.
When Lee Han skillfully avoided attacks for several minutes, Professor Boladi spoke as if he had expected this.
“As expected, you do this level easily.”
‘…Should I have pretended to be clumsy?’
Lee Han felt regretful. There was nothing good about immediately showing skill when a professor assigned something.
But Professor Boladi was a difficult opponent to use such tricks against.
Even if he tried to use tricks, how could he block when the professor was attacking seriously.
Crack!
Crack!
Smack!
Smack!
Suddenly the lecture hall went dark. It became so pitch black that only Professor Voladi’s eyes were visible.
‘In a dark situation? How professorial of you.’
Ihan was not surprised.
Given that Professor Voladi enjoys preparing for all kinds of combat situations, he would naturally test dodging attacks in dark conditions as well.
…However, Ihan was still underestimating Professor Voladi.
Thud-
“What is this?”
When Professor Voladi threw his handkerchief, Ihan was puzzled.
“To cover the eyes.”
Lee Han approached Professor Boladi and tried to cover his eyes. Then the professor spoke again in a numb voice devoid of any emotion.
“Not my eyes.”
I didn’t think it would come to this, but I really do need to cover my eyes.
Lee Han was horrified by the failure of his small rebellion.
“…Professor. It’s already dark enough, so do we really need to cover our eyes? Won’t it be difficult to avoid things?”
“You can do it.”
Professor Voladi gestured as if he would no longer provide answers. A handkerchief rose smoothly and covered Ihan’s eyes.
A dark space where nothing can be seen.
Then there was a crackling sound. Lightning had been generated.
‘This is driving me crazy.’
Ihan felt fear slowly creeping up on him.
But I couldn’t just stand still because I was afraid.
Just as one would detect magic or a wizard’s magical power scattered throughout an area, Ihan concentrated to detect the lightning fires positioned around him.
I didn’t know how well it would turn out, but I had no choice but to try.
Professor Voladi crossed his arms and looked at Ihan.
As Professor Garcia had acknowledged (at least Professor Voladi thought so), Professor Voladi had unwavering confidence in his educational philosophy.
-If students can’t keep up, that’s not my problem—it’s theirs.
It wasn’t for nothing that the skeleton principal was close to Professor Voladi.
And unfortunately, Professor Voladi’s conviction only grew stronger after meeting Ihan.
‘The foundation for elemental transformation and elemental control training has been firmly established.’
When Professor Voladi saw Ihan use lightning magic, he didn’t show it outwardly but was very pleased.
The lightning element is among the most difficult of all elements to master.
If he used such lightning elements, he could easily proceed with the advanced courses of elemental form transformation and control training.
Originally, I would have immediately started lightning magic…
…would have to, but Professor Voladi had a reason for conducting elemental detection training.
It was the testimony of the skeleton principal.
Professor Voladi was greatly shocked when he heard that Ihan had injured his arm while fighting undead summons.
I can’t believe Ihan made such a mistake.
Of course, that should have raised the question “Why is a freshman fighting a giant undead summon?” but Professor Voladi failed to realize that.
-What if I had been that boy from the Wardanaz family?
Last time, in order to prevent Ihan from trying to add rotational properties to his water elemental magic, Professor Voladi had thought from Ihan’s perspective for the first time.
Once this kind of putting oneself in another’s shoes began, it wasn’t that difficult. Professor Voladi, thinking from Ihan’s perspective, soon reached a conclusion.
‘If I were a boy from the Wardanaz family, right now I would want to learn evasion techniques most of all, not attack and defense.’
Professor Voladi could have simply asked Ihan, but he deliberately chose not to and instead thought it through and reached his own conclusion.
In magical combat, evasion was different from attack and defense, but in some ways it was a more advanced and difficult technique.
The essence of avoidance is cognition.
To evade smoothly, one had to be able to instantly identify where and how the enemy’s attacks were coming from, and what attributes and structure the magic possessed.
-The fool blocks, but the wise man avoids.
This saying didn’t exist for nothing.
So how can we improve those cognitive abilities?
In fact, the boy from the Wardanaz family had been training without even realizing it.
Because consistent training in making contact with and understanding magic inevitably improved cognitive abilities.
Today, Professor Voladi made us focus only on detection here, excluding manipulation and form.
As a result…
Pop!
Pop!
Professor Boladi cleared away the lightning bolts that had appeared in the darkness.
Lee Han was panting. No matter how good his stamina was, it would be stranger if he didn’t get tired in this situation.
Amazingly, the Wardanaz family boy had avoided everything perfectly.
In complete darkness where he couldn’t see anything!
Lee Han couldn’t see it, but Professor Boladi smiled.
When he had heard about ‘the joy of teaching’ from other mages before, he wondered what they were talking about, but now he somewhat understood.
Teaching was truly enjoyable.
Much more lightning bolts and small flames than before began appearing in the air. Water orbs and compressed wind and various other elements.
Lee Han seemed to sense something ominous even with his eyes covered and shouted urgently.
“Professor? Professor???”
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