Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 107
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Chapter 107
Lee Han had his eyes covered, but he could tell what was happening.
He wanted to deny it, but he felt it with his entire body.
Right now, Professor Boladi was summoning not just lightning elements, but other elements as well.
‘Which means…’
In fact, Lee Han dodging lightning bolts with his eyes covered was already an incredibly impressive feat.
He was too busy dodging to realize it himself, but Professor Boladi wouldn’t smile over just any trivial matter.
Reading the trajectory and dodging before lightning bolts were fired was originally difficult even with eyes open.
Dynamic vision trained through sword practice.
Innate mana detection ability.
Without either of these, it would have been impossible.
But when Lee Han accomplished this too easily, Professor Boladi casually raised the difficulty.
If Professor Garcia had passed by and seen this, she would have been horrified, shouting ‘What are you doing!?’
Making him do something difficult even with eyes open in complete darkness.
The problem was that Lee Han had perfectly accomplished that as well.
So Professor Boladi casually raised the difficulty once more.
A professor and student who neither applied the brakes.
Thanks to this, Lee Han ended up facing an absurdly brutal difficulty trial on his first day of elemental detection training.
In a way, it was his own doing.
‘…Are the other elements a decoy?’
Not realizing he had dug his own grave, Lee Han simply concentrated.
He could feel not just lightning bolts, but the presence of other elements as well. This wasn’t the time to think about other things leisurely.
There was only one reason Professor Boladi would deploy other elements in the current situation.
Deception!
The method Lee Han used to dodge lightning bolts in the invisible space was simple.
When his eyes were covered and dynamic vision was blocked, he relied purely on mana detection ability.
Even lightning bolts that shot out in simple straight lines had countless changes in their internal flow during brief moments.
Lee Han realized that mana condensed slightly to gain explosive power the moment it was fired, so he grasped this precursor phenomenon and dodged the lightning bolts.
But now, if elements of different attributes besides lightning began mixing in…
He had to distinguish mana by attribute to detect precursors, then find only the lightning among them and catch the mana condensation phenomenon.
Moreover, given Professor Boladi’s damn personality, the other attribute elements deployed as decoys could also join the attack, so he had to pay attention to those as well.
‘Can I do this?’
Lee Han raised his head toward the elements radiating presence in the darkness.
Honestly, it seemed impossible.
In that case…
‘Get hit as painlessly as possible!’
* * *
Lee Han’s expectation was wrong.
Amazingly, Lee Han had succeeded again.
“…”
Even Professor Boladi, who would normally have immediately said what he had to say, fell silent for a moment in surprise.
‘He’s naturally gifted.’
What the Wardanaz family boy possessed wasn’t just enormous mana.
Come to think of it, being born with such enormous mana meant that handling that mana to learn magic was itself an incredibly difficult task.
Especially if he was a new student.
The Wardanaz family boy had a modest personality, so he thought his speed of learning magic wasn’t that impressive.
Of course, even that level was quite fast, but it was true that compared to the childhood of the Empire’s brilliant genius mages, it fell slightly short.
However, that was when not calculating the amount of mana he possessed.
Having that much mana and learning magic at that speed itself proved his talent.
Usually it was hard to notice this because of the mana he possessed, but when detecting surrounding mana, the story was different.
In fields where there was no mana quantity penalty, fragments of talent inevitably leaked out.
Snap!
Snap!
Snap!
Professor Boladi made the handkerchief covering Lee Han’s eyes disappear.
Despite accomplishing such a remarkable feat, the Wardanaz family boy remained calm. The professor didn’t bother saying anything separately either.
“I didn’t expect you to pass everything on the first day.”
“…It might be because you did it all at once, Professor.”
Lee Han politely said in a roundabout way, meaning ‘So please take it easy from now on.’
But when speaking politely and indirectly to professors, the message usually didn’t get through well.
“There’s no need to be grateful.”
“?”
Lee Han momentarily wondered what he was talking about.
And then he understood belatedly.
Professor Boladi thought Lee Han had said ‘Thanks to you giving me all the assignments at once, Professor, I was able to pass everything like this.’
‘…This is maddening.’
While Lee Han was feeling frustrated, Professor Boladi continued.
“Originally I was going to take more time and gradually train you in elemental detection. But it seems that won’t be necessary.”
Lee Han felt relieved. From Professor Boladi’s words, it seemed today’s lecture was over for now.
Professor Boladi held out a bundle wrapped in cloth.
“You seem tired.”
“…!”
Lee Han was startled.
Of course he was tired after dodging lightning bolts with eyes open, then with eyes closed.
But he had never dreamed that Professor Boladi would show such concern.
‘What is this?’
At first he wondered if there was some trap in the bundle, but Professor Boladi wasn’t someone with malice like the Skeleton Principal.
Lee Han carefully unwrapped the bundle.
‘Are there medicinal herbs inside?’
Inside the bundle was a magic book. Professor Boladi nodded and said.
“It’s a book about basic lightning magic and its applications. Learn it by next time.”
“…”
Professor Boladi wasn’t someone with malice like the Skeleton Principal.
He was just a bit of a crazy person.
Lee Han belatedly realized the meaning of Professor Boladi’s words “You seem tired.”
He had simply stated a pure thought he had while looking at Lee Han.
Those words and the bundle were completely unrelated!
“…I understand.”
Lee Han managed his expression as he put away the magic book.
Even if he was going to curse, he had to wait until he got somewhere Professor Boladi wasn’t.
‘Come to think of it, wasn’t this week quiz week?’
Thinking about it, the magic Professor Boladi had just given him to learn wasn’t the important thing.
Professor Boladi didn’t have quizzes, but the other lectures would.
-■■■!
At the strange cry of a summoned creature coming from outside the lecture hall, from the main building courtyard, Lee Han turned his head.
“What’s going on there?”
“The professors are dealing with escaped summoned creatures.”
“??”
Lee Han couldn’t understand.
Just last week, the professors didn’t care when escaped summoned creatures were wandering around the school.
Why suddenly?
“Did something happen? Why?”
“They’re probably dealing with them so they won’t interfere with the exams.”
“…”
Lee Han lost his words and bowed to leave the lecture hall.
‘I shouldn’t have asked…’
* * *
The book Professor Boladi gave him, 【On Basic Lightning Elemental Magic and Its Applications】, was better than expected.
‘Wait. Who wrote this?’
Considering that most magic books didn’t consider at all that new students would be reading them, 【On Basic Lightning Elemental Magic and Its Applications】 was truly kind.
The 1st Circle Magic 【Lightning Generation】 wasn’t just explained with incantations and gestures.
Unlike other 1st Circle elemental magics, lightning elements are quite difficult to fix in position after generation. The most common mistake novice mages make is summoning lightning elements and then losing control, scattering them in random directions. To prepare for this, prepare the following things. First, wear thick clothes that lightning elements don’t conduct well through, and when there are no other people around…
Unlike other 1st Circle elemental magics, lightning elements are quite difficult to fix in position after generation. The most common mistake novice mages make is summoning lightning elements and then losing control, scattering them in random directions. To prepare for this, prepare the following things. First, wear thick clothes that lightning elements don’t conduct well through, and when there are no other people around…
Unlike other 1st Circle elemental magics, lightning elements are quite difficult to fix in position after generation. The most common mistake novice mages make is summoning lightning elements and then losing control, scattering them in random directions. To prepare for this, prepare the following things. First, wear thick clothes that lightning elements don’t conduct well through, and when there are no other people around…
Lee Han wanted to find other books by the mage who wrote this, so he checked the back. But there was no author.
‘Is this a book written within the magic school?’
Most books in the Empire weren’t systematically mass-produced. Many were handwritten by individuals in a few copies and then passed down.
Books inside the magic school were even more so.
If you went to the library, the books were already chaotically categorized, and more than half of them were illegible.
Basically, mages were people who only cared about satisfying themselves and didn’t consider others!
‘If I were a bookstore owner, I’d throw away all those books.’
Separate from his hatred for Professor Boladi, Lee Han thought he should read this book more.
The book wasn’t at fault.
And next time, Professor Boladi would surely conduct his lecture assuming Lee Han had mastered this book…
“Good to see you, Wardanaz!”
When a professor cheerfully called out from behind, Lee Han was startled. It was definitely not a good sign.
Fortunately, it was a familiar face. Professor Kirmin Ku, one of Professor Boladi’s few friends.
“Going to attend the 【Basic Understanding of Magic】 lecture? Right?”
“Yes.”
“Perfect! We can go together. I was just heading to the lecture hall myself.”
Professor Kirmin was so cheerful it was hard to believe he was friends with Professor Boladi.
Lee Han felt slightly hopeful at that sight.
Young, good-natured professors with good relationships were statistically more likely to treat students well.
Of course, he didn’t know if that rule would apply at the magic school…
“Do you teach illusion magic?”
“That’s right. Professor Bagrek doesn’t like illusion magic, but illusion magic is useful in many ways.”
Any field of magic, when deeply explored, was infinite enough that you couldn’t see the end.
Casting barrier magic to prevent intruders in an area or showing hallucinations to enemies was just a fraction of illusion magic.
There were mages who combined it with spatial magic to create bizarre illusory labyrinths that couldn’t exist in reality, and mages who combined it with mental magic to defeat opponents just by making eye contact.
After hearing the explanation, Lee Han thought to himself.
‘It would be good for thievery.’
Surrounding his body with illusions to avoid attention or breaking through installed illusion magic, etc.
No matter how kindly Professor Kirmin explained, he couldn’t help having other thoughts.
“Wardanaz. When I saw you last time, I could tell you have talent for illusion magic?”
Lee Han was pleased by Professor Kirmin’s words.
Usually, when you heard something like ‘you have talent’ from a professor, you had to be careful.
The moment you let your guard down, you could be dragged under the professor and forcibly become their disciple.
But Lee Han was already too late to worry about that. From the moment he entered the magic school, he had no choice but to learn under professors.
What mattered was finding a kind and decent professor.
And Professor Kirmin might be a kind and decent professor.
He couldn’t be certain yet…
‘Illusion magic isn’t bad either. As long as you learn anything well, you can make a living anywhere, right?’
“In illusion magic, there’s something more important than abundant mana, excellent elemental affinity, or extraordinary calculation ability. It’s precise control. In my view, Wardanaz, you’re naturally gifted.”
“…???”
Lee Han was confused.
What did he mean, when Lee Han was far from precise control due to his massive mana?
‘Isn’t he mistaken because of the assignment submission last time?’
That was something his body had learned from being beaten by Professor Boladi until he got it right, not Lee Han’s outstanding talent.
“Th… thank you.”
“I’m curious if there’s any field of magic you’re interested in. Usually talented new students like you don’t choose just one but several fields.”
“I haven’t decided yet.”
Professor Kirmin changed his question in response to Lee Han’s answer.
“Then… besides Professor Bagrek, which professors have you met with outside of lecture time?”
It was a question that could reveal not what fields Lee Han was interested in, but which professors were interested in Lee Han.
It wasn’t just disciples choosing masters, but masters choosing disciples too.
“First, Professor Thunderstep…”
“Ah. Alchemy.”
“Professor Lightningstep.”
“Zoology.”
“And Professor Willow Tree.”
“Botany.”
“Professor Mortum and…”
“Dark magic?”
“Professor Milay too.”
“Summoning magic. Wait. Wait.”
Professor Kirmin paused.
There were too many.
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