Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1072
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Chapter 1072
Puyo showered praise upon seeing the magic completed by the two Einroguard students.
“To think that mages who are still students could complete something like this! Professor Verdus is truly a happy man!”
“??”
Professor Verdus tilted his head from under the table.
He was currently crawling around on all fours because of his disciples’ despicable trickery, so why would he be happy?
“That’s… no. This is ancient magic I’ve never seen before? Where did you get this?”
Abalkaigen, who had been staring intently at the magic carved on the board, exclaimed in surprise.
It was already amazing that dimensional rods and refraction had been fused and carved into a single board, but looking closely inside, he could see several ancient magics that could no longer be found today assisting the magic circle’s operation and form.
Even Abalkaigen, who was quite an expert on ancient artifacts, was seeing this ancient magic for the first time.
“Did you perhaps seek teachings from Lord Gonadaltes?”
“No. He’s petty so he doesn’t teach easily.”
At the answer coming from below, Abalkaigen looked down with a dumbfounded expression.
Although Lord Gonadaltes had some talk in the Empire due to his self-righteous behavior, he was still the guardian of the Empire’s magical barrier and the Emperor’s Marryongwan.
Moreover, wasn’t that beaver beastman also his superior as a professor of Einroguard?
Yet such a rude attitude.
‘The Einroguard Divination Magic School is truly pitiful! No matter how skilled they are, to have to serve such a crazy bastard as their master.’
Abalkaigen looked at Lee Han and Yukveltire with pitying eyes.
Yukveltire misunderstood that gaze and whispered to her junior.
“Be careful.”
“Of what?”
“That look, he’s definitely coveting the magic we completed.”
“…That’s a look of pity for us. Senior.”
“Why?”
“Because we’re Professor Verdus’s disciples.”
“…”
Yukveltire, who would normally never accept pity from others, was speechless this time.
After hesitating, Yukveltire said belatedly.
“But there must be at least a few advantages, right? Junior, you argue against it instead.”
“I refuse.”
No matter how confident Lee Han was in his eloquence, he didn’t want to step forward on such a topic.
No matter how he looked at it, there seemed to be no chance of winning.
“May I ask where you found this?”
“Uh… we discovered it by chance inside Einroguard.”
“I see. Thank you for faithfully answering such an impertinent question.”
He worried he had answered too carelessly, but Abalkaigen was surprisingly convinced.
Even before the Imperial Magic School was established, Einroguard was a place where all kinds of magic had built up its academic traditions. It wouldn’t be strange at all if magic that was now hard to find was discovered.
After examining the magic several times, Abalkaigen sighed. No matter how much he wanted to find fault, it was a nearly perfect magical design. It was as if an ancient archmage had drawn it directly.
“I lost. I lost. Professor Verdus. I acknowledge it. That you are one step above me as a master too.”
“No, Master!”
His disciple Abalkarun unconsciously shouted out of guilt.
If he himself was lacking, then he was lacking, but what could his master be lacking?
“That’s right! Absolutely not!”
-Don’t say such things!
“???”
The orc mage turned his gaze in confusion as fierce shouts erupted from the side as well.
The Einroguard group, including Lee Han, were shouting with angry voices.
-Master Abalkaigen is absolutely not lacking in anything. Don’t think strange thoughts!
“Yukveltire senior and I worked hard together to make this, so why is it thanks to Professor Verdus! Don’t speak carelessly!”
The death knights were one thing, but Lee Han was still close to a greenhorn by Abalkaigen’s standards.
Nevertheless, Abalkaigen was overwhelmed by the Wardanaz family boy.
Such murderous momentum, as if facing a mortal enemy!
“I, I seem to have misspoken. I apologize.”
“…No. I’m sorry for getting too excited too. And I belong to all schools of Einroguard, so I have multiple masters. It’s absolutely not thanks to Professor Verdus.”
“…”
Abalkaigen was certain of one thing now.
The Einroguard Divination Magic School students, whether upperclassmen or underclassmen, all really hated Professor Verdus.
* * *
“Now!”
As the boring disciple introductions ended, Professor Verdus immediately brought out the most interesting topic in the Empire, namely his own magical research.
When a sailboat small enough to fit in one’s palm was placed on the table, the mages gasped in admiration.
Even Lee Han was inwardly surprised.
“This… did you actually shrink a real ship with magic?”
“Good eye. Ah. Did you perhaps hear about it beforehand because you’re close with Professor Verdus… no, that’s not it. I apologize.”
“Ah, no.”
The atmosphere between Abalkaigen and Lee Han became slightly awkward. Lee Han deeply reflected.
‘Such rudeness to someone I’m meeting for the first time.’
Originally Lee Han wasn’t such a rude person.
But when the other party brought up being close with Professor Verdus, killing intent unconsciously emanated from his entire body…
“Anyway, this is truly amazing. I didn’t know shrinking magic could be done to this extent.”
“I have no choice but to acknowledge Professor Verdus’s skill.”
Transformation magic wasn’t omnipotent.
Especially magic that shrunk actual objects like this had difficulty that increased exponentially in proportion to the size and duration.
The mages present could grasp how precisely and powerfully the shrinking magic composing the sailboat was operating.
At this level, the original size would easily be enough to fill this room.
“Wait. The appearance seems a bit different from the original sailboat?”
Puyo noticed the discrepancy with his excellent discernment.
Its appearance was different from the sailboat Professor Verdus had drawn and shown several times in his letters.
“You’re right. What’s this? Why did it change? Did you make a new one?”
“Ragesa stole that one.”
Professor Verdus grumbled as if his anger still hadn’t subsided even now.
“Ragesa? You mean Admiral Ragesa of the Southern Privateering Fleet?”
“Probably right. She’s one of Professor Verdus’s patrons.”
“Then it wasn’t stolen, was it?”
Abalkaigen asked as if he didn’t understand.
Why would it be theft when a patron took something they had invested in?
“It’s theft! She took it without permission!”
Professor Verdus flared up and argued.
How much time and money it had cost to make a new one from scratch because the small sailboat he had made before disappeared.
Ragesa had sent more gold coins afterward, but it wasn’t nearly enough.
“Did Ragesa perhaps take something other than what she invested in?”
“No? She took what she invested in?”
“…”
-…
While the people present suppressed their anger inwardly, Professor Verdus grumbled again.
“Wardanaz was bribed and delivered it to her.”
“Please don’t misunderstand everyone. I wasn’t bribed, but if Ragesa didn’t receive the completed ship this time too, she seemed like she would truly be furious…”
“No one here would misunderstand, so don’t worry about it.”
At Puyo’s words, the knights unconsciously nodded their heads.
None of the people here had any intention of misunderstanding Professor Verdus’s words.
Even if Professor Verdus said ‘My disciple Wardanaz set fire to the workshop, stabbed me, then plundered all the valuable treasures!’ the people here would still take Lee Han’s side.
“Wait. The hull’s shape has changed, hasn’t it?”
“That’s right. The front mast has been modified too…”
The two mages who came at Professor Verdus’s invitation were flustered by the fact that the newly made sailboat was quite different from the original sailboat.
This was a more important problem than expected.
Originally, what the two had prepared after receiving the invitation here were all magic tailored to the old sailboat.
From ancient relics that combined with the hull to control the climate of the sky, to magic that modified the mast like a magic wand so the ship itself could cast magic.
Both were delicate magics, so if the sailboat’s form had changed, they needed to readjust everything.
“Since I was making it anew, I changed the design I didn’t like.”
“…Then you should have told us that!”
Abalkaigen shouted as if growling.
What the hell was this crazy beaver mage doing!
“We can just fix it here, can’t we?”
“How much time do you want us to waste? We came all this way after receiving an invitation!”
Displeased by the unnecessary time waste, Abalkaigen stood up abruptly and stormed out, slamming the door.
He had come here accepting the invitation because they needed each other’s cooperation, but he was already regretting it.
“Sigh…”
As he stood outside the door letting out a troubled sigh, the knights followed him out. Abalkaigen apologized.
“Sorry. You came all this way as guards, yet you have to see this.”
-No. That doesn’t matter. More importantly, mage sir. Did you say you prepared magic tailored to the original sailboat?
“That’s right… but…?”
Abalkaigen was puzzled, not understanding why these Death Knights were asking such questions.
-If that original sailboat were available, would you be able to work on it?
“Wasn’t it taken by Lady Ragesa?”
-After that, Lady Ragesa gave it as a gift to someone else. It’s a long story. Anyway, we understand it’s possible.
“???”
The knights tried to go back inside without even hearing an answer. This time it was to bring Puyo out.
However, Puyo walked out first. Abalkaigen bowed his head and apologized.
“I’m sorry. Teacher. Because of me…”
“Ah, no. It’s not that. Professor Verdus kept asking me to cut off some of his body, so I came out because it was annoying.”
Professor Verdus had long been interested in Puyo’s body, who was a wood spirit hybrid and an excellent mage.
Being excellent material, he would pester him every time they met, asking if he couldn’t cut off some of his body.
“But why are the knights gathered here?”
The knights asked the same question they had asked Abalkaigen earlier. Puyo reacted the same way.
“Wasn’t it taken by Lady Ragesa??”
-It’s a long story. Anyway, we understand!
The knights went back inside and this time brought out the Skeleton Principal’s top student last.
Lee Han was bewildered, unable to grasp the situation.
“Are you perhaps planning to attack Professor Verdus?”
-No.
The Death Knights were tempted but denied it. However, they made a mental note to seriously attempt it once later.
-Successor sir.
“Shh. There are many people listening.”
‘Successor?’
The two mages wondered inwardly but didn’t interrupt the conversation.
-Understood. Mr. Wardanaz. About that sailboat you received last time.
“Yes.”
-How about entrusting it to those gentlemen?
“???”
The two mages couldn’t hold back and interrupted the conversation.
“No. Wasn’t it taken by Lady Ragesa?”
“Lady Ragesa gave it back to me.”
“Why?”
Abalkaigen was flustered.
That small sailboat that sailed through the air wasn’t something worth just a penny or two. Ragesa would have invested tremendously in Professor Verdus for it.
Yet she gave it back to the disciple of that mage she hated to death.
“I don’t know the exact reason either, but if I had to guess…”
The two mages listened intently.
What kind of potential had Ragesa discovered in this genius?
“Wouldn’t she have given it to me because she pitied me for learning under Professor Verdus?”
“…”
Abalkaigen, who was almost convinced for a moment, quickly came to his senses.
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