Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 108
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Chapter
Chapter 108
Anger
Anger
Professor Kirmin asked more questions for now to ease his confusion.
“What kind of conversations do you have with Professor Thunderstep?”
“Usually we organize materials in the cabin and discuss what to grow in the garden.”
Professor Kirmin listened and made a “hmm” sound.
It was clear that Professor Thunderstep was quite fond of this boy from the Wordanaz family.
An alchemist doesn’t easily open their cottage to others.
Moreover, now that I think about it, I had seen a few students from the Blue Dragon Tower carrying reagents used in Professor Thunderstep’s laboratory.
The boy from the Wardanaz family must have shared what he received from Professor Thunderstep with his friends.
‘Professor Thunderstep seems to consider Wordanaz his top alchemy disciple.’
“What about Professor Lightning Step?”
“I’m learning about the animals that live near the magic school and studying how to handle them.”
‘…Professor Lightning Step seems like that too…?’
Professor Kirmin saw the cane that Ihan was holding.
It was a staff imbued with a tree spirit, radiating with powerful vitality.
Only Professor Willow would give something like that.
‘Professor Willow too??’
Clatter!
Clatter!
Clatter!
Clatter!
With a clattering sound, the leopard bone summon that had been tied to Ihan’s belt leaped down.
Ihan spoke firmly, as if scolding a pet.
“You can’t use it! Come back right now!”
Then the incomplete leopard bone summon came whimpering back.
Professor Kirmin didn’t immediately understand what had happened.
“I’m sorry. That bone summon of mine hasn’t been listening to me much lately.”
“Could that summon be the one?”
“Ah. You know about it? Professor Mortum gave it to me.”
Even black magic!
Professor Kirmin was bewildered and counted on his fingers in his mind.
I had no way of knowing how many professors had made contact first.
It was absurd enough as it was, but I had another question.
‘There are so many professors to choose from, so why on earth would you learn from Bagrec?’
No matter how I think about it, from a student’s perspective, there doesn’t seem to be any reason at all to want to learn from Baegreck…
“Professor?”
“Ah. Sorry. Sorry. I was distracted for a moment because of the summon. The reason that summon won’t obey is because its power has grown stronger.”
“Then should we scare them into compliance?”
“Makes sense, since undead are almost never frightened.”
Lee Han was puzzled.
Then what about the undead summons that were trembling in fear at the sight of Ihan in Professor Mortum’s dark chamber?
‘Hmm. I suppose you don’t know much about it since it’s not your field of expertise.’
The professor was surprisingly ignorant about other fields of study. Ihan wasn’t surprised.
“You don’t need to be so anxious. A strong summon means high intelligence. Right now it won’t listen because it’s in the process of getting stronger, but once it’s fully developed, its mind will mature too and it’ll obey well. …But why are we so short on undead bones?”
“Professor Mortum told us to search around the school grounds.”
“Ah…”
Professor Kirmin nodded.
It was really the kind of thinking only Professor Mortum would do.
“Rather than just giving it away, you were trying to make it fun for the student… right?”
“Ah… yes. Well.”
Ihan nodded for now.
Professor Kirmin certainly seemed to have excellent social skills. Professor Voladi would have said, “What a pointless endeavor.”
“Still, that Sharkan is truly a rare and precious monster.”
“…wasn’t it a leopard?”
“Oops.”
Professor Kirmin hesitated.
It seemed that he had accidentally revealed the surprise that Professor Mortum had prepared to startle the students (though it was questionable whether the students would actually enjoy it).
“Of course it’s a leopard. A leopard.”
There was no way Ihan would fall for such words.
When the lecture ended, Lee Han thought he would need to search through the library to find out what kind of monster Sharkan actually was.
‘Wasn’t it just an ordinary leopard?’
It’s not like some undead monster that kills its master, is it?
The leopard bone summon, feeling Ihan’s gaze, excitedly rattled its bones. Ihan patted its head for now.
…if you treat them kindly, they won’t bite their master’s throat even when they become strong later on.
“Anyway, it seems Professor Mortum really likes you a lot, Wardanaz.”
“Professor Mortum likes all students.”
Lee Han was sincere.
Since there were no other students taking Dark Arts, Professor Mortum was showing favor even to Gainando.
It must be quite something if even the knight who came to learn dark magic in order to catch dark mages is listening attentively to the lectures.
“Wizards don’t like talentless disciples. Even the kindest wizards don’t.”
Professor Kirmin counted the professors mentioned in the story once more.
Including the professors who didn’t show up, there were really a lot of them.
At this point, one would be concerned about the Wodanaz boy’s health.
The professors who were already passing down their teachings like that wouldn’t back down easily, and Wardanaz would likely be dragged to every single lecture.
You must already be mentally and physically exhausted because of Professor Bagrec…
Are you sure you’re okay?
‘Hmm. I’m having second thoughts.’
Professor Kirmin was torn between his desire to take on a talented student and his concern about whether he should add to the troubles of a student who was already struggling.
After much deliberation, the scales in Professor Kirmin’s mind tipped toward the former.
“Wordanaz. If it’s alright with you…”
“Oh, and I’ve also met with the principal separately.”
“…with Gonadaltes? What did you two talk about?”
“I received a magic book. Could you please take a look and see if it’s alright?”
Ihan tried to explore the principal’s evil spellbook with the help of Professor Kirmin, who seemed like a good person.
However, it backfired.
Professor Kirmin stared at Lee Han with a look of horror.
Of all people to get caught by, it had to be the school’s biggest psycho.
“…That must be difficult. But hang in there!”
When Professor Kirmin placed his hand on Lee Han’s shoulder and offered words of encouragement, Lee Han was slightly taken aback.
For some reason, the nuance in his voice was strange.
It was kind of… well… similar to the tone when a senior colleague said “Good luck!” with a sympathetic look when I started working under that professor.
“Thank you. But Professor, I have something I’d like to ask since I’m not sure if I’ll be able to do well with illusion magic…”
“Wardanaz. You don’t need to learn illusion magic.”
“?!?!”
Lee Han was once again bewildered by Professor Kirmin’s attitude change as sudden as flipping a palm.
‘Why is he acting like this?’
‘Hang in there, Wardanaz. I’ll cheer you on.’
* * *
Lee Han had thought that the students at this magic school had rather weak reactions.
Even though they were all young, they were basically treated as adults and had grown up in various social positions and backgrounds, making them much more mature.
The 【Basic Understanding of Magic】 lecture was the same. How indifferently the students had reacted when Professor Mortum entered.
Of course, summoning magic was a bit different, but that could be considered an exception.
But…
“Professor, there’s always illusion magic on the stairs I want to go to, so I can’t proceed. Is there a way to dispel or break through it?”
“Can you cast an illusion on black bread to make it seem like it’s covered with honey?”
“I’d like to set up an illusion-based intruder prevention barrier in the common room, but could a first-year, not Wardan-, I mean, could another first-year break through it?”
It was just that dark magic was exceptionally unpopular.
The students basically showed strong interest in most fields of magic. Even with illusion magic, this was already the fifth question being asked.
Professor Kirmin waved his hand as if telling them to calm down.
“Now, now. If I answer all your questions, even a whole day wouldn’t be enough, so let’s stop taking questions here and have a time to simply experience what illusion magic is.”
Professor Kirmin finished speaking and stood still.
As the sudden silence continued, the students were bewildered. Gainando whispered.
“Why is he acting like that?”
Lee Han stared intently at Professor Kirmin. Then he began to feel something was off.
‘Could it be an illusion?’
If that were really the case, it would be amazing.
He had entered the lecture hall with Lee Han, talked with Professor Garcia, and there hadn’t been a single opportunity to switch since then, yet he had deceived the students’ eyes and ears and switched places with an illusion of himself.
Once he began to recognize that sense of unease, Lee Han suddenly felt his surroundings differently.
Just like when he had once grasped the movement of the lightning element in Professor Boladi’s attempted murder, no, lecture, and could continue reading it from then on…
In magic, enlightenment was inspiration that showed a different world. Lee Han realized there was an invisible person standing at the desk in front of him and Gainando.
“Gainando. The professor is in front of you.”
“What?! Be paralyzed!”
Gainando was startled and immediately cast a curse. He wasn’t called a prodigy of dark magic for nothing.
Be paralyzed!
Of course, Professor Kirmin wasn’t someone who would fall to a first-year’s curse. Professor Kirmin looked incredulous and sent the curse back.
Pop!
Gainando was hit by the lesser paralysis curse, stiffened, and fell over sideways.
“You did well finding me, but even so, you can’t just suddenly cast curses like that!”
“I’m sorry, Professor.”
Lee Han apologized on his behalf. Gainando was stiff after all.
Pop!
Pop!
Gainando was struck by a low-level paralysis curse, stiffened up, and toppled over sideways.
“Good job finding it, but still, you can’t just go around throwing curses at people out of nowhere!”
“I’m sorry, Professor.”
Ihan apologized instead. Gainando had become stiff.
‘But does Gainando really have talent for dark magic?’
It’s normally difficult to paralyze even one part of the body, but to think he could stop his entire body like that, even if he shot himself.
It was a talent, if you could call it that.
Professor Kirmin switched positions with the original illusion again. Gainando silently cried out for the paralysis curse to be lifted.
“As you just saw, I slipped in easily while you were completely unaware. This is what illusion magic can do. Becoming invisible, seeing through opponents hidden in invisibility, creating illusions to confuse enemies.”
Professor Kirmin was certainly a flamboyant person, starting from his very demeanor. The students already looked captivated.
Ihan felt his heart grow heavy again as he remembered Professor Mortum’s dark magic.
“But of course, you freshmen will have to start with the basics, right? Outstanding mages possess keen observation skills. Look at each other—the students next to you—and try to notice if anything has changed. Detecting something out of place is the very first step to seeing through illusions.”
Professor Kirmin once again cast illusions throughout the lecture hall without the students noticing.
The students were surprised to realize that their friends, whom they had been seeing regularly, had somehow changed little by little.
“Wait. You… you weren’t this skinny when you first enrolled.”
“It’s because you can’t eat it. Idiot.”
Despite some trial and error, students began to succeed one by one in noticing the illusions at each tower.
Professor Kirmin praised these perceptive students and imparted the following teaching.
“If you can notice something’s off just by observing carefully, then you can also learn 【Low-Level Illusion Dispel】 magic. Try dispelling the illusion cast here.”
Ihan came forward with the other students and looked at the illusion.
An illusion of a locked wooden box lay before the students.
When the Black Turtle Tower student chanted the spell and waved his wand as Professor Kirmin had taught him, the wooden box let out an ear-piercing scream.
“Don’t let your guard down too much when dispelling illusion magic. If there’s one illusion spell in place, it means there are all sorts of barriers set up around the area.”
Professor Kirmin looked at Lee Han while giving advice to the student.
Ihan raised his staff and aimed at the illusion of the wooden box.
He clearly recognized the illusion, accurately visualized what the actual reality would be like in his mind, then swung his wand along with an incantation.
Begone, illusion!
Begone, illusion!
The illusion of the wooden box disappeared completely. The princess beside him clapped softly.
However, Professor Kirmin looked at Lee Han with pitying eyes instead of praise as he spoke to him.
“Wordanas. You don’t need to force yourself to practice illusion magic so hard.”
How to Live as a Wizard at Magic School
How to Live as a Wizard in Magic School
How to Live as a Wizard at Magic School
Publication Date: August 15, 2021
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