Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1105

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Chapter 1105

“I just predicted it.”

Lee Han looked at his senior with a look of disdain.

He had respected this senior who had shown outstanding abilities in divination magic, but to show such an unsightly appearance.

“Prediction is both the foundation and the end of divination.”

Baewi Golem Senior answered like that and stood up.

At the same time, Lee Han casually walked to the door of the room and occupied the exit. It was to prevent any possible second escape attempt.

‘This bastard?!’

Golem Senior couldn’t help but be amazed at his junior’s seasoned response.

In a situation like this, blocking the exit first was something that at least a third-year would think to do.

To think that a mere second-year would know to do such a thing…

“A true divination mage knows how to glimpse the future without relying on magic.”

“Senior. Are you trying to distract me and then run away?”

“…Fine. Fine. I won’t run away, okay.”

Being in a heavy golem state made it difficult to escape anyway. Golem Senior completely gave up on fleeing.

Of course, even after that, Lee Han didn’t let his guard down. Not only did he block the exit, but he also checked again to see if there were any routes he had missed.

“I said I won’t run away.”

“I understand. I was just looking around because the room is pretty.”

“You’re really going to become a good divination mage.”

“If this is a scheme to make me let my guard down…”

“It’s not.”

That last comment was sincere.

An excellent divination mage, like a high-level chess player, knew how to predict and prepare for hundreds of possible futures. A suspicious mage like his junior had the right qualifications.

He was even suspicious of this compliment…

“But why were you trying to run away?”

“Well. 【Escape to the Shadow Fortress】 is quite a difficult spell. Even I need to borrow the power of the Wizard Board to cast it. And now I have to teach it to a mere second-year student, so I felt an ominous feeling.”

“What? No, isn’t that an overreaction? Just because you’re learning one difficult spell…”

Lee Han was bewildered.

If seniors were going to distance themselves just because he was learning one difficult spell, the number of seniors Lee Han knew would have been reduced to about one-fifth.

No matter how much of a divination mage he was, wasn’t this persecution complex?

Golem Senior answered his junior’s criticism coldly.

“For a second-year junior who went around with the Principal’s Insane Doppelganger and a dragon last semester, and made Professor Kraer run away this semester, it’s not really an overreaction.”

“…”

Lee Han was hit so hard by those words that he couldn’t even retort. He felt hurt to his bones.

‘Ugh.’

“…But those were all just coincidences, misunderstandings. If you give me time, I can explain.”

“In the divination magic school, they say to avoid anyone who brings coincidences with them. Anyway, fine. There’s no one else to teach you, so I’ll have to teach you.”

“Ah. Don’t the other seniors know this spell?”

“Rather than skill level, they’re all busy right now too.”

Golem Senior pulled the curtain. Lee Han prepared for his opponent’s possible escape.

Fortunately, it wasn’t an escape. When the curtain was drawn, three other students could be seen in the adjacent room, fast asleep with celestial globes set up by their bedsides.

“They’re still dreaming.”

“Prophetic dreams? Are they doing divination through dreams?”

“That’s right.”

“Is there something that requires three people to combine their powers for divination?”

Lee Han was puzzled.

Were they already divining the midterm exam questions?

“They’re doing that because friends asked them to divine when the inspector will leave.”

“…Let’s start the magic!”

It was a statement meant to change the subject, but Golem Senior agreed too.

“If you’ve been practicing, you must know what kind of spell 【Escape to the Shadow Fortress】 is?”

“Yes. It’s a spell created from the tale of an excellent mage, the Young Prince, who fled to a fortress to escape the pursuing death.”

“…Ah, no. I wasn’t asking about the spell’s origin. Was that the origin of this spell?”

Golem Senior was flustered.

He had just learned the spell from a magic book in the divination magic school and from the professor, never having thought about its origin.

Was that the origin?

“Anyway, since you know the origin, you must know what kind of spell it is.”

“No.”

“…This spell increases evasion rate.”

Instead of asking more questions, Golem Senior decided to finish teaching the spell as quickly as possible.

Then, if he performed some ritual to ward off bad luck, he might somehow escape from his ominous fate.

“Skilled thieves think they won’t get caught if they hide their appearance and erase their presence. But truly excellent thieves know that’s not enough. So they obscure their fate before stealing anything.”

Powerful divination magic could penetrate invisibility spells and all kinds of illusion magic to find the enemy’s location.

Moreover, if you were on the defensive side, you could prepare even stronger magic. If you mistakenly entered a place where divination magic was set up like a maze, you might find yourself voluntarily entering an underground prison.

This 【Escape to the Shadow Fortress】 spell temporarily twisted the mage’s fate to help them avoid encounters with enemies.

There were more ways to avoid enemy eyes than one might think, and there was no need to use high-difficulty divination magic, but this spell shone when facing other divination magic.

To avoid invisible and strange tracking, a correspondingly mysterious spell was needed.

“Amazing, amazing! If I had this spell, I could steal from much more diverse and difficult places!”

“Thieves were just a metaphor.”

Golem Senior spoke in a reluctant voice.

He felt some inexplicable uneasiness from his junior’s response.

“Mine was a metaphor too.”

“Right… I understand. Wait, if you don’t even know what kind of spell it is, how did you practice?”

Lee Han took out a violin and sheet music in response to Golem Senior’s question.

Seeing the violin imbued with ominous magical power that the Skeleton Principal had recommended, Golem Senior was horrified.

“What is that instrument!? Why are you carrying around an instrument with so much bad luck attached to it?”

“The Principal recommended it to me.”

“Of course.”

Golem Senior immediately understood.

He thought it was indeed recommended by someone who would do such a thing.

Lee Han suddenly felt a bit uneasy and asked.

“I heard it was an ominous object, but does it have bad luck or something attached to it?”

“Don’t worry about it. There’s not much difference between ominous magical power and bad luck. They can’t affect you before they materialize. A mage born with strong fate can even subjugate them.”

Golem Senior recalled the fact that his junior had made a contract with a star spirit.

Come to think of it, when he heard this fact last time, didn’t he immediately try to run away but this guy caught him?

‘No. I’m sure I made a resolution back then, but I forgot about it and got caught off guard like this!’

Golem Senior deeply reflected on himself.

When he got caught last time, he had resolved ‘I won’t get caught again, I’ll run away in time,’ but he got caught up in it again while going ‘uh, uh.’

Perhaps it was because of this junior’s attitude.

Despite dragging around a terrifying fate behind him, he always politely called him ‘Senior’ on the surface, so he unconsciously let his guard down and ended up talking with him.

“Senior?”

“Ah. Sorry. I was thinking about something else.”

“What?”

“Why I had resolved not to get involved with you but forgot about it…”

“…”

Lee Han made a slightly hurt expression.

‘Isn’t that too much?’

Of course, Lee Han had been bothersome last semester, asking him to decode Akseong Arna, decode the small world Basilios, and so on…

“Seeing that you forgot, maybe that wasn’t really your true feelings, Senior.”

“Be quiet before I carve it on my rock. Anyway, how are you planning to use that instrument?”

“It’s music magic.”

“You mean what Senior Chaegla is researching? I didn’t know you were doing it too. Well, I suppose. You did say it’s a mage’s mission and duty to attend all schools of magic.”

“…I never said that.”

Lee Han’s expression grew serious.

It was something he ended up learning by chance, so what was with this slander?

“If it’s music magic, then certainly…”

The golem senior nodded.

Having conversed with Senior Illeg several times, this golem student knew well what type of magic music magic was.

Wasn’t it magic close to primal magic and incantation magic?

Such magic had the potential to succeed regardless of difficulty level.

“But you still haven’t cast it?”

“Yes. I practiced other pieces first, and this piece seems to have some difficulty, so my mana wouldn’t move.”

“Hmm. Music magic isn’t my specialty. Let’s try practicing with music magic first, and if that doesn’t work, we’ll learn it the traditional way again. Now. Let me show you how to cast it.”

The golem senior took out a Ouija board artifact (Lee Han followed behind, worried the senior might run away).

This board made from demon bones and blood provided great assistance when casting high-difficulty divination magic.

“Offer a sacrifice and… wait a moment. Hmm. It seems displeased with this.”

“…Senior. Isn’t this a living demon?!”

Lee Han was startled while watching from the side. The golem senior nodded.

“Of course it is. …Ah. You’re asking why I’m offering sacrifices to a demon I’ve already subjugated? That’s very much like the Wardanaz family.”

“No…! I’m just purely surprised! To seal a demon and make it into an artifact.”

“Junior.”

“Yes?”

“I’m more amazed that you freely controlled the Principal’s projection, so be quiet.”

“…”

Lee Han cursed the senior inwardly.

The golem senior slowly chanted incantations while moving the letters on the Ouija board.

Each time the letters aligned correctly, the golem senior recited new sentence incantations starting with those letters, and each time the demon powerfully emitted divination, amplifying the magic’s power.

“…A fortress shrouded in shadows hides fate, making it difficult for anyone to find…”

The golem senior stopped after casting only halfway through the spell.

Though he didn’t sweat in his golem form, his voice sounded like it had been strained several times over.

“Phew. Let’s stop here for now. If I cast it completely, the consumption would be too severe. Do you get a feel for what kind of magic this is?”

“Amazing. I had no idea it was this kind of magic.”

“Divination magic is quite different from other schools, isn’t it? It has strong uncertain and mystical aspects.”

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say it had the form closest to primal magic among the Imperial Magic Academy schools.

Lee Han thought deeply about the magic his senior had just demonstrated and the explanation he’d heard.

‘Ultimately, it’s about distorting fate around the mage with powerful magic. Creating a distortion field that divination magic cannot detect.’

What flashed through Lee Han’s mind was the great duel between the Manifestation of Ambition and the Skeleton Principal.

This battle between mages was far too high-level for a mage of Lee Han’s caliber to fully comprehend, but thinking about it now, there had been an advanced divination magic duel beneath the surface.

They had tried to twist each other’s fate and bind each other with chains of certain hit.

The magic movements he had just seen and heard, the magic the Archmages had shown, and finally the musical score he had read and practiced hundreds of times…

As Lee Han’s instrument moved, mana flowed and fate began to tremble just as the golem senior had done.

And the parallel dimensions that divination magic should originally read, which hint at the future, sank deep into the shadows’ curtain where no outsider could decipher them.

Feeling the joy that something was working, Lee Han shouted.

“Senior! I think it’s working!”

“No, wait. This isn’t that kind of magic…?”

The golem senior was flustered by the much more intensely surging magic.

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