Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1108

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Chapter 1108

“Are you really doing this?”

“?”

Professor Boladi looked puzzled at his junior professor’s protest.

Seeing this, Professor Garcia realized that the other person felt no guilt whatsoever from the conversation just now.

‘That, that…!’

Professor Garcia trembled with rage at the shamelessness that was just like Professor Verdus.

Of course, strictly speaking, Professor Boladi had done things according to principle.

They had clearly had this conversation before departing.

-But Professor. Won’t it be too hard on student Lee Han if we both teach together?

-It should be fine.

-…Let’s just take turns? We’ll set times – time for me to talk, time for you to talk. Let’s divide it like that.

-Understood.

When principles or rules were established, Professor Boladi was surprisingly good at following them.

So while Professor Garcia was talking, he had been precisely timing it before saying this…

‘Really petty!’

Professor Garcia grumbled inwardly as she pulled out her pocket watch. She was planning to time it precisely to the second as well.

Clatter-

Having watched enough to be sick of it, Jowrin pulled her face away from the window and returned to her original seat.

Then she looked at Lee Han and Professor Boladi who had positioned themselves to study magic and screamed in shock.

‘Is it that shocking? Hmm. No, it is shocking enough.’

Professor Garcia inwardly understood.

An Einroguard student might not know, but for an outsider, especially Jowrin who had been raised preciously in the Imperial Palace, it would be shocking.

“Wha… what are you doing?!”

“We’re studying magic, Your Majesty.”

“Why?!”

“…”

“…”

The three mages fell silent. When actually asked ‘why,’ it was ambiguous what to answer.

Lee Han forced out an answer.

“Because there’s no time to study at school?”

‘Ugh!’

Professor Garcia groaned inwardly.

Hearing it like that made Einroguard sound like a somewhat harsh magic school.

“You can’t even play with Jowrin… but you still don’t have time. This really doesn’t make sense!”

“Urgh!”

Professor Garcia made a sound out loud.

Gradually, Einroguard was starting to feel like a very harsh magic school.

‘I need to appease her quickly.’

Lee Han thought he needed to appease Jowrin as quickly as possible.

He was worried about what reaction Professor Boladi, who had his allocated time stolen, might show.

Surely he wouldn’t make Jowrin get out of the carriage?

“What can we do. This is how Einroguard originally is.”

“I-is that so?”

“Yes. All the other students besides me are also immersed in studying magic this intensely.”

“…”

Professor Garcia was so dumbfounded that she gaped while staring at her disciple.

How could he tell such a shameless lie?

But surprisingly, it seemed to work properly on Jowrin.

“The Einroguard students are pitiful…!”

“Thank you for understanding, Your Majesty. So please wait just a little.”

Fortunately, when Jowrin seemed to understand, Lee Han inwardly sighed in relief.

However, Lee Han didn’t notice.

The firm resolution that Jowrin had decided on!

‘This really doesn’t make sense. Jowrin will, Jowrin will…! Change this rotten Empire!’

Considering the dragon race’s characteristic of not usually taking interest in worldly affairs, it was truly a remarkable resolution.

* * *

“These are the magics currently being practiced.”

Professor Boladi took out a small blackboard and drew a chart.

On it were written things like ‘Wardanaz’s Telekinesis,’ ‘Water Orb Bullet,’ ‘Lightning Fire,’ ‘Blue Flame,’ ‘Soul Fire,’ ‘High-level Undead Summoning,’ ‘Principal’s Secret Arts,’ and so on.

Seeing this, Professor Garcia let out a big sigh.

“Gasp!”

“However, as I said before, the number and level of magics have increased.”

“Whew.”

“We need to set priorities.”

“Ah!”

“It’s not that you should master all of them…”

“Oh.”

“…Professor Garcia. Are you alright?”

Lee Han, unable to watch anymore, carefully spoke up.

Even Jowrin was looking at Professor Garcia as if something was strange.

Though Jowrin didn’t know much about magic education, if someone made such interjections after every word, it would definitely be disruptive.

“S-sorry, student Lee Han.”

“Not at all. Um… you’re not angry, are you?”

“Why would I be angry?”

“I thought you might be taking revenge because of Professor Bagrek’s first strike earlier…”

“…”

At Lee Han’s words, Professor Boladi, who had been silently reading his book, raised his head and glanced over.

Professor Garcia, feeling very wronged, jumped up. High enough to hit the carriage ceiling.

“Absolutely not!!!”

“Ah. Is that so? I’m sorry.”

Professor Garcia felt so wronged.

It was Professor Boladi who had been timing from behind when people were talking, but she was being lumped together as the same kind of person.

‘Sob sob sob…’

“The magic to learn this time is 【Intermediate Magic Storage】.”

Professor Boladi had no plans to push and expand the advanced magics his disciple had already learned right now.

Just embodying and keeping up with the magics already learned would take quite a bit of time.

Rather, it was better to recommend a few magics that his disciple needed right now.

Since his disciple had raised his magic level so rapidly, there were quite a few useful magics he hadn’t learned yet.

‘Phew. Thank goodness.’

Professor Garcia sighed. This time inwardly so she wouldn’t be caught.

“Intermediate Magic Storage is…”

“The advanced version of 【Basic Magic Storage】 that student Lee Han learned.”

Storage magic that recorded magics below one’s circle level in advance to cast them quickly, using the body like a simple scroll. 【Basic Magic Storage】.

【Intermediate Magic Storage】 was the advanced version of that magic.

“How many circles?”

“5th circle. Fortunate, right?”

‘What’s fortunate about it?’

Lee Han momentarily felt distant from Professor Garcia.

He had absolutely no idea what she meant by saying it was fortunate.

In fact, Professor Garcia had meant “Well, since Student Lee Han has learned a few 5th circle spells before, I’m glad it’s not 6th circle.”

Even if Lee Han had understood that meaning, he would likely have felt the same sense of distance.

“Moreover, 【Intermediate Magic Storage】 is relatively easy magic compared to the 5th circle spells Student Lee Han has learned.”

“Oh my. How truly exciting.”

‘Lee Han looks sad.’

Jowrin thought while chewing on candy.

Why does the contractor’s face seem filled with worry?

“If you want to practice 【Intermediate Magic Storage】, try storing 4th circle spells first. It will be good practice.”

“There’s no guarantee that 4th circle magic will work…”

“Pardon?”

“It’s nothing.”

Lee Han grumbled slightly then prepared the magic as Professor Boladi had instructed.

For good 4th circle magic to practice, it was definitely 【Wardanaz’s Ice Orb】.

Since he had handled it so much, it was also good to use as a test subject for other magic.

“Magic, dwell here. I command repeatedly, dwell here. Like energy that settles quietly, like twilight that comes silently…”

Lee Han threw himself into practice, mobilizing everything he had learned from repetitive incantations to melodic spells.

For high-difficulty magic, it was advantageous to succeed once first without worrying about casting speed.

‘It’s fortunate I learned this stuff. If I hadn’t learned it, I shudder to think how I would have cast it.’

Meanwhile, the two professors didn’t even look at their student and discussed what magic would be good next.

“What magic would be good next? I’d like to recommend 【Milay’s Paper Bird Summoning】.”

“There’s probably no need to specifically store summoning magic.”

“Yes. I know that too. But thinking about the meaning of practice, being able to store one summoning-type magic seems like it would be quite helpful. Other summoning-type magic too…”

“Professor. Could you please check if I did this properly?”

Lee Han called the two professors. However, the professors answered carelessly as if annoyed.

“If it’s Student Lee Han, you must have done well. Just pick any difficult one and keep practicing.”

“Well done.”

“So Professor. Summoning-type magic originally…”

“…”

Lee Han was dumbfounded by the sight of the two professors becoming absorbed in conversation again.

‘What kind of people are they?’

Instead, Jowrin clapped from beside him.

“Jowrin thinks it’s excellent!”

“…Your Majesty is the light and salt of the Empire. Sob!”

“Why, why are you… Lee Han. Don’t be sad!”

Jowrin panicked and comforted her contractor.

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‘But what kind of work does the Daylily Magic Tower want to assign me?’

Getting off the carriage (Professor Garcia ground her teeth when they arrived just before her time), Lee Han fell into thought.

“Over there. Student Lee Han. It’s quite different from the place you visited with the Principal last time, isn’t it?”

Among the Empire’s magic towers, those with a certain scale and confidence in their abilities would build towers throughout the Empire and connect those spaces to each other.

The Daylily Magic Tower was also such a place.

The tower’s original base was located in Plaher City, but separate towers also existed on the outskirts of the capital and the outskirts of Granden City.

Of course, even if the spaces were connected, not everything was the same. This was especially true for the tower’s exterior appearance.

The tower located in Plaher City had the most splendid and refined appearance, the tower located on the outskirts of the Empire’s capital didn’t quite match that but had a rather antique appearance, and the tower located on the outskirts of Granden City was somewhat shabby…

“Yes. It’s very splendid.”

“Right. Shabby… What?”

Professor Garcia was startled and looked up.

Surprisingly, the tower that came into view was covered in brilliant gold. Professor Garcia had never seen such a magic tower building in her life.

‘Did, did the Daylily Magic Tower recently earn a fortune…?’

It seemed like they might have won some magic-related business led by the Empire.

-A carriage has come!!

-Everyone stop what you’re doing and change clothes!

Professor Garcia clearly witnessed two mages who had been testing alchemy reagents in a manure pit jump out, quickly change clothes, and cover up the pit.

The two mages attached various decorations and insignia to each other’s outfits, then cast magic to summon a tea table in mid-air. Then they immediately sat down in front and tilted their teacups.

“Hmm! Truly leisurely indeed.”

“A leisure you can’t see in other magic towers. Isn’t that right?”

The two mages conversed loudly as if they wanted someone to hear them.

Although he didn’t see the two mages jump out of the manure pit, Lee Han noticed something strange.

“Those teacups don’t have anything in them, so why are they acting like that?”

“…”

While Professor Garcia was thinking ‘surely not’, several other mages walked out in front of the tower.

They conversed loudly while pretending not to obviously care about Lee Han’s group.

“Did you hear about our magic tower defeating the Green Pyroxene Magic Tower this time?”

“You mean the analysis of plant-type entities discoverable in local dimensions. Of course that analysis was excellent, but it’s such a common occurrence in our magic tower that I don’t feel the need to mention it!”

“Quite right! Hahaha!”

Staring intently at the retreating figures of the mages, Professor Garcia was shocked.

‘Vul, vulgar…!!’

No matter how much they wanted to scout Student Lee Han after graduation, this kind of ridiculous theater was too much!

Even Jowrin was bewildered.

“The, the mages seem to be under an illusion spell.”

“…Perhaps that might be the case, Your Majesty.”

Lee Han, who belatedly realized the situation, spoke as if pitying them.

To think that the Empire’s good mages had become so corrupted because of the Skeleton Principal’s evil deception…

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