Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1144

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Chapter 1144

“If your disciple is outstanding, you should be grateful! Why are you getting angry!”

The stonemason guild members from the capital also got angry.

In truth, they weren’t really angry so much as they just wanted to yell at Professor Verdus.

The anger had been there from the beginning…

“Even when taught the same way, each disciple achieves different results, yet he has such complaints. Tsk tsk.”

-Strictly speaking, Professor Verdus didn’t teach… hmm. Never mind.

The Death Knight muttered then stopped abruptly.

Still, he couldn’t reveal too many of the school’s secrets to outsiders.

Strictly speaking, the truth that Professor Verdus had never actually taught anything and the successor had learned everything on his own was especially sensitive!

While they chattered behind him, Lee Han was feeling a sense of satisfaction for the first time in a while.

‘Maybe this is why people study.’

Learning the principles of the world and broadening one’s horizons was good, but watching a professor’s face as he stamped his feet in frustration was also a pretty decent reason.

If he could see Professor Verdus make that face, he felt like he could even challenge 5th circle magic or small worlds…

‘That’s not it.’

Lee Han immediately came back to his senses.

It seemed he had gotten too excited seeing Professor Verdus angry.

“Grr… grrr…”

Unlike usual, Professor Verdus didn’t give up and stared at the tower, trying to find fault with it somehow.

Seeing this, the other upperclassmen looked at the professor with disdain.

‘If only he put this much effort into his regular lectures.’

‘The guy who wouldn’t even properly look at whatever we made…’

Seeing someone who would casually inspect whatever they brought to class now showing such concentration made them want to smack the back of his head.

“Professor. How about finding fault with the heavy mana consumption?”

“Are you stupid?! Mana consumption means nothing to Wardanaz!”

Professor Verdus snapped angrily at the student whispering beside him.

Nevertheless, the student didn’t panic and smiled.

“Oh my. Then there’s nothing we can do.”

“…”

Lee Han looked at his senior in disbelief.

What was even more unbelievable was that the other upperclassmen were showing regret, thinking ‘Ah, I should have done that.’

How many opportunities would there be to mock Professor Verdus like this?

“This… is well made.”

Finally, Professor Verdus gave up and declared surrender. His dejected attitude was unbelievable for someone who was usually always bright and cheerful.

At that moment, the upperclassmen rushed over with cheers loud enough to shake the lecture hall.

“Wardanaz! Wardanaz!”

“Hero of Einroguard!”

The upperclassmen lifted Lee Han up and cheered.

“I knew you’d defeat Professor Verdus someday! You bastard!”

The knights whispered to the bewildered stonemason guild members from the capital.

-Usually they’re much more well-behaved and diligent students.

“Ah… yes.”

While the upperclassmen enthusiastically threw their junior up and caught him, Professor Verdus turned his gaze away.

“Let’s see the next work.”

“…Wait.”

The students who had been caught up in the excitement came back to their senses as if cold water had been poured on them.

They quickly put their junior down and hurried back to their places, racking their brains to somehow fix their work.

“Ugh.”

“Sob sob.”

As that noisy scene changed like a lie, the knights whispered to the guild members again.

-Usually they’re much more cheerful and bright students.

“…”

Back on the ground, Lee Han quickly blocked Professor Verdus’s path. Since his opponent was still walking on four legs, blocking the way wasn’t difficult.

Glancing back, he could see the upperclassmen still desperately trying to fix their work.

‘I need to buy time.’

Usually it was the upperclassmen who protected the juniors, but Lee Han didn’t think that far.

He had to protect the upperclassmen from the evil Professor Verdus!

“Professor. Please look at my work a bit more.”

“What? Why?”

“Well… because I want to improve further.”

It was a casually thrown remark, but it sounded surprisingly plausible. Lee Han nodded and continued.

“Come on. Don’t just pass it off as bothersome and tell me the areas for improvement.”

“I said it’s well made??”

“That won’t do. Don’t tell me, Professor, you can’t think of any improvements?”

It was a sharp provocation, but it didn’t work on someone like Professor Verdus who had strong confidence in himself.

Professor Verdus answered firmly.

“It’s perfect, so what improvements could there be.”

“…Is that so. How disappointing. Senior Yukveltire here pointed out improvements the moment he saw it.”

“?!!”

Professor Verdus was shocked.

“?!!!!”

And Yukveltire was even more shocked.

When?!

“When did I?!”

“Shh. Be quiet. We need to control the crazed professor.”

If left alone, Professor Verdus would bite everything visible in the lecture hall and turn the atmosphere into hell.

At minimum, he needed to be chained up.

“Grr… grrrrr…”

At the mention that Yukveltire had found improvements, Professor Verdus began concentrating again without a shred of doubt.

He concentrated so intensely it seemed like he could burn down the tower with mental power alone, without any magic.

“Professor. If you can’t immediately think of improvements, it can’t be helped.”

“Wait!”

“No. Please find them later. We need to continue the lecture, don’t we.”

“I said wait! I can’t let this go!”

Professor Verdus struggled as he was dragged to the podium at the front of the lecture hall. The knights helped Lee Han by wrapping iron chains around the professor’s neck.

-Use this.

“Thank you.”

Lee Han momentarily wondered if this was okay even for Professor Verdus, but decided to worry about it later.

“The tower again…”

“Now. Anyone have questions? The professor will take your questions!”

Lee Han shouted loudly to change the atmosphere. The upperclassmen sent him looks that said ‘Would you want to ask questions in this atmosphere, junior?’

However, for Lee Han, he had already crossed the river. Having come this far, he couldn’t retreat.

“Anyone have questions!”

“…Fine. Fine. I’ll do it.”

Whether out of pity or guilt for their junior, one upperclassman raised his hand.

It was Erde of the Marcang family, an upperclassman Lee Han knew from the same tower.

“Professor. Actually, I’m constructing a wooden tower to be usable even in areas where stone materials can’t be used, and I’d like to ask about the list of woods that can be combined. My combination is like this, but what combination do you think, Professor…”

“Was there a problem with the bending magic? There shouldn’t be.”

“Excuse me?”

“The bending magic was cast perfectly…”

“…Professor. We finished the junior’s tower earlier.”

“Huh? Oh, right.”

Professor Verdus seemed like his personality had split. One personality was still pondering his disciple’s tower, and one personality was answering his disciple’s question…

…Actually, he wasn’t answering, just spacing out.

“If you’re going to make a wooden tower! What combination! Are you going to use!”

“Oh right… here. This combination.”

Professor Verdus quickly wrote down the names of various spirit woods. At this sight, not only Erde but other upperclassmen also perked up with interest.

Normally, this person would waste several times more time with useless remarks like ‘figure it out yourself,’ ‘think about it,’ ‘can’t you even do that,’ but now he was answering immediately?

“Professor! I have a question too!”

“By any chance, was the improvement point that Yukveltire pointed out earlier about the tower’s foundation?”

Professor Verdus couldn’t let go of his lingering attachment and slyly probed Lee Han.

Lee Han answered coldly.

“If you answer the senior’s question first, I’ll answer yours too.”

“Huh? Who asked what?”

At the junior’s gesture, the upperclassmen quickly poured out their questions.

Though questions that they normally couldn’t ask came flooding like a torrent, Professor Verdus immediately provided answers without the slightest hesitation.

“Professor. I want to control using a spirit’s power, but what level should I be at…”

“You need to be at least at the level where you can claim to be a noble. Look into rock spirits. But by any chance, is there a problem with the flight enchantment magic?”

“Professor. About the backflow you mentioned earlier, what if we additionally install magic that disperses force at the tower’s edges?”

“Rather than that, it would be better to divide and install lightning guidance magic at the edges from the start. By any chance, is the problem not the flight enchantment magic but the lightning magic?”

The upperclassmen were all moved by Professor Verdus’s newly changed appearance.

To think he would answer questions so directly!

Of course, he did ask one more useless question afterward, but even this much seemed like somewhere.

After all, the usual Professor Verdus would make dozens of useless remarks, wouldn’t he?

“Hey. Send a paper bird and tell them to quickly let us know if there’s anything they couldn’t ask normally.”

“I already sent it. Hehe. Who would have thought the day would come when Professor Verdus would change like this.”

“…But this is what the professor should have been doing originally…”

Come to think of it, this was basic for someone like Professor Garcia.

To think they were happy just because he answered questions – somehow a feeling of injustice washed over them.

Still, Professor Verdus faithfully finished the lecture for the remaining time. It was a Q&A session that even the stonemason guild members from the capital had to acknowledge.

“You’ve worked hard, Professor Verdus.”

“By any chance, no hint? Is the improvement point about cost rather than magic?”

“…Anyway, you’ve worked hard!”

The guild members flinched slightly.

They felt pressure from Professor Verdus’s appearance of continuously muttering as if possessed by something.

The knights watching this scene began to worry.

‘What is he planning to do?’

Regardless of the knights disliking Professor Verdus, they respected his magical skills.

Could he convincingly point out an improvement that Professor Verdus couldn’t find?

“You’ve worked hard, Professor.”

“What’s the improvement point?!”

-Professor Verdus. Don’t you have any pride? Asking your disciple…

“I don’t! What is it!”

The knight who had tried to help Lee Han was left speechless.

Indeed, asking someone crawling on all fours if they had no pride wouldn’t work.

“Professor.”

“Yes!”

“I’m sorry. It was a lie.”

After leaving those words, Lee Han mobilized all his magical power and ran away.

“…W-well then, farewell!”

The stonemason guild members from the capital and Yukveltire, who had been standing dazed, also grasped the situation and hurriedly greeted before rushing out.

“…”

Seeing Professor Verdus’s dazed face, the knights felt slightly sorry and said.

-We’ll treat you to a special meal today.

* * *

Lee Han ran frantically fast. It seemed like he shouldn’t go near areas where Professor Verdus appeared for a while.

‘…But I’ve never seen Professor Verdus angry.’

Unlike other professors, it was hard to imagine an angry Professor Verdus.

Would he bite with his front teeth?

Anyway, whatever form it took, there was nothing good about approaching him. Lee Han firmly resolved once again.

“W-Wardanaz student! Wardanaz student!”

“!”

He thought he had put enough distance between them, but when someone called him from behind, Lee Han thought ‘oh no.’

‘To still make such careless mistakes!’

“J-just wait a moment! How on earth did you run so fast…”

The stonemason guild members were on the verge of collapsing from exhaustion. It was because Lee Han had run out faster than expected.

‘Hmm. These people probably have no chance of being bribed by Professor Verdus.’

After having a very rude thought first, Lee Han opened his mouth.

“I’m sorry. I have a habit of running after lectures end.”

“…”

Anyone could see it was because of Professor Verdus, but the guild members didn’t bother pointing it out.

“A very good habit. More importantly, we came because we have a proposal. Are you interested in participating as an advisor in building magical structures?”

“It seems difficult.”

“I thought you’d be interested… huh?”

The guild members were flustered.

For mages interested in this kind of work, such an attractive proposal as the one just made was hard to refuse.

Why on earth?

“If it’s not rude, may we ask the reason? Did Professor Verdus perhaps give some ridiculous order…?”

The stonemason guild members suspected Professor Verdus.

Originally, when something happened, the disliked person got suspected first, but even excluding that, Professor Verdus was indeed suspicious.

Wasn’t he a professor of the Divination Magic School?

“Well…”

Lee Han answered with a very troubled expression.

“…Right now there are too many requests piling up…”

“…”

At the completely unexpected answer, the guild members’ eyes widened greatly.

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