Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 138

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Chapter 138

The White Horse made a fuss as if to say ‘that’s exactly it!’

Sharkan had barely managed to clear up the misunderstanding with the potion he brought, but seeing the two students, it seemed they were having some other misunderstanding.

He couldn’t just leave it like this!

But Yoner looked at Lee Han with an expression asking what he was talking about.

“What do you mean there’s no possibility it’s a real griffin? What are you saying?”

“You said earlier there were two bright green potions.”

The Curse Removal Potion and the Animal Transformation Potion.

Both potions had the same color, so when Sharkan rummaged through the potion box and ran away, Yoner couldn’t distinguish between them immediately either.

What if what the White Horse drank wasn’t the Griffin Transformation Potion but the Curse Removal Potion?

“But… Lee Han.”

Yoner hesitated as if he didn’t know where to start pointing out the flaws.

Lee Han’s words were far too absurd.

“Even so, there’s no way Professor Lightningstep would transform a griffin into a horse and give it to students.”

“…”

-…

Both Lee Han and the White Horse fell silent.

Yoner’s logic was far too perfect.

However, Lee Han didn’t back down easily.

‘Yoner still trusts the professors a little, but I don’t.’

The professors of the Magic School were capable of doing anything.

Even if it meant transforming a griffin into a horse and forcibly giving it to a new student!

Though it was an unlikely possibility, Lee Han felt an inexplicable uneasiness.

Moreover, the way the White Horse and Sharkan kept making a fuss and acting frustrated was also a bit…

“I still want to check.”

“If you say so… how do you plan to check?”

“Let’s check the other green potion.”

“It’s dangerous to carelessly feed transformation potions to animals.”

Yoner spoke with worried eyes.

Unlike rational people, it was hard to predict how animals would react when their bodies underwent changes.

“Of course, I’m not thinking of giving it to Ponrig either. To Gainando…”

Lee Han paused mid-sentence.

Suddenly, the White Horse’s name began to bother him.

…No way, surely not?

‘Professor Lightningstep is reckless enough to just call a griffin by its name backwards… which is actually true.’

Lee Han looked at the White Horse.

The White Horse gazed at Lee Han with deep, large eyes and nodded.

Trust me!

“You’re going to feed it to Gainando?”

“Yeah. Does that seem a bit wrong?”

“No. That’s a good idea.”

Yoner agreed without even a second of hesitation.

He would have wanted to stop feeding transformation potions to animals, but Gainando was fine.

“Wait. Yoner. Now that I think about it, we could just ask the priests to check it again.”

At Lee Han’s words, Yoner’s eyes widened.

Right?

“That’s true…?”

“But they must be busy checking other potions too. Should we just feed it to Gainando to test it?”

“I’ll leave it to your judgment, Lee Han. I think anything would be fine.”

The two Blue Dragon Tower students headed back to the tower while plotting their suspicious scheme.

The white horse tapped the ground with its hooves and looked at Lee Han’s retreating figure with eyes full of expectation.

Soon this ridiculous false accusation would be cleared!

Sharkan barked as if telling it to wait just a little longer. The white horse bowed its head with a grateful expression.

* * *

Monday.

The weekend had ended and a new week with the spring festival had arrived, but Lee Han’s heart was far from warm excitement.

There was Professor Boladi’s lecture from the morning.

When Professor Boladi saw Lee Han entering, he let out a light sigh. It was the first time Lee Han had seen such an expression.

‘What’s this? Damn scary.’

When someone did something they didn’t usually do, it was bound to be scary. Especially if it was someone like Professor Boladi, it was twice as frightening.

Professor Boladi spoke slowly.

“I must have told you it was overambition.”

“Excuse me?”

Professor Boladi’s way of speaking, cutting off the beginning and end, was always refreshing.

Lee Han tensed up.

He couldn’t tell what the other person might do.

“When you defeated the golem, do you remember?”

“Yes.”

Lee Han, who had fallen into Professor Thunderstep’s trap, had defeated the mud golem blocking his path in order to survive.

He had poured out massive amounts of mana to complete a giant water orb imbued with rotation properties.

And Professor Boladi had somehow heard about it strangely and upset Lee Han with words like ‘Why are you so greedy? Rotation properties already?’

Lee Han had no such greed for that aspect, and even if he did, Professor Boladi shouldn’t have said such things.

Wasn’t he the most ambitious about magic progress among the current magic school professors!

“I told you not to be impatient back then.”

“So I haven’t used rotation properties since then…?”

“I heard you attempted multiple water orb control.”

“…”

Lee Han despaired.

Professor Ingoldel, just how far had this person been spreading the word?

‘This is driving me crazy.’

There must be times when the professors of the magic school gathered together. Otherwise, it couldn’t have spread so thoroughly.

“The situation was urgent, so I had no choice.”

“I suppose so.”

Professor Boladi nodded his head obediently. Lee Han wasn’t reassured by that appearance.

Professor Boladi was someone who would show an understanding expression while inwardly completing different thoughts with his own logic.

Lee Han’s guess was accurate.

Professor Boladi was thinking something else.

‘How difficult teaching is.’

A person who wouldn’t take the path when it lay before them wasn’t qualified to be a mage.

And the Wardanaz family boy before his eyes was young in age but more mage-like than anyone else.

Last time, Lee Han stopping his exploration of the rotation property wasn’t because of Professor Boladi’s advice.

A true mage wouldn’t stop just because of such shallow words of advice.

That was something only possible when one convinced oneself.

That’s why Professor Boladi had prepared additional training, hadn’t he?

To force concentration.

‘But it’s something that must be done.’

Professor Boladi stood up from his seat.

He could tell just by looking at Lee Han’s eyes.

That this Wardanaz family boy wouldn’t stop.

Unlike last time, Professor Boladi had no intention of just giving shallow advice.

“Take this.”

“?”

Lee Han was flustered by the package Professor Boladi gave him.

What is this?

“Put it on.”

When he unwrapped the package, something like an old cloak came out. Since he could feel mana from it, it was definitely enchanted with magic.

“What kind of magic is cast on it?”

“Defensive magic.”

“…”

Lee Han let out a sigh.

What could be the reason Professor Boladi was giving him a cloak with defensive magic?

‘He’s probably going to beat me harder than last time.’

Just how much was he planning to beat him…

However, instead of casting magic, Professor Boladi turned around. Then he opened the door of the lecture hall and went outside.

“Follow me.”

“??”

Lee Han followed behind Professor Boladi with a slightly bewildered feeling.

The lecture hall corridor located on basement level 1 was dark without a single sign of human presence. Even though it was morning, it felt like a completely different place.

“Where are we going?”

“We did elemental detection training before.”

“We did.”

Lee Han wanted to get angry and tell him to answer the question, but he endured it.

Professor Boladi was originally this kind of person anyway.

“Your elemental detection ability is sufficient. To the point where there’s no need to train it further.”

“Thank you.”

By Professor Boladi’s standards, that level of praise was tremendous. Lee Han was genuinely grateful.

“And I gave you a book on basic lightning magic and its applications.”

“I’m reading it diligently, but I haven’t perfectly…”

“I didn’t expect you to understand it all at once.”

“!”

Lee Han was surprised.

He wasn’t surprised by those words, but surprised that Professor Boladi said such words.

Wait, Professor Boladi said something so normal?

‘…I shouldn’t be happy. The book’s difficulty must be much more incredible than I thought.’

This wasn’t the time to rejoice. Lee Han’s mood became gloomy again.

“Elemental detection ability, control ability, shape transformation ability… all are sufficient, so actually, it wouldn’t be strange to attempt multiple water orb control.”

“Is that so?”

Lee Han was delighted.

It was fortunate that it was originally okay to attempt it.

Professor Boladi’s tortu… teaching would become a little less harsh, wouldn’t it?

The professor closed his mouth after finishing those words. He strode through the underground corridor and swung his staff toward the wall. Hidden stairs appeared.

‘Just how many hidden paths are there?’

Lee Han memorized the route while following behind the professor.

When there was no more conversation for a while after that, Lee Han asked again in confusion.

“So Professor… where exactly are we going?”

He had just asked where they were going, but suddenly he only brought up stories about the training they’d done so far and then went silent.

What’s this about?

Professor Boladi stopped abruptly and looked at Lee Han. His eyes contained a faint bewilderment.

Lee Han understood the situation like a skilled disciple.

‘Hmm. He seems to think he explained everything with what he just said.’

He didn’t know how that could possibly count as an explanation, but Lee Han wasn’t flustered.

“Could you explain in a bit more detail? Starting with exactly where we’re going right now.”

“We’re going to a dungeon.”

“…”

Lee Han momentarily regretted asking for no reason.

* * *

Dungeon.

An alien space with different rules from the outside due to mana stagnating in a specific area.

It could be ancient ruins, or a tower built by a mad skeleton lich to store reagents, or any place at all.

It would be nice if mana just peacefully stagnated there with only different rules, but usually dungeons had monsters. It was natural since they were drawn to mana.

Naturally, considering this magic school’s history, there was no way there wouldn’t be dungeons on the school grounds, whether natural or artificial…

‘But I didn’t want to walk into one with my own feet.’

How long had they walked following the hidden underground passage?

Gradually the laid bricks disappeared and it became natural, and the mana in the air grew thick.

And from the deep darkness ahead, he could hear what seemed like eerie sounds made by monsters.

Lee Han looked at the back of Professor Boladi walking ahead.

Would it be easier to suppress Professor Boladi now and escape, or to fight the monsters in the dungeon?

Sadly, it was the latter.

“Professor. Don’t you have armor instead of a cloak?”

“It interferes with magic.”

Professor Boladi spoke firmly.

One might think combat mages would prefer armor on dangerous battlefields, but that was a prejudice.

Mages had to do their best to concentrate on magic. Thick and heavy armor restricted a mage’s movement and disrupted concentration.

Since the noise and chaos of the battlefield already interfered with mages, it was good to prepare for such aspects in advance.

‘…But isn’t life in danger?’

Professor Boladi’s words made sense, but there was still an unresolved part.

Not wearing armor would be good when casting magic, but…

Wouldn’t it be more fatal when taking attacks?

“Ah. Do you defend with magic instead of wearing armor?”

If that was the case, it made sense.

Lee Han thought of the water shield magic he could use. Excellent mages would be able to use more diverse defensive magic.

Professor Boladi, who had been walking, turned his head again to look at Lee Han.

“Using defensive magic interferes with other magic.”

“Then… how do you defend?”

“Dodge.”

“…”

Lee Han made up his mind.

Whatever Professor Boladi said, Lee Han decided to fight while using defensive magic.

‘I wondered when having a lot of mana would be useful, but it’s useful at times like this.’

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