Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 154

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Chapter 154

When Lee Han heard the name Enemy Detection Potion, the first thing that flashed through his mind was naturally the Skeleton Principal.

Setting aside simple emotional issues, being able to track the Skeleton Principal’s location would be quite helpful for survival.

‘I could drink the potion whenever I’m about to do something dangerous.’

“The unparalleled genius created by the Fleming Order, Priest Siana. How can you determine the target?”

There were several ways to designate a target for curses or potions.

You could chant an incantation while thinking of the target’s name or face, or find an object related to that person…

The potion would likely be the latter method.

“You just need to add a strand of the target’s hair to the completed potion.”

“Hair.”

“Yes. Hair.”

“…”

Lee Han fell into anguish.

‘…Do liches even have hair?’

No matter how he looked at it, the Skeleton Principal had no hair.

He could obtain hair from when the Principal was alive, but considering the Skeleton Principal’s age, it would have already rotted and turned to dust.

‘I can’t use it on the Skeleton Principal then.’

It was disappointing, but there was nothing he could do about it.

Priest Siana continued speaking as if she had become interested.

“If Lee Han of Wardanaz Family were to make it, I would help you.”

“But isn’t this quite a difficult potion for us to make together?”

“But Lee Han of Wardanaz Family is someone who enjoys tackling difficult challenges.”

“…Huh?”

Lee Han paused.

Where did such a crazy rumor come from?

‘Are the White Tiger Tower Students spreading this around?’

“That’s not true though?”

“Such modesty too… Haha.”

“I’m really not like that.”

Though bitterness seeped into Lee Han’s voice, Priest Siana didn’t notice.

“Wardanaz. How should we finish this part here?”

“Wait. Let’s finish it together.”

The friends who had gathered to complete Professor Alpen’s magic circle called out to Lee Han.

Thanks to everyone helping together, the magic circle was gradually nearing completion.

‘Wait. There’s an empty space?’

Lee Han paused while drawing lines on the floor, looking at the book the professor had given them.

Whether the professor had made a mistake or done it intentionally, one part of the magic circle was empty.

Normally, there should be light orbs at regular intervals on both sides of the corridor, and a statue created with illusion magic in the center…

At this rate, it was certain that several light orbs wouldn’t appear, making it look awkward.

‘Should I go ask Professor Knighton?’

Lee Han pondered.

Asking a professor when something was wrong or when there was something he didn’t know was more dangerous than he thought.

-You don’t know this? What exactly did you listen to in my lecture?

-Are you saying I made a mistake? This is truly absurd. Of course I left it blank for you to handle on your own.

Whether it was a mistake or not, there could be quite an intense reaction!

Of course, Professor Alpen didn’t seem like such a crazy person, but all the other professors at the magic school had looked normal at first impression too.

After much deliberation, Lee Han made his decision.

‘I’ll have to solve this myself.’

It was fortunate that he had received enchantment magic attribute training from Professor Bibble Verdus.

…Was it fortunate?

Lee Han shook off his distracting thoughts and focused again.

“Stand back. I’m going to cast 【Light Enchantment】.”

His staff swung and the incantation was cast.

The 【Light Enchantment】 magic that Lee Han cast filled the missing parts of the magic circle.

The other students were impressed, but the Imperial Princess tilted her head.

For this type of installation magic circle, the organic connection of the whole was quite important.

If the mana sources placed throughout the magic circle served as batteries, then the complex lines drawn in the magic circle served as passages to transmit power.

But the enchantment magic that Lee Han cast to replace the missing parts of the magic circle wasn’t particularly connected to the overall magic circle.

Then wouldn’t the mana not be transmitted?

Tap tap-

The Imperial Princess pointed to a corner of the magic circle for Lee Han. Lee Han immediately understood what the Imperial Princess was trying to say.

“It’s fine.”

“…??”

Lee Han naturally knew who had prepared this magic circle.

But the magic circle that Professor Alpen had given wasn’t at a difficulty level that a mere new student could fix or add to for completion.

Then?

‘It just needs to work while people are watching.’

The purpose of the magic circle in the first place was to decorate this area splendidly with light orbs and illusion statues.

As long as it worked properly while people were watching, there wouldn’t be much of a problem.

“But won’t it be difficult to maintain for long?”

One of the Imperial Princess’s followers asked as if puzzled.

Extending the duration of enchantment magic was a very difficult task.

There was a reason why enchantment magic that lasted semi-permanently was called artifacts.

Enchantment magic cast with just a staff and incantation without any prior preparation like Lee Han’s would be hard to maintain for more than a few minutes.

“Yes. But don’t worry. I’m planning to cast it anew every day. Then it won’t go out.”

“…”

“…???”

The Imperial Princess and her followers were momentarily dazed, unable to understand.

Regardless, Lee Han called for Asan.

“Asan. Go get the professor. Before any other problems arise… no, since we’ve completed it, I should show it to the professor.”

“Got it. Wardanaz!”

* * *

Professor Alpen Knighton, who was teaching 【Basic Imperial Geometry and Arithmetic】 to the magic school new students, was walking alongside his friend Kendri Baku.

Since both were former high officials of the Empire, they weren’t alone.

Behind them were other guests who had come to visit the magic school.

“Did you come from Baldrogard?”

“Yes. We came to see Einroguard’s outstanding students and renowned education, but we’re embarrassed.”

The mage who had brought the Baldrogard students looked ashamed.

No matter how much they were guests who came to watch the festival, it would be a lie to say there was no competitive spirit between different magic schools.

As a mage working at Baldrogard, he had wanted the students to show something.

Reading his feelings, Alpen and Kendri comforted him as if it was fine.

“A student’s outstanding talent doesn’t come out just because you try to show it off forcefully and hastily.”

“Alpen is right. You don’t need to worry about such things. Baldrogard is already teaching students excellently.”

Apart from some personality-defective individuals at Einroguard, the Imperial officials evaluated Baldrogard quite favorably.

Einroguard’s mages were…

-Go… 2,780 gold coins?? Who are you telling to stick this on their nose? If you won’t triple it, just take it all! No! What if they really take it… Oh no!! That rotten corrupt official of the Empire is oppressing the free academic spirit of magic!!

In contrast, Baldrogard’s mages were…

-Imperial funding? That’s fine. We’re not poor, so there’s no need to receive such support. We are nobles, not beggars. Please don’t taint our honor.

This was why the Imperial officials couldn’t help but prefer Baldrogard more.

It was natural for someone like Kendri to think that Baldrogard’s education was somewhat more wholesome.

Einroguard was a bit…

Wasn’t it ruining the mages’ character by being too obsessed with magic alone?

“But we’re embarrassed for showing such a pathetic performance against Einroguard’s 5th year student. Of course, we couldn’t win since the opponent was an upperclassman, but we should have been able to show a good performance…”

“…?”

Alpen was puzzled.

The 5th year students didn’t come out to the festival though?

Kendri quickly explained the situation to Alpen in a low voice.

-Did Professor Bagrek beat up a Baldrogard student?

-No. Professor Bagrek’s disciple did.

-To a 1st year student?!

-Magic combat is separate from magic skill. If you don’t practice it separately, you could be clumsy at it.

-No matter how separate it is, the 1st year student probably didn’t have much opportunity to practice magic combat either…

-Let’s not hurt the feelings of someone who came to enjoy the festival. What good would come to the Empire if magic schools fight each other?

-That’s true.

The two nodded and decided to keep their mouths shut.

“What were you talking about?”

“It’s nothing.”

He tried to change the subject when just then, a first-year student came running from the distance.

It was Asan from the Dalcard Family.

“Professor. I’ve completed what you mentioned last time.”

“Good work. Let’s go check it now.”

Asan bowed his head and ran ahead first. It was to tell his friends that guests would be coming soon.

Watching Asan’s retreating figure, Professor Alpen hesitated.

“…Hmm?”

“What’s wrong?”

“Didn’t he just say he completed it?”

“He did. I saw it once before and he had made considerable progress.”

“But I didn’t tell him to complete everything…”

Professor Alpen muttered as if he couldn’t understand.

-I’d like to entrust you all with simple Magic Circle Creation.

He had said he wanted to entrust them with Magic Circle Creation, not that they should complete the entire magic circle.

In the first place, it would be difficult for New Students to complete all of that.

That’s why Professor Alpen had told them to do their best with help from other friends, only as much as possible…

“Oh dear. Was there a misunderstanding?”

“There was a misunderstanding.”

As blood is thicker than water, the Imperial Officials generously forgave the mistake they had made.

“It would have been a good opportunity for the students anyway.”

“That’s right. Surprising. I didn’t expect them to complete it…”

“May I hear the details?”

Baldrogard’s Mage asked curiously.

When Professor Alpen explained what had happened, Baldrogard’s Mage praised Professor Alpen.

“Because you didn’t set limits for them, Professor, the students were able to go even further.”

“Your praise makes me embarrassed!”

“Hahaha!”

“Hahahaha!”

The Mages laughed and praised each other.

Baldrogard’s 2nd Year Students who arrived late asked in confusion.

“What’s happening?”

Baldrogard’s Mage explained the story he had heard.

Then the Baldrogard Students spoke as if they couldn’t believe it.

“A magic circle of that level so quickly?!”

“That’s impossible! It must be incomplete!”

Regardless of the magic circle’s difficulty, they couldn’t believe the speed.

Creating Magic Circles wasn’t just casually drawing geometric patterns.

It required carefully calculating mana amounts and testing directly, work that even Mages had to do while collapsing several times from mana deficiency…

“That might be true. But even if it’s incomplete, isn’t it amazing that they completed it enough to show the professor?”

“Ugh…”

“That’s… true.”

The polite Baldrogard students had no choice but to acknowledge it.

Even if it was incomplete, completing it to a presentable degree was an amazing feat.

“Then shall we all go take a look together?”

“Yes, Professor.”

Following behind the older mages, the Baldrogard students whispered among themselves.

“But which year students did this?”

“Who knows…?”

* * *

The Baldrogard students who arrived at the lecture hall immediately nodded their heads.

“They’re 5th year students.”

“Why?”

“That person over there. He’s a 5th year.”

“I see.”

The students nodded their heads after looking at Lee Han’s face.

As Baldrogard’s 3rd year students got beaten up more and more severely, rumors about Lee Han kept growing.

“Wait a minute. That person is… Imperial Princess Adenart, isn’t she?”

“Imperial Princess? Why is she here?”

“I thought she was a year younger than us…?”

“Then she’s a 1st year student, right? She must have worked together with the upperclassmen.”

Upperclassmen working on magic together with their juniors wasn’t uncommon at Baldrogard.

Seniors received help from their juniors.

Juniors received teachings from their seniors.

This was the educational tradition of the prestigious magic school.

‘Did 5th year students come too?’

Lee Han, who was sitting and resting, was puzzled by the word “5th year” he heard from among the students who came from outside.

He didn’t think he had seen any 5th year students from Baldrogard…

“Mr. Wardanaz. Excellent work.”

“Thank you, Professor.”

Lee Han politely bowed his head.

This moment of receiving recognition from a professor.

The more demanding the professor, the more glorious that moment was bound to be.

“I didn’t give you an assignment to complete everything, yet you completed it…”

“…?”

“But you completed that part separately, didn’t you?”

“…Wait a moment. Professor. Just a moment.”

Lee Han unconsciously interrupted the professor’s words.

What did he just say?

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