Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 16
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Chapter 016
Anyway, they would have to cross swords with each other while attending lectures for a whole semester, so there was nothing good for either side if he told lies like ‘Actually, I’m from a prestigious magic family, but my dream was to become a sword master.’
Moreover, since the White Tiger Tower students were being wary of Lee Han, he needed to ease that wariness.
-I’m just going to get by moderately and take my grades, so you don’t need to worry about me!
“…”
However, the other person’s expression looked very subtle and complicated.
To be precise, it looked like he was troubled because he didn’t know whether Lee Han’s words were lies or not.
“I… I see. I’m from the Moradi Family. Call me Moradi.”
“Alright. Nice to meet you, Moradi.”
Lee Han shook Moradi’s hand lightly.
Though his build was on the smaller side, the blisters and calluses caught in his palm reminded him again that the other person was from a knight family.
‘Wait. If it’s the Moradi Family…’
The Moradi Family.
It was an Imperial Knight Family whose name Lee Han had heard a few times.
He had definitely heard that they were a family that guarded the vicinity with iron-blooded rules in the cold north, a family that didn’t choose means and methods for their purposes…
‘…He’s quite the opposite of the family’s image though.’
“?”
Moradi looked at Lee Han’s gaze with a puzzled expression.
‘Well, family reputation doesn’t always match up.’
Compared to the earlier opponent who didn’t care about each other’s families and picked fights as he pleased, Moradi actually felt more sensible.
‘I should skillfully win him over to ease the wariness of the other White Tiger Tower students.’
* * *
Blue Rock Sword.
This was the name of the swordsmanship Lee Han had learned from Alarlong, the old knight of his family.
As one could guess from the name meaning blue rock, Alarlong’s swordsmanship was solid and steadfast.
-The swordsmanship of the world is countless and varied. Fast, slow, sharp, dull, heavy, light, simple, complex swordsmanship – there’s no need to learn them all, and moreover… I don’t have the ability to teach them. The swordsmanship I will teach is the path of my sword that I have learned and believed in. Someday, if Master Lee Han also steadily walks the path of the sword, you will realize your own path.
Alarlong, who had been learning swordsmanship for decades, and Lee Han, who had been learning swordsmanship for barely less than ten years, had different levels of experience itself.
So Lee Han couldn’t understand everything Alarlong said…
But Lee Han had one advantage that other nobles didn’t have.
That was the point that he did what he was told to do.
Lee Han did as he was instructed to the point where Alarlong was flustered, and thanks to that, Lee Han’s swordsmanship had a solid foundation without any unnecessary elements.
“Blue Rock Sword? Your foundation is well established.”
Professor Ingoldel also praised Lee Han after seeing his posture.
“Which family are you from? If it’s Blue Rock Sword, then surely…”
“I’m from the Wardanaz Family.”
“…?”
Professor Ingoldel’s reaction was delayed for a moment.
Was the Wardanaz Family’s swordsmanship Blue Rock Sword?
Professor Ingoldel, who belatedly recalled what kind of family the Wardanaz Family was, asked with curiosity.
“May I ask the reason you’re trying to learn swordsmanship?”
“Isn’t swordsmanship basic education for Imperial Nobility?”
Ingoldel smiled bitterly at that answer.
It wasn’t a wrong answer, but it wasn’t an answer Ingoldel liked.
For a natural swordsman like Ingoldel, swordsmanship was a skill that determined life and death, not education for nobles.
“At first, I also thought that way and learned. But the more I learned, the more I realized that swordsmanship is a discipline as profound as magic. That’s why I came here to learn more.”
“…Perfect score!!”
“Excuse me?”
“It’s nothing.”
Ingoldel waved his hand.
His true feelings had inadvertently come out due to the unexpectedly excellent answer.
To think that someone from the Wardanaz Family, a prestigious magic family, would take swordsmanship so seriously.
It was a much more pleasant attitude than some White Tiger Tower students who were only superficially interested.
‘Did it work?’
Lee Han keenly observed Ingoldel’s expression.
Compared to the crazy Lich Principal, Professor Ingoldel was a very easy-to-understand and good-natured person, though his impression was fierce.
For Lee Han, who had been worn down under crazy professors, capturing the heart of an innocent person like Professor Ingoldel was an easy task.
No matter how much he came in to get easy grades, he had to hide his true intentions in front of professors.
“That’s an excellent mindset.”
“Thank you.”
“Hearing such words makes me think I should also work hard. I’ll take you seriously. Now. Raise your wooden sword.”
“…”
Lee Han slightly regretted whether he had answered too well.
* * *
Professor Ingoldel beat up the students without giving them a moment’s rest.
Even the students who had initially let their guard down due to his kind and gentle attitude began to attack desperately after being beaten a few times.
Professor Ingoldel beat up such students once more, making them like mice with their tails between their legs.
‘Wow. This is no joke.’
Lee Han’s swordsmanship skills still had a long way to go, but he was at least able to recognize how amazing his opponent was.
Alarlong, who had taught Lee Han, was also a great swordsman, but Professor Ingoldel was no less impressive.
If Alarlong was a swordsman like an immovable rock, Ingoldel was a swordsman like fast-flowing water.
What was amazing was that he showed such movement even though one arm and one leg were prosthetic.
Students who had been training in their family’s swordsmanship for a long time couldn’t follow Professor Ingoldel’s movements at all and were mercilessly beaten.
“For Purple Cloud Sword movements, there’s too little variation. The core of twin swords is their complexity and intricacy! Rather than swinging swords recklessly, it would be better to think more and then swing.”
“High Mountain Moon Sword should be faster and sharper! When thrusting, don’t hesitate and throw your body toward full power.”
Moreover, befitting his position as a professor, Ingoldel recognized all the swordsmanship the students displayed.
The Empire’s swordsmanship numbered over hundreds just counting the famous ones, and if you included those passed down only within families, the number was countless.
Yet Ingoldel knew all the names of those swordsmanship styles.
“Let’s take a break.”
“…”
“Ugh…”
“Damn…”
The students groaned and collapsed to the side. They wanted to curse but didn’t even have the energy for that.
Lee Han also felt his muscles aching and his body numb.
-Blue Rock Sword is swordsmanship like a rock. Don’t waver against any attack.
-Uh, the professor’s skill is above yours, so how can I not waver?
-Now, I’ll continue attacking. Try to block it! Go! Go! Go!
Ingoldel skillfully found and struck weaknesses that even Lee Han didn’t know about.
Lee Han had to block desperately to survive.
‘No matter how I think about it, I think I misspoke…’
When break time came, Lee Han couldn’t help but think that.
No matter how he thought about it, he seemed to have been hit a bit more and more persistently than the other students.
Of course, it could have been because of Lee Han’s swordsmanship, but Lee Han’s intuition said it wasn’t.
Hadn’t he already experienced what happened when you got on a professor’s bad side in 【Understanding of Basic Alchemy】?
Should I have just stayed still?
‘I didn’t know I’d get beaten up more for earning points.’
“Wardanaz?”
“Yes. Professor.”
“Please come out for a brief sparring match.”
“…”
Lee Han really thought he had misspoken.
Having to get beaten by the professor individually while others were resting.
However, Ingoldel hadn’t called Lee Han out to beat him up.
“This is Durgyu from the Choi Family. You two students will have a simple sparring match.”
“!”
Not only Lee Han but also the resting students were surprised.
Why those two?
‘Isn’t that the guy who picked a fight earlier?’
Lee Han looked at Durgyu with a displeased expression.
Since he was the one who had picked a fight asking ‘Why is a student from another dormitory attending the lecture?’, he didn’t look favorable.
Moreover, wasn’t he the blockhead who picked a fight recklessly even knowing Lee Han was from the Wardanaz Family?
Instead of going easy in a sparring match, he would definitely charge in recklessly.
“Understood. Professor!”
Saying that, the orc glared at Lee Han as if to kill him. Lee Han clicked his tongue inwardly.
‘His true intentions are completely visible.’
His intention to use this opportunity to crush the annoying student from another dormitory was readable on his face.
Among all the many students, Lee Han couldn’t know why the professor specifically chose him…
‘Surely I wasn’t marked by the professor for being from another dormitory. He definitely seemed pleased with my answer earlier.’
Since the situation had come to this, Lee Han had no intention of backing down either.
He could have lived comfortably playing and eating at the family manor, but he had deliberately learned swordsmanship from Alarlong while getting beaten up precisely to avoid getting beaten up in situations like this!
* * *
Professor Ingoldel’s reason for choosing Durgyu and Lee Han was simple.
Right now, those two were the most outstanding among the students.
Swordsmanship wasn’t something you could immediately deploy just by learning it.
The core techniques of swordsmanship, sword forms, basically required practicing thousands of times and trying them directly in real combat before you could barely understand them.
For example, let’s say there’s a technique where you aim to stab the opponent’s chest but then change trajectory to stab the neck.
If you just used it randomly, unless the enemy was incredibly stupid, they wouldn’t let themselves get hit.
Before that, you had to slightly threaten as if to swing, or deceive by seeming to aim low, putting in these detailed movements in succession to bring out the technique’s destructive power.
In other words, understanding sword forms meant being able to deploy them completely through such applications.
Just knowing how to understand the sword forms you learned was enough to steamroll most mercenaries outside.
Most mercenaries swung wildly relying on instinct and strength without even knowing what they were doing…
In that regard, both of them were at a level where they understood and could utilize the sword forms they had learned.
They even infused mana into their weapons, albeit weakly.
No matter how much they were from knight families, at this age and this level, they had enough talent to succeed as knights.
‘How difficult must it have been to practice swordsmanship to that degree in a magic noble family like Wardanaz!’
While Durgyu from the Choi Family was understandable, it was truly unexpected for a student from a magic noble family like Wardanaz to have high achievements in swordsmanship.
And that made Ingoldel even more pleased with him.
‘Swordsmanship is a discipline as deep and meaningful as magic. That student must have felt the same way and came with determination to learn.’
Ingoldel was misunderstanding Lee Han.
He thought Lee Han was so devoted to swordsmanship that he secretly learned it while watching his family’s reactions.
In reality, the Wardanaz Family members didn’t particularly interfere with Lee Han learning swordsmanship from Alarlong.
The Wardanaz Family originally minded their own business and didn’t interfere with what each other did.
But not knowing this, to Ingoldel, Lee Han was a praiseworthy and pitiful student.
Having met like this, Ingoldel had a responsibility to guide Lee Han on the path of the sword he was walking.
‘The Choi Family’s High Mountain Moon Sword is a fast and sharp swift sword. In comparison, Wardanaz’s Blue Rock Sword is a heavy and strong heavy sword. They’re completely opposite styles. Having them compete against each other will teach them much. In the path of the sword, the existence of a rival who can compete on equal terms is more precious than anything.’
Of course, Professor Ingoldel had also noticed that the White Tiger Tower students harbored hostility toward Lee Han, who was the only one from a different dormitory.
But such things would be resolved with time.
Getting beaten like dogs under Professor Ingoldel, they wouldn’t have time to be on bad terms with each other. They would only come to hate Professor Ingoldel!
Professor Ingoldel sincerely hoped that the two currently most outstanding students would have a positive influence on each other, and that this positive influence would spread to other students as well.
Swoooosh!
What entered Professor Ingoldel’s eyes as he was thinking such thoughts was the sight of Lee Han kicking dirt with his foot and scattering it at Durgyu’s face.
How to Live as a Mage in Magic School
How to Live as a Mage in Magic School
How to Live as a Mage in Magic School
Publication Date: August 15, 2021
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