Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 214

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Chapter 214

“If we set it on fire…”

The White Tiger Tower students murmured among themselves. They seemed to be seriously considering Gainando’s words.

“Give it up, you idiots. If the library could be closed by 1st year students setting fires, it would have been destroyed long ago.”

Giselle said bluntly. The White Tiger Tower students looked openly disappointed.

Still, Gainando didn’t give up.

“What if we set a bigger fire… What if Lee Han does it?”

“Hey, Gainando. What do you think Wardanaz is, a dragon?”

“E-everyone. You can’t set fire to the library.”

Professor Garcia spoke in panic at the students’ seditious conversation.

The students nodded their heads.

“Of course, Professor.”

“There’s no way we’d set a fire.”

“…You really can’t set fires. You might have to stay in the punishment room even during vacation.”

“…”

“W-we really won’t set any fires. We mean it.”

The fear of possibly being locked in the punishment room even when vacation came frightened the students more than any threat.

Even the most radical student gave up on setting fires after hearing those words.

‘This is serious.’

Lee Han fell into thought inwardly.

Surprisingly, until now the professors had rarely used the library books out of consideration for the students, but from now on they would be using library books frequently.

It wasn’t simply a matter of lectures becoming more difficult and having more content to study.

At Einroguard, entering the library to find and bring out books was itself a challenge.

Just finding books near the entrance took forever, but books located deeper inside…

‘Can’t we just go outside and buy them?’

Of course there would be rare magic books that only existed in the magic school’s library, but surely some could be bought outside.

If they just opened the main gate, we could go buy them!

“Professor, please come in.”

Professor Garcia thought she should quickly proceed with today’s lecture before the students despaired further, so she opened the door and called to the professor outside.

‘A spirit hybrid?’

Lee Han’s eyes flashed as he sensed an aura similar to spirits from the entering professor.

Just as there were spirit, angel, and demon hybrids among the students, it wasn’t surprising that there were professors with mixed blood.

‘It doesn’t seem to be a spirit though.’

“Professor Passelette Kraer. He’s a master of divination magic.”

“!”

Divination magic.

Among the abstruse and difficult fields of magic, it belonged to the most abstruse and difficult category.

Even Lee Han, during his stay at the family manor, had heard quite a lot of knowledge about other magics, but about divination magic he had only heard fragmentary and brief snippets.

-A divination mage stepped forward to solve the ruby necklace theft incident that occurred at the Jojeon family. Using coin divination to guess the location of the ruby necklace…

-Did you hear that those picky merchant bastards went with bags of gold coins and knelt before the mage? Just to get their fortune told once.

-They say an excellent divination mage knows what they’ll eat for lunch when they wake up in the morning.

-The talent needed for divination magic is completely different from the talent needed for other magic. Only flashing intuition serves as a guiding light.

Though he hadn’t yet grasped exactly what kind of magic it was, Lee Han was quite interested in divination magic.

‘Excellent divination mages are that popular?’

Mages who changed reality with their will were a profession that earned both fear and respect in the Empire, but among them, excellent divination mages received particularly strong reverence.

Everyone feared an uncertain future.

How could one not respect those who could read that future?

Lee Han had no desire to master the future, but he did have the desire to go somewhere and say ‘I am a mage who has learned divination magic.’

The treatment would be much better than saying he was a dark mage.

-I am a divination mage.

-Oh my! What a great mage has come to our village! Sir Mage, could you perhaps divine my child’s future?

-I am a dark mage.

-…Hey. You did lock the cemetery gate in our village, right?

“Professor Kraer?”

When Professor Garcia called, Professor Kraer nodded after standing there blankly.

“…Professor. I asked you to visit with your diligent personality today.”

“You did. But the future is unknowable.”

“Professor. I asked you.”

Professor Garcia’s voice carried force.

Professor Kraer’s eyes flashed and his expression suddenly changed.

“Ah. Right. Divination magic. I was supposed to lecture.”

‘…Multiple personalities?!’

Lee Han was quite surprised by Professor Kraer’s appearance, acting diligently as if he had become a different person.

‘Well, it’s not that strange.’

All the professors had multiple personality-like traits to some degree.

He just had to think that Professor Kraer’s case was a bit severe.

“Please treat me well, everyone. I’m Passelette Kraer. I’m a banshee hybrid and majored in divination magic.”

“We look forward to working with you, Professor!”

The students greeted him in unison.

Professor Kraer shook his head as if the long hair covering his face was bothersome, brushing it away.

“Does anyone know about Jundaer Dolpram?”

Asan, who was next to Lee Han, raised his hand and shouted.

“He’s the great mage who laid the foundation for Imperial divination magic!”

“Smart. Do you also know that Jundaer Dolpram committed suicide in Imperial Year 131?”

“Uh… no?”

“I see. Make sure to remember that. I’m also curious if anyone knows about Jundaer Dolpram’s disciple, Kelten Inan?”

It was a mage Lee Han had heard of before. Several people including the Imperial Princess raised their hands. Even Gainando did.

Lee Han was surprised.

“You know Kelten Inan?”

“Lee Han, he’s a main card in my deck.”

“Ah. Sorry. I didn’t know since the game always ends before he comes out.”

Gainando looked at Lee Han with teary eyes, breathing heavily. His expression was so genuinely indignant that Lee Han apologized.

“It’s not that you’re bad at it… it’s ultimately a game that depends on luck.”

“R-right? Right? It has nothing to do with skill, right?”

“Right. Maybe divination magic could help.”

Meanwhile, another student answered instead. Professor Kraer nodded.

“Well done. But do you know that Kelten Inan committed suicide in Imperial Year 241?”

“…No?? Didn’t he… go missing?”

“Missing, my foot. When you see records of divination mages that say missing, whereabouts unknown, or lost contact, think of it as suicide. Now, as I just said… the great mage who laid the foundation for Imperial divination magic, Jundaer Dolpram, committed suicide in Imperial Year 131. His disciple Kelten Inan committed suicide in Imperial Year 241. Now it’s your turn to learn divination magic.”

“…”

“…”

‘It seems even colder than last week.’

Lee Han couldn’t help but admire the professor’s skill in making the school colder than the Frost Giant King with just a few words.

* * *

Despite the warning, Professor Kraer’s lecture wasn’t particularly dangerous or difficult.

In fact, compared to other professors’ lectures, it was rather easier.

Instead of doing something or dodging flying attacks, they just had to listen to explanations.

“Actually, divination is a skill that even non-mages can do to some extent. A student who comes to the lecture hall without eating anything in the morning knows they’ll be hungry by the time the lecture ends. A professor who comes to the lecture hall with a lazy attitude despite Professor Garcia’s requests knows what will happen to them after the lecture.”

“Professor Kraer. The students might misunderstand.”

At Professor Garcia’s warning, Professor Kraer spoke more cautiously.

“Reading the future through present judgment based on past information. That’s divination. What makes a mage’s divination special is that they can call upon and judge information that ordinary people can’t grasp. Even information that the mage themselves doesn’t realize.”

According to the professor, divination magic was largely divided into predicting the near future and predicting the distant future.

Predicting the near future, meaning a few seconds ahead, was quite intuitive, accurate, and relatively easy magic.

However, predicting the distant future, several hours or more ahead, was difficult magic with high uncertainty that placed enormous burden on the mage themselves.

“You there. What did you feel from this?”

Asan panicked when asked the question.

“Yes… divination magic is profound and endless, so one must strive endlessly?”

“No. If you don’t want to go crazy, only predict the near future. Especially when others ask you to. Keep trying to predict the distant future and you’ll end up like Jundaer Dolpram, Kelten Inan, or Perjun Jega.”

“Professor. I’ve never heard of a mage named Perjun Jega…”

“You wouldn’t have heard of him since he’s dead. So today we’ll try predicting the distant future.”

“???”

Lee Han was puzzled.

The other students seemed the same as they tilted their heads.

Didn’t he just say not to predict the distant future?

Professor Kraer was cold.

“If you don’t do what you’re told not to do, you’re not a mage. Isn’t it better to collapse in front of me now than to secretly try predicting final exam questions and collapse coughing up blood?”

“…”

“Indeed.”

“What do you mean indeed?!”

When Lee Han nodded as if convinced, Asan was horrified.

What kind of…!

‘I think that’s actually quite considerate.’

Magic circles appeared in front of the students, with various colored stones arranged randomly.

According to Professor Kraer, the more skilled one became in divination magic, the more they would find a divination method that suited them.

Of course, new students who had no such thing chose stone divination, which was the easiest.

“Hold the stones, recite the incantation, and throw them lightly. The goal is to see what you’ll be doing a day from now.”

“Can’t we already know what we’ll be doing in a day?”

Gainando whispered. Professor Kraer said expressionlessly.

“An excellent divination mage can know what they’ll eat for lunch when they wake up in the morning. A day later is the distant future. Stop talking nonsense and… throw!”

Swish-

The sound of stones being thrown came from everywhere along with incantations being cast.

“Stones of many colors, please show me tomorrow’s self.”

“Red, blue, green stones. Tomorrow’s self…”

The students who cast their incantations first stared blankly at the scattered stones.

Then they tilted their heads.

“Is it over?”

“If no images come to mind, you’ve failed. Images should appear.”

“Can I try again?”

“Of course.”

Professor Kraer smiled slyly.

At that moment, the student who had spoken rolled over and collapsed.

Thud!

“Ugh…!”

“Seeing the future requires a price. Mana is getting off cheap.”

“I didn’t, didn’t see anything though?”

“Right. Since you didn’t see anything, it’s only that much. If you had seen something, you wouldn’t even be able to groan.”

“…”

The students who were about to wave their staffs began hesitating as they grew scared.

No matter how attractive divination magic was, at this point it looked like suicide magic.

“I did well, didn’t I? Professor Garcia?”

“You could have been a bit more delicate… but you gave a proper warning. Well done.”

“This much is necessary for students to be seriously careful. Divination magic is originally good for coughing up blood when learning alone… Wait! What are you doing!”

Professor Kraer looked sharply at Lee Han and shouted.

Not only had he attempted divination once, but he was attempting it a second time.

To do such a thing after seeing another student collapse.

He must be either quite bold or arrogant, intoxicated by his own talent.

Lee Han hesitantly answered.

“This much… should be fine.”

“The dead mages thought it would be fine too. Professor Garcia. Potion!”

“That much should be okay…”

“?!?”

When even the kind Professor Garcia showed indifference to something directly related to a student’s life, Professor Kraer was horrified.

It must be a sign of the world’s impending doom.

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