Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 251

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Chapter 251

It was so absurd that admiration came out rather than anger.

‘This kind of method?’

There was no need to persuade students by saying ‘My school of magic has these advantages.’

You could just forcibly kidnap students as disciples.

An ingenious solution that would make Professor Mortum slap his knee!

“P-Professor? I have no intention of learning healing magic.”

“I’m already majoring in one thing, but if I major in two… how am I supposed to keep up!”

“I’m already dying from how hard it is!”

“…”

His friends’ innocent protests made Lee Han’s heart ache.

Lee Han smiled bitterly.

“Everyone quiet. I’ll explain on your behalf.”

Professor Garcia stepped forward.

“You all know about healing magic, right?”

The students nodded.

Healing magic.

If you were to pick the magic most familiar to the common people of the Empire, healing magic would be included.

They encountered it often, it had many uses, and therefore mages who could use healing magic were respected.

There’s no need to explain what kind of treatment a dark mage and a healing mage would each receive when visiting a village.

Because of this, naturally there were many mages who wanted to study healing magic professionally.

‘It’s not even dark magic, so why would there be a reason to forcibly bring students like this?’

Most of the Phoenix Tower priests would want to learn healing magic, and a considerable number of White Tiger Tower students would want to learn healing magic too…

“There are too few healing mages right now.”

The Dark Elf Professor said in a tired and rough voice.

“So we’re increasing the numbers.”

“???”

Before the students could fall into more confusion, Professor Garcia followed up with an explanation.

Healing magic was magic that took quite a long time for a mage to become fully competent.

Since it was related to people’s lives, unlike other magic, it was difficult to mobilize mages who were still learning when necessary situations arose.

Moreover, the difficulty of mastering the magic was complex and hard, so while many students came in wanting to learn the magic, the dropout rate was extraordinary.

“Just last year when an epidemic spread in the Pesian region, there was a problem due to a shortage of healing mages.”

So the healing magic professor, Professor Alcasis of the Lagrinde family, directly sought permission from His Imperial Majesty and the Skeleton Principal.

How should they solve the problem of too few healing mages?

The answer was to increase the number of learning students (even by force).

If they drastically increased the number of students, even if many dropouts occurred, the overall number of healing mages would increase, wouldn’t it?

So today they would simply test students like this, and if they showed even a little aptitude for healing magic…

“…they would be given the opportunity to learn this magic. Does everyone understand?”

“…Uh… it’s forced, so why is it an opportunity?”

Professor Garcia pretended not to hear.

Sometimes professors had to be cowardly.

Professor Alcasis spoke in a tired and hoarse voice.

“Everyone quiet. We’re busy, so unnecessary questions are forbidden. Only ask absolutely necessary questions.”

“Professor. I’m currently majoring in summoning magic, so healing magic is…”

The voice of one student asking a necessary question disappeared.

Realizing that the professor’s silence magic skills were no ordinary matter, all the students shut their mouths.

“Isn’t that too much?”

“I know, right…”

‘Isn’t that just the average for magic school?’

Unlike the students who were whispering in shock, Lee Han wasn’t particularly shocked.

Just ‘Oh, so you’re a professor’ kind of feeling?

“What time is it now?”

“Three-thirty.”

At Professor Garcia’s answer, Professor Alcasis blinked his dry eyes and nodded.

Since his schedule was tightly packed even after the lecture, he had to check the time.

“What are you going out for this time? Don’t tell me it’s about that Krongwil Guild internal conflict that came up last time?”

Professor Alcasis was too tired to even answer with words. When he only blinked his eyes, Professor Garcia sighed.

“Oh my… adventurers getting into fights among themselves. And inside the city too. It’s really unforgivable. You won’t have enough hands, will you be alright?”

“That’s why I’m taking even the third years. Some water.”

“Here.”

While Professor Alcasis quickly emptied the water bottle in one go, Professor Garcia continued asking.

“Taking even the third years…”

“The second years wouldn’t be much help even if I took them.”

“…That wasn’t a question about why you’re not taking the second years.”

Professor Garcia said with a disgusted expression.

And Lee Han also listened with a disgusted expression.

‘This place is quite hellish too.’

A different kind of hell from what the Skeleton Principal, Professor Boladi, or Professor Verdus created.

This wasn’t the professor’s fault.

It was the Empire’s fault.

With many people getting injured and dying but few healing mages, the workload intensity for healing mages increased tremendously.

Hearing that they were even taking third-year students now…

“Professor. I’m really not interested in healing magic…”

“There are no exceptions.”

“Professor. I’m already taking two majors! Two!!”

“As I said, there are no exceptions. Be quiet.”

Professor Alcasis spoke as solid as rock without the slightest wavering.

It wasn’t that the professor didn’t feel sorry for students who weren’t interested in healing magic and were struggling with other magic courses.

But it couldn’t be helped.

More healing mages were needed for the Empire’s sick people.

Professor Alcasis resolved once again to be ruthless.

No excuse could move Professor Alcasis’s heart.

“Professor! Lee Han here is currently taking dark magic, summoning magic, illusion magic, enchantment magic, divination magic, transformation magic… what else was there?”

Gainando stopped counting while arguing and asked Lee Han. Lee Han turned his gaze away, pretending not to hear because his friend was embarrassing.

“Anyway, he’s taking all of these! This is too much!”

“Don’t lie.”

“It’s true! Ask the other professors too!”

“…”

Professor Alcasis looked at Lee Han as if he absolutely couldn’t believe it.

Even though Lee Han had done nothing wrong, he somehow had to feel like he had done something wrong.

‘Anyone would think I’m deliberately taking all of them.’

After biting his lips and pondering for several minutes, Professor Alcasis finally spat out.

“…There are no exceptions. Be quiet.”

“This is too much…!!”

“Stop it.”

Lee Han made Gainando shut his mouth.

‘I should hurry up and learn a silence curse or something.’

* * *

Professor Mortum was quite a person who coughed a lot (probably due to the tower’s environment), but Professor Alcasis was no less a person whose speech frequently broke off.

He would stumble while speaking, cough as if his mouth was parched, and even break out in cold sweats before sitting down in a chair to rest for a moment. Unable to watch any longer, Professor Garcia stepped forward instead.

“I’ll handle the basic explanation. Is that alright?”

“…Please do.”

“Now then, everyone. You just connected the sprouts in the flowerpots, right? These sprouts are plants that have been bred to respond easily to mana. That’s why you were able to heal them so easily. However, the principles aren’t drastically different. Repairing and restoring damaged and broken parts like this is a core area of healing magic.”

Though they were forced to listen, the students paid surprisingly close attention.

In fact, since healing magic was so popular, the students would have listened quite well even if they hadn’t been forced to.

‘But adding a dozen or so more people doesn’t seem like it would solve the personnel shortage.’

“Of course, healing magic doesn’t only involve this kind of recovery. There’s alchemy for analyzing various status ailments like poisoning and creating appropriate treatment potions. Enhancement magic to help patients endure various procedures and mysteries. Divination magic to check prognoses in advance… If necessary, learning magic from other schools without reservation is a characteristic of healing magic.”

‘Wasn’t dark magic missing?’

Lee Han was about to mention that dark magic was left out but held back.

If he asked, it would only make the students learning dark magic sad.

“Um… then do we have to learn all of that?”

One of the students asked with a frightened expression.

Professor Garcia answered kindly.

“Of course not. You only need to learn when necessary.”

“Ah, as expected… What a relief!”

Lee Han, who had been listening, asked because something seemed strange.

“But Professor. Healing mages are few in number so they have to treat many patients, which means in practice, learning everything you just mentioned wouldn’t even be enough, right?”

Professor Garcia pretended not to hear Lee Han’s words and moved on.

This is why clever students are trouble!

Meanwhile, Professor Alcasis, having recovered his strength, stood up from his seat.

“I’ll continue the explanation. As Professor Garcia just said, healing mages don’t focus on just one direction but need comprehensive understanding in all directions. This applies not only to magic but to studies in other fields as well. Suppose there’s a patient here with a broken bone. If you want to heal this patient’s bone but don’t know the patient’s bone structure, would you be able to heal it?”

Professor Alcasis gestured as if breaking ribs with his hands as he spoke.

“Even if you heal it, you’d make it heal in a strange direction, right? In that case, it would be better not to do it at all. Healing mages must be well-versed in the structure of the body.”

The Phoenix Tower priests and White Tiger Tower students listened as if entranced.

It was a natural reaction since they had more interest.

Moreover, the structure of the body.

The Phoenix Tower priests and White Tiger Tower students were somewhat familiar with it and felt confident.

“Bring it in.”

The door opened and two students who looked as tired and exhausted as the professor entered.

The two upperclassmen didn’t just enter. They dragged in a coffin large enough for one person to fit inside.

Clang!

Surprisingly, when they opened the coffin door, there was a person tied up tightly inside.

“Chains.”

At the professor’s command, the two upperclassmen removed the prisoner’s chains and took off his gag as well. Then the prisoner protested violently.

“Damn mages! Even though I killed a few people, to do this kind of thing… Gugh.”

Lee Han was startled.

Not because Professor Alcasis stuck swords into the prisoner’s neck and limbs (though that was somewhat surprising too), but because his skill was lightning-fast.

His technique of summoning swords from thin air, then grabbing them one by one and stabbing them into the prisoner’s body was no ordinary swift swordsmanship.

The White Tiger Tower students were also stirring, sensing that the professor’s swordsmanship skills were extraordinary.

‘Do you become skilled in swordsmanship if you work as a healing mage for a long time?’

The prisoner’s body instantly turned pale. The embedded swords had absorbed all his blood.

“Open it.”

The two upperclassmen opened the prisoner’s chest. Vivid organs were revealed.

Thud!

Several students fainted from shock. Professor Alcasis said cynically.

“Wake them up. I’m going to explain the structure of the human body. Listen carefully.”

“Ugh… urgh!”

Gainando was about to vomit. Lee Han quickly cast 【Ogonin’s Abundant Satisfaction】.

“Th-thanks, Lee Han.”

“Me… me too. Me too!”

* * *

Professor Alcasis possessed excellent swordsmanship skills that could butcher bodies at invisible speed, and extensive understanding of human anatomy to support it, but that didn’t lessen the students’ suffering.

When Professor Alcasis finished his lecture and restored the prisoner again, the students looked like their heads were about to burst from the intimate aspects of humans they had never seen before and the complex information.

Professor Garcia opened the windows and asked.

“Is everyone alright?”

“…”

“…”

The students looked at Professor Garcia with eyes full of betrayal and hurt.

Professor Garcia felt very sorry.

“The theoretical explanation is roughly finished. Everyone pick up the string in front of you.”

Strings made by twisting plant fibers appeared in front of the students.

“Cut it and reconnect it with magic.”

“Done.”

“Keep repeating.”

“…”

The students felt themselves becoming stupid as they cut the string, connected it, and cut it again.

Though it looked somewhat foolish, this was effective training.

How could someone who couldn’t properly connect even the simplest plant string connect a person’s severed blood vessels?

Not only did they become proficient through repetition, but waste in mana usage also decreased.

For healing mages who had to treat all kinds of injuries, wasting mana was an absolute taboo.

By consuming mana through such repetition, unnecessary waste would naturally decrease.

“Do it properly.”

“?”

Lee Han, who had been cutting and connecting, cutting and connecting, was puzzled by the professor’s criticism.

Was what he just did wrong?

“…Oh right. Professor. Please come over here for a moment.”

Professor Garcia pulled Professor Alcasis aside.

Come to think of it, he was so busy that he wasn’t there when the professors were chatting!

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