Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 259
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Chapter 259
“!”
Morning.
Lee Han, who entered the lecture hall, was so startled he almost fell over.
No, he was actually so surprised that he knocked over a chair and made it fall.
Crash!
-Is something wrong?
“It’s nothing.”
-I see. Study hard.
The Death Knights went back out to the corridor.
Lee Han regained his composure and read the writing on the lecture hall blackboard again.
Class canceled due to professor’s circumstances
-Voladi Bagrec
‘Professor…’
Lee Han was deeply moved by Professor Boladi’s consideration.
There was no one as kind as a professor who canceled class when students were busy with assignments and exams from other lectures.
Was Professor Boladi the type of person who could show such consideration?
Of course, it would have been really nice if he had just told him separately instead of writing it on the lecture hall blackboard…
‘This much is already something.’
Lee Han had a conscience. He didn’t wish for too much good fortune.
To gain free time like this.
-Why are you coming out again?
“The professor says class is canceled due to his circumstances. Is there perhaps some problem with Professor Bagrek?”
Lee Han asked just in case.
Professor Boladi wasn’t the type to go around getting beaten up, but the magic school’s eccentricity made no exceptions even for professors.
-Who knows? I haven’t heard anything.
-Seeing how quiet it is, it’s probably nothing serious. It’s admirable how you worry about your master.
“…Haha. I’m embarrassed.”
Lee Han managed his expression and nodded.
-Oh right. Were you also attending Professor Verdus’s lectures?
“Yes. How did you know?”
-Professor Verdus was looking for Wardanaz.
“…”
Lee Han checked the time.
It was morning now.
There were at least 6 hours left until Professor Verdus’s additional lecture time.
“Didn’t he mistake the time?”
-It didn’t seem like it? When I asked, he said lecture time wasn’t important.
‘I should stay inside the tower until the lecture starts.’
Lee Han resolved not to go anywhere near the Sacred Workshop until lecture time.
* * *
“Why did you come so late?!”
Professor Verdus cried out affectionately as soon as he saw Lee Han.
Lee Han spoke with an expression of knowing nothing.
“What? I definitely came on time though?”
“What does lecture time matter? If I were you, I’d stay here all the time!”
Professor Verdus, for whom enchantment magic was the most fun thing in the world, couldn’t understand Lee Han.
If Professor Verdus were Lee Han, he would throw away all other lectures and only do research here in the Sacred Workshop!
“That’s not what’s important. Professor. I brought the assignment here.”
Lee Han held out the shield he had infused with mana before coming.
The friends who arrived late at the lecture hall saw this and cursed inwardly.
‘That bastard Wardanaz. If he completed something like that, he should submit it at the last minute.’
‘Does he have no conscience!’
“Oh…”
Professor Verdus, who was always indifferent whether students slept or danced in front of him, showed interested eyes for the first time.
“So this is that crude and rough shield?”
“Your praise always makes me happy, Professor.”
Professor Verdus examined the shield, regardless of whether Lee Han was grumbling beside him.
He had wanted to see it since the Death Knights spread rumors about it, but he was only seeing it now because that vicious and twisted Gonadaltes, whose only hobby was tormenting students, had interfered.
“Wow…”
Professor Verdus nodded while stroking and tapping the shield by himself.
Certainly the magic circle and structure itself still looked clumsy and awkward from Professor Verdus’s perspective…
The fact that these shortcomings were simply ignored through sheer mana quantity was very interesting.
Dozens of artifacts flashed through Professor Verdus’s mind.
If mana could be overcharged like this, he could sufficiently create the artifacts he had been putting off until now.
“What year are you again?”
“1st year.”
“Ah, why?!”
“…”
Lee Han wasn’t flustered.
He already knew well that his opponent was a crazy person.
In contrast, the students behind Lee Han looked at Professor Verdus with gazes mixed with terror and shock.
“Why is your year so low… Then you can’t make spirit swords… and lens artifacts are still… Should I teach you directly?”
Lee Han felt an ominous feeling at Professor Verdus’s muttering appearance.
“That’s right! I really don’t want to, but I’ll teach you directly… Huh? Where did he go?”
“Wardanaz? He went out saying he was getting something he left in the tower.”
* * *
He had hoped that if he gave it some time, Professor Verdus might get interested in other students’ assignments and forget, but Professor Verdus’s concentration was more impressive than expected.
While grading other students’ assignments one by one, as soon as Lee Han returned to the lecture hall, he immediately shouted.
“80 points.”
“Oh. Did I make it well?”
“Huh? No. You made it terribly.”
“…Isn’t 80 out of 100 points pretty well made?”
“No. It’s just that the other guys made theirs even worse. Ah! Wardanaz!”
‘Damn.’
Lee Han raised his head.
“Did you hear earlier?”
“I didn’t hear well.”
“I’ll teach you a few basic enchantment magics you need.”
Professor Verdus was basically not the type of person to grab students and teach them one-on-one.
Like a shepherd who releases sheep into pasture and waits, he was someone who released students into the lecture hall and waited for them to learn on their own!
Since he was basically someone who absolutely never did anything that wasn’t fun for him, naturally he didn’t grab students to teach them one-on-one.
However, this time the story was different.
To have Lee Han help with artifact creation assistance, even in simple tasks, he needed to know at least a few basic spells (by Professor Verdus’s standards) that were frequently used.
From Professor Verdus’s memory, his disciples usually learned those basic spells around their third year, so the calculation was that he’d have to wait two years.
“During lecture time?”
“No. During lecture time you need to learn other things. You’ll have to make separate time for it.”
“But you said it was basic?”
“Yes. Basic.”
“If it’s basic, couldn’t I learn it during lecture time?”
“Ah.”
Professor Verdus seemed to belatedly understand what Lee Han was saying.
“It is basic, but it’s not magic you’d normally learn right now.”
“…”
‘Then it’s not basic…’
Lee Han was about to curse but held back.
Did he perhaps not know the meaning of ‘basic’?
“Professor.”
“What?”
“I’m sorry. I’m taking many other lectures. Making more time here would be difficult.”
“What!??!?”
Professor Verdus was shocked as if he’d heard ‘The world will end in one minute.’
“Why?!??!”
‘Did I explain it strangely?’
Lee Han looked back at what he had said.
Was saying he was taking many other lectures and couldn’t make additional time such difficult words?
“Isn’t enchantment magic more interesting?!”
“I wonder?”
“Enchantment magic must be more interesting!”
“I wonder…”
“Enchantment magic is more interesting though…”
Professor Verdus muttered with a greatly shocked expression.
He looked like he never expected Lee Han to refuse.
“Why is Wardanaz acting like this?”
Professor Verdus grabbed the innocent Durgyu who was passing by carrying a materials box and asked.
“Huh?”
“I’m offering to teach him, but he says making time is difficult because of other lectures.”
“Uh… isn’t it because that’s exactly what he means…?”
Durgyu wondered why he couldn’t understand those words.
“Can’t he skip other lectures?”
“Wouldn’t those professors dislike that?”
“Is it bad if professors dislike it?”
“…Then those professors might attack Lee Han?”
As the other person kept talking nonsense, Durgyu also started talking nonsense.
And actually, it wasn’t really nonsense.
Even the Principal attacked students, so there was no law saying professors couldn’t…
“That’s too much!”
“Exactly.”
“Isn’t there a way to make more time somehow?”
“Exactly…”
Durgyu sent Lee Han a look asking for help.
He needed to quickly take the materials and go study magic, but some crazy professor was holding onto him and wouldn’t let go.
Lee Han said to Professor Verdus.
“There’s a good method, Professor.”
“Oh. Did you decide to listen?”
“No… regardless of my intentions, there’s not enough time. So we need to create time.”
“How?”
“Right now, to gather materials, we have to get them from merchants.”
To practice enchantment magic, all sorts of materials were needed.
Those materials didn’t come for free. Students had to work and get them from merchants themselves.
“If you provided those, Professor, we’d have more time.”
“Huh? Me?”
At Lee Han’s words, Professor Verdus thought for a moment.
Study was something students did for themselves.
As such, Professor Verdus’s philosophy was that students should gather materials themselves, but…
“Sure, why not.”
That was one thing, and Professor Verdus could easily flip his hand when he had something he needed.
“Then time has been created, right?”
“It’s still not enough, Professor.”
“Still?!”
“Yes. Right now we make quite a lot of trial and error. Why would that be?”
“Because you’re terribly bad at magic?”
“…”
“…”
Students passing by carrying boxes glared at the back of Professor Verdus’s head.
“…That’s part of it, but wouldn’t just a few words of advice from you be a great help, Professor?”
“Sure, why not.”
Professor Verdus nodded.
“Now time has been created, right?”
Lee Han was surprised by Professor Verdus being more obedient than expected.
Huh?
‘At this rate, I could demand more?’
Lee Han was about to ask Professor Verdus to try juggling by receiving balls with his head, but stopped.
Then suddenly a question occurred to him, so he asked.
“But Professor, you cleverly didn’t suggest reducing sleeping or resting time?”
“Huh? Ah. Gonadaltes forbade it. Really too much, isn’t it?”
“…Haha. Exactly.”
* * *
When he paid for materials with his own money and taught lectures himself, all the students became happy for a moment.
“Professor, the mana circuit amplification part is blocked here…”
“Draw a line here.”
“…????”
The student who asked the question blinked at Professor Verdus who just drew a line on the blocked circuit and left.
Uh… huh?
“What meaning does this line have?”
“What?”
Professor Verdus sent a look like ‘How do I explain this simple thing further’ and was flustered.
The flustered professor called the culprit of this situation.
“This won’t work. You explain this.”
“No, Professor. If he’s blocked on that, I don’t know either… Ah. This is because too much mana is concentrated only on the top, so you’re dispersing it. If you leave it like this, the magic circle’s lines will break from overload.”
“Oh… I see!”
Lee Han, who had been pleased that his friend understood, suddenly froze.
‘Oh no.’
He should have pretended not to know…
Professor Verdus seemed satisfied that the student had understood anyway.
And whenever he got stuck, he called on Lee Han.
“Wardanaz.”
“Wardanaz?”
“Wardanaz!”
“…”
Lee Han considered just making Professor Verdus lose interest in the students again.
* * *
“Oh right. I should tell you about the final exam.”
Professor Verdus, who had been lecturing enthusiastically, checked the time and spoke.
“There’s still over a week left though?”
“Artifacts take time, you know. You guys are so bad that even with this much time, many of you won’t be able to finish.”
Everyone was moved by the professor’s heartwarming words.
“The final exam assignment is simple too. You know the assignments you submitted today? Upgrade those by one level and bring them back. I’ll evaluate you based on that.”
“Hmm…”
“Ugh.”
The students fell into contemplation about what they should do with Professor Verdus’s words.
“…”
And Lee Han felt deeply frustrated for the first time in a while.
‘Damn it.’
What more could he possibly upgrade here?
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