Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 266
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Chapter 266
“Still, it wasn’t really that impressive.”
“Observation skills are important.”
Professor Boladi did not look down on emotion recognition magic.
Duels between mages were clashes between two different worlds.
To gain the upper hand in such clashes, one needed the discernment to read the opponent’s world first.
“And you must have learned emotion control magic as well.”
“…”
Though he had been prepared for this, it was quite bitter to know it was already discovered.
“It won’t work well on mages, but it’s useful magic against those who can’t handle mana.”
“?”
Lee Han paused.
‘But it worked on all the Blue Dragon Tower students?’
Lee Han clicked his tongue at his friends.
How carelessly relaxed must they usually be for mages to fall for such magic?
“Continue to practice it. For transformation magic, it’s still steel, right?”
“Yes.”
Professor Boladi seemed to know more about the transformation magic curriculum than the students taking it.
The current transformation magic lectures focused on the most basic skill – transforming the clothing that mages usually wore into steel.
Items worn on the body were easier to transform due to familiarity, and steel was one of the most accessible and common materials for mages.
Swish!
With a sharp sound, Professor Boladi swung a handkerchief from an invisible angle. The handkerchief transformed into steel and flew like a whip.
Lee Han, who always kept his guard up the moment he saw Professor Boladi, reacted immediately. He threw his coat and shouted.
“To steel, my cloak!”
Fortunately, he made it in time. The handkerchief was blocked by the coat and fell.
Professor Boladi spoke calmly despite nearly striking his disciple’s jaw.
“Increase your speed more.”
“Yes…”
Lee Han was about to say ‘Please stop the surprise attacks’ but held back.
It would be no different from talking to the Blue Dragon Tower wall.
“Don’t be too greedy with divination magic and healing magic.”
“Yes… Yes?”
Lee Han paused while listening quietly.
Instead of ‘Divine the future a thousand years from now’ or ‘Be prepared to recover immediately even with several holes in your body,’ it was ‘Don’t be too greedy’?
‘Anyone listening would think I’m being greedy…’
“What do you mean by not being greedy?”
“Exactly what I said. Divination magic is unstable and fickle. If you force it, you could pay a great price.”
“…”
Lee Han, who had already used divination magic several times, couldn’t help but feel uneasy.
‘So divination magic really is dangerous.’
Of course, everyone he met said divination magic was dangerous, but when Professor Boladi said it was dangerous, it carried different weight.
It really is an insanely dangerous magic!
“Huh? Then is healing magic also unstable and fickle?”
Lee Han, who had been nodding while listening, asked with curiosity.
“It’s different.”
The reason not to be too greedy with healing magic was similar to divination magic yet different.
Healing magic was basically magic that would only backfire if used carelessly before accumulating enough experience to be competent.
Trying to heal injuries yourself would only result in worse injuries.
“Ah.”
Lee Han felt grateful to Professor Garcia for keeping his secret.
The fact that he had already successfully used healing magic on a person seemed like something to hide until his grave.
* * *
Professor Boladi didn’t assign separate homework, but he gave various advice about other magic.
-Make the skeleton movable, and combine poison and curses to strengthen them.
-Lord Ogonin’s illusion magic will be helpful if you learn it. Try to master it up to the 4th circle as quickly as possible.
-I heard you completed the steel shield. Now try casting it without the help of magic circles.
‘I’d rather you just assign homework.’
Of course, Lee Han only thought this to himself. If he said it out loud, this was someone who would really assign homework.
“Be careful with flame magic.”
“Yes?”
Lee Han looked up.
It was unexpected advice.
While there was no elemental magic as widely known as flame magic, the story was a bit different for Lee Han.
Due to the nature of the flame element, mages with abnormally large amounts of mana like Lee Han would immediately become arsonists if they weren’t careful.
For this reason, whenever Lee Han used flame magic, he wore multiple layers of cursed—no, flame-reducing artifacts and used the magic as safely as possible by not increasing its scale.
Professor Boladi should know this, so why?
“I’m always being careful?”
“It would be better to be more careful.”
According to Professor Boladi, the aura of flames was gradually being felt in the mana flow within the school.
Naturally existing mana was strongly influenced by the environment.
In hot summer, the aura of flames.
In cold winter, the aura of cold.
Einroguard, with mana strong enough to be counted among the best in the Empire, would inevitably be more strongly affected by seasonal influences.
“But summer hasn’t even come yet. Is it still dangerous enough?”
“It must be because of the festival.”
“Yes?”
“The Phoenix Festival. The students must be celebrating it.”
Mages were those who changed the world with their will.
Naturally, rituals conducted by mages affected their surroundings, whether consciously or unconsciously.
A festival commemorating the phoenix to ensure early summer’s proper arrival would naturally strengthen the power of flames.
“…”
Lee Han was dumbfounded.
The atmosphere was already distracted and chaotic because of the festival, and now he had to suffer this kind of damage too!
He was already starting to hate the festival.
* * *
Swordsmanship lecture.
…One hour before it started.
Lee Han mercilessly struck the backs of the White Tiger Tower students with the tree branch he was holding.
“You call that calculation? Again! If you mix potions like that, the cauldron will melt and get holes in it!”
Having promised to help the White Tiger Tower students with their studies, Lee Han was helping his friends before the swordsmanship lecture began.
Of course, the White Tiger Tower students were having a terrible time.
“Break time. Rest for 5 minutes then we’ll continue. Don’t go far from your seats!”
“Why is that bastard Wardanaz acting like that? He’s several times more vicious than usual!”
“Did someone pick a fight with Wardanaz?”
“Did he catch someone badmouthing Wardanaz?”
“Damn it, I told you not to curse!”
The White Tiger Tower students whispered in shock and horror.
Having someone next to them tormenting them with comments like ‘Your potion is so watery that you’d end up in prison if you tried to sell it for money!’ was driving them crazy.
It felt like it was better when Lee Han resorted to violence.
The White Tiger Tower students were basically not accustomed to sitting in place and studying for long periods.
“Wardanaz. You wouldn’t know, but we’re from knight backgrounds, so constitutionally we don’t really match well with studying…”
“Will you shut up and sit down, or get beaten and then sit down?”
“…”
Giselle, who usually found everything Lee Han did annoying, felt different this time.
‘Curse more, Wardanaz. Curse more.’
Giselle didn’t regret entering the White Tiger Tower, but there were times when she felt regretful.
One of those was not being able to hit her fellow tower students too hard since they were from the same tower.
These guys who usually avoided studying like the plague were now desperately flailing around just because one Wardanaz was thrown at them…
“What is everyone doing?”
The elf professor, Ingoldel, asked in bewilderment.
Students were laying out tables and groaning in agony at the sacred swordsmanship lecture venue.
“Professor!!”
The students were so happy to see the professor who arrived 30 minutes early that they nearly shed tears of joy.
“Wardanaz is… trying to force me to study…”
“Ah.”
Professor Ingoldel looked at Lee Han and said.
“You’re doing good work for your friends. Even though you’re not from the same tower. I’m moved.”
“Not at all, Professor. We’re companions who train in swordsmanship together.”
Professor Ingoldel was moved by Lee Han’s hypocritical words. A White Tiger Tower student nearby, sensing something ominous, quickly said.
“Since you’re here early, let’s start the lecture!”
“No. There’s still time left, so study a bit more. I’ll wait beside you.”
“…”
“…”
The White Tiger Tower students were immersed in sadness and pain. Professor Ingoldel said calmly.
“People who learn swordsmanship have often neglected their studies since long ago. Don’t be like that.”
“Yes…”
* * *
The White Tiger Tower students who had studied for a full additional 30 minutes stretched and stood up from their seats.
They felt like their entire bodies had turned to stone from sitting for so long.
Professor Ingoldel waited for the students with a smile, sword in hand.
“You all worked hard studying. I’m curious if you’re preparing well for the final exams?”
“You don’t need to worry!”
“That’s right. The mountain range now feels like a garden to us.”
‘Shameless bastards.’
‘Such ridiculous bravado.’
Lee Han and Giselle were shocked by their White Tiger Tower friends’ statements.
These guys who had one foot in the afterlife when the Kurale Lizard appeared last time were shameless to the level of having iron plates on their faces.
“That’s fortunate to hear. But I still thought you might need help… so today I called someone to assist you.”
“!”
“Is it the White Poplar Knights by any chance?”
The students wondered if the knights from the White Poplar Knights who came last time had come again.
“Would those guys be helpful? They probably don’t know anything about mountains.”
“Let’s drag them to where the Kurale Lizard appeared last time.”
‘Are these guys really knights?’
Lee Han was dumbfounded by his White Tiger Tower friends plotting schemes just because they lost.
“It’s not the White Poplar Knights. Over here.”
When Professor Ingoldel called out, two unfamiliar foreigners walked forward.
Although they had seen various adventurers in the village yesterday, the guests before them had equipment that looked incomparably better than those adventurers.
The equipment’s appearance was rough and worn, but complex magical powers could be felt from within. They were definitely artifacts.
The potion bottles and tools hanging from their belts, their unwavering gait and posture…
‘Are they famous adventurers?’
“This person here is Mr. Baishada from the 【Shadow Patrol】. And this person here is Mr. Gretse from the 【Wasteland Stargazers】.”
“!”
Lee Han was surprised.
He knew very well that the Shadow Patrol were the patrollers of the Northern Mountains, having heard about them to the point of getting sick of it every time he talked with Nilia.
The Wasteland Stargazers were those who patrolled the wasteland areas of the Western Empire.
Both were excellent groups, but there was quite a severe difference in recognition.
With their cool name, their activity location in the relatively attention-grabbing west of the Empire, and their track record of producing famous figures of the Empire.
Thanks to this, the Wasteland Stargazers, who often had their names in fairy tales and Empire newspapers, were incomparable to the Shadow Patrol in terms of recognition.
-Those Wasteland Stargazers bastards are really petty! Really, really petty bastards! They must have bribed the Empire newspapers! We don’t even come down from the mountain range and dedicate ourselves to the village people below the mountain! Those bastards just wander around the wasteland and drop by villages to rest comfortably! And yet they’re the best in the Empire at acting cool!
‘Hmm. I shouldn’t tell Nilia about this.’
She was already stressed about the final exams, so if she heard that the Wasteland Stargazers had come here, she might collapse.
“These two will give you advice on how to discover monsters and how to attack them.”
Before Professor Ingoldel finished speaking, the White Tiger Tower students stealthily moved.
Naturally, it was in front of Gretse from the Wasteland Stargazers.
In contrast, Baishada from the Shadow Patrol stood still as if he hadn’t expected anything.
“…!”
Baishada was startled.
Three students had gathered in front of Baishada.
“Moradi. It was decided by majority vote, so don’t complain.”
“Durgyu is on your side, so how is this a majority vote…!”
“If you’re upset, you should bribe Durgyu too.”
“I, I wasn’t bribed. I just thought it would be better to learn from someone affiliated with the Shadow Patrol.”
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