Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 317
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Chapter 317
“Are you perhaps angry?”
How could that be… I am the Helm of Wisdom. My only purpose is to give wise answers to seekers, such petty…
‘It seems angry.’
Lee Han thought to himself.
Usually, people who spoke at length like that were rarely not angry.
Of course, even though the Helm of Wisdom was an artifact, there was no law saying it couldn’t hold grudges.
“Hmm. Helm of Wisdom… An artifact like you that has self-awareness and can answer questions once a month must be very valuable, right?”
That could be said to be true.
The Helm of Wisdom answered with delight.
It seemed this young student had finally realized its value.
The Helm of Wisdom’s purpose was to explore and accumulate all knowledge in the world.
For that purpose, it didn’t matter how dangerous the helm’s owner became.
To pursue its purpose, the helm’s owner should depend on the helm and continuously ask questions…
This insolent student had thrown it into a pile of luggage and only picked up the helm much later.
Still, since he seemed to realize its value now, it could forgive him.
“Thank you.”
Wait… why aren’t you asking questions? You can do it once a month, so it would be good to ask as many as possible, right?
“No. It becomes troublesome when selling it.”
Wha…!
Lee Han carefully packaged the helm and put it inside a wooden box.
Thinking about converting it to silver coins along with the ring made him incredibly happy.
* * *
Yoner sighed as he saw Lee Han walking toward him from afar.
He felt utterly helpless because he couldn’t stop his friend from walking into the valley of darkness.
“I really told you, right? You can’t blame me later, okay?”
Yoner said several times with a worried expression.
Yoanen Meikin’s Alchemy Workshop located in the West Guild District of Granden City.
It was a brutal hellish alchemy workshop known to all alchemists who knew of it.
A place where not a single mistake, not even one second of waste was allowed.
Yoner had avoided coming to this workshop ever since he went there as a child clinging to his sister’s skirt and ended up crying in fear.
“Yoner. The only thing I’ll have to say to you later is thank you.”
“…Lee Han. I like silver coins too, but… maybe silver coins aren’t everything in life.”
Yoner never imagined such ridiculous, embarrassing words would come out of his mouth.
“Silver coins aren’t everything. I know that too. But having silver coins makes things convenient, doesn’t it?”
“That’s true.”
Their personalities were too similar to deny Lee Han’s words. While Yoner unconsciously agreed, Lee Han opened the workshop door and went inside.
“Wai—”
Splash!
As soon as he entered, what Lee Han saw was an alchemist splashing a potion on another alchemist’s face.
“You made garbage. Get out. I don’t need someone like you.”
“Wha… What! Do you know where I worked before saying such things?! At Cheongseong Guild and Classen Workshop…!!”
“I’m not interested in where you worked. I only look at your current skills. And you wasted more of my time with useless words.”
Before the words were finished, a golem appeared. The golem grabbed the alchemist’s arms and threw him out the workshop door.
The alchemist who gave the order didn’t even say ‘get back to work.’
The alchemists in the workshop were concentrating on their own work without even glancing over.
“Is this Einroguard?”
“That’s what I was trying to tell you…”
Yoner said in a weakened voice.
He was worried he might lose a friend after the vacation ended.
* * *
Yoanen adjusted her amethyst glasses with her gloved hand and greeted the two.
“Nice to see you. I was waiting. You came earlier than the appointed time?”
“Thinking about working at this workshop that has such a great reputation in the city, my heart was pounding so much I couldn’t wait.”
“…”
Yoner looked at Lee Han with a complicated expression.
He knew his friend was excellent at flattery, but this was really a bit…
At the appropriate flattery, Yoanen’s eyes behind the amethyst glasses softened.
“To have such an attitude while still being an underclassman… There’s a reason the rumors are so widespread.”
“Thank you. Wait. What rumors are you referring to?”
“I heard you overwhelmingly won in a duel against a mage from Baldrogard?”
“There’s some misunderstanding in that rumor…”
“You subdued a basilisk at the Imperial Residence.”
“That’s correct, but there’s also…”
“I heard you came back from subjugating an evil being from another realm a few days ago.”
‘Does this city also have something like a professors’ bulletin board?’
Lee Han shuddered at the fearsome speed of information sharing in Granden City’s social circles, just like Einroguard’s professors.
Of course, having his reputation spread wasn’t necessarily bad.
But having a reputation that didn’t match his level would only be poison.
What if Lee Han was immediately misunderstood as someone whose hobby was ‘reverse summoning evil beings from other realms or catching basilisks’?
Lee Han had already experienced this once at Einroguard. He didn’t want it twice.
“He probably didn’t subjugate the being from another realm, right? It must be a false rumor.”
Yoner took Lee Han’s side with confusion. Lee Han said bitterly.
“Actually, I did.”
“…When?!”
“After registering as adventurers with the White Tiger Tower students. Because these guys unnecessarily picked fights…”
“…”
Yoner gave up defending his friend.
At this point, it seemed like it wasn’t just Lee Han being unlucky, but Lee Han’s own doing.
“You don’t need to worry too much. The work you’ll do at the workshop isn’t such dangerous stuff.”
“Really?”
Yoner said in a voice full of worry.
He already felt like it was about 30 minutes before losing his friend.
“Of course. Think about it carefully, Yoner. The alchemists working at this workshop are excellent alchemists with at least ten years of experience. No matter how talented he is, you can’t immediately deploy a 1st year student.”
“Right?”
Yoner was slightly swayed by his sister’s persuasion.
Indeed, no matter how talented Lee Han was, he hadn’t yet learned all the complex secrets of alchemy.
Lee Han, who was listening nearby, whispered quietly to Yoner.
“Um. Yoner. I don’t really want to say this, but even people whose level doesn’t match can be put to good use.”
Just like Professor Verdus, even if Lee Han’s magic level wasn’t satisfactory yet, Lee Han had one outstanding advantage.
An immeasurably vast amount of mana.
“So…”
“Oh right. Yoner. Could you deliver this letter to Madam Onette? Madam Onette will be so happy to see you after such a long time.”
Yoanen cut off their conversation and handed a letter to Yoner.
Yoner, who received the letter, looked at Lee Han with an expression mixed with anxiety and worry. Fear was visible, as if his friend might die the moment he looked away.
“Go ahead. I’m fine.”
“…Really be careful. Lee Han. Remember what I said earlier.”
After Yoner closed the door and left, Yoanen asked curiously.
“May I ask what your brother said earlier?”
“He said that life might not be all about silver coins.”
“There’s no way he would say that, right?”
Lee Han was slightly flustered by her firm trust in her brother.
“Well. Anyway… now that my brother’s gone, shall we start working?”
“Yes.”
“Let’s go.”
Yoanen got up from her seat and began walking down the corridor of the workshop.
The complex fragrances pouring from everywhere made it unmistakably clear that this was an alchemist’s workshop.
“Do you know where this is?”
“Is this Master Meikin’s workshop?”
“Good guess.”
Yoanen waved her staff and summoned materials located in the pantry.
Water filled the cauldron and herbs were chopped above it. As the cauldron’s flames were drawn up, heat rose.
“The potion we’re going to make now is 【Dobruk’s Soul Revival Potion】. Do you know it by any chance?”
“I only know what kind of potion it is.”
Professor Thunderstep was a mischievous person, but he wasn’t someone who would threaten you to make an impossible potion right now like a certain crazy vampire professor.
In that regard, 【Dobruk’s Soul Revival Potion】 was a high-difficulty potion that Lee Han couldn’t make at his current level.
It required several spells that Lee Han didn’t know how to use yet, and the ingredients and methods were much more complex…
“Just knowing about it is already impressive. What you’ll be doing today, Wardanaz, is preparing and adding the main ingredient of this soul revival potion, drapilla. In summary, you’ll be taking the role of my assistant.”
It sounded quite simple at first glance, but Lee Han was never careless.
The world wasn’t easy enough to earn silver coins that simply.
“Is there anything I need to be careful about when adding it?”
At Lee Han’s words, Yoanen’s eyes lit up.
As expected of Einroguard’s top student, he understood quickly without needing detailed explanations.
“Prepare it according to this diagram, but do you know 【Component Amplification】 magic by any chance? You probably haven’t learned it yet.”
“If you teach me, I’ll learn it.”
“Since we have a schedule today, please learn it within 30 minutes.”
Yoanen began to quietly reveal her madness.
If Yoner had been beside her, he would have stopped her saying ‘Please come to your senses, sister, he’s my friend.’
What mage asks someone to learn a spell they’ve never seen before within 30 minutes?
“Understood.”
However, Lee Han was neither flustered nor surprised.
He had already experienced many crazier people at Einroguard.
Yoanen briefly explained the staff movement, incantation, and flow of magic.
“Think of it as an extension of 【Component Separation】 magic and it’ll be easier.”
“I understand.”
“Try it.”
Lee Han swung his staff. And succeeded on the first try.
Yoanen was impressed.
She had expected within 30 minutes, but to succeed on the first try.
Anticipation rose that she had properly brought a really good talent.
“Excellent.”
“Thank you.”
“Then please extract and amplify the liquid component of the drapilla.”
This was also simple, but absolutely not a simple task.
Drapilla, a plant whose liquid components were firmly fixed within its roots, was extraordinarily difficult to extract from.
If you forced it, the roots would be destroyed and messily mixed before the liquid could come out.
To accomplish this required not only excellent mana control but also understanding and experience with the water element.
Crack!
With a sound like wringing out cloth, the liquid component was extracted from inside the drapilla.
If there had been other alchemists in the workshop, they would have been shocked.
No matter how excellent, for a 1st year student to already be at this level.
However, Yoanen shook her head.
“There are impurities in the component. I think you’ll need to do it again.”
Yoanen’s full-scale madness that Yoner had worried about.
Even if the other person achieved 99, she was a perfectionist who would point out the 1 lacking from 100 and tell them to do it again.
If other alchemists had been there, they would have said ‘Master Meikin, this is why you can’t find assistants, please calm down,’ but unfortunately, there was no one else in this workshop right now.
“Understood.”
Lee Han extracted the liquid again. Yoanen said regretfully.
“There’s some waste in the extraction. I think you’ll need to do it again.”
“Yes.”
“There was a problem with the amplification. There’s deterioration so I think you’ll need to do it again.”
“No problem.”
Normally, even after succeeding at such a high-difficulty process, if told to do it again for trivial reasons, one would grit their teeth the second time and run out the door the third time.
However, unfortunately, there was no sane person in this workshop right now.
“How about this much?”
“It seems almost there. You’ll need to do it again…”
“Yes.”
* * *
Yoner opened the door, breathing heavily.
“I’m back! Nothing happened, right?!”
“Not particularly.”
“We were working well.”
Lee Han and Yoanen greeted Yoner with calm smiles that seemed to say ‘Why are you making such a fuss?’
Yoner found their smiles strangely chilling.
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