Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 320

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Chapter 320

“Did you have a vampire friend?”

Gainando, who hadn’t fully grasped the situation, tilted his head in confusion.

Lee Han seriously considered whether he should stay at Gainando’s house tonight.

“You’ve come.”

However, Professor Boladi kindly blocked such thoughts.

Seeing Professor Boladi walking out from inside, Gainando said in surprise.

“Why are you here, Professor? Shouldn’t we call the guards to chase you away?”

Lee Han was momentarily tempted but came to his senses.

“Professor! To think you would visit my humble home… I couldn’t be happier!”

“It’s not humble.”

“But what does humble mean?”

Ignoring Gainando’s question, Lee Han threw out a question with a fake smile.

“But how did you know to come here?”

“The Principal told me.”

‘Should I really kill him?’

Lee Han thought about whether he should subjugate the evil lich of Einroguard while he was at it, after subjugating the evil King of Ghouls.

“Wait. Did the Principal perhaps tell the other professors as well?”

Professor Boladi nodded.

Lee Han felt dizziness rising.

‘This is driving me crazy.’

The professors who might visit the manor right now…

‘Professor Garcia would be fine. I should actually treat her well. Professor Thunderstep is… well… not impossible to handle. Professor Lightningstep probably won’t come given his personality. If Professor Ingoldel comes, Alarlong would be happy.’

When he thought about it, there were about two professors left who were the most dangerous and difficult.

Professor Boladi and Professor Verdus.

And one of them was right in front of him now.

“But why are you coming during vacation, Professor?”

Gainando asked with an innocent face. Lee Han thought he had done well to buy Gainando cotton candy earlier.

‘The cotton candy is paying for itself.’

“I have something to discuss.”

“Couldn’t you send a letter?”

“A letter would be difficult.”

“Why?”

“Because there’s a lot to discuss.”

“Couldn’t you just write it long?”

Professor Boladi gestured lightly. Gainando, hit by silence magic, waved his hands angrily.

How dare he attack an Imperial Family member outside of Einroguard!

‘Protest for me! Lee Han! For the honor of the Imperial Family!’

‘I’m sorry.’

Lee Han averted his gaze.

As a professor’s disciple, how could he stop what the professor was doing?

“Let’s go inside, Professor.”

“Yes.”

* * *

Lee Han personally carried the teacups and teapot instead of the servants.

“I’ll carry it instead.”

“Master Lee Han… you are admirable.”

Despite being born with the blood of great nobility, all the servants were moved by his admirable appearance of personally serving his master.

Lee Han almost threw the tea saucer.

‘Let’s not take out my anger on innocent people.’

Professor Boladi sipped the green tea that was served and slowly opened his mouth.

“I heard you caught a basilisk.”

“Cough.”

Lee Han was drinking green tea together and coughed. It felt like hot green tea was striking his throat.

“That’s… a misunderstanding.”

“What’s the misunderstanding?”

“That basilisk wasn’t even an adult…”

“A newborn basilisk. Enhanced with potions. Exhausted from rebound after attempting death gaze recklessly. Is anything wrong?”

“Ah. That’s correct.”

Lee Han was relieved by Professor Boladi’s appearance of grasping the situation more accurately than expected.

He had been worried about receiving some absurd misunderstanding.

“I didn’t know you could deflect death gaze with mana alone.”

“…Isn’t it because it was a newborn?”

“Well. The penetrating power of death gaze shouldn’t differ that greatly.”

Professor Boladi carefully lifted up a cage he had set down behind him.

Inside it, a familiar egg was well-positioned in a soft nest.

It was the basilisk egg that Professor Boladi had obtained during his last outing.

“I was going to use it for second semester lectures, but I’m worried.”

“…You probably don’t need to worry too much. That basilisk from last time was just being too careless…”

Despite Lee Han’s persuasion, Professor Boladi didn’t stop worrying.

Lee Han, who had been persuading him, suddenly felt self-loathing.

‘Why am I arguing that I want to face a basilisk in the second semester?’

To think that the result of persuading the professor well was just a future of fighting a basilisk.

When he thought about it, it was utterly bitter.

But if he left it alone, given Professor Boladi’s personality, he would bring an even crazier monster…

“I heard you repelled the King of Ghouls.”

“Cough.”

“Are you feeling unwell?”

When Lee Han choked for the second time, Professor Boladi raised his eyebrows and asked.

“No… I’m fine.”

Lee Han coughed a few more times and regained his composure.

Just like with the basilisk matter earlier, Professor Boladi would be grasping the accurate truth unlike others.

If so, there was no reason to be unnecessarily frightened.

“I heard you overwhelmed the King of Ghouls, is that true?”

“Cough cough.”

“You really seem to be unwell.”

Professor Boladi was genuinely worried.

“Unlike Einroguard where mistakes from impatience can be recovered from, that’s impossible outside. Restrain your impatience.”

“…Ah. Yes.”

Lee Han wanted to say ‘I’m not someone who goes around looking for basilisks and Kings of Ghouls to get stronger like you think, Professor,’ but he didn’t.

It would be a meaningless act.

“I didn’t overwhelm it. The opponent was in such an incomplete state…”

“Right. You overwhelmed it because it was in an incomplete state. You did overwhelm it, didn’t you.”

Since he had defeated the King of Ghouls and even cleanly completed all the nearby requests, anyone could see that he had overwhelmed it.

If he hadn’t overwhelmed it, he would have collapsed near the cave.

Lee Han, speechless at Professor Boladi’s logic, felt regret.

‘Should I have pretended to be sick?’

“There were no records of the King of Ghouls.”

Even beings from other dimensions, if they had notable reputations, tended to be recorded, but there were always exceptions.

Beings like the King of Ghouls who descended in ancient times and were sealed couldn’t possibly have records.

“Yes.”

“Even so, it would be good to be cautious. Such beings are persistent.”

Lee Han naturally knew this as well.

If it could magnanimously overlook being defeated by a novice like Lee Han and reverse-summoned to another dimension, then it wouldn’t be an evil being.

It was probably recovering its strength in its own dimension while sharpening its blade.

However, Lee Han wasn’t too worried.

‘There’s hardly any chance we’ll meet, right?’

Having taken such a blow and been reverse-summoned, it wouldn’t dare attempt to descend again for a while as it recovered, and then the remaining possibility would be Lee Han visiting the dimension where the King of Ghouls resided and seeking it out directly…

Unless Lee Han went completely insane, there was no reason for him to do such a thing.

“So I’ve prepared a method to deal with such beings.”

“…!!”

Lee Han endured the hot tea striking his throat as he swallowed. However, he couldn’t help his eyes widening.

“There’s… such a method?”

“Yes.”

Professor Boladi calmly began his explanation.

Originally, the path Lee Han was walking was one of perfected combat magic that mastered and fused all magic from different schools.

…Of course, Lee Han didn’t particularly think he was walking that path, but that wasn’t important.

Anyway, since this path of perfected combat magic required the completion of each individual school, Professor Boladi never rushed or hurried.

His disciple easily rushed ahead due to talent, but Professor Boladi understood as a master.

If the master didn’t understand this, who would?

However, considering this battle against the King of Ghouls, it was safer now to accumulate magical combat experience related to dark magic.

That way, he could gain the upper hand when clashing with the King of Ghouls again.

“I see.”

Lee Han nodded after hearing the explanation.

Actually, he only nodded outwardly while not being convinced internally.

“Can’t I just avoid it?”

“If you could avoid it by avoiding, it wouldn’t be an enemy. I heard from Professor Mortum. You’ve learned the four basic areas of dark magic: curses, poison, bone, and necromancy.”

“Yes…”

Lee Han nodded with a bitter smile.

He wasn’t even surprised by this much anymore.

‘I wish he would cough more later.’

“It’s not a bad choice. It’s the foundation of foundations in dark magic. But beings like the King of Ghouls are difficult to deal with using just those areas.”

“That was certainly the case. It had some kind of precognitive ability and dodged lightning elements too easily, and only when I spread wide-area attacks with fire elements did it somewhat work.”

“The powers of evil beings from other worlds often surpass the wisdom of mages.”

Professor Boladi wasn’t surprised.

Beings summoned from other dimensions often possessed not only precognitive abilities but bizarre powers that made precognition seem shabby in comparison.

“However, there are ways to deal with them. One of them is the darkness element.”

“The darkness element… you say?”

Among the various elemental types, the darkness element was among the difficult ones to master, like lightning or ice.

If lightning element was hard to control and ice element was hard to maintain, then darkness element fell into the category that was difficult for a mage to conceptualize, that is, to imagine.

“Such beings favor using darkness elements based on negative energy. If a mage knows how to handle it, prediction becomes possible too.”

“I see.”

Professor Boladi set down a book. It had a title written in a familiar handwriting he’d seen many times before.

【Basic Darkness Element Magic and Its Applications】

Seeing the familiar-looking book, Lee Han suddenly realized.

‘Wait. Giving me a book means he has no intention of teaching directly?’

“You’re not going to teach me directly?”

“Right. I have business to attend to. Make sure to learn it.”

Lee Han wondered whether he should be happy about this or not.

It was fortunate that he could avoid Professor Boladi’s teaching style of chasing him from behind with a blade…

But would it be okay to learn the already difficult darkness element by himself?

‘I’ll take it for now, and even if I can’t learn it later, surely he won’t kill me.’

Having received the book, Lee Han asked without much thought.

“May I ask what business you have?”

Professor Boladi answered as he stood up from his seat.

“I’m thinking of meeting with Master Yumidifus to prepare what’s needed for second semester lectures.”

“I see. …Wait a moment. Professor. Professor! It’s gotten dark, so please stay the night! The manor has many rooms!”

“No. I’ll come another time. I was well treated.”

Professor Boladi lightly greeted the servants and left through the manor’s main gate.

Lee Han felt the sight of Professor Boladi disappearing in the distance was like an ominous sign.

‘I should have put sleeping pills in the green tea!’

Lee Han said to the servant beside him.

“From now on, except for professors who look like troll half-bloods, tell any other professors who visit that I’m not at the manor.”

“Understood…?”

The servant answered though Lee Han’s order seemed strange.

What on earth?

* * *

Lee Han had a somewhat late dinner with Yoner and Gainando who had been waiting.

Gainando picked at his food as if he had no appetite.

“What’s wrong? The chefs will be disappointed.”

“I ate a lot of cotton candy earlier…”

Yoner regretted bringing this guy to his friend’s house.

Sensing that gaze, Gainando pointed at Lee Han.

“Lee Han has no appetite either!”

“Does that look the same to you right now?”

To put having no appetite for dinner because of eating too much cotton candy on the same level as receiving additional assignments from meeting a professor during vacation.

In Yoner’s view, Lee Han would be innocent even if he attacked Gainando for this.

“No. At times like this, you need to eat well. Thank you all.”

Lee Han nodded and picked up his spoon.

No matter how difficult and painful things got, one must always eat meals well.

-It’s an intruder. Catch him!

-Wait, wait! If you hear my identity, you’ll understand! I am a professor of Einroguard, Professor Bibble Verdus!

“…”

Clank! Lee Han angrily put down his spoon.

Startled by that sight, Gainando hurriedly picked up his spoon.

“I, I’ll eat well.”

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