Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 352

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Chapter 352

Yumidifus clicked his tongue at his disciple’s garbage-like words.

Of course, it didn’t reach Alsicle’s ears. Alsicle had the ability to ignore sounds of people cursing him.

‘Such ugly words.’

Of course, magic wasn’t all about circles.

Circles were the most convenient unit, not the most accurate unit.

But the shamelessness of changing his words after bringing up circles first and then falling behind was really…

‘That’s probably why he still hasn’t come to his senses.’

If it had been someone else, they would have been shaken by embarrassment, but Alsicle was solid like an iceberg.

He immediately changed the subject and threw out a question.

“What’s more important than circles is the breadth of that magic. When I was your age, I had mastered not only ice elemental magic but also transformation magic and summoning magic. Do you understand?”

“I think it would be better to stop. Alsicle.”

Yumidifus opened his mouth for his disciple’s sake.

He wanted to help Alsicle come to his senses, but he didn’t want him to come to his senses too harshly.

What if Alsicle threw himself off that glacier cliff in shame?

However, Alsicle misunderstood Yumidifus’s meaning.

“No, Yumidifus sir. We need to address this. Otherwise, the young mage from the Empire might get hurt feelings.”

“…”

It wasn’t particularly pretentious, but he was more surprised because he could feel that the other person genuinely thought that way.

‘He probably won’t be hurt that much.’

Once he entered Einroguard, there would be many more hurtful things than that.

“I’m saying this because Wardanaz here is learning magic more broadly than you. Alsicle.”

“…Don’t lie!”

Alsicle shouted while waving his short arms like a penguin beastman.

However, when Yumidifus glared at him, he immediately straightened his posture and changed his words.

“D-don’t lie.”

The memory of being beaten was still vivid in his body.

“How is he learning magic more broadly than me? It’s impossible. What has he learned?”

“Let’s see. Dark magic, summoning magic, illusion magic, enchantment magic, divination magic, transformation magic, healing magic…”

“So which of those has he learned?”

Alsicle asked in a slightly sullen voice.

“I’m talking about what he’s learned right now.”

“…What?”

Alsicle was so shocked that he stood still for several minutes.

Unable to watch any longer, Lee Han whispered.

“Is it okay to leave him like that?”

Professor Boladi silently nodded and answered.

“Penguin beastmen are resistant to cold.”

“No… that’s not what I meant.”

It wasn’t a question about whether he’d freeze to death, but whether he was mentally okay.

Fortunately, Yumidifus stepped in to sort things out.

“Alsicle!”

“…”

“Do you want to get beaten up again!”

“No! No!”

Consciousness returned to the face of the penguin beastman mage who had been standing dazed.

“What does it matter who was outstanding when young? What’s important is what magic you’re doing now. Wardanaz here came to learn frost elemental magic from you. So stop talking nonsense and teach him frost elemental magic.”

“But who was outstanding when young is a very important matter…”

“…”

Even when trying to move on pleasantly, Alsicle kept holding them back, and Yumidifus suppressed his subtle anger.

Professor Boladi opened his mouth.

“I’ll give you the answer.”

“What?”

“Wardanaz here is more outstanding. Is that enough now?”

“…”

“…”

Seeing Boladi pouring oil on the burning fire magic tower, Yumidifus thought to himself.

‘I should have left Voladi Bagrec behind.’

“M-more outstanding than me? Voladi Bagrec, are you serious? Seriously!? Haven’t you gone crazy from overworking at Einroguard!?”

Lee Han was slightly surprised by the penguin beastman’s unexpectedly accurate observation.

How did he know?

“Both in circles and range, Wardanaz is better.”

“App… Application! Advanced application properties must be different!”

Alsicle shouted after thinking for a while.

Since he couldn’t compete in range or circles, he planned to compete in the proficiency of applying magic.

“When I was that age, I had mastered the form transformation of water elements! Voladi Bagrec!”

“…Can’t I just say I lost?”

Lee Han, who was getting tired of this fight, whispered, but Professor Boladi ignored him and answered.

“Wardanaz has mastered form transformation.”

“He’s currently learning rotation and evaporation properties.”

“…”

Under the ruthless truth attacks from the two mages, Alsicle held his head in disbelief.

Then he wailed and tried to run toward the cliff.

“It doesn’t make sense! A genius greater than me… that can’t be!”

“There he goes again!”

Yumidifus summoned a water whip to grab Alsicle’s ankle, tripped him, and then bound him.

Once the situation was sorted out, Yumidifus looked at Lee Han and apologized.

“Sorry. Alsicle is a bit emotional.”

‘It’s fine.’

“I don’t think it’s just ‘a bit.'”

His inner thoughts accidentally came out the opposite way. Yumidifus sighed as if he understood.

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Inside Alsicle’s magic tower was filled with cold air.

The desolate appearance with no particular furniture or equipment made it feel even colder.

Lee Han was puzzled by the appearance that was somewhat different from the workshops he had seen at Einroguard.

“Do you need to have few belongings to learn frost magic?”

“No. His research probably hit a dead end, so he sold the things inside to cover experimental costs. It’s a common sight in magic towers built by mages.”

There was a reason why mages who built magic towers claiming to see the end of magic would go crazy and try to dominate their surroundings.

Magical research was such a grueling and difficult task.

It was fortunate if research ended quickly as expected, but if it dragged on, costs would increase, mental state would deteriorate, and life would become difficult…

It became even more painful when letters from fellow mages asking 【How is your research going?】 arrived.

Then thoughts like ‘Can’t I just conquer the surrounding villages? If I conquer them well, won’t anyone notice? If I conquer them and just complete the magic…’ would creep up.

“Huhuhuhuhu.”

Alsicle shed chicken-dropping-like tears in sorrow.

Sitting inside the magic tower while bound by Yumidifus’s magic, he looked like a mage subdued by bandits.

“There was a mage with more talent than me. I was nothing.”

“Alsicle. I told you. It’s not about early achievements…”

“Yumidifus, who rose through effort without talent, doesn’t understand my heart!”

“…”

“…”

Yumidifus briefly gestured for Lee Han to go outside. Lee Han nodded and tried to go out.

“Professor. Let’s go out.”

“Why?”

“…Just come out for a bit.”

Lee Han was about to grab Professor Boladi by the collar but instead grabbed his wrist and dragged him out.

Then a dull sound echoed from inside.

-I was wrong! I was wrong, Yumidifus!

“You can come in now.”

“Yes.”

Lee Han came in and stood as if nothing had happened.

“Sob sob sob sob…”

“Now that you’ve been beaten enough, pull yourself together and teach ice elemental magic.”

“Waaahhhhh! Waah! Waah!”

Normally Alsicle would have listened at this point, but today the shock seemed particularly great as he just cried loudly and ignored Yumidifus’s words.

Seeing this, Yumidifus felt regret for having given too great a shock.

Alsicle had tremendous pride in his own talent.

Since his magical research had been stuck lately, his stress must be great, and now even his remaining pride was shattered, so for Alsicle’s personality, the shock would be several times greater.

“This won’t do. Go outside again.”

“…Uh, are you going to beat him again?”

Lee Han was slightly flustered.

Though Lee Han didn’t know Alsicle well, he knew enough that the current problem wouldn’t be solved by beating.

“It’s not beating. I prefer to call it the teaching of magic.”

“…Whatever you call it, I think we should try persuading him with conversation right now.”

“Wardanaz.”

Yumidifus looked at Lee Han with pity.

“In this world, there are sometimes opponents with whom conversation doesn’t work.”

While speaking, Yumidifus glanced very slightly at Boladi.

Lee Han also glanced very slightly at Boladi.

“Still, could you give me just one chance to persuade him?”

“That’s right. You’re also learning under Voladi Bagrec.”

“…I don’t think that’s really related…”

It bothered him slightly that Yumidifus seemed to think of him as some kind of .

“Penguerin.”

Alsicle sobbed and didn’t answer.

“Whether you learned 3rd circle magic or 4th circle magic in your first year, what does that matter? Even Gonadaltes said that what’s important isn’t the circle of magic but…”

“You say that because you have more talent than me! Right? You’re looking down on me!”

“…”

Lee Han was shocked at Alsicle’s condition, which was worse than expected.

However, Lee Han was someone who had dealt with many people crazier than Alsicle.

He absolutely wouldn’t be shaken by such provocation.

“Penguerin. I am so sad.”

Lee Han suddenly covered his face with his hands and reddened his eyes.

If the other person came out with tears, he planned to come out with tears too.

“Do you know why Yumidifus brought me here? Because I earnestly begged him several times that I wanted to learn from Penguerin.”

“????”

“?”

Yumidifus and Boladi looked at him as if asking what nonsense he was talking, but Lee Han continued with an iron plate face.

“I heard about Penguerin’s amazing achievements several times. Do you know how I learned 4th circle magic? I achieved it while trying to follow even a little of the achievements Penguerin accomplished.”

“Then, then that magic too?”

“Yes.”

Alsicle, who had perked up and regained energy, listened and then tilted his head.

“…Even so, isn’t it too much?”

“…”

Lee Han hesitated whether to slap the tied-up Alsicle’s chubby cheek once, but held back.

“I thought I needed to do that much to reach Penguerin’s level.”

“Still, you seem to be learning too much.”

“…Anyway, I respected you that much. But to think you’d use such deception because you don’t want to teach me.”

“Deception?”

Alsicle asked in bewilderment.

“If it’s not deception, there’s no way Alsicle would show such a state. You must be doing this because you don’t like me.”

“…I’ve been found out!”

Alsicle, who had completely regained his energy, blurted out without thinking.

Yumidifus had to suppress the urge to slap his shameless disciple’s face.

“Really amazing. To see through my acting.”

“No matter how well Penguerin acts, it’s not easy for a genius to act like a fool.”

“Good. Since I’ve been caught, it can’t be helped. Wait there! I’ll teach you some ice elemental magic.”

As Alsicle regained his energy and got up, waddling inside, Yumidifus looked at Lee Han and said quietly.

“I understand why you can be Voladi Bagrec’s disciple.”

“…Did I make some mistake?”

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Alsicle spread reagents all over the floor and had Lee Han stand on top of them.

Yumidifus, who had been watching without much thought, was startled when he saw the reagents spread on the floor.

Each one was an extremely expensive reagent.

No matter how he looked at it, they seemed to be prepared for research…?

“Is it okay to do that?”

“Pardon?”

When Boladi asked back, Yumidifus pointed out the price of the reagents.

“Alsicle needs to do research too, but if he uses up all those reagents…”

“It’s fine.”

“Ah. Did you check the inventory? Whether it’s okay to use those…”

Professor Boladi shook his head and answered.

“It’s Alshickel Penguerin’s business.”

“…Wait! Wait!”

Regretting that he had been foolish enough to listen to Voladi Bagrec’s words even for a moment, Yumidifus stepped forward to stop Alsicle.

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