Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 354

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Chapter 354

Of course, declining didn’t work.

Professor Boladi, who understood his disciple’s refusal as admirable modesty not wanting to trouble his master, drew his staff.

Lee Han also drew his staff immediately as if he had been waiting.

“???”

Alsicle, who couldn’t grasp the situation, looked at the two in confusion.

They were glaring at each other tensely as if they were about to duel.

“What are you doing right now? What is this?”

Professor Boladi showed through action instead of explanation.

Swish!

Water droplets from the water spheres floating in the air transformed into needles and began firing.

Professor Boladi properly demonstrated how the ‘projectile’ attribute was different.

Even without complex trajectory changes, each water droplet made vicious sounds as it smashed walls and pierced the floor.

“What is this!? What are you doing!?”

However, Lee Han was no pushover either. The moment Professor Boladi raised his staff, Lee Han was already chanting an incantation.

“…Wrinkle the earth!”

After casting all possible enhancement magic, Lee Han ran through the magic tower. If he stopped even for a moment, the water needle droplets would penetrate Lee Han.

Fortunately, he had already cast 【Spatial Recognition】 magic beforehand. Lee Han aimed for the spheres Professor Boladi had summoned while keeping his distance.

“Ice, become arrows and shoot forth!”

Professor Boladi’s vicious pressure made Lee Han’s instincts even sharper.

The incantation was chanted quickly, and cold energy gathered at the tip of his staff, transforming into arrow shapes before shooting out.

Alsicle’s eyes widened in surprise even as Professor Boladi was destroying the surroundings.

‘Again in one go?!?!’

He thought it would take time to compress and execute those processes, but to do it again in one go.

From Alsicle’s perspective, who didn’t know how harshly Lee Han had trained during his first semester, he couldn’t help but be amazed.

Crack!

‘Too late!’

The magic succeeded, but the sphere Professor Boladi had summoned leisurely moved position and avoided the ice arrow.

Lee Han clicked his tongue at failing to shoot it down.

‘This won’t work…’

He had just succeeded in bundling multiple processes together, but in terms of time, it took a bit too long.

Professor Boladi had moved the sphere after seeing Lee Han chant the incantation.

‘…Faster. I need to cast faster to shoot it down.’

To overcome this situation, he needed to shoot arrows faster than what he just cast to bring down the sphere.

“…Stop it, you crazy bastards!”

Alsicle waved his staff and began scattering cold energy everywhere.

The magic core summoned above the ceiling controlled the surrounding mana with powerful force.

The sphere Professor Boladi had summoned lost power and scattered, and the ice arrows Lee Han had shot also lost power and disappeared.

“What the hell are you…”

“Why are you interfering?”

“…What are you saying! Fighting with your disciple in someone else’s magic tower!”

“We’re not fighting.”

At Professor Boladi’s words, Alsicle was dumbfounded.

If what just happened wasn’t fighting, then what was it?

Could it be called education?

“Then what?”

“Teaching.”

Alsicle momentarily wondered if Voladi Bagrec had finally lost his mind and looked at Lee Han.

“It is teaching.”

“…”

‘Should I send a complaint letter to His Imperial Majesty?’

* * *

Alsicle sat in a chair with Yumidifus, watching Boladi and Lee Han’s due… no, teaching.

“…No matter how I think about it, that’s a bit much, isn’t it??”

“But it’s effective. At least that’s what Voladi Bagrec claims.”

‘I knew he was crazy, but I didn’t know he was that crazy.’

Since they both learned under Yumidifus, he thought he knew Voladi Bagrec to some extent.

Though he wasn’t from a prestigious family like Alsicle, as a renowned combat mage and duelist in the Empire, he thought he would act within reasonable bounds…

“Ugh!”

Lee Han was hit by a water droplet and rolled. After continuously moving, he was finally surrounded and took a hit.

However, Professor Boladi didn’t give him time to rest and attacked the fallen Lee Han again.

Despite being knocked down, Lee Han showed no opening and immediately bounced backward to create distance.

‘…Is that really teaching? Can you really teach like that?’

“Brief rest.”

When Professor Boladi declared a break and returned, Alsicle unconsciously asked in a cautious voice.

“Voladi Bagrec. Do you really have to teach in that way?”

“Do you have something to say?”

“Well… I mean. It seems too dangerous, violent, and primitive a method.”

Alsicle tried to speak as indirectly as possible, but it didn’t work out particularly well. Yumidifus, who was listening nearby, clicked his tongue disapprovingly.

But since the listener was Professor Boladi, there was no anger at the rudeness.

“It’s effective.”

“There’s no way such a method could be effective…”

Alsicle was at a loss for words.

Certainly, the achievements of that Wardanaz Family Boy were too remarkable.

No matter how talented he was, it was questionable whether that was possible with talent alone.

‘…Really? Is it real?’

Alsicle became afraid, wondering if Voladi Bagrec’s teaching was really effective.

“Compare it to yourself.”

“There’s no need to say that, Voladi Bagrec!”

Alsicle glared angrily.

Wasn’t that too harsh for a guest visiting another mage’s magic tower?

“…Do as you please. You’re a professor too, so you must have your thoughts.”

‘Alsicle doesn’t know well since he’s not from Einroguard.’

Yumidifus, who was nearby, clicked his tongue inwardly.

If he were from Einroguard, he would never think ‘There must be meaning in what a professor does.’

Ratatatatang!

When the break ended, Professor Boladi summoned spheres again and began shooting at Lee Han like crazy.

What was amazing was that Lee Han’s incantation casting speed was also getting faster and faster.

Alsicle was horrified to feel himself being swayed by Voladi Bagrec’s educational method that he was seeing for the first time in his life.

‘…No, no, that’s not it. That’s because of talent…’

“??”

While thinking, when he acknowledged the talent the Wardanaz Family Boy possessed, Alsicle’s eyes welled up with tears.

To think there really was talent superior to his own in this world.

Of course, from Yumidifus’s perspective nearby, Alsicle just looked like he was suddenly getting teary-eyed.

“Are you worried about Wardanaz? Don’t worry. Voladi Bagrec won’t make mistakes in such matters.”

“Sob… It’s just that thinking there’s really someone with more talent than me makes me sad and brings tears…”

“…”

Yumidifus cast a contemptuous glance and turned his head away.

Alsicle, who had been acting cool all along, sensed something strange.

Professor Boladi, who was unleashing attacks, was occasionally drinking mana recovery potions, but Lee Han, who was actually his disciple, wasn’t drinking anything at all.

‘What’s going on?’

“Lord Yumidifus. Why is only Voladi Bagrec drinking mana potions?”

“Wardanaz has so much mana he doesn’t need to drink any.”

“Even so, shouldn’t you give him at least one bottle?”

“No, he really doesn’t need to drink any.”

“No matter how much he has, there’s no way he wouldn’t feel any burden from such intense combat…”

Alsicle stopped mid-sentence.

Yumidifus was speaking with his eyes.

“Really?”

“Yes.”

Alsicle quietly walked toward the back.

And then a pitiful crying sound burst out from behind.

-Why does the world give me such talent…

Crash!

Lee Han, who had broken through the floating ice shields and rolled all the way to Yumidifus’s feet, coughed and made eye contact with the elder mage.

“Ah. Lord Yumidifus. Where did Lord Penguerin go?”

“…He went to the bathroom for a moment.”

“I see. Cold air, become mist!”

Lee Han cast the 2nd circle spell 【Lesser Cold Mist】.

One of the elemental magics he learned from Alsicle, the cold mist spreading around slowed down and cooled the incoming water droplets.

Seeing him rapidly casting cold elemental magic, which already consumed a lot of mana, combined with mist-type magic that also consumed heavy mana, Yumidifus couldn’t help but admire.

“Damn. It’s annoyingly hard to hit. Lord Yumidifus. I’ll borrow this!”

When Professor Boladi’s orb kept dodging the ice arrows, Lee Han kicked and broke the wooden chair Alsicle had been sitting on, then cast 【Lesser Cold Enchantment】 on the fragments.

“Cold air, dwell within!”

Lee Han used telekinesis spells to control and launch the wood fragments that scattered cold air.

While plain ice shards would shatter after penetrating a few water droplets, wood fragments would last a bit longer.

However, Professor Boladi didn’t panic and calmly concentrated his attacks to destroy the wood fragments in mid-air as well.

“This doesn’t work either… Lord Yumidifus. I’ll borrow that too!”

Seeing Lee Han trying to break the table while Alsicle was away, Yumidifus momentarily wondered if he should stop him.

He was certainly making rapid progress, but…

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When the sun set and training came to an end, Alsicle brought the frozen sardines he had left in the corner.

“…I’ll do the cooking.”

“Really? These taste good even raw though?”

Thanks to his Einroguard experience, Lee Han’s habit of preparing food before going anywhere saved him.

Lee Han prepared stir-fried mushroom vegetables for Professor Boladi and cream stew for Yumidifus.

Alsicle chewed on frozen sardines while marveling.

“Why do you cook?”

“It’s showing respect for one’s master. You should learn some too.”

“If I had servants, I would have had them serve Lord Yumidifus…”

“…”

Yumidifus wondered where to even begin correcting him.

After swallowing a whole sardine, Alsicle asked Yumidifus.

“So how many of the spells I taught today did he master?”

Alsicle had taught not just ice arrows but several other spells as well.

Like Lesser Cold Mist (the moment he finished teaching it, Professor Boladi pushed in and started attacking), and Lesser Cold Enchantment (likewise, as soon as this ended, Professor Boladi interfered)…

It seemed he had taught all the low-circle spells possible with cold magic.

Despite cold magic not being his specialty, the fact that he could teach various fields like summoning, illusion, enchantment, and transformation showed that Alsicle was truly a mage who had reached mastery in cold magic.

“He mastered them all.”

“…”

“Ah. Except for summoning.”

The magic to summon cold spirits was among the easiest of what he learned today.

Hearing this, Alsicle’s shoulders drooped even more.

“Was it perhaps because it was too easy and you didn’t want to do it?”

“That’s not it.”

“I think that’s right… Mmph.”

“Just eat your sardines.”

Getting tired of explaining, Yumidifus threw a sardine into his mouth.

“There’s still much lacking in speed.”

Professor Boladi spoke up.

It was actually natural.

Compared to the simplest 1st circle spells, today’s learned spells were 2nd and 3rd circle.

With more processes involved, it was difficult to keep up with casting speed.

However, this was unsatisfactory to Professor Boladi.

‘Is that so?’

“That’s plenty enough, you crazy bastard. Do you want to be called a disciple-killer…?”

Though Alsicle usually maintained dignity as a noble family member, too many shocking things had happened today, so his inner thoughts just spilled out.

Of course, Professor Boladi ignored whatever Alsicle was babbling about.

He thought his teaching skills were inferior to his own.

“The food is ready. What were you talking about?”

“We were talking about how much you really struggled.”

Yumidifus spoke kindly.

Whatever else might be said, it was undeniable that this Wardanaz family boy had done well today against two madmen.

What mage could so perfectly master the basics of cold magic under Alsicle and Boladi like this?

Bang bang bang!

“Wardanaz!! Wardanaz!!!”

“?!”

Someone was pounding violently on the magic tower door while calling Lee Han’s name.

Recognizing it as Nilia’s voice, Lee Han jumped up in surprise.

“Nilia? How did you get here… What’s wrong?”

“Gai… uh, the Prince is stranded!”

“What?!!”

Alsicle also jumped up in surprise.

“The Prince is stranded? This is no ordinary matter! I’ll come find him myself. Tell the other followers to stay inside the magic tower!”

“Are there other followers?”

“There aren’t any…”

Nilia and her friends avoided eye contact with embarrassed expressions.

It seemed like that penguin beastman mage was misunderstanding something.

It wasn’t like the Empire’s distinguished guests would give thanks just for rescuing Gainando…

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