Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 357

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Chapter 357

“It’s all done.”

“What!?”

Alsicle was startled.

While he was talking with Yumidifus, Lee Han had finished organizing everything.

“Already!? All of that?!”

“What the hell have you been doing?”

Yumidifus looked at Alsicle with displeasure.

To think he had just left piled up an amount that a 1st year student could organize so quickly and neglected it.

“No, no… I was going to organize it too… but that… there was this kind of complexity that made it impossible to organize…”

“Stop talking nonsense and follow me. Let’s prepare together.”

Yumidifus and Alsicle sat down in chairs and began to look through the organized materials.

The materials were important, but showing the experiments to the inspector was also important.

Among these, they had to directly show the inspector the experiments with the highest possibility and best quality.

“This twenty-third experiment looks good.”

23rd experiment. Why did I start with ice elemental magic? Would it have been better to just do flame elements? To form extreme cold, I cast magic on all the heat sources around. Don’t forget to order three boxes of sardines. Observed phenomenon: Confirmed that nearby falling objects slow down.

‘You certainly wrote a lot of notes.’

“If you confirmed that falling objects slow down, that’s quite an achievement.”

“But that requires Seorinoru horns.”

“…Then what about this forty-fourth experiment? The fact that bricks lost their form and underwent random shape transformation should be quite a meaningful result.”

“But that requires Binghansan.”

“…Who told you to waste materials!”

The enraged Yumidifus created a water club and struck Alsicle’s back.

Alsicle whined and made excuses.

“Who would have known the inspector would come… And even if they did, there’s no guarantee those experiments would succeed. They failed more often.”

“Now we have to show results soon, and you only say good things. How wonderful.”

Yumidifus sighed.

Even though he said this, Yumidifus wasn’t entirely without responsibility for Alsicle’s predicament.

“If we don’t have it, we’ll have to make do without it. This Seolhwangdan was probably added to increase stability when controlling surrounding moisture to maintain cold. I’ll handle it.”

“Th-thank you.”

“The eternal snow… you used it to amplify the ice elemental properties, right?”

“Yes.”

“It can’t be helped. Wardanaz. Could I borrow some of your mana?”

“???”

“Yes. That’s fine.”

“?????”

Alsicle was confused by the conversation between Lee Han and Yumidifus.

Huh?

“No, Yumidifus sir…”

“Be quiet for a moment, Alsicle. We don’t have time.”

“But that’s…”

The eternal snow placed in the magic circle was a powerful reagent that amplified the power of ice elements dozens of times.

While it might not be impossible to replace it with mana, even a rough calculation showed it was absolutely not an amount a young 1st year student could handle.

‘Is he tormenting him?’

“You used Binghansan to fix the amplified cold… Voladi Bagrec.”

“Yes.”

When Yumidifus called Voladi Bagrec, Alsicle felt relieved.

Unlike Lee Han, he didn’t feel too sorry about working that guy hard.

“I’ll control the amplification, so can you use Wardanaz’s mana to fix it?”

Professor Boladi nodded his head.

Of course, Alsicle’s eyes widened.

“Yumidifus sir!! This really isn’t…”

“Make him be quiet. We don’t have time.”

Yumidifus, tired of explaining how much mana Lee Han had, gave orders to Professor Boladi.

* * *

“My goodness! I can see why His Highness the Prince has so many followers!”

“Huhu.”

Gainando was having a pleasant time with the inspector.

“Lightning spirit cards are overrated, I tell you. Avoiding fights and draining the mage’s stamina. How cowardly!”

“That’s right. I’ve always thought the same way.”

The two mage card enthusiasts had a warm conversation while evaluating cards with each other.

“But what kind of deck does Your Highness use?”

“I use dark… Kheuk!?”

Gainando screamed.

His friends had stepped on both his feet from either side.

“What’s wrong?”

“Gainando mainly uses honorable knight cards.”

“Ooh. As expected.”

Gainando wanted to say ‘Why would I play something so boring’ but his feet hurt too much to shout.

“Inspector sir. The experiment is ready.”

“Ah. Is it time already…! I’m sorry. The conversation was so enjoyable…”

“It’s fine.”

“?”

The inspector felt something strange.

Lee Han wasn’t coming out from inside the tower and was just standing still.

‘Let’s focus.’

Lee Han trembled as he felt the flow of enormous mana.

The movement of mana flowing in the laboratory inside would make any mage feel awe.

Even Alsicle, who had been roughly resisting at first, began cooperating with a desperate face once the magic circle was prepared and mana started moving.

“Are you okay? You’re really okay, right? You’re really okay, right? You’re not saying you’re okay because you’re being threatened when you’re not okay, right? Really?”

“…”

Lee Han couldn’t answer because he was concentrating.

Rather, Alsicle talking to him made his mind chaotic.

Professor Boladi, feeling the mana flow around Lee Han becoming unstable, kicked Alsicle’s leg. Alsicle screamed.

“I told you to concentrate, Alsicle!”

“Y-yes…”

At Yumidifus’s shout, Alsicle turned his gaze.

Right now, Yumidifus was on Lee Han’s left side, and Voladi Bagrec was on Lee Han’s right side, each absorbing mana and delivering it to the magic circle.

When they said they would replace the eternal snow or Binghansan with a 1st year student’s mana, he thought Yumidifus had gone crazy while he wasn’t looking, but surprisingly, the magic circle was working properly.

‘Is he okay? Is he really okay? He seems okay for now. Does this make sense? Won’t he cough up blood and collapse?’

“Alshickel Penguerin sir?”

“Ah, ah. I’ll begin.”

Alsicle, who had been having all sorts of worries internally, waved his staff at the inspector’s words.

The neatly organized research journal flew in front of the inspector. The inspector looked at it and was impressed.

“Excellent! There are few mages who organize things this well.”

“Of… of course it’s something that must be done responsibly.”

When Yumidifus and Boladi stared at him intently, Alsicle’s cheeks turned red.

“The observed phenomena are… Oh! Amazing. The progress is quite substantial.”

Alsicle didn’t mention that these phenomena would appear maybe once out of dozens of identical experiments.

“With this level of results, the investors will surely be satisfied. What phenomena will you show them?”

“It would be better to see it with your own eyes.”

Alsicle avoided giving a specific answer.

Since he had removed all the necessary materials and was improvising with quick thinking, he couldn’t know exactly what phenomena would occur.

“Understood! Please show me.”

“Mana, circulate and amplify as ordained. Circulate and amplify. Circulate and…”

Alsicle began chanting the incantation in a deep, intense voice.

While battle mages valued fast and concise incantations as virtues, most mages didn’t really care about such things.

The purpose of mages was the completion of magic, not battle.

No matter how long the incantation was, accuracy was more important.

“Cold element, expand. In exchange for eternal snow. The amplification of that power.”

‘Was there eternal snow?’

The inspector tilted his head.

He didn’t think he saw it in the magic circle?

“Cold element, remain. In exchange for…”

Kwajijijijik!

At the center of the laboratory’s magic circle, dense mana compressed to the point of beginning to distort space.

It reminded him of the Skeleton Principal scattering mana to pressure incoming students.

However, today’s purpose was different.

The mana converted to cold element and began lowering the internal temperature to near extremes.

Tututtuk, tutuk-

“Ooooh!”

A sword-shaped icicle formed within the magic circle.

That icicle was imbued with pure mana without any loss.

The inspector nodded excitedly at the sight of clear mana flowing along the icicle’s blade.

To accept enchantment magic completely without any mana loss.

It was the material all enchantment mages dreamed of.

“This is what you wanted to show me!”

“This is absolutely ridiculous!!”

“???”

“Oh, it’s nothing.”

Alsicle cried out in surprise next to the inspector, then belatedly came to his senses.

Better results had emerged than any experiment he had done before.

‘What the?’

Swooooosh-

“Look there! The snowflakes aren’t falling!”

“Are you kidding me right now!”

“??!”

“I, I’ve been exploring magic alone for so long that I’ve developed a condition.”

“Oh… my.”

From the phenomenon of no mana consumption to the time-stopping phenomenon.

Originally, he would have had to dump reagents just to observe each one briefly.

But now two phenomena simultaneously, and lasting several seconds like this.

It was joyful and moving, but also confusing.

‘What the?! What the?!!?’

Clap clap clap clap clap-

The inspector applauded. Alsicle was now even starting to feel afraid.

“Don’t tell me…”

“Look at the water droplets inside! The properties of the water droplets are changing!”

“…”

“Alshickel Penguerin, you are a genius of magic! To implement three phenomena for such a long duration!!”

“I’m… I’m nothing.”

“So modest too!”

“I said I’m nothing…”

* * *

The inspector recorded the results in great excitement. Three phenomena simultaneously, maintained for a full 7 seconds.

If investors saw this, they would decide on additional investment with emotion, saying ‘A genius is indeed different,’ and the Cold Element Mage Society would decide on an emotional field trip, saying ‘A genius has made it happen.’

However, the genius who had achieved that great accomplishment was lying inside, groaning.

“Are you alright? Too much strain from the experiment…”

“It might be a mental condition.”

“Pardon?”

“It’s nothing. Anyway, I’m glad you’re satisfied.”

“Yes! I truly had an awakening today. I already knew Alshickel Penguerin was a great mage, but to be such an amazing mage! If anyone asks who’s the best among the Empire’s young mages, I will definitely answer Alshickel Penguerin!”

From inside came a series of Alsicle’s pitiful coughing sounds. Yumidifus decided to quickly send the inspector away for his disciple’s sake.

“Right. Thanks. I hope we’ll meet again sometime.”

“Yes! Farewell!”

Yumidifus and Lee Han approached the lying penguin beastman mage.

Alsicle turned his body with a gloomy expression.

“Something this simple, all this time…”

“It wasn’t simple, Alsicle. You could achieve it today because of all those trials and errors. Think positively. You could have wandered much longer.”

Despite Yumidifus’s comfort, Alsicle burst into tears.

“Enough! The cold element must have been dissatisfied with me researching it. If Wardanaz had researched it, he would have revealed the truth much faster.”

“The cold element isn’t even a person, what nonsense is that.”

“As soon as I get up, I’ll send letters to the cold element mages… saying I’ve lived my life in vain and Wardanaz will inherit my research.”

“…?”

Lee Han, who had been quietly listening, hesitated.

Wait, what?

“What kind of ridi… I mean, what absurd words are those, Penguerin?”

Lee Han had been staying quiet thinking he would come to his senses on his own, but if things continued this way, it was a different story.

“My research should be done by a genius like you…”

“No, Penguerin! What ridiculous words are those! This magic circle and magic preparation were all done by you, Penguerin. To make a comparison, we just sprinkled some salt on an already finished soup!”

“Is that comparison accurate…?”

“Honestly, who can’t infuse this level of mana! It’s even possible with magic stones!”

“That’s impossible.”

“It’s impossible.”

“…”

Lee Han felt frustrated at Yumidifus and Boladi arguing about magical correctness while he was trying to comfort Alsicle.

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