Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 36
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Chapter 036
‘Let me calm down. They probably haven’t figured out my true intentions yet.’
Lee Han composed himself calmly.
No matter what, the vampire professor couldn’t possibly read Lee Han’s inner thoughts.
-I’ll attend this lecture that no one else listens to and reap all the benefits!
‘Hmm. If I get caught, it would be more embarrassing than dangerous.’
“I asked if you had any questions.”
Professor Boladi looked at Lee Han slowly again and spoke.
“Can I ask any kind of question?”
“No. It must be a question related to the lecture.”
‘Isn’t that obvious?’
It’s not like Lee Han would be asking for advice on how to escape from school…
But thanks to that, he could definitely understand the professor’s personality.
A strict principlist who was harsh on both others and himself.
Since he had encountered many of this type before, they were actually easier to deal with.
‘The difficult ones to handle are crazy professors like the Lich Principal.’
What could be difficult about it when you just had to work hard on what you were told to do?
“Don’t you have any questions?”
“Hmm…”
Lee Han pondered.
What should he ask?
Professors always said ‘feel free to ask questions,’ but when you really asked freely, you’d get back ‘Why don’t you know something like that?’
Even asking questions required skill.
‘Should I start with something basic?’
“What is this training of rotating the spirit stone orb for?”
Lee Han asked with curiosity.
He had asked because he was told to ask questions about the lecture, but he was actually genuinely curious.
What meaning could there be in just spinning this orb around and around?
Professor Boladi tilted his head slightly at Lee Han’s question. His expression showed he genuinely didn’t understand.
“Didn’t you read the lecture title?”
“…”
Lee Han wasn’t flustered.
All professors were originally like this!
-I taught you that 1+1=2, so now solve this higher-order differential equation. You can’t? Why? How come?
“Yes. I know the lecture is called 【Repetitive Learning of Basic Magic Combat】. But how specifically is this… rotating the spirit stone orb related to basic magic combat?”
“Hmm.”
Professor Boladi, having received Lee Han’s question, froze completely.
Lee Han was startled by Professor Boladi’s appearance as he stood still like a plaster statue. It looked like someone had unplugged his power.
“…Professor?”
“Wait a moment.”
Professor Boladi spoke to Lee Han with an expression that didn’t blink even once.
What could he do?
Lee Han waited.
How much time had passed? Just when Lee Han was starting to regret asking the question, Professor Boladi opened his mouth.
“Now I can speak.”
“Pardon?”
“It was so obvious that I was pondering how to explain it.”
Lee Han was shocked.
He had been pondering that this whole time…?
‘No. Don’t panic. Considering the other party is a professor, this isn’t particularly strange.’
“Now. I could kill you with just this one quill pen here.”
“…”
This was definitely something to be flustered about. Lee Han immediately reached for his staff.
Professor Boladi, seeing Lee Han’s quick reaction speed and balanced posture, spoke again.
“I’ll retract that. A quill pen would be difficult.”
That wasn’t very comforting.
While Lee Han was wondering whether he should run away or call for help, Professor Boladi continued speaking.
“As you can tell from what I just said, what’s important in magical combat isn’t high-circle grand magic. The minimum magic capable of cutting off your opponent’s breath is sufficient.”
Having finished speaking, Professor Boladi made an expression filled with regret that he had spoken in unnecessarily too much detail.
“This should make it understandable, right?”
“…No. Please explain in a bit more detail.”
“!?”
The startled Professor Boladi froze like a statue again.
Lee Han thought ‘oops’ but it was already spilled milk.
‘Since it’s come to this, I’ll definitely get an answer.’
A moment later.
“The current training of rotating the spirit stone orb is training to control projectile magic. As you’re probably already guessing, even the same 【Magic Missile】 spell differs like heaven and earth depending on which mage casts it.”
‘I wasn’t guessing that at all though.’
“Mages unfamiliar with combat can’t even cast magic properly when combat situations arise. They get crushed by the noise and heat of the battlefield, and the killing intent aimed at them. However, mages who have embodied magic control in their own bodies through repeated training become capable of things like this.”
Professor Boladi cast magic immediately without using incantations or a staff.
Magic Missile.
Despite its grand name, it was 1st circle magic.
The principle was simple too. Draw out mana, gather it into a round shape, then shoot it out and you’re done.
Then a fist-sized lump of mana would shoot out.
Being 1st circle, its power wasn’t that impressive either. Among mercenaries, ‘Is a hard-thrown stone stronger, or is Magic Missile stronger?’ was a topic that came up every time.
…However, Professor Boladi’s Magic Missile instantly shattered such prejudices.
The spacious lecture hall instantly transformed like the Milky Way.
This was because dozens, hundreds of mana lumps filled the space.
Professor Boladi waved his hand. Then all those mana lumps flew toward one direction in an instant.
Some in straight lines, some in curves.
Some regularly, some irregularly.
Some quickly, some slowly.
And all these movements converged toward one purpose.
Precisely the enemy’s vital points.
Thwack!
Thwack!
Thwack!
With thunderous sounds, the mana lumps collided and disappeared.
Lee Han felt like he had seen the illusion of a non-existent person getting hit precisely in all their vital points and collapsing. Professor Boladi’s magic was that precise.
Lee Han newly realized that when precision reaches its extreme, it can become beautiful.
“The goal of training is to freely control projectile magic in this manner. Do you understand it a bit now?”
“Yes. Thank you.”
Yes. Thank you.
“Yes. Thank you.”
Yes. Thank you.
Professor Boladi nodded, showing a very slight sense of relief on his face as Lee Han understood.
He had been at a loss for how to explain if Lee Han couldn’t understand even this.
‘I see. So the professor wasn’t just trying to earn an easy paycheck after all.’
Lee Han felt slightly sorry for misunderstanding Professor Boladi.
He had thought the professor was just opening some strange lecture to collect a salary.
Listening closely, this training was quite reasonable.
Magic didn’t end simply with knowing how to cast it.
Just as knowing how to swing a sword didn’t mean mastering swordsmanship, learning a single magic spell was no ordinary task.
Could you cast that magic faster? Could you cast it accurately even in urgent and chaotic situations? And so on.
Professor Boladi was someone who valued such things.
And this projectile magic control training was important for Lee Han too.
There was one problem Lee Han was currently facing.
“Professor. May I ask one more thing?”
“Go ahead.”
“I recently learned the 【Low-Level Control】 magic.”
“Continue.”
Professor Boladi didn’t ask where he had learned it. That wasn’t the professor’s concern.
“But this magic… I can cast it, but after casting it won’t stay fixed.”
Professor Boladi’s eyebrows rose.
It wasn’t that the control wasn’t working well, but that the fixing itself wasn’t working.
This was a very unusual case.
Usually when novice mages used 【Low-Level Control】 magic, they might fail to move things, but they didn’t fail to fix them.
Unless they had an enormous amount of mana…
“Wait. You seem to have more mana than expected.”
“Ah. Yes. I’ve been told that.”
Lee Han was pleased that Professor Boladi figured it out immediately.
If he could recognize it so quickly, there was a high possibility he could provide a good solution.
What method would he teach?
“Mana Drain!“
“?!”
Mana Drain!
Professor Boladi grabbed Lee Han’s arm directly and cast a high-circle magic.
It was literally a powerful and wicked magic that absorbed the opponent’s mana.
“Wai…”
Lee Han couldn’t help but notice his mana being rapidly drained away.
‘Give me some explanation before doing it, you crazy professor!’
But it was already too late to stop him. The professor’s magic was absorbing Lee Han’s mana.
“…?”
Lee Han noticed something strange and looked at Professor Boladi’s face.
Being a vampire, his complexion wasn’t particularly healthy to begin with, but now it seemed a bit severe.
“Professor?”
“…”
“Professor?? Are you alright?!”
Thud!
Professor Boladi slowly let go of his hand and collapsed to the side. Lee Han was shocked at the sight.
To knock down a professor.
Of course he had imagined it many times, but to actually knock down a professor like this!
Thud!
Thud!
Professor Voladi slowly removed his hand and collapsed to the side. Ihan was horrified at the sight.
To think you brought down a professor.
Of course I’d imagined it many times, but I never thought I’d actually bring down a professor like this!
Fortunately, Professor Voladi soon came to his senses. As soon as the vampire professor got up, he briefly summarized what had just happened.
“You have more magical power than I thought.”
“…Is that so?”
Lee Han, who had his mana drained, was in much better condition than the professor who had absorbed the mana.
In fact, Ihan wasn’t feeling particularly tired right now, even after having his energy drained like that.
“That’s right.”
Professor Voladi nodded.
If it had been a different professor, they would have explained how absurd this situation was.
While an inexperienced person could collapse from being unable to control magical power that exceeded their capacity, it was a different story for an exceptional mage like Professor Voladi.
Just how much magical power must have been absorbed for a mage of Professor Voladi’s caliber to lose control and collapse?
However, Professor Voladi did not speak. He thought it wasn’t important.
What mattered now was something else.
“I tried to make the control difficulty easier by reducing mana with a mana drain spell. It failed.”
“That’s unfortunate.”
Ihan understood what Professor Voladi meant.
The idea was that since he had too much magical power, making precise control difficult when manipulating projectiles, what if he just drastically reduced his magical power?
…Of course, it failed.
“There’s another way.”
“What is that?”
“When casting 【Lower Control】 magic, have you ever had a projectile go berserk and fly toward you?”
Lee Han thought for a moment about the professor’s question.
“There wasn’t any.”
“That’s right. That’s instinct. Even if it appears that control has been lost, as long as the spell is cast and the mage’s will is connected to the projectile, control is still in effect.”
Ihan nodded at the plausible words.
If the spell had truly been broken, the stone should have simply fallen to the ground.
The connection itself had been established.
‘Wait. Then was it also instinct when I hurled rocks at those other guys’ heads?’
He couldn’t quite tell whether it was coincidence or instinct.
Ihan decided not to bother checking. Sometimes the truth was better left buried.
“Instinct is powerful. If you harness that instinct, you might be able to take your ability to control projectiles to the next level.”
“Indeed…”
“Ready?”
“Huh?”
“I’m going in. I’ll target the jaw, so make sure to defend your jaw at all costs.”
Ihan wondered for a moment what he was talking about.
The explanation was provided instead by the spirit stone orbs that had risen into the air.
The beads, trembling and ready, began flying one by one toward Ihan’s jaw like arrows shot from a bow.
In that instant, Lee Han felt his instincts crying out sharply.
My body moved before my mind could think.
Move!!!!!
Move!!!!!
Move!!!!!
Still, there was good news.
Lee Han had become quite proficient at handling 【Low-Level Control】 magic.
The bad news was that Professor Boladi was far more insane than Lee Han had thought.
‘I was stupid to trust a professor at this school.’
Never again would he trust them!
How to Live as a Mage in Magic School
How to Live as a Mage in Magic School
How to Live as a Mage in Magic School
Publication Date: August 15, 2021
Publication Date: August 15, 2021
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