Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 37
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Chapter 037
“You succeeded.”
Even if he cursed the professor inwardly, he didn’t show it outwardly.
That was what a seasoned graduate student did.
Lee Han maintained his expression and bowed his head.
“Thank you.”
“There’s nothing to thank me for. You solved it with your own power.”
“…”
Despite it being praise, Lee Han felt slightly choked up.
Just now, Professor Boladi had really shot that orb with genuine intent.
If it had hit him directly, at minimum his bones would have cracked.
If he hadn’t quickly levitated the orb with 【Low-Level Control】 to block it, it would have been a truly dangerous moment.
‘Professors really are…’
“Let’s try again.”
This time Professor Boladi took out an ordinary iron orb instead of a spirit stone and threw it. Before the fist-sized iron orb could fall, Lee Han’s 【Low-Level Control】 spell took hold.
Move!
“Move!“
Move!
Move!
The iron orb stopped in mid-air.
Lee Han hoped this iron orb might accidentally fly out and blow away Professor Boladi’s jaw, but once he got the hang of 【Low-Level Control】, it wasn’t easily shaken.
Professor Boladi pointed upward with his hand.
“Upward.”
Lee Han moved the iron orb upward. Though it trembled somewhat unsteadily, the iron orb moved quickly.
“Downward.”
The iron orb went down again.
“To the left. To the right. One full circle clockwise. Two circles counterclockwise.”
Professor Boladi, who had been giving instructions without rest, nodded his head.
“Though you’re putting in a lot of force, this level should be fine. From now on, we’ll proceed with training using this iron orb instead of the spirit stone orb.”
“I still can’t draw a perfect circle with the spirit stone orb, is that okay?”
“Try again.”
Lee Han put down the iron orb and put mana into the spirit stone orb. Then he drew a circle.
“!”
Surprisingly, a much more perfect circle was drawn than before he had just experienced that near-death crisis.
“Intense experiences make mages grow. The spirit stone orb was an auxiliary tool for mages lacking ability, so you won’t need it anymore.”
“I understand.”
“Draw a circle with the iron orb again. When your skills improve to a certain degree, I’ll prepare another trial like before for you.”
“…Excuse me?”
Professor Boladi thought there were two types of people in the world.
Those who freeze up when a life crisis approaches, and those who react more intensely and keenly.
Naturally, the latter was suited to be a combat mage, and the Wardanaz Family Boy before his eyes now also possessed such qualities.
Then it was natural to utilize those qualities.
“…”
Of course, from Lee Han’s perspective having heard a murder warning, his feelings couldn’t help but be complicated.
Ah, this school really!
* * *
Though he had nearly died just moments ago, the school continued to roll on.
When class ended, Professor Boladi pressed the iron orb into Lee Han’s hand.
-Continue drawing circles whenever you have time.
-Yes.
-And don’t let your guard down at any moment.
-…What do you mea… No. I understand.
Lee Han felt uneasy even as he left.
Surely Professor Boladi wouldn’t follow Lee Han around and ambush him, would he?
Of course he knew it was a crazy thought, but this school kept making Lee Han paranoid.
“Did you wait long?”
“Not at all.”
Lee Han waved to the demon hybrid girl wearing priest robes.
It was Tijiling, a priest of the Prising Order.
-Could you perhaps look after Tijiling a bit?
Basically, Phoenix Tower students were frugal as befitted those from priestly backgrounds, and the Mehrid Priest was worried that Tijiling, who still needed to grow, might collapse.
Having received three food baskets in exchange, Lee Han intended to keep his promise.
‘I’ll feed her well and get more baskets at our next meeting.’
With such determined thoughts, Lee Han sat down together with Tijiling.
Since it was already evening, the sky was turning red, and the mountain ranges surrounding the school seemed to be burning.
‘If only this weren’t a school, it would be really nice… No. What am I, some kind of prisoner?’
Lee Han came to his senses.
Lee Han wasn’t a prisoner. Of course, this place had some prison-like aspects, but this was strictly a school.
“I brought the priest robes.”
“Ah. Thank you.”
Lee Han received the priest robes Tijiling offered. In return, he held out round bread thinly spread with marmalade jam.
It was soft bread with a sweet taste, incomparable to the bread served at this school.
“I’m fine.”
However, Tijiling declined.
“Is there a reason you’re refusing?”
“Since Lord Prising suffers for our sake, it would be shameful for me alone to enjoy fine food.”
Lee Han was about to say ‘What kind of nonsense is that’ but stopped. He remembered that he had joined the Prising Order.
‘Oops. I almost added another infamy to the Wardanaz Family.’
Lee Han calmly nodded his head.
It wasn’t easy to force someone with such strong faith to eat.
He had to probe little by little.
“Ah. This bread really has no taste. It seems to have gone bad from being old. This wouldn’t be shameful to eat, would it?”
Shake shake.
“This pickled beef canned food really tastes awful, right? This might not be shameful to eat either?”
Shake shake.
“The person who baked this bread probably baked it with care to serve you, and the person who made the jam probably worked hard to serve you too. But now it’s going to be thrown away because you won’t eat it…”
“…”
‘Did it work?’
Lee Han thought it might have worked seeing Tijiling’s eyes waver with guilt.
“…Wait. Those breads weren’t specially baked for me, were they? I saw them displayed before.”
‘Tsk.’
When Tijiling perceptively figured it out, Lee Han clicked his tongue.
If he had just pushed a little more…
As Lee Han continued trying to feed her, Tijiling looked apologetic.
“I’m really fine. I’ll tell the Mehrid Priest that I ate, so it would be better if you gave it to someone else instead of me.”
“I’m really fine. I’ll tell Priest Mehrid that I ate, so it would be better if you gave it to someone else instead of me.”
“Hmm…”
Lee Han was tempted.
Actually, that would be convenient for Lee Han. The only thing that bothered him was having to lie.
Mehrid Priest had asked Lee Han out of concern for Tijiling (even giving him an extra basket), so it felt wrong to just brush that off.
If it had been a promise with the Skeleton Principal, he wouldn’t have hesitated for even a second to break it, but Mehrid Priest was a good person.
While Lee Han was contemplating, Tijiling took out a crude wooden cup, put in green tea leaves, and poured hot water. Steam rose up in wisps.
“Wait.”
“?”
“Would it be alright if I made some tea?”
After thinking for a moment, Tijiling nodded.
Having already felt bad about refusing the food, she couldn’t refuse that as well.
“Yes. Thank you.”
“You’ll really drink it?”
“Of course. Why…?”
“It’s nothing.”
The Prising Order also enjoyed coffee and green tea to some extent.
Of course, they were beverages with no sweetness whatsoever, using only coffee grounds and tea leaves.
It wasn’t just the Prising Order that was strange – other orders were the same. They also mainly drank beverages without adding anything.
The awakening effects of coffee and tea leaves could help priests meditate for long periods.
Naturally, Tijiling thought the tea Lee Han was going to make would be bitter and deep-flavored like green tea, a beverage that would help with mental cultivation.
But that was a mistake.
‘I’ll pack it full of nutrition.’
Lee Han borrowed Tijiling’s kettle, filled it with water, added black tea leaves, and boiled it.
To make the aroma stronger, he lightly ground spices like ginger and cinnamon that he had gotten from Thunderstep’s cabin and added them.
That wasn’t the end. Once the black tea was boiling vigorously, Lee Han generously added sugar. Seeing him add sugar, Tijiling was startled and opened her mouth.
“What are you doing!?”
“D-don’t you like the tea I’m making right now? It’s my family’s secret recipe?”
Lee Han spoke with a genuinely hurt expression.
At that expression, Tijiling was flustered.
“N-no, it’s not that I don’t like it, it’s just too lux—”
“You’re saying my family’s secret recipe is too luxurious!?”
“…It’s nothing…”
Tijiling closed her mouth, afraid of hurting his feelings if she said more. Lee Han nodded with a pleased expression.
At that sight, Tijiling sent him a slightly suspicious look.
Could he be acting…?
‘What an impious thought.’
There was no way Lee Han, a brother who shared the same faith and was from the Wardanaz family, would lie while even mentioning his family’s name.
Unlike Tijiling who was a demon hybrid, the Wardanaz family was one of the Empire’s most renowned magical houses.
Meanwhile, Lee Han finished adding sugar and even poured in milk to complete the spiced milk tea.
“Here. Try it.”
Tijiling cautiously brought the teacup to her lips. She felt a sweet and rich taste she had never experienced before spreading through her mouth.
‘She does like it.’
Lee Han realized she liked it when he saw Tijiling’s expression soften gently.
Of course she would find it delicious after eating only bitter and tasteless things, then having something sweet.
Tijiling finished it faster than expected. Lee Han immediately poured the next cup from the kettle.
Tijiling didn’t refuse and was sipping when she belatedly realized and was startled.
“You wouldn’t leave my family’s secret recipe tea unfinished…”
“I understand, so please stop.”
Since the milk tea worked better than expected, Lee Han prepared the next beverage.
He put sugar, cinnamon, cocoa powder, and milk into boiling water, mixed it well, then added corn flour.
The thick mixture was closer to soup than a beverage.
‘Truly a wicked scheme.’
Lee Han admired his own scheme.
Starting with a beverage, then gradually serving something closer to soup to break down the other person’s values.
Once the cocoa soup was complete, Lee Han even floated some biscuits on top.
By the time Tijiling realized it, she had already emptied the bowl clean.
“Since you ate today, you can’t say you won’t eat anymore. Come here at the designated time from now on.”
“…There’s no need to speak so dramatically…?”
While Tijiling was grateful to the Wardanaz family boy who was being considerate of her, she was bewildered by his unnecessarily villain-like manner of speaking.
Anyone watching would think Lee Han was threatening her.
* * *
Night.
The time when new students went to their rooms clutching their hungry stomachs with sad expressions, or played chess or card games in the common room betting a piece of bread.
At that time, Lee Han was leaving through the tower door.
‘I am a priest of the Prising Order. I am a priest of the Prising Order.’
Having changed into priest robes, Lee Han looked like a Phoenix Tower student who had come out to pray.
Lee Han’s purpose was simple.
To find the passage that outsiders used to enter and leave the school!
If he could find that passage, Lee Han could also escape the school by disguising himself as an outsider.
‘I’ll save the invisibility magic as much as possible. Who knows what traps there might be.’
The reason he disguised himself in priest robes despite having invisibility magic was because all sorts of traps lurked in this school.
If he entered somewhere and the invisibility magic was dispelled, his life would be in danger.
To survive in this school, one method wasn’t enough.
‘…I’m suddenly confused about whether I actually enrolled in a school.’
Lee Han felt newly sorrowful.
How did it come to this…
The main building’s first floor, usually filled with passing new students, was completely empty.
The grand central staircases leading to the second floor or underground, and the corridors connecting to the classroom areas on both sides.
What had been noble and elegant when sunlight streamed in now all gave off an ominous atmosphere shrouded in darkness.
‘If it’s a place where workers from outside come and go, it’s likely to be on the first floor.’
Lee Han cast his gaze toward the area behind the central staircase.
It was the area with banquet halls and large halls. Since it wasn’t the classroom area, new students hadn’t set foot there since the entrance ceremony.
“…?!”
Lee Han was startled at that moment.
In the darkness ahead, another student was already stealthily walking toward the area behind the central staircase.
How to Live as a Mage at a Magic School
How to Live as a Mage at a Magic School
How to Live as a Mage at a Magic School
Publication Date: August 15, 2021
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