Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 393
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Chapter 393
Lee Han, who was forced to take a break, looked at Priest Siana and asked.
“By the way, Priest Siana. Weren’t you not on duty this time?”
“Is it really that difficult to work a little more to convey Flemming’s true will?”
“…I, I see.”
The quiet madness shown by the Phoenix Tower priests often overwhelmed even Lee Han.
While other tower students made all sorts of excuses to avoid going because they didn’t want to, she came along with the sole intention of spreading faith to others.
“And I know that Wardanaz wasn’t originally supposed to come either, right?”
Lee Han hesitated at Priest Siana’s words.
“I’m… a little different.”
“Really? It seems similar to me…”
“…Should we pray?”
Lee Han changed the subject, thinking it wouldn’t be good to talk about this topic for long.
Priest Siana brightened up.
“I’ve always thought that Wardanaz is the talent who will inherit Flemming’s will.”
“Is it perhaps because of the compliments…?”
“Pardon?”
“It’s nothing.”
Priest Siana laid out the ritual implements in order. These were tools used by priests who served Flemming for prayer.
Bowls and cups. Glass bottles and lamps.
The manner of serving gods differed between orders, and the Flemming Order was more formal than the Agltakwa Order.
“O one who sees through the essence of things and brings about their transformation, as we send our faith today, please grant the thread of change to your believers.”
“The essence of things…”
Lee Han recited along with Priest Siana’s prayer. And just as he had done with Agltakwa, he offered his mana to Flemming.
Whoooosh!
“!!!”
When divine power manifested just like last time, Priest Siana jumped with joy.
‘As I thought, that time with the Agltakwa Order must have been a coincidence!’
His faith toward Flemming must have temporarily strayed due to coincidence and misunderstanding.
How could someone so sincere about alchemy be a follower of Agltakwa?
Since divine power manifested this quickly, he would surely awaken divine magic before long.
Lee Han, who had been practicing diligently, paused for a moment and asked.
“Priest Siana. Do you happen to know how to use divine magic?”
When learning any magic, there was no better teaching than seeing and experiencing that magic first.
If he could see the divine magic of the Flemming Order, it might help him get a feel for it.
“Ah. I should have shown you that first.”
“So you do know how to use it. From the Flemming Order…”
Lee Han complimented her for about a minute.
Passing White Tiger Tower students looked at him with expressions that said ‘Did Wardanaz take the wrong medicine?’
Priest Siana prepared her magic with a very triumphant expression.
“It’s nothing special…”
The snake beastkin priest cut her finger with her fingernail. Then she put a drop of blood into the water in the cup.
With an incantation, the water bubbled and turned into medicine.
“Amazing!”
This wasn’t flattery but genuine admiration.
Lee Han had painfully learned through his struggles in the workshop during vacation just how complicated a process was needed to make a single potion.
Even though divine magic often broke rules and common sense, to think she could create a potion with just a drop of blood.
“It’s not that amazing. The potion’s performance has limits too… They say skilled priests can create much more amazing potions.”
Lee Han listened very intently.
If what Priest Siana said was true, then the divine magic of the Flemming Order was definitely attractive.
If one reached a high level, wouldn’t it be like turning blood into gold?
“Do you have to use blood?”
“You could spit instead… but considering how the people drinking it would feel, isn’t blood better?”
Lee Han was about to ask if they couldn’t secretly hide it, but refrained since it didn’t seem like something to say to a priest.
“I see. I’ll definitely awaken divine magic today.”
“…N-no. You don’t need to do it today, you know? And it’s not something that happens just because you force it…”
Priest Siana panicked at Lee Han’s reaction and waved her hands.
Divine magic was different from other magic – it didn’t work just because you were motivated. You could even get hurt if you just pushed forward with enthusiasm.
Naturally, Priest Siana didn’t expect to see results today either…
“That’s right. Don’t overdo it.”
“Divine magic can hurt your body if you try to force an awakening.”
“…What are you all doing here?”
Priest Siana looked incredulously at the priests who had somehow gathered behind them, nodding and giving advice.
These priests really…!
* * *
Lee Han ultimately failed to awaken divine magic (Lee Han pretended not to hear the other priests sighing in relief).
On the way back, a thought suddenly occurred to him and Lee Han asked Priest Siana a question.
“Excuse me.”
“Did you become curious about something regarding Lord Flemming?!”
“…That’s not it. I was wondering if you might know what kind of potion this is.”
Lee Han took out the potion recipe he had received from Yoner’s sister, Yoanen, during vacation.
Since she had told him he would know if he made it himself and hadn’t told him what kind of potion it was, Lee Han still didn’t know what this recipe was for.
‘It seems to be an enhancement type…’
“This potion is… Wow. This is really amazing!”
Priest Siana exclaimed in admiration as soon as she saw it.
She didn’t know which alchemist guild or workshop had made it, but the skill in arranging various materials without a single gap to maximize the effect was extraordinary.
The alchemist who completed this recipe must surely be a perfectionist without any flaws.
“It’s amazing how they came up with such an idea.”
After examining it for a while, Priest Siana nodded and spoke.
“I’m not certain, but I can guess. I’ve helped make something similar at the temple.”
“As expected of Priest Siana…”
Priest Siana stopped Lee Han’s attempt to compliment her. She still had more to say.
“Wait a moment. The ingredients include blue meanil flowers, donghaso, and jurran, which are often used when making prophecy-related potions. I think it might be a potion that enhances prophetic ability.”
“!”
Lee Han was surprised.
“A prophetic ability enhancement potion… Does that have any meaning?”
There were various types of enhancement potions.
Starting with mana enhancement, there were also strength, agility, reflexes, recovery, and so on.
However, among them, potions that enhanced prophetic ability were extremely rare. So rare that even Lee Han had never heard of them.
‘It wouldn’t be effective, would it?’
Prophetic ability enhancement potions weren’t a matter of difficulty but of effectiveness.
Prophecy magic itself was already difficult to cast, and even if cast, it was hard to be sure if the results were properly interpreted. Potions that enhanced prophetic ability were even more absurd.
Why would anyone develop a potion when it was hard to judge whether it was properly enhanced or not?
“That’s true. Prophecy-related potions aren’t usually made. But temples do make them very occasionally… Given the skill of whoever made this, I think they must have had some conviction when they created it?”
Even if the effects were hard to see, there were cases where people made and used them occasionally, grasping at straws.
Especially since the divine magic used by orders wasn’t systematic, high-ranking priests would pour in as many resources as possible when using divine magic.
Hearing about such precedents, Lee Han began to feel slightly tempted.
‘Yoanen’s skills are certain. If it’s a recipe that the temple has attempted several times… it might be a much more improved version.’
Intense foresight was similar to excellent intuition.
Lee Han imagined himself drinking this potion and taking the Skeleton Principal’s test.
-Kraaaak! I’m so frustrated my skull might shatter!
‘Hmm. It probably won’t be that bad.’
“Oh. Wardanaz?”
“Yeah?”
“You could finish the praise you were giving earlier.”
“…Uh-huh.”
Lee Han momentarily thought Priest Siana was a bit like Gainando.
* * *
Morning.
Since there were no morning lectures for once, Lee Han tried to spend it leisurely.
Go to the vegetable garden to tend the crops, check on the basilisk eggs, go to the stables to see Ponrig’s face…
Actually, it didn’t seem very leisurely, but Lee Han tried to believe it was leisurely.
“Wardanaz! Wardanaz!”
“Let’s go quickly!”
Until Angrago and the White Tiger Tower students came rushing over in a crowd.
“…Can’t we go after lunch… Fine. Let’s go.”
Lee Han was about to say they could go later, but gave up after seeing the White Tiger Tower students’ faces.
If he refused, they looked like they would really wail loudly and roll around on the ground.
Bang bang bang!
“Ah. You brought the golem.”
When they knocked on the door, Professor Verdus yawned and walked out of his tower.
While the professor examined the deactivated golem, the White Tiger Tower students watched with anxious faces.
“Wardanaz. Will it be okay? Can it be healed?”
“Why are you asking me that…”
“Don’t you have a heart!!”
“…”
“S-sorry. I got too excited. I’m worried about the golem…”
‘Were these guys always such emotional fellows?’
Lee Han mentally revised his assessment of Angrago and his friends.
He had been thinking of them as a pack of beasts who just swung swords all day going ‘Uooo I swing sword’…
“Well made. To be in this condition after more than ten years.”
“Could it have been made by your disciples, Professor?”
“Who knows? I don’t really know what my disciples make.”
Verdus picked up a quill and started scribbling.
Then he handed it to the students.
“Here.”
Five bundles of well-prepared birch wood, three boxes of granite bricks, basalt (in large chunks), one bag of joma crystal, two bottles of Mount Sevelan binding potion…
“What is this?”
“Materials needed for repair.”
The White Tiger Tower students were flustered.
They had naturally assumed Professor Verdus would just fix it for them.
Moreover, there were more materials needed than expected. While it might be possible outside, getting them within the school would be several times harder.
“Don’t you have materials, Professor?”
“Me? I do.”
“Then you could use those!”
“Why? It’s your golem.”
“…”
The speechless White Tiger Tower students looked at Lee Han as if asking for help, but Lee Han pretended not to see and ignored them.
Professor Verdus was right about this.
“…Fine. We’ll get them! You’ll definitely fix it if we bring them!”
“Yeah! Bring them quickly!”
Seeing the White Tiger Tower students burning with determination, Lee Han felt slightly worried and asked.
“Can you get them?”
“Don’t worry, Wardanaz. We are knights. When a knight makes a vow, no hardship can break that oath.”
“I-I see.”
* * *
“It seems there are some absent students…”
Professor Ingoldel looked around at the students gathered for swordsmanship lecture and said.
“I don’t give disadvantages for not participating. Swordsmanship ultimately cannot advance further unless you pour yourself into it. Now then, let’s each split up…”
“…Wardanaz.”
Giselle spoke to Lee Han. Lee Han quickly reviewed what he had done during vacation and answered.
“What’s wrong?”
“Did the guys who didn’t come… to you… no, never mind.”
“…What do you mean never mind after saying all that? I didn’t attack them.”
“What did I say? Moradi. I said Lee Han wasn’t the culprit.”
Durgyu answered in a very relieved voice. For someone who firmly believed in his friend, he seemed too happy.
“People can be absent sometimes in life…”
Lee Han stopped mid-sentence.
Come to think of it, the missing guys were Angrago and his friends.
‘…Don’t tell me these guys skipped lectures to gather materials??’
It was an amazing determination that Lee Han could hardly imagine.
“…Let’s head into the forest. Today we’ll assume fighting in the forest.”
At Professor Ingoldel’s words, Lee Han looked at the two and asked.
“I have a question.”
“What is it, Lee Han?”
“…?”
“If Professor Ingoldel enters the forest and sees the absent students playing around in the forest, would she get angry?”
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