Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 398

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Chapter 398

“…there’s no way that could be.”

“Didn’t you just hesitate a bit?”

“That must be your imagination.”

Yoner tilted his head.

He was sure Lee Han had hesitated?

“Nigisor Priest. Perhaps…”

Lee Han, who was trying to silence Nigisor, sighed as he watched the priest passionately shouting at the Blue Dragon Tower students.

Since he was already shouting like that, even if he tried to silence him, it would inevitably reach the ears of the other priests.

“Do you understand???!”

The Blue Dragon Tower students were flustered when faced with Nigisor Priest’s blazing eyes.

In fact, they were still busy eating bread and hadn’t fully grasped the situation yet.

“I’m asking if you understand!”

“It seems like… excellent fire magic…”

The Imperial Princess hesitantly spoke up.

While she didn’t know the identity of that magic, judging by how the nature of the flames had uniquely changed, she guessed it might be a difficult secret magic among elemental magic that was hard to learn.

It wasn’t magic for a first-year to learn, but if it was Wardanaz, it wouldn’t be particularly surprising if he learned it.

“It’s not fire magic, it’s divine magic!! Divine magic!!”

Nigisor Priest stomped his feet in frustration. The Imperial Princess shrank back slightly even though she had done nothing wrong.

Asan asked because he didn’t understand.

“But isn’t divine magic something only priests can use?”

“Many people think that way. However, even those who aren’t priests sometimes awaken to divine magic. It’s possible because they are very devout believers.”

“Huh. But Wardanaz isn’t particularly devout…”

Asan didn’t think Lee Han was particularly deep in faith.

When they lived together in the dormitory, he hadn’t prayed earnestly or shown signs of faith.

Of course, he did regularly give meals to the Phoenix Tower priests, but other tower students did the same…

“H-h-h-how can you say such a thing…!”

Nigisor literally trembled with rage as if foaming at the mouth. Asan panicked and quickly shouted.

“No, that’s not it! Priest. Now that I think about it, Wardanaz was devout! He always gave meals to the priests!”

“??”

The Imperial Princess, who had been listening from the side, tilted her head.

“How is giving meals…”

“Everyone thinks so!”

“Oh, of course!”

Only after the Blue Dragon Tower students nodded could Nigisor Priest finally calm down. The Imperial Princess wasn’t convinced, but the topic had passed so there was nothing she could do.

“So… has everyone thought about what to bring to the Paragranum Guild?”

“Paragranum Guild?”

“…What did you think we gathered for?”

“Weren’t we gathered to give snacks?”

Lee Han ignored the Blue Dragon Tower student whose intelligence had dropped due to hunger and continued speaking.

The reason he had called his friends together like this was to break through the difficult challenge of gaining recognition from the Empire’s alchemists.

If they pooled their wisdom together, it would be several times better than doing it alone.

“I suppose ordinary potions won’t be enough to satisfy them?”

“That’s right.”

Asan answered.

“The alchemists of the Paragranum Guild are always thirsting for new manufacturing methods.”

“Oh. Asan. Have you met them before?”

“No. I’ve never met them directly, but when I was young, their alchemists occupied a building in the capital and went on a rampage saying they’d burn it down if research funding wasn’t provided, so I remember.”

“…I, I see.”

He had learned additional information about his opponents that he didn’t particularly want to know.

“Let’s first write down the potions we can make now, and also write down potions we haven’t made yet but are worth trying. Then let’s discuss them with each other.”

His friends nodded at Lee Han’s words.

“What I’ve made are low-grade mental enhancement potion, low-grade stamina recovery potion…”

“I’ve tried making Bion’s awakening potion. I think I can make it.”

“You said it didn’t work last time, but you finally succeeded?”

“Yeah. The magic I was using when adding the powder was incomplete.”

The students who were writing in turn looked puzzled when they saw what Lee Han had written.

“Wardanaz. I think you wrote it wrong. Is it Dobrooke’s soul-returning potion?”

“That’s right. I learned it during this vacation.”

“…”

The student next to Lee Han looked at him with disgust.

What kind of crazy workshop would entrust a first-year student with manufacturing 【Dobrooke’s Soul-Returning Potion】?

‘Shouldn’t I report this to His Imperial Majesty?’

Once the list was somewhat organized, Lee Han and his friends went through it one by one.

“How about trying to make a new recovery potion? I happen to have obtained some herbs, so if we experiment once…”

“I’m thinking of challenging enhancement-type potions. I’ve been practicing enhancement types a lot lately.”

There were two methods for developing new potions.

One was the method of creating something from nothing.

This was a novel method that had never existed before, combining unused materials and creating new magic for development.

Naturally, it was something that only masters among masters could accomplish after long dedication, and potions developed this way became textbooks and guidelines for countless alchemists.

The other was to delve into existing methods and improve them.

White spirit mushroom instead of hundred spirit mushroom.

A griffin’s broken beak instead of Kaltak slime.

Not just changing materials, but changing all sorts of elements like magic cast during the process was work that countless alchemists throughout the Empire were still doing.

The difficulty was also much easier than the first method, and if wisdom and luck followed simultaneously, quite decent achievements could be made.

Naturally, what the first-year students were focusing on was also the second method.

‘It would be good to try improving Dobrooke’s potion.’

Dobrooke’s soul-returning potion that he had practiced to the point of being sick of it during this vacation.

While the difficulty was really high, its completeness was also an amazing potion to the extent that Lee Han could recognize.

If he could improve it even a little, it would definitely be an excellent achievement.

The materials were a bit complex, but he could probably borrow them from Professor Thunderstep…

“Lee Han. Lee Han.”

“?”

“How about trying to make the potion you received from my sister?”

“Huh? Is that okay?”

Lee Han was surprised.

The potion recipe he received from Yoanen wasn’t an ordinary potion but one she had developed herself.

“From the time she gave it to you, she shouldn’t complain even if you pass it on anywhere. And my sister isn’t that kind of person anyway. She probably forgot about it already after giving it.”

“Really?”

“Or what does it matter. My sister deserves to lose out a bit.”

Yoner spoke as if telling her to get what she deserved. It was a voice that felt like he had a lot of pent-up feelings.

“Did Yoanen perhaps do something wrong?”

“Not to me. She usually did a lot of wrong to the friends I brought.”

“Oh dear… I was lucky then.”

“…”

Yoner looked at Lee Han as if he were crazy, then gave up on what he was going to say.

“Forget it, let’s just make potions.”

* * *

White Flame.

Priest Nigisol called the flame that Lee Han had summoned with divine magic by that name.

“Please wait a moment. Among the divine magic recorded in the order, there’s something similar… 41 years ago, green flame, had the property of absorbing and condensing poison, no that’s not it, ah! Here it is. White flame, White Flame. Property of burning evil corruption and driving away negative energy. I think this might be that flame.”

‘Is it okay for me to be like this when I’m also learning dark magic?’

While a flame that destroys evil wasn’t bad, it was true that his feelings were somewhat complicated.

“I won’t be able to use it when making dark magic potions, but it would be quite useful in other situations.”

“There are potions for dark magic too?”

Priest Nigisol’s innocent question without malice pained Lee Han’s heart.

“There are…”

“Ooh.”

While the priest was amazed, Lee Han bitterly shook his head.

“The priest who imparted wisdom to me in my youth could use as many as three types of divine magic. If Lord Wardanaz continues to devote himself steadily, he will be able to receive even more blessings.”

“I doubt whether it can increase any more from here.”

“It’s definitely possible.”

Priest Nigisol spoke with a gaze sparkling with firm trust.

If it had been another friend, he would have been moved, but Lee Han felt somewhat uncomfortable.

He could feel a suspicious expectation that ‘someone who can create flames with insane firepower like you could surely reach higher realms and create flames that could burn the world.’

“War… War… Lord Lee Han of the Wardanaz Family…!!!”

A shrill scream came from beside him.

“Priest Siana?”

“This… this doesn’t make sense, right? Please tell me it’s a lie. You really awakened divine magic from the Afha Order…???”

“It’s true!”

‘Damn this tactless bastard.’

Lee Han wanted to hit the back of Priest Nigisol’s head as he proudly shouted.

When showing even a little apologetic expression wouldn’t be enough!

“Priest Siana. Just because I awakened divine magic doesn’t mean the faith I send to the Plemang Order disappears…”

“Just once!”

“??”

“Please give me just one more chance!”

Priest Siana’s reaction was different from Lee Han’s expectations. The priest was almost prostrating herself as if she would grab his ankles and cling to them.

“What chance?”

“Before you enter the dormitory, please pray just one more time…! You’ll be able to awaken divine magic! Really!”

‘Is this okay for the priests’ faith?’

To think of divine magic, which was close to a miracle, like the Skeleton Principal’s education with ‘just a little more and you’ll make it!’

Priest Nigisol spoke calmly from the side.

“Divine magic isn’t something that works just because you rush it like that…”

“Be quiet for a bit. Just once! If this turn passes, I’ll have to wait a long time again!”

“I understand, so please calm down.”

Lee Han decided to pray before going in, partly to appease Priest Siana.

Priest Siana looked around nervously as if worried someone might come and interfere.

“O one who sees through the essence of things and brings about their change, today I send my faith like this, so please give your believer a thread of transformation…”

Flash!

“?!”

Lee Han looked up in surprise.

The divine power he had released moved again like last time, transforming into warp and weft threads that began weaving together.

This is…?!

“Oh, this won’t do!”

Priest Nigisol, who had been watching leisurely, shouted in surprise.

This was clearly a sign of divine magic awakening.

If there was such a sign, he should save it and let him awaken divine magic from the Afha Order, not hand it over to another order!

“What won’t do! Be quiet!”

“Priest Siana?”

Lee Han asked in confusion at the fierce conversation, but the response that came back was even more intense.

“Concentrate!! Please concentrate!!!”

“I, I’ll do that.”

Regardless of Priest Siana’s worry, the divine power safely transformed into a miracle.

Priest Siana clapped and jumped up and down as she watched the potion in the flask turn transparent.

“I knew it would work! I knew it! It was just the moment for awakening, but the turn passed so that’s what happened!”

“I don’t think divine magic works that way…?”

As far as Lee Han knew, divine magic wasn’t like a gambler’s fallacy.

It wasn’t a structure where the probability of success gradually increased after multiple failures, but rather a structure influenced by faith and will…

But Priest Siana didn’t listen to Lee Han’s words. She was too excited.

“I’ll go to the dormitory for a moment!”

“Wait! Priest Siana! Wait!”

Lee Han hurriedly stopped her, thinking that if she went to the dormitory, a dozen other priests would surely come running out saying ‘Aha! Now’s the opportunity!’

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