Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 403
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Chapter 403
‘What on earth is he trying to summon?’
Lee Han felt uneasy as he looked at the spot Professor Lightningstep had indicated.
Digging the ground so deep in a jar shape.
Didn’t that mean something worthy of this size would come out?
“Wardanaz?”
“Yes.”
“You supervise your friends’ work.”
“…Professor. I’m also a 1st year…”
Lee Han protested, but Professor Lightningstep didn’t listen.
“We’ll bring it, so don’t touch it. No matter what sounds come from inside, you must never open it. Got it?”
“Do you really have to bring such a thing here?”
Professor Lightningstep ignored him again.
* * *
“Huff, huff…”
“Hey. Stop slacking off.”
“I’m running out of mana!”
“Who told you to waste magic like that? At least move your hands.”
“This bastard…”
The landscaping work Professor Lightningstep had instructed wasn’t difficult, but the workload was considerable.
They had to create new paths on the grassland for beasts to roam around, and dig deep pits for who knows what would go in them.
An experienced mage might manage, but for 1st year students, it was normal to run out of mana before completing everything.
Of course, running out of mana didn’t mean they could rest. The Black Turtle Tower students urged their other friends.
“Pick up the shovel quickly!”
“I’m a knight, so if I hold a shovel, my honor…!”
“Knight or whatever, if you don’t pick up the shovel, I’ll tell the professor.”
“I’m a noble, so if I hold a shovel, my honor…!”
“Hey. Wardanaz! These bastards are talking nonsense!”
“Ah, no! No! Don’t call Wardanaz!”
The only one who could continue using magic was Lee Han, but there was a limit to what he could do alone.
“Dig it out, dig it out, dig it out…”
“Wardanaz.”
“?”
When several White Tiger Tower students called Lee Han, he stopped his staff and responded.
“What is it?”
“Isn’t this the perfect moment?”
“…What moment? Stop talking nonsense and work.”
Lee Han showed wariness, thinking the other party was trying to somehow skip work.
Then the White Tiger Tower students protested with very indignant faces.
“The golem, the golem!”
“Ah. That 【Die Flying Skeleton】?”
“Shh!!”
The White Tiger Tower students weren’t as brave as Lee Han. They hurriedly stopped Lee Han’s words and then trembled while looking around.
‘These guys seem too cowardly for knights.’
“We’re going to change that name first. Anyway, that thing… it’s pretty much completed now. If you just give permission, we can bring it.”
Angrago and his friends poured their passion into golem repair day and night without sparing any effort.
They even ignored other lectures to do repairs.
“…Couldn’t you have attended lectures and done it too?”
“Wardanaz. What’s important in life? It’s not lectures but true wisdom…”
“Usually guys who say that don’t have true wisdom either. Anyway, I understand. If it’s repaired enough to move, you can bring it.”
Certainly, if they had the golem now, the work would definitely finish much faster.
If it could be used for night duty as well as this kind of work, it would be very useful in the future.
“I knew you’d say that, so we’re bringing it now!”
“Do you want to get hit?”
“Ah… no… look at the workload. At this rate, it’ll be hard to finish today.”
The White Tiger Tower students averted their gaze and muttered.
“Wardanaz! It’s here!”
Angrago was coming with his White Tiger Tower friends, sweating profusely while pulling the golem on a wide cart.
Come to think of it, he had wondered how they would bring it, but they had simply laid boards on the ground and attached wheels.
“Everyone spoke well to Wardanaz, right?”
“Huh? Yeah.”
“Mmm. Of course.”
At Angrago’s question upon return, his friends stammered. However, Angrago didn’t notice such things and asked energetically.
“Now then. Wardanaz! Please activate the golem!”
“…Me?”
“…Huh, huh? Then, who else but you would do it?”
At Angrago’s innocent question, Lee Han was about to ask ‘You do know I’m the same 1st year as you, right?’ but stopped.
It was a meaningless question.
“I’ve only read about handling golems in books.”
“That should be enough for you, right?”
“…Hey. Come here.”
“Why, why?”
Angrago seemed to sense something ominous in Lee Han’s voice and slowly backed away. He had different instincts than Gainando.
‘Where was the core when it broke last time? Was it this side?’
Golem.
This artificial summon created by mages was used by mages of various schools.
Not only summoning mages but also dark mages claimed ‘we handle golems well,’ showing that there were dozens of ways to operate these golems.
Among them, the most representative common point was…
‘Inject mana into the core.’
Usually, sleeping golems would awaken when mana was injected into their core.
Some golems required specific incantations or recognition of their master to wake up, but seeing how it had automatically executed cleaning last time, this golem didn’t have such restrictions.
Pop!
Even though quite a bit of mana was injected into the core, there was no change.
Lee Han didn’t know, but the golem’s core was old and damaged, causing severe mana leakage.
Core repair materials were overwhelmingly rare compared to other materials, and the White Tiger Tower students had first repaired the golem’s limbs, which were relatively easier to obtain.
As a result, even when fed mana, more than half would leak out.
An ordinary mage would think ‘There’s something wrong with the golem, I should repair the core,’ but…
Paaaaaaaaaat!
Golem 【Die Flying Skeleton】 has been activated. Ready to execute commands.
“It worked, it worked!!”
“It worked!!!!”
Lee Han simply forced mana into it brutally.
‘Do golems originally consume this much mana? This isn’t normal.’
Looking at the golem with glowing eyes, Lee Han was amazed.
Seeing other mages use them, no matter how much mana they consumed, there should be some reasonable level…
Was this normal?
“What can you do?”
Lee Han asked what commands were possible for the other person. Golems couldn’t do anything beyond the commands pre-programmed by the mage.
I was born to handle all the chores in Einroguard.
“Amazing!”
“What a wonderful…!”
The White Tiger Tower students who had diligently gathered and rebuilt the golem’s limbs wiped away tears as if deeply moved.
Other tower students who came after hearing the commotion were also amazed by the golem’s appearance.
“Those White Tiger Tower guys made something like this? How on earth??”
“They say Wardanaz made it.”
“Ah. That makes sense then.”
“Wardanaz didn’t make it!! He just helped with repairs!!”
“Ah. Give it a rest, you pathetic guys. What could you have possibly handled on that golem? At most you probably just did some painting.”
While his friends were arguing, Lee Han concentrated his mind.
A golem wasn’t a clever spirit that would properly handle a command once given.
If you gave a command like ‘dig the ground to make a pond,’ while a person would dig appropriately on their own, a golem might keep digging until the end of the world came.
Lee Han gave commands along with the subtle sensation of the mana-infused golem being connected to him.
“Dig this pit over here.”
Understood.
“…Aaah! Aaaaah!”
A White Tiger Tower student who had been standing dazedly screamed and rolled to the side when the golem suddenly tried to strike and pass by him.
Lee Han apologized.
“Sorry about that.”
“So… Sorry doesn’t fix everything! Wardanaz!”
“Then will you control it?”
At Lee Han’s question, the other friends immediately poured out criticism.
“Wardanaz can make mistakes too, you bastard!”
“Don’t you know that if Wardanaz doesn’t control that golem, we’ll have to stay here until tonight? If you’re going to complain, do it later when we get back to the dormitory!”
‘They can all hear this…’
Lee Han concentrated his mind and gave commands to the golem again.
Fortunately, without another accident like before, the golem slowly began digging down into the pit.
“Huh? Where did this golem come from?”
Professor Lightningstep, who had returned, was surprised to see the golem working.
No matter how he thought about it, this wasn’t the level of summoned creature that first-year students could create.
“Wardanaz…”
“Aha. Wardanaz made it? You really are quite talented.”
“…I repaired it.”
“Ah.”
Professor Lightningstep felt embarrassed.
Now that he heard it, thinking a first-year student had made it seemed strange even to himself.
Why had he thought that?
“Controlling a golem isn’t as easy as it seems, but you’re managing to give commands well.”
Lee Han answered while focusing his attention to concentrate.
“Since they’re relatively simple tasks… it seems possible.”
“That’s true enough.”
Thud!
Professor Lightningstep swung his staff. Then cages covered with cloth were stacked up neatly behind him.
■■■■■■■■…
When incomprehensible animal cries echoed from inside, Lee Han became very concerned.
‘What kind of creatures are those?’
“Cough. Are you currently controlling the golem?”
“Ah. Professor Mortum.”
Professor Lightningstep stopped his work and greeted him politely.
“Professor Lightningstep… Cough, are you controlling the golem right now?”
“That’s correct.”
Professor Mortum’s eyes sparkled upon hearing the answer. Lee Han became anxious about what misunderstanding the professor might have.
“Wardanaz. You’ve already managed a golem with dark magic…! Cough, how admirable! I understand why Professor Garcia wants to kill me! To think I almost left behind such a disciple…”
“What? Who wants to kill…?”
Lee Han tried to ask back, doubting his ears, but Professor Mortum continued chattering in an excited voice.
“Diret will be so happy to see this. Diret also has experience with golems…”
“Oh… Professor Milay.”
Professor Lightningstep flinched when he saw Professor Milay, who had come to check on the landscaping.
For some reason, he felt like the two professors shouldn’t be left together.
The approaching elderly professor first noticed the eye-catching golem from afar and was surprised, then composed her emotions and asked calmly.
“Wardanaz. Have you succeeded in summoning a golem with summoning magic? How remarkable.”
“Uh…”
Lee Han looked at Professor Mortum beside him.
Professor Mortum’s eyes were trembling with desperate emotion.
Those eyes were pleading for him to say it was accomplished with dark magic, not summoning magic.
“You could show this at next week’s festival of summoning mages.”
Professor Lightningstep, unable to watch any longer, coughed loudly.
Then Professor Milay turned her gaze in surprise and noticed Professor Mortum’s presence.
“Ah. Perhaps with dark magic?”
“I repaired it. Both of you. I mean repair.”
“…”
“…”
The dark magic professor and summoning magic professor became very embarrassed.
“Ah… That’s right.”
“Certainly that would be the case.”
The embarrassed professors nodded and offered Lee Han a few words of encouragement.
What to pay attention to when controlling golems, which materials were advantageous for mana efficiency (Lee Han could feel Professor Mortum wanting to nitpick Professor Milay’s words but holding back), how to give commands properly…
After the two professors left, Professor Lightningstep looked at Lee Han and said.
“…You’ve had a hard time. Really.”
“Professor.”
“What is it?”
“Are more outsiders coming next week by any chance?”
Since Professor Milay’s mention of the summoning mages’ festival seemed like it would somehow take place within Einroguard, there was an edge to Lee Han’s voice.
Thinking of the festival that the priests had come to provide, there was no reason to be angry, but Lee Han was certain it wouldn’t be like that.
Why would mages bother coming for no reason!
“…Are you angry by any chance?”
“No? Why would I be angry? What do you mean?”
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