Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 413
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Chapter 413
Meanwhile, the summoning mages beside Professor Milay warned in stern voices.
“If you keep ruining the reputation of the summoning mages attending the festival, I’ll let you know that pit over there is still empty.”
“It’s, it’s true though…!”
“Please just let us control the golem once! Then you’ll see that we weren’t talking nonsense!”
“What kind of ridiculous nonsense are you…!”
Before anger could pour down like lightning, Lee Han spoke up.
“I’ll just show you.”
“…Huh?”
“I did control it earlier.”
“Really?”
The nearby mages were flustered.
“The paper bird just now must have been quite difficult too…”
“It’s fine.”
“Milay. Shouldn’t you stop him?”
The mages worried that this outstanding talent might get injured from competitiveness.
However, Professor Milay slowly shook her head as if it was fine.
“I appreciate the concern, but… stopping someone who wants to try for themselves isn’t a good thing either. Just watch for a moment. If it’s dangerous, we can stop him right then.”
‘…Master seems really excited right now. Am I seeing this correctly?’
‘From what I can see, she’s definitely looking forward to it right now.’
The upperclassmen were dumbfounded by Professor Milay’s appearance of hiding her anticipation and pretending not to know.
Could she really be pretending not to know just to subtly show off something that could simply be explained to outsiders?!
* * *
Golems had such natural power that it felt natural for golem summoning mages to take pride in them.
The sight of a mere 1st year student controlling a golem with natural-born skill threw the summoning mages present into a frenzy of excitement.
-Waaaaaaah! Did you see? He moved the legs!
-Wooooooooh! Did you see? He moved the arms!
-Kyaaaaaaah! Did you see? He turned the head!
“Ugh. If I were a golem race, I would have received such praise too.”
“…”
While Gainando was talking nonsense, the golem summoning mages watched as if entranced.
The mages beside Professor Milay who had praised Lee Han’s magic earlier asked with genuine curiosity.
“How exactly do you control it like that?”
The other mages pretended not to care while focusing their attention on their ears.
How exactly?
“I just controlled it with mana.”
“Just with mana? Wouldn’t the consumption be too severe? Are you okay?”
“Yes.”
“…”
“…”
While the mages present were trembling with shock and awe, the golem summoning mages who had been equally surprised hesitated.
Huh?
“…Wait. You dark mage bastards. That’s different from what you said earlier.”
“What are you talking about?”
“You said there was a secret technique…”
“When did we ever say that? You misunderstood.”
“…”
The golem summoning mages glared at the dark mages as if they wanted to kill them.
However, there was nothing particularly wrong with what the dark mages had said. Eventually, the golem summoning mages relaxed their eyes and accepted it.
“Fine. I acknowledge it.”
“You’re surprisingly accepting it obediently?”
“Well, that student is a summoning mage. When you think about it, it’s something a summoning mage accomplished, so there’s no reason to stubbornly deny it.”
“What kind of nonsense is that!? He’s a dark mage! He’s learning dark magic!”
The golem summoning mages and dark mages fiercely argued for over ten minutes about ‘which school of magic does Wardanaz belong to?’
Lee Han, who had finished the golem summoning, looked disgusted at that conversation.
‘I absolutely must not get involved.’
Why on earth would they have such a pointless conversation?
“Fine. Let’s both compromise.”
“Right. Let’s acknowledge that both sides have some stake in this.”
Lee Han shook his head at the sight of them even making peace.
“Why are they competing like that…”
“Ah. There’s actually a reason for it.”
“?”
One mage kindly explained.
“Whether you can invite someone to academic societies or gatherings depends on which school of magic they belong to, doesn’t it? That’s why they’re doing that.”
“…???”
Magic, being an infinite field of study, was often too vast to explore alone, even for the most outstanding individuals.
What helped in such cases were other mages in the Empire who specialized in the same school.
New opinions shown by mages with different perspectives from oneself in academic societies and gatherings often enlightened mages who had hit walls.
One of the most important things in such academic societies and gatherings was…
“Inviting outstanding mages.”
“I see… Wait. Then what happens if they both compromise like that?”
“You’d receive invitations from both, wouldn’t you?”
“…”
Lee Han’s face contorted with pain.
“Inviting a 1st year student seems a bit… wouldn’t it look presumptuous?”
“Haha. Skill is what matters. If we don’t invite a mage from Einroguard of all places, who just demonstrated such magic, any school would be laughed at.”
The mage scratched away without knowing Lee Han’s feelings. Lee Han endured the pain with patience.
“You worked hard.”
‘How detestable.’
Lee Han felt a surge of emotion at Professor Milay’s words.
She made him do it!
Thanks to this, Lee Han was going to keep receiving invitations from both the golem-specialized summoning mages and dark mages who participated today.
‘Patience. The other party is a professor.’
Lee Han tried to slowly back away.
He had basically done everything he needed to do today.
He had shown summoning magic at the festival, and even shown the golem that he didn’t need to show…
At this point, it could be considered beyond a perfect score.
Just then, a familiar face appeared from behind.
It was Professor Mortum.
“Ah! Professor Mortum!”
The dark mages recognized Professor Mortum’s face and were delighted.
The disciple of that infamous Archmage Gonadaltes, and a great dark mage who carried on the progress of the Empire’s ancient dark magic!
“Cough. Did Wardanaz happen to show any undead?”
“He didn’t show any though?”
“Oh dear.”
Professor Mortum looked disappointed.
Of course, in front of Lee Han, he had prophesied ‘even if you stay still, your skills will be revealed,’ but Professor Mortum was a dark mage, not a divination mage.
Even Professor Mortum couldn’t know whether Lee Han would truly show his abilities as a dark mage or not.
‘Did he just pass by?’
Professor Mortum looked around and searched for Lee Han.
And after spotting Lee Han, he shouted.
“Cough. Mr. Wardanaz. Try summoning some undead!”
“…!”
“!!!”
* * *
Lee Han had to put on a skeleton warrior summoning show.
Only after the dark mages showed a sea of tears saying ‘Is a new archmage finally appearing?’ did Professor Mortum apologize.
“Cough. Sorry about that. I didn’t know you had already shown it with the golem.”
“…”
“But while golems overlap with the domain of summoning magic, undead is pure dark magic. So it wouldn’t have been bad.”
“…”
“…Are you perhaps angry?”
“Me? No.”
“Cough. That’s a relief. Even after the festival ends, the dark mages will stay in nearby villages for a few more weeks, so how about visiting them? It would help with dark magic.”
“We’re under confinement.”
“…Cough. Cough.”
Professor Mortum felt a strange pressure and coughed.
It was like the pressure he felt when an angry Professor Garcia stared daggers at him.
“Ri. Right. I mistakenly forgot.”
“Wardanaz. They’re doing spirit summoning over there, want to go see together? You could summon spirits, right?”
At the voice of other friends passing by who spotted Lee Han and called out, the mages participating in the festival perked up their ears.
Professor Mortum quickly intervened to stop them.
“No, that’s not right! He can’t summon spirits. You seem to be quite mistaken!”
“Huh? Really? Wardanaz previously lightni…”
“Now! Hurry up and go watch! Spirit summoning is starting now!”
Only after sealing the students’ mouths could Professor Mortum breathe a sigh of relief.
His sulking disciple’s expression also seemed to soften just a little bit.
“Um. Professor Mortum.”
“What is it?”
“Can he really not summon spirits? Can’t you have him try once?”
“…Cough. Get lost.”
* * *
When the difficult week ended and the weekend approached, smiles and anticipation appeared on the students’ faces.
Though school life was cold and hungry, at least on weekends there were relatively only enjoyable things left.
Just finish today’s lecture and it’s the weekend!
‘Just finish this and it’s the weekend.’
‘Though there are duties remaining.’
‘Though assignments are piled up.’
‘Though I have to go find food.’
The students who were walking while thinking this way hesitated.
Huh?
“…?”
“Wardanaz, why are you coming this way?”
The lecture they were going to attend now was 【Basic Dance and Advanced Social Skills】.
As they could tell from seeing it in the first semester, Wardanaz didn’t take this lecture. The Blue Dragon Tower students speculated ‘this lecture must be too easy for Wardanaz.’
“I’m planning to take it starting from the second semester.”
“Why? You said you weren’t interested.”
Gainando asked without much thought. Then Lee Han asked back with a serious expression.
“Did you finish all your assignments for other lectures?”
“…Wh, what did I do wrong??!”
Lee Han was forced to take the lecture due to the Skeleton Principal’s evil cheating.
Naturally, he wasn’t in a good mood.
‘The summoning magic festival would have been better.’
At the summoning magic festival, every mage in sight grabbed Lee Han and bothered him to show magic, but at least there was the fulfillment of taking a step closer to an A+.
Compared to that, the dance and social skills lecture…
“Yoner. What kind of person is the professor?”
Yoner, who was covering his mouth and yawning, wiped away the slight tears from Lee Han’s question and answered.
“A very famous person in the Empire’s social circles. Have you ever heard of Krinval Greenbell?”
“I don’t really read the social section in the Empire newspaper…”
“Actually, I don’t read it either, so I first heard of it in the first semester.”
Both Lee Han and Yoner were people who would read the economics section of the Empire newspaper thoroughly and repeatedly but roughly skip the social section.
Articles about which club newly opened in the capital, which social gathering was newly formed, which socialite caused a trend with flashy dancing – reading more than one line of such articles would make them nod off.
“What I’m curious about is the personality… Anyway, they’re a mage, and not an Einroguard graduate mage, right?”
“Yeah.”
“Then their personality should be fine, right?”
“…Huh?”
Yoner tilted his head.
Something about the logic seemed off.
“Is… is that so? I don’t think so?”
“Ah. Is their personality strange?”
“No, no… their personality is good.”
“Then I’m right, aren’t I?”
“???”
Yoner couldn’t refute Lee Han’s strangely logical argument and missed the timing.
“Now! Everyone come in. Enter with the doors wide open! Light steps! Dignified expressions! No matter how tiring things may be, when dancing, you must forget your worries!”
In the center of a lecture hall set up like a ballroom, a spider beastman dancer in fancy tailcoat was waiting.
It was Professor Krinval Greenbell who was in charge of the lecture.
Clap clap clap!
Professor Krinval continuously clapped and welcomed the students.
“Student Gainando! Why such a gloomy face! Now! Enter while stepping as we learned last time!”
“Sob sob. I keep losing at mage cards so I’m angry.”
“Even if you lose at mage cards, dancing will comfort you! Now! One, two! One, two!”
Lee Han, who was feeling relieved by the cheerful and kind professor’s appearance, suddenly remembered something and asked Yoner.
“Does this professor give good grades by any chance?”
“Huh? They give pretty good grades?”
“…”
Lee Han suddenly remembered his past self from the first semester, when he went to Professor Boladi’s lecture hall that others didn’t attend, thinking he’d get grades easily.
“…Sigh. I shouldn’t have used shortcuts…”
“??”
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