Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 424

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Chapter 424

-What are you doing?

Fil desperately scribbled and sent his message.

However, his focused junior didn’t notice the writing.

“Hmm.”

Fil was terrified watching him continue using divination magic while adjusting his direction.

‘Does that guy have no fear?’

If divination magic was used incorrectly, one could cough up blood and collapse, yet he was taking such bold actions.

“It’s done.”

Professor Alcasis approached with large steps.

Then he nodded after seeing what Lee Han had extracted.

“Well done. Rest for a moment.”

“Thank you.”

“Um, Professor.”

Fil couldn’t hold back and raised his hand. Professor Alcasis looked at his disciple with eyes that said he wouldn’t let it slide if he said something useless.

“Of course, we need to succeed by any means necessary, but I’m worried about my junior.”

“…Mind your own business. Your slime is still the same.”

Professor Alcasis looked at Fil as if he was utterly pathetic.

In some schools where talented individuals were scarce, situations would arise where upperclassmen would be anxious when underclassmen entered.

This wasn’t a good situation for either the underclassmen or upperclassmen. Fundamentally, magic improved only when practiced by oneself.

“I can solve my slime problem right away! But my junior is using such a dangerous method for healing!”

Surprisingly, Fil didn’t back down.

Seeing this, the other students murmured and sent worried glances.

‘She’s not going to draw her sword, is she?’

“I told you… if it was really dangerous, it would have failed on its own. Why do you keep wasting time on a junior who succeeded well…”

“Even so, extracting that with divination magic isn’t right!”

“…Divination magic?”

“Yes!”

Professor Alcasis frowned and looked at Lee Han.

Then she asked.

“You extracted it using divination magic?”

“Uh… I used it as an auxiliary.”

“Why?”

“…I couldn’t think of any other method?”

“…”

Professor Alcasis fell into deep silence. Then she looked at the upperclassmen and asked.

“Didn’t I teach you 【Disease Detection】 or 【Life Force Assessment】?”

“No.”

“You didn’t teach us.”

The upperclassmen spoke in unison. The dark elf professor ruffled her hair and muttered.

“I forgot…”

“…”

“…”

Not only the upperclassmen but even Lee Han looked at the professor in bewilderment.

How could she forget something like that?

“I made a mistake since it’s magic learned in the second year. Tell me next time if something like this happens. Divination magic isn’t good magic to use repeatedly in situations like this.”

Lee Han glared at the professor. New writing appeared beside him.

-You endure it. She’s a professor.

* * *

After the lecture ended, Lee Han resolved to avoid Professor Alcasis as much as possible until the next class.

Seeing what the professor said during the lecture (Fil, keep your weeknight evenings free. A patient is coming), Lee Han felt he might get dragged along if he was unlucky.

However, despite such resolution, Lee Han had to urgently call out to Professor Alcasis who was passing by.

The basilisk had started getting sick.

After the lecture ended, Lee Han had gone to the cabin to feed and care for the basilisk’s egg as usual.

But suddenly the egg began trembling as if it had eaten something wrong, then started rolling around inside the cabin.

Panicked by the unexpected situation, Lee Han immediately ran out to request help.

When he spotted Professor Alcasis in the distance, Lee Han called out to the professor without time to hesitate.

“Professor! Professor!”

“Don’t call out so loudly…”

Professor Alcasis, already suffering from headaches due to insomnia and overwork, didn’t like her disciple calling out loudly.

“What’s wrong? Why did you call me?”

“Please help me for a moment!”

“I have medicine to prepare right now…”

Professor Alcasis took out her pocket watch to check the time, then raised her eyebrows.

“If it’s nothing serious, know that you’ll pay with your body. What’s the matter?”

“The basilisk is sick!”

“…It is something serious.”

Professor Alcasis changed her assessment of her disciple.

This Wardanaz family boy really was someone who didn’t speak empty words.

“Why on earth do you have a basilisk…”

“It’s a long story.”

“Then don’t tell it.”

“Thank you.”

Lee Han was grateful for Professor Alcasis’s consideration. Professor Alcasis found her disciple’s gratitude absurd but let it pass because it was bothersome.

“Oh. You need to enter this way.”

“…”

Seeing the illusion magic laid out to avoid potential outsider access, Professor Alcasis became curious about who had ordered such a thing.

Was it the Principal?

“The path is narrow.”

“Professor Verdus made it based on his own standards…”

Lee Han brushed off the leaves clinging to his head and clothes. Professor Alcasis did the same.

Dark elves were fundamentally a race with lean builds, and Professor Alcasis, being female, was even leaner among them, but even considering that, she was inevitably larger than Professor Verdus.

Lee Han watched the professor’s mood. Though he had asked for help urgently, getting dust on a professor wouldn’t be good.

When dust got on a professor, there was a high possibility the disciple would end up under the dirt.

“Hurry up and move. If I can’t make medicine because of you, will you take responsibility?”

“I’m going now!”

Lee Han hurriedly opened the cabin door.

Professor Alcasis showed a surprised expression seeing the basilisk egg rolling around. She had heard about it, but actually seeing it was shocking.

“You really were raising one… And you’ve raised it really well too.”

“Several professors helped me. Professor Lightningstep and Professor Yoner Meikin…”

Lee Han unconsciously left out Professor Verdus. Professor Alcasis didn’t bother asking again.

“If Professor Lightningstep helped you, you could have asked Professor Lightningstep?”

“…”

Lee Han realized his mistake.

Thinking about it, that would have been the safer method.

The basilisk had gotten sick so suddenly that he called Professor Alcasis who he saw first, but Professor Alcasis was definitely not a kind professor.

‘I should have stayed calm in any situation.’

Lee Han learned another lesson.

“I thought asking the professor about disease-related issues would be the most accurate.”

“Thank you for thinking that way.”

Professor Alcasis surprisingly readily accepted his disciple’s praise.

Excluding wasting time unnecessarily, making mistakes when using healing magic, and being unhelpful when patients needed to be saved, Professor Alcasis might actually be a surprisingly kind and easy-to-deal-with person.

‘Hmm. Come to think of it, that’s really meaningless talk.’

Lee Han shook his head inwardly.

By that logic, there were no unkind professors. Even Professor Boladi was a kind professor if you excluded the beatings.

“It’s growth fever. The basilisk is growing too fast, so its temperature is spiking a bit…”

“It’s a symptom I haven’t seen in books, so I must have missed it.”

“No… originally basilisks are monsters that don’t have things like growth fever.”

Professor Alcasis spoke as if finding it curious.

While he wasn’t knowledgeable enough to know all the rare animals of the Empire, Professor Alcasis knew quite well about useful monsters like basilisks.

Since they were creatures that grew very slowly and required a lot of mana and food, growth fever wasn’t a common symptom.

Among monsters, those that suffered from illnesses like growth fever were mostly ones that grew rapidly to an extreme degree…

“Oh my. Is it because I gave it too much food?”

Lee Han wondered if he should divert some food to sell at the black market from now on.

The basilisk egg beside him shook left and right making sounds, but Lee Han ignored it.

“If you could create growth fever with food, the Empire’s ranch owners would cry tears of joy. There must be other factors besides food. Look for them.”

Lee Han scanned the inside of the cabin while asking about various suspicious factors.

Could it be a ventilation problem, or perhaps an issue with the mana flow where the cabin was installed, or maybe the basilisk was stressed because of Professor Verdus…

Professor Alcasis, who had been listening quietly, stared intently at the basilisk egg.

Even though it was inside the egg, the way it kept rolling around trying to stick to Lee Han was unusual.

While monsters had an imprinting phenomenon where they regarded the first person they saw after hatching as their master, following the master around like this before even hatching was an uncommon occurrence.

It could be because he took such good care of it, but more likely…

“You’re the cause.”

“Excuse me?”

“That basilisk keeps sucking your mana. Even now… Wait. You didn’t notice? Really?”

Every time the basilisk egg stuck to Lee Han, he could feel it steadily drinking his mana, yet the person himself hadn’t realized it.

Did that make sense?

“It was doing such a thing?!”

Lee Han pushed the egg away with a face full of betrayal. The egg rattled as it tried to stick to Lee Han, but Lee Han firmly held it back.

“Didn’t you feel your mana being consumed?”

“No.”

Professor Alcasis’s eyebrows twitched at his disciple’s immediate answer without even a second of hesitation.

“…I see.”

If he said he didn’t feel it, what could be done.

Though absurd, Professor Alcasis accepted it.

“I’ll make a fever-reducing potion for the basilisk to take, so give it one drop per day. It would be better not to allow other people’s access until it recovers. Basilisks are more sensitive monsters than you’d think. And stop spoiling it.”

“I wasn’t spoiling it…”

Lee Han felt wronged, but the professor didn’t listen.

Having quickly finished the preparation, Professor Alcasis looked at Lee Han. It was the gaze of a wicked merchant visiting a slave market, gauging ‘how much work can this fellow do.’

Lee Han quickly exclaimed.

“I’m always grateful for the professor’s grace. However, I have assignments to do and this week is also…”

“Don’t worry, I’m not asking you to do anything.”

Professor Alcasis stood up and spoke in a slightly hoarse voice.

“We are short-handed. That’s true. But… the disciples also have a point. No matter how urgent it is, if we keep pushing first-years into actual situations, there might be accidents…”

Professor Alcasis, who was speaking, watched the basilisk egg stick to Lee Han again and suck his mana.

The professor decided to pretend not to see it. Looking at that sight might shake his resolve.

“…that could happen. Just keeping up with the lectures as you are now is sufficient. If you continue like this for 1 or 2 years, you’ll become a decent healing mage.”

The dark elf professor, even while exhausted, slightly revealed his expectations for his disciple in his eyes.

Normally, this would have been a situation to be moved by the sincerity shown by a professor who usually didn’t reveal emotions easily, but Lee Han wasn’t.

Lee Han wasn’t someone who could be easily swayed like other healing magic upperclassmen.

‘The words are touching, but if you think about it carefully, it’s just asking to suffer and die together.’

Of course, Lee Han didn’t reveal his inner thoughts. He nodded and expressed deep gratitude.

“Thank you for understanding. I’ll study healing magic diligently and work hard to be able to do my part as quickly as possible.”

“Do that.”

Professor Alcasis chuckled and tried to open the door.

At that moment, Professor Verdus arrived with a thudding sound from outside and called for Lee Han.

“You’re inside, right?! I’m making an artifact right now and need mana! Come out quickly! Quickly! Quickly! Quickly!”

“…”

Professor Alcasis looked back and forth between the door and Lee Han with confused eyes.

…Do other professors just order him around?

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