Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 47

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Chapter 047

Only then did Thunderstep recall the conversation he had heard from Professor Garcia before.

-Student Lee Han has a lot of mana.

-Enough for you to say that? How much exactly?

-Draw a big circle with both arms.

-Wow. That’s quite a considerable level.

-What if you subtract that much?

-…

He had heard that Lee Han had an insane amount of mana, but he never expected it to be this much.

If he couldn’t even feel the recovery from drinking a mana potion, there was nothing more to say.

“I’m sorry, Professor.”

“…No. It’s fine. Anyway, you made it well. I’ll praise you. Look! Here’s a student who made a perfect potion.”

“Wardanaz…!”

“As expected of the Wardanaz family?”

Rather than being surprised by Lee Han’s performance, the other students showed reactions like ‘If it’s Wardanaz, then certainly’ or ‘If he’s that much of a genius, it’s not really surprising.’

Lee Han was slightly flustered by their murmuring reactions.

‘What? Why is there so much hype around me?’

Lee Han was evaluating himself coldly.

Lee Han himself wasn’t a genius. He had just rolled around in the laboratory for a long time, so he was more experienced with… no, more familiar with student life than others.

But being treated like a genius was somewhat bewildering.

When did it become like this?

“As expected of Wardanaz. Truly genius-like.”

Asan, who was transferring his slightly hazy blue potion into a flask, admired.

Asan’s potion was quite decent too, but compared to Lee Han’s, its completion was noticeably lacking.

“That Siana from Phoenix Tower also made an excellent potion, but it’s not as good as yours, right? Look over there.”

“!”

Lee Han turned his gaze.

A snake beastkin student wearing priest robes was holding a fairly vivid blue potion.

‘Flameng Order?’

Since Yoner had explained it before, Lee Han recognized it immediately.

The order that worships alchemy, the Flameng Order.

Naturally, all the priests of the order were excellent alchemists.

So it was natural that the student named Siana had made an excellent potion.

Swish-

Siana walked over to Lee Han and Asan and extended her hand.

“You’re from the Wardanaz family, right? Nice to meet you. I’m Siana.”

“Nice to meet you. You can speak comfortably. I’m Lee Han.”

Lee Han took her hand and shook it. Perhaps because she was a snake beastkin, it felt cold and cool.

“I didn’t expect to meet such an excellent alchemist. Did you learn this from the Wardanaz family?”

“Hey. Stop chattering now.”

Professor Thunderstep cut off the conversation. Before they knew it, the professor had returned to the front of the lecture hall.

“Today you all tried making 【Low-Grade Mana Recovery Potion】. Some of you made it well even though it was your first time, while others made it clumsily. But don’t be swayed by such results. This is just the beginning of alchemy. Ahead of you lies a complex and mysterious world of alchemy.”

‘The professors certainly have a talent for killing students’ motivation.’

“I’ll give you an assignment for next week. Make a 【Low-Grade Spirit Affinity Potion】 and bring it. You’ll be testing what you made yourself, so you’d better pay attention.”

The students diligently moved their quill pens to take notes.

Fortunately, Professor Thunderstep told them the recipe for making the 【Low-Grade Spirit Affinity Potion】.

He didn’t say something like ‘You freshmen should research and figure out the recipe yourselves.’

“Professor. There’s no Evolved Spirit Grass here… Where is it? Is it upstairs?”

Students who couldn’t find the ingredients on the shelves and in the drawers asked in confusion.

Thunderstep asked back with equal confusion.

“What are you talking about? You have to find it yourselves.”

“Ah. Is that so? We’ll look for it ourselves.”

At Thunderstep’s words, the students stood up to search around.

“No. No. Not here.”

“??”

“Over there.”

Thunderstep pointed outside the window.

The dense mountain range behind the main building greeted the students.

“…”

“…”

“You have to go and find it. I trust you all remember what I said during the first lecture.”

The students’ faces contorted with despair and anger.

* * *

Thunderstep wasn’t the only professor who began showing his true colors.

The professors at the magic school gave out insane amounts of assignments for each lecture they were in charge of, as if they were competing to see who could assign the most homework.

-Take these books and read them, then find at least five logical flaws within the books.

-Professor. There aren’t enough books. We’ll need more for the students to share.

-What are you talking about? That’s one person’s portion. Lift up all the books. Then new books will appear underneath.

-…

The students were horrified by the amount that seemed to easily exceed a dozen books.

-Professor. To carry all this…

-Don’t worry. I’ve cast a lightening spell for you all. Hurry up and take the books.

The 【Basic Imperial Language and Logic】 lecture that made several White Tiger Tower students seriously tear up.

-This is a magic circle construction blueprint I submitted to the Empire in my youth. Look at this blueprint and calculate how much the total cost would have been. You don’t need to get the exact answer. But I’ll punish the bottom-ranking students who write the answer furthest from the correct one.

The 【Basic Imperial Geometry and Arithmetic】 lecture that made even Asan, who was from an Imperial Chancellor family, despair while tearing at his hair.

You shall love and harmonize with each other. What? You don’t want to? Your wishes don’t matter. You must love and harmonize with each other. With that meaning, I’ll give you an assignment. Students from each tower must bring the flag hanging in the freshman lounge of the tower I designate by next class. It’s a flag with an emblem on it.

You shall love and harmonize with each other. What? You don’t want to? Your wishes don’t matter. You must love and harmonize with each other. With that meaning, I’ll give you an assignment. Students from each tower must bring the flag hanging in the freshman lounge of the tower I designate by next class. It’s a flag with an emblem on it.

You shall love and harmonize with each other. What? You don’t want to? Your wishes don’t matter. You must love and harmonize with each other. With that meaning, I’ll give you an assignment. Students from each tower must bring the flag hanging in the freshman lounge of the tower I designate by next class. It’s a flag with an emblem on it.

At this point, one had to wonder whether 【Basic Magic Character Education】 was teaching character education or inciting fights.

With each lecture that ended, the students’ faces grew more haggard.

“How are we going to get the White Tiger Tower students’ flag?”

“Why does it have to be the White Tiger Tower students? Those guys will never be persuaded.”

Moreover, the Blue Dragon Tower students’ target happened to be the White Tiger Tower.

If it had been the Black Turtle Tower or Phoenix Tower, they could have borrowed the flag through persuasion and dialogue.

But considering their bad relationship with the White Tiger Tower, they would definitely sneer if asked to lend it.

“The White Tiger Tower students also have our flag as their target. Should we try suggesting an exchange?”

“How can we trust those guys? You saw them do dirty things, right? They’re barbarians who don’t know a bit about honor.”

“I asked them earlier, but they said they absolutely have no intention of doing that.”

“Hey. Let’s give up. Give up. It’s a waste of time.”

The Blue Dragon Tower students lamented and murmured among themselves.

You can only have motivation when assignments are reasonably doable, but when there’s no answer like this, you just give up.

Why did we have to get stuck with the White Tiger Tower of all places!

‘This isn’t good.’

Lee Han was flustered by his friends’ atmosphere.

No one who easily gives up the credits of a single lecture could ever amount to anything great.

Especially this magic school was like a den of demons where you never knew what crazy lecture or what insane credits might be given.

He couldn’t give up from the start.

It wouldn’t matter if it was just his own score, but Lee Han would also be tied to it and have his points deducted.

“Wait! Everyone, don’t give up.”

“!”

“Wardanaz!”

“Do you have a method?”

“I knew it. I knew there would be a way.”

It took about 3 seconds for the students’ reactions to change from surprise→curiosity→certainty→faith.

Lee Han was dumbfounded by these gullible friends.

“What method are you thinking of, Wardanaz?”

“Wait. I think I know.”

Asan spoke confidently with a smile instead.

“What is it, Dalcard?”

“You’re thinking of secretly infiltrating White Tiger Tower. I’m 95% sure that’s it.”

“Ooh…!”

“As expected! I’ll join you!”

“Me too! Let’s give those White Tiger Tower guys a taste of their own medicine!”

“What? What’s happening?”

“Instead of Wardanaz begging those White Tiger Tower guys, he’s saying we should enter White Tiger Tower and take their flag?”

“I really like that idea!”

In an instant, the Blue Dragon Tower students made their plan. Then they called Lee Han.

“Wardanaz! You lead us.”

“The only person who can lead us is you, who planned this from start to finish!”

“…”

Lee Han was about to say something but gave up. It was already troublesome enough.

‘Well, I do need to enter White Tiger Tower anyway.’

Even if Lee Han was a White Tiger Tower student, they probably wouldn’t give him the flag.

They had just been to the punishment room as a group because of Lee Han…

From the beginning, the only method was force.

“Alright.”

“Wardanaz! Wardanaz!”

“White Tiger Tower guys, wait for us! We’re coming!”

‘Does this really help with character education?’

Lee Han wondered if the Principal’s lecture truly helped develop proper character.

The more they did this, wasn’t it just deepening the emotional rift between each other?

* * *

Evening finally arrived.

Lee Han called Tijiling and fed her with wicked deception like last time.

Tijiling, who was sipping soup, felt Lee Han’s gaze mixed with a sense of accomplishment and was puzzled.

“Why are you like that?”

“Hehe. It’s nothing.”

Tijiling wondered if the boy in front of her was so pleased because he had used clever rhetoric to make her eat dinner.

‘It must be my imagination.’

He was a boy from the honorable Wardanaz Family.

Even coming to feed her dinner like this was probably due to the priest’s request and his sense of honor as someone from a great noble family who had to keep his promises.

Such a person wouldn’t laugh like a villain over such a trivial matter.

“We meet here, Wardanaz Family. I was just looking for you.”

“!”

Siana from the Fleming Order, whom he had met in alchemy class, greeted Lee Han.

Not only Siana but students from other towers were also gathered together.

“What’s the matter?”

“As you know, because of the assignment from alchemy class, we all have to make 【Low-Grade Spirit Affinity Potion】, right? There are limits to individual strength. So I thought, what if we all move together to gather materials?”

“That’s a good idea.”

Lee Han was pleased.

Lee Han had also thought of that method of gathering together and moving as a group.

…It’s just that students from other towers were afraid of Lee Han.

‘Damn. Are they listening because of the priest robes? I have priest robes too.’

“Then could you gather the Blue Dragon Tower students and bring them? Let’s collect materials together.”

“Sure. Let’s do that.”

After finishing the conversation, Lee Han saw Siana off.

The students who were next to Siana retreated while chattering things like ‘We survived’ ‘Did you see those eyes? I thought my heart would stop’ ‘But he was kinder than I expected’.

Lee Han felt unfairly treated even though he understood.

When he returned to his seat, Tijiling tilted her head.

“Why?”

“Um… about Priest Siana from the Fleming Order.”

“Yeah. We’re taking alchemy class together.”

“…It’s nothing.”

Tijiling was about to say something but firmly shut her mouth.

There are two ways to make people frustrated: one is to stop talking in the middle…

‘Making me curious in a textbook way.’

Of course, Lee Han knew very well how picky priests could be.

Probably talking about someone when they weren’t present could be seen as idle gossip, so she shut her mouth.

But Lee Han didn’t care about such things at all.

‘What do I care. I’m curious.’

Lee Han decided to persuade her by going around instead of using a direct approach.

He took out the Frisinga Order Prayer Cross and placed it on the rock in front.

“?”

Tijiling tilted her head, not understanding.

“It’s wrong to badmouth someone who’s not here, but it’s acceptable to confess during personal prayer before God.”

“…Are you really trying to cover your eyes and say ‘peek-a-boo’…?”

“I think I heard something but I can’t hear it. I’m praying right now.”

“…”

“Last time, I almost died because White Tiger Tower students ambushed and attacked me, and if Priest Siana, who will be entering the mountain with me this time, is someone who would devise such schemes, I might really die. But God will watch over me.”

“…”

Tijiling sighed and stood up from her seat.

Then she knelt beside Lee Han and bowed her head toward the cross as if praying.

“Lord Frisinga. These are not words spoken to slander or accuse anyone.”

“Thank you.”

“I think I heard something but I can’t hear it. I’m praying.”

“…”

Tijiling also had a subtle vindictive streak.

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