Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 49
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Chapter 049
In the Empire, dark magic inevitably had a bad image.
First of all, its appearance was rather gloomy, dark, and ominous.
Moreover, the magic it dealt with was sinister and unsettling.
Curses, undead summoning, dark elements or poison elements, negative energy, and so on.
It was natural that people found it repulsive.
-Greetings, villagers of this town. I am the newly appointed dispatched mage. My main specialty is elemental magic, particularly fire specialization.
-Oh! We won’t have to worry about the cold in winter!
-H-hello. I am the newly appointed dispatched mage. My main specialty is… dark magic…
-What? What did you say?
Dark magic…
Dark magic…
-What? What did you say?
-I specialize in dark magic and undead summoning.
-…Ma, block the wizard from going to the tomb.
Just as most people find it distasteful, the new students who entered here felt the same way.
Each had entered the school with their own grand aspirations, but they didn’t particularly want to learn dark magic that would subject them to persecution.
But Ihan looked at the professor with an intrigued gaze.
‘There’s always a path where others don’t go.’
Even before enrolling, Ihan thought that dark magic was quite valuable.
For one thing, fewer students will flock to it, so there should be less competition.
And just because someone took dark magic classes didn’t necessarily mean they had to become a dark mage.
‘I can just get the credits and go in a different direction.’
Anyway, I’ll be learning various other magic spells too, so there’s no reason to worry about it already.
And in Ihan’s view, the life of an imperial dark mage wasn’t so bad.
Although people were afraid of them, there was the advantage that once hired, they would never be dismissed from their government positions due to the extremely small number of mages.
The ultimate iron rice bowl!
“I thought everyone would react that way.”
Professor Garcia seemed to sense the mood of the students and spoke up instead.
“However, dark magic is a field that contains deep mysteries and principles, contrary to public prejudice. You are all still unrefined wizards. To know what you have talent for and what goals you should pursue, you must continue to challenge yourselves and gain experience. I hope you will learn this discipline with the curiosity befitting a wizard, rather than throwing away opportunities due to prejudice.”
Professor Garcia’s words were calm yet reasonable. The freshmen looked at Professor Garcia with slightly moved expressions.
“Now then. Who’s going to help Professor Mortum teach dark magic?”
Of course, that was one thing, and dark magic was dark magic.
The students lowered their heads to avoid Professor Garcia’s gaze.
“Ihan. Bow your head! Bow your head!”
Gainan-do grabbed Lee Han’s collar and shouted urgently.
“If you hang around with dark mages, you’ll become an undead soldier later – you won’t even be able to die properly!”
“…Are you really a mage?”
Lee Han looked at Gainando as if he found it absurd.
I can understand why ordinary people who don’t know much about magic would believe that, but why do you?
“I’ll help you.”
Lee Han raised his hand.
The students looked at Ihan with eyes full of wonder and awe.
I knew that the boy from the Wordanaz family was serving as a leader in the Blue Dragon Tower.
But still, I never thought he would volunteer himself to be a test subject for dark magic.
Even the Black Turtle Tower students who had feared Lee Han based solely on rumors about the Wardanaz family had a change in their eyes.
“Student Lee Han!”
Professor Garcia looked at Lee Han with a very pleased expression.
Lee Han knew exactly what that expression meant.
The anxiety you feel when you’ve asked a close professor colleague to “come give a lecture sometime,” they actually show up, and the students just sit there like mutes who’ve swallowed honey.
It must be so bad that they prepare in advance by telling their students, “Hey, you raise your hand and ask a question.”
Professor Garcia couldn’t even imagine how grateful he would be to see Ihan standing up right now.
“Cough, cough. Thank you. Come here.”
As he approached Professor Mortum, Ihan could understand why the temperature in the lecture hall had dropped.
A considerable amount of magical power had been emanating from Professor Mortum, who was standing perfectly still.
And it wasn’t just any mana, but mana with a dark attribute.
This cold and sinister power of the negative is like a symbol of dark mages.
Mana was fundamentally colorless, but there were many times when its properties had to be altered to match the magic one intended to cast.
Dark magic fundamentally often required converting mana to negative attributes in that manner.
‘No wonder you’re not popular.’
His image is already bad enough, but to carelessly scatter that kind of magical power around students who approach him.
At this rate, even students who were trying to approach with interest would be horrified and back away.
Whether here or there, professors were basically all quite lacking in talent when it came to enticing students.
“You have a lot of mana.”
“Thank you.”
“Right. Hold the staff… I’ll demonstrate first.”
Professor Mortum coughed several times and then waved his hand.
In that instant, the chaotic dark magical energies that had been bursting forth suddenly arranged themselves in perfect order.
Rise, servants of bone!
“Cough… How is it, not bad?”
Rise, servants of bone!
With a spine-chilling rattling sound, skeletal summons suddenly appeared out of thin air among the students.
They danced a strange dance, spinning round and round in place. The students looked like they were about to faint.
Professor Mortum looked at Lee Han and asked in a pleased voice.
“Cough… How is it, are you okay?”
“Huh?”
“I prepared it because I thought the students would like it.”
“Hmm. That is quite interesting.”
Lee Han avoided the truth so as not to hurt the professor. Professor Garcia expressed his gratitude with his eyes.
“Of course, I wouldn’t ask you to perform magic of this caliber. *cough* That’s far too advanced magic.”
It was an obvious thing to say, but Ihan felt a renewed sense of gratitude for those obvious words.
Professor Voladi needs to hear this!
“First, try converting your mana to a negative attribute.”
Ihan drew out his magical power.
He already knew the knack of attribute conversion, having once transformed into light and water before.
Drawing an image in your mind and focusing on that image to infuse it with magical power.
Pop!
Pop!
Pop!
“Not bad at all.”
Professor Mortum was impressed by the skillful transition.
“Thank you.”
“Let me convert more.”
Lee Han began concentrating and continuously changing his mana.
‘No. He’s actually good at this?’
Professor Garcia, who was watching, was slightly flustered.
Though it was unfair to Professor Mortum, he didn’t want a student like Lee Han to go down the thorny path that no one chose, like dark magic.
‘If he’s too good at it, that’s problematic in its own way…’
Other mages experienced more trial and error than expected when trying to conjure the negative attribute.
This negative attribute was a broader and more ambiguous concept than one might think.
Cold?
The ice element was also cold.
Dark?
The darkness element was also dark.
Since it was an attribute that encompassed various things together, many mages couldn’t get a grasp on it.
However, Lee Han thought simply.
‘Let me roughly imagine bizarre mathematical images like non-Euclidean geometry or imaginary numbers.’
Lee Han’s unique advantage that other mages couldn’t follow.
It was the breadth of his way of thinking.
Fortunately, such imagery seemed to fit perfectly as his mana smoothly converted to the negative attribute.
More and more.
And more and more.
And more and more and more.
“…Professor?”
Lee Han felt something was off.
Shaaaaaaaa-
Even though it was broad daylight, the lecture hall grew dark, and the temperature, which had already dropped, plummeted even further until our breath became visible.
However, Professor Mortum had no intention of stopping him and urged him on with an excited expression.
The gentleman who had been coughing violently just moments before now had bright, gleaming eyes and wasn’t coughing at all—he looked like a completely different person.
“How far can you go? Let’s try more.”
“Um, Professor Mortum?”
Professor Garcia tried to stop him.
Of course, it was nice to see Professor Mortum so happy, but there were other students in the classroom right now.
An eerie atmosphere pervaded the classroom, and sensitive students could even hear the whispered hallucinations of things that were no longer alive.
Professor Garcia thought they should have stopped here and now.
‘Considering student Ihan’s magical power…’
If you convert as much as you’re curious about, as much as possible, there’s no telling what might happen.
“Why do you ask?”
“Don’t you think it would be better to stop?”
“Let’s try changing it a bit more. I’m curious to see how far we can take it.”
“You’ll be able to confirm that in other situations as well.”
“But…”
“Stop.”
“Ah. I understand.”
When Professor Garcia became serious, Professor Mortum backed down.
‘What a waste…’
Professor Mortum looked at Ihan with a regretful expression.
One of the most important things in dark magic was the amount of dark-attribute magical power like that.
Of course, there’s no field of magic where magical power isn’t important, but in dark magic, having a large amount of mana opened up truly limitless possibilities.
Undead summoning?
Magical power was important.
A curse?
Magical power was important.
The same was true for dark elements and poison elements…
So I was trying to see how far I could go, but you’re stopping me like this.
‘Professor Garcia is really being petty.’
“Professor.”
Lee Han called Professor Mortum.
A massive amount of magical power was slowly dissipating because the transformation had stopped.
“Ah. Sorry about that. Now swing your staff like this and try casting the spell. Say ‘Be paralyzed!'”
Lesser Paralysis Curse.
It was a 1st Circle dark magic spell, one of the easiest dark magic spells.
A curse that causes weak paralysis in the opponent’s arms or legs, as if they have a cramp.
There probably isn’t anyone who has never experienced numbness in their arms or legs.
Because of that, it was easy to visualize the image, and the staff movements were also easy.
“To whom?”
“Of course, to me.”
Unlike other magic, curses required a target.
Ihan was flustered.
As you know, Professor Mortum looked so frail that he seemed like he would topple over at the slightest breeze.
‘I had hoped for the day I could cast magic on the professor, but not like this?’
“Are you sure that’s okay?”
Professor Mortum replied with an air of annoyance.
“Of course. Let’s get going.”
“What about defensive magic… or something like that?”
“Cough, cough… It’s just a spell that paralyzes an arm or leg at most. Even if something goes wrong, how bad could it be?”
‘That’s a fair point.’
Ihan was convinced.
Come to think of it, it was presumptuous for Lee Han, a freshman, to be worrying about a professor in the first place.
‘Let me focus more. I might get on the professor’s bad side for seeming cocky.’
As Ihan closed his eyes and concentrated, Professor Mortum shrugged his shoulders as if urging him to hurry up.
Mages fundamentally possessed more magical power than others and knew how to control the magical energy within their bodies through their own will.
As such, it had strong resistance to magical attacks.
Even when hit by an attack, mana instinctively protects the body.
And someone like Professor Mortum, who had spent nearly his entire life handling dark attribute magic, had even stronger resistance to dark attribute magic.
A freshman’s spell is so weak that it has no effect even if you don’t defend against it and just take the hit.
‘Once you hit a wall, you’ll realize just how deep and vast the study of dark magic truly is.’
Professor Mortum thought that if his full-powered magic was blocked, Ihan would be deeply impressed.
-Even though I gave it my all, you’re completely unfazed…! I had no idea dark magic was this incredible. I want to learn more!
*Cough*, if you’re willing to learn, I won’t particularly stop you.
It was the kind of optimistic thinking that only a professor could have—someone whose brain had been paralyzed by academia.
Be paralyzed!
Be paralyzed!
“
Be paralyzed!
Ihan aimed his staff at Professor Mortum along with the incantation.
Then the gathered magical power explosively gained a will of its own and rushed forward, overwhelming Professor Mortum.
Professor Mortum was momentarily taken aback by the far greater magical power than he had expected.
He tried to resist urgently, but the magic that had already engulfed his body wrapped around Professor Mortum like it was suffocating him.
…In the end, Professor Mortum collapsed backward with his entire body stiffly paralyzed.
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
“…Professor? Professor!!”
Lee Han was horrified.
For a moment, a disgraceful title like ‘Professor Killer’ flashed through his mind.
How to Live as a Mage in Magic School
How to Live as a Mage in Magic School
How to Live as a Mage in Magic School
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