Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 5
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Chapter 005
Mana.
Mana, magic power, what some tribes in the east called ‘ki’, what pretentious scholars called ether, what stubborn priests called divine power—this force with many names was the source of all mages.
The power to change the world!
Since mages had to draw out and consume their own mana every time they cast magic, it was natural for inexperienced young mages to suffer from mana deficiency.
But to still be standing fine after seven attempts.
“What’s your name, student?”
“Lee Han.”
The Troll Professor, Garcia, smiled slightly.
She was pleased that he had given his own name instead of his family name.
Among nobles, especially those from great noble families, few would give their own name instead of their family’s.
He was someone who fit well with one of the school’s ideals: ‘equality’.
“Come here.”
“Uh…”
Lee Han approached anxiously.
‘Should I have just staggered?’
When everyone else was staggering from using their mana, it was indeed strange for him alone to be standing perfectly fine.
He wondered if he hadn’t cast the magic properly.
“Hmm. Hmm. I see.”
As Garcia grabbed Lee Han’s wrist and nodded, Gainando whispered to Yoner from behind.
“Hey. Shouldn’t we save him?? What if she swallows him??”
“…The professor can hear everything, so shut up, idiot.”
“!?”
Garcia released his wrist and said.
“Lee Han, please stay behind after class.”
“Ah. Yes.”
* * *
After that, 【Basic Understanding of Magic】 didn’t involve any special magic training.
Instead, Professor Garcia sternly lectured them about the mindset of a mage.
“When you’ve exhausted your mana, you must rest unconditionally. Especially when your skills are still lacking! Don’t be impatient about mana deficiency. With training, your mana capacity will increase, and as you gain experience, your mana consumption will decrease. Every year, there are always new students who are overly eager and secretly practice magic until they collapse. If you’re unlucky, you could get seriously hurt, so you must never do that. And student, I don’t eat students.”
“I’m… I’m sorry.”
Gainando trembled as he apologized.
“Now. That’s all for today’s lecture. Besides the mandatory classes, there are various elective courses being held throughout the school, so go listen to them and think about what you want to learn. If you’re unsure, you can come to my office and ask.”
“…”
“…”
The students exchanged glances.
-Can you go to the troll hybrid professor’s office for one-on-one counseling?
-Are you crazy?
…Such were the glances they exchanged.
“Wardanaz. Be careful.”
“Right. A troll’s weaknesses are fire and acid.”
“We don’t have either here?”
“…Wardanaz. Be careful.”
With the other students’ encouragement, Lee Han stood before Professor Garcia.
“Actually, I had heard about you beforehand, Lee Han.”
“??”
Lee Han paused at the unexpected words.
What?
“Would it be faster if I said I heard it from the Principal?”
“…!”
When she mentioned hearing it from the crazy Lich Principal, Lee Han’s face hardened.
Professor Garcia smiled and said.
“Don’t worry. The Principal may seem like a crazy bastard sometimes, but he’s fundamentally a good person.”
“…What??”
Does that make sense?
However, Professor Garcia pretended not to hear and continued.
“The Principal looks over the new students at the beginning of each year and briefly passes along information to the professors.”
The students didn’t know, but the Lich Principal had very sharp insight.
The new students entering this school were young men and women of all kinds who had just come of age in the Empire.
Sharp insight was necessary to prevent accidents.
-Be careful of that dwarf. From what I can see, he’ll burn down his dormitory room at least three times.
-Ha! That one’s a demon hybrid. Professors who use divine magic, be careful. Don’t get hurt unnecessarily.
-Isn’t that a pickpocket from the 【White Crow】 guild?? Professors, be careful. Surely no one will come crying about being pickpocketed by a student? I’ll throw any such fool in the underground prison.
Of course, there were several professors who ignored the Principal’s words.
The Lich Principal had sharp insight, but…
He also had an equally insane personality.
-That orc kid… somehow I think he’d be good with a spear.
-He’s from a renowned swordsmanship family for generations though?
-Shut up! Tell him to use a spear.
-…
That Principal had said this about Lee Han.
-That one has the qualities of great foolishness.
-…??
Great foolishness.
It meant being very stupid.
Of course, the professors weren’t stupid enough to take those words at face value.
There was a famous saying among the proverbs of the Eastern Empire.
-Great foolishness is great wisdom.
What appears very foolish can connect with what is very wise.
It was an old proverb about not being deceived by appearances and finding true wisdom.
So the Principal’s words meant:
-It’s hard to tell now, but I can see the qualities of someone who will achieve greatness later.
The professors present were split in their reactions.
Either ‘He must have some talent if he’s saying that’ or ‘Did he perhaps get thoroughly drunk by someone from the Wardanaz Family yesterday?’
And Professor Garcia now thought she understood what the Principal had meant.
‘So that’s what he meant.’
“Um… what did the Principal say?”
Lee Han felt slightly ominous.
Being favored by a professor had both advantages and disadvantages.
If you were favored, you could get good grades and recommendation letters. It was an advantage that couldn’t be ignored.
But…
If you received favor beyond a certain level, conversations like this would begin:
-Kid. Your talent is too precious to waste like this.
-Thank you!
-Right. You should come to graduate school!
-What? I’ve never thought about…
-Do you know how fierce the competition is if you go out and get a job now? If you go to graduate school and get a degree, you can get a job with better conditions, and most importantly, you can delve deeper into the studies you love. How wonderful is that?
-When you put it that way, it does seem like that.
It would have been better if he met a kind professor.
If he met an evil, insane professor, hell would begin.
And the Lich Principal was…
‘Definitely someone I don’t want to get close to.’
Lee Han wanted to maintain stable good grades, build good connections, and graduate, not become friends with the Skeleton Principal and walk down a suspicious path of magic.
“Ah. I’m sorry. I can’t tell you exactly what the Principal said… Instead, I’ll tell you about the student’s talent. What the Principal conveyed is similar to this story.”
“!”
Lee Han’s eyes widened at the Troll Professor’s words.
Lee Han’s talent.
‘Was my talent… worth mentioning separately like this?’
When Lee Han was in the Wardanaz Family, he had never heard anything particular about his talent.
Of course, he had received confirmation that he had magical ability.
Lee Han’s father, the Head of Wardanaz Family, had said this much.
-How is my talent?
-Hmm. Your magical talent is quite decent.
-Thank you.
And that was all.
But now suddenly talking about talent was a bit confusing.
‘This isn’t bad news, is it?’
Lee Han seriously began to consider whether he should get investment with Yoner and set up an alchemy workshop.
“Student Lee Han’s mana capacity is very large.”
“…What? That’s it?”
Lee Han was bewildered.
It wasn’t something like ‘there’s a problem with casting magic’ or ‘light attribute magic doesn’t suit your constitution so you can’t use light attribute magic in the future’, but just that his mana capacity was large.
At least it wasn’t bad news, so that was a relief…
But he wondered if it was necessary to mention this separately.
‘I understood that everyone’s innate mana capacity is different, and it can be overcome through training and technique? Is it important enough to mention separately like this?’
“Of course that’s not all.”
“Ah… I thought so.”
“Student Lee Han’s mana capacity is really tremendously very large.”
“…???”
“Really, truly, insanely, tremendously, very large?”
“Oh.”
Only then could Lee Han understand why Professor Garcia had called him separately to speak seriously.
* * *
After hearing the detailed explanation, Lee Han thought.
‘Isn’t this a good thing?’
Magic required mana to use.
If mana was insufficient, one had to substitute by drawing mana scattered outside, gathering mana separately with magic circles, or using mana stones containing mana.
But if one had a lot of mana, there was no need for that.
As a mage, it was a very useful talent…
“It’s unfortunate.”
“???”
However, Professor Garcia was looking at Lee Han with eyes mixed with pity and worry.
From that gaze, Lee Han realized something was going wrong.
“Isn’t having a lot of mana capacity a good thing?”
“Usually having a lot is good. But student Lee Han really has tremendously very much. Water contained in a glass bottle is easy to handle like this, but controlling the water of a vast ocean would be very difficult, wouldn’t it?”
At Professor Garcia’s words, Lee Han realized the seriousness of the situation and his expression hardened.
So right now…?
‘The magic difficulty goes up insanely?’
Just today, learning the very simple magic called ‘Light’, not a single student had succeeded.
Magic was that difficult a subject.
Drawing out mana, concentrating, binding with will…
All of this required superhuman concentration.
But if the mana capacity became uncontrollably enormous here, the already high difficulty increased even more.
“Here. Please take this bracelet.”
A crude and heavy iron bracelet.
Professor Garcia put one bracelet each on Lee Han’s wrists.
“It’s a bracelet that absorbs mana. It will help.”
“!”
Still, Lee Han was moved by how the magic school immediately provided a solution.
“If I just wear this, it won’t be much of a problem!”
“What? No. Even wearing this will be damn difficult?”
“…”
“The mana is so enormous that nothing can be done about it. It’s better than not doing anything, so we’re doing it.”
Professor Garcia was a relatively kind and gentle person, but she was a mage.
Mages never spoke indirectly about such matters.
“…Any other advice perhaps?”
“Hmm… It might be somewhat better if you use magic tremendously often to consume mana. Student Lee Han can practice basic magic training alone. You’ll never have an accident from mana depletion.”
“…Thank you.”
In a way, he had been granted special treatment, but Lee Han wasn’t particularly happy.
* * *
‘Ah. Should I take subjects that don’t use magic?’
Even though it was called a magic school, there weren’t only subjects that used magic.
Just alchemy alone rarely involved using magic.
Lee Han’s head became complicated as he left the Professor’s Room.
‘From the first year, I need to choose my path well and manage my grades well so I won’t regret it when I graduate later…’
“You came out alive!”
At the bottom of the stairs, Gainando and Yoner were waiting.
Gainando, genuinely worried, looked Lee Han up and down.
“What are you looking at?”
“I’m checking if there are any bite marks from the professor.”
At Yoner’s words, Lee Han looked at Gainando as if he was absurd.
‘Well, seeing the Skeleton Principal, it would be strange not to suspect the professors.’
“What did you hear?”
At Yoner’s curious question, Lee Han shrugged his shoulders.
“She told me to practice magic a lot.”
“How dare…!”
Gainando got angry as if it were his own business.
How dare they tell a child of a great noble house to practice magic a lot.
How rude!
‘If he gets this angry hearing that, won’t this guy challenge the professor to a duel if he fails an exam and has to retake it later?’
“Never mind about my business. I want to try some elective subjects before the next required subject. Do you have any subjects in mind?”
“I’m naturally going for alchemy.”
At Yoner’s words, Gainando openly sneered.
“Come on. Alchemy is something servants and slaves do!”
“…”
Lee Han could clearly see it.
Yoner’s fist clenching tightly!
How to Survive as a Mage in Magic School
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