Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 51

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Chapter 051

“Cough. That student over there, come to my workshop during break time.”

“????”

Professor Mortum coughed and spoke to Gainando.

Gainando made an expression as if he had been slapped.

Why?

What did I do wrong??

Could it be that he has some grudge against the Imperial Family???

“And that student as well.”

Professor Mortum also pointed at Lee Han.

Lee Han wasn’t as shocked as Gainando.

He had already been seriously considering dark magic as one of his options for grade management.

However, the Blue Dragon Tower students interpreted it differently.

“Gainando, you bastard! Because of you, Wardanaz is getting dragged into this too!”

“Can’t you even die alone like an idiot?!”

“Hurry up and say you’ll go alone!”

They misunderstood that Lee Han was being forcibly dragged along because of his friendship with Gainando.

The students were furious.

Lee Han already had several responsibilities to handle, and now he was being dragged along like a drowning person pulling others down?

“You… you bastards… I’m absolutely not going alone! We’re going together!”

Gainando was moved to tears by his friends’ harsh treatment.

“Take it back!”

“No!”

“I said take it back!”

“Everyone. Professor Mortum has already left.”

Professor Garcia looked at the Blue Dragon Tower students with disdain.

* * *

A mage’s workshop was, simply put, a kind of laboratory.

A place where a mage’s disciples voluntarily explored topics of the mage’s interest through various experiments and research for 25 hours a day without rest.

Of course, when described this way, it sounded like a hellish place where people would be worn down and ground up, but that was actually accurate.

While it varied greatly depending on which mage’s workshop it was, the lives of disciples learning under a mage were inevitably harsh.

Lee Han had heard quite a few stories about mage disciples studying in workshops when he was at his family estate.

-Once upon a time, there was a disciple learning magic under a mage. This disciple had to wake up in the morning, polish his staff, prepare reagents for experiments according to alchemical formulas, adjust the amount of mana for magic circles, then go out to collect necessary materials and return before lunch. This disciple was clever, so he would grab a quick lunch while out collecting, saving time to quickly handle his next tasks. So after that…

-Does this story end with the disciple killing the mage and taking over the workshop?

-Young master. What kind of ridiculous joke is that? The ending is naturally that this hardworking disciple becomes an excellent mage.

-…

In any world, there was no paradise for those who were learning.

But fortunately, there was no need to worry about that now.

Lee Han was currently a first-year student!

Since it wasn’t yet decided which professor he would study under, there was no reason to fear anyone.

If a professor seemed crazy, he could just quietly walk away.

“Sob sob sob…”

“…Are you actually crying?”

Lee Han was flustered.

Gainando’s eyes were genuinely red with tears.

“What did I do wrong… to be called separately to such a gloomy and remote place…”

“There’s no guarantee you were called because you did something wrong, is there?”

“Then what else could it be!! Huh! He’s definitely twisted like someone who practices dark magic and called us to torment us separately!”

The two were currently heading to the location Professor Mortum had told them about.

And in Lee Han’s view, the location of Professor Mortum’s workshop was somewhat problematic.

‘It’s excessively ominous?’

The path became increasingly desolate and quiet, then the wind sounds grew stronger, and ghostly sounds seemed to come from the forest beside the road…

They even saw several cemeteries.

Of course, it wasn’t incomprehensible.

Dark magic would basically require dark attribute mana, and studying undead would need corpses…

Meeting all those conditions would inevitably make it this sinister.

‘But if he complains about why new students don’t come after setting it up like this, that would be unconscionable…’

In the distance, Professor Mortum’s workshop, also known as the 【Dark Tower】, came into view.

From the outside, it looked like an ordinary four-story tower, but it was common knowledge that mages’ buildings couldn’t be judged by their appearance alone.

And already near the tower, several hints were visible.

Skulls and bones lying around broken.

Roughly carved tombstones stuck in the ground.

A box of poison bottles with a sign reading 【HANDLE WITH CARE!!! TOUCHING MEANS DEATH!!】.

It was easy to guess what kind of experiments and research were conducted in this workshop.

Feeling the atmosphere, Gainando’s face had already turned pale enough to be indistinguishable from an undead.

“Is anyone there?”

Creak-

When they knocked on the door, it opened by itself. Lee Han entered with Gainando.

Gainando trembled and tried to grab Lee Han’s collar. Lee Han swatted his hand away annoyedly. Gainando made an expression full of betrayal.

“Cough, cough… You’ve come.”

The workshop interior was filled with black and blue smoke, making it impossible to see even an inch ahead. Professor Mortum’s voice came from within the smoke.

“Diret. Guide the new students.”

“Are you in your right mind, Professor? The Principal said upperclassmen shouldn’t make contact with first-years.”

“Ah. Right. Cough. How troublesome… Can’t we just secretly ignore it?”

“I just got out of the prison cell not too long ago, you know? You want me to go back to the cell again?”

“It’s not a prison cell, it’s a punishment room… Cough. Fine. Stay inside.”

Professor Mortum waved his staff and swept all the smoke outside.

Then the interior became visible.

Inside was more decent than expected.

Perhaps it was cleaned up like this to entice new students…

Tables and chairs, and bookshelves.

It had the atmosphere of a library.

‘…No. They’re all made of bones?’

Lee Han realized belatedly and was horrified.

All the furniture was made of bones.

Of course, for a dark mage skilled in bone summoning, making furniture from bones was quite a cost-effective choice.

It was just a bit grotesque.

Gainando, not noticing they were bones, sat down on a chair while reading the mood.

Professor Mortum tried his best to make a benevolent expression as he spoke.

“Cough. You probably already know why I called you here?”

“I haven’t done anything wrong, Professor!”

“I called both of you because I think you have excellent talent for dark magic among the students. Wait, what did you just say?”

“Nothing at all.”

Gainando shut his mouth.

It was somewhat different from what he had expected.

‘I have excellent talent for dark magic?’

“Lee Han. He says I have excellent talent for dark magic?”

“I have ears too. I was right next to you, so of course I heard.”

“Ah… what should I do? I’m not interested in dark magic. But he says I have talent? Ah… what should I do?”

“…”

Lee Han couldn’t help but be amazed at Gainando’s shallow mindset.

How could he be so easily swayed?

Professor Mortum rubbed his palms together and pulled out some candies from somewhere. They were candies with skull wrappers.

“Have some while you listen. Now then. Since you both have excellent talent for dark magic, I thought it would be wonderful if you could hear directly about how great dark magic is. There are many misunderstandings about dark magic, but they’re truly just misunderstandings. *Cough. Cough.* Dark magic is the most beautiful and profound field among all magic.”

“…”

Gainando had a half-entranced expression, but Lee Han was listening with somewhat pitying feelings.

This was a story he had heard many times before.

Professors in popular fields were arrogant and aloof.

-You want to study under me? Let me think about it after seeing your talent.

But if there were popular fields, there were also unpopular ones.

Professors in unpopular fields were truly tearful and pitiful.

-The advantage of our department is… there’s nowhere left to fall.

-…

-Isn’t it nice to think that there’s only room to go up from here?

-…

Professor Mortum’s words reeked of the typical pathos of an unpopular field professor.

Seeing someone who couldn’t even properly entice students giving out candy while speaking like this…

“…that’s why dark magic is the magic of magics and the king of magic. Do you understand?”

“I’ve become interested in dark magic!!”

“I didn’t know dark magic was such a great form of magic.”

At Gainando and Lee Han’s responses, Professor Mortum’s face bloomed with a bright smile.

* * *

“Ah, should I learn dark magic? I didn’t know I had such talent. But dark magic has that kind of image. Still, if I really need to. Ah. But still, it’s a bit…”

Ignoring Gainando who was humming excitedly beside him, Lee Han examined the gift he had received from Professor Mortum.

Professor Mortum had given carefully wrapped gifts to the two students who had responded positively.

…It was an unidentified bone.

-What is this?

-When you return to your room, look at this bone. Then you’ll think of dark magic.

-No… what is it exactly?

-Hehe. *Cough cough.*

Professor Mortum scratched under his nose with an embarrassed expression.

As if he couldn’t rob the student of the joy of discovering and understanding this secret.

Of course, from Lee Han’s perspective, it was a rather creepy gift.

What kind of bone is this anyway?

‘Does it contain magic?’

Lee Han’s first guess was that it was a simple artifact containing magic.

Hadn’t he already been tricked once by the book the Principal gave him in the punishment room?

Maybe it was trendy among the magic school professors to casually gift artifacts containing magic to students without explanation.

Like giving something sweet to a lover on an anniversary…

‘Even though I thought of it myself, that’s a truly horrible comparison.’

Lee Han thought he should go back and research it later.

“Lee Han. Lee Han.”

“?”

“If I start learning dark magic, it’s absolutely secret from Mekin, right?”

Lee Han realized what Gainando was thinking.

Gainando had teased Yoner about learning alchemy.

How much teasing would he receive if he himself said he was learning dark magic?

Lee Han answered with a smile.

“Of course.”

‘I should tell him right away.’

* * *

The elf swordsman, Professor Ingoldel, was a professor who taught basic swordsmanship lectures and basic physical training lectures.

And both of these lectures were mainly attended by White Tiger Tower students.

In such lectures, Lee Han, the only one from Blue Dragon Tower, stood out very, very much.

However, the atmosphere was a bit different from the previous swordsmanship class.

If the previous swordsmanship class had been a situation where everyone was desperate to pick a fight somehow, in this class everyone avoided making eye contact with Lee Han.

If they got caught wrong, they’d be destroyed!

‘How comfortable.’

Lee Han thought he had done well to go crazy.

Indeed, people sometimes need to go crazy to make life’s difficulty level easier.

Of course, such craziness didn’t lower the difficulty of the lecture itself.

“Everyone runs without stopping. Without stopping! Using your whole body’s muscles is important, but don’t forget to feel mana through your breathing. If you continuously circulate mana within your body, you’ll be able to use your muscles much more efficiently.”

While mages used mana for magic, swordsmen used it on their own bodies.

Mana that flowed and circulated like a river within the body without stopping created effects that prevented fatigue from accumulating in the body and defended against external poisons.

…Of course, just because it was explained that way didn’t mean the still young new students could do it right away.

Everyone was just panting and running, forgetting about mana and circulation and everything else.

“Professor, I have, a question.”

“What is it?”

Professor Ingoldel welcomed Lee Han who was speaking to him and answered.

What could he be trying to ask?

“I’m planning to, enter the mountain range, to gather materials, do you have any, advice…”

“Hmm. It would be better to give up.”

“…”

“It would really be better to give up.”

Lee Han became anxious at Professor Ingoldel’s serious advice.

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