Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 527

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Chapter 527

At first, he thought it might be a mistake due to mana, like the Skeleton Principal’s minions often made.

But the meaning contained in Professor Paselette’s words felt a bit different.

That didn’t seem like mistaking mana, but rather seeing some other truth.

Tiziling Priest asked with a curious voice.

“By any chance, are you lost?”

Of course, what Tiziling Priest meant by “lost” didn’t refer to reality.

Befitting magic that was among the most abstruse and eccentric, divination mages often suffered from various side effects.

One of them was the phenomenon of trying divination too deeply, forgetting the concepts of past, present, and future, and getting lost in fate.

Divination mages now expressed this as “being lost.”

“A great divination mage like the Professor would certainly be able to…”

Though it was called a side effect, this phenomenon of getting lost wasn’t something just anyone could experience. In a way, it was close to a supreme realm.

Ordinary divination mages just coughed up blood or lost their lives; they couldn’t swim between past, present, and future like that.

How difficult was it to divine even tomorrow’s events?

As such, it wasn’t surprising that Tiziling Priest looked at Professor Paselette with eyes mixed with amazement and respect.

A realm that one might not reach even after a lifetime of training in divination magic.

Someday, Tiziling Priest also wanted to reach such truth…

“No. She’s just gone mad.”

Lee Han firmly denied it.

“…”

The always kind and gentle Tiziling Priest asked with a rarely seen displeased expression.

“Do you have any reason for thinking that way?”

“The professors were originally mad.”

“…”

Tiziling Priest looked at Lee Han with an even more displeased expression.

If Gainando or Angrago had looked at him like that, he would have hit them with his staff, but when someone like Tiziling Priest looked at him that way, Lee Han felt pressured to add more reasons.

“Actually, Tiziling Priest. I know my future.”

“Is that… really true?”

Tiziling Priest raised his voice in surprise. He seemed truly shocked as the corners of his eyes trembled.

People who knew their own future weren’t common. No, such people simply didn’t exist.

How could a mortal being know their own future in advance?

However, Tiziling Priest knew that the boy before him was from the Wardanaz Family.

There were many mysteries in the Empire that the priest himself didn’t know.

If it was the Wardanaz Family, they might possess such knowledge…

‘Did he receive some kind of prophecy? But how? By what method?’

“Yes.”

Lee Han lowered his voice so only Tiziling Priest could hear.

At that serious attitude, Tiziling Priest unconsciously leaned in with concentration.

What kind of future could it be?

“After graduation, I’ll multiply my assets dozens of times through connections and excellent business sense, then make a name for myself as a rising entrepreneur in the Empire and live a life of leisure forever.”

“…”

Tiziling Priest lost his composure and glared at Lee Han.

Though he still had much to learn about divination magic, he could instinctively feel that the future the boy before him had just described was wrong.

* * *

Fortunately, Professor Paselette soon woke up.

With a pained expression like someone who had drunk about ten bottles of cheap liquor the night before, Professor Paselette looked at the two students.

“…I didn’t attack you two, did I…?”

“No.”

“You just did some divination.”

“You didn’t even do divination. You just said some strange things.”

“…”

Tiziling Priest was about to say something at Lee Han’s desperate denial but stopped.

Professor Paselette let out a sigh of relief and said.

“That’s a relief. Thank goodness. If I had attacked you… I’ve been quite dangerous lately while preparing grand magic.”

“Grand magic?”

Lee Han asked while hiding his wariness.

Whether it was professors or seniors, preparing grand magic within Einroguard was never good for first-year students.

The moment someone made even a small mistake, they would all have to bear the consequences together.

“Yes. I need to locate next year’s new students. Though the Principal is overseeing it, I can’t avoid bearing some burden too.”

“…!”

Lee Han realized what she meant and was horrified.

‘Divination magic can do even that??’

Come to think of it, bringing new students of various backgrounds from across the Empire couldn’t be done without using magical power.

And finding the locations of such new students naturally fell under divination magic.

Nevertheless, the reason Lee Han had never thought about it was one thing.

The scale of the magic was incredibly tremendous.

‘Even if they use the power accumulated in Einroguard, to divine the locations of qualified people across the entire Empire…’

Tiziling Priest was also shocked like Lee Han, just staring with wide eyes without saying anything.

The Skeleton Principal’s magic was that shocking.

“The rebound would be too severe… I think…”

When Tiziling Priest spoke hesitantly, Professor Paselette chuckled and looked at the demon hybrid priest fondly.

“Most of the backlash is handled by the Principal and the Principal’s prisoners, so there’s nothing to worry about.”

‘I think there was something strange just now.’

“By the way, did I really only say strange things? It seems like I fell quite deeply…”

Professor Paselette trailed off with slight puzzlement.

Usually when she fell this deeply into divination, even while spouting useless nonsense, she would catch a few useful words.

But there was nothing like that this time.

“There wasn’t.”

“…”

Tiziling’s strange silence bothered her, but Professor Paselette decided not to ask further and let it pass.

“I see. That’s disappointing. Sometimes I catch something useful.”

The disappointed professor looked around and waved her staff to push away the opaque gray mist surrounding the forest trees.

“It appeared again.”

“Isn’t that just fog?”

“It’s more like residue. Since we’re conducting such large-scale magic, things like this keep appearing. Be careful as you might see hallucinations if you come into contact with it.”

“…”

Lee Han felt slightly frustrated at the professor telling them this now.

“Hmm…”

Not knowing what the student was thinking, Professor Paselette looked at the two and fell into contemplation.

As her contemplation lengthened, Lee Han in front felt slightly ominous.

Basically, it was rare for good things to happen when professors contemplated students for long.

“Um. Professor. We need to collect rock plantain for our duty, and this takes longer than expected…”

“Didn’t you say earlier that you’d handle it with magic?”

“I did. But thinking about it, it seems like too much of a mana waste.”

“??”

But regardless of what Lee Han said, Professor Paselette, who wasn’t listening, finished her decision alone and spoke again.

“Right. Since we’ve met like this, it must be fate, so I should show you this opportunity. Both of you follow me. It’ll be interesting since you’re learning divination magic.”

“…”

Originally, Professor Paselette had a laissez-faire attitude of not paying much attention to his disciples, believing that those who wanted to learn would learn on their own.

However, the two disciples before him were somewhat special among his students.

Tijiling’s talent was outstanding enough to catch the eye of even divination mages, and Wardanaz was just…

‘He’ll probably like seeing this.’

Professor Paselette’s other personalities also agreed wholeheartedly.

-Very well thought! As I said before, you mustn’t bore a genius!

-I, I think so too…

Of course, Lee Han was deeply frustrated.

‘I had a bad feeling from the moment I saw the professor after sunset.’

He should have turned around and run away right then, but looking out of curiosity was a huge mistake from the start.

To make such a mistake – he still had a long way to go as an Einroguard student.

“Do you know what the professor is trying to show us?”

When Lee Han became so frustrated, Priest Tijiling tilted her head and asked.

As a priest, Tijiling couldn’t guess at all.

“No. I don’t know either.”

“…”

Then why are you frustrated…?

* * *

Even the Skeleton Principal couldn’t use great magic that would affect the entire Empire at will.

Einroguard’s magic, as ancient as the Skeleton Principal himself.

Terrain with one of the Empire’s finest mana veins.

Plus excellent mages to help the Skeleton Principal, various minions, scapegoats to cough up blood and die in his place, and so on.

As these processes were underway, unusual phenomena that couldn’t normally be seen were occurring throughout Einroguard.

Professor Paselette waved his staff again.

The mists they had seen earlier scattered once more, clearly revealing a path through the forest.

“Oh my. It’s quite severe today. You’d better just follow behind me.”

“…?”

Lee Han and Priest Tijiling didn’t understand what he meant, but they could grasp his intention soon enough.

The path that had just been created disappeared in an instant and was filled with dense trees.

Professor Paselette walked freely between the trees where it was impossible to tell which way was which, as if there were signposts.

He was breaking through this natural labyrinth with the power of divination magic.

Crack!

One of the stones on the bracelet Professor Paselette was wearing shattered.

Lee Han immediately drew his staff.

“What enemy is it?”

“No, no. It’s not an enemy, it’s misfortune. It blocked the misfortune that was about to befall me. This is a ward against bad luck. You’ll learn to make these this time.”

Divination mages learned not only simple divination but also how to control that future.

Control might sound grandiose. In fact, it was more like a desperate struggle to slightly redirect the flow of a massive current rather than true control.

But even that little bit was crucial for divination mages. Because the act of divining the future was that dangerous.

One of those countermeasures was this kind of ward.

“It breaks like this when it detects misfortune, and though it may not seem very useful…”

“I really want one!”

When his disciple, who usually showed no material desires, cried out with sincerity, Professor Paselette was slightly flustered.

“W-well. You’ll learn soon enough. This should be… good. It’s accumulated properly.”

Professor Paselette looked around and finally found what he was looking for.

It was a spring.

However, instead of the usual clear water, it was filled with gray, murky liquid that rippled like the mist they had seen earlier.

“Do you all know what this is?”

“Is it a spring filled with poison?”

Professor Paselette burst into giggles, thinking Lee Han was joking.

‘I wasn’t joking though.’

“No. It’s like residue that flowed out while conducting this great magic. Normally it would just cause hallucinations, but in a situation where it’s accumulated at such high concentration, if there’s a mage who can control it…”

Professor Paselette waved his staff and chanted an incantation.

The surrounding air became quieter and quieter until even noise disappeared. The usual insect sounds and bird calls commonly heard in forests were also gone.

“It becomes a tool that sharpens divination power very acutely, albeit in a limited way.”

The professor threw a gourd to Lee Han.

“Try drinking some. It’ll be an interesting experience.”

While Lee Han carefully approached the spring with the gourd, Priest Tijiling asked a question.

“So this spring… enhances divination power?”

“That’s right. Interesting, isn’t it?”

“I’m truly amazed. How effective is it?”

“About 3 seconds at the shortest, 10 seconds at the longest?”

Even that was tremendously remarkable.

Divination power was an ability that couldn’t be easily touched even with magic.

Gulp-

When Lee Han drank the spring water, Professor Paselette asked with an expectant voice.

“How is it? Did you feel that sense of omniscience, like you could predict anything for a brief moment?”

“…?”

Lee Han hesitated.

Even after the time the professor mentioned had passed, the feeling he just described hadn’t disappeared.

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