Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 584

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Chapter 584

Lee Han was momentarily flustered, but quickly regained his composure and spoke.

“I practiced a lot.”

“Cough. So…”

“It’s a dark element skeleton warrior.”

“Cough, cough. That’s…”

“I summoned it with ancient necromancy, and it can even dance…”

“What? That’s quite interesting.”

Professor Mortum, who had been coughing and then heard about the skeleton dancer, forgot his coughing and showed interest.

To implement a skeleton dancer using ancient necromancy where the dark mage had to give detailed commands directly.

He was curious how much talent and effort had gone into it.

“Oh my. Look at my mind. But still, it won’t do.”

“But why not?”

“Cough. If Raphadael sees your undead summon, he’ll be intimidated and disappointed.”

“…”

Lee Han couldn’t argue against such a valid point.

Indeed, when Raphadael was finally showing enthusiasm for dark magic, there was no benefit in crushing that spirit.

Considering the future of the dark magic school with its small number of students, it was right to show some consideration for students like Raphadael who had persevered until the end of the school year.

“And you’ll get full marks anyway. Cough. Now go and prepare for your next exam.”

With a deflated heart, Lee Han walked out of the Dark Tower.

‘Is it okay for exams to be like this?’

* * *

Before Professor Milay’s summoning magic exam began.

A tense atmosphere hung in the lecture hall.

With many students attending, the tension was on a different level from the dark magic school.

There was a taut tension about who would achieve better grades.

Salko of House Tutanta was also not someone who would back down from such competition.

“Tutanta. You seem to have prepared a lot.”

“Hmph. I couldn’t prepare that much since I was studying enchantment magic.”

“For someone who says that, your book is pretty worn out?”

“It was an old book to begin with.”

Salko tried to pretend he hadn’t studied, not showing any weakness to the competitive probing from other tower students.

Real competition always started before the exam.

The strong must know how to hide their claws.

‘But I prepared a lot.’

Nilia was slightly flustered by Salko’s words.

Hearing her friend say he hadn’t prepared much made her feel a bit confused.

Did only I study a lot?

‘It would be awkward if only my grades turn out low after this…!’

“Phew. I didn’t really study that much either.”

“I also just played ball yesterday evening and went to sleep.”

“Actually, I’m the same.”

Salko’s disguise spread like a contagious disease.

The students taking summoning magic began competing over ‘who could take the exam with the most casual mindset.’

“Look at this summoning magic tome. Doesn’t it look completely new?”

“But that’s not a tome covering this semester’s content.”

“Oh no. I dropped my reagent pouch. I guess it was too heavy since I didn’t use any of it?”

“Looks like you refilled it? There’s powder on the mouth of the reagent pouch.”

A tense standoff.

The students who were glancing at each other were startled by the appearance of a newly arrived student from behind.

His basic summoning magic tome was as clean as if it were completely new.

Who could it be?

“Huh? Why is everyone acting like that?”

Gainando was puzzled by his friends’ stares.

“…It’s nothing. Gainando. Haha. Looks like you didn’t study.”

“Prince. You should still study a bit.”

“What? That’s not true? I studied a lot??”

Gainando panicked and made excuses, but his friends smiled warmly and patted his shoulder.

What a reliable guy!

Lee Han, who entered late, was amazed by the warm atmosphere floating around the lecture hall.

“It’s before an exam, so why is everyone laughing and chatting?”

“Lee Han! Those bastards are slandering me saying I didn’t study…”

Lee Han looked at Gainando’s book once, looked at his reagent pouch once, then said.

“They’re saying that because you didn’t study.”

“How, how…?! Is it magic?! Is it magic?!”

Smack!

Gainando, who got hit once, realized he was caught and made excuses.

“I was preparing for dark magic!”

Smack!

“?!”

“What did you answer for the question about creatures from the undead realm earlier?”

“Huh? That? Sand octopus.”

“…”

Lee Han was momentarily flustered.

He had hit him expecting he would naturally say skeleton…

“Why on earth sand octopus?”

“Because it’s a creature?”

“…That’s true. But sand octopuses have never been discovered in the undead realm.”

“But just because they haven’t been discovered doesn’t mean they don’t exist. They might be discovered someday, right?”

“!”

Lee Han was surprised by Gainando’s unexpectedly logical attack on the loophole.

“Well, you could think of it that way.”

“Oh. Then was I right?”

“No. That’s not it.”

Lee Han began explaining ‘what is inductive reasoning?’ to his friend.

Gainando, who was listening, screamed that he had done wrong.

“Take your seats.”

Professor Milay entered the lecture hall, waving her staff.

The windows closed and the curtains moved. The chairs scattered messily returned to their places and the students were forced to sit.

“I’m curious whether you all studied hard.”

“Yes! Professor.”

“Usually, students who overestimate their amount of studying often aren’t actually like that. Confidence is good, but overconfidence is forbidden.”

Gainando made a confident expression upon hearing those words.

Lee Han, who was next to him, hit him again.

“Students who have studied throughout this year will know, but summoning magic basically operates by following the experiences of our predecessors.”

Professor Milay began speaking calmly.

Summoning magic basically dealt deeply with how to draw beings from other dimensions into the reality dimension.

Naturally, this process could become dangerous in countless ways, and summoning mages had devised various safety measures to prepare for such situations.

Having students enter other dimensions through Professor Milay’s magic circle was one such device.

Using dozens of linked spells to protect souls from threatening entities in other dimensions.

Among these were direct protection spells like soul protection, soul trace reduction, and affinity enhancement, but there were also spells that fixed dimensional coordinates and made movement follow familiar paths.

So they could move within previously explored areas that were relatively safe.

But paradoxically, taking only safe paths meant true wisdom could never be found.

The wisdom unknown to mages always lay beyond dangerous territories.

‘This feels ominous.’

Lee Han frowned while listening to Professor Milay’s words.

Other summoning magic school students were listening with impressed expressions while taking notes, but Lee Han wasn’t easily fooled by such words.

Hadn’t Professor Boladi also said things like ‘let’s explore beyond the limits of existing magical combat’ before beating up Lee Han?

Words from professors suggesting to go beyond usually didn’t end well.

“So today’s test will involve releasing the safety measures and exploring the realm of uncertainty.”

“!”

Students who understood Professor Milay’s meaning were startled.

Among the murmuring students, someone cautiously raised their hand and asked.

“Professor. Wouldn’t that be too dangerous?”

“Good question. Of course, just because it’s the realm of uncertainty doesn’t mean I’ll leave everything completely up to you. I’ll need to maintain some level of control.”

When Professor Milay waved her staff again, chalk walked across the blackboard drawing pictures.

A new dimensional gate, and passing through that gate…

‘A net?’

‘A fishing rod?’

‘A universal golem arm?’

Students murmured about the strange artifact’s shape.

It looked like a golem’s arm, but also like a fishing rod or net used by fishermen, which was quite odd.

“I understand, Professor. Instead of entering directly, you’re only sending the artifact in.”

Salko spoke as if he understood.

Other students felt regretful hearing this.

“I was thinking the same thing!”

“Right. It’s much safer to just put in the artifact.”

Professor Milay glared at the students burning with pointless competition through her monocle.

The students became embarrassed and closed their mouths.

‘Certainly, if it’s that kind of method…’

Lee Han fell into thought.

Previously, mages directly contacted and entered other dimensions, but this was a format of just sticking artifacts into other dimensions.

Of course, it would be much more inconvenient and troublesome than the former, but in terms of safety, nothing could compare.

It was particularly appealing to someone like Lee Han who received poor treatment in various ways when going to other dimensions.

“Professor, could this possibly be used in the Spirit Realm too?”

“Student Lee Han. It would be better not to think about contracting with spirits this way. They’re delicate and sensitive beings, so if you kidnap and bring them like this…”

“Oh, no. I was just asking. I wasn’t thinking of contracting with this.”

Lee Han panicked when his inner thoughts were discovered.

How did she know?

“Now then…”

Professor Milay glanced at the time.

“Until the test ends, do your best to find and drag back mysterious beings from other dimensions…”

Before she finished speaking, students stood up, each grabbed an artifact, and returned to their seats.

On the table, the magic circle Professor Milay had prepared was sparkling.

‘This time I’ll definitely show something.’

Lee Han’s resolve was firmer than ever, being in a state of dissatisfaction with tests due to professors who kept just letting things slide.

He would show something even if it meant utilizing everything he had learned so far!

* * *

“Mmm. Yes, yes. Thank you.”

Nilia nodded while listening to the spirit’s whispers.

While ordinary students were sticking artifacts in first and stirring up other dimensions, clever students were using available methods to check dimensional information.

People with high affinity with spirits like Nilia received help from spirits.

Even without direct information, rough confirmation was possible through spirits asking around among themselves.

“Dol, please choose between up and down.”

Someone casting limited divination magic.

“Ugh. Can’t secure vision. It breaks while passing through the dimension.”

Someone securing vision by applying additional enchantment magic.

“Go in. Yes. Wait a moment, hmm. It broke. Next. Go in.”

Someone lining up skeleton warriors in front of the magic circle and pushing them in one by one…

“?!”

“????”

Students nearby were staring at Lee Han, having already forgotten about their own tests.

It was that shocking.

Even if they were summoned creatures, was it okay to use them like consumables like that?

“Hmm. Yes. Is a bit more to the right better?”

The sparrow spirit and squirrel spirit were advising from Lee Han’s shoulders about where to send the skeletons.

Meanwhile, all the summoned skeleton warriors had disappeared.

Lee Han rummaged through his reagent pouch and pulled out new bone powders.

“Again, rise…”

“Wo, Wardanaz. Don’t the summoned creatures get angry if you do it that way?”

“My skeletons are fine.”

The skeleton warriors controlled through ancient necromancy weren’t beings from other dimensions but puppet-like existences composed purely of Lee Han’s mana.

Unlike other summoned creatures, there was no particular problem even if they were handled roughly.

Of course, to students who didn’t know better, it was a shocking answer.

“…?!!”

“No… Wardanaz’s skeletons are a bit different.”

Nilia quickly stepped in for her friend.

It seemed like misunderstandings would grow if this continued.

“Those aren’t contracted but directly summoned!”

“Oh, really? Dark magic can do things like that?”

“I almost misunderstood.”

Friends nodded in understanding at Nilia’s explanation.

They had almost misunderstood Wardanaz.

Meanwhile, Lee Han summoned a real skeleton warrior, Gonadaltes.

“Gonadaltes. I think I’ve found a roughly safe area. You need to go in and lead the other skeleton warriors. Can you do it?”

Seeing this, friends smiled and said to Nilia.

“That’s also just giving a name to an assembled skeleton, right?”

“If Nilia hadn’t told us, we would have misunderstood because of how he’s talking to it. Haha!”

“…Ri, right! That’s also just an assembled skeleton!”

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