Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 6
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Chapter 006
Lee Han, who had been steadily learning swordsmanship from the family’s old knight, Alarlong, and had his own knowledge of combat, could tell.
Yoner’s current stance was the posture of someone about to beat someone up!
“Wait. Wait.”
Lee Han stepped between the two and stopped them.
“Don’t look down on alchemy, Gainando.”
“But alchemy is trivial.”
Gainando spoke with a face that showed no awareness of the atmosphere.
“Where is there any wisdom in that?”
Magic was an endlessly infinite field of study. Even within it, there were dozens of different schools.
Illusion Magic, Summoning Magic, Transformation Magic, Elemental Magic, and so on.
And even within the same Elemental Magic, there was fire, water, light, darkness, and more.
The world of magic was so profound that even choosing one field and dedicating your entire life to it wouldn’t be enough.
And in such a world of magic, alchemy was sometimes looked down upon.
In the eyes of ignorant novice mages, alchemy was somewhat…
quite plain.
While others were waving staffs to summon angels of light and tear apart the earth, alchemists were holed up in laboratories mixing herbs and combining medicines…
“That’s…”
“Wait a moment. Wardanaz. Just step aside a little.”
Yoner asked Lee Han.
“I won’t do anything.”
“Alright.”
When Lee Han stepped aside, Yoner walked over and stood in front of Gainando.
Gainando tilted his head.
“Why?”
“Don’t you dare go to the infirmary asking for potions. Those are made with alchemy too!”
Thwack!
With a dull sound, Gainando fell backward.
It was such a magnificent punch that even Lee Han was impressed.
* * *
“But was it okay to hit him?”
“It’s fine if you apologize after about a day.”
It seemed like this wasn’t Yoner’s first time hitting Gainando.
He’d heard that cousins often fought, but he didn’t know it was okay to hit each other like this.
‘I interfered for nothing.’
Lee Han resolved that next time the two fought, he wouldn’t stop them and would just watch from the sidelines.
“…Wait. I’d hate for you to misunderstand, but I don’t hit people easily. You know what I mean?”
Yoner quickly made excuses, perhaps worried about being misunderstood.
For nobles, especially those from traditional and prestigious families, etiquette and dignity were even more important.
Throwing punches just because you had a verbal argument with someone wasn’t dignified behavior.
“Can’t you throw a punch or two when you’re angry?”
“???”
Yoner was even more flustered by Lee Han’s words.
‘Does the Wardanaz Family have such rules too?’
It might make sense for a knight family, but for one of the Empire’s most prominent families to condone such punching was hard to understand.
He couldn’t quite grasp it.
‘This guy must have an unusual character.’
Yoner convinced himself of this.
Indeed, among the nobles who had entered together, Lee Han seemed particularly experienced.
They were all from noble families, but they were still greenhorns who had just become adults.
Among such greenhorns, Lee Han stood out. From his behavior to the way he spoke, there was something different about him.
He truly lived up to being from the Wardanaz Family.
Yoner changed the subject. Since Lee Han was letting it slide, there was no need to keep harping on it.
“Anyway, are you really okay with taking alchemy? If you’re coming along because of me, I’m really fine going alone.”
“No. I’m also interested in alchemy.”
“Oh… are you tempted by my business proposal?”
“I am considering that too.”
“!”
Yoner was surprised by the unexpected response.
He hadn’t expected Lee Han’s thoughts to change in such a short time.
“What happened?” “Hmm. Well…”
Lee Han wondered what he should say.
-I don’t seem to have much talent for magic, so I think I need to seriously consider the alchemy business.
…saying that would sound too petty for someone from a noble family.
“No, it’s okay. I understand even without you saying it. You’ve been contemplating and realized the value of alchemy.”
“Huh?”
“Alchemy is really a fascinating field of study, isn’t it?”
“Uh… well… yes.”
Since Yoner seemed excited for some reason, Lee Han played along for now.
“People commonly think that alchemy means being holed up in an underground alchemy workshop unable to come out, but the world of alchemy is much broader and more profound.”
“Uh… yeah.”
Lee Han wasn’t flustered.
Listening to stories about things he wasn’t interested in was a skill he had honed since his graduate school days.
-Do you like mountain climbing?
-Excuse me? Well…
-Yes. Mountain climbing is really great. Did I tell you about when I went to Seoraksan Mountain last year? Breaking through the dawn mist and clouds…
-Yes. Yes.
-…I didn’t know you’d find it so interesting. You must enjoy mountain climbing too. Let’s go together sometime!
-…
Compared to such experiences, Yoner’s story was on the interesting side.
“Did you study alchemy in advance when you were with the Meikin Family?”
At Lee Han’s question, Yoner unconsciously looked around.
“…Yes. But this is a secret. They didn’t let me learn magic in advance, but they weren’t strict about preventing alchemy.”
“You can preview things in advance.”
“…”
Yoner looked at Lee Han with confusion once again.
Punching was OK, ignoring the rule about not learning magic before coming of age was also OK…
He really was an unusual person.
‘It’s good that he studied in advance.’
Lee Han knew well how helpful it was to have a friend who studied well.
If Yoner knew alchemy well, he could get help and achieve good grades.
“Then could you possibly teach me too?”
“…Of course!”
At Lee Han’s words about wanting to learn alchemy, Yoner smiled brightly and patted Lee Han’s shoulder with his palm.
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【Basic Understanding of Alchemy】.
Having encountered the Troll Hybrid Professor in Basic Understanding of Magic, Lee Han didn’t think he’d be very surprised by whatever professor appeared now.
And indeed, it wasn’t surprising.
‘He looks pretty ordinary, doesn’t he?’
What was there was a short dwarf. The dwarf, dressed nimbly like a hunter or ranger, even had a crossbow hanging at his waist.
“Is everyone here?”
“Ugh. There are Black Turtle Tower students here too.”
Yoner muttered.
It wasn’t that Yoner looked down on commoner-born students, but it was indeed awkward.
If only Blue Dragon Tower students were listening together, they could talk to each other without any discomfort since they understood each other…
But when students from other towers listened together, it was bothersome in many ways.
Moreover, from what he could see, there seemed to be more Black Turtle Tower students.
‘Their stares are quite bothersome.’
When commoner-born students met noble-born ones, they usually showed one of two reactions.
One was being afraid and not wanting to get involved.
The other was showing hostility.
Outside school, the latter would be hard to see under normal circumstances, but this was inside a school where ‘equality’ was the ideology.
They already had accumulated resentment from nobles acting arrogantly in daily life, and even after entering the school, the noble new students from 【Blue Dragon Tower】 looked down on them with sneering laughter, so hostility couldn’t help but arise.
“Hey. Stop staring. Besides, there’s even someone from the Wardanaz Family over there.”
“So what? Even the Wardanaz Family can’t touch us inside the school.”
“You’re not going to live inside the school forever. What if they retaliate when you go outside?” “I’ll think about that when the time comes.”
“…”
Lee Han clicked his tongue.
Being resented for something he didn’t do wasn’t a very pleasant thing.
‘Acting friendly would only backfire anyway.’
It seemed like he’d have to hang around with 【Blue Dragon Tower】 students for a while.
“Everyone quiet.”
The short dwarf professor opened his mouth. Though he was short, his voice had power that could be felt just by listening.
“My name is Thunderstep Goldal. You can comfortably call me Professor Thunderstep. You’re all probably thinking the same thing. With those magnificent school buildings behind us, why did we gather in this grassland without even a single desk?”
That was right.
The place where they had gathered to attend 【Understanding Basic Alchemy】 was surprisingly not a school building but a hill outside.
The Imperial Princess, Adenart, raised her hand. Thunderstep shrugged his shoulders.
“It wasn’t really a question I was expecting an answer to. But fine. Go ahead.”
“It’s to feel the mana of nature.”
There was a prejudice that you just had to mix reagents and herbs as prescribed, but alchemy also required magic.
Feeling the mana of nature and realizing what forces existed was also important work for an alchemist.
“Wrong.”
…However, the dwarf professor looked at Adenart as if asking what kind of ridiculous thing she was saying.
Adenart slightly reddened her pale face and lowered her head.
Lee Han asked Yoner without much thought.
“Didn’t he tell us to gather here because it’s good for collecting materials?”
“Could it really be for such a reason?”
“Oh. Correct!”
“…”
Lee Han and Yoner looked at the dwarf professor as if dumbfounded.
However, Thunderstep looked at Lee Han with an impressed expression and said.
“It’s rare to find blockheads who get it right immediately.”
“Not blockhead, but new student…”
“Right. Right. Blockhead new student. Anyway, well done. You have the talent of an excellent alchemist.”
At the dwarf professor’s praise, Yoner looked at Lee Han enviously.
And Adenart also glared at Lee Han slightly.
As if she had seen a rival.
‘…No, this isn’t something to glare about.’
Lee Han was dumbfounded.
Other things aside, did she want to be jealous of being praised for such an answer?
“The reason I told you to gather here is to let you blockheads know what abilities are needed for alchemy. You blockheads here are probably thinking like this: ‘The abilities needed for alchemy are excellent intelligence and delicate mana control.'”
‘Huh? Does alchemy also require delicate mana control?’
Lee Han, who was listening, flinched.
“But reality is different. The most necessary ability for an alchemist is the ability to gather materials.”
“…”
“…” At the dwarf professor’s words, the mages gathered there were dumbfounded.
It was a completely unexpected ability.
Adenart raised her hand and asked as if she couldn’t accept it.
“Professor. Materials and reagents can be grown and cultivated directly, and we can also commission adventurers to obtain them. It seems contradictory to say that alchemists must obtain them directly…”
“What a blockhead rookie who knows nothing about practice!”
Adenart’s already slightly reddened face became even redder. The dwarf professor Thunderstep clicked his tongue and said.
“Do you know what percentage of the materials and reagents that alchemists use can be obtained by cultivation? Less than 10%! The rest all has to be bought with money. And even if you buy them with money, are they all usable? Do you know why mages join parties and personally accompany them when hiring adventurers? It’s not because they have time to spare, but because if you leave adventurers alone, they’re terrible at harvesting herbs! They just roughly pull out herbs that should be carefully and preciously harvested, roots and all!”
Thunderstep ranted quite fiercely, as if he had a lot of accumulated resentment.
“In that sense, alchemists must unconditionally know how to obtain materials and reagents themselves. An alchemist who only depends on others can never achieve greatness. If you whine about lacking materials for research later, who’s going to find them for you?”
At the dwarf professor’s words, the students gathered there nodded with somewhat sympathetic expressions (and dejected expressions).
“Now. That should explain everything. Then go and find them.”
“Pardon?”
“What do you mean pardon? Scatter and go find materials.”
Thunderstep waved his staff. Paper appeared in the air and flew to each of the mages.
On the paper was drawn a picture of a bluish-green herb.
How to Live as a Mage at Magic School
How to Live as a Mage at Magic School
How to Live as a Mage at Magic School
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