Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 647
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Chapter 647
However, Alsicle did not stop his magic.
Gainando quickly cut the flowers from the tree branches while getting hit by snowballs.
‘Grr. Just you wait.’
Gainando made a vow while brushing off the snowballs.
When juniors came in, he would definitely make them work like this too!
“Did you get everything?”
“Yes.”
“Good. You cut it with a silver sickle, right?”
“Uh, I cut it with a bronze sickle.”
“Don’t you know that red moon flowers lose their power unless cut with pure silver?”
“No.”
Instead of explaining, Alsicle swung his staff. Then snowballs began flying again.
“Quickly go back up. Aren’t you going up?”
“Argh. Ahhh!”
“This time make sure to cut it with a silver sickle! Are you deliberately slacking off?”
“I’m not!”
* * *
Alsicle returned with Gainando, who had bruises around his eyes.
As soon as they passed through the manor’s gate, Gainando sniffled and ran straight to his friends.
“What’s wrong?”
“He’s a completely crazy mage! He kept getting angry telling me to bring materials!”
“Einroguard is like that too, isn’t it?”
“…He got angry because I cut the red moon flowers with a bronze sickle!”
“Don’t tell me you cut them with a bronze sickle instead of a silver one?”
“Wow. That’s pretty bad.”
When Yoner, Ratford, and Nilia all looked at him with shocked expressions, Gainando shook his head.
It was a mistake to talk to these beings who were beneath this friend.
“Lee Han, Lee Han! Outside…”
However, Gainando’s friend was already having a conversation with Alsicle.
Gainando glared at Alsicle’s fluffy back of the head with hateful eyes.
He wanted to throw a bone at him!
“Wardanaz. I thought you’d be doing magical research on music magic, but why are you doing something else?”
Alsicle asked with confusion.
He had even taken on chores to help with music magic research, but here he was doing something else.
“Ah. I finished that earlier.”
“…What?”
“I decoded and interpreted the sheet music, then attached new lyrics and tried performing it. It seemed pretty good, so I’m planning to research other music magic in this direction from now on. Thank you once again.”
“Good. That’s gre… No. Wait a minute!”
Alsicle almost got swept away by the extremely polite words but immediately came to his senses.
What did he mean he finished it earlier?
And what did he mean by attaching new lyrics and performing it turned out well?!?!
“From the beginning! Explain from the beginning!”
“Huh? No, it probably won’t be very interesting for you, Penguerin…”
“Quickly!!”
“Understood.”
Since Alsicle’s momentum was so fierce (and he hadn’t even brushed off the snow from outside yet), Lee Han quickly began explaining.
So the mages from the old fake kingdom era made instrument artifacts to cast music magic, chose just one song and trained for decades, used that to create resonance phenomena to supplement their lacking power…
“Indeed! That’s an interesting idea?”
“Right? So I tried performing it with lyrics attached and it was pretty good.”
“…Don’t skip over it and tell me the rest properly!”
“No, why are you getting angry…”
Lee Han continued explaining while being flustered.
Since music magic was greatly influenced by the caster’s emotions, the lyrics from the fake kingdom era were hard to use as they were, so he made new ones together with his friends…
And it worked well!
“…Is that the end?”
“Yes. It worked well.”
“…”
Alsicle hung his head low in despair.
What kind of insane talent was this!
In the time it took to go out and collect herbs, he had finished an ancient magic that had been lost…
“Penguerin? Are you alright?”
“I’m not alright.”
“Did you get a headache because of Gainando?”
Lee Han asked with genuine concern.
Gainando could definitely cause headaches for people dealing with him for the first time.
“…It’s not that. Anyway, let’s go inside. Can you perform it once more?”
“Yes. It’s not even that difficult. Just a moment.”
Lee Han picked up the violin he had placed beside him. Then he called his friends.
“Could you help with the chorus?”
“Chorus?”
“When I practiced, I noticed that when someone sings along from the side, the effect increases.”
“I see. Interesting.”
Alsicle showed interest in the characteristics of the ancient magic that had been lost long ago.
It was definitely interesting because the system was different from current Empire magic.
‘I’ll have more stories to tell when I go to the magic society later.’
The mages at the society would find this story very interesting too.
Moreover, if the person involved was a 2nd-year student from Einroguard, even more so.
This was good for Wardanaz too. Wouldn’t his reputation spread among other mages in the Empire?
Alsicle was about to show off but stopped.
Originally, good deeds should be done quietly and secretly to be dignified.
Alsicle was a dignified noble of the Penguerin family.
“Shall we start?”
Lee Han signaled to his friends and began playing. Since it was the intro part without lyrics, only the violin sound resonated.
Alsicle was listening while thinking ‘For someone from the Wardanaz family, he sure knows how to do all sorts of things’ when he paused.
The slow music contained mana.
And it was mana mixed with dark element!
“???!”
Just as described in the magic explanation from the sheet music, when dark element mana began filling the surroundings, Alsicle was truly surprised.
He had been interested in music magic but hadn’t valued it highly, yet it could so easily dominate an area.
“Wardanaz. Wardanaz.”
“Yes?”
Lee Han stopped playing.
His friends looked at Alsicle with annoyed eyes. They had been preparing properly but suddenly stopped.
“S-sorry. I was suddenly curious. Is that violin perhaps the artifact you mentioned earlier?”
“Ah. As expected of Penguerin. You’re saying I should modify the violin into an artifact to enhance the magic’s effect, right?”
“…No. I’m just asking because I heard sounds with mana in them.”
“Ah.”
Lee Han felt embarrassed for barking up the wrong tree.
“I think some songs that resonate with the caster unconsciously become imbued with mana and are released. This was actually proven when investigating cases of music magic in the vicinity.”
“But that only happens very rarely, and only when dozens of people sing together in a trance.”
“That’s right.”
“But right now you haven’t even started singing and are only playing the violin.”
“Correct.”
“So how did you imbue it with mana?”
“I’m not really sure myself.”
“…S-sorry. Please continue.”
Alsicle felt deflated as he realized he was questioning a mage who had only studied magic for one year at Einroguard.
If Wardanaz knew that right away, he’d be an archmage…
‘I asked without thinking.’
As they talked, he kept mistaking this junior mage for a peer of the same age rather than a vastly junior mage.
The performance resumed. When the prelude ended, Lee Han slowly began the lyrics. The mana concentration in the surroundings started to rise.
“Praise the sacrifice of new students, oh mages…”
“??”
Alsicle doubted his ears.
The lyrics had changed far too much.
He said he had revised them, but Alsicle thought he had only corrected typos or awkward sentences at most…?!
“Wait… No. Sorry. Please continue.”
Alsicle was about to stop but held back when he received glares from the students.
Lee Han continued singing a song mourning the new students who had entered Einroguard.
The melody was so heroic and mournful that Alsicle found himself feeling reverent without realizing it.
“What did your senior see?
-He saw demons of hell and those demons walking about.”
“What did your senior see?
-The archmage lich commanding armies and attacking students…”
“No. Really, wait a moment!”
Alsicle made Lee Han and his friends who were singing in chorus stop.
The effects of music magic had already spread to some extent in the surroundings. Due to the dark elements, despite sunlight pouring through the stained glass windows at midday, it was dim like sunset.
“Ah. That was the best part.”
Nilia was disappointed.
She was particularly attached to the next lyrics since she had thought them up and added them herself.
Lee Han asked with an expression showing he understood why Alsicle had stopped them.
“Are you amazed that we can create a phenomenon that dominates an area through such primitive methods?”
“…That is amazing too! But not that. Don’t you think the lyrics are strange? The lyrics!”
It was a song that would reduce Einroguard’s new students by half if performed anywhere.
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After calming his excitement, Alsicle advised them not to sing this song in front of the Skeleton Principal.
Only then could they finally discuss music magic.
“Really fascinating. Wardanaz. I’d love for you to research this magic when you’re a second-year too.”
“I’ll try if I have time.”
Of course, Lee Han wasn’t planning to delve that seriously into music magic.
He had worked hard to learn 【Praise the New Students of Einroguard】 precisely because its effects were so good.
The effect of temporarily dominating the surrounding area was something Lee Han’s current magic couldn’t achieve.
Compared to that, other music magic spells were…
‘The effects were rather ambiguous.’
The effects of the music magic spells he had collected while traveling with the Skeleton Principal weren’t particularly impressive.
They weren’t unusable, but not worth obsessing over.
‘How reliable?’
However, Alsicle was pleased with Lee Han’s response.
Seeing such a serious attitude, he might be able to invite him to the academy around the end of his second year to give a presentation on music magic.
Alsicle raised his staff and pushed away the dark elements still remaining in the space, then brightened the surroundings.
Then he tilted his head curiously at what Lee Han had been doing before he arrived.
“What were you doing?”
“Ah. I was inspecting some of the artifacts I have.”
Even artifacts that were nearly permanent weren’t invincible.
Thorough checking and maintenance usually brought better performance.
Moreover, in Lee Han’s case, he had so many strange artifacts that he couldn’t help but pay attention to them.
The Bracelet of Ten Thousand Demons, the black magnetite sword, the behemoth necklace containing various magic spells, the staff with a wood spirit dwelling in it…
Alsicle watched Lee Han’s maintenance with interest.
As befitting someone who might be the Skeleton Principal’s successor, he only collected sinister and bizarre artifacts.
“What’s that stone embedded in the staff? It looks quite ominous.”
“It’s the Ice Giant King’s gemstone.”
“…How on earth did you get that…?”
Looking around for something more ordinary, Alsicle discovered a uniquely shaped helmet.
“What’s that helmet? It doesn’t seem like an ordinary artifact.”
“Ah. The Helm of Wisdom.”
Lee Han spoke as if he had forgotten about it.
It was a useless and evil artifact he had picked up in the school’s underground dungeon long ago, though he didn’t know who made it.
He had tried to sell it to a shop but was refused, so he just kept it…
“It looks decent?”
“A professor modified it so it doesn’t hide the truth anymore, but it’s fundamentally an evil artifact.”
“That’s not really a problem.”
Alsicle looked at him as if asking what he was talking about.
If you avoided things because they were dangerous, you weren’t a mage.
“You must have received a lot of help from this helmet at Einroguard?”
“Actually, I never used it except once during a flood. And even during the flood, it wasn’t very helpful.”
“…No, that’s it?”
Alsicle removed the cloth covering the helmet and woke the sleeping helmet.
Finally! Has the time come to borrow my evil wisdom?
“Nice to meet you. Helmet.”
The master has changed! Finally!! You’ve made an excellent choice. The previous master was an evil, cunning, and meticulous fool! Don’t believe a single word that previous master said!
“I’m right here next to you. Helmet.”
…
The helmet quietly tried to turn off its light and disappear.
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