Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 649

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Chapter 649

“How… about… a… brooch… of… mana… recovery… for… Wardanaz…”

“It… would… be… absolutely… useless…”

About 5 seconds by Lee Han’s perception.

During those 5 seconds, the voices of people around him sounded slow. Lee Han realized that time in the area around the watch had accelerated nearly twice as fast.

‘A time magic artifact!’

Time magic was considered the highest difficulty magic in Imperial magic along with space magic.

The talent and effort required to learn it, the mana and reagents consumed when casting, and the inevitable dangers that followed even when all conditions were met.

All these countless disadvantages prevented spatiotemporal magic from being established as a separate school.

Even divination magic had mages gathering to form schools, but spatiotemporal magic was something only a very few life-risking geniuses would dare attempt.

‘Who made something like this? No, how did Sir Baldoron even know about this?’

The 5 seconds ended while he was rapidly thinking.

At that moment, Lee Han received a strong impact. It felt as if all the muscles in his body were screaming.

“Ugh!”

“What about a letter opener of mana recovery?”

“Anything with just mana recovery attached would be absolutely useless even if I died.”

The conversation between Alsicle and Yoner came through normally. Lee Han knelt down in agony.

Thud!

“Everyone stand back!”

Alsicle jumped up in shock and swung his staff. Like an experienced senior mage, he realized what had happened.

He must have touched some faulty artifact!

“Don’t come near! It could be poison or a curse!”

“But… poison or curses shouldn’t work on Lee Han, right?”

“…”

Alsicle was impressed even while swinging his staff to create barriers.

Indeed, like a close friend, he had made a sharp observation.

“That could be true. But there are always exceptions! And Wardanaz has too many artifacts from that crazy mage!”

“Crazy mage?”

“I mean Professor Gonadaltes! I knew Professor Gonadaltes would cause an accident someday!”

Living with danger was part of being a mage, and Alsicle was also a mage who would take any risk for results, but even to such an Alsicle, the Skeleton Principal was a bit too extreme.

He had thought that suspicious and vicious artifacts like Lee Han’s Behemoth necklace or Manma’s Bracelet might stab their owner someday.

“That bracelet is suspicious. How much evil energy was rippling from it!”

“Time… magic.”

“What, Wardanaz? What??”

“That pocket watch… has time magic on it… I was just accelerated…”

“!!!”

Alsicle immediately understood what Lee Han meant.

Time magic!

The rarity was surprising and the artifact that had the magic was surprising, but that wasn’t what was important right now.

Just as powerful enhancement magic brought various side effects, time magic was the same.

It isolated the world around the caster from the external world and twisted the time axis, so naturally there had to be a rebound when the magic ended.

Even very short time magic could tear the body apart if preparations weren’t made in advance.

“Bring recovery potions!”

“But you said the bracelet was suspicious!”

Gainando shouted angrily.

His eyes were already half looking at him like a quack.

Having been wrong once already, if he was wrong twice, he might kill Lee Han entirely.

“I can be wrong! Why aren’t you bringing them quickly?!”

“Here!”

“Mana recovery potions too! Call that demon… no, is it a golem? Tell the golem to bring all the healing potions from the manor!”

“Mana recovery potions too?!”

“Don’t talk nonsense! You youngsters who don’t even know what time magic is!”

Alsicle shouted while laying Lee Han down.

The rebound from time magic didn’t end with just the physical burden from the slowed time rushing back.

As the isolated world collided with the external world, the mana inside the mage would also run wild like crazy.

Alsicle knew well that nothing was more dangerous than a mage losing control of their own mana.

‘If lucky, mana depletion, if unlucky, explosion!’

Knowing Lee Han’s mana well, Alsicle broke out in cold sweat and gripped his staff tightly.

“Wardanaz. Are you listening? From now on, somehow control your mana…”

“Phew. I’m fine now. Thank you.”

“…”

“…”

When Lee Han, who had been lying down, suddenly got up, Alsicle felt the urge to grab this genius by the collar.

* * *

Still, just in case, Alsicle began a thorough examination.

“Really no particular problems?”

“A little muscle pain…”

Alsicle squeezed his eyes shut.

There were many watching eyes here. He couldn’t be called 【Junior Jealous Alsicle】 or 【Junior Collar-Grabbing Alsicle】 among Imperial mages.

“That’s not even a problem…”

“How is that not a problem!”

Gainando shouted indignantly.

Between suspecting the bracelet earlier and now this, he was starting to doubt whether this mage’s abilities could be trusted.

“Lee Han. Didn’t you hear earlier? Sir Penguerin said the bracelet was suspicious, right? But then he immediately changed his words!”

Alsicle summoned a snowman and made it attack Gainando. Gainando screamed and was chased out of the manor.

The penguin beastman mage, having barely regained his composure, took a deep breath and said.

“Right… muscle pain is also a problem. It’s probably the rebound from time magic.”

“Ah. Like how enhancement magic that skips the body protection process causes pain?”

“Exactly. It’s a much more advanced magic, but the principle isn’t very different.”

“Still, the rebound wasn’t as big as I thought. The time magic I read about in magic books seemed much more dangerous.”

“…”

Alsicle silently got up, opened the manor door, and went outside.

Then he fired snowballs in rapid succession at Gainando, who had defeated the snowman.

After venting his anger and returning, Alsicle’s face was much calmer.

“It is much more dangerous. I think your rebound wasn’t big because first, the magic’s duration was short and its intensity wasn’t strong. Second, because you’ve trained your body to the level of a decent knight. Third, because you have a lot of mana.”

“So because the magic’s duration was short and its intensity wasn’t strong, it ended at just this level.”

“…Hey, just forget the first and second reasons. From what I can see, the third is the biggest factor.”

“?!”

Annoyed that his junior kept talking nonsense, Alsicle spoke bluntly.

“Look. Here’s a snowflake. If you close the window and then open it, the snowflake immediately gets blown away by the wind. But this big table? It stays put. You’re this table. Got it?”

“Yes. But why are you angry…”

“I’m not angry!”

At Alsicle’s shout, Yoner and Nilia whispered to each other.

“I think it’s because of Gainando.”

“Right? Maybe his pride was hurt from being wrong earlier.”

“…”

Feeling that talking more would only damage his dignity, Alsicle changed the subject.

“But you bought this artifact from a village? And from a secondhand shop that sells things cheaply?”

“Yes. I think Baldoron might have known about it when he recommended it…”

Lee Han explained how Baldoron in the village near the school had recommended this watch.

Alsicle listened with interest.

“That’s possible.”

“Should I send a letter asking what he meant?”

“It probably won’t be much use? I wouldn’t answer either. After going to the trouble of giving guidance to a junior, instead of solving it alone, you immediately ask. He’d probably be offended instead.”

‘Why are mages like this?’

Lee Han thought this to himself, but couldn’t deny that Alsicle’s words made sense.

If someone had recommended something with meaning behind it, how lazy would it look to ask instead of figuring it out alone?

“And I can guess what he meant. Since it’s an artifact with time magic, he probably meant for you to research time magic.”

“Isn’t that too much of an interpretation? Time magic for a student who just finished first year?”

“Hmm. You’re right, Wardanaz. It’s as impossible as a first-year student implementing domain control. Right?”

“…You’re not really angry, are you?”

“I’m not angry.”

Lee Han resolved to put special care into cooking sardine dishes for dinner tonight.

“I’m more curious about who made this artifact. You said it activated when you touched the escapement? It must be a very eccentric mage.”

Usually artifacts were made to obviously show ‘I am an artifact.’

If magic accidentally activated when touched unknowingly, the caster could be seriously injured.

But this pocket watch felt quite eccentric and malicious in intent.

From the outside, it looked like an ordinary object with no magic, but if you explored deeply, secrets would be revealed.

And those secrets were magic that could deal a severe blow to the caster!

People generally called such artifacts cursed artifacts.

‘That’s definitely right.’

Lee Han agreed with Alsicle’s words.

A trap-type artifact like that.

“Could the Principal have made it? It was an antique shop near the school, and there probably aren’t many people who could handle something like this.”

“I don’t want to blame all misfortune on Gonadaltes, but honestly, he is suspicious. There aren’t many people at Einroguard who can use time magic. Gonadaltes, Professor Garcia…”

“Ah. I think I’ve heard about the Professor.”

Lee Han nodded.

He had heard before that Professor Garcia’s original field was spatiotemporal magic research.

He wasn’t called a monster who had taken all schools at Einroguard for nothing.

‘The Professor might have been a bit crazy when he was young too. How can a person take all the schools?’

While Lee Han had been forcibly dragged around, hadn’t Professor Garcia chosen voluntarily?

No matter how he thought about it, it was something only a madman would do.

“Bagrek too.”

“Oh, Professor Bagrek can use time magic too?”

“But it wouldn’t be Bagrek. He only uses it in abbreviated form for combat.”

“No. Professor Bagrek might have made it and placed it outside. In preparation for when I would discover it someday.”

“…Did Bagrek do something to you?”

Alsicle was very flustered by Lee Han’s appearance of suspecting Professor Boladi more than the Skeleton Principal.

Even that so-called evidence was at the level of crazy conspiracy theory.

“Wait. This seems to be open.”

The pocket watch was shaped with glass covering the hands without a lid, but now he could see the back was open.

Since the back had originally been seamlessly filled, it must have opened when the magic was cast. Lee Han carefully opened the back.

Congratulations, foolish and stupid junior. If you’re reading this, you must have experienced great magic.

If you master the magic engraved on this watch, come find me. Then I will properly teach you the secret arts!

-From a Great Senior

‘Isn’t it Gonadaltes?’

Alsicle tilted his head.

From the looks of it, it seemed like an Einroguard student. This would move the Skeleton Principal away from the list of suspects.

Or perhaps the Skeleton Principal had cunningly pretended to be an Einroguard senior?

“Hmm. Could it be Professor Bagrek after all?”

“…Wardanaz. I’m not close with Bagrek, but I think I can swear that Bagrek isn’t the type to do something like this.”

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