Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 65
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Baldoron was flustered by Lee Han’s words.
Because of his careless remark, this first-year student had developed unnecessary expectations.
Moreover, this method was dangerous enough to threaten a mage’s life if even a small mistake was made.
Breaking magic with force required an enormous amount of mana, so if a student who wasn’t yet skilled in magic used it incorrectly, their life could be in danger.
However, Lee Han didn’t back down easily.
“I absolutely won’t attempt it recklessly, so please tell me the method.”
“But…”
“I paid the consultation fee, didn’t I?”
“That’s true. Alright.”
Baldoron was convinced.
Since he had received the consultation fee, he couldn’t refuse to tell him.
“First, you need an enormous amount of mana. Individual power won’t be enough. Use magic circles and mana stones.”
Magic circles, mana stones.
These were all methods that mages used to supplement their insufficient mana.
The higher the level of magic, the more mana it required. This couldn’t all be solved with individual power alone.
Drawing magic circles to amplify mana and gather it in one place, or using gems charged with mana as additional batteries.
“Have you learned how to draw magic circles?”
“I’m learning it now.”
Lee Han recalled the 【Basic Imperial Geometry and Arithmetic】 lecture he was attending at school.
Drawing magic circles was close to solving complex mathematical problems.
It required mathematical persistence and effort rather than intuitive sense.
Thanks to this, it was the students who suffered.
Making students who were only confident in addition and subtraction solve various complex laws and calculations made it hard to distinguish whether geometry was the name of the lecture or the screams students were making.
“That’s good. Anyway, if you succeed in gathering mana that way, stand at the release point of the magic circle and control the mana.”
Once mana was gathered with the magic circle, now it had to be controlled and slammed into the magic.
Though slamming sounded simple, this was more difficult than gathering.
Controlling was one thing, but above all, to give powerful impact force, the gathered mana had to be released all at once without hesitation.
Not letting mana flow like a river, but violently all at once like a waterfall pouring when a dam opens!
This wasn’t something most mages were familiar with.
Most of the time they let mana flow steadily, and there was no occasion to release mana at such a runaway level.
“Hmm… It doesn’t seem that difficult.”
At Lee Han’s words, Baldoron sighed.
Despite all those warnings, this new student was taking Baldoron’s words lightly.
Arrogance.
That was a weakness that geniuses inevitably had to possess.
Why would talented mages die before untalented ones? They died doing magic experiments, believing in their talent and thinking ‘it’s fine, I won’t die.’
Since he had entered Einroguard and had enough talent to escape in his first year, it might be natural for that new student to have the weakness of arrogance as well.
‘It can’t be helped.’
Baldoron decided to show reality to this talented boy before his eyes.
It was a bit embarrassing to be teaching a future archmage, but what could he do.
I covet the moon and draw its water!
”
I covet the moon and draw its water!
“
I covet the moon and draw its water!
Baldoron took out powder made from ground moonstone from his pocket, grabbed a handful, then waved his staff drawing complex patterns.
And he drew up mana while chanting a long incantation.
It was 3rd Circle Magic 【Lunarion’s Moonlight Maze】.
Illusion Magic to Block Midnight Attackers that anyone learning illusion magic would want to learn.
It was one of Baldoron’s pride and joys.
“!”
Lee Han was surprised.
Clearly Baldoron was sitting across the table, but it felt as if he was far away, as if the sense of perspective was distorted.
An ominous feeling that the moment he stepped between them, he would fall into some other space.
Baldoron, who had cast the magic, opened his mouth.
“Don’t move carelessly. Though it looks like there’s nothing wrong on the surface…”
“The moment I step forward, I’ll fall into a maze?”
“…”
Baldoron was momentarily flustered.
He wondered how the boy before him had noticed.
At first he thought he might have known what magic it was beforehand, but looking at his expression, that wasn’t it.
Then there was only one remaining reason.
This boy had felt something was wrong just by seeing the mana emanating from the magic.
It was truly remarkable detection ability.
“…That’s correct. Anyway, the reason I used this magic is to show you how difficult it is to break magic with force.”
“I see…”
Lee Han was impressed by the other person’s kindness.
This mage named Baldoron seemed like a better teacher than the professors at the magic school.
Explaining kindly and in detail what needed to be learned, presenting goals for students to attempt once they understood everything, and not forgetting to explain why those goals came about…
After being beaten by Professor Boladi and receiving such teaching, his eyes suddenly became misty.
“Now. Try it once carefully. I’ll give you as much time as you need. However, if it seems dangerous, you must stop at any time.”
“Thank you.”
“?”
Baldoron felt something strange.
Lee Han was somehow looking at Baldoron with respectful eyes.
Why on earth…?
* * *
Crash!
Crash!
Crash!
Though no sound came outside, Baldoron could definitely hear it.
It was the distinctive roar that occurred when mana and mana collided and magic shattered.
‘This is impossible!’
Baldoron was shocked.
Just once.
It was just one attempt.
Moreover, that attempt wasn’t even serious or desperate.
The boy before his eyes didn’t even draw a magic circle, briefly drew up mana, then lightly tested it as he struck toward the magic. However, that alone was enough to break 【Lunarion’s Moonlight Maze】.
The torrent of mana bursting forth like a waterfall blew away the precisely constructed magic just like that.
Baldoron couldn’t understand.
He knew the other person was talented.
But if he had gathered mana so briefly, the amount of mana should have been insufficient.
Even being very generous and assuming he had gathered enough mana despite collecting it for such a short time (though I don’t know how).
Then handling that amount of mana should normally be clumsy.
Unless he was born with such an enormous amount of mana that he had become as naturally accustomed to handling such quantities as breathing, there was no way he could control that gathered mana so precisely.
It was as absurd as a sailor going out to sea for the first time skillfully handling giant waves.
What on earth?
“Thank you!”
So Lee Han expressed his gratitude, unaware of Baldoron’s inner thoughts.
“Yes…?”
“Thanks to your excellent teaching, I was able to realize this.”
“…”
For a moment, Baldoron wondered if Lee Han was mocking him.
It was so absurd that he wondered if one of the magic school’s mad professors had disguised himself as a first-year and come out to pick a fight!
However, Lee Han’s eyes were too pure to think that way.
They were filled with pure gratitude.
“No… I really didn’t do much. I didn’t even teach you anything…”
”
“Not at all. You’re the first person to teach me so easily and accurately like you did.
“
”
“Don’t say such things anywhere else!”
“Don’t say such things anywhere else!”
“Don’t say such things anywhere else!”
Baldoron stopped him in horror.
If the mad professors at the magic school heard that, they might get angry and turn Baldoron into a frog.
Lee Han bowed his head seriously in greeting.
“If I get to come out again next time, I’ll visit you again and ask questions.”
“No… no… that’s not right. I have nothing to teach you.”
Honestly, Baldoron wanted to say ‘don’t come,’ but having received the consultation fee, he couldn’t go that far.
He could only timidly say he had nothing to teach.
However, such an attitude only appeared as humility in Lee Han’s eyes.
‘Even humble!’
As they say, rice stalks bow their heads as they ripen, and Baldoron’s attitude only made him look more dignified.
Seeing that appearance, even having a workshop in a corner of the village somehow looked stylish.
Don’t excellent mages usually enjoy eccentric behavior? This mage named Baldoron must have set up the workshop as a kind of pastime.
“I’ll see you next time!”
Lee Han went outside, grateful for this encounter.
Baldoron sat with a dumbfounded expression, then got up from his seat.
He changed the sign hanging in front of the workshop door from ‘Open’ to ‘Closed.’
Then he opened the illusion magic book he hadn’t read in a while.
…He didn’t know how much this would help, but he felt like he should study something.
* * *
“…Principal. I can handle this alone…”
Professor Garcia said, looking at the Skeleton Principal floating beside him.
Professor Garcia was in charge of the main gate at this time. There was no need for the Skeleton Principal to be there too.
There was only one reason why the Skeleton Principal, who never got involved in matters that weren’t his responsibility, was here like this.
Because it was fun!
‘He’s just waiting for student Lee Han to be late somehow!’
At this Einroguard, students who went out with outing passes were rarer than students who escaped from school.
Students who received such rare opportunities went out jumping with joy, but in fact, the school didn’t let students out with such pure intentions.
All kinds of traps were waiting for innocent students.
Students who went out happily would usually realize the reality and then, in despair at having no money, wander around various parts of the village trying to survive before being dragged back with tearful faces.
And such students were never given a second chance.
Getting a second outing pass was much harder than getting the first one.
“I think it would be okay to give out outing passes a bit more generously as rewards…”
“…”
A true magician is forged through trials!
He had heard the Skeleton Principal’s theory of ‘true mages are born from trials’ so many times that he was sick of it now.
Ugh, that ancient mage!
Professor Garcia cut him off as if fed up.
He had heard the skeleton headmaster’s theory that “true wizards are born from trials” so many times that he was now sick of it.
Ugh, that mage from the ancient times!
Your expression looks very promising.
Your expression looks very promising.
“…It might be better not to expect too much. Student Lee Han isn’t exactly ordinary when it comes to being clever, is he?”
That’s definitely true.
That’s definitely true.
That’s definitely true.
Surprisingly, the skeleton principal readily admitted it.
That was how highly he regarded Lee Han.
But this has nothing to do with magical talent or mental toughness. I need to get money but there’s nowhere to get it, and even if I do manage to get some, there’s a limit to how much I can carry… Plus, time is getting more and more pressing! The more they think they’re clever, the harder it’ll be for them to come because of their greed. I wish the time would come quickly. So I can go catch them.
Thud!
But this has nothing to do with magical talent or mental toughness. I need to get money but there’s nowhere to get it, and even if I do manage to get some, there’s a limit to how much I can carry… Plus, time is running shorter and shorter! The more they think they’re clever, the more their greed will keep them from coming easily. I wish the time would come soon. So I can go catch them.
But this has nothing to do with magical talent or mental toughness. I need to get money but there’s nowhere to get it, and even if I do manage to get some, there’s a limit to how much I can take with me… Plus, time is getting more and more pressing! The more they think they’re clever, the harder it’ll be for them to come because of their greed. I wish the time would come quickly. So I can go catch them.
“Think it to yourself.”
Professor Garcia answered curtly, though he acknowledged that the skeleton headmaster had a point.
Why would students who used their outing passes usually get caught and dragged back?
It was because of that greedy thought, ‘If I just had a little more time, maybe I could somehow make it work!’
As soon as they arrived at the village, all sorts of unexpected situations came at them, so they needed the ability to accept this reality and give up on certain things.
If you try to get everything you need, you’ll fall into the skeleton principal’s trap…
Smack!
Smack!
Smack!
A massive figure appeared on the hill in front of the main gate.
For a moment, Professor Garcia thought he was a giant porter or a troll porter.
It wasn’t.
It was Lee Han, carrying a mountain of baggage on his back.
The two wizards were left speechless by the brutish solution that no one would expect from a wizard.
But that was only the beginning.
As Lee Han climbed completely up the hill, boxes floated behind him in pursuit.
The Skeleton Principal had no choice but to acknowledge it.
…Professor Boladi taught damn well.
…Professor Boladi taught damn well.
…Professor Boladi taught damn well.
How to Live as a Mage in Magic School
Publication Date: August 15, 2021
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