Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 681

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Chapter 681

Since it was definitely his own doing, Lee Han handled the countless handshake requests that came his way by himself.

“Are you an Einroguard student?”

“Yes.”

“Are you a third year?”

“No.”

At Lee Han’s answer, people nodded knowingly on their own.

Then he must be a fourth year!

Only after listening to various mages introduce themselves and even receiving proposals to collaborate on research sometime could Lee Han sit back down.

Diret suddenly remembered something and asked.

“Wait. Where’s Yukveltire?”

“Professor Verd… I mean, why are you looking for Senior Yukveltire?”

‘Was he about to say Professor Verdus just now?’

Diret was slightly bothered but let it pass since that wasn’t what was important.

“If she had seen just now, she would have known you’re smart. Where is she? You saw her, right?”

“Um… She’s preparing over there, but I don’t think she would have seen.”

Lee Han spotted his senior talking with several other mages in a corner of the hall and answered.

She was a typical Professor Verdus-type mage who focused only on her own magic regardless of what presentations were going on behind her.

“Ah, really!”

Diret sighed.

Unlike Cohorti, this was an opportunity to prove that this junior was really smart!

“I’m fine with it, Senior Diret.”

“Well I’m not fine with it!”

Diret glared at his junior who had been saying nothing but tactless things.

“Come to think of it, I’m getting angry. Junior. At school, even when told to stay put, you jump into all sorts of ridiculous situations.”

“It’s not that much…”

Lee Han tried to argue that it was never intentional, but Diret ignored him.

“But why are you staying quietly still in front of Yukveltire? Show off your abilities!”

“But she’s a senior…”

Basically, Lee Han tended to hold back in front of people he could extract a lot from. You could tell just by the fact that Professor Verdus was still alive until now.

Not only professors, but he couldn’t act arrogantly toward seniors either since he never knew when or how he might face them and receive help during his second year.

“I’m your senior too, you know? Junior. As your senior, this is my first order. Give Yukveltire a taste of her own medicine.”

The delinquent Diret gave Lee Han instructions in a voice that wouldn’t tolerate refusal.

Of course, from Lee Han’s perspective, this was a very troubling request.

“Hmm. Even if you say that, I don’t have the ability to… Would attacking Senior Yukveltire from behind work?”

“…”

“That was a joke.”

“…Don’t joke with that kind of face…”

* * *

Yukveltire turned her head at the commotion coming from behind.

She could feel that the reaction was more heated than usual.

The mages were talking about the magic that had just been presented with excited faces, waving their hands in the air to explain the movements.

These were all reactions when impressive magic had appeared.

‘What’s this?’

Naturally, Yukveltire had also seen the exchange meeting’s catalog, so she roughly knew what kinds of magic would be presented.

There was no magic that would cause such a reaction…

“Lady Yukveltire. The preparations are complete.”

“Good.”

Yukveltire checked the artifact she would use for her presentation.

Since it was a precise and complex artifact, quite a lot of preparation had gone into it.

“I am truly impressed. To think I would see such magic…”

“It’s still incomplete. Are you flattering me now?”

“N-no.”

The mages who knew the Imperial Princess’s personality cleared their throats and straightened their clothes.

However, the artifact before their eyes was truly an amazing object.

On the outside it looked like an ordinary pendant, but inside that pendant, hundreds of spells were intricately woven together.

And all these spells were arranged for one purpose.

To artificially create a newly isolated dimension!

Summoning power or summoned creatures from other dimensions connected to reality was one of the widely known methods in magic, so it wasn’t that surprising, but Yukveltire had gone one step further.

What if that dimension could be artificially created?

Of course, due to realistic constraints, only very small-sized dimensions would be possible, but for an excellent mage, that alone would be sufficient.

It would be like having a world where the mage could set new rules temporarily in their hands.

When contacting existing other dimensions, all sorts of complex exploration and negotiation were needed, but this wouldn’t require that.

If something like a ‘dimension overflowing with vast magical power’ could be created and successfully fixed…

That artifact could potentially draw out nearly infinite magical power!

“An artificial dimension artifact!”

“Oh, is it really being presented today…!”

“?”

When the surrounding mages started buzzing even before beginning, Lee Han wondered what was going on.

Diret closed his book and explained Yukveltire’s work.

“…That’s roughly how it works. Actually, since it’s such difficult and unstable research, it won’t work as conveniently as I just described. If it’s a dimension that spews out massive magical power, maintaining it and creating a passage would be equally difficult. But even considering that, it’s truly remarkable research. I was actually worried whether Yukveltire would be able to present here this time. I guess my concerns were unfounded.”

Seeing that his friend’s work had reached a presentable level, Diret breathed a sigh of relief.

Yukveltire was very interested in dimensional studies and was continuously trying to combine dimensional studies with enchantment magic to create new results.

Since it was such high-difficulty research, he had been worried…

“Junior. But don’t you see anything to nitpick?”

“Pardon?”

“You need to nitpick. When Yukveltire presents, find some flaw and point it out!”

“…”

Friendship was friendship, but separately from that, Diret intended to repay the insult the Black Magic Academy had received.

“How can I nitpick such high-level magic?”

“Junior?”

“Yes.”

“You’re more than capable of it. Hurry up and look for something.”

“But…”

Lee Han felt wronged.

He couldn’t understand why Diret thought of him that way.

Lee Han was also a first-year junior!

Still, since his senior had ordered it, Lee Han pretended to glare at the artifact.

With so many mages around and so many spells cast in the vicinity, it was difficult to distinguish the magical power at first, but after a little time passed, he began to roughly differentiate them.

‘I see. Up to here is the magical power spilled by the mages in the stands. And from there is the magical power of that artifact.’

Lee Han distinguished the magical power in the space with sensitivity that would have shocked the surrounding mages if they had heard.

Finally able to purely feel only the artifact’s magical power, Lee Han slowly examined the magical power.

‘Amazing!’

The artifact’s structure was reminiscent of a rocket that continuously ignited propellant to gain acceleration.

The magical power accelerated in the first magic circle was accelerated once more in the second magic circle, then accelerated again in the third magic circle…

This way, the power of magical energy was amplified to the extreme to obtain the power needed to create an artificial dimension.

To create such an artifact, one would need to not only connect these magic circles in a chain but also be able to calculate the shock and heat generated in the process.

The magical formula for creating a dimension after securing power felt relatively easy compared to the tasks above.

Lee Han muttered without realizing it.

“How could someone like Professor Verdus create such an artifact…”

“…”

Diret looked at Lee Han with complicated eyes.

It hurt a little to hear his friend being spoken of that way by a junior.

“Ah. Senior Diret. I think I found a flaw.”

“Oh. What is it?”

Diret perked up his ears and brightened.

This was an opportunity to definitively prove his junior’s intelligence in front of Yukveltire.

“I briefly predicted following the mana flow inside there, and the magic circle gets slightly twisted partway through, so it won’t complete a perfect circle but will finish as an ellipse.”

“…?”

Diret became confused, unable to understand how this junior had sensed the mana of an artifact so far away.

It was even the mana flow inside the artifact!

“Junior, how did you sense the mana flow inside the artifact? The distance should be far? And there are other mages around…”

“I concentrated.”

“…Ah. R-right. Concentration. Concentration is important…”

Diret was rather at a loss for words at such a textbook answer.

Well, you’d need to concentrate to sense mana!

“Wait. That’s not what’s important right now. I’m curious how you even drew predictions from the mana flow… Junior, you said it completes as an ellipse?”

“If you keep drawing by overlapping the flows, it seems like it would become elliptical.”

Diret’s face became serious.

Having helped with Yukveltire’s magic from the side, Diret knew well what results would come if this magic completed as an ellipse.

Instead of creating a small artificial dimension, it would connect to other uncertain dimensions along with dimensional rifts.

It would be fortunate if connected to a relatively safe dimension, but if connected to a dangerous dimension, things could become troublesome.

“I need to stop this.”

The moment Diret stood up, the artifact began operating. Diret shouted in shock.

“Why is it starting already?! There should definitely be time left?”

“We requested it!”

The mages standing in front answered with bright smiles.

Such magnificent magic should be allocated even a little more time. That way the mages could learn more, couldn’t they.

Of course, from Diret’s perspective, it was very annoying kindness.

“Yukveltire, stop! It’s not a perfect circle but an ellipse!”

“!”

Yukveltire looked at her friend with shocked eyes.

That wasn’t something to take lightly.

“What nonsense are you talking!”

“We definitely checked. There were no particular problems!”

The mages who had been managing and inspecting the exchange meeting’s presentation magics shouted as if it were absurd.

Not only had they strictly managed it after the Imperial Princess submitted it, but they had also completed an inspection once before starting.

But now some mage with his hat pulled down low was saying there was a problem, which was just baffling.

“Don’t ruin the exchange meeting and sit down quickly!”

“But this is a safety issue, aren’t you being too harsh?”

When Lee Han expressed his disbelief, Diret sighed.

“Originally crazy mages keep picking ridiculous fights, so the magic towers and guilds are sensitive too!”

“…”

While Lee Han, having learned the truth, was at a loss for words, Yukveltire asked.

“Diret. What’s your evidence? You haven’t even touched this artifact for the past few days, have you?”

“This junior sensed it. He said the mana flow has a slight error partway through.”

“…”

“…”

As the atmosphere suddenly turned cold, Diret thought ‘Oh no.’

‘I should have said I noticed it at least…!’

In his desire to prove his junior was smart, he had thoughtlessly blurted it out!

If Diret had said he noticed it instead, Yukveltire might have believed him.

“Diret… I really don’t know if you need to go this far to prove the Black Magic Academy underclassmen. It only seems to prove that my argument was correct.”

“N-no… This guy really did notice! And that error is real! Stop it even now!”

At Diret’s words, even the mages who had praised Lee Han earlier showed somewhat lukewarm reactions.

“No matter how outstanding a mage, that sounds too ridiculous…”

“Isn’t it bragging? Come to think of it, that magic from earlier was a bit too absurd too.”

“Is such a thing even possible?”

‘This is maddening!’

Diret felt like a two-eyed person who had fallen into the One-eyed Country.

Too excellent to be convincing!

“Sing thunder for me, spirit.”

“?!”

Looking to the side, his junior was chanting an incantation with a calm attitude.

With an attitude that showed he didn’t care at all about other mages chattering about ridiculous lies or bragging.

“Lightning and thunderbolts! Both the Bell Keeper guarding the bell tower of the ruined kingdom and the watchtower guard of small boats wandering the vast sea fear your name.”

As a spirit incomparable to ordinary spirit power tried to open a dimensional door and reveal itself, the mages in the audience sensed the signs and were shocked.

At the same time, the artifact made bizarre sounds and malfunctioned. The mana circle inside the pendant gradually distorted into an ellipse.

“!!”

“Th-that…!”

“The one who contracted with you calls you with proper qualification!”

As Perkuntra revealed itself, Lee Han leaped forward.

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