Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 701

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Chapter 701

“Among the schools, there are some peculiar schools. Besides the schools you saw as first years…”

“Don’t you ask students who are taking more than four?”

When Gainando raised his hand and asked, Perse scolded him sharply.

“Don’t waste my time, underclassman. No matter how much of a senior I am, I can’t indulge all of your antics.”

“Ah, no…”

Gainando felt very wronged.

He had asked for his friend’s sake!

“Where was I? Ah. Peculiar schools.”

“Are you talking about schools like dark magic?”

At someone’s question, Gainando bristled.

However, it was Lee Han who had asked. Gainando quickly canceled his anger.

“The dark magic school doesn’t even count as a peculiar school. It just has relatively few numbers, but the school maintains its members and traditions continue to be passed down.”

“In our time, the seniors were worried it might really be abolished.”

At Gainando’s words, Perse ignored him and continued speaking.

“A peculiar school at Einroguard means you’ve never even heard the name or it’s at the level of ‘who would take this?’ If you want to take it, you have to go to the Principal and ask him to find you a professor, or you can only learn it if you’re lucky enough to have a fifth or sixth year senior researching it.”

‘I understand what that means.’

Lee Han nodded.

Music magic or Professor Boladi’s magic (though he wasn’t sure if this could be called a school!) fell into that category.

‘Wait. Is there a separate school for time magic?’

“Senior. I have a question.”

“What is it?”

“Is there a separate school for time magic within Einroguard?”

“Uh… wait a moment.”

Lee Han’s question seemed difficult even for Perse, as she took out a conch shell-shaped artifact and asked.

“Senior Yukveltire. Are there any time magic school lectures this year?”

-There aren’t any.

“When was the last lecture held?”

-It was 14 years ago. If there’s an underclassman interested in time magic, tell them to know their place.

“Thank you for the advice.”

Perse heard the answer and relayed it to the underclassmen.

“It disappeared because no one was taking it for a while. If you’re really interested, when you’re a fifth year, you can directly…”

Perse, who was speaking, unconsciously gasped and covered her mouth in shock.

She was about to say such terrible things to the underclassmen!

“…pretend you didn’t hear what I just said.”

“Fifth year?”

Perse waved her staff violently. Gainando was hit with a silence curse and made protesting gestures.

“Underclassmen. You may not know about other things, but remember one thing. You don’t need to respect and revere seniors, but don’t mention the year that’s four plus one in front of seniors! Especially not in front of fourth year seniors!! Got it?”

“S-sorry.”

“We’ll keep it in mind.”

Since Perse’s eyes looked like those of a desperate beast cornered, the second year underclassmen were overwhelmed by her intensity.

“Let’s get back to what we were talking about. Second year lectures will now revolve around the schools you’ve chosen. It’s not that there are no required or elective lectures, but most will be determined by the interests you’ve chosen within your school.”

Even within the same school, each mage pursued different goals.

Even with summoning magic, some mages specialized in spirits, some in inanimate objects, some in ancient artifacts…

As such, Einroguard’s mages had to know how to cleverly select the lectures they needed within their chosen school.

“By the way, choosing will be quite difficult.”

“Why is that?”

“Because there are really many lectures.”

Perse dragged over a blackboard and unrolled a huge rolled-up paper on it.

Terrible Cases of Summoning Magic

Fire Spirit Summoning Magic and Elementalism

Economic Analysis of Golem Summoning

The Necessity of Summoning Magic in Ancient Artifact Research? (Second Years Prohibited)

What Are the Weaknesses of the Principal’s Summoned Creatures?

…

…

Unlike their first year, the lectures had all sorts of names with no unity whatsoever, and the students were stunned.

“A-are all these lectures available?”

“No. There are far more lectures that aren’t available.”

Perse quickly explained before the underclassmen got more scared.

Lectures at Einroguard were usually conducted by professors or the most unfortunate fifth and sixth year students on the continent.

Every year, professors and unfortunate mages would write up and submit lecture lists…

…and those lists didn’t disappear over the years but remained as they were.

“????”

“Is, is that allowed?”

“It’s not. That’s why many of those lectures don’t have professors or seniors to teach them. And many of them are lectures that only start when you take them. No professor will proceed when no one’s listening.”

‘Hmm.’

Lee Han thought there were some, but he remained quietly silent.

“In the end, you have to check directly. Of course, the best method is to ask your school’s professor. You get lecture recommendations tailored to what you want to learn.”

When Perse waved her staff, the lecture list on the paper changed.

Fire Spirit Summoning Magic and Elementalism

Fire Botany

Making Spirits Happy Using Fire Materials

The Most Famous Fire Elementals

“These are recommended lectures the professor wrote down before. It’s not much different now.”

“Senior. I have a question. I don’t think all professors would give such detailed recommendations.”

“Right. I also know well that not all professors give such detailed recommendations. And you guys are lucky. You have one excellent senior.”

Perse spoke with a voice mixed with respect.

Seeing this, Yoner carefully asked.

“Is that senior… someone who went one year beyond fourth year?”

“That’s right. But the senior doesn’t find it troublesome at all. That’s what’s really amazing about them.”

“Is that person Senior Yukveltire by any chance?”

Lee Han asked, wondering if it might be.

Perse answered with delight.

“That’s right. How did you know?”

“Uh… I’ve met them outside before. So that person gives counseling? Lecture counseling?”

“That’s right.”

“…”

Lee Han was appalled.

The advice Senior Diret had given was still vivid in his memory.

‘This person can counsel someone about something?’

He suspected it might be a completely different person with the same name.

Didn’t Professor Verdus also have someone with the same name? Perhaps Senior Yukveltire could be the same.

Their personalities seemed somewhat similar too…

“We’ll start counseling now, so don’t make useless remarks. The senior hates wasting time as much as I do.”

“Senior. May I perhaps…”

“Quiet! Get inside quickly.”

“…Yes…”

* * *

It was usually hard to tell, but there were advantages to spending 5th year or higher at Einroguard.

One of them was that most of your seniors and classmates would graduate.

While Yukveltire didn’t particularly care about her notoriety, the fact that most of the remaining Blue Dragon Tower students were her underclassmen definitely helped her reputation.

Honestly speaking, the perspective of underclassmen versus classmates was bound to be somewhat different.

To her classmates, Yukveltire was ‘Verdus’s top student’, but to her underclassmen, Yukveltire was ‘Blue Dragon Tower’s greatest mind and a respectable senior’!

Yukveltire’s indifference was packaged as kindness when contrasted with some of the wicked seniors.

The madness Yukveltire possessed regarding magic appeared as nothing more than outstanding intellect to underclassmen who had no direct contact with it.

After all, wouldn’t even the Skeleton Principal look like a wonderful Archmage of the Empire when viewed from afar without direct contact?

Yukveltire took out a clock artifact with a complex structure onto the table.

The clock artifact was so massive in size that it seemed more suited for a place like a bell tower rather than a table.

‘When are they coming in?’

The reason Yukveltire helped her 2nd year underclassmen with their extensive lecture selections wasn’t due to a sense of responsibility as a senior.

Such responsibility didn’t exist within Yukveltire in the first place.

Yukveltire helped with lecture selections solely because of a deal she had made with friends during her 3rd year.

-You’re going to use this Orbidos’s Tear all by yourself, Yukveltire?!

-You guys couldn’t use it even if you took it, could you?

-…That’s true, but we’re the ones who collected this. Yukveltire! We brought this from the Skeleton Principal’s storage at the cost of three people going to the punishment room!

-Let’s make a deal. What do you want? If you want, I’ll give you advice on your small airship research.

-I don’t need it, I already completed it all! …Wait, but do I look like I need advice? Does it seem that lacking?

-About 10% or so.

-About 10%… Still, if it’s only lacking that much, it’s pretty decent, right?

-No. I mean about 10% of that research is completed.

-…

-…Yukveltire. She doesn’t need advice on small airship research.

-W-wait. I think I might need it.

-What we want is for you to help the 2nd year underclassmen a bit. This year’s lectures are already too chaotic. 80% of lectures being unavailable, does that make sense?

-Why are you asking for help with something the underclassmen should do themselves? Do you have relatives?

-I do have relatives, but it’s not just because of that. Yukveltire. I want to help them as a senior. It’s a matter of noble honor.

-I’m from the Imperial Family, but I’ve never once thought such useless caring was related to my honor. Are you perhaps misunderstanding the meaning of honor?

-…Ah, forget it! Are you going to make the deal or not!

-I’ll do it.

-Are you serious? It’ll take quite a long time, you know?

-If I make an artifact to handle it instead, the time would be shortened.

-As expected… Wait. Yukveltire. Then I’ll add a condition.

-What?

-Help the 2nd year underclassmen with lectures until you graduate.

-Have you finally lost your mind?

-If you don’t like it, forget it. And Yukveltire. Don’t think about stealing Orbidos’s Tear. If the deal is broken, I’ll destroy it right now. You think I don’t know your scheme? Even if we’re not as good at magic as you, we’re also Einroguard students.

-…!

Yukveltire opened her closed eyes.

Even thinking about it now, it was a very unpleasant deal. She had never been outmaneuvered like that by her classmates.

Thanks to that, Yukveltire was stuck having to match lectures for talentless 2nd year students until graduation.

“Hello, Senior!”

“Place your hand on the artifact. Think of the school of magic you’re studying, and think of your interests in that school.”

“Th-that’s all?”

The student asked in confusion. Instead of answering, Yukveltire stared at them intently.

Feeling pressured by that cold gaze, the 2nd year student hurriedly placed their hand on the artifact.

Then, with clicking sounds, the clock generated a daily lecture schedule.

“…!!!”

The underclassman looked at the artifact in shock.

Amazingly, this lecture timetable included not only the school of magic they studied and their interests, but also lectures they hadn’t even thought of!

“H-how is the Water Element Fluidity lecture…? I’m not interested in that?”

“This clock also analyzes your abilities. If your abilities are lacking, it also recommends lectures that will fill those gaps.”

“S-such a thing…!”

“Are you planning to keep standing there?”

“No! Thank you!”

The underclassman diligently wrote down the lecture names and went outside.

When the next underclassman entered, Yukveltire closed her eyes and repeated the same words she had just said.

Then the next underclassman, and the next one after that…

“Hello.”

A voice that seemed somehow artificially altered could be heard.

However, Yukveltire wasn’t the type of person to open her eyes and look just because an underclassman’s voice sounded a bit strange.

“Place your hand on the artifact. Think of the school of magic you’re studying, and think of your interests in that school.”

“Yes.”

Lee Han let out a sigh of relief that the crazy senior wasn’t looking at him and placed his hand down.

He planned to resolve this quickly and escape.

Ting!

“…?”

Lee Han was confused when the clock clicked and then stopped.

As Yukveltire was about to open her closed eyes, Lee Han instinctively threw his cloak.

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