Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 724

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Chapter 724

“Senior. Senior.”

“Yeah?”

The senior who had been preparing his own work looked up at Lee Han’s call.

“Something seems strange. I’m a second-year, but this is a third-year lecture.”

“What? Did a professor force you into the lecture?!”

The senior asked in surprise.

Lee Han didn’t fully understand the meaning of the question, but denied it for now.

“That’s not it. I chose it myself. With Calendarium’s help… Wait. Why are you asking if I was forced into a lecture?”

“Ah. Don’t worry about it. It’s an old rumor I heard, just asking just in case.”

The senior waved his hand dismissively.

It was one of the legendary rumors about Einroguard he’d heard when he first enrolled.

If a student’s skills were too outstanding, from that point on it wouldn’t be the student choosing lectures, but lectures seeking out the student!

The senior and his friends had heard that rumor and worried, ‘What if I’m so good that a professor forcibly invites me?’ but such a thing never happened.

The Einroguard professors were more cold-hearted than expected.

“…”

Unaware that Lee Han’s expression was hardening, the senior continued explaining.

“If you got Calendarium’s help, then that lecture should suit you best, right?”

“But I’m a second-year and this is a third-year lecture.”

“It is strange. But sometimes outstanding people take one lecture from a year above. Senior Yukveltire did that too.”

“I see…”

Since the senior’s reaction seemed more moderate than expected, Lee Han wondered if he had overreacted.

“Then lectures like 【Terribly Beautiful Creatures】, 【Elemental Magic and Its Applications】, and 【Poison, Bone, Blood】 aren’t particularly strange either?”

When Lee Han mentioned several lecture names from his timetable, the senior hesitated.

There were too many lectures that third-years took.

…Usually even outstanding geniuses only take about one lecture from the year above in their specialized field, right?

“Don’t you usually take just one? That’s quite a lot…”

Another senior who had been sharpening equipment on a whetstone nearby chimed in.

“That’s him though.”

“Ah. Right. How foolish of me. I’m a third-year now and still have such preconceptions.”

“…”

Lee Han reminded himself not to attack the seniors and asked again.

“It is strange, right?”

Lee Han even had lectures he hadn’t mentioned yet.

No matter how he thought about it, these lecture names seemed closer to third-year level than second-year.

“It’s strange, but you’ll be able to handle it well. Hang in there. Calendarium must have done well for you.”

“Mages are masters of artifacts, not slaves. What if I changed lectures even now? If I put in some lower-level lectures?”

“Ah. That won’t work.”

The senior who had been sharpening equipment answered instead.

“I tried to take a second-year lecture this year, but the professor kicked me out.”

“…”

Einroguard’s professors seemed indifferent but were thorough in certain areas.

Students had to take lectures appropriate to their level; they wouldn’t let students deliberately take easy lectures.

‘There’s no freedom at all!’

Lee Han was once again outraged by Einroguard’s deception.

They said you could learn magic freely, yet there was no freedom at all.

While Lee Han was fuming, this time the seniors asked questions. The seniors were just as curious as Lee Han was.

“Wardanaz. I’m curious about something…”

“Ah. Yes. Please ask.”

“Why were you with Professor Verdus?”

“…?”

Lee Han was flustered by such a strange question.

“It’s lecture time, isn’t it?”

“What? Wait. Did you come right on time for the lecture?”

“???”

Seeing their junior’s confusion, the seniors kindly explained.

“You don’t need to come on time for Professor Verdus’s lectures. He doesn’t care whether we’re there or not anyway.”

“But don’t you need to listen to the lecture content?”

“What lecture content?”

Lee Han looked back.

Indeed, there was nothing.

Come to think of it, Lee Han had come at the start of the lecture and hadn’t really learned anything until now.

“You just come when you want to come and leave when you want to leave.”

“You bring work to do, work on it, then leave. I was working somewhere else before coming here too.”

The Einroguard students were making good use of Professor Verdus’s indifference.

If the professor wasn’t interested in students, then students just had to study on their own.

“But don’t you get stuck on things?”

“You have to learn that yourself. Like this.”

Just then, one senior seemed to be stuck on something in his work and got up from his seat, groaning.

He walked forward and started lurking near Professor Verdus’s workbench. Naturally, Professor Verdus, in a state of concentration, didn’t notice.

Snatch!

The senior grabbed Professor Verdus’s work and ran out of the lecture hall like a madman.

Then Professor Verdus also jumped up and chased after the senior.

“Stop right there! You vile and filthy thief!”

“I’ll learn from it and return it!”

At the echo coming from outside the lecture hall, the seniors nodded.

“That’s how you do it.”

“…”

Lee Han didn’t ask ‘Can’t you just ask questions?’ He knew the answer would be no.

Rather than asking questions, stealing Professor Verdus’s work to learn would be much faster.

“Come on. Let’s go too.”

“Where to?”

Whoosh-

The seniors rushed to Professor Verdus’s workbench and quickly copied and transcribed.

“Aha. So it’s like this…”

“His skills are outstanding though.”

“That’s why he’s still alive. Did you know there are assassins waiting in cities near Einroguard to kill Professor Verdus? Nobles who got their gold coins stolen commissioned them.”

“Damn. Isn’t there a way to help those people?”

Lee Han quietly followed the seniors and copied the work.

Professor Verdus’s workbench looked like a giant pile of trash due to all sorts of junk, but all kinds of wisdom were hidden within.

Just salvaging a few artifact blueprints or magic circles drawn on crumpled paper balls was huge progress for students.

Before long, Professor Verdus returned after retrieving his work. The senior who had stolen the work was nowhere to be seen.

Professor Verdus fumed and shouted.

“There are too many thieves in this school!”

The students all pretended not to know and sat back down.

“…Where did that senior go?”

“Professor Verdus may be crazy, but he’s not cruel. He probably just got subdued.”

Since Professor Verdus only cared about retrieving his work, he didn’t take additional revenge on students or send them to the punishment room.

The missing senior probably got beaten up a bit and would return after recovering on his own.

However, even after time passed, the senior didn’t return.

“He’s not coming back?”

“He must have been hit pretty hard. Don’t worry about it and just do your work, junior.”

‘As expected of people attending Professor Verdus’s lectures, their personalities are similar to the professor’s.’

Lee Han inwardly spat out cold criticism harsh enough to freeze the seniors’ blood.

* * *

Professor Verdus called Lee Han over again. He needed assistance with his work.

Seeing this, even the seniors who had been absorbed in their own work felt puzzled.

‘Come to think of it, we only asked why he came early, but we never actually heard why he was with Professor Verdus?’

Coming early and being in the lecture hall was understandable since he didn’t know Professor Verdus’s lecture characteristics, but being close to Professor Verdus’s workbench was quite unusual.

Basically, Professor Verdus wasn’t someone who kept other mages near his workbench.

Actually, it wasn’t particularly strange. Originally, the magic that mages researched was a secretive domain, and workshops or workbenches were places that prohibited outsiders from entering.

Of course, if a professor became one and didn’t let students approach either, that would be somewhat problematic…

‘Is it okay to get that close?’

The seniors stopped their work and looked at Professor Verdus and Lee Han with curious gazes.

Since it was a 【Staff Materials and Magic Amplification】 lecture, there were several students from the Enchantment Magic school present, and they provided commentary in cautious voices.

“Very strange… very strange. For Professor Verdus to call him over like that.”

“Maybe he needs some labor-intensive menial work?”

“Professor Verdus doesn’t even assign menial work.”

Professor Verdus was already sufficiently insane, but he became even more insane in areas related to his magic.

Even with preliminary work or simple tasks that could reasonably be overlooked to some extent, he couldn’t tolerate them if they didn’t meet his standards.

Naturally, he never called students over for simple menial work.

“Hey. Don’t we have to match the material combinations today?”

“Let’s just watch for now.”

The students sat divided by their respective towers and cast interested glances. Some students even sent paper birds to friends who hadn’t come to the lecture yet, telling them to hurry over.

“Finish what we’re sending to Emerald Tower today!”

“Oh. Then…”

“Let’s do the next one!”

“…”

Lee Han stared intently at the back of Professor Verdus’s fluffy head.

“I’m also attending the lecture, shouldn’t I be doing my own work?”

“Just do this and then do that! You’ll finish quickly once you start working anyway!”

“What kind of nonsense are you saying.”

When he tried to turn around and ignore him, Professor Verdus struck the floor and opened a secret door, taking out special staff materials from inside and holding them out.

Lee Han nodded his head.

“Even if you didn’t insist like that, Professor, I meant that I wanted to help. Let’s move on to the next task.”

“You remember the mana emission enchantment?”

The precise name was 【Vible’s Mana Emission Enchantment】.

It was one of the magic spells Professor Verdus had forcibly taught last year.

“Yes.”

Crash clatter clang!

“?”

When Lee Han turned his head, the seniors quickly set up their chairs and gestured for him to continue.

“Don’t mind us.”

“The floor is slippery because of the mana in this lecture hall. Continue!”

Lee Han was puzzled, but since Professor Verdus was whining next to him to concentrate, he turned his gaze back to the workbench.

“You need to learn a few more spells similar to that one.”

“Oh. What kind of spells?”

“Absorption, amplification, augmentation, acceleration, explosion, curvature, conversion…”

“Do you perhaps not know the meaning of ‘a few’?”

Lee Han grumbled, but instead of stealing Professor Verdus’s work and fleeing, he obediently sat down and began learning magic.

【Vible’s Mana Emission Enchantment】 was magic that transformed the properties of mana, making the material imbued with that mana emit mana.

The special aspect of this magic was that it cast magic on the mana itself rather than on the material itself.

‘Applying various processes to the mana inside artifacts to amplify it.’

Rather than casting consecutive spells on materials to create chain effects, casting consecutive spells on the mana within magic circles to create effects could produce more accurate results.

It was magic befitting Professor Verdus, who created artifacts with accuracy and precision bordering on madness.

Lee Han also understood the advantages of this method well, which is why he had obediently agreed to learn it…

‘Learning everything would be impossible, but it’s good to learn whenever I get the chance. Each one I master makes it much easier when preparing other enchantment magic.’

Lee Han started learning absorption. Fortunately, since it was the exact opposite of emission, the theory itself wasn’t too difficult.

“Are you done yet?”

“Please wait just a moment.”

“Are you done yet?”

“Just a moment.”

“Are you done yet? Are you done yet? Are you done yet?”

“Wait… I’m done.”

Crash clatter clang!

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