Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 725

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Chapter 725

“Isn’t the floor too slippery? Should I help clean it up?”

As the upperclassmen kept falling, Lee Han asked in confusion.

Professor Verdus looked at the floor irritably.

“Why does that floor keep being slippery and getting in the way!”

“Didn’t you just carelessly dump things after your experiments, Professor?”

At Lee Han’s suspicion, Professor Verdus protested as if it was absurd.

“The students clean it up!”

“…”

Lee Han shook his head at Professor Verdus’s words, who absolutely wouldn’t say ‘I didn’t do that.’

“Seniors. Let me help…”

“We’re fine!”

“Wardanaz. Do we look like idiots who can’t control one slippery floor? Do we look like Baldrogard students to you?”

Lee Han was a bit dumbfounded as the upperclassmen got angry.

Hadn’t they just fallen twice!

If it had been Gainando, his staff would have come out first telling him not to talk nonsense.

“Yes… I understand.”

“Right, right, right. Don’t worry about that. Try casting mana absorption enchantment.”

Professor Verdus urged impatiently, stamping his feet.

He had already wasted 58 seconds because of that trashy floor.

“By Vible’s rule, let mana be absorbed.”

Creep creep-

While Lee Han and Professor Verdus had their heads close together at the workbench, the upperclassmen quietly moved their chairs.

Had that junior really learned 【Vible’s Mana Absorption Enchantment】?

“Even if he’s him, that’s a bit… doesn’t make sense, right?”

“I didn’t even believe he learned 【Vible’s Mana Emission Enchantment】 in the first place.”

“Sigunteng. You’re from the enchantment magic school. What do you think.”

The third-year dwarf student with geometrically braided beard made a serious expression.

Then he opened his mouth.

“Hmm. I’m not interested in other students so I don’t really know.”

“…”

“…”

‘Trash bastard.’

Students from other schools cast contemptuous looks.

Of course, they couldn’t conscientiously take good care of their school’s juniors either. They were busy just solving their lecture assignments and handling research.

But the enchantment magic school was a bit extreme in that regard.

A school where disciples often forgot their professor’s name, and upperclassmen sometimes forgot their juniors’ existence.

From the outside, it was questionable why it was even called a school.

‘Shouldn’t those guys just operate separately?’

“【Vible’s Mana Absorption Enchantment】 is a difficult magic, right? I’m not mistaken, am I?”

“It is on the difficult side.”

There was a reason the students in the lecture hall were shocked upon hearing the magic’s name.

Vible’s mana control magic series was a huge wall for students not majoring in the enchantment magic school.

Surprisingly, even students not majoring in that magic school often learned one or two spells as needed.

Enchantment magic also had quite a number of students from other schools attending related lectures thanks to its unique usefulness.

Weren’t several students from other schools listening to this very lecture right now?

Of course, since they weren’t majoring in the school, it was hard to learn high-difficulty magic, but students didn’t expect that much anyway.

What students from other schools wanted were spells that were easy to learn, highly versatile, and good for applying to their own school’s magic…

-Here. Everyone take this. It’s the professor’s 【Vible’s Mana Emission Enchantment】 magic. It’s much superior and more convenient than existing mana attribute conversion magic.

-Wow, is it okay to just give away something like this?

-The professor doesn’t care anyway. What you guys want is roughly in these spells, so learn them well on your own.

-Thanks. …Wait. Is this actually learnable?

Instead of being superior and more convenient than existing magic, it required memorizing much more detailed and complex movements and understanding principles, so students not majoring in enchantment magic school inevitably got bounced off.

Even students majoring in enchantment magic school often couldn’t learn several and got bounced off.

“Then it really is impressive. Starting from learning emission, he learned absorption so quickly.”

“No. Is that even possible? Sigunteng. I know you’re not interested, but what’s your standard?”

Sigunteng said nothing. The students grabbed and shook Sigunteng in confusion.

“Why aren’t you saying anything?”

“Ah. Sorry. I was thinking about what work to ask that junior to do after today’s lecture.”

Crash bang clang!

The upperclassmen pushed Sigunteng backward.

When Lee Han looked up, the upperclassmen shouted first.

“Now the floor is really fine!”

“Even if you rolled a greased carriage wheel, it would stop on here, so don’t worry! Focus again!”

“It’s fine. I finished the work.”

“…?!?!?”

* * *

While the upperclassmen were making noise in front, Lee Han helped Professor Verdus and additionally learned amplification, augmentation, acceleration, explosion, curvature, and illusion magic.

Professor Verdus, excited by the incomparable work speed, rode the momentum and shouted.

“Next work too!”

“Don’t talk nonsense, Professor.”

Professor Verdus grumbled that his disciple had too little interest and passion for magic, but Lee Han ignored him.

Now Lee Han had to prepare according to the lecture content.

‘It feels like I used up all my energy before the lecture even started.’

Just in case, he checked the chair and floor once (the inside of today’s lecture hall seemed unusually slippery) and Lee Han sat down.

As could be guessed from the lecture 【Staff Materials and Magic Amplification】, basically a staff’s performance changed capriciously depending on what materials were combined and how.

For example, if you made the staff’s framework with blue water wood and put fragments left by the archduke of the deep sea inside, that staff would become an extremely water element specialized staff.

If you made the frame with demonic realm metal and drew patterns with demon blood, it would have advantages when casting demon summoning magic.

‘A staff that’s easy enough for me to make, yet has decent performance.’

The staff Lee Han was currently using was made by the talking oak tree.

The first basic staff was made by Einroguard, so its form and balance were near perfect, but it didn’t have any particularly stronger power or sleeping magic.

-Steal it and run while blocking the professor!

-You bandits! You are now stealing legitimate property protected by Imperial law!

-Where else is there someone who doesn’t follow Imperial law as much as you, Professor, yet you mention Imperial law!

Noisy sounds came from the side, but Lee Han ignored them to concentrate.

The staff made by the talking oak tree had a wood spirit dwelling in it.

Plus the Ice Giant King and the teleportation statue.

The staff’s body had a wood spirit dwelling in it, and at the end were embedded the Ice Giant King’s blue gemstone and the teleportation statue’s ore.

‘Moving them would be possible, but I should make it considering that too.’

Power too strong for the staff to withstand wasn’t good just because you forced it in.

In the worst case, the staff could crack or break.

-Amazing! He really learned it! Look at this!

-It’s a miracle of Einroguard!

-How is this even possible? Wait. Isn’t this amplification? Did he do amplification too?

-Give it back! You bandits!

Crash!!

-Damn. He’s back already! Everyone scatter! Buy time!

Lee Han hastily drew a simple magic circle and prepared summoning magic.

When he first received this staff, he couldn’t use many spells, but now Lee Han had spent time at Einroguard and considerably increased the magic he could use.

The magic he was about to use was 2nd Circle, 【Lesser Spirit Communication】.

It was a magic belonging to the summoning magic school that attempted to ask a few questions to spirits he hadn’t contracted with.

Lee Han rarely had occasions to meet spirits so he hadn’t been able to use it, but he had diligently learned it.

‘Good thing I learned it. As expected, learning magic never results in a loss.’

Lee Han cast the magic to ask questions to the wood spirit in his staff.

“Spirit. Please answer my questions.”

The magic was cast correctly, but no answer came back from the spirit.

‘What?’

Lee Han was puzzled, wondering if he had made some mistake.

Since he had never tried it before, it was difficult to figure out what went wrong.

“Senior… Senior, what happened?!”

Only then did Lee Han look around and realize that the upperclassmen were limping and bleeding from their noses.

“It’s nothing serious.”

“Did you try to learn Professor Verdus’s magic again?”

“Well, something like that.”

“That’s amazing.”

When the junior looked at them with respect, the upperclassmen felt pangs of conscience.

They couldn’t bring themselves to say ‘We fought while betting to confirm whether you really learned it or not.’

“What’s amazing is you. This is the first time I’ve seen a student capable of helping Professor Verdus.”

“?”

Lee Han didn’t understand.

Of course, Lee Han had special advantages in some aspects of enchantment magic, but there must be upperclassmen in the enchantment magic school who were better than Lee Han.

“Aren’t there upperclassmen in the enchantment magic school?”

“Ah. People capable of helping Professor Verdus don’t help with the professor’s work and usually do their own magic.”

“…”

Realizing anew the bleak human relationships within the enchantment magic school, Lee Han felt bitter.

‘Come to think of it, if the upperclassmen had taken Professor Verdus’s work, I wouldn’t have had to suffer like this.’

Lee Han thought this way without realizing that due to his mana characteristics, he would definitely participate even if the upperclassmen took the work.

“Senior. Could you please check if there’s anything wrong with this magic?”

“Enchantment magic? If it’s enchantment magic, I think you’d do better than me.”

“Haha. That’s too much of a joke.”

“I’m not joking.”

“I understand. Thank you for the compliment.”

“No, I’m really not joking…”

The upperclassman was dumbfounded but still checked the problem Lee Han mentioned.

It was a staff inhabited by a wood spirit, but even when 【Lesser Spirit Communication】 was cast, no answer came back.

“You cast the magic properly though? I don’t see anything particularly wrong.”

“Is that so?”

“Let me try casting it again.”

The upperclassman waved the staff and cast 【Lesser Spirit Communication】.

Watching this, Lee Han suddenly felt an ominous feeling.

‘…It couldn’t be that it didn’t answer because it was scared of me, right.’

“Spirit. Are you listening?”

A symbol indicating affirmation appeared in front of the staff and then disappeared.

“It works? That’s strange. What could the reason have been?”

The upperclassman fell into thought.

Since this magic could only answer yes or no, the questioner also had to ask reasonably sharp questions.

“Senior. Please ask if it didn’t answer because it was scared of me.”

“What kind of nonsense is that?”

The upperclassman burst into laughter at Lee Han’s words.

“Hey. Of course you might seem scary to Einroguard students. Since you’re attending all the schools.”

“…”

Lee Han glared at the upperclassman with a displeased expression.

“But spirits don’t get scared of things like that.”

“Just try it.”

“Fine. Fine. Did you not answer because you were afraid of this mage here?”

Surprisingly, the answer was negative.

Lee Han was so shocked that he grabbed the upperclassman’s shoulder tightly and shouted.

“Senior. Look!!! The spirit says it’s not afraid of me!!!”

“Yes, yes. Congratulations. I don’t know why you’re so happy about it, but could you loosen your grip? My collarbone that broke earlier because of Professor Verdus still hurts.”

“I’m sorry.”

Released from the strong grip, the upperclassman rubbed his shoulder and fell into thought.

“Hmm. I really don’t know the reason.”

“I was going to ask a few things about making a new staff…”

“Well. Can’t be helped. Let’s just ask everything we can think of.”

The upperclassman took out a spirit summoning magic book from his pocket and asked questions in order.

“Did you contract with an evil being?”

“Ugh.”

“Did you fight an extremely dangerous battle?”

“Uugh.”

“…What’s wrong? Are you hurt somewhere?”

“No. Please continue.”

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