Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 73
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Spirits didn’t unconditionally welcome guests. Though they didn’t speak, spirits also had personalities and preferences.
Naturally, there were guests that spirits feared.
Professor Thunderstep recalled a story he had heard before.
A story about a mage who had no interest in spirits, but after becoming an Archmage, tried to summon spirits once and contacted the Spirit Realm.
While contacting the Spirit Realm was easy given his magical skills, the spirits didn’t like that Archmage.
The intense aura felt from his soul had frightened the spirits.
Veteran mercenaries, swordsmen who had defeated dozens of opponents – people who had lived tumultuous lives inevitably had their soul’s color changed.
From Professor Thunderstep’s perspective, he couldn’t understand why a mage who had realized all sorts of mysteries would be treated the same as those people…
But what could be done?
The spirits disliked it.
That’s why it was better to befriend spirits from a relatively young age. The older one got, the harder it became to befriend them.
“But why me?”
“Perhaps the spirit read your terrible thoroughness?”
“…”
“I’m joking. It’s probably because of your mana amount.”
Lee Han, being from the Wardanaz Family, couldn’t have killed someone before enrolling, so the only thing left was his mana amount.
A wildly rampaging mana amount that even decent spirits couldn’t help but be overwhelmed by!
“Fortunately, there’s not no solution. The Archmage in the story I mentioned also eventually succeeded in befriending spirits.”
“Oh. What method was it?”
“He used magic to forcibly capture a spirit and then befriended it.”
“…Aren’t spirits usually stronger in the Spirit Realm?”
Just as beasts are stronger in their own front yard, fighting spirits in the Spirit Realm was something that had to be done risking one’s life.
“There is that minor problem. Anyway, cheer up!”
“…”
Lee Han wasn’t disappointed.
Being disappointed would only please Professor Thunderstep.
‘Next time I go to the cabin, I should steal more food to bring out.’
* * *
Fortunately, his friends worried about Lee Han’s misfortune as if it were their own.
“This is truly serious. Lee Han of Wardanaz Family.”
“??”
The Blue Dragon Tower students thought Priest Siana was a student from the same tower because she appeared so naturally.
‘When did she get here?’
‘I don’t know either…’
“Sometimes people appear who are feared by spirits due to misunderstandings. Our order has had such cases too.”
“Isn’t there any way to solve this?”
At Yoner’s question, Priest Siana thought deeply.
“If spirits fear and avoid you when you enter the Spirit Realm… first befriending spirits in reality would be one method. If you gain recognition from spirits or become friends and receive an emblem, their wariness might soften.”
Lee Han looked at the wooden staff he was holding.
…Come to think of it, isn’t this a staff with a wood spirit dwelling in it?
Lee Han sighed inwardly. It seemed the wood spirit’s staff wasn’t solving the problem.
“Are there no other methods? Does the Flameng Order perhaps…?”
“Our order used to solve it with potions.”
Being an order of alchemy, the Flameng Order solved it through alchemy.
At Priest Siana’s words, Lee Han brightened.
“It’s possible to solve with potions?”
“Of course.”
What they had drunk during Professor Thunderstep’s lecture was also a spirit affinity potion.
A potion that made it easier to contact the Spirit Realm and allowed one to stay there longer.
Since that was a low-grade potion, using a more powerful potion could erase the spirits’ fear and even make one appear more attractive.
“Ooh…!”
“Such a thing is possible!”
The Blue Dragon Tower students were amazed.
The Flameng Order’s reputation wasn’t in vain. Yoner also spoke with expectant eyes.
“I’ve heard of it. Among the Flameng Order’s secret potions, there are potions specialized for spirits…”
“You know very well, Yoner of the Meikin Family. I’ve helped create one of the secret potions. If you wish, I’ll make it for you.”
Priest Siana spoke kindly.
Though it was a secret of the Flameng Order, she could bestow it upon someone like the Wardanaz Family boy who knew and respected the greatness of the Flameng Order.
That was the ideology of the Flameng Order.
“If it’s completed, could we also…?”
“Of course.”
Even when the Blue Dragon Tower students cautiously brought it up, Priest Siana nodded.
If it was completed, sharing it with other students wasn’t particularly difficult.
“However, quite a lot of materials are needed. Here, look.”
Priest Siana took out a sheet of paper and began writing down the necessary materials with a quill pen.
Even though she wrote quickly, the list became densely packed in an instant with how many there were.
Galpiri
Galpiri
Galpiri
Naisinse Flower
Naisinse Flower
Naisinse Flower
Dadu Beetle
Dadu Beetle
Dadu Beetle
Rubified Feldspar
Rubified Feldspar
Rubified Feldspar
…
…
…
“Can we obtain all of this?”
“It might certainly be difficult to find if you look for them directly. But there’s a method. In Professor Thunderstep’s laboratory located on the upper floor of Kaksu Hall, everything written here should be available.”
“…”
“…?”
Lee Han, who had been listening quietly, was flustered for the first time.
…What does that mean?
‘Ah. He must be suggesting we ask Professor Thunderstep for permission.’
Lee Han reflected on himself.
Priest Siana wasn’t Lee Han, so surely she wouldn’t suggest stealing.
“If everyone’s resolve is firm, I will sneak into the laboratory with you all and bring out the materials.”
“…”
Lee Han was shocked.
No…
No…!
However, the other Blue Dragon Tower students were deeply moved.
“Priest Siana!”
“I used to wonder why Wardanaz praised you so much, but now I understand!”
“You are the light and salt of the Empire!”
Lee Han asked to calm down his wildly excited friends.
“Priest Siana. I appreciate your words, but isn’t that method a bit… dangerous?”
“But Lee Han of the Wardanaz family. This is something the school encourages.”
“…”
That’s true!
Lee Han couldn’t argue back.
It was true that the Skeleton Principal had told them to do so.
Priest Siana smiled, narrowing her vertically elongated pupils characteristic of snake beastkin.
“Oh my. You must be worried about me. But it’s fine. Lee Han of the Wardanaz family has wandered around the school at night many times but has never been caught.”
“Wardanaz did do that.”
The Blue Dragon Tower students felt proud as if it were their own achievement. Asan wiped under his nose and felt embarrassed on his behalf.
“Even if we get caught, I won’t resent it at all.”
“We feel the same way, Wardanaz.”
“…Thank you very much.”
“Don’t mention it for something like this.”
Apart from his friends’ friendship, when he thought about it carefully, Priest Siana’s words were quite tempting.
Why would bank robbers in stories always obsess over one big score instead of just retiring?
It was because pulling off one big score would make life easier.
Thunderstep’s laboratory was the same.
‘Considering the rest of the semester, alchemy class will likely become assignment hell.’
Not just alchemy class, but other lectures could turn into assignment hell at any moment.
If he secured a large amount of alchemy materials, he could respond flexibly to such assignments.
Just one big score…!
Poke poke-
“?”
Lee Han turned his head.
Nilia was gently poking Lee Han’s side.
At that sight, Lee Han came to his senses slightly.
‘Oops. Was I thinking too crazy thoughts?’
“What’s wrong, Nilia?”
“…Don’t leave me out this time and only take Ratford, seriously.”
“…”
Lee Han looked up at the sky.
Regardless of Lee Han’s complicated feelings, the magic school’s sky was blue without a single cloud.
* * *
Even if summoned creatures escaped within the school and professors pondered what assignments to torment students with, there were a few things that never changed.
That was Professor Boladi’s teaching method.
Thwack!
Thwack!
Thwack!
‘Ugh.’
At another orb that broke through his defense and hit his back, Lee Han gritted his teeth.
Lee Han had gotten used to it somewhat, but he couldn’t completely keep up with Professor Boladi’s control.
The control that twisted up, down, left, and right to create unpredictable paths before striking weak points had a murderous pressure that only those who experienced it directly could understand.
Moreover, the penetrating power was extraordinary.
If Lee Han loosened the cohesion of his water orb even slightly, she would notice like a ghost and attempt to penetrate.
“You’re not concentrating.”
“That’s not true.”
Lee Han was concentrating.
It was just that Professor Boladi kept raising the difficulty.
It wasn’t that his skills weren’t improving, but every time his skills improved, Professor Boladi raised the hurdle much higher, so he couldn’t help but fail.
However, Professor Boladi didn’t think at all that Lee Han was being penetrated because she had given her all.
‘Why is this happening?’
Professor Boladi was puzzled as Lee Han, who had been doing reasonably well until now, started struggling strangely.
If it had been a student who couldn’t do it from the beginning or gave up and ran away, it would be different, but that Wardanaz family boy had been doing reasonably well until now.
Of course, what Professor Boladi considered ‘reasonably well’ would make other professors think ‘Shouldn’t we report this to His Imperial Majesty along with the Skeleton Principal?’, but anyway, that’s how Professor Boladi saw it.
Plop-
The orb stopped in mid-air.
“?”
Lee Han was wary that it might be a trap.
‘Is this a new pattern?’
Stop the orb and pretend to give a break, then attack again…
It was exactly what Professor Boladi would do.
“I see why you can’t concentrate.”
“!”
Lee Han was surprised.
Could she have noticed that Lee Han was planning to rob Professor Thunderstep’s laboratory?
“Are you trying to add rotation property to the water orb, like when you defeated the golem last time?”
“…”
Lee Han thought he knew where the story had leaked from.
‘Skeleton Principal…!’
Professor Thunderstep wasn’t particularly close to Professor Boladi, so there was only one person who would have gone to Professor Boladi and chattered about it.
“No, I don’t have such greed…”
“That’s overambition.”
‘I know that too.’
At this absurd misunderstanding, Lee Han sighed inwardly.
Just because he luckily defeated the mud golem didn’t mean he had delusions like ‘Ah, I’m a genius, I should add rotation to my water orbs from now on.’
“Don’t be impatient.”
Anyone who knew Professor Boladi would have been shocked to hear advice like ‘That’s overambition’ or ‘Don’t be impatient.’
Basically, Professor Boladi was someone whose concept and common sense about teaching had been severed.
-If I can do it, you should be able to do it too. Why can’t you? Just do it.
…Professor Boladi was someone who seriously believed in this.
For such a person to say things like ‘That’s overambition’ or ‘Don’t be impatient.’
It would be like the sun rising in the west, but Lee Han naturally didn’t know the weight of those words.
‘I’m telling you I’m not doing it…’
He really had no intention of doing it at all, but Professor Boladi was acting like this, which was just absurd.
Professors, honestly!
“Wait.”
“?”
However, Professor Boladi extended his hand and fell into thought again.
Professor Boladi, for the first time, tried to think from the student’s perspective.
It was a great step forward that he himself didn’t even notice.
-What if I were that Wardanaz Family Boy?
Being told ‘don’t be impatient’ wouldn’t have reassured him.
A person who doesn’t take a path when it’s right in front of them doesn’t deserve to be a mage.
“I see.”
“What… do you mean you see?”
Lee Han felt an ominous feeling. Usually nothing good came of it when professors convinced themselves of something.
“From now on, you can be impatient. I’ll make you focus.”
“Wai…!”
Before he could say ‘t’, Professor Boladi’s storm began again.
How to Live as a Mage in Magic School
How to Live as a Mage in Magic School
How to Live as a Mage in Magic School
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