Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 731

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Chapter 731

“…What fault could you have? You did well.”

Lee Han sighed and praised Ponrig.

He should have assessed the situation properly and given specific commands. Ponrig had done well without overexerting himself.

Of course, he hadn’t expected him to do this well…

“I’m counting on you, new striker.”

“You seem to have high expectations, which makes me a bit nervous.”

Karnella nodded seriously at those words.

“Normally I should say I don’t have expectations, but honestly, I’m a little excited. I can’t help it.”

The existing Einroguard Quidditch Club members weren’t severely lacking in skill, but compared to Karnella, their passion for victory was like heaven and earth.

When the striker position was vacant, they should have thought about filling it themselves, but instead they had a relaxed attitude like ‘it’ll work out somehow.’

In this situation, it would be inhuman—no, undead—not to have expectations for the griffin rider junior who appeared.

“Oh right, junior. What was your name again?”

“…Senior, did you not even know my name? I’m Lee Han of the Wardanaz Family.”

“Ah, right. I’ll remember it. My friends always just called you ‘that guy’ so I forgot.”

“…”

Lee Han shook his head at the senior who kindly explained even the reason he didn’t want to know.

“But senior, I have one last thing to ask.”

“The next training schedule?”

“No. If I remember correctly, Ponrig here also left without being able to break the curse due to mass or size restrictions, but is your Cerberus okay, senior?”

“Ah, that’s coward Quidditch.”

“?”

“Wardanaz, Wardanaz. I didn’t know you were this ignorant about Quidditch… There are two types of Quidditch. One is Quidditch played with mass and size restrictions on mounts. It’s called coward Quidditch.”

“Is that a term used throughout the Empire?”

“No, it’s an expression I use alone.”

“…”

“Anyway, it’s accurate. The other is true Quidditch played without petty restrictions on mounts. The Quidditch I play is this type.”

“…So griffins, hippogriffs, and Cerberus appear in their true forms?”

“Exactly!”

Seeing her junior gradually understanding the charm of Quidditch, a smile spread across Karnella’s face.

‘She really is insane.’

Lee Han resolved to keep his distance from the Quidditch Club for a while.

* * *

Professor Willow Tree will be in the forest this week!

‘I’m happy!’

Lee Han felt joy for the first time in a while when one lecture was postponed to next week due to the professor’s circumstances.

Of course, he knew well that when lectures were postponed at Einroguard, the burden fell on the students themselves the following week, but he couldn’t help feeling happy.

“Puhahahaha!”

“?”

Gainando was bursting with laughter while reading a magazine. Lee Han wondered what was so funny and asked.

“Is there some interesting story?”

“Ah, Lee Han. Look at this. Someone wrote a joke about mages!”

…One day, a master had so much to teach his disciple that he said this:

-Since I must teach you quickly, I’ll teach you four things in the morning and three in the evening.

The disciple got angry, saying it was unreasonable. Seeing this, the master reluctantly changed his words.

-Then how about I teach you three things in the morning and four in the evening?

The disciple was very satisfied with this…

“Isn’t it hilarious?”

“…Are you keeping up with your assignments properly?”

“Ah, none have been assigned yet!?”

Gainando was flustered by his friend’s sudden words.

Of course, since Gainando usually didn’t do his assignments well, being suspected was unavoidable, but it was still the beginning of the semester!

“If no assignments have been given, you should at least preview. What are you taking? Bring your course list.”

“…”

While Gainando was caught like a mouse in the corner of the year’s common room, the other friends quickly put away their chess and mage card sets and hurriedly fled.

An hour later, Lee Han headed off to attend the 【Poison, Bone, Blood】 lecture. The pleasant mood from earlier had long since completely reversed.

‘Which bastard published that?’

It was so coincidental that he suspected one of the Einroguard professors might have sent it.

Lee Han shook his head.

‘Get it together. It must be a coincidence.’

Falling into suspicion like this was how mages went insane in no time.

Since it was already a profession vulnerable to madness, one had to be careful at all times.

The 【Poison, Bone, Blood】 lecture hall located on the second basement floor was dark and had a musty smell mixed with various materials.

Students from other schools might have had trouble adapting, but Lee Han, who had already received basic education in the dark magic school throughout last year, sat down without much panic.

“?”

Lee Han began to feel slightly confused when he didn’t see the familiar school seniors he was waiting for.

‘What? Did I mistake this for Professor Boladi’s lecture?’

He also considered the more likely possibility that he had entered the wrong lecture hall and checked, but that wasn’t it.

Not long after, the first student entered. Seeing the familiar senior’s face, Lee Han felt emotions welling up for no reason.

“…Senior Diret!”

“Junior.”

Diret and Lee Han looked at each other with fresh eyes.

As if looking in a mirror, both had eyes full of fatigue.

One had advanced to fifth year, and the other was taking all schools and all clubs, so in a way it was natural.

‘What a pitiful person.’

‘He’s really pitiful too.’

Not knowing they both thought each other pitiful, the two opened their mouths.

“Senior, have you been well?”

“No. Never advance to fifth year. Have you been well?”

“Yes.”

“Don’t lie.”

“…”

Lee Han spoke with a bitter expression.

“I think this level is okay. Still…”

“…Right. If you say so, then it must be.”

Come to think of it, since it was still the beginning of the semester, there was a high possibility he wasn’t properly doing club activities yet.

Not many clubs entrusted important responsibilities to newly joined members.

Thinking about it that way, it wasn’t completely wrong for his junior to say it was still bearable.

Since the lectures hadn’t started in earnest either, for a junior who had gone through that harsh schedule last year, it would be a bearable level.

“But why isn’t anyone else coming?”

“It’s probably just the two of us. Our school doesn’t have many students to begin with, so there are often times when there are only one or two people in the lecture hall.”

“…I, I see.”

Seeing his junior’s confusion, Diret smiled bitterly and said.

“It’s okay. You don’t need to worry about it. Speak comfortably. You’re also a member of the dark magic school now.”

Unlike first year when you could easily give up after attending basic lectures, continuing to take Black Magic Academy courses after advancing to second year was practically equivalent to being officially affiliated.

From this point on, cases of changing academies were quite rare.

“Then senior. If our academy has few students, shouldn’t we increase the numbers? Is the professor perhaps not interested?”

“…That seems like you’re speaking too casually…”

Diret was flustered by his junior’s appearance of sharply stabbing at Professor Mortum’s sore spot.

If he said such things in front of Professor Mortum, the professor might collapse from shock.

“Ah. I’m sorry. You said I could speak casually.”

“No. You can be casual in front of me. Be careful in front of the professor.”

After finishing his words, Diret stood up from his seat and walked forward to stand beside the podium.

Seeing this, Lee Han asked in puzzlement.

“Why are you standing there?”

“I’m the one teaching this lecture?”

“…”

Only then did Lee Han realize that Diret had come not as a student attending the lecture together, but as a professor teaching students.

Instantly, chills ran down Lee Han’s spine.

‘Fifth year students have to teach lectures too!’

“Do… do you have to teach students when you reach fifth year!?”

“Hm? That’s about right. Even without reaching fifth year, sometimes in fourth year…”

Diret, who was speaking, flinched because his junior’s eyes were far too murky and dark.

They were eyes that seemed to have prematurely realized a truth of the world that shouldn’t be known yet.

“…Forget what I just said.”

“Somehow I feel like I’ll end up in that role…”

“Now. What kind of lecture do you think 【Poison, Bone, Blood】 is?”

At Diret’s clumsy attempt to change the subject, Lee Han shook his head back and forth.

Well, this wasn’t the senior’s fault.

It was the fault of evil Einroguard!

“I learned several magics using poison elements or bone elements last year too. Blood elements as well.”

“Right. You learned last year… huh?”

Diret, who was speaking, fluttered the black wings on his back.

“You shouldn’t have learned blood element magic though?”

“Ah. To be precise, I did learn basic blood magic.”

“…Was there perhaps a crazy professor at our school?”

Diret asked an obvious question out of surprise.

Just what kind of bastard taught blood magic to a first-year student?

Lee Han quickly explained before Professor Boladi could be dragged to the punishment room.

“I didn’t learn to use blood magic. It was because of this reason…”

While the principle itself of using blood to amplify mana was clean and efficient, blood magic wasn’t used much due to its dangers.

There weren’t many people reckless enough to learn and teach techniques that could devour the mage themselves with just a small mistake.

However, Professor Boladi focused on the fact that Lee Han had a large amount of mana and gifted him a basic blood magic book.

He judged it would be a good fit since even without amplifying mana through blood magic, Lee Han could cast magic using his naturally abundant mana.

“…He said that even if I don’t use blood magic, I should learn the magics cast by applying those principles.”

‘I mustn’t curse. I mustn’t curse.’

After hearing his junior’s explanation, Diret squeezed his eyes shut.

A fifth-year student couldn’t curse about professors in front of a junior.

“…I see. Indeed. I see. That could happen. Indeed. Right.”

‘Has he broken down?’

While Lee Han was slightly worried, Diret recovered from the shock and opened his mouth.

“Actually, what we’ll learn in this lecture isn’t that different from what you just mentioned. Poison, bone, blood. They’re all powerful reagents and… some are efficient elements too.”

Diret summoned chalk and continued his explanation while drawing pictures on the blackboard.

Poison and bone were elements with powerful combat capabilities in themselves, and while blood was somewhat inefficient and not often used, it was undoubtedly a powerful and ancient reagent.

The goal of this lecture was to learn how to utilize these three as reagents and as elements, and to become proficient in their combinations.

“Even within the Black Magic Academy, the paths are divided in various ways from golems to curses. Because of this diversity, there are often students who surprisingly fail at simple black magic, and I think this is due to insufficient fundamentals.”

Diret spoke in a serious voice befitting a dark mage walking ahead on the path.

If you commonly learn only the convenient and easy-looking magic in front of you, when you later try to learn difficult magic, you fall into a hopeless state where you don’t know where to start practicing again.

The lecture 【Poison, Bone, Blood】 was prepared to avoid such situations.

It was a bit disappointing that other Black Magic Academy students weren’t attending, but Diret couldn’t grab them by the collar and drag them here.

Diret was sufficiently satisfied just having the junior he had the highest expectations for attending.

“I see. I understand. Then I should practice the fundamentals of each magic thoroughly during this semester.”

“No. You just start with the difficult magic.”

“…”

At his senior’s appearance of flipping his own words like flipping his palm, Lee Han felt a sense of betrayal.

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