Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 739

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Chapter 739

‘Even though animals familiar with transformation magic have an advantage…’

Among transformation magic, spells that transform the mage themselves into other creatures were particularly high in difficulty and hard to control.

Since one had to maintain the identity of their soul while only changing the form of their body, the difficulty was inevitably higher compared to other magic.

For this reason, transformation magic tended to connect easily with animals the mage was familiar with.

Cases where a mage who grew up tending sheep on a ranch tried to transform into a shark but ended up as a sheep with fins were common occurrences in transformation magic training.

The Wardanaz family boy was also continuously caring for a baby basilisk, so transforming into a basilisk itself was possible.

But…

‘A basilisk isn’t some earthworm-like creature!’

Regardless of the mage’s personal familiarity, the more powerful the monster, the exponentially higher the transformation difficulty became.

A monster wielding powerful strength meant it was condensing tremendous mana within its body.

No matter how skilled a mage was, implementing such a body identically was highly difficult.

Yet that Wardanaz was transforming one arm into a basilisk’s head despite just starting transformation magic.

There was no telling how far he could go once he became accustomed to it.

“Basilisk seems a bit much, Wardanaz.”

“Right? Actually, I thought so too. It’s quite inconvenient since I can’t control it.”

“Don’t make such spoiled complaints!!!”

Unable to bear it any longer, Professor Bendozol shouted and left.

The students were flustered by his behavior and murmured among themselves.

“Why is he acting like that?”

“The professor probably wanted to transform into a basilisk too. Who knows.”

“Right. Wardanaz. Just ignore him.”

“…”

Lee Han felt slightly conflicted watching his friends coldly ignore Professor Bendozol, wondering if this was okay.

They seemed to be adapting too quickly…

* * *

‘Once this ends, it’s finally the weekend.’

It had been the first week of the semester that felt eternally long.

Even though all the lectures hadn’t fully started yet, it was already this much.

He was almost afraid that once all the lectures got rolling, the semester would become eternally long.

‘Could there be time magic cast within Einroguard?’

The lecture, 【Elemental Magic and Its Applications】, was held in the Elemental Room on the 4th floor of the main building.

As the name suggested, it was a lecture exploring the advanced stages of elemental magic.

While Lee Han wasn’t usually an overconfident person, he was slightly confident about this lecture.

‘After suffering so much under Professor Boladi.’

There probably wasn’t anyone who had built up basic elemental control as thoroughly as Lee Han before entering.

Even if they were upperclassmen, wouldn’t he not fall behind in this area?

“Good day, Wardanaz.”

“Imperial Princess.”

Spotting Gainando’s sister, Lee Han greeted her lightly.

When they first met, he had been careful about picking fights unnecessarily, worried his life after graduation might get twisted, but after spending over a year together, he learned she wasn’t such a bad person.

She was someone who liked food, just like Gainando.

Having no idea that the Wardanaz family boy was thinking such insanely rude thoughts, Adenart was also pleased to see him.

Unlike other followers who treated her stiffly and formally, Lee Han was much more comfortable to deal with.

When she first saw him, she had slightly misunderstood because he said he would only take easy lectures, but after spending over a year together, she could see it was completely wrong.

The boy before her was someone far more obsessed with the study of magic than the Imperial Princess herself.

While she wouldn’t easily admit to being inferior to anyone in diligence or responsibility, she had to acknowledge this.

Though it was premature to predict the future of current 2nd year students, everyone unanimously agreed about the Wardanaz family boy alone.

‘He’ll probably stay at Einroguard.’

Having no idea that the Imperial Princess was thinking such insanely rude thoughts, Lee Han spoke.

“How fortunate. Is 【Elemental Magic and Its Applications】 a 2nd year lecture?”

“No. It’s a 3rd year lecture.”

“…”

Lee Han became dejected.

It seemed Adenart had also been forcibly dragged to a lecture one year above her level.

“You must be having a hard time too, Imperial Princess.”

“Pardon? What do you mean…?”

“Aren’t you angry about having to take a 3rd year lecture?”

“I consider it an honor.”

“…”

Only then did Lee Han realize his mistake.

Come to think of it, Adenart probably wouldn’t be taking that many 3rd year lectures.

At most, she’d take one or two!

‘No. Wouldn’t she be angry even taking one or two?’

Lee Han looked at Adenart with pity.

It was clearly a situation to be angry about, yet she considered it an honor.

“Imperial Princess. When you should be angry, you should be angry.”

“I, I don’t quite understand…”

Adenart was flustered, not knowing what Lee Han meant.

Meanwhile, one upperclassman walked past them and tried to open the door to the Elemental Room.

About 1/4 of the upperclassman’s body was under a petrification curse, making stone-clacking sounds with every movement.

“…”

“…”

“Gruk. Could you help me. Gruk.”

“Yes.”

At the stone-clacking upperclassman’s voice, Lee Han quickly opened the door. The upperclassman nodded gratefully (actually, he couldn’t nod and just made the gesture).

“!”

The Elemental Room was a bizarre place where dozens of different environments coexisted simultaneously.

In a space about the size of a clearing, countless elemental forces were imbued, causing endless changes.

Behind the lizard beastman upperclassman were lava and flames, at the feet of the human upperclassman next to him were streams and waterfalls, and in the corner of the room where everyone kept their distance were thunder and lightning…

Even in Einroguard, which overflowed with all sorts of strange places, Lee Han and Adenart were amazed by this rare bizarre sight.

“Still haven’t lifted the curse?”

“Gruk. They say it’ll take some time. Gruk.”

“That’s why I told you not to carelessly open artifacts.”

“Gruk. I got it. Gruk.”

“It must be Professor Benmalppa? I find him a bit uncomfortable.”

“I find him uncomfortable too.”

“Hey. Still, he’s better than other people.”

“?”

Lee Han focused and listened carefully to the upperclassmen’s conversation.

If he wanted to survive safely in the perilous Einroguard, he always had to pay attention to such information.

‘Professor Benmalppa?’

Lee Han didn’t know this professor.

In fact, unless Einroguard’s professors had kind personalities like Professor Garcia, ordinary students rarely had occasion to meet them.

If it was a professor teaching lectures unrelated to oneself, there were cases of never meeting them until graduation…

‘I don’t know what kind of personality he has.’

“Good day, upperclassmen.”

“Oh. You’re a second-year?!”

“A second-year taking this lecture… That’s impressive?”

The upperclassmen were delighted to see Lee Han and Adenart.

And the Blue Dragon Tower seniors immediately started bragging.

“See? This is tradition and bloodline…”

“If you were born with that tradition and bloodline, why didn’t you take it in your second year and are taking it now?”

As the argument between the upperclassmen began, Lee Han quietly asked what he was curious about instead of stopping them.

“Senior. What kind of lecture is this?”

“Hmm? It’s exactly what the name suggests.”

The Empire’s magical schools were closer to classifications made by current Imperial mages for convenience.

In the distant past during the Three Kingdoms era, magical schools were once divided by elements, but current Imperial mages thought such classification was quite inefficient.

Even within the same fire elemental magic, it was divided into various principles from enchantment to summoning, illusion, and transformation, so they judged that other types of school classification were much more rational.

For this reason, when Einroguard students studied elemental magic, unless there was a special reason, they didn’t try to specialize in just one element and master everything within it.

Instead, it was usual to learn the necessary elemental magics and their applications as needed according to their purpose and magical research.

【Elemental Magic and Its Applications】 was also a lecture that helped with such purposes.

The fact that numerous types of elemental energy flowed in the Room of Elements was designed so students wouldn’t be stubborn about just one thing but could flexibly handle various things while freely expanding their ideas.

‘No. This sounds too normal?’

For Lee Han, who had been continuously attacked last year just trying to learn one elemental application, it sounded so normal that it was confusing.

“Then what purpose did you have, senior…?”

“I applied because I need to practice the connection between water and earth elements. I’m currently researching something, but my elemental control seems lacking, so it keeps failing midway.”

“Water element… Do you mean multi-controlling water orbs, instantly changing the form of water, or adding advanced enchantments like rotational properties to water?”

“…I wasn’t thinking of going that deep…”

The senior was flustered by Lee Han’s words.

He had just planned to lightly learn water elemental form changes, just a few things needed for research…

“But won’t you need it someday?”

“Unless you’re going around killing monsters with just water element, I don’t think it’s necessary?”

“…”

Lee Han’s expression darkened at the senior’s words.

He thought that the lecture he took last year might have been more pointless than he thought.

From what he heard, the seniors were learning only the parts they needed rather than focusing crazily on one element.

…Maybe this was the right way?

‘…No. Going deep isn’t bad. It will surely help when dealing with other elements too.’

If it didn’t help, Lee Han might grab Professor Boladi by the collar.

“Junior. Why did you apply for the lecture?”

“Hmm…”

Lee Han pondered because ‘An artifact made me do it’ didn’t seem like a good answer.

Meanwhile, Adenart answered first.

“I applied to control rare attribute elements and strengthen them overall.”

“Ah. Me too. I’m also working on common attributes.”

Thinking it was a good answer, Lee Han quickly adopted it.

Lee Han was actually a peculiar case who dealt with rare attribute elements like darkness, lightning, and cold much more than common elements.

Thanks to that, he was still nervous every time he used fire magic…

From the two juniors’ answers, the senior thought Adenart probably had better grades than Lee Han.

In Lee Han’s case, since he said he needed to strengthen even common elements, he clearly had many shortcomings.

“Everyone to your seats!”

A professor from the Benmalfa family entered with an energetic and powerful voice.

The human professor had a stylishly grown seagull-shaped mustache, which combined with his characteristic gentlemanly attire made him look like the chairman of a group actively participating in Imperial social clubs.

Among Einroguard’s professors who often dressed haphazardly, such an appearance was rare, so Lee Han was puzzled.

‘Is that why some seniors felt uncomfortable with him?’

“Greetings, gentlemen! I am Jorzic of the Benmalfa family. I’m the person who will become Einroguard’s next principal!”

“?!”

While Lee Han and Adenart were surprised, several seniors who were seeing Professor Jorzic for the first time asked in shock.

“Are you the principal’s successor?!”

“No!”

“…But you said you’d be the next principal?”

“You can become the next principal without necessarily being a successor, gentlemen! I will someday receive His Imperial Majesty’s command and become Einroguard’s principal in place of Lord Gonadaltes!”

“…”

“…”

Seeing the professor announcing a coup with ambitious eyes and voice, Lee Han finally realized why some seniors felt uncomfortable with Professor Jorzic.

And he thought to himself.

‘He’s crazier than Professor Verdus.’

He was absolutely someone not to get close to.

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