Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 756

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Chapter 756

For a while, no one in the Watchman Club said anything.

Iaktus, who belatedly recovered from the shock, began writing with trembling letters.

Iaktus: …That guy really isn’t the Principal, right??

* * *

While the members of the Watchman Club were whispering about the identity of their new member, Lee Han closed his book and left the tower to move around.

He had originally been careful about meeting new students, but now he had become much more cautious.

‘From now on, I should only move around near the Main Building as much as possible.’

When the upperclassmen first said ‘As you advance in grade, you end up only being active inside the main building,’ Lee Han had expressed doubt.

Of course, the inside of Einroguard’s main building was a bizarre structure that was infinitely vast, even wider than Einroguard’s territory…

But still, weren’t there many things that could only be obtained in the territory areas outside the main building?

No matter how time-pressed and difficult life became as an upperclassman, not going outside the main building?

But now he understood.

‘When guys like the Skeleton Principal’s Insane Doppelganger come looking periodically, how could you go far away?’

He had no choice but to be careful since he could be kidnapped by strange Archmages if he wasn’t cautious.

…Of course, other students’ reasons were quite different from Lee Han’s…

“Are you there?”

Lee Han opened the door to Professor Verdus’s workshop and magic tower, the Sacred Workshop, and entered.

Going up to the 2nd floor, he saw three enchantment magic school upperclassmen positioned chaotically within the spacious workshop area. The upperclassmen were doing finishing work on artifacts with their faces pressed so close to the workbenches they almost touched them with their noses.

“Senior. Do you happen to know where Senior Yukveltire is?”

“…”

“Senior?”

When the upperclassmen didn’t answer, Lee Han thought he should use the same method he had used with Professor Verdus again.

“Senior!!!”

“Wh-what a surprise?! What is it?!”

The enchantment magic students who had been concentrating on their magic jumped in surprise at their junior’s call.

“Good day!”

“Why are you calling so loudly? Call quietly!”

“I’m sorry. I’ll keep that in mind from next time. Do you happen to know where Senior Yukveltire’s workshop is?”

“Uh. Don’t know.”

“…?”

Lee Han was slightly flustered.

There was no way an enchantment magic school mage of Yukveltire’s caliber wouldn’t have a workshop in the Sacred Workshop.

“Doesn’t she have a workshop here in the Sacred Workshop?”

“She probably does?”

“But you don’t know where she is?”

“Yeah.”

Lee Han asked with a smile.

“Do you happen to know where Professor Verdus’s workshop is?”

“Don’t know? Why would we know that.”

“I see. Thank you.”

After hearing the answer, Lee Han thought he should just walk around and find it himself.

Enchantment magic school students might not even know each other’s names.

“Senior Yukveltire?”

“Yeah.”

“You’re not Senior Yukveltire, are you?”

“Yeah.”

“…Have a good day.”

“Yeah.”

After breaking through the interference of the uncooperative enchantment magic school students, Lee Han was finally able to find Yukveltire’s workshop.

The Imperial Princess was using the entire 3rd basement floor to conduct her research.

“Are you there, Senior?”

“Come in.”

Yukveltire placed her blue jade glasses on the table and gestured.

Then she spoke as if she had expected this.

“Right. You must have become interested in my research.”

“…”

Lee Han was dumbfounded by the groundless confidence.

“Senior. I was kidnapped by a doppelganger until yesterday.”

“Hmm.”

Yukveltire didn’t understand what Lee Han meant and fell into deep thought.

Then she clapped her hands lightly as if she understood.

“While learning magic under the Principal’s doppelganger, you got inspiration. And that inspiration is related to my research. Right?”

“…Actually, I came to ask you not to bother Senior Diret.”

Lee Han took out the food basket he had brought as a bribe.

Since she was Adenart’s sister and also related to Gainando, he hoped food bribes might work.

Yukveltire immediately answered as if it was ridiculous.

“I think you’re mistaken, but it’s always Diret who bothers me. I’ve never bothered Diret once. I’ve always respected him.”

“…”

Lee Han silently recited ‘The other person is a senior, and this is the senior’s workshop, so if I attack rashly, I might get countered’ three times before opening his mouth.

“Actually, I don’t want to debate the definition of bothering. Senior.”

“Listen. You’ll understand if you hear it too. When we enrolled, Diret chose black magic school as his major. I advised Diret. You have no future in such a school, come to enchantment magic school. Then Diret cast a curse at my face. Now. Who do you think bothered whom?”

“It seems like you bothered Senior Diret, Senior.”

“Ha!”

Yukveltire sighed coldly as if it was regrettable.

To think that a junior whose abilities she had recognized would say such stupid things.

“Senior. Didn’t you request Senior Diret’s help in exchange for helping rescue me? But honestly, how effective was your help?”

“That’s a sharp point. Right. The output was too insufficient.”

Yukveltire readily admitted it.

She had prepared methods to find weak points in magic and destroy them, but she lacked the means to do so.

“I’ll help you as much as I can, so please stop calling Senior Diret for this research.”

“Fine.”

Yukveltire surprisingly agreed readily.

Lee Han asked in surprise.

“Really?”

“Yes.”

“Will you really be okay without Senior Diret’s help from now on?”

“Diret doesn’t help with the research anyway?”

“…?”

For a moment, Lee Han wondered if he had heard wrong.

He doesn’t help?

“Wait. Didn’t Senior Diret say he would help with research in exchange for helping with the rescue?”

“He did. But as you pointed out, the help wasn’t very effective. Diret pointed that out and persuaded me. I accepted it. Wait. I could count this as one more piece of evidence that Diret bothers me.”

Yukveltire considered this with a cold voice.

As expected, no matter how she thought about it, Diret was definitely bothering her.

Such selfish stubbornness.

“So even if I hadn’t helped, Senior Diret wouldn’t have participated in this research?”

“Well. Diret might have reflected and come to help.”

“…Senior. Please keep my helping with the research a secret from Senior Diret.”

“?”

Yukveltire tilted her head slightly, not understanding why her junior was saying such things.

* * *

The research was exactly as he had seen it during last winter break.

The artificial dimension artifact.

It was a grand project to artificially create a newly isolated dimension according to a mage’s will.

“There’s something I learned from the last failure.”

“Don’t trust other mages?”

“That’s also a good lesson. Make sure to tell Diret.”

While trusting other mages was one of the causes of failure, Yukveltire still felt the need to improve the fundamental structure of the artifact.

This artificial dimension artifact currently had a structure that continuously accelerated mana by connecting dozens or hundreds of magic circles.

The mana accelerated in the first magic circle would be accelerated once more in the second magic circle, then accelerated again in the third magic circle…

Even to create an artificial dimension of very small size, such power was necessary, so it was an unavoidable choice.

However, such an excessively detailed and complex structure would bring irreversible results with just one mistake in any of the magic circles.

When Yukveltire herself managed and supervised everything from start to finish, there were no problems, but the moment external mages participated, it became a time bomb that could explode at any moment.

Just last time, a very minor mistake had caused it to become distorted into an elliptical shape and connect to an uncertain dimension.

“I’m thinking of two main things. One is simplifying part of the structure. The other is a safety device that detects dimensions in advance.”

Reduce the number of magic circles by partially reducing and combining them to lower the probability of mistakes, while simultaneously adding an artifact that detects and senses in advance in case of connection to an uncertain dimension.

It was a rational improvement method that even Lee Han, who had little interest in this research, could understand.

“I see. Is my role to supplement by injecting mana when combining magic circles?”

“That’s one of your roles.”

Yukveltire was satisfied with her junior’s answer.

Unlike other juniors who needed to be told five or ten times, his immediate understanding was very satisfying.

The process of improving by partially combining connected magic circles into a single magic circle would inevitably involve mana loss, so a method to supplement that was needed.

Originally it would have been quite complex, but it was also a problem that could be solved instantly if there was one mage who could inject mana.

“Then sit and wait.”

“Yes.”

Lee Han sat and waited while reading 【Escape from Einroguard】.

Yukveltire rummaged through and sorted hundreds of stacked papers while continuously drawing new magic circles.

‘Hmm.’

After about an hour passed, Lee Han wondered if it would be okay to ask if there was still a long way to go.

But since his senior seemed so focused, he took out a toy from his pocket and played with the basilisk.

The baby basilisk made hissing sounds and was very happy.

‘By the way, those Watchman Club bastards. They can’t even distinguish fake news.’

Lee Han resolved to confront the beaver-penguin-fox next time he met it.

It wasn’t for nothing that an ominous animal was included in the alias. What would happen if they brought unverified rumors?

Another hour or so passed like that.

Yukveltire lifted her head with the most tired face in the world. Her voice was half-hoarse.

“It’s done. Come here and inject mana.”

“Yes.”

Lee Han approached the artifact as Yukveltire instructed and injected mana. With a flashing light, part of the artifact was newly modified.

Although massive mana flowed out, Lee Han was unaffected.

“Is it finished?”

“Now I have to do the next one.”

Yukveltire sat back down at the table with hundreds of stacked papers and began drawing new magic circles.

Lee Han looked at the artificial dimension artifact once and calculated Yukveltire’s work speed.

‘So to improve all of this…?’

While calculating how many years it might take and whether he could graduate and escape before then, a thud was heard from in front. Lee Han looked up in surprise.

Yukveltire had collapsed.

“Are you alright?!”

“I consumed too little nutrients…”

Lee Han was dumbfounded by her elegant way of saying she was hungry.

Even Adenart and Gainando ate their meals properly, so what kind of behavior was this for a 5th year student?

“I happened to bring snacks, so please have some. Here. I have sandwiches.”

“Does it have cheese?”

Lee Han thought it was truly befitting of royalty, pleased by her ghost-like ability to identify ingredients and her appetite.

“Yes.”

“I’m not really fond of cheese.”

“…I, I see. Then please have this sandwich with ham and egg.”

“I’m also not really fond of ham…”

Yukveltire removed all the ingredients from inside the sandwich one by one, then chewed the bread pieces with satisfaction.

“Your cooking skills are decent. They’re comparable to imperial chefs.”

“…”

Having finished her meal with a piece of bread and a sip of cocoa, Yukveltire immediately signaled that she was full.

While Lee Han was bewildered, the workshop door opened and Diret entered.

“Hey. I’ll help. Even though I was incompetent, I did make an effort so…”

“…”

Lee Han froze solid when his eyes met Diret’s.

Lee Han said urgently.

“…I came to look around by coincidence!”

“You came to help with the research, didn’t you?”

Lee Han pushed the interfering senior aside. Yukveltire rolled and tumbled down under the sofa with a crash.

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