Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 758

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Chapter 758

“Still, I’d like to hear the lecture content I missed.”

“What lecture?”

“Uh… 【Divination Magics That Drive You Mad】.”

“Huh? That should be a third-year lecture though?”

“That’s right.”

Lee Han answered his senior’s question with a bitter voice.

“Even if you’re taking courses from all schools, there’s no benefit in rushing divination magic.”

The senior gave sensible advice and then continued with a question.

“What kind of divination did you learn by any chance?”

“Last year I mainly used stone divination.”

‘As expected, it would be hard to follow along…’

The reason Divination Mages used divination was to protect themselves.

Peering into the future was something that brought tremendous burden to a mage.

Divination protected the mage’s mind by breaking down this future into uncertain and metaphorical fragments.

Rather than directly peering into the future, they protected themselves by glimpsing fragments of fragments that revealed the future.

Of course, there were disadvantages as well. Accuracy decreased and the difficulty for the mage to interpret increased.

The stone divination that first-year students practiced last year was relatively easy divination that could answer simple questions, and even then, several students had poor accuracy or suffered major rebound.

The senior wondered if a junior who had only learned stone divination should be learning 【Divination Magics That Drive You Mad】.

“Senior. May I ask you something else?”

“Go ahead.”

“…Why are you in the form of a golem?”

Lee Han couldn’t hold back and asked the question.

No matter how many rare species could be seen at Einroguard, he had never seen a bronze golem species before.

Since the senior acted as if nothing was wrong, he tried to stay quiet as a junior, but he couldn’t bear it any longer.

“Because of divination magic side effects.”

“Is there a divination magic that requires becoming a bronze golem as payment?!”

“That’s not it. I have to pay a price for peering into the future, and if I take it with my bare body, I might die. It’s better to stay in bronze golem form for a while.”

“…I see.”

Lee Han thought he understood why the Divination Magic school had so few people that it could be compared to the Black Magic Academy.

No matter how confident the upperclassmen were, they wouldn’t want to become bronze golems or go mad.

“Bronze golem sen… no, what is your name, senior?”

“Ah. I can’t tell you.”

“?”

“This week is an unlucky week for me to introduce myself.”

“…”

Lee Han decided he would just call the other person Bronze Golem Senior.

He became afraid that if he learned the name, they might become unnecessarily closer.

“Golem senior. You can still tell me the lecture content though, right?”

“Of course. I honestly doubt if it’ll be okay, but since the professor allowed you to listen…”

The golem senior gestured with creaking bronze fingers for him to come in.

As Lee Han was about to step forward, the senior quickly stopped him.

“Wait.”

“?”

“Could you step forward with your right foot first? For the next three days, you need to step with your right foot first to have good luck.”

“Yes.”

Lee Han accepted it without being flustered anymore.

He wasn’t naive enough to be shocked by having one more crazy senior at this point.

Following behind with steps that started with his right foot (the golem senior whistled to the side once every five steps), Lee Han carefully asked a question.

“Could you explain a bit more about what you’re doing now… those… strange… no… anyway, these actions?”

“It’s not difficult.”

The golem senior explained relatively kindly to one of his few juniors.

Divination Magic school mages practiced reading uncertain futures as accurately as possible with various complex divinations, while also considering how to use those futures as beneficially as possible.

One of those methods was ‘avoiding unfavorable futures and moving toward favorable ones.’

“Is that possible? The more specifically you see the future, the greater the price you have to pay…”

“You don’t look at the future directly. You just find out the constraints. Actions that avoid misfortune and bring good luck.”

The golem senior was an excellent divination mage.

To figure out what actions brought good luck and helped avoid misfortune, he used three types of divination and five types of magic every week.

‘Amazing.’

Lee Han was amazed hearing his senior’s magical theory.

He knew that divination magic was particularly unstable and bizarre among the Empire’s magic schools, but he didn’t know this was possible.

“How effective is it?”

“This week I found fewer lucky actions so it’ll be insufficient, but…”

The golem senior rummaged through his pocket, found dice and threw them repeatedly. Six came up five times in a row, then a different number came up at the end.

“Oh no. If it were last week, more would have come up.”

“…!”

Lee Han was shocked.

The luck was much more powerful than he had thought.

Crash!

Suddenly the workshop ceiling collapsed and a brick tried to strike the golem senior’s head.

Instinctively swinging his staff, Lee Han blew the brick away with telekinesis.

“Are you alright?!”

“How did you…? More importantly, dodge!”

“?”

As soon as he finished speaking, a spirit whirlwind phenomenon occurred in the workshop and strong winds brought back the blown-away brick.

The brick finally struck the golem senior’s head.

Clang!

“Ugh. As expected, I set too few lucky constraints this week.”

“What on earth was that just now?!”

“Good luck and bad luck are like two sides of a silver coin. When you use good luck, bad luck comes rushing in. Don’t worry about it. I became a golem in preparation for this. Here. This is the lecture content from 【Divination Magics That Drive You Mad】 this week.”

The golem senior waved his staff and extracted this week’s lecture content from a book.

In the 【Divination Magics That Drive You Mad】 lecture, we will cover complex and powerful divinations beyond simple and intuitive ones… (omitted)… The divinations worth trying for divination mages are as follows…

Spirit Gold Coin Divination

-Throw five gold coins that have undergone special processing, and offer the coins that land heads up to summoned spirits. The more coins offered, the more accurate the spirit’s prophecy becomes…

‘What a terrible and cruel divination.’

Five Demons Divination

-Summon demons dwelling in the future to record five prophecies. If you fail to identify which two of those prophecies are false, you receive a powerful curse of misfortune…

‘Oh. This one is much better.’

Perhaps worried about his junior taking notes so diligently, the golem senior spoke up.

“You’re not practicing or learning this all at once, you’re just first learning that such advanced divinations exist. There’s no need to get ahead of yourself. You understand, right?”

“Yes. I’ll keep that in mind.”

“Don’t practice alone, practice here in this Heosuwan. Since we’re talking about it, want to try practicing one now?”

The golem senior didn’t trust his junior very much.

A student hungry enough for magic and knowledge to take courses from all schools wouldn’t find it strange to go back to his private room and experiment with those divinations one by one.

Lee Han, who had no intention of practicing alone as the senior suggested, thought to himself.

‘As expected of an Einroguard senior, how harsh.’

Right after saying there was no need to overdo it, they immediately forced him to practice.

The words of Einroguard seniors really couldn’t be trusted.

“I’d like to practice the Five Demon Divination.”

“Hmm. Alright.”

Seeing his junior deliberately choose demon divination instead of coin divination, the golem senior’s suspicions solidified even more.

Mages were originally divided into two types.

Those who challenge easy magic first and those who challenge difficult magic first!

And unlike other schools, the Divination Magic School had a higher dropout rate among the latter. They needed to be watched very carefully.

“Arrange the following materials and try calling forth the demon that dwells in the future. Since summoning the demon itself has quite a high difficulty, absolutely don’t rush. Understand?”

“Yes.”

Lee Han took out the reagents one by one as described in the book.

Fly agaric mushrooms harvested during the new moon, bone fragments obtained from the demon realm among dimensions, writing the name of the future with cinnabar…

“With my misfortune as payment, I seek five prophecies, tempting demon. Come forth.”

“Try again slowly.”

The golem senior watched his junior perform the precise movements, incantations, and mana consumption, thinking he might experience fewer trial and error attempts than expected.

He had been worried whether the junior could keep up with third-year lectures, but there seemed to be a reason the professor had him attend.

“Senior. Isn’t this summoned?”

“What?”

The golem senior turned his head using his creaking bronze joints.

Then he saw the demon’s gleaming mouth in the center of the magic circle and was shocked.

“?!?!”

Surprisingly, this junior had summoned a demon in one try!

“By any chance, is there even a little demon blood mixed in your lineage??”

“Not that I know of.”

“Does the Wardanaz Family have deep connections with demons?”

“Uh… a little…?”

Lee Han answered while wondering if capturing demons and using them as slaves counted as having deep connections.

At those words, the bronze golem senior understood a bit.

Mages with demon blood in their lineage or whose families had contact with demons tended to be more advantageous when using related magic.

The same principle applied as mages with spirit bloodlines being advantageous in spirit magic.

…Though summoning in one try was still quite remarkable…

“I didn’t expect you to summon in one try. So that’s why you chose demon divination? Clever.”

“Haha. Thank you.”

Though that wasn’t really the reason, Lee Han nodded since he wanted to make a good impression on his senior from the same school.

“I thought you were someone who attended all schools, came back to retake missed lectures, and recklessly threw yourself into magic risking your life like the professor.”

“…”

Lee Han cursed the bronze golem senior inwardly.

Perhaps because he had a cold metal heart, he was incredibly rude.

“Then slowly. Try asking for the prophecies.”

“Tell me the prophecies.”

-You will face an ancient being…

“…”

“Isn’t this false?”

The golem senior speculated from the side.

Even at Einroguard, encountering ancient beings wasn’t common.

-You shall not wander outside during broad daylight or in the dead of night…

“Hmm. This also seems false.”

This corresponded to restrictions among prophecies, but the content was excessively harsh.

The golem senior cast a suspicious look.

Of course, he himself had various restrictions to increase luck and suppress misfortune, but wasn’t this restriction too broad in scope?

-You will ruthlessly trample the mages of other cradles…

“Isn’t this false?”

Lee Han, who had been listening quietly, asked.

The golem senior shook his head.

“Among the 3 that have come out so far, this seems most likely. Cradles would refer to other magic schools. You encounter them quite often.”

“Regardless of meeting them, why would I trample those people…”

“That’s how mages’ pride works. Be quiet. We’ll miss the prophecy.”

-You will become addicted to Gravestone Mountain…

-A spirit will tempt you…

“The first and second seem the same.”

“I think differently. Demon, the fourth and fifth are false!”

“?!”

-What a pity… I’ll be waiting for your arrogance and downfall…

The demon disappeared into the future, openly expressing disappointment.

The golem senior blinked his lens aperture in amazement at his junior’s remarkable talent.

‘The professor didn’t leave him because it was bothersome!’

When Professor Paselette left a note saying ‘The student can sufficiently keep up with the curriculum without needing to ask about what he missed,’ he thought it was left out of annoyance, but surprisingly it was true.

“Senior. I want to learn about methods to change the future that appeared in the prophecies!”

“Oh dear. Don’t rush. The more you rush, the more dangerous it becomes.”

“I think staying still right now is more dangerous though…”

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