Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 76
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“Thank you all for such a warm welcome.”
The summoning magic professor, Milay, entered the room looking puzzled by the heated atmosphere in the lecture hall.
Despite her advanced age, Professor Milay maintained an upright posture, and anyone could tell she was a noble from one of the Empire’s prestigious great families.
Nobles from great families showed their breeding just by walking and speaking.
‘Though the Blue Dragon Tower guys are a bit of an exception now.’
Of course, the students trapped in the tower and starving were exceptions. When people became ravenously hungry, noble dignity disappeared regardless of their status.
Professor Milay slightly adjusted the monocle over one eye. She looked like a very strict perfectionist.
But Lee Han wasn’t intimidated.
‘No matter what kind of person she is, she’s got to be better than Professor Boladi.’
Professor Garcia began a brief explanation from the side.
“Like dark magic, proper summoning magic is a field you’ll learn starting from your second year. But the reason we called Professor Milay here today is not only because it’s a good opportunity to learn what summoning magic is, but also…”
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Right on cue, a summoned creature that had escaped onto the school grounds outside the lecture hall let out a howl. The windows trembled.
“…because I thought it would be helpful for all of you considering the current situation at school.”
“Professor Garcia…!”
“You’re all we have, Professor!”
Several students pulled out handkerchiefs and wiped away tears.
Professor Milay watched this scene without any change in expression. Then she spoke in a rigid voice.
“Professor Garcia. May we begin?”
“Yes. Please go ahead.”
“Here, which students are interested in summoning magic?”
All the students raised their hands. Lee Han raised his hand too. He couldn’t understand why Professor Mortum’s sad face flashed through his mind.
‘But summoning magic really is good magic.’
Just as dark magic was divided into various fields like curses, elements, undead summoning, and negative energy, summoning magic was also magic that included numerous fields within it, despite being called summoning magic.
Spirit summoning, demon summoning, monster summoning, artifact summoning, magical object summoning, and so on.
Since it was magic that included all sorts of diverse things from living beings to inanimate objects (it even overlapped with dark magic to some extent), its applications were endless.
In old fairy tales, there were stories of mages who struggled their whole lives until they contracted with one outstanding summoned creature somewhere and lived happily ever after (and lazily too).
Since they were fairy tales, you couldn’t believe everything, but summoning magic was indeed good for making a living once you achieved great success with it.
“Thank you. But among you here, there will be at most one student qualified to learn summoning magic.”
“…”
“…”
Professors all had a talent for throwing cold water on things. Professor Milay was no exception. She spoke sternly.
“I won’t hide it. Summoning magic is difficult magic. If you don’t have the ability to learn it but still enter the lectures in your second year, it will be hard on you students.”
‘Now that’s a professor.’
Lee Han was impressed.
If a student didn’t have the ability to learn, you should discourage them or tell them to wait, not say ‘Why can’t you learn? Let’s see if you still can’t learn before you die?’ That wouldn’t be a professor but a thug.
“Summoning magic cannot be learned with knowledge of just one field of magic. Spirit summoning requires deep understanding of spirit studies, demon summoning requires deep understanding of demonology, monster summoning requires deep understanding of monster studies. Even the relatively easier inanimate object summoning isn’t easy. So I’ll say it again. If you’re not confident, it would be better not to take interest in summoning magic.”
However, the students seemed even more intrigued.
Being young, how many would back down just because something was difficult? They all looked more motivated.
This was the complete opposite of dark magic, which students had been lukewarm about no matter how easy it was said to be.
Professor Garcia whispered quietly.
“They’re all talented students. Would you give them a chance?”
Professor Milay nodded.
Pop!
Pop!
Pop!
When she waved her staff, magic circle scrolls with strange diagrams suddenly appeared before the students.
These weren’t disposable scrolls that activated when torn, but fixed scrolls with magic circles inscribed on unrolled parchment.
“You’re all taking 【Basic Imperial Geometry and Arithmetic】, right?”
“Yes.”
Upon hearing the lecture name, the students’ expressions changed as if they’d bitten into frogs.
Few students could endure the hellish torture of numbers that was neither magic nor liberal arts.
‘Honestly, that’s pretty easy.’
Lee Han swallowed the thought that would have gotten stones thrown at him if his other friends had heard it.
“It’s too difficult!”
“Then you have no possibility of learning summoning magic.”
“…”
Having been eliminated from summoning magic after just one comment, Gainando shut his mouth.
“Listen well to 【Basic Imperial Geometry and Arithmetic】, everyone. Creating magic circles and calculations are essential in summoning magic.”
Lee Han examined the magic circle.
Unlike Gainando, whose eyes were already spinning around lost, Lee Han could understand what kind of magic circle was drawn.
‘I see. The mana flows like this…’
A magic circle was a type of circuit.
The difference was that while electrical circuits had current flowing through them, magic circles had mana flowing through them.
Any mage who had tried casting magic directly would know that casting magic was truly difficult work.
This became even more true as the difficulty of magic increased.
First, the amount of mana required increased, and the structure of magic that had to be constructed with that mana became complex.
There was a reason why people said ‘this isn’t magic humans can do’ about magic beyond a certain level.
What helped such mages were magic circles.
Auxiliary tools that reduced the burden on mages by circulating mana in various forms – amplification in some parts, reduction in others, detours in some areas, blocking in others.
As Lee Han calculated the mana circulated through the magic circle and visualized it in his mind, he suddenly saw a vision of a quill pen.
‘…What’s that?’
There were no coincidences in the world of magic.
Lee Han realized that the quill pen he’d just seen was related to this magic circle.
“This magic circle is a summoning magic circle for summoning a quill pen.”
“A quill pen?”
“Summoning a quill pen…?”
The students were bewildered.
Since it wasn’t even a dagger but a quill pen being summoned, they had expressions asking ‘why bother?’
Lee Han shook his head.
‘Ungrateful brats.’
What if Professor Milay cleared the desk and threw them a demon summoning circle, then said ‘summon successfully if you don’t want to die’? Would they take responsibility then?
Fortunately, Professor Milay was different from Professor Boladi. The professor spoke in the same unchanged rigid voice.
“It’s a magical quill pen made of mana. What you students summon won’t last long, so just focus on summoning it for now.”
As soon as the professor finished speaking, students waved their staffs and activated the magic circles.
Quill pen, come forth!
”
Quill pen, come forth!
“
Quill pen, come forth!
Magical quill pen, please come out!
”
Magical quill pen, please come out!
“
Magical quill pen, please come out!
With the incantations, magic circles burst into flames and scrolls were torn apart in various places.
Though the magic circles were made to withstand mana, they could easily break and shatter depending on the mage’s mistakes.
Since this was naturally expected, Professor Milay swung her staff.
The broken magic circles disappeared and new magic circles appeared.
Had about 30 minutes passed?
Students who had summoned something resembling quills began appearing here and there.
Blue Dragon Tower had the most successes with Yoner, Adenart, Asan and others, while Black Turtle Tower and Phoenix Tower also had quite a few students succeed.
White Tiger Tower had the fewest numbers, but still some talented students managed to summon something quill-like.
Seeing the students grinning happily, Professor Garcia smiled bitterly.
‘They shouldn’t be happy about that.’
Indeed, Professor Milay’s face remained stiff as a statue without the slightest movement.
The difficulty of summoning magic lay precisely in this point.
‘Summoning something similar’ was as good as failure!
Elemental magic was close to success as long as you managed it, even with differences in size or form, but summoning magic was the complete opposite.
If it wasn’t perfect, it had no meaning whatsoever.
It couldn’t be helped. Since it was a discipline that granted will to summoned creatures, even the slightest mistake could cause the summoned creature to attack the mage.
At least it was fortunate that it was just quills…
“Dal… Dalcard, that bastard attacked me with a magic quill!!”
“It’s a misunderstanding, Gainando! The quill moved on its own! Besides, it’s just a quill!”
“It’s an assassination attempt on royalty! An assassination attempt on royalty! Lee Han, help me!”
“I said it’s just a quill! What are the odds of dying from a quill!”
Of course, even that quill was enough to cause a commotion.
* * *
Angrago of the Alpha family from White Tiger Tower felt proud satisfaction seeing the smooth-shaped quill manifest.
Since his status was what it was, he felt behind in various magics, but summoning magic was a bit different.
Perhaps he was even better than Giselle.
“!”
Angrago felt very pleased looking at Lee Han sitting in front of him.
There was nothing in front of Lee Han – no quill, nothing at all.
For the first time thinking he could break the pride of that boy from the Wardanaz family, that evil young archmage, Angrago called out to Lee Han.
“Wardanaz. Don’t tell me you failed at summoning?”
“…”
“Wardanaz! Don’t ignore me! Look at my quill!”
Yoner, who was sitting nearby, replied instead.
“Didn’t you have quills at home? You’re bragging about a quill?”
“Look at my quill here…”
BOOM!!!
BOOM!!!
BOOM!!!
A thunderous sound erupted. Angrago thought for a moment that Lee Han had unleashed dark magic and cowered in terror.
Magic quills began generating one after another above Lee Han’s magic circle.
“…”
Lee Han looked at the fluttering quills with a displeased expression.
‘I failed.’
Though Angrago was chattering something behind him, Lee Han couldn’t hear it. He had been concentrating that intensely.
The task of flowing mana into fragile magic circles to complete summoning magic.
For other students it was just a difficult task, but for Lee Han it was hellishly difficult.
The moment his control slipped even slightly, waves of mana would tear the magic circle apart.
Therefore, Lee Han had half given up when others started.
‘Summoning magic might not suit my aptitude.’
Perhaps Lee Han’s destiny lay in being a combat mage like Professor Boladi.
…However, surprisingly, the magic circle didn’t break.
Even Lee Han himself was surprised.
‘Was I this good?’
Perfect understanding of magic circles.
And his recently (forcibly) improved mana control.
When these two combined, Lee Han succeeded in not destroying the magic circle.
It was an amazing result.
‘Oh right. The assignment was summoning.’
Lee Han, moved by being able to flow mana without destroying the magic circle, kept flowing mana into the magic circle before coming to his senses.
The assignment wasn’t ‘not breaking the magic circle’ but ‘summoning magic quills.’
Come forth, quills.
”
Come forth, quills.
“
Come forth, quills.
Lee Han muttered simply and swung his staff.
BOOM!!!
BOOM!!!
BOOM!!!
At that moment, with a thunderous sound, magic quills generated one after another above the magic circle.
Professor Garcia, who had been amazed by this unusual failure phenomenon she had never seen before, turned her gaze to the side.
It seemed like the first time she had seen Professor Milay’s eyebrows rise like that.
“Originally Lee Han has a lot of mana so this kind of failure…”
At Professor Garcia’s excuse on his behalf, Professor Milay returned her expression to normal and spoke calmly.
“That’s not a failure, Professor Garcia.”
How to Survive as a Mage at Magic School
How to Survive as a Mage at Magic School
How to Survive as a Mage at Magic School
Publication Date: August 15, 2021
Publication Date: August 15, 2021
Publication Date: August 15, 2021
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