Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 774

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Chapter 774

It was nonsense, but Catten, who thought positively about the punishment room, nodded his head.

“That’s right. It could be as fearsome yet positive as the punishment room.”

“Ha, haha.”

“Well, now that we’ve roughly explained the lecture, it would be good to start learning from each other. Junior!”

Catten smiled brightly and patted Lee Han’s back.

It seemed like a light pat, but Lee Han felt the shock shake his entire body.

‘Cough.’

Even each ordinary movement had destructive power viciously hidden within it.

* * *

And so the lecture began in earnest.

“So you cast this flame resistance magic and practice 【Lesser Flame Barrier】… Hmm. In my opinion, challenging without resistance magic would be more effective.”

“Excuse me?”

“After all, casting flame resistance magic is to protect the mage, but there’s no need to dull the mage’s instinctive senses, right?”

“But you could get seriously hurt.”

“Hahaha! Junior. Just dodge well! Oh right. Junior, you also said you had difficulty controlling because you have too much mana? How about you also try casting without resistance magic?”

‘…Could it be that Professor Boladi bribed him?’

Lee Han was shocked at the sight of the cat beastman senior speaking so cheerfully.

Making it more dangerous to adapt quickly.

Wasn’t this exactly a certain Professor Bol’s logic!

“I’d like to just practice with resistance magic on.”

“No, junior. If it’s dangerous, I’ll help you. Trust me.”

“No… I’ll eventually learn it even if I practice with resistance magic on.”

Lee Han’s situation was different from Catten’s.

Catten was truly in a position where he had to learn magic purely through senses without any calculations, so he was obsessed with keen senses, but Lee Han just needed to know how to control his mana amount.

Moreover, this 【Lesser Flame Barrier】 was closer to magic that Lee Han knew how to use but had difficulty precisely controlling the flame’s power, rather than magic he didn’t know how to use.

So why go to such reckless lengths…

“Junior.”

Catten called Lee Han in a serious voice.

“Junior, unlike me, you could be called an outstanding genius.”

“…So?”

“For such a genius to waste time while training magic could, in a way, be an insult to someone dull like me.”

“What do you mean by that…”

“So let’s do it together! I may not be helpful with magic, but if junior seems like you’ll get hurt, I’ll definitely help you. Now, junior. Watch me first! O flame, rise as a barrier!”

Catten chanted the incantation with a confident voice.

But contrary to his will, his mana was distributed completely randomly, and instead of creating a flame barrier, sparks just hissed in all directions before ending.

It was a failure that didn’t even come close, but Catten didn’t care and prepared to cast again.

“Junior, hurry up too!”

“…O flame. Rise as a barrier.”

Lee Han carefully cast the incantation.

Flame magic was always bound to be cautious.

The moment he lost concentration or input even a little more mana, it would swell up uncontrollably and burn the surroundings.

Unlike Catten, a near-perfect flame barrier rose up.

Lee Han concentrated even more, worried he might not be able to control the mana amount.

Whoosh!

Suddenly the flame barrier thickened and tried to spew fire in all directions.

Before Lee Han could even react, Catten rushed over, sent Lee Han flying, and swung his sword to remove the flame barrier.

“Are you alright, junior?!”

“…I think I was fine before you sent me flying.”

“Thank goodness. Let’s practice again, junior.”

“I think I need to recover my mana a bit.”

“I heard junior has infinite mana though?”

“…”

Lee Han thought he really needed to attack the White Tiger Tower students when he returned.

Catten lifted up the sitting Lee Han and finished preparing to challenge magic again.

Catten had a research spirit regarding magic that never tired or wavered.

“Now. Again!”

“Cough.”

Lee Han got hit and sent flying by Catten every time he lost control of the flame barrier or it tried to go berserk.

Sometimes he even got hit and sent flying when the form just wavered slightly.

-Why did you send me flying just now?!

-Didn’t it go berserk?

-The shape just wavered slightly!

-Oh my… Sorry, junior. I don’t know magic well…

At this point, he thought Professor Boladi’s lectures were better.

Professor Boladi at least knew what kind of magic he was trying to teach when he taught.

In comparison, Catten mercilessly pushed Lee Han as much as he didn’t know what magic it was.

No matter how tricky the flame barrier was, he only had faith that his junior would surely be able to do it.

“Huff, huff. Junior. Let’s rest a bit.”

Fortunately, Catten didn’t have infinite mana.

Since continuously failing magic inevitably consumed small amounts of mana, Catten, who had repeated it quite many times, was panting.

“Oh my. Senior. Mana doesn’t recover that easily. I think it would be better to just rest completely.”

“Whew. You’re right, junior.”

Catten agreed with Lee Han’s words.

Lee Han was a bit disappointed that he couldn’t push this senior for revenge, but just let it go.

Rather than both of them not being able to rest by being stubborn, it was better to rest like this…

“Then draw your sword.”

“Excuse me?”

“Junior. While we can’t use magic, we can save time by training swordsmanship!”

“…When you’re low on mana, I think you should be a bit careful with swordsmanship too…”

“Hahaha. Junior. That much is fine. I can teach you sufficiently even when low on mana!”

Unfortunately for Lee Han, Catten’s words were not lies.

Despite having almost no mana, Catten skillfully deflected Lee Han’s attacks, redirected them, and sometimes even used limited miniature worlds to block them like an iron wall.

Even without mana, he could compensate for what was needed by using miniature worlds to change reality.

Catten was quite satisfied with Lee Han’s heavy and powerful swordsmanship, but still thought greater concentration and determination were needed to complete his aura.

“Hmm. The punishment room really is a good space for concentration.”

“If possible, a method other than the punishment room would be better…”

Lee Han shuddered while holding his sword.

He was among the most skilled in swordsmanship among his friends, but Catten’s swordsmanship completely surpassed that level.

He compensated for the shortcomings from insufficient mana with swordsmanship and confronted him evenly, so Lee Han, who tried to push through at once with massive mana and attack power, kept being forced into long battles.

“Hmm! My mana seems to have recovered somewhat. Let’s prepare magic again.”

“…”

Lee Han thought there was no need to look for hell in another dimension.

This place was hell itself.

“O flame. Rise as a barrier.”

Whoosh-

Unlike before, a stable flame barrier rose up.

Lee Han was slightly flustered seeing the magic completed so stably despite having cast it himself.

‘…Huh?’

Catten, who was watching from the side, asked with curiosity.

“Oh. Junior. This seems to be completed.”

“…You can’t see it that way. Senior. Actually, the standard for perfectly completing magic differs for each person.”

“But this generally seems like it could be called completed, don’t you think? Junior. Look. There’s no wavering at all.”

“As time passes, wavering might appear…”

“No! I’m reading the mana of this barrier and there’s no such instability! Junior has learned another magic today! Congratulations!”

“…”

“Seeing this makes me believe even more in your methodology! I must also train diligently!”

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Angrago, who was heading to the 【Languages of the Empire That Become Blood and Flesh】 lecture, spotted Lee Han and waved his hand.

“Wardanaz. Honestly, I envy you.”

“…Why?”

“Don’t pretend you don’t know. Senior Jahan chose only you. Honestly, if you ask whether I’m jealous, I am jealous. We all wanted to receive teachings from Senior Jahan.”

Angrago nodded his head while making ‘hmm, hmm’ sounds.

Except for being slightly lacking in magical skills, Catten of the Jahan family was someone worthy of respect from the White Tiger Tower students.

First of all, it was amazing that a student had completed aura, but beyond that stage, he was even using a small world to a limited extent.

Professor Ingoldel was also an excellent swordsman who surpassed Catten, but originally as students, they tended to admire seniors from the same tower who were closer than professors.

Angrago also wanted to learn swordsmanship from Catten.

“I’m thinking of working harder this semester and asking for his teachings once more in the second semester. Wardanaz. Don’t let your guard down. You’re just holding that position temporarily. Any one of us might steal your place… Ack! Ack!!!”

The students walking behind were puzzled by the sight of Lee Han frantically beating Angrago’s back.

“Why is that bastard Angrago acting like that?”

“Don’t tell me he made some lame excuse like eating his assignment in his sleep like last time? There haven’t been that many assignments given out yet…”

“He, help me! You bastards!”

Angrago called to his White Tiger Tower friends, but his friends turned away and entered the lecture hall.

If foreign enemies attacked the White Tiger Tower, they would risk their lives fighting for their tower friends, but when Angrago and Lee Han were like this, it was usually much more likely to be Angrago’s fault.

“Ku, kuack! Slip away, from the enemy’s hands!”

Even while getting his back pounded, Angrago barely managed to chant a slipping spell and escaped from Lee Han’s grasp.

His clothes, with greatly reduced friction, helped their owner escape from the enemy’s hands.

“What did I even say… Just you wait, Wardanaz!”

Shouting that as he ran into the lecture hall, Angrago froze solid when a giant wyvern blinked its eyes while looking at him.

“…Did I come to the wrong lecture hall?”

“Ah! You came to the right place. Everyone sit down! Sit!”

Professor Rozine was among the more normal ones among Einroguard’s insanely mad professors.

Perhaps it was because she was from an Empire official background.

Even such Professor Rozine seemed to be showing her true colors now that they were second years, and the students in the lecture hall had very complex expressions.

‘But didn’t the professor go around with demons last year too?’

Lee Han thought that to himself as he took his seat.

It was just what the students wanted to believe, but actually Professor Rozine seemed quite strange too…

Gainando beside him was trying his best to lower his posture to avoid the wyvern’s gaze.

“Le, Lee Han. That bastard seems to be staring only at me.”

“Ah. Wyverns do prefer blond hair a bit more.”

“Wh, what a rude monster…!”

Professor Rozine cleared her throat once after all the students sat down, then began speaking.

“Now! You might have been startled by the wyvern today! But everyone, there’s nothing to worry about. You won’t be riding wyverns or hunting wyverns. I brought the wyvern to the lecture hall because I wanted to show you conversing with a wyvern.”

After finishing her words, Professor Rozine conversed with the wyvern in very complex and strange cries that the students couldn’t understand.

After several exchanges, Professor Rozine nodded her head.

“Could student Gainando please go sit in the very back?”

“…”

Gainando turned pale and hurriedly fled to the back.

“Monster languages like this are more useful to mages than you might think. If you learn them well, they can sometimes have much better effects than powerful grand magic. I’ve listed monster languages I’d recommend to each student, so please read them!”

Along with her words, paper birds flew to the students.

Lee Han, who received and read the paper, asked with curiosity.

“Professor. I have a question.”

“Yes yes. What is it?”

“Monsters like basilisks are rare monsters you rarely encounter in the Empire, so is there really a need to learn their language? I think it would be better to prioritize learning other monster languages.”

-…

“…That… in your sleeve…”

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