Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 778

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

Chapter 778

“Summoning mages must essentially possess extensive knowledge and flexibility regarding multiple dimensions…”

As Professor Milay’s explanation began, several students’ eyes wavered.

Having advanced to their second year and with summoning magic entering its full domain, the difficulty of each explanation had greatly increased.

And while Professor Milay wasn’t an unkind professor like Professor Verdus, she also wasn’t someone who would postpone content that needed to be explained out of consideration for students.

As a result…

‘Did someone cast a sleep spell?’

Lee Han looked around in amazement.

In the distance, he could see Raphadael stabbing his thigh with a quill pen, struggling not to fall asleep.

‘Maybe the professor is doing this out of consideration for the students.’

Professor Milay’s theory drove away fear from the students and brought drowsiness instead.

Even the students who had wanted to flee just moments ago couldn’t bring themselves to get up and were nodding off.

“What did I just say, Student Raphadael?”

“Yes? Yes!?”

“Focus! Everyone must not forget to concentrate. If you can’t focus like this in the lecture hall, how will you concentrate in other dimensions?”

The elderly professor tapped the table with her staff and scolded the students with a firm attitude.

All mages who reached a certain level naturally became interested in other dimensions and the outer worlds.

It was only natural since they could use resources approaching infinity beyond the current continent’s resources.

And summoning mages were those who specialized in calling upon the power of such other dimensions.

While there were summoning spells that didn’t use power from other dimensions and instead summoned a mage’s personal creations like the skeleton army Lee Han commanded, even so, they couldn’t be completely indifferent to dealing with other dimensions.

The problem was that these outer worlds weren’t such convenient and safe spaces.

Since countless worlds could appear before a mage at any time and in any way, summoning mages needed to know how to prepare for this.

Especially unlike confirmed dimensions that mages frequently visited and knew much about, uncertain dimensions were…

‘You never know what might come out.’

Could focusing save your life in a dimension where you never knew what might appear?

Swoosh-

While Lee Han was wondering about this, Professor Milay floated a huge map above the blackboard. The map depicted some nameless dimension.

Scorching Realm – Fire and iron discovered. ?, ??, ????, ???

Ice Void Realm – Icebergs and sea discovered. Insufficient food for living beings. ???, ??

Jungle Realm – Giant plants. Food abundant but monster danger level high. ???

…

The map had many empty corners but also contained a lot of information.

Professor Milay looked at the students and said.

“This is the dimension you’ll need to visit and investigate this semester.”

All the students woke up from their drowsiness and blinked their eyes. Gainando muttered as if pleased.

“Lee Han, Lee Han.”

“?”

“Salko probably thought he just needed to avoid today, but that was a mistake! How foolish!”

Gainando was as happy as if the semester had ended.

Clicking his tongue at Gainando’s joy over his friend’s tragedy, Lee Han took out 【Einroguard’s Whisper】 and left a message for Salko.

-Salko. You’d better come back. It’s not just going in today, but throughout the entire semester.

-…Don’t, don’t lie to me.

But Salko soon returned.

Professor Milay raised her eyebrows slightly but didn’t point it out.

Salko wasn’t the first student to attempt escape from the lecture hall, nor would he be the last.

“This dimension is quite extensive, more than you’d think, and each area has completely different characteristics. Since you don’t know which area you’ll land in, students will need to prepare for all areas before entering.”

The 2nd year students felt Professor Milay adjusting her monocle looked like an executioner.

One student asked in a desperate voice.

“Um, can’t we visit safe dimensions like we did in first year?”

Professor Milay shook her head sternly.

“Visiting such dimensions multiple times yields no benefit. You need to visit unknown dimensions and complete maps to improve your skills.”

“…The Jungle Realm would be better, right? Should we pray to get the Jungle Realm?”

“Abundant food and high monster danger seems much more dangerous though. I’d rather pray to enter the Ice Void Realm.”

While the students murmured among themselves, Lee Han felt puzzled and raised his hand to ask a question.

“Professor. I have a question.”

“Go ahead, Student Lee Han.”

“If this dimension has this much information, isn’t it not a completely uncertain dimension?”

“…Student Lee Han, do you want to go to a completely uncertain dimension?”

Professor Milay asked with faint horror.

The friends who had been murmuring also looked at Lee Han with horrified eyes.

“Wa, Wardanaz. Why are you doing this?”

“Please. We can just attend this lecture normally. What did we do wrong??”

“…I was just asking out of curiosity…”

He had just asked whether a dimension this well-understood could be called an uncertain dimension by academic definition, but this was their reaction.

Lee Han felt slightly hurt and muttered to himself.

‘But still, strictly speaking, it’s not an uncertain dimension.’

With this much information secured, it couldn’t be called an uncertain dimension.

* * *

“Everyone prepare signaling magic.”

“Pack cold weather items.”

The 2nd year students huddled together and made plans.

Professor Milay watched them with a stern attitude but was secretly pleased inside.

Unlike other years, these students knew how to join forces in situations like this.

Setting aside magical achievements or talent, this unity might be their greatest strength.

“Hey, give up this blanket!”

“Our tower made this, so why should we give it up!”

“What do you mean your tower made it! Did you forget who brought the materials?! Do you know what we went through to get this leather!”

“…”

Of course there were minor disputes, but the students quickly reconciled.

When Lee Han started smacking the students’ backs, those who had been arguing immediately shut their mouths and began yielding to each other.

“Check food supplies.”

“Everyone secured theirs, right?”

“!”

Professor Milay was surprised to see the students had more food than expected.

That was an amount 2nd year students could never secure.

‘Could it be from that time…’

At the beginning of this semester, she had pretended not to notice when she saw several students lurking around the underground warehouse disguised as workers…

‘…No. That alone wouldn’t be enough for everyone to have this much.’

Unless they had dragged several carriages behind them, that amount couldn’t be explained.

After pondering, Professor Milay shrugged lightly. It was good if students could eat their fill, wasn’t it?

Of course the Skeleton Principal would grumble, but that couldn’t be helped.

“My food bag seems a bit lighter?”

“Stop talking nonsense and move your hands away.”

“I should have made heat-resistant items.”

“That would have been too much to ask.”

They had cold-resistant items made last year because of the frost giant’s blizzard, but unfortunately there were no heat-resistant items.

The students tried their best to solve the problem with magic they could cast on the spot.

“Anyone who can cast 【Lesser Fire Resistance】, 【Lesser Cold Resistance】 gather around.”

“Leather, blankets, cloth, or cloaks are good too. Let’s cast as many as possible on items with large surface areas and take them with us.”

“The ones Wardanaz casts last longer…”

“Stop being greedy and just take what you can get!”

After thoroughly preparing to survive no matter which zone they landed in, the students finalized their plan.

-First, upon landing, check the surroundings to determine which zone it is.

-Then complete the map while approaching the central district and head to the highest point.

-Use signal magic or markers along the way to regroup as much as possible.

“Everyone, don’t forget that the sooner we regroup, the easier it will be to complete the map.”

“Everyone seems ready.”

Professor Milay, who had been waiting, gestured.

The students walked out with resigned faces.

The dimensional magic circle installed in the center was emitting more violent and irregular mana than before.

“Then… let’s depart!”

Following the professor’s instruction, the students began to step forward.

Professor Milay nodded as she watched the students flash one by one and visit other dimensions.

‘At this rate, they might complete it much faster than other grades.’

Not only the students’ level but also their collaborative preparation made the professor hopeful.

Thinking this, Professor Milay reverse-summoned the summoned creature she had placed at the back of the lecture hall.

It was a summoned creature that emitted colorless, odorless smoke that made students drowsy.

From second-year lectures onward, such minor obstacles were placed in lecture halls to train students’ concentration.

‘Hmm. Considering student Lee Han, I might need to prepare something stronger…’

* * *

Gainando, who had fallen on the ice, was overjoyed when he spotted a Blue Dragon Tower student ahead.

“Lee Han!”

“…”

“…Wait, that’s Adenart!”

Gainando and Adenart looked at each other with contemptuous gazes.

Due to the irregular nature of the dimension where you never knew where you’d land, meeting a fellow tower student right away was tremendous luck, but…

…why did it have to be these two?

‘Hmph. Still, I should be the first to show kindness.’

Gainando grumbled inwardly for a moment before deciding to be gracious.

As the far superior imperial family member, shouldn’t he act more mature?

“Let’s move together, Adenart.”

“…Let’s do that.”

“Take this.”

Gainando took out a sandwich, broke it cleanly in half, and offered it. It was a gesture of wanting to get along from now on.

The sandwich filled with ham, cheese, lettuce, mashed egg, and plenty of mayonnaise looked delicious just by sight.

Adenart looked at Gainando once as if surprised, then accepted it.

“Thank you.”

“Of course you should be grateful. You know how delicious this is.”

“…”

Adenart briefly considered taking back her thanks, but endured it because she didn’t want to sink to Gainando’s level.

“How did you make this?”

“Lee Han gave it to me earlier. Oh right. You know what?”

“?”

Gainando became excited and chattered away when his friend came up in conversation.

“I originally asked for snacks, you know? But Lee Han said he couldn’t give me separate snacks. So I said I’d get the ingredients myself and just asked for two pieces of bread.”

Contrary to other friends’ misunderstandings, Lee Han wasn’t someone who unconditionally gave things just because Gainando whined for food.

Unless he accomplished something truly remarkable, no special rewards would come.

It was the strictness that anyone managing food supplies for not just Blue Dragon Tower but all four towers should naturally have.

“You just asked for two pieces of bread?”

“I, I took on chores in exchange??”

Gainando found himself making excuses under his half-sister’s cold gaze.

“It was a fair trade.”

“I understand.”

Adenart was about to say ‘At Einroguard, you’d have to work for half a year to earn two pieces of white bread through chores,’ but held back again, thinking her foolish brother would get angry.

“So earlier, before departure, I asked if I could get two pieces of bread and Lee Han gave me this. But when I unwrapped the paper, this came out! You get it, Adenart? This is friendship! Secretly putting food between Einroguard sandwich bread…”

“!”

Adenart, who had been listening quietly, let out a sharp cry filled with anger and began firing attack magic at Gainando.

Even while running away, Gainando screamed in confusion.

“What?! What?!!”

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————