Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 814

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Chapter 814

While the two were whispering, Yukveltire moved to take out an item, satisfied with herself alone.

When she untied the entrance of a medium-sized blue silk pouch with a dragon drawn on it, an object much larger than the pouch itself popped out from inside.

‘Space expansion magic.’

Lee Han looked at his senior from the same tower with envy.

Space expansion magic itself had its difficulty, but applying it semi-permanently to an item was a much more difficult task.

If you were a Baldrogard student, you could just buy one at an auction house with your allowance, but Einroguard students couldn’t do that. If they wanted one, they had to make it themselves.

…Or steal it.

‘I need to get my hands on that someday.’

As Lee Han had many occasions to travel around, he felt the necessity of a backpack with space expansion magic more than anyone else.

His backpack was always heavy because he always prepared for contingencies when going around.

If Lee Han hadn’t done sword training and physical enhancement training using mana, he would have collapsed from exhaustion long ago.

Thud!

While Lee Han was thinking other thoughts, the item Yukveltire had taken out revealed its form.

It was a bronze golem about the size of a person.

“??”

Lee Han was puzzled by the appearance of an item different from what he had expected.

“Um. Senior. Weren’t you researching artificial dimension artifacts?”

When Yukveltire heard such a question from her junior, she stared at him with her blue eyes.

Even if you’re very interested in artificial dimension artifacts, how could you rush in so impatiently and ask like that.

But Yukveltire decided to understand generously. He was quite a capable junior after all.

“You have no patience. Did you want to see the artificial dimension artifact that badly?”

“This is maddening…”

When Diret muttered from the side, Lee Han fell into thought.

Originally, Lee Han had an excellent talent for enduring the nonsense of superiors.

Hadn’t he silently endured the nonsense of not only the Insane Doppelganger but also the Skeleton Principal and Professor Boladi?

The same applied to the upperclassmen at Einroguard.

As they were seniors he looked up to like the sky, even when he wanted to hit them or felt frustrated, he had endured quite a bit.

But seeing this evil senior from the Blue Dragon Tower made him think a little differently.

‘…Don’t I not have to endure this person particularly?’

While he endured the nonsense of the Insane Doppelganger or Professor Boladi out of fear, Yukveltire was different.

Moreover, since he wasn’t close with other upperclassmen, even if Lee Han didn’t read the mood, rumors like ‘Wardanaz has been really rude to upperclassmen lately, tsk tsk’ wouldn’t spread.

He had been reading the mood since his second year started, but lately, being bullied by insane mages had changed Lee Han’s thinking a bit.

Shouldn’t he draw the line with people he needed to draw the line with?

Coincidentally, the other person was also Professor Verdus’s disciple.

Then it might be right to treat her the way he treated Professor Verdus.

“Senior.”

Lee Han raised his hand and opened his mouth with a resolute face. Yukveltire tilted her face slightly to the side.

Why is he acting like that?

“I’ll speak honestly. I have absolutely no interest in the artificial dimension artifacts you’re working on. Please don’t misunderstand.”

“…”

Yukveltire froze in place.

Originally she had a cold face without emotional changes, but freezing like that made her look like a statue made of ice.

After a moment.

Yukveltire, who started moving again, asked.

“But you definitely said you’d help.”

“You’re a senior from the same tower, and since Diret senior is helping, I’m helping together. I’m really not interested.”

“Irony or rhetorical metaphor…”

“I’m just really not interested. Senior. Just like Professor Verdus has no interest in students, I don’t either.”

“…”

Yukveltire, who had been silent, finally opened her mouth.

“Well. If you don’t know the value of that magic, it’s only your loss.”

Then she turned around sharply and fiddled with the item she had taken out.

Diret made a complex expression seeing his friend whose shoulders seemed to have dropped slightly for some reason.

Lee Han whispered carefully.

“Did I speak too harshly?”

“No. There should be someone who speaks firmly too. If you just listen because you feel sorry, you become like me…”

Diret, who was speaking, suddenly stopped because he felt self-loathing.

“…Anyway, you’re not wrong at all. Junior. What’s bad is that guy who doesn’t listen to people from the start and thinks as she pleases. You shouldn’t feel sorry. Think of the other person as Professor Verdus.”

“Yes. I didn’t feel sorry at all anyway. I’ll think of her as Professor Verdus and treat her accordingly from now on.”

“…”

Diret thought he understood just a little bit why the Insane Doppelganger chose this Wardanaz Family boy as his disciple.

Then he was startled and shuddered.

‘What nonsensical thought am I having!’

“Yukveltire. So what is that bronze golem?”

Diret called his friend in a voice about half an octave higher than usual.

“It’s magic to persuade Ragesa.”

Yukveltire explained about the bronze golem.

There were various ways to operate a golem, but like an excellent enchantment mage, Yukveltire approached it with enchantment magic.

“Mobility-type magic on the arms and legs. Bending and flexibility-type magic on the joints. Voice absorption magic on the head…”

“!”

Originally, if a golem wasn’t directly controlled by a mage, it was normal to leave only one simple command.

The more autonomous movements you could add, the more dramatically the difficulty increased.

But Yukveltire had given the golem over dozens of commands to complete a high-performance bronze golem.

It was truly an acrobatic feat of amazing completeness.

Diret asked in a startled voice.

“Is there a reason to go this far to make it?”

“Because I made it for servant purposes.”

A bronze golem made not for gatekeeper or enemy repelling purposes, but for servant purposes that could follow various instructions.

That was the magic Yukveltire had completed.

Lee Han asked curiously.

“May I try giving it commands?”

“Do as you please.”

Lee Han, who had become curious, began giving various commands to the bronze golem.

-Come this way.

-Go get the 【Empire Lich】 magazine from the bookshelf.

-Try making tea.

-Can you also clean here?

-Is transcription also possible?

And surprisingly, the bronze golem passed all the tests.

‘Amazing!’

“Why did you choose this instead of the artificial dimension artifact?”

“Because simple and intuitive things are advantageous when showing them to outsiders…”

“But if you’re going to make it do such complex and various tasks, wouldn’t it be better to just summon a being from another dimension and make a contract? Like a demon…”

“…”

Lee Han, who had been admiring the bronze golem, paused after hearing his senior’s words.

The idea of summoning a demon to do chores was too natural.

“Beings from other dimensions get neutralized or reverse-summoned in several situations. Compared to that, a bronze golem maintained only by internal magic is much more stable.”

“I see… It would require a lot of work, but it would be useful. How long did it take?”

“One day.”

“It took a bit longer than expected.”

“Some strange rumors were going around in the middle.”

Lee Han, who was listening from the side, clapped his hands in admiration while also trying to change the subject.

“That’s amazing. It’s impressive how it follows such various commands, and you made this in just one day.”

“Are you saying that while having absolutely no interest in this either?”

‘He’s really my friend, but he’s insanely petty…’

Diret squeezed his eyes shut at the sight of his friend who would be embarrassing anywhere.

If he got slapped and kicked out for forcing magic on a junior, he should be ashamed and reflect, but instead he’s sulking with that attitude.

However, Diret was still underestimating his junior.

Lee Han had smoothly escaped even from the Insane Doppelganger’s lair, so he didn’t even blink at such trivial grumbling.

“I’m interested in this. You made it well.”

“The artificial dimension artifact is better made…”

“No. I’m not interested in that.”

“The artificial dimension artifact is more excellent…”

“I understand that, but I’m just not interested.”

“…Just inject some mana.”

“Yes.”

As Yukveltire turned around sharply again, Diret felt conflicted emotions.

The good-natured thought that he should separate the two…

…and the wicked thought that if he kept his junior attached, wouldn’t this evil friend also gradually learn some lessons!

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Lee Han diligently took notes on the magic engraved on the bronze golem.

Diret, who was helping with optimization and stabilization beside him, tilted his head.

“What are you doing?”

“Ah. When I return to the dormitory later, I want to try making one myself. I think it would be good to place it in the year’s common room.”

“…You think that after seeing this?”

“Huh, don’t you think so?”

The Wardanaz family junior asked with slight confusion.

It seemed like anyone would want to have such a high-performance golem servant.

Especially in Lee Han’s case, since he had overflowing mana, if he made one well, he could use it conveniently in the future.

“No. Nothing.”

Diret smiled blandly and changed the subject.

Usually, a second-year student would think ‘amazing’ when seeing such a bronze golem, but wouldn’t think ‘I should try making one myself.’

Even a third-year would probably be the same…

Diret shook his head. He felt like his junior’s magical skills were rising to a truly phenomenal level without him knowing.

“Yukveltire. It’s done.”

“Not bad.”

Yukveltire looked over the bronze golem to check it.

One of the two had spouted nonsense without even knowing how amazing the artificial dimension artifact was, but their skills were worth acknowledging.

“The junior did this part.”

“…!”

Yukveltire’s eyelashes trembled slightly. She was surprised once again to hear that Lee Han had done the optimization work she naturally thought Diret would have done.

“He did well, right? How is it.”

“Not bad…”

“Say he did well.”

“But he’s still lacking compared to me…”

“I said tell him he did well.”

“…You did well.”

Only after Diret poked her ribs three times did Yukveltire praise her junior.

Lee Han was puzzled by her appearance of clutching her ribs as if in pain.

“Are you feeling unwell?”

“…A rude mage attacked me. Next is Duke Ikalderen. Duke Ikalderen was apparently caught trying to steal Einroguard’s treasures.”

“I see. So that’s why.”

Diret finally realized why the duke had come.

No matter how much he trusted his title, it was an excessively reckless act.

“I don’t know why people like that appear periodically. There was one when we were first years too.”

“That’s truly unbelievable. How surprising!”

Lee Han feigned surprise.

Yukveltire nodded silently and then brought up what she had to say next.

“There’s no need to persuade Duke Ikalderen. We kidnap him.”

“Well, that should be fine.”

“…”

Lee Han was flustered.

Of course, Yukveltire suggesting kidnapping wasn’t particularly surprising. She was Professor Verdus’s disciple after all.

But Diret immediately agreeing was a bit surprising.

“Uh, is that okay?”

“He’s an external criminal, isn’t he, junior? The principal probably let him in for us to do just that.”

“Yes…”

Not noticing that his junior’s gaze had become slightly subtle, Diret planned the kidnapping with his friend.

“Other students are probably targeting him too, right?”

“Probably…”

“We should prepare for some combat too. Do you have anything useful?”

“I can deploy three combat golems. Eight artifacts.”

“That should be enough. You have energy-type magic, right? I’ve been seeing a lot of defensive magic of that type around Einroguard lately, so I think we should prepare for it.”

Lee Han listened with admiration to the wise conversation between the upperclassmen.

“This should be enough. Let’s go.”

As the conversation roughly ended, Yukveltire called Lee Han.

Lee Han didn’t understand immediately and asked back.

“Where do you mean?”

“To kidnap the duke. Do you perhaps have any auditory curses…”

“That’s not it. More importantly, may I come along too?”

Since it was naturally just the two fifth years talking, Lee Han had thought they would leave him behind.

“A combat mage like you is needed as a fighting force.”

Diret heard his friend’s words and unconsciously nodded, then met Lee Han’s staring gaze.

“…W-would you like to wait here?”

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