Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 825

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Chapter 825

Fortunately, Falkrious heard his underclassman’s cry.

“Oh. Professor. May I step away for a moment?”

“Sure. Since no more feet are growing from the patient’s wrists… everyone can take a short break.”

“Thank you. I’m a bit worried, you see. You know that mage from the Watercloud Mountain Tower? I left him with my underclassman for a moment.”

“Falkrious.”

“Yes. Professor.”

Professor Alcasis said while burning the severed feet.

“Your underclassman will handle things fine on his own, so worry about your own work.”

“But… he’s still only a 2nd year…”

Falkrious was flustered for the first time in a while.

Of course, Falkrious sometimes mistook Lee Han’s grade level by one or two years, but still, he was a 2nd year, wasn’t he?

The mage from the Watercloud Mountain Tower was quite a troublesome case, so there was no telling when or how his condition might worsen.

“It’s a case where he cursed himself. We don’t know when or how he might act strangely.”

“That’s why I said he’ll handle it fine on his own.”

Professor Alcasis spoke in a rough, hoarse voice while suppressing a yawn.

From not sleeping so much, even when he mixed sleep-repelling potions and insomnia curse potions in their pure form and downed them, he kept yawning.

“If you keep acting like this, Professor, the kids will keep running away! I’m going to check on him!”

Falkrious got angry and stormed off from his seat.

“No… Falkrious! Falkrious!”

The professor called out to his disciple in panic. Falkrious left without stopping.

“Don’t pretend to be angry and not come back! We’ll start again in 30 minutes!”

“…I know!”

Falkrious replied irritably to the professor’s shout.

Alcasis of the Lagrinde family was certainly a respectable mage, but at times like this, wasn’t he going a bit too far?

While weak mages couldn’t last long as healing mages and needed to be weeded out quickly, there should be some limits.

At the very least, it wouldn’t be too late to do this after the underclassmen had become a bit more resilient.

If he treated them like this from the start, the already few 2nd year underclassmen might decrease even more. Moreover, in Wardanaz’s case, he was taking many other school courses as well…

“Huh, what are you doing?”

Falkrious made a dumbfounded sound and blinked his eyes.

The mage from the Watercloud Mountain Tower, Bajun, was groaning and struggling while being subdued.

“Grk! It’s because I was caught off guard! I was careless! If we fought properly, I wouldn’t be subdued like this by a 2nd year student!”

“I understand, so please stay still.”

“Let me go! Let’s try it one more time!”

“No. I need to check if there’s something wrong with your head first. I can’t release you until then.”

“I’m perfectly fine! Give me my staff!”

“From what you’re saying, you don’t seem fine. I’m warning you. Stay still.”

“What are you going to do if I don’t stay sti… Gak! Kerhuk! I, I surrender!”

Bajun, who hadn’t realized that the telekinetic force subduing him was going easy on him, quickly shouted as the force tightened around his neck and limbs.

What kind of 2nd year uses such powerful magic?

“Ah. Senior. You’re here?”

“Uh… yeah. I’m here. But… um… did the curse perhaps go to his head?”

Falkrious wondered if Bajun had gone berserk due to the curse while he was away, and Lee Han had subdued him.

“No. I treated the curse for now, but he suddenly started saying strange things, so I called you. Could you check him?”

“?”

Hearing his underclassman’s words, Falkrious was confused about where to start pointing things out.

“What did you do?”

“Said strange things?”

“No. Before that. You treated the curse?”

“Yes.”

“…”

Falkrious rushed over to Bajun.

Caught in hands like pot lids, Bajun gasped and shouted.

“Gen, gently please…”

“I am being gentle.”

“Ah. Sorry. I was holding him with telekinesis.”

Lee Han apologized and released his grip on Bajun’s collar. Bajun glared at him slightly.

Falkrious cast several magical examinations on the patient. Starting with checking for external injuries, then soul examination, astral projection, spirit detection, and so on.

And surprisingly, not a trace of the curse remained. Bajun was perfectly fine.

“It’s… it’s perfectly healed, underclassman! What on earth did you do!”

“What? Is his head fine too?”

“Yes!”

“I told you so!!”

Lee Han released the other telekinetic forces with suspicious eyes. Bajun got up irritably.

“He definitely said strange things… asking where some prisoner was…”

“…That was because I was surprised!”

“You also suddenly called me a saint.”

“That… that’s a reaction anyone could conscientiously have!”

Bajun, who was trying to make excuses, suddenly got emotional.

Regardless of other things, this wasn’t a slip of the tongue but a justified reaction.

Anyone else in that situation would have said something similar!

“Why does a saint come up?”

Falkrious looked at Lee Han as if he didn’t understand.

“That guy didn’t purify or weaken the curse, he just absorbed it into himself! It’s natural to call him a saint… Gak!”

Before he could finish speaking, Falkrious grabbed Bajun’s collar with both fists and lifted him into the air.

“Did you make him do it!!”

“Kerhuk, no! No…! He did it on his own…!”

“How does a 2nd year know to do something like that on his own, you damn Watercloud Mountain blockhead!”

“Uh. I did it on my own. Senior.”

“…Is, is that so?”

Falkrious was flustered by Lee Han’s words and quickly put the patient down.

Then he cleared his throat and said.

“There seems to have been a misunderstanding for a moment. Ahem.”

“Einroguard guys are all eccentric, I tell you…”

Bajun grumbled while rubbing his neck. He couldn’t count how many times he’d been choked today.

Lee Han smiled good-naturedly and said.

“It was an emergency situation, so there seem to have been some mistakes.”

‘Was it an emergency situation?’

Bajun honestly didn’t quite agree, but decided to let it slide.

Actually, if someone cured such a difficult curse, getting grabbed by the collar a few times was still a profitable deal.

“Right. Anyway, thank you so much for healing me. And what’s so special about being a saint? Anyone who risks their own life to save someone when they’re ruined and about to end up like Professor Verdus, that’s a saint. You are a saint. You young fellow.”

“Are you sure his head is really fine?”

Lee Han ignored The Other Person’s words and whispered to Falkrious. Falkrious nodded slightly.

“Thanks again, and I’ll keep my promise. Make sure to visit the Watercloud Mountains. But I should get going for now. My research is too behind. Well then, farewell!”

Bajun didn’t even bother putting on his shoes properly and quickly ran up to the airfield above the tower.

Then he hooked a magic chain to the claws of a flying wyvern and whoosh, flew away.

-You crazy mage! What are you doing! Will you take responsibility if the wyvern’s claws break?!

-Sorry! Please take me with you! Drop me off on the way to the Watercloud Mountains!

“Wardanaz. You absorbed someone else’s curse?”

“Yes. But I have strong resistance, so it’s fine.”

“…”

Just because someone had strong resistance didn’t mean anyone could absorb another person’s curse without hesitation.

It wasn’t something that could be done without strong responsibility and determination toward others.

‘Professor. You were right!’

Falkrious realized that Professor Alcasis had been properly observing his disciples.

He had thought the professor was someone so worn down by work and fatigue that he didn’t even know whether he was drinking coffee or tea, but that wasn’t actually the case.

‘But then why didn’t he recognize us that time?’

In fact, during last year’s winter break, Professor Alcasis had encountered healing magic school students who had changed into casual clothes.

And he had failed to recognize them and just walked right past.

It was such a shocking anecdote that it was still talked about among the healing magic school students.

-The professor really didn’t recognize us back then, right?

-Honestly, I still suspect he doesn’t remember us even now…

‘He must have just found dealing with us bothersome. We misunderstood.’

Falkrious resolved to share what he had just realized with his underclassmen.

Someone who showed this much interest in Wardanaz, who had just entered, couldn’t possibly be unaware of other underclassmen.

“Senior.”

When Falkrious continued to say nothing, Lee Han called out cautiously.

“Hm? What?”

“Are you angry that I treated the patient?”

“What!? No?! Why would you think that?”

“You were happy thinking about researching unique and interesting diseases for a year.”

“…Well, that’s true. But that doesn’t mean I’m angry about you treating him!”

Flustered, Falkrious began to suspect that this underclassman might think he was a strange person.

Honestly, if they were talking about being strange, an underclassman who was only a second-year but absorbed a curse into his own body before even finishing proper analysis was much more…

“Underclassman. Just in case, I’m warning you – don’t carelessly absorb other people’s curses.”

Realizing that his underclassman was much stranger than he had thought, Falkrious quickly gave a warning.

It was an obvious thing to say, but it was also necessary.

“Why would I do such a thing?”

“What do you call what you just did?”

“That was… an exception.”

“Then don’t carelessly absorb even exceptions. Got it?”

“Yes…”

‘He seems angry.’

* * *

“Ugh, my aching bones.”

Ragesa complained every 3 seconds. Lee Han finally couldn’t win and apologized.

“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have called you.”

“Kid. You called me on purpose, didn’t you?”

“No! What a misunderstanding!”

Lee Han, like a skilled Einroguard student, absolutely refused to admit it.

Ragesa smiled like a kind grandmother and said.

“Kihihi. I’m just asking out of admiration. You can be honest. Would I really get angry over something like this? Me, Torgerd’s daughter?”

‘Yes.’

Lee Han answered immediately in his mind, then said hypocritically.

“I really called you to introduce Ragesa.”

‘Tch.’

Ragesa clicked her tongue.

This kid was extraordinarily cunning and would never fall for traps that most people would easily fall into. He was talent who would have become a great pirate if he had taken up piracy.

“You couldn’t even look around properly while helping Alcasis. Was there anything interesting?”

“Nothing much. There was a mage from the Wulmasan Range…”

“Ah. You mean Bajun? We were betting on how many curses that kid could endure.”

Lee Han was slightly surprised by the name of a mage who was more famous than expected.

“Yes. That’s him. I treated him.”

“How? It couldn’t have been easy.”

“I absorbed the curses.”

“…”

Ragesa was so shocked she couldn’t continue speaking.

From the audacity to absorb curses severe enough to be brought to Einroguard, to the magic capable of absorbing them.

Both were unbelievably amazing.

And the most amazing thing was that she hadn’t noticed at all while all of this was happening right behind her back.

“You should have told me, you little brat! Should I tie you to the mast! Should I make you like Bibble!”

“No, no! You were busy!”

“No matter how busy I was, I should have seen that! I came to see that! I just became an idiot who only worked!”

After fuming for a while, Ragesa calmed her anger and asked.

“When is the next lecture?”

“In 1…”

“1 hour?”

“No. In 1 minute. You should run.”

“…Right.”

Lee Han, who had been running ahead, hesitated.

“What’s wrong?”

“Uh, I think it would be better if I went to this lecture alone. Wouldn’t it be better for you to just tour the 7th floor again, Ragesa?”

“What’s this about, kid?”

Ragesa showed a grinning smile across her face and snatched the schedule from Lee Han’s hand.

She couldn’t even guess what lecture this cunning brat didn’t want to attend together.

‘Maybe there’s a lecture he’s not confident about?’

It could surprisingly be something liberal arts related. Usually people obsessed with magic were clumsy with the Empire’s etiquette and manners.

【Staff Materials and Magic Amplification】

Professor, Bibble Verdus

“…”

Ragesa’s face contorted grimly like a pirate who had encountered a storm.

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