Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 855

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Chapter 855

‘No. Not now.’

Lee Han, who endured once more, suddenly became afraid.

Wasn’t he being overly patient right now?

What if instead of saving it for the perfect opportunity that would come later, he kept holding back and never used it until graduation?

‘…That won’t happen. The opportunity will definitely come.’

“Learn 【Bibble’s Departure Enchantment】 first. Quickly. Why haven’t you learned it?”

“Then why haven’t you completed the automatic flying sailing ship yet, Professor?”

“That… that’s difficult!”

Professor Verdus felt heartbreaking injustice at his disciple’s harsh words.

How could a person say such cruel things?

“Hmph. This is difficult too.”

“This isn’t difficult!”

“The sailing ship isn’t difficult either, is it?”

“It is difficult!”

While engaging in an argument unbelievable for a dignified magic school master and disciple, Lee Han quickly skimmed through the magic.

Fortunately, 【Bibble’s Departure Enchantment】 wasn’t that difficult when he actually read it carefully.

‘…Wait. What did I just think??’

Lee Han got goosebumps at himself.

This complex magic equivalent to 4th Circle didn’t feel that difficult!

Since his first year, he had handled all sorts of odd jobs Professor Verdus assigned him, and to handle those, he had to learn additional magic separately, making his foundation excessively solid.

Starting with 【Bibble’s Mana Emission Enchantment】, the magic he was forced to learn was forcibly helping his understanding.

“It’s not difficult! Are you listening?”

When Professor Verdus got angry beside him, Lee Han also got angry.

“Damn it, it’s not difficult! Are you satisfied!”

“Y-yes.”

Professor Verdus flinched when Lee Han burst into anger. He sensed the same killing intent from his disciple that he often felt from Professor Garcia.

Lee Han kept grumbling as he learned the magic.

“Not difficult… Damn it. This is really ridiculous.”

‘Is he crazy?’

Professor Verdus felt fear for the first time.

His disciple’s words and actions that couldn’t be explained logically made Professor Verdus afraid.

“The magic used here is 【Bibble’s Mana Amplification Enchantment】, right?”

“Yeah.”

“This is 【Curve】, this is 【Acceleration】?”

“Yeah.”

“Write properly.”

“If you could read it, then I wrote it properly. What are you talking about.”

“…I’m not doing this.”

Lee Han suddenly stood up from his seat.

He was already furious because the magic was easy, and the professor had provoked that.

Professor Verdus was startled.

“What? Why?”

“Because you don’t write properly.”

“You could read it! What are you talking about!”

“I don’t care, I’m leaving.”

“I’ll even give you the payment for work as promised with Kettle?!”

Professor Verdus frantically ran to Lee Han’s left and right, trying to block him somehow.

If it were another disciple, he could replace them whether they left or not, but not this disciple.

Regardless, Lee Han ignored him and dodged to the side, taking out his staff to dispel the magic barrier.

“I’ll write properly! I’ll write properly!”

“Hmph. I’ll be watching.”

The disciple barely stopped walking and sat down again. Professor Verdus muttered quietly and grumbled.

“If you could read it, that’s enough, why this inefficient…”

“I’m leaving.”

“No! No! No!”

* * *

Whooooom-

Looking at the object floating in the air, Lee Han sent an admiring gaze.

Then suddenly curious, he asked.

“Professor. Why aren’t we floating the sailboat and instead I’m making and floating a new one?”

The object currently floating in the air was a wooden raft hastily made by pulling out one of the stable pillars. Lee Han wondered if this was okay.

‘Probably not.’

Deciding to definitely report Professor Verdus’s name when the Spire Stable Keeper found the culprit later, Lee Han asked.

“You need to try it yourself to know the exact difference.”

The reason Professor Verdus brought Lee Han was simple.

1. Put Lee Han on the small sailboat.

2. Lee Han overloads the magic circle installed on the small sailboat with mana.

3. Experiment with magic like 【Bibble’s Departure Enchantment】 or 【Bibble’s Flight Enchantment】 using the secured mana.

4. If an unexpected situation occurs, Lee Han on the sailboat immediately inputs mana into the backup magic circle to stabilize it.

5. If that doesn’t work, control it instead.

6. Absolutely must not break it!

“So Professor, you’re really just recording from below?”

“I cast magic too?”

“The mana is maintained by the mana I input, right?”

“Yeah.”

Lee Han nodded instead of getting angry again.

Actually, there was no reason to be angry just because the professor assigned everything from experiment preparation to execution, confirmation, and recording to his disciple.

Professors were originally that kind of species.

“Then let’s start.”

“Clear the empty space in the middle of the deck. I’m casting!”

Professor Verdus took out a spell scroll and threw it accurately into the empty space in the middle of the deck.

It was an empty space in the additional ship magic circle to move with Professor Verdus’s magic alone instead of controlling the helm.

The moment magic was cast here, departure would begin.

Whooooom-

Mana was drawn from the mana securing magic circle installed on the small sailboat.

Thanks to Lee Han’s additional mana overinput, surplus mana could be easily secured.

If not, they would have had to dismantle all the magic circles and reconfigure them for automatic operation. Since such artifacts required precise mana calculations without error, adding new magic was quite complex.

“Go! Departure Enchantment!”

Professor Verdus jumped around and shouted.

The small sailboat moved and floated with pure magical power alone, even though Lee Han hadn’t touched it. Lee Han carefully observed the movement.

If the sailboat rose with different movement from the wooden raft Lee Han had directly cast earlier, that would be an unexpected situation.

‘They match.’

“How is it?! Do they seem to match?!”

“Yes!”

“Good!”

Professor Verdus sent a signal to land. When Lee Han threw the anchor inside, the sailboat slowly descended.

“That’s amazing. Just looking at it floating in the air, it seems like it can work completely automatically, doesn’t it?”

“That’s the easiest part. Plus, small sailboats like this have fewer errors.”

The more magic there was, the more it overlapped, the more collisions and errors increased.

It was natural that a sailboat much smaller than a giant sailing ship would work better.

“Now. Next is 【Vible’s Flight Enchantment】.”

“I see. What do I need to do?”

“You have to learn it again like before.”

“…”

Lee Han glared at Professor Verdus with murderous intent. Professor Verdus said in panic.

“It’s only natural!”

The professor’s disciple entered learning again with murderous muttering.

After an even shorter learning time than before, Lee Han succeeded in casting 【Vible’s Flight Enchantment】 on the wooden raft as well.

“Oh. It’s moving. Can’t we increase the speed any more from here?”

“For that, we need to add more magic. Isn’t it fun?”

“No.”

Lee Han was honestly a little interested, but he denied it with a straight face. Professor Verdus grumbled.

“You find it fun though…”

“I’m leaving.”

“Ah, no! No! Let’s say it’s not fun! Here. Get on again!”

Professor Verdus hurriedly put his disciple on the sailboat, afraid he might run away.

After getting on, Lee Han activated the departure scroll like before, and after floating in the air, he activated the flight scroll.

The sailboat began moving through the sky without any instructions. Unlike before, there were rattling and swaying movements.

‘The mana is fluctuating.’

Being on the sailboat, Lee Han could react much faster than Professor Verdus.

There were several places among the magic circles installed on the sailboat where mana was fluctuating. The newly added magic was clearly causing problems.

‘Is it hull reinforcement magic? This one… seems like wind resistance magic. No. We’re flying over the sea, so do we really need anti-corrosion magic? I’ll have to turn this off if it doesn’t work. For now, I think I can endure it.’

“If it seems impossible, put mana into the backup magic circle! It’s shaking a lot!”

“It seems okay for now!”

Lee Han shouted down below. And he conveyed what he had just figured out.

Professor Verdus was pleased that his disciple was doing better than expected and gifted him additional work.

“That’s great! If you can figure it out from there, just record it!”

“…”

Lee Han fell silent at the sight of him passing even the only job he was responsible for to his disciple.

‘I shouldn’t have said anything…’

While Lee Han was recording, Professor Verdus was delighted by his capable disciple’s performance.

Seeing that he was better than expected, it seemed he could entrust him with other tasks in the future.

“Landing!”

Professor Verdus sent a signal. Lee Han nodded and prepared to land.

“Oh!”

“What’s wrong?”

“Over there! It’s Ragesa!”

Professor Verdus pointed far below.

Unlike the people leaving through the 7th floor, Ragesa was boldly heading toward the main gate with her pirate slaves.

Professor Verdus was slightly flustered by this sight.

“She’s leaving faster than expected?”

“Then shall I give it to her now?”

“No! We just started! We haven’t even solved the problems that just came up! Come down quickly!”

Professor Verdus flatly rejected his disciple’s suggestion and gestured.

Whether Ragesa was disappointed or not, the important thing was completing a better work.

“…Wait. Where are you going? Hey! Where are you going?!”

Professor Verdus, who had been waiting for his disciple to land, was flustered.

The small sailboat was flying toward the opposite direction instead of the Spire Stables!

“Come back! I said come back!”

* * *

Ragesa, who had been walking toward the main gate, looked up with surprised eyes when a small boat came flying from behind.

‘What? Don’t tell me Vible is attacking?’

Looking at the sailboat’s appearance, it was the one Professor Verdus had been making.

When Lee Han jumped down from it, Ragesa was even more surprised.

“What is it?”

“Lady Ragesa. Professor Verdus has finally completed his work, so I came to deliver it.”

“…Don’t lie to me!”

‘How did she know?’

Lee Han was amazed by Ragesa’s reaction.

How did she know?

“Actually, he didn’t finish it, but I stole it and came to deliver it to you.”

“…Tell me in detail.”

Ragesa spoke with a completely uncomprehending expression.

Lee Han briefly explained what had happened. Professor Verdus had completed it to some extent, but in his view, he was being too greedy…

“Isn’t this bastard crazy!”

At Ragesa’s reaction, even the pirate slaves chained behind her unconsciously nodded.

Even to the pirates who had committed all kinds of plunder at sea, it sounded like crazy talk.

As expected, mages were all nothing but insane bastards.

“So?”

“If I just left it alone, it seemed like the professor would only accumulate enemies, so I stole it and brought it out like this.”

Ragesa burst into laughter.

The old pirate who had been laughing for a while said with giggles.

“Vible may not know about other things, but he’s really lucky with disciples. He always picked disciples just like himself, but what lucky wind blew this time…”

“Actually, I didn’t bring it for Professor Verdus, but just for the justice of the Empire.”

“If you ever feel like it later, come find the Empire’s southern privateering fleet. I’ll let you plunder excitedly next to this daughter of Torgerd.”

Lee Han was slightly tempted but quickly gave up.

Being a pirate in the Empire was not a stable profession no matter how he thought about it.

“Thank you, kid. This was an unexpected gift. With this, my visit to Einroguard this time is completely satisfying.”

Saying that, Ragesa held out the sailboat to Lee Han.

Lee Han was startled.

“Are you trying to return it to the professor?!”

“Are you insane? Why would I give it to Vible?”

Ragesa looked serious. Lee Han immediately apologized.

“I’m sorry.”

“I’m giving it to you as a gift, kid. If what Vible said is true, you should be able to improve it further.”

“I don’t have the ability to improve it like Professor Verdus…”

“Well, it seems like you’ll have it in a year.”

“…”

“Six months? Three months?”

“No.”

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