Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 858

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Chapter 858

‘This is ridiculous.’

Shocked, Lee Han began denying reality.

Only the cooking club was kind – the other clubs must surely be different!

-But why? Why are you stepping forward?

-Junior. You’re a second-year. Does it make sense for you to gather midterm exam information for yourself?

“…”

But the seniors from other clubs also gave cold responses.

Lee Han deeply regretted it.

‘Come to think of it, nobody told me to follow along.’

Thinking about it, Senior Falkrious had also told the other seniors to go, but hadn’t specifically called Lee Han himself.

Lee Han trembled with indignation.

“Wait. Junior. There is one exam where you need to gather information.”

Perse, a Blue Dragon Tower senior, spoke up as if something had just occurred to her.

“I knew second-years should do it too!”

“No. That’s not it. Originally second-years don’t do it, but there’s an exception.”

“??”

“If you take the 【Understanding Intermediate Combat Magic】 lecture exam this time, record that for us.”

【Understanding Intermediate Combat Magic】 was Professor Boladi’s lecture.

If there had been seniors who took it, those seniors would have left records, but since no one was taking it, Lee Han had to leave the record.

“We probably won’t need it for a while, but still, some other junior might take it someday.”

“…But new disciples did join the first-years.”

“Is that really true?! How many?”

Perse was shocked.

To think new disciples would appear in Professor Boladi’s lecture.

Could it be that Professor Boladi had finally changed his teaching methods a bit?

Lee Han subtly changed the subject. He didn’t want to mention the exact number of one.

“Anyway, I understand. When I take the exam this time, I’ll leave records for the juniors to reference later.”

“Right. You don’t need to work too hard on it. Recording it moderately is fine too.”

“What do you mean? Are you saying I can do it moderately because there won’t be any juniors taking Professor Bagrek’s lecture anyway?”

“Ah, no… I meant don’t let it take up too much of your time, since from a junior’s perspective, they’d be grateful just for having a senior record it.”

“Ah. I see.”

‘I need to be careful with my words in front of this junior.’

Perse thought to herself.

Just like how you shouldn’t mention the number ‘5’ in front of fourth-years, there were certain courtesies at Einroguard.

Until now, since there were no disciples of Professor Boladi, she hadn’t felt the need, but seeing the junior in front of her, she felt the need to be more careful with her words.

‘But so how many actually joined?’

* * *

“Eandurude. I’m grateful to you anew.”

“?”

The only first-year student of Professor Bagrek’s school, who was munching on rice cake received from a senior, tilted her head.

“No. It’s nothing. But the lecture’s over, don’t you need to go?”

“Want to watch?”

“…Don’t attack Professor Bagrek just because I’m getting hit.”

Eandurude chewed the rice cake with a disgruntled expression.

To raise the odds by even 1% more against a strong opponent like Professor Boladi, shouldn’t they attack together?

‘What a precious kid.’

Lee Han felt like he might tear up but couldn’t show it.

Professor Boladi was staring intently from the side.

“Haha. Junior. The purpose of the Professor’s lecture is for me to receive teachings, not to attack and defeat the Professor and then mock him.”

“Is that so…”

At the strangely specific post-victory content, Eandurude nodded while looking puzzled.

When Lee Han returned to the lecture hall after getting snacks for his junior, Professor Boladi asked a question.

“Did you learn much from Lady Ragesa?”

“Uh…”

At the Professor’s question, Lee Han hesitated.

Did he learn much?

‘I think I learned a lot. But I’m not sure if it’s related to magic.’

He seemed to have learned a lot about how to steal, rob, raid, and swindle as a pirate, but as for magic…

‘I did learn Lady Ragesa’s secret magic. Though I blew up the corridor.’

Lee Han decided to answer moderately instead of digging his own grave by going into detail about such things.

“Yes. I learned a lot.”

“You’re too greedy. Lady Ragesa’s magic has many difficult aspects, so you don’t need to study it right now.”

“…”

Who would have thought ‘I learned little’ was the correct answer!

Lee Han was inwardly dumbfounded.

Regardless, Professor Boladi began pointing out Lee Han’s current state one by one.

Since his first year, Lee Han had been taking courses from all schools and learning various things, and Professor Boladi had been trying to somehow comprehensively blend it all and complete it as magical combat.

But now that he was in his second year, his disciple’s areas of interest had become so broad and deep that even Professor Boladi couldn’t focus and concentrate.

Just this semester alone, wasn’t he exploring not only the Crimson Jade Orb but also the Spirit King’s lightning transformation, suspicious ancient projection secrets, and so on?

“It’s not exploration, it’s forced…”

“Hmm?”

“It’s nothing.”

“Anyway, I recommend completing one thing instead of adding more. It doesn’t have to be the Crimson Jade Orb. Do what you want.”

Professor Boladi realized there was little point in telling his disciple ‘start with the Crimson Jade Orb.’

Given this disciple’s personality, there was a high chance he’d get stubborn and say ‘Hmph, don’t arbitrarily define my magical studies.’

“…But I think I did pretty well following orders… Were you perhaps dissatisfied with the book about the Crimson Jade Orb last time?”

“No.”

‘That’s a relief.’

Because Ragesa had come in the middle, he hadn’t heard the evaluation of the book he was writing.

He had been worried, but it seemed it wasn’t a failure.

Professor Boladi continued with an expressionless face.

“However, based on precedent, telling you to develop the Crimson Jade Orb probably wouldn’t mean much.”

“…”

Come to think of it, every time Professor Boladi talked about the Crimson Jade Orb, Lee Han seemed to have learned some other strange magic and brought it back.

It wasn’t intentional, but from Professor Boladi’s perspective, he couldn’t help but feel his disciple was very interested in other magics.

“Do what you want. I’ll adjust next week’s exam content accordingly.”

‘Wait. Is this actually good?’

Lee Han was initially flustered, but thinking about it carefully, Professor Boladi’s misunderstanding wasn’t necessarily all bad.

Wasn’t he saying he’d give an exam on the topic Lee Han chose?

Then he could choose the easiest magic field he was most confident in.

‘No. It won’t be that easy. Since I don’t know what the exam topic will be.’

If he trusted the telekinesis magic he had just completed to the 5th circle and said ‘I’ll do telekinesis!’ only for Professor Boladi to deliberately bring an exam that made telekinesis hard to use, Lee Han would suffer like crazy.

“Professor. If there’s anything decided about the exam content, could I know even a little bit?”

“Hmm.”

Professor Boladi showed faint awkwardness on his usually unchanging face.

‘Oh.’

If it were truly impossible, he would have immediately said so, but seeing him act like this, Lee Han felt both puzzlement and hope simultaneously.

“Professor. I also worked hard helping with the Eandurude lectures.”

“Why are you mentioning that?”

“…Just because.”

Lee Han cursed the professor inwardly.

As expected, professors fundamentally lacked human compassion.

When a disciple worked hard to help, the response should be ‘How admirable! What is it you want?’ not ‘Isn’t that only natural?’

However, Professor Boladi thought his disciple had stepped forward because he was interested in teaching.

As such, he couldn’t read the intention behind suddenly bringing up such a topic.

“…Originally, I was asked to keep the contents of this exam secret.”

‘It’s the Principal again.’

Lee Han cursed while guessing the culprit.

First of all, Professor Boladi had no friends. Professor Kirmin was there, but he wasn’t someone who would recommend keeping exam contents secret.

“It’s fine, Professor. You don’t need to listen to such requests.”

“I’m not so sure about that. Looking at the difficulty of the exam, I think you need to know.”

“…?”

Lee Han began to feel dread creeping in.

Recently, thanks to Lee Han being tormented by real madmen, Professor Boladi had become relatively kinder and gentler, but wasn’t Professor Boladi originally one of the real madmen from his 1st year?

What could he have prepared?

“Professor. Please trust me and tell me! I will definitely protect your honor.”

“Alright. The decided exam content is a dragon.”

“…”

“Wow!”

Eandurude let out an exclamation mixed with respect and admiration while looking at his senior.

So seniors from the Wardanaz Family hunt dragons by their 2nd year!

Of course, Lee Han didn’t have the mental capacity to clear up the misunderstanding. With wide eyes, he threw a question at his master.

“…Dragons aren’t… that… common in the Empire, are they?”

Even that rare basilisk was merely a species of least concern compared to dragons.

Currently in the Empire, dragons were a race you couldn’t meet even if you wanted to. There were no publicly known existences.

‘The only one would be His Imperial Majesty, wouldn’t it? Surely His Imperial Majesty wouldn’t come for an exam.’

If the Skeleton Principal had persuaded the Emperor and called him for a midterm exam, Lee Han honestly planned to acknowledge it.

If it was malice crafted to that extent, it would be right to just accept it. How could one possibly prevent that?

“That’s right.”

“Where on earth did you obtain one?”

“Hmm.”

Professor Boladi looked even more troubled than before.

He had no choice but to speak since he needed to provide necessary information for his disciple’s fair exam, but he also had a promise with the other party.

“Professor. What kind of dragon it is is also quite important. Please give me a chance to establish a proper countermeasure.”

“Hmm. Alright. The opponent is Prince Jowurin.”

“…”

Lee Han’s face changed more bizarrely than when he had directly encountered the mad ancient projection.

His Imperial Majesty’s third child, and the dragon Lee Han had met when he visited the capital following the Skeleton Principal!

Eandurude looked at Lee Han with eyes shining so brightly they couldn’t sparkle any more.

“Wow, wow… Dragon slayer!”

“Eandurude. That’s not it. Calm down.”

“Imperial family slayer!”

“That’s not good at all.”

In fairy tales, a magic sword like an imperial family slayer might seem cool, but in reality, an imperial family slayer was simply the Empire’s most heinous criminal.

Not wanting to rise to the Empire’s public enemy number one, Lee Han tried to grasp reality.

“Professor. How on earth did you make contact with Prince Jowurin? No. More than that, I think there’s some misunderstanding. Prince Jowurin is still a young dragon who likes to play. If he visits this harsh and rough, hellish Einroguard that even demons shudder at, he’ll be greatly disappointed.”

Eandurude tilted his head.

Einroguard honestly didn’t seem quite that bad.

“His Majesty’s abilities are sufficient.”

“No. It’s not a matter of ability. Professor. It’s a problem of his disposition! You know this too, Professor. To become a battle mage, one must be cold and bold.”

The reason Professor Garcia, despite having such natural talent, wasn’t called a battle mage (though honestly Lee Han thought she could be considered one), was because her disposition was kind and good-natured.

Such a person didn’t suit being a battle mage who had to cast several spells in an instant shorter than a second while cutting off an opponent’s breath.

In a similar sense, Jowurin was still a young dragon. Not only would he fail to adapt to Einroguard’s harsh environment, but entrusting him with Lee Han’s exam would be even more difficult.

“This is a trap. The Principal set a snare to put you in a difficult position, Professor.”

“His Majesty sent a letter directly.”

“…”

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