Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 89
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Move.
”
Move.
”
Move.
The more clumsy and unskilled a mage was, the more wildly they would wave their staff and shout their incantations loudly.
The less confident they were, the more forcefully they had to act in order to materialize their mental image.
In that regard, Lee Han barely waved his staff at all and his voice was as quiet as a whisper.
Lee Han himself didn’t notice it, but the effects of Professor Boladi’s harsh training were clearly showing.
“…!”
Yoner was amazed at the sight of the assignments flying naturally through the air.
Like birds made of paper, Lee Han and Yoner’s thick assignments smoothly cut through the air and approached the professor’s pile of assignments.
Even though it was simply making assignments fly, he couldn’t take his eyes off it.
This looked like magic on a completely different level from the stiff and choppy 【Low-Level Control】 magic Yoner had seen up until now.
‘Let me focus.’
Lee Han concentrated his mind.
It wasn’t simply about inserting them into the pile of assignments.
He had to avoid being caught by the professor.
-Focus.
It was as if he could hear Professor Boladi’s voice in his ear.
“It’s a simple matter of just slipping paper in between.”
Professor Boladi’s voice in his ear became clearer.
“But there’s a barrier in place?”
“You should be able to break through. You’ve already learned how. Right?”
The voice became uncomfortably clear.
This was…
It wasn’t a voice he was hearing in his head.
Lee Han turned his gaze, trembling with fear.
Two professors were staring intently at Lee Han from behind.
Thanks to this, Yoner couldn’t even breathe properly.
Professor Boladi spoke in a cold voice.
“Why are you turning your gaze away? Focus.”
Lee Han instinctively turned his head back.
Then the unfamiliar professor next to Professor Boladi spoke.
“No. It might be better to just give up and back away…”
“Ignore what he says. You can do it. Remember what you learned.”
“…”
Lee Han thought about the misfortunes that had befallen him this week.
No matter how he thought about it, his luck had been excessively bad.
Had he been cursed or something?
‘To run into professors I should have just passed by.’
It would have been better if it were Professor Garcia, but Professor Boladi of all people.
Lee Han seriously considered whether he should look for a luck potion or something.
“I’m telling you no? That barrier is higher in difficulty than you think.”
“You can do it. Do it.”
“Excuse me, Professors… I’m sorry, but could you unify your opinions and give us advice…?”
Yoner, who couldn’t stand it anymore, spoke up, but the two professors paid no attention.
Professor Boladi said he could do it so he should do it, while the unfamiliar professor advised him to back down.
It was a maddening situation, but Lee Han was still able to figure out a few things.
‘So there was a barrier.’
Since it was a pile of assignments floating in the air and following the professor around, he had naturally thought magic would be involved, but he hadn’t expected a barrier.
The unfamiliar professor said.
“That barrier is one that makes loud noises when someone touches it. You probably can’t feel it well, but there are several layers of invisible mana bands rotating around that pile of papers.”
Hearing this, Lee Han concentrated to try to sense the mana.
It was easy to miss due to the tremendous mana emanating from his entire body, but Lee Han’s talents weren’t limited to just mana.
His unparalleled tenacious survival skills, his thorough calculating ability that remained unshaken even in moments of crisis, his pointless presence that terrified spirits, and beyond that, his mana detection ability was exceptionally outstanding.
‘I can see it!’
When he concentrated, he could really feel the mana bands spread around the pile of papers slowly rotating.
“At a student’s current level, approaching without touching the mana bands is nearly impossible. So rather than being swayed by Professor Bagrek’s words and attempting something reckless, it would be better to wait for the next opportunity. As you know, Professor Bagrek doesn’t think about students.”
‘That’s absolutely right.’
Lee Han deeply agreed but said something different with his mouth.
“No. The Professor always thinks about students.”
“See, that’s what I’m saying.”
Professor Boladi purely accepted Lee Han’s words.
If Lee Han had agreed, Professor Boladi would have judged, ‘Ah, I don’t think about students very well.’
But seeing Lee Han say that, Professor Boladi concluded that his current teaching method was indeed considerate of students.
There didn’t seem to be any other possibility.
“Really? My disciple is truly kind.”
“That’s not logical. Wardanaz. Do it. The other person is walking away.”
“I’m telling you it won’t work…!”
Professor Boladi urged him on, and the unfamiliar professor tried to stop him.
And Lee Han moved.
Whoosh!
The thick assignment flew smoothly and passed through the spaces between the moving mana bands.
If there had been even the slightest difference, the mana bands would have torn and made a loud noise.
Lee Han didn’t hesitate and sent the next assignment flying. Yoner’s assignment also landed precisely on top of the pile of assignments.
Yoner unconsciously clapped his hands. Professor Boladi nodded his head faintly, almost imperceptibly.
“…Impossible! How?!”
“Because I learned.”
“Yes. It’s thanks to the Professor’s guidance and instruction.”
Lee Han spoke without showing emotion. This made the unfamiliar professor even more impressed.
“Truly such an exceptional disciple, isn’t he?! Nice to meet you. You must be Wardanaz? I’m called Professor Kirmin Ku. Normally I should shake hands, but I don’t recommend shaking hands with me. There are racial circumstances.”
Professor Kirmin was the complete opposite of Professor Boladi.
With a cheerful and lively voice, and gentlemanly attire without a single wrinkle, dressed impeccably. It was amazing that he could converse so amicably with Professor Boladi.
“What field do you teach?”
“I’m an expert in illusion magic, specifically barriers. You just saw, didn’t you?”
“!”
Lee Han’s face lit up.
He had wondered when he heard him talking, and he really was an expert in barrier magic.
“I’ll be visiting Professor Garcia’s lecture hall once this semester anyway. I need to teach the students how fun and delightful illusion magic is.”
“Illusion magic is useless.”
“…”
Lee Han was shocked by Professor Boladi’s words.
To dismiss another professor’s field like that.
A duel isn’t about to break out, is it?
However, Professor Kirmin simply ignored Professor Boladi’s words.
“Deceiving mages above a certain level with illusion magic is several times more difficult than magic from other fields.”
“Yes. You’ve said that about a hundred times. But mages above a certain level are less than a handful in this vast Empire. So, Wardanaz. Why were you trying to put those paper bundles in there?”
Lee Han pondered for about a second.
Looking at the professor’s demeanor, he wondered if lying would work, and made the best judgment.
‘It would be better to just be honest.’
“Because I was late with my assignment submission?”
“…”
Yoner’s face turned red with embarrassment. Professor Kirmin also seemed flustered by the unexpected reason.
‘Just because he was late with assignment submission?!’
“I’m sorry, Professor.”
Lee Han apologized to Professor Boladi as well. However, Professor Boladi didn’t care as expected.
“Why?”
“Because the assignment was late?”
“Is it my assignment?”
‘I thought you’d say that.’
“That’s true.”
Professor Kirmin looked at the master and disciple pair as if they were something strange.
Honestly speaking, it had been a really long time since he’d seen someone who could get along with Professor Boladi like this.
Whether professor or student, after talking for a few minutes, it wouldn’t be strange for them to leave saying ‘I hope the sun rises above your head, you damn vampire bastard’…
“So what lecture was it?”
“【Basic Imperial Geometry and Arithmetic】.”
“Professor Alpen Naiton?”
Lee Han tensed at Professor Kirmin mentioning the other person’s name.
In the face of friendship between professors, promises with students are insignificant…
“Well done. Well done. Honestly, that professor’s assignments aren’t worth doing.”
“???”
Professor Kirmin actually praised Lee Han. Professor Boladi also rarely added his words.
“Professor Alpen Naiton is a mage who worked as an Imperial senior administrator. He’s more skilled at handling power than magic.”
“Do you know that bastard cut my research budget in half back in the day?”
The two professors gritted their teeth and cursed the 【Basic Imperial Geometry and Arithmetic】 professor. Lee Han sighed in relief at that familiar sight.
Not all professors got along well with each other.
Especially mages who had taken the path of pure magical research didn’t look favorably upon mages who received high government positions in the Empire and were actively involved.
The reasons were roughly ‘the purity of magic this and that’ and ‘worldly temptation and corruption this and that’, but in Lee Han’s view, it was probably because the latter could interfere with the former’s budget.
Even mages who could bring down the sky and split the earth couldn’t conduct research without a research budget.
In that regard, mages working in high Imperial government positions and reviewing research budgets were enemies of all other mages.
-My lifelong intuition is telling me! This dungeon must be excavated even if we have to mobilize the entire territorial budget. Call all the nearby adventurers…
-Didn’t you say it was your lifelong intuition last time too. This proposal is canceled.
-I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you! You’d better watch your back at night!
-If you want to target my nights, you’ll have to wait in line. There are thirty-three people waiting.
…Such dignified conversations took place every year.
But Lee Han’s thoughts didn’t change even after hearing the two professors’ conversation.
Rather…
‘Wait, he was a former Imperial senior administrator?’
When he heard that the other person was a former Imperial high official, Lee Han’s eyes sparkled.
What could that mean?
Wouldn’t it mean he had powerful connections in the Imperial bureaucracy?
And at the very top of Lee Han’s goals was becoming an Imperial official.
Lee Han suddenly felt his resentment toward Professor Alpen Naiton melting away like snow.
Even the damn heavy assignment load suddenly felt like the sense of responsibility of a high official bearing the Empire on his shoulders.
‘I should try to make an even better impression from now on.’
“Wardanaz. I heard rumors that you’re very talented. You should be careful. Don’t get dragged into becoming an Imperial official. When you’re too outstanding, they send all sorts of temptations.”
Professor Boladi frowned rarely and spoke at length.
“Stop joking there, Ku. There’s no way Wardanaz would walk such a lowly path of anti-magic.”
“That’s right, what am I saying. He’s from the Wardanaz Family. There’s no way he’d become an Imperial official. Right?”
“…”
Lee Han felt cold sweat running down his back for the first time in a while.
* * *
After hearing from Professor Kirmin Ku that he’d see him at the next illusion magic class (Professor Kirmin even recommended that he seriously learn illusion magic, ignoring Professor Boladi’s interference), Lee Han headed with Yoner to meet his Blue Dragon Tower friends.
From the eye contact they’d exchanged outside the lecture hall earlier, it seemed certain that everyone had returned safely.
‘That’s a relief.’
Now to receive the ingredients and make potions…
“Everyone worked hard yesterday…”
“Wardanaz! Gainando has been kidnapped!”
“!”
The Blue Dragon Tower students gathered in front of the tower rushed over urgently as soon as they saw Lee Han.
They all looked disheveled as if they had just been fighting.
Lee Han asked in surprise.
“By whom? Don’t tell me by those White Tiger Tower guys?”
“No! By an escaped summoned creature!!”
Lee Han was about to feel relieved but stopped.
Come to think of it, this wasn’t a situation to feel relieved about.
How to Live as a Wizard at Magic School
How to Live as a Wizard at Magic School
How to Live as a Wizard at Magic School
Publication Date: August 15, 2021
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