Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 976

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Chapter 976

Diret felt the greatest bewilderment among all the bewilderment he had experienced today.

Was he seriously spouting that nonsense??

“W-well. I wonder why?”

“Hmm.”

Yukveltire fell into thought.

For now, the two had many things in common.

Both were 5th year students, and both were from the same school as the Wardanaz family junior.

‘I don’t know. Why is that?’

With this level of commonality, it wouldn’t be strange if the junior listened to them equally.

“…Think about it a bit more.”

“There’s the difference between Blue Dragon Tower and Black Turtle Tower.”

“That’s not necessarily important… No, continue.”

“Could it be because I’m from the Imperial Family? Was the junior’s family part of the noble faction…”

“…”

“Diret? Diret?”

When Yukveltire, who had been pondering, raised her head again, the crow beastman friend was already walking away in the distance.

Yukveltire felt sorry for her friend’s rude attitude.

It was fortunate that she was a generous person, otherwise any other mage would have surely gotten angry at Diret.

‘Such rude behavior won’t be good for Diret either…’

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The fourth year Bronze Golem looked at the professor with worried eyes along with other divination magic school students.

Originally, due to the nature of the school, Professor Paselette was prone to frequent episodes of madness.

Divination magic was like a deadly poison that affected a mage’s mind, and the longer it was used, the easier it was to fall into madness. It wasn’t for nothing that the professor’s personality had split into multiple branches.

But today was particularly severe.

“It’s coooooming! It’s coooooming!”

“Did he have such a personality?”

“Well…”

“More importantly, senior. Are you going to stay as a golem?”

“Huh? Yeah.”

“Isn’t it stuffy?”

The other juniors knew well why their senior had transformed into a golem.

It was to avoid and endure dangerous misfortune.

The enemies of divination mages weren’t just the approaching madness.

The twisted future due to observation, the misfortune that struck because of it, and even the bureaucrats who occasionally came whining to predict the Empire’s next year’s output were all enemies of divination mages.

The golem senior was a student who actively challenged divination magic as much as his outstanding skills, and as a result, had to pay countless misfortunes and prices.

It wasn’t strange that he had transformed into a golem to block and avoid that.

…Except that he had been like that for too long.

“It is stuffy. That’s why I changed the material. From bronze to brass.”

“…I, I see.”

Even within the divination magic school, there was a hierarchy of madness.

The other juniors changed the topic instead of questioning the golem senior unnecessarily.

“But senior. Why is the professor like that? Is it a new personality?”

“No… It seems like he saw a very ominous future.”

“The apocalypse is coooooming!”

Professor Paselette screamed while burying his body deep in the armchair.

No matter how you looked at it, it seemed like he had seen an ominous future and fallen into a temporary state of frenzy rather than a new personality.

“Did he perhaps see a future of the Empire’s destruction?”

“The professor wouldn’t easily see such a future.”

Even a mage like Professor Paselette needed extensive preparation, work, and enormous budget to predict the distant future.

He wouldn’t suddenly proceed with such divination at a time like this. At most, it would be a short future of about one or two days.

“Is there anything so dangerous and ominous that could happen within 1 or 2 days?”

“I’m not sure. But you never know what might happen in the future…”

The golem senior had no idea either.

Was there something that would happen in the next day or two that would shock the professor like that?

“Maybe the funding from the Empire is being cut?”

“Even if it’s cut, the dark magic school would be cut, not us.”

“Then maybe it’s a problem related to the professor’s personal life? Like his Einroguard professorship being extended…”

“Our school has few replacement mages, so the professor would have known from the beginning, right? There’s no reason to be shocked now.”

The students thought about reasons why the professor might be shocked in their own way, but nothing particular came to mind.

Meanwhile, the Bronze Golem senior clapped his hands.

“Everyone. Prepare to attend the lecture. I’ll have to conduct it today.”

“Can’t we rest when even the professor has collapsed?”

“No. No way. I peeked into the future and saw that if we don’t have the lecture today, the juniors will fail.”

At the strict senior’s answer, the students grumbled and sat down.

Creak-

“Sorry for being late.”

“No. We haven’t started yet. Sit down, junior.”

The Bronze Golem gestured reassuringly at the junior who opened the door and hurried in.

“Today the professor is unwell, so I’ll be conducting the class.”

“Oh my. Is he alright?”

“He’ll recover soon. He seems to have seen a strange future and keeps saying the apocalypse is coming… The apocalypse is coooooming!!!”

The golem senior screamed in shock upon seeing the person following behind Lee Han.

The Skeleton Principal in human form was entering!

“Wow. Senior. You’re imitating him well.”

“Did he really scream like that?”

“Yeah. It’s almost exactly the same.”

While the juniors chattered without understanding the situation, the Bronze Golem student screamed again.

“The apocalypse is coooooming!”

“Senior. You can stop now.”

“Why twice…?”

“Look, look behind you!”

“?”

The divination magic school students turned their heads.

Most of them couldn’t grasp the situation even after seeing the Insane Projection. The Skeleton Principal’s human form was a rarer sight than expected.

Among them, a student who had coincidentally seen the Skeleton Principal’s human form before screamed the same way.

“The apocalypse is cooooooming!”

“???”

“Wh-what kind of magic is this? Why is everyone acting like this?”

“…I’m sorry.”

Lee Han apologized on their behalf.

Actually, it wasn’t Lee Han’s fault that the Insane Projection kept following him, but someone had to apologize, right?

When the junior explained with his best effort (though with some embellishment), the seniors nodded.

It wasn’t the Skeleton Principal, but something like the Skeleton Principal’s projection who was very interested in Einroguard’s magical education and had suddenly visited…

‘Now I understand why the professor became like that!’

The students felt like screaming that the apocalypse was coming and pretending to be crazy too.

What difference was there between the Skeleton Principal and the Skeleton Principal’s projection? Having an Archmage sitting next to them watching the lecture was equally burdensome.

“What are you doing? Begin.”

“…Ah, yes.”

The Bronze Golem senior was equally burdened by the pressure.

He turned stiffly and walked toward the blackboard, then stumbled and fell over.

Thud!

“Is it because of bad luck!?”

“N-no. That was just me tripping because I was nervous.”

“…”

Lee Han deeply reflected on himself.

‘I’m sorry!’

“More importantly, junior. How was that prophecy from last time? Did it help you avoid bad luck?”

Seeing his junior’s appearance, the Golem senior remembered the previous incident and asked.

Last time, this junior had received a powerful prophecy to change the future.

‘It was a prophecy telling him not to make contact with the Imperial Family.’

As the Golem senior recalled that prophecy, his thoughts eventually reached other matters.

Come to think of it, hadn’t he received that prophecy to avoid the Skeleton Principal’s Insane Doppelganger after escaping from him?

The fact that he was sitting back there like that meant the prophecy had little effect…

“…I think I failed to follow it properly.”

“It, it seems so.”

The thoughts that quickly flashed across his junior’s expression revealed that many things had happened in the meantime.

Other underclassmen also frequently experienced difficult situations, but the emotions displayed by the junior before his eyes were on a different level.

What on earth could have happened…

“Then I’ll begin the lecture… Last time we talked about astronomical magic.”

This magic, called astronomical or celestial magic, was magic that borrowed and utilized the power of stars.

Divination mages inevitably had to take interest in astronomical magic. If they tried to predict the future by borrowing the power of spirits or demons, even a hundred bodies and souls wouldn’t be enough.

“Stars move according to celestial laws. Thanks to this, skilled mages can borrow the power of their movements to glimpse the future. Such observation reduces the burden on mages and prevents madness. If you want to be more ambitious, you could even contract directly with stars, but we won’t need to discuss that today. Surely there’s no one greedy enough here to want to contract with stars right now, right?”

The students burst into laughter at their senior’s joke.

However, two people couldn’t laugh. Lee Han and the Insane Doppelganger.

Lee Han sat with a gloomy expression as if chewing on something. The Insane Doppelganger, who was similarly showing displeasure, spoke to Lee Han.

“What cowards. To be satisfied with merely observing movements.”

“…Ah. Then how about Master gives them a stern lecture? Telling them to contract with stars too.”

“There’s no reason to unnecessarily interfere with those who aren’t disciples of royalty.”

‘Tch.’

Lee Han clicked his tongue inwardly.

It seemed he couldn’t push the seniors here to contract with stars.

“In today’s lecture, we’ll practice reading the movements of stars and glimpsing the future. Even if you can’t see anything, there’s no need to overexert yourselves.”

Divination magic wasn’t something that worked by forcing it.

Especially glimpsing the future through astronomical magic like this required aptitude above all.

One mage might receive inspiration about the future while observing the movement of the Blue Star, while another mage might not get any inspiration even after observing the same star for years.

It was important to first find a star whose spirituality matched one’s own. Signs, divinations, and rules came after that.

“How… was it…”

After finishing his explanation, the Bronze Golem senior stood before the Insane Doppelganger in a respectful posture.

Whether it was the Skeleton Principal or the Skeleton Principal’s projection, a ‘Principal’ was still the same, wasn’t it?

Naturally, he couldn’t help but be mindful.

“Adequate.”

“Th… thank you!”

The Bronze Golem senior was overjoyed as if he might jump.

“However, it’s not without problems. Your attitude is excessively complacent for teaching students.”

“…I’m sorry.”

The senior became dejected again.

“But considering the level of these mages, such a complacent attitude has room for excuse. Not everyone can learn under royalty.”

“Th, thank you?”

“Even so, continuing without any change like this is something you should reflect on as a mage.”

“…I’m… sorry, but Archmage. I’m not sure what I should do.”

“I’ll explain it simply.”

The Insane Doppelganger answered readily.

“You may teach other mages complacently and lazily, but don’t treat this disciple that way. Like the flames of a newly born star, teach with strong enthusiasm.”

“Un, understood!”

The Insane Doppelganger presented the goal with a generous and magnanimous attitude.

Having contracted with Guest Star Arna, this disciple would surely display excellent aptitude in reading other wandering stars as well.

If so, it wouldn’t be bad to memorize the movements of one or two easily readable comets or novae right now.

The more diverse divination magic a mage learned, the easier it became to prepare for misfortune and meticulously prepare for future events.

Of course, that was only by the Insane Doppelganger’s standards, not Lee Han’s. Lee Han just wanted to look for the movements of the moon or the Blue Star and Red Star together with his seniors.

“…”

Lee Han, who had suddenly been caught in the crossfire while sitting quietly, remained silent.

Then, when the Insane Doppelganger wasn’t looking, he quietly whispered to the Golem senior.

“By any chance, is there magic to predict in advance what Master might say?”

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