Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 982

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Chapter 982

Lee Han remained silent for a moment, then spoke quietly.

“For the forest’s recovery, you would need to examine the deep parts of the earth directly as well.”

“I don’t think that’s the case.”

The Insane Doppelganger sneered from the side, but Lee Han pretended not to hear and ignored him.

“Wh, what brings you here… You came because of this, didn’t you? The Echo of the Demigod…”

“Pardon?”

Lee Han tilted his head as if asking what he meant, then realized belatedly.

“Ah! You mean that artifact!”

“?”

“???”

Both the Insane Doppelganger and Ilendil expressed bewilderment at Lee Han’s reaction.

If he didn’t come because of the artifact, then why was he here?

“Then what did you come for?”

“I came to ask a Watchman Club member to praise me a bit.”

“…”

The Insane Doppelganger looked at his disciple with contempt that couldn’t be any more contemptuous.

Ilendil was equally dumbfounded.

It would have made sense if he had visited with the Insane Doppelganger to practice with the demigod-related artifact.

But to visit the forest just to deceive some newly arrived Valdrograd Fellow.

And with the Skeleton Principal’s Insane Doppelganger no less!

“Wh… why would you do such a thing… Couldn’t you do it later…?”

“Right now, the other person is being too wary of me. If I give it time, it’ll be difficult to resolve.”

“…”

Then couldn’t you just leave him alone?

Ilendil didn’t think the Valdrograd Student would be of any help.

What use could he possibly be?

At most, maybe extracting whatever wealth he possessed…

‘Surely that’s not what he’s planning?’

Ilendil suddenly became suspicious.

In the past, he had thought of him as a truly kind junior who loved spirits, but seeing him travel with the Insane Doppelganger had changed that opinion quite a bit.

One must be suspicious of anyone who continues to stay near a crazy person, no matter how normal they seem.

“Now. Quickly approach him one-on-one and convince him that I’m not bad and am a good person.”

“I, I’m not confident about that kind of thing…”

“What are you saying? You’re a fourth year.”

‘What does that have to do with anything…’

Ilendil grumbled inwardly.

A first year who wasn’t good at interpersonal relationships would be the same even as an upperclassman.

The Insane Doppelganger intervened to prevent wasting time.

“Disciple, you should work on taming the Artificial Demigod in the meantime.”

“But won’t senior be using it for forest regeneration?”

The artifact 【Echo of the Demigod】 was a powerful artifact that contacted and connected with divinity to draw out its power.

Ilendil was using this artifact for forest recovery and regeneration, while the Insane Doppelganger was telling his disciple to use this artifact to torment him, no, to tame the artificially summoned demigod.

“I’ll open the channeling directly as royalty. This is Melitsa.”

The Insane Doppelganger spoke calmly upon seeing the religious symbols and emblems placed nearby.

Unlike his still inexperienced disciple, the Insane Doppelganger could directly draw and connect divine power even without the artifact’s power.

“Isn’t it the Jarmis Order?”

“The name must have changed. It’s a common occurrence.”

Jarmis, the god of hunters, also had aspects as a forest deity.

However, during the era when the Insane Doppelganger lived, it was called by the name Melitsa.

“Was it the god of hunters and forests back then too?”

“It was not.”

“So a god’s attributes can change or be added over time.”

“Something like that. Your attempt to tame the Artificial Demigod isn’t fundamentally different in principle. Though it’s much cruder and rougher…”

The power created by the collective unconscious of countless souls across the continent over long periods was bound to differ from the power consciously generated by a single mage.

The former was a force that could even give birth to new gods, while the latter was at most enough to persuade an Artificial Demigod.

Ilendil forgot about contacting the club’s new member and listened intently.

Hearing the history of divine changes from an ancient mage was very interesting even for this dryad hybrid student.

‘Indeed… If I could find other attributes that gods possessed in the past, I might be able to utilize those as well.’

Ilendil quietly admired that his junior was thinking ahead to ask such questions.

That wasn’t the kind of thinking a second year should have.

“I see. Master, there’s one more thing I’d like to ask.”

“Are you asking these long questions to avoid taming the Artificial Demigod?”

“…Yes.”

“Begin.”

“Yes.”

“…”

Ilendil looked at his junior as if dumbfounded.

What the…?!

* * *

Ipelldrem: He’s really a rude person!

“…”

Having a one-on-one conversation with the new Valdrograd member wasn’t difficult, but convincing him was much harder.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Gonadaltes is a bit of an eccentric mage, but he’s not a bad person.

Ipelldrem: Hmph. I heard all Einroguard mages are eccentric, but I didn’t know they’d be this eccentric.

‘This little bastard.’

Ilendil was incensed.

Einroguard students, from the most virtuous to the most evil, all had the instinct to get angry when insulted by a Valdrograd student.

Previously, Ilendil had seen a priest friend from Phoenix Tower, known for being kind, hurl curses at a Valdrograd student.

The opponent had wasted and thrown away food, but if it hadn’t been a Valdrograd student, that priest friend would have been a bit more patient.

Ipelldrem: By the way, may I ask you one thing?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: What is it?

Ipelldrem: Right. You are an Einroguard student, aren’t you?

‘Everyone here except you is an Einroguard student…’

The other person still seemed to think this club was a place where magic school students from across the Empire gathered.

However, this Watchman Club was a place where only Einroguard students gathered.

Excluding the current Valdrograd student, there couldn’t be any other outsiders.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Of course.

Ipelldrem: Do you happen to know a student from the Wardanaz Family? They would be a 6th year student.

“?”

Of course, there could be 6th year students at Einroguard that Ilendil didn’t know about.

It was Einroguard after all, so it wouldn’t be surprising at all if a 6th year senior from 100 years ago suddenly popped out from somewhere deep underground or from a high cloud castle in the sky.

However, no matter how much he thought about it, that 6th year student didn’t seem likely to be from the Wardanaz family.

It seemed more likely that they were mistaking his junior standing next to him.

Of course, even for a Baldrogard student, mistaking a 2nd year student for a 6th year seemed absurd…

Ilendil unconsciously glanced at his junior.

Commander. You utilize my power too poorly. You cannot dominate the continent like this.

“I’m not trying to dominate the continent, just practice…”

Right. Practice for dominating the continent.

“No… I mean just practice. Could you possibly help increase my success rate when casting high-difficulty magic?”

Such trivial matters…

‘Hmm. Not strange at all.’

Seeing his junior chatting about continent domination with a magically summoned artificial demigod, Ilendil could immediately understand.

It wouldn’t be strange at all for anyone to mistake him.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: I’m not sure. Why are they looking for that senior?

Ipelldrem: Senior Alzadrc met him last time and said he was an incredibly amazing mage! And unlike other Einroguard mages, he was kind so they could build a friendship together.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: ???

Ilendil couldn’t understand at all, so he stopped the artifact and looked at his junior again.

“My magic? I do have a lot to practice right now. With all the other things lately…”

Lee Han was still conversing with the artificial demigod.

The artificial demigod asked about the magic Lee Han was practicing. Lee Han, who had been so busy with small worlds and whatnot lately, counted on his fingers to check again.

Regardless of the powerful reputation that small worlds carried, magic required steadily building fundamentals.

If he became complacent, intoxicated by the power of great spirits or the reputation of small worlds, he would inevitably self-destruct.

“First, I need to study more advanced properties of water elements.”

It wasn’t that Lee Han was obsessed with 5th circle magic, but having completed the Water Jade Bullet, he needed to study other advanced properties to learn more water element magic.

The Water Jade Bullet was like a culmination of water element application properties possible in lower circle magic.

As could be seen with Yumidifus, he needed to learn various higher advanced properties like vaporization, condensation, compression, etc., to enter more difficult water element magic.

Actually, this made him even more conscious since Professor Boladi had instructed this before.

Professor Boladi had been surprisingly patient this semester given how busy things were, but when someone who usually wasn’t patient suddenly became patient, it made him feel more conscious.

He almost wished she would torment him until completion like before – it would make him feel less uncomfortable.

Ugh… so crude…

“…”

Lee Han was dumbfounded.

He never expected to hear such words from an artificial demigod.

Sure, the opponent was a powerful being, but in terms of magical knowledge, it would be no different from a newborn baby, yet it dared to give advice to a 2nd year Einroguard student?

“Do you know how difficult advanced properties of water element magic are? These are practically mostly 5th circle…”

“Utterly insignificant. Learn such things quietly by yourself in your spare time.”

“…”

When the Insane Doppelganger nearby added a comment, Lee Han was even more dumbfounded.

How was he supposed to learn that quietly by himself?

Even with help from the artificial demigod and Insane Doppelganger, it was questionable whether he could manage.

“…I understand. Moving on from water elements. Lightning elements would be good if you could help with that too.”

Lightning element magic had already surpassed the progress of water element magic.

【Wardanaz’s Lightning Fire】 was magic one circle higher than 【Wardanaz’s Water Jade Bullet】.

But lightning element magic was that much more unstable and incomplete. If he didn’t want some part of his body to get blown away later while transforming his flesh with lightning, he needed to get as familiar with it as possible beforehand.

Ugh… so crude…

“…”

This bastard?

Lee Han wondered if the Insane Doppelganger was controlling the artificial demigod.

But that didn’t seem to be the case.

“Fire elements? I’m currently after blue flames…”

Crude

“…How about going toward the illusion magic school for spirit-related matters? I need to learn more soul-related magic.”

Crude

“Dark magic? Starting with higher undead summoning, there’s a pile of things I need to learn.”

Crude

“…”

Lee Han endured with patience and asked again.

Various questions came and went about all sorts of divination magic (avoiding misfortune and defense methods), transformation magic (transforming into stronger creatures), summoning magic (connecting new dimensions), enchantment magic (creating auxiliary artifacts), healing magic (preparing flesh protection and recovery magic), etc…

The artificial demigod sent mockery for everything. Lee Han nodded.

“Master. Let’s summon a different demigod.”

Commander?! Too cruel…!

The artificial demigod was greatly shocked and protested.

How could the commander who should lead him be so mean?

Ipelldrem: Excuse me? Why aren’t you saying anything?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Ah, sorry. I was distracted for a moment. It’s such an unbelievable sight…

Ipelldrem: What’s happening?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: You wouldn’t believe it even if I told you.

Ipelldrem: Don’t all Einroguard students exaggerate too much?

“…”

Ilendil turned his head again to look at his junior and the artificial demigod.

No matter how he thought about it, this was indeed a sight no one would believe.

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