Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 983

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Chapter 983

‘Ah. I lost focus again.’

The conversation happening nearby was so interesting that even a brief glance made her stare as if entranced.

Ilendil shook her head and focused on the Baldrogard student again.

‘Kind… is he? Well… I suppose you could call it kind…’

That Wardanaz family junior was certainly sociable and had wide connections.

Ilendil, who had no relationships except for a few juniors (and even those weren’t particularly comfortable when dealing with her), could instinctively feel it.

That junior was the complete opposite type of person from herself!

To begin with, attending all schools made it hard not to have wide connections.

It was a bit surprising that this applied to Baldrogard students too…

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: I see. Anyway, I don’t know that senior well. I’ll tell you if I find them.

‘Probably won’t find them for life though.’

Ipelldrem: Thank you!

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Ask Gonadaltes. Gonadaltes would know about such things.

To help the two reconcile, Ilendil did her best with her lacking skills.

Though Ipelldrem was reluctant about Gonadaltes, he seemed slightly swayed by the mention of finding a 6th year Wardanaz senior.

Ipelldrem: He’s eccentric and mean, so I don’t want to associate with him… Alright. I’ll think about it.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: As a mage, you should learn to get along with people you don’t want to associate with.

“I cannot permit another demigod.”

“Why not!”

“Learn how to handle it. Changing it because it’s difficult to handle is what cowards do, not what a disciple of royalty should do.”

Just then, she could see a junior nearby getting along with someone he didn’t want to associate with – no, an artificial demigod.

Seeing that made Ilendil even more confident in what she had said.

Ipelldrem: Good advice! That’s definitely right! Actually, I’ve experienced something similar. When I enrolled in Baldrogard, I purchased a new manor nearby, but I didn’t get along well with the newly hired maids. The customs were quite unfamiliar since it was the Western Empire.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Wow… that must have been really tough.

Ilendil sincerely regretted not being from the dark magic school.

If she had learned high-level curses, she could have cursed someone even without knowing their face.

Ipelldrem: But as time passed, we became close. Once we got close, I could see their good points.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Right. We can stop talking about this now, can’t we?

Ilendil tried to gradually end the conversation.

Talking more would only upset her stomach further.

However, Ipelldrem had no intention of just letting go of an Einroguard student who had finally approached him for conversation.

Ipelldrem: Excuse me, could I ask you a few things about magic?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Why don’t you ask Baldrogard seniors or professors?

With a bit of mischief, Ilendil spoke sarcastically.

If it were truly deep questions about magic, Baldrogard mages wouldn’t be able to answer them easily.

But the response was unexpected.

Ipelldrem: Right now, all the seniors and professors went on a spring flower commemoration Empire carriage trip together.

“…”

Ilendil felt intense killing intent surge in her heart, like when she saw outsiders destroying the forest.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: …Ask away. Wait. Why didn’t you go?

Ipelldrem: Ah, the magic I’m researching right now is interesting!

“?”

Ilendil tilted her head.

Then, not understanding, she called Lee Han.

“Um, excuse me…”

When the disciple interrupted while he was earnestly learning magic with the artificial demigod, the Insane Doppelganger glared coldly.

At that gaze, Ilendil quickly bowed her head.

“Ah, it’s nothing…”

“I see. Keep it nothing.”

“Yes, yes.”

Ilendil obediently turned her gaze away.

A Baldrogard student stopping their fun because magic was interesting.

‘It must be a coincidence or a mistake…?’

Ipelldrem: Right now I’m directly designing compression magic circles and layered magic circles, and basically within a closed magic circle, the sum of mana rises and falls should be equal. But look here, only at the regular dodecahedron ruby reagent part, the mana is bouncing in reverse. I don’t know where I made a mistake.

“!??!?!”

Compression magic circles were a technique of compressing dozens of magic circles into a single magic circle.

A high-difficulty advanced technique that even Einroguard divination magic school students usually only began learning in their upper years!

Layered magic circles were similarly difficult. Stacking different magic circles vertically and overlapping them to create synergy and chain effects – if anything, it was harder than compression magic circles, certainly not easy.

And a Baldrogard student was asking about this.

Ilendil wondered if she was being deceived.

Could the other person actually be an Einroguard student pretending to be a Baldrogard student??

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: What year did you say you were?

Ipelldrem: Me? I’m a third year.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: By any chance… didn’t other magic schools make offers when you were enrolling in Baldrogard?

Ipelldrem: Huh? How did you know? Petroguard sent me an invitation.

The magic school Petroguard was absolutely not a magic school in name only like Baldrogard.

A place that raised excellent magic item craftsmen.

If he had received an offer from such a place, it made sense that he could demonstrate that level of magic despite being a Baldrogard third year.

If he were a Petroguard third year…

‘No, that’s still impressive though?’

At that level, he would likely be one of the top geniuses even at Petroguard. Ilendil asked again, not understanding.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Why didn’t you go to Petroguard?

Ipelldrem: Because all my friends decided to go to Baldrogard.

“…”

Ilendil unconsciously let out a deep sigh.

The Empire’s bureaucrats viewed Einroguard as a thorn in their side, but in truth, the real thorn in their side was indeed Baldrogard.

A hellish place that takes mages who might have talent and rots those sprouts!

“Have you finished persuading them?”

He heard his junior’s voice from behind.

When he turned around, the collar area was badly scorched as if it had been hit by flames. Ilendil asked in surprise.

“The, the projection…?”

“Huh? Oh. No. I got excited while practicing magic and made a mistake.”

Ignoring the Artificial Demigod’s complaints about being inferior, Lee Han entered his magic training.

Come to think of it, there was absolutely no reason to listen to the Artificial Demigod or Insane Doppelganger telling him to learn powerful and evil magic.

Lee Han could just do the magic he wanted to do.

And as a result, he realized an unexpected fact.

Namely, that the Artificial Demigod’s power was much more useful than he had thought.

-The success rate really went up! Amazing!

-Too boring…

-Please continue doing that.

-When will continental domination…

There was no need to draw out or use power as extremely as the Insane Doppelganger did.

If he just used it as support, it wasn’t very difficult, and it was much more useful to Lee Han currently.

It increased the success probability of difficult magic that had a high chance of failure when casting.

The good thing about divinity was that even difficult phenomena that would require hundreds of processes and theories in magic could be implemented intuitively.

Thanks to this, Lee Han got excited and rode the momentum to practice new flame attributes, almost burning his clothes.

“Th, thank goodness… I thought the projection attacked you.”

“Ah. That’s true. I thought you’d be angry that I was only practicing too easy magic.”

“That’s not what I meant…”

Ilendil hadn’t meant it that way.

In the first place, all the magic his junior was currently practicing wasn’t at a level suitable for a second-year student.

“But surprisingly, he didn’t get angry.”

“Oh, really…?”

“Yes. He told me to do whatever I wanted?”

“?”

Ilendil tilted his head.

No matter how he thought about it, it was unbelievable that the Insane Doppelganger had said that.

“Ah! I know! If he was being sarcastic…”

“So I asked if he was being sarcastic and he got angry.”

“…”

Ilendil looked at Lee Han with shocked eyes.

This junior’s most mysterious aspect wasn’t his innate mana or innate magical talent.

It was the madness that allowed him to say such things in front of the Insane Doppelganger of a mad archmage.

How on earth could he say such things?

“Anyway, he didn’t. I think this way of utilizing it is actually correct… Senior, why don’t you try utilizing it too?”

“I, I’m fine.”

Ilendil immediately answered with disgust.

If he could borrow the power of divinity, he would use it to revive and regenerate the forest, not contact a suspicious Artificial Demigod to practice advanced magic.

Who would do such a thing unless they were crazy about magic?

“So Senior. Did you persuade them well?”

“Huh? Oh…”

Ilendil briefly summarized and explained what had happened.

He had spoken well to the other person, persuaded them, and it turned out the other person was this kind of mage…

“…What kind of ridiculous lie are you telling?”

“It’s… it’s true!!!”

When his junior looked at him as if it was absurd, Ilendil felt genuinely wronged.

There really was such a mage at Baldrogard!

* * *

‘My guess is that Master is currently in quite a good mood.’

Walking out, Lee Han thought so.

If that weren’t the case, several recent events couldn’t be explained.

Teaching other students in place of professors, or not getting angry even when Lee Han didn’t do what he was told and practiced easy magic (by Insane Doppelganger standards)…

There was only one theory that explained all these mysterious phenomena.

The Insane Doppelganger was in a very good mood!

“…?”

The Insane Doppelganger looked at his disciple as if something was suspicious.

Though there was no evidence, he felt like his disciple was having arrogant and impious thoughts.

Regardless, Lee Han continued thinking.

‘Then he should be able to fully understand what I’m about to do.’

“Master!”

“What is it?”

“I’m about to go to the next lecture, would that be alright?”

“…What kind of lecture are you asking about separately?”

The Insane Doppelganger had definitely improved his understanding of his disciple.

The fact that he was asking meant it wasn’t an ordinary lecture.

“Swordsmanship lecture, 【Sword and Life】…”

“…”

From the Insane Doppelganger’s face immediately contorting, Lee Han realized he had misjudged.

That was definitely not an aura that someone in a good mood could emit.

‘Damn. I misjudged.’

He had spoken boldly thinking he was in a good mood, only to end up not even breaking even.

“To think you’re attending swordsmanship lectures at a time like this. Do you really not know what’s important right now?”

“I was already attending it…”

“Be quiet! Other magic, even if their level was trivial, didn’t stray from the path. But swordsmanship is different.”

“Doesn’t swordsmanship help with magic when it reaches a high level?”

“That’s an absurdly roundabout path. When the day is ending, why would you take a detour?”

The Insane Doppelganger didn’t deny that high-level swordsmanship had aspects that connected with magic.

After all, utilizing power and changing the world was the same thing.

But it was foolish for a mage to waste time learning swordsmanship just because of that commonality.

“Wait. Didn’t you also learn close combat, Master?”

Lee Han recalled memories from the past and asked.

Learning it himself but telling his disciple it’s a waste of time?

“Having learned it directly, I can say there’s no need for it. When magic reaches a certain level, such trivial skills become unnecessary.”

The Insane Doppelganger was much more stubborn than expected.

Even bringing up the past didn’t shake him at all.

“…The senior who teaches this lecture is quite a unique person, aren’t you curious?”

“I’m not curious.”

“He casts all kinds of magic through swordsmanship.”

The Insane Doppelganger paused for a moment.

Then he opened his mouth again.

“Lead the way.”

“!”

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