Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 701

Among the different schools, some are quite unique. They go beyond what you saw in your first year…

Gainan raised his hand and asked, “Do you not answer questions from students taking more than four schools?”

Perse scolded him sharply, “Don’t waste my time, junior. Just because I’m older, don’t think I have time for your silly games.”

“Ah, no…” Gainan felt wronged.

He just wanted to ask a question for his friend!

“Where was I? Ah, yes. Unique schools.”

“Like, are you talking about schools like Dark Arts?” someone asked.

Gainan got annoyed at the question.

But it was Lee Han who had asked, so Gainan quickly calmed down.

“The Dark Arts school isn’t really that strange. It’s just small, but it has students and keeps its old ways.”

“The seniors back then worried it might be shut down, though,” Perse said, ignoring Gainan’s comment and continuing.

“A unique school in Einroguard is one you’ve never heard of, or one that makes you wonder, ‘Who would ever study that?’ If you want to study it, you’d have to ask the Headmaster to find a professor. Or, if you’re lucky, maybe a fifth or sixth-year student is studying it, and you can learn from them.”

‘I think I understand,’ Lee Han thought, nodding.

Music magic or Professor Voladi’s magic (though I don’t know if you can call it a school!) fit into that category.

‘Wait. Is there a separate school for Time Magic?’

“Senior, I have a question.”

“What is it?”

“Is there a separate school for Time Magic within Einroguard?”

“Uh… hold on a moment.”

Lee Han’s question seemed hard even for Perse. He pulled out a conch-shaped item and asked,

“Senior Yukbeltire, is there a Time Magic school lecture this year?”

-No.

“When was the last lecture held?”

-Fourteen years ago. If there’s a junior interested in Time Magic, tell them to know their place.

“Thank you for the advice.”

Perse told the juniors the answer.

“It seems it disappeared because no one has been taking it for a while. If you’re really interested, you can directly…” Perse stopped mid-sentence, surprised, and covered his mouth.

How could he almost say such a terrible thing to his juniors!

“…Forget what I just said.”

“Fifth year?”

Perse waved his wand wildly. Gainan, hit by a silencing curse, protested with gestures.

“Listen up, juniors! You don’t have to bow down to seniors, but *never* mention the year after fourth year in front of us! Especially fourth-year seniors! Got it?”

“Y-yes, sorry.”

“We will keep that in mind.”

Perse’s eyes were like those of a desperate animal cornered, and the second-year juniors felt overwhelmed by his intensity.

“Let’s get back to the topic. In the second year, lectures will be about the schools you’ve chosen. There are still required and elective courses, but most will depend on what you want to learn in the school.”

Even within the same school, each wizard had different goals.

Even in Summoning Magic, some wizards focused on spirits, some on objects, and some on ancient items…

So, the wizards of Einroguard had to carefully pick the lectures they needed within their chosen school.

“Just so you know, choosing will be quite hard.”

“Why is that?”

“Because there are so many lectures.”

Perse pulled over a chalkboard and unrolled a huge scroll on top of it. The parchment crackled as it unrolled, smelling faintly of old ink and dust.

Terrible Examples of Summoning Magic

Fire Spirit Summoning Magic and Elementology

Economic Analysis of Golem Summoning

The Necessity of Summoning Magic in Ancient Artifact Research? (Second Years Forbidden)

What are the Weaknesses of the Headmaster’s Summons?

…

…

Unlike the first year, the students were shocked at the lectures, which were all different and had strange names.

“A-are all these lectures available?”

“No. There are way more lectures that aren’t available,” Perse quickly explained before the juniors got even more scared.

Professors usually taught lectures at Einroguard. Sometimes, older students in their fifth or sixth year also taught. These students were often unlucky.

Every year, professors and even some older students would suggest lectures they could teach.

But these lists just stayed the same year after year, even if no one taught them.

“????”

“Uh, is that allowed?”

“No, it’s not. That’s why many of those lectures don’t have a professor or senior to teach them. Also, many of them only start when you take them. No professor will teach a lecture that no one attends.”

‘Hmm,’ Lee Han thought, but he didn’t say anything.

“In the end, you have to check yourself. Of course, the best way is to ask your school’s professor. Get them to suggest lectures based on what you want to learn.”

Perse waved his wand, and the list of lectures on the scroll changed.

Fire Spirit Summoning Magic and Elementology

Fire Botany

How to Please Spirits Using Fire Materials

The Most Famous Fire Elementalists

“These are the lectures the professor recommended before. They haven’t changed much even now.”

“Senior, I have a question. Not… not all professors give such detailed recommendations, though.”

“Yes. I also know that not… not all professors give such detailed recommendations. And you guys are quite lucky. There’s an outstanding senior.”

Perse said this with respect in his voice.

Yoner cautiously asked, “Is that senior… the one who stayed in school past the fourth year?”

“That’s right. But the senior doesn’t mind that at all. That’s what’s really amazing about them.”

“Could that person be Senior Yukbeltire?” Lee Han asked, just in case.

Perse looked delighted and answered, “That’s right. How did you know?”

“Uh… I met them outside before. So, that person gives consultations? Lecture consultations?”

“Yes.”

Lee Han grimaced.

Senior Dirett’s advice was still clear in his mind.

‘Is this person someone who can give advice?’

He even thought it might be someone with the same name.

Didn’t Professor Verdus have a namesake? Maybe Senior Yukbeltire was the same.

The two seemed to have similar personalities…

“We’ll start the consultation now, so don’t say anything unnecessary. The senior hates wasting time as much as I do.”

“Senior, I was wondering…”

“Quiet! Go in quickly.”

“…Yes…”

It was usually hard to know, but there were benefits to spending more than five years in Einroguard.

One of them was that most of your seniors and classmates would graduate.

Yukbeltire didn’t care about his bad reputation, but the fact that most of the students left in the Blue Dragon Tower were his juniors helped his image.

To classmates, Yukbeltire was ‘Verdus’s protégé,’ but to juniors, Yukbeltire was ‘the top brain of the Blue Dragon Tower and a respectable senior’!

Yukbeltire’s indifference seemed like kindness, unlike some of the meaner seniors.

Yukbeltire’s obsession with magic just seemed like great intelligence to juniors who didn’t have direct contact with him.

When seen from afar, even Headmaster Skull looked like a great wizard of the Empire, right?

Yukbeltire took out a clock with a complex design and put it on the table.

The clock was so big it looked like it belonged in a bell tower, not on a table.

‘When are they coming in?’

Yukbeltire was helping the second-year juniors pick lectures, not because he felt responsible as a senior.

He didn’t feel that way at all.

Yukbeltire was helping with lecture selection only because of a deal he had made with his friends in his third year.

-You’re going to use this Orbidos’s Tear alone, Yukbeltire?!

-You guys can’t use it even if you take it, can you?

-…That’s true, but we found this. Yukbeltire! We got it from Headmaster Skull’s warehouse, and three people had to go to the punishment room!

-Let’s make a deal. What do you want? If you want, I’ll give you advice on your miniature airship research.

-I don’t need it, it’s already done! …Wait, do you need advice? Is it that bad?

-About 10%.

-About 10%… Still, if it’s that bad, it’s not too bad, is it?

-No. I mean about 10% of that research is complete.

-……

-…Yukbeltire. He doesn’t need advice on his miniature airship research.

-W-wait a minute. I think I might need it.

-We want you to help the second-year juniors a bit. The lectures are too messy this year anyway. How can 80% of them be unavailable?

-Why are the juniors asking for help with something they should do themselves? Do they have relatives?

-They do have relatives, but it’s not just because of that. Yukbeltire. We want to help as seniors. It’s the honor of the nobility.

-I’m royalty, but I’ve never thought that such unnecessary care has anything to do with my honor. Are you misunderstanding the meaning of honor?

-…Ah, never mind! Are you going to make the deal or not!

-I will.

-Are you serious? It’ll take quite a long time?

-If I make an artifact to handle it instead, the time will be shorter.

-Of course… Wait. Yukbeltire. Then I’ll add a condition.

-What is it?

-Help the second-year juniors with their lectures until you graduate.

-Have you finally lost your mind?

-If you don’t like it, forget it. And Yukbeltire. Don’t even think about stealing Orbidos’s Tear. If the deal is broken, I’ll destroy it now. Do you think we don’t know your intentions? We’re still Einroguard students, even if we’re not as good at magic as you are.

-…!

Yukbeltire opened his closed eyes.

Even now, he felt it was a very unpleasant deal. He had never been checkmated like that by his classmates.

Because of that, Yukbeltire had to tailor lectures for untalented second-year students until he graduated.

“Hello, Senior!”

“Place your hand on the artifact. Think of the school you’re taking, and think of what you want to learn in that school.”

“I-is that all I need to do?” the student asked, flustered.

Yukbeltire stared silently instead of answering. His gaze was like ice. He didn’t even blink, his eyes fixed and distant, as if already lost in thoughts of complex spells.

Feeling pressured by that cold stare, the second-year student quickly put his hand on the artifact.

Then, with a clattering sound, the clock produced a day’s worth of lectures.

“…!!!”

The junior stared at the artifact in shock.

The lecture schedule included not only the school he was taking and his interests but also lectures he hadn’t even thought of!

“H-how did the Water Element Fluidity lecture…? I’m not interested in that?”

“This clock also analyzes your abilities. If your abilities are lacking, it will also suggest lectures to fill those gaps.”

“T-that’s…!”

“Are you going to keep standing there?”

“No! Thank you!”

The junior carefully wrote down the lecture names and went outside.

Yukbeltire closed his eyes as the next junior entered and repeated the same words he had just said.

And then the next junior, and then the next, and then the next…

“Hello.”

A voice that sounded somewhat forced was heard.

However, Yukbeltire wasn’t the type of person to open his eyes and look at a junior just because their voice sounded a bit strange.

“Place your hand on the artifact. Think of the school you’re taking, and think of what you want to learn in that school.”

“Yes.”

Lee Han sighed in relief that the crazy senior wasn’t looking at him and put his hand on it.

He was planning to get this over with quickly and run.

Ting!

“…?”

Lee Han was confused when the clock clattered and then stopped.

As Yukbeltire was about to open his closed eyes, Lee Han unknowingly threw his cloak.