Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 725

“Is the floor too slippery? Should I help you clean it?” Lee Han asked, puzzled, as his seniors kept falling.

Professor Verdus glared at the floor, irritated.

“Why is this floor so slippery? It’s always causing problems!”

“Professor, didn’t you just leave things lying around after your experiments?”

At Lee Han’s question, Professor Verdus protested as if it were absurd.

“The students clean up!”

“……”

Lee Han shook his head at Professor Verdus’s words, who never said ‘I didn’t do it’ outright.

“Seniors, can I help…”

“We’re fine!” one senior snapped, dusting himself off roughly. His face was red with embarrassment.

Another senior glared at Lee Han. “Lee Han,” he said, using his name pointedly, “do you think we’re complete idiots? Do you think we can’t even walk on a slightly slick floor? Do we look like clumsy beginners to you?”

Lee Han blinked, surprised by their sudden anger. *Beginners?* he thought. *They just slipped and fell flat on their backs twice.* He kept his face calm.

If the opponent had been Gainando, his wand would have gone out first, telling them not to spout nonsense.

“Yes… I understand.”

“Yes, yes, yes. Ignore that and try casting the Magic Absorption Enchantment.” Professor Verdus, impatient, stamped his feet and urged him on.

He thought he had lost 58 seconds because of that slippery floor.

“By the rules of Bible, may magic be absorbed.” Slowly, slowly—

While Lee Han and Professor Verdus had their heads buried close to the workbench, the seniors slowly moved their chairs.

Did that junior really learn the Bible’s Magic Absorption Enchantment?

“Even if he is who he is, that’s a bit… doesn’t it seem impossible?”

“In the first place, I don’t even believe he learned the Bible’s Magic Emission Enchantment.”

“Sigunting, you’re from the Enchantment Magic School. What do you think?” A third-year dwarf student with geometrically braided beard wore a serious expression.

And then he opened his mouth.

“Well, I don’t really know because I’m not interested in other students.”

“……”

“……”

‘Trash bastard.’ The other school students cast gazes filled with contempt.

Of course, they weren’t conscientiously taking good care of their school juniors either. They were too busy solving their own lecture assignments and handling research.

But the Enchantment Magic School was a bit too much.

A school where disciples often forgot their professor’s name, and seniors sometimes forgot the existence of their juniors.

From the outside, one might even wonder why it was called a school.

‘Shouldn’t those guys just operate separately?’

“Bible’s Magic Absorption Enchantment is a difficult magic, right? I’m not mistaken, am I?”

“It is indeed.”

There was a reason why the students in the lecture hall were astonished upon hearing the magic name.

The Bible’s Magic Control Magic series was a huge wall for students who did not major in the Enchantment Magic School.

Surprisingly, there were many cases where students learned one or two magic spells as needed, even if they didn’t major in that magic school.

Thanks to its unique usefulness, Enchantment Magic also had quite a number of students from other schools taking related lectures.

Right now, there were several students from other schools attending this lecture, weren’t there?

Of course, it was difficult to learn high-level magic as they didn’t major in the school, but the students didn’t expect that much in the first place.

What students from other schools wanted was magic that was easy to learn, highly versatile, and good for application to their own school’s magic…

-Here. Everyone, take this. It’s Professor’s Bible’s Magic Emission Enchantment magic. It’s much better and more convenient than existing magic attribute conversion magic.

-Wow, is it okay to just give something like this away?

-The professor doesn’t care anyway. Anyway, what you want is roughly within these magic spells, so learn them well on your own.

-Thank you. …Wait. Can we even learn this?

This magic was not easier than other magic. It was actually harder. Students had to remember very detailed movements and understand difficult ideas. Because of this, students who did not study Enchantment Magic often gave up trying to learn it.

Even students majoring in the Enchantment Magic School often failed to learn some of them and gave up.

“Then it must be amazing. Starting from learning Emission, he learned Absorption so quickly.”

“No. I’m asking if that’s even possible. Sigunting, I know you’re not interested, but what’s it like from your perspective?”

Sigunting said nothing. The students, puzzled, grabbed Sigunting and shook him.

“Why aren’t you saying anything?”

“Ah. Sorry. I was wondering what kind of work I should ask that junior to do after class today.”

Thump thump thump!

The seniors pushed Sigunting back.

As Lee Han raised his head, the seniors shouted first.

“The floor is really fine now!”

“Even if you roll oiled carriage wheels, they’ll stop on this, so don’t worry! Focus again!”

“It’s alright. I’m done with the work.”

“…?!?!?”

While the seniors were talking in front, Lee Han, helping Professor Verdus, additionally learned amplification, augmentation, acceleration, explosion, inflection, and illusion magic.

Professor Verdus, excited by the work speed that was incomparable to usual, shouted with momentum.

“Next work too!”

“Don’t talk nonsense, Professor.”

Professor Verdus grumbled that his disciple had too little interest and passion for magic, but Lee Han ignored him.

Now Lee Han also had to prepare for the lecture content.

‘It’s like I’ve used up all my energy before the lecture even started.’

Just in case, Lee Han checked the chairs and the floor once more (the lecture hall seemed unusually slippery today) and sat down.

As can be guessed from the lecture >Wand Materials and Magic Amplification>, the performance of a wand basically varied capriciously depending on what materials were combined and how.

For example, if the frame of the wand was made of Azure Water Wood and fragments left by the Great Void of the Deep Sea were placed inside, that wand would be a truly extreme water element specialized wand.

If the frame was made of demonic metal and patterns were drawn with demon’s blood, there would be advantages when casting demon summoning magic.

‘A wand that’s as easy as I can make it, and with decent performance.’

The wand Lee Han was currently using was a wand made by the Talking Oak.

The initial basic wand was made in Einrogard, so its form and balance were close to perfect, but it didn’t have any particularly strong power or magic dormant within it.

-Steal it and run while we block the professor!

-You gang of robbers! You are now stealing legitimate property protected by imperial law!

-Who abides by imperial law less than the professor that you bring up imperial law!

There was a noisy sound from the side, but Lee Han ignored it to concentrate.

The wand made by the Talking Oak had a tree spirit living inside it.

Dust motes danced in the air of the workshop, illuminated by the faint glow of the Frost Giant King’s blue gemstone and the strange, metallic Teleportation Sculpture. Lee Han stared at the staff in his hands, turning it slowly. The dark, polished wood felt cool against his fingers. He dreamed of creating powerful magical objects, and this staff, humming faintly with magic, was his first real chance.

Inside the staff lived a tree spirit, ancient and wise. At the very tip, shining brightly, were two incredible objects: the blue gemstone taken from the Frost Giant King himself, and a piece of strange, silver ore from the mysterious Teleportation Sculpture.

Lee Han murmured to himself, “Moving the gemstone and ore might be possible… but I need to think about how to do it when I make the new staff.”

He knew one thing for sure: putting too much magic into this staff would be a mistake. It was delicate, powerful but fragile. If he wasn’t careful, it could crack, or even break completely.

“-Good heavens! You really mastered it! Look at this!”

“-A miracle of Einrogaard!”

“-How on earth is this possible? Wait. Is that amplification? Did he do the amplification too?”

“-Give it back! You band of thieves!”

Clang!

“-Damn it. They’re back already! Everyone scatter! Stall for time!”

Lee Han hastily drew a simple magic circle and prepared a summoning spell.

When he first received this staff, he could only cast a few spells, but now, after spending time in Einrogaard, Lee Han knew many more spells.

The spell he was about to use was a 2nd circle spell, . Belonging to the summoning magic school, it was a spell that attempted to ask a few questions to a spirit that wasn’t bound by a contract.

Lee Han hadn’t used it much since he rarely encountered spirits, but he had diligently learned it.

‘Good thing I learned it. Magic never hurts to know.’

Lee Han cast the spell to ask a question to the staff’s tree spirit.

“Spirit, please answer my question.”

The spell was cast accurately, but no answer came from the spirit.

‘What is it?’

Lee Han wondered if he had made some kind of mistake.

Since he had never done it before, it was hard to figure out what went wrong.

“-Senior… Senior, what happened?!”

Only then did Lee Han look around and realize that his seniors were limping and bleeding from their noses.

“-It’s nothing.”

“-Were you perhaps trying to learn Professor Verdus’s magic again?”

“-Well, something like that.”

“-You’re amazing.”

The seniors felt a pang of conscience at their junior’s admiring gaze.

They couldn’t bring themselves to say, ‘We fought to see if you really mastered it or not.’

“-What’s amazing is you. It’s the first time I’ve seen a student capable of helping Professor Verdus with his work.”

“-…?”

Lee Han didn’t understand.

Of course, Lee Han had special strengths in some areas of enchantment magic, but there were definitely seniors in the enchantment magic school who were better than him.

“-Aren’t there seniors in the enchantment magic school?”

“-Ah. People who are capable of helping Professor Verdus usually don’t help with his work and do their own magic instead.”

“-……”

Lee Han felt disappointed. It seemed like people in the magic school only cared about themselves.

‘Come to think of it, if the seniors had taken on Professor Verdus’s work, I wouldn’t have had to suffer so much.’

Not realizing that he would have been forced to participate regardless due to his magical affinity, Lee Han thought so.

“-Senior. Could you take a look at this magic and see if there’s anything wrong with it?”

“-Enchantment magic? If it’s enchantment magic, you’re probably better at it than I am.”

“-Haha. Your jokes are too much.”

“-I’m not joking.”

“-Okay. Thanks for the compliment.”

“-No, I’m really not joking…”

The senior, dumbfounded, checked the problem Lee Han mentioned anyway.

It was a staff with a tree spirit, but even when casting , no answer was coming back.

“-You cast the spell properly, right? Doesn’t seem to be anything wrong.”

“-Is that so?”

“-I’ll try casting it again.”

The senior waved the staff and cast .

Watching that, Lee Han suddenly felt uneasy.

‘…Surely it’s not not answering because it’s afraid of me, is it?’

“-Spirit. Are you listening?”

A symbol indicating affirmation appeared in front of the staff and then disappeared.

“-It works? That’s strange. What could be the reason?”

The senior was lost in thought.

Since this spell could only answer with yes or no, the questioner had to ask somewhat sharp questions.

“-Senior. Please ask if it’s not answering because it’s afraid of me.”

“-What nonsense are you talking about?”

The senior burst out laughing at Lee Han’s words.

“-Hey. Of course, you might seem scary to the new Einrogaard students. Since you’re taking all the school’s classes.”

“-……”

Lee Han glared at his senior with a disgruntled expression.

“-But spirits aren’t afraid of things like that.”

“-Just try it.”

“-Alright, alright. Are you not answering because you’re afraid of this wizard here?”

Surprisingly, the answer was negative.

Lee Han grabbed the senior’s shoulders tightly in surprise and shouted.

“-Senior! Look!!! The spirit says it’s not afraid of me!!!”

“-Y-yes. Congratulations. I don’t know why you’re so happy, but could you loosen your grip a little? My collarbone, which broke because of Professor Verdus earlier, still hurts.”

“-I’m sorry.”

Released from the strong grip, the senior rubbed his shoulders and fell into thought.

“-Hmm. I really don’t know the reason.”

“-I was going to ask a few things because I’m making a new staff…”

“-Well. Nothing we can do about it. Let’s just ask everything we can think of.”

The senior took out a spirit summoning magic book from his pocket and asked questions in order.

“-Is it because you’re contracted with an evil being?”

“-Ugh.”

“-Have you been in an excessively dangerous fight?”

“-Ugh.”

“-…Why? Are you sick somewhere?”

“-No. Please continue.”