Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 778

To be a summoning mage, you need to know a lot about different worlds and be able to change plans quickly.

As Professor Milrei started explaining, some students looked worried.

Now in their second year, Summoning Magic was getting serious, and the lessons were much harder.

Professor Milrei was not mean like Professor Verdus. But he also wouldn’t make lessons easier just because students were tired.

So…

‘Did someone use a sleeping spell?’ Leihan wondered, looking around.

He saw Raphaelle stabbing his leg with a pen to stay awake.

‘Maybe the professor is trying to be nice,’ Leihan thought.

Professor Milrei’s lessons didn’t scare them, but they made everyone sleepy.

Even the students who wanted to leave earlier were now falling asleep.

“What did I just say, Raphaelle?” Professor Milrei asked.

“Huh? Yes!?” Raphaelle replied.

“Pay attention! Don’t forget to pay attention. How can you focus in other worlds if you can’t even focus in the classroom?”

The old professor tapped his desk with his staff, scolding the students with a serious face.

When mages became very skilled, they wanted to learn about other worlds, called the Outer World.

This made sense because they could find endless resources there. These resources were much greater than anything on their own continent.

Summoning mages were experts at using the power of these other worlds.

Some magic, like Leihan’s skeleton army, created things without using other dimensions. But even then, they had to deal with other dimensions sometimes.

The problem was that the Outer World wasn’t safe or easy to visit.

Summoning mages had to be ready because they could end up in many different worlds.

Especially the unknown dimensions, unlike the dimensions they knew well…

‘You never know what might come out,’ Leihan thought.

Could focusing really save you in a world where you didn’t know what to expect?

Whoosh-

While Leihan was thinking, Professor Milrei showed a big map on the blackboard. It was a map of a dimension without a name.

Red-Heat Zone – Fire and iron found. ?, ??, ????, ???.

Ice-Void Zone – Icebergs and sea found. Not enough food for creatures. ???, ??.

Jungle Zone – Giant plants. Lots of food but dangerous monsters. ???.

The map had many empty spaces, but it also had a lot of information.

Professor Milrei looked at the students and said, “This is the dimension you will visit and study this semester.”

The students woke up and blinked. Gainando said something that showed he liked the challenge.

“Leihan, Leihan.”

“What?” Leihan asked.

“Salco thought he only had to miss today, but he was wrong! Silly him!” Gainando said happily, as if the semester was over.

Leihan clicked his tongue at Gainando’s happiness about his friend’s bad luck. He took out >Einrogard’s Whisper> and sent a message to Salco.

-Salco. You better come back. It’s not just today, but the whole semester.

-…D, don’t lie, Salco replied.

But Salco came back soon after.

Professor Milrei raised an eyebrow but didn’t say anything.

Salco wouldn’t be the first or last student to try to skip class.

“This dimension is very big, and each zone is different. You don’t know which zone you’ll end up in, so you need to be ready for all of them,” Professor Milrei said, adjusting his glasses. He looked like someone about to punish them.

One of the students asked nervously, “Can’t we go to a safe dimension like we did in the first year?”

Professor Milrei shook his head.

“There’s no point in going to the same safe dimensions again and again. You get better by going to unknown dimensions and filling in the map.”

“…The Jungle Zone would be better, right? Should I hope to be sent to the Jungle Zone?”

“A place with lots of food but dangerous monsters sounds too dangerous. I’d rather be sent to the Ice-Void Zone.”

As the students talked, Leihan felt confused. He raised his hand and asked, “Professor, I have a question.”

“Yes, Leihan?”

“If there’s this much information, isn’t it not really an unknown dimension?”

“…Does Leihan want to go to a completely unknown dimension?” Professor Milrei asked, surprised.

The other students stared at Leihan in shock.

“Woah, Wodanaz. Why are you doing this?”

“Please. Just listen to the lesson. What did we do wrong?”

“…I was just curious…” Leihan said.

He was just asking if a dimension with that much information could still be called unknown, but everyone reacted like this.

Leihan felt a little hurt and said to himself, ‘But still, it’s not really an unknown dimension.’

With that much information, it couldn’t be called unknown.

The bell rang, finally ending the sleepy lecture. Suddenly, the classroom buzzed with energy as students realized they were actually going to this strange dimension.

“Everyone, get ready with signal magic.”

“Pack warm clothes.”

The second-year students gathered to make plans.

Professor Milrei watched with a serious face, but he was happy inside.

Unlike other years, these students knew how to work together. Their teamwork was their greatest strength, even more than their magic skills.

“Hey, give back that blanket!”

“Our Tower made this, why should we give it back!”

“What do you mean your Tower made it! Have you forgotten who brought the materials?! What did we do to get this leather!”

Of course, there were some small fights, but the students quickly made up.

When Leihan started patting the students on the back, they stopped arguing and started sharing.

“Check the food supplies.”

“Does everyone have enough?”

Professor Milrei was surprised to see that the students had more food than he expected.

Second-year students could never get that much food on their own.

‘Could it be that time…’ he thought.

At the start of the semester, he had pretended not to see some students sneaking around the underground warehouse dressed as workers…

‘…No. That wouldn’t be enough for everyone to have so much,’ he thought.

They would have needed many wagons to carry that much food.

After thinking about it, Professor Milrei shrugged. It would be good if the students had enough to eat.

The Headmaster Skeleton might complain, but that couldn’t be helped.

“My food bag feels a bit lighter?”

“Stop talking nonsense and move your hand.”

“We should have made heat-resistant items.”

“That was impossible.”

They had made cold-resistant items last year because of the Frost Giant’s blizzard, but they didn’t have heat-resistant items.

The students tried to use spells to protect themselves from the heat.

“Everyone who can use >Lesser Fire Resistance> and >Lesser Cold Resistance>, come here.”

“Leather, blankets, cloth, or cloaks are good too. Let’s cast as many spells as possible on big items and take them.”

“Wodanaz’s spells last longer…”

“Don’t be picky, just take it!”

After getting ready for any zone, the students made their plan.

-When we land, we’ll look around to see which zone we’re in.

-Then, we’ll fill in the map and go to the central zone, to the highest point.

-We’ll use signal magic or markers to meet up as much as possible.

“Everyone, remember that the sooner we meet up, the easier it will be to fill in the map.”

“Everyone, it seems you’re all ready,” Professor Milrei said, waiting.

The students walked out with sad faces.

The magic circle in the center was giving off more power than before.

“Then… let’s begin!”

Following the professor’s instructions, the students stepped forward one by one.

Professor Milrei nodded as he watched the students disappear into another dimension.

‘They might finish much faster than other years,’ he thought.

The students were skilled and worked well together, which made him hopeful.

Professor Milrei then used reverse-summoning to get rid of the creature he had summoned at the back of the classroom.

It was a creature that released a gas that made the students sleepy.

From the second-year lectures on, he used these small tricks to help the students focus.

‘Hmm. I might need something stronger for Leihan…’ he thought.

Gainando landed on an ice sheet and saw a student from the Blue Dragon Tower ahead. He was very happy.

“Leihan!”

“…”

“…It’s Adenart instead!”

Gainando and Adenart glared at each other.

It was very lucky to meet a student from the same Tower so quickly, but…

…Why did it have to be them?

‘Hmph. I should be nice first,’ Gainando thought.

As a royal, he should act like an adult.

“Let’s move together, Adenart,” Gainando said.

“…Okay,” Adenart replied.

“Take this.”

Gainando took out a sandwich, cut it in half, and offered it. He wanted to be friendly.

The sandwich was filled with ham, cheese, lettuce, mashed eggs, and lots of mayonnaise. It looked delicious.

Adenart looked at Gainando, surprised, and then took it.

“Thank you,” Adenart said.

“Of course, you should be thankful. It’s so delicious,” Gainando said.

“…”

Adenart almost took back his thanks, but he didn’t want to be like Gainando, so he didn’t.

“How was it made?” Adenart asked.

“Leihan gave it to me earlier. Oh, did you know?”

Gainando got excited and started talking about his friend.

“I asked for a snack, but Leihan said he couldn’t give me a snack. So, I said I’d get the fillings myself, so just give me two pieces of bread.”

Unlike what other friends thought, Leihan didn’t just give Gainando whatever he wanted when he asked for food.

Unless he did something really good, he wouldn’t get a reward.

That’s how someone who managed the food for the four Towers, including the Blue Dragon Tower, had to be.

“You just asked for two pieces of bread?” Adenart asked.

“I, I did odd jobs instead?” Gainando said, feeling guilty under Adenart’s cold stare.

“It was a fair trade,” Gainando said.

“I understand,” Adenart said.

Adenart wanted to say, ‘You’d have to work for half a year in Einrogard to buy two pieces of white bread with odd jobs,’ but he didn’t want to make his silly brother angry, so he didn’t say it.

“So, when I asked Leihan if I could get two pieces of bread before we left, he gave me this. But when I opened the paper, this came out! Do you understand? Adenart. This is friendship! Secretly putting something to eat between the Einrogard sandwich…’ Adenart frowned. Gainando was so loud and clumsy! Leihan’s kind gesture was supposed to be a secret, a small moment of friendship. Now Gainando was shouting it to the world, making it seem cheap. Annoyed, Adenart snapped, letting out a cry of frustration and casting attack magic…

“What?! What?!” Gainando screamed, running away, not knowing why.