Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 794

“Normally, we don’t allow second-year students to participate. But I’ll make an exception just this once.”

“Ah, yes. Thank you.”

Lee Han cursed inwardly.

‘Anyone would think he’s doing me some enormous favour.’

What reason could Lee Han possibly have for offering his help? To help Ehendurde (from collapsing) and to help Professor Voladi (from being summoned by the skull headmaster), wasn’t it?

He should be praising me as a good student, not saying things like that.

Professors were fundamentally shameless, after all.

“After the spirit stone orbs, it’s iron orbs, right?”

“That’s right.”

“And that’s when the attacks start, too?”

Lee Han and Professor Voladi revisited last year’s curriculum together.

Orbs made of easily reactive materials—spirit stone orbs—to learn basic control, then iron orbs, then elemental shape-shifting and control again…

And attacks whenever you got stuck.

‘That’s the core of the Beggrec School.’

Without the attacks, it would have simply been a school that enjoyed tedious repetition, but thanks to the attacks, it became a thrilling, insane school.

Not many schools in the Empire attacked students during magic training. Especially not by the teacher!

“Well…”

“?!?!!”

That was why Lee Han couldn’t help but be startled by the professor’s answer.

“You didn’t attack when we got stuck???”

“It depends on the person.”

Some metals break when subjected to pressure, but others become stronger.

The boy from the Wodanaise family was a typical example of the latter, but it was uncertain whether Ehendurde would also be the latter.

Of course, this didn’t sound very convincing to Lee Han.

‘Trials of fire, my foot. The professor should try experiencing the trials of fire himself.’

Wouldn’t a fire spell shot from behind by a student count as a trial of fire?

The professor could become stronger too.

‘…But I must endure. For Ehendurde’s sake.’

Lee Han held back and agreed for the sake of his junior.

“Indeed. Then we’ll exclude the attacks. Wow, that’s much better. Oh, Professor, how about changing the iron orbs to rubber balls?”

Professor Voladi nodded readily at the sight of his student enthusiastically offering his opinion.

He intended to respect his student’s opinion, regardless of the outcome. Whether it was a success or a failure, they would learn from it.

A good teacher was one who made his students think and reflect for themselves.

“Next is the elemental shape-shifting stage. I’m planning to get some defensive artifacts with elemental resistance at this time. I’ll get them myself. I can stea… no, borrow them from Professor Verdus’s workshop.”

Professor Voladi nodded again. Encouraged by the professor’s support, Lee Han continued to bring up improvements.

He would unleash everything he had bottled up while learning last year!

“And when practicing movements, simply repeating them can easily lead to a loss of concentration, so various courses and situations… praise and rewards each time they succeed…”

“Hmm.”

Professor Voladi agreed with everything, thinking to himself.

He should have allowed it sooner, seeing how interested he was in teaching.

“…So, considering Ehendurde’s stamina, I think it would be good to provide simple meals in the lecture hall as well.”

“Am I making them?”

Lee Han paused at Professor Voladi’s question.

The lecture had been improved so much that asking Professor Voladi to cook as well might be crossing the line.

He might have been agreeing all along while secretly thinking, ‘Let’s see how far this student goes.’

“…I’ll make the meals.”

“I see.”

Professor Voladi erased the Caprese salad recipe he had written down.

He had written down a few in preparation for when he had to make them, but it seemed there was no need.

“Is that all?”

“Yes… well… was there anything too extreme or presumptuous?”

Lee Han asked cautiously. Fortunately, Professor Voladi nodded.

“Excellent.”

“You don’t think he’ll learn too comfortably or easily, do you?”

“I trust you.”

“……”

He would have felt a little more at ease if the professor had said something indifferent like, ‘Let’s try it and see how it goes.’

Just saying he trusted him put even more pressure on him.

‘He trusts me. What if I fail and he gets twice as angry for betraying his trust?’

Lee Han thought he should ask Ehendurde for a favor later.

Ehendurde’s progress in magic training could also determine Lee Han’s fate.

“Then let’s get into practice.”

Lee Han, who had taken as much lecture time as he wanted, grabbed his wand and stood up.

He wanted to drag out the time with more lecture improvements, but Professor Voladi might notice. It was time to practice.

Bzzzt!

The tasks Lee Han had received from the lecture included advanced application of various elemental attributes, combat utilization and linkage of other schools’ magic, fighting to the death with evil and powerful monsters, and many more, but the first thing he had to finish was lightning elemental shape-shifting.

He had recently become able to use fire element safely, but the element Lee Han used the most in combat was lightning.

The difference in proficiency was incomparable. He had to hone the lightning element more steadily, even with the fire element.

Moreover, lightning element was a particularly difficult element to shape-shift, so it required even more constant effort.

Currently, he had succeeded in a few forms such as > 부여 부여 Lightning Spear> and > 부여 부여 Lightning Cloak>…

‘It would be easier if I could create a barrier or a trap on the floor.’

“I heard you transformed into lightning by borrowing the power of a spirit.”

“?!!”

Lee Han was horrified by Professor Voladi’s sudden words and threw himself to the side.

Uncontrolled lightning struck the spot where Lee Han had been standing, burning the floor.

“Excuse me??”

“During winter vacation. I heard the Pride Duke was summoned.”

“……”

Lee Han was shocked to realize that the events at the Yukbertire exchange had reached Professor Voladi’s ears.

‘What vile and despicable traitor ratted me out? Was it a Yukbertire senior?’

With fierce anger, Lee Han vowed to find and deal with the informant.

A rat who would ruin the trust between wizards and destroy the Empire!

“Wasn’t it?”

“It’s not that it wasn’t, but, well, to be precise, it’s less of a summoning and more of… the events that occurred tend to vary depending on the perspective…”

“?”

Lee Han tried to get out of it with rambling excuses, but Professor Voladi responded in the best way possible.

He simply waited patiently.

“…Yes. The Pride Duke was summoned, and I borrowed the power of the spirit I had contracted with.”

“And you transformed into lightning.”

“Yes.”

Perkhunt had demonstrated powerful abilities befitting the title of Lightning King.

One of them was Lightning Transformation, where the wizard himself turned into pure lightning.

Wizards who had mastered transformation magic could change their own bodies into other substances, but even that had many restrictions and was a difficult magic.

Transforming into pure lightning element was truly…

“And you’re going to practice that.”

“Yes… yes???”

Lee Han, who had been mindlessly saying ‘yes,’ was horrified and asked again.

“Lightning Transformation starts from the 5th Circle at the lowest. As I said before, don’t overdo it.”

Just as he had recently forced himself to learn >Wodanaise’s Telekinesis>, challenging another 5th Circle magic like Lightning Transformation was quite dangerous.

“Professor, I’m not really interested in Lightning Transformation.”

“I see. And yet you continue to practice lightning element.”

“…That’s because shape-shifting is difficult and tricky.”

“You should have succeeded in > 부여 부여 Lightning Spear> and > 부여 부여 Lightning Cloak>.”

“It’s still not quite enough with just those…”

Professor Voladi shook his head at his student’s lie.

> 부여 부여 Lightning Cloak> had a tricky difficulty even among shape-shifting. Unlike a long spear, it had to maintain the shape and fluttering texture of a cloak.

And yet he had succeeded in it at once and was saying such things.

It was an obvious lie to anyone.

“…I’m sorry. I won’t be greedy for Lightning Transformation.”

Lee Han had to apologize for a resolution he hadn’t even made. It was truly unfair.

Professor Voladi comforted his student.

“Prioritize refining your existing magic for now.”

‘…I was doing that…’

Even after saying that, Professor Voladi was still suspicious of his student’s destructive talent, so he decided to change the subject.

“How is the Water Orb book coming along?”

“…!”

At those words, Lee Han regretted not insisting on learning Lightning Transformation.

As the professor’s attention shifted elsewhere, the task he had given last year resurfaced.

>Wodanaise’s Water Orb>, which Lee Han had struggled to complete throughout his first year.

Professor Voladi had forced him to write a book about that Water Orb and another book about the direction of its development. It was an incredibly harsh measure for a first-year student who had mastered 4th Circle magic.

“Well… I am writing it, but it’s still a ways from being finished…”

“I’d like to see it.”

“……”

Lee Han sweated as he took out the book.

He had been writing it whenever he had time, but he wasn’t sure if it would meet Professor Voladi’s standards.

“Hmm.”

Professor Voladi, having received the book, concentrated on reading it with a blank face.

>About Wodanaise’s Water Orb and its Basic Principles< and >About the Limitations of Water Orb Magic and its Direction of Development>.

Lee Han regretted not making the book titles a little better.

‘I should have called it Wodanaise’s Water Orb, as Guided by Professor Beggrec.’

He should have flattered him in the title!

Knock knock knock-

‘Who is it?’

Professor Voladi, who had been reading intently, closed the book for a moment and looked up.

“Interesting.”

“We have a guest. Professor.”

“Yes. I was going to introduce you anyway.”

Even if the person he was going to introduce was a demon duke, it would be better than Professor Voladi reading the book so closely.

Lee Han was overjoyed and stood up from his seat.

He hoped that Professor Voladi would forget about the book after greeting the guest.

“Come in.”

The person who opened the door and came in was a grumpy-looking old woman.

She was large and had good color, and was almost as physically fit as Professor Voladi.

“Hee hee. I never thought Einrogard would call me.”

“I was asked to do it for the Duel Club students.”

“Duel Club? Don’t talk to me about clubs. A club after a duel. Do you think that makes sense?”

Professor Voladi did not answer.

Lee Han realized from the conversation that the visitor had come because of the club week next week.

The professor in charge of the Duel Club was Professor Kirmin Coo, and the two professors were friends, so…

‘It wouldn’t be strange to ask for a favor.’

Of course, Professor Voladi was blacklisted from a significant number of Imperial Duel Clubs, but there must be many people who didn’t know.

He would have enough connections to invite an outstanding duel wizard.

“This person is Yumidihus’s teacher.”

“!”

Lee Han was surprised by Professor Voladi’s introduction.

He never imagined she would be Yumidihus’s teacher.

“Nice to meet you. I’m Lee Han. I have also been taught by Yumidihus.”

“Nice to meet you. I’m a pirate.”

“…Is Pirate your name? Or your family?”

“My job is a pirate.”

“……”

At the unbelievable and shocking words, Lee Han wondered if Professor Voladi was finally trying to use a magical criminal for his lectures.