Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 976

Dirette felt something very strange. It was the strangest feeling he’d had all day.

Was he really saying that?

“Well, well. Why would that be?”

“Hmm.”

Yucbeltire was lost in thought.

First of all, they had a lot in common.

Both were in their fifth year, and both were from the same school as their junior from the Wodanaz family.

‘I don’t know. Why?’

Because they had so much in common, it made sense that the junior might listen to him.

“…Think about it a little more.”

“There’s a difference between the Blue Dragon Tower and the Black Turtle Tower.”

“That’s not necessarily important… No, go on.”

“Could it be because I’m royalty? Was the junior’s family from the noble faction…?”

“……”

“Dirette? Dirette?”

By the time Yucbeltire, who had been deep in thought, looked up again, his crow-morph friend was already walking far away.

Yucbeltire lamented his friend’s rude behavior.

Yucbeltire was generous. Another wizard might have been angry at Dirette’s rudeness.

‘Such rude behavior won’t be good for Dirette either…’

A fourth-year student, the Bronze Golem, looked at the professor with worried eyes, along with the other students from the Divination Magic school.

Originally, Professor Facellette was prone to madness because of the nature of the school.

Divination magic was like a poison for a wizard’s mind. The more they used it, the more likely they were to go mad. That’s why Professor Facellette had so many different personalities.

But today, it was particularly severe.

“It’s coming! It’s coming!”

“Did he have such a personality?”

“I don’t know…”

“More importantly, senior, are you going to stay as a golem forever?”

“Huh? Oh.”

“Aren’t you uncomfortable?”

The other juniors knew very well why their senior had transformed into a golem.

It was to avoid and endure dangerous misfortune.

Divination wizards had many enemies. It wasn’t just madness. Seeing the future could twist it, bringing bad luck. Even officials who complained about needing future predictions were a problem.

The golem senior was a student who actively challenged divination magic as much as his outstanding skills, and thanks to that, he had to pay a lot of misfortune and price.

It wasn’t strange to transform into a golem to prevent and avoid that.

…Except he’d been like that for too long.

“It is uncomfortable. That’s why I changed the material. From bronze to brass.”

“…I see.”

Even in the Divination Magic school, there were levels of madness.

The other juniors changed the subject instead of asking the golem senior any more questions.

“But senior, why is the professor like that? Is it a new personality?”

“No… I think he saw a very ominous future.”

“The end is coming!”

Professor Facellette screamed, burying himself deep in his armchair.

No matter how you looked at it, it seemed like he was in a temporary state of frenzy after seeing an ominous future rather than a new personality.

“Did he see the future of the Empire’s destruction or something?”

“The professor wouldn’t just easily see such a future.”

Even a wizard like Professor Facellette needed extensive preparation, work, and a huge budget to predict the distant future.

He wouldn’t suddenly do such a prediction at a time like this. At best, it would be a short future of about a day or two.

“Among the things that could happen in a day or two, is there anything so dangerous and ominous?”

“I don’t know. But the future is unpredictable…”

Even the golem senior had no idea.

Was there anything that would shock the professor so much in the next day or two?

“Is the grant from the Empire being cut?”

“Even if it is, the Black Magic school would be cut, not us.”

“Then is it a problem with the professor’s personal affairs? Like Professor Einroguard’s position being extended…?”

“Our school doesn’t have enough wizards to replace him, so the professor would have known that from the start, right? There’s no reason to be shocked now.”

The students pondered the reasons why the professor would be shocked in their own way, but nothing really came to mind.

Meanwhile, the bronze golem senior clapped his hands.

“Everyone. Prepare for the lecture. I’ll have to conduct it today.”

“Can’t we rest since the professor has collapsed?”

“Oh. No. When I peek into the future, the juniors fail if we don’t have the lecture today.”

At the senior’s strict answer, the students grumbled and sat down.

Creak-

“I’m sorry I’m late.”

“No. It hasn’t started yet. Sit down, junior.”

The bronze golem gestured as if to say it was okay at the sight of the junior who opened the door and hurried in.

“The professor is sick today, so I’ll be conducting it.”

“Oh dear. Is he alright?”

“He’ll recover soon. He keeps saying the end is coming because he saw a strange future… The end is coming!”

The golem senior screamed in horror at the sight of the person following Ethan in.

The skeletal headmaster in human form was entering!

“Wow. Senior. You’re doing a good job imitating him.”

“Did he really shout like that?”

“Yeah. Almost exactly like that.”

While the juniors were chattering, unable to grasp the situation, the bronze golem student screamed again.

“The end is coming!”

“Senior. You can stop now.”

“Why twice…?”

“Look, look behind you!”

” ? ”

The Divination Magic school students turned their heads.

Most of them didn’t grasp the situation even after seeing the mad doppelganger. In the first place, the skeletal headmaster’s human form was a rarer sight than they thought.

One student, who had seen the headmaster in human form before, also screamed.

“The end is coming!”

“???”

“Wh, what kind of magic is this? Why is everyone like this?”

“…I’m sorry.”

Ethan apologized instead.

In fact, it wasn’t Ethan’s fault that the mad doppelganger kept following him, but someone had to apologize, right?

When the junior explained as best as he could (of course, with some embellishment), the seniors nodded.

It wasn’t the real headmaster, but a copy of him. This copy was visiting because he was very interested in Professor Einroguard’s magic lessons…

‘I see why the professor is like that!’

The students were so overwhelmed that they wanted to pretend to be crazy, shouting that the end was coming.

What difference did it make whether it was the skeletal headmaster or the skeletal headmaster’s doppelganger? It was equally burdensome to have a great wizard sitting next to them and watching the lecture.

“What are you doing? Start.”

“…Ah, yes.”

The bronze golem senior was just as burdened.

He turned stiffly and walked towards the blackboard, then stumbled and fell.

Thud!

“Is it because of misfortune?!”

“Ah, no. I just tripped because I was nervous.”

“……”

Ethan deeply regretted it.

‘I’m sorry!’

“More importantly, junior. How was the last prophecy? Did it help you avoid misfortune?”

The golem senior asked, remembering the last time he saw the junior.

Last time, this junior had received a strong prophecy to change the future.

‘It was a prophecy not to contact the royal family.’

The golem senior, recalling the prophecy, soon came to another thought.

Come to think of it, wasn’t he trying to escape from the skeletal headmaster’s mad doppelganger and received the prophecy then?

The fact that he was behind him like that meant the prophecy wasn’t very effective…

“…I don’t think I kept it well.”

“Y, yes, it seems so.”

The thoughts that quickly passed through the junior’s expression revealed that many things had happened in the meantime.

The other juniors had often experienced difficult things, but the emotions that the junior in front of them was showing were on a different level.

What on earth had happened…

“Then I’ll start the lecture… I’ll start. Last time, we talked about astronomical magic.”

This magic, called astronomical or celestial magic, was a magic that borrowed and used the power of the stars.

Divination wizards were inevitably interested in astronomical magic. If they were to borrow the power of spirits or demons to predict the future, even if they had a hundred bodies or souls, they wouldn’t be enough.

“The stars move according to the laws of the heavens. Thanks to this, excellent wizards can borrow the power of their movements to glimpse the future. This observation reduces the burden on the wizard and prevents madness. If you’re more greedy, you can even make a contract with the stars, but there’s no need to talk about that today. Surely there’s no one here today who’s greedy enough to make a contract with the stars?”

The students burst into laughter at the senior’s joke.

But two people couldn’t laugh. Ethan and the mad doppelganger.

Ethan sat with a gloomy expression, as if he had chewed on something bitter. The mad doppelganger, who was also showing a dissatisfied expression, said to Ethan.

“They’re cowards. They’re trying to be satisfied with just looking at the movements.”

“…Ah. Then how about the master gives them a stern lecture? Telling them to make a contract with the stars too.”

“There’s no reason to unnecessarily interfere with those who aren’t disciples of the royal family.”

‘Tch.’

Ethan clicked his tongue inwardly.

It seemed like he couldn’t push the seniors here to make a contract with the stars.

“In today’s lecture, we’ll be training to read the movements of the stars and glimpse the future. Don’t push yourselves too hard, even if you can’t see it.”

Divination magic wasn’t something that could be done by forcing it.

Especially glimpsing the future with this kind of astronomical magic, aptitude was even more important.

When one wizard observes the movement of a blue star, they may get inspiration for the future, but another wizard may not get any inspiration even after observing the same star for several years.

It was important to find a star that matched your spirituality first. Omens, fortune-telling, and rules came after that.

“Th, that… How was it…?”

The bronze golem senior stood in front of the mad doppelganger in a polite posture after finishing the explanation.

Whether it was the skeletal headmaster or the skeletal headmaster’s doppelganger, ‘headmaster’ was the same, wasn’t it?

Of course, he couldn’t help but be aware of him.

“It’s decent.”

“Th, thank you!”

The bronze golem senior was overjoyed.

“However, there are problems. The attitude is too complacent when teaching the juniors.”

“…I’m sorry.”

The senior became gloomy again.

“But considering the level of the wizards, there’s room for excuse for such a complacent attitude. Not everyone can learn under the royal family.”

“Th, thank you?”

“Even so, continuing to have no change like that is something that wizards should reflect on.”

“…Th, I’m sorry. Great Wizard. I don’t really know what I should do.”

“I’ll explain it easily.”

The mad doppelganger answered readily.

“Other wizards can be taught complacently and lazily, but don’t treat this disciple here like that. Like the degradation of a newly born star, teach him with strong motivation.”

“I, I understand!”

The mad doppelganger presented the goal with a generous and tolerant attitude.

Because he had a contract with the Guest Star Arna, this student would probably be very good at reading other stars that move around.

In that case, it wouldn’t be bad to memorize the movements of one or two easy-to-read comets or novae now.

The more diverse divination magic a wizard learned, the easier it became to prepare for misfortune and carefully prepare for the future.

Of course, that was only according to the mad doppelganger’s standards, not Ethan’s. Ethan just wanted to find the movement of the moon, blue stars, or red stars with his seniors.

Ethan, who had been hit out of nowhere, was silent.

Then, when the mad doppelganger wasn’t looking, he quietly whispered to the golem senior.

“Is there any magic to predict what the master will say in advance?”