Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 1108

“Are you really going to be like this?”

Professor Volardi looked puzzled at the junior professor’s protest.

Seeing this, Professor Garcia realized that Professor Volardi felt no guilt about their conversation.

‘Th-This…!’

Professor Garcia was shocked by Professor Volardi’s boldness. It reminded him of Professor Verdus.

Of course, Professor Volardi was doing things by the book.

They had discussed this before they left.

“-But Professor, wouldn’t it be too difficult for Ihan if the two of us teach him together?”

“-I think it will be fine.”

“-…Shall we just take turns then? We can set a time, my time to talk, your time to talk. We can divide it like that.”

“-I understand.”

Professor Volardi was very strict. Once he made a rule, he always followed it.

That was probably why he had been precisely measuring the time even while Professor Garcia was talking, and then said that…

‘This is so petty!’

Professor Garcia grumbled to himself and took out his pocket watch. He was going to measure the time exactly, down to the second.

Tap tap-

Jo-Woori looked out the window for a long time. He got bored of the view. He turned away from the window and sat back down.

Then he saw them. Ihan and Professor Volardi were ready to study magic, which surprised him.

‘Is it that surprising? Hmm. No. It is quite surprising.’

Professor Garcia understood why Jo-Woori was surprised. Jo-Woori was from the Imperial Family and was used to a very sheltered life. Einroguard students, on the other hand, were used to this.

“Wh-What are you doing?!”

“We are studying magic, Your Highness.”

“Why?!”

The three wizards fell silent. When asked ‘why,’ it was hard to answer.

Ihan forced an answer.

“Because there is no time to study at school?”

‘Ugh!’

Professor Garcia groaned inwardly.

Hearing it like that, Einroguard sounded like a rather harsh magic school.

“Y-You can’t even play with Jo-Woori… and yet you don’t have time. This really doesn’t make sense!”

“Ugh!”

Professor Garcia made a sound out loud.

Einroguard was slowly starting to feel like a very harsh magic school.

‘I need to soothe him quickly.’

Ihan thought he should soothe Jo-Woori as quickly as possible.

He was worried about how Professor Volardi would react to being deprived of his time. Surely he wouldn’t kick Jo-Woori out of the carriage, would he?

“What can we do? Einroguard is just like this.”

“I-Is that so?”

“Yes. Not just me, but all the other students are also very busy studying magic.”

“……”

Professor Garcia was so surprised he just stared at Ihan, his mouth open.

How could he tell such a lie?

But surprisingly, it seemed to have worked perfectly on Jo-Woori.

“The Einroguard students are so pitiful…!”

“Thank you for understanding, Your Highness. So please wait just a little longer.”

Fortunately, Ihan sighed with relief when it seemed that Jo-Woori had accepted it.

But Ihan didn’t realize it.

The firm resolution that Jo-Woori had made!

‘This really won’t do. Jo-Woori will change this rotten empire!’

Considering that the Dragon race usually doesn’t pay attention to worldly affairs, it was a truly great resolution.

Professor Volardi took out a small chalkboard and drew a chart.

On it were written things like ‘Wodanaz’s Telekinesis,’ ‘Water Orb,’ ‘Thunder Flame,’ ‘Blue Flame,’ ‘Soul Transformation,’ ‘High-Level Undead Summoning,’ ‘Headmaster’s Vision,’ and so on.

Seeing that, Professor Garcia took a deep breath.

“Gasp!”

“But as I said before, the number and level of the magics have increased.”

“Sigh.”

“We need to prioritize.”

“Ah!”

“It’s not that you have to master them all…”

“Ah.”

“…Professor Garcia. Are you alright?”

Ihan carefully spoke, unable to watch any longer.

Even Jo-Woori was looking at Professor Garcia as if he was a little strange.

Jo-Woori didn’t know much about magic education, but it seemed like it would definitely be a hindrance to have someone adding interjections like that every time he said something.

“I-I’m sorry. Ihan.”

“It’s alright. Um… are you perhaps angry?”

“Why would I be angry?”

“I was wondering if you were taking revenge because of Professor Begreck’s earlier…”

At Ihan’s words, Professor Volardi, who had been silently looking at his book, raised his head and glanced over.

Professor Garcia, feeling very wronged, jumped up, so much so that he hit the ceiling of the carriage.

“Absolutely not!!!”

“Ah. Is that so? I’m sorry.”

Professor Garcia felt so wronged.

Professor Volardi was the one who was measuring the time behind his back while he was talking, but now he was being lumped together with the same kind of person.

‘Sob sob sob…’

“The magic we will learn this time is .”

Professor Volardi had no plans to push and expand on the high-level magics that his student had already learned for the time being.

It would take quite a while just to understand and learn the magics he had already learned.

Rather, it was better to recommend a few magics that his student needed right now.

As a student who had rapidly raised his magic level, there were quite a few useful magics that he had not yet learned.

‘Phew. That’s a relief.’

Professor Garcia sighed, this time inwardly so he wouldn’t get caught.

“If it’s , then…”

“It’s the higher magic of the Ihan has learned.”

The magic of storing magic below one’s own circle in advance and casting it quickly, using the body as a kind of simple scroll.

. was the higher version of that magic.

“What circle is it?”

“5th circle. Isn’t that fortunate?”

‘What’s fortunate about that?’

Ihan felt a sense of distance from Professor Garcia for a moment.

He had no idea what he meant by saying it was fortunate.

In fact, Professor Garcia meant, ‘Still, Ihan has learned a few 5th circle magics, so it’s fortunate that it’s not a 6th circle magic.’

Even if Ihan had understood that meaning, he would have likely felt the same sense of distance.

“Besides, compared to the 5th circle magics that Ihan has learned, is a relatively easy magic.”

“Oh. That’s really exciting.”

‘Ihan looks sad.’

Jo-Woori thought, munching on candy.

Why does the contractor’s face look so troubled?

“If you want to practice , try storing 4th circle magics first. It will be good practice.”

“There’s no guarantee that 4th circle magics will work…”

“Yes?”

“It’s nothing.”

Ihan grumbled slightly and prepared the magic as Professor Volardi had told him.

If he was going to practice a good 4th circle magic, it would be .

Since he had dealt with it so much, it was also good to use as a testbed for other magics.

“Magic, dwell here. I command repeatedly, dwell here. Like a quietly descending energy, like a silently approaching twilight…”

Ihan began practicing, using everything he had learned, from repeated incantations to rhythmic spells.

It was advantageous to first succeed once with difficult magics without worrying about the casting speed.

‘It’s fortunate that I learned this. I shudder to think about how I would have cast it if I hadn’t learned it.’

Meanwhile, the two professors didn’t even look at their student and talked about what the next magic should be.

“What should the next magic be? I would like to recommend .”

“I don’t think there’s a need to store summoning magic.”

“Yes. I know that too. But considering the meaning of practice, being able to store one summoning magic could be quite helpful. Other summoning magics too…”

“Professor. Could you please check if I’m doing it right?”

Ihan called out to the two professors. But the professors answered roughly, as if they were annoyed.

“If it’s Ihan, he must have done well. Pick something difficult and practice.”

“Well done.”

“So Professor. Summoning magics are originally…”

Ihan was surprised to see the two professors deep in conversation again.

‘What kind of people are they?’

Instead, Jo-Woori clapped his hands next to him.

“Jo-Woori thinks it’s wonderful!”

“…Your Highness is the light and salt of the Empire. Sob!”

“Why, why are you like this… Ihan. Don’t be sad!”

Jo-Woori was flustered and soothed Ihan.

‘But what kind of work are they calling me to do at the Daylily Magic Tower?’

Getting out of the carriage (Professor Garcia was annoyed that they arrived just before his time was finished), Ihan wondered.

“It’s over there, Ihan. It’s quite different from the place you visited with the Headmaster last time, right?”

Among the magic towers of the Empire, those who have a certain size and confidence build towers in various places and connect those spaces to each other.

The Daylily Magic Tower was also such a place.

Originally, the tower’s headquarters was located in the city of Plahur, but there were separate towers on the outskirts of the capital and on the outskirts of Granden City.

Of course, even if the spaces were connected, everything was not the same, especially the appearance of the towers.

The tower in Plahur city gleamed with polished white stone and intricate carvings, looking grand and powerful. The tower near the Imperial capital was fairly antique, and the tower near Granden City was a bit shabby…

“Yes. It’s very fancy.”

“Right. Shabby… Yes?”

Professor Garcia was startled and raised his head.

The tower was covered in dazzling gold. Professor Garcia had never seen such a magic tower before.

‘Did the Daylily Magic Tower recently earn a lot of money…?’

He wondered if they had won a magic-related project led by the Empire.

-The carriage is here!!

-Everyone stop what you’re doing and change your clothes!

Professor Garcia saw two wizards jump out of a cesspool where they were testing alchemy reagents, quickly change their clothes, and cover the pit.

The two wizards put decorations and emblems on each other’s clothes, then used magic to summon a tea table from the air. Then, they immediately sat down in front of it and sipped their teacups.

“Hmm! How leisurely it is.”

“It’s a leisure that you can’t see in other magic towers. Isn’t that right?”

The two wizards spoke loudly, as if they wanted someone to hear them.

Ihan didn’t see the two wizards jumping out of the cesspool, but he noticed something strange.

“Why are they doing that when there’s nothing in those teacups?”

While Professor Garcia was thinking ‘no way,’ several other wizards walked out in front of the tower.

They talked loudly, pretending not to care about Ihan’s group.

“Did you hear that our magic tower beat the Green Brilliance Magic Tower this time?”

“You’re talking about the analysis of plant-type individuals that can be found on a local level. Of course, that analysis was excellent, but it’s so common in our magic tower that I don’t feel the need to mention it!”

“That’s right! Haha!”

Professor Garcia glared at the backs of the wizards walking away and was shocked.

‘How shabby…!!’

Even if they wanted to scout Ihan after graduation, how could they put on such a ridiculous play!

Even Jo-Woori was bewildered.

“I-It seems like the wizards are under a hallucination magic.”

“…Perhaps that’s the case, Your Highness.”

Ihan, who finally understood, looked sad.

Ihan felt sad. Were the good wizards of the Empire being ruined by the Headmaster’s dark influence?