Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 1175

The wizard from the Ahrak family didn’t even notice the cold looks they were getting. Wizards who had lived for a hundred years were usually very bold, and this one was no different. He leaned forward, a slight smile behind his mask.

“Why do you say it won’t work before you even try to learn it? It could be amazing, you know!”

“Grrrr. Don’t act like you know me. It’s embarrassing.”

“Let’s just take out more of the money we’ve saved up and use it for bribery. And donate to the Einrogard School of Black Magic.”

The wizard from the Obsidian Magic Tower spoke in a way that sounded demanding. Leihan stopped for a moment, surprised.

He wouldn’t have hesitated if the money was just for him. But the idea of giving money to the Einrogard School of Black Magic made his heart beat faster.

Suddenly, he could almost see Senior Di Mo’s delighted face…

“You young kid! Do you even know who his family is? He is from the Wodanaz family. Do you think a small bribe will work on him?”

“Judging people before you know them is not good,” Leihan said quietly. But the black wizards were already arguing loudly and didn’t hear him.

“And donate to the Einrogard School of Black Magic? You young fool, do you think if we donate to the Obsidian Magic Tower, they’ll be so touched they’ll grant our request?”

“…My thinking was short-sighted. I’ll admit that.”

Even the wizard from the Obsidian Magic Tower had to agree that this was a mistake.

Who would be foolish enough to listen just because they donated to the school?

“Anyway, don’t say it can’t be done without even trying to learn it! Your thinking might change if you learn it!”

“Hmm. I would like to learn the Eye of Ahrak, though.”

Leihan said lightly.

It was magic to create a creature that could watch over places forever. This was very impressive magic.

“Grrrr (That’s not a magic you can learn so easily)…”

The undead replied, sounding dumbfounded.

Just because the old wizard spoke casually, it didn’t mean the magic was easy. It was actually powerful black magic, at least level 5.

It even used ideas from summoning magic. Magic like this, that is put together in a complicated way, is always harder to learn, even for magic of the same level.

“Why are you discouraging the young man? Be quiet.”

The descendant of Ahrak scolded the undead.

He should be trying to encourage the young man in any way he could, not making him lose interest.

“Think about it. How thirsty would this young one be if he heard about magic?”

Whether he could learn the magic or not wasn’t important. What mattered was igniting that thirst.

A thirst for knowledge!

It was the most dangerous and powerful temptation for a wizard.

How many wizards had destroyed themselves because of that thirst?

“Grrr (Indeed)!”

“A definitely convincing method…”

Once the discussion was over, the old black wizard called Leihan with a benevolent face.

“You’re curious about the Eye of Ahrak?”

“Well, if it’s difficult, I’m okay with…”

“No, no! If you’re curious, you must learn it. Don’t you know it’s a sin for a wizard to suppress their curiosity, young one?”

“Well, I can’t just learn every magic I see on the street. I have to meet the Hag soon, too.”

The descendant of Ahrak cursed inwardly dozens of times before opening his mouth.

“…This magic is inspired by ancient black magic.”

Ancient black magic.

It was a magical phrase that always made the hearts of black wizards flutter.

But in reality, it wasn’t always such a good phrase.

Ancient black magic was not as organized as magic used today in the Empire. So, you had to learn and prepare much more to use it.

“You might not know about it, but there is a magic called the Black Emperor’s Coffin…”

“I know about it.”

“…You know about it?”

The descendant of Ahrak paused.

The Black Emperor’s Coffin wasn’t just a magic for creating sealing coffins, but a magic for controlling artificially created demigods.

Naturally, very few wizards even knew of its existence. Even less so a mere second-year student from Einrogard.

“You might have seen strange books in the library. But what you read is only the simplest part of the Black Emperor’s Coffin magic. This Black Emperor’s Coffin magic is…”

“I even helped summon it from the side.”

Leihan retorted indifferently.

It was hard to answer kindly when he recalled his memories with the crazy doppelganger.

Professor Voladi had also left, just like Gainando did before.

“What?!?”

Of course, the descendant of Ahrak wasn’t interested in the sadness of the wizard next to him.

What mattered more was that he had helped summon the Black Emperor’s Coffin from the side.

The statement that a magic school student had helped with ancient black magic from the side was enough to shock even an old black wizard who had experienced all sorts of hardships.

“Who on earth… Surely, not Gonadaltez?”

Only one name came to mind. The descendant of Ahrak asked with a trembling voice.

“Uh… well, strictly speaking, you’re right, but…”

‘Crazy bastard!’

The descendant could only be appalled.

And yet, the people of the Empire thought of the descendants of Ahrak as evil.

The truly evil wizard was in Einrogard!

‘I knew he treated his students harshly, but this is really… too much, isn’t it?’

There was a limit to how harshly you could treat someone; making a second-year student help with the Black Emperor’s Coffin summoning magic was beyond the pale.

After hearing about this crazy magic, the descendant of Ahrak suddenly became clear-headed, like he had been woken up suddenly.

“B, but… he must have only played a simple role. No matter what, Gonadaltez… this isn’t the Dark Ages… right?”

“I only played a simple role.”

“Phew.”

Only then could the old black wizard breathe a sigh of relief. The undead, who had been watching from the side, barely managed to exhale.

‘I thought he was really crazy!’

“The story has gone off on a tangent. Anyway, the Eye of Ahrak starts from a similar principle to the Black Emperor’s Coffin. It’s a shameful comparison to a demigod… but it involves creating a black magic eye that doesn’t exist in reality within the dark element, and then summoning it.”

For a wizard, the continent of reality, represented by the material world, was always a place full of restrictions and norms.

He wasn’t talking about laws made by people. He meant the rules of nature itself. Like gravity, which pulls things down, or why you can’t walk through walls.

If a wizard could manipulate these rules as they wished, they could do so much more.

One idea from this was to take a different approach.

If you make the magic in a place that is not real, but made of pure magic elements, and then bring it into reality, you can break the rules of nature and create powerful magic.

“Ah, I understand!”

“You understand quickly, as much as you helped with the Black Emperor’s Coffin. Yes. It’s this kind of magic. Do you understand what kind of magic it is?”

“I didn’t mean I understood what kind of magic it is, but I understood how to cast the magic.”

Leihan corrected the misunderstanding.

At first, he didn’t know how to do it. But after hearing about the Black Emperor’s Coffin, he could understand how the magic was put together.

He recognized some of the magic words used to summon the Black Emperor’s Coffin in different parts of this new magic.

Of course, it was an extraordinary and bizarre sound to the black wizards.

He understood how to do the Eye of Ahrak magic even before they explained it?

“Young one. Don’t bluff. This isn’t that kind of magic.”

“Anyway, I don’t think you need to explain any further. Can I pick one of the other magics and ask about it? There was something useful…”

“…This young one, really!”

Leihan’s attitude made the descendant of Ahrak even more furious.

“Then go ahead and cast it once! If you cast it, young one, I’ll crawl around this castle on all fours!”

At the other’s words, Leihan suddenly thought.

‘Why do wizards always make bets that they’ll crawl around on all fours?’

He didn’t know why they always made bets that they would crawl around on all fours, instead of just telling him to try it once.

Did they really want to crawl like animals?

“I understand. I’ll try to prepare it once.”

“Hmph!”

And 10 minutes later.

“Oh. I think it’s working. Is this it?”

The black wizards couldn’t say anything and only blinked.

In response, the Eye of Ahrak, floating in the air, slowly blinked as well. Judging by the reaction, it was summoned properly.

‘…That’s right. This young one wasn’t just an ordinary genius!’

He had forgotten because he was acting emotionally, but the young one in front of him was clearly a crazy genius who was taking not only black magic but also several other schools.

If Professor Mortum had boasted a little less, he would have remembered this useful information well…

He had boasted so much about useless things that he couldn’t recall the important information.

‘I was so focused on the fact that he had contacted the Hag that I didn’t pay much attention to his skills. What a ridiculous sight this is.’

‘Even so, he summoned it on the spot? Did he really just help with the Black Emperor’s Coffin?’

“The eye…”

“The eye?”

“It’s a little cloudy.”

The descendant of Ahrak started to find small faults, even though he shouldn’t have.

“Grrr (It’s not).”

“I’m sorry, but it’s close to perfect.”

“…Okay, you damn bastards. I get it! Happy now!”

The descendant of Ahrak burst into anger at the words of the unhelpful black wizards.

Like wizards who travel often do, the descendants of Ahrak would sometimes send messages to their friends.

Hag’s trace found. Very high possibility of sealing off the North (the head of the family has almost agreed).

Of course, that wasn’t the only contact that went out. There was another contact after that.

Hag’s trace found. Einrogard wizard said to have made contact (situation in the North has ended).

“The situation has ended?!”

“It’s even more amazing that the Einrogard wizard succeeded in making contact. What a great friend. Can’t we add him as a new descendant?”

“Even if we are bored that our group has stayed the same for so long, we can’t just add a new member without thinking carefully.”

The descendants of Ahrak, sitting around the round table, wore robes and masks, pressing them down deeply.

Even if they couldn’t see each other’s faces, there was no problem at all in identifying each other’s identities.

While the other descendants were amazed, the contact continued to come.

In order to ask the Hag a question, you must formally inquire with the Einrogard School of Black Magic…

“No way!”

“Are you saying we have to listen to Mortum brag again?”

…Fortunately, they said to inquire with his disciple Diret, not Mortum.

“Phew!”

“That’s a relief. We need to decide what questions to ask the Hag first.”

And a little later.

Einrogard wizard learned the Eye of Ahrak right on the spot (we didn’t intend to teach him all of our magic). He just listened to a few words and learned it on his own without really teaching him properly.

“…W, what on earth is he?”

Even the descendants, who had been calm and collected, were so surprised that their faces changed.

He just learned it right there on the spot?

No matter how talented he was, that was really…!

“What’s important now isn’t how he learned it, but how we’re going to respond.”

“That’s right. If he learned the Eye of Ahrak so easily, doesn’t that mean he has a connection with us? It might not be a bad idea to invite him once. Even if we can’t get him to join right away.”

“Was it the second and third who went to the North?”

“That’s right.”

“They are the least likely people to be able to invite someone nicely! We should send someone else.”

“There’s no one else with a good personality to invite…”

In the meantime, another contact came.

Good news. The Ondorgu Legion guys also had the Living Wall magic stolen right away.

“…I told you we should have sent someone else.”