Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 523

Professor Lightning Foot was very surprised. He couldn’t believe what he just heard.

“Why would we train for griffins?” Professor Lightning Foot asked. “Griffins are too big and heavy to play quaffle. It’s against the rules.”

But Bulpard said seriously, “It’s because the opponent might bring a small griffin.”

Professor Lightning Foot thought, *I’m a normal person*. He liked quaffle, sure, but some people in the Empire were really, really crazy about it. He just enjoyed it a little.

Preparing for if the opponent brings a small griffin…

What was even more surprising was that training for griffins seemed like it could actually happen.

Professor Lightning Foot thought that one of the quaffle players might try to bring a small griffin that just barely followed the rules.

There were people who brought them after changing them, after all…

‘Wait. Then why is he doing that?’

Professor Lightning Foot and Bulpard looked at Lee Han.

Lee Han rode his special broom, Phone League, quickly. The ram that was blocking the goal finally moved away.

The player saw this and started crying loudly, “How could you do this to me! How could you do this to me! I gave you the food I eat, the clothes I wear! I even gave you my bed!”

-Baa…

The ram looked sad, like it knew its owner was upset.

Lee Han looked awkward.

‘Is it really necessary to go that far?’

It didn’t seem like a ram would enjoy human food.

Suddenly, Bulpard yelled from the stands, “Griffin! It’s a griffin! That horse is really a griffin in disguise! Remember our griffin training!”

For a moment, Lee Han wondered if the opponent was trying to trick him.

Training against griffins, indeed.

‘Why on earth would we do that?’

“I knew it! I thought there was something strange about the horse’s eyes… Here!”

The player quickly covered the ram’s eyes so it wouldn’t see the griffin.

The other players covered their eyes, too. If they could just avoid the griffin’s scary eyes…

-Baa!!!!

“Why?!”

“Ah.”

Lee Han hit the ball with his pole, aiming for the open space. Then he realized, “Wait, is this happening because of you?”

Lee Han also had a baby basilisk with him.

Monsters could smell the basilisk, even though humans couldn’t. So, it made sense that they were scared.

-…?

The baby basilisk wagged its tail and looked confused instead of agreeing with Lee Han.

Smart monsters know how strong they are.

The baby basilisk knew it wasn’t very powerful yet.

If a monster was scared by a baby monster, wouldn’t that monster be a coward…?

“Thank you. Thanks to you, the professor will be happy.”

The baby basilisk was confused but pleased when Lee Han thanked it.

“Instead, let’s go deeper inside my arms. So the opponent doesn’t notice even after the game ends.”

-……

The Granden City Quaffle Club players were amazing to watch.

They were struggling, but they tried their best. They covered their mounts’ noses, ears, and eyes. They calmed their mounts down just by trusting them. They were trying to score more points.

However, the first-year students, led by Professor Lightning Foot, used a student with great attacking skills to lead counterattacks. They defended well and didn’t give the other team any chances until the end.

No matter how strong the quaffle club players were, it was hard to win in this situation…

“…Write that down.”

“Okay.”

Angalo and Keultran wrote everything down carefully.

These game records sold well to students who liked quaffle.

Professor Lightning Foot walked by and said, trying not to look happy, “Take out the part about covering the mounts’ eyes, ears, and noses. Readers will be confused.”

“Ah ha! Thank you.”

Professor Lightning Foot was happy because the Granden City Quaffle Club players praised him.

-I was really surprised. Professor! Your tactics were truly amazing!

-I’m really looking forward to the Einrogaard Quaffle Club next year!

-We need to retrain to face griffins.

-No, how about we try taming a griffin once?

“I’ll have the goblin keep the silver coins I received from the quaffle club players today. Use it to help you with research next year.”

“Thank you, Professor!”

The students were happy about the victory.

Lee Han was groaning from muscle pain. He paused.

“…Uh, wait. Do we get silver coins even for friendly matches?”

“It’s a gift for the winner, Wodanaz. I’m telling you, you really need to stop studying and take an interest in quaffle.”

Angalo said very seriously.

After seeing today’s game, he thought it was a waste for someone like Wodanaz to only focus on magic. He was so good at quaffle!

Even though Wodanaz was mean and rough, Angalo was ready to forget their problems. He wanted to help Wodanaz for the good of quaffle in the Empire.

Lee Han didn’t hit him because his muscles hurt. Angalo nodded.

“I see, you must have felt something because of today’s game too.”

“…Imirg. Imirg? Please hit that guy once for me.”

Lee Han’s giant friend was confused and didn’t know what to do.

Professor Lightning Foot praised today’s game again. He pointed out what the students could do better. Then, he called Lee Han over.

“Oh, right. The players said you were the best player today.”

“Yes. Thank you.”

Lee Han didn’t show much emotion.

A student who liked quaffle would have cried, but Lee Han was too focused on his muscle pain.

“Here. Take this. It’s the medal of honor.”

“Couldn’t you just give me more silver coins…”

Lee Han was surprised to see the medal. It had the date, place, and the emblems of the Granden City Quaffle Club and Einrogaard on it.

It was made of real silver.

“Is it all silver?”

“Huh? Of course. We can’t make a medal like this out of fake stuff, can we?”

Lee Han started to cry. Professor Lightning Foot was happy to see that.

‘He pretended not to care, but he must have been happy to win today.’

Professor Yonlamo said to the students, “The ideas of transformation magic for things outside your body and for your own body are similar. But it’s much harder to change yourself.”

To change yourself, you need a strong mind that won’t forget who you are, even if you change form.

“Sometimes, if wizards change form too much or for too long, they can forget who they are…”

Professor Yonlamo realized he had made a mistake when the students looked scared.

Unlike Professor Garcia, who was good with people, Professor Yonlamo didn’t know what scared the students.

“…You don’t have to worry too much! Becoming a different being after losing yourself isn’t always a bad thing!”

The students were even more horrified.

Some were whispering, ‘Is transformation magic too dangerous?’

“If transformation magic isn’t for you, you don’t have to learn it. Many transformation wizards don’t actually transform. Some people just aren’t suited for it… Lee Han, why don’t you come up and transform so the students don’t get scared?”

Professor Yonlamo brought in Lee Han to change the subject.

If Lee Han used transformation magic first, the students wouldn’t be so scared.

“…Yes? Professor, I don’t know how to use transformation magic.”

“Oh? You got a magic book last time, didn’t you? Haven’t you learned it yet?”

Professor Yonlamo asked casually.

During the last festival, hadn’t the wizards given Lee Han a magic book each?

-I am happy to give you my family’s magic book, >From Caterpillar to Dragon>. Haha! Haha! Hahahahahaha! The others… Oops. Ahem.

Hadn’t he heard these words?

“…I’m sorry. I haven’t learned it yet.”

Lee Han looked sad and apologized.

He thought Professor Yonlamo was blaming him.

‘Damn it. That’s unfair. I didn’t know I had to learn it.’

Even though it was unfair, Lee Han looked as apologetic as possible.

He knew that arguing wouldn’t work with a professor. He had to pretend to be sorry.

“Ah, no… I’m not blaming…”

Professor Yonlamo just wanted to live peacefully without problems.

He didn’t want to make an enemy of Lee Han, who was close to the Headmaster.

It was just a mistake!

Professor Yonlamo didn’t want to upset Lee Han. He imagined Lee Han becoming very powerful, maybe even the Headmaster’s helper. He thought Lee Han might cut his school’s money if he got angry. So, Professor Yonlamo quickly tried to calm him down.

“Transformation magic is hard. You can’t learn it easily. So you don’t have to apologize. I just thought you would have learned it by now…”

“…I’m sorry…”

Professor Yonlamo wanted to cry when he saw Lee Han’s sad face.

Professor Yonlamo gave up and looked at the students.

“Today… so… we’re going to learn some basics of transformation magic.”

The lecture started in a gloomy mood.

“Oh. See this? It’s sparkling!”

“Wodanaz. Look at this! I’m Maykin!”

“…If you don’t change back, I’ll pour hiccup potion into your mouth when you’re sleeping.”

“S-Sorry. Maykin. It looked fun when Gainando did it…”

The basics of transformation magic started with changing the color of your hair or nails.

It was easy and didn’t have many bad effects if you failed.

Friends practiced by changing their hair color.

‘Hmm. Gainando is going to get beaten up when I get back.’

Yoner saw that Gainando had copied him while he was gone. Yoner got ready to cast a spell to get back at Gainando.

“Yoner?” Lee Han said carefully.

“What.”

“Yoner,” Lee Han said carefully, “If you drink a little Metal Potion, it will be easier to turn him into steel with magic.”

Yoner looked happier. Lee Han felt sorry for Gainando.

‘Anyway…’

Lee Han waved his wand and wondered.

Lee Han was usually faster than the other students, but his hair color didn’t change easily.

“Lee Han. You need to use more magic power.”

“Ah. Is that so?”

Lee Han listened to the professor and thought that made sense.

Because of his resistance to magic, he had to use more magic power, even for magic he used on himself.

“More.” “More.” “More!”

“…I’m, I’m sorry.”

“I’m not angry. You know that, right?”

‘What are those two doing?’

Yoner was trying to write ‘Gainando is dead meat’ on his fingernails. He wondered what was going on with Lee Han and the professor.