Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 527

At first, Lee Han thought it was a normal mistake. Maybe the Skull Headmaster’s helpers just thought something was magic when it wasn’t.

But Professor Facellette’s words felt strange. It wasn’t just about a mistake with magic. It felt like she saw something real, something hidden.

Tizling Priest asked with a curious voice,

“Perhaps, have you lost your way?”

Of course, the ‘lost your way’ that Tizling Priest was talking about didn’t mean reality.

Seer magic was known to be very hard and strange. Wizards who used it often had problems.

One problem was that they could forget the difference between the past, present, and future. It was like getting lost in time when they tried to see too much.

Seer wizards now expressed this as ‘lost their way’.

“A great Seer wizard like Professor, surely…”

People called it a side effect, but losing your way like this was not normal. It was actually seen as something amazing, almost like a very high level.

Ordinary Seer wizards just coughed up blood or lost their lives; they couldn’t swim between the past, present, and future like that.

How difficult was it to foresee even tomorrow’s events?

As such, it was not surprising that Tizling Priest looked at Professor Facellette with a gaze mixed with amazement and respect.

A state that one might not be able to reach even after practicing Seer magic for a lifetime.

Someday, Tizling Priest wanted to reach such a truth…

“No. She’s just crazy.”

Lee Han denied it firmly.

“…”

The always kind and gentle Tizling Priest asked with a rare awkward expression,

“Do you have any reason for thinking so?”

“Professors are always crazy, aren’t they?”

“…”

Tizling Priest looked at Lee Han with an even more awkward expression.

If Gainan or Angalo had looked at him with such an expression, he would have hit them with his wand, but when someone like Tizling Priest looked at him like that, Lee Han felt pressured to add more reasons.

“Actually, Tizling Priest, I know my future.”

“Is that… really so?”

Tizling Priest raised his voice in surprise. His eyes fluttered, showing he was genuinely surprised.

It was rare for someone to know their future. No, there was simply no such person.

How could a mortal being know their future in advance?

However, Tizling Priest knew that the boy in front of him was from the Wodanaz family.

There were many secrets in the Empire that even the priest himself didn’t know.

If it was the Wodanaz family, they might possess such knowledge…

‘Could it be that he received some kind of prophecy? But how? By what method?’

“Yes.”

Lee Han lowered his voice so that only Tizling Priest could hear.

At that serious attitude, Tizling Priest focused and leaned in without realizing it.

What kind of future could it be?

“After graduating, I’ll use my connections and excellent business sense to multiply my assets dozens of times, make a name for myself as a rising business mogul in the Empire, and live a life of leisure.”

“…”

Tizling Priest lost his composure and glared at Lee Han.

He still had much to learn about Seer magic, but he could instinctively feel that the future the boy in front of him spoke of was wrong.

Fortunately, Professor Facellette soon woke up.

With a painful expression as if she had drunk about ten bottles of cheap alcohol the day before, Professor Facellette looked at the two students.

“…I didn’t attack you two, did I…?”

“No.”

“You just did Seer stuff.”

“You didn’t even do Seer stuff. You just said some strange things.”

“…”

Tizling Priest was about to say something at Lee Han’s desperate denial, but stopped.

Professor Facellette sighed in relief and said.

“That’s a relief. That’s a relief. If I had attacked you… I’m often a bit dangerous these days because I’m preparing for Great Magic.”

“Great Magic?”

Lee Han asked, hiding his wariness.

Whether it was a professor or a senior, preparing for Great Magic within Einroguard was never good for first-year students.

The moment they made a mistake, everyone had to bear the damage together.

“Yes. I need to figure out the location of next year’s freshmen. The Headmaster is conducting it, but I can’t avoid the burden either.”

“…!”

Lee Han realized what she meant and was shocked.

‘Seer magic can do even that??’

Come to think of it, there was no way they wouldn’t use the power of magic to bring freshmen from various backgrounds from all over the Empire.

And finding the location of these freshmen naturally fell under Seer magic.

Nevertheless, there was one reason why Lee Han had never thought about it.

The scale of the magic was absurdly great.

‘Even if they use the power accumulated in Einroguard, to foresee the location of qualified people from all over the Empire…’

Tizling Priest was also shocked like Lee Han, his eyes wide and silent.

That’s how shocking the Skull Headmaster’s magic was.

“The rebound seems too severe…”

As Tizling Priest hesitated, Professor Facellette chuckled and looked at the demon-blooded priest with admiration.

“Most of the backlash is borne by the Headmaster and the Headmaster’s prisoners, so don’t worry.”

‘I think there was something strange just now.’

“By the way, did I really just say strange things? I think I fell pretty deep…”

Professor Facellette trailed off, slightly puzzled.

Originally, when she fell this deeply into Seer, she would often spout useless nonsense but also salvage a few useful words.

But there was none of that.

“There wasn’t.”

“…”

Tizling’s subtle silence bothered her, but Professor Facellette decided not to ask any further and moved on.

“Okay. That’s a shame. Sometimes I salvage something useful.”

The professor, who was feeling regretful, looked around and used her wand to push away the opaque gray mist surrounding the trees in the forest.

“Another one has appeared.”

“Isn’t it just fog?”

“It’s more like residue than fog. Since we’re conducting such large-scale magic, things like this keep appearing. Be careful, as you can see hallucinations if you come into contact with it.”

“…”

Lee Han was slightly taken aback by the professor’s belated warning.

“Hmm…”

Without knowing what the student was thinking, Professor Facellette looked at the two of them and fell into contemplation.

As the contemplation grew longer, Lee Han felt a slight sense of foreboding.

Basically, there had rarely been a time when professors contemplating students for a long time had been a good thing.

“Um, Professor. We need to collect rock plantains for our duty, and that’s a more time-consuming task than we thought…”

“Didn’t you say you were going to handle it with magic earlier?”

“I did. But when I think about it, it seems like too much magic is being wasted.”

“”

But Professor Facellette, who wasn’t listening to whatever Lee Han was saying, made up her mind and opened her mouth again.

“Okay. It’s fate that we met like this, so I should show you once on this occasion. Both of you, follow me. It will be interesting as you are learning Seer magic.”

“…”

Professor Facellette originally had a laissez-faire attitude, not caring much about her students and letting those who wanted to learn do so on their own.

But the two students in front of her were a bit special among her students.

Tizling’s talent was outstanding enough to be coveted even among Seer wizards, and Wodanaz was just…

‘He’ll like it if I show him this.’

Professor Facellette’s other personalities also strongly agreed.

-A very good thought! As I said before, you can’t bore a genius!

-I, I think so too…

Of course, Lee Han was deeply frustrated.

‘I should have known it was ominous from the moment I saw the professor after sunset.’

He should have turned around and ran away right then, but staring with curiosity was a huge mistake.

Making such a mistake meant he still had a long way to go as an Einroguard student.

“Do you know what the professor is trying to show us?”

Tizling Priest asked, tilting his head, as Lee Han was so frustrated.

Tizling Priest had no idea at all.

“No. I don’t know either.”

“…”

Then why are you frustrated…?

Even the Skull Headmaster couldn’t use Great Magic that affected the entire Empire as he pleased.

Einroguard’s magic, as old as the Skull Headmaster himself.

A terrain with one of the Empire’s leading magic veins.

On top of that, excellent wizards and various minions to help the Skull Headmaster, and even death-row inmates to cough up blood and die in his place.

As this process was underway, unusual phenomena that could not be seen normally were occurring in various parts of Einroguard.

Professor Facellette waved her wand again.

Then the fog they had seen earlier scattered once more, and the path in the forest became clearly visible.

“Oh dear. It’s a bit severe today. It would be best to just follow behind me.”

“…?”

Lee Han and Tizling Priest didn’t know what she meant, but they soon understood.

The path that had just been created disappeared in an instant and was filled with dense trees.

Professor Facellette walked freely through the trees, where it was impossible to tell where was where, as if there were signposts.

She was breaking through this natural maze with the power of Seer magic.

Crack!

One of the stones on the bracelet Professor Facellette was wearing broke.

Lee Han immediately drew his wand.

“Is it an enemy?”

“No, no. It’s not an enemy, it’s bad luck. It blocked the bad luck that came to me. This is a ward. You’ll learn to make one this time.”

Seer wizards learned not only to foresee the future but also to control it.

Saying ‘control’ might sound grand. In fact, it was closer to a desperate attempt to slightly divert the direction of a huge stream of water rather than control.

But even that little bit was desperate for Seer wizards. Because foreseeing the future was that dangerous.

One of the measures was this kind of ward.

“It breaks like this when it detects bad luck, but even though it doesn’t seem very useful…”

“I definitely want one!”

Professor Facellette was slightly taken aback when the student, who had never shown any material desires, shouted with sincerity.

“Y-yes. You’ll learn it soon. About this much… good. It’s appropriately pooled.”

Professor Facellette looked around and finally found what she was looking for.

It was a spring.

However, instead of clear water as usual, the spring was filled with a murky gray color like the fog they had seen earlier, rippling.

“Do you all know what this is?”

“Is it a spring filled with poison?”

Professor Facellette burst into laughter, thinking Lee Han was joking.

‘I’m not joking.’

“No. It’s like residue that flowed out while conducting this Great Magic. Originally, it would just cause hallucinations, but in a situation where it’s pooled with such high concentration, if there’s a wizard who can control it…”

Professor Facellette waved her wand and chanted a spell.

The surrounding air became quieter and quieter, and even the noise disappeared. The sounds of insects or birds commonly heard in the forest could not be heard.

“It becomes a tool that sharply refines Seer power in a limited way.”

The professor threw a gourd at Lee Han.

“Try drinking it once. It will be an interesting experience.”

While Lee Han carefully approached the spring with the gourd, Tizling Priest asked a question.

“So this spring… enhances Seer power?”

“Yes. Isn’t it interesting?”

“I’m really surprised. How effective is it?”

“3 seconds if short, 10 seconds if long?”

Even that was an incredibly great thing.

Seer power was an ability that couldn’t be easily touched even with magic.

Glug-

As Lee Han drank the spring water, Professor Facellette asked with a voice filled with anticipation.

“How is it? Did you feel a sense of omniscience that you could get anything right for a moment?”

“…?”

Lee Han hesitated.

Even though the time the professor mentioned had passed, the feeling she had just described hadn’t disappeared.