Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 681

Lee Han was very popular because of what he had done before, so he had to shake hands with many people.

“Are you a student of Einrogard?”

“Yes.”

“Are you a third-year?”

“No.”

People nodded when Lee Han answered. So, he must be a fourth-year!

After listening to several wizards introduce themselves and offer to do research with him, Lee Han finally returned to his seat.

Suddenly, Dirette had a thought. “Wait,” she said, “Where is Yookvelteere?”

“Why are you looking for Verdu’s sen- no, Yookvelteere, senior?”

Dirette was a little bothered that he almost called her Verdu’s senior, but she ignored it because it wasn’t important.

“If you had seen her just now, you would know how smart you are. Where is she? You must have seen her, right?”

“Well… I think she’s preparing over there, so I don’t think you would have seen her.”

Lee Han saw his senior talking with some other wizards in the corner of the hall and answered.

She was like Professor Verdu, focusing only on her magic and not paying attention to the presentations.

“Ah, really!”

Unlike Cohalti, this junior was a real chance to show how smart he was!

“I’m fine, Dirette senior.”

“Well, I’m not!”

Dirette glared at her junior, who had been saying clueless things.

“Honestly, Lee Han,” she said, rolling her eyes, “even when they tell you to stay out of trouble at school, you always end up in some crazy mess!”

“Hey, it’s not *that* bad,” Lee Han mumbled, looking down.

“But why are you being so quiet around Yookvelteere? Come on, show her what you can do!”

“But… she’s a senior, Dirette-senior,” Lee Han said hesitantly.

Lee Han usually acted carefully around people who could help him later. He learned to be respectful to powerful people like Professor Verdu, because you never know when you might need their help.

“I’m also a senior, junior. As your senior, this is my first order. Give Yookvelteere a good one.”

Dirette spoke to Lee Han firmly, like she was giving an order he had to follow.

Of course, Lee Han thought it was a very difficult situation.

“Umm. Even if you say that, I don’t have the ability to… By any chance, would attacking Senior Yookvelteere from behind be acceptable?”

“……”

“It was a joke.”

“…Don’t joke with that face…”

Yookvelteere turned her head because of the noise behind her.

She could feel that the reaction was more excited than usual.

The wizards were talking about the magic that had just been shown, their faces excited as they waved their hands and explained the movements.

It was the reaction everyone had when impressive magic was revealed.

‘What is it?’

Yookvelteere had seen the meeting’s catalog, so she knew what kind of magic would be presented.

There shouldn’t have been any magic that would cause such a reaction…

“Lady Yookvelteere. Preparations are complete.”

“Alright.”

Yookvelteere checked the artifact she would use for the presentation.

It was a detailed and complicated artifact, so it took a long time to prepare.

“I am truly moved. To think I would see such magic…”

“It’s still not finished. Are you flattering me now?”

“Ah, no, I am not.”

The wizards who knew the princess’s personality cleared their throats and straightened their clothes.

The artifact in front of them was indeed remarkable.

It looked like a normal pendant, but inside it, hundreds of spells were carefully put together.

All these spells were arranged for one purpose: to create a small, separate dimension!

Using power or summons from another dimension connected to reality was a common method in magic, so it wasn’t surprising, but Yookvelteere had gone further.

What if that dimension could be created by magic?

Because of practical limits, only a very small dimension was possible, but that was enough for an excellent wizard.

Wouldn’t that mean a wizard could briefly control a world where they could make new rules?

When contacting other dimensions, complex searches and negotiations were needed, but this wouldn’t need any of that.

If someone could create a ‘dimension overflowing with immense magical power’ and keep it stable…

That artifact could draw out almost infinite magical power!

“Artificial Dimension Artifact!”

“Ooh, is she really showing it today…!”

” ? ”

Lee Han wondered what was happening as the wizards around him got excited even before she started.

Dirette closed her book and explained Yookvelteere’s work.

“…It’s roughly like this. It’s a difficult and unstable study, so it won’t be as easy as I said. If it’s a dimension with a lot of magical power, keeping it stable and creating a passage will be just as hard. But even so, it’s a really great study. I was worried if Yookvelteere could show it here this time. It seems I didn’t need to worry.”

Dirette sighed in relief because her friend’s work seemed ready to be shown.

Yookvelteere was very interested in the study of dimensions and had been trying to combine enchantment magic with it to create new things.

It was such a hard study that she had been worried…

“Junior. More importantly, doesn’t it look like there’s nothing to criticize?”

“Yes?”

“You have to criticize it. When Yookvelteere presents, find something to complain about and point it out!”

“……”

Friendship was friendship, and Dirette was planning to get revenge for the Black Magic faction separately.

“How can I find fault in such difficult magic?”

“Junior?”

“Yes.”

“You’re more than able to do it. Find something quickly.”

“No…”

Lee Han felt wronged.

He couldn’t understand why Dirette thought of him that way.

Lee Han is a first-year student!

Still, as his senior instructed, Lee Han pretended to examine the artifact.

Many wizards were there, and magic filled the air. At first, it was hard to tell where the magical power was coming from. But after a moment, Lee Han started to understand.

‘I see. Up to here is the magical power leaked by the wizards in the audience. And from there is the magical power of that artifact.’

Lee Han was carefully feeling the magical power of the space. The wizards around him would have been astonished by his sensitivity.

When he was finally able to focus only on the magical power of the artifact, Lee Han slowly checked it.

‘Amazing!’

The structure of the artifact reminded him of a rocket that speeds up by burning fuel in stages.

The magical power, gaining speed in the first magic circle, accelerated again in the second, and then again in the third.

In this way, the power of magic was greatly increased to get the power needed to create an artificial dimension.

To create such an artifact, it was necessary to connect these magic circles and calculate the shock and heat produced.

The magic formula for creating a dimension after securing the power felt easier compared to the work above.

Lee Han muttered to himself without realizing it.

“How could someone like Professor Verdus make such an artifact…”

Dirette looked at Lee Han with a complicated expression.

It hurt a little to hear such words from a friend to a junior.

“Ah, Dirette, I think I found a flaw.”

“Oh? What is it?”

Dirette perked up his ears, looking delighted. It was a chance to clearly prove his junior’s intelligence to Yukbeltire.

“I’ve made a simple prediction by following the flow of magic inside. From the middle, the magic circle is slightly twisted, so it doesn’t draw a perfect circle and is completed as an ellipse.”

“…?”

Dirette was confused. How could his junior feel the artifact’s magic from so far away? And the flow of magic inside it!

“Junior, how did you feel the flow of magic inside the artifact? It’s far away, isn’t it? Besides, there are other wizards around…”

“I concentrated.”

“…Ah. Y-yes. Concentration. Concentration is important…”

Dirette was speechless at the textbook answer.

Well, you need to concentrate to feel the magic!

“Wait. That’s not important right now. I’m curious how you even predicted the flow of magic… Junior, it’s completed as an ellipse?”

“If you overlap the flows and keep drawing, it seems like it will become an ellipse.”

Dirette’s face turned serious.

Having helped Yukbeltire with the magic, Dirette knew what would happen if this magic was completed as an ellipse.

Instead of creating a small artificial dimension, it would connect to other unknown dimensions, creating a dimensional rift.

If it connected to a safe dimension, that would be fortunate. But things could get troublesome if it connected to a dangerous dimension.

“I have to stop this.”

The moment Dirette stood up, the artifact started. Dirette was shocked and shouted.

“Why is it starting already?! There should be time left, right?”

“We asked for it!”

The wizards in front answered with bright smiles.

Such great magic should be given more time so the wizards could learn more.

Of course, Dirette found this kindness very annoying.

“Yukbeltire, stop! It’s not a perfect circle, it’s an ellipse!”

“!”

Yukbeltire looked at his friend, shocked. This was not something to ignore.

“What nonsense are you talking about!”

“We clearly checked it. There were no problems!”

The wizards managing the exchange meeting’s presentation magic shouted, dumbfounded.

They had carefully managed it after the princess submitted it and checked it again before starting.

But it was absurd that a wizard wearing a hat pulled down low was saying there was a problem.

“Don’t ruin the exchange meeting and sit down!”

“No, isn’t this too much, considering it’s a safety issue?”

Dirette sighed as Lee Han was taken aback.

“The Magic Tower and the guilds are sensitive because crazy wizards keep picking fights for no reason!”

While Lee Han, having learned the truth, was speechless, Yukbeltire asked.

“Dirette. What’s the basis? You haven’t even touched this artifact for the past few days, have you?”

“This junior felt it. He said there’s a slight error in the flow of magic from the middle.”

Dirette felt a chill as the atmosphere suddenly turned cold.

‘I should have said that I noticed it at least…!’

He had blurted it out without thinking because he wanted to prove that his junior was smart!

Yukbeltire might have believed him if Dirette had said he noticed it.

“Dirette… I really don’t know if you have to go this far to prove the juniors of the Black Magic School. It only proves that my claim is correct.”

“N-no… he really notices it! And that’s an error! Stop it now!”

The wizards who had praised Lee Han earlier showed a lukewarm reaction to Dirette’s words.

“Even for a great wizard, that sounds too absurd…”

“Isn’t that a bluff? Come to think of it, that magic from earlier was a bit too far-fetched.”

“Is that even possible?”

‘I’m going crazy!’

Dirette felt like a two-eyed man who had fallen into a one-eyed country: too outstanding to be believed!

“Sing of thunder, spirit.”

Looking to the side, the junior was chanting a spell with a cold attitude.

He didn’t care at all about the other wizards saying he was making ridiculous lies or bluffing.

“Lightning and thunder! The bell ringer guarding the belfry of the ruined kingdom, and the watchman of the sailboat wandering the sea, fear your name.”

As a spirit that was difficult to compare with the power of ordinary spirits opened the door to another dimension and tried to reveal itself, the wizards in the audience felt the sign and were shocked.

At the same time, the artifact made a bizarre noise and malfunctioned. The magic circle inside the pendant gradually distorted into an ellipse.

“!!”

“T-that…!”

“The one who contracted with you calls you with due qualification!”

As Perkontra revealed himself, Lee Han dashed forward.