Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 793

Lee Han tried hard to stay calm. He asked, holding back his anger.

“What do you mean by that?”

“?”

Professor Voladi looked confused by his student’s question.

There wasn’t really anything difficult to understand in what he had just said, ‘I’m worried you might be overdoing it’.

“Are you hearing things? Did your doppelganger mess with your ears?”

“…Ah, no. My ears are fine. So, you’re worried that Eandurde might be overdoing it?”

“That’s right.”

“Well, isn’t the Einrogard way to push students even if they’re straining themselves a bit?”

Lee Han wanted to say ‘Baegreg way’ but held back, thinking it would reveal his true feelings too blatantly.

Professor Voladi thought for a moment, then shook his head briefly and replied.

“That’s the Einrogard way, not my way.”

“…Could it be that your way is to carefully adjust things so that students don’t overexert themselves?”

“Yes.”

The professor looked at Lee Han, who was showing insight worthy of his first student, with a faint sense of pride.

‘I was being sarcastic…’

Lee Han vowed never to use irony with Professor Voladi.

Lee Han thought, ‘It’s hard to believe. Can Professor Baegreg really change? It’s like even a bad person can become good if they try.’

Certainly, the special situation of a 100% increase in student numbers could shake even the most steadfast professor.

Professor Voladi had thought he wouldn’t be included among the easily swayed professors…

But you never know. Maybe the 100% increase in student numbers had melted Professor Voladi’s frozen heart.

‘I shouldn’t be thinking this, but it really feels unfair.’

Lee Han struggled to abandon his wicked thoughts as he watched the groaning Eandurde.

Hadn’t he lamented with his friends in their first year, ‘Why do the seniors try to torment the juniors? They’re such wicked people’?

Lee Han himself shouldn’t become such a senior. He should be happy if the educational situation of his juniors improved.

But the sense of injustice didn’t easily disappear.

‘He could have had these thoughts when he got his first student…’

“By the way, did any other students come?”

“Yes.”

“Really? I don’t see them. Ah. Did they perhaps leave early after the lecture?”

“They ran away.”

“……”

Then isn’t that the same as not coming at all?

Lee Han gave up trying to say that. It would only hurt his own mouth to say it.

‘So, there are two in total. There’s no way any of the seniors suddenly went crazy and came to listen.’

It was easy to count the students in the Baegreg group. There were only a few – about ten.

“Still, it’s amazing. That Eandurde would come to listen to this lecture.”

In the meantime, Eandurde, who had fallen backward once again, wiped the blood from his nose with his sleeve and replied.

“I heard that senior was listening.”

“Ah. Is that so?”

Lee Han felt a little sorry.

And then he questioned it.

“Wait. From whom?”

Eandurde looked at Professor Voladi. Professor Voladi nodded.

And Lee Han was shocked.

‘Such an absurd scam…!’

If that’s the case, then which lectures isn’t Lee Han listening to during the lectures!

Using Lee Han’s name to trick a new student into coming to the lecture was unfair. It was mean to use the fact that Lee Han goes to many lectures.

“…Eandurde. I listen to a lot of other lectures too. Did you look into that?”

Eandurde nodded up and down as if he knew, and replied.

“Professor Lezh isn’t it.”

Eandurde had entered the Transformation Magic faction, and upon hearing that Lee Han was learning it, he quickly chose it.

Lee Han said with a bitter face.

“Professor Garcia, Professor Mortum, Professor Milley, Professor Krauer, Professor Lagrinde, Verdus… No. Forget what I just said. Anyway, didn’t you try to visit the professors I just mentioned?”

“?????”

Eandurde tilted his head, not understanding because of the names of too many professors.

Eandurde probably doesn’t go to all those lectures. Why is Lee Han asking about them?

Lee Han, unable to overcome his guilty conscience, stepped forward to help Eandurde with his training.

Eandurde was very pleased when the bead drew a circle instead of rushing at him.

“It’s moving well!”

“No. I just stopped it with telekinesis. Turn it back again. You need to draw the curve more smoothly.”

“How?”

“Um. So… concentrate and flick it as if drawing a line here?”

“……”

“……”

Eandurde and Professor Voladi stared intently at Lee Han.

Fortunately, neither of them said anything. Lee Han said, feeling ashamed.

“…I’m sorry. That was a very unhelpful thing to say.”

“It’s okay.”

Rather, Eandurde comforted Lee Han as if it was okay. Professor Voladi also added a word.

“Originally, talented wizards are clumsy at explaining.”

“Professor, you explain things well.”

“???”

Lee Han was surprised. He looked at Eandurde with wide eyes.

To think that a junior would learn this level of flattery in less than a semester since entering school.

‘If he learns for a year, he’ll be great at flattery!’

Professor Voladi, touched by his junior’s flattery, smiled faintly and replied.

“Thank you.”

Lee Han quickly wrapped up the conversation because he felt like he would faint from anger if he kept watching.

“Eandurde. That’s enough for today. It’s good to practice magic, but if you get too absorbed, you’ll get magic exhaustion or rebound.”

“But I heard that senior kept doing it.”

“……”

Lee Han thought, ‘Should I complain to the Headmaster?’

‘Are you using me to induce Eandurde to train until he’s ruined?’

If that was the case, Professor Voladi could be said to be the second most wicked professor in Einrogard.

‘No. Professor Baegreg wouldn’t use such cunning and complicated schemes. Even if the number of disciples increased by 100%, there’s no way he’d change that much.’

“It’s because I have a lot of magic power.”

“You’re also more talented than him.”

“Professor. Please be quiet.”

Lee Han wanted Professor Voladi to please shut his mouth. Eandurde was on the verge of tears from disappointment.

That’s supposed to be comforting…!

“Talent is very abstract, so don’t worry too much about it. You never know what part of which magic will shine.”

“But senior listens to all the factions…”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. What I want to say is, Eandurde, you’re doing well enough right now. Professor Baegreg agrees, right?”

Professor Voladi nodded.

Certainly, Eandurde was doing well enough right now, so there was no need to overdo it.

“Yes. So, let’s go back and rest now. Are you eating well?”

“I’m eating well!”

“Oh. Is that so? Is it because it’s the Black Turtle Tower?”

The Black Turtle Tower was faster for freshmen to adapt to compared to other towers.

“I’m taking it from the enemies of other towers.”

“…Take this and go. If it’s okay, share it with your friends from other towers.”

Lee Han handed Eandurde a bundle of food and sent him back, then sighed.

It seemed that Lee Han’s first-year juniors were enduring a harsher environment.

“Professor. Why do you keep telling Eandurde about me…?”

Lee Han couldn’t stand it and protested as soon as Eandurde disappeared. He couldn’t just let this go.

“He asked.”

“Ah.”

Lee Han immediately understood.

Come to think of it, Eandurde might have kept asking instead of Professor Voladi speaking first.

‘Why couldn’t I think of this possibility?’

Lee Han had only thought that Professor Voladi had subtly leaked Lee Han’s information to push Eandurde, and he hadn’t thought of any other possibilities.

It was a strange thing even for Lee Han to think about.

“Is your body okay?”

“Yes. I’m fine. The difficulty of the lectures has gone up, but it’s not really serious yet…”

‘To think he’d become this kind just because the number of disciples increased by 100%. If it increased by 200%, he’d even cook for them himself.’

“I’m talking about the doppelganger, not the lectures. You seemed to have a problem with your hearing earlier.”

“Ah. That’s not it. And the doppelganger…”

Lee Han, who was talking, suddenly remembered and immediately snitched on Antagondalus.

They were fellow inmates in the mad doppelganger prison, but now that their paths had diverged, there was no need to keep their loyalty.

‘I have to survive.’

“Indeed.”

Professor Voladi listened to Lee Han’s accusation with a serious expression.

A magic criminal who had become a slave to a mad doppelganger was desperately approaching.

“That’s a dangerous situation. It’s best not to wander around carelessly.”

“I’m keeping that in mind too.”

Lee Han was not planning to go anywhere outside the Einrogard territory mountain range or the main building.

If he went there one more time, he might really never come out.

“More powerful magic…”

“!”

Lee Han inwardly thought, ‘Oh no,’ at Professor Voladi’s words.

Come to think of it, he had been so focused on defeating Antagondalus that he hadn’t anticipated this.

The arrow could come back to Lee Han himself.

“…Refrain from training for a while. You’ve already overdone the magic you’ve completed now.”

“!!!”

Lee Han was truly surprised by the unexpected words.

‘Eandurde… amazing!’

He never knew the effect of a new disciple would be this great.

Professor Voladi didn’t know what Lee Han was really thinking. He kept talking calmly.

“Prioritize refining the existing magic.”

The >Wardahnaz’s Telekinesis> that Lee Han had completed now was originally a difficult magic to learn.

A magic barely completed amidst the death threats of a crazy archmage.

It was fortunate, but if it hadn’t been, the wizard might have gone mad or accidentally attacked himself.

As Professor Voladi, who always accurately presented only controllable risks in safe situations, it was an unacceptable method.

From the perspective of a talented disciple, he might want to try this method again now that he’s tasted success once…

‘That can’t happen.’

Professor Voladi was going to strictly restrain him.

The wizard had to control the magic himself, not be burned to death by it.

“Khuh. Since the professor says so, I can’t help it.”

Lee Han pretended to be regretful.

If it was just refining what he had learned so far, Professor Voladi’s lecture was a comfortable and happy lecture.

‘…No. Come to think of it, it won’t be comfortable and happy.’

Thinking about it again, the things he had learned so far were all difficult, so it didn’t seem like it would be comfortable and happy.

Just finishing and refining what he had learned would be quite difficult and exhausting…

Still, it was much easier than risking his life to overcome a new difficulty every time.

Lee Han was grateful to Eandurde in his heart.

‘Thank you. Junior.’

“Then I’ll continue practicing what I’ve learned.”

“Yes.”

Lee Han, who was preparing to slowly finish the magic accumulation, opened his mouth because something suddenly came to mind.

“But Professor. You’ll be preparing Eandurde’s next lecture yourself, right?”

Professor Voladi nodded.

Unlike other professors who had many disciples to order around, Professor Voladi was a true professor who always prepared his lectures himself.

‘Wait. Then…’

Lee Han recalled Professor Voladi attacking him by throwing beads.

It hadn’t come out today because Eandurde was practicing rotating the beads, but it wouldn’t be strange if it started soon.

“…I want to help you too. Professor.”

“!”

Professor Voladi felt anew that this disciple, who was volunteering himself, was also very interested in teaching.

It seemed that what the Skull Headmaster had said before was definitely right.