Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 823

Chapter 823

Not knowing that his junior was lowering his evaluation of him to Yukbeltire's level, Falcrius began explaining seriously.

It was a scholarly appearance that didn't match at all with his usual image of nagging members to move quickly in the kitchen club.

"This disease is not an ordinary one. Look."

Yi-Han looked at the groaning mage lying down, despite feeling disgruntled.

'It is unusual.'

Though it looked ordinary on the outside, the mana emitted by the disease inside the mage was constantly changing, drawing strange vortices.

As Yi-Han could grasp mana more keenly than anyone else here, it was possible for him to see the shape of mana flow this clearly.

"It is unusual. Usually, curse-type diseases like this have consistent patterns no matter how severe they are, but this one keeps changing."

"Puhoo. Wardanaz. As expected of an all-schools student. You saw it properly. That's why it's tricky."

Unlike ordinary diseases, the mana of the curse disease currently settled in the mage was constantly changing.

This made it difficult to grasp and solve its flow or shape.

Yi-Han asked, not understanding.

"Are there such diseases? I don't think it was in any book I've read."

"Of course not. That's a disease this mage created himself."

"What?"

"To be precise, it's a disease he created while experimenting on himself."

Falcrius handed over a paper recording the testimony of the mage from the Water Horse Mountain Range magic tower.

-Water Horse Mountain Range magic tower mage-

-Complex curse disease (unidentifiable, curse fusion mutation phenomenon occurred)-

-The patient continuously overlapped curses on his own body for curse-breaking research...-

Among patients coming to Einroguard, there were many who were injured by real misfortune, but there were also quite a few who came due to self-inflicted injuries.

And 99% of those who came due to self-inflicted injuries could be considered mages.

It wasn't easy to come here injured in such strange ways that couldn't be solved nearby.

Usually, only someone who kept putting suspicious curses on their own body could do this.

"Uh, so, he kept putting curses on his own body?"

"Wardanaz. You shouldn't look at patients with those eyes."

Falcrius quickly blocked Yi-Han's front. His junior's gaze was too cold.

"I think someone who keeps putting curses on their own body needs to have their head treated first, not the curse... Wait. Is this person from the dark magic school?"

"Hmm? No. No. He should be from the enchantment magic school. Since he's from the Water Horse Mountain Range magic tower."

'Whew. That's a relief.'

Yi-Han inwardly sighed in relief.

If the mage had been from the dark magic school, the already rock-bottom image of the dark magic school would have fallen even further.

"If he's from the enchantment magic school, I understand. They're all a bit crazy."

"Wardanaz. Einroguard's enchantment magic school is just a bit unique..."

Falcrius was about to say 'You're from the enchantment magic school too' but stopped.

"Puhoo. And that level isn't extremely strange. Mages do this often."

"Senior, have you perhaps kept putting curses on your body too?"

"I did keep eating poisonous mushrooms before to find new reagents."

"..."

"Someone has to eat them!"

Thinking his junior might really quit the healing magic school, Falcrius quickly explained.

And it really wasn't just the healing magic school that did this.

Magic inevitably involved experiments in the research process, and the easiest experimental subject to obtain was the mage himself.

At least they wouldn't report themselves to the imperial court!

The Water Horse Mountain Range magic tower mage tried to understand the characteristics of curses first to create a powerful curse-breaking artifact.

Not only the characteristics of each curse, but also their characteristics when fused or mutated.

-Hmm. So the blood clotting curse is like this-

-What if I add Farlakal's Gaze to this? Let's try tearing the spell scroll.-

-I can still endure. These two don't seem to cause much fusion or mutation. Good. Then next... Kuk. Kuhak. Kuheok!-

-Are you alright!? Ca-call a healing mage! A healing mage!-

'I really feel like becoming an anti-magic extremist.'

After hearing the full explanation, Yi-Han asked while maintaining his patience.

"Then how do you treat this?"

"Since there's no precedent, we'll have to experiment patiently and slowly. He'll probably be here all year. Puhuhu."

"...Did you just laugh, Senior?"

"I didn't laugh?"

Falcrius, who had been rubbing his hands excitedly at the thought of researching an unusual and interesting disease for a year, was taken aback by his junior's remark.

But regardless of that, the patient did have to stay for a long time.

As there was no exact treatment method, they had to try various things and research.

"What if we push it out with force?"

"Puhoo. Wardanaz. It's fine in Einroguard, but don't say such things easily outside. You'll be treated as a crazy mage."

A healing mage saying they would solve a disease by just pushing it out with mana quantity was similar to saying 'I'll draw all my blood for a transfusion!' in front of a patient dying from excessive blood loss.

It was a solution, but it also sounded a bit like suicide.

"And for this patient, it's not possible. If the curse was just lightly covering the soul, it could be pushed out by force, but in a situation where it's deeply embedded in the marrow, forcibly pushing it out could greatly damage the mind and body. Since it doesn't need to be treated right away, it's right to wait and take time."

Usually, if the soul was likened to a hard bead, such a curse would be like dye painted on that bead.

Yi-Han's pure and massive mana quantity could be likened to a fierce waterfall.

Even sticky dye would eventually fly off under a strong waterfall, but it was different if the dye was directly injected into the bead.

To blow away the dye, one would have to crack the bead and shoot a stream of water inside. Naturally, there was a high possibility the mage would be damaged in the process.

"Are there such cases? How does a curse get inside the soul?"

"It's easy. He opened his soul himself and put it in."

"..."

Yi-Han seriously considered whether mages' research permissions should be managed by imperial law.

"Senior! The professor is calling you for a moment! Feet keep growing from the patient's wrist!"

-Brat. Where on earth did you find such a patient? It would be hard to find such a patient even if you searched the entire ocean!-

-Please be quiet. Falcrius! Come quickly!-

"I'm coming now!"

Falcrius quickly answered and winked at Yi-Han.

"Feel free to experiment on that patient if you want to. Your hands must be itching already, Wardanaz?"

Yi-Han was disgusted by the kindness of sharing good teaching materials for his junior's skill improvement.

"Absolutely not..."

But Falcrius had already run off.

Yi-Han shook his head.

"Hey..."

"!"

Yi-Han turned his head at the voice from behind.

The middle-aged Water Horse Mountain Range magic tower mage was looking at Yi-Han with sharp eyes.

"Do you need anything? Should I give you more pain relief potion?"

"No, no. More importantly, I saw earlier, how did you cure curses so quickly?"

"I pushed them out with mana."

"...Don't talk nonsense."

It took 15 minutes of persuasion before Yi-Han could finally convince the patient.

The Water Horse Mountain Range magic tower mage was convinced but shocked.

"How can such... Wait. What should I call you?"

"Please call me Os."

"Aha. You must admire the Imperial Mage Administrator."

'Do you want to die?'

Yi-Han wondered if this person had forgotten he was in Einroguard right now.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to say such rude words.

"Alright. Os. I trust you. Then... do that for me too."

"What? No."

"...Here. Take this."

The mage quietly took out a pouch and put it in Yi-Han's hand.

When he opened it, there were small sparkling blue gems inside.

"This should be enough, right? I need to go back quickly. I have to finish my research before summer comes."

"No... It's not that it's difficult because of lack of money. Pushing out with mana doesn't cost anything."

The other party had accepted that Yi-Han had pushed out with mana, but it seemed he couldn't accept that it was just innately possible without any cost.

He naturally thought a price was needed and handed over a bribe.

"Then why not?"

"Because it's dangerous."

Yi-Han relayed exactly what he had heard from Falcrius earlier.

Originally, if disease was likened to dye painted on the surface of a bead called the soul...

"It's fine."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah. It's fine. I won't die, I won't die. So please do it."

'It's not fine.'

Yi-Han thought the other party was indeed befitting of the enchantment magic school.

He was exactly like a certain beaver mixed-blood professor who only said what he wanted to say even if told he would die.

"I learned some illusion magic too, so I'll extract the spirit and disable the resistance, then you can push with mana..."

"No. It's not possible."

"Please! You're an Einroguard student, aren't you! I'll put in a mission in the name of the Water Horse Mountain Range magic tower. I'll send sponsorship too! How about an invitation? To let you go out!"

The mage grabbed Yi-Han's sleeve and pleaded desperately. Slightly overwhelmed by that desperate momentum, Yi-Han asked.

"It's not a matter of benefit, but because it's dangerous. Isn't it much safer to just take time and treat it?"

"I told you I have to finish my research before summer! You know Verduus, right? Do you know what happens if you don't finish research on time after receiving lots of investment? You become like Professor Verduus! Unable to even go outside Einroguard because of assassins! I don't want to become like that!"

"..."

The other party's cry that he didn't want to become like Professor Verduus had a soul-shaking power.

Yi-Han, who had been pondering, thought he should try something.

'The professor is busy, and Lady Ragesa is busy too. The person to ask...'

Yi-Han glanced at his staff.

He felt it was too soon to call the mad doppelganger again after talking to him last time, but there was only one great mage he could ask now.

"Please wait here for a moment. Are you there?"

Silence.

Yi-Han called his master diligently until an answer came back.

Then an illusion appeared from the Echo Stone.

[What is it?]

"Hello, Master. Your disciple wanted to pay his respects, so I dared to..."

As he was in a needy position, especially after what happened last time, Yi-Han's attitude was very humble.

Pleased by the flattery, the mad doppelganger nodded and listened.

[It seems you've vaguely understood at least a fragment of what a disciple's manners should be. Your future may not be entirely dark, lowborn.]

"Haha. Thank you. But Master, I have a question while training in magic."

[It's 5th Circle this time, right?]

"It's not."

[...]

The mad doppelganger frowned and looked at Yi-Han.

He had told him to learn more 5th Circle magic, but it felt like this disciple was doing something different every time he called.

Yi-Han hurriedly made an excuse.

"It's for the process of 5th Circle! This is all becoming my foundation!"

[...Fine. Let's hear what you have to say.]

The flattery of paying respects must have been quite good, as the mad doppelganger went straight to the point instead of cursing.

Yi-Han diligently explained the patient's condition.

"Is there a way to quickly treat such a patient?"

[It's simple. I'll teach you a useful mystery.]

"Thank y...!"

Yi-Han, who was about to rejoice, paused.

"Is it perhaps 5th Circle magic or higher?"

[No. If we were to classify the process, it would be about 3rd Circle.]

'That's a relief!'

In fact, 3rd Circle magic wasn't a relief by 2nd year standards, but Yi-Han's magic standards were already quite broken.

3rd Circle felt easy to him.

"I would be grateful if you could teach me. What kind of magic is it?"

[This magic absorbs all of the other party's decline.]

"...Uh, so does that mean I have to suffer instead?"