Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 1108

Chapter 1108

"Are you really doing this?"

"?"

At the junior professor's protest, Professor Boladi wondered.

At that reaction, Professor Garcia realized the other hadn't felt any guilt from the recent conversation.

'You, you...!'

Professor Garcia trembled at this shamelessness worthy of Professor Verduus.

Of course, strictly speaking, Professor Boladi had done what was agreed upon.

They had clearly had this conversation before departing:

-But Professor. Won't it be too hard on Yi-Han if we both teach together?-

-Seems fine to me.-

-...Let's just take turns? Set times, time for me to talk, time for you to talk. Divide it like that.-

-Alright.-

When principles or rules were set, Professor Boladi was surprisingly good at following them.

So he had probably been precisely timing while Professor Garcia was talking and spoke thus, but...

'This is really petty!'

Professor Garcia grumbled inwardly and took out her pocket watch. She planned to time exactly too, not missing even one second.

Tap tap-

Having looked her fill, Jourin detached her face from the window and returned to her original seat.

Then she saw Yi-Han and Professor Boladi positioned to study magic and screamed in surprise.

'Is it that surprising? Hmm. No. It is worth being surprised about.'

Professor Garcia understood inwardly.

While an Einroguard student might understand, an outsider, especially Jourin who grew up sheltered in the imperial family, would naturally be surprised.

"Wh-what are you doing?!"

"We're studying magic, Your Highness."

"Why?!"

"......"

"......"

The three mages fell silent. When actually asked 'why', it was awkward how to answer.

Yi-Han forced out an answer.

"Because there's no time to study at school?"

'Hmm!'

Professor Garcia groaned inwardly.

Hearing it like that made Einroguard sound like quite a harsh magic academy.

"C-can't even play with Jourin... Yet still no time. This really seems unreasonable!"

"Urk!"

Professor Garcia let out a sound.

Gradually Einroguard was starting to seem like a very harsh magic academy.

'Need to soothe her quickly.'

Yi-Han thought he should calm Jourin as quickly as possible.

He was worried about how Professor Boladi, who had his allocated time stolen, might react.

Surely he wouldn't send Jourin out of the carriage?

"What can we do? This is just how Einroguard is."

"I-is that so?"

"Yes. Not just me, all other students are also intensely focused on studying magic like this."

"......"

Professor Garcia stared at her disciple, mouth gaping in shock.

How could he tell such a brazen lie?

However, surprisingly it seemed to work properly on Jourin.

"Poor Einroguard students...!"

"Thank you for understanding, Your Highness. So please wait a little."

Fortunately as Jourin seemed to accept it, Yi-Han sighed in relief inwardly.

However, Yi-Han failed to notice.

Jourin's firm resolution!

'This is truly unreasonable. Jourin, Jourin...! Will change this rotten empire!'

Given the dragon race's characteristic of rarely taking interest in worldly affairs, this was truly an amazing resolution.

  *

"These are the magics currently in training."

Professor Boladi took out a small blackboard and drew a chart.

Written on it were 'Wardanaz's Telekinesis', 'Water Bullet', 'Brain Fire', 'Blue Flame', 'Soul Fire', 'High Undead Summoning', 'Principal's Vision' and more.

Seeing that, Professor Garcia exhaled heavily.

"Huk!"

"However, as mentioned before, the number and level of magics have increased."

"Whew."

"We must set priorities."

"Ah!"

"Not saying to master them all..."

"Oh."

"...Professor Garcia. Are you alright?"

Unable to watch anymore, Yi-Han carefully spoke up.

Even Jourin was looking at Professor Garcia as if finding her slightly strange.

Though Jourin didn't know much about magic education, surely adding such reactions after every sentence would definitely be disruptive.

"S-sorry, Yi-Han."

"Not at all. Um... You're not angry, are you?"

"Why would I be angry?"

"I thought maybe you were getting revenge for Professor Bagrak's preemptive strike earlier..."

"......"

At Yi-Han's words, Professor Boladi, who had been silently reading his book, raised his head and glanced over.

Professor Garcia, feeling extremely wronged, jumped up. Almost hitting the carriage ceiling.

"Absolutely not!!!"

"Ah. Is that so? Sorry."

Professor Garcia felt too wronged.

Professor Boladi was the one timing from behind while people were talking, yet to think she would be lumped together with such a person.

'Sob sob sob...'

"The magic we'll learn this time is <Intermediate Magic Storage>."

Professor Boladi had no plans to currently push and expand the high-level magics his disciple had learned further.

Just embodying and keeping up with already learned magics would take quite some time.

Rather, it was better to recommend a few magics his disciple needed now.

Since he was a disciple who had raised his magic level so rapidly, there were quite a few useful magics he hadn't yet learned.

'Whew. Thank goodness.'

Professor Garcia sighed. This time inwardly so as not to be caught.

"If it's intermediate magic storage..."

"It's the higher version of <Lesser Magic Storage> that Yi-Han learned."

<Lesser Magic Storage> - storage magic that pre-records magic below one's circle to cast quickly, using the body like a simple scroll.

<Intermediate Magic Storage> was the higher version of that magic.

"What circle is it?"

"5th Circle. Fortunate, right?"

'What's fortunate about it?'

Yi-Han momentarily felt distance from Professor Garcia.

He really couldn't guess what she meant by calling it fortunate.

Actually Professor Garcia had meant 'Still, since Yi-Han has learned several 5th Circle magics before, it's fortunate it's not 6th Circle.'

Probably Yi-Han would have felt the same distance even if he had understood her meaning.

"Moreover, <Intermediate Magic Storage> is relatively easy compared to the 5th Circle magics Yi-Han has learned."

"Oh my. How exciting."

'Yi-Han looks sad.'

Jourin thought while chewing candy.

Why did her contractor's face seem clouded with worry?

"If you want to practice <Intermediate Magic Storage>, try storing 4th Circle magic first. It will be good practice."

"No guarantee 4th Circle will work though..."

"What?"

"Nothing."

Yi-Han grumbled slightly then prepared magic as Professor Boladi instructed.

For good practice 4th Circle magic, naturally <Wardanaz's Water Bullet>.

Having handled it so much, it was also good to use as a test bed for other magic.

"Magic, dwell here. I command repeatedly, dwell here. Like energy settling quietly, like twilight arriving silently..."

Yi-Han entered practice mobilizing everything learned, from repetitive chanting to rhythmic spells.

For high difficulty magic, it was advantageous to succeed once first without worrying about casting speed.

'Good thing I learned things like this. If I hadn't learned them, it's frightening to think how I would have cast it.'

Meanwhile the two professors discussed what magic would be good next without even looking at their disciple.

"What magic should be next? I'd like to recommend <Millei's Paper Bird Summoning>."

"Don't think there's much need to store summoning magic."

"Yes. I know. But thinking about the meaning of practice, being able to store one summoning series magic seems quite helpful. Other summoning series magic too..."

"Professor. Could you check if I did this properly?"

Yi-Han called the two professors. However, the professors answered as if annoyed.

"If it's Yi-Han you must have done well. Just pick any difficult one and practice."

"Well done."

"So Professor. Summoning series magic originally..."

"......"

Yi-Han was dumbfounded at the sight of the two professors immersing themselves in conversation again.

'How can such people exist?'

Instead Jourin clapped beside him.

"Jourin thinks it's excellent!"

"...Your Highness is the light and salt of the Empire. Sniff!"

"Wh-why are you... Yi-Han. Don't be sad!"

Jourin hurriedly comforted her contractor in panic.

  *

'But what task did the Day Lily Magic Tower call me for?'

As he got off the carriage (Professor Garcia ground her teeth when they arrived just before her time), Yi-Han fell into thought.

"It's over there, Yi-Han. Quite different from where you visited with the Principal before, right?"

Among the Empire's magic towers, those with some scale and confidence in their ability would build towers across the Empire and connect those spaces.

The Day Lily Magic Tower was such a place.

Though the tower's headquarters was located in Flaher City, separate towers existed in the outskirts of the capital and Granden City.

Of course, even with connected spaces not everything was the same. Especially for tower appearances.

The tower in Flaher City had the most splendid and refined appearance, the tower in the imperial capital outskirts had a fairly classical appearance though not matching that, and the tower in Granden City outskirts had a somewhat shabby...

"Yes. Very splendid."

"Right. Shabb... What?"

Professor Garcia raised her head in shock.

Surprisingly, the tower entering their eyes was covered in dazzling gold. Professor Garcia had never seen such a magic tower building in her life.

'Did the Day Lily Magic Tower make a fortune recently...?'

It seemed like they might have won some magic-related business led by the Empire.

-The carriage has arrived!!-

-Everyone stop what you're doing and change clothes!-

Professor Garcia clearly witnessed two mages jump out of a manure pit where they had been testing alchemy reagents, quickly change clothes and cover the pit.

The two mages added various decorations and emblems to each other's attire then used magic to summon a tea table in mid-air. Then they immediately sat down in front and tilted their teacups.

"Hmm! How truly leisurely."

"A leisure unseen in other magic towers. Wouldn't you say?"

The two mages conversed loudly as if wanting someone to hear.

Though he hadn't seen the two mages jump out of the manure pit, Yi-Han noticed something strange.

"Why are they acting like that when there's nothing in those teacups?"

"......"

While Professor Garcia was thinking 'surely not', several other mages walked out in front of the tower.

They conversed loudly while obviously pretending not to pay attention to Yi-Han's group.

"Did you hear about our tower defeating the Malachite Magic Tower?"

"You mean the analysis of plant-form entities discoverable in local realms. Of course that analysis was excellent, but it's too common an occurrence in our tower to be worth mentioning!"

"Indeed! Hahaha!"

Watching the mages' retreating figures intently, Professor Garcia was horrified.

'Di-disgraceful!!'

Even if they wanted to scout Yi-Han after graduation, to put on such an absurd act!

Even Jourin was bewildered.

"Th-the mages seem under illusion magic."

"...Perhaps that might be it, Your Highness."

Yi-Han, belatedly realizing the situation, spoke as if finding it pitiful.

To think the Empire's virtuous mages would be corrupted like this because of the skull principal's evil deception...