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Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 793
🕑 Added 2024-08-28 07:57:49 +0000 UTCChapter 793
Yi-Han asked, suppressing his killing intent as much as possible and restraining himself.
"What do you mean by that?"
"?"
Professor Boladi was puzzled by his intelligent disciple's question.
There wasn't anything particularly incomprehensible in what he had just said, "I'm worried she seems to be overdoing it."
"Did you hurt your ear from the doppelganger?"
"...N-no. My ears are fine. So you're worried that Eandurde seems to be overdoing it?"
"That's right."
"Uh. Isn't it the Einroguard way to push students even if they overdo it a little?"
Yi-Han was about to say "Bagrak's way" but held back, thinking it might reveal his inner thoughts too blatantly.
Professor Boladi thought for a moment, then shook his head briefly and answered.
"That's Einroguard's way, not my way."
"...Perhaps your way is to carefully adjust so that students don't overdo it?"
"That's right."
The professor looked at Yi-Han, who showed insight befitting his first disciple, with faint satisfaction.
'He's being sarcastic...'
Yi-Han resolved not to use irony with Professor Boladi.
'By the way, I can't believe it. They say even a butcher can become a Buddha if he puts down his knife, but can Professor Bagrak change too?'
Certainly, the special situation of a 100% increase in student numbers could shake even a fairly decent professor.
He had thought Professor Boladi wouldn't fall into the category of decent professors, but...
You never know about people. Maybe the 100% increase in student numbers had melted Professor Boladi's frozen heart.
'I shouldn't think this way, but it's really unfair.'
Yi-Han tried to get rid of his wicked thoughts as he watched Eandurde struggling.
Hadn't he lamented with his friends in 1st year, 'Why do seniors try to torment juniors? They're such evil people.'
Yi-Han himself shouldn't become such a senior. He should be happy if the junior's educational situation improved.
But the sense of unfairness didn't easily disappear.
'He could have had that thought when he got his first disciple...'
"Oh right. Did other students come too?"
"Yes."
"Really? I don't see them though? Ah. Did they leave first because the lecture ended?"
"They ran away."
"..."
Isn't that the same as not coming at all then?
Yi-Han was about to say that but gave up. It would only hurt his own mouth if he said it.
'So there are two in total. There probably won't be any seniors who suddenly developed mania and came to listen.'
It was easy to calculate how many disciples were in Bagrak's school. He only needed to bend his fingers twice.
"By the way, it's surprising. I didn't expect Eandurde to take this lecture."
Meanwhile, Eandurde, who had rolled over again, wiped her nosebleed with her sleeve and answered.
"I heard senior was taking it."
"Ah. Is that so?"
Yi-Han felt slightly sorry.
Then he wondered.
"Wait. From whom?"
Eandurde looked at Professor Boladi. Professor Boladi nodded.
And Yi-Han was shocked.
'Such an absurd fraud...!'
By that logic, what lecture wasn't Yi-Han taking during lectures!
To nail an innocent 1st year to the lecture by exploiting the fact that Yi-Han was taking all schools. This was too vile even for them.
"...Eandurde. I take many other lectures too. Did you check that?"
Eandurde nodded up and down as if she knew and answered.
"Not Professor Reuji's."
Eandurde had entered the transformation magic school and promptly chosen this after hearing Yi-Han was learning it.
Yi-Han spoke with a complicated expression.
"Professor Garcia, Professor Mortum, Professor Millei, Professor Krair, Professor Lagrinde, Professor Verdu... no, forget that last one. Anyway, didn't you check with the professors I just mentioned?"
"?????"
Eandurde tilted her head, not understanding, at the names of too many professors.
Surely she wasn't taking all these professors' lectures, so why such a question?
*
"Reduce the mana a bit more. Yes. Well done."
Unable to overcome his guilty conscience, Yi-Han stepped up to help Eandurde's training.
Eandurde was very pleased when the bead drew a circle instead of charging at her.
"It's moving well!"
"No. I just stopped it with telekinesis. Try spinning it again. You need to draw the curve more smoothly."
"How?"
"Well. So... concentrate and draw a line here like whoosh?"
"..."
"..."
Eandurde and Professor Boladi stared blankly at Yi-Han.
Fortunately, neither of them said anything. Yi-Han spoke, feeling ashamed.
"...Sorry. That wasn't very helpful."
"It's alright."
Rather, Eandurde comforted Yi-Han as if it was fine. Professor Boladi added a word too.
"Talented mages are usually poor at explaining."
"Professor explains well."
"???"
Yi-Han opened his eyes wide at Eandurde's words.
For the junior to have learned such flattery when not even a semester had passed since entering.
'She could be an imperial ambassador after finishing a year!'
Professor Boladi answered with a faint smile, seemingly moved by the junior's flattery.
"Thank you."
Feeling he might faint from anger if he kept watching, Yi-Han quickly wrapped up the conversation.
"Eandurde. This is enough for today. It's good to train magic, but if you focus too much, you'll get mana exhaustion or rebound."
"But I heard senior kept doing it."
"..."
Yi-Han wondered if he should send a petition to the skull principal.
'Isn't this using me to induce Eandurde to train until she's ruined?'
If so, Professor Boladi could be called the second most evil professor at Einroguard.
'No. Professor Bagrak wouldn't use such a cunning and complex scheme. Even if his disciples increased 100%, surely he wouldn't change that much.'
"I have a lot of mana, so that's why."
"He's more talented than you too."
"Professor. Please be quiet."
Yi-Han wished Professor Boladi would just shut up. Eandurde was making a sad face from disappointment.
Was that supposed to be comfort...!
"Talent is very abstract, so don't mind it too much. You never know in which part of which magic you'll shine."
"But senior takes all sch..."
"I don't know what you're talking about. What I want to say is, Eandurde, you're doing well enough now. Professor Bagrak agrees too, right?"
Professor Boladi nodded.
Certainly, Eandurde was doing well enough 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, really? Is it because you're from Black Tortoise Tower?"
Black Tortoise Tower freshmen tended to adapt faster compared to other towers.
"I'm stealing from enemies in other towers."
"...Take this with you. If it's okay, share some with friends from other towers too."
Yi-Han handed Eandurde a bundle of food and sent her back, then sighed.
It seemed Yi-Han's 1st year juniors were enduring a harsher environment.
"Professor. Why do you keep telling Eandurde about me...?"
Once Eandurde disappeared, Yi-Han couldn't hold back and confronted him. This was something he just couldn't let go.
"She asked."
"Ah."
Yi-Han understood immediately.
Come to think of it, Eandurde might have kept asking instead of Professor Boladi speaking first.
'Why couldn't I think of this possibility?'
He had only thought Professor Boladi had subtly leaked Yi-Han's information to push Eandurde. Other possibilities hadn't occurred to him at all.
Even Yi-Han thought it was strange.
"Are you alright?"
"Yes. I'm fine. The difficulty of lectures has increased, but it's not full-scale yet..."
'To think he'd become this kind just because his disciples increased 100%. If they increase 200%, he might even cook personally.'
"I meant the doppelganger, not the lectures. You seemed to have hearing problems earlier."
"Ah. That's not it. And the doppelganger..."
Yi-Han, who had been talking, suddenly remembered and immediately tattled on Antagondal.
They might have been mad doppelganger cell mates, but now that their paths had diverged, there was no need to keep loyalty.
'I have to survive too.'
"I see."
Professor Boladi listened to Yi-Han's report with a serious expression.
A magic criminal who had become a slave to a mad doppelganger was desperately approaching.
"It's a dangerous situation. It would be better not to wander around carelessly."
"I'm keeping that in mind too."
Yi-Han had no intention of going anywhere far from Einroguard's territory mountains or main building.
If he went one more time, he might really never come out again.
"Stronger magic is..."
"!"
At Professor Boladi's words, Yi-Han inwardly thought 'oh no'.
Come to think of it, he had been so focused on defeating Antagondal that he hadn't anticipated this.
The arrow could turn back to Yi-Han himself.
"...Refrain from training for a while. You overdid it too much with the magic you just completed."
"!!!"
Yi-Han was truly surprised by these unexpected words.
'Eandurde... amazing!'
Who knew the effect of a newly gained disciple would be this great.
Unaware of what rude thoughts Yi-Han was having, Professor Boladi calmly continued speaking.
"Prioritize refining existing magics."
The <Wardanaz's Telekinesis> that Yi-Han had just completed was originally a difficult magic to master.
Magic completed barely under the death threats of a mad great mage.
He was lucky, otherwise the mage might have gone mad or accidentally attacked himself.
For Professor Boladi, who always precisely presented controllable risks in safe situations, this was an unacceptable method.
From the talented disciple's perspective, having tasted success once, he might want to challenge himself again with this method...
'That can't be allowed.'
Professor Boladi intended to strictly restrain him.
A mage should control magic himself, not burn to death by that magic.
"Kuk. If you say so, Professor, I have no choice."
Yi-Han pretended to be regretful.
If it was just refining what he had learned so far, even Professor Boladi's lectures could be considered somewhat comfortable and happy lectures.
'...No. Come to think of it, it won't be comfortable and happy.'
Thinking again, even the things learned so far were all high in difficulty, so they probably wouldn't be comfortable and happy.
Just finishing and refining what he had learned would be quite hard and tough...
Still, it was much easier than risking his life to overcome new difficulty levels every time.
Yi-Han thanked Eandurde in his heart.
'Thank you, junior.'
"Then I'll practice what I've learned."
"Alright."
Yi-Han, who was preparing to slowly finish magic storage, suddenly remembered something and opened his mouth.
"By the way, Professor. You'll prepare Eandurde's next lecture yourself, right?"
Professor Boladi nodded.
Unlike other professors who had many disciples to order around, Professor Boladi was a true professor who always prepared lectures personally.
'Wait. Then...'
Yi-Han recalled Professor Boladi attacking him by throwing beads.
It hadn't come out today because Eandurde was practicing rotating the bead, but it wouldn't be strange if it started soon.
"...I'd like to help you too, Professor."
"!"
Seeing Yi-Han volunteer on his own, Professor Boladi felt anew that this disciple was also very interested in teaching.
The skull principal's words from before seemed to have been certainly correct.
