Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 858

Chapter 858

'This is absurd.'

Shocked, Yi-Han began to deny reality.

Only the kitchen club was kind, the other clubs must be different!

-Not really? Why are you stepping up?-

-Junior. You're a 2nd year, right? Does it make sense for you to gather midterm information for yourself?-

"..."

But the seniors from other clubs also gave cold answers.

Yi-Han deeply regretted.

'Come to think of it, no one told me to come along.'

Thinking about it, even Senior Falcrius had told the other seniors to go, but hadn't called Yi-Han specifically.

Yi-Han trembled with indignation.

"Wait. Junior. There is one exam for which you need to gather information."

Perse, a Blue Dragon Tower senior, spoke as if he had just remembered.

"I knew 2nd years were supposed to do it too!"

"No. That's not it. Usually 2nd years don't do it, but there's an exception."

"??"

"When you take the <Understanding Intermediate Combat Magic> lecture exam this time, record that for us."

<Understanding Intermediate Combat Magic> was Professor Boladi's lecture.

If there had been seniors who took it, those seniors would have left records, but since no one was taking it, Yi-Han had to leave them.

"We probably won't use it for a while, but someday another junior might take it."

"...But new disciples entered 1st year."

"Is that true?! How many?"

Perse was surprised.

To think new disciples would appear for Professor Boladi's lecture.

Perhaps Professor Boladi had finally changed his teaching method a bit?

Yi-Han casually changed the subject. He didn't want to give the exact number of one.

"Anyway, I understand. When I take the exam this time, I'll leave records for future juniors to refer to."

"Yes. You don't need to try too hard. It's okay to record moderately."

"What do you mean? Are you saying I can do it moderately because there won't be any juniors taking Professor Bagrak's lecture anyway?"

"Ah, no... I meant that from a junior's perspective, just having records from a senior is something to be grateful for, so don't let it take up too much of your time."

"Ah. I see."

'I should be careful with my words in front of this junior.'

Perse thought inwardly.

Just as one shouldn't mention the number '5' in front of 4th years, there were a few courtesies in Einroguard.

Until now, there hadn't been much need since there were no disciples of Professor Boladi, but seeing the junior in front of him, he felt the need to be a bit more careful with his words.

'But how many actually entered?'

  *

"Eandurde. I'm grateful again."

"?"

The only 1st year student of Professor Bagrak's school, who was munching on rice cakes received from her senior, tilted her head.

"No. Nothing. More importantly, the lecture is over, don't you need to go?"

"Do you want to watch?"

"...Don't attack Professor Bagrak saying you're helping me."

Eandurde chewed the rice cakes with a dissatisfied expression.

To increase the odds of winning against a strong opponent like Professor Boladi even by 1%, shouldn't they attack together?

'What a thoughtful kid.'

Yi-Han felt like he might tear up a bit, but he couldn't show it.

Professor Boladi was staring at him from the side.

"Haha. Junior. The purpose of the professor's lecture is for us to receive teachings, not to attack the professor, defeat him, and then mock him."

"That's right..."

Eandurde nodded, puzzled by the strangely specific post-victory content.

After Yi-Han gave his junior a snack and returned to the classroom, Professor Boladi asked a question.

"Did you learn a lot from Lady Ragesa?"

"Uh..."

Yi-Han paused at the professor's question.

Did he learn a lot?

'I think I learned a lot. But I'm not sure if it's related to magic.'

He seemed to have learned a lot about how to steal, rob, raid, and scam as a pirate, but as for magic...

'I did learn Lady Ragesa's arcane magic. But it blew up the corridor.'

Yi-Han decided to answer moderately instead of digging his own grave by explaining such things in detail.

"Yes. I learned a lot."

"You're too greedy. There's no need to study Lady Ragesa's magic right away as it has many abstruse parts."

"..."

To think 'I learned little' would have been the correct answer!

Yi-Han was inwardly dumbfounded.

Regardless, Professor Boladi started pointing out Yi-Han's current state one by one.

Since his first year, Yi-Han had been learning various things while taking all schools' lectures, and Professor Boladi had been trying to somehow integrate them comprehensively and complete them into magic combat.

But as he became a 2nd year, even Professor Boladi found his disciple's areas of interest too broad and deep to choose and focus.

Just this semester alone, he was exploring not only Instantaneous Telekinesis but also the Lightning of the Thunder King, the arcane of the suspicious ancient doppelganger, and so on.

"It's not exploration, but forced..."

"Hmm?"

"It's nothing."

"Anyway, I recommend completing one without expanding further. It doesn't have to be Instantaneous Telekinesis. Do what you want."

Professor Boladi realized that telling his disciple to 'do Instantaneous Telekinesis first' was meaningless.

Given this disciple's personality, he was likely to become perverse, saying 'Hmph, don't arbitrarily define my magic learning.'

"...But I think I did what you told me to do well... Were you perhaps unsatisfied with the Water Bullet-related book from last time?"

"No."

'That's a relief.'

He hadn't heard an evaluation of the book he was writing because Ragesa had come in the middle.

He had been worried, but it seemed it wasn't a failure.

Professor Boladi continued speaking with an expressionless face.

"However, looking at precedents, it seems meaningless to tell you to develop Instantaneous Telekinesis."

"..."

Come to think of it, every time Professor Boladi talked about Instantaneous Telekinesis, Yi-Han seemed to have learned one strange magic after another and brought it.

It wasn't intentional, but from Professor Boladi's perspective, he couldn't help but feel that his disciple was very interested in other magic.

"Do what you want. I'll adjust next week's exam content accordingly."

'Wait. Is this actually good?'

Yi-Han was flustered at first, but thinking about it carefully, Professor Boladi's misunderstanding wasn't necessarily bad.

Wasn't he saying he would test on the topic Yi-Han chose?

Then he could choose the easiest and most confident magic field.

'No. It won't be that easy. I don't know what the exam topic is.'

If he relied on the Instantaneous Telekinesis magic he had completed to 5th Circle and said 'I'll take it on Instantaneous Telekinesis!', only for Professor Boladi to bring an exam that was deliberately difficult to use Instantaneous Telekinesis on, Yi-Han would suffer like crazy.

"Professor. If there's anything decided about the exam content, could I know even a little?"

"Hmm."

Professor Boladi showed faint embarrassment on his usually unchanging face.

'Oh.'

When someone who would have immediately said no if it really wasn't allowed acted like this, Yi-Han saw both puzzlement and hope.

"Professor. I diligently helped with Eandurde's lecture too."

"Why are you saying that?"

"...Just because."

Yi-Han inwardly cursed the professor.

As expected, professors basically had no human heart.

If a disciple worked hard, 'How admirable! What do you want?' should come out, not 'Isn't that natural?'

But Professor Boladi thought his disciple had stepped up because he was very interested in teaching.

As such, he couldn't read the intention when such a story was suddenly brought up.

"...Originally, I was asked to keep this exam content secret."

'It must be the principal again.'

Yi-Han cursed as he guessed the culprit.

First of all, Professor Boladi had no friends. There was Professor Kirmin, but he wasn't someone who would recommend keeping exam content secret.

"It's alright, Professor. You don't have to listen to such requests."

"I'm not sure about that. I think you should know, given the difficulty of the exam."

"...?"

Yi-Han started to feel fear creeping in.

Recently, Yi-Han had been tormented by real madmen, making Professor Boladi relatively kinder and gentler, but wasn't Professor Boladi originally one of the real madmen in his first year?

What had he prepared?

"Professor. Please tell me, I trust you! I will definitely keep the honor!"

"Alright. The decided exam content is a dragon."

"..."

"Wow!"

Eandurde let out an exclamation mixed with respect and admiration as she looked at her senior.

So the Wardanaz family senior hunts dragons by 2nd year!

Of course, Yi-Han had no mental leisure to clear up the misunderstanding. He asked his teacher with wide eyes.

"...Dragons aren't... um... common in the empire, are they?"

Even that rare basilisk was a species of minimal interest compared to dragons.

Dragons were a race that couldn't be met even if one wanted to in the current empire. There were no publicly known beings.

'At best, it's His Majesty the Emperor? Surely His Majesty the Emperor won't come for an exam.'

If the skull principal had persuaded the emperor to come for a midterm exam, Yi-Han was honestly willing to accept it.

If it was malice that took that much effort, it was right to just take it. How could one block that?

"That's right."

"Where and how on earth did you get one?"

"Hmm."

Professor Boladi was even more embarrassed than before.

He had to give the necessary information for his disciple's fair exam, so he spoke reluctantly, but he also had a promise with the other party.

"Professor. What kind of dragon it is is more important than you might think. Please give me a chance to make proper preparations."

"Hmm. Alright. The opponent is Princess Jourin."

"..."

Yi-Han's face changed more grotesquely than when he had directly met the mad ancient doppelganger.

The emperor's third child, and the dragon Yi-Han had met when he visited the capital following the skull principal!

Eandurde looked at Yi-Han with eyes that couldn't shine any brighter.

"Wo, wow... Dragon slayer!"

"Eandurde. That's not it. Calm down."

"Royal family slayer!"

"That's not good at all."

While a demonic moniker like royal family slayer might seem cool in fairy tales, in reality, a royal family slayer was just the empire's most heinous criminal.

As he didn't want to become the empire's public enemy number one, Yi-Han tried to grasp reality.

"Professor. How on earth did you contact Princess Jourin? No. More than that, I think there's some misunderstanding. Princess Jourin is still a young dragon who likes to play. If she visits this poor and harsh Einroguard that even demons shudder at, she'll be greatly disappointed."

Eandurde tilted her head.

Honestly, Einroguard didn't seem that bad.

"Her Highness's abilities are sufficient."

"No. It's not a matter of ability. Professor. It's a matter of her nature! You know too, Professor. To become a battle mage, one needs to be cold and bold."

The reason Professor Garcia wasn't called a battle mage despite having such innate talent (honestly, Yi-Han thought she could be considered one) was because her nature was kind and good.

Such a person didn't suit a battle mage who had to throw several spells in less than a second to cut off the opponent's breath.

In a similar sense, Jourin was still a young dragon. Not only would she not adapt to Einroguard's harsh environment, but it would be even more difficult to entrust Yi-Han's exam to her.

"This is a trap. The principal set a trap to trouble you, Professor."

"Her Highness sent a letter herself."

"..."