Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 778

Chapter 778

"Summoning mages must necessarily have extensive knowledge and flexibility regarding multiple realms..."

As Professor Millei's explanation began, some students' eyes wavered.

As they advanced to 2nd year and summoning magic entered a full-fledged realm, the difficulty of each explanation greatly increased.

And although Professor Millei wasn't an unkind professor like Professor Verduus, she wasn't someone who would postpone content that needed to be explained out of consideration for students.

As a result...

'Who cast a sleep spell?'

Yi-Han looked around in surprise.

He could see Raphael in the distance struggling not to doze off by stabbing his thigh with a quill pen.

'Perhaps the professor is doing this out of consideration for the students.'

Professor Millei's theory drove away fear from the students and brought drowsiness.

Even students who wanted to run away until just now were nodding off, unable to get up.

"What did I just say, Mr. Raphael?"

"Huh? Yes!?"

"Focus! Everyone, don't forget to concentrate. If you can't concentrate like this in the classroom, how will you concentrate in another realm?"

The old professor sternly scolded the students while tapping the table with her staff.

Mages who had reached the pinnacle were all interested in other realms, the outside world.

It was natural as they could use nearly infinite resources beyond the current continent's resources.

And summoning mages specialized in calling upon the power of such other realms.

Although there was magic that summoned a mage's individual creations without using power from other realms, like the skeleton army Yi-Han commanded, even so, they couldn't be completely indifferent to dealing with other realms.

The problem was that this outside world wasn't such a convenient and safe space.

As nearly infinite worlds could appear before a mage at any time, summoning mages had to know how to prepare for this.

Especially unlike certain realms that mages often visited and much was known about, uncertain realms...

'We don't know what will come out.'

Can you save your life by concentrating in a realm where you don't know what will come out?

Whoosh-

While Yi-Han was wondering about this, Professor Millei floated a huge map above the blackboard. The map was drawn of some nameless realm.

Fire-Iron Realm - Fire and iron found. ?, ??, ????, ???

Ice-Void Realm - Icebergs and sea found. Lack of food edible for living beings. ???, ??

Rainforest Realm - Giant plants. Abundant food but high monster danger. ???

...

The map had many blank corners, but there was also a lot of information filled in.

Professor Millei looked at the students and said.

"This is the realm you will visit and investigate this semester."

All the students woke from their sleep and blinked. Gainando muttered as if gloating.

"Yi-Han, Yi-Han."

"?"

"Salko must have thought he just had to avoid today, but that was a mistake! What a fool!"

Gainando rejoiced as if the semester had ended.

Clicking his tongue at the sight of Gainando rejoicing in his friend's tragedy, Yi-Han took out <Whispers of Einroguard> and left a message for Salko.

-Salko. You'd better come back. It's not just going in today, but throughout the semester.-

-...D-don't lie.-

But Salko soon returned.

Professor Millei slightly raised her eyebrows but didn't point it out.

It wasn't the first time students had attempted to escape from the lecture hall, and it wouldn't be the last.

"This realm is quite vast, and the properties of each area are also different. As you don't know which area you'll fall into, students will have to prepare for all areas before entering."

To the 2nd year students, Professor Millei adjusting her monocle felt like an executioner.

One student asked in a desperate voice.

"C-can't we visit a safe realm like in 1st year?"

Professor Millei shook her head strictly.

"There's no gain in visiting such realms a few times. You improve by visiting unknown realms and completing the map."

"...The rainforest realm would be better, right? Should we pray to get the rainforest realm?"

"Abundant food and high monster danger seems much more dangerous. I'd rather pray to enter the ice-void realm."

While the students were whispering, Yi-Han felt puzzled and raised his hand to ask a question.

"Professor. I have a question."

"Go ahead, Mr. Yi-Han."

"If a realm has this much information, isn't it not a completely uncertain realm?"

"...Mr. Yi-Han, do you perhaps want to go to a completely uncertain realm?"

Professor Millei asked with faint shock.

The whispering friends also looked at Yi-Han with shocked eyes.

"W-Wardanaz. Why are you doing this?"

"Please. We can just take this lecture normally. What did we do wrong??"

"...I was just curious..."

He had just asked if a realm with that much information could still be called an uncertain realm by academic definition, but to get this reaction.

Yi-Han felt slightly hurt inwardly and muttered to himself.

'But strictly speaking, it's not an uncertain realm.'

A realm with that much information secured couldn't be called an uncertain realm.

  *

"Everyone prepare signal magic."

"Pack cold protection items."

The 2nd year students gathered in a crowd and made plans.

Professor Millei watched with a strict attitude, but inwardly she was pleased.

Unlike other years, these students knew how to work together in such situations.

Apart from magical achievements or talent, this unity might be their most outstanding point.

"Hey, give up that blanket!"

"Why should we give up what our tower made!"

"What do you mean your tower made it! Did you forget who brought the materials?! What we did to get this leather!"

"..."

Of course, there were minor quarrels, but the students soon made up.

When Yi-Han started beating their backs, the arguing students immediately shut their mouths and began conceding to each other.

"Check food."

"Everyone secured it?"

"!"

Professor Millei was surprised to see the students' food was unexpectedly plentiful.

That was an amount 2nd year students could never secure.

'Could it be that time...'

At the start of this semester, when a few students were loitering in the underground warehouse disguised as workers, she had pretended not to see...

'...No. That's not enough for everyone to have this much.'

Unless they had pulled several carriages from behind, that amount couldn't be explained.

The pondering Professor Millei shrugged lightly. Wasn't it good if the students ate well?

Of course, the skull principal would grumble, but that couldn't be helped.

"My food bag feels a bit lighter?"

"Stop talking nonsense and take your hand off."

"We should have made heat protection items."

"That would have been too much."

There were cold protection items made last year because of the frost giant's blizzard, but unfortunately no heat protection items.

The students tried to solve it as much as possible with magic they could cast on the spot.

"Those who can cast <Lesser Fire Resistance>, <Lesser Cold Resistance>, gather."

"Leather or blankets, cloth or cloaks are good too. Let's cast on items with large areas as much as possible and take them."

"It's good that what Wardanaz casts lasts longer..."

"Stop talking nonsense and just receive it!"

After thoroughly preparing to endure whichever area they fell into, the students finished their plan.

-First check the surroundings after falling to figure out which area it is.

-Then approach the central area heading for the highest point while completing the map.

-Use signal magic or markers to rendezvous as much as possible along the way.

"Everyone, don't forget the faster we rendezvous, the easier it is to complete the map."

"Everyone seems to be ready."

The waiting Professor Millei gestured.

The students walked out with resigned faces.

The realm magic circle installed in the center was emitting even more violent and irregular mana than before.

"Then... let's depart!"

Following the professor's instructions, the students began to step forward.

Professor Millei nodded watching the students visit other realms, flashing one by one.

'At this rate, they might complete it much faster than other years.'

Not only the students' level, but their preparation together made the professor expectant.

Thinking that, Professor Millei unsummoned the summon she had summoned at the back of the lecture hall.

It was a summon that emitted colorless, odorless smoke that made students drowsy.

From 2nd year lectures, such minor obstacles were placed in the lecture hall to train students' concentration.

'Hmm. Thinking of Mr. Yi-Han, I might need to prepare something stronger...'

  *

Gainando, who fell on an ice sheet, was overjoyed to find a Blue Dragon Tower student ahead.

"Yi-Han!"

"..."

"...No, it's Adenart!"

Gainando and Adenart looked at each other with contemptuous gazes.

Given the realm's characteristic of falling irregularly anywhere, meeting a student from the same tower like this was incredibly lucky, but...

...why these two of all people?

'Hmph. Still, I should be kind first.'

Gainando grumbled inwardly but then made up his mind nicely.

Shouldn't he, the far superior royal, act more mature?

"Let's move together, Adenart."

"...Let's do that."

"Take this."

Gainando took out a sandwich, cut it in half, and offered it. It was a gesture of friendship.

The sandwich filled with ham, cheese, lettuce, mashed egg, and plenty of mayonnaise looked delicious just by looking at it.

Adenart looked at Gainando once as if surprised, then accepted.

"Thank you."

"Of course you should be grateful. Do you know how delicious this is?"

"..."

Adenart considered taking back her thanks for a moment, but not wanting to fall to Gainando's level, she endured.

"How did you make this?"

"Yi-Han gave it to me earlier. Ah. Right. You know what?"

"?"

Gainando chattered excitedly as the topic of his friend came up.

"I originally asked for snacks, you know? But Yi-Han said he couldn't give separate snacks. So I said I'd get the contents separately, just give me two pieces of bread."

Unlike other friends' misunderstandings, Yi-Han wasn't someone who would unconditionally give food just because Gainando whined for it.

Unless he really accomplished something great, no separate rewards would come.

It was the strictness that anyone managing the food of the four towers, not just Blue Dragon Tower, should naturally have.

"You just asked for two pieces of bread?"

"I-I took on odd jobs in exchange??"

Gainando unconsciously made excuses at his half-sister's cold gaze.

"It was a fair trade."

"I see."

Adenart was about to say 'You'd have to work all semester to buy two white bread loaves with odd jobs at Einroguard', but fearing her stupid brother would get angry, she held back once again.

"So earlier, when I asked if I could get two pieces of bread before departing, Yi-Han gave me this. But when I opened the paper, this came out! You get it, Adenart? This is friendship! Secretly putting food between Einroguard sandwiches..."

"!"

Adenart, who had been listening quietly, let out a sharp cry filled with anger and began launching attack magic at Gainando.

Gainando screamed while running away, not knowing why.

"What is it?! What is it?!!"