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Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 792

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Chapter 792

"Next week is club week..."

"Ah. Wait a moment, Professor. I think time just slowed down a bit."

"I told you it doesn't work that quickly."

"Hmm!"

'I might really have to hit him.'

Of course, if hit wrongly, he could suffer a fatal injury, but if left like this, the Wardanaz family boy might burn to death with knowledge like a mage who flew towards the sun with wings attached by wax.

Wouldn't it be better to break a few bones now and learn a lesson than to have his soul burn with knowledge?

"I did it, Professor! I think I did it!"

"?!!!!"

Professor Garcia accidentally crushed the pocket watch she was holding to check the time.

That's how surprised she was.

"Uh, Professor. Are you perhaps angry about something?"

"It's just because I was surprised, so don't worry about it, Yi-Han."

"Professor, do you perhaps have trouble controlling your strength when surprised?"

Yi-Han asked seriously.

As he had many things to learn under Professor Garcia in the future, this was a matter of survival.

He might have to keep his distance from Professor Garcia on stormy days or in areas where ethereal monsters appeared...

"Don't ask unnecessary questions and quickly try the magic."

"Yes. Thought from instant to moment, moment to instant!"

Along with the incantation, Yi-Han could clearly feel his perceived time extending.

In fact, this magic wasn't that effective on its own.

First of all, it was magic that only extended perceived time, not the mage's entire time.

People often felt as if time slowed down when in crisis.

This magic created a phenomenon similar to that sensation.

Naturally, hands, feet, or staff moved slowly, unable to keep up with the speed of thought.

'It's hard to adapt.'

Pop!

Professor Garcia quickly floated a problem in the air.

Even if the body couldn't keep up with time, the accelerated consciousness alone had sufficient advantages.

A mage arrives at a town and is measuring the area of a field. In the following figure, the number that minimizes the sum of the areas surrounded by curves and straight lines is...

'Did I give too difficult a problem?'

She thought she just needed to check the perceived time, but utilizing accelerated thought was more important than expected.

This magic would be used more as a foundation or connection for time magics to be learned later, rather than for its own application.

To train the knack of instantly accelerating thought quickly, a problem much more difficult than usual was good.

It had to be difficult enough that it couldn't be solved within the time limit so that one could keep moving their thoughts.

But as Yi-Han remained very still, Professor Garcia worried slightly.

If it felt so difficult that he couldn't even approach it, she might have chosen wrongly...

"Professor."

Yi-Han, whose magic had ended in the meantime, opened his mouth.

"Was the problem very difficult?"

"No. That's not it. This is a problem Professor Knighton gave last year."

"Pardon? Why did Professor Knighton give this last year?"

Professor Garcia tilted her head, not understanding.

This wasn't a 1st year problem.

"He gave it to me separately to solve more difficult ones."

"..."

Shock and horror.

Professor Garcia was at a loss for words at this unexpected fact.

Not Professor Verduus or Professor Bagrak, but even Professor Knighton!

'I trusted him because he came from a bureaucratic background...!'

Einroguard's atmosphere clearly drove even sane outsiders mad.

"Professor. Come to think of it, what did you say earlier?"

Yi-Han, who had trained again with another problem (this time it was a problem measuring the position of a charging troll vanguard), asked as he recalled what Professor Garcia had said earlier.

"I said next week is club week so there will be many outsiders coming, and Yi-Han will probably be called to many places."

"Wh-why on earth is there such a week?"

Yi-Han looked at Professor Garcia with eyes full of despair and betrayal.

That gaze was so intense that Professor Garcia almost mistook herself for having created club week for a moment.

"...I didn't create it, Yi-Han!"

"Why are seniors wasting their magic lives on such useless time instead of doing research?"

'Pr-principal?!'

Professor Garcia was startled to feel a familiarity in Yi-Han's grumbling appearance.

This was the appearance of the skull principal that Professor Garcia had seen in her school days.

"Yi-Han. Of course, you might dislike outsiders coming to Einroguard, but such events are necessary. There were festivals last year too, weren't there? There are things we can learn when outsiders come in."

Although the skull principal didn't like outsiders coming to play, objectively speaking, outsiders were essential to Einroguard too.

How could they extract gold coins from people with plump gold coin purses?

The answer was to invite them to school with an appropriate excuse and then show them glossy research.

Imperial people who visited Einroguard on invitations from various clubs willingly invested in research through persuasion and excitement, and occasionally through threats and fear.

"And Einroguard students need to meet more outsiders. If they just stick together, they keep going mad."

"..."

Professor Garcia's words were scathing, but hard to refute.

Even to Yi-Han, it seemed not very good for Einroguard students when they were just gathered together.

It wasn't for nothing that the dark magic school poured lots of venomous insects into a jar when making curse gu poison.

The insect that won after struggling against each other in a confined space was the most vicious and powerful...

'Wait. The principal didn't get the idea for Einroguard from gu poison, did he?'

"I understand, Professor. But I can't help worrying because I've joined many clubs."

"Hmm. You could try changing your thinking a bit."

"That I can get more sponsorships or investments because I've joined many clubs?"

"...No, tell the seniors even now that 'I want to reduce my work a bit'."

"Professor. I tell them every time."

Yi-Han spoke, full of resentment.

Wouldn't it look like he dug his own grave if someone saw?

But Yi-Han had rejected all the seniors' unreasonable proposals in his own way.

Of course, he accepted and did some proposals together, but that was unavoidable as he had to be mindful as a junior, and it was also beneficial for Yi-Han himself.

"...Isn't it because you keep making exceptions saying it can't be helped and then do well? Just now with the magic too, you could have learned it moderately and slowly, but you forcibly learned it quickly."

"Pardon? Did I do that?"

Professor Garcia clenched her fist.

Fortunately, Yi-Han didn't notice. If he had noticed, he would have distanced himself outside the classroom.

"You can forget. Haha. Yi-Han. Shall we learn the next magic?"

"It seems you're a bit angry, Professor..."

"That can't be. Now!"

The next magics Yi-Han learned were 3rd Circle <Lesser Time Deceleration> and <Lesser Time Acceleration>.

Both were magics cast on external objects, not the mage, and had the power to accelerate or decelerate the time of objects.

Even though they were cast on objects, not individual mages, these magics involved several complex formulas and processes, and basically required <Lesser Internal Time Extension> that Yi-Han had completed today.

There was so much calculation that the mage's thought time itself had to be extended to complete it.

'Maybe because I've moved up to 2nd year, Professor Garcia seems to be pushing a bit too.'

Yi-Han thought inwardly as he moved his feet.

It felt a bit strange that Professor Garcia kept asking "Do you think you can complete this today too?" "You're honestly trying to complete it, right?"

Could it be indirect pressure?

-Clang!

'What's that sound?'

Yi-Han, who had come down to the first basement floor, was puzzled by what sounded like someone's scream of being hit.

It was quite a familiar voice.

-Clang!!

"..."

Yi-Han's face hardened as he moved the rest of the way.

Screams were coming from inside Professor Bagrak's <Understanding Intermediate Combat Magic> lecture hall on the first basement floor.

-Master. Why do we have to take lectures?-

"That's what I'm saying."

Yi-Han couldn't deny that the baby basilisk's question hit the nail on the head.

Why must students take lectures and suffer?

It might be an unsolvable question for life.

'Maybe mages should investigate this first, not other higher truths.'

-I don't want to go in. Waaah...-

The baby basilisk was really scared of Professor Boladi, and whined when Yi-Han tried to open the door.

Of course, there was the grace of bringing it and making a nest, but even considering that, Professor Boladi had done too many things to lose points.

"Do you want to go back to the dormitory?"

But the baby basilisk shook its head.

Being separated from its master was scarier than the crazy professor.

Yi-Han opened his mouth to soothe the baby basilisk.

"Well. Professor Bagrak isn't an extremely bad person. He's a kinder person than Professor Verduus or the principal."

-Isn't there anyone else?-

The baby basilisk was certainly clever. It immediately realized that the comparison targets weren't such good people.

But Yi-Han couldn't delay any longer. He opened the door to attend the lecture.

"Cloak. Swallow me."

After chanting the spell and entering, as expected, a junior was struggling against a bead.

Professor Boladi opened his mouth without even looking.

"You're permitted, so you can undo the invisibility."

"Oh. Really?"

Yi-Han undid the invisibility in surprise.

Originally, Einroguard seniors weren't supposed to contact 1st year students, but there were exceptions to this rule.

They could be mobilized when help was needed for professors' education.

And there was the unavoidable circumstance that Professor Boladi's other disciples didn't exist.

Of course, there was no one else to step up but Yi-Han...

'To think he really got permission. The principal is quite kind to Professor Bagrak.'

If Professor Verduus had said he would use Yi-Han additionally, the skull principal would likely have sent him to the punishment room given his personality.

Wouldn't he be displeased with that wicked intention of trying to use even a 2nd year student when other seniors weren't enough?

But Professor Boladi...

'I think I would have allowed it too...'

"Eandurde."

"!"

The gorgon mixed-blood junior was startled and looked at Yi-Han, then lost control of the incoming spirit stone bead and got hit once.

Eandurde rolled over with a sorrowful "clang" sound.

"It seems a bit early for you to attack, Professor."

Yi-Han said carefully, reading the atmosphere.

Originally, Yi-Han didn't dare comment on Professor Boladi's actions, but it was a bit different when a junior was being hit.

Professor Boladi answered with an expressionless face.

"I'm not attacking."