Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 774

Chapter 774

It was nonsense, but Caten, who thought positively of the punishment room, nodded.

"Indeed. It can be fearful yet positive like the punishment room."

"Ha, haha."

"Now that we've roughly explained the lecture, we should start learning from each other, junior!"

Caten patted Yi-Han's back with a bright smile.

Although it seemed like a light pat, Yi-Han felt the impact shaking his body.

'Ugh.'

Even in ordinary movements, destructive power was ferociously hidden.

  *

And so the lecture began in earnest.

"So you cast this fire resistance magic and practice <Lesser Fire Barrier>... Hmm. In my opinion, it would be more effective to challenge without resistance magic."

"Pardon?"

"After all, casting fire resistance magic is to protect the mage, but isn't there no need to dull the mage's instinctive senses?"

"But you could get seriously injured."

"Hahaha! Junior. Just dodge well! Ah. Didn't you say you had difficulty controlling due to having too much mana? How about trying to cast without resistance magic?"

'...Could Professor Bagrak have bribed him?'

Yi-Han was shocked at the cat mixed-blood senior speaking so innocently.

To adapt quickly by making it more dangerous.

Isn't this completely Professor Bagrak's logic!

"I'd like to practice with resistance magic on."

"No, junior. If it's dangerous, I'll help you. Trust me."

"No... I'll eventually learn it even if I practice with resistance magic on."

Yi-Han's case was different from Caten's.

While Caten was in a position where he truly had to learn magic through sensation alone without any calculation, Yi-Han just needed to know how to control his mana quantity.

Moreover, this <Lesser Fire Barrier> now was closer to a magic Yi-Han knew how to use but had difficulty accurately controlling the power of fire, rather than one he didn't know how to use.

So why do such a reckless thing...

"Junior."

Caten called Yi-Han in a serious voice.

"Unlike me, you could be called an outstanding genius, junior."

"...So?"

"For such a genius to waste time while training magic could, in a way, be an insult to a slow learner like me."

"No, what are you..."

"So let's do it together! I may not be able to help with magic, but I'll definitely help if you look like you're going to get hurt. Come on, junior. Watch me first! Fire, rise up and become a barrier!"

Caten chanted the spell in a confident voice.

But contrary to that will, the mana was distributed completely randomly, and far from creating a fire barrier, only sparks fizzled out everywhere.

It was a failure that didn't even come close, but Caten paid no mind and prepared to cast again.

"Hurry, junior!"

"...Fire. Rise up and become a barrier."

Yi-Han carefully cast the spell.

Fire magic always had to be careful.

The moment he lost focus or input even a little more mana, it would swell up uncontrollably and burn the surroundings.

Unlike Caten, a near-perfect fire barrier rose up.

Yi-Han focused even more, worried he might not be able to control the mana quantity.

Whoosh!

For a moment, the fire barrier thickened and tried to spew fire in all directions.

Caten ran over before Yi-Han could react, blew Yi-Han away, and swung his sword to remove the fire barrier.

"Are you alright, junior?!"

"...I think I was fine before you blew me away, Senior."

"That's a relief. Let's practice again, junior."

"I think I need to recover some mana."

"I heard you have infinite mana, junior?"

"..."

Yi-Han thought he really should attack the White Tiger Tower students when he returned.

Caten lifted Yi-Han who was sitting and prepared to challenge magic again.

Caten had an inquisitive spirit that never tired or wavered when it came to magic.

"Now. Again!"

"Ugh."

Yi-Han was hit and blown away by Caten every time he lost control of the fire barrier or it tried to go berserk.

Sometimes he was even hit and blown away when the shape just wavered slightly.

-Why did you blow me away just now?!-

-Didn't it go berserk?-

-The shape just wavered slightly!-

-Oh my... I'm sorry, junior. I don't know magic well...-

At this point, he thought Professor Bagrak's lecture was better.

At least Professor Bagrak taught knowing what kind of magic he was trying to teach.

In contrast, Caten mercilessly pushed Yi-Han as much as he didn't know what magic it was.

With only the belief that his junior could surely do it no matter how tricky the fire barrier was.

"Huff, huff. Junior. Let's rest a bit."

Fortunately, Caten's mana wasn't infinite.

As mana would inevitably be consumed in small amounts when continuously failing magic, Caten, who had repeated quite many times, was panting.

"Oh my. Senior. Mana doesn't recover that easily. I think it would be better if you just rest completely."

"Huff. I suppose you're right, junior."

Caten agreed with Yi-Han's words.

Yi-Han was a bit regretful that he couldn't push this senior to get revenge, but he let it go.

It was better to rest like this than not being able to rest because of stubbornness...

"Then draw your sword."

"Pardon?"

"Junior. While we can't use magic, we can save time by training swordsmanship!"

"...Shouldn't you be careful with swordsmanship too when you're low on mana..."

"Hahaha. Junior. That much is fine. I can teach sufficiently even if I'm low on mana!"

Unfortunately for Yi-Han, Caten's words were not empty.

Despite having almost no mana, Caten skillfully deflected Yi-Han's attacks, sent them back, and sometimes even blocked like an iron wall using limited small worlds.

Even without mana, if he used small worlds to change reality, he could make up for what was needed.

Caten was quite satisfied with Yi-Han's heavy and powerful swordsmanship, but he still felt that greater concentration and determination were needed to complete an aura.

"Hmm. The punishment room is indeed a good space for concentration."

"If possible, a method other than the punishment room would be better..."

Yi-Han trembled while holding his sword.

He was considered one of the best in swordsmanship among his friends, but Caten's swordsmanship was completely beyond that level.

As he made up for the disadvantages of low mana with swordsmanship and faced off evenly, Yi-Han, who tried to push through at once with enormous mana and attack power, kept having to go into long battles.

"Hmm! It seems my mana has roughly recovered. Let's prepare magic again."

"..."

Yi-Han thought there was no need to look for hell in another dimension.

This was hell right here.

"Fire. Rise up and become a barrier."

Whoosh-

Unlike before, a fire barrier with a stable form rose up.

Yi-Han was slightly flustered seeing the magic completed so stably despite casting it himself.

'...Huh?'

Caten, watching from the side, asked curiously.

"Oh. Junior. This seems completed."

"...It can't be seen that way, Senior. Actually, the standard for perfectly completing magic differs for each person."

"But this seems like it could generally be called completed? Junior. Look. There's no wavering at all."

"Wavering might occur as time passes..."

"No! I'm reading the mana of this barrier and there's no such instability! Junior, you've learned another magic today! Congratulations!"

"..."

"Seeing this, I have even more faith in your methodology! I must train hard too!"

  *

Anglago, who was going to the <Imperial Languages That Become Blood and Flesh> lecture, waved his hand when he saw Yi-Han.

"Wardanaz. Honestly, I'm jealous of you."

"...Why?"

"Don't pretend you don't know. Senior Jahan only chose you. If you ask if I'm jealous, I am. Everyone wanted to receive teachings from Senior Jahan."

Anglago nodded while making "Hmm, hmm" sounds.

Except for being slightly lacking in magic skills, Caten of the Jahan family was sufficient to be respected by White Tiger Tower students.

First of all, it was amazing for a student to complete an aura, but he had gone beyond that stage and was even using small worlds to a limited extent.

Although Professor Ingurdel was also an amazing swordsman surpassing Caten, students naturally tended to admire seniors from the same tower who were closer than professors.

Anglago also wanted to learn swordsmanship from Caten.

"I'm thinking of working hard this semester and asking for teachings again in the second semester. Wardanaz. Don't let your guard down. You're just holding that position. You never know which one of us might steal your place... Ack! Ack!!!"

Students walking behind were puzzled seeing Yi-Han frantically beating Anglago's back.

"Why is that bastard Anglago like that?"

"He didn't make the lame excuse of eating his assignment in his sleep like last time, did he? We haven't even gotten that many assignments yet..."

"He-help me! You bastards!"

Anglago called his White Tiger Tower friends, but his friends turned away and entered the lecture hall.

If foreign enemies attacked White Tiger Tower, they would fight to the death for their tower friends, but when Anglago and Yi-Han were like this, it was usually much more likely to be Anglago's fault.

"Ugh, ugh! Slip, from the enemy's hands!"

Even while being beaten on the back, Anglago barely managed to chant a slipping spell and escape from Yi-Han's grasp.

The clothes with greatly reduced friction allowed their owner to escape from the enemy's hands.

"Wh-what did I say... You'll see, Wardanaz!"

Shouting like that and jumping into the lecture hall, Anglago froze when he saw a huge wyvern blinking its eyes and staring at him.

"...Did I come to the wrong lecture hall?"

"Ah! You came to the right place. Everyone sit down! Sit!"

Professor Rosine was one of the relatively normal ones among Einroguard's madness-filled professors.

Perhaps it was because she was from an imperial bureaucrat background.

Even Professor Rosine, who was like that, seemed to be revealing her true colors now that they were 2nd years, and the students in the lecture hall had very complicated expressions.

'But didn't the professor walk around with a demon last year too?'

Yi-Han thought that inwardly as he sat down.

The students just wanted to believe that, but it seemed Professor Rosine was quite strange too...

Gainando next to him was trying his best to lower his posture to escape the wyvern's gaze.

"Yi-Yi-Han. That bastard seems to be staring only at me."

"Ah. Wyverns do tend to prefer blondes."

"Th-that rude monster..."

After all the students sat down, Professor Rosine cleared her throat once and began speaking.

"Now! You might have been surprised by the wyvern today! But everyone, don't worry. You won't have to ride the wyvern or hunt it. I brought the wyvern to the lecture hall because I wanted to show you how to talk with a wyvern."

After finishing her words, Professor Rosine conversed with the wyvern in very complex and bizarre cries that the students couldn't understand.

After a few questions and answers, Professor Rosine nodded.

"Could Gainando please go sit at the very back?"

"..."

Gainando, pale as a sheet, fled to the back in a hurry.

"Monster languages are more useful to mages than you might think. If you learn them well, they can sometimes have much better effects than powerful great magic. I've listed monster languages I'd recommend for each student, so read them once!"

With those words, paper birds flew to the students.

Yi-Han, who received and read the paper, asked curiously.

"Professor. I have a question."

"Yes, yes. What is it?"

"Monsters like basilisks are rare monsters we're unlikely to encounter in the empire, so is there really a need to learn their language? I think it would be better to learn other monster languages as a priority."

-...-

"...That... On your sleeve..."