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Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 855
🕑 Added 2024-09-18 08:08:39 +0000 UTCChapter 855
'No. Not now.'
Yi-Han, who had endured once more, suddenly became afraid.
Was he being too patient now?
What if, instead of using it for the perfect opportunity that would come later, he kept saving it and never used it until graduation?
'...That can't be. There will definitely be a chance to use it.'
"Start learning from <Beavle's Departure Enchantment>. Quickly. Why didn't you learn it?"
"Then why haven't you completed the automatic flying sailing ship yet, Professor?"
"That... That's difficult!"
Professor Verduus felt an unbearable sense of injustice at his disciple's outburst.
How could a person say such a mean thing?
"Hmph. This is difficult too."
"This isn't difficult!"
"The sailing ship isn't difficult either, is it?"
"I'm telling you it's difficult!?"
While arguing at a level unbelievable for a teacher and student of a dignified magic school, Yi-Han quickly skimmed through the magic.
Fortunately, <Beavle's Departure Enchantment> wasn't that difficult when he read it in detail.
'...Wait. What did I just think??'
Yi-Han got goosebumps at himself.
To think this complex 4th Circle magic didn't feel that difficult!
From his first year, he had been forced to handle all sorts of chores Professor Verduus assigned, and to handle them, he had to learn magic separately, which had made his foundations excessively solid.
Starting from <Beavle's Mana Emission Enchantment>, the magic he had been forced to learn was forcibly helping his understanding.
"I'm telling you it's not difficult! Are you listening?"
When Professor Verduus got angry beside him, Yi-Han also got angry.
"Damn it, it's not difficult! Are you satisfied?!"
"Y-yes."
Professor Verduus flinched when Yi-Han suddenly got angry. He sensed the killing intent often felt from Professor Garcia from his disciple as well.
Yi-Han learned the magic while constantly grumbling.
"Not difficult... Damn it. This is really absurd."
'Is he perhaps crazy?'
Professor Verduus felt fear for the first time.
His disciple's words and actions, which couldn't be explained logically at all, made Professor Verduus afraid.
"The magic used here is <Beavle's Mana Increase Enchantment>, right?"
"Yes."
"This is <Curvature>, this is <Acceleration>?"
"Yes."
"Please write properly."
"If you could read it, it's written properly. What are you talking about?"
"...I'm not doing this anymore."
Yi-Han suddenly stood up.
He was already angry because the magic was easy, and the professor had provoked that.
Professor Verduus was surprised.
"What? Why?"
"Because you didn't write properly."
"You could read it! What are you saying!"
"I don't care, I'm leaving."
"I'll give you the payment as promised with Kettle!"
Professor Verduus frantically jumped to Yi-Han's left and right, trying to block him somehow.
If it were another disciple, he could be replaced whether he left or not, but not this disciple.
Regardless, Yi-Han ignored him, dodged to the side, took out his staff, and deactivated the magic barrier.
"I'll write properly! I'll write properly!"
"Hmph. I'll be watching."
The disciple barely stopped his steps and sat down again. Professor Verduus grumbled quietly.
"If you could read it, it's fine. Why such inefficient..."
"I'm leaving."
"No! No! No!"
*
Woong-
Yi-Han sent an admiring gaze at the object floating in the air.
Then he suddenly had a question and asked.
"Professor. Why am I making and floating a new one instead of floating the sailboat?"
The object currently floating in the air was a wooden raft hastily made by pulling out one of the stable's pillars. Yi-Han wondered if this was okay.
'Probably not.'
Deciding to definitely report Professor Verduus's name if the spire stable keeper found the culprit later, Yi-Han asked.
"You need to do it yourself to know the exact difference."
The reason Professor Verduus brought Yi-Han was simple.
1. Put Yi-Han on the small sailboat.
2. Yi-Han overloads the magic circles installed on the small sailboat with mana.
3. Experiment with magic like <Beavle's Departure Enchantment> or <Beavle's Flight Enchantment> using the secured mana.
4. If an unexpected situation occurs, Yi-Han on the sailboat immediately inputs mana into the backup magic circles to stabilize it.
5. If that doesn't work either, control it instead.
6. Absolutely don't break it!
"Then are you really just recording from below, Professor?"
"I'm casting magic too."
"And maintaining it with the mana I input?"
"Yes."
Yi-Han nodded instead of getting angry anew.
In fact, there was no reason to get angry just because a professor assigned his disciple everything from experiment preparation to execution, confirmation, and recording.
Professors were originally that kind of species.
"Then let's start."
"Leave the empty space in the middle of the deck. I'm casting!"
Professor Verduus took out a spell book and threw it accurately into the empty space in the middle of the deck.
Instead of controlling the helm, it was an empty space in the ship's magic circle added to move with just Professor Verduus's magic.
The moment magic is cast here, the departure begins.
Woong-
Mana was drawn out from the mana securing magic circle installed on the small sailboat.
Thanks to Yi-Han additionally overinvesting mana, surplus mana could be easily secured.
If not, they would have had to disassemble all the magic circles and reconfigure them for automatic operation. For such artifacts, mana calculations were done precisely without error, so adding new magic was quite complex.
"Go! Departure Enchantment!"
Professor Verduus shouted, jumping up and down.
The small sailboat rose, moving with just the power of pure magic without Yi-Han touching it. Yi-Han carefully observed the movement.
If it rose with a different movement from the wooden raft Yi-Han had directly cast on earlier, an unexpected situation would occur immediately.
'It matches.'
"How is it?! It seems to match, right?!"
"Yes!"
"Good!"
Professor Verduus signaled to land. When Yi-Han threw the anchor inside, the sailboat slowly landed.
"You're amazing. Just looking at it floating in the air, isn't it completely possible automatically?"
"Because it's the easiest part. Also, such a small sailboat has less error."
The more magic there was, the more it overlapped, the more collisions increased and errors increased.
It was natural for a sailboat much smaller than a massive sailing ship to work well.
"Now. Next is <Beavle's Flight Enchantment>."
"I see. What should I do?"
"You have to learn it again like before."
"..."
Yi-Han glared at Professor Verduus as if he would kill him. Professor Verduus said in bewilderment.
"It's obvious!"
The professor's disciple entered into learning again with a murderous mutter.
After an even shorter learning time than before, Yi-Han succeeded in casting <Beavle's Flight Enchantment> on the wooden raft as well.
"Oh. It's moving. Can't we increase the speed more from here?"
"For that, we need to add more magic now. Isn't it fun?"
"No."
Yi-Han honestly felt a bit fun but denied it with a serious face. Professor Verduus grumbled.
"Even though it's fun..."
"I'm leaving."
"N-no! No! Let's say it's not fun! Now, get back on!"
Professor Verduus hurriedly put his disciple on the sailboat, afraid he might run away.
After getting on, Yi-Han activated the departure spell book like before, and after floating in the air, activated the flight spell book.
The sailboat started moving in the sky without any instructions. Unlike before, there were jerky and staggering movements.
'The mana is spiking.'
Being on the sailboat, Yi-Han could react much faster than Professor Verduus.
There were several parts where mana was spiking among the magic circles installed on the sailboat. The newly added magic was clearly causing problems.
'Is it the hull reinforcement magic? This seems like wind resistance magic. No. Do we really need anti-corrosion magic for flying over the sea? If this really doesn't work, we'll have to turn it off. For now, it seems we can endure.'
"If it seems not working, put mana into the backup magic circles! It's shaking a lot!"
"It seems okay for now!"
Yi-Han shouted down. And he conveyed what he had just found out.
Professor Verduus was pleased that his disciple was doing better than expected and gifted him additional work.
"That's great! If you can figure it out from there, just record it!"
"..."
Yi-Han was silent at the sight of him passing off even the only job he had to his disciple.
'I shouldn't have said anything...'
While Yi-Han was recording, Professor Verduus was delighted at the sight of his capable disciple.
Seeing that he was more outstanding than expected, it seemed he could assign other tasks in the future.
"Land!"
Professor Verduus signaled. Yi-Han nodded and prepared to land.
"Oh!"
"What's wrong?"
"There! It's Ragesa!"
Professor Verduus pointed far below.
Unlike people leaving through the 7th floor, Ragesa was boldly heading towards the main gate with her pirate slaves.
Professor Verduus was a bit flustered at that sight.
"She's leaving earlier than expected."
"Then shall we give it to her now?"
"No! We just started! We haven't even solved the problem that just came up! Come down quickly!"
Professor Verduus flatly rejected his disciple's suggestion and gestured.
Whether Ragesa was disappointed or not, what was important was completing a better work.
"...Wait. Where are you going? Hey! Where are you going?!"
Professor Verduus, who had been waiting for his disciple to land, was flustered.
The small sailboat was flying towards the opposite direction, not the spire stable!
"Come back! I said come back!"
*
Ragesa, who was walking towards the main gate, looked up in surprise when a small boat flew from behind.
'What's this? Is Beavle attacking?'
Judging by the appearance of the sailboat, it was the one Professor Verduus had been making.
She was even more surprised when Yi-Han jumped down from it.
"What is it?"
"Lady Ragesa. Professor Verduus has finally completed his work, so I came to deliver it."
"...Don't lie!"
'How did she know?'
Yi-Han was amazed at Ragesa's reaction.
How did she know?
"Actually, he couldn't complete it, so I stole it and came to deliver it to you."
"...Explain in detail."
Ragesa said with an expression of complete incomprehension.
Yi-Han briefly explained what had happened. Professor Verduus had completed it to some extent, but in his opinion, he was still greedy...
"Isn't he a crazy bastard!"
At Ragesa's reaction, even the pirate slaves in chains behind her nodded unconsciously.
Even to the pirates who committed all sorts of plunder at sea, it sounded like crazy talk.
As expected, all mages were nothing but crazy bastards.
"So?"
"I thought the professor would just keep piling up enemies if left alone, so I stole it and brought it out like this."
Ragesa burst into laughter.
After laughing for a while, the old pirate said, giggling.
"Beavle might not be good at anything else, but he's really lucky with disciples. After always choosing disciples just like himself, I don't know what lucky wind blew this time..."
"Actually, I didn't bring it out for Professor Verduus, but just for the empire's justice."
"If you have any thoughts later, come to the imperial southern privateer fleet. I'll let you plunder excitingly beside this daughter of Torgerard."
Yi-Han was slightly tempted but soon gave up.
No matter how he thought about it, being a pirate wasn't a stable occupation in the empire.
"Thank you, boy. It was an unexpected gift. I'm fully satisfied with this Einroguard visit now."
Saying that, Ragesa held out the sailboat to Yi-Han.
Yi-Han was surprised.
"Are you giving it back to the professor?!"
"Are you crazy? Why would I give it to Beavle?"
Ragesa spoke seriously. Yi-Han apologized immediately.
"I'm sorry."
"I'm giving it to you as a gift, boy. If what Beavle said is true, you should be able to improve it further."
"But I don't have the ability to improve it like Professor Verduus..."
"I think you'll have it in a year."
"..."
"Half a year? Three months?"
"No."
