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Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 585
🕑 Added 2024-06-20 10:40:10 +0000 UTCChapter 585
While the real skeleton warrior Gonadaltes crossed over to the unknown realm and engaged in a bloody battle, the lecture hall was gradually becoming chaotic.
"Uwaaaaah! What! What is this!"
"Selamodir. He seems quite angry. It would be best to be careful not to provoke him."
When Selamodir, who looked like a seal, threw the lecture hall desk and slapped the student who summoned him, Professor Millei swung her staff and intervened.
To the fuming Selamodir, Professor Millei began an explanation in the seal's language.
"■■ ■■■■ ■■■..."
Upon hearing the explanation, Selamodir swung his front paw.
From that gesture, Yi-Han felt a strong message of 'I'll let it slide today, so be careful from now on!'
Soon, Selamodir returned to his realm.
Professor Millei spoke as if nothing had happened.
"As such, summoning a being from an uncertain realm is a dangerous task. It would be best for everyone to stay alert."
"..."
"...Wa-Wardanaz. Did you see that?"
Nillia pulled Yi-Han's cloak, tense.
She was quite shocked by Selamodir slapping the student's cheek with his front flipper just now.
However, Yi-Han couldn't answer.
It was because he was concentrating on dealing with the hellhound that was half sticking out of the magic circle, unable to get out and struggling.
"Surround it! Push it in so it can't come out!"
Yi-Han attacked the hellhound together with the skeleton warriors.
Fortunately, the size of the magic circle was limited, so it couldn't pass through, but if it kept twisting its body like that, it might be able to pass through.
They had to defeat it before it passed through!
The hellhound, constantly being pummeled, finally retreated beyond the realm, cursing the mage who forcibly summoned it.
"Good work, Gonadaltes. But let's find something else. We can't submit that one."
After praising the skeleton warrior, Yi-Han belatedly noticed his friend.
"What's up, Nillia?"
"Nooothing?"
"??"
***
While other students were getting exhausted and dropping out, Professor Millei spoke while watching Yi-Han persistently sending summons and fishing in realms.
"A hellhound should be enough, so why do you keep searching?"
"No. I will find and secure a better one."
"?"
Professor Millei made an expression of not understanding the words of the student who had already secured a perfect score.
"It's already enough, so what are you..."
"No! A bit better..."
"Wardanaz. Calm down. That much is enough!"
"Right! If you bring a stronger one, it'll be dangerous for us too!"
Yi-Han's friends rushed in and stopped Yi-Han.
Even the hellhound earlier looked dangerous, so they were afraid of what might happen if he brought an even better one than that to the lecture hall.
Weren't they there too!
"I said I still need to find more!"
The old professor slightly raised her eyebrows and swung her staff, erasing Yi-Han's magic circle.
"Student Yi-Han. Perfect score. Next."
The friends released the arm they were holding, sweating profusely.
Nillia asked, glancing around (she had just pulled Yi-Han's left leg with a rope).
"Isn't it fine since you got a perfect score?"
"I thought I might be able to find one that hasn't been discovered yet."
Yi-Han sighed and got up.
Seeing that, Nillia suddenly felt sorry.
Did she and her friends block her friend's talent by thinking only of their own safety?
Her friend was trying to achieve the best result he could…
"I was going to find it and flatter the professor by attaching her name to it..."
"Hey."
Nillia's expression turned serious.
This guy, when she just felt sorry for him?
***
"So, Yonaire. I'm telling you, the kids from the summoning magic school are really mean."
"Uh... mmm."
Yonaire looked at her friend, who came back after getting a perfect score on the summoning magic exam and was grumbling, with a complicated expression.
Shouldn't someone stop this friend?
"Yi-Han. Wouldn't it be better to study transformation magic?"
"Ah. Right."
The grumbling friend's mind immediately returned to the exam.
Yonaire was amazed by this convenient reaction.
'From now on, I should talk about exams whenever something happens.'
"Arm transformation was harder than I thought."
Yi-Han spoke in a much more subdued voice than before.
Unlike other magic, in Yi-Han's case, the difficulty level increased significantly when using transformation magic.
Even the magic to change the color of his hair required several times more effort, concentration, and mana from Yi-Han compared to his friends.
And in the process, it even caught fire…
In that sense, the one-arm transformation, which was the final exam for the transformation magic class, was not an easy exam as expected. In fact, this was one of the lectures Yi-Han was practicing the most.
"Should I take a look?"
"Yeah? I'd appreciate that. Tell me right away if the shape is weird."
Yi-Han transformed his other arm that wasn't holding the staff into a leopard's front paw.
After all, it seemed better than a griffin or basilisk.
Thanks to his constant practice, instead of his arm chaotically transforming into dozens of shapes like last time, it maintained the form of a leopard's front paw to some extent.
Seeing that, Yonaire sighed in relief and admiration.
"It's much better than last time!"
Yi-Han smiled with satisfaction.
His efforts had paid off.
At first, when his arm kept going back and forth, he was at a loss, thinking 'Is this okay?' but in the end, he achieved results like this…
"It's a perfect drake's front paw."
"?"
Yi-Han hesitated.
"It's a leopard?"
"Huh?"
Yonaire was even more startled by Yi-Han's words.
The scales, claws, curved joints, etc.
No matter how you looked at it, it was the front paw of a dragon-type monster.
"It's... not a leopard, right?"
Yonaire spoke carefully, considering her friend's recent condition.
Even students who only took one exam became sensitive when it came to exams, let alone Yi-Han.
No matter how much of an iron man he was, he could be shaken during the exam period.
Just looking at his reaction to getting a perfect score on the summoning magic exam earlier, it was possible to guess that his friend was having a hard time.
"It's a leopard? Wait."
Yi-Han stared intently at his transformed arm.
Then he shouted in surprise.
"No, it's not a leopard?!"
At first, when he started practicing, it was definitely a leopard's arm, but at some point, it had changed into the arm of something completely different.
What the heck?!
Yonaire calmly began to explain.
"Originally, a monster's appearance is created to endure and maintain the mana that the monster possesses, right? For your mana, Yi-Han, it might be a bit difficult with just an ordinary leopard's arm..."
The external characteristics and mana of monsters were quite closely related.
A monster that possessed and maintained strong mana had suitable external characteristics for that purpose.
This theory also applied to transformation magic.
It was mainly mentioned as a problem that occurred when a mage tried to transform into a monster that was too powerful for their level, but it could also be established in reverse.
"But isn't a leopard quite strong?? Moreover, this isn't an ordinary leopard's front paw, but a monster called Sharakan..."
"But it's not working, so..."
"..."
Yi-Han made a complicated expression at Yonaire's words.
"Should I just go with a drake now?"
"Wardanaz! Wardanaz! Did you hear!?"
A student from the Blue Dragon Tower ran towards the two sitting in front of the courtyard.
It was a student who was also taking transformation magic.
"What?"
"I'm talking about Professor Yonramo's exam. A friend went ahead to check in advance."
'Oh no!'
At his friend's words, Yi-Han realized that he had been complacent.
Although Professor Yonramo said that the content of the final exam was to transform one arm, it couldn't be completely trusted.
When he went to the lecture hall, it could have been 'Actually, the content of the final exam is to survive an evil transformation curse.'
Naturally, as an Einroguard student, he should have checked the exam location in advance and prepared things that would help with the exam.
"Damn it. For me to make such a mistake...!"
When Yi-Han was genuinely upset, the Blue Dragon Tower student spoke in a fluster.
"Ah... no. You don't even have time for that, Wardanaz. It's physically impossible..."
"So? What happened?"
When it seemed like the topic was going off track, Yonaire brought the conversation back to the original point.
"It doesn't seem to be an exam about transforming an arm? The rumor is spreading among the guys who just came back."
"I knew the professor couldn't be trusted!"
Seeing Yi-Han accepting it without a second of doubt, Yonaire's heart ached a little.
He definitely didn't seem to be like this at the beginning of the year…
"Tell me exactly. What was it like?"
"So, that's..."
The friend explained the rumor he had heard.
This time, Professor Yonramo's exam was held in the Jade Forest Lecture Hall on the 3rd floor.
Although they didn't go to the 3rd floor often, the 3rd floor was a place where even 1st-year students frequently visited.
Students familiar with the geography of the 3rd floor moved their steps to check near the Jade Forest Lecture Hall, but…
"It had completely turned into a jungle. The lecture hall door wasn't visible at all."
"A jungle??"
"Yeah. According to the kids who went, they couldn't find the way at all, so they came back."
"I think I know what it is."
Yi-Han spoke coldly.
Seeing that, the Blue Dragon Tower student's eyes sparkled.
If it was the year's top student, who was always cool-headed and rational, he would provide a definite prediction even in a situation like this.
"What is it, Wardanaz?"
"There's probably a hint in the transformation magic. We'll have to use the transformation magic we learned this semester to find the way through the jungle and enter the lecture hall."
"As expected...!"
The student seemed to feel that it made sense, as he kept nodding his head.
However, Yonaire, who was listening next to them, made a puzzled expression.
'Is that so?'
She was confused about whether Professor Yonramo was the type to test students like this from before the exam.
Of course, it could be possible, but right now, Yi-Han seemed a bit dull in judgment, probably due to fatigue.
Should he be made to worry about this?
"Great. I should let everyone know about this. Thanks, Wardanaz!"
After the friend left, Yi-Han was very troubled.
"I don't know if I can break through with the current level of transformation magic."
"Yi-Han. Why don't you sleep a bit before going? How much sleep did you get?"
"About 3..."
"3 hours? That's a bit..."
"3 days ago..."
"Hey."
***
Divination magic professor, Professor Parsellet Krair, sighed.
There were various opinions on who had the hardest time during the year-end final exams, but Professor Krair was always included among them.
It wasn't simply because of exam preparation. It was because she also had to prepare the great magic to find new students for the next year.
The magic to locate the positions of new students with potential, spread throughout the empire.
Even using the Grand Mage Gonadaltes and the enormous mana of Einroguard, it was by no means an easy task.
If the divination mages outside knew about this magic, they would be so surprised that they would go crazy.
-Professor Krair, Professor Krair!-
"Ahhh I'm preparing it now!"
The dozing Professor Parsellet quickly called a personality and got up.
Dozing off in front of the skull principal at the end of the year would make it difficult to see a good outcome.
-There's one thing I want to tell you. It seems you don't need to prepare the magic to additionally confirm the locations on-site.-
"?"
Professor Parsellet was startled rather than happy.
The method of finding new students was to roughly confirm the locations spread throughout the empire first, and then go to that area and divine the detailed location once again.
The latter consumed enormous mana as much as the former, so preparations had to be made in advance by paying the price.
Of course, this involved a complex process that could be called the essence of divination magic.
"Is that true?"
-Yes. I'll just use mana to find them on-site.-
"..."
-Why are you looking at me like that?-
"Principal. If you're going to commit a crime, I'd rather..."
-…-
The skull principal glared at the professor.
Comments
Kezzy
Poor Yi-Han… 🪙🪙🪙🪙
