Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy

Chapter 651

"Wow, what a kind town!"

Priestess Siana marveled.

The other priests of the order also looked surprised, as if they agreed.

It was rare for townsfolk to be so considerate of travelers coming from outside.

"It would be really nice to build a temple here."

"I agree, Priestess Siana."

Although they should spread faith equally everywhere, it would inevitably be a bit more joyful if the town was warm and kind.

-The thief has escaped!!-

-Catch him!! If we don't catch him today, people from the family will come!!-

-Hey, everyone! Come out quickly! The priests have arrived outside! We need to catch him before they come in! Do you all want to be known as a town not to travel to in the empire!-

-Why today of all days! There are so many peaceful days!-

"...??!"

***

For the sake of his junior who kept grumbling that he couldn't do it, Alcicle began explaining the basics of time magic.

Although it wasn't his specialty, he knew a fair amount about this notoriously difficult magic.

"Wardanaz. For any magic, the start is detection or perception."

"Yes."

Yi-Han nodded.

Novice mages always dreamed of dropping meteors with a single finger or knocking out professors, no, enemies, with a single whistle, but in fact, that was a high level difficult even for outstanding mages to demonstrate.

Magic always started with the ordinary and basic.

For elemental magic, it started with feeling the element.

For illusion magic, it started with seeing illusions.

For healing magic, it started with recognizing diseases.

Likewise, space-time magic also started from detection or perception.

" or . In fact, these two magics are sometimes learned by mages who don't explore space-time magic. They're useful."

"That's right. I'm learning too."

"..."

Alcicle looked at Yi-Han in shock.

He hadn't meant for a student who had just finished his first year to agree.

"You learned ? How on earth?"

, which played the role of accurately putting the space around a mage into their mind, was a 1st Circle magic but had a higher difficulty than most 2nd Circle magics.

Occasionally, there were magics with such monstrous difficulty that transcended circles like this.

Such magic was naturally not learned together with 1st Circle magic, but learned when learning 3rd Circle magic...

"A senior taught me?"

"I don't know who it is, but it might be better not to associate with such a person."

Alcicle was disgusted.

Balpatan of the Moradi family, who had taught Yi-Han out of necessity to escape, was suddenly treated as a crazy senior.

Even though Yi-Han had asked to be taught first!

"Nah. He's not a bad person."

"Lord Gonadaltes isn't a bad person either."

'Isn't he just bad?'

"If you know , the explanation will be easier. is a similar category."

, which made one aware of what objects were located near oneself and exactly how far apart those objects were, was a useful magic for combat mages who often dealt with quick enemies, as well as adventurers exploring ruins with spatial magic cast on them.

was similar.

When this magic was cast, one could accurately perceive time passing in seconds, minutes, and hours without a clock, and measure the time from the start to the end of an event without any error.

This was also a useful magic for alchemists making precise potions or combat mages who needed to understand their opponent's magic.

"By the way, I learned too."

"You didn't learn ?"

"No. I didn't need it."

"..."

"..."

Suddenly, silence fell.

It wasn't particularly because Alcicle had done something wrong, but sometimes gatherings of people would strangely become quiet.

A time when everyone simultaneously ran out of things to say and fell silent.

"I really didn't learn it because I didn't need it!"

"Pardon?"

"What do you mean...?"

Yonaire and Nillia, who had been talking about what clubs might exist at Einroguard, turned their gazes.

Alcicle, who belatedly realized his misunderstanding, blushed.

"I mean I didn't learn it because I didn't need it. I don't do combat or adventure..."

"I see."

"That's certainly true. It's strange to learn everything like Wardanaz."

Unlike the two, Gainando and Eandurde stared blankly at Alcicle.

Although they didn't speak, one could feel that their intentions had aligned.

'Ah. These ignorant greenhorn bastards.'

"...Wardanaz, let's learn ."

"Yes. I've already mastered it."

"..."

Yi-Han, who had received the spell and mana flow during casting that Alcicle had written down, learned while the senior mage was chattering.

Seeing this, Alcicle resolved that he must leave the Wardanaz mansion within this week.

Otherwise, he might go crazy.

'What a hellish mansion...!'

"Didn't you say you couldn't learn it yesterday?"

"That's right. But you said other mages often learn or too. This should be seen separately."

"..."

Alcicle felt a strong urge to hit Yi-Han's mouth with his flipper.

Although Alcicle himself didn't know, this was an urge the skull principal often felt too.

"What's next?"

"Neft if reafing..."

"Pardon?"

"Next is reading the past, that is, going back in time and reading it."

Alcicle, whose pronunciation had become unclear due to clenching his beak tightly, regained his composure and spoke.

From here on was the specialized field of time magic that Alcicle hadn't learned and most other mages hadn't learned either.

"Let's look at this mage card. Where was this mage card one year ago?"

"I won it from a guest who came to the mansion!"

When Gainando shouted excitedly, Alcicle hit the mage card with his staff as if to say well done.

"One year ago it would have been with a guest who came to the mansion, and two years ago it would have been with another person. Reading the time this card has passed through can be said to be the true introduction to time magic."

Handling time was on a different dimension from just summoning and controlling an element like other elements.

As it required a process of isolating the mage's domain itself and intervening separately, even basic practice required tremendous difficulty.

This served the role of providing such basic practice.

So that mages could control the flow of time left on objects according to their will.

"Now take this card and practice reading the past..."

Flap!

A huge black eagle landed in front of the mansion window. The black eagle had a crescent moon-shaped necklace around its neck.

"Ah. It's here!"

"What is?"

"The item I bought from the Crescent Moon Auction. I have to pay for your helmet."

"Ah. You didn't need to hurry like this."

Although he said that, Yi-Han couldn't help but feel a little excited.

What kind of item had Alcicle bought?

Sensing his junior's expectation, Alcicle chuckled and unwrapped the package.

"Ta-da!"

A round silver shield the size of a buckler revealed itself from inside the package. Its antique style and patterns made one feel it was a relic made long ago.

Yi-Han was surprised.

"Wasn't this expensive?"

"It's not that expensive. Because it has many scratches, it's old, it's not a trendy design, it has no jewels, and its effect is for practical use..."

"..."

Yi-Han was at a loss for words at such realistic reasons.

"But I chose it because I thought it would be quite useful for you. The magic cast on the shield was good."

"What kind of magic?"

"Projectile deceleration."

"?"

Nillia paused at Alcicle's words.

magic wasn't that rare.

Of course, artifacts with magic cast on them were precious items, but that was only in the case of semi-permanently engraved items.

Even now, Shadow Patrol hunters regularly went down the mountains to ask enchantment mages for magic.

It was to have magic temporarily cast on their equipment before going hunting.

One of the magics often seen at that time was .

It was popular as it slowed down heavy projectiles thrown by enemies, and above all, it was advantageous that it wasn't too difficult, so most enchantment mages knew how to use it.

"Wardanaz."

Nillia tugged on Yi-Han's collar and whispered.

"As far as I know, projectile deceleration magic isn't that good, could it be that you've been scammed..."

"...It's called deceleration, but it's different!"

Alcicle bristled at the juniors' reaction.

After all, Einroguard graduates were all alike, rough and rude bastards.

"Even among decelerations, the principles are different. Usually, projectile deceleration uses telekinesis or wind elements. But this decelerates projectiles using time magic."

"!"

Yi-Han was surprised to hear Alcicle's words.

Nillia was also surprised and asked,

"Why block it in such a complicated way?"

"...Mages usually do useless things. I don't know either. Maybe they were bored."

Asking a mage 'Why use magic for that specifically?' was close to a taboo question.

Basically, if you ask magic that way, more than half of it becomes unnecessary.

Moreover, this wasn't even something Alcicle had made himself!

"I thought this shield would be good since you'll be attending Einroguard. And it'll be good for getting used to time magic too."

"Thank you, Mr. Pengerin. This shield will certainly be a great help at Einroguard."

"Why don't you say anything about getting used to time magic."

"Isn't that obvious? Haha."

Yi-Han, whose true intentions had been exposed, carefully put away the silver shield. No matter how useful this shield was, it would clearly be much more useful than the helmet.

"Yi-Han. Yi-Han."

"?"

"Give me back the card..."

"..."

Yi-Han returned the card he had taken earlier to practice magic to Gainando.

As soon as Gainando received the card, he put it deep inside his clothes and looked around warily.

'I won't let anyone take it from me!'

***

"We're here!"

Dolgyu and Siana also arrived at the family mansion.

The golem that came out to greet them bowed its head and then went to the garden.

"Wow. Mr. Wardanaz. Do golems work instead in your territory?"

"That's right."

"It's truly befitting of the empire's great magic family!"

Yi-Han didn't bother mentioning that demons occasionally appeared in the territory.

It wasn't a particularly important fact anyway.

"Did you both have no trouble on the way?"

"The townsfolk were so kind."

"That's right. I was flustered because they kept giving us gifts."

Gainando grumbled.

"My carriage... my coachman..."

"That's not the townsfolk' fault, Gainando."

"Hmph. The townsfolk might have chased away the coachman."

"Why would the townsfolk do such a thing?"

Seeing that his friends seemed to have received proper hospitality after coming a long way (except for one), Yi-Han felt relieved.

This seemed enough that he wouldn't feel sorry as the person who invited them.

"Then since everyone's gathered, shall we go on an outing to the city tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow?! We just arrived today!"

Priestess Siana was flustered.

"Then the day after tomorrow?"

"Uh, I need to greet the people in the mansion, visit the towns around the mansion to do volunteer work... It seems like it'll take a week..."

"..."

"..."

At Siana's words, the friends exchanged complex and subtle glances.

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