Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy

Chapter 568

Chapter 568

"Are you okay?"

Professor Bagrak stared intently at Yi-Han, who seemed to have choked.

Yi-Han waved his hand while coughing.

"Yes. I'm fine."

"So, about the transformation of the form of lightning elements."

"Cough cough."

He coughed again, but Professor Bagrak waited calmly.

"...Yes."

In a resigned voice, Yi-Han answered.

"I heard it's still unstable."

"Yes."

"Lightning elements have a high difficulty in form transformation, so keep practicing."

"Yes."

Yi-Han didn't let his guard down, keenly observing when Professor Bagrak would attack.

It was about time for him to say, 'I will help you practice, die.'

However, Professor Bagrak didn't say anything more after that.

Instead, he opened the baby Basilisk's mouth and shoved the green lump of meat in again.

"?"

This time, Yi-Han was rather perplexed.

'What is it? Is it a trick?'

Professor Bagrak, who was feeding it, felt Yi-Han's gaze and turned his head.

"Do you have something to say?"

"I thought you would attack, Professor."

"Why is that?"

"..."

Yi-Han was dumbfounded.

Is he asking that as a question?

'Isn't it rare for you not to attack during lecture time?'

Honestly, even if the lecture name was changed to , it wouldn't feel out of place at all.

"Well, you often attacked, saying it helps with magic practice, right?"

"Ah."

Professor Bagrak slightly nodded his head as if he understood what Yi-Han was saying.

And then he looked at his overly hasty disciple with concern.

"You're rushing too much."

"Pardon?"

"Practicing the form transformation of lightning elements in that way can be dangerous."

"Pardon???"

To his disciple who was surprisingly startled, Professor Bagrak gave a detailed explanation.

Even if one lost control and failed in the form transformation of water elements, it wasn't very dangerous.

If water wasn't sharpened, its danger level dropped significantly.

In contrast, if one attempted form transformation of lightning elements and failed, the danger level was much higher.

He knew well that this boy from the Wardanaz family displayed several times his usual abilities when faced with dangerous situations, but even considering that, it was dangerous to practice form transformation of lightning elements in that way.

When the explanation was over, Yi-Han's mouth gaped open.

"Is it difficult to understand?"

"No! I understood!"

Yi-Han swallowed his shock.

He thought Professor Bagrak had been thoughtlessly adhering to a 'if you don't want to die, you'll learn' style of teaching, but in fact, he had his own thoughts.

It felt like a natural disaster like a typhoon or earthquake was saying, 'Actually, I had my own thoughts.'

'Fortunately... I guess?'

His feelings were complicated, but it was fortunate that no attacks were flying at him.

Because if he had to return in tatters while having to prepare for the final exam, the loss would have been too great.

"I've said it many times, but don't rush."

"..."

Apart from being fortunate, he couldn't help but feel anger welling up.

Yi-Han suspected that all of this was actually Professor Bagrak's scheme to make him attack.

-■■■■! ■■■■!-

'Hmm. Let's calm down.'

Seeing the baby Basilisk eating the lump of meat while letting out a pitiful scream, he came to his senses.

Yi-Han decided to be purely grateful for the fortune of saving his life today.

"Yes. I won't rush. Currently, I can fix it in the form of a spear on the staff, but other forms are difficult."

"That's to be expected."

In fact, even for elements like water that were relatively easy to transform, it was very difficult to change them freely.

Moreover, if it was someone who hadn't learned magic for long, it was even more so.

As such, other mages didn't obsess over this much either. Even among Einroguard's seniors, there were few who saw the end of such form transformation and moved on.

For example, with the fire element, if one mastered just three forms - arrow form, spear form, and barrier form - it wouldn't greatly hinder magic casting.

If there was a need for another form, they could just respond with a new magic.

Even Yi-Han wouldn't have delved into it this much if it weren't for Professor Bagrak, who placed great importance on the basics in magic combat.

"It was fortunate that you mastered the spear form first. It's a form with high versatility. Next, try approaching it with the feeling of splitting the spear."

"Like the feeling of dividing it into daggers?"

"Yes. Daggers are fine, and spheres are fine too. Divide it into a familiar form. That will be advantageous."

Yi-Han summoned a lightning spear on his staff and transformed its shape.

The tip of the spear split and fixed in the air. Just as he had changed the form of water spheres, Yi-Han concentrated on changing the form of lightning as well.

'It's closer to a rock than a sphere.'

Unlike the water element that smoothly maintained a spherical shape, even when the lightning element took the form of a sphere, it bounced around and came out in a bumpy shape.

Crack!

When he lost concentration for a moment, the lightning element lost control and was fired.

The baby Basilisk was startled when it saw the lightning flying towards it.

"Keep practicing."

Professor Bagrak grabbed the back of the baby Basilisk's neck and stood up from his seat after finishing feeding it.

The not yet fully grown king of snakes resisted while grunting, but couldn't escape.

Thud-

"Run."

-...-

The Basilisk looked at the toys in front of it and then at Professor Bagrak as if dumbfounded.

The toys and racetrack placed in the center of the lecture hall.

Could it be that he meant to run around here now?

The baby Basilisk desperately shook its head.

It was already resentful that it was forced to eat the health food earlier, but this was truly a matter of self-esteem.

How could a Basilisk, a fierce predator and noble king of snakes that couldn't be tamed, jump over and run around toys that only pets would play with?

Professor Bagrak patiently explained to the young beast that couldn't understand.

"Your slow growth may be due to lack of exercise."

-...-

The baby Basilisk hissed and expressed resistance, but Professor Bagrak didn't listen anymore.

He picked up a toy stick and started poking the Basilisk from behind until it moved.

The baby Basilisk had no choice but to run the course, suppressing its anger and humiliation.

"Don't stop."

Yi-Han, who was concentrating on lightning magic next to them, looked at Professor Bagrak and the baby Basilisk going around the center of the lecture hall as if taking a walk, with curious eyes.

Did the Basilisk like such walks?

"Do Basilisks originally like walks?"

"That's right. According to Professor Bungaegor, they are monsters with quite a large territory."

"Oh my, I didn't make it exercise..."

"You can start making it exercise from now on."

"I'll keep that in mind."

Yi-Han nodded his head and reflected.

He thought the baby Basilisk disliked walks because it only liked to be coiled up tightly, but seeing it crawling so quickly now, it seemed to actually like moving.

He felt strangely sorry for making it endure because of the owner's circumstances.

'From now on, I should make it take walks.'

While Yi-Han was thinking that, Professor Bagrak relentlessly poked the Basilisk with the toy stick.

"Increase the speed. More. More. More. More. More. More. More."

The baby Basilisk made fierce hissing sounds as it ran around the course again and again.

Jumping through the loops, crawling up the toy stairs, swimming across the section filled with rough sand…

When it was about to collapse from exhaustion, Professor Bagrak stopped poking it with the toy stick.

Instead, he started waving the stick in front of the Basilisk.

It was to strengthen the monster's wildness.

"Bite it."

-...-

"It seems you still lack exercise."

As Professor Bagrak tried to get up again, the baby Basilisk hurriedly bit the stick.

Only then was Professor Bagrak satisfied.

If he kept training it like this, someday this baby Basilisk would become useful.

"Ah. Professor. Have you heard about the blood-sucking monster appearing?"

Professor Bagrak stopped the stick and let out a faint sigh.

"The giant is enough for the final exam. Stop being greedy."

"...No, I just said it!"

"Is that so?"

The professor answered in a voice that said, 'I don't believe you, but since you say so, I'll pretend to believe you.'

For a moment, Yi-Han almost went crazy and lost his mind.

"Do you have any advice? ...I'm absolutely, absolutely not asking because I want to catch it. I'm asking because I'm worried the blood-sucking monster might attack."

"It almost died to the Death Knights, and you think it will appear near the school again?"

"...It might appear."

"I see."

Professor Bagrak looked at his disciple expressionlessly and continued.

"It's a typical regeneration-specialized monster."

Countless monsters popped out in unpredictable places in Einroguard, and it was impossible even for professors to know the names of all these monsters.

However, Professor Bagrak grasped what type of monster the enemy was just by listening to the Death Knights' story, even though he hadn't directly encountered it.

No matter how unique and strange a monster was, it couldn't exist by violating the laws of nature itself.

If one learned the habits, characteristics, and laws of monsters, it became possible to understand even unique monsters when encountered.

First, the fact that it succeeded in regenerating even after being hit by the Death Knights' attacks meant that it had regenerative power strong enough to be difficult for most monsters to imitate.

"Such regenerative power is a strong ability, but it requires an equivalent price."

Yi-Han nodded his head as if he understood what he meant.

It was the same with magic.

Just as powerful magic required a lot of mana, long casting time, and complex reagents, the blood-sucking monster's regenerative power was the same.

"It kept seeking blood, so it might be the fuel for its regenerative power."

"High possibility. Blood is a powerful reagent even in sorcery."

Of course, that alone was not enough.

It had to sacrifice defense and various other abilities to achieve that level of regenerative power. Moreover, wasn't its speed also beyond imagination?

"It's probably at least several hundred years old."

There were quite a few monsters with blood-sucking abilities, but the level of ability shown by yesterday's blood-sucking monster was an ability that only a monster at least several hundred years old would display.

"Do monsters over several hundred years old also roam around Einroguard??"

"There are even monsters over a thousand years old."

For a moment, Yi-Han was about to ask, 'The principal?', but he hesitated. It didn't seem like he was talking about that.

"It was probably sealed or hibernating somewhere underground."

'The embodiment of fear itself.'

More terrifying than the blood-sucking monster was the thought that monsters much older might be stuck somewhere in the basement like junk.

Is this a magic academy or a hell labyrinth…

Crack!

Finally, as the lightning took shape, Yi-Han was delighted.

Although it wasn't perfect, he had somehow created a new form.

"Ah. Professor. I think I succeeded in one. I did use an object's shape as the core, but still..."

"A dagger?"

At Yi-Han's words, Professor Bagrak thought he had created a new form of lightning element using a dagger or sphere as the core.

A dagger was in the form of a spear fragment.

A sphere was the form Yi-Han had dealt with the most recently.

Both were easy and familiar forms.

In contrast, difficult forms would be armor, shields. And cloaks.

Lightning elements didn't suit defense, so armor and shields that required a wide area to maintain didn't go well with them.

Moreover, cloaks had the additional property of softly fluttering, so they belonged to an even more difficult category.

"No."

"A sphere?"

"I somehow fixed it in the form of a cloak. Look."

Yi-Han pointed to the cloak with sparks crackling, looking proud.

Seeing that, Professor Bagrak seriously pondered whether he had underestimated his disciple too much.

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