Episode 280
A cycle caused by wrong questions.
It was a nightmare situation for a precognitive wizard.
And the best way to prepare for this situation is…
‘It’s about not stepping into the situation itself.’
It was a slightly absurd answer, but it was the correct answer.
Rather than trying a precognitive spell, recognize the trap contained in the question and react.
We did not expect new students to have advanced techniques such as leaving a mark in their precognition that only they could recognize, allowing them to escape the cycle, or forcibly shifting the point of precognition further into the future or further ahead.
He deserved high praise simply for recognizing the pitfalls in the questions and responding.
In contrast, the worst reaction was to try precognition magic right away.
Since the new student jumped into the trap question without being prepared, he fell into a cycle and had no choice but to struggle until his magic power ran out and then faint.
It was clearly like that…
Lee Han waved his wand without any hesitation and tried, tried, and tried again.
Even Professor Passelette couldn’t understand what was going on for a moment.
‘how…?’
* * *
Without noticing the professor in front of him giving him a puzzled look, Lee Han cast the precognition spell once again.
But there was no real future in sight.
When he saw nothing in front of him, Lee Han tilted his head and canceled the magic.
It was an escape as natural as breathing.
Of course, a considerable amount of magical power was consumed in the process, but it had little effect on Lee Han.
‘Wasn’t it a problem to approach it this way?’
“Uuuuuh.”
“!”
Lee Han listened to the painful groans coming from next to him.
Because the professor had put up a curtain of illusion, I couldn’t see my friends, but I could hear their sounds.
No matter how much I heard this sound, it was a painful sound that could only be heard when a spell failed badly.
“Keuuk.”
“Keeeeeeek.”
dump!
It doesn’t just end with a painful groan, but also the sound of falling to the floor.
Thanks to the rigorous training he received from Professor Boladi, Lee Han was able to understand the situation using his other five senses even though his eyesight was blocked.
I heard a dragging sound and saw that there was no more moaning…
‘Even after passing the exam, you fail?!’
Lee Han did not understand.
Of course, it wasn’t an easy problem, but it wasn’t Professor Boladi’s test and it wasn’t enough to make me faint.
‘no way…’
Lee Han quickly grasped the situation.
It seems that this problem of precognitive magic was not a simple test, but rather a problem of identifying the trap contained within.
If you didn’t understand the trap and rushed in, you could have fallen like the friends who were just dragged out.
…Of course, Lee Han has already tried a few times!
‘I was lucky. It seems that he was able to withstand it because he had a lot of magical power.’
Lee Han sighed.
Considering the magical power consumed by the precognitive magic, it was no wonder that the other friends fell.
Now I had to approach it a little more cautiously.
‘Did you notice?’
Professor Passelette raised his eyebrows as Lee Han stopped using his magic.
It was a beat late, but seeing him react like that made it clear that he had realized the true meaning of this test.
‘okay. The precognitive magic will now stop and point out the pitfalls contained in this test… No!’
Lee Han cast the precognition spell again.
Professor Passelette was even more embarrassed than before.
why!?
I realized it was a trap, but why would they do something like that?
‘Now that I think about it, there’s no need to skimp on trying.’
The reason why Lee Han cast the precognition spell again was simple.
When I thought about it, there was no need to approach it cautiously.
Because the magic power was overflowing!
Lee Han continued to cast prediction magic and wondered if there was a way to break through this cycle.
In fact, he could have just worried about it without casting the precognition spell, but Lee Han naturally repeated the attempt, thinking that he still had magical power.
Professor Passelette, who only then realized the situation, was so dumbfounded that he burst into laughter.
‘What kind of ignorant…’
It’s good to realize that the problem is strange, but then you should approach it in a different way and try to force it out.
What does that mean?
“professor. “I think I’ve found the answer.”
“!”
Lee Han, who kept trying, finally opened his mouth.
Professor Passelette was surprised but prepared to hear the answer.
“Let me tell you.”
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“I think the answer was to find the trap in the problem. “For questions like that, you shouldn’t try foresight magic carelessly.”
“That is correct.”
Professor Passelette nodded.
That was a good answer.
the problem is…
‘Then why on earth did you keep casting the precognition spell?’
Originally, I should have answered right away when I noticed it earlier, but after that, I couldn’t help but be curious as he continued to cast prediction magic before answering.
Professor Passelette eventually couldn’t overcome his curiosity and asked a question.
“But how did you find the answer? “Is this a logical guess?”
“I made a logical guess, but… I used precognition magic.”
“So, in what way?”
Professor Passelette’s voice became rough as he became slightly frustrated.
“I thought it would be difficult to find an answer to the given question, so I set the point further into the future. “I figured out the answer by predicting the moment after the test was over.”
“……”
Professor Passelette was momentarily at a loss for words.
I thought it was unlikely, but I didn’t know that he could actually achieve it in such an incredible way.
There were ways to escape from the cycle, or to look further into the future than the cycle and use that as a clue to find out…
That was not the ability expected from a freshman. No matter how talented he was, this made no sense.
As time goes by, the uncertainty of prognosis increases.
Moreover, since it is a future that has nothing to do with the question, it is usually not difficult to find clues there and find out the correct answer to the question.
It’s a skill that only an experienced precognition wizard can perform…
‘no way…!’
Professor Passelette realized.
Why did Lee Han continue to use precognitive magic even after he realized it?
“Could it be that you kept casting the precognition spell until you found the answer?”
“That’s right.”
When the professor realized the method he used, Lee Han responded with an expression of pure admiration.
After all, he wasn’t a professor for nothing.
I can’t believe I even guessed how Lee Han found the answer after just a few conversations.
“……”
Professor Passelette felt like his head was pounding, wondering where on earth he should start and how to teach this ridiculous student.
What nonsense…
In fact, the person involved was sitting still with an innocent expression, asking, ‘Is there anything wrong?’, which made the headache even stronger.
“Whew… well done. “Good job, but I think I still need to learn a few more things.”
“ah. Is that so.”
“next week…”
“Next week is vacation.”
Lee Han suddenly felt ominous.
Surely you won’t tell me to go to magic school during vacation?
‘If you say that, you may really have to send a letter to His Majesty the Emperor.’
“…Then next semester.”
“ah. yes. “That’s about it.”
“You must come out.”
“yes. All right.”
“You must come out. Do you understand? “Swear again with all your heart.”
“……”
Professor Passelette didn’t notice, but Lee Han’s eyes were strangely changing as he looked at the professor.
‘Do you have no disciples?’
The Mortum Church, no, professors with few students were very sensitive to new students running away.
If a student just decided not to take classes at the beginning of the new semester, there really wasn’t much the professor could do.
Of course, various threats and persuasions can be used, but once a wizard has made up his mind, he is not easily swayed.
Professors with a large number of students could show a relaxed attitude such as ‘If you don’t want to listen, don’t listen, I don’t care,’ but professors with few students could have done that and no one would listen.
Of course, sometimes there were professors who proudly sat in lecture halls even without a single student, but that had to be considered an exceptional case.
‘I’m going to listen anyway, so I have to be considerate.’
Since I had already heard it, there was nothing wrong with being considerate of the professor’s position.
Lee Han said kindly.
“Do not worry. professor. “Why won’t I come out?”
“Because I am already learning about black magic, summoning magic, illusion magic, enchantment magic, transformation magic, and healing magic.”
Lee Han was speechless.
As expected from an outstanding precognitive wizard, it was very sharp.
‘That’s definitely true!’
* * *
Direth held back his drowsiness and waved his cane.
I had to be fully prepared for my juniors who would soon be taking the final exam on black magic.
Coholti, a student in the same grade, also waved a cane.
“Are you done?”
“It’s done. But isn’t the number of bones too small? Shouldn’t I bring more? “I think there are fewer bottles of poison.”
“it’s okay. “There are less than five new students learning black magic this time.”
“……”
Coholti showed a complicated expression in response to Direth’s answer.
There was no need to have a lot of juniors, but if there were too few juniors for the magic you were learning, you would feel complicated.
“Why isn’t everyone interested in black magic?”
“Isn’t it because I summoned the frost giant king in the hallway last time?”
“Well, it was a problem with an artifact that had nothing to do with black magic!”
Coholti blushed.
Of course, Delet knew very well why black magic was not popular.
‘It’s strange when you’re popular.’
If Delet reads an article in the Imperial Newspaper such as “Young warlocks are increasing… Are warlocks leading the trend of imperial magic?” he would think, ‘Is the empire falling?’
It’s just that not all aspects of magic are likely to be popular…
“oh. “Come in.”
As the first-year students entered one by one, the fourth-year students quickly evacuated to the back of the classroom.
This is where the magic circle of cognitive decline was placed, so first-year juniors could not see them.
“Umm. “Isn’t the difficulty level too high?”
Coholty said that when he saw his first-year juniors, he suddenly felt worried.
This black magic final exam was a compilation of what I learned in the first semester.
Curse, poison, bones.
A test that checks all three basic skills.
It may sound simple, but these tests are actually more difficult.
Since all three areas of black magic had to be dealt with using regular methods, if even one was lacking, there was no way to replace it.
“This should be fine. “We decided this together when we talked to the professor last time, so why are you doing it now?”
“No… there are less than five people, but I’m afraid I’ll give you more…”
“……”
That was definitely true.
Dilett was surprised that Coholty had made the right point.
Of course, I can’t change it now, but…
widely-
The door opened and a student came in.
The student who came in knocked down the curse magic scarecrows with a series of curse spells, then threw a piece of bone on the desk and cast bone magic.
A bone storm blew in the center of the spacious lecture hall, and bone magic scarecrows were scattered around.
Craddangtangtangtang!
Not even a few seconds have passed to this point.
Coholti was watching in bewilderment with his eyes and mouth wide open.
‘what???’
The freshman didn’t stop there. Without stopping, she immediately summoned poison from the air and threw it into the poison bottle.
The poison bottle reacted with the properly prepared poison and gave off smoke. The poison bottle, which emits thicker smoke the more high-quality poison it contains, emitted so much smoke that it obscured the entire classroom.
“Was it so… easy? Huh? weird? “What is the level of freshmen…?”
“no. “It’s just one person who is strange.”
Delet, who belatedly recognized the familiar face of his junior, answered calmly.
