Episode 405
Professor Millay thought about Lee Han’s protest for a moment and then accepted the protest.
“great. “Please give it a try.”
“……”
Even though he received permission from the professor, Lee Han felt uncomfortable.
This was because Professor Millais was closely watching Lee Han’s every move without any change in his expression.
As he was an upright and strict professor, I couldn’t help but feel nervous.
‘Other students have never put this much pressure on themselves while practicing, right?’
Complaining about the unfair treatment, Lee Han unfolded the paper with the magic imprint on it.
Grand wizards who reached the highest level would easily create summoned creatures on the spot without these auxiliary tools, but for most wizards, advance preparation was a more important process than expected.
Reagents, scrolls, artifacts, etc.
<Summoning a Paper Bird> was also a magic that required advance preparation.
If there were no scroll with a magic circle engraved on it, the wizard would have to fill in the summon’s structure one by one, so in some ways, carving this magic circle could be said to be the most important process in magic.
Swish swish-
The quill ran gracefully across the paper. <Summon a Paper Bird> was a very famous magic in the Empire, and the magic circle was also quite widely known, but it was the magician’s ability to reproduce it.
If it was possible to use magic just by tracing a magic circle, why would so many aspiring wizards crash into the wall in tears?
The magic circle of <Summoning a Paper Bird> was by no means simple. It was common for Einrogard’s students to make mistakes several times.
‘…Suffering from Professor Verdus helps in this way?’
And Lee Han was surprised.
Even in my own opinion, the magic circle was done very cleanly.
I drew it in the first semester and didn’t notice it because I didn’t draw it during vacation…
When did you become so skilled?
Professor Millais, who saw that, slowly opened his mouth as if he knew that would happen.
“Let’s add voice.”
Lee Han began to compose the letters with more care than before.
Transforming an already completed magic circle did not end with simply adding lines and letters.
You had to understand the principles of the magic circle and be able to anticipate changes accordingly.
If the change had been forced, the paper bird could have stabbed the wizard himself instead of letting out its voice.
‘I’ll have to engrave it here… and add some more ink. Is the circuit running properly? A short circuit will occur here, so take this off…’
Lee Han was concentrating so hard that he didn’t even notice that he had completed it. Professor Millais spoke first.
“You’re done.”
“ah. yes. But I need to check if this works properly…”
“Why? “It would be a good idea to increase the difficulty level.”
Professor Millais turned away as if there was no need to say anything more.
At the same time as the movement, the simple scroll created by Lee Han started to bloom.
The paper bird in full bloom ran to the White Tiger Tower students and shouted loudly.
-Focus on the lecture!!!
“Ugh!”
“Home, I was concentrating!! What! “What!”
The White Tiger Tower students who were suddenly attacked looked around in surprise.
It was a perfect improvement.
The Blue Dragon Tower friends next to him looked at Lee Han and said.
“It would be a good idea to raise the difficulty level.”
“It seems right to raise the difficulty level. Wodanaz.”
“…you guys don’t have dinner.”
“!??!”
* * *
Professor Mortum was probably still a little shy, so when Lee Han came, he blushed slightly as if he was embarrassed.
“Cough. “Did you control the golem well?”
“yes. professor. Senior Ogoldos, are you okay?”
“It’s okay… Normally, Ogoldos should be worried about you, not you.”
As a senior, he was worried about his juniors, but Professor Mortum did not blame Ogoldos.
It was not because the number of disciples that were already small could have decreased even further.
It was because he understood Ogoldos’ situation.
Honestly, it wouldn’t have made much of a difference even if there were other students!
“Today’s lecture is about the dark element, right? “What should I prepare?”
Professor Mortum was not surprised despite the strange situation where a student who came two weeks late understood the lecture content better than other students and even prepared in advance.
How can we be surprised by something like this again? Professor Mortum answered calmly.
“The other students will continue with the dark element… Collock. You will be doing bone elemental magic.”
“??”
Lee Han was embarrassed.
“uh. “Is it because I missed some progress?”
“no. “You already know how to use the dark element, right?”
“But there are still many things lacking…”
Professor Mortum ignored Lee Han’s answer.
It was nonsense that was too bothersome to answer.
“Cough. Rather, I heard it from Ogoldos… It was so unbelievable that I waited to check it for myself.”
“ah. “You mean the king of ghouls?”
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Lee Han answered as if he had been waiting.
“Surprisingly, the owner of the palace was right. “It’s really different from what you’re doing…”
“…cough, cluck! “Who ever wondered that?”
Professor Mortum responded as if he was dumbfounded.
Of course I knew that the Ghoul King was the owner of the undead palace.
Otherwise, who would be the owner?
“Then what is so hard for you to believe?”
“I heard that you summoned more than ten undead and boasted that it was difficult to control them, but when you left one, they were surprised that you could control them…”
“……”
Lee Han felt embarrassed for the first time in a long time.
“That’s something I do habitually when I practice…”
“Cough. “Could it be a habit?”
Even if it was for practice purposes, from the moment more than ten were summoned, the wizard had to feel a sense of crisis, on the verge of depleting his magical power.
Even if you were just breathing, you would have been struggling to reduce the number of undead. How comfortable would it have been to have forgotten the simple truth that ‘the more you reduce, the easier it is?’
“Anyway, I’ve learned that it gets a little easier when you get it down to one.”
“That’s not something you learn… it’s something any human bastard would know… kolok. done. Anyway, let’s get back to the point.”
Professor Mortum kindly embraced his student who had missed the truth that even the greatest fool in the empire knew.
“As the principal agreed, the reason I gave you the book <Ancient Basic Necromancy> was because I thought you had the ability to continue the progress of ancient necromanship.”
“Is that so…? okay.”
Lee Han was about to say, ‘You weren’t trying to harass me, were you?’
While other friends were summoning undead who had made contracts in the undead world, Lee Han was being forced by Headmaster Skeleton and Professor Mortum to summon undead the old-fashioned way.
The method of ancient necromancy is to raise the undead using the wizard’s own abilities.
Of course, it was several times more difficult. The old ways were the old ways for a reason.
“Cough. “You’ve become accustomed to being manipulated to some extent, and I don’t know if you’ll try reinforcing this or that…”
“There are still many shortcomings…”
Smooth control was possible only by combining them into one, and the only way to strengthen the summon was as simple as combining different bones to amplify them.
He was still far from being an outstanding warlock.
Of course, Professor Mortum ignored it again like before.
“…Now it’s time to go a little further. “Cough.”
Originally, my goal for this school year was to control at least one undead summon, but since I had already succeeded, there was no reason to stay still.
Instead of explaining to Lee Han what his original goal was, Professor Mortum brought the next goal.
The reason other enemies fear warlocks who are good at bone element magic is because of the unique persistence of bone element magic.
Unlike other summoning magic, it has infinite power that allows quick recovery after destruction and even if it is broken, the shattered remains themselves become the magician’s tool again.
If you get caught by a wizard who is good at this kind of skill, you will be dragged into a swamp.
“To put it conversely, this would mean that bone element wizards should not sit still even after being summoned and should continue to cast magic.”
“understand.”
“Cough. What bone element magic can I use now?”
The bone element magic that Lee Han could use was shooting fragments, summoning armor, shields, or restraint spheres.
It was good enough for a 1-2 circle bone elemental magic that could be used by a first-year student who learned all the magic from other schools, but it was a bit lacking in flashiness for a wizard who could summon a skeleton warrior using ancient necromancy.
“I guess I need to learn the bone explosion spell.”
Bone explosion magic, which ignites and explodes the gas inside the bones with magic, was an essential process for warlocks who wanted to specialize in the easiest way to achieve firepower.
“uh? Doesn’t that start from at least the 3rd circle?”
“yes? Is there any problem?”
“…it’s nothing!”
Lee Han gave up asking the question when Professor Mortum asked him as if it was so obvious.
If you ask that crazy face, you won’t get a useful answer.
“Cough. Of course it won’t be easy. Do you know what you need to pay most attention to when learning the Bone Explosion spell?”
“hmm. “Isn’t it a magical connection?”
The further away the wizard was from the object, the more difficult it became to apply magic directly to the object.
The wizard who summoned and manipulated the bone element had to control it so that he could shoot the bones far away and cast magic on them at the same time.
To do that, we need to pay even more attention to the connection of magical power…
“Wrong.”
“Is that so?”
“What you need to worry about is controlling the power of the explosion. Collock. “Don’t let the explosion hurt you too.”
“……”
Lee Han was speechless at the advice that was so realistic.
no…
“I have set up a defensive magic circle here, so practice here. If you think the magic circle will break, call it right away. Collock. “Please don’t destroy the workshop because it’s annoying.”
“yes…”
* * *
Guynando, Rafael, and Ymirg wondered what on earth they were doing inside that was causing the loud noise from earlier.
“Lee Han is not being tortured…?”
“hey. You stupid prince. Professor, why on earth are you torturing Wodanaz?”
“You’re the one who’s stupid, you bastard. “Then why is the principal attacking us?”
“……”
“Cough. “Everyone, focus.”
Everyone looked away in shock at the professor’s words.
But the roaring noise coming from inside continued to bother them.
“really. professor.”
Rafael carefully raised his hand. Professor Mortum looked away as if asking me to speak.
“I heard that summoning wizards are visiting this time. “Is there anything we should do?”
One might wonder why warlocks cared about the summoning wizards’ festival, but their areas overlapped more than expected.
Isn’t one of the areas of black magic the summoning of the undead?
Of course, among those participating in the festival were warlocks.
Professor Mortum’s personality would not want to show the warlocks being pushed aside in front of other summoning wizards.
“Cough. Okay. “There’s nothing to worry about.”
“ah. Is that so?”
“okay. “Just enjoy yourself to your heart’s content.”
Rafadel was slightly surprised.
I thought the professor would give detailed instructions regarding the festival.
Gainando next to me scolded me.
“Why do you say such things about the professor? “There’s so much magic that needs to be done right now that you’ll even bother with the festival?”
Ymirg also nodded in agreement.
No matter how strong the professor’s pride is, he wouldn’t bother sending his students to the Summoning Magic Festival to prove it…
“Cough. Wardanaz will be in charge of the proof there. “You guys can play.”
“……”
“……”
For some reason, it felt like the roaring noise coming from inside had stopped.
