Episode 155
by CristaeEpisode 155
“Aha! So that was the misunderstanding!”
After hearing the explanation from Professor Alpen, Lee Han let out a short exclamation.
How could such a misunderstanding happen!
“Isn’t it truly ironic?”
“…It really is!”
“But thanks to that misunderstanding, the students’ skills must have improved even more, so I suppose this is what you’d call a happy accident?”
Lee Han, who had been focusing his facial muscles to control his expression, almost lost his composure at the words of the magician from Baldrogard.
‘Did he use mental magic on me?’
Otherwise, there was no way he could say something so infuriating.
“Hahahaha!”
“Ahahaha!”
“…Hahaha. Hahaha.”
Lee Han laughed along so as not to break the harmonious atmosphere.
A friend behind him asked with a puzzled look.
“So, we didn’t actually have to finish everything, but we went through all that hell?”
“Hell? What do you mean? How is trial and error in learning magic considered suffering?”
Lee Han spoke firmly to make his friend shut his mouth.
Of course, it was hell, but he couldn’t say that in front of the professors.
The magicians nodded in admiration.
“He’s right.”
“Truly impressive, Wardanaz. With that attitude, it’s no wonder you were able to complete it so quickly. But that separately completed part over there…”
Lee Han quickly made an excuse.
Even with the same result, how you say it can make all the difference.
“Thanks to the professor giving us the opportunity to solve it ourselves, we were able to complete it temporarily like this.”
A student’s way of tactfully covering the professor’s mistake.
But Professor Alpen wasn’t someone who cared much about such things.
“Ah… That was a mistake. I apologize.”
“……”
“How was it?”
“Excellent.”
After looking around the magic circle, the magicians stepped outside the classroom for a moment to talk.
Regardless of Lee Han’s feelings, Professor Alpen couldn’t help but be impressed once again.
Since it wasn’t meant to be completed in full, there were empty parts in the latter half.
A freshman solved that with his own wisdom.
And that sphere of light.
It seemed to have been floated with imbuement magic, but even after several minutes, it maintained its form.
“It’s been several minutes and it still hasn’t disappeared. The freshman added magic on the spot and linked it to the existing magic circle.”
“Truly amazing.”
“It’s really a shame. The empire’s bureaucracy needs talents like that too…”
At Kendri’s words, Professor Alpen shot him a stern look.
“I was joking. Joking. I know. Of course, we have to let him devote himself to magic.”
“That is our responsibility and duty, isn’t it?”
The two magicians exchanged meaningful glances and resolved in low voices.
Let’s help that young genius devote himself solely to magic!
“It’s not necessarily a bad thing. The professor evaluated you very highly.”
“That’s right, Wardanaz.”
“Yeah. Even the guests from other places were really surprised, you know?”
Unlike Lee Han, his friends quickly recovered from the shock.
At first, they were surprised that they had done something unnecessary, but the professor’s praise and the admiration from the outside guests felt much better.
The sight of people marveling at completed magic.
Isn’t this the true reward of a magician?
“It’s not necessarily a bad thing. The professor evaluated you very highly.”
“???”
“Wardanaz? What’s wrong? You said you understood.”
“It’s not necessarily a bad…”
“Wardanaz! Wardanaz! What’s wrong! Are you okay!?”
The friends from the Blue Dragon Tower shook Lee Han as if they were worried.
Only then did Lee Han come to his senses and pull himself together.
‘Yeah. It’s not a bad thing.’
In the first place, didn’t he join in on something Ahsan could have done alone just to look good to Professor Alpen?
In a way, it was an overachievement.
No matter how rigid and strict Professor Alpen was, Lee Han’s name would have remained in his memory at least a little.
‘Maybe I’ll be able to get a letter of recommendation when I try for a government post later…’
While Lee Han was trying his best to imagine happy thoughts, the Baldrogard students were racking their brains trying to find flaws in the magic circle.
“This part looks a bit unsophisticated, doesn’t it? If it were me, I would have combined these three lines into one for efficiency.”
“But if you did that, there would be a mana collision here and this sphere wouldn’t get any mana supply.”
“Damn it! How did they make this magic circle so quickly? It’s not like they have infinite mana!”
“Shh! Don’t be rude!”
“S-sorry. I almost tarnished the honor of Baldrogard.”
‘What are those guys doing?’
Lee Han found it odd to see the Baldrogard students whispering among themselves.
The guests had gone outside to talk, but they kept clinging to the magic circle and whispering, which was strange.
‘Should I talk to them? But…’
Lee Han felt awkward about speaking first.
Because…
He had beaten the Baldrogard students too much.
He had been so focused on not losing the outing pass that Professor Voladi had that he couldn’t hold back.
‘Thinking about it now, I could have gone a bit easier on them.’
If he spoke to them for no reason and a student he had beaten picked a fight, it would be a hassle.
It was at that moment.
Crackle!
“!!”
“What are you doing!”
One friend shouted in a sharp voice, startled.
One of the Baldrogard students had touched the illusion statue in the center and made it disappear.
“Ah… No! I didn’t do it on purpose!”
“What do you mean, no! Such a dirty trick… Is this what they teach at Baldrogard!?”
“No! No! It has nothing to do with Baldrogard! It was my mistake!”
The student was at a loss as his mistake was about to tarnish the honor of Baldrogard.
He looked like he was about to burst into tears at any moment.
Even if they were seniors, they were only a year older than the Einrogard students.
It was natural that they didn’t have the skill to handle such a mistake smoothly.
‘This isn’t good.’
Lee Han decided he had to step in.
If the professors or outside guests came back and saw the situation now, they wouldn’t like it.
Not only the Baldrogard students who made the mistake, but also the Einrogard students who were pushing them too hard could be scolded together.
‘No matter how much the other side made a mistake, they’re guests. If you push too hard, it’s not good.’
“You Baldrogard brats who go out whenever you want!”
“You guys probably play in the city even on holidays!”
The Baldrogard students couldn’t understand the anger of the Einrogard students at all.
“W-what’s wrong with that?”
“What’s wrong with that?! What’s wrong with that!?!?”
“I can never forgive…!”
“Everyone, calm down.”
Lee Han stopped his friends. Even the friends who had been angry suddenly hesitated as if cold water had been poured on them when Lee Han stepped in.
The boy from the Wardanaz Family had a natural presence.
Even someone who had been heated and loud would suddenly come to their senses when they met the cold gaze of the Wardanaz Family’s boy.
“But Wardanaz. The statue we worked so hard on is broken.”
“If there’s no statue decorating the center…”
The spheres of light decorated both sides, and the illusion statue in the center had to show off its form for the magic circle to be complete.
‘It’s impossible to fix the magic circle right now.’
Lee Han checked the damaged magic circle and clicked his tongue.
It was crushed and mixed up because the Baldrogard student had stepped on it by mistake.
If that’s the case…
“I’ll summon something to replace it. Don’t worry.”
“?!”
Lee Han brought out the magic he had been forced to learn from Professor Bible Verdus.
Just a basic light or fire would have been enough, but Professor Bible insisted on summoning a dragon made of light as fireworks, so Lee Han had to learn it by force.
It was <Azirmo Imbuement>.
Among the empire’s dragons, the famous ones were often recorded in history.
One of them was Azirmo.
Since it was a famous dragon that appeared in fairy tales and legends, even the Baldrogard students recognized it right away.
“It’s Azirmo!”
“To summon that…!”
Not only the Baldrogard students but also the Einrogard students stared at Lee Han as if mesmerized as he chanted the spell.
Pop!
‘Damn. I failed.’
As expected, <Azirmo Imbuement> was difficult. Since he had to transform the form of the light element and twist it in various ways, it was on a completely different level from simple <Light Imbuement>.
“Did he fail…?”
“Idiot! If he failed, he would have taken damage. That’s just the preparation process.”
“I-I see.”
‘But I did fail.’
Listening to the Baldrogard students’ whispers, Lee Han quickly tried again.
It was better for everyone to clean up the situation before the professors came in.
After six attempts, Lee Han succeeded in imbuing Azirmo into the center of the magic circle.
Flaaash!
It looked completely different from the previous statue, but the beautiful and dignified dragon was just as impressive, and all the students were left speechless.
The Baldrogard student who had made the mistake approached Lee Han with teary eyes.
“Really… really…”
“There’s no need to say anything.”
Lee Han answered kindly.
Once he had decided to resolve the situation smoothly, there was no need to humiliate the other side more than necessary.
Of course, Lee Han also felt anger when he heard stories about the Baldrogard students going out every weekend and living decadently.
But that was that and this was this.
Besides, since he had the original sin of beating them with the water orb, he had to be kind at least like this…
“Thank you so much.”
“?”
“Senior. If we meet outside next time, please be sure to visit my family’s mansion!”
“…???!”
Lee Han realized he was being misunderstood, but he couldn’t clear up the misunderstanding.
The professors who returned after the conversation were surprised to see the changed magic circle.
The magician from Baldrogard figured out what had happened just by looking at the damaged magic circle and the students’ expressions.
-I am truly sorry!
-No, don’t be. Didn’t the students resolve it smoothly among themselves? If anything, this would make the students’ efforts meaningless.
-…Thank you.
The magician from Baldrogard called Lee Han aside and thanked him once again.
-I’ve heard much about the reputation of the Wardanaz Family, but I sincerely thank you.
-No, professor. But it seems the Baldrogard students are misunderstanding me…
-If there are students who are afraid just from hearing rumors about the Wardanaz Family, I’ll make sure to tell the empire’s nobles not to be fooled by such rumors.
-No, that’s not what I meant…
-Oh. I must be going now. Once again, thank you for your generous response.
-……
“Aren’t the Baldrogard guys a bit annoying?”
At Lee Han’s words, Ahsan nodded as if he agreed very much.
“They’re really unpleasant guys. They go out whenever they want, and even break the magic circle after coming here.”
‘Ah. Is this why magic schools end up disliking each other?’
Lee Han came to his senses at Ahsan’s intense reaction.
Before entering, he had thought, ‘Why have such pointless rivalry?’ but after suffering at Einrogard, he found himself annoyed by students from other magic schools for no reason.
This was a very irrational behavior.
‘Let’s get it together. I must not fall for the Skull Principal’s tricks.’
“Wardanaz! Did you hear!?”
“What?”
“Gainando found the outing pass!!”
“!”
Lee Han’s eyes widened. Ahsan spoke urgently next to him.
“Wardanaz! Before someone else takes it, we…!”
“……”
“…Forget what I just said. That was a very disgraceful thing to say. As a member of the Dalkard Family, I’m ashamed.”
“No. I understand how you feel.”