Episode 719
There was always a sense of ominousness.
After rejecting several of Professor Boladi’s suggestions (including ambushing, blinding, or stunning his juniors as soon as they saw him), Lee Han secretly regretted it.
‘I should have asked another professor!’
“professor. “I want to choose as peaceful a method as possible.”
“Why?”
“…Because you don’t want to remain as a strange rumor among your juniors, right? And I don’t want to face retaliation against my juniors when they become sophomores.”
“hmm.”
Professor Boladi wondered in his mind whether it would be okay for his juniors to challenge him if he had this level of skill, but he did not bother to say it out loud.
Because he was always careful, there was nothing bad about it.
As a battle mage, reducing the number of enemies was a good strategy.
“What I want is… a quick invisibility spell, or a magic that detects juniors when they approach. professor.”
“But that would be too easy.”
“…It hurts my heart, but I have no choice but to deal with it. “Sometimes you have to learn magic like that.”
Lee Han couldn’t figure out why the words ‘excessive’ and ‘but’ were added to the story of ‘easy’.
And he was scared and didn’t even want to ask.
Professor Boladi nodded as much as he respected Lee Han’s opinion.
“i get it.”
“thank you.”
“You probably know the magic of chanting without chanting.”
Lee Han was astonished to see Professor Boladi suddenly bring out the most difficult magic technique.
In magic, the process of chanting a spell was an essential process to firmly weave the wizard’s will and focus it into magic.
Even if it doesn’t use movements or reagents, there is no magic that doesn’t use spells.
This means that this seemingly simple spell chanting is a key element of the current imperial magic system.
‘Do you mean to die?’
This type of spell chanting was not something that could be removed to shorten the time. For the wizard’s safety, such actions were taboo.
If magic can be cast just by the wizard’s will without chanting a spell, then magic can be triggered simply by the wizard dreaming or having strong emotions.
In fact, one of the magical incidents that consistently appeared in the imperial newspapers was that of wizards who summoned monsters or demons from another dimension while practicing chantless magic clumsily.
To cast magic without a spell, it is impossible to control yourself to the highest level…
“It’s impossible!”
“know. “It’s dangerous, so don’t try it secretly.”
“……”
Lee Han was even more impressed by Professor Boladi’s speaking skills that made people angry.
I never thought I could make people more upset than last year.
Professor Boladi, unaware that his student was cursing inside, continued to give a careful warning.
“What you need to practice is shortening spells.”
Shorten your order. This technique, also called abbreviation, was literally a technique of condensing orders into short sentences.
It was much safer than chanting without chanting, but it consumed a greater amount of concentration and magical energy than chanting regular spells.
Fortunately, in the case of Lee Han, he had the advantage of having decent magical power.
“for a moment. What about concentration?”
A person’s mental power was not infinite, and no matter how much magic power remained, if concentration was impossible, magic would not be cast. Rather, when a wizard falls, he falls.
Professor Boladi understood Lee Han’s question in a different way and answered.
“Okay.”
“……”
Lee Han, who asked how to protect his concentration or recover his sanity, looked at the professor in bewilderment.
What does it mean to be okay?
“Like shortening spells, you should also practice magic shortening.”
Magic farm.
To put it simply, all the ways to store magic in advance are included here.
Although primitive, it also included magic scrolls. Because magic was stored in a scroll and activated simply by tearing it.
However, magic scrolls were not the preferred method for battle wizards as each time they were made, they cost quite a lot of money and took up a lot of space.
Excellent battle wizards drew patterns with magic pigments on their skin and consumed them during each battle, or stored the magic on their coats or objects.
Spirits and summoned beasts were good opponents if you could persuade them…
‘That’s reasonable.’
There was no logical point to Professor Boladi’s words.
If you don’t want to beat up your junior or knock him out, cast the invisibility spell faster.
If you load it in advance, you will be able to respond much faster.
“Professor, how do you celebrate?”
“The lower arm part.”
From elbow to wrist. Since it was the easiest for wizards to access, it was a good place to store magic in advance.
Professor Boladi rolled up his sleeves and showed off some of the magic he had drawn on his wrist. These were magics that were so complex and powerful that they could not be understood at a glance.
“These are magics that are activated the moment you are attacked. In order, < Bagleg's Revenge >, < Random Transfer >. And I can’t tell you this.”
Lee Han was puzzled when he heard that the third spell could not be revealed.
“Is this magic that dangerous?”
“It is a magic that attacks once its identity is known.”
“!”
Battle wizards roaming the battlefield were both objects of fear and targets of elimination.
A wizard’s strength is due to the magic he summons, but the wizard himself is merely a mortal made of flesh and blood.
As such, it was better to hide the magic that a wizard could use to some extent.
Lee Han alone had magic that he was saving for later when he was beating up his White Tiger Tower friends.
But it’s a magic that attacks just by knowing its identity.
‘Is that what you have to do to gain fame as a battle mage?’
Professor Boladi, who understood Lee Han’s surprise as curiosity, encouraged his student.
“I’ll have a chance to learn it someday.”
“Yes… well… wait, professor. “If I happen to learn that magic, won’t I realize its true identity when I see it?”
“Right.”
“Then you will be attacked by that magic?”
Professor Boladi nodded his head. Lee Han cursed inwardly.
‘Isn’t this a crazy person?’
It was at the level of a bad joke telling me to go after it someday.
After a round of swearing, Professor Boladi explained in detail how to store magic by drawing it onto his skin.
3rd circle magic, < lesser magic stockmaster >.
It was a magic that saved two magics below his own circle.
This magic originally went into quite a deep part of the principles of enchantment, so the difficulty of casting was higher than that of the same circle magic.
The more complex the principles of various schools are used, the more difficult the magic becomes.
However, Professor Boladi knew Lee Han’s skills well while learning under Professor Verdus, so he did not say anything.
Sure enough, Lee Han used the reagent a few times to draw the magic and immediately got the hang of it.
“Is this how you do it, Professor?”
“right. “You’re good at it.”
“Is the difficulty level by any chance low?”
Instead of answering, Professor Boladi smiled as faintly as the morning dew. Lee Han understood the meaning of that smile as kindness.
‘I guess it’s an easy magic.’
But what happened next was surprisingly not easy.
Although the magic was drawn perfectly, strange errors occurred every time it was activated.
“?”
Lee Han also wondered whether the 3rd circle magic was still not easy to learn even though it was low in difficulty.
Professor Boladi, who was watching from the side, opened his mouth.
“There are a lot of patterns.”
“yes?”
“There are many patterns carved by powerful beings.”
Whether it was a spirit symbol or a symbol of another being, these symbols naturally had power.
The stronger the power of the being who carved the pattern, the stronger the power of the pattern became accordingly.
A wizard like Lee Han who has the symbol of a great spirit such as Perkuntra or Uppinum sewn onto his wrist is bound to make errors when drawing magic on that side.
“I didn’t even think about it.”
“I don’t usually engrave that much.”
“…Is there no way?”
“Calculate the error.”
“……”
When Professor Boladi told him to calculate the error and draw it, and to sum it up well, Lee Han suppressed his frown and asked again.
“Isn’t there an easier way?”
“Move your position up.”
It was such a simple yet good method that I wondered why I hadn’t thought of it. Lee Han nodded his head.
“I think that would be good. then…”
“here.”
Professor Boladi pointed his wand at the crook of his arm, between his upper and lower arms.
Lee Han answered with an embarrassed expression.
“There is a phoenix symbol there, so it overlaps.”
The professor raised his cane a little more toward his upper arm. Lee Han responded with a slightly more embarrassed expression than before.
“There’s the Verdus symbol…”
“……”
* * *
-Wardanaz. It’s been a while since we haven’t been able to meet since the new semester started. Although we are different towers and don’t get along very well, you can’t deny the fact that we respect each other as wizards. If you would like to meet for a moment to unwind and exchange information, please come to the place where we all met last time.
Salco Tutanta
“It’s not a trap, right?”
“Salko is the one who would set up such a trap… That’s right. “Maybe not?”
Lee Han said as he moved with his Blue Dragon Tower friends.
In fact, not only Lee Han but all of his top friends felt a similar need.
It hasn’t been long since I entered second grade, but so much information came pouring out like a flood.
If it had been last year, we would have easily met and exchanged information, but this year it was difficult to do so.
-If the White Tiger Tower attacks, tell me. I will retaliate.
-thank you. Seniors.
-what. As a senior, I have to do this at least.
-Then, can I get a piece of the bread you are eating?
-Mi… are you crazy? How can you say such rude things?
Although the Blue Dragon Tower seniors were not often seen or friendly people, they were very active in fighting against other towers.
Unfortunately, things like this also happened.
-uh. It’s Angagoda. I’m waving my hand.
-How dare that bastard make an insulting gesture to my junior?!
-uh. Seniors. Angago just waved his hand?
-You must have read it wrong. White Tiger Tower guys don’t just wave their hands. I bet you gave me the middle finger without you knowing!
In this situation, it was true that the juniors were a little concerned about gathering openly.
There was a reason why Salchow asked us to meet in the second floor warehouse where we met last year.
Lee Han checked the surroundings with his friends, entered the warehouse on the second floor, checked the basement door, and went down.
It was a place where memories remained of last year’s attempt to deal with the teleportation stone statue and escape to the skeleton principal’s villa.
“Wodanazda!”
“Wardanaz. Are you sure you joined all the clubs? really?”
“……”
When asked by other top friends as soon as they met, Lee Han made a bitter expression.
My friends were already making expressions like ‘Wardanaz might do that.’
“…right.”
“Nonsense. There are not two bodies of Wardanaz!”
“Aren’t two enough?”
“Everyone, come here. “Don’t mess around there!”
Salko’s gruff voice was heard.
Lee Han walked inside.
Then, most of the second-year students from each tower were seen gathered together and talking.
“Moradi. nice to meet.”
“okay. Nice to meet you.”
“…Uh, well, did I eat something wrong?”
“hey. “Change seats…”
Giselle woke up irritated. However, when she thought about it, she realized that if she changed her seat and sat next to her, Salko would be next to her.
Salko openly growled and showed signs of telling him to get off.
“…I think it would be better to just use Wodanaz. sit down.”
“Can’t I just sit somewhere else?”
When Ihan asked, thinking that it would be noisy between the two, Salchow and Giselle grabbed each of Ihan’s arms and forced him to sit down.
