Chapter 449
Originally, students who study in a professor’s workshop always have different atmospheres.
Some places were friendly and close, while others were a dry atmosphere where people only had to do each other’s work.
And Lee Han didn’t hate the latter at all.
‘Honestly, it’s hard to believe that Professor Verdus’ disciples are seniors.’
Lee Han already had a vivid memory of Professor Verdus visiting the mansion during vacation and tilting his head.
If there are seniors who resemble the teacher among Professor Verdus’ students, now the number of people who tilt their heads during vacation has multiplied.
It could never have been.
“come here.”
Anpagon went into the twelfth classroom located on the west side of the first floor of the main building and built a staircase by stacking desks.
Then, he tapped the red sculpture carved on the ceiling three times.
Slowly-
A hidden path appeared. Lee Han saw it and took notes diligently.
‘There must have been a place like this.’
“Where are you?”
“My workshop.”
Anpagon yawned and said. The human race didn’t have particularly bad physical strength among the races, but it wasn’t that good either.
As such, Anpagon, a human race, had no choice but to feel tired from overwork.
Lee Han took out a thermos of coffee from his backpack and held it out. Anpagon received it with a short thank you.
And it felt strange.
‘…How does a freshman have coffee?’
“You work in a workshop, not in a private room.”
“uh.”
Even in the 2nd and 3rd grade, Einrogard students used to search all over the school to set up their own workshop.
Because…
“In freshman year, you can practice in a private room in the dormitory. but.”
“It’s too big to practice in a dorm room after a while.”
“!”
Anpagon looked at Lee Han with slightly surprised eyes.
I didn’t think that my freshman junior would know this.
“that’s right. How did you know?”
“ah. That’s…”
Lee Han recalled the magic he had practiced.
Lots of Skeleton Warriors.
Lightning element, fire element, and other destructive elements that destroy the surroundings.
And dangerous reagents and other schools of magic.
Apparently, there were a lot of things that were a little bit like practicing in the private room of the dormitory.
Even the slightest mistake could cause an uproar in the break room.
“…I also felt uncomfortable while practicing magic, so I found a new place.”
In his heart, Anpagon raised the evaluation of his junior a little more.
As expected, it seemed that the progress was quite fast even though it was a freshman, just like the juniors the headmaster gave him.
“Do you know how to handle 2nd circle magic?”
“yes? uh. yes.”
‘I know how to handle it, but it seems that I don’t have confidence.’
But it didn’t matter.
In the first year, just knowing how to use 2nd circle magic was pretty good.
Most of the work would have to be done by Anpagon anyway.
Anpagon wasn’t stupid enough to entrust most of the work to a junior in the first year.
“ruler. It’s here.”
Anpagon stopped in front of the entrance to the attic-like workshop.
Then he took out a long coat hanging on the wall next to him. It was a cloak that completely covered the whole body with a hood.
“Wear this.”
“What is this?”
“Protective equipment. It prevents accidents that may occur while working on artifacts.”
“ah. Do you wear something like this to class when you are in the senior year?”
When the grade is low, the risk is low, so it is not necessary, but the higher the level of the artifact, the higher the amount of magic power and the risk of magic.
Working in this kind of equipment was no surprise.
“no. this is what we made Professors usually ask why this is necessary.”
“……”
In Lee Han’s head, ‘why do you need something like this? You don’t have to make mistakes, right?’ Professor Verdus’ voice was played innocently.
“Sit down.”
“yes.”
Anpagon took out the crates of reagents and tools, laid them out on the table, and turned on the light in the attic.
A simple lantern made by carving a magic circle on a magic stone flickered and withered.
Anpagon clicked his tongue.
“Life is over. I need to start working on this…”
“I’ll do it.”
“Are you okay?”
Considering the things he had to work on in the future, he would have to save his mana, but Anpagon was worried that his freshman junior would be able to engrave a new magic circle on the magic stone.
Although the difficulty level of the < Endow Light > magic was quite low, it was a different story for first-year students.
Besides, the simple lantern made by Anpagon was small, so the size of the magic stone was also small.
Of course, it would be more difficult to engrave a magic circle here.
“Light!”
“……”
However, instead of grabbing the magic stone and carving a magic circle, Lee Han just summoned a sphere of light inside the lantern.
Anpagon was dumbfounded.
‘No…’
Basically, Anpagon as well as Professor Verdus’ disciples were the least sociable in Einrogard.
As such, I couldn’t think of how to tell my freshman junior when he made such a cute mistake.
If I directly summoned the sphere of light, it would last for a few minutes at most
…
Rather than wasting time now, Anpagon thought he would have to work again once the sphere of light disappeared.
“The test won’t be that difficult.”
Making a test sounds grandiose, but it wasn’t as difficult as I thought.
Because it wasn’t a test to create something out of nothing in the first place.
Since Anpagon was a third-year student, he remembered the tests he had taken in the first and second years, and he brought those tests with him this time.
It just takes a little preparation and is annoying.
“See the artifact here?”
Anpagon took out a small iron bar artifact.
With one swing, the tip of the iron rod became incandescent and spewed out flames. It was a flame generation artifact.
“yes.”
“Now this…”
Bang!
Anpagon swung the iron rod and drove it into the wall. Then the iron rod bent slightly in the middle.
“…It breaks down like this. Do you know why it breaks?”
“Is it for repairs?”
Anpagon grinned, baring his teeth.
Living as a student of the Buyeo magic school in Einrogard, it felt like I hadn’t laughed in quite a while, as there were fewer things to laugh about.
“that’s right. Repair is the test.”
A good enchantment mage should not only be able to create artifacts, but also be able to repair artifacts made by others.
You might think that manufacturing is unconditionally more difficult than repairing, but repairing had a level of difficulty not found in direct manufacturing.
Since it was an artifact created by someone else, we had to figure out how it worked.
Understanding this was harder than I thought.
Even if they are artifacts with the same effect, each magician makes them in a different way.
Some wizards prioritized stability and cared about the durability of the magic circle’s magic circuit, while others prioritized firepower and cared about the limit of the magic circle’s magic output.
Another magician simply ignored the efficiency and injected a large amount of magic power as if protesting that he had a lot of magic power… As much as you had to figure out this and
fix exactly where it was broken, repair had a level of difficulty not found in manufacturing.
“You need an artifact first to break it.”
“I will make it.”
“no. I make it.”
Anpagon once again thought this junior was a little strange.
Who said this to a 1st grader?
“You just check.”
“Is that really okay!?”
Lee Han was surprised.
Anpagon replied in bewilderment.
“Of course it will.”
“All right.”
“The one I made in advance is in the chest over there, so check that first.”
“yes.”
Lee Han opened the chest and took out the artifacts inside one by one.
In the meantime, Anpagon picked up a working tool and started making additional artifacts.
As the number of students is a number, I might have to stay up all night to finish it within today.
Chic Chi Chi Chi Chi Chi Chi!
Land, land, ground-
For a while, the attic was quiet.
No words were spoken, only the sounds of work.
“I. Seniors.”
“why.”
Anpagon turned his head in a slightly annoyed voice.
I thought he was an outstanding junior, but did he call me because he couldn’t check an artifact?
‘It’s not like he was bribed by the Headmaster Skeleton.’
“I’ve done it.”
“……”
Anpagon blinked.
At first, I thought that my juniors were lying, but looking at the magic reverberation left in the artifact, it was clear that I was not joking and had used it all at once.
“already?”
“yes. Can I help you make it?”
“…okay.”
Anpagon held out a tool to Lee Han.
When this happened, I thought that I would see my skills somewhere.
“Do you see the magic circle pattern here? Complete the magical flow and activate it.”
“yes.”
Apparently, the amplification and maintenance parts of the circuit were missing.
Since it was not a permanent artifact anyway, but an artifact for testing, Lee Han boldly removed the maintenance part.
Then, by investing excessive magic power, the pattern of the magic circle was activated.
“It’s done.”
“???”
Anpagon turned his head away in embarrassment when he heard Lee Han say that it had been activated in less than 10 seconds.
“already?”
“yes.”
Surprisingly, the artifact was indeed working.
Anpagon was surprised to see the pattern Lee Han worked on.
Instead of complicating circuitry, unnecessary parts were removed and replaced with magic power.
This was a task that would have been done by a professor who was confident in both the quantity and quality of his magical power and his ability to control it.
What was even more surprising was that there were no smudges or cracks around the pattern.
Inexperienced mages did not consider the impact on the surroundings while doing this, so there were many cases where the magic circle was completed, but the artifact itself was often destroyed, but this junior did not have any of that.
As if this production had been repeated hundreds of thousands of times.
Anpagon lowered his head as if he was about to bury himself in the artifact while checking over and over again.
And then I looked around.
“What are you looking for?”
“no. nothing.”
For a moment, Anpagon wondered if the skeleton principal was hiding next to him and making fun of Anpagon.
Since the last time he spent a lot of money on the experiment, Anpagon was bruised every time he saw the Headmaster Skeleton.
– Hey. Isn’t it Anpagon, the gold grabber of Einrogard? Did you take my gold like that the other day and the results are still not coming out?
-……
– Why? Why don’t you take more? Didn’t you submit a research proposal to His Majesty the Emperor without my knowledge? Please let me use the gold in my secret storage!
-…I’m sorry…
but the skeleton principal was nowhere to be seen.
Anpagon had no choice but to admit that this junior really made this.
‘It’s really amazing.’
Students learning endowment magic were not very interested in each other.
Anpagon also did not know what the new sophomores were interested in and what they were making.
The important thing was that he was trying to make it, not his juniors or seniors.
However, this junior was enough to forcibly create interest that was not there.
“How is it?”
“Very good. But…”
“?”
“I can’t write this.”
“uh. Did I do something wrong?”
Anpagon nodded.
“If you make it like this, it won’t break.”
“……”
The patterns and circuits of the magic circles were complicated and sophisticated, the more prone to breakage.
If it was finished as simply and solidly as Lee Han did, it would be difficult to break it.
I had to make it less solid as the broken artifact needed.
“That’s right. I missed it. You are also a senior.”
“…Is this something I should be praised for?”
Anpagon asked again, not really understanding.
I think I should get compliments for what my juniors just made…
