Chapter 354

Chapter 354

Chapter 354

Of course, declining didn't work.

Professor Bagrak, who understood his disciple's refusal as admirable humility to avoid inconveniencing his mentor, picked up his staff.

Yi-Han also picked up his staff as if he had been waiting.

"???"

Alcicle, who hadn't grasped the situation, looked at the two in confusion.

They were glaring at each other tensely as if they were about to duel.

"What are you doing now? What are you doing?"

Instead of explaining, Professor Bagrak showed it through action.

Swish!

Water droplets from the water orbs floating in the air began to transform into needles and fire.

Professor Bagrak properly demonstrated how the 'firing' attribute was different.

Even without complex trajectory changes, each water droplet made a brutal sound as it shattered the walls and pierced the floor.

"What is it?! What are you doing?!"

However, Yi-Han was no pushover either. The moment Professor Bagrak picked up his staff, Yi-Han was already chanting a spell from his mouth.

"...Grasp the earth!"

Casting possible enhancement spells, Yi-Han dashed through the inside of the magic tower. If he stopped even for a moment, the water droplet needles would pierce through him.

Fortunately, he had pre-cast the spell. Yi-Han aimed at the orbs summoned by Professor Bagrak while gaining distance.

"Ice, become arrows and shoot forth!"

Professor Bagrak's brutal pressure sharpened Yi-Han's instincts even further.

The spell was chanted quickly, and cold energy condensed at the end of the staff, transforming into the shape of an arrow and firing out.

Even while Professor Bagrak was destroying the surroundings, Alcicle was startled and widened his eyes in surprise.

'Again in one go?!?!'

He thought it would take time to compress those processes and achieve it, but he did it again in one go.

From Alcicle's perspective, who didn't know how rigorously Yi-Han had trained during the first semester, it was bound to be surprising.

Sizzle!

'Too late!'

The magic succeeded, but the orb summoned by Professor Bagrak leisurely changed its position and dodged the ice arrow.

Yi-Han clicked his tongue, having failed to shoot it down.

'With this...'

He had just succeeded in bundling several processes together at once, but in terms of time, it took a bit long.

Professor Bagrak had moved the orb after seeing Yi-Han chanting the spell.

'...Faster. I need to cast faster to shoot it down.'

To overcome this situation, he had to shoot the arrow faster than he had just cast to bring down the orb.

"...Stop it, you crazy bastards!"

Alcicle swung his staff and began scattering cold energy everywhere.

The magic core summoned on the ceiling controlled the surrounding mana with a powerful force.

The orb summoned by Professor Bagrak lost power and dispersed, and the ice arrows shot by Yi-Han also lost power and disappeared.

"What the hell are you..."

"Why are you interfering?"

"...What are you saying?! Fighting with your disciple in someone else's magic tower!"

"It's not fighting."

At Professor Bagrak's words, Alcicle was dumbfounded.

If what just happened wasn't fighting, then what was it?

Was he saying it was education?

"What is it?"

"Teaching."

For a moment, Alcicle thought Boladi Bagrak had finally lost his mind and looked at Yi-Han.

"It is teaching."

"..."

'Should I send a petition to His Majesty the Emperor?'

—

Alcicle sat on a chair with Eumidiphos and watched Boladi and Yi-Han's du... no, teaching.

"...No matter how I think about it, that's a bit much, isn't it??"

"But it's effective. At least that's what Boladi Bagrak claims."

'I knew he was crazy, but I didn't know he was this crazy.'

Since they had both learned under Eumidiphos, Alcicle thought he knew Boladi Bagrak to some extent.

Although he wasn't from a prestigious family like Alcicle, as a renowned combat mage and duelist in the empire, Alcicle thought he would act within common sense, but...

"Ugh!"

Yi-Han was hit by a water droplet and tumbled. He had been constantly moving and finally got surrounded and hit.

However, Professor Bagrak didn't give him a chance to rest and launched another attack at the fallen Yi-Han.

Despite being knocked down, Yi-Han didn't show any openings and immediately bounced back to gain distance.

'...Is that really teaching? Is it really okay to teach like that?'

"Short break."

Seeing Yi-Han trying to break the table too while Alcicle was away, Eumidiphos momentarily pondered whether she should stop him.

He was definitely achieving rapid progress, but...

—

When the sun set and the training concluded, Alcicle brought over the frozen sardines he had put in the corner.

"...I'll do the cooking."

"Yeah? These are delicious even if you eat them as is?"

Thanks to the habit of preparing some food before going anywhere, which he had developed from his experience at Einroguard, Yi-Han was saved.

Yi-Han prepared mushroom and vegetable stir-fry for Professor Bagrak and cream stew for Eumidiphos.

Alcicle was amazed as he chewed on the frozen sardines.

"Why are you cooking?"

"It's to show respect for the mentor. You should learn too."

"If I had servants, I would have had them serve Lady Eumidiphos..."

"..."

Eumidiphos didn't know where to start pointing out.

Alcicle, who had swallowed a whole sardine, asked Eumidiphos,

"So how many of the magics taught today did he master?"

Alcicle had taught several more magics besides ice arrows.

Lesser Cold Fog (the moment he taught it, Professor Bagrak pushed him aside and started attacking), Lesser Cold Infusion (likewise, as soon as it was over, Professor Bagrak intervened)...

It seemed he had taught everything he could teach among the low circle magics possible with cold.

Despite it not being his specialty, Alcicle was definitely a mage who had reached a high level in cold magic, being able to teach various things like summoning, illusion, infusion, and transformation.

"He mastered all of them."

"..."

"Ah. Except summoning."

The magic to summon a cold spirit was one of the easiest among what he learned today.

Hearing that, Alcicle's shoulders drooped even more.

"Was it perhaps too easy that you didn't even want to do it?"

"That's not it."

"It seems to be the case... Gulp."

"Just eat your sardines."

Eumidiphos, who became too lazy to explain, threw a sardine into his mouth.

"He still lacks a lot in speed."

Professor Bagrak spoke up.

In fact, it was natural.

Compared to the simplest 1st circle magic, the magics he mastered today were 2nd and 3rd circle.

As there were more processes, it was difficult to keep up with the casting speed.

However, that was Professor Bagrak's dissatisfaction.

'Is that so?'

"That much is enough, you crazy bastard. Do you want to be called a disciple-killing demon...?"

Although Alcicle maintained his dignity as he was from a noble family, his true thoughts slipped out because there were too many shocking things today.

Of course, Professor Bagrak ignored whatever Alcicle was babbling.

He thought Alcicle's teaching skills were inferior to his own.

"The food is ready. What were you talking about?"

"We were talking about how you worked really hard today."

Eumidiphos spoke kindly.

No matter what, it was undeniable that this boy from the Wardanaz family had done well today against the two lunatics.

What mage could perfectly master the basics of cold magic like this under Alcicle and Boladi?

Bang bang bang!

"Wardanaz!! Wardanaz!!!"

"?!"

Someone pounded on the door of the magic tower and called Yi-Han's name.

Realizing it was Nillia's voice, Yi-Han was startled and stood up.

"Nillia? How did you get here... What's the matter?"

"The... uh, the prince is in distress!"

"What?!!"

Alcicle was also startled and stood up.

"The prince is in distress. This is no ordinary matter! I'll go search for him myself. Tell the other followers to stay inside the magic tower!"

"Are there other followers?"

"There aren't..."

Nillia and her friends avoided eye contact with embarrassed expressions.

It seemed that penguin mixed-blood mage was misunderstanding something.

It's not like the empire's nobles would thank them for saving Gainando...

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