Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy -
Chapter 758
“Even so, I’d like to hear the lecture material I missed.”
“What lecture was it?”
“Uh… <Divination Spells Perfect for Going Mad>.”
“Hm? That should be a third-year lecture.”
“So it seems.”
Lee Han answered the senior’s question in a bitter voice.
“No matter how many schools you’re taking, there’s nothing to gain from rushing into divination magic.”
After offering that sensible advice, the senior asked another question.
“What kind of divination have you learned so far?”
“Last year I mostly used stone divination.”
As expected, that probably won’t be enough to keep up…
The reason divination mages used divinations at all was to protect themselves.
Peering into the future placed an enormous burden on a mage.
Divination protected the mage’s mind by breaking that future into uncertain, metaphorical fragments.
Rather than looking straight at the future itself, they looked at fragments of fragments that revealed it, and in that way protected themselves.
Of course, there was a downside too. Accuracy dropped, and the difficulty of interpreting the results rose sharply.
The stone divination first-year students had practiced last year was a comparatively simple one, able to answer straightforward questions, and even then quite a few students had suffered poor accuracy or a severe rebound.
The senior seriously doubted whether a junior who had only learned stone divination ought to be studying <Divination Spells Perfect for Going Mad>.
“Senior. Before that, may I ask you something?”
“Go ahead.”
“…Why are you in the form of a golem?”
Lee Han finally asked what he’d been holding in.
Einroguard was full of all kinds of rare races, but he had never seen a race of bronze golems.
Since the senior had been acting like nothing was strange, he had tried to stay quiet out of juniorly courtesy, but he could not hold back any longer.
“Side effect of divination magic.”
“Is there a divination spell that requires you to become a bronze golem as the price?!”
“Not exactly. You peek into the future and then have to pay the price for it, but if you take that hit in a normal body, it might kill you. It’s better to stay in bronze golem form for a while.”
“…I see.”
Lee Han felt like he finally understood why the divination magic school had so few people in it, enough to be compared to the dark magic school.
No matter how confident the upperclassmen were, surely they did not want to become bronze golems or go insane.
“Bronze Golem Sen… no, Senior. What is your name?”
“Ah. I can’t tell you.”
“?”
“This week is inauspicious for introducing myself.”
“…….”
Lee Han decided he would just call the other person Bronze Golem Senior.
He was suddenly afraid that if he learned the name, they might grow closer for no good reason.
“Golem Senior. You can still tell me the lecture content, right?”
“Of course. I honestly doubt it’ll do you much good, but since Professor Paserlet allowed you to hear it…”
The Golem Senior crooked a creaking bronze finger and beckoned him inside.
Just as Lee Han was about to step forward, the senior quickly stopped him.
“Wait.”
“?”
“Would you step with your right foot first? For the next three days, starting with the right foot will bring good luck.”
“Yes.”
Lee Han accepted it without even being surprised anymore.
By now, he was no longer so naive that one more crazy senior in his life could shake him.
As he followed behind, carefully making sure to start with his right foot every time, while the Golem Senior whistled sideways once every five steps, Lee Han cautiously asked,
“Could you explain a little more about… what you’re doing right now… all these strange… no… well, all these actions?”
“Not difficult.”
The Golem Senior kindly explained it to one of the very few juniors around.
The mages of the divination magic school practiced all kinds of complex divinations to read uncertain futures as accurately as possible, but at the same time they also studied how to use those futures to their own advantage.
One such method was to avoid futures unfavorable to themselves and move toward favorable ones.
“That’s possible? The more specifically you look at the future, the greater the price you have to pay…”
“You don’t look at the future directly. You only figure out the constraints. The actions that avoid misfortune and draw in good fortune.”
The Golem Senior was an excellent divination mage.
Every week, to determine which actions would invite fortune and help avoid misfortune, the senior used three forms of divination and five spells.
Remarkable.
Lee Han was genuinely impressed by the theory.
He already knew divination magic was one of the most unstable and bizarre schools in the Empire, but he had not expected anything like this to be possible.
“How effective is it?”
“This week I found fewer lucky actions than usual, so it’s a bit lacking…”
The Golem Senior rummaged through a pocket, found a die, and rolled it again and again. It landed on six five times in a row, and only on the last roll did it show a different number.
“Oh dear. Last week it would’ve gone further.”
“…!”
Lee Han was startled.
The luck was far stronger than he had expected.
CRACK!
The ceiling of the workshop suddenly gave way, and a brick came hurtling down toward the Golem Senior’s head.
Lee Han instinctively swung his wand and blasted the brick away with telekinesis.
“Are you all right?!”
“How did you…? More importantly, move!”
“?”
Before the words had even finished leaving the senior’s mouth, a spirit-squall erupted inside the workshop, dragging the brick the gale had flung away right back in.
The brick finally slammed into the Golem Senior’s head.
CLANG!
“Urk. I really did set too few lucky constraints this week.”
“What in the world was that just now?!”
“Luck and misfortune are two sides of the same silver coin. Use luck, and misfortune comes rushing in. Don’t worry about it. This is exactly why I became a golem. Here. This is what they covered this week in <Divination Spells Perfect for Going Mad>.”
The Golem Senior flicked a wand and drew the week’s lecture content out from a book.
In <Divination Spells Perfect for Going Mad>, we will go beyond simple and intuitive forms of divination and cover more complex, more powerful ones… (omitted)… The following are divinations worth attempting for a divination mage…
Spirit Gold Coin Divination
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