Episode 026
Most students who entered magic school thought of magic as a goal, not a means.
Most people don’t think, ‘Hey, I’m going to learn fire-making magic to light a fire while camping, and I’m going to learn water-making magic so I can drink free water when I’m thirsty.’
Usually, I have the ambition to ‘polish the basics and then learn the magic I want to pioneer new areas and gain enlightenment!’
As such, Nilia didn’t think much of the flame creation magic.
In the first place, lighting a fire was something that could be done without a wand or spell. Because she was confident that if she were given just a few stones and twigs, Nilia would start a fire.
It would have been better if he had an aptitude for water magic, which he had been interested in for a long time…
“Nilia. Be grateful for the magic you have.”
“Uh… huh? “Yeah, yeah.”
Nilia, overwhelmed by the atmosphere emanating from Lee Han, nodded inadvertently.
‘Did you praise my magic??’
As a member of the Wodanaz family, a famous family of magic, it was clear that Nylia could not tolerate trivializing her own magic.
Nilia looked slightly embarrassed and turned her head.
Of course, Lee Han was grumbling inside.
‘If I only knew how to control magical power, I would have learned fire magic first. ‘I’m jealous.’
* * *
As we thawed frozen hands and feet, quenched our burning thirst with water, and put warm bread and cheese into our mouths, the fatigue of the group was relieved to some extent.
‘I guess I’ll have to go outside and check on the undead.’
Lee Han thought he should go outside and check if there were still any undead left.
If he had the crazy headmaster personality, he could have still stayed.
“Nilia.”
“good. “Let’s go.”
Nilia seemed to have sensed Lee Han’s thoughts and stood up suddenly.
When they came out of the cave, pitch darkness greeted them.
I could tell even though I didn’t walk very far.
“……”
“shit.”
The distant mountain below was still bright. It seemed as if a belt made of fire was wrapped around the bottom of the mountain. It was a siege created by undead summons.
“Isn’t he really crazy?”
“That’s right… that’s true, but can I say that?”
Nilia trembled slightly, perhaps because she was afraid of swearing at the skeleton principal.
“are you okay. No one is listening. “You can swear.”
“Is that so?”
“Nilia. Magic comes from free ideas. “The principal probably wants us to criticize him and have free ideas.”
Lee Han was excellent at talking nonsense with a serious face.
As he spoke seriously with a sculpted face, Nilia, who didn’t know much about magic, began to shake again.
Is… Is that so?
“Kyo, the principal is a bastard! What a brown bear! “A wolf will catch you at night…”
crispy-
“Ugh! sorry! sorry!”
As soon as she heard a rustling noise in front of her, Nilia cried and clung to Lee Han.
Lee Han slowly removed Nilia from his chest like removing a leech and cast a wary gaze.
“Nilia. be careful. “There is someone.”
A voice was heard as if the other party had also recognized Lee Han.
“…Who is there?”
“Tell me that first.”
“White Tiger Tower.”
“shit. “Not everyone was caught.”
Lee Han clicked his tongue.
For some reason, the undead over there didn’t seem to disappear, but there were White Tiger Tower students who escaped without being caught even amidst the commotion.
There was another rustling sound, and the White Tiger Tower students appeared in a complete mess. He looked almost like a beggar.
“Oh, right?”
“no. “It’s called the White Tiger Tower.”
* * *
-Punishment for students who disobeyed the great principal’s orders and deserted.
-Punishment for students who disobeyed the great principal’s orders and deserted.
Unlike Lee Han and his party, there were countless skeletons waiting for the White Tiger Tower students who ran out to break through the siege.
The bone chasers charged in, making rattling sounds and saying creepy things.
In addition, the bone club he was holding was not fatal, but one hit slowed his movements, two hits made him stop, and three hits knocked him down.
“evil!”
“These bastards are so cowardly with their numbers… Wow!”
The White Tiger Tower students, who were showing off their honed sword skills and defeating bone chasers with wooden swords, eventually fell one by one.
-Suppression complete.
-Suppression complete.
“…consolation! “Get out!”
And among the White Tiger Tower students, Giselle was the first to understand the situation.
‘This wasn’t made to be pierced!’
Lee Han did not trust the principal at all, but Giselle inadvertently believed what the principal said and mistakenly thought she could break through the siege.
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The only way to continue going down was to reach an ending.
Giselle took the remaining students and started running up the mountain.
Fortunately, the bone chasers did not chase us up the mountain.
“Gasp…Gasp…”
“Moradi. Upwards… gasp. Can I run away? “There is no way.”
“Summons summoned by wizards don’t last long. “It will disappear over time.”
If Lee Han had been next to him, he would have pointed out, ‘That’s a case of a sloppy wizard, and the number of summons summoned by the principal would be like that?’ But unfortunately, the magic knowledge of the White Tiger Tower students was very lacking.
They thought Giselle’s words were plausible, so they nodded repeatedly.
“What should I do in the meantime?”
“Let’s wait. Rest and recover your stamina. Light it… no. I need to find a place to rest first. “Let’s find a place where we can avoid the wind.”
At Giselle’s words, the White Tiger Tower students began searching around.
Although they were not as skilled in the dark or climbing mountains as Nilia, the White Tiger Tower students had stamina.
Despite the fatigue accumulating in their entire body muscles and their throats burning from thirst, the White Tiger Tower students moved without stopping.
crispy-
“I heard a sound over there.”
“Isn’t it a mountain animal?”
“If it’s a wild animal, let’s kill it instead. “It feels like a belly button is stuck to my back.”
However, the sound that was heard was not the sound of an animal, but the sound of human speech.
The White Tiger Tower students looked shocked.
I never thought there would be someone else out here in the middle of the night.
“…Who is there?”
“Tell me that first.”
“White Tiger Tower.”
“shit. “Not everyone was caught.”
Surprisingly, it was the Blue Dragon Tower students.
* * *
“Come in.”
The White Tiger Tower students hesitantly entered the cave.
Their expressions were full of awkwardness.
It hasn’t been that long since we last fought, so there’s no way it would be comfortable to receive help like this.
“Sit down and eat and drink.”
Lee Han said expressionlessly. Gainando, who was next to him, spoke softly.
“We don’t have anything to eat, so why…”
“Shh.”
Durgyu struck Gaynando in the side.
White Tiger Tower students suddenly appeared.
Seeing that he looked like a beggar, I could guess how much he suffered in the middle of the night.
Normally, Lee Han could have kicked them out.
I was treated like that by the White Tiger Tower students, and no one said anything even when they kicked me out.
However, Lee Han saw their poor condition and called them to come into the cave.
And they distributed food and drinks.
Honestly, it was touching.
‘Lee Han is truly honorable!’
It was easy to be kind to your allies. The truly difficult task was to be kind to one’s enemies.
Dergyu hoped that Lee Han’s kindness would serve as an opportunity for White Tiger Tower students to reflect and reconcile.
“……”
Inside the cave, only the sound of a humming sound could be heard quietly.
Giselle carefully tried to understand the situation around her.
‘How are the Blue Dragon Tower guys here?’
Giselle never expected that Lee Han would follow her.
Who would have expected that students from the Blue Dragon Tower, not the Black Turtle Tower, would do such a despicable thing?
Instead, Giselle thought differently.
‘…They also looked at the map.’
Otherwise there was no reason to be here this night.
It was clear that he had come up before the White Tiger Tower students and was hiding in a cave due to the commotion that occurred below.
Giselle pursed her lips and wondered what to do.
Lee Han from the Wardanaz family showed kindness, but that was that and this was this.
Giselle had been educated like this since she was in the Moradi family.
-Giselle. As you know, the Moradi family does not forget grudges. But there is a hidden message behind it. That is, you repay favors when you remember them.
Anyone swayed by emotions such as gratitude was the person the Moradi family despised the most.
A member of the Moradi family had to be able to coolly refuse even if the benefactor who saved his life made a desperate request right in front of him.
‘How should I use it? First, I have to buy favor.’
Meanwhile, one of the White Tiger Tower students hesitantly opened his mouth.
I wanted to ask my friend, Dergyu, what happened.
“Choi. how…”
thud!
“?!”
The White Tiger Tower student who was about to speak fell forward.
Dergyu was surprised to see that.
‘what?!’
At first, I thought I just passed out from exhaustion.
But it wasn’t.
thud! thud!
Other students also fell forward as if they had eaten something wrong.
“…Damn it!”
Giselle, who realized it too late, shouted in a sharp voice and spit out the water she had been holding in her mouth.
However, I felt dazed because I had already drunk a lot of water.
‘Medicine in water…?!’
“late. “I realized it too late.”
Lee Han said coldly.
Giselle glared murderously at Lee Han even as her mind was clouded.
Instead of the soft and slim expression I saw when we first met, a sharp and bloody expression appeared, like a blade sharpened in blue.
It was Giselle’s real expression that not even the White Tiger Tower students had ever seen.
“Let’s… let’s see.” Wardanaaz…!”
The last thing Giselle saw was the boy from the Wardanaz family looking down at her expressionlessly with a cold, sculptural face.
With that last sight, Giselle fell into sleep.
* * *
‘Did I hold a grudge for no reason?’
Contrary to Giselle’s misunderstanding, Lee Han did have some regrets inside.
There is no way the White Tiger Tower students who suffered like this will forget their resentment.
But what can you do?
The ones who hit first were the White Tiger Tower students.
If someone hates you for no reason, make sure to give them a reason!
“What, what, what, what, Lee Han?!”
“Is there poison in the water!? “I drank it too!?”
Dergyu was so surprised that he couldn’t speak properly. It was the same with Gainando.
Lee Han deliberately plotted to exclude the two.
Dergyu and Gaynando are both friends who are far from managing their facial expressions. If I had told you, problems could have arisen.
“Gainando. do not worry. Because it’s not poison. And it wasn’t in the water you drank. “We will capture them and leave them where the Bone Chasers are.”
The reason why Lee Han put sleeping pills in the water that White Tiger Tower students drink was not because of personal grudges.
Who are the skeletons down there looking for right now?
It was clear that they were looking for White Tiger Tower students.
We need to catch these guys quickly and sacrifice them!
“that…! But why use such means…?”
“Durgyu. Think about it carefully. If we had confronted each other head on, we would have been caught because it was noisy. Besides, would this Moradi have stayed still? “I guess they grabbed my ankles and tried to catch me.”
Dergyu was no match for Lee Han in words.
After hearing the words, Dergyu felt persuaded again.
“But still, this is a bit… Where did you get the medicine?”
Yoner raised his hand with a slightly embarrassed expression.
“I found a sleeping plant on the way up earlier.”
As Yoner was able to distinguish between most flowers and plants, he was able to find a sleeping plant with a white stem as he climbed up.
-oh. Look at this.
-What is this?
-It’s sleeping grass. If you grind the powder and drink it in water, you will sleep well.
-Let’s take care of it.
-huh?
-Let’s take care of it. Because I don’t know when I’ll use it.
-Do you have any use for this?
Yoner tilted his head and took the sleeping weed. He wondered if he had anything to write about.
But surprisingly, there was something to write about.
…I really didn’t know I’d write it like this.
