Episode 552
“no. “Not all wizards think of spirits.”
The squirrel spirit shook its head on Lee Han’s shoulder as if it were correct.
Even if it wasn’t an extreme case like the skeleton principal, wizards who were sincere about spirits were rarer than expected.
Even if you become friends with some spirits and make contracts with them, you will not go deep into the polluted forest and risk your life for the spirits.
“But how did you appear in front of us…?”
“I have a potion that will temporarily stop the principal’s magic.”
“!”
“…!!!”
As all three of them were students with excellent grades in alchemy, they immediately understood how great what senior Illendil was saying was.
I never thought the Skeleton Headmaster’s magic could be stopped, even if only for a moment.
The gaze that had been looking at Illendil as a ‘crazy senior’ or a ‘suspicious senior’ just a moment ago changed to a look of respect for a ‘great senior’.
“That’s amazing!”
“really…!”
“Yes?”
Illendil was actually curious as to why his juniors were like this.
“why?”
“Seniors. Sorry, but we have to save the spirits. “Now is the time…”
“I will help you. “Because the potion’s effects still remain.”
“uh…”
Lee Han wondered if he should accompany a suspicious-looking senior who was the culprit of this incident, whom he had never seen before.
Besides, I have to make a contract with the spirits…
“I don’t know when the professor will return. Wouldn’t it be dangerous?”
“huh. “Because the forest and the spirits are more important than me.”
“cool…!”
“I guess I looked at the wrong person. “Lee Han.”
Ihan thought to himself as Priest Cyanna and Yoner gave Illendil even stronger respect than before.
‘Have you all forgotten that this person is the culprit of the pollutants?’
But there was no more time to waste now.
“All right. Let’s go.”
Anyway, he will be helpful as he is a senior and an alchemist several times better than Lee Han.
…I felt a little uneasy about being the culprit of all this…
* * *
“Why did you want to create an artificial dark spirit?”
Ordinary students would talk about tonight’s dinner while walking, but students who were good at alchemy talked about alchemy while walking.
Illendil answered the priest Cyanna’s question in his characteristic slow voice.
“huh. “I wanted to use him as a forest keeper.”
“Forest keeper?”
The forests of Einrogard had a powerful power similar to that of ancient forests.
However, this cannot be the case in all forests of the empire.
One of the elements that forests were particularly vulnerable to was the dark element.
Sometimes, a dark spirit is summoned by mistake and pollutes the entire huge forest.
Illendil, who was heartbroken by such cases, took a reverse approach.
How about using a dark spirit as a forest keeper?
“and! really…”
“Isn’t this a crazy idea?”
Priest Sianna, who was trying to admire Lee Han’s muttering, became embarrassed.
“Isn’t that a good idea?”
“Priest Sianna. “Look at the pollutants in front of you now.”
Illendil became sullen at the conversation of his juniors. The leaves connected to the hair turned down as if they were dead.
“It would have been nice if it had succeeded.”
‘Oops. ‘He’s a senior.’
Lee Han realized his mistake.
I was so anxious right now because of the spirit that I made a mistake I didn’t normally make.
Isn’t Illendil definitely a senior?
If there is even a bad rumor about Lee Han in the community among seniors…
‘Can’t we use the Moradi family? That would be too much. I told you my name and family name earlier.’
“no. Seniors. “I think it is a meaningful attempt.”
“huh? “He said it was a crazy idea.”
“Because all pioneers tend to look crazy. “It was meant as admiration.”
“You are such a good person.”
The leaves of Illendil quickly felt better.
“But wouldn’t it be better to get help from an expert for elements that are difficult to handle, such as the dark element?”
“Help me?”
The dryad mixed-blood senior stared at Lee Han.
Lee Han answered quickly without taking a breath.
“I was referring to the seniors of the black magic school.”
“Yes. But the black magic school is all weird and scary.”
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“yes?”
Hearing what his senior said, Lee Han paused, wondering if he had heard something wrong.
“for a moment. “The spirit is over there.”
Illendil extended his finger and corrected the direction.
“Are you feeling the spirit’s energy?”
“huh. “I’ve been close to spirits since I was young.”
“……”
Yoner shook his head as he saw the tendons on the back of his friend’s hand holding the cane.
What on earth is a spirit…!
* * *
“Everyone is here. “The spirits are gathered over there.”
Lee Han had no choice but to acknowledge the skills of his senior, who served as a temporary guide instead of the thunder-walking professor.
The spirit hybrids, where a contract made in the ancestors accidentally manifested itself in the later generations, all had different characteristics.
Some spirit half-breeds were so sensitive that they freaked out when they saw Lee Han, but other spirit half-bloods were so indifferent.
Illendil was said to be close to spirits, so it was clear that he was born with affinity.
“for a moment.”
In an instant, the senior’s complexion changed.
“The homunculus is coming this way.”
“!”
Lee Han’s eyes changed.
Unlike other pollutants, the artificial dark spirit that caused the situation was a different story.
“I stop it. “You guys take the spirits with you.”
Lee Han, who was about to nod, stopped.
Now that there are spirits by his side, wouldn’t the story return to the beginning if Illendil shows his devotion?
“no. “I will stop it too.”
Illendil looked at his junior’s words and said, ‘He’s a really, really good person.’
“Hmm. “What did she say her name was?”
“Mo…”
“This is Wardanaz.”
“I am Ihan of the Wardanaz family.”
“yes. you’re right.”
“Ihan of the Wardanaz family. Ihan of the Wardanaz family. huh. “I’ll remember that.”
The dryad half-breed senior waved his staff.
Then the trees, which were already dense, grew even more tangled and formed a solid wall.
thud!
The artificial dark spirit that was running was trapped in a wooden prison.
However, the spirit was not easy. In an instant, it changed its shape freely, pulled its entire body out of the gap in the wooden prison, and began to crawl out.
“Darkness, gather here!”
Lee Han responded immediately even without his senior saying anything.
Illendil, who was trapping the spirit in a tree, looked at Lee Han and nodded. It was exactly what needed to be done right now.
Continuously absorbing dark elements from artificial dark spirits.
Dark elements gathered at the tip of Lee Han’s staff.
■!
When his body was torn away, the spirit reacted very sensitively.
The spirit, which was trying to somehow capture the dark element by force, used a different method as soon as it lost control to Lee Han.
‘This…!’
As the dark element condensed at the tip of the staff blinked and was about to explode, Lee Han quickly took out a piece of bone from the reagent bag and quickly compressed it.
Some bone fragments were burned, but it could not be helped.
‘<Dark wave spread>!’
Lee Han recalled the magic from the grimoire that Professor Boladi had given him.
A type of magic that condenses dark elements and then explodes them in the form of waves to affect the surroundings.
Other elements would not have had much power, but the characteristics of the dark element made even this wave-type attack fatal.
Wizards with a living body will lose their vitality after being hit directly by this dark element a few times.
Now the opposing spirit was instinctively trying to cause a similar phenomenon.
“Absorption, difficult…?”
Illendil gasped and spat out the words.
He was confined using a potion, but since it was such a large-scale magic, the consumption of magic power and stamina seemed to be unusual.
Priests Yoner and Syanna were helping by the side, but they were already sweating coldly.
Lee Han sensed that if he backed out of this situation, things would get more complicated.
‘If the situation arises, we have no choice but to use magic to deal with it.’
I hadn’t practiced <Dark Wave Spread> yet and had put it off, but in the current situation, I had no choice but to try what I had read.
Lee Han swung his cane with a recklessness that would have made him close his eyes if Dirette had been next to him.
“Darkness, gather here!”
The dark elements gathered once again.
The spirit struggling in the wooden prison reacted faster this time due to its experience.
There was no time to contain it in the reagent as the dark element immediately began to blink and explode.
Lee Han cast <Dark Wave Spread> as he read in the grimoire.
“Darkness, sweep away!”
Waves of darkness billowed through the air above my head. Lee Han cast it first and consumed it before the opponent exploded it.
Illendil looked puzzled and asked again.
“Just now, why…?”
“It was my first time using magic, so I had no choice!”
“what?”
Ihan could not explain further to Illendil.
Realizing that it was impossible to keep up with the opposing wizard using the dark element, the spirit changed its approach once again.
The grass and branches combined with the dark element and rose up like dolls.
At that sight, Illendil let out a scream of pain.
“You son of a bitch!”
“Hand, tear the enemy apart!”
Lee Han barely managed to memorize a spell as the enemy stuck without giving him a chance to pull out the morning star.
The Skeleton Headmaster’s melee spell, <The Sharp Hand of Gonadaltes>.
Unlike other magics, I never wondered when I would use this kind of magic…!
Wow!
“Blink!”
I cut with one hand and swung the staff with the other and recited the spell, but the numbers and momentum were unusual.
In a melee like this, the wizard will always suffer losses.
“Blink!”
The moment the lightning formed, another grass doll rushed in. Lee Han forcibly fixed the lightning at the end and stabbed the staff like a spear.
If there was just a moment, I could mobilize all my summons to buy time, but there was no time.
If only there was a moment!
Let’s go!
As if responding to Lee Han’s wish, the lightning element at the tip of the staff expanded in size and covered the staff.
In fact, Lee Han himself did not notice as he was busy killing the enemy approaching from the other side and staring at the spirit trapped in the wooden prison.
It was only after I noticed that all the enemies around the hand holding the staff had fallen that I realized the change.
“…?”
Lee Han was surprised to realize that the staff had suddenly turned into a spear of lightning.
‘for a moment. ‘How did I do this?’
It was clear that the staff had been used as a wick to fix the lightning element into the shape of a flaming spear.
Since Professor Boladi had talked about fixing the lightning elemental form, I could tell as soon as I saw it.
But what was embarrassing was that I couldn’t remember how I did this.
Because I did it in such an urgent situation, I instinctively…
‘This is not the time!’
Lee Han immediately summoned Sharkan and the skeleton warriors.
Summoners blocked the grass dolls that were pushed out by the lightning spear. Lee Han took advantage of the opportunity and ran with the spear of lightning.
■!
The spirit trapped between the wooden prisons screamed in fear as it realized its fate.
Hold on!
Unlike the impact of lightning that was fired and passed through, the power of the condensed and fixed lightning was sharp and fierce.
Moreover, it did not disappear and continuously burned the spirit.
Lee Han pulled out his spear and hurled it again.
Hold on!
Lee Han planned to stab his opponent with his spear until he was reverse summoned.
Of course, since it was created by Einroguard’s seniors, it will not be easily reverse-summoned like a normal spirit.
But it didn’t matter.
If it’s an endurance contest, Lee Han’s magic will never disappear first.
Hook, puff, puff, puff, puff!
■! ■! ■! ■! ■!
After a chorus of thunderbolts and screams, the artificial spirit gave up all resistance and fell to its knees.
He stopped the attack and made his own symbol rise on the back of Lee Han’s hand.
It was a sign of complete surrender, leaving the wizard to his own devices.
“???”
Of course, Lee Han was just embarrassed because he had no intention of signing a contract with the other party.
Wasn’t he a violent guy who went crazy to begin with?
There were very few wizards who would make a contract with a guy who didn’t know when he would stab them in the back.
Unless you are fascinated by the spirit…
“Wardanaz! Sign a contract! “You wanted to make a contract with a spirit!”
“Is that true? I think it’s a good idea. “He’s a little naughty, but he’s actually a good kid!”
“……”
Lee Han frowned at the shouts of Priest Syanna and Senior Illendil.
