Chapter.9 Star Fall (17)
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“Wow, a fox-like inspiration. Like a religious man who swallowed three thousand snakes! While I’m at it, they put the leash on me again!”
The professor, who had heard such a shocking story, had been given the appointment in a daze, and in the short time he had left the archbishop’s office and left the temple, he had already heard words like “Professor, a warrior who is a goodwill ambassador for different races recognized by the religious order” being circulated among the priests, and he was furious. there was.
“Just say, ‘The professor is a free warrior! Gregory has declared me unfit for active duty!’ How dare you turn something that could have been thrown away into a religious sect! Oh my, it’s Professor Park! You too have come a long way! “I’m tied up because of your old man’s emotional betrayal!”
– Jokass: Dobby is a free house elf… Huh? What about this leash?
– Nutria Gena: It really looks like a ghost. By playing with his tongue and his head, he just tied up Professor Park, who was the number one person I’ve ever seen.
– Noru Drug: I feel like I saw something incredibly terrible. I think I saw Professor Park, a 70-year-old man who was worn down by the waves and whose instigation and fabrication reached the peak…
– Speed Wagon: The past history of the Archbishop of the 3 World Gwangmyeong Church seems to be quite high-quality information. For those who want to play as a priest, just referencing this will be quite helpful.
– Holly: Uh…. How does the Archbishop’s past history help the game?
– Mukaba: Sensitivity is a cheat who can charm even Professor Park. If you wander around near the archbishop, get up early in the morning, wipe down the chapel, and walk around limping, will the archbishop just pass by or at least talk to you? / ‘How do you clean the chapel so early?’ / ‘Ah… it’s a shame… but it’s because I’m happy to wake up in the morning and see my brothers greeting me with sleepy eyes hehe…’ / ‘ Priest Sha Shandalo! Unbelievable! ‘Light!’ / Can’t you just draw a picture?
– Holly: Wow… you might think so…
– Mukaba: Look at what Professor Park is doing. To play this game, you have to be smart enough to play it.
– Jokass: ㄹㅇ. If you are not a Cheonryuje-level dog player, you must play with the determination of a member of the National Assembly entering Yeouido.
– takealook: If you think about it, Cheon Ryu-je is a really stupid person. Clear world 3 in the shortest time possible by just doing no farming, personal training, and no politics. Didn’t he turn it into a realistic one too? What on earth are you doing? Anyone know what I’m doing now?
-Speed Wagon: At the dome, Cheon Ryu-je’s no-farm garbage clear seed was packaged like an entrance ticket to the April World line and sold at a high price to rankers, and thanks to that, I was able to use the money to play and eat. The current situation is that only the dome that sponsors it knows, but I don’t know what it does, and it has been confirmed that it sometimes posts things like knives made by Ji on the exchange. He is a high-level swordsmith that is hard to find these days, so the basic bidding price for a knife with his signature ‘千’ is over 4 million.
– Jokass: 400? Fuck, don’t the old-time laser blades that scavengers sometimes get from relics hit the jackpot and sell for around 5 million won? Even that price was insanely high due to Dom’s reckless overbidding to keep it from being given to Raptor. A knife hammered out by human hands costs 4 million? Are people who are good at using knives also good at making knives?
– Speed Wagon: I don’t know much about the quality of swords as it’s not my specialty, but there is a video of a single-molecular cutter and a knife made by Cheonryuje [Link]. The monomolecular cutter broke in two and the Cheonryuje maid cut the blade a little.
– Noru Drug: You fucking fraudster. That kid must be from Hoebinghwan. We’re all brains in a barrel, and that bastard must be the 999999th person to play this ruined world!
‘i envy you. I wish I could just cut it all down with my skills without getting involved in politics!’
The professor shed tears of blood while listening to the current status of ranker Cheon Ryu-je posted in the chat window.
I realized this when I saw that the suspicious looks I received upon entering the temple changed to respect and envy when I left. That I was harmed.
“If you spread a rumor like that, no matter what I do, ‘Professor Park, a hero, saved the village in the name of the church!’ Because it spreads the same way. It’s obvious that even if the cult’s achievement value goes up, you won’t get even half of the heroic points. “When they started talking about the past, I should have just closed my eyes and run out!”
The timing was amazing. When I first went in, I didn’t even think about leaving because I was expecting some sort of reward. While I was stuck there, they brought up a story from my past that I couldn’t ignore, and my heart sank, so while I was hesitating, I quickly poured oil on my head. It’s a cheat key. A past history that cannot be seen without the tears of an old man. Psychopaths are also a topic worth looking into at least once.
I grumbled a lot while returning to the inn where the group was, but it was already spilled water and the news was made public through the priests of the Gwangmyeong Church, a broadband human communicator. It may be more cumbersome than when I moved as an individual, but I had no choice but to make good use of the position I had already earned as an official special envoy.
“what? Was there a fight?”
As I returned to the inn after passing through a street full of homeless nobles, I heard loud noises coming from the bar on the first floor. As I carefully pushed through the swing door, which was almost completely broken and fluttering, I saw an old man with a gray beard and an old man covered in burns with red hair and beard, whether dyed or natural, fighting with the blood forming in their necks.
“That bastard who has never even held a woman’s hand is talking like a fireball! “If only I had realized how to use that tongue, I would have achieved great success as a water magician!”
“iced coffee? Even though I’m older, I have sharp ears, but I can’t hear very well because it’s coming from Banpoon, who got his entire tower blown up by a monster. Now that I think about it, one of the wizards there was captured by the red mute and hung from the tower wearing only his underwear, right? Without knowing any shame, I cried and cried out for help! If you had learned our fire-type magic, you would have become very successful! “It’s amazing to see how you patiently endured such shame that you could almost spontaneously combust!”
Sigh!
“Yes Inooooom! How dare you mention that!”
Grumble!
“Aren’t you the ones just taking up space without doing anything, laughing in the arms of a prostitute!”
“How can you insult such a wide embrace like the sea of the sea!”
“You were the one who insulted me first!”
“To the firewood bastard who covets what belongs to others!”
A wall of water and bright red flames suddenly gathered around the two old men, and the innkeeper was unable to do anything, just biting his fingers across the counter. People sitting at the table sipping beer chatted quietly as if they had something interesting to see. I was looking at the two of them.
‘Oh right. Oh, now that I think about it, the people at the inn are either warriors or noble nobles, even if they aren’t good at it, right?’
It was said that aristocrats who came with a lot of money were sitting on the streets, and those in the inn were people who had a higher status than them. An inn filled with people who can laugh off the effects of magic. Certainly, the current Kingsland is so foreign that it is even bizarre.
“Otman! “What are you doing there!”
The old wizard, who seemed ready to turn the bar into a sea of water at the sound of my calling, turned to me with a bright face.
“Oooh! professor! That’s a good thing! “I was already having a fight with these firebrands and was wondering what to do!”
“dispute? “They?”
After a quick look around, I came across an estimate. People who are tagged with information about mental breakdown. Most of them were full of question marks, but people whose characteristics stood out, like the fire-type wizard in front of Otman, were simply tagged without much information.
“Let’s see… one, two, two, you, two… five? Old Man Otman, are you hitting? “Are you guys who look like they’re above the 3rd tier at a glance and are fighting at 5:1?”
“They were the ones who muddied the waters in the first place! Aldrich and Notum left for the cemetery to train and were with Borka and his friend, when people from the Light Church came rushing in as soon as they took the friend, saying what about beastman slaves, and said that the whore’s pillar gave off a cheap smell in a cramped inn. “They say it smells fishy. Do you think you can stand it?”
“I know the water smells fishy, but what do you mean by prostitute?”
Grumble!
“I’m talking about the characteristics of water, which is no different from a faithful prostitute who accepts everyone without any special hardships!”
“…What the fuck?”
As I approached Otman’s side, a group of people wearing red robes came rushing out from behind the burn-covered old wizard, as if they had been waiting for them.
“So… giving water to anyone is no different from a whore, and we who handle that kind of water are the pillars of a whore?”
“yes! This guy with a mushy brain understands what I’m saying! “Is it any wonder that the Great Fire Mage ‘Malkur of the Rolling Flame’ has to sleep on the streets because of you guys who are of no help in the war?”
Now I’m starting to understand what’s going on. So, you can’t be a high-ranking noble, so you have to choose between living in a commoner’s house or sleeping on the street. Our Water Wizard, Otman, got upset when he saw that there was an inn?
“Hehehehe. What the heck…”
“If you hand over the fishy smelling room where you watermen are staying to us right now, this rudeness never happened-”
Quack!
“It wasn’t there…uh….”
“Hehehehehe. You said so. With that kind of logic, you tried to raid our party’s lodgings by criticizing the clear, clean, refreshing water as a whore and all that?”
Pussssssuk!
The fire wizard who was chatting excitedly next to the old flame wizard began to stutter when he saw the amazing magic that transformed the corner of the bar held in the professor’s hand into a piece of wood and the piece of wood into sawdust.
“Barbarian? “Wasn’t he a wizard?”
“Of course he’s a wizard! The professor here is a second-level magician from the great water magic Reedflow School! professor! Hurry and show them your ‘cruel’ and ‘destructive’ second-tier magic! hurry!”
“Of course you should. Water, my lifelong lover, was treated like a prostitute. of course!”
As the professor, who was already wearing clothes with ripped sleeves and trousers below the knees due to frequently losing his limbs, approached with his muscles writhing menacingly, the hesitating young wizard with red hair hurriedly opened his mouth as if he had a clever idea.
“Damn magic! okay! If you’re a wizard, let’s decide the winner with a magic battle! Surely a wizard wouldn’t wield physical strength in an ungraceful way!”
“right! Master, please allow me to scold that rude waterman! We will ‘use only magic’ to sort out the dispute about what true magic is!”
“Just play the drums, play the janggu, and just do everything together.”
[Running Colt] While the owner of the inn was silently screaming as he saw the corner of the high-level elf wooden bar that he had bought with great determination being ‘torn’ by the professor’s hands, the professor was watching the wizards whose brains had been cooked and turned into tofu. I was wondering how to relieve the stress that was filling my heart.
‘Originally, the water-type wizard and the fire-type wizard did not get along well.’
That’s not to say that it’s because of the relationship between water and fire, but there was a slightly more complicated situation.
The discord between these two groups of wizards began due to differences in training methods for water and fire.
The goal of water-type magic is to become first-tier by building an affinity for water in a state close to a slight hallucination where oxygen is cut off through ‘drowned body training’, just as the professor entered it. The fetus lived in the amniotic fluid for 9 months, so when it comes to death, it naturally comes to mind. Well, it is a widely known training method based on this theory, but of course, if you do not realize it, you will end up drowning, so it is quite infamous, and that means you will succeed in entering the first rank. There are extremely few wizards compared to other schools. Instead, if you enter the first tier and develop an attachment to water, you have the advantage of easily moving up to the next 2 and 3 tiers. As I was in a state of not knowing what to do because I liked the water, the process of moving on to the next realization became easier.
On the other hand, fire-type wizards cannot be thrown into a fire pit like water-type wizards. In drowning body training, if a person faints, they are pulled up and given artificial respiration, but if you put them in a fire pit, they will burn up and there is nothing to do but save them and sleep.
So, when flame-type wizards have new initiates, they ‘cook’ them by placing them on an iron plate inlaid with special magic and creating lukewarm flames that are close to the limit that civilians can endure. Once you get used to that temperature, make it a little hotter. The more you get used to it, the hotter it gets. In this way, we gradually approach the heat of the flame and gain enlightenment.
Basically, people have a positive image of wood fires that block the winter cold and torches that light up the darkness, so the number of magicians who have achieved first-level enlightenment in the Flame series boasts a much higher number than other classes. However, unlike water-type wizards, they have to endlessly bake themselves to the point where they do not burn even in flames of increasingly higher temperature and replaced by blue flame, white flame, and pure fire mana, so the number of high-ranking wizards is small compared to the huge number of first-tier wizards. . Even if you are training hard, the moment you become a little more greedy than usual, your brain will get used to it, and it will be over.
Thanks to these completely different training methods, water-type wizards liken their enlightenment to ‘the process of communicating with the water that has become their lover’, while fire-type wizards compare it to ‘a suitor who gradually approaches the haughty lover who retains the heat of heaven through endless courtship’. Compare yourself.
Water wizards look down on fire wizards who easily reach the top level without worrying about dying, and fire wizards are jealous of water wizards who do not have to worry about dying during training once they become wizards. So, they twist that analogy and say, ‘A prostitute who gives her intimate embrace to anyone.’ They came to belittle each other as a ‘water wizard who had a lover’ and a ‘stupid fire wizard who couldn’t even properly confess to a woman.’
It was an insult I could never ignore, as I felt like I had regained my lost mother’s arms in the hot shower I had taken before logging in today.
Ttuduk! Crack!
‘A tavern full of high-ranking nobles and warriors who are no less noble. If I show off my skills here, will my hero points go up? Someone with a high status, like a king, obviously had a higher coefficient, so if you do well, you’ll earn quite a lot, right?’
As I felt the scale in my mind gradually tilting from ‘just beat me up’ to ‘beat me up through a duel’, I thought I had to make sure my opponent couldn’t back down.
“You coveted our place? But what? Even if you want to give them a seat, isn’t it a bit of a burden for other people here to hand it over to people who ‘didn’t get assigned accommodation because they weren’t in the right class’? “What if we show mercy and that becomes a precedent and other beggars stick to these warriors?”
“Keuuu! Are you saying that our fire wizards are worse than you fishy bastards who only eat raw food!”
“It wasn’t me, but the Kingdom of Roderick recognized it that way? We gave you accommodation in an inn and left you to sleep on the streets. “The kingdom proved it.”
“The insult has gone too far! I can’t stand it! Since you are like that old wizard’s disciple, it is natural for a disciple to deal with a disciple! “I, Sevram, the greatest disciple of ‘Malkur the Blazing Flame’, will challenge you to a wizard duel!”
When the wizard, known as Severam or Severance, threw a glove out of his pocket, the bar patrons who were watching with interest cheered.
“Oooooh!”
“It’s a duel!”
“Hahaha! I knew this would happen from the moment the fire wizards came into the tavern! I’m betting 1,000 shillings on the big guy! “You’re in good spirits!”
“well. If you think about it calmly, if it were a wizard duel, the larger one who focuses on physical training would naturally be at a disadvantage. One thousand five hundred shillings to the Blue Flame Wizard.”
“It’s a fight!”
“A water-type wizard and a fire-type wizard have joined forces!”
Perhaps because the customers were all warriors or high-ranking nobles and their bodyguards, the heavy wooden tables were quickly moved away, creating an empty circular space in the middle of the tavern.
The two wizards faced each other in the center of the circle, leaving behind the halfling, who was naturally collecting the stake, and the innkeeper, who seemed to have lost his mind and muttered something like ‘A wizard is having a duel in my store… magic transfer…’.
“Hehehe…. You know what a wizard duel is! Only magic! This is a duel where only magical effects can harm your opponent! If you’re a wizard, you should only use magic fairly…”
“That’s roughly how I felt. “Whatever you want.”
“good night! “If you lose, you will quietly give up your accommodation and retreat!”
‘Now that I think about it, it was a fight they fought because they wanted something, right?’
I was so focused on just trying to beat up the wizard that I forgot about it. If it’s a betting duel, what should you bet on here?
“Hahaha! Suddenly I have a lot on my mind. “Why are you now wondering where to go when you’re out on the street?”
“Stay there. “I’m wondering what I should do to avoid inflicting lifelong trauma on your heart.”
After thinking for a moment, the professor thought of a pretty good solution as he looked at the halfling standing on the table holding a parchment full of numbers and a thick bag of silver coins.
“Hello there! Some people I know and some I don’t, but I’ll say hello! This is Fionil, the halfling ‘grey sole’ from the Principality of Fionil! Today’s special event is mine! “Let’s see the judge!”
“Whoa whoa!”
“We’ve prepared some pretty good attractions for a cheap inn!”
“Fire wizard! I bet you 5,000 shillings! “Roast it until it’s really crispy!”
“Both sides! Let me introduce you~! Red flag first! A 3rd level flame wizard! Sebram, a wizard from the ‘Lone Flame’ school, whose attack magic is said to be unrivaled! The duel reward is accommodation at the Running Colt Inn here, owned by a group of water wizards! And-”
Crack!
The halfling who was shouting in a loud voice on the table quickly jumped onto my shoulder and whispered.
“Hey water wizard! “Tell me your name, what school you want to introduce, and the wagering reward!”
“….who are you?”
“I’ll take half of the 10% betting commission! I don’t have time to go see it! “The audience is waiting!”
oh. If you pretend, it’s Tak. If it relieves stress and gives you money, there’s no reason to turn it down.
“He is a professor from the second-tier Readflow school. “There’s nothing in particular I want to talk about, but the compensation is….
”
“….what? Are you really okay with that? “Were you a member of the church?”
“okay. “That’s enough, so go and report it quickly.”
“He was a man with more religious faith than I thought. “It doesn’t matter to me.”
The halfling, who said he wanted to see all the unusual people, did a light somersault and returned to the table he had originally been on.
Crack!
“Blue Flag~ 2nd level of Lead Flow School~ Pursuing the harmony of perfect body and perfect mind! professor! What is the duel reward?… Now, a group of fire-type wizards, including wizard Sevram… visited Paladin Gregory, leader of the Holy Knights of the Church of Light, and said, ‘We came here thanks to the introduction of a professor of the church’s hero. Please call me anytime if you have any.’ That’s what I’m saying!”
“The leader of the Holy Knights of the Church of Gwangmyeong?”
“Was he a member of the church? I don’t feel any holy power…”
“Isn’t this a very good condition for a fire type wizard? I came here to participate in the battle that was going to take place against Mute anyway, but I ended up making connections with someone as high as the leader of the Holy Knights…” “
It’s good to participate as an individual, but if you don’t have a big backing, it’s definitely advantageous to participate in the church’s operations.” I guess this is it. “It looks like the professor is trying to scout out useful wizards for the church.”
“Because the Church of Light lacks wide-area attack magic. “It makes perfect sense.”
Buzz, buzz!
Whispering!
When my conditions were announced, I could see the audience as well as the wizard and his group in front of me panicking.
“Don’t think that I will respect you for giving me this recognition! “You don’t think you’ll win, so you’re playing a shallow game!”
“Hehehe. If you want to think that way, think about it.”
“Hey Miss, are you ready~!”
Green onions!
When the halfling raised his hand, Sevram, unlike the professor who was standing blankly, quickly took a step back and retreated to the end of the circular clearing.
“May it be an honorable duel! start!”
“[Fireball]!”
Grumble!
As soon as his hand went down, Sebram fired a fireball, a basic flame magic that can be used without chanting, at the professor.
‘Before a battle, keep your distance and use the fastest spell you can cast, not a big spell. ‘He’s not someone who doesn’t know how to fight at all.’
The characteristics of fire magic have been expanded. It is similar to their training method of creating a bigger fire with the spark created by the first spell and using that fire as a catalyst to use a more advanced spell.
‘Hmm… there’s some strange mana mixed in the middle. It has to do with enlightenment, right?’
The professor raised his right hand as he looked at the fireball, which was quite fast to a wizard’s eyes, but infinitely slow to the senses of a high-level warrior.
“[Blood Armor]”
Push!
Gauntlets of blood rose up in an instant and covered his arms.
‘Obviously… you said you had to fight only with the effects of magic, right?’
Seeing a fireball the size of an adult’s head flying a short distance away, the professor stretched out his gauntleted palm to block the flames.
Quang!
“Hahaha! It’s funny how you’ve become so stupid! It is a fireball with the realization of ‘expansion’ and ‘explosion’! “It can’t even be compared to water-based magic.”
slam!
Craddangtangtang!
As if it wasn’t just a fireball, the fireball that touched his hand exploded, causing the blood armor to shake from the impact. At the same time as the explosion, the professor’s right hand jumped in front of the wizard and struck him on the cheek with all his might.
At the moment of contact, a small ring of flame rose up and blocked the red gauntlet, but Sebram, who rolled sideways several times as if not completely dissipating the shock, stood up, covered his swollen cheek with one hand, and pointed and cursed at the professor. it started.
“It’s against the rules! You used violence, not magic! Referee! According to the wizard duel rules, this is a clear foul! “Send a foul to that guy right now!”
“It’s not? “If I had hit you, your head would have been blown out of the gate right now, man.”
The professor interrupted Sevram and waved a red gauntlet in his right hand.
“Blood Armor. It’s my origin spell, and the effect is to consume blood to absorb the shock received and release it backwards. I didn’t hit you? “I just placed my hand next to your cheek when your magic exploded, right before the Blood Armor released its impact?”
“That nonsense-”
“There are such nonsense magics. “There is a saying that there is as much magic as there are wizards in the world, right?”
I waved my gauntleted hand as I watched the fire wizard cup my cheek and widen the distance between me.
“I tried it in the morning and this place’s stew is good. “It’s so soft and fluffy that I could eat it even if I lost all my teeth.”
“What does that have to do with me!”
“Oh, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. I plan to make it happen.”
Watching the wizard desperately trying to create fire with his fingertips, the professor picked up a small white object that had fallen on the floor.
“First there is one, and there are 31 left to go?”
What the professor picked up was the flame wizard’s front tooth that had just fallen out.
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