59. Crimson Magic Tower 2
About 2 minutes ago.
Right after Kang Seung-hyun and Kim Ho-jung left the store.
bubbling bubbling.
The sparkling potion suddenly began to boil.
“Did I adjust the fire wrong?”
The wizard reached out with the thought of lowering the firepower.
Aaaaaaaaaaa!!!
At that time, white smoke rose from the potion.
“Oh shit…!”
The wizard remembered what Kang Seung-hyun said earlier. The potion will explode, so avoid it.
‘It’s okay if I just stop.’
The wizard stretched out his hand without hesitation. Because when the potion explodes, it is basic to block it with magic.
“Magic Shield!”
Mana rushed to his fingertips and turned into a shield to block the smoke. The rising smoke was blocked by the magic shield.
‘I made it at best, but I ruined everything. I have to make it again from scratch…’
Cheeheehee…
“Huh…?”
Smoke was leaking out, which I thought had been blocked. Upon closer inspection, the magic shield touched by the smoke was melting.
“What is it…!”
Hwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
White smoke hit the wizard before he had time to activate his magic shield again.
“Aaaaaaaaaaaa!!!”
The wizard, swept away by the hot smoke, screamed. The smoke that the wizard couldn’t stop spread quickly.
“performance?”
“Quickly block it with a magic shield!”
The people in the shop also activated their magic shields, but
chii-i-i-i…
“Demon magic shield!”
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaac!!”
The haan smoke melted the magic shield and swept the people inside the store.
“It’s a mess.”
Seunghyun Kang, who arrived, muttered as he looked around the store.
– Inside the store filled with white smoke. People collapsing on the floor and coughing. In the meantime, Kang Seung-hyun stands alone.
“It’s literally a mess… are we okay?”
“We are fine. More than that…”
Ho-jung Kim, who came in belatedly, murmured. It seems that it took some time because of the onlookers who gathered in front of the store.
“Please close all doors and windows in the store. So that the smoke does not escape.”
“okay.”
While Kim Ho-jeong closed the door, Kang Seung-hyun looked around and moved forward.
“Collock Coke!”
Next to the potion pot, the wizard had collapsed earlier. Seunghyun Kang approached him and smiled.
“I told you it would explode.”
“This bastard…”
The wizard who was coughing recognized Kang Seung-hyeon. I saw it two minutes ago, so there’s no way I wouldn’t know.
“Who are you here to tease? Go and call a healer!”
“Am I a healer?”
“what?”
“If you’re not a healer, why would you come to a place like this?”
Kang Seung-hyun said with a face that he asked something strange. He didn’t show his healer badge, but the wizard seemed to believe Kang Seung-hyun’s words.
‘That’s right. If you’re not a healer, why come here?’
No matter how crazy he is, there’s no way he climbed into this smoke to make fun of others. The wizard frowned and murmured.
“Damn it… My face is sore! Heal me quickly!”
“Because I was hit with the hot smoke. And I know it doesn’t hurt that much.”
Kang Seung-hyun checked the magician’s physical condition. Despite being hit by hot smoke, there were no visible wounds.
‘I don’t even need to use [Observation Eye] for this.’
Wizards who use fire magic have fire resistance. Because I don’t want to get burned by my own skills.
Judging by the fact that his fire resistance is quite high, this guy is a fire magician.
“Heel will get better right away with some medicine.”
In the end, it’s just stupid. This is because wizards have weak mentality, so they whine at the slightest injury. When I pointed it out, the wizard’s face wrinkled.
“Damn it… even if the magic shield was fine… I wouldn’t have to use that healer’s help…” The
grumbling wizard’s hand and the store floor were smeared with an unknown sticky liquid.
‘What’s important right now isn’t something like burns.’
Seunghyun Kang looked down at the wizard and asked.
“I’m sure you’re more curious about why the magic shield broke through rather than healing.”
“…Come to think of it… that kind of smoke pierced my shield? Nonsense!”
The wizard shouted with an indignant face. He said that his magic wouldn’t be pierced by smoke.
“Do you know what this is?”
“It’s a fragrant herb…”
Kang Seung-hyun picked up the herb the wizard used as an ingredient.
“no. This is not a water lily.”
“What are you talking about? I bought it with money…”
“I don’t know because I didn’t study herbs properly before buying them.”
Wizards do not study herbs unlike regular pharmacists. I learned to make potions because I needed them for my magic research, not because I wanted to become a professional pharmacist.
‘This situation happens because I only study how to make potions without studying herbs.’
So, there were many cases where I memorized the name and performance, but did not know the characteristics of the material at all.
“The representative characteristic of water scented vinegar is a light fishy smell.”
“The fishy smell…?”
“Even where there is no water, it gives off a fishy smell.”
Thanks to this, pharmacists looking for water-scented plants used to roam the fields in search of the fishy smell on sunny days.
“But this guy doesn’t smell anything. I’m sure it’s not a water scented plant.”
A strange grass that looks the same as a water lily, but has no scent.
“This guy is a spice plant.”
It literally sounds like a fake.
“To be precise, a degenerated water herb.”
Incense weed does not refer to a specific plant. All scented candles that have lost their scent for some reason are called scented candles.
“The important thing is not the scent, but that this guy looks the same as a water scented plant, but the performance is completely different.”
While scented candles have the effect of helping to mix medicinal materials, scented candles have the effect of dissolving magical power like water. It is a very terrible effect in Azul continent, where magic power is more important than anything else.
“In other words, the identity of this smoke is the smoke created by burning scented candles… which has the effect of melting mana.”
Of course, there’s no way you can block it with a magic shield. A normal shield would have easily blocked it.
“Then, on the floor, these are…”
“Remnants of melted magic.”
The sticky liquid on the floor was the remnants of incense smoke melting mana.
‘First, turn off the fire…’
Kang Seung-hyun approached the pot and turned off the light. When the lid was closed, more smoke did not come out, but the inside of the store was still filled with smoke.
“Sensei Kang, all the doors are closed. There is no gap.”
“great job.”
Kim Ho-jeong, who finished the door lock, is back. Then another person who was lying down opened his mouth.
“Shouldn’t we start by making a flower arrangement…? Why do you open the door…”
“Smoke itself is not harmful. Incenseweed is not poisonous.”
“Ha, but it’s strange. I know that magic melts when touched by smoke…”
The fallen man wiggled his hands. At first, when I tried to use magic, only sticky water came out of my hand.
“The magic doesn’t even come out…”
Nothing came out now. It means the magic doesn’t work.
“Instead, it is flowing out of your mouth. Didn’t you know?”
People who heard Seunghyun Kang spit on the floor. A viscous liquid mixed with saliva came out.
“Ugh!”
“What is this…”
“It’s not bad for your body, so you can swallow it. Just…”
“Just…?”
“If you drink smoke for a long time, all the magical energy in your body will melt away and you will not be able to use magic.”
Seunghyun Kang said with a smile.
“What?”
“Can’t you use magic?”
The people in the store were terrified and shouted.
“All the mana inside my body is melting and flowing out, so what can I do to use it?”
Kang Seung-hyun doesn’t have a single degree of magical energy in his body, so it doesn’t matter whether he drinks smoke or not. Kim Ho-jeong was on the low side.
However, everyone else in the store is a magician belonging to the Crimson Mage Tower.
‘For a wizard not to be able to use magic is like being sentenced to death.’
“no! no!”
“Do not be ridiculous!”
People in panic ran wild. They staggered and tried to get themselves up.
“We have to get out of here!”
“Ventilation! From ventilation!!”
[Summons Freea’s crossbow.]
“Where are we going?”
Kang Seung-hyeon took out a crossbow and aimed it at the store entrance.
[Fria’s bond pouch]
[Generates sticky potion arrows.]
Chow!!
When I pulled the trigger, a sticky trap stuck to the store entrance.
“What are you doing!”
“Open now!”
“You have already drank a lot of smoke.”
There is no point in going outside.
“Then what!”
“Since we are already hopeless, are you saying we should drink all the smoke to get rid of it?”
“I didn’t say that much. I’d appreciate it if you did that, but…”
Kang Seung-hyun smiled and continued.
“Even if you drink incense smoke, if you take the medicine in time, you will get better quickly. Of course, it’s useless if you miss the time.”
“remedy?”
“Of course I know how to make it.”
The name is incense emollient. Since this is an herbal medicine shop, you should be able to find the ingredients if you look around.
“It’s all good… Then quickly.”
“Aren’t you thinking of making one now?”
“what? why?”
“Because there are more urgent matters than treating you guys.”
Seunghyun Kang laughed at them and said. The wizards shouted in anger.
“Are you saying that healers have more important things than treating patients?”
“Come on, make the medicine!”
“Everyone think about where we are. You should know better than me.”
Kang Seung-hyun said as if he was dumbfounded.
“here…?”
“ah!”
There is no need to use the [Voice of Calm]. Wizards regained their sanity. It seems that everyone realized Kang’s intention.
“If it was an ordinary town or city, it would be enough to ventilate and remove the smoke.”
In normal villages, there is no big problem even if the scented candle smoke spreads.
“But this place…”
“It’s inside the Crimson Mage Tower…”
The wizards opened their mouths with stiff faces. Now this place was no ordinary village.
“is it so. This is the middle of the Crimson Mage Tower. It is a place full of all sorts of magical research and magical facilities.”
Spreading smoke that melts mana in such a place? I don’t want to imagine the future.
“What will happen? I don’t know, so please explain.”
“The magic connection circuit will melt!”
“The magic circle… no… the research data…”
“The defense barrier…”
muttered the mages with pale faces. If the smoke is not removed, various research materials and facilities will be irretrievably destroyed.
“I’ve trapped the smoke inside the store for now, but it won’t last long.”
Buildings in the Mage Tower are built using magic. If left as it is, the smoke from the incense will spread through the store.
“It is more urgent to remove the smoke than treat you guys.”
“…”
“I told you clearly earlier. Avoid here.”
It was they who ignored it. It is natural to be pushed out of the priority list.
“Anyway, you guys are not going to die right away. I shouldn’t be able to use magic, but that’s none of my business.”
However, if the smoke caused problems in the magic tower, there would be many injuries and deaths.
“It is better to save people who are in danger rather than people who will not die right away.”
So making a cure is after removing the smoke. It’s useless if it’s too late.
“please! I’ll do anything, please make me a cure…!”
“A wizard who cannot use magic is as good as dead!”
“I’ll clear the smoke even if I drink it all, so please!”
“We will help too! I’ll get rid of the smoke somehow… the cure…”
The longer the smoke removal, the longer the cure. Therefore, they have to remove the smoke quickly to survive.
The wizards who gained enlightenment began to pray to Kang Seung-hyeon. I will do anything, so please make a cure.
‘I’m a healer for this taste.’
Kang Seung-hyeon lay down and watched the people praying and checked the time with his mana watch.
‘The remaining time is roughly 1 hour…’
If they do not eat the cure within 1 hour, they will not be able to use magic again.
‘I want to tease you more, but then it’ll be time over.’
It is fun to make fun of others, but it is also fun to help others.
‘No matter how good the medicine is, it’s useless if it misses the right time.’
Now that you’ve enjoyed it enough, it’s time to work as a wild healer.
