Chapter 375
“Collock. Strange.”
While the seniors struggled to maintain their dignity, Professor Mortum was checking the inner passage of the ruins.
The sentinel golems appeared and blocked the way, but in fact, they weren’t that great of an obstacle.
Recalling the ruins he had seen so far, it was not at all surprising that there were many more dangerous traps.
“Why is that?”
“There’s nothing special inside.”
Diret nodded at the professor’s words.
Certainly, the resistance was weak for such an intact ruin. Except for the sentinel golems placed at the entrance, there were no other enemies to be seen.
“Darkness, spread out and resonate… There is no such thing as this. Coke. It’s really strange.”
Professor Mortum, who cast his magic toward the inner passage of the ruins and cast various search magics, stared into the darkness and was lost in thought.
“Maybe… no.”
“What were you thinking?”
“I wondered if this ruin had an owner. Coke. After all, if it’s a ruin with an owner, they don’t lay useless traps.”
Most of the ruins that Imperial mages could find had long since disappeared from their owners in the distant past.
However, occasionally there were remains of the owner.
In that case, the wizard was in a very difficult situation.
It was like trespassing on someone else’s land…
“If the owner had been there, I wouldn’t have been able to come in so easily, right?”
Dereth tilted her head.
If the owner is still alive and managed, the ruins must show some signs before entering.
Not only warnings to block outsiders from approaching, but also minions patrolling the surroundings and preventing them from approaching.
In this way, the outskirts of the ruins were empty and entered through the entrance, but there was little possibility that the owner was in a quiet place without any human presence.
“Coke. yes. You are right. If there was an owner, it wouldn’t have been so poorly managed. Unless the owner is confined somewhere or is recovering from a serious injury…”
Rocking!
“!”
Professor Mortum and Lee Han first felt the flow of magical power within the palace ruins change.
Lee Han looked around. The walls, floors and ceiling around the entrance to the palace began to vibrate like slime.
It is said that transformation magic can change the nature of matter and change its form, but I never thought I would see magic of this scale.
“Everyone stop moving!”
Professor Mortum, who felt uneasy about the current situation, immediately responded.
Where was the sickly appearance of his usual cough, and Professor Mortum swung his staff with his eyes shining.
“I command you, open the path of Yin! The ropes of darkness will bind you!”
At that moment, a door connected to the sound dimension appeared behind the students, and a rope made of dark elements protruded from it.
Originally, it was a magic that used dark elements to open the door to the sound dimension and attract enemies for a while, but Professor Mortum applied this magic and used it as a space movement magic.
If applied, it becomes a powerful defense magic that can temporarily protect students.
The students who passed through the sound dimension jumped out next to Professor Mortum. The students felt dizzy as if they were about to vomit at the sudden contact with the dark element.
Kurleung!
But it soon turned out that Professor Mortum had been right.
The floors, which were fine until just now, began to slide down there, and the walls came closer as if colliding with each other, erasing and changing the space.
If I had tried to bring them by moving myself, some of them would have fallen along the way.
“Professor Kyo!”
Wood Deuk!
Professor Mortum stretched out his hand to appease the frightened student and began to bring the surrounding bones under his control.
A huge bone scaffolding appeared in the dark void where there had been a solid floor until just now. The remaining bones wrapped around it like a wall.
Only then could the students breathe a sigh of relief.
“professor!”
“Calm down. A disappearing floor isn’t a very dangerous trap. Seeing how they react in this way, these ruins are also very dangerous…”
“No, my juniors are gone!”
“!!!”
* * *
At first, when the seniors except himself teleported to the sound dimension, Lee Han knew that he had done something wrong to Professor Mortum.
‘What did I do wrong?’
However, when he tried to cover his body and saw the dark element and the dimensional gap that bounced off, he was able to figure out what had happened.
‘professor…! If you apply attack magic anywhere…!’
Just as poison and other curses bounced off, Professor Mortum’s magic bounced off, to the point of being more absurd than fear.
As the floor disappeared and he felt the sensation of falling down, Lee Han immediately floated the iron ball.
“Move!”
Originally, it wasn’t magic to withstand falling, nor was it magic enough to withstand Lee Han’s weight, but Lee Han’s ignorant magical power fixed the iron ball as if it were nailed in the air.
A strong shock came up to my shoulder.
Lee Han endured by pouring his magic power into his body.
“Feet, fold the ground… space, be recognized!”
In preparation for an unexpected situation, I cast reinforcement magic and spatial awareness magic. It was still rocking all over the place, but thanks to the magic, the sense of distance returned.
‘There is a floor!’
Lee Han floated a sphere of light. Then it started to go down, changing the position of the iron ball.
While swearing that if I go back to the magic school, I will definitely learn the low-speed fall magic.
‘I should have learned right after catching Rock Drake… but I’m suffering like this because I didn’t study.’
Lee Han lamented.
It wasn’t for no reason that the professors said, “Are you going to give it to others after studying? It’s all for you.”
In the second semester, I will study more diligently.
thud!
“?!”
While descending safely, something fell from the side and Lee Han looked away in embarrassment.
“What…”
“Eight arms…”
“Senior!”
Ogoldos, a senior in the second year, was rolling beside him with a painful groan.
Unlike Lee Han, Ogoldos was not bold enough to cast a spell while falling from the air.
If it wasn’t for the stupidity of laying the summoned undead summoned in advance like a cushion, the whole body would have been smashed, not just the arms.
“Are you okay?”
“It’s okay. are you okay.”
Ogoldos shook his hand, sweating with a white face.
As a year-old senior, I didn’t want to show weakness in front of my juniors.
Furthermore, didn’t Ogoldos suspect other top juniors like Lee Han and Gainando that they didn’t seem to be serious about black magic?
I couldn’t get help from my junior who said that.
“You broke your arm?”
“Because it’s okay. A splint…”
By the time Einrogard’s sophomore year, students were able to respond to injuries to some extent except for instant death.
Ogoldos held up his staff and tried to cast a spell. But it wasn’t easy because of the pain. The spell missed several times and the mana was scattered.
“senior. I’ll just do it.”
“It’s okay…”
Lee Han, who gradually became annoyed, pondered for a while, then grabbed Ogoldos by the shoulder and suppressed it with force.
It would be tough for a few years at magic school if it was taken by the skull principal, but at best, what would it be so hard to be taken by another top 2nd year senior?
“What are you doing… Ugh!”
“Stay!”
Surprisingly, instead of applying first aid with a splint, the junior wielded a staff and cast magic.
Ogoldos screamed at the sudden healing magic.
“stop! what are you doing! no!”
Recalling the memory of how the same second-year priest failed his healing magic and turned his friend’s slightly sprained finger 360 degrees, Ogoldos desperately stopped it.
A sprained finger is dangerous, but a broken finger is more…
“Try to move.”
“…???”
Ogoldos was dumbfounded and moved his arm.
Surprisingly, there was no pain.
Lee Han silently nodded and said.
“It was an urgent situation, so I had no choice but to cast it first.”
“……”
Ogoldos thought and pondered before trying to open his mouth.
“Go… Go…”
– Kreureung.
“Sharkan. Is there a road over there? thanks. senior. There’s a road… What were you trying to say?”
“It… it hurts.”
“Oops. You must have been seriously injured.”
-Kreung.
“Sharkan. You shouldn’t treat it like that. You didn’t get hurt because you wanted to get hurt too.”
“……”
* * *
Ogoldos had never sat on a cushion of thorns.
A third-year senior claimed to have sat on a cushion of thorns in the upper-grade room in the basement of the punishment room (Ogoldos was still confused whether or not that was a bluff), but Ogoldos fortunately did not have such an experience.
But now Ogoldos felt like he was sitting on a cushion of thorns.
“…Damn it. The magic…”
Wizards were delicate creatures.
Not only the shock of failing magic, but also the shock of falling from falling walls and disappearing floors could shake magic and prevent you from using magic for a certain period of time.
No matter how much Ogoldos focused and concentrated, the flow of magic within his body was entangled and he did not move.
“senior. it’s okay. I can use magic.”
“…I’m doing it. Wait a minute… Keugh.”
“Gonadaltes. Please support the senior.”
“It’s okay… what? what?”
“yes? What?”
“No… that… no. done.”
Ogoldos was about to mention the name of the skeleton warrior, but stopped.
It was the magician’s freedom to name his pet, but…
…isn’t that a bit too free?!
– ■■■■■.
“……”
Lee Han walked forward.
Except for Sharkan and Gonadaltes, all other skeletons had been summoned. It was so slow that it got in the way when I was moving.
Of course, it was accepted a little differently from Ogoldos’ point of view.
‘because of me…!’
His face burned hot at the thought that his junior would cancel other undeads to support him.
“That’s…”
Lee Han paused.
On the other side of the underground passage, an eerie scene caught my eye.
Ogoldos, who still had his dark vision magic, blinked and said.
“Prison…”
“Punishment room… Ah, it’s a prison. habitually.”
“……”
Surprisingly, the place connected at the end of the passage was a dungeon. Lee Han was surprised that there was a place like this under the ruins.
‘I thought all ruins were broken and only ruined places.’
If you walk all the way through the aisle and arrive at it, you will see a circular layout in all directions.
One peculiarity was that there were no iron bars. There was no wall in sight that should have prevented the prisoner from coming out.
For a moment, Lee Han wondered who had come first and tore off the bars.
-Who are you? Which fearless intruder roams the king’s prison?
“!”
Lee Han was surprised that he hadn’t noticed the other person so close.
If the opponent was a wizard who was superior to Lee Han, he would have sensed the opponent’s magical power first.
-You’d better hide quickly. If you get caught, you won’t be safe.
The one who spoke was an undead wizard in a nearby cell. Lee Han realized why he hadn’t noticed the other person. It was only when he removed the cloak the opponent was wearing that he felt the magic power.
When the hostility characteristic of monsters was not shown, Lee Han cautiously asked.
“who are you?”
– Who are you? He is a criminal who did not obey the king’s orders.
“Then who is the king?”
-…What are you talking about… How did you get in here? Did you come in without knowing that this is the palace where the king of ghouls reigns? The soldiers outside??
“…?!”
Lee Han hesitated at the familiar name.
Maybe not?
