Chapter 435
In the meantime, the knights opened bottles and poured alcohol like mad into the glasses.
When the servants showed up with a roast wild boar on a plate, the knights got up and took the plate.
“???”
The knights who stole the plate pulled out their daggers and cut the meat thoroughly before Lee Han could panic. The knight swallowed the greasy chunk of meat in one bite.
‘what?’
Lee Han was taken aback.
It was different from the usual meeting.
Normally, in a meeting, the people who gathered should say hello, talk, and enjoy some games before sharing a prepared meal
…
Looking to the side, Anrago and Batrek were also hurriedly taking plates and putting food on top of each other.
“Moradi. I want you to listen and not be angry. I’m asking because I really don’t know… Are knights’ meetings like this?”
“…okay. why.”
“no. I was just surprised. You eat with pleasure.”
“……”
Giselle didn’t show it, but she felt a surge of shame.
Although the Beech Knights acted like dignified nobles, when it was time to eat, the true colors of knights had to come out.
Although she was never ashamed of herself as a knight, the behavior of the Beech Knights, who pretended to be nobles, made Giselle ashamed.
‘Why did people who would eat comfortably like this do such troublesome things earlier?’
Lee Han thought to himself.
If the knights behaved like this comfortably from the beginning, wouldn’t there be no need to keep a lot of useless manners outside of this limit?
“Then, are we going to talk after eating and drinking?”
Giselle nodded.
“This is much better. I wish it had been like this earlier.”
“…?!?!?!”
While Gisele opened her eyes wide and looked at Lee Han, Jean Cliff returned.
Jean Cliff returned from greeting the knights, holding a wine bottle in one hand and a glass in the other.
“I want to treat you to a drink! For the one who helped the knights of the Beech Knights!”
“ah. thank you.”
Lee Han received the cup. The sparkling wine filled the glass.
Both Jean Cliff’s and Giselle’s glasses were full. The three tilted their glasses together.
At that moment, Jean Cliff’s face contorted and a shout erupted.
“It’s poison!!!!!”
Clink!
Giselle responded the most quickly. As soon as I heard Jean Cliff’s words, I threw the half-drinked glass to the floor.
‘Nonsense!’
Giselle’s eyes were full of shock.
It was surprising that the gathering of these knights had been poisoned, but it was even more surprising that Giselle did not feel the poison in the slightest.
Unlike the knights here, aren’t Giselle and the White Tiger Tower students trained as wizards?
Considering the heterogeneous nature of the poison, I couldn’t help but notice it.
How?
‘What poison?’
Giselle quickly looked away for a moment. I saw Anrago and Batrek, already drunk, robbing an empty bottle and then frozen. Giselle gave up quickly and turned her gaze to Lee Han.
‘Wodanaz might have noticed…!’
However, Lee Han’s cup was empty. Giselle screamed in agony.
“I drank it all!!”
“I couldn’t help it because of politeness…”
“Are you kidding me? Did you loosen up just because you were out of school?!”
Lee Han was honestly unfair.
If poison was made well and administered well, it was much more disadvantageous to eat it.
“Everyone, stop moving and put down the alcohol! Put the drink down there!”
Jean Cliff threw the knife on the table and broke the bottle. The knight who was about to drink it whole was startled.
“Sir Jean Cliff! What are you doing?”
“Are you not mistaken? Poison… There is nothing wrong with our bodies.”
The drunken knights were embarrassed by Jean Cliff’s shouting.
They also knew about poison in their own way.
But I had never heard of a poison that had no effect on the body.
Could Sir Jean Cliff have been mistaken?
“Damn, I heard about it from an alchemist I met in the capital. It doesn’t matter now, but when the reagents in the food and the reagents in the alcohol mix and time passes…”
Jean Cliff, who had wide feet, had been introduced to the recently made poison while visiting the capital.
It was a poison based on wild mushrooms, but the alchemist excitedly introduced it as a very unique poison.
-There is no effect when reagents of various ingredients are present individually, but they mix with each other and turn into poison over time, so such clever poisons are rare.
In order to recognize in advance the poison created by mixing in this body, you had to be familiar with all kinds of reagents or know about the combination of poisons.
Fortunately, Jean Cliff heard the story from the alchemist and remembered all the flavors of the reagents.
‘You remembered all of that?’
Lee Han was stunned by the knight’s ignorant methods.
It would have been less surprising that I felt a sense of incongruity because I knew all about the reagents that went into it.
“I will call the healing wizard!”
Realizing that the current situation was no joke, the knights shouted in contemplation.
Poison was a race against time.
A little too late could result in massive casualties.
However, Lee Han was calm.
‘That kind of poison doesn’t have a strong effect.’
The poison made in order not to be discovered by knights or wizards had to be composed of weak ingredients.
It was highly likely that the poison was not life-threatening.
“Sir Jean Cliff. What are the effects of the poison?”
“You will be unable to use magic temporarily.”
The knights let out a sigh of relief for a moment.
It wasn’t that dangerous as long as the mana dissipated.
“Which one…?”
“Servants, do not move! I will investigate one by one!”
“I will also check the porters.”
“Can anyone put such poison here? Could it have been mixed by mistake?”
The entrance was closed and an investigation started, but the situation was confusing because of the situation.
The anti-magician hiding as a porter laughed inwardly.
‘I won’t be able to find it no matter what.’
Their preparation was meticulous and persistent.
A few weeks ago, the food ingredients and alcohol of the meeting were checked, and the ingredients of the poison based on mountain mushrooms were divided and injected.
It was a revenge worthy of the knights who ruined their grand scheme.
‘The signal has already gone!’
It was the porter who immediately signaled when the knights began to eat and drink.
It was unexpected that the knight named Jean Cliff noticed, but it didn’t matter because he drank anyway…
There were a few invited students besides the knights, but they were still young kids.
Besides, isn’t he a magician whose mana was scattered because he ate poison together?
In a way, it was an easier opponent than the knight.
The plan had to be considered successful enough to sell.
“Recall, feelings.”
“???”
One of the students suddenly brandished a staff and cast a spell on the servant.
The anti-magicist almost snorted at his absurdity.
‘You’re digging a grave!’
As the most versatile talent in the empire was the mage, of course this kind of interrogation was possible.
However, even those magics were not omnipotent. The anti-magicist knew very well what kind of magic those types of magic were.
It was a magic that had to be used on a suspect who had been narrowed down to one or two people as it consumed a lot of mana and drained his mental power.
Casting it as soon as it shuts up because it’s urgent.
I wasn’t just a student.
“Recall, feelings.”
“Recall, feelings.”
“Come up, come up, come up…”
“????”
The anti-magician was embarrassed.
what?
‘Is it a trick? ah. i get it! He’s bluffing! Little hair…’
Pretending to memorize a fake spell and trying to get the other person’s reaction.
He was pretty smart for a student.
However, the anti-magician was not shaken.
‘Try it.’
Smirking inwardly, the anti-magician controlled his expression.
“Recall, feelings…??”
Lee Han looked at the porter. Then he said it as if he was dumbfounded.
“Is this the person?”
“catch!!!”
The enraged knights rushed at them. The anti-magicist screamed.
How!?!
* * *
The knights were masters of interrogation. The tattered anti-magician confided in the gang waiting outside.
“What nonsense…!”
“To complain about having fulfilled your duty as a knight! This is why mercenaries!”
The knights of the Beech Knights, not knowing the details, were very angry.
If it was an understandable grudge, they would at least respect it as an enemy, but isn’t this resolving a grudge against them that has nothing to do with them?
“Anti-magicists are just like that! Seeds of evil polluting the empire!”
“……”
Lee Han broke out in a cold sweat.
It wasn’t because of the poison, it was because he had figured out the situation.
‘…Did I ask the knights for nothing?’
I never thought that getting help from knights to make things easier would come back like this.
If the knights got hurt, Lee Han’s heart wouldn’t be at ease.
“Now is not the time to be like this. We must prepare for an attack.”
“I know.”
Jean Cliff’s face became serious.
“It is dangerous. The knights here are not used to this kind of melee.”
‘Did you know?’
Lee Han was surprised to see that Jean Cliff evaluated the Knights he belonged to in a calm manner.
The Beech Knights were at a disadvantage in this situation, as their main purpose was friendship and socializing.
“Wardanaz. Magical power…”
“It doesn’t gather.”
The faces of Anrago and Batrek were also dark. So did the other articles. Gradually, the poison of mountain mushrooms was completed and began to spread.
Jean Cliff was also enduring it by vigorously circulating his own mana, but his complexion was not good.
“Right. i get it. wait. I’ll make an antidote. I don’t know how much I can make before the raid starts…”
“…what?”
“what did you say?!”
Not only Jean Cliff, who was contemplating how to prepare for a fight, but also his friends were shocked.
You know how to make an antidote?!
“How!? Did you know about this poison?”
“No… I don’t know. And it’s not even a complete antidote. It’s made with divine magic, so we’ll have to see how effective it is.”
Lee Han took up his staff and prepared divine magic.
I hadn’t thought that Priest Shiana’s anti-coercion would be helpful in a situation like this.
If the sacred magic of the Afha Church awakened by Lee Han was the conversion of white flame, then the sacred magic of the Flement Church was the creation of an antidote.
“Are you a faithful follower of holy magic… no… wait a minute… Are you a member of the Wardanaj…? It’s not important right now… Wait a minute. I don’t have enough magic power, so don’t force it!”
Jean Cliff, who had been muttering, stopped Lee Han in embarrassment.
No matter how urgent it was, it was dangerous to use high-consuming magic like divine magic in a situation without magical power.
However, before it could be stopped, Lee Han created an antidote. The wine in the wine bottle turned transparent.
“From Sir Jean Cleef!”
“I understand.”
Sir Jean Cliff gulped down the clear, colorless antidote.
Then, surprisingly, the mana that was about to disperse was maintained again.
“Then I will make the next antidote.”
Anrago stood by to drink the antidote as soon as it was finished.
Then Lee Han pushed away Angrago and pulled Giselle.
In this situation, the venomous Moradi was far more reliable.
Angrago cried out in bewilderment.
“Is Moradi still in good shape because he drank less?!”
“…no. Ang. From my point of view, as the head of alchemy, Moradi’s condition seems worse.”
“??!”
Is that…is it?
