Episode 667
The merchants who threw tomatoes and eggs hurriedly dispersed.
Only then did the hunters take a breather, put away the tomatoes and eggs, and asked the patroller from the Wasteland Star Catchers.
“Why didn’t you kick it out? If he belonged to the star catcher in the wasteland, he could have threatened it…”
“The star catcher in the wasteland, who protects the people of the empire, can’t threaten the citizens.”
“ah!”
The hunters from their respective provinces were wild and ferocious, but they all admired the courage and perseverance the Star Catcher in the Wasteland had just shown.
Isn’t the courage to endure arrows even though there are arrows more powerful than the courage to shoot arrows?
“As expected, you’re a star hunter in the wasteland.”
“I have no choice but to admit it. haha.”
Lee Han could see Nilia’s expression darkening and her long ears sinking sullenly.
“Nilia. Shall we incite people to throw tomatoes and eggs again?”
“…Oh no. it’s okay.”
Nilia, who was almost bewitched by her friend’s words, came to her senses.
They were the people who had to move together soon, but they couldn’t hate it because they were star hunters in the wasteland.
“Are you Ein Lorgard students?”
After removing all the tomatoes and eggs, the group found Lee Han and his party only then.
“you’re right.”
“Nice to meet you! My name is Muranse, the Ranger of the Star Catcher in the Wasteland.”
The elven ranger was tall and handsome, and the ranger’s attire was neat and tidy without being extravagant.
It was a contrast to the Shadow Patrol, who were easily misunderstood as bandits or savages.
Seeing Nilia’s expression grow more and more sad, Lee Han whispered to Yoner.
“Did you bring Nilia for nothing…?”
“…it’ll be fine. I have to get over it.”
“I am just glad that the students of the prestigious Ein Lorgard are helping. I wish you well.”
“I will say it.”
“This is Explorer Frostwalk. A distant relative of Professor Lightningwalker.”
A young dwarf explorer took off his hat and said hello.
“The hunters in the back…”
“Don’t tell us our names.”
The group of hunters were disgusted and dried up. Mranse smiled and nodded as if he knew.
“I want you to understand. Because they have a tradition.”
The so-called nameless hunters called by Professor Lightning Walk were those who built huts deep in the mountains of each province and lived alone.
Of course, their skills were outstanding, but they had dozens of traditions and superstitions that even the lightning-walking professor couldn’t figure out.
One of them was to hide his whereabouts and name.
“If you reveal your name, it will be easier for demons and monsters to chase you.”
At the hunter’s words, Lee Han asked back as if wondering.
“As far as I know, generic names don’t mean much. A true name comes from the soul…”
“Anyway, a wizard!”
“Everyone is reckless and fearless. It defies tradition.”
“……”
Nilia, who saw her friend being bullied, apologized instead.
“I am sorry. Hunters are all a bit stubborn. He is also very obsessed with tradition.”
“Didn’t you just use the Shadow Guard?”
“…we have a tradition too??”
“Why are you angry?”
“I’m not angry… Anyway, there is a tradition. there is.”
Nilia was angry at being stabbed for no reason, and then regretted it.
If you ask what tradition it is, there is nothing to say.
“Are you all gathered?”
The lightning-footed professor walked from afar. The professor was puzzled when he saw the wyverns gathered.
“Can I tie it like this in front of the city? Didn’t people curse at you?”
“I blew eggs and tomatoes.”
“Oops. The people of Flaher are very kind. If it was another area, I would have thrown stones. Everyone, get on top of the wyvern.”
Lee Han and his friends prepared to climb on top of the wyvern. There were friends who had ridden it before, and it was not very difficult because it was a trained wyvern.
“Wardanaz.”
“yes. I know. Since the wyvern can misunderstand, shouldn’t we make eye contact with the wyvern and show them that we have no hostility by blinking?”
At Lee Han’s words, several hunters behind him pretended to spin their fingers around his head.
Then the Frostwalker shook his head and said.
“That boy can threaten a real wyvern.”
I knew it because I heard it from Professor Lightning Step.
“Really?”
“I really do, on my honor.”
“Then, please do not ride the wyvern I am riding. In my mountain, there is a tradition not to ride a beast that could threaten the wyvern on top of it.”
“Isn’t that a beast?”
Frostwalker was embarrassed when the hunters immediately hated it.
We have to go together for a while, but you’re already expressing your disapproval.
“Nothing to worry about. Wodanaz here will ride something else. Wodanaz. look back over there.”
Lee Han turned his head.
The griffon whose transformation curse had been lifted was glaring at Lee Han with an expression full of regret and betrayal.
Lee Han secretly stepped out of the stairs where the wyvern saddle was hanging.
“It is a misunderstanding.”
“okay. Solve misunderstandings as you go.”
“I bought something to eat for you. Phone League.”
Eandurde grunted when he took out the meat he was originally going to grill for his junior.
The griffon’s eyes, which had been glaring at him ferociously, relaxed a little, and then went closer to Lee Han and rubbed his hair.
Several hunters who saw it opened their mouths at the same time.
“Please don’t let that boy come near.”
“What tradition is it?”
“I am just afraid. I won’t approach until it’s proven safe.”
“……”
Frostwalker gave up after trying to say, ‘You can intimidate a wyvern and tame a griffon. Why do experienced people do that?’
Even if he thought about it, it was a little convincing.
* * *
Lightning Walk Professor’s wyvern looked at the griffon flying from the side with a very shy and uneasy gaze.
“Are you okay?”
Lee Han was puzzled by the professor’s question and asked back.
“What do you mean?”
“The people I gathered.”
Finding a unicorn was more tricky and difficult than I thought.
To find a single creature hiding in the wide and rugged mountains. In a way, it was like finding a needle in a haystack.
Worse still, the needle thought for itself and escaped while casting spells.
That’s why Professor Lightningwalker started with the nameless hunters, explorer Frostwalk Wasteland, Star Catcher, Mranse, Ranger, and even brought the old adventurer, Skullbreaker.
‘What on earth did you do to become the nickname Skeleton Breaker?’
Lee Han was curious, but now he had more questions than that.
“What should we do?”
“I want to leave the campsite to you.”
Professor Lightningwalker corrected his goggles and said.
Considering the breadth of the Bitter Mountains, it couldn’t be randomly searched. It was necessary to systematically narrow the area.
First, prepare your campsite.
This encampment was assigned a role in charge of the area.
Then hunters and rangers scatter in each direction, looking for signs of the unicorn.
If they were found, they had to be guided to the encampment rather than approaching alone. Unicorns are highly intelligent and wary, so if you approached them for no reason, they would only run away.
In other words…
“The magic needed by hunters and rangers. And we need to prepare some magic to calm the unicorn.”
“Are you a fifth-year adventurer? that’s right. You got it right.”
The lightning-walking professor had no intention of directly entrusting the students with tracking the unicorn.
It was very difficult and difficult.
Mages from Einrogard are very versatile talents even by Empire standards.
It was right to entrust them with tasks that required magic.
Professor Lightning Walk was impressed by Lee Han, who knows how to use the magic he needs to prepare even if he doesn’t explain.
It wasn’t that the professors wanted to bring all of them as disciples for nothing.
“And there is one more thing.”
“Should we prepare for a fight with poachers?”
“…From now on, be an adventurer for 10 years.”
“haha. Not quite like that.”
“Actually, it would have been better if I had called the Shadow Patrol…”
Lee Han was puzzled by Professor Lightning Step.
Then you can hire the Shadow Rangers, so why bother hiring the Wasteland Starcatchers to frustrate Nylia?
“Is there a reason you didn’t call me?”
“I was a little cautious because if I saw a unicorn, I’d turn around and catch it.”
Lee Han vowed to keep the words he just heard a secret.
The sound of the wind in the sky was loud, but Lee Han changed the subject, fearing that Nilia would overhear if the conversation continued.
“What kind of person is Professor Bendosol?”
“Oh unicorn. Unicorns are really beautiful animals. I have traveled so many times from the west coast of the empire to the eastern underground cities, but I have only seen a unicorn twice and a half.”
“Professor Bendosol, not a unicorn… Wait, why two and a half instead of two?”
“One time I was so drunk I’m still not sure if it was a unicorn or a rhinoceros. Rather, Professor Bendozol? what else do i say Professor Bendosol, why are you asking?”
Of course, Professor Lee, who thought Lee Han was asking about unicorns, responded with a sour expression.
“Can you come back this year? Then I can take a lecture.”
“Well… I don’t like gossiping about other professors, but I’d like to stop listening to Professor Bendosol’s lectures.”
“?!”
Lee Han was surprised.
I wasn’t surprised that Professor Lightningwalker didn’t like to gossip about other professors (Professor Lightningwalker had a hobby of gossiping about Professor Thunderwalker).
You want me to stop you from listening to Professor Bendosol’s lecture?
“Is it more dangerous than Professor Verdus or Professor Bagreg?”
‘This guy is asking really tricky questions!’
After pondering for a long time, Professor Lightning Walk replied slowly.
“The three of them each have a slightly different direction. Professor Bendozol is obviously a knowledgeable and excellent professor about the animals and monsters of the Empire, but he cares about animals too much.”
“Isn’t that nice?”
“It’s a problem because he cares more than students. If Professor Bendozol had given a riding training lecture last year, you would have had to run on your back instead of riding.”
“……”
For a moment, Lee Han thought the lightning-walking professor was joking.
But the professor was very serious.
“Oh no. No matter how much we save our horses, does it make sense for us to run on our backs?”
“So you’re a freak. Do you still want to listen to Professor Bendosol’s lecture?”
‘It’s really terrifying.’
Lee Han looked at the griffon.
If Professor Bendozol had been in charge of last year’s lecture, Lee Han might have had to pass all the assignments with this griffon on his back.
“hmm. I should just look for it and give up the professor’s lecture.”
“Aren’t you being too greedy? It would be hard to find even a single unicorn, but trying to find the professor together… But the professor is a bit easier to find.”
Professor Lightning Walk was amazed to see Lee Han maintaining his loyalty even after suffering from professors like that.
Of course, from Lee Han’s point of view, it was aiming for a bounty.
If there’s no bounty, what’s the point of looking for a professor you’ve never seen before?
“It’s the Mourning Mountains. let’s all go down Start browsing from here!”
“Aren’t those poachers?”
When Lee Han pointed down, Professor Lightning Walk nodded.
“Good find! It’s from the entrance of the mountain range. I guess rumors spread. Prepare for a warning shot!”
Lee Han immediately started shooting lightning magic. Being on top of a wobbly griffon didn’t really matter.
Pajijijijik!
The poachers screamed and surrendered as lightning began to fly from the air.
-surrender! surrender! Wizard! I will surrender!
Professor Lightning Walk looked at the student and kindly explained.
“The magic was well written. However, the preparation for the warning shot I just mentioned is what I said to the hunters behind me.”
“……”
Looking back, the hunters were throwing questions with astonished eyes. Friends responded quickly.
“No. We can’t do that.”
‘Traitors!’
