Episode 716
Professor Verdus’ ‘Watchmen’ was infamous among Einrogard students.
It looks like a wooden or metal doll, roughly made by tying blocks of wood or bronze together, and displays combat power that is unbelievable for a small golem.
Of course, it was not a transcendent power that went beyond common sense.
In the first place, these sentinels were artificial summons that Professor Verdus roughly gathered from leftover materials and miscellaneous items and enchanted them.
These summons could not escape the quality limits of materials and reagents.
However, Professor Verdus’ magic extracted the maximum possible limits from it.
-Fire element! It’s a fire element immunity sentinel! I prepared flame magic!!
-retreat! retreat!
-Another sentinel has appeared in the rear! The type is… Area curse! Curse Keeper!!
-You crazy professor, really do something!
Professor Verdus did not create an all-purpose summoned beast as he knew the limitations of materials and reagents.
Instead, it specialized in just one thing. Other watchmen can take over the missing functions.
I made a sentinel who is immune to the fire element, and a sentinel with a magic reflective shield. It was fun to make, so I made a sentinel that spews poisonous fog, and when touched, I made a sentinel that self-destructs and stuns me until I go to the punishment room… The sentinels summoned this way are terrible to each other
. It created a linked effect and harassed students.
Originally, flexible response to the situation was a magician’s weapon, but it was Professor Verdus’ watchman who took that weapon to the station.
The sentinel that Sevius had just seen was one of the magic-absorbing sentinels that, if one were to choose the most evil sentinel, he would definitely be in the top ten.
An evil enemy with a maw that can swallow up any type of projection magic.
If you are caught wrongly, the magical energy, whether it is magic or not, will just be absorbed.
To deal with that guy, you have to retreat first and engrave magic on the terrain to guide it…?
“Swordsmanship?!”
“Why not?”
“It doesn’t work… no!”
Sevius hesitated and answered as he saw Lee Han swinging a black-purple sword.
Just because he was a student at Blue Dragon Tower didn’t mean he couldn’t swing a sword. I was able to swing it well enough.
…I didn’t know you could cut a guard to pieces with a sword!
“Did you even take a swordsmanship class?”
Sevius joked to lighten the awkward atmosphere.
I wasn’t confident in telling jokes, but now was the time to lighten the mood as a senior.
“How did you know?”
“…let’s go!”
Sevius moved forward, pledging again that he would not do anything he had not done before.
“Professor Verdus’ sentries are interconnected, so when one is destroyed, the others approach. “If a fight breaks out, you have to end it as quickly as possible and move on.”
“Is that the guy coming over there?”
“okay. “It’s already coming.”
Sevius narrowed his eyes and glared as he spotted a creaky tin doll emerging from a pile of junk in the distance.
“That guy… ha. Only the picky ones get caught today. From cut defense coatings to projectile deflectors.”
It was a tricky one at both close and long distances, neutralizing more than half of cutting attacks and deflecting incoming projectile magic so that it deflected from its trajectory.
Sevius combined in his head the road he had just passed, the road he had identified on the map, and the road he had just confirmed.
‘If you exit to the left and go east or west…’
“Gather together and turn!”
While he was thinking about how to escape, Sevius was greatly surprised when his junior recited a spell.
“It deflects projectiles! Don’t waste your magic power…!”
A wizard was not someone who could create something from nothing at will. Rather, horsepower was more of a frugal concept that had to be distributed efficiently with limited resources.
From that perspective, my junior’s current behavior was close to runaway behavior.
If magical energy is already wasted like that…
The water beads rotated heavily and flew in violently. The projectile deflection force field created by the sentinel distorted the water ball’s trajectory and sent it flying to the side.
But Lee Han didn’t care and created the next water bead.
Create it and shoot it.
Create it and shoot it.
‘Fire!’
Sevius was astonished after realizing his junior’s strategy.
The opponent was now defending by changing the trajectory of the incoming projectile.
So what if projectiles are constantly flying from all directions?
The projectiles will collide and bounce off each other, creating irregular and diffuse reflections.
It was an incredibly clever method that I couldn’t believe they came up with just now.
…It was also an ignorant method!
Kwasik!
In the end, when one of the water beads that bounced smashed the watchman, Sevius asked his junior instead of admiring it.
“Is your magic power okay?!”
“Do not worry. it’s okay.”
“…You sure you didn’t catch Rock Drake from the front like this?”
Up until now, I thought they would have caught it through a ruse and a trap, but now that I look at it, I suddenly have doubts.
This guy couldn’t have been caught in a magic battle from the front, right?
The junior asked hesitantly.
“If I catch you from the front, won’t I be eligible to join the club?”
“……”
* * *
I guess meeting the watchman on the way in acted as a ward off, but things got a little easier after that.
“< Wizard, do not repay the gold you invested >. “Here it is.”
Sevius found a book in the third warehouse and took it with him.
Because it was a warehouse that stored sticky slime-type reagents, the surrounding area was humid and had a bad smell.
“Why on earth does Professor Verdus have a book here?”
“We will never know what is inside the professor’s head. let’s go.”
“I never thought I would think the old warehouse was better.”
Lee Han said as if it was hard to believe.
I can’t believe I’m already missing the miscellaneous warehouses that the watchmen raided and the flooded warehouses that were half lake and had to be swam.
“The next warehouse will probably be fine. “As far as I know, it’s a relatively ordinary warehouse with no guards and no traps.”
Professor Verdus’ warehouses were connected to each other.
Students would use that connection to open the door of a poorly guarded warehouse and move to another warehouse, and the strategy chosen by Lee Han and Sevius now was one of those strategies.
Of course, this strategy was not perfect. If you want to go to warehouse A, you have to go through the BCD warehouse, but there is no guarantee that these warehouses are in good condition.
The warehouses we just came across were representative of strange warehouses.
‘Is there really a decent warehouse?’
Lee Han looked at Sevius’ words with a bit of suspicion.
Among Professor Verdus’ warehouses, there is one that is in good condition.
That’s really…
Squeak –
The door opened and a new warehouse was revealed.
The interior reminded me of a cafe or coffee house located in a big city.
There are several chairs and tables, things are well organized, and there are no special enemies…
“Isn’t this a trap?”
“…I had that same reaction when I first came. Professor Verdus forgot about this place, but it’s a warehouse where students often come. So at least it’s okay. “Let’s take a break.”
Sevius brought a chair and gave it to his junior, then sat down, drank the magic recovery potion, and opened the map.
There were still many warehouses to go through to retrieve all the books.
“Don’t you need a recovery potion?”
“I’m fine. “Senior, please eat.”
Lee Han refused and was happy on the inside.
From the senior’s perspective, wouldn’t Lee Han seem like an amazing junior who takes care of himself?
‘Is this a monster or something?’
Sevius looked at Lee Han with tired eyes.
I used so much magical energy and didn’t even need a recovery potion.
As expected, it seemed like not everyone was taking classes at all schools.
“Go into the poisonous mushroom warehouse, borrow the path from the hell swamp warehouse, and then go to the second basement level of Seongakgwan. “I won’t go into the metal warehouse because it’s too dangerous.”
“What are the places marked with an X here?”
“Places where I couldn’t find a way to enter. “There are many warehouses that Professor Verdus has forgotten, but there are also many warehouses that he has not forgotten.”
It was a bitter story, but the students did not properly rob Professor Verdus of his fortune.
Although Professor Verdus could only rob items that he had forgotten or neglected to maintain, it was almost impossible to break through the areas that Professor Verdus had deliberately blocked.
As such, students were always burning with motivation.
-I swear, before I graduate, I will definitely rob the warehouse that Professor Verdus has blocked! I’m going to find out what’s in there!
-Wait a minute, if I don’t pass the exam, do I have to do one more grade?
-…You wanna die?
“These places have no meaning as passageways. In fact, even though there seem to be a lot of warehouses on the map, they are only a tip of the entire warehouse.”
“……”
Lee Han was taken aback as he looked at Sevius with regret.
Even my senior who was disappointed after finding this much was dumbfounded, but I couldn’t guess how many replacement warehouses Professor Verdus had built.
‘This guy… how many warehouses did he build and then forget?’
“If you find out how to enter here later, try attacking it together with the club members.”
“Senior, let’s do the same!”
“…I’m going to graduate. “You bastard.”
‘It was about this year.’
Lee Han grumbled inwardly.
Sevius was also a 4th year student, so he was a bit sensitive.
* * *
“< Wizard, do not repay invested gold coins > < Introduction to imperial investment methods > < Genius enchantment wizard who has received a hundred investments > < Introduction to popular imperial artifacts > < Encyclopedia of imperial materials >…” Sevius was worried
. He muttered with a cold face.
Thanks to the forced march, I secured all the other books, but only < General Theory of Gemology > was missing.
When I took out the silver bookmark artifact, it twirled around and pointed in the direction. It was in the direction of a warehouse that Sevius had never entered.
“…I guess it’s in another warehouse.”
“What would you like to do?”
“Let’s give up and retreat. “I brought enough for today.”
When it comes to changing positions, there has never been anything more dangerous than overindulgence.
Although he had a strong desire to take care of everything, Sevius decided to step down rather than challenge his juniors and send them to the punishment room.
“Can’t we just find a way?”
“I don’t think it’s at a level where the two of us can solve it just by putting our heads together. “If you don’t believe me, go and check.”
The direction indicated by the bookmark artifact that indicated the direction of the current book was a warehouse that Sevius had tried to enter several times but failed.
The defense of the gate was so strong and complex that it could not be easily breached.
Not only will the magic wriggle and change as if it were alive, but it will also be equipped so that it can recover immediately after being broken no matter what shock comes from the outside.
Although he was angry, Sevius did not have the confidence to break through something like this.
Bang bang bang –
The junior stood in front of the warehouse, waved his cane several times and knocked on the door. But the door did not move.
Sevius saw that and smiled slightly without realizing it.
In the first place, such difficulties make thieves resentful and grow.
The junior of the Wardanaz family had a talent several times greater than that of Sevius himself.
Since he was already at that level in his second year, I had no idea whether he would really be able to break through Professor Verdus’ treasure trove if he became a third or fourth year student.
‘I won’t be able to see it since I graduated. ‘It’s a little disappointing.’
“Seniors!”
“Why are you doing that?”
“It’s open!”
“…what?! how?! Could it be with force…?!”
When Sevius shouted in shock, as if he couldn’t believe it, his junior responded with a slightly embarrassed expression.
“Now that I think about it, I have a key to the warehouse here.”
“……”
‘What is this guy’s true identity???’
