Chapter 083
“Didn’t you prepare it in advance, Wodanaz?”
“Sometimes I wonder what you guys think of me…”
Lee Han checked the smashed hole. Then he clicked his tongue.
“Not good.”
“Why is that?”
“The remains are inside the cornucopia. It came from outside.”
I wouldn’t have to worry too much if the guy who had been raising thunderstrikes in each water pipe broke it and escaped, but looking at it now, it was clear that a large monster had entered from outside the water pipe.
Ratford looked at Lee Han with a slightly impressed expression.
“You really have the qualities of a great thief.”
“Kuh…!”
“Me too! Ratford. I can reason too!”
The Blue Dragon Tower students showed a strange competitive spirit.
Even if class grades and magic abilities were pushed, he did not want to lose his ability as a thief.
Nilia looked at her as if asking why.
“Why are you doing that?”
“I guess it’s because I grew up reading a lot of children’s books featuring honorable thieves.”
Yoner’s words made Nilia think nonsense.
‘You mean the nobility of the empire grow up reading such absurd fairy tales?’
“Are there any hunters?”
“Uh… there must be a fairy tale about a hunter-turned-thief…”
Lee Han, who made up his mind while talking with his friends, opened the door to the pavilion.
“Listen, everyone. We are not sneaking into Gaksukwan from now on.”
“?”
“???”
It’s not like sneaking in.
Then what?
Are you trying to write ‘Students from the Tower of the Blue Dragon’ on the wall with paint?
“We voluntarily gathered to prevent summoned beasts from invading the Gaksu Hall and to protect the professor’s valuables.”
“…ah. aha!”
“indeed…!”
The invasion of summoned beasts wasn’t necessarily without its downsides.
If something went wrong later on, I could make excuses and insist on being a summoned person.
…Of course, it was questionable whether that would work for Professor Thunderwalker.
* * *
“Light.”
Lee Han floated a sphere of light. The dark first floor of each water pipe shone brightly.
Greenhouses and classrooms located next to the corridor.
As the students who went around the magic school at night would know. The night magic school was completely different from the day magic school.
Even the classroom, which looked normal during the day, seemed like a few undead were hiding at night…
The plants that grew in the sunlight in the warm greenhouse seemed to be holding their breath in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to attack us.
‘In fact, it wouldn’t be strange if Professor Thunderwalker prepared such a plant.’
At least the first floor was known to all students, but from the second floor it was an unknown territory.
What else could there be?
“!”
Climbing the stairs on the first floor and going up to the second floor, I felt an intense magical energy inside.
Space itself has magic.
‘Expansion of space!’
A space that looks dozens of times larger than the first floor greeted the students. The second floor was a vast botanical garden.
The students were overwhelmed by the sight of unusual and gigantic plants that they did not even know the name of and were growing in clusters.
“There is a saying that a good alchemist must be a good gardener. Still, the scale is really great…”
Priestess Cyana muttered in a voice of amazement.
As much as he had to travel through the mountains and fields to gather materials, the alchemist naturally had to grow what he could grow.
But even taking that into consideration, the scale was really impressive.
“and. What is the name of this plant?”
Kainando was amazed as he pointed to the brightly colored flowers in front of him.
It was really beautiful to see it swaying with the soft moonlight coming through the window.
Lee Han kindly replied.
“That flower is Nephelops.”
“Oh oh. What effect does it have?”
“I catch and swallow any animal that touches the petals whole.”
“……”
Cainando was frightened and backed away.
“But the nectar from that flower is sold quite expensive…”
“Is that important now?!”
“I asked and you answered.”
Lee Han replied and looked around.
There were far more things Lee Han didn’t know than what he knew by name. The same would be true of Yoner and Shiana priests.
‘But…’
Gaksu Hall was not a dormitory tower. There couldn’t be that many traps as it was the studio used by Professor Thunderwalk.
Professor Thunderstruck would have had to go around right away…
Lee Han calmly found his way. There must be a path that Professor Thunderwalker uses when wandering between these botanical gardens.
Dalgrak-
“!”
Perhaps reading Lee Han’s thoughts, the bone summoner rattled from his belt.
The Bone Servant pointed in the direction as if to look the other way. Surprisingly, fresh footprints were in the mud. It was a footprint that looked like a monster.
‘Right. Did the monster pass first!’
It was clear that the monster that invaded the path Professor Thunderwalk was passing by found it first.
Lee Han tried to praise the Bone Summoner.
“Wardanaz. I have a good idea. Looking at the footprints here, it’s clear that the monster that came in first passed by! Then this way is the safe way.”
Nilia whispered excitedly.
Lee Han was about to praise the Bone Summoner, but hesitated before opening his mouth.
“…You’re amazing, Nilia!”
Moon-clack-clack!
“Is it because he was also from the Shadow Patrol? It’s really great. I’m glad you came. It’s dizzy to imagine what it would have been like without you.”
“With something like this.”
Nilia tried to wave her hand as if it was nothing, but her long ears were already prickling.
“ruler. i’ll find a way Ask everyone to follow me.”
“Yes, yes.”
Lee Han sighed in relief after sending Nilia to the front.
Moon-clack-dal-clack!
Seeing the bone summoner protesting, Lee Han apologized.
“sorry. Friendship is harder than you think.”
The Bone Summon wiggled its fingers as if it were difficult to understand.
* * *
Moving along the footsteps of the monster that entered first was a better method than I thought.
While moving along the path in the botanical garden, the students were not attacked by any plants.
It was clear that Professor Thunderwalk hadn’t set any traps on the way he was walking around.
‘thank you. professor.’
Lee Han moved on, appreciating the professor’s laziness.
-■■■■…
“……”
But with good luck, there is also bad luck.
3rd floor stairs located at the end of the botanical garden.
When he saw the monster standing in front of the stairs, Lee Han’s expression hardened.
“Ox… right?”
“okay. It doesn’t look like an ordinary bull.”
It wasn’t enough to break down the front door on the first floor, and as if he had trampled on some plants on the second floor, the bull’s horns were covered with debris and vine leaves.
The moment Lee Han saw it, he remembered the bull that Professor Thunderwalk had talked about before.
‘…what?’
Until now, I had thought that the spirit bull that Professor Ingeldell had caught was that bull, but looking closely, the bull in front of me was much more like the one Professor Thunderwalker had mentioned.
First of all, it wasn’t even mixed with spirits, and wasn’t it that only physical abilities were strengthened with various potions?
‘Then was he just a guy summoned by the upper grades?’
When Lee Han saw the spirit bull, he felt sorry for cursing his thunderous step.
‘no. Come to think of it, there’s nothing to be sorry for.’
When I saw the bull in front of me again, my apologetic feeling immediately disappeared.
You mean you put that guy on standby in the mountains?
“What are you going to do?”
“There’s no need to fight.”
It’s a little different, but I already learned something while dealing with the Spirit Bull.
You don’t have to beat your opponent to beat them!
This botanical garden was not a good place to fight, nor was it to subdue a bull.
Besides, the bull didn’t seem to care much about the students. He was sitting in front of the stairs, munching on something.
“If that’s the bull that Professor Thunderwalker raised… Didn’t he come back hungry?”
Yoner’s words sounded plausible.
If it was the guy that Professor Thunderwalker had raised, it would make sense for him to know the road well here.
It was difficult for normal monsters to come up here without creating a mess elsewhere on the first floor.
“Then, if I leave it alone a little longer, won’t it eat and get out of the way?”
“It seems to be with a high probability.”
When it seemed that they would not have to fight, the students let out a sigh of relief.
Looking at the size of the guy in front of me, it felt more violent and ferocious than the Spirit Bull.
“…Uh… Lee Han…?”
Yoner grabbed Yihan’s sleeve and pulled it.
“That… is it okay?”
The bull ignored the students and bit off a plant next to it. After chewing on it for a few bites, I spit it out as if it had no taste.
Then he chewed another plant, chewed it again, and trampled on a few… Maybe
it was fun, but the bull started destroying the plants a little faster.
The faces of Yoner, an alchemy expert, and Priest Cyana went pale. It was heartbreaking even though it was not his plant.
Lee Han also changed his complexion.
It was on a different level between students coming in and borrowing a little potion and a monster killing all the plants in the botanical garden.
And when these two things were combined, the professor’s anger could be directed at the students.
“You have to stop that! Feet, fold the ground!”
Lee Han shouted an incantation and ran forward.
Then, he cast a curse spell on the bull.
“Paralyze!”
The negative mana formed like a wave and flew towards the bull.
However, the bull felt the threat first and escaped the curse.
“Wardanaz! Why do we have to stop that?”
“That’s what honor is! Wodanaz. I’m coming to help!”
Misunderstanding Lee Han’s intentions, the Blue Dragon’s Tower friends rushed at him with staffs.
“The flames of power…”
When Gainando tried to cast a flame generation spell, Lee Han slapped his mouth in fright.
match!
“?!?”
“Never fire where there are plants!”
“Kuh… Be paralyzed!”
“Paralyze!!”
My friends blew the paralyzing curse they learned in class. If I called the wrong element for no reason, I could burn the surroundings.
Unlike Lee Han’s curse, the bull did not escape the students’ curse. Despite several curses, the bull didn’t care.
“Ah, what the hell did Professor Thunderwalker feed you!!”
Students screamed. The bull was stronger than expected.
“Go and get him out of the way!”
Lee Han sent the Bone Summons and then started calling in the Water Orbs.
The bull didn’t care at all whether the other students wielded their staffs or not, but only Lee Han looked at him warily.
‘I wasn’t rushing to curse!’
It wasn’t easy to hit the curse magic against a monster with sharp instincts.
It seemed that things were twisted because I made them vigilantly by blowing a curse.
Lee Han started throwing water beads one after another. The bull was accurately dodged, but Lee Han did not panic.
‘Once you pull it out from among the plants.’
In the first place, it was attacking to get the bull off the plants.
“Everyone, take the potion of weakness here!”
Priestess Cyana took out a potion flask and handed it to me. The students who received it threw it in a hurry.
With a cracking sound, the potion hit bull staggered its steps. Yoner, realizing that the creature’s magic resistance had weakened, shouted.
“Everybody curse again!”
“Paralyze, paralyze!”
“Paralyze!”
The bull shook his head in annoyance. Because of his weakening, he could feel the curse digging into his skin.
Lee Han fired water beads around the bull in an irregular trajectory. The bull winced and stopped moving.
And Lee Han’s curse broke out.
‘Faster!’
“Paralyze!”
The need to cast it faster than before made Lee Han’s spell even faster.
As a result, the curse was released before Lee Han’s spell could be memorized. The situation was so urgent that even Lee Han himself did not notice.
thud!
The bull knelt as if he couldn’t stand Lee Han’s curse.
The students let out a long breath at the same time without saying who said first.
“What the hell is this?”
“!!!”
A tall, slender willow was walking among the plants.
Lee Han immediately replied.
“We were guarding Professor Thunderstep’s plants.”
“…That’s right! A strange bull is eating plants…!”
