Episode 209
You’re probably even vaguely thinking about it right now. What must we do to reach the truth? Which path should I take?
‘…I didn’t do it.’
Although I thought about what kind of government position would be good, I did not worry about what to do for the truth.
But Lee Han was silent.
Not only was the skeleton principal serious, but I didn’t think it would do any good to tell him that he was considering a government job.
Thinking about the hostility towards bureaucrats that some professors showed last time…
Let me give you some useful advice. When I was human, I was a prince.
“yes?????!!!!!”
Lee Han was so surprised that his heart stopped.
What was that reaction just now?
“You were somehow full of dignity.”
thanks. He was a prince from a beautiful small country. Nevertheless, I have had a lot of worries since childhood. Why do I have to die from the moment I am born? Why must the people of the kingdom suffer from the eight sufferings, seven emotions, and five desires?
“Well… you said so.”
Lee Han was completely overwhelmed by the skeleton principal’s younger days, which were much better and better than expected.
Then I gained enlightenment and abandoned my body. I became Rich.
“…Uh, didn’t you skip too many steps?”
In the meantime, what can you do by listening to boring stories about training? Anyway, the important thing is that I was able to overcome the limitations I just mentioned by giving up my body.
“……”
The higher the level of a wizard, the more virtues a wizard must possess.
It is not just about controlling magical power and understanding magic, but also controlling one’s inner self and developing one’s imagination.
In that respect, emotions were also an enemy that wizards had to fight against.
Even if you are a magician with a weapon, it is easy for you to wander when you are swayed by the five passions and misfortunes.
The skeleton principal cut off that cycle of agony with a single cut.
…Although that method was an extreme method of throwing away a living body.
“I’m a bit of a lich…”
It’s not about becoming rich.
Principal Skeleton didn’t really care even if Lee Han showed resistance.
It told me about the path I took. Throwing away the body is not necessarily the answer. There are infinitely many paths to truth.
Only the skeleton remained, with its blue eyes blinking, but I could feel the brilliance of its appearance that could not be hidden.
For Lee Han, the skeleton principal seemed like a wise man for the first time.
I usually felt like a boss monster in an evil castle…
In my opinion, you can control yourself without necessarily becoming a lich.
“Why?”
Lee Han was slightly excited.
No matter how eccentric he was, he was a great wizard.
There was no way he wouldn’t be happy that such a person thought highly of Lee Han.
Because it’s not easy to deliberately suffer under various professors at that age. Such asceticism is helpful in disciplining the mind and body. That was a very good choice. Keep doing that.
“……”
Lee Han looked with a straight face.
It was a compliment, but for some reason I felt very bad.
* * *
‘It’s not Filone’s village.’
Lee Han was surprised by the scenery of the prosperous city seen from outside the carriage.
Filone Village, the village closest to Einrogard, was also a quite prosperous village due to its special characteristics.
Originally, a typical village did not have many wizards, adventurers, mercenaries, or merchants.
However, the city in front of me overwhelmed the village of Filone. No matter where I looked, the energy of vitality and prosperity overflowed.
‘Is it the city of Grandeur?’
The city closest to the magic school.
When I went to the village of Filone, it was the city where I heard, ‘All the families of the students waiting outside have gone to Grandeur City.’
Lee Han looked around again.
I wasn’t surprised to see a big city since I’m from the same country, but it was true that it was refreshing in many ways.
When he was in the Wardanaz family, he stayed only at the family mansion and estate.
Let me buy you a gift.
-yes.
“?”
Lee Han paused as the skeleton principal gave orders to the summons outside.
What kind of gift is it?
It’s about visiting Ogonin’s Tower. It’s rude to visit without a gift.
“……”
I thought it was already rude enough to go for revenge, but Lee Han didn’t say anything.
really. Buy this cast iron head snack too.
-yes.
After a while.
Several beautifully packaged snack boxes flew into the carriage.
It was a box containing licorice candy, red bean jelly, milk wheat, etc. The skeleton headmaster looked at the configuration and complained.
These are snacks that have no quality whatsoever. Aren’t these snacks that only children like?
-This is the snack that young people buy the most.
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I thought so. What a foolish guy.
-sorry.
done. Eat.
However, Lee Han did not hastily touch the snacks. The skeleton principal was puzzled.
Why do you do that? I didn’t hear any poison.
“If I eat this, won’t the reward you promised last time be lost?”
……
They had decided to give Professor Verdus a reward for fixing the accident he had caused last time.
The skeleton principal was impressed for the first time in a long time.
Among the many disciples I have seen so far, there has never been one so cautious.
That’s separate. I promise.
“thank you.”
…But don’t put snacks in your coat pocket.
Seeing the new student trying to put snacks in his pocket, the skeleton principal slightly reflected on the school rules he had established.
Come to think of it, I heard that the spire keeper gave me a gift.
“ah. yes.”
It may seem like an excessive gift, but…
‘Hmm.’
Lee Han recalled the package the steeple keeper gave him.
The necklace in that package was definitely a decent artifact.
…Except for the fact that there is an invisibility spell on it.
For Lee Han, who already had an invisibility belt and possessed invisibility magic, the invisibility necklace was a bit of an excessive gift.
“But I have already learned the invisibility spell.”
what? That’s fast. What did you learn?
“<The Invisibility Cloak of Gonadaltes>.”
At Lee Han’s answer, Principal Skeleton expressed surprise and satisfaction at the same time.
I didn’t know you’d already learned it. The progress is pretty fast.
‘shit. After all, there was no need to learn it all at once.’
The magic I created is better than other invisibility magic. It’s okay to be proud.
“It’s always like that.”
And even if artifacts have the same effect, they are not useless. Even if you have already learned the same magic. Think about it carefully.
“?”
Lee Han tried to think about what the skeleton principal had said, but the skeleton principal didn’t give him time to do so.
The skeleton principal grumbled when he saw the gift the summoner had bought him.
What kind of gift is this? Anyway, it’s a bunch of cards like this.
-This is a card that also includes Ogonin.
Would all cards featuring Ogonin be gifts? I really want…
The skeleton principal grunted and threw a stack of cards in the air and threw them into a corner.
And why is it performing so well on the Ogonin theme?
-But the master said last time that it is not the performance of the card that is important, but the wizard who uses it…
The summoner who was talking outside fell silent. Lee Han thought that the skeleton principal must have used a silencing spell.
Take this for yourself.
‘I already have a completed deck.’
However, Lee Han accepted it calmly.
This was because the skeleton principal could have been more grumpy.
“……”
The card the skeleton principal threw was not Ogonin.
It was himself.
Put it in your deck and use it well. Because it’s a good card.
“Uh…yeah.”
Lee Han’s deck was a clever, low-cost deck that persistently targeted the opponent’s magician’s stamina and quickly whittled it down from the beginning of the game.
It was difficult to use the Skull Principal card, which requires a lot of mana to summon…
Lee Han put a card into the deck right in front of the skeleton principal.
Flattery should always be done sincerely.
In fact, Principal Skeleton was happy to see Lee Han.
I guess I’ll have to go buy it myself.
“yes? Is that okay?”
Lee Han paused.
No matter how familiar the people of the Empire were with seeing all kinds of bizarre wizards, it was questionable whether they would be able to do so after seeing a flying lich with only a floating skull.
However, before Lee Han could finish his question, the skeleton principal had turned into a human.
Wearing a ceremonial robe made of dark blue silk and holding a staff with a unique graceful gesture that only nobles can show, he was clearly a nobleman from a great imperial family.
Lee Han wasn’t surprised by that in itself. It was even more surprising if an archmage of the level of a skeleton headmaster could not use a human shell.
Lee Han was surprised because the skeleton principal’s human face was a familiar face that he had seen before somewhere.
‘statue…!’
A statue guarding the passage leading to the statue of a forgotten beast that I saw while wandering around the third floor of the main building.
At that time, I thought, ‘I don’t know who he is, but he’s extremely handsome.’
Why do you do that?
“I was really impressed by your dignity.”
Yes, the second greatest strength is the very heart that knows what dignity is.
The skeleton principal nodded as if he was pleased with the flattery.
Lee Han thought to himself.
‘Dark magic is really scary.’
They say that even the moon waxes and wanes, but how many people can think of the skeleton principal when they see that statue?
let’s go.
“yes.”
The two priests stepped out of the carriage.
Even in the crowded crowd, the two attracted people’s attention at once.
The skeleton principal opened the door to a bookstore richly decorated with brass and bronze sculptures.
It was a bookstore with a sign that read “Ikalten’s Jeolwoogwan (絶愚館).”
“welcome.”
The neatly dressed employee straightened his posture and lowered his head. As soon as he saw them, he guessed their identities.
“Do you have a grimoire?”
“yes. of course.”
“Give me the easiest introduction to fantasy magic. “Package it well.”
“…?”
Lee Han wondered what the skeleton principal was doing.
Of course, there is no way that a bookstore of this size would not have a single magic book, but it is the easiest introduction to fantasy magic.
“Are you really going to give that as a gift?”
“You’re quick to notice.”
Lee Han decided not to say anything.
‘I don’t know. ‘It’s something the two of you have to figure out on your own.’
When two wizards were enemies, it was no good to get in between them.
Lee Han looked away and looked through other books. Then he noticed a familiar name.
“Is this a book written by someone named Ogonin?”
“Let’s see… That’s right. The advanced application of illusion magic in the barrier that he used when he was young… Ah. Good idea. I guess I should buy that too. “Let’s read it in front of him.”
“I didn’t say anything.”
“There is no need to wrap this. “I’m going to take it with me.”
“……”
As the time to go to Ogonin’s Tower got closer, Lee Han began to become anxious.
The skeleton principal was a person who would have no regrets no matter where he went and started a fight, but isn’t Lee Han a person with a long future ahead of him?
If the fantasy wizards have a grudge against Lee Han rather than the skeleton principal…
‘Should I use invisibility magic?’
* * *
After purchasing the gifts, the carriage left the city and started running through the sky.
In the middle of a mountain range filled with layers of strange rock cliffs, I saw the Wizard’s Tower rising sharply.
The principal, who returned to the skeleton, immediately opened his mouth.
Life, life, death, death.
Even if the words were the same, each word the wizard uttered had a different meaning.
And that was what the skeleton principal just said.
Lee Han realized that those words had become a starter and a huge magic had been activated.
The world was shaking.
Wizards were beings who understood the world order and knew how to cleverly twist that order, but there were also wizards who sometimes rewrote the world order itself to their own will.
The Skeleton Headmaster was a wizard who reached that level.
…The problem was that he was using it to start a fight at someone else’s tower!
