Episode 025
‘no way. ‘Probably not.’
Lee Han closed his eyes tightly.
But reality was cold.
You got caught! From the first week! haha! ha ha ha!
“…What the hell??”
Nilia, who had little understanding of the situation, asked with a trembling voice.
Lee Han answered calmly.
“It seems like you fell into the principal’s trap.”
I don’t know how Giselle found her escape route, but it was clear that she was playing into the headmaster’s palm.
The problem is that if Giselle was caught alone, Lee Han and the others followed after her!
If you’ve been here since the first week, you must have seen the fake map I made and distributed! Today you have learned a lesson! Don’t trust maps of unknown origin! Because I don’t know if that treasure map is really a treasure map, or a trap set up by an evil lich!
“……”
“……”
Is there really a bastard like that?
Lee Han was shocked.
So, isn’t it true that Principal Skull himself created a fake escape map and distributed it here and there?
You don’t know when the new students who saw it will come in, and you don’t even know if they will see it in the first place, but they do something like that…
‘No matter how much I think about it, I enjoy it.’
Although he was saying that he would teach for the students, Lee Han knew those professors well.
It was clear that he was just having fun.
White Tiger Tower students. listen carefully! The escape is over. Now it’s time to return. The rules are simple. I won’t step forward and will send pursuers, so avoid them and return to the tower! Guilty if caught. If you avoid it, you are not guilty! Any method can be used. I don’t mind taking down my pursuers!
Along with the horse, a huge skeleton appeared in the dark night sky with a green light.
And the skeleton began pouring out undead summons from its mouth.
Hounds and trackers made of bone fell one by one onto the mountain.
Pot!
Lights came on everywhere. The bones lit the torch.
It was the beginning of the chase.
* * *
“Let’s jump!!!”
Nilia whispered urgently.
Nilia’s eyes were filled with fear and she was trembling.
“Nilia. calm down.”
“How can you calm down!! “If you get caught, you might die!”
“no. “You won’t die.”
Unlike Lee Han, who was used to crazy professors and had even had separate conversations with the principal a few times, the skeleton principal was extremely scary to Nilia.
From Lee Han’s perspective, the skeleton principal was just having fun, but from Nilia’s perspective, he seemed angry at the new students’ insolent and terrible crimes.
“Is that so?”
“If you get caught, you’ll probably end up in a corporal punishment room or something like that.”
“Corporal… corporal punishment room!? “There’s something like a torture device inside… something that can never come out…”
“I don’t think so.”
Neilia was imaginative in a bad way. Lee Han first covered Nilia’s mouth with his hand and checked the situation around her.
‘Are they skeletons?’
The sound of crunching and crashing through the bushes. It seemed like trackers made of bone were moving through the surroundings.
-Kung! Wow!
The sound of bone hounds barking could also be heard.
“run!! “If they come after you, take them down!”
“For honor! For chivalry!”
The White Tiger Tower students shouted and pulled out their wooden swords.
It was clear that he thought he would fight once more.
‘But the current situation probably has nothing to do with honor or chivalry.’
I was a little curious about how being caught trying to sneak out of school had something to do with honor and chivalry…
“I guess there’s only one thing I have to do now?”
Durgyu asked in a low voice.
In the current situation, it was meaningless to be from different towers.
We must work together to defeat our enemies!
“You raise a good point. “Durgyu.”
“okay. “I stepped forward…”
“Let’s get out while those guys step out and get attention.”
“……”
Dergyu looked at Lee Han in bewilderment.
However, Nilia, Yoner, and Gaynando immediately agreed.
“”good idea!””
“……”
Dergyu was about to say something but held back. Because the leader of the group now was Ihan, not Durgyu.
‘We have to break through to the shallow side of the siege.’
observe.
I felt like running out right now, but Lee Han held back.
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No matter what the situation, there are many times when it is better to wait patiently than to panic and rush.
Lee Han waited to check the shallower side of the encirclement.
Fortunately, the White Tiger Tower students were making time by screaming and running out.
I couldn’t just throw away this opportunity.
‘no. But isn’t that too harsh??’
Lee Han, who was observing from the bushes while holding his breath, was taken aback.
Undead summons coming from skeletons floating in the black night sky continue to appear without stopping.
It was a huge number, as if they were trying to push the crowd and prevent them from escaping.
‘…I underestimated the principal’s madness!’
Lee Han sighed inwardly.
The principal was a little more crazy than I thought.
Since they declared themselves guilty if caught and not guilty if they escaped, they thought they would give the students some opportunity.
But I never thought it would be blocked so tightly.
No, maybe he thought he was giving himself a chance.
‘The thinking circuit in the professors’ heads is a bit twisted somewhere.’
Perhaps Principal Skeleton was truly thinking, ‘I need to do this at least so that the students can overcome this siege and grow, right?’
The problem was that Lee Han was the one who had to break through it.
‘What is this… It’s meaningless no matter how much attention the White Tiger Tower kids attract. Should I just surrender?’
All the paths leading down were guarded by bone trackers and they began to light torches.
After that, the bone chasers again.
After that, the Bone Chasers again…
The number had increased so much that the bottom of the mountain felt as bright as day.
‘for a moment.’
Lee Han, who was worried, realized something was strange.
The bone trackers leading the bone hounds were paying no attention to Lee Han and his party.
‘That’s strange?’
Of course, right now, Lee Han and his group were hiding in the bushes, and the White Tiger Tower students were rushing downstairs, attracting a lot of attention.
However, if you know that Lee Han and his party are hiding around here, shouldn’t you have the bone hound search around or come closer?
However, instead of looking for Lee Han and his group, the bone hounds and bone chasers were running downwards, chasing only the White Tiger Tower students.
‘Can’t it be… the principal doesn’t know we’re there?’
Lee Han naturally thought that the principal knew that Lee Han and his group were hiding.
Because the principal was a magician so great that he could not be compared to Lee Han.
But what if the principal isn’t here?
‘I won’t step forward, I’ll send my pursuers, so avoid them and return to the tower!’
When I thought about it, I couldn’t tell whether the giant skull floating in the sky was the real principal or not.
It would not be strange if they sent an immolation or only a welcome from afar.
‘Then all you have to do is avoid the eyes of your pursuers!’
It was much better to hide and run away than to get caught and run away.
“…let’s go upstairs.”
“what??”
“There’s no way we won’t be caught down there now. Look at the numbers. “The moment we hit, pursuers will come.”
Nilia’s eyelashes fluttered at Lee Han’s words.
“But there is no tracer up there. Let’s go up and take a detour or hold on. “That’s much more likely.”
“okay!”
“?”
Nilia accepted so easily that even Lee Han, who spoke up, was taken aback.
“I brought it up, but… can I just accept it without thinking too much? “I don’t know what’s on the road up here.”
“It’s much better than being caught and locked in a torture device in a corporal punishment room!”
“…As I said before, there seems to be some misunderstanding.”
* * *
I must have climbed up carefully for about 30 minutes.
Nilia said in a low voice.
“It’s a cave. “Let’s go inside.”
“What about monsters?”
“doesn’t exist. It’s a small cave and it doesn’t seem to be popular at all. “I tried throwing rocks.”
Nilia patted her long ear and said.
“We’ve moved around so much now. “I’m fine, but everyone else needs to get some rest.”
“I guess so.”
Niliana, Ihan, and Durgyu were fine, but Yoner looked tired and Gaynando was on the verge of death.
Since I kept walking in the dark and nervously ran away to avoid being chased along the way, it wouldn’t be surprising if I collapsed now.
“Light!”
Lee Han entered the cave and used magic. Light burning like the sun filled the cave.
Yoner hung his cloak over the cave entrance to block the light from escaping.
“I guess… they won’t chase me all the way here, right?”
“don’t worry. Because I didn’t hear any chasing noises on the way. “I guess they’re all gathered at the bottom of the mountain.”
Nilya reassured Yoner.
Fortunately, what Lee Han said was true.
The summoned beasts summoned by the principal did not even notice Lee Han and his group, nor did they climb further up the mountain.
“The question is how long those summoned beasts will be around.”
“Maybe I should have just broken through.”
When Dergyu spoke as if he regretted it, Lee Han shook his head.
“no. It would have been impossible to break through by force.”
“Why?”
“Because the principal would never have openly shown such a flaw in his personality.”
“……”
“……”
Other students thought, ‘How do you know that?’, but out of respect for Lee Han’s opinion, they did not speak up.
“Wait until they’re gone, or take a detour, now is the time to rest. “Let’s eat something first.”
“agree!”
Lee Han distributed the sausages, bread, and cheese he had brought to each person.
Guynando threw the dwarven honey candy into his mouth and savored it with his eyes closed. He seemed to be sore from not having eaten anything sweet for several days.
“this. “I drank all the water…”
Nilia took out a leather water bag with a puzzled expression. She ran out of water because she kept walking.
“There is nothing to worry about. Because there is magic.”
“!”
“Spring up!”
When Lee Han waved his staff and shouted, a lump of water appeared in the empty air.
Nilia hurriedly took a leather water bag.
“It’s really amazing. Lee Han!”
Durgyu was impressed.
For Durgyu, who came from a family of knights and was slower to learn magic than other top students, Lee Han’s magic was close to an amazing miracle.
Both Gaynando and Yoner clapped their hands and were happy like children.
“I was thirsty just now!”
“Thanks to you, I’ll drink it well.”
Nilia filled the leather water bag and carefully closed it. She then said that she was jealous.
“I wish I could learn water magic too…”
“Once you get the hang of it, you’ll learn it quickly.”
Lee Han spoke with sincerity.
Actually, this isn’t that difficult of a spell, and once you get the hang of it, you can easily use it.
“I hope so.”
After saying that, Nilia raised her staff and chanted a spell.
“Burn up!”
Good luck!
A small ember began to burn in the air, and then caught on the kindling that Nylia had gathered.
A cozy bonfire was created with a crackling sound.
Everyone’s hands and feet were frozen from walking around on a cold night, so exclamations came out from all over the place.
“phew. I’m glad I succeeded in one go. “I succeeded last time, but I was anxious.”
Nilia seemed to have an aptitude for fire, and succeeded in creating a flame magic in one go.
Then he looked at Lee Han and said.
“i envy you. “I want water magic rather than fire.”
“……”
“…Why why?!”
Nilia stuttered in embarrassment as Lee Han glared at her.
Did I say something wrong?!
