Episode 270
One student was trying to put out the fire on his cloak, so he took it off and shook it up and down.
However, there were more red feathers than expected. The students screamed as the number of feathers increased, just as the rain got stronger.
“Get under the shade!”
“Which shade!? “This isn’t something that can be done by hiding under a tree!”
Sigh!
Professor Alpen waved his wand and raised a huge curtain over the students’ heads.
The red feathers hit the curtain and made a sharp sound.
“Thank you, thank you!”
“The phoenix is a mischievous creature in many ways. “As much as he likes to play pranks, you’d better be careful.”
‘If you mess with me twice, I’ll get burned.’
Lee Han looked up, suppressing his bewilderment.
As if unaware of the situation below, the phoenix was shaking its body and shaking its feathers above the distant sky.
The students looked at each other and threw the jewelry they had made to commemorate the Phoenix on the ground.
“So, Wardanaz told me to study instead of celebrating the Phoenix.”
“How could I have known this would happen!”
* * *
“Kollock. A phoenix appeared? “No luck.”
Professor Mortum clicked his tongue when he heard that a phoenix had appeared.
The freshmen already have a lot of work to do, but even a phoenix appears.
“I started some fires, but nothing more than that. “I stayed still.”
Gainando secretly made an excuse, probably because he liked the Phoenix.
‘Isn’t starting the fire the problem?’
“Cough. I guess it is now. However, most of the phantom beasts have eccentric personalities. “Even if he’s fine now, who knows when he might behave erratically?”
Lee Han had already seen the phoenix setting fire to its surroundings just by ruffling its feathers a few times.
Of course I couldn’t help but be worried.
“What do you think the Phoenix will do?”
“Kollock. I still don’t understand. Phantom beasts simply exist. They’re like a storm that can’t control their power. “If I were to come and hug you, wouldn’t your whole body be on fire?”
As Professor Mortum said, the powerful phantom beasts were beings that brought destruction and chaos wherever they went, regardless of their intentions.
Since you cannot control your own strong power, you cannot avoid causing damage to those around you.
If you have an eccentric personality and act on a whim that you don’t understand…
“Cough. Compared to that, how beautiful are the undead? This beauty is so controlled and predictable.”
“……”
“……”
Lee Han and his friends were speechless and silent.
‘Even if it’s a bit dangerous, I think a phoenix is better than an undead.’
‘Shh. ‘The professor is sulking.’
“So is the work going well?”
“yes.”
The areas of black magic that Lee Han and his friends learned this semester were mainly curses, poison, and bones.
These were magics that had something in common: they were unlikely to be popular anywhere.
-Cough. I will not assign separate assignments before the final exam.
-hurray! -Cough. Let’s replace it with simple tarsus crafting instead.
-……
Tarsus.
Originally, the ornament was split in half and later used to identify each other by matching the shapes when meeting each other, but…
In black magic, the tarsus has a slightly different meaning.
-Look carefully.
Professor Mortum split the bone pack in half. Then, a strong curse erupted from one side.
Sweet!
However, the curse’s energy disappeared in an instant when the tarsus were put together again.
-On one side is the power of curse. On the other side, Haeju’s power is contained. When the two are put together, they are ordinary accessories, but the moment you split them, their power is revealed.
Curse magic was relatively easy and fast to cast, but if the opponent was a skilled wizard, there were too many ways to block it.
Poison magic was similar. It is fatal if poisoned properly, but since it is a magical poison, it is difficult to poison if the opponent is a skilled wizard.
In order to make up for such shortcomings, warlocks usually made stronger curses and stronger poisons and carried them around.
It goes without saying that if you use things prepared in advance, its power will increase several times.
In black magic, the tarsus was an item that kept things safe.
the problem is…
“Wow. Ugh. “Wow.”
Rafadel coughed with tears in his eyes from the acrid smoke.
A lump of curse leaked out of the magic circle and flew through the air.
“Hitch. Hitch! “Ahchwichwi!!”
“ah. Sneeze quietly! “Are you using the workshop alone?”
When Gainando scolded Rapadel, he got angry and glared at him, but Rapadel was not in a good condition to refute.
“You bastard… Hitch! Hitch!!”
“Anyway, those with less skills get angrier. Isn’t that right, Lee Han?”
Guy Nando’s expression, which was still fine and condescending, suddenly changed.
“…Lee, Lee Han. “My body… my body doesn’t move…”
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“You’re addicted.”
Lee Han said as if he felt sorry.
Rapadel was making tarsus with a curse, and Gainando was making tarsus with poison. This was by no means an easy task.
Since the tarsus had to be soaked in a very high concentration of curses and poison and stored, it was easy for even a wizard to fall victim to it.
Ymirg carefully submerged the bone medallion half into the bronze basin. Along with the bubbling sound, I felt the curse in the basin transfer to my bones.
‘Ugh.’
As he inherited the blood of a giant, his magic resistance was higher than that of other students, but that did not mean he was not afraid of poison or curses.
As long as we are human, we cannot help but be afraid of poison or curses.
“Ugh… Ugh.”
Ymirg was disgusted and took out half of the bone medallion with thick tongs. She was afraid that if even the slightest touch touched her body, the curse would spread.
Chi-ik!
Only after barely attaching the other half of the bone medal was Ymirg able to sigh.
“…Aaaaa!!”
“?!”
Lee Han looked at Ymirg in surprise.
“what’s the matter? “What’s going on?”
“Bare, bare hands! “Bare hands!”
“ah. “What else can I say?”
His friend, who was also learning magic, was so calm that Ymirg thought for a moment that he had made a mistake.
But looking again, I saw that my friend from the Wardanaz family was immersing his hand in a bronze basin containing a curse.
“This is okay.”
“…????”
“are you okay. “I won’t die.”
“Oh, no.”
Ymirg was embarrassed as he looked at Rafael and Guynando stretched out behind the table.
It looks like I could die…
Lee Han, who was watching Ymirg next to him like he was a monster, concentrated on his work.
Lee Han didn’t just put down his gloves and tongs and do it with his bare hands.
Making the tarsus was more difficult than expected.
Bones were a good medium for imbuing curses and poisons, but just dipping them and stirring them a few times didn’t do them justice.
A lot of effort had to be put into making a proper tarsus.
Apply a combination of various reagents so that the curse can easily reside on the bone, soak it in the curse, and check whether the bone absorbs the curse properly. If not, use magical power to drive the curse into the bone…
This process of applying the curse layer by layer, like carefully applying paint, required persistent patience rather than a flash of inspiration.
‘And the more I do it, the more I understand why black magic is not popular.’
Lee Han held the piece of bone with his bare hands and tried to feel the flow of the curse.
It was difficult to feel this flow when using gloves or tongs.
“Uuuuh… Lee Han. “Please put your coat next to me.”
Gainando barely got up from the workshop floor and pointed to the coat next to the chair.
Lying there paralyzed made me feel three times colder.
“Take it.”
“Thank you… Oh, the front! “I can’t see!”
“Oops. sorry.”
* * *
When the time came, Professor Mortum opened the door to the workshop and reappeared.
“Kollock. “Has everyone finished it?”
“yes.”
“yes.”
Lee Han and his friends nodded and held out their tarsus. It had been a while since the students’ faces had become haggard.
“Let’s see…”
Professor Mortum split Gainando’s tarsus. Then, a fairly decent poison came out from inside.
When the professor snapped his fingers, the miasma that spread from the tarsus swirled around in a circle and then entered the tarsus again.
“Cough. “It was made quite well.”
“…Is that true!?”
Gainando was so surprised that he fell backwards. As I barely managed to grab Rafadel’s arm to keep my balance, Rafadel glared at Guynando with disgust.
“Why are you so surprised?”
“Well, I haven’t heard that it was done well in other lectures…”
Gainando said with an embarrassed expression.
He was surprised by Professor Mortum’s praise as he had never heard praise in other lectures.
Then Professor Mortum smiled a rare kind smile.
“Cough. “A wizard cannot excel at all magic.”
“?”
“?”
Ymirg and Raphadel glanced at Ihan. But Professor Mortum took no notice and continued his speech.
“Your talent lies in black magic. As long as a warlock is excellent at black magic, there is no reason to envy other magic. Collock. Isn’t that right?”
“you’re right!”
“Prince, you don’t study at all.”
Rafael said as if he was dumbfounded.
As the White Tiger Tower students who did not get good grades were forced to study with Lee Han, Rafadel knew well how much Guyanando hated studying.
The White Tiger Tower students were also forced to sit down and play with their quills, but Gainando attempted to run away alone.
“Quiet. Are you jealous?”
“This crazy guy…”
Rapadel was astonished to see Guyando boasting about making a well-made tarsus.
“Kollock. This…”
Professor Mortum split Lee Han’s tarsus.
Then he was silent for a while and then looked at Gainando. Gainando, who noticed the situation, cried out in tears.
“professor. “Please evaluate objectively rather than compare!”
* * *
Professor Lightning Walk looked at the mountain peak with curiosity.
The phoenix, which was floating in the sky and scattering its feathers, must have gotten tired of it and flew over the peak of the mountain range. Thanks to this, a red halo was shining behind the peak.
“It’s fascinating. “The Phoenix is not something you can easily see.”
Lee Han glared at his friends. His friends averted their gaze.
“I’m very lucky. “The Phoenix is not someone you can meet even if you want to.”
‘There is a logical error.’
Professor Lightning’s words could not be easily accepted.
In that sense, the king of the frost giants was not someone he could meet even if he wanted to, and Lee Han did not feel particularly lucky.
No matter how rare it was, there was no way a phantom beast that made fire rain from the sky would be good.
“I guess I’ll stop talking about the phoenix and start today’s lecture.”
The lightning-walking professor pointed at the huge cauldrons with his chin. The students were puzzled by the cauldrons that looked like something you would only see in an alchemy lecture.
how?
“What we’re going to do today isn’t that difficult. It’s much easier than what I usually do. “I felt bad for you guys suffering because of the final exams, so I decided to try to cheer you up…”
Lee Han was never fooled.
‘What on earth are you doing?’
thud!
“ruler. Come here. Cerberus.”
The students froze at the sight of the huge three-headed dog.
The head in charge of the center of Cerberus looked around at the students and his eyes sparkled.
-Kung!
“Can I… take it down?”
When Lee Han asked the question without realizing it, Professor Lightning Walk responded as if he was saying something nonsense.
“Don’t make ridiculous jokes. “Would you order something like that?”
“Yes? haha.”
Lee Han sighed deeply.
I thought we had to fight!
