Episode 341
‘That’s strange.’
The skeleton principal had a bad temper, but he wasn’t stupid.
You clearly know that the banquet hall is located in the center of Grande City, but you ignore the possibility of outsiders getting involved and harass the students?
‘…Is this not my enemy, but the Duke’s enemy?’
Ihan glanced at Duke Ikaldoren.
The duke was waiting with his arms crossed without any change in his expression. From that appearance, I could feel the arrogance that it didn’t matter what happened in the alley.
If the enemy had attacked the students, they should have been more surprised or reacted differently.
‘You’re the duke’s enemy!’
Lee Han regretted it inwardly.
It would have ended if I had just left it to the duke to guard him, but I got involved for no reason.
‘Anyway, the skeleton principal isn’t helpful.’
Lee Han was now trying to cooperate by calling an escort.
However, the priority was the enemy attack in the alley. The energy that was getting stronger became refined like a blade and came out with a deadly force.
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As Ihan had guessed, Duke Ikaldoren was not surprised.
Of course, it wasn’t because I knew specifically who the other person was. Duke Ikaldoren was extremely accustomed to these types of attacks.
As a duke of an empire, it was impossible not to have enemies, and among them, Duke Ikaldoren, who was the most aggressive, had enemies ranging from great noble families to criminal guilds.
Most enemies don’t even dare to touch them and give up their tails, but if the number is too large, these attacks become a regular event two or three times a year.
Of course, Duke Ikaldoren, befitting his arrogant personality, was neither scared nor cautious of his actions.
Instead, the alert was raised significantly.
The defense artifacts Duke Ikaldoren was currently wearing were worth more than a dozen castles, and the guards waiting nearby had the combat power to slaughter a guild.
It was like a walking fortress, so there was no reason to fear attacks from petty assassins. What you had to fear were the attacking assassins.
So Duke Ikaldoren was really not surprised at all.
That’s it for raids.
‘This is truly amazing!’
Duke Icaldoren attempted countless guesses in that short period of time as to what Lee Han’s actions meant.
Why do you step forward in this situation?
It could be that he was trying to raise his value in front of Princess Adenarth, or he could be trying to raise his value in front of Duke Ikaldoren.
‘Or maybe both.’
The duke weighed in on the latter.
The behavior shown by the boy from the Wardanaz family was very energetic for a freshman. Although many geniuses enter Einroguard, it is rare for a genius to establish himself and build a reputation like that even from his freshman year.
‘I will respect your ambition. A boy from the Wardanaz family. But there’s one thing you’re missing.’
Duke Ikaldoren, who understood the situation, noticed a loophole in Ihan’s plan.
‘That means you’ll have to deal with the raid on your own.’
As long as he set out to stop it like that, he could not receive help from the duke’s bodyguard.
And most of those who try to attack Duke Ikaldoren are strong people who have thoroughly prepared themselves to attack him.
‘You don’t know how strong the guys attacking this body are. No matter how genius you are, you are still a freshman. It must be hard to deal with the raiders, right?’
The wizard’s magic was so powerful that it was easy to mistake it, but the wizard’s combat power was weaker than expected.
Magic is powerful when completed, but it is nothing until it is completed.
Those who knew it well could easily play with wizards. There were many, many ways to disrupt magic, from interrupting spells to breaking concentration.
Duke Ikaldoren guessed that it would not be easy for Ihan to win against the raiders.
If he said something like that and then received help, the ambitious boy’s face would be greatly damaged, but the duke was planning to intervene as soon as he felt that Lee Han was being pushed back.
If Lee Han got seriously injured, he would be in trouble.
‘Even if you help, don’t blame this body. ‘It’s something I chose myself.’
“master. Be careful. “It’s poison!”
“Stop whining. “If you’re really shouting, either your eyes or your brain is broken.”
The duke spoke to his guard in a sour voice. Howie’s face turned red.
With the ability to detoxify the artifacts that the Duke currently possesses, the Duke would not be harmed even if everything around him was dissolved in poison.
In fact, despite the guards shouting, the duke did not move a single step.
“What kind of monster is it? It doesn’t look like slime. “I think I summoned a mixture of spirits and dimension beasts.”
The duke and his guard had a rough idea of the identity of the attacker as soon as he crawled out of the alley.
Because it had been attacked so many times, it was now possible to get an estimate just by looking at its appearance.
Looking at the venomous liquid writhing and moving in an irregular shape, it looked like a slime, a spirit, or a dimensional beast, but it moved too quickly for a slime…
There was a high possibility that it was summoned by contaminating or fusing a spirit or dimensional beast with deadly poison.
Perhaps the attacker got information that the Duke was passing through this area and summoned that poisonous pollutant just in time.
The culprit could later send the wizards to track the traces after the situation was resolved, and now…
‘I guess that’s impossible.’
Duke Icaldoren decided.
The opponent was too bad.
As an assassin who uses complex magic or techniques, it would be impossible to deal wisely with an enemy who pushes back harshly like that.
It had to be subdued with force versus force, and although the poison spewed out by that deadly pollutant was not enough to kill the Duke, it was easily enough to melt the surrounding wall. It was a poison too strong for a freshman to decipher.
Moreover, it is not slow or weak, so if a fight breaks out, victory or defeat will be determined by a single clash.
“If you fall, get over it right away…”
bang!
“?!”
Duke Ikaldoren’s eyes fluttered for the first time in a long time.
Surprisingly, the boy from the Wardanaz family attacked first!
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‘You’re crazy!!’
No matter how young and arrogant he was, that was an insane act.
The only reason the poisonous pollutant didn’t attack right away was because there were many other people here besides Lee Han, but it attacked first and narrowed down its target to itself.
It was not at the level of digging one’s own grave, but at the level of weaving the coffin into it.
* * *
‘thank god!’
Lee Han sighed in relief.
From the looks of it, it seemed like the embarrassing situation of having to ask for help from the duke’s bodyguard could be avoided.
Fortunately, the compatibility of the other party was very good.
Fuuuuuk-
The poisonous pollutant was enraged by Lee Han, who suddenly rushed up and struck him with a single blow, spewing out thick poisonous fog.
If it were another wizard, he would have used magic to take away control of the poison, but Lee Han just left it alone.
As expected, the poison had no significant effect on Lee Han. Even if you breathe, the enormous magic power dilutes the poison like an ocean.
“Park Mu, spread out.”
Lee Han used the valuable time he gained thanks to his poison resistance to cast the newly learned <Ogonin’s Night Dance>.
Lee Han’s figure lost focus and swayed. The poisonous pollutant was greatly embarrassed by the inexplicable events that occurred one after another.
It may be that the opponent is a cool-headed and skilled enemy, but such a summoned entity may have excellent physical abilities, but it is weak in such unexpected situations. Lee Han immediately cast the next spell.
“Bone, seize the enemy.”
Although it was not a powerful force, it was enough to hinder the movement of the poisonous pollutant.
A bone binding sphere was created from the poisonous pollutant’s ankle at a speed several times faster than that of other ordinary wizards.
“Shoot!”
Sharp bone fragments stuck into the body of the poisonous pollutant like bullets.
It wasn’t a normal body structure and it wasn’t fatal, but the pain didn’t go anywhere. The poisonous pollutant howled and fired poison around it.
Cheeeeeeeek!
‘Ugh.’
Lee Han clicked his tongue as he looked at the melting cloak and clothes. Fortunately, he didn’t buy them with his own money, but with his family’s money.
‘I’ll have to be careful.’
Duke Ikaldoren would have been astonished if he had heard Lee Han’s true thoughts.
In the midst of this bloody fight, I was not worried about my life but my clothes.
‘It’s not like the Ghoul King has exceptional defense or evasion power. I can keep the body as is and just add damage.’
After completing the calculation, Lee Han immediately took action.
Summon a phantom clone, cast an invisibility spell, detour backwards, continuously cast a 5-fold strengthening spell on an iron ball, then fire!
puck!
The movement was so quick and without hesitation that the reaction of the duke’s guards was delayed by half a beat.
The guards were astonished to see Lee Han exceeding their expectations and casting magic in succession much faster.
A new student could cast magic at that speed and continuously in an intense battle situation.
It was almost humiliating for the guards, who had to anticipate and prepare for any situation in advance and not be surprised.
“I knocked him out. Please be sure to finish it!”
He wanted to start the fire himself, but Lee Han called the guards out of fear that the fire would spread to the surrounding area or that something unexpected would happen if he reacted with the guy.
The guards drew their swords and swung them as if they had been waiting.
As the flaming sword exploded, the poisonous pollutant, which had already suffered a fatal blow to the chest and could not move, was engulfed in blue flames.
The magic flame instantly burned the poison and swallowed up the pollutants. Lee Han cursed inwardly when he saw the swords the guards had.
‘You were just watching with those artifacts?’
Of course, Lee Han stepped forward to deal with it, but couldn’t he have helped a little?
Lee Han isn’t that narrow-minded enough to find fault with that!
“Huh… that’s great.”
Duke Ikaldoren said, belatedly adjusting his expression to the unexpected situation.
Rowena felt pleasure at that sight. It was the first time she had seen the duke, who always acted arrogantly without a change in expression, react like that.
“I didn’t know you’d give the credit to my guards.”
‘ah.’
Lee Han belatedly realized what the Duke meant.
Originally, there was a big difference between ‘Lee Han catching it alone’ and ‘Lee Han and the duke’s guard catching it together’. And everyone liked to monopolize.
But Lee Han didn’t really care.
‘He’s not even the guy with the bounty on him. It doesn’t matter.’
Since the bounty was not shared, there was no difference in giving away some of the credit.
Isn’t the case going to be handled by the duke anyway? If he was deducted for giving in to his own guard, that was not a duke, but a city affairs bastard.
“I thought the ball was not important, but the priority was to quickly defeat the enemy and ensure the safety of the surrounding area.”
His friends applauded with emotion, but Duke Ikaldoren was not fooled.
There’s no way such an ambitious guy would give in for that reason.
That was a signal to the duke.
-I am as ambitious as you are. Ambitious people like us can make a deal.
Duke Ikaldoren felt like he could hear Ihan speaking like that.
Other than that, there was no reason to be generous.
How ambitious people recognize each other.
Age didn’t matter.
Duke Ikaldoren presented his opponent not simply as a talented newcomer, but as a young, ambitious man who deserved to sit across the table as an equal.
“…I understand. “Suggestion, let’s think positively.”
not bad.
Duke Ikaldoren also needed to obtain information about the magic school.
I don’t know what ambitions the boy from the Wardanaz family has, but a mutually beneficial deal could well be possible.
“…no. Your Majesty the Duke! “Duke… What kind of guy is that??”
Lee Han muttered as he watched the Duke walking away, but Rowena pretended not to hear Lee Han swearing at the Duke.
