Episode 043
Lee Han carefully put the ticket into his pocket. In that movement, I could feel that he was being cautious for fear that someone would take it away.
Professor Garcia and the skeleton principal thought to themselves at the same time.
‘No one is taking it away…’
Are you feeling well?
“yes.”
okay. Then, since I received all the awards, I will have to be punished.
“……”
Lee Han looked at the skeleton principal in bewilderment.
The skeleton principal spoke as if he was heartbroken.
Don’t look at me like that. Because my heart hurts too. But rules are rules.
‘That’s 100% a lie.’
No matter how Lee Han saw it, it was right for the principal to enjoy it.
Just for your information and in case you are mistaken, you are not punished for trying to go out without permission.
“Then what is it?”
You get caught and you get punished.
“……”
So you had to watch Professor Garcia get stabbed?
The words rose up in Lee Han’s throat, but he held them back.
Since ancient times, I have never enjoyed talking back to a professor.
‘Let’s be patient. ‘Be patient.’
The sun is just rising. Until next sunrise, stay in the punishment room and think about how you might avoid getting caught next time.
With those words, Principal Skeleton threw a book at Lee Han.
A book bound in plain black leather. It was a book that had a strangely eerie feeling.
“What is this?”
This is a book given to prevent you from being bored in the punishment room. I would like to read it once.
An expression of ‘Can I trust this?’ flashed across Lee Han’s face very quickly.
The skeleton principal was pleased to see his student looking at him with suspicion.
Move the student to the punishment room.
The headmaster’s summons approached and helped Lee Han up.
From this morning until tomorrow morning.
Lee Han will be staying in the school’s punishment room.
* * *
Go down the basement stairs, walk down the hallway, go down the next set of stairs, walk down the hallway again…
It felt like I repeated this dozens of times. I was wearing an eye patch, but even without it, I don’t think I would have been able to memorize the route.
bang!
“hmm.”
When the door closed and he was alone, Lee Han looked around the punishment room.
It didn’t seem much different from a private room in a dormitory.
Instead of the sunlight coming in, artificial lights are blinking, giving a dark feeling?
‘This is a punishment room? ‘It’s not as big a deal as I thought.’
Lee Han thought that this could last for several weeks.
While living as a graduate student, there were times when several people lived in a much smaller room than this.
Compared to that, it was very comfortable.
Lee Han promised that when he met Nilia later, he would tell her, ‘The punishment room wasn’t as big as I thought.’
Of course, I didn’t know if Nilia would think that way too.
-Ihan of the Wardanaz family.
“?”
The hard voice of an undead summoner was heard from outside.
-Take it.
The bottom of the door opened and a large basket came in.
Freshly baked bread, whole roast lamb seasoned with salt and pepper and sauce in a hollow bowl, apples baked with sugar and butter, freshly cooked fried eggs, slightly firm, still warm and steaming biscuits mixed with almonds and chocolate…
‘huh?’
Lee Han was embarrassed because the food was so good for a punishment room.
what?
-It is a gift from Professor Garcia.
“Ah… please tell me thank you.”
-It’s not finished yet. Take more.
“no. “Sleep…”
Lee Han was embarrassed by the baskets that kept coming in.
Can you eat all of this in one day?
Fortunately, there were more preserved foods in the next basket.
Chocolates and candies well wrapped in silver foil. Salt-roasted peanuts, round and flat snacks and tea leaves in a box. Apple juice and orange juice in glass bottles…
‘I guess you put everything in roughly because you didn’t know what people would like?’
Lee Han thanked Professor Garcia for his gift and placed the basket next to him.
It seemed like I wouldn’t be bored while I was in the punishment room.
Slurp-
Lee Han boiled black tea, added milk and sugar, and sipped it little by little, lost in thought.
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Even now that I think about it, the fight against the imperial anti-magicists was bloody. To the point where I thought, ‘They fought like that.’
The reason I was able to stay so calm during the fight was…
‘I guess it’s thanks to Allarlong’s teachings.’
If Allarlong had been next to him, he would have reacted in bewilderment by saying, ‘No, I didn’t teach you magic combat or any such skills in actual combat,’ but Alarlong wasn’t next to you.
Although Lee Han didn’t know it, Lee Han definitely had a natural talent for fighting. This was a fact acknowledged by all other professors.
‘thanks. ‘Allarlong.’
Lee Han casted the <Lesser Control> spell.
“Move.”
The feather pen gently floated in the air and began to move naturally.
It was a smooth movement that I could not have imagined when I first learned magic.
Lee Han put down the feather pen and cast a spell on the iron bead.
An almost perfect circle was drawn in the air.
‘It’s a bit shocking to know that what Professor Boladi said was true.’
Sometimes, some professors made students angry by saying things that were right rather than things that were wrong.
I never thought that Professor Boladi’s words, ‘Practice practice will improve your skills’ will be proven like this.
This is what I felt when fighting anti-magicists, but my skills have truly improved.
‘With just a few more practical encounters, I will become an archmage. Either die before then.’
Lee Han put down the iron ball. It wasn’t what I wanted, but I didn’t feel bad.
‘Anyway, that sword technique…’
Lee Han thought carefully about the swordsmanship he used against the opposing leader.
As Allarlong taught, not just passing over a fight you won or lost, but looking back on it was a great help in improving your skills.
‘…No matter how you look at it, it wasn’t normal swordsmanship, right?’
At that time, the opponent was so strong that I attacked without hesitation, but now that I think about it, no matter how I look at it, it was not normal swordsmanship.
Is there any swordsmanship that pours out so much magical power like a madman to hit someone?
Lee Han had plenty of magical power, so it wasn’t surprising that something had happened.
Even the sword was shattered at the end.
It is said that a good swordsman like Alarlong can create an auror by condensing the magic power within his body into a sword, but in Lee Han’s opinion, what Lee Han did was something more than an auror…
‘…I don’t know what to call it, but I’ll have to be careful from now on.’
Lee Han vowed not to become the type of person who did something reckless and ended up being featured in the Imperial Newspaper’s “People who died foolishly this year” section.
After drinking all the black tea, one thing that was left caught my eye.
…It was the black book given by the principal.
‘Should I open this?’
Lee Han thought seriously.
Is this really a gift from the principal or a trap?
It is a gift from the principal -> The principal is also a human being, and you will know that Lee Han fought hard to save the professor. I put him in the punishment room according to the rules, but I can’t help but feel sorry. This may be a gift given as a sign of apology.
It’s the principal’s trap -> Strictly speaking, the principal is not a person but an undead. There is no human heart. And the principal clearly enjoyed putting him in the punishment room earlier. then…
‘…I feel there is a high possibility that it is a trap.’
If you think about it, it seems like a trap, doesn’t it?
Lee Han decided to decide later and tried to push the book away.
It was that time.
Slurp!
“!?”
When Lee Han placed his hand, the black-bound book was forced open.
And the letters on the opened page jumped out as if they were alive and began to wrap around Lee Han’s hand and dig into it.
“!!!!”
Lee Han was shocked as if someone had punched knowledge directly into his brain.
‘What the…!’
It was confusing and painful, but I knew what this book was trying to do.
This book was now trying to pass on a magic trick.
Lee Han’s mouth opened instinctively. Then he memorized the magic name.
“Gonadaltes’… agile steps…!”
Pot!
When the teaching was over, the book closed again with a loud crash. Even though Lee Han tried to open it with a puzzled expression, it wouldn’t open as if a nail had been driven into it.
‘What kind of book is this?’
Lee Han held his head, which was tingling from a headache, and looked over the magic knowledge he had just received.
As he had originally read and known, the magical knowledge of <The Agile Steps of Gonadaltes> remained vivid in Lee Han’s mind.
From orders to actions.
Of course, that didn’t mean he could use magic right away. It was Lee Han’s job to realize it directly based on that knowledge.
‘In other words, it’s a book that teaches magic by force…’
From the name of the magic, I could tell that it was a magic created by the Skeleton Principal himself.
If it were that kind of magic, Principal Skeleton could have called Lee Han and taught him one-on-one, but why teach it in such an odd way?
‘It’s probably because the principal is crazy. Anyway, if you work as a professor for a long time, people go crazy.’
Lee Han understood it on his own.
Of course, the reason the principal didn’t teach directly was because if he taught one-on-one, other professors and outsiders would say things like, ‘That crazy archmage is trying to ruin another young talent!’…
There was no way for Lee Han to know that.
* * *
“Feet, touch the ground. Feet, touch the ground. “Foot, earth…”
There was nothing to do, so Lee Han diligently memorized the newly learned spell.
Lee Han himself used to say, ‘I’m not that greedy for magic,’ but looking at it objectively, it turns out that Lee Han was crazy about magic.
Usually, freshmen play if they have nothing to do, and don’t say, ‘I have nothing to do, so let’s study’ like Lee Han.
Tumbling-
“…?”
Lee Han stopped when he heard a knock on the wall coming from somewhere.
what?
“Foot, earth…”
Tumbling-
I didn’t hear it wrong. Lee Han carefully placed his ear close to the wall of the punishment cell.
Tumbling-
The sound sounded a little louder.
Lee Han also knocked on the wall. The other person must have heard the sound and paused for a moment.
A low, rough and husky voice was heard.
“…can you hear me?”
“I can hear you.”
“What grade are you in?”
“We’re new here.”
“Is it cast iron? “You’ve worked hard.”
“That one…?”
“Gold.”
Gold.
It was a title symbolizing the fourth grade of the school.
Lee Han was surprised to learn that a senior at this school was locked in the next room.
‘What should I do to become a 4th grader… No, that’s not what I’m talking about.’
Lee Han completed a quick self-reflection.
This was not something Lee Han, who was caught trying to escape, would say.
“What did you do to end up in the punishment room? “Have there been any fights between dormitories?”
“no.”
“no? “Then, did you steal something from your fellow tower friends?”
“no. “I was caught trying to escape.”
I heard laughter coming from the next room.
“This new student is very fast. It’s only been a week and you’re trying to escape. At least you went to the mountains, right? Everyone goes to the mountains and gets caught a lot. “I don’t know there’s a wall there.”
“I didn’t go to the mountain.”
The student on the other side of the wall seemed surprised by Lee Han’s words and became silent for a moment.
“Could it have gone underground?”
“yes.”
“Amazing? I can’t believe you noticed the basement. But there’s a trap. Even if you touch just one object, an alarm goes off, and the warehouse keeper who guards the warehouse is a monster specialized in search skills. What caught you?”
“I didn’t get caught.”
“…You didn’t get caught?”
“yes. I went outside through the underground passage. “I went out and got caught.”
“……”
The fourth graders on the other side of the wall were astonished.
It was surprising that they realized the existence of the underground passage in just one week. They escaped the warehouse’s traps and the warehouse manager’s search and went out of the underground passage???
‘What is this, bastard? ‘Are you a freshman??’
“for a moment. “Then why were you caught?”
“As I was going out on a carriage, Imperial anti-magicists attacked me and the principal caught me fighting.”
“……”
