Episode 435
Meanwhile, the knights opened their bottles and poured alcohol into their glasses like crazy.
When the servants showed up with a steaming plate of roasted wild boar on a plate, the knights couldn’t wait so they got up and took the plate.
“???”
The knights who took the plate pulled out their daggers and cut up the meat before Lee Han could even panic. The driver swallowed the oily piece of meat in one mouthful.
‘what?’
Lee Han was embarrassed.
The order was different from normal meetings.
Usually, at a gathering, the people gathered have to say hello, talk, play a bit, and then share a prepared meal…
Meals and drinks were being served here.
When I looked to the side, I saw Anrago and Batrek hurriedly getting their plates and putting food on them.
“Moradi. I hope you listen to me without getting angry. “I’m asking this because I really don’t know… Is this what knights’ gatherings are really like?”
“…okay. why.”
“no. I was just surprised. “You eat with pleasure.”
“……”
Giselle didn’t show it, but she felt a rush of shame.
The Beech Knights behaved like dignified nobles, but when it came time to eat, they had no choice but to show their true colors as knights.
Although she had never been ashamed of herself as a knight, the behavior of the Beech Knights, who pretended to be nobles, made Giselle ashamed.
‘Why did people who eat so comfortably do such troublesome things just now?’
Lee Han thought to himself.
If the knights had behaved this way from the beginning, there would have been no need to observe so many unnecessary rules of etiquette outside of this island.
“So, are we going to talk after eating and drinking?”
Giselle nodded.
“This is much better. “I wish it had been like this a long time ago.”
“…?!?!?!!”
While Giselle was looking at Lee Han with her eyes wide open, Jean Cliff returned.
Jean Cliff returned after greeting the knights, holding a bottle of wine in one hand and a glass in the other.
“I’d like to treat you to a drink! For the person who helped the knights of the Beech Tree Order!”
“ah. thank you.”
Lee Han took the glass. The glass was filled with sparkling wine.
Both Jean Cliffe’s and Giselle’s glasses were filled. The three drank together.
At that moment, Jean Cliffe’s face distorted and he let out a shout.
“It’s poison!!!!!”
Clink!
Giselle was the one who responded the fastest. As soon as he heard Jean Cliffe’s words, he threw the half-drinking glass to the floor.
‘Nonsense!’
Giselle’s eyes were full of shock.
It was surprising that poison was introduced into the gathering of these knights, but it was even more surprising that Giselle did not feel the poison at all.
Unlike the knights here, aren’t Giselle and the White Tiger Tower students being educated as wizards?
Considering the heterogeneous nature of the poison, it was impossible not to notice.
How?
‘What poison?’
Giselle quickly looked away. He saw that Anrago and Batrek were already drunk and were emptying their bottles, and then froze. Giselle quickly gave up and turned her attention to Lee Han.
‘Wardanaz might have noticed…!’
But Lee Han’s glass was empty. Giselle was so shocked that she screamed sharply.
“You drank it all!!”
“I couldn’t help it out of courtesy…”
“Are you kidding me? “Did you loosen up just because you were out of school?!”
Lee Han honestly felt unfair.
If the person who made the poison was good at making it and administering it well, the person who consumed it was at a much disadvantage.
“Everyone, stop moving and put down your drinks! There, put down your drink!”
Jean Cliff threw the knife on the table and broke the bottle. He was startled by the knight who was about to drink the whole thing.
“Lord Jeancliffe! “What’s going on?”
“Aren’t you mistaken? “It’s poison… There’s nothing wrong with our bodies.”
The drunken knights were embarrassed by Jean Cliffe’s shouting.
They also knew about poison in their own way.
But I have never heard of a poison that has no effect on the body like this.
Could it be that Sir Jeancliffe was mistaken?
“Damn it, I heard about it from an alchemist I met in the capital. “It’s okay now, but when the reagent in the food and the reagent in the alcohol mix and time passes…”
Broad-footed Jean Cliffe had been introduced to a recently created poison while visiting the capital.
It was a poison based on mountain ring mushrooms, and the alchemist excitedly introduced it as a very unique poison.
-Reagents of various ingredients have no effect when left alone, but when mixed, they turn into poison over time, so it is rare to find such a subtle poison.
In order to detect the poisons mixed in the body in advance, one had to be familiar with all kinds of reagents or know about the combination of poisons.
Fortunately, Jean Cliff heard the story from the alchemist and remembered the taste of the reagents.
‘You remembered all that?’
Lee Han was astonished by the driver’s ignorant methods.
It would have been less surprising that I felt a sense of discomfort since I knew all about the reagents involved.
“I’ll call a healing wizard!”
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The knights, realizing that the current situation was no joke, became thoughtful and shouted.
Poison was a race against time.
If there was even a slight delay, there could have been a large number of casualties.
But Lee Han was calm.
‘Such poison is not very effective.’
The poison created in order to avoid being detected by knights or wizards had to be composed of such weak ingredients.
There was a high possibility that it was not a life-threatening poison.
“Sir Jeancliffe. “What are the effects of the poison?”
“You will be unable to use magic power temporarily.”
The knights momentarily breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as the magic power was scattered, it wasn’t that dangerous.
“What kind of person…?”
“Servants, don’t move! “We will investigate one by one!”
“I will also check the porters.”
“Who would put such poison in here? “Could it have been mixed up by mistake?”
The entrance was closed and the investigation began, but the situation was chaotic.
The anti-magicist who went into hiding as a porter laughed inwardly.
‘No matter what you do, you won’t be able to find it.’
Their preparations were truly meticulous and persistent.
Several weeks in advance, the ingredients and alcohol of the gathering were checked, and the components of a poison based on mountain hwan mushrooms were divided and injected.
It was a fitting revenge for the knights who ruined their great succession.
‘The signal has already gone!’
It was the porter who gave the signal right when the drivers started eating and drinking.
What the driver named Jean Cliff noticed was unexpected, but it didn’t matter because he drank it anyway…
There were a few students who were invited other than the knights, but they were still young kids.
Besides, isn’t he a wizard whose magic was dissipated because he consumed poison?
In some ways, he was an easier opponent than the knight.
The plan should have already been considered successful.
“Rise, emotions.”
“???”
One of the students suddenly waved his wand and cast a spell at the servant.
The anti-magician was so dumbfounded that he almost snorted.
‘You’re digging a grave!’
Since the most versatile talent in the empire is a wizard, of course such an interrogation was possible.
But even those magics were not omnipotent. The anti-magicist knew well what type of magic that was.
It was a magic that had to be used on only one or two suspects as it consumed extreme magical power and drained mental power.
You’re just randomly casting it because you’re in a hurry.
I wasn’t a student for nothing.
“Rise, emotions.”
“Rise, emotions.”
“Rise, rise, rise…”
“????”
The anti-magicist was confused.
what?
‘Is it a trick? ah. i get it! He’s bluffing! ‘Fine hair…’
Pretending to recite a fake spell while trying to gauge the other person’s reaction.
For a student, he was quite smart.
But the anti-magicist did not waver.
‘Just give it a try.’
Smirking inwardly, the anti-magicist managed his facial expression.
“Rise, emotions… ??”
Lee Han looked at the porter. And then he said it as if it was absurd.
“Is it this person?”
“catch!!!”
The angry knights rushed in like crazy. The anti-magicist screamed.
How on earth!?!
* * *
The knights were masters of interrogation. The tattered anti-magicist told the truth about the gang waiting outside.
“What nonsense…!”
“You’re complaining about having done your duty as a knight! “This is why mercenaries!”
The knights of the Beech Knights, who did not know the detailed circumstances, were very angry.
If the grudge was understandable, I would at least respect them as enemies, but isn’t this just taking out a grudge that has nothing to do with them?
“Anti-magicists are just like that! Seeds of evil that pollute the empire!”
“……”
Lee Han broke into a cold sweat.
It was not because of the poison, but because he understood the situation.
‘…Did you ask the knights for no reason?’
I never thought I would get help from drivers to make things easier and it would turn out like this.
If the knights got hurt, I don’t think Lee Han would feel at ease.
“Now is not the time to be like this. “We must prepare for an attack.”
“I know.”
Jean Cliffe’s face became serious.
“It’s dangerous. “The knights here aren’t used to fighting like this.”
‘Did you know?’
Lee Han was surprised to see Jean Cliff’s cold evaluation of the knights he belonged to.
Since the Beech Knights’ main purpose was friendship and socialization, they were at an even greater disadvantage in this situation.
“Wardanaz. “Magic power…”
“It doesn’t come together.”
Angago and Batrek’s faces were also dark. The same was true for other knights. Slowly, the poison of the mountain hwan mushrooms was completed and began to spread.
Jean Cliffe was also holding on by circulating his magic powerfully, but his complexion was not good.
“Right. i get it. wait. I’ll make an antidote. “I don’t know how much we can make before the raid begins…”
“…what?”
“what did you say?!”
Not only Jean Cliff, who was wondering how to prepare for the fight, but also his friends were shocked.
You know how to make an antidote?!
“Huh, how!? Did you know about this poison?”
“No… I don’t know. And it’s not a complete antidote. “It’s made with sacred magic, so we’ll have to see how effective it is.”
Lee Han held up his staff and prepared sacred magic.
I never thought that the anti-coercion of the Siana priest would be helpful in this situation.
If the sacred magic of the Afha Church that Lee Han awakened was the transformation of white flame, the sacred magic of the Flemain Church was the creation of an antidote.
“Holy magic… were you a faithful believer… no… wait… a member of the Wardanaz family…? It’s not important right now… Wait, wait. “I don’t have enough magic power, so don’t force me to use it!”
Jean Cliff, who was mumbling, was embarrassed and stopped Lee Han.
No matter how urgent it was, it was dangerous to use magic that was expensive, such as sacred magic, in a situation where there was no magic power.
However, before they could stop him, Lee Han created an antidote. The wine inside the wine bottle turned transparent.
“Starting with Lord Jeancliffe!”
“Okay, I understand.”
Sir Jean Cliff took a gulp of the colorless and transparent antidote.
Then, surprisingly, I felt that the magical energy that was about to dissipate was maintained again.
“Then I will make the next antidote.”
Anrago stood next to the antidote to drink it as soon as it was completed.
Then Lee Han gently pushed Angago away and pulled Giselle.
In this situation, the vicious Moradi was much more trustworthy.
Angago shouted in embarrassment.
“Moradi is still in good condition because he drank less?!”
“…no. Angago. As an alchemist, I think Moradi’s condition is getting worse.”
“??!”
Is… Is that so?
