Episode 686
-I asked who it was…
Squeak.
With the sound of a sliding door opening inside the workshop, a dryad half-breed senior appeared.
Illendil walked out, dropping leaves on the floor of the oak tree, and was very happy to find Ihan.
“Of the Wardanaz family… Ihan!”
“yes.”
Illendil recalled his memory by pointing to his junior and continued speaking in a slow tone.
“that’s right! “I helped and took care of the dark spirit last time…”
‘I think it’s a bit different from the truth.’
To be precise, it was closer to attacking and subduing a runaway dark spirit and then forcibly signing a contract.
And it seems like the contract was made not because Lee Han wanted to, but because Illendil pressured him…
“ah. yes. you’re right.”
“And the person next to me… ugh.”
Illendil looked at Direth’s face and quickly backed away.
“Hello… Senior…”
“Yeah, yeah. hi.”
Delet waved his hand with an awkward expression.
Illendil also lowered his head, hiding behind the workshop bellows with an awkward expression.
Lee Han looked around as the atmosphere suddenly became suffocating, like a tea party for Aden Arth and his followers.
Unfortunately, the person younger than Lee Han was not present.
‘I should quickly move up to second grade or something.’
Lee Han sighed deeply. Without a junior, Lee Han had no choice but to resolve the situation.
“Senior Delet. “What happened between you two?”
To his junior’s whispering question, Direth looked at Illendil and answered in a whispering voice.
“You’ve said it before. “There was a time when children from the dark magic school were attacked by Illendil when they went into the forest to collect reagents.”
“ah.”
Only then did Ihan remember the past between the dark magic school and Illendil.
In fact, it was not limited to black magic schools.
Among the schools of Einrogard, there was no school that did not require forest reagents.
It was common for students who entered the forest to become greedy and harm the forest, and it was natural for Illendil, who was trying to protect the forest, to clash with them.
“Oh, by the way, senior. “Then why is Direth senior so awkward when other seniors don’t know?”
“I went to rescue you because we are from the same school…”
Delet brought up the story behind the incident that he didn’t tell us last time.
When the Black Magic School students attacked by Illendil were captured, Direth, as a senior, naturally went to rescue them.
When we arrived, we found that the Black Magic School students had been captured by a forest golem…
…Dilet had no choice but to destroy all the forest golems and then rescue the students.
“Uh, doesn’t it take a lot of work to make a golem-type summon? “You destroyed it all?”
“There was nothing I could do in that situation! “The golem was quite violent.”
‘You’re quite extreme, too.’
Lee Han nodded, thinking that if Delet heard, he would grab him by the collar and say, ‘What are you talking about?’
Illendil, who was hiding behind the workshop bellows and staring at the two, quietly asked.
“I think I’m close with the black magic school…”
“I also listen to that black magic school.”
“What… what?! why…!?”
“No, you can hear it.”
Delet was a little upset.
What’s so surprising about hearing about black magic?
…Of course it was a surprise…
At that reaction, Illendil was startled and lowered his posture.
“Hi.”
“…Oh, no. I’m not angry. Junior. look. “Aren’t you angry?”
“Don’t angry people usually say things like that?”
“Whose side are you on?”
“…Seniors! Senior Direth is not angry! Take a look! “You can come out!”
Illendil hesitated and got up.
However, his eyes still seemed full of wariness toward Delet.
“How on earth did you destroy the forest golem?”
“hey. Junior. It’s because you didn’t see me back then! “It’s because he didn’t say anything, but he’s also a crazy junior!”
Delet was in tears.
As a senior, I didn’t want to criticize a junior from another school, so I held back, but Illendil was also one of those juniors who was just as crazy.
Without a word of dialogue, he ordered the forest golems to destroy Direth’s undead army.
Delet also wanted to resolve the issue peacefully, but because he was ambushed, he had no choice but to explode the undead army and blow up the entire neighborhood.
“What brings you here…?”
“ah. “That’s it.”
Lee Han pointed out the window of the workshop and pointed out a group of wizards milling about in a gloomy manner.
The sight of them still not giving up and wandering around looking for Lee Han reminded me of a group of cultists.
I asked in amazement if Illendil thought that too.
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“Cultist?!”
“That’s not it.”
Lee Han selected and explained only the less strange parts of what happened today.
When I participated in an exchange meeting, all kinds of wizards came after me…
“ah. “I’ve been like that too.”
Illendil slowly pondered and agreed with Ihan’s words.
In the past, when I went to an alchemists’ conference, I was quite bothered by all the scout applications.
“It must have been difficult… Wait a minute.”
Illendil frowned as if he had spotted someone outside the window.
It was Yukveltire.
Illendil asked, clearly showing hostility that did not match his usual calm and slow demeanor.
“That evil wizard came too?”
“……”
“……”
Lee Han and Delet exchanged looks.
‘I guess I have to hide what I’m close with, right?’
‘huh…’
Illendil spoke firmly.
“Welcome. Rest comfortably.”
“thank you. Seniors.”
After finishing talking with Ihan, Illendil looked at Direth.
Unlike the wariness from before, respect was visible in his eyes.
I never thought I would go to another school’s workshop to protect my junior against someone like Yukbeltire.
“I didn’t know you were such a warm person.”
“Hmm.”
Delet looked embarrassed.
In fact, I was close to the evil wizard out there, but I felt like if I said that, I would never be able to become friends with the junior from this alchemy school.
“I… just did what I had to do.”
“That’s the great thing.”
Delet changed the topic because he felt he couldn’t bear the remorse he felt after hearing the praise any longer.
“I’ll be watching to see if an evil wizard comes from over there.”
“……”
Lee Han was dumbfounded as he watched Delet quietly leave the place.
No matter what, why make an excuse like that?
“What were you doing?”
“Potion manufacturing… We need to secure research support funds this year.”
Illendil, who prioritized the forest regardless of his alchemy skills, was limited in the number of requests he could receive.
As such, I had no choice but to focus more on requests for making this type of potion.
“I want to conduct research on the species that trolls prefer as food…”
“……”
Lee Han was even more shocked than when he met Ji Man-gong today.
Are you saying it was Illendil-senior who suggested that crazy research!?
“Why… why?”
Illendil’s face brightened when his outstanding junior showed interest in research.
“Are you interested?”
“Well, I was just curious what kind of research it was.”
Ihan, who was terrified, quickly changed his words, but Illendil had already interpreted it the way he liked.
“Forest trolls are powerful monsters… but they are also monsters that maintain the forest ecosystem. It also plays a role in dealing with enemies coming from outside…”
“…So, are you trying to study the species that forest trolls prefer as food in order to raise them?”
Illendil paused at Lee Han’s words. It was a pretty interesting idea.
“I’ve never thought about it, but… maybe you could think about it that way.”
“Oh, no. “I think I thought wrong.”
“okay? “I think that’s a good idea too…”
Illendil unfolded the research he had written with slow movements.
As the forest troll was a threatening monster, there was a lot of damage caused by it.
Meanwhile, Illendil noted that the damage to some races was particularly severe.
Perhaps there is a species that forest trolls prefer as prey?
If they figure this out, adventurers and forest guards entering places where forest trolls appear will be able to approach a little more safely.
If the party doesn’t have a preferred race of prey, the forest troll won’t react.
‘It was a better study than I thought, right?’
It was a decent study to analyze forest trolls more deeply in order to reduce the damage caused by forest trolls.
The title is a bit strange…
“It seems like an interesting study.”
“okay?!”
Illendil was overjoyed.
The movement was slow, so it wasn’t noticeable.
“Then would you like to participate in the study? “It will definitely be fun.”
Delet, who was standing by the window in the distance, was startled and threw up his hands.
It was a signal to refuse unconditionally.
In the first place, there was no benefit for a second-year Einrogard student to participate in the research of his seniors.
Of course, there was nothing to be gained.
Because he was able to grow by helping a senior who was better than him with his magic.
However, in Direth’s opinion, Lee Han had too many opportunities to grow by helping wizards who were better than him with their magic.
Starting with the professor…
‘I’ll never be able to survive if I even help my seniors!’
“Well, I’ll think about it.”
“I thought you’d be interested…!”
“I didn’t agree, but I said I would think about it.”
Lee Han suddenly caught sight of Yukveltire walking along the main street in the distance.
Then he looked at Illendil in front of him.
‘…for a moment. ‘I don’t think there’s much difference between the two.’
* * *
Lee Han felt like he would only be digging his own grave if he continued to talk about his research, so he changed the topic.
“So, what kind of potion was requested?”
“ah. This is… a potion I developed. “It’s called ‘Liberation from the Skull.’”
“That’s an unusual name. “What effect does it have?”
“It has the effect of temporarily paralyzing the magic cast by the principal.”
“……”
Lee Han was taken aback by the unexpected effects of the potion.
Come to think of it, Illendil had a history of appearing in front of juniors in the forest last time.
This wouldn’t have been possible if it weren’t for the potion he made.
“Wait a minute, who is buying this?”
“Other Einrogard students will buy it.”
Delet answered instead with his arms crossed.
Illendil’s potion was already a famous item among some students.
“Is this really that useful? “I’ve never seen my seniors use this…”
“I don’t use it to meet juniors, I use it to avoid the principal’s minions. “Among the principal’s minions, there is one who smells the magic the principal has cast and follows them.”
‘It’s really not that easy!’
After finishing his first year, Lee Han reflected on what he thought, ‘I think I know a little bit about Einrogard now.’
It seemed like Einrogard would never know. Even after graduation.
‘But I’m glad I found out about it this time.’
“Can you teach me too?”
In times like this, you need to learn it in advance so that you have at least one chance to escape from the skeleton principal’s clutches later.
Lee Han asked politely. Fortunately, Illendil readily agreed.
“Yeah… because it’s not difficult.”
‘It must be very difficult…?’
Direth thought to himself about Illendil’s words.
If it wasn’t really difficult, Einrogard students wouldn’t have had to pay a lot of money to buy it from Illendil.
Alchemy potions may seem simple on the outside, but they become infinitely more difficult when they become difficult, so even Direth, who was well-versed in it, would leave it to an expert to make it himself if it became difficult, and would not try to make it himself.
“Is this how you do it?”
“not bad…”
“Here like this?”
“Sounds good… keep going.”
“Is this finished?”
“wait for a sec. Let me check… That’s right. “It’s complete.”
“!?”
Delet suddenly stood up while listening to the conversation between the two.
Who completed what now?!
