Episode 084
Yoner quickly received Ihan’s words.
Willow praised the students as if they were very special.
“That’s great. There was no professor, so you guys were guarding the plants among yourselves. “It’s not something anyone can do.”
“thank you.”
When the atmosphere seemed to have improved a little, Lee Han asked the other person’s identity.
“Excuse me, but who are you?”
“ah. They’re freshmen, so they don’t know me. I am a professor who teaches botany at a school. “Please call me Professor Willow.”
The name of the other person was exactly as it appeared.
When Gainando saw Professor Willow, he was reminded of the talking oak trees he had met in the mountains. he asked, carefully raising his hand.
“Do you have anything to do with the talking oak trees?”
“I am a willow tree and they are oak trees. “You troll kid.”
“yes? “I’m a human?”
“okay. “I am also a willow tree, not an oak tree.”
“……”
Lee Han thought that he should be careful about what he said in front of Professor Willow. From the looks of it, it seemed like they didn’t like being grouped with similar trees.
Professor Willow slowly walked over and touched the fallen bull with a branch.
Then he deepened the wrinkles on the tree knot and spoke.
“It’s the bull that Professor Thunder Gait used to raise. “Anyway, you’re a sloppy dwarf.”
‘shit. It was a real professor’s bull.’
Lee Han cursed at the absent professor.
If you’re going to make monsters stronger by giving them potions, you should take good care of them, or why release them and cause all this trouble?
“Did you subdue this bull with a paralysis curse?”
Professor Willow looked at the students curiously.
It was a very surprising thing for first-year students to do. I wouldn’t be able to use such a powerful paralyzing curse.
“I used a weakening potion and then a curse.”
“Still, it must have been difficult. “That’s amazing.”
Professor Willow waved a branch. Then a vine grew from the ground, wrapped around the bull and trapped him in a wooden cage.
“I’ll let Professor Thunderwalker know when he returns later.”
“Professor, were you… taking care of the plants here?”
Priest Siana asked cautiously. Professor Willow answered in a slow voice.
“okay. Actually, my garden is somewhere else. I received a favor from Professor Thunderstruck. I ask you to take care of this Gaksu-gwan for me just for today. “It’s annoying, but what can I do when I have to meet the emperor’s officials?”
“yes? As far as I know, you said you were going to the market with Professor Lightning Walk.”
“……”
Professor Willow stopped tall.
“…is that really true?”
“yes. “You will be able to find out if you ask Professor Lightning Step later.”
“……”
Professor Willow stood still, but I could see how he was feeling by the way the leaves on the tip of the branch moved back and forth wildly.
“You are of the Wardanaz family. yes?”
“?!”
Lee Han was slightly embarrassed when the professor suddenly guessed his name.
what?
“Nothing to be surprised. Because I just heard your story from other professors. Anyway, thank you for letting me know.”
Professor Willow expressed his gratitude in a soft tone.
“Is there anything you need? “If so, please tell me.”
“…We are trying to practice alchemy, is there a place where we can get useful ingredients or reagents?”
“Hmm…”
Professor Willow was worried.
Of course, there were ingredients and reagents scattered throughout the vast grounds of the magic school, but most of them were places that were a bit dangerous for new students to go.
Lee Han observed Professor Willow’s expression very carefully.
It didn’t matter even if the opponent was a tree spirit-like species. As a professor, you couldn’t escape Lee Han’s keen vision.
‘now!’
Lee Han made a move that was close to gambling.
“Perhaps you can borrow it from Professor Thunderstruck’s lab… Oh, no. “This was so rude.”
Lee Han lowered his head as if he was embarrassed. But Professor Willow waved his branch as if it were a very good idea.
“That’s a really good idea.”
“yes? but…”
“Okay. When Professor Thunderstep returns, I’ll tell him that a bull came in and stole it. “I’ll pick out the things you can take.”
Professor Willow said so and walked towards the stairs to the third floor.
Priest Siana looked at Lee Han and said.
“I think Lee Han of the Wardanaz family should never join an evil church.”
“?”
* * *
The moment they stepped onto the third floor, pitch darkness greeted them. Light spells were of no use.
“Be careful not to get lost. “The roads here are so complicated.”
Professor Willow swung a branch. Then something started running in the dark.
It was a door with ‘Laboratory 6’ written on it.
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Rattling!
Professor Willow turned the doorknob and opened it. Inside the laboratory, blue smoke was freezing everything. Professor Willow quickly closed the door.
“It would be better to close this laboratory permanently.”
Professor Willow pushed out laboratory number 6 and brought in a few more laboratories. Most labs were a mess. In laboratory number 17, the space was distorted, so water dripping from the desk was flowing to the ceiling, and in laboratory number 29, black darkness was swallowing everything inside one by one.
Lee Han took out a piece of paper and wrote down in detail everything Professor Willow was doing. Because I didn’t know when I would come to the third floor again.
‘Right.’
Lee Han was able to roughly understand the methods of the third floor.
The reason there weren’t that many traps on the first and second floors was because the third floor itself was structured like a semi-maze.
There was little point in coming to the third floor if you didn’t know which laboratory was in what, and if you didn’t know how to call that laboratory.
In a place where the space was so chaotic, it was dangerous to break the magic with force. Because I didn’t know what kind of disaster would happen.
The answer was to learn it step by step from the beginning.
Just as there is no royal road to learning, so was theft.
‘Labor number 6 swings to the left twice and then takes 6. Laboratory 17: Swing to the right four times, upward once, then 17. Laboratory number 29 is…’
“found.”
Professor Willow found a suitable laboratory. Lee Han quickly put the paper into his coat.
The laboratory we opened this time was truly ordinary, like an alchemist’s laboratory. It was full of various alchemy tools and flasks.
The students came in looking slightly frightened because of the labs they had seen earlier.
“Here, take it.”
Professor Willow swept up alchemy tools and flasks and began to throw them one by one. Lee Han did not panic, but took it flexibly and carefully put it into the leather bag he had brought with him.
“Did I give you too much?”
“no. professor. “I’m just grateful.”
As soon as the leather bag was full, Lee Han handed it over to his friends and took out a new leather bag.
The switching speed was such that Professor Willow mistakenly thought, ‘Is this an artifact?’
“This should be enough for you to practice. “I didn’t give you materials that were too dangerous or that Professor Thunderwalker cherished too much.”
“That alone is enough.”
Professor Willow shook a branch and cleared the laboratory as if it had been robbed.
Messy tools were returned to their original places, and open drawers were closed again.
Professor Willow frowned when he saw the withering flower pots in the corner and brought out a watering can.
“I will help.”
Lee Han volunteered to come forward.
‘It has to look good.’
It didn’t seem like Professor Willow would snitch on Professor Thunderwalker, but he didn’t know what people were doing.
Besides, it didn’t hurt to look good to the professor. You never know when you’ll hear Professor Willow’s lecture.
Unaware of Lee Han’s intentions, his friends rolled up their sleeves to help him. But Lee Han shook his head.
“You guys go back.”
“why? Wardanaz? “We too…”
“I don’t know when Professor Thunderstruck will return. “You guys take your sacks and go back to your dormitory.”
“!”
The friends were impressed by Lee Han’s words.
indeed…!
Ratford said, looking impressed.
“You are really great. “There is nothing more I can teach you.”
“Don’t praise me too much. Ratford. “There is still a lot left for you to learn.”
Yoner suddenly felt that the current situation was a bit strange, but the atmosphere seemed friendly, so he did not intervene.
“Then Wodanaz. “I’ll move first.”
“See you at the dorm!”
The students groaned and went down carrying their sacks. Ihan was puzzled when he saw that Yoner was still there.
“why?”
“I think I need someone to help me. Even if one person is missing, you will be able to take the sack with you.”
“thank you.”
“Why with something like this?”
“for a moment. silver…”
“…don’t ask me if I should be angry.”
Yoner stretched out his finger in warning. Lee Han changed his words.
“…Thank you Jenna.”
“Is it a Southern dialect?”
As he spoke, Yoner picked up a watering can.
In fact, Yoner didn’t think Ihan would be good at taking care of the plants.
Taking care of plants was more difficult and complicated than I thought. It was the same even with just watering.
Some plants needed less water, and some plants needed more water.
If the weather was nice and hot, you had to water more. If the weather was bad and humid, you had to water less.
It was better if it was a common plant, but it was even more difficult if it was a rare and fragile plant.
This is something that requires both knowledge and intuition.
When I was at Yonerya’s home, I was confident that the things I did while reading the alchemy guide were growing plants, but Lee Han…
“You’re doing well.”
Professor Willow said with a voice full of admiration.
Neither Lee Han nor Yoner had the skills to handle plants once or twice.
Ihan felt Yoner’s surprised gaze and asked curiously.
“Why are you doing that?”
“Ah… no. “For watering it so well.”
“Because you’ve tried it a lot?”
Joner wasn’t the only one on the path to plant management. It was the same with Lee Han.
In the beginning, my professors forced me to do it, but once a hobby is established, it doesn’t easily disappear.
In my previous life, I tended to the professors’ flower pots, but in this life, I tended the Wardanaz family’s garden because I was bored.
Yoner looked at Ihan with eyes mixed with joy and emotion.
People who originally had minor hobbies couldn’t help but be very happy when they met each other.
“So did you…! “Did the servants who work in your family ask you to do something like that yourself?”
‘I didn’t.’
Lee Han was slightly embarrassed.
The Wardanaz family was a very laissez-faire family, so they didn’t really care whether Lee Han wielded a sword or tended to plants.
However, Lee Han did not want to disappoint Yoner, who helped him at best.
“Of course I did. But I didn’t care. “I thought it might be helpful for alchemy someday.”
“Lee Han…”
Yoner looked at Lee Han with an expression that made him want to give him a medal right away if there was a ‘Best Friend Award’.
Joner wasn’t the only one who was impressed. Professor Willow was also moved.
“I never thought I would meet students who care about plants this much… Everyone, please follow me.”
Professor Willow took the lead and went down the stairs. Ihan and Yoner wiped themselves dry and followed after him.
‘Are you trying to give me something more?’
Lee Han secretly looked forward to the joy in the professor’s voice.
Isn’t that why I volunteered to stay for this purpose?
Professor Willow arrived at the corner of the botanical garden on the second floor and stopped and pointed to the plants.
“ruler. “Make sure to water everything from here to here.”
“?”
Lee Han’s face stiffened at the unexpected situation.
Could it be that Professor Willow is the type of professor who gives extra work as a reward, which is extremely rare among professors?
If that were the case, it could not have been anything other than truly terrifying.
