Episode 972
“Seniors. “Get up!”
Lee Han was cold.
It seemed like the other person was trying to avoid meeting the 5-minute time limit, but I had no intention of letting go.
The second hand of the pocket watch was already moving.
“30 seconds have passed.”
“……”
Zaroon barely got up. The dwarf’s short but thick limbs shaking did not necessarily seem to be due to hunger.
“…How much do you know about Orichalcon?”
“I know it’s a very rare and expensive metal.”
“yes.”
“The most recent official recorded Imperial auction was eight years ago in the Western Grand Fair Corridor. The price at that time was…”
“…Why do you remember that?”
Zaroon was perplexed.
It was certainly incredibly detailed knowledge, but it had little to do with what I was about to say.
In the first place, a metal as rare as orichalcon could not be purchased just because there were gold coins. Compared to the people who are looking for it, there is nothing for sale.
“What I want to talk about is Orichalcum’s characteristics.”
“I do know that magic power is being concentrated at a high density.”
Zaroon slowly shook his head in response to his junior’s answer.
“Isn’t it?”
“To be exact, you were mistaken because it is one of the characteristics that are often seen. Orichalcon is a mineral, but it has unique plant-like properties. “It grows the way you grow it.”
Lee Han looked at his senior as if he felt sorry for him.
Originally, it was easy for people to go crazy if they wandered around alone in an underground mine.
Moreover, I was trapped inside the mineral vein…
Zaroon, noticing the look in his junior’s eyes, gritted his teeth.
“It’s real! “Do not doubt!”
“I’ve never heard of it.”
“Well, fully grown Orichalcon is rare, but pre-grown Orichalcon has to go back to ancient times to be recorded, so that’s probably true!”
Most Orichalcones had their form and properties perfected before they were seen by humans.
And most of those Orichalcons became the most common high-density magic condensates.
However, the true Orichalcon was originally able to be completed by freely changing its properties as much as the miner wanted.
‘Amazing.’
Lee Han was already listening to Zaroon’s words.
There was still a possibility that it was just nonsense from a crazy senior, but it was still a fascinating story.
“Is it possible to have a metal that continuously produces gold?”
“…You can’t deny magical laws. maybe.”
“no way…”
Zaroon ignored his junior’s sour reaction with superhuman patience.
“listen carefully. I found the location of the Orichalcon ore vein, which has not yet been determined. Do you know why I’m naked like this?”
“I do not know. “Didn’t you run away to avoid your pursuers?”
“Because only then did the vein allow access.”
“!”
The Orichalcon ore vein that Zarun found was in an unfinished state and had not yet been fully crystallized, but strangely, it already had some properties.
One of them was its ability to repel intruders.
“At first I thought it was some other metal that was the problem. I want all the pickaxes and other equipment to be melted down. So I went with a mining artifact without metal, and it broke just as well.”
“aha. “Is that why you tried to approach her bare body?”
It might seem a little crazy, but in terms of wizarding logic, it wasn’t such a strange choice.
What do you have to do once you get access to it? Zaroon nodded his head.
“however…”
“?”
“Approaching with your bare body wasn’t the right way. When I came to, I was trapped here in the ore vein. “He moved the surrounding terrain and pushed me out.”
After hearing those words, Lee Han felt that Orichalcon’s power was greater than he thought.
Even though they have plant-like characteristics, aren’t even ordinary man-eating plants having limitations?
I’ve seen them move and eat intruders many times, but I never thought they could move the entire surrounding terrain and devour it…
“Isn’t it possible that you have developed the tendency to push away intruders because of you?”
“…That could be possible… but.”
Zaroon was a little dispirited.
Just now, Zarun was thinking about his junior’s point.
Could it be that his greedy approach caused him to develop hatred toward the Pure White Orichalcon?
“That’s why I told you.”
“yes? “What do you mean?”
“…I think that if you want to approach Orichalcon, it should be someone like you, not someone like me. “A good and foolish man.”
“…?????????”
Lee Han looked around for a moment.
I was wondering if he was talking about someone else.
“no. “Are you insulting me just because I gave a meal to a senior who was on the verge of falling behind?”
“Why, why are you angry? “It’s a compliment!”
Zaroon was taken aback by his junior’s violent reaction.
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Zaroon, who has rarely praised his juniors in his life, really put his mind to it and gave it…
“How can being stupid be a compliment? “Then it would be a compliment to say that you are like Professor Verdus!”
“Is… is… the same as that!? “How can you say such insulting words!”
When I was treated in the same way as Zarun of the world, like Professor Verdus, I was so upset that I couldn’t even speak.
For Zarun, who spent most of his time underground and in the mines after entering Einrogard, a junior with a magic tongue that could sometimes defeat even the principal was a very daunting opponent.
-Wodanaz! Let’s depart quickly! The Steel Shoes senior is not threatening you, is he?
“Okay, take this!”
Zaroon was irritated and swiped one of his arms. Then a map was drawn on his skin and he popped out.
It was an amazing level of transformation magic that fooled even the eyes of Yukbelti and other students.
“The location is here, so you can find it later on your own. “I made it clear!”
Zaroon walked away as if he didn’t want to deal with Lee Han anymore. Lee Han, who unexpectedly received the guidance, looked at me in bewilderment.
‘no. ‘Can I pick this up?’
Even if it was Zaroon’s nonsense that he was foolish, he didn’t think his greed was any less than his senior’s greed.
If you go there, it looks like they’ll be locked up in the same vein…
And in some ways, the people who were more dangerous than Orichalcon were the other Einroguard students.
Even if they couldn’t find him, they were able to trap Lee Han in the mineral vein. Even if I had to visit again later, I had to find people I could trust.
“?”
Yukveltyre looked puzzled as Ihan stared at him.
“What is it, a junior from the Wardanaz family? “Do you have anything to say?”
“haha. it’s nothing.”
‘You should never come here with this person.’
* * *
Going back the way they came, the group repeated what they had done.
Students from the Buyeo School of Magic took out artifacts to light up the surroundings and create a path, and Lee Han…
“I will do it so you can rest.”
“????”
When Yukveltyre stopped him, Lee Han was shocked.
In fact, not only Lee Han but other seniors were shocked.
“Senior Yukveltire. “Get your mind right now…”
“My mind is fine. “I can prove it.”
Before anyone could begin to suspect that they had suffered insanity or a mental attack, Yukveltire immediately took out the pendant. He said the blue gem in the pendant proved that the user’s mental state was intact.
“……”
“…All right. Everyone, don’t forget to be careful. “Something is suspicious.”
Anpagon whispered to the two.
Anpagon was mostly uninterested in others, but the story changed a little when the senior who was supposed to lead the students back home was acting crazy.
“I was embarrassed too, but aren’t you just doing that because of what you received from me?”
A human being could have felt a little sorry since he had been treated to a meal and a potion by his junior.
Unlike Professor Verdus, doesn’t senior Yukbeltire have a good friend named Direth?
A wizard who put a warm heart even into a small human-shaped golem!
“Wardanaz. Are you tired? “He’s saying strange things.”
“Don’t overdo it if you have a lot of horsepower, but take a break if you’re tired.”
“……”
When the other two seniors gave him a straight face and told him not to talk nonsense, Lee Han reflected.
‘Well, that’s strange.’
Consideration and kindness for juniors.
It was definitely strange. Lee Han came to his senses and raised his guard a little.
While all three juniors were looking at him suspiciously, Yukbeltire was also observing Lee Han.
‘It is highly likely that the junior of the Wardanaz family does not know about small world magic.’
Considering common sense, there was no possibility that a second year student would take the initiative to enter small world magic.
If so, some action must have made it related to that magic.
I had to find out the identity of the magic through careful and thorough observation.
I wanted to ask questions after explaining it directly, but Yukveltire was patient.
If I was forcibly possessed by that magic, I didn’t know what unexpected things would happen if my junior recognized my identity.
If he was lucky, it would end up as a result of the junior being hit, but in the worst case, the magic could disappear completely and Yukveltyre could no longer observe it.
That was truly terrible. Yukveltire definitely intended to study small world magic.
And in order to do that, it was necessary to deceive the junior to some extent. The junior didn’t notice anything and had to act like normal.
‘If I show kindness to them, they will definitely be moved and invite me often. ‘I will observe in secret.’
‘…Your eyes are like those of a maverick criminal?’
Of course, the junior was already very wary of Yukveltire.
If someone who doesn’t normally show unreasonable kindness is something that won’t be noticed.
“A horde of undead ahead. “More than ten.”
“Let’s get out of the way.”
“Well… no. “It’s Delet.”
“!”
Lee Han raised his head in surprise at Yukbeltyre’s words.
Indeed, from far away, students from the Black Magic School were walking in a huddle.
“Senior Delet!”
“…Junior! “You’re alive!”
Delet shouted in a voice full of relief. Lee Han was slightly taken aback by that voice.
“Are you worried about me? “I moved with the seniors here.”
“I was talking about Yukveltyre. Junior. “I think everyone would have exploded and attacked Yukveltire.”
“……”
Lee Han was deeply moved by the friendship.
Even a golem without a heart can have such a friendly friend.
“I’m so glad. “Nothing happened, right?”
“It’s a bit of a long story.”
‘A lot of things happened.’
Delet felt it right away.
Actually, I had a guess since the transformation magic school students said, ‘There is no Orichalcon’…
Lee Han explained what happened to his respected senior.
And the Orichalkon map…
Direth, who was surprised but still managed to keep his expression, collapsed.
“Standing up, you didn’t tell Yukveltyre, right??”
“under. senior. Do I look that stupid?”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
Delet felt a little sadness as he answered.
A senior who can’t trust his juniors like that…
‘Jukveltire, come to your senses!’
“I plan to go with people I trust later. Is there anyone you can recommend?”
“Um… no.”
“So you’re saying you can’t think of it right now?”
“no. “It just doesn’t exist.”
“…I see, I see.”
Lee Han changed the topic.
“Now that I think about it, senior. “I heard an explanation from Yacha about that small world magic.”
“Hey guy?”
“King Yasha.”
“I didn’t say bastard… eh. That’s not important. Anyway, you heard of small world magic?”
“yes. “I wanted to ask you a few questions…”
“Shall we sing Yukveltire too?”
“I would appreciate it if you could do so.”
Direth called out to Yukbeltyre, who was moving suspiciously behind him (Diret was originally a strange friend, so Direth didn’t pay attention to him).
“Yukveltyre. “I heard my junior has something to ask about magic.”
“You answer me. “I have work to do.”
“Why are you so busy? “I’m just giving you an answer.”
But Yukveltire shook his head.
Now I had to observe my junior. I didn’t know if the clues to the small world magic I saw earlier might appear again.
“joy. “You may regret it later.”
‘It’s a typical Delet threat.’
Yukveltyre lightly ignored it.
What is there to regret about something like that?
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