Published at 29th of November 2024 9:33 am

Chapter 597

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Come to think of it, for a student like Wardanaz, it would naturally feel like casting magic a bit more strongly when magic didn't work.

"Artifact."

"Here it is."

A senior quickly took out an artifact and handed it over to Professor Alkasis's hand. It was an artifact that looked like an iron rod.

The professor skillfully inserted the artifact into the giant's nostril like a hook.

"When healing someone with strong anti-magic, you have to be able to directly hammer magic into their body like this."

-Ugh, my nose, my nose hurts.-

"Endure it. It's part of the healing process."

-Mage. This mage is scary.-

The giant made a tearful face while looking at Yi-Han, but Yi-Han was also afraid of Professor Alkasis. There was nothing he could do to help.

"Then check the condition and... It's a concussion. Phil. What's the recipe for a concussion potion?"

"Th-three stalks of camellia and one stalk of mouse-ear hawkweed, cast a compression spell, and boil for thirty minutes. Then when the color turns black..."

Professor Alkasis reached out her hand.

At that gesture, Phil felt like his heart sank, thinking he had made a mistake.

"Write it down on paper so the junior can see it too. Phil. Do I still have to tell you this one by one?"

'The junior is a 1st-year student though...'

Phil felt a little wronged.

No one would have expected to have to teach a 1st-year junior the recipe for a concussion potion.

In fact, others were also murmuring.

"Why is she teaching a 1st-year student the recipe for a concussion potion...?"

"Ah. Could that be him? That Wardanaz?"

"I thought he was an imaginary junior made up by Senior Phil and Chil because they were so miserable."

Ignoring the students' chatter, Professor Alkasis poured the potion into the giant's mouth.

The giant, who had been blinking his eyes in pain from his nose, was startled and shouted.

-I'm cured! I'm not dizzy anymore!-

"That's good. Now. As you just saw, giants are..."

Bang!

As soon as she finished speaking, another giant newly entered through the lecture hall wall that had just been restored.

Seeing that, Professor Alkasis spoke cynically.

"It would be better to go outside. Everyone, go outside."

"How many giants are there?"

"There shouldn't be more, right?"

The healing magic students moved their feet anxiously.

Now they didn't even hope to finish the final exam easily, they just wished it would end at a reasonable level.

***

Outside, a battle that felt like the end of the world was unfolding.

An uncompromising close combat between the giants and the blood-sucking monster.

The warriors with huge bodies poured attacks at each other without giving an inch.

-Kraaaah!-

-Uoooaah!-

The giants roared their unique battle cries and swung their clubs. Each time they were hit, the blood-sucking monster's body was pushed back and burst.

However, the blood-sucking monster was no pushover either. Even while being beaten up, it stored up strength and somehow returned a blow to the giants each time.

The giants didn't defend at all. Especially since they had never been hit by someone bigger than themselves, the blood-sucking monster's attacks gave the giants an even deeper shock.

-My pride is hurt!!-

-Uooo! Uooo!!-

The giants staggered and grabbed their noses, which were dripping with blood.

At that moment, Yi-Han ran over with the recovered giants.

"Those who are injured, please fall back!"

-I, I'm not injured though?-

"Don't talk nonsense and fall back!"

Professor Alkasis shouted savagely in an irritated voice.

One of the types this dark elf professor hated the most was a patient who insisted they weren't injured when they were.

-I'm really not inju... Uaaack!-

Suddenly, as if someone had grabbed the giant's ankle, the giant fell forward and was dragged right in front of the professor.

"Take care of it."

"Yes!"

The healing magic students, who knew well that the professor's mood would rapidly worsen as the number of patients increased, moved quickly instead of babbling unnecessarily.

"Now. Mr. Giant. Please trust us."

-Ugh. I can't trust you! Mages are all evil! Mage! Mage! Hold my hand!-

"..."

"..."

Yi-Han sincerely thought it was fortunate that his seniors couldn't see him right now.

'It's so damn embarrassing.'

"...I'm here."

-Ugh. That's a relief.-

Phil hurriedly started explaining, worried that other friends might misunderstand the junior.

"The junior has good affinity, that's why."

"Even, even if he has good affinity, how can he get so close to a giant...?"

Even the healing magic school students who had seen a lot of things while attending Einroguard had never seen someone get friendly with a giant.

"Why not! It's your way of thinking that's narrow. That... that... that... Ilendil! Someone like Ilendil also has good affinity and has many friends in the forest!"

"Even that Ilendil doesn't have a giant friend, right?"

The one who saved Phil, who was cornered, was Professor Alkasis.

A sharp surgical dagger flew in front of the chattering students and stuck.

"Is time rotting away?"

"N-no!"

At the professor's words filled with murderous intent, the students quickly started healing the giant.

Yi-Han also diligently healed the giant's stab wounds.

"??"

The seniors were startled and looked at Yi-Han, but their gazes were not conveyed due to being invisible.

'Why is he doing this?'

'We-well...'

The seniors were working because the final exam had been replaced with healing giants, but they couldn't understand well why this 1st-year junior was doing this in a situation where he should run away.

Moreover, he was also good at healing magic. Seeing him successfully cast healing magic on a giant without any additional preparation, it felt like what Phil and Chil had said was not a lie.

"Is this also his final exam?"

"No matter how crazy Professor Lagrinde is, using giant healing as a 1st-year final exam... Hmm... Maybe not?"

-What on earth is going on!-

The death knights who arrived late were startled to see the transformed appearance of the blood-sucking monster.

It was rare to see a monster go berserk to this extent.

To think that a monster that acted cunningly according to its instincts would go berserk like this?

"That... It's a long story."

-Let's hear it later. For now, stop the thing!-

The death knights made the students step back and started throwing spears.

Each time a spear imbued with strong negative energy was stuck, the blood-sucking monster screamed in pain, stopped moving, and flinched.

-Giants! Fall back!-

-No! It's our prey!-

The death knights didn't get angry at all at the giants' opposition.

Like a skilled and experienced knight, they shouted again.

-Giants! We need your help! Please advance backward!-

The giants were tricked by the death knights' words and advanced backward. Yi-Han admired them.

'They're a step above me!'

As expected of those who had been knights for a long time, they were not ordinarily clever.

To think they could trick the giants like that.

-It seems to have gathered quite a lot of blood. It's no ordinary stamina.-

-This will take quite a while.-

The death knights clicked their tongues, looking at the blood-sucking monster whose movements had slowed down.

Since the thing had such tenacious basic vitality, it took a considerable amount of time to whittle it down even by pouring attacks from the outside.

"Is it that powerful?"

-Actually, once it goes berserk like that, exterminating it itself isn't very difficult. You just have to make it unable to move and leave it alone.-

The weakness of a monster that went berserk like that was itself.

From the moment it swelled up its body like that, it had been constantly consuming energy, so if left alone, it would self-destruct.

-So just attack it enough to make it unable to move and wait.-

-Would you like to try it too, Wardanaz? Fighting such a monster would be a good experience.-

'I've already fought it plenty.'

Yi-Han wanted to decline if it were up to him, but when the death knights looked at him with such expectant eyes, it became difficult to do so.

It was like the gaze of a grandfather waiting expectantly for his grandson's cute behavior.

"Hmm. Should I try attacking with lightning magic?"

-That's not bad either. But since you have an interesting artifact, how about utilizing that? I'm talking about the space-moving ore.-

-Sounds like a good idea.-

"...?"

Yi-Han was startled by the death knights' reaction.

"I don't have anything like space-moving ore though?"

-Hmm?-

-Hmm. That. The thing stuck at the end of your staff.-

Yi-Han looked at his own staff.

A tree spirit dwelled in it to solidify the frame, and at the end, a blue gemstone given by the King of Frost Giants was embedded, and next to it…

"!?!"

Yi-Han was so startled by the ore he saw for the first time that he almost dropped his staff.

"What is this?!"

-...We-well, it seems like we shouldn't ask you that.-

-If you don't know...-

While the death knights were dumbfounded, Yi-Han quickly retraced his memory.

Only then did something come to mind.

'That's it!'

It must have been when he was forcibly awakened by drinking the spring water of divination and became entangled in the future.

He had defeated a mage statue that used space magic and received an ore from the statue…

It was clearly in Yi-Han's memory, but until he recalled it just now, he couldn't remember it at all as if he had forgotten about it.

'Perfectly foreseeing the future is also dangerous.'

"I'm sorry. I remembered. It was space-moving ore."

At Yi-Han's answer, the death knights gave him a pitiful look.

-Does your master make it very difficult for you?-

-No matter what, forgetting even the gem you embedded in your own staff is a bit too much.-

"No, this has nothing to do with the principal..."

-Now. Try it once. Space magic often becomes a secret weapon against such tenacious and sturdy monsters.-

The death knights, rich in combat experience, shared their experiences of working with mages who knew space magic when they were alive.

Mages who could use space magic were rare and had many limitations, but when used appropriately, their power was very strong.

-Don't think of it as just the weight of a small pebble. Even if you can only teleport a single small pebble, there are countless ways to utilize it. Try moving this deeply.-

The death knight took out a poison bottle hidden in his rib and handed it to Yi-Han.

The space-moving ore embedded in Yi-Han's staff could only move about the weight of a small pebble at most, but magic could always be applied.

"I understand....Disappear!"

Yi-Han nodded and chanted a spell, concentrating his mind on the ore.

At that moment, as an enormous amount of mana evaporated, the ore completed the teleportation magic. The poison bottle was moved deep into the blood-sucking monster's body.

-But isn't the mana consumption of space magic too severe? Even if you borrow the power of an artifact, wouldn't it be dangerous...?-

A relatively young death knight spoke cautiously, and the other death knights laughed and answered.

-That level is nothing for Wardanaz. In fact, he's doing fine, isn't he?-

-He cast it so boldly because he's confident himself.-

"...I didn't know though."

Yi-Han's expression turned serious.

Shouldn't they usually tell him this before using it?

It seemed that since they were death knights, not death mages, they lacked safety common sense regarding magic.

-...Really?-

-Well... Hmm... Indeed... He's still a 1st-year...-

-Ah. Look, the monster is suffering over there! The poison seems to be very effective!-

The death knights changed the subject, pointing ahead. Yi-Han moved, glaring at the back of the skulls.

-■■■■■!-

Whatever poison they fed it, the blood-sucking monster's form collapsed and scattered to the side like a pile of mud after a flood.

Seeing that, the death knights screamed.

-No!-

-Die obediently, you monster! Leave the area around the main gate alone!-

The main gate of Einroguard was a place where visitors from outside also came and went, so it had to be repaired immediately if it was destroyed.

They had just paved the road and decorated it nicely with statues!

However, despite such screams, the blood-sucking monster thrashed about and swept away the statue decoration parks next to the main gate. The death knights burst into tears, filled with sorrow.

"Umm, death knights?"

-Sob sob... Why are you calling, Wardanaz?-

"By any chance, was there a living person among the statues?"

-What nonsense are you talking about? That would be a big deal....Don't tell me any of you turned a living person into a statue?-

-N-no! Probably not!-

-I don't think I did. Probably!-

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