"Tidak. Tidak semua penyihir memikirkan tentang roh."
Roh tupai itu mengangguk di bahu Yi-Han seolah setuju.
Meskipun tidak seekstrem kepala sekolah tengkorak, penyihir yang sungguh-sungguh tentang roh jauh lebih langka dari yang mungkin dibayangkan.
Meskipun mereka menjadi ramah dengan beberapa roh dan membuat kontrak, mereka tidak akan mempertaruhkan nyawa mereka dan memasuki dalam hutan yang terkontaminasi demi roh.
"Tetapi senior, bagaimana Anda muncul di depan kami...?"
"Aku memiliki ramuan yang sementara waktu menghentikan sihir kepala sekolah."
"!"
"...!!!"
Ketiganya, menjadi siswa dengan nilai alkimia yang sangat baik, segera memahami betapa menakjubkannya apa yang dikatakan senior Ilendil.
Untuk dapat menghentikan sihir kepala sekolah tengkorak, meskipun hanya sebentar.
Pandangan yang sebelumnya melihat Ilendil sebagai 'senior gila' atau 'senior mencurigakan' langsung berubah menjadi pandangan penuh hormat melihat seorang 'senior yang luar biasa'.
"Itu luar biasa!"
"Benar-benar...!"
"Huh?"
Ilendil sendiri bingung mengapa para juniornya bertingkah seperti ini.
"Kenapa?"
"Senior. Maaf, tetapi kami perlu menyelamatkan roh-roh. Sekarang waktunya..."
"Aku akan membantu. Masih ada efek ramuan yang tersisa."
"Uh..."
Yi-Han bertanya-tanya apakah dia benar-benar harus menemani senior yang baru saja dia temui, yang juga pelaku insiden ini dan masih mencurigakan.
Selain itu, dia harus membuat kontrak dengan roh juga…
"Bukankah akan berbahaya bagi Anda, tidak tahu kapan profesor akan kembali?"
"Ya. Hutan dan roh lebih penting daripada aku."
"Sangat keren..."
"Aku harus salah menilai dia. Yi-Han."
Ketika Pendeta Siana dan Yonaire menunjukkan rasa hormat yang bahkan lebih kuat kepada Ilendil daripada sebelumnya, Yi-Han berpikir dalam hatinya.
'Apakah semua orang lupa bahwa orang ini adalah dalang di balik kontaminan?'
Tetapi tidak ada lagi waktu untuk membuang-buang waktu sekarang.
"Aku mengerti. Mari kita pergi."
Bagaimanapun, karena dia adalah senior dan alkemis berkali-kali lebih luar biasa daripada Yi-Han, dia akan membantu.
...Meskipun agak mengkhawatirkan bahwa dia adalah akar penyebab seluruh situasi ini...
***
"Mengapa Anda mencoba membuat roh gelap buatan?"
Sementara siswa biasa akan berbicara tentang makan malam saat berjalan, siswa yang sangat baik dalam alkimia berbicara tentang alkimia bahkan saat berjalan.
Menanggapi pertanyaan Pendeta Siana, Ilendil menjawab dengan suara yang khas lambatnya.
"Ya. Aku ingin menggunakannya sebagai penjaga hutan."
"Penjaga hutan?"
Hutan Einroguard memiliki kekuatan yang mendekati hutan kuno.
Namun, tidak semua hutan di kerajaan bisa seperti itu.
Terutama, salah satu elemen yang membuat hutan rentan adalah elemen gelap.
Sampai-sampai kadang-kadang satu roh gelap yang dipanggil secara tidak sengaja bisa mengontaminasi seluruh hutan yang sangat besar.
Ilendil, yang sedih hati oleh kasus seperti itu, mendekatinya secara terbalik.
Bagaimana jika kami menggunakan roh gelap sebagai penjaga hutan?
"Wow! Benar-benar..."
"Bukankah itu ide gila?"
Pendeta Siana, yang hampir memuji, menjadi malu.
"Bukankah itu ide yang baik?"
"Pendeta Siana. Lihatlah kontaminan di depan kami sekarang."
Di pembicaraan juniornya, Ilendil menjadi murung. Daun yang terhubung dengan rambutnya menunduk seolah layu.
"Akan sangat bagus jika itu berhasil."
'Oups. Dia adalah senior.'
Yi-Han menyadari kesalahannya.
Dia telah membuat kesalahan yang tidak biasanya dilakukan karena dia sedang terburu-buru karena roh-roh.
Bukannya Ilendil adalah senior bagaimanapun?
Jika reputasi buruk Yi-Han tersebar di komunitas di antara senior…
'Bisakah aku menggunakan keluarga Moradi? Itu terlalu banyak. Aku sudah menyebutkan nama dan keluarganya lebih awal.'
"Tidak. Senior. Aku pikir itu adalah upaya yang bermakna."
"Huh? Anda mengatakan itu adalah ide gila."
"Pelopor selalu dilihat sebagai gila di awalnya. Itu adalah ekspresi kekaguman."
"Anda benar-benar orang yang baik."
Daun Ilendil dengan cepat menjadi bahagia.
"Tetapi untuk elemen yang rumit seperti elemen gelap, bukankah akan lebih baik mendapatkan bantuan dari ahli?"
"Apakah Anda akan membantu aku?"
Senior dryad mixed-blood itu menatap Yi-Han.
Yi-Han menjawab dengan cepat tanpa membuang napas.
"Aku merujuk pada senior dari departemen sihir gelap."
"Hmm. Tetapi orang-orang departemen sihir gelap semuanya eksentrik dan menakutkan."
"Pardon?"
Di kata-kata senior, Yi-Han berhenti, berpikir dia mungkin mendengar dengan salah.
"Tunggu. Roh-roh ada di sana."
Ilendil merentangkan jarinya dan mengoreksi arahnya.
"Bisakah Anda merasakan energi roh?"
"Ya. Aku sudah berteman dengan roh sejak kecil."
"..."
Yonaire menggelengkan kepalanya ketika dia melihat urat pada tangan temannya yang memegang staf membengkak.
Apa yang sebenarnya luar biasa tentang roh...!
***
"Kami di sini. Roh-roh berkumpul di sana."
Yi-Han tidak punya pilihan selain mengakui keterampilan senior yang telah sementara waktu mengambil peran pemandu menggantikan Profesor Uregor.
Roh mixed-bloods, di mana kontrak dari generasi sebelumnya terwujud secara kebetulan di generasi kemudian, semuanya memiliki karakteristik yang berbeda.
Beberapa roh mixed-bloods sangat sensitif sehingga akan terkejut melihat Yi-Han, sementara yang lain sangat acuh tak acuh.
Ilendil, yang mengatakan dia dekat dengan roh, pasti memiliki bakat alami dalam hal afinitas.
"Tunggu."
Tiba-tiba, warna kompleksi senior berubah.
"Homunkulus datang ke arah ini."
"!"
Mata Yi-Han berubah.
Tidak seperti kontaminan lainnya, roh gelap buatan yang menjadi penyebab situasi ini adalah cerita yang berbeda.
"Aku akan menahan itu. Kalian ambil roh dan pergi."
Yi-Han, yang akan mengangguk, ragu-ragu.
Jika Ilendil menunjukkan dedikasi di depan roh di sebelah mereka sekarang, bukankah ceritanya akan kembali ke kotak satu?
"Tidak. Aku akan membantu menahan itu juga."
Ilendil mengirim pandangan kepada juniornya yang mengatakan, 'Anda benar-benar orang yang sangat baik.'
"Hmm. Siapa nama Anda?"
"Mora..."
"Dia adalah Wardanaz."
"Yi-Han dari keluarga Wardanaz."
"Ya. Itu benar."
"Yi-Han dari keluarga Wardanaz. Yi-Han dari keluarga Wardanaz. Oke. Aku akan mengingat itu."
Senior dryad mixed-blood itu mengayunkan tongkatnya.
Kemudian, pohon-pohon yang sudah padat menjadi lebih terjerat dan tumbuh, menciptakan dinding yang solid.
Thud!
Roh gelap buatan yang terburu-buru terperangkap dalam penjara kayu.
Namun, roh itu juga tidak boleh dianggap enteng. Ia secara instan mengubah bentuknya dengan bebas dan mulai memeras seluruh tubuhnya melalui celah-celah penjara kayu.
"Kegelapan, berkumpullah di sini!"
Yi-Han merespons segera tanpa kata-kata senior.
Ilendil, yang memerangkap roh dengan kayu, mengangguk pada Yi-Han. Itu persis apa yang perlu dilakukan sekarang.
Terus menyerap elemen gelap dari roh gelap buatan.
Elemen gelap berkumpul di ujung tongkat Yi-Han.
■!
Ketika dagingnya sendiri tercabik-cabik, roh bereaksi sangat sensitif.
Roh, yang telah mencoba menahan elemen gelap dengan kekuatan, didorong kembali oleh Yi-Han dalam hal kontrol dan segera menggunakan metode berbeda.
'Ini adalah...!'
Ketika elemen gelap yang dipadatkan di ujung tongkat mulai berkedip dan meledak keluar, Yi-Han dengan cepat mengeluarkan serpihan tulang dari kantong reagen dan dengan tergesa-gesa mengompresinya.
Beberapa serpihan tulang terbakar, tetapi tidak bisa dihindari.
'!'
Yi-Han mengingat kembali sihir dari grimoire yang diberikan Profesor Bagrak kepadanya.
Metode sihir yang mengompresi elemen gelap dan kemudian meledakkannya dalam bentuk gelombang untuk mempengaruhi sekitarnya.
Dengan elemen lain, itu tidak akan memiliki banyak kekuatan, tetapi karakteristik elemen gelap membuat bahkan serangan tipe gelombang ini fatal.
Penyihir dengan daging hidup akan memiliki vitalitas mereka layu jika langsung terkena elemen gelap ini beberapa kali.
Roh yang berlawanan sekarang secara naluri mencoba menyebabkan fenomena serupa.
"Penyerapan, sulit...?"
Ilendil menghembuskan napas dan mengucapkan kata-kata secara terputus.
Meskipun dia memerangkapnya sambil menggunakan ramuan, konsumsi mana dan stamina adalah lelucon yang tidak ringan.
Yonaire dan Pendeta Siana juga membantu di sebelahnya, tetapi mereka sudah bersikap keringat dingin.
Yi-Han secara naluri tahu bahwa jika dia mundur dalam situasi ini, segala sesuatu akan menjadi lebih rumit.
'Jika sampai pada itu, aku harus menghadapinya dengan sihir.'
adalah sesuatu yang bahkan belum pernah dia latih dan telah ditunda, tetapi dalam situasi seperti ini, dia tidak punya pilihan selain mencobanya dengan apa yang telah dibacanya.
Dengan ketololan yang akan membuat Direth memejamkan mata dengan erat jika dia berada di sebelahnya, Yi-Han mengayunkan tongkatnya.
"Kegelapan, berkumpullah di sini!"
Elemen gelap berkumpul sekali lagi.
Kali ini, roh, telah mengalaminya, bereaksi bahkan lebih cepat.
Ketika elemen gelap segera mulai berkedip dan meledak keluar, tidak ada waktu untuk memerangkapnya dalam reagen.
Yi-Han mengucapkan sihir sesuai dengan yang telah dibacanya dalam grimoire.
"Kegelapan, sapuh pergi!"
Gelombang kegelapan beriak dan melewati udara di atas kepalanya. Yi-Han telah merapalnya terlebih dahulu sebelum lawan bisa meledakkannya, mengonsumsinya.
Ilendil bertanya lagi dalam kebingungan.
"Sebelumnya, mengapa...?"
"Itu adalah sihir yang aku gunakan untuk pertama kali, jadi tidak bisa dihindari!"
"Apa?"
Yi-Han tidak bisa menjelaskan lebih lanjut kepada Ilendil.
Roh, menyadari bahwa dia tidak mungkin dapat mengikuti mage yang berlawanan dalam hal elemen gelap, mengubah metodenya sekali lagi.
Rumput dan cabang digabungkan dengan elemen gelap dan naik seperti boneka.
Pada pemandangan itu, Ilendil mengeluarkan teriakan penuh rasa sakit.
"Bajingan itu!"
"Tangan, robek musuh saya!"
Tanpa waktu untuk bahkan mengeluarkan Morning Star saat musuh menempel padanya, Yi-Han hampir merapal mantra.
Mantra pertarungan dekat kepala sekolah tengkorak, .
Tidak seperti sihir lainnya, dia telah bertanya-tanya kapan dia akan menggunakan jenis sihir ini
Chapter 552
"No. Not all mages think about spirits."
The squirrel spirit nodded its head on Yi-Han's shoulder as if agreeing.
Even if not as extreme as the skull principal, mages who were sincere about spirits were rarer than one might think.
Even if they became friendly with some spirits and made contracts, they wouldn't risk their lives and enter deep into a contaminated forest for the sake of spirits.
"But senior, how did you appear in front of us...?"
"I have a potion that temporarily stops the principal's magic."
"!"
"...!!!"
All three of them, being students with excellent alchemy grades, immediately understood how amazing what senior Ilendil was saying.
To be able to stop the skull principal's magic, even if only for a moment.
The gaze that had been looking at Ilendil as a 'crazy senior' or 'suspicious senior' until just now immediately changed to a respectful gaze looking at an 'amazing senior'.
"That's incredible!"
"Truly...!"
"Huh?"
Ilendil herself was puzzled as to why the juniors were acting like this.
"Why?"
"Senior. I'm sorry, but we need to save the spirits. Right now, time is..."
"I'll help. There's still some potion effect left."
"Uh..."
Yi-Han wondered if he really had to accompany a senior he was meeting for the first time, who was also the culprit of this incident and still suspicious.
Moreover, he had to make contracts with spirits too…
"Wouldn't it be dangerous for you, not knowing when the professor will return?"
"Yeah. The forest and spirits are more important than me."
"So cool..."
"I must have misjudged her. Yi-Han."
When Priestess Siana and Yonaire showed even stronger respect to Ilendil than before, Yi-Han thought to himself.
'Did everyone forget that this person is the culprit behind the contaminants?'
But there was no more time to waste now.
"I understand. Let's go."
Anyway, since she was a senior and an alchemist several times more outstanding than Yi-Han, she would be of help.
...Although it was a bit concerning that she was the root cause of this whole situation...
***
"Why did you try to create an artificial dark spirit?"
While ordinary students would talk about dinner while walking, students excellent in alchemy talked about alchemy even while walking.
In response to Priestess Siana's question, Ilendil answered in her characteristically slow voice.
"Yeah. I wanted to use it as a forest guardian."
"A forest guardian?"
The forests of Einroguard had a powerful force close to that of an ancient forest.
However, not all forests in the empire could be like that.
Especially, one of the elements that forests were vulnerable to was the dark element.
To the point where sometimes a single dark spirit being summoned by mistake could contaminate an entire huge forest.
Ilendil, who was heartbroken by such cases, approached it in reverse.
What if we used dark spirits as forest guardians?
"Wow! Really..."
"Isn't that a crazy idea?"
Priestess Siana, who was about to admire Yi-Han's muttering, became embarrassed.
"Isn't it a good idea?"
"Priestess Siana. Look at the contaminants in front of us now."
At the juniors' conversation, Ilendil became gloomy. The leaves connected to her hair drooped as if wilted.
"It would have been nice if it had succeeded."
'Oops. She's a senior.'
Yi-Han realized his mistake.
He had made a mistake he wouldn't normally make because he was in a hurry due to the spirits.
Wasn't Ilendil a senior after all?
If Yi-Han's bad reputation spread in the community among seniors…
'Can I use the Moradi family? That's too much. I already mentioned her name and family earlier.'
"No. Senior. I think it was a meaningful attempt."
"Huh? You said it was a crazy idea."
"Pioneers are always seen as crazy at first. It was an expression of admiration."
"You're really a kind person."
Ilendil's leaves quickly became happy.
"But for a tricky element like dark element, wouldn't it be better to get help from experts?"
"Will you help me?"
The dryad mixed-blood senior stared at Yi-Han.
Yi-Han answered quickly without even breathing.
"I was referring to the seniors of the dark magic department."
"Hmm. But the dark magic department people are all eccentric and scary."
"Pardon?"
At the senior's words, Yi-Han paused, thinking he might have heard wrong.
"Wait. The spirits are over there."
Ilendil stretched out her finger and corrected the direction.
"Can you sense the spirits' energy?"
"Yeah. I've been friends with spirits since I was young."
"..."
Yonaire shook her head when she saw the veins bulging on her friend's hand holding the staff.
What the hell was so great about spirits...!
***
"We're here. The spirits are gathered over there."
Yi-Han had no choice but to acknowledge the skill of the senior who had temporarily taken on the role of guide in place of Professor Uregor.
Spirit mixed-bloods, in whom a contract from a previous generation manifested by chance in later generations, all had different characteristics.
Some spirit mixed-bloods were so sensitive that they would be startled to see Yi-Han, while others were so indifferent.
Ilendil, who said she was close to spirits, must have been naturally gifted in terms of affinity.
"Wait."
Suddenly, the senior's complexion changed.
"The homunculus is coming this way."
"!"
Yi-Han's eyes changed.
Unlike the other contaminants, the artificial dark spirit that was the cause of the situation was a different story.
"I'll block it. You guys take the spirits and go."
Yi-Han, who was about to nod, hesitated.
If Ilendil showed her dedication in front of the spirits next to them now, wouldn't the story go back to square one?
"No. I'll help block it too."
Ilendil sent a gaze to her junior that said, 'You're really a truly kind person.'
"Hmm. What did you say your name was?"
"Mora..."
"He's Wardanaz."
"Yi-Han of the Wardanaz family."
"Yes. That's right."
"Yi-Han of the Wardanaz family. Yi-Han of the Wardanaz family. Okay. I'll remember that."
The dryad mixed-blood senior swung her staff.
Then, the already dense trees became even more entangled and grew, creating a solid wall.
Thud!
The rushing artificial dark spirit was trapped in the wooden prison.
However, the spirit was not to be taken lightly either. It instantly changed its form freely and began to squeeze its entire body through the gaps in the wooden prison.
"Darkness, gather here!"
Yi-Han responded immediately without the senior's words.
Ilendil, who was trapping the spirit with wood, nodded at Yi-Han. It was exactly what needed to be done right now.
Continuously absorbing dark elements from the artificial dark spirit.
Dark elements gathered at the tip of Yi-Han's staff.
■!
When its own flesh was torn away, the spirit reacted very sensitively.
The spirit, which had been trying to hold onto the dark elements with force, was pushed back by Yi-Han in terms of control and immediately used a different method.
'This is...!'
When the compressed dark elements at the tip of the staff began to flicker and burst out, Yi-Han quickly took out a bone fragment from his reagent pouch and hastily compressed it.
Some bone fragments were burned, but it couldn't be helped.
'!'
Yi-Han recalled the magic from the grimoire Professor Bagrak had given him.
A method of magic that compressed dark elements and then burst them in the form of waves to affect the surroundings.
With other elements, it wouldn't have much power, but the characteristics of dark elements made even this wave-type attack fatal.
Mages with living flesh would have their vitality wither away if they were directly hit by this dark element a few times.
The opposing spirit was now instinctively trying to cause a similar phenomenon.
"Absorption, difficult...?"
Ilendil exhaled and uttered words in fragments.
Although he was trapping it while using potions, the magic was so large-scale that the consumption of mana and stamina was no joke.
Yonaire and Priestess Siana were also helping beside her, but they were already sweating cold sweat.
Yi-Han instinctively knew that if he backed down in this situation, things would get even more complicated.
'If it comes to it, I'll have to deal with it with magic.'
was something he hadn't even practiced yet and had been putting off, but in a situation like this, he had no choice but to try it with what he had read.
With a recklessness that would have made Direth close her eyes tightly if she were next to him, Yi-Han swung his staff.
"Darkness, gather here!"
Dark elements gathered once again.
This time, the spirit, having experienced it, reacted even faster.
When the dark elements immediately began to flicker and burst out, there was no time to trap them in a reagent.
Yi-Han cast as he had read in the grimoire.
"Darkness, sweep away!"
A wave of darkness rippled and passed through the air above his head. Yi-Han had cast it first before the opponent could detonate it, consuming it.
Ilendil asked again in puzzlement.
"Earlier, why...?"
"It was a magic I was using for the first time, so it couldn't be helped!"
"What?"
Yi-Han couldn't explain further to Ilendil.
The spirit, realizing that it couldn't possibly keep up with the opposing mage in terms of dark elements, changed its method once again.
Grass and branches combined with dark elements and rose up like puppets.
At that sight, Ilendil let out a scream filled with pain.
"You bastard!"
"Hand, tear my enemy apart!"
With no time to even draw the Morning Star as the enemy clung to him, Yi-Han barely chanted a spell.
The skull principal's close combat spell, .
Unlike other magic, he had wondered when he would use this kind of magic...!
Slash!
"Flash forth!"
He slashed with one hand and swung his staff with the other to chant a spell, but the numbers and momentum were not trivial.
If it turned into a melee like this, the mage would always be at a disadvantage.
"Flash forth!"
The moment lightning formed, another grass puppet rushed in. Yi-Han forcibly fixed the lightning at the end and thrust his staff like a spear.
If he had just a moment's gap, he could mobilize all his summons to buy time, but there was no such gap.
If only he had a moment's gap!
Crackle crackle!
As if responding to Yi-Han's wish, the lightning element condensed at the tip of the staff swelled even more and covered the staff.
Yi-Han himself was too busy dealing with the enemies approaching from the opposite side and staring at the spirit trapped in the wooden prison to notice the change.
He only realized the change when he noticed that all the enemies around the hand holding the staff had collapsed.
"...?"
Yi-Han was startled for a moment when he realized that the staff had transformed into a spear of lightning.
'Wait. How did I do this?'
Apparently, he had used the staff as a wick and fixed the lightning element in the form of a blazing spear.
He could tell at a glance since Professor Bagrak had talked so much about fixing the lightning element form.
However, what was puzzling was that he himself couldn't remember how he did it.
He had done it instinctively in such an urgent situation…
'This is not the time!'
Yi-Han immediately summoned Sharakan and the skeleton warriors.
The summons blocked the grass puppets that had been pushed back by the lightning spear. Yi-Han took that opportunity and ran with the lightning spear.
■!
The spirit trapped between the wooden prisons screamed in terror as if realizing its fate.
Crackle crackle crackle!
Unlike the shock of lightning being fired and penetrating through, the power of lightning condensed and fixed was sharp and fierce.
Moreover, it didn't disappear and continuously burned the spirit.
Yi-Han pulled out the spear and thrust it in again.
Crackle crackle crackle!
Yi-Han intended to keep stabbing the spear until the opponent was unsummoned.
Of course, since it was created by Einroguard's seniors, it wouldn't be unsummoned easily like a typical spirit.
But it didn't matter.
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