Kalau dipikir-pikir, bagi siswa seperti Wardanaz, wajar saja jika terasa seperti merapal sihir sedikit lebih kuat ketika sihir tidak bekerja.
"Artefak."
"Ini dia."
Seorang senior dengan cepat mengeluarkan artefak dan menyerahkannya ke tangan Profesor Alkasis. Artefak itu tampak seperti batang besi.
Profesor dengan terampil memasukkan artefak itu ke dalam lubang hidung raksasa seperti kail.
"Saat menyembuhkan seseorang dengan anti-sihir yang kuat, kau harus bisa langsung menghantamkan sihir ke dalam tubuh mereka seperti ini."
-Ugh, hidungku, hidungku sakit.-
"Tahanlah. Ini bagian dari proses penyembuhan."
-Mage. Mage ini menyeramkan.-
Raksasa itu memasang wajah ingin menangis sambil menatap Yi-Han, tetapi Yi-Han juga takut pada Profesor Alkasis. Tidak ada yang bisa dia lakukan untuk membantu.
"Lalu periksa kondisinya dan... Ini gegar otak. Phil. Apa resep ramuan gegar otak?"
"Ti-tiga batang kamelia dan satu batang daun tikus hawkweed, rapallah mantra kompresi, dan rebus selama tiga puluh menit. Lalu ketika warnanya berubah hitam..."
Profesor Alkasis mengulurkan tangannya.
Melihat gestur itu, Phil merasa jantungnya tenggelam, mengira dia membuat kesalahan.
"Tulis di kertas agar juniormu juga bisa melihat. Phil. Apakah aku masih harus memberitahumu ini satu per satu?"
'Juniornya siswa tahun pertama lho...'
Phil merasa sedikit diperlakukan tidak adil.
Tak ada yang mengira harus mengajari junior tahun pertama resep ramuan gegar otak.
Bahkan, yang lain juga bergumam.
"Kenapa dia mengajari siswa tahun pertama resep ramuan gegar otak...?"
"Ah. Jangan-jangan itu dia? Wardanaz itu?"
"Aku kira dia junior imajiner yang dibuat Senior Phil dan Chil karena mereka sangat menyedihkan."
Mengabaikan obrolan para siswa, Profesor Alkasis menuangkan ramuan ke dalam mulut raksasa.
Raksasa yang sejak tadi berkedip kesakitan karena hidungnya, terkejut dan berteriak.
-Aku sembuh! Aku tidak pusing lagi!-
"Bagus. Sekarang. Seperti yang baru saja kalian lihat, para raksasa adalah..."
Duk!
Segera setelah dia selesai bicara, raksasa lain yang baru masuk melalui dinding ruang kuliah yang baru saja diperbaiki.
Melihat itu, Profesor Alkasis berbicara dengan sinis.
"Lebih baik keluar. Semuanya, keluar."
"Ada berapa banyak raksasa sih?"
"Seharusnya tidak ada lagi, kan?"
Para siswa sihir penyembuhan memindahkan kaki mereka dengan cemas.
Sekarang mereka bahkan tidak berharap menyelesaikan ujian akhir dengan mudah, mereka hanya berharap akan berakhir di tingkat yang wajar.
***
Di luar, pertempuran yang terasa seperti akhir dunia sedang berlangsung.
Pertarungan jarak dekat tanpa kompromi antara para raksasa dan monster pengisap darah.
Para pejuang dengan tubuh besar saling menuangkan serangan tanpa mundur seinci pun.
-Kraaaah!-
-Uoooaah!-
Para raksasa meraung dengan teriakan perang khas mereka dan mengayunkan pentungan. Setiap kali terkena, tubuh monster pengisap darah terdorong ke belakang dan meledak.
Namun, monster pengisap darah juga bukan lawan yang mudah. Bahkan saat dipukuli, ia menyimpan kekuatan dan entah bagaimana mengembalikan pukulan ke para raksasa setiap kali.
Para raksasa sama sekali tidak bertahan. Terutama karena mereka tidak pernah dipukul oleh seseorang yang lebih besar dari diri mereka sendiri, serangan monster pengisap darah memberikan kejutan yang lebih dalam kepada para raksasa.
-Kebanggaanku terluka!!-
-Uooo! Uooo!!-
Para raksasa terhuyung-huyung dan memegang hidung mereka, yang meneteskan darah.
Pada saat itu, Yi-Han berlari dengan para raksasa yang sudah pulih.
"Mereka yang terluka, tolong mundur!"
-A-aku tidak terluka?-
"Jangan bicara omong kosong dan mundur!"
Profesor Alkasis berteriak dengan kasar dengan suara jengkel.
Salah satu tipe yang paling dibenci profesor dark elf ini adalah pasien yang bersikeras mereka tidak terluka padahal mereka terluka.
-Aku benar-benar tidak terlu... Uaaack!-
Tiba-tiba, seolah-olah seseorang telah mencengkeram pergelangan kaki raksasa, raksasa itu jatuh ke depan dan diseret tepat di depan profesor.
"Urus ini."
"Baik!"
Para siswa sihir penyembuhan, yang tahu betul bahwa suasana hati profesor akan memburuk dengan cepat seiring bertambahnya jumlah pasien, bergerak cepat alih-alih bergumam tidak perlu.
"Sekarang. Tuan Raksasa. Tolong percayai kami."
-Ugh. Aku tidak bisa mempercayai kalian! Semua mage itu jahat! Mage! Mage! Pegang tanganku!-
"..."
"..."
Yi-Han dengan tulus berpikir untung para seniornya tidak bisa melihatnya sekarang.
'Ini sangat memalukan.'
"...Aku di sini."
-Ugh. Syukurlah.-
Phil tergesa-gesa mulai menjelaskan, khawatir teman-teman lain mungkin salah paham terhadap juniornya.
"Juniornya memiliki afinitas yang baik, makanya."
"Ba-bahkan jika dia memiliki afinitas yang baik, bagaimana bisa dia begitu dekat dengan raksasa...?"
Bahkan para siswa sekolah sihir penyembuhan yang sudah melihat banyak hal saat menghadiri Einroguard tidak pernah melihat seseorang akrab dengan raksasa.
"Kenapa tidak! Cara berpikirmu yang sempit. Itu... itu... itu... Ilendil! Seseorang seperti Ilendil juga memiliki afinitas yang baik dan memiliki banyak teman di hutan!"
"Bahkan Ilendil itu tidak punya teman raksasa, kan?"
Yang menyelamatkan Phil, yang terpojok, adalah Profesor Alkasis.
Pisau bedah tajam terbang di depan para siswa yang mengobrol dan menancap.
"Apakah waktunya membusuk?"
"Ti-tidak!"
Pada kata-kata profesor yang penuh niat membunuh, para siswa dengan cepat mulai menyembuhkan raksasa.
Yi-Han juga dengan rajin menyembuhkan luka tusukan raksasa.
"??"
Para senior terkejut dan menatap Yi-Han, tetapi tatapan mereka tidak tersampaikan karena tidak terlihat.
'Kenapa dia melakukan ini?'
'Ya-yah...'
Para senior bekerja karena ujian akhir telah diganti dengan menyembuhkan raksasa, tetapi mereka tidak bisa memahami dengan baik mengapa junior tahun pertama ini melakukan ini dalam situasi di mana dia seharusnya lari.
Lebih dari itu, dia juga mahir dalam sihir penyembuhan. Melihatnya berhasil merapal sihir penyembuhan pada raksasa tanpa persiapan tambahan apa pun, terasa seperti apa yang Phil dan Chil katakan bukan bohong.
"Apakah ini juga ujian akhirnya?"
"Tidak peduli seberapa gilanya Profesor Lagrinde, menggunakan penyembuhan raksasa sebagai ujian akhir tahun pertama... Hmm... Mungkin tidak?"
-Apa yang sebenarnya terjadi!-
Para ksatria kematian yang tiba terlambat terkejut melihat penampilan monster pengisap darah yang berubah.
Jarang sekali melihat monster mengamuk sejauh ini.
Siapa sangka monster yang bertindak licik sesuai dengan nalurinya akan mengamuk seperti ini?
"Itu... Ceritanya panjang."
-Mari kita dengar nanti. Untuk sekarang, hentikan benda itu!-
Para ksatria kematian membuat para siswa mundur dan mulai melempar tombak.
Setiap kali tombak yang dipenuhi energi negatif kuat tertancap, monster pengisap darah menjerit kesakitan, berhenti bergerak, dan tersentak.
-Raksasa! Mundur!-
-Tidak! Ini mangsa kami!-
Para ksatria kematian sama sekali tidak marah pada penolakan para raksasa.
Seperti ksatria yang terampil dan berpengalaman, mereka berteriak lagi.
-Raksasa! Kami membutuhkan bantuan kalian! Tolong maju ke belakang!-
Para raksasa tertipu oleh kata-kata para ksatria kematian dan maju ke belakang. Yi-Han mengagumi mereka.
'Mereka selangkah di atasku!'
Memang seperti yang diharapkan dari mereka yang sudah lama menjadi ksatria, mereka tidak biasa pintarnya.
Siapa sangka mereka bisa menipu para raksasa seperti itu.
-Sepertinya sudah mengumpulkan cukup banyak darah. Ini bukan stamina biasa.-
-Ini akan memakan waktu cukup lama.-
Para ksatria kematian berdecak lidah, menatap monster pengisap darah yang gerakannya melambat.
Karena benda itu memiliki vitalitas dasar yang begitu ulet, dibutuhkan waktu yang cukup lama untuk menghabisinya bahkan dengan menuangkan serangan dari luar.
"Apakah dia sekuat itu?"
-Sebenarnya, begitu dia mengamuk seperti itu, memusnahkannya sendiri tidak terlalu sulit. Kau hanya harus membuatnya tidak bisa bergerak dan membiarkannya saja.-
Kelemahan monster yang mengamuk seperti itu adalah dirinya sendiri.
Dari saat ia membengkakkan tubuhnya seperti itu, ia terus-menerus mengonsumsi energi, jadi jika dibiarkan saja, ia akan menghancurkan diri sendiri.
-Jadi serang saja cukup untuk membuatnya tidak bisa bergerak dan tunggu.-
-Apakah kau ingin mencobanya juga, Wardanaz? Melawan monster seperti itu akan menjadi pengalaman yang baik.-
'Aku sudah cukup melawannya.'
Yi-Han ingin menolak jika terserah padanya, tetapi ketika para ksatria kematian menatapnya dengan mata yang begitu penuh harap, menjadi sulit untuk melakukannya.
Itu seperti tatapan seorang kakek yang menunggu dengan penuh harap perilaku lucu cucunya.
"Hmm. Haruskah aku mencoba menyerang dengan sihir petir?"
-Itu juga tidak buruk. Tapi karena kau memiliki artefak yang menarik, bagaimana kalau memanfaatkan itu? Aku berbicara tentang bijih pemindahan ruang.-
-Kedengarannya ide bagus.-
"...?"
Yi-Han terkejut oleh reaksi para ksatria kematian.
"Aku tidak punya sesuatu seperti bijih pemindahan ruang?"
-Hmm?-
-Hmm. Itu. Benda yang menempel di ujung tongkatmu.-
Yi-Han melihat tongkatnya sendiri.
Roh pohon bersemayam di dalamnya untuk memperkuat rangka, dan di ujungnya, batu permata biru yang diberikan oleh Raja Raksasa Es tertanam, dan di sampingnya...
"!?!"
Yi-Han sangat terkejut oleh bijih yang dilihatnya untuk pertama kali sehingga dia hampir menjatuhkan tongkatnya.
"Apa ini?!"
-...Ya-yah, sepertinya kami tidak seharusnya menanyakan itu kepadamu.-
-Jika kau tidak tahu...-
Sementara para ksatria kematian bingung, Yi-Han dengan cepat menelusuri kembali ingatannya.
Baru kemudian sesuatu muncul dalam pikiran.
'Itu dia!'
Pasti saat dia dipaksa terbangun dengan meminum mata air ramalan dan terjerat dalam masa depan.
Dia telah mengalahkan patung mage yang menggunakan sihir ruang dan menerima bijih dari patung itu...
Itu jelas ada dalam ingatan Yi-Han, tetapi sampai dia mengingatnya baru saja, dia sama sekali tidak bisa mengingatnya seolah-olah dia lupa tentang itu.
'Meramal masa depan dengan sempurna juga berbahaya.'
"Maaf
Chapter 597
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!-
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