Chapter 272

Chapter 272

Chapter 272

Fortunately, the incident didn't lead to a fire. Thanks to Yi-Han's quick action, the students had time to close the windows and hurriedly extinguish the flames.

"My... my assignment..."

"When I return to the mansion, I'm throwing away all the phoenix fairy tale books!"

The bewildered students exhaled heavily and glanced out the window.

The phoenix flapped its wings, looking at them as if wondering what was wrong.

Tap tap!

"Why is it doing that? Why is it behaving like that!"

"Isn't it asking us to open the window? It's pointing at the window!"

"In, in the fairy tales, didn't the mage who granted the phoenix's request receive a great reward?"

"Don't you dare open it!"

At Gainando's words, his friends shouted with a growl.

Being fooled twice was one thing, but being fooled a third time meant they weren't qualified to be mages.

...

Suddenly, the phoenix began to sing. Rather than singing, it was closer to a melodious cry.

The phoenix's song even quelled the anger of the student whose assignment had just been burned.

"...Wouldn't it be okay to open it?"

Smack!

"Ah!"

"Get a grip."

Yi-Han struck his friend's solar plexus with his staff.

Looking around, surprisingly, all the students' faces had their anger subsided.

'What's this? Does it have an effect that interferes with the mind?'

No matter how beautiful the song was, it couldn't soothe the anger caused by a burned assignment. There had to be some magic influence.

Among monsters, there were some that could enchant people's minds with sound.

If the phoenix's song had such power...

"Cover your ears."

Yi-Han personally stuffed cotton into his friends' ears. Then, the student who had just had his anger quelled exploded again.

"Is that damn bird playing with me?!"

'The song was the cause.'

The students covered their ears and waited. When the song ended, Yi-Han spoke again.

"It's over."

"Wardanaz! Give us orders!"

The student with the burned assignment spoke with fiery eyes.

"Orders?"

"Yes!"

"I'll do anything!"

At his friends' passionate cries, Yi-Han also responded solemnly.

"Then... let's sit down and study again."

"..."

"...Huh?"

"What do you mean 'huh'? I said sit down and study again."

"Ah, no. Weren't we going to catch the phoenix?"

"How am I supposed to catch the phoenix?"

At Yi-Han's question, his friends were at a loss for words.

Huh?

'Come to think of it...'

'Indeed, now that you mention it...'

They had thoughtlessly assumed Wardanaz would catch it, but thinking about it carefully, the phoenix wasn't a monster that first-year students could catch.

"Why did I think Wardanaz would catch it?"

"Me, me too."

"It's probably because you don't want to study. Sit down quickly."

The students who were putting on their coats dejectedly hung them back up. The princess secretly put the flame resistance potion she had taken out of the box back in.

"But it's bright now, so it's good for concentrating. Don't you think?"

'Even though he's my friend, he really seems crazy sometimes.'

With that thought, Gainando picked up his quill.

Contrary to the expectations of some friends (actually, there were more than that), Yi-Han had no intention of catching the phoenix at all.

In fact, even if he wanted to catch the phoenix, he had no idea how to do it.

How could a first-year student catch a mythical beast with eternal life that resurrects no matter what attack it receives?

However, when the phoenix blocked their way to the morning lecture, he seriously thought, 'Should I catch it?'

... ...

"Did you see that?"

"Then... do we have to live like this forever?"

"Not, not forever. It will disappear over time. Mythical beasts that appear from other realms can't stay in reality for long."

"When?"

"When its mana runs out?"

"..."

In just two days, the phoenix drove the first-year students to neurosis.

It woke them up when they slept, rushed at them to play when they went outside for lectures, and burned their papers when they tried to study in the sunlight...

New rules were even created within the towers.

-Forbidden words of the month-

Phoenix

Festival

Bird

Chicken

Fire

Hot

Warm

The phoenix was giving the students a clear lesson.

What kind of disaster can occur just from the thoughtless actions of mages!

Who would have expected it to come like this just for celebrating the festival a little?

"Is there really no way?"

"The phoenix... it's impossible."

Yi-Han heated up the frying pan, greased it with oil and butter, and threw in the mushrooms he had dug up near the vegetable garden.

Mushrooms that absorbed oil and butter were bound to become crispy and moist.

However, despite this bribe, Professor Bungaegor didn't give the answer he wanted.

"Tomorrow is the weekend, and if this continues on the weekend, next week's exam will be a big problem. Isn't that thing summoned by the principal?"

"It's an interesting conspiracy theory, but if the principal wanted to interfere with your exams, he would have done it in a cheaper way. Summoning a phoenix. If it was done artificially, it would be incredibly expensive."

Professor Bungaegor said that while eating the mushrooms. Yi-Han suddenly realized that his most genius talent wasn't magic but cooking.

"But you've definitely learned how to avoid the phoenix, haven't you?"

"That's true, but will there be another occasion in life to use the skill of avoiding a phoenix?"

"There might not be one outside, but in a magic academy, it might happen once or twice more."

"..."

"I'm joking."

When Yi-Han's face turned serious, Professor Bungaegor spoke as if to appease him.

"It's not that I'm deliberately not telling you, but there really is no suitable method. The phoenix is a kind of... mythical beast close to a natural disaster. If you ask me to teach you how to prevent a drought or flood, it would be difficult to answer. I couldn't answer even when Professor Boladi asked."

"I see... What?"

Yi-Han, who was listening, raised his head.

He was startled by the sudden mention of Professor Boladi's name.

"What did Professor Boladi ask?"

"He wanted to capture the phoenix and use it for combat. That's probably impossible."

"..."

Yi-Han inwardly sighed in relief.

Without knowing it, he had narrowly avoided a dangerous situation.

"I think so too."

"Professor Boladi also understood. So he asked if he could borrow Cerberus..."

"...What!?"

Yi-Han's eyes trembled with a sense of betrayal.

He had gone through the trouble of cooking a hearty mushroom dish, and this was the betrayal he received?

"I told him that Cerberus is a bit too precious to be raised for combat."

"...Thank you very much. Would you like some beer?"

"Sure. But why all of a sudden?"

Yi-Han opened the secret trapdoor where Professor Uregor had hidden the beer barrel.

"Ah. Isn't Professor Uregor coming today?"

"Ah... He'll be a bit busy."

"Is something going on?"

"No. He's just racking his brain to make the final exam more difficult."

"...Please wait a moment. I'll bring you some side dishes too."

Yi-Han also opened another secret trapdoor where Professor Uregor had hidden something.

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