Chapter 285

Chapter 285

Chapter 285

The incident from yesterday, where Yi-Han almost got trapped while raiding the kitchen, served as a lesson for him. At Einroguard, one must be suspicious of everything!

'I didn't expect a water cannon to come flying,' he thought. She said to just jump over the obstacles set up obediently. Wasn't it too easy?

Yi-Han naturally expected there to be additional traps. Thanks to that, only the students who dared to run out carelessly at Einroguard were tasting the bitter consequences.

"Wardanaz! This is too much..."

"It wasn't Wardanaz who shot it!"

"Ah. Really?"

"..."

"Professor! I think the spirit was summoned incorrectly!"

"Since I set it up, try to dodge it well."

"Pardon? What do you..."

"Rather than chattering, it would be better to focus. If you fall, points will be deducted."

The students who started off with great momentum slowed down and scattered, floundering. They realized that simply running fast wasn't everything. Recklessly increasing speed only to get ambushed and fall off the horse would be a bigger loss.

"Gather here! Let's go this way!"

"Are you sure there are no traps?"

"This way was fine just now! If we gather together and go at once..."

Fwoosh!

"Don't try to memorize it. I didn't arrange them that easily."

"No... Professor!!"

The student whose hair got singed looked at Professor Bungaegor in disbelief. Why was she so serious about the obstacles? Couldn't she just set up hurdles they could jump over?

"Everyone, come this way."

Yi-Han called his friends together. He felt it last time too, but in the riding training lecture, it was advantageous to form a group and pass through. Not only was it easier to endure attacks coming from outside as the size increased, but more mage hands meant more magic that could be used.

"Let's not rush and go at a trot. Asan. You take the left. Yonaire. I'll leave the right to you. Nillia. Please watch the back."

"Am I at the front?"

Gainando asked naturally.

"No. You just stay next to me and use magic when I tell you."

"Indeed. Like a secret card prepared for contingencies. Right?"

"..."

"...Ugh, yes."

The friends were impressed by Gainando's positive attitude.

"Let's go. Once we fall behind, it'll be hard to catch up."

Yi-Han and his friends nodded and set off. Seeing that, Professor Bungaegor highly evaluated them inwardly.

'They put it together well in a short time.'

Matching breathing while riding a horse with other people was completely different from matching breathing barehanded on flat ground. As much as one had to handle a rough horse and match speed with each other, handling the horse well and understanding between one another were important.

To think they harmonized so quickly even though they weren't from the same tower.

"Right!"

As Yi-Han, who felt the flow of mana, spoke first, Yonaire immediately took out a potion. Casting magic while on a shaking horse could fail. In that case, a pre-made potion was safer.

Clang!

With the sound of the potion bottle breaking, the magic missile flying towards them scattered.

'It's the .'

"Left!"

Asan swung his staff as if he had been waiting. Since he had been preparing for a while, the magic was cast safely. With a strong wind, the lump of mud flying towards them changed trajectory.

There was no need for Yi-Han to even mention the attacks coming from behind. Nillia, who noticed first, immediately shot an arrow to bring it down.

'The start is good!'

'At this rate...!'

The friends could feel that their intentions were being conveyed even without exchanging glances. The sense of unity that could only be felt in perfect harmony!

Swish!

But the crisis was only just beginning. Green mist spread and flew in from behind. It was an obstacle that couldn't be brought down by shooting with a bow or blocked with the magic they had. Nillia's hand stopped for a moment.

"Evaporate!"

As Nillia seemed unable to respond, Yi-Han immediately swung his staff. The green mist scattered in the air. Seeing that, Professor Bungaegor was surprised.

'Evaporation?!'

The evaporation attribute, an advanced area of the water element attribute. As it was a difficult and abstruse area, it naturally wasn't something a first-year student could handle. Moreover, to blow away mist at a distance while maintaining balance on a horse all at once.

"Ugh...! These guys!"

"..."

Yi-Han stared at the backs of their heads for a moment, then turned his gaze. Right now, more important than clearing up the misunderstanding was reaching the turning point and getting out.

'I have to do it as quickly as possible.'

The longer it took, the fewer other students there were to draw attention, increasing the difficulty.

"Mirage!"

One of the students from the Black Tortoise Tower seemed to have a talent for illusion magic, as he managed to summon an illusion amidst the chaos. It wasn't an illusion in a very good state. The shape was blurred and not clear, so anyone could tell it was an illusion if they looked closely.

However, in a chaotic situation like this, it was easy to be fooled at a glance. Moreover, the opponent was a monster.

Swish!

However, the Sand Octopus didn't even glance at the illusion and stretched out its limb to grab a student and take them away.

"!"

Seeing that, Yi-Han realized.

'It's not detecting with sight!'

As he had learned quite harshly about illusion magic, Yi-Han knew that illusion magic was also divided into several types. The illusion just now was illusion magic using vision.

It was magic that created illusions by distorting the surrounding air with heat or freezing the air with cold. However, if the opponent didn't see with their eyes, it was meaningless. In fact, the Sand Octopus had half of its body buried in the ground.

'The detection was too good, as expected...'

It was clear that it sensed the approach of enemies by the vibrations on the ground. In that case, that type of illusion was meaningless.

'Farhait's illusion magic won't work. The method is...'

Yi-Han prepared to use and the Invisibility Necklace. Unlike Farhait's illusion magic that created illusions with heat, Gonadaltes' Cloak of Invisibility and the Invisibility Necklace were types of illusion magic that directly manipulated perception.

"Cloak, engulf me!"

"Wardanaz. It's too hard to coordinate while riding!"

"I know. Let's break through one by one. The rest of you, draw attention!"

Instead of breaking through together at once, Yi-Han chose to break through separately. It would take a bit more time, but it was safer. The range of the invisibility magic wasn't wide enough to include the friends riding horses.

"Let's go!"

Yi-Han set off with Yonaire. The other friends scattered to draw the Sand Octopus' attention, just in case it got suspicious.

Whoosh!

"!"

The Sand Octopus suddenly inflated its body. Yi-Han and Yonaire tensed at the unexpected situation.

Swish!

As if sensing something ominous, the Sand Octopus began to spew out a fierce wind. The wind mixed with sand enveloped the students like a storm. It was hard to secure vision in the sudden gust.

'This is bad!'

Even if Yi-Han himself endured, the horse Yonaire was riding was panicking and floundering in the sudden sandstorm. The moment they escaped from invisibility, the Sand Octopus would notice their approach.

Just as Yi-Han was about to restrain Yonaire's horse by force, help came from behind. It was Gainando.

"Become itchy!!!"

Gainando, who boldly shot a curse magic, charged forward without stopping. Seeing Gainando rushing forward like crazy, the Sand Octopus lost interest in the other students and targeted Gainando intensively.

The impudent curse magic had offended the Sand Octopus.

"Gainando...!"

Yi-Han was truly surprised. He knew Gainando had a talent for dark magic, but to think he would be so active in a situation like this.

"Yi-Han!"

"Got it! I'll pass quickly while you distract it..."

"Save me!!! This damn horse won't listen!!!"

Leaving those words behind, Gainando ran forward like an arrow, no, he was dragged away.

"..."

Yonaire, who managed to calm the horse and returned, asked Yi-Han.

"Didn't Gainando shout something?!"

"He said he would draw attention, so we should break through quickly."

"!?"

Yonaire was surprised.

There's no way that's what he said, right?

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