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“I got it wrong… No.”
Gisele’s voice trembled.
Surprisingly, the Kurare lizards were coming this way.
‘Why?’
Kurare lizards were clever monsters.
There were many paralyzed prey, and they aimed at those who were slow in movement, so there was no reason to pursue a threatening wizard.
why…
-■■■! ■■■■!
-■■■■■!
The lizards make a sharper sound than before and paralyze poisonshot the
iron puck! Iron Duck!
Anyone could see that he had a fever and that he was poisoned.
“It’s like tenacious bastards… Bone, shoot! Shoot! Shoot!”
Bone fragments poured down like showers, grinding the ground and ripping through the bushes.
The lizards hurriedly avoided it.
And cried even more.
-■■■■■!!
“ah.”
Lee Han realized why the Kurare lizards were chasing after the weak, leaving the weak ones alone.
Giselle noticed too.
“…they are chasing after you hit him.”
“I know yeah.”
Lee Han immediately agreed.
Giselle tried to curse for a moment, but then put it back. He didn’t do anything good to fight on the same side.
“Wordanaj… Moradi…!”
“For us…!”
The students of the White Tiger Tower, who were retreating the other way, shouted in mournful voices.
It was clear that they misunderstood that Lee Han and Giselle sacrificed for them.
“They are really stupid assholes like dogs…”
“what?”
“Don’t worry, I’m telling you to retreat!”
He wanted to hit Lee Han too, but he persevered.
It was something I wanted to show off in the future.
thud!
One of the lizards couldn’t beat Boon and tried to charge. The lizard that collided with the fast-flying shield roared.
Papa Papa Papak!
Lee Han condemned him mercilessly. The lizard, who had been baptized with bone fragments, did not come to his senses and ran away to the side.
‘It’s not good.’
This charge was blocked, but it was not a good sign that the monsters had run out of patience.
If the ever-increasing number of lizards attacked at the same time, it became difficult for Lee Han to stop it.
Even if everyone fell down and only one succeeded in charging, this was a loss…
Giselle seemed to be thinking the same thing, so she drew out her dual swords and shouted harshly.
“Wordanaz. I earn time! When will magical power be restored!?”
It seemed that Giselle was thinking that Lee Han had temporarily run out of magic.
Otherwise, there was no reason for Lee Han, who had been good at defeating the White Tiger Tower students, to use only black magic.
“It’s not about magic!”
“What?”
“It’s not about horsepower. Staying up all night makes precise control difficult.”
“…this crazy… oops!”
Giselle stabbed the lizard’s jaw hard and stepped back.
“Are you talking about that?! Why the hell did you stay up all night?!”
Climbing a mountain requires a lot of stamina.
I couldn’t understand why I stayed up all night before that.
Wodanaj isn’t even a student at the White Tiger Tower…
“There are too many assignments.”
“……”
Giselle was momentarily speechless.
It was an answer that I couldn’t really refute, I couldn’t imagine.
– Come to the river.
“?!”
The two were startled by the sudden heavy voice.
– Come to the river. Those lizards hate streams here, so they won’t come after them.
It was not known who was talking, but Lee Han and Giselle immediately turned and headed for the river.
In the current situation, he thought that there was nothing more to lose.
-■■■… ■■■…
When I was immersed in the river up to my waist with a splashing sound, to my surprise, the lizards that were chasing stopped staring at me with anger.
Giselle said it was hard to believe.
“Do you see me? Why the hell are the lizards doing that? Wodanaz? …Wordanaj!”
Giselle’s eyes widened at the sight of Lee Han falling forward.
‘A paralytic poison?!’
Obviously the lizards didn’t attack, so why?
– You fell down because you were tired.
“…yes?”
– He said he fell down because he was tired. Are you a freshman? Usually freshmen are tired.I wouldn’t study until I collapse. It’s amazing.
“……”
* * * *
When Lee Han opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was a shield floating in the air.
‘Where?’
Seeing that he was lying on the soft leather of a beast, it was clear that he had entered some kind of hut rather than the side of the road.
Looking back, Moradi was sitting on the chair. Lee Han put his hand in the pocket of his coat and checked his belongings first.
‘Well. You didn’t take anything.’
-Are you afraid I’m missing something? nothing is lost
“!”
Lee Han raised his head, startled by the voice coming from a high place.
The giant he saw for the first time was sitting at the entrance of the cave, facing Moradi.
Moradi put his fingers on his temples and stared straight at the table. He was so concentrating that he didn’t even seem to know what happened.
‘What’s going on?’
When the giant didn’t seem hostile, Lee Han stood up and approached him.
Surprisingly, there was a chessboard between them.
‘It’s the endgame.’
Looking at the pieces and layout on the board, Lee Han noticed that the game was in the second half.
And Moradi was at a disadvantage.
– Slowly, but? It wouldn’t change anything if I thought about it more. Even if you make a mistake in the opening, you can recover in the middle game. Even if you make a mistake in the middle game, you can make up for it in the end game. But in Endgame, there is no back.
‘Well. Other than that, you have a knack for making opponents feel bad when you play chess.’
Giselle bit her lip so tight that she bled.
After thinking for a while longer, Giselle laid her white king down next to her. meant to lose.
“…I lost.”
– Don’t feel too bad. Because there are not only stupid giants in the world.
The giant said in a gentle voice.
Of course, Giselle was not comforted at all. Lee Han understood the other person’s feelings.
A wizard loses at chess to a giant reputed to be stupid.
Maybe that’s how you feel when you lose to Guy Nando in chess?
“Um… If it’s not rude, may I ask your respect?”
– It’s not that difficult.
The giant told me how long he had lived around this place, and that when he occasionally met students or professors at the School of Magic, he enjoyed small conversations and bets.
“I, but…”
-Are you curious about the source of my non-giant intelligence?
“I apologize if this was a rude question.”
-no. You may wonder But I don’t think I can give a convincing explanation. Let’s think about it this way. Aren’t there some people who are particularly stupid?
The giant was certainly logical. It was difficult for Lee Han to respond.
“understand.”
-okay. Thank you for your understanding.
“…But why play chess?”
Hearing the question, the giant shrugged his shoulders.
– You said you like to bet.
“Are you going to bet on this?”
Lee Han was startled by Moradi’s greed.
How greedy…
Giselle exclaimed nervously.
“You put it down, motherF*cker!”
According to the giant, the giant never attempted to force a bet, even though he spoke to passersby.
But when debt or grace was in between, the story was different.
The giant’s logic was that, since he brought the fallen Lee Han to the giant’s cave and took care of him, the wizards should repay them accordingly.
“What do you mean?”
– There are a few.
The giant tapped the wall. There were lists written in crooked letters.
-To the wizards who lost their betsto do
1. Clean the basement of the cave (remember to throw out all expired potions and re-label them)
2. Tidying up the library (presumably) hiding among the books
3….
-If you choose one of these and do it, there will be no remaining debt for each other.
Lee Han looked at the list again.
At first glance, it didn’t seem like it would take long, but Han-eun Lee was well aware of how terrifying lies hidden in the simple ‘to-do list’ offered by professors.
‘It is possible that the basement is larger than the cave. The same goes for the library.’
-If you don’t like this, you can compete with me by betting.
“Bet… is it something like a match with the amount of magical power?”
Lee Han asked softly.
Then the giant laughed and shook his head.
– The bets should be fair to each other. What fun is there to wager that is advantageous only to me? Likewise, I do not accept bets made by force.
“No… I’m fine…”
-If there is a bet you want, take it out. If it’s fair, I’ll accept it.
‘It’s good to compete with horsepower.’
Lee Han clicked his tongue.
The giant’s needless consideration made work a nuisance.
‘I can see why Moradi chose her chess.’
The giant wasn’t as tough as I thought.
Since they lived much longer than the students, they would have more experience and knowledge, and they had the potential to excel in wisdom given their wise appearance at first glance.
Lee Han looked at the chessboard again.
At least in the current situation, the ability of a giant can be guessed at chess.
The problem is that I am not confident in chess.
Lee Han never thought he was good at chess.
He entered the magic school and he beat some opponents, but that was because his opponents couldn’t put it down.
In the past, when I was in the midst of working with a professor, my records were not good…
“Can I talk for a moment?”
-as you please.
“Morady. Moradi.”
“why.”
“Why did you move the look here? If we just fixed it on the third line and moved the king to avoid the check, we would have been able to go to a draw.”
“……”
There were times when the right comments were more annoying than the wrong ones.
This is what Lee Han is now.
“Why did you move?”
“Shut up. A little.”
“Was it a mistake? Right. What kind of opening did that giant put on?”
-Are you going to try chess again? Not bad. But you better think about it. you might regret it
“To be fair, would you like to leave out a piece or two?”
– We can’t do that because we don’t know each other’s skills. Instead, let your friends listen to you.
The giant sat in a relaxed position and waited.
Seeing the relaxed image that only Go Soo can show, Lee Han suddenly felt tense.
‘shit. I hear it’s quite aggressive. Can we get a draw?’
What Lee Han was aiming for was basically a draw.
If you are lucky enough to win, but if you don’t, try to draw and move on to the next bet.
‘I think I’ll be able to do that with the skills I’ve heard from Moradi.’
The problem is when your opponent hides his skills.
Lee Han wished that his opponent had the ability within his expectations.
* * * *
30 minutes later.
Ian was shocked.
“…no…”
– Shut it off…
“…it looks like it’s over.”
-Wait a minute. 5 minutes of your time.
“no. Are you done? Even if you move from here, the knight is blocking it, and if you move this way, the pawn is blocking it.”
-…Wait a minute. 5 minutes though.
“……”
The giant’s chess skills are better than I thought…
…it was very weak.
As Lee Han tightly blocked it, the giant forced the ball.He tried to kill himself, but in vain.
Lee Han looked at Giselle.
‘It was just that Moradi couldn’t let it go.’
‘Somehow I feel uncomfortable…?’
– I lost. lost
The giant acknowledged by laying the king down.
Lee Han sighed in relief and asked.
“Then can I go now?”
– No.
“?”
– You just paid for this friend’s defeat. The grace that saved you remains.
“…Have you ever worked as a professor at a magic school?”
A question came out of Lee Han’s mouth involuntarily because of the other person’s lack of conscience.