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Yoner quickly received Lee Han’s words.
The willows praised the students as if they were very peculiar.
“That’s great. There was no professor, but you guys were protecting the plants. It’s not something anyone can do.”
“thank you.”
When the atmosphere seemed to have gotten a little better, Lee Han asked the identity of the other person.
“Excuse me, but who are you?”
“ah. You don’t know me because you’re a freshman. I am a professor of botany at school. Let me call you Professor Willow.”
The opponent was a name that was literally just what it looked like.
Gainando looked at Professor Willow and seemed to remember the talking oak trees he had met in the mountains. He asked carefully, raising his hand.
“Are you related to the oak trees you are talking about?”
“I am a willow tree, and they are an oak tree. Troll kid.”
“yes? Am I human?”
“okay. I am a willow tree, not an oak tree.”
“……”
Lee Han thought he should be careful about his words in front of Professor Willow. Apparently, he didn’t like to be treated with roughly similar trees.
Professor Willow walked up slowly and, wagging his branches, touched the fallen bull.
Then he deepened the folds in the knot of the tree and said:
“It’s the bull raised by Professor Thunderwalk. After all, he’s a sloppy Dwarf.”
‘shit. He was a real professor’s bull.’
Lee Han cursed the professor who was not present.
If you make a monster stronger by potioning it, take good care of it.
“Did you subdue this bull with a paralyzing curse?”
Professor Willow looked at the students puzzledly.
It was a very strange thing for first-year students to do. I wouldn’t be able to use such a powerful paralyzing curse.
“I used a weakening potion and then cursed.”
“It must have been difficult though. That’s great.”
Professor Willow waved a branch. Then a vine grew out of the ground, and he wrapped the bull up and locked him in a wooden cage.
“I’ll let this guy know when Professor Thunderwalker comes back later.”
“Are you here… taking care of the plants?”
Priest Siana asked cautiously. Professor Willow replied in a slow voice.
“okay. Originally my garden was somewhere else. I got a request from Professor Thunderstep. I’m asking you to take care of this water pipe for today only. It’s annoying, but what do I do when I have to meet the emperor’s official?”
“Yes? As far as I know, you said that you go to the market with Professor Lightning Walk.”
“……”
Professor Willow stood tall.“…Is that really true?”
“yes. If you ask Professor Lightning Step later, you will find out.”
“……”
Professor Willow stood still, but he could tell what it was like to see the leaves on the tips of the branches move wildly back and forth.
“You are of the Wodanaj family. right?”
“?!”
When the professor suddenly guessed his name, Lee Han was slightly embarrassed.
what?
“No surprise. I’ve only heard your story from other professors. Anyway, thanks for letting me know.”
Professor Willow expressed his gratitude in a soft tone.
“Is there anything you need? If yes, tell me.”
“…we are going to practice alchemy, is there any place where I can find useful materials or reagents?”
“Hmm…”
Professor Willow was worried.
Of course, materials and reagents were scattered throughout the expansive grounds of the magic school, but most of them were a bit dangerous for new students to go to.
Lee Han observed Professor Willow’s expression very carefully.
It didn’t matter if the opponent was a species similar to a tree spirit. As a professor, he could not escape Lee Han’s sharp vision.
‘now!’
Lee Han threw a number that was close to gambling.
“Maybe I can borrow it from Professor Thunderbolt’s lab… Oh, no. That was rude.”
Lee Han bowed his head as if embarrassed. But Professor Willow waved the branch as if it was a very good idea.
“That’s a good idea.”
“yes? However…”
“Okay. When Professor Thunderwalker returns, tell him that the bull came in and stole it. I’ll pick out what you can take with you.”
Professor Willow said so, and he walked towards the stairs to the third floor.
Priest Siana said looking at Lee Han.
“I don’t think Lee Han-nim of the Wodanaj family should ever join an evil sect.”
“?”
* * * *
The moment they set foot on the third floor, darkness greeted them. The light spell didn’t help either.
“Be careful not to get lost. The road here is so complicated.”
Professor Willow swung a branch. Then something started running in the dark.
It was the door with the words “Laboratory No. 6” written on it.
Tickle!
Professor Willow turned and opened the doorknob. Blue smoke was freezing everything in the laboratory. Professor Willow quickly closed the door.
“I’d better shut this lab down permanently.”
Professor Willow pushed out Lab 6 and brought in a few more. Most of the labs were a mess. Lab #17 was a distorted space, and water dripping from the desk was flowing to the ceiling, while Lab #29 was engulfed in black darkness one by one.
Lee Han took out a piece of paper and made detailed notes of each and every action Professor Willow was doing. Because I didn’t know when I would be back on the 3rd floor.
‘Right.’
Lee Han could barely understand the way the third floor was.
The reason there weren’t many traps on the 1st and 2nd floors was because the 3rd floor itself was a semi-maze-like configuration.
If you didn’t know which lab was in, and you didn’t know how to call that lab, it wouldn’t make much sense to go to the 3rd floor.
It was dangerous to break magic by force in such a jumbled place. Because I didn’t know what was going to happen.
The answer was to learn it step by step from the beginning.
Just as there is no royal road to learning, so is theft.
‘Lab 6 is swung left twice and 6 times. room 17The chamber swings to the right four times and upwards once, 17 times. Lab 29…’
“found.”
Professor Willow has found a suitable laboratory. Lee Han quickly slipped the paper into his coat.
The lab I opened this time was really ordinary, like an alchemist’s lab. It was full of various alchemy tools and flasks.
The students came in with a slightly terrified look at the labs they had seen before.
“Come on, take it.”
Professor Willow swept away the alchemy tools or flasks and began tossing them one by one. Without panicking, Lee Han flexibly received it and carefully put it in the leather bag he had brought.
“Did you give too much?”
“no. professor. I am just grateful.”
As soon as the leather bag was full, Lee Han handed it to her friends and took out a new leather bag.
It was so fast that Professor Willow mistakenly thought, ‘Is it an artifact?’
“This will be enough for you to practice. We didn’t give them materials that were too dangerous or that Professor Thunderwalker was too fond of.”
“That alone is enough.”
Professor Willow wiggled the branches and cleaned up the lab that looked like a thief had been caught.
The cluttered tools returned to their place, and the open drawers closed again.
Professor Willow frowned at the wilting flowerpots in the corner, so he called for a watering can.
“I will help.”
Lee Han volunteered to go out.
‘You have to look good.’
It was unlikely that Professor Willow would inform Professor Thunderwalk, but he did not know about people.
Besides, he looked good to the professor, so it wasn’t a bad thing. You never know when you will hear Professor Willow’s lecture.
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Not knowing Lee Han’s intentions, his friends rolled up their sleeves to help. But Lee Han shook his head.
“You guys go back.”
“why? Wodanaz? We also…”
“I don’t know when Professor Thunderbolt will be back. You go back to your dorm with your sacks.”
“!”
Friends admired Lee Han’s words.
indeed…!
Ratford said with a shocked expression.
“You are really great. There is nothing more I can teach you.”
“Don’t praise me too much. Ratford. You still have a lot to learn.”
Yoner suddenly felt that the situation was a bit strange, but he didn’t intervene because the atmosphere seemed warm.
“Then Wodanaj. I will move first.”
“See you in the dormitory!”
The students grunted and went down with the sacks. Lee Han was puzzled to see that Yonaire was still there.
“why?”
“I think I need someone to help me. Even if one person is missing, I can take the sack with me.”
“thank you.”
“What do you have with this?”
“for a moment. silver…”
“…don’t ask me if I should be angry.”
Yoner stretched out his finger as if to warn him. Lee Han turned around.
“…thank you, Jenna.”
“Are you in southern dialect?”
Along with the horse, Yonner picked up a watering can.
In fact, Yonner didn’t think Lee Han would take good care of the plants.
He said that caring for plants was more difficult and complicated than he thought. He did it just by watering it.
Some plants need less water, some plants need more water.
When the weather was nice and hot, I had to water more, and when the weather was bad and wet, I had to water less.
If it was a common plant, it would be better, but if it was a rare and fragile plant, it was even more difficult.
It is something you need to have both knowledge and intuition.
When he was at Yoner Ya’s home, he was confident because the things he did while reading the Alchemy Encyclopedia was growing plants, but Lee Han …
“You are doing well.”
budnaProfessor Mu said in a voice mixed with admiration.
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Neither Lee Han nor Yoner had the skills to deal with plants once or twice.
Lee Han felt Yoner’s astonishing gaze and asked as if wondering.
“Why?”
“Ah… no. Watered it so well.”
“Did you do it a lot?”
Yonner was not the only one who walked the path of plant management. This was also the case.
The start was semi-compulsory because of the professors, but the hobby, once created, doesn’t go away easily.
In a previous life, the professors took care of flowerpots, but in this life, they were bored and tended the gardens of the Wodanaj family.
Yoner looked at Lee Han with eyes mixed with joy and emotion.
Originally, people with minor hobbies had no choice but to be very happy when they met.
“So did you…! You also said, why do the servants in the family do such things by hand?”
‘I didn’t.’
Ian was a little perplexed.
The Wodanaj family was so laissez-faire that they did not care much whether Lee Han wielded a sword or took care of the plants.
However, Lee Han didn’t want to disappoint Yoner, who helped him at the best.
“Of course it was. But he didn’t care. I thought it would be useful someday for alchemy.”
“Lee Han…”
Yoner looked at Lee Han with an expression of wanting to give him a medal right away if there was a ‘best friend award’.
Yoner wasn’t the only one who was impressed. Professor Willow was also impressed.
“I’m sure you’ll meet students who care about plants like this… Everyone, follow me.”
Professor Willow took the lead and went down the stairs. Lee Han and Yoner wiped the water and followed after him.
‘Are you going to give me something more?’
At the joy contained in the professor’s voice, Lee Han looked forward to it.
Isn’t that what I was left with because of this?
Arriving at the corner of the second-floor botanical garden, Professor Willow stopped his steps and pointed to the plants.
“ruler. Make sure you water everything from here to here.”
“?”
Lee Han’s face hardened at the unexpected situation.
Could it be that Professor Willow is one of the few professors who gives more work as a reward?
If that were the case, it would have been truly terrifying.
The tree professor has assigned you a permanent mission!
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The never ending quests giver?!