Episode 109. Mt. Baekdu Mission (5)
Ramil Kvyat asked.
“Dragon-style infusion?”
Professor Bibiano briefly explained.
“To date, rare has only been exposed to humans three times. The last rare was experienced by BST.”
Bibiano Perez is about the same age as BS. I was active with BST when BS was in its heyday.
“Olivia Zhu, a former BST member, is my old friend.”
“The mother of defense magic. With that Olivia Zhu?”
“Why are you surprised, Professor Ramil?”
Professor Bibiano slightly narrowed his brows. It was because he thought that Professor Ramil had implicitly ignored him.
Ramil waved his hand with an embarrassed expression.
“No, no. Please keep talking.”
“Bijou was excited. I heard you visited Rare and returned alive. Then I said this. All of the BST team members saw the same vision. It was an amazing experience.”
After hearing Professor Bibiano’s story, Jia Han thought.
‘I’ll have to ask BS more closely. Why are you not sharing this important information? Damn the mages!’
The magic tower’s information control was beyond imagination. Because information soon becomes power.
A coward who controls information for power in a situation where life comes and goes from a single piece of information.
Jia Han could not understand the behavior of the Mage Tower.
A discussion with the professors ensued.
“So you’re saying that a dragon appeared on the scene?”
“Dragon is a being beyond human common sense. do you know Whether invisible dragons exist. With their abilities, it is possible.”
“It is not an absurd delusion. There is a possibility. But it has no purpose. Why would you show up in front of young students and do that?”
“Then, what do you think is the reason why dragons invade Earth every 100 years? If only we could have known that, there would have been no war in the first place.”
Jia Han nodded and listened to the opinions of the professors.
‘difficult. difficult… … .’
“For now, the dragon passes. Sleepweed samples were sent to the Versailles Laboratory. An answer will come soon.”
What if a new type of sleeping plant turns out to plant the same illusion in everyone?
There was no need to even mention the dragon. Finding out the ‘how’ is another matter, though.
“But if, very if. If dragon-style injection is correct, how about Curiel Daryl?”
“Maybe I’m immune to dragon-style infusion.”
“Then maybe Curiel can save mankind from dragons?”
Until if, if, if, if.
As the unanswered argument continued endlessly, Jia Han clapped her hands and stood up from her seat.
“You concluded that Curiel is an S-class [hallucination resistance trait]. It was also confirmed that it does not respond to this new type of sleeping plant. I think it would be nice to put him in an early graduation course with Dante. Then I will go out first.”
48 hours after the incident.
Everyone except Claudio woke up.
Dante opened his eyes in the hospital bed, clutching his throbbing head with his hand.
strange ceiling.
Unpleasant disinfectant smell.
‘Where is it?’
Then, a welcome voice was heard.
“Are you awake?”
Dante was relieved.
It was Jia Han.
She crossed her arms and looked down at Dante with a pitiful look.
“What happened? others… … no no… … .”
Dante’s fingertips trembled.
He sighed and hid both hands under the covers. The scene he had witnessed before passing out flashed through his mind.
I didn’t even have the confidence to ask. After hearing it, it seemed like all of this would become a reality.
Jia Han sat down on the edge of the bed and opened her mouth.
“Speaking of conclusions… … .”
“no! Wait. No, wait. That’s why I’m still mentally ready… … Whoa.”
Dante drew in a long breath and shivered all over.
Jia Han spoke as she lightly placed a bean balm on Dante’s forehead.
“Wait, wait, wait! Everyone is fine.”
“… … Really?”
“Judging by the reaction, you must have seen a strange vision too, right?”
“Welcome?”
“Is this a disappointment? Somehow even those who passed the hallucination test lined up. I’m really dumbfounded.”
Tower simulation of trials that I took for the last final exam. Both Dante and Fabio passed the hallucination test, but they couldn’t stand the new sleeping weed.
Dante continued with a puzzled expression.
“Really, that was all an illusion? Anybody hurt? It’s not. No way… … .”
Jia Han clicked her tongue and stood up.
“What is not? Drink cool carbonated water and calm down. Because you also have to have an individual interview.”
“yes.”
An interview was conducted about two hours after Dante woke up.
Dante’s statement was no different from the rest of the students.
Except for one thing.
“And at the end, Curiel… … Curiel smiled at me. I lost my mind.”
Jia Han was lost in thought without saying anything.
‘Come to think of it, no one has ever talked about Curiel? Why?’
The only things that appeared in the statements of the 14 people were the magpie monster, which was not recorded in the video, and the 14 students.
Each character had a different perspective, but Dante was the only one who saw Curiel in the vision.
However, I concluded that it was not a matter to think deeply about. It was because it was the last scene Dante saw Curiel.
‘I must have dreamed in a situation where the illusion has already ended.’
As with other students, Jia Han showed Dante a copy of the footage taken at the time of the incident.
“For now, we see it as an addiction caused by sleep weed.”
“and… … . We lost our minds as a group in three seconds?”
Nowhere in the video was Curiel smiling. On the screen, only Curiel was confused, worried about his comrades, and fighting against dozens of magpie-type monsters.
“Did he catch all of that by himself?”
“In a way, you all owed your life to Curiel.”
“But aren’t you too calm? If even Curiel had fallen, we could all have died.”
“Why should I worry about something that never happened? I don’t have enough time to care only about what has already happened.”
“That is… … admit.”
Jia Han held out a sample of sleeping herb sealed in a small glass bottle.
“Have you seen this?”
“no.”
“It’s a new type of sleep herb with hallucinogenic properties. You are addicted to this weed.”
Dante carefully observed the sleeping weed.
Although the mana concentration was light, the toxicity pattern was very clearly identified.
“You found this grass around the clearing?”
“that’s right. Look Carefully. This is how you enter the clearing. how is it. Can you see it?”
Jia Han enlarged the drone video screen.
A small amount of sleeping weeds were densely growing under the old tree that Dante passed by.
“It can’t be. If it was a pattern this strong, I would have noticed it. Is this really filmed? Wasn’t it manipulated?”
Dante was confused.
He was proud of his abilities.
I thought it would definitely help with the mission.
So I didn’t lose my guard for a moment until I lost my mind after starting the mission.
By the way, did you miss the sleeping candle?
Did you miss such a strong magic pattern?
Jia Han put the sample of sleeping herb back into her pocket.
“Don’t think too deeply. Research will be done in the lab. maybe not? Perhaps the skinny weeds suddenly awakened in response to your mana.”
“It may be possible. I’d rather think that way. Will you let me know when the research results come out?”
“If it is something that can be shared.”
Jia Han got out of the hospital room and came up to the ground.
“Ugh!”
She stretched and raised her head. Seeing the clear sky made me feel refreshed.
Ramil Kvyat, who was returning from a walk, greeted me.
“uh? Professor Han!”
“walk?”
“yes. It’s frustrating to stay in the basement.”
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Ramil took a piece of gum in his mouth and stood next to Jia Han.
“But don’t you think Professor Viviano is a bit sensitive these days?”
A long silence followed.
As Ramil tried to open his mouth again, Jia Han spoke in a rather dry tone.
“I really hate people like professors.”
“… … yes?”
“First of all, scratching the nerves and then turning the other person into a sensitive person.”
Ramil panicked and made an excuse.
“I asked in amazement with a genuine pure heart. Being acquainted with Olivia Zhu… … .”
“Stupid people do just that. You’re not stupid, you’re innocent.”
Ramil also replied without losing.
“Isn’t Professor Han number 1 when it comes to scratching the nerves of others?”
“admit. But there are times when I word hard, right? You do it on purpose. to get hurt Get pissed off.”
“I am proud.”
“yes. At least I’m not blaming the other person. Was Professor Bibiano always the kind of person who always makes an impression?”
“Maybe I should see it once a year. Because someone like that made an impression… … yes. It is most likely my fault.”
Jia Han burst into laughter as she looked at Ramil, who looked distraught.
“Did you think of this just now? This woman talks a lot. It’s picky. I live tiredly.”
“If you think like that, you do it quite often.”
“It’s nice to be honest.”
“To be honest, no one can follow Professor Han.”
Jia Han spread her thumb and forefinger into a pistol shape and lifted it up.
In an instant, a strong magic ball formed on the fingertips and spread out in a straight line.
“Pyong! hit.”
“Was there a monster in front of me?”
“yes. When God made me, it must have turned all my talents into magic. Other than this, I have no talent at all, me. Human relationships and things like that.”
After thinking for a while, Ramil spoke.
“Any relationship requires some effort. Of course, there are people who are a little better suited to me in terms of personality, and there are people who are at odds with me.”
“I am envious of this professor. I think you are getting along well with your family.
And how about visiting Professor Bibiano? Our captain, he was a very talented and wonderful person. People still only remember BST.”
“Okay. And a professor.”
“yes?”
“As a married man of 20 years, if I had to give you one piece of advice, carpe diem. It’s good to be single. I go in first.”
Jia Han looked at Ramil’s back and smiled slightly.
Are married people saying, ‘Don’t get married!’ Are they joking or serious?
On the surface, it looks happy.
‘I’ll have to make a phone call to BS.’
Tiriling.
After a few rings, BS’s voice was heard.
“hello. Did you move well?”
– OK.
“Where?”
– The dragon.
“Dragon-style infusion. Have you tried it?”
– Okay.
“Because I am busy?”
– Yes. I don’t know where a kid like you got that information from.
Jia Han briefly reported the incident to BS.
“what do you think?”
– I’ll have to talk to Dante Gonom about this again. There may be some things I haven’t told you. hang up
I advised Dante not to think deeply, but Jia Han was on the verge of bursting her head.
A baby magpie who deliberately hid his awakening and approached humans.
A monster with hidden mana.
Mass hallucination symptoms.
Until the new sleeping weed.
Is it really a coincidence?
‘It can’t be a coincidence. We have to figure out the cause-and-effect relationship somehow.’
afternoon the same day.
Faculty and students all returned to Central Agras.
Students went back to their dorms, but faculty still had a lot of work to do. They were summoned to the Superman Association’s headquarters located in IF Island.
Including the Magic Tower executives, personnel from related departments, and even researchers. About 20 people gathered in the conference room.
It was a well-spoken meeting, and it was a place to reprimand veteran supermen who had gone on a field trip to blame why they couldn’t find sleeping weed.
From the perspective of the Mage Tower, the case of students being poisoned is a trivial matter. It just means it’s one of many problems that arise during the mission. Besides, the students aren’t officially affiliated with the Superman Association yet.
However, the superhumans who visited the scene the day before the incident missed the ‘new sleeping plant’. This was something to be questioned about.
The chairman’s expression was so cold that even the imposing Jia Han felt intimidated.
The chairman opened his mouth.
“Then let the meeting begin. Researcher Grace Cayley.”
“yes.”
“Please proceed with the presentation.”