Chapter 21: Chapter 21

– If you only see crazy people around you, you should doubt whether that person is also crazy.

There was a saying like this.

Magic school was similar.

If all the professors look crazy, you should be suspicious of even the sane professors hanging out with them!

‘hmm. okay. Professor Garcia was good friends with that crazy headmaster. After all, you can’t trust a single professor.’

If Professor Garcia had heard it, he would have beaten his heart out of resentment.

Of course, maintaining magic until the end of class could feel harsh mentally.

As an analogy, it was like putting a spinning top on top of your fingernails and enduring it while maintaining balance.

However, Professor Garcia also had his own reasons for giving Lee Han this assignment.

First of all, the fact that he succeeded in creating water three times meant that Lee Han was very talented, even considering that he was compatible with water.

Moreover, the amount of magical power is enormous enough to overwhelm that talent.

If it was a gemstone of this size, it had to be polished to show off its brilliance.

Professor Garcia gave instructions because he thought it was an exercise that Lee Han could do well enough.

Of course, such sincerity was not conveyed to Lee Han.

‘From now on, I’ll have to think that all the professors at this school are missing one screw at a time.’

Squeezing his concentration to keep a lump of water, Lee Han thought so.

* * *

The rest of the class passed warmly.

Some of the Blue Dragon Tower students additionally succeeded in , and the princess also succeeded in .

Yoner was delighted to realize that the wind element and aptitude matched well, and Gainando almost burned and ate one of his staffs.

And for the rest of the time, Lee Han had to keep his mouth shut and focus on maintaining the water.

“Isn’t that really too much?”

“???”

Professor Wooregeol tilted his head at Lee Han’s words.

I didn’t really understand why some of what Lee Han had just explained was too much.

“It’s just… Didn’t Professor Garcia Kim like you? I guess that’s why you did that?”

“Like I tend to the garden now?”

‘ah. He grumbles a lot.’

At Lee Han’s bony words, Professor Thunderwalker grumbled inwardly.

Friday afternoon everyone is waiting for the weekend.

Lee Han was working in the garden of Professor Thunderwalker’s cabin.

If you look at other students, they must have whispered, ‘That professor is really terrible.

However, Professor Wooregeol also had something to make excuses for.

…Because this was what Lee Han said he would do.

-professor. I’m here to help manage the cabin.

-Oh oh. thanks.

-Can I eat some of the stuff in the cabin instead of working?

-…do whatever you want. That much…

-Then can I take a little while I eat a little?

-no. this guy

“I was wrong for asking. okay.”

Thunderwalker shook his head and raised both hands.

I would never have thought that such an answer would come to a casual question, “How was your first week?”

But aside from his grumbling habit, Lee Han was the most anticipated student among freshmen right now.

Isn’t that why Professor Garcia Kim is also giving Lee Han special treatment?

And even in the eyes of Professor Wooregeol, Lee Han’s ability was outstanding.

It wasn’t a magical ability.

‘To be able to do chores with such persistence. The more I look at him, the more he’s born.’

…It was the ability to do chores.

If Lee Han heard it, he would have thought he would have been serious at once, but his steps were serious.

Thunderwalker thought that the most necessary ability for alchemy was the ability to do such chores without getting tired.

A natural sense of magical power that can distinguish any reagent?

A spirit affinity that allows you to quickly become friends with any spirit?

A fine horsepower adjustment that can handle any delicate process?

didn’t need it all

What an outstanding alchemist needed was steel-like endurance, silently wiping a mountain of flasks and not running away.

And Lee Han had that ability from the first time I saw him.

If he had been another aristocrat, he would never have done chores such as gardening and managing the hut, no matter how much food he provided, but Lee Han would rather come and do chores and get food.

It was because he had the talent of an alchemist.

‘Why do I get goose bumps?’

While digging potatoes, Lee Han was puzzled.

It was cool weather, but strangely, I got goosebumps.

“Isn’t it hard?”

“it’s okay.”

Lee Han answered without thinking about the thunder step.

Actually it wasn’t too hard.

His stamina is also his stamina, but he was used to doing chores like this under a professor.

Picking fresh vegetables from the garden and taking out the fish traps installed on the riverside were honestly among the easy tasks.

“Whoops.”

“??”

When Professor Thunderstruck laughed happily, Lee Han became more puzzled.

what?

‘Does it make you feel good because others work hard? After all, professors…’

“You have talent. Wodanaz.”

“ah. yes.”

“Did you hear it through your ear just now?”

“no. professor.”

The thunderous step clicked his tongue.

Even if I told her now, she wouldn’t listen to that grumbling personality.

How the hell did a guy like that come from the granite statues of the Wardanaj family?

Thunderstruck burrowed deeply into the armchair, filled a long pipe unique to the dwarves, and lit it.

Then he let out a puff of smoke and opened his mouth again.

“Did anything else happen?”

‘How bored is this person?’

Lee Han was dumbfounded as he brushed off the dirt on the carrots.

Well, since he is also a professor, he didn’t know that it was natural in some way.

To be a true professor, you have to let students work and be bored by yourself.

“Did you have any friction with the other dorm students?”

“uh? How do you know?”

“You’re not the first freshman here, and you’re probably not the last. Of course you can guess.”

Thunderwalker said in a voice that was greatly improved by smoking.

“Try to guess. The opponents must be the students of the White Tiger Tower.”

“yes. you’re right.”

From the words of the thunderous step, Lee Han noticed that the blue dragon pagoda traditionally had a bad relationship with the white tiger pagoda.

“I can’t help but get along badly. Because one side is the family of the great nobility of the empire and the other is the knight family. Won’t there be fights at a young age?”

“Isn’t that an absurd reason? That’s why you have to fight for nothing. I’m also busy learning magic.”

At Lee Han’s words, Thunder Walk nodded.

Certainly, Lee Han was right. It was utterly foolish.

But isn’t everyone stupid when they’re young?

“Still, Wodanaz, you have a little bit of eyes. okay. We don’t have to fight each other for such absurd reasons. Wouldn’t it be better to practice magic during the useless fighting time?”

“you’re right.”

“Maybe there will be less fights this year with a guy like you. Even if the guys from the White Tiger Tower challenge you, ignore it.”

“uh. We have already fought.”

“……”

Thunderstruck put down the pipe he was holding in his mouth and looked at Lee Han as if he was embarrassed.

You say you don’t like having to fight needlessly for absurd reasons??

“no. First of all, what should I do?”

Lee Han protested as if he was unfair.

Thunderstruck nodded at once.

Well, there were times when you couldn’t avoid a fight first.

“Looks like all the guys in the White Tiger Tower are rough guys. I usually don’t push hard enough to start a fight in the first week. How did you end up fighting?”

“They made a fuss about taking a swordsmanship class.”

“……”

Took-

Thunderstep dropped the pipe he asked again. It was that absurd.

“Aren’t they very mean?”

“You guys are weird…!”

The thunderous step was absurd.

Why did he listen to swordsmanship during many, many lectures?

I thought I knew why the White Tiger Tower guys were arguing.

“You managed to escape, yes. Most of the guys in the White Tiger Tower learn magic late, but are good at fighting.”

“yes. It was difficult for three people to attack and knock it down.”

“……”

Thunderstep calmly put the pipe aside.

I felt like I shouldn’t smoke any more today.

“Did you knock it down?”

“It was hard. I was lucky.”

“…Today, I can only work this far. Please prepare me something to eat.”

“Oh. Can I still?”

“then. of course.”

Thunderstruck decided to treat Lee Han a little better.

It was because he might later become the best swordsman in the empire and come to assassinate him.

* * *

Vegetables grown in Thunderwalk’s hut were thick and fresh, probably because they had received plenty of energy from nature.

The professor washed the potatoes, onions and carrots in water, peeled them, and cut them into large chunks.

Then, toss the butter into a pot and stir-fry the onion and garlic.

“Bring me some hanging meat.”

“no. This meat belongs to me and Yoner.”

“…Am I the only one eating?”

“All right.”

Lee Han later decided to apologize to Yoner and brought the dangling smoked pork.

After putting the meat in the thunder step, stir-fry it, and pour a generous amount of wine. The thick wine aroma stung his nostrils.

Soon after, potatoes, carrots, onions, etc. entered one after another. Thunderwalk said, seasoning it moderately with salt.

“It’s a stew that comes down from the family. With this one, you don’t need any side dishes. A piece of warm, freshly baked white bread is enough.”

There was a reason Professor Wooregeol spoke so confidently.

The stew was really good.

The dwarf stew warmed up Lee Han’s stomach after not drinking warm soup for several days.

Only the sound of spoons scraping wooden bowls and the sound of each other eating stew echoed.

‘ah. I really like it.’

“Is it delicious?”

“Excellent.”

As an experienced graduate student, Lee Han answered immediately.

I couldn’t express my thunderous step in words, but the look on my face showed that I was proud. He seemed very happy.

“Come to think of it, did the professor manage all of this before I came?”

“okay.”

“What about the others?”

“Hmmmm. Everyone ran away because they were lazy and lacking in tact.”

“……”

For a moment, Han Lee regretted, ‘Did I get hurt?’ But it was already spilled water.

“It must have been quite… cumbersome.”

“What a hassle! If you want to become an alchemist, this is the basics!”

Cleaning up the dust accumulated in the cabin, clearing the stove, checking the ingredients, managing the vegetable garden, and checking the traps placed on the riverside and the small traps set up at the corner were actually not the basics.

‘Looking at it listed, it’s strange. Why did I think it wasn’t that difficult?’

Lee Han lamented his own awareness of the working conditions.

Working under a professor for so long has numbed his senses.

“There are a lot of gardens left. Can I grow some?”

“Oh…”

Thunderstruck admired.

Lee Han didn’t know, but he was admiring the thunderous step in his mind, saying, ‘As expected, this born alchemist guy’.

That look that does not give in to countless chores and rather makes them work.

It wasn’t usually a talent.

“Of course it is. What are you trying to grow?”

“Shouldn’t we plant cabbages and green onions?”

“Both will be fine.”

The thunderous steps that had been nodding their heads stopped.

“…You’re not trying to do business with that, are you?”

“oh. How did you know? Did other students do this first?”

“……”

You are the first, you bastard!