Chapter 557

The mercenaries cursed as they fell down the stairs.

Excluding those who fell, the condition of the mercenaries was not so good.

From the one with burns to the one with his armor in tatters and bleeding.

A well-prepared wizard, no matter how young he was, boasted bloody power.

Not to mention, if there were multiple wizards.

“To be surprised by a wicked wizard…”

“They are chasing you. Stop it for now!”

Clap!

Among the mercenaries, a wolf beast with a long scar on his cheek threw a sharp metal seed.

With a rupture, steel thorny vines appeared in the space connecting the corridor and the stairs.

Although they were pushed from the front by force, the mercenaries who went through a mountain battle showed their base even in the midst of disadvantages.

It’s not such a great magic item, but depending on how you use it, it can be useful.

As the road was blocked, the pursuit of the student wizards also stopped. Taking advantage of that gap, the wolf beast mercenary growled and shouted.

“If you don’t want to search for order-makers, don’t even think about pushing your head! Do you know who I am? It’s Gardam, the ‘bleeding hand’! How many of you young spellcasters have I tore to death!”

“omg!”

The mercenaries threatened with notoriety to buy time and retreat.

As the opposing wizards looked young, the lively threat was highly likely to work.

There is nothing as powerless as a mage whose mind is shaken or whose concentration is broken.

Certainly, those who were prepared to deal with the wizard were right.

But the opponent was bad.

“Looks like a real criminal!”

“Wodanaj was right…!”

“Because I believed in you from the beginning. these children. You guys don’t believe in Wardanaj?”

“I believed too! I believed too!”

“…???”

The mercenaries were taken aback by the calm conversation from above.

It was not a frightened or hesitant reaction.

Gardam gritted his teeth. After all, it wasn’t usually nerve-wracking, probably because they were the subordinates of the crazy archmage.

“Back off! Get out of their sights!”

The mercenaries who came down the stairs circled the wall and got out of the magic distance.

Then he reloaded the crossbow and took out the memory.

The moment the wizards came down defenseless, he planned to catch them off guard and knock them down.

“Don’t go down.”

Lee Han didn’t go down the stairs right away despite winning the first round.

“Sharkan.”

The leopard roared and jumped down. As the mercenaries fired bolts and melee through the air, Gardam shouted.

“You idiots! Look and shoot!”

“now.”

Skeleton warriors came down the stairs again. Gardam suppressed his anger and again ordered a retreat.

“Hey, the boss man. Not normal.”

“If you keep withdrawing like this…”

“I know!”

The villa mansion was filthy and spacious, but if you keep pushing down like this, you will eventually be surrounded.

And as you can tell from being beaten up earlier, a head-to-head match was close to suicidal.

“Use the devil’s tongue!”

“now??”

“Then write it after you search everything!”

“Shit. i get it! okay!”

Expensive magic items were like a mercenary’s lifeline, so they were hesitant to use.

However, the intense pressure felt by the mercenaries forced them to act outside of those profits and losses.

Roaring!

Black flames covered the skeleton warriors who came down the stairs.

The flames did not end with simply burning, but formed as if they had physical power and cut down the skeleton warriors.

“Spring up.”

Lee Han summoned a huge mass of water from the air.

The mercenary who threw the devil’s tongue poured out abusive words as if it was a waste.

“Do you think it will become water! This fire is…”

Smack!

“Spring up, springing up, springing up, springing up.”

In less than a second, the space above the stairs was filled with water.

The mercenaries froze at the sight of the wizard summoning that amount of water in a situation where there was no river or stream nearby.

Chiiik –

The black flame, which at first evaporated regardless of the water, could not overcome the successive attacks and faded as it was.

Lee Han quickly took out the bone fragment and summoned five black skeleton warriors.

The mercenary blinked as the precious magic item he had just used disappeared as if there were no traces.

“Gather around and rotate.”

The remaining water gathered and began to rotate.

The mercenary who saw the flying mass of water hurriedly raised his shield, but it was an obvious mistake.

Unlike water elemental magic that can be seen on the battlefield, water octane had a different power.

Awesome!

With the sound of bones breaking, the mercenary with the devil’s tongue fell.

“……”

“……”

“Uh… what can I do? Gardam. What should I do?”

Though he thought he had gone through a lot of hardships, Gardam realized how small the world he had been living in so far.

What the Death Knights said was the truth.

‘Until now… you’ve only dealt with fake wizards…!’

“That way! Catch the criminals!”

“I blocked this one too!”

“!!”

When he came to his senses, wizards were descending from the other hallway as well.

While taking time, they divided the number of people and returned to the road.

“retreat! retreat!”

* * *

“Tell the second team about the situation and tell them to wait for a while.”

Lee Han sent a message to his friends who were waiting at school and focused on the chase.

I couldn’t figure out why those criminals were in this villa, but I had a guess.

‘Isn’t that what the skeleton principal kept for use at the end of the term?’

Other than that, there was nothing suspicious about it.

It seemed quite possible…

Anyway, whatever the reason, those criminals had to be subdued quickly.

Even now, there was already more commotion than calculation.

If there was more fuss here, the Death Knights could have come running.

‘I’m going to subdue it as quickly as possible and get out!’

“Surrender. Mercenaries! I will be kind.”

“Don’t fuck with it, you crazy orderers!”

“Isn’t it embarrassing to lick the soles of your boots under a sorceress who does black magic!?”

The mercenaries reacted violently.

Lee Han was dumbfounded by that reaction.

‘What did we do?’

They fought each other fairly, and if they lost, they would accept the defeat.

The other students were very furious and were fighting.

“You’re an orderer!”

“Black magic? Do I look like a warlock? oh. Wodanaz. I am not insulting you.”

“…it’s done. Everyone, follow me.”

It was already almost a victory situation, but Lee Han was not vigilant.

I took the students and systematically occupied areas of the mansion and checked the rooms.

The mercenaries who escaped and hid to survive alone were miserably dragged out.

“Oh, no! Have mercy!”

“Call me a spell maker again! You son of a criminal!”

“Call your teammates! If you don’t call your colleagues, you’ll be sent to the punishment room…”

“Hey. The punishment room only works for us.”

“is it?”

“Stun and follow me! We must subdue it quickly!”

At Lee Han’s cry, the Phoenix Tower priest nodded and waved his staff.

“Stunning magic…”

Wow!

Lee Han swung his staff and blew off the mercenary’s jaw. The mercenary turned limp and stretched out.

“let’s go!”

“Oh no…”

“This is true stunning magic!”

The students of the Black Turtle Tower and the White Tiger Tower admired and followed Lee Han.

I don’t know anything else, but at least one of Wodanaz’s magic always came out with admiration.

* * *

“Those bastards at the front door!!”

As I stunned the last mercenary hiding in the mansion, a scream erupted from behind.

The few remaining mercenaries were running desperately toward the main gate.

‘what?’

Lee Han’s face became serious as well.

‘Is there any way to escape? why?’

Naturally, Lee Han thought that the mercenaries would not be able to escape the mansion.

The skeleton headmaster isn’t stupid, and there must be a reason why the mercenaries are locked up here.

But when I saw him running like that, I suddenly felt uneasy.

Could it be that the mercenaries have another method that Lee Han doesn’t know about?

“Follow me! Block it unconditionally!”

Lee Han fired at the mercenaries without even aiming the water octagon. The floor was smashed and the front door shook.

“Spark…”

As his heart grew desperate, thunder spears began to gather at the tip of his staff once more.

Lee Han grabbed the morning star in his other hand and charged at it explosively.

“A madman!?”

Gardam flung his body to the side as if he hadn’t expected the young wizard to attack.

Thunder spears hit the front gate and the morning star split the air.

“Moradi!”

Giselle, who came running from behind, swung her twin swords and blew Gardam’s weapon away. Gardam screamed in pain.

“What kind of jugglers!”

“Surrender!”

“Shut up. I would rather die here than be tortured by the undead!”

“No… Damn it.”

The mercenaries were needlessly persistent. Lee Han swung his weapon again, lamenting that he did not have time to explain.

Gardam jumped back and drew his dagger. The remaining mercenaries also pointed their weapons back to back.

“Wardanaz. be careful. It’s not easy.”

“Know!”

It wasn’t a properly learned swordsmanship, but the opponent’s swordsmanship was ferocious and explosive.

Moreover, those who survived this far are the most experienced and fierce among the mercenaries.

If they got caught wrong, they could have been defeated by pushing everyone, so the two approached cautiously.

Jigsaw Jigsaw!

“!”

As the thunder spears covering the staffs grew larger and flew in, the mercenaries gnashed their teeth and avoided them.

“Chehehehehe!”

“Keugh!”

However, the lightning struck the mercenaries in all directions. The mercenaries groaned at the energy of lightning flowing through their bodies.

Taking advantage of that gap, Giselle slashed the legs and wrists of one person at the same time and subdued them.

“Once more!”

“i get it!”

When the opponent focused on the thunder spear, Lee Han immediately canceled the magic and moved on to the next magic.

“Rush, the thunderbolt of Perkuntra!”

A mercenary was pierced by a thick bolt of lightning that came from a different direction than expected.

And the front door was also penetrated.

Squeak bang!

The front door to the villa slammed open with an annoying squeak.

Lee Han and Giselle stood still.

The mercenaries also stopped.

“…get out of the way!”

Gardam was the first to act this time. After pushing his comrades to the ground, Gardam ran toward the front door with all his might. I also used all the magic items in my arms.

Fog, sand, wind, and poison clouds briefly dissipated with an indescribably complex sound.

As Giselle subdued the fallen mercenaries, Lee Han looked at his friend and said seriously.

“By the way, you said to grind one more time. Moradi.”

“…Are you talking about that now?!!!!!!”

Giselle screamed involuntarily.

“Let’s go after it.”

“Chase!! If we miss, we are all going to the punishment room!”

Lee Han and Giselle gritted their teeth and ran away.

We had to catch the last one left as quickly as possible.

“Salco. Change the other students’ clothes and make them move according to the original plan! We’ll catch that bastard!”

“I see! Wodanaz. Moradi. cheer up!”

* * *

Iunrade, a bureaucrat from Einrogard, bowed cunningly as he looked at his superior.

“You are wonderful today. Hodlong! Gonadaltes-sama must be waiting with a thirst for Hodron-nim’s arrival!”

“Stop talking nonsense. I’m sorry. There’s no way that Lord Gonadaltes would like a visit from an auditor like me.”

Hodlong sat in a city cafe looking uncomfortable, sipping coffee.

I was not in a good mood as I had to go to Einrogard soon.

Now, if you enter Einrogard, how many more jokes and excuses will you face?

-The dog ate my research materials! Sobbing! But please forgive the dog. Isn’t it cute?

– There is a misunderstanding that the whole farm was burned. Of course, there was a fire, but shouldn’t we first examine what the concept of ‘all’ is?

“As you are from Einrogard, I understand that your arms have no choice but to bend inward.”

“Oh no, what are you saying? no. Absolutely not!”

“But you can never put personal feelings into something like this. Got it? If you want to persuade me, bring me some material.”

“There are many times when that magic fails…”

“If the magic results are insufficient, even the attitude of the wizards! Bring proof that the magicians of Einrogard devoted themselves to serving the citizens of the Empire. That way I’ll have the courage to go back and ask for more gold coins!”

‘That seems more impossible.’

Iunrade quickly gave up inwardly.

Rather than wanting juniors to devote themselves to serving the citizens of the Empire, it seemed more likely that they would just want an archmage to emerge.

-Caught the criminal!!

-Einrogard student caught the wanted criminal!

“Keep.”

Iunrade squirted coffee in his superior’s face.