Chapter 200 : Chapter 200
Chapter 200. Professor of Enhancement Magic (2)
“Then I will start right away.”
THUD!
As soon as he finished speaking, Professor Beven kicked the ground and flew up.
He was so fast that it looked like he disappeared into the sky.
Of course, he didn’t really disappear.
He cast Enhancement Magic on his legs and went up to the top of a nearby tree.
Standing at the top of the tree, he looked down at the students and shouted.
“Even if you follow me desperately from now on, it will be difficult to catch me!”
Then he kicked the tree again and disappeared into the forest.
It happened in an instant.
Seniors who had already experienced this once let out sighs.
“It started again.”
“How are we supposed to catch him when he runs away like that.”
“Exactly. He needs to teach us Enhancement Magic first so we can do something.”
Radel didn’t miss the timing and approached the seniors to ask.
“Hello, seniors. Can I ask you something?”
As Radel approached with a friendly greeting, some seniors recognized him.
Because he was doing an Integrated Major, his face was familiar.
Especially many Combat Magic majors recognized him.
“Oh? Junior, you are taking this lecture too?”
“Taking just major lectures is hard enough, but you take this too?”
While surprised, the seniors told Radel this and that.
Their reaction was that it was fascinating that a first-year junior was voluntarily taking this tricky lecture.
“By any chance, the professor doesn’t run away to the Marcellent mountain range or outside the Academy, right?”
At Radel’s question, they waved their hands.
“No. He stays only within the Academy grounds.”
“If he did that, it would be big trouble.”
“At least if he hides in the main building, we can find him, but if he goes into the forest like today, you should consider him almost lost.”
They said especially in terrains with many obstacles, catching the professor became more difficult.
“Since he is an expert in Enhancement Magic, he breaks rocks with bare hands. Sometimes he even neutralizes magic.”
“You don’t know how fast he is.”
“Did you see earlier? He deliberately picks high places to go up.”
Radel nodded and listened attentively to the seniors’ words.
Senior Shartea was right.
‘When dealing with the Enhancement Magic professor, think that you are dealing with a magical beast, not a person.’
The professor using Enhancement Magic far exceeded human physical abilities.
Even if he could maintain it only for a fleeting moment with magic, that was still something.
Radel decided to put Senior Shartea’s advice into practice right away.
“……It was good that I prepared as expected.”
“That is correct, Prince. We should take it out now.”
Gusto also strongly affirmed and unpacked the load he was carrying on his back.
And took out various traps, ropes, wires, etc.
The seniors were appalled seeing their equipment that gave off a professional vibe.
Those guys, did they come out for some hunting……?
* * *
WHISH!
Enhancement Magic Professor Beven Hardium jumped between trees nonchalantly.
His appearance was relaxed, like a flying squirrel.
“There he is! It’s Professor Beven!”
Someone discovered him under the tree and shouted.
It wasn’t a skill of catching up once or twice.
Since finding Professor Beven was difficult from the first time taking the class, many students retook his class.
Sure enough, when Beven checked below, several students with telescopes equipped on their eyes were seen.
“Tch. Discovered already?”
Professor Beven stomped his foot immediately.
THUD!
Since his location was discovered by students, magic attacks would pour soon.
As expected, Water Element Magic flew straight away.
SWOOSH!
He wrapped Enhancement Magic around his arm and let the stream of water flow by.
SPLASH!
The pouring water hit Professor Beven’s arm and changed direction as if it met a hard rock.
At the same time, Beven cast Enhancement Magic on his legs and landed on the ground far away.
THUD THUD THUD!
And ran and disappeared.
He was so fast that he disappeared from the students’ sight in no time.
“We lost him!”
“Let’s try again. Since he was discovered, he will move to another location.”
Students looked at the spot where the professor disappeared with vain expressions.
‘No guys chasing me?’
Professor Beven stopped on top of a tree, feeling no presence.
And spat out curtly.
“Clumsy. Lacking malice.”
Finding him was good, but to give up this easily.
Professor Beven liked students who followed tenaciously even if it didn’t work.
Didn’t he himself come this far with just tenacity.
Dwarves, warriors and blacksmiths from birth.
They lived in the underground world and were closed off enough never to go out to the outside world their whole lives.
Beven was a child born weak in such a dwarf village.
Beven, who was too frail to become a blacksmith or a warrior, was an outsider in dwarf society all his life.
Then, after knowing he was born with strong magic power unlike a dwarf, he researched magic to enhance his body desperately.
Although there was opposition from his family opposing what magic for a dwarf, it didn’t matter.
Sometimes, because the Enhancement Magic cast on his body went wrong, magic power flowed backward and he almost died, or blood poured out from every hole in his body and he almost died.
Nevertheless, as a result of not letting go of Enhancement Magic, he rose to the current position.
To him, the students’ clumsy attacks were just laughable.
‘Only those with malice are qualified to learn Enhancement Magic.’
It was Professor Beven’s lecture philosophy that he couldn’t concede.
Thanks to that, Professor Beven became famous for teaching magic only to students who rushed at him regardless of anything.
“There are no guys with malice this semester.”
It was the moment Professor Beven clicked his tongue and landed on the ground.
CLANK!
As he stepped on the ground, a hidden device operated and pounced on the top of his foot.
It was a hunting trap with its mouth open sharply!
CRASH!
Professor Beven was surprised and broke the trap with his foot wrapped in Enhancement Magic.
What is this?
His pupils hidden inside the helmet widened.
* * *
“Ah…… It’s a trap for medium-sized magical beasts, but he blows it away in one shot.”
Radel, who was watching hidden nearby, felt regretful.
Then Gusto also nodded from the side.
“Indeed. Since I can cast Heal on him, it would be okay even if he gets caught comfortably.”
“Right. The pain is momentary.”
Radel also muttered recalling the pain that struck when Troll’s Heart activated.
The two examined Professor Beven while having a conversation that anyone would be appalled to hear.
Radel’s eyes persistently chased Professor Beven’s movements.
Just in time, a trap installed by Radel was hidden in the place where he dodged.
CLANG!
“UAAK!”
This time it was a trap for large-sized magical beasts.
The trap prepared with the help of Cryptozoology major seniors was large in size and very sturdy.
Following Senior Shartea’s advice to treat the professor like a magical beast, he had prepared thoroughly.
CRASH!
As expected, Senior Shartea’s advice was correct.
The Enhancement Magic professor’s strength was much stronger than a magical beast.
This time too, as Professor Beven swung his fist, the trap for large-sized magical beasts shattered into pieces.
“Seeing that makes me want to learn even more.”
Radel muttered with shining eyes.
Gusto’s eyes were also burning.
“They said Professor Beven is the best in the Empire for Enhancement Magic, and it is indeed so. I definitely want to catch the professor and inherit Enhancement Magic.”
Radel felt very reassured having a comrade with the same heart beside him.
WHISH!
“UAK! What is this again!”
Professor Beven’s scream burst out again.
His foot was caught in a snare woven with wire.
It was installed additionally to tie the professor’s feet when the trap for large-sized magical beasts failed.
SNAP!
However, the snare also flew away with one kick from Professor Beven.
“Now he will step on ‘that’.”
Radel carefully predicted Professor Beven’s next movement.
As expected, Professor Beven, distracted by the snare, couldn’t avoid ‘that’.
“KUAAK!”
It was what Radel and Gusto spent the most time preparing.
A pitfall dug deep into the ground and covered with a mat disguised as dirt floor was waiting for Professor Beven.
‘Just who did this!’
WHOOSH!
As soon as Professor Beven fell into the pitfall, he ground his teeth seeing the net falling above his head.
It wasn’t prepared usually thoroughly.
But he wasn’t easy either.
BOOM!
Seeing Professor Beven breaking the wall of the pit and making a path to escape, Radel sighed in regret.
At that level, it would be understandable to be caught once.
It seemed more desperate effort was needed for learning.
“Sigh, is there no choice but to use that method now…….”
* * *
‘Who is it!’
Professor Beven Hardium was angry to the top of his head at the absurd situation.
‘Which bastard does this much!’
Since earlier, he was being played by traps, pitfalls, and all sorts of strange tricks.
He was about to go crazy because of the traps laid everywhere.
Didn’t they tie ropes between branches he passed, didn’t pitfalls wait as if prepared when he came down to the ground.
Even when hunting magical beasts, it wasn’t this persistent.
This wasn’t a guy with malice.
It was just a crazy guy!
‘Anyway, he doesn’t seem like an ordinary guy.’
Professor Beven had to admit reality.
That a crazy guy entered this semester.
If he appeared fair and square from the front, he would give him a blow.
The problem was that the crazy guy didn’t show his face at all.
A guy who only digs strange pitfalls and doesn’t appear himself.
However, he could instinctively know that someone was persistently following him.
“What do you want me to do if you hide instead of me, the professor.”
Or is he deliberately making me angry to make me come find him?
“Hmph. Like I would get caught in such psychological warfare.”
Professor Beven vowed absolutely not to move according to that guy’s trick.
Although he had already escaped more than twelve pitfalls and broken more than twenty traps…….
Actually, it was the first time he was this exhausted since teaching Enhancement Magic at the Academy.
‘Tiring, so tiring.’
He wasn’t this tired even when students flocked and fired magic indiscriminately.
Snares if he went up trees, traps if he came down to the floor.
There was no time to catch his breath.
Professor Beven hid behind a tree, careful if there was a pitfall on the floor.
He intended to contemplate what to do here for a moment.
It was then.
‘What is this smell?’
A fragrant smell wafted to the tip of exhausted Professor Beven’s nose.
It was a stimulating smell that couldn’t be smelled in the middle of the Academy forest.
‘Don’t tell me it’s the smell of grilling meat?’
Professor Beven eventually couldn’t overcome his curiosity and moved carefully following the smell.
There, a blond boy grilling meat nonchalantly and a black-haired boy trimming meat beside him were present.
Looking at the color of the school uniform ties, they are first-years.
Suspicion bloomed in Professor Beven’s heart.
Suspicion that perhaps they are guys trying to lure him.
Otherwise, why on earth are they grilling meat in such an abrupt place.
SIZZLE.
Meanwhile, Radel, who put meat on the grill, noticed that Professor Beven had come nearby.
And he could also know that he was watching him.
‘Here I push forward calmly.’
Although it would look suspicious, he was just following the plan.
Everything was according to Senior Shartea’s advice to treat the professor like a magical beast.
Because what Radel considered most important when taming was delicious food.