Episode 259 Time Over (2)
– Pfft!
Kim Ho appeared in a dazzling teleportation magic circle.
Seeing him, the same thought crossed Jeong Jong-myeong and Hong Ye-hwa’s minds.
‘How calm.’
‘You’re so calm.’
Although quite some time has passed since the semester started, Kim Ho is still a freshman.
It was an operation that involved a lot of upperclassmen, and he was given a key role, so it was understandable that he would feel pressured, but he showed no sign of it, just an indifferent expression.
Even approach them straight in the eye and say what you want to say.
“Please teleport next time.”
“… … .”
Jeong Jong-myeong’s eyes deepened.
The fact that they are urging you as soon as you arrive means that the situation at the temporary storage facility has become urgent.
I wondered what on earth had happened, but it was not too late to find out.
After exchanging glances with Hong Ye-hwa, Jeong Jong-myeong immediately breathed magic power into the teleportation magic circle.
Then, let’s send a message to Dang Gyu-yeong.
“Dang Gyu-yeong, here you go again.”
– Hey, hurry up! Hurry up!
The urgent voice returned.
The two wizards concentrated more,
– Paaaaat!
Dang Gyu-yeong walked out of the brightly shining magic circle.
Jeong Jong-myeong asked her, who was slightly frowning.
“Should I use it again? Teleport.”
“No, it’s okay.”
Dang Gyu-yeong shook his head.
The vanguard members were released from Choi Han-gil’s isolated space and began fighting with the thieves who were rummaging through the temporary storage facility.
In the meantime, the coordinate anchor was also destroyed.
Hong Ye-hwa asked.
“Then what about the rest?”
“… …I hope you figure it out and get out of there.”
Of course, the chances of those left behind safely escaping the C Exchange were very slim.
Because the opponents are two third-year leaders, and there are formations laid out everywhere.
Dang Gyu-young said.
“But I’ll buy them some time. They’re good at running away.”
“You kids know yourself best.”
Jeong Jong-myeong nodded and moved on to the next topic.
“Kim Ho has the book?”
“Yeah. Give it to me now?”
“It’s all over.”
Even if I hand it over now, it would all be in vain if I get caught by the leadership.
It would be a much better choice to leave it to Kim Ho and Dang Gyu-young until the last moment and help them escape.
The problem is the escape… … .
Jeong Jong-myeong said, glancing briefly over the rooftop.
“All possible escape routes were blocked.”
The original plan was to turn the temporary storage facility into a hiding place in the downtown area, and then return after the vanguard withdrew.
If you give Cha Da-bin a field of vision, you might be able to move without being detected.
But now that the control tower has been taken over, that plan has to be scrapped.
The leading group is also tightening its siege by the minute.
So, there is only one way that is worth walking.
Jeong Jong-myeong breathed mana into the teleportation magic circle again.
“We don’t have time, so both of you go up.”
Dang Gyu-yeong asked, looking puzzled.
“Would that be okay for two people?”
“It won’t work, but I have to try.”
Teleportation is a long-distance teleportation spell.
The number of targets you can move, distance, accuracy, etc. increase in proportion to your rank.
However, because the difficulty of training was so incredibly high, even the leader of the white magic club, Jeong Jong-myeong, was only a C-rank.
As of now, if you don’t use magic circles and coordinate lockers, the stability is very poor, and you can only move one person at a time.
But now I didn’t have time to write twice in a row.
Since we didn’t know when the vanguard would storm in, we had to send them at the same time, even if it meant taking risks.
Dang Gyu-yeong also understood that fact, so he grabbed Kim Ho’s arm and pulled him with an uneasy expression.
“Come on.”
And then he crossed his arms as if he would not fall.
When he saw that, Jeong Jong-myeong’s face changed strangely.
‘There’s no need to be so attached.’
All we have to do is stand together on the magic circle.
I glanced at Hong Ye-hwa and saw that she had a similarly strange face.
But that wasn’t important at the moment, so they just focused on powering the teleportation magic circle.
Soon, the ground beneath Kim Ho and Dang Gyu-young’s feet began to shine brightly.
– Paaaaat!
The next moment, they disappeared without a trace.
“I hope they fly as far as possible,” Jeong Jong-myeong instructed the remaining wizards.
“Get ready. Guests are coming.”
– Kukukukuku… … .
Sure enough, not long after, a wooden door suddenly popped up on one side of the rooftop.
Then the door opened and Kwak Seung-jae and the second and third year leadership team members walked out.
Jeong Jong-myeong let out a laugh without realizing it.
‘The world is so unfair.’
Some people find it difficult to teleport two people to their third year, while others have dozens of people coming and going with just one door opened.
Of course, I wasn’t just jealous because he had his own special talents.
Let’s stop with random thoughts here.
Jeong Jong-myeong opened his mouth calmly.
“Is Seungjae here?”
“Hello, senior. It’s late in the evening.”
Kwak Seung-jae also bowed politely as usual, but there was a thorn in his words.
It was as if he was saying that he came to see me late because ‘the senior broke the school rules.’
Jeong Jong-myeong did not respond and continued to speak in a calm tone.
“Yeah, you must be having a hard time at this time.”
“There must have been many other ways to get the confiscated items back. Did you really have to join hands with the thieves?”
“I think it’s okay to change your mood sometimes.”
“I wish they had allowed for a change of pace within the school rules.”
Jeong Jong-myeong slightly raised the corners of his lips.
“I’m sorry. It’s not right for us to do this, but this time we had good reasons.”
“I don’t know exactly what the circumstances are, but it doesn’t seem like a good choice. If the Thieves’ Club fails, it’ll just be a waste of penalty points.”
Kwak Seung-jae turned his head to the side as he said that.
His gaze was directed far away, somewhere in the forest between the downtown area and the school.
It seems that Kim Ho and Dang Gyu-young have been tracked down.
– Kukukukuku… … .
Kwak Seung-jae closed the door he had opened earlier and summoned a new wooden door.
And just as I was about to send the leaders there,
– Hururuk!
The door was engulfed in fierce flames and reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye.
When Kwak Seung-jae looked down a little, he saw a red magic circle shining.
He turned his gaze again and looked at Hong Ye-hwa, and Hong Ye-hwa smiled and said.
“You can’t use it here.”
Not only that, but the rooftop gradually became brighter as the hidden magic circles were revealed one by one.
The area was fortified in anticipation of the advance of the vanguard.
Although they had fallen into a trap, there was not a single hint of crisis among the leading members.
Rather, most of them had a cheerful smile on their lips.
“This makes it a little more fun.”
“It’s no fun catching thieves.”
That must mean they have absolute confidence in their abilities.
Kwak Seung-jae said.
“You may waste some time, but the results won’t change.”
“But isn’t it better than not doing it?”
As Jeong Jong-myeong nodded over his shoulder, the magicians simultaneously activated their magic circles.
The downtown area in the middle of the night became as bright as day.
* * *
– Paaaaat!
My vision was covered in a blue light and then suddenly turned pitch black.
My body spins around like I’m on a ride.
‘The ride quality is really bad.’
Since two people are riding a one-person teleporter, it can’t help but be unstable.
Immediately afterwards, I fell down on the grass, and Dang Gyu-yeong also fell down.
Above me, not in the grass.
“Oh my. Kim Hoya, are you okay?”
“it’s okay.”
Dang Gyu-yeong immediately sat up.
But for some reason he stopped,
“… …Huh? Just stay still?”
I try to lie down on the road.
And then you change your posture here and there.
It’s almost like handling a Kim Ho mattress.
“Hey, Mr. Dang Gyu-yeong. Is now the time to lie down?”
“Wait a minute. Really, just a minute.”
“Why, again.”
“Hey, this… … is somehow comfortable?”
Subject #4 Dang Gyu-yeong seems to find the Kim Ho mattress comfortable.
In this case, it would be effective for all except for subject number 3, Hong Ye-hwa.
But now was not the time to leisurely experiment, so I got up, regardless of whether Dang Gyu-yeong was above or not.
“Let’s do it later, let’s get moving first.”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
I started to walk through the forest with Dang Gyu-yeong, who had become serious.
Thanks to the two-person teleportation, I was able to skip quite a distance and escape the leader’s encirclement.
But it’s not over until it’s over, and there was a possibility that someone was waiting in this forest too.
You must not let your guard down until you arrive at the dormitory.
As expected, as I walked a little further, a familiar face came into view.
‘Song Cheon-hye.’
Song Cheon-hye seemed a bit bored spending time in such a remote place, but she still looked around with serious eyes, perhaps because she thought it was her own business.
As there was quite a difference in skill level between him and Dang Gyu-yeong, Eun-shin was completely unaware of it, but it didn’t seem like it would be easy to overlook.
– Chijijik,
A thin, barely visible thread of electricity was floating across the area, filling it with light.
‘Lightning Thread.’
I used that skill to catch the calligrapher’s transparent gili in the placement test too.
As expected of a mana monster, it has spread it over a very wide area, so no matter how well it hides, if you touch just one wrong thing, it will be discovered.
But it doesn’t make sense to go back that far, I told Dang Gyu-yeong.
‘I’ll take care of it.’
‘That would be better.’
The best way is to subdue Song Cheon-hye and move on.
It may be a bit noisy, but you have to endure it.
Within, two black butterflies flew over Dang Gyu-yeong’s hand.
[welcome flight]
The butterflies fluttered and soared high into the sky, then fell down on Song Cheon-hye’s head.
“!!”
Song Cheon-hye was startled and tried to react, but by then the shadow butterflies had already exploded.
Dang Gyu-yeong said as he glanced at Song Cheon-hye, who was wrapped tightly in rope.
“let’s go.”
“Let’s do that.”
We started running across Songcheonhye’s district.
The electric current continued to crackle as it touched his body, but this had no effect on Shin Byeong-cheol.
Because it wasn’t magic for damage or control in the first place.
But not long after,
“Stop—!”
Song Cheon-hye’s shout was heard from behind.
We kept running and faced each other.
“Why did it come off so quickly?”
“……I don’t know either.”
It should be normal if it lasts at least 3 to 5 minutes, if not a long time.
It looks like you’ve obtained a high-grade artifact or trait.
– Crackle crackle!
Song Cheon-hye runs fiercely with lightning all over her body.
Just like in the 4v4 mentoring match, it looks like he’s going for an electric body slam.
The speed is also quite fast, so the distance between us is gradually closing.
Dang Gyu-yeong asked, looking back furtively.
“I guess I should just lay it down and go.”
“I’ll do it.”
I was running at a steady pace, then suddenly turned around and reached out to Song Cheon-hye.
[Ice Wall]
– Kookung!
Then, a wall of ice rose before Song Cheon-hye’s eyes.
Ice wall copied from Midwinter.
It is a B-rank, and is quite thick and hard.
“!!”
Song Cheon-hye looked surprised by the suddenly rising wall, but it was already too late to react.
It’s because the speed has already picked up too much to stop or turn.
In the end, she ended up slamming herself into the ice wall,
– Boom!
A loud crash echoed through the forest at midnight.
Dang Gyu-yeong glanced back again.
“That might hurt a little.”
“I feel a little sorry. But we have to eat to live too.”
– Whiriliririk!
At that moment, something whitish flew in from ahead.
The supporters eat it all
