Chapter 549
Chapter 549
Yonaire looked at her friend with a slightly suspicious gaze, but she couldn't do that for long.
Other undead began to slowly crawl out of the forest.
"Spirit contaminants? ...Dark-type?"
Yi-Han muttered with a frown.
The people of the empire thought that cold-type spirits became active when the cold winter came, but in fact, that was only half true.
Winter was a season that awakened more diverse beings than one might think.
In regions where the biting wind blew, wind-type spirits revealed themselves more frequently, and in mining areas, there were cases where rock or metal element spirits roamed around in high spirits.
And among them, the most troublesome case was undead.
Cold and wind were not the only things that symbolized winter. Among them was also death.
It was rare for anything to frighten the people of the empire as much as undead hiding their bodies and wandering around in the long winter nights.
Of course, Professor Uregor had taken precautions to prevent undead from being resurrected in the nearby forest, but there were always exceptions.
The spirit contaminant staggering in front of them now was such a being.
An amorphous monster formed when a spirit that had gone out of control or become violent due to the strong flow of mana in the area became entangled with another being.
Since spirits were mixed in, it was not a typical undead, so ordinary preventive measures did not work well.
Moreover, the contaminant in front of them was a being in which a dark-type spirit and an undead were entangled.
In the first place, most spirits disliked undead, so even if they went out of control, they didn't get close to them...
"A dark-type spirit?!"
Priestess Siana widened her eyes in amazement.
Even lightning-type spirits were so rare that they were hard to see, but dark elements were even rarer.
"I know it's fascinating, but I don't think now is the time for that!"
Yonaire shouted urgently as she brought out the potions from inside.
The blackly rippling spirit contaminants were slowly crawling out of the forest.
■■!
■■■■...
Some of the spirit contaminants showed interest in the hut, but some fought each other.
A spirit contaminant in the form of a beetle, with a body the size of a full-grown pig, attacked the contaminant next to it, and that contaminant also fought back by swinging its hind legs.
"Here, ignition potion!"
"Thank you! Miss Maykin!"
Yonaire handed the ignition potion she usually carried for self-defense to Priestess Siana.
This potion, which burned fiercely when the flask broke and came into contact with air, was a good potion to use anywhere in Einroguard.
Especially for dark spirit contaminants, they would be weak to elements like fire and light.
"Uh, Yonaire? What about me?"
Yi-Han tilted his head while casting enhancement spells on his two friends with his staff.
Yonaire had naturally skipped over Yi-Han without giving him one.
"Huh? ...Ah! Here!"
Yonaire belatedly recalled that Yi-Han could also use the ignition potion.
He was a friend who fought so well on his own that the thought of him needing a potion didn't even occur to her.
"..."
"I... I was going to give it to you... Really."
"Yeah. Thanks."
Yi-Han turned his gaze to the window of the hut.
The number of contaminants with different appearances was gradually increasing. At this point, it was no exaggeration to call it a horde of contaminants.
'It doesn't seem to be something that occurred by chance. Could it be that one of the seniors was researching the dark element and carelessly dumped them in the forest?'
If that was the case, Yi-Han was going to show the juniors' anger, senior or not.
It was already hard enough to die, but what kind of nuisance was this?
And when such a commotion occurred, the ones who always suffered the most were the first-years.
The senior students at Einroguard had the ability to easily escape even if all kinds of ferocious monsters roamed the dormitory or main courtyard.
"Let's hold out inside until the professor comes."
"Will the professor come?"
"If he doesn't come, his own hut will be destroyed, so he'll come."
"..."
"..."
The two wanted to ask, 'Wardanaz, did you fight with the professor by any chance?' but they held back.
Regardless of what Yi-Han said, staying inside now was the strategically correct choice.
It was not a wise move to stick one's face out when mindless monsters were roaming around in a horde outside.
The proper way was to move slowly and carefully after the horde of monsters had moved to another location.
■■■■■...!
"!"
The squirrel-shaped spirit that had come to play pranks on the hut earlier but retreated due to the repelling decoction revealed itself again.
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