Drug-Eating Genius Mage

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Eyes that see fate (29)

Kwaaaang!!

“It moved…!!”

The brilliance of lightning striking the top of the tower from beyond the screen.

The lawmakers who were sitting in the conference room watching the situation stood up and started moving around busily.

The lawmakers clicked their tongues as they watched the magic tower wrapped in a flashing thunderbolt and glowing with blue light.

“You showed up right on time. “It’s absolutely terrible.”

“I understand that the owners of Pyeongeum tried to bide their time, but it seems to have been to no avail.”

“Did you believe the words of an old nobleman obsessed with his own self-interest? “I guess it was just an excuse to manipulate the board the way I wanted.”

Although they are reluctant, instructions to take action as discussed in advance quickly follow.

“Send an official letter to the Undeveloped Area Management Bureau as scheduled. “Under management assets, including closed areas, must be protected.”

“Is video recording still impossible? “If I do this, I can’t leave any evidence…!”

“I’m going to call the clerk and have him record everything. “It would work as a minimum of written evidence.”

A task to coordinate and organize the surroundings at the government and parliamentary level in preparation for what will happen in the future.

Of course, most of it was to protect confidential secrets and assets rather than the safety of citizens.

Nevertheless, the fact that they were skillfully clearing out the outskirts of the city did not change.

“What are the reactions of other magic towers? “I understand you sent a message to ask for advice on this matter?”

“More than eight magic towers, led by Thorburn and Enolas, responded to the call. “I said I would send a wizard myself, so he should arrive within half a day.”

“You have to hurry. “If you arrive after the fight has started, it will be much later at the latest.”

“…wait for a sec. “But what are you doing on the roof of the Magic Tower?”

Meanwhile, it didn’t take long for differences of opinion to arise among the lawmakers watching the screen.

The appearance of the Grand Wizard concentrating on creating lightning strikes for a while even after recognizing the presence of Evan Martinez.

Although you can’t see his face at all on the screen, you can at least recognize where he is standing.

“Are you not planning on getting the lighthouse keeper back?”

“Nonsense. “If you’re not going to fight, why come back at this point?”

Mayer, who had been listening to the rapid exchange between lawmakers, opened her mouth.

“I’m trying to change the stage.”

“…the stage?”

“Because you probably know half of the lighthouse keeper’s destination.”

She said as Mayer put down the pile of cooperation documents he was signing just moments ago.

“If we start the battle right now, the entire Magic Tower will be involved. “Isn’t that what you want to avoid?”

“That can’t be possible, that means….”

The expressions of the lawmakers who belatedly understood Mayer’s words turned pale.

“Are you thinking that the aftermath of the fight will be so big that we have to worry about the tower collapsing?”

“It’s not up to us to decide from there.”

Shrugging her shoulders, Mayer turned her gaze towards her screen and muttered.

“What we should really worry about is whether we can properly perceive what will happen from now on.”

* * *

Flash!!

Lightning falling from the sky strikes the tower’s area, adding to the light.

The scene of the Magic Tower glowing and glowing as if filled with the blue flash of lightning.

While the fast man on the rooftop was guiding the direction of the lightning with one hand raised.

Jenny, who jumped onto the rooftop of the Magic Tower, exhaled with difficulty and called out to Lennok.

“half!!!”

“You’re late.”

Renok laughed as he lowered the long lightning rod he held in his hand.

As he turned around, as if lightly swinging his baton, a bright blue thunderbolt followed his gesture and bowed his head.

It’s so scary!!

While Jenny’s complexion turned pale from the intense vibration of thunder, Lennok said indifferently.

“I found a useful artifact. “It is an object that improves the function of a lightning rod by using the deflection of a magnet, and it is more useful than expected in inducing natural phenomena.”

“It’s more important than that-”

“I plan to use this to reinforce the tower’s domain and fill it with intent-based attributes. “It will be over in about 4 minutes, so please just keep tracking until then.”

“Weren’t you here because you needed a lighthouse keeper?”

Jenny, who had struggled to reach Lennok’s other side, asked desperately while trying to catch her breath.

“Lapis Falseer. “If it was okay to leave it like this, why are you doing this?”

“….”

Lennok, who was about to answer Jenny’s question, suddenly closed his mouth.

It was probably something she came up with with great difficulty after much deliberation.

If the situation hadn’t turned out this way, it might not have even been a question to ask in the first place.

But even for that reason, Lennok thought he should give Jenny a proper answer here.

“…There are many reasons. “There are plenty of plausible justifications.”

Lennok lowered his lightning rod hand without saying a word.

“But the most important thing is that Lapis Falseer faces a very big ordeal.”

“…test?”

“The mission of a lighthouse keeper has been handed down since ancient times. “Maybe I can find what I want beyond that ending.”

“….”

Does Jenny understand the meaning of Lennok’s answer now?

Lennok thought perhaps so.

She had keener intuition than Lennok thought, and she wasn’t so oblivious that she didn’t notice things going on.

Even though she knows, she pretends not to know and turns away, and in the process, she is a person with a strong will and independence enough not to passively hand over her future.

That’s why Lennok had to be honest with her here.

“I’m sorry, Jenny.”

Is it an understanding for their unruly behavior or an apology for the truth that they both pretended not to know?

Either way, Jenny will judge for herself, accept it, and understand it. She was that kind of person.

Lennok smiled bitterly.

“I am very greedy. “Even though we know we can’t, we want to look into everything and understand it.”

“….”

“But even though I thought it was an unachievable wish, it is true that I used that as motivation to come this far. Now what I can do is….”

At that moment, dozens of charged thunderbolts exploded above the magic tower and flew out in all directions.

Lightning extends indiscriminately into the sky above the area, chasing the fire turtle that is moving away at high speed in the distance.

It’s so scary!!!

Intense lightning flashed from the sky above the Magic Tower, drawing a path of lightning that continued uninterrupted.

Lennok, who reassembled the tower’s area-wide interception system using thunderstorm magic and created a passage leading to the ground, turned around and said.

“All we can do is hit with all our might, using all means and methods.”

We look for answers beyond the growing notoriety and the ever-increasing doubts and fears that we do not know the extent of.

What if Lennok had his own answer amidst infinite possibilities and versatility?

If he has to face the world’s ending to save his own ending.

No matter how many people he meets, no matter how many answers and ascension he faces, in the end, only one sentiment remains within Lennok.

Jenny, who had been silent, sighed as she looked at Lennok’s back standing in front of the path of lightning.

“You are not the only one who is greedy. “Me too.”

“….”

“Thank you for being honest. “It’s funny to even say this to you now, but…”

Jenny slowly turned around, raised her gaze and muttered.

“I will help you. “Isn’t that what all partners are like?”

* * *

“The class is making a path.”

The bird-headed giant shook his head with a dark, dark glow in his eyes and muttered as he looked up at the sky.

“The sky is close. “It won’t be long before we reach this point.”

“….”

A sight of countless lightning flashing and spreading around the tower, continuing uninterrupted and spilling over into the outside of the area.

Felix immediately recognized that this was an adjustment work to reorganize the area of the magic tower and dramatically increase the travel distance from the tower.

“Evan Martinez. Did you say that the lighthouse keeper is the most trusted watcher?”

thud!!

Felix said, slowly shaking off his arms and walking away.

The sight of him approaching, clutching a heavy hammer with one hand, is truly terrifying.

“I’ve heard a lot about you lately. “It was almost like a scab sat on my ear.”

Whoop!!

Felix, holding his hammer and lowering his posture, lowered his head instead of attacking right away.

A very humble gesture, in contrast to his ferocious spirit that seemed as if he would continue the battle at any moment.

“Thank you for saving Dylan. “With your skills, killing him wouldn’t have been difficult.”

Felix never forgets what to say even in this urgent situation.

If we were to talk about a proud warrior, he was a man who knew more about honor than anyone Lennok had ever known.

“There is no need to apologize.”

Lennok shook his head.

“Lapis is safe. Let’s pretend we don’t owe each other anything.”

“That’s a generous answer. “That makes me feel even more sorry.”

Felix’s face turned bitter.

“I’m sorry it happened this way. I know you’re not a bad person. but-”

“You have a long tongue.”

Lennok stopped talking and walked out with a smile.

Heat spread out through his fingertips, scattering a haze.

“I have no intention of rubbing tongues with a heron, so come on. “What do I need to say now?”

“…I think you need to study more about birds.”

Slam!!

Felix, holding the handle of a hammer as if turning it, raised his magic power.

“It’s not a heron, it’s an eagle. “Completely wrong!!”

Felix leans forward, twisting his shoulder, and Lennok draws his hand in the air.

feeze. The thick flame shield and the cross section of the hammer collided, sending out heavy hot air in all directions.

Kwaaaaaaa!!!

Intense shock waves and flames swirled behind Lennok and Felix.

Dozens of fireballs appeared, exploded, and disappeared, and a heavy dull light ran across them.

Every time the heavy hammer hit Lennok’s whole body, the air distorted and exploded like a dent.

Boom boom!!

[Yeonhwa (聯火)]

[Yook Jin-hong]

However, Lennok also did not move a single step from his spot and continued to chant flame magic and unleashed his firepower.

[Eight-fold painting]

The rings of flame rising from beneath the feet overlap and bounce back, creating an impact equivalent to that of a hammer before disappearing.

“This fighting method is…!!”

A miracle that forcibly inserts the instantaneous firepower realized through high-speed chanting into the attack and defense right in front of your nose.

The moment when Felix’s eyes widened as he witnessed this incredibly familiar fighting method.

[Flame seal]

[Cheonbung]

A fist engulfed in intense flames struck Felix in the stomach and blew him away.

Baaaaaaaaaa!!!

Felix’s new model was pushed back a dozen meters and came to a narrow stop on the other side of his shell.

“…!!!”

Even though I inserted the hammer handle just before and distributed the impact, I felt dizzy as if my stomach was going to be torn apart.

The wizard’s expression is smiling like a devil at Felix, with bright red eyes shining from afar.

After checking this, Felix’s mind instantly regained calm.

“They said you were skilled in martial arts, so that wasn’t a lie.”

“What do you mean?”

“I was just relieved. “Any wizard I know wouldn’t push me away like that.”

“….”

bang! bang! Kwaang!!

While Lennok and Felix clash, Mila and Belita with bazookas are pounding the turtle’s stomach.

Tatiana chants flame magic to cancel out the flames that leap out from the back of the turtle as it stumbles forward.

Standing in front of the eight-lane road on which the Turtles were advancing, Dray led his troops to establish a cordon and pile up obstacles.

The presence of Manson, Soo-ryeon, Wei An, and the elite mercenaries from the Antares Office preparing to descend after Felix.

According to Tatiana’s instructions, magicians from the Magic Tower partnership stand on the rooftops of buildings on both sides of the street and prepare for magic bombardment.

At that moment, the flame turtle the three people were riding stopped abruptly.

The ship stumbles under the constant barrage of fire, and soon collapses as if it couldn’t hold on.

Wow!!

“Sat, did it work?!”

Mila and Belita grabbed the bazooka and tried to load the missile, but they flinched and withdrew their hands.

The image of a turtle sticking its thick arms and legs into its shell, as if it no longer wanted to endure the barrage of fire.

Finally, it freezes in place, hiding its head inside its shell.

Whioooo!!

The flames rising above the shell disappear, and only hot wind blows fiercely in its wake.

Just as Felix was closing the distance, Lennok spoke.

“If you summon a summoned beast without following the basics of the summoning technique, this is usually the end result.”

“…what?”

“It is possible to temporarily move by inducing stimulation… but the contract with the caster is not established when the spell is violated.”

Lennok shook his head.

“Since there is no contract, there is no reason to follow the magician’s words, and no exchange of emotions takes place. All you can do is wait for the moment when your pet moves according to its instincts.”

Gooooo…!!

The wind blows.

Lennok spoke even though he knew that the forces that rushed out of the tower were surrounding this area.

“The flame-type summon, Hwacheon Gangwi (火喘鋼龜), has a very lazy and insensitive personality. “It has a personality that is perfectly suited to flame magic that requires preheating, but-”

thud!!

At that moment, the carapace that Lennoc was standing on felt like it was slightly shaking in place.

It feels like a huge rebound force is coming from inside the shell and the head is raised as if it is going to explode at any moment.

The moment when Felix inadvertently adjusted his hammer and lowered his posture due to that creepy feeling of discomfort.

Lennok laughed.

“One innate ability is at a level that surpasses the limits of the species.”

“Well, what on earth-”

Kwaaaa!!!

A huge flame measuring several meters erupts from the bottom of the carapace.

From the hole where the turtle’s limbs should go in and out, intense flames erupt in place of the summoned beast’s spirit body.

As if using the flames as a propellant, its carapace began to slide across the ground and accelerate at incredible speeds.

Drurrrrr!

Kwaaaa!!

The barricades and cordon blocking the eight-lane road are blown away like toys.

It was so fast and heavy that it was hard to believe that it was a summoned beast that had been walking slowly just a moment ago.

In the meantime, it moved forward, spinning the mercenaries on its shell and throwing them away as if they were blowing them away.

“Mi, crazy!!!!”

“Fuck, what is this?!!!”

Tatiana, seeing this, ran after her summon and shouted into her communicator.

“Stop chanting!! “Don’t attack anymore, it’s-”

“-Absorption and release of shock!!”

Tatiana, who looked frustrated, and Felix, who was clinging to her shell, shouted at the same time.

The reason why the flame turtle hid inside its shell after being bombarded with non-stop fire.

This is because I belatedly realized the reason why Lennok openly neglected his summoned beast.

“If it receives more than a certain amount of shock, it stops all metabolism, replaces the stored shock with propulsion, and runs away.”

Kugwagwagwa!!

Lennok, who was supporting Lapis on the rotating shell, laughed.

“The stronger the stored impulse, the stronger the driving force. There are conditions that require preheating and that it only works as a counter, but as it is difficult-”

It is as powerful as the conditions are demanding.

Felix gritted his teeth, intuitively realizing that this flight could not be stopped.

“does not make sense…!! “Is it possible for a single summoned animal to store and transform the amount of shock with just its innate body organs?!”

“It is not a physical organ, but a curse placed on the summoned beasts of this system.”

“A curse?!”

Kwaaaa!!

As Felix was about to say something, fragments of the barricade passed over his shoulder, shaking his body.

The fragments gained enough acceleration to make the bird-headed giant’s strong body lose its balance for a moment.

Lennok looked at the figure and said.

“That’s probably why the Flame Wizard there didn’t know much about this summon’s abilities.”

“…!!”

A cursed sanctuary that exists in the infinity of Yorta.

If it weren’t for the memories he saw and heard there, Lennok would never have known.

However, what was important was not the secret story about the curse placed on Hwacheon Gangwi.

“It’s time.”

Kuoooo!!

A huge concrete castle wall appears in front of the carapace, which is racing at an incredible speed.

A corner of the Balkan shadows. The walls of the six-sided fortress that once occupied the seat of the Three Heads.

The walls of the hexagonal fortress and the shell of the Hwacheon River collided at subsonic speeds.

Quaaaaaaaaaa

Due to the impact, Felix, who was on top of the shell, was thrown backwards as if bouncing.

The flame turtle’s shell was stuck on the castle wall and rotated violently, spraying flames non-stop.

But what truly surprised Tatiana, who was watching the situation from afar, was that

“Did you stop it…?!”

The fact was that the walls of the six-sided fortress, which seemed ready to be destroyed at any moment, blocked the assault of the Hwacheon River.

There are cracks in the castle walls, and Hwacheon Gangwi’s shell is stuck in its shell, spewing out flames non-stop and writhing. Nevertheless, the fortress is still holding on without collapsing.

Just as Tatiana was astonished by the durability of the castle walls that exceeded her expectations, Suryun’s tired voice rang through her communication device.

-The walls of the fortress are protected by the power of a transcendent barrier magician. It can withstand quite a bit of physical force…!

“Are you saying Evan Martinez’s attempt had no meaning from the beginning?”

-no.

Chiik-

The giant’s voice coming through the communication device was unusually quiet.

-Evan Martinez and Lapis Falseer are nowhere to be seen.

“….”

-The presence disappeared immediately after the collision. Maybe they have already entered the fortress…

Did Evan Martinez know from the beginning that he would not be able to break through the walls of the six-sided fortress?

If they were aware of that fact and tried to hide a way to enter the fortress by using the summon’s collision as bait.

Just as Tatiana realized that fact and quickly put her mind to it and was about to come up with an alternative.

-Everyone on the scene retreat.

Jenny said in a quiet voice.

-The operation ends here. Everyone return to the Magic Tower and focus on restoring the facility.

“…jenny?”

There was no further answer from Jenny.

Rumbling…!!

Instead, from beyond the dark, distorted sky, a numbing thunderous sound began to ring out.

While thunder and lightning shout and flash as if they are alternating, the bright blue brilliance of lightning approaches from afar.

A wide path of lightning striking down from beyond the sky.

A wizard was walking above him and slowly massaging his shoulders.

“I will handle it myself from now on.”

“…half.”

“I hope everyone will stay away from here.”

Lightning laughed, holding a flashing lightning rod in one hand as a baton.

“I think it would be difficult to fight while worrying about the repercussions around us.”

* * *

Tap, tap.

I walk on a wooden hallway illuminated by soft lamps.

Lapis asked as she glanced behind Lennok, who was walking ahead of her, assessing the direction.

“Evan. here is…”

“It’s a secret passage to the Hexagonal Fortress.”

Lennok responded, took out a sparkling stone and lit it.

Lennok explained as he looked back at Lapis up the flickering hallway.

“It’s an evacuation route handed down among the fortress’s heads. It may have originally been a road made for escape, but…”

On the other hand, it is not impossible to use it when trying to sneak into the castle.

When Lapis nodded, Lennok spoke again.

“This passage was created for a family called members within the fortress. “There’s no way to know if you haven’t personally entered the sanctuary of the mansion.”

“okay….”

Although Lapis agreed with Lennok’s words, she asked with difficulty as she noticed his difficulty.

“About that fact, since when…”

How does Lennok know about the existence of this passage?

From Lapis’s perspective, it would be strange if she wasn’t curious about that fact.

Lennok, who was silently smoothing the inner wall of the passage, answered.

“This fortress is a work of Jin Dun’s hand.”

“yes?!”

“It is a quarantine zone that uses barrier techniques to protect the sanctuary at the center of the fortress.”

“….”

Lennok added as he turned around, leaving Lapis unable to hide her surprise.

“This is the effect of the summoned beasts not being able to penetrate the outer wall of the fortress. “The simple amount of impact is like a compatibility when it comes to barrier techniques.”

“okay. so….”

Lapis, who knows that Evan inherited Jindun’s barrier technique, will understand why Lennok knows the structure of the castle so well with this answer.

It wouldn’t be strange for Rennok, a descendant of Jindun, to know well about Jindun’s legacy.

To be honest, the order was almost the opposite, but there was no time to explain that fact to Lapis.

“It’s probably around here….”

Clap, clap!!

A hidden door opens with a light noise and a wooden ladder comes down.

Lapis was sent up first, and Lennok followed.

A dusty wooden mansion. There seems to be no one coming and going, and it feels like a cold wind is blowing along with the stuffy air.

In the past, it was the central residence of the Ilwon family, which was the leader of the Palgwangseong Fortress.

In the yard visible from the window, all kinds of construction equipment believed to belong to Chen are parked.

“This way.”

Lennok guided Lapis to the sanctuary located in the innermost part of the mansion without difficulty.

Located in the deepest part of the mansion, a quiet meadow where time seems to have stopped.

The shape of an old abandoned coffin with a little sunlight shining on it.

“here….”

Lapis seemed to have recognized the existence of the sanctuary that Lennok had mentioned just by standing in front of it.