Drug-Eating Genius Mage

Genius Wizard Who Takes Medicine Episode 970

Geumje (25)

“Victor.”

After finishing the work at the chapel, they leave the cathedral one by one and disappear.

Either stay in the city and do other business or leave the Balkans right away. There are no questions or answers about it.

It is an organization made up of only members who do not care much about each other’s whereabouts and life or death.

They parted ways without saying goodbye, but gathered together as if they had never done it before and planned things out.

It was Hilea’s voice that caught Lennok, who was trying to get up by gathering his magic power.

After praying in the chapel, Hilea stood up and turned his gaze towards Lennok.

“I don’t mind if you take the forbidden weapon, but at least you have to participate in the operation that will take place in the royal capital.”

[Royal road?]

“I had several plans to proceed with the help of the doctor, assuming the recovery of the taboo weapon.”

Hilea, who was looking at Ermont’s half-eaten box of refreshments with a troubled look, answered.

“The clown confirmed that [the door] is hidden in the basement of the Kabahim palace.”

[….]

“Once the fisherman arrives, we will begin work, but we need the weapon’s abilities to attack the [door]. “It would be a great help to have a good manipulator.”

[It’s a door…]

There were many omissions in Hilea’s explanation, but Lennok understood what she meant by the [door].

The last operation with the clown was the existence of a crack that he said he had to check in the basement of the royal palace.

One of the passages connecting this world with the open sea lies dormant under the kingdom of knights.

Lennok, whose thoughts reached that point, tilted his head to one side.

[That was the second plan you mentioned to me.]

The message Hilea sent to Lennok. The two plans mentioned in that message.

This is because I understood that the second plan, which was not about the underground temple, meant this.

“that’s right. “There is time before we finalize the number of participants, so please decide when you can.”

Hilea, who accepted it obediently, said this and pointed to Victor’s gauntlet.

“If you need time to deal with the taboo weapon, I can wait.”

[….]

“You kept it a secret from the other members, but you still have complete control over that weapon, right?”

Hilea’s eyes, which took off their eyepatch, glowed inorganically.

“I can see that the soul contained in the weapon is still struggling. “You know you deserve it, but you refuse to be used.”

[This is a nuisance. Isn’t that hidden from someone who has the talent of two-faced nature?]

Lennok snorted as he said that, but did not deny Hilea’s words.

As she said, Lennok was only manipulating the taboo weapon by force, not making the soul contained in the weapon submit to it.

Sasasak…!!

Even now, if you listen closely, you can constantly hear someone’s unknown whispering in Lennok’s ears.

A desperate scream that echoes as if it is cursing the user, hateful and resentful.

But even though Lennok knew this, he did not blink.

This is because the moment he obtained the forbidden weapon, he understood that the human being used as the material for the weapon had accumulated a lot of karma.

[A voice is heard. There is a mixture of evil thoughts that can only be possessed by those who have killed and captured humans and played pranks on them.]

“….”

Looking at Hilea’s slightly surprised expression, Lennok raised his gauntlet.

[Contrary to its reputation as a blood relative of the ascendant, the soul contained here must have been a person with quite vicious tastes during its lifetime. Perhaps becoming the material for the forbidden weapon itself was a kind of punishment.]

“That…”

[I am not a person who feels guilty about trampling on such a corrupted soul.]

Lennok’s glory slowly echoes beyond the mask. It was stretched out.

[Rather, I am more interested in increasing the weight of the punishment this soul carries.]

“….”

[I have already acquired the senses. If it deals with the enhancement of magic techniques and the extraction of intention, it is more than enough. It doesn’t take that much time.]

“…I’m sorry. “I didn’t mean to offend you.”

With a bitter smile, Hilea raised her gaze with her hands on her waist.

She was lost in thought for a moment, as if contemplating something, and belatedly made eye contact with Lennok.

“But… yeah, I guess it’s better to tell you this.”

[What is it?]

“Your guess might be right. “There was a rumor that the soul used for the taboo weapon was a very infamous human body collector in the central city.”

[….]

This is useful information that I never thought I would hear from Hilea at this point after the events of Pandemonium were over.

“I don’t know why, but I heard that all of the ascendant’s blood relatives were corrupted and ruined in a bizarre way.”

As if examining something in Lennok’s reaction, Hilea calmly winked and spoke again.

“If you have difficulty dealing with a taboo weapon, research its name.”

[Name?]

“The name of the human being used as the material for that weapon. And the name given to the weapon when it was completed.”

Hilea’s eyes, looking at the glass-colored gauntlet emitting a quiet light, were filled with complex emotions.

“Because it is a living human being and a weapon itself. Just knowing what name you are called will definitely help you fulfill that destiny.”

[That’s quite… an interesting idea.]

The method Hilea just told me about is not the information the doctor gave me.

Lennok, who instinctively sensed this, asked.

[Is this an experience?]

“…No. “I won’t answer.”

Hilea smiled and raised her gaze.

“It’s something I don’t want to reveal to someone as quick-witted as you.”

[….]

Hilea said that as soon as Anathema died, she devised a plan to take away the forbidden weapon and gathered the members.

That was only possible if she knew that much about Sergeant Geumgi’s existence and whereabouts in the first place.

If he knew strangely enough about the taboo weapon and even taught Lennok how to use its power.

Isn’t this because Hilea’s talent was once almost ‘processed’ in that way?

[…Good.]

But instead of asking about Hilea’s past any more, Lennok held his robe and walked quickly.

Normally, instead of talking about his dual-faced talent, he should have gone back and investigated the Ice Man.

However, Lennok is also experiencing considerable fatigue from manipulating the taboo weapon with his incarnate body.

As the members of Bokmajeon said, it is true that the schedule without continuous battles and recovery is a burden.

Right now, the first priority was to sort out what I had gained from today’s work and get my body in order.

[We will consider Kabahim’s Gate later.]

Lennok glanced back, and the light in his eyes flashed inside his mask.

[But you should know that it is not because I obtained this weapon, but because I am interested in the [Moon] itself.]

“….”

[If I participate, the plan will unconditionally proceed under my leadership. So that I can convey this clearly to the idiot who calls himself a fisherman.]

“Well. He is a person who is completely insensitive to that kind of conflict or stimulation in the first place…”

Hilea nodded with a bitter smile.

“But I’m sure the clown will be happy if you participate. “I guarantee that.”

[It’s a guarantee for the illusionist’s feelings.]

Lennok smiled and raised his magic power.

[This is the most incredible confidence in the world.]

* * *

An uncountable crowd of people are walking down a street paved with pure white marble.

Everyone puts their hands together with a reverential expression, mumbles a prayer, and bows their head.

Even though the tens of thousands of people gathered here do not know each other, they all share the same goal.

Take four steps, stop, bow your head and pray, and then take four more steps.

The fourth is a contradictory number symbolizing death, rest, and the following.

However, in this world where salvation does not exist, it is the only means to reach paradise.

Headquarters of the Guido Church.

A procession of countless believers making a pilgrimage to the shrine of the pantheon.

“It looks like a bug.”

Ureka, who was sitting in the courtyard of the pure white palace, looked down at the figure with cold eyes.

Although he is wearing a fancy robe, the blue cloth that tightly wraps one arm, almost as if tightly wrapping it, stands out.

A blue sacred cloth with a rough texture that makes it hard to believe it was meant to be used to cover arms.

A whisper strong enough to make even the priests who were silently waiting behind her with towels and gravestones flinch.

But Ureka didn’t even care about those priests and muttered softly.

“At a time when Dan is in turmoil, if it is not enough to do your duties with sincerity, why not spend time on a pilgrimage to pray?”

“….”

“Salvation does not come just by vaguely wishing for it, but they are mistaken.”

After saying that, Ureka turned her head and looked at the young man sitting across from her.

“Don’t you think so?”

“…well.”

The second apostle, who was leisurely sipping coffee across from me, spoke.

“It’s not that I don’t understand their feelings of helplessness. “Aren’t they also clinging to it so earnestly because they believe that the doctrine that Dan preaches is true?”

“….”

“For me, I find your existence more interesting. Although she was in charge of acting as His voice, she was actually a priestess who hated Dan’s followers…”

The young man, who was looking at Ureka’s pale face, pushed up his glasses.

“Wouldn’t it be right to view your presence as a sense of incongruity that did not exist in the church before?”

“…!!”

A question so unconventional that the faces of the priests who were listening to the conversation turned as pale as corpses.

The priests, who should be mere furniture here, are trembling because they cannot control their reactions.

If an ordinary believer had said those words in front of Ureka, his entire body would have been skinned and his limbs would have been cut off before he could shut his mouth.

“I am different from other priestesses.”

However, rather than being angry at the words of the second apostle, Ureka let out a cold laugh.

“How can an illegitimate child born without the priestly authority inherited from previous priests be like the priestesses you cherished?”

“….”

The authority of the priests was lost with the death of teenage priestess Seina Naidri.

However, Ureka Naidry, who was next in line to become a priestess, never received her authority back.

A new priestess who has the aptitude and talent for ritual, but has not been given the authority.

So wasn’t what she was given the power of a servant to control a maniac through human sacrifice?

“I am a symbol of His voice or another aspect of Him.”

Ureka said.

“It is the anger that He abandoned, the indignity that He forgot, and the inadequacy that He cut out.”

“….”

“I have not forgotten that I am here because I was eliminated and defeated.”

Ureka’s eyes shining cruelly as she looked at the Second Apostle.

“That’s why I am a being who can become more fulfilling than any other priestess.”

Ureka realizes that she does not have the authority that other priestesses had.

She does not deny that she is a priestess born with a sense of inferiority stemming from inadequacy.

An 11th priestess who feels inadequate and deficient, and even performing the role of a priest feels burdensome right now.

But her spirit was strong enough to accept that it was her identity that defined her.

That is not a power that Ureka acquired when she became a priestess, but a power she was born with.

“Maybe so.”

Therefore, the Second Apostle acknowledged the fact that Ureka’s words did not deviate from the general direction.

“It’s not wrong. Surely what the church needs right now might be a priestess like you.”

“….”

“But then why did you want to see me? “You probably know that I and previous priestesses did not interfere in each other’s affairs.”

Behind the glasses, the young man’s eyes flashed a silver-white brilliance.

“Do you want to say that even that part makes you different from other Naidri?”

“…!!”

Just by looking into his eyes, an intense pressure that seems to crush her soul pours down on Ureka.

It is only after being granted outstanding talent, mental power, and supernormal abilities that she can rise to the position of a priestess, and only then can she face him.

Since when did he exist to the left of the religious leader and claim to be devoted to the religious cult?

The weight of time and time, which Ureka cannot immediately read, seems to be contained beneath those eyes, weighing down the mortal.

However, Ureka spoke slowly while frowning at the power of the two apostles pressing down on her.

“I need help unlocking the ritual of manufacturing taboo weapons.”

“It’s a taboo weapon.”

“It seems that the former priestess stopped the production of taboo weapons and sealed the ritual due to concerns about efficiency, but that is not her method.”

Ureka said while looking intently at the two apostles.

“Shouldn’t we use all the means available to us?”

“Is that to supplement the priestly authority that does not exist in you?”

“yes. “That’s right.”

Ureka grinned at the second apostle’s calm question.

“First, I plan to grind up the useless apostles, experiment with them, and then begin production in earnest. If the process is successful, we will be able to realize the immorality of contradiction by having the apostle carry an weapon made of the apostle.”

“Ureka.”

The Second Apostle raised his gaze with a wry smile.

“The position of an apostle is not something that can be filled so easily. “Have you still not realized what happened with Anathema?”

“….”

“We had to go through so much trouble just to find a candidate to temporarily fill the void left by the Six Apostles. Kamrodal must be searching the entire continent to find a candidate to take on the position again. “I don’t think I can help with using the apostles as expendable items.”

“The old does not leave its place after the new comes.”

Ureka smiled and shook her head.

“Some things are filled only after they are emptied. “The authority I have been given by Him symbolizes that truth.”

“….”

“Now that many of the apostles who were supposed to protect his position have been reduced to mere beasts, I feel that there is a need to once again bring attention to the position of the apostle.”

Ureka’s ability to control crazy apostles is a new power given to her because she did not inherit the authority of a priest.

The new priestess was using her own existence and birth as an example to preach that the position of an apostle that had previously been filled should be vacated.

“Of the ten highest-ranking apostles, the only ones operating outside the central front are you, Kamrodal, and the three apostles who operate through deals with you.”

Ureka said as she touched her arm wrapped in holy cloth as if it were painful.

“The selection ceremony for the successors to the 5th and 10th apostles was completed a few days ago. Once your mind becomes stable, you will begin the process of inheriting the Apostle Art in earnest. “The replacement and search for an apostle has been going on for some time.”

“….”

“In addition, we will also return the remains of Amrita Fraubel, which you collected for the education of the new 10 apostles. “A successor has been chosen, but she is not yet proficient in the Apostle Art, so we need her remains.”

Ureka asked, looking at the silent two apostles.

“This is for Dan. “You won’t reject it for personal reasons, right?”

Ureka also knows that the 2nd Apostle personally cherished the 9th priestess Izel Naidri.

It is also true that the body of the 10 apostle Amrita Fraubel, where her spirit briefly resided, is still kept.

However, despite knowing all this, Ureka did not hesitate to ask the Second Apostle for her body.

This is possible because Ureka respects the status and position of the Second Apostle, but is prepared to be hated by him.

Because of the blind fanaticism that one’s will is the will of the religious leader, they were having a conversation with the intention of making known what they wanted here.

“If that is what the new priestess wants, then I will cooperate.”

After drinking all the remaining coffee, the second apostle stood up with one hand and smiled softly.

“There is just one condition.”

“Anything that the Chief Apostle entrusts to you.”

“Recovering Amrita’s remains will have to happen after the lightning bolt in your arm has been resolved.”

Ureka’s face distorted.

“…Why?”

“The techniques and properties are somewhat different, but Amrita’s remains are also subject to a very strong curse.”

The second apostle smiled bitterly.

“It is a curse that encrypts biological information and seals the apostle technique itself. The priests of Dan are trying to solve it, but no one has solved it.”

“If we were to seal the Apostle’s magic.”

“That was the reason why Seina quickly nominated the next 10 apostles. When Amrita’s scale technique was sealed, there was no other way than to create 10 new apostles and download the apostle technique again. And most of all-”

The two apostles came up next to Ureka, who was at a loss for words, and touched the cloth with which her arms were tied.

“The lightning in your arm is a lightning of intent more powerful than any wizard I know.”

“….”

“If the thunderbolt contained in this holy bag affects the apostle magic… wouldn’t it be a very good thing for you and the next 10 apostles?”

The second apostle, who gently swept down the holy cloth, stood up and smiled.

“I have no intention of meeting the next priestess anymore. At the very least, I want to see how far you are willing to go with His will.”

“…All right.”

Did he already know that he was struck by lightning when he touched Anathema’s remains?

“If you are worried about the clash of curses, there is nothing we can do. But it won’t take long to get the lightning bolt out.”

Ureka, who quickly suppressed her emotions, spoke with an effort to feign composure.

After wrapping the Seonghaepo and sealing the lightning bolt, she also continued to investigate in various fields to solve the current problem.

At the very least, the depletion of thoughts cannot be avoided unless the practitioner himself is clearly aware of the remnants of thoughts that remain on the victim.

“There is no way that wizard would have known that I was struck by the lightning of thought in the first place-”

“Oh, now that I think of it, I’m telling you.”

The Second Apostle turned and smiled as if he remembered something.

“He wanted to say hello. He asked if my arm was okay.”

“….”

This time, Ureka’s face was distorted horribly, as if she had been bitten by an insect.