Drug-Eating Genius Mage

The Medicine-Taking Genius Wizard Episode 980

: Celestial Magic: Model Garden (3)

Whioooo!!

The shape of a long-necked divine beast with fluttering white feathers.

A streamlined long-haired species wearing pure white armor silently looks down at the ground with transparent blue eyes.

It looks as graceful as swimming above the clouds, waving its fins with its entire body in soft curves.

It is so large that it fills the entire research building located in the basement of the cartel headquarters.

“I saw that once before in a ritual space.”

Lennok crossed his arms as he looked at Clarice Richellen, who had descended in his original form.

“It seems like it’s gotten a lot bigger than it was then.”

“Excuse me.”

When Clarice first came to Lennok’s Magic Tower with the elixir.

Lennok had dragged her into the ritual space and unintentionally witnessed her body.

The appearance of Jangsaengjong, who appeared in the ceremonial space wearing mysterious clouds and feathers at the time, was not much different from its appearance now.

The size itself feels much larger than what was encountered in the ritual space.

Even the appearance that appeared in the conscious space was arbitrarily reduced in size, and was the real body taking on such a gigantic shape?

Ujijik…!!

While the trampled alloy container beneath Clarisse’s massive body let out a silent scream.

Oliveira looked up at the pure white long-lived bell and said sarcastically.

[You are telling a lie without paying attention to the subject, which has an overwhelmingly gigantic shape compared to other Jangsaeng species.]

“….”

[I deliberately emptied this research building so that your needlessly heavy and large body can lie down. I did it for you, but as a divine beast who has lived for a long time, he is extremely inconsiderate.]

“Maze.”

Clarice said with a sigh.

“It’s no use trying to make me angry on purpose. “My eternal life organ does not work with such stimulation.”

[….]

“Even if you don’t go that far, there is no problem in understanding the grimoire. “I took a quick look and saw that the entire grimoire had already been completely translated.”

Clarisse slowly moved her body and slid forward as if floating, then shook her head and the grimoire floated in the air according to her gesture.

Clarisse, who had manipulated and opened the astral magic book without directly touching it, spoke with a curious look.

“Not only does it translate, but it also kindly provides footnotes for difficult expressions or words. If things continue like this, there won’t be a big problem teaching the two of you the techniques of miniature gardening.”

“Footnotes?”

“yes. Each footnote is titled Skull Quiz and has a simple question…” “

….”

“Rather than a direct explanation, it uses indirect metaphors and questions to guide the reader to understand the correct answer.”

A light of admiration that could not be hidden lingered in the deep eyes of Shinsu as he looked down at the grimoire.

“The person who translated this grimoire has a very complete understanding of the essence of celestial magic. “Through the translation and footnotes, we are informed that the technique of a model garden itself is a kind of indirect [adjustment].”

“Are you saying that the technique itself is specialized for indirect manipulation rather than direct manipulation of phenomena?”

The power of peeking at the results and expressing them indirectly, rather than producing results directly like astrology or tarot.

Lennok, who understood Clarisse’s explanation, immediately asked.

“Then how can we use astral magic to find the way to Kundara?”

“That’s because the curtain surrounding the central city is a star ceremonial dress made using the shadow cast on the back of a star.”

“…the back side of a star?”

“As long as the sun shines on this star, there will always be shadow behind it. “The curtain is a border created to surround the central city, borrowing that semi-permanent concept.”

Just as Lennok was questioning the completely unexpected explanation, Clarisse responded by raising her magic power.

“Therefore, in order to head to the outer city hidden behind the veil, you literally have to twist the star’s orbit for a moment.”

“…”

“But actually changing the orbital period is impossible even for a transcendental person, so an expedient called a model garden is needed.”

The grimoire of celestial magic slowly floated above Clarice’s open hands.

As soon as Clarice closed her eyes and concentrated her mind, the pages of the wide-open grimoire began to turn at an incredible speed.

A fierce light erupts from inside the page, instantly enveloping the control room and flashing.

Gooooo…!

While Lennok and Oliveira were looking at the scene, Clarisse, without hesitation, straightened out her thoughts towards the celestial sphere.

It captures the movement of stars rising in the celestial sky and moves them to change their positions.

Although it does not actually change the constellations in the night sky, it indirectly does this by moving the celestial sphere in the model garden.

Broke! Broken!!

Every time the constellation was moved, a violent noise occurred, the celestial sphere became distorted, and the grimoire shook violently.

“The more the celestial position of the model garden differs from reality, the more difficult it becomes to maintain the ritual normally.”

Clarisse explained while looking at the scene.

“That is why a very strong master is needed to maintain the astral magic normally.”

“A price?”

[Cause and effect that can suppress the distortion of a model garden and force it to exist in this reality.]

Oliveira said.

[Didn’t there be a cause and effect with that much meaning for you?]

“….”

Instead of rebutting Oliveira’s words, Clarice’s reaction was to look at Lennoc in silence.

Lennok, who only then realized what the two wanted, stretched out his hand without hesitation.

Slam!!

Anathema’s right arm hanging from the ceiling of the research building.

The moment I caught the blood dripping from that cross section and carefully sprinkled it on the pages of the grimoire.

The celestial sphere, which was shaking violently with noise, began to stabilize in an instant.

Wooooow!!!

Oliveira, who was watching from the side, nodded.

[It was successful. However, for now, I just used Anathema’s cause and effect as a price to suppress the reaction.]

“Yes. “Perhaps one more item is needed to interfere with the veil.”

[Kundara is hidden behind the curtain that protects the central city, and we must make a gap in that curtain.]

Oliveira said that and walked away.

[In order to create a gap in the curtain, the curtain must be artificially damaged by twisting the star’s orbital period.]

“I understood the method of indirectly twisting the orbital period by manipulating the celestial sphere in the model garden.”

Lennok answered.

“Then why do you need more preparations? “Wouldn’t it be okay to deploy a miniature garden near the tent and then temporarily change the celestial orbital period?”

A tabernacle is a wedding rite made using the shadow cast by a star as a medium.

As long as day and night exist on this planet, the existence of the curtain must be a semi-permanent boundary that never disappears.

Therefore, in order to create a gap in the veil, the orbital period, not the rotation period, of the star must be twisted.

However, since it is impossible to actually twist the orbital period, we are trying to borrow the power of a model garden: a celestial technique that indirectly manipulates the celestial sphere.

In a technical sense, this is possible because the model garden actually possesses the same power as manipulating the night sky.

All that is needed is to bring this celestial sphere near the central curtain and trick and twist the curtain to open the path.

[There are three issues before discussing that part.]

But even after hearing that, Oliveira shook his head and said,

[It is only for a moment that the first curtain can be breached. Therefore, we must be familiar with the road and direction to Kundara before opening the tent.]

“….”

[Second. You cannot deceive the tent by simply developing a miniature garden near the tent. In order to indirectly manipulate the shadow of a star, an equivalent medium is needed.]

“A medium…”

[And the last one. Celestial magic is one of the old world spells that the Spell Federation searches for with their eyes lit.]

Oliveira’s gaze, with her arms crossed, gave off a cold glow.

[As you may know, the Alliance tends to be extremely obsessed with specific techniques or spells. If the existence of the celestial technique is discovered by those guys, it wouldn’t be surprising if the Federation intervened immediately.]

“….”

[In the worst case scenario, if the leader himself steps forward, then from then on, all plans discussed so far will be abolished and a completely different method will be used. [We will have to move.]

Does this mean that the Spell Federation could move to retrieve Chicheon’s astral magic?

The Federation’s cause is to unite all spells that exist in this world into one answer.

Considering him, it is not surprising that the Spell Federation covets astronomical techniques, but then why couldn’t they rent astronomical techniques from Nox Biblio?

A sense of disparity exists between the existence of Nox Biblio and the forces of the Order Federation.

While Lennok felt uncomfortable about that fact and remained silent, Clarisse retrieved the celestial sphere with a calm expression and spoke.

“I can help you with the first problem.”

She withdrew the celestial technique, naturally closed the page of the grimoire, and nodded.

“If I, who remembers the location of Kundara, teach you how to manipulate the celestial sphere in the miniature garden, you will naturally understand the path.”

“In reality, it is the second agenda that is the problem right now.”

Lennok was deep in thought.

“But… yeah. “I understand that it is necessary to assimilate the celestial sphere of the model garden and the orbital period of the actual star.”

“….”

“If you were to fool the veil using a model garden built using astronomical techniques and achieve the same result as the actual orbital period being distorted, in the end-”

Lennok, who had mumbled up to that point, immediately realized the answer and closed his mouth.

A model garden built using astronomical techniques.

The act of assimilating and deceiving changes in the celestial sphere that occurred in a miniature garden as if they occurred in reality.

This is because Lennok was also able to guess what kind of supplies were needed to break down the boundary between model and reality even for a moment.

“Surely, in order to deceive the curtain… do we have to set up a real curtain inside the model garden?”

[Yes.]

Oliveira nodded with her arms crossed.

[By placing fragments of the curtain inside the miniature garden, they are deceiving the curtain into thinking that what is happening in the garden is real.]

“….”

[Of course, that alone cannot mislead the entire curtain. However, our goal is not to break through the veil and head to Arsnova.]

“It is enough to break through the veil and find the location of the hidden Kundara….”

Only then did Lennok wonder why Oliveira was in Nox Biblio. I understand that you were trying to rent a celestial technique.

The astronomical technique stored in the dark library does not manipulate the real sky, but creates a model garden and uses the symbol of the night sky.

If you insert a catalyst connected to reality into the model garden and synchronize it, you can project similar results into reality, even if only for a moment.

Temporarily opening a gap in the nearly inviolable veil and finding the way to Kundara through the experience of Clarice, a long-lived servant.

“We had to obtain a fragment of the veil that could be found inside the miniature garden and go to Kundara to avoid the eyes of the Spell Federation.”

[I brought you and this long-lived species together because we need to discuss that matter.]

Oliviara tilted her head as she said that.

[As Nupsaek said, the veil is not an ordinary magic, but a conceptual barrier that exists using the shadow of the star as a medium… It is an item that has been directly maintained by the highest-ranking Jangsaengjong who has lived for hundreds of years.]

“….”

[It is impossible to break the curtain and obtain the fragments in the first place, and it is not clear whether it will function as a complete catalyst within the model garden.]

Enter Nox Biblio . Celestial Magic: There is no way that Oliveira did not think of this problem when he rented the model garden.

Rather, the fact that she is giving this explanation now may be possible because she already has a solution or method due to her nature.

There were many interesting parts about the explanation of the origin of the veil and the method of manipulating the celestial magic, but the most important part was different.

[I’m being honest. I was thinking that you might not be able to retrieve the celestial spell from the Dark Library.]

“….”

[Even if you borrowed the spell, I thought it would take quite a bit of time to decipher it. However, we were able to save time thanks to you finishing the translation of the grimoire inside the library.]

Oliveira waved her hand lazily.

[The only thing left is to obtain the fragments of the veil and assimilate them into the model garden as I explained to you.]

“The intermediate process ended sooner than expected, so I am not ready for the task of rescuing the fragments of the veil yet.”

The fact that Oliveira was also taking into account that it would take time to interpret the Celestial Art: Model Garden.

The fact that Lennok significantly reduced time through translation is also a positive sign for the plan.

However, because what Lennok accomplished greatly exceeded Oliveira’s expectations, the plan to obtain the fragments of the veil itself was not yet ready.

“But if there was no way, you wouldn’t have even brought it up with me.”

“yes. “I can guess what Oliveira is thinking.”

Clarice said, tilting her neck slightly.

“Maybe there is a way at the first gate.”

“The first gate?”

“It is one of the very few passages through which you can enter the interior of the curtain surrounding the central city.”

Clarisse explained.

The huge divine beast bent its neck and looked down at Lennok with its blue eyes.

“As we are splitting the curtain at the gateway and forcibly opening the crack, we will be able to obtain fragments of the curtain deep within the gateway.”

“….”

Lennok also knows the first gate well.

The first passage leading into the outermost part of the tent.

It is one of the key points so important that even on the central front, a war broke out over ownership of the gate.

[After several struggles after the Blader Mage Tower, which originally guarded the first gate, stepped down, the Spell Federation is currently occupying that position.]

Oliveira took over and explained.

[The Alliance’s Conjugation Master has taken over the role of the gateway manager and remains in that position.]

“…If he is the Conjugation Master, then of course.”

I’m sure I’ve heard his name before.

As Lennok unconsciously reacted to that fact, Oliveira said with interest.

[It seems you know about him too. It is not strange, since the great sorcerers of the alliance are very famous monsters.]

“….”

[This monster is currently considered one of the most powerful forces in the alliance. There were times when its true value was clearly revealed in the war against the religious order. Above all…]

I felt as if Oliveira’s eyes were strangely widening as she looked at Lennoc through the veil.

[He is also a being who killed an apostle like you and Cheonbeon and received the title of apostle slayer. It must be very nice to see him.]