Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 569

Gilleon, Kaiser’s close aide known as a Dead Rise, used this personal equipment.

Why was such a thing abandoned with Kaiser’s blood all over it?

Lenox, using his magic, pulled the steel wing closer and carefully examined it, tilting his head in thought.

“There’s only one. Then the other one…”

According to Kyulbaek’s testimony, who participated in the operation back then, the research in the actual past concluded without any major issues.

If that’s the case, it would mean that Kyulbaek and his colleagues didn’t experience any battles either.

Therefore, it’s unlikely that Gilleon’s wings were dropped here due to combat or other external factors.

[Hutcha.]

The baby fox, who had jumped down from Lenox’s arms, climbed onto the steel wing and sniffed.

Dabi, who had been pondering for a while, shaking his four bushy tails, raised his head and said.

[It’s hard to tell because of the blood smell, but the magic circuit and synchronization parts inside the equipment are all broken. It’s so crushed that it’ll take time to even estimate its function.]

The steel wing looked a bit dusty and old, but it was intact enough for Lenox to recognize its original form right away.

The fact that the equipment still exists even after decades is a testament to its incredible durability.

Nevertheless, what does it mean that the internal structure of the wing is completely broken beyond repair?

Lenox soon deduced the answer.

“…It’s because of the radiation phenomenon.”

Lenox muttered, looking at the location where the fixing device was originally located.

“Because the experiment ended halfway, a space-time discrepancy occurred, and in the process, magic particles were irradiated, sweeping through the power room.”

That’s why, rather than the shape of the steel wing itself being damaged, the internal circuits and parts that directly handle magic power were all irradiated and broken.

Then, it can be understood why Gilleon abandoned this wing here and left, and why so much of Kaiser’s blood is on this wing.

“He used the wing to protect Kaiser, who was standing in front of the fixing device, and abandoned it after realizing it couldn’t be fixed…”

[Irradiation of magic particles is fatal to organic beings. Judging from the circumstances, that would be the case.]

In the actual history, Kaiser was also seriously injured by the backlash during the research.

If so, it can be guessed why Gilleon left the wings behind so hastily.

Leaving Dabi, who had quickly climbed onto his head, Lenox pondered further.

“If he knew there was no hope the moment he was caught in the radiation phenomenon and gave up on the wings, he must have torn them off at the spot where he protected Kaiser. Then, the location where Kaiser was standing is…”

Around the location where the steel wing was first discovered.

Lenox tore off the melted cement and steel debris around that area.

Wooddeudeuk!!

Amidst the debris, where dust was rising, Lenox frowned and created a gust of wind with a gesture, sending everything out of the power room.

The bare floor of the power room, visible through the faint remnants of paint.

Lenox found a bloodstain that continued along the steel wing and slowly wiped it with his finger.

“It’s in much better condition than the bloodstains on the steel wing that were directly exposed to the radiation phenomenon. This should be enough.”

[What are you going to do with that?]

Dabi, who was on his head with his front paws stretched out, tilted his head.

[Considering that decades have passed, there’s not much you can do with Kaiser’s own bloodstains alone.]

“That’s right. But what if it’s Kaiser’s own spell?”

Lenox said that, took out Kaiser’s pocket watch from inside his coat, and pulled the second hand.

Kkiririk…!!

The moment he carefully applied the bloodstain to the second hand that stood vertically inside the pocket watch.

The bloodstain, which had left Lenox’s fingertips, turned into a drop of blood and began to fly away from the pocket watch.

It was the result of applying a reverse time spell to Kaiser’s bloodstain. It was likely heading to the place where his traces were strongest in this area.

[Oooo?]

Dabi’s eyes widened in wonder as he jumped off Lenox’s head and chased after the fluttering drop of blood.

Lenox chuckled and stood up, about to follow with his staff, when.

Click!!

He slightly hardened his face as he confirmed that the second hand of the slowly moving pocket watch had completely stopped.

‘Has the power already run out?’

Considering the abilities of the pocket watch, he had expected that the activation conditions and the supply of necessary power would be difficult.

However, since he couldn’t study the structure of the artifact right away, he was just trying to figure out the conditions by using it directly.

He had not expected that it would stop working after only two uses.

‘The spells that manipulate time seem to be much more demanding and complex than those that manipulate space. Considering the relativity of the concept of time, the cost required to construct the spell might be absurdly high.’

Lenox did not forget that the shape of the artifact Kaiser left behind was that of a pocket watch.

The fact that the reverse time imprint he left behind as he disappeared was embodied in the form of a clock was proof that it was an artifact that was powered and used.

He didn’t think the pocket watch’s ability was consumable, but it was a shame that he couldn’t use the reverse time ability any further since he was currently tracking Kaiser’s traces.

Thinking about whether he should find a company that makes watch batteries, Lenox followed Dabi’s presence.

Climbing up the underground stairs, to the control room located between the main building of the power plant.

The sight of a drop of blood fallen in front of the door, which was tightly sealed with bright yellow talismans, and the cyber spirit jumping around in front of it.

Lenox stood in front of the control room door and carefully observed the flow of power flowing around it.

“It’s magic power… no. If you were to categorize it, it’s a power closer to spiritual power.”

[Rather than direct preservation of power, it’s being maintained by a resonance method using the same wavelength of vibration.]

Dabi said, as he clumsily crawled up into Lenox’s coat.

The cyber spirit, nestled snugly in the coat pocket, tilted its head.

[So, it seems that security is still being maintained even with the rapid changes in the timeline…]

“The problem is that the spiritual wavelength doesn’t end at the control room door, but extends into the space inside the door.”

Lenox said that and pondered with his chin in his hand.

“If I forcefully break the barrier, the internal facilities will be completely destroyed. It’s obvious.”

[Should I try to use my power?]

“No, it’s a completely different field from the cyber system. If you make a mistake, your spirituality could be contaminated.”

Although the system Dabi handles is specialized in the manipulation and flow control of the cyber space, it is strictly a type of spirit.

If he were to carelessly enter such a spiritual security spell and take damage, it would be difficult for Dabi to recover easily with his own power alone.

“With this level of security, it must be the work of Madrich Onion, and it would be difficult for anyone other than a military spirit mage of that level to even touch it.”

The problem is that military spirit mages of Onion’s level are rare even if you search the entire continent, and their existence is almost non-existent in official settings.

Even if it’s not the absurd solution of going to the military spirit city of Yorta and bringing a military spirit mage, any choice would inevitably drag on the time.

‘Since the pocket watch that Kaiser left behind has stopped, it’s impossible to borrow the power of the reverse time spell here again… wait a minute.’

It seems like there was one more thing that Kaiser left behind besides the pocket watch.

Lenox, who had thought that far, rummaged through his coat with a slightly dazed expression and took out a talisman with unknown characters densely engraved on it.

The talisman that Kaiser had given him through Claude in the past as a messenger.

The talisman that he had told him was used to paralyze the function of the control room was still in Lenox’s possession.

“…”

Come to think of it, there was no time to go through the control room while re-entering the power plant to meet Kaiser.

Even so, the reason why Kaiser gave this talisman to Lenox in the form of a message at the time.

Was it because he thought that Lenox would come here after resolving all the situations?

[Master?]

He regained his senses at the sight of Dabi looking at Lenox with a worried expression from inside his coat.

“…Yes.”

There is a way to find out what Kaiser left behind in this power plant after failing the space-time fixation research right now.

There was no reason to hesitate.

The moment Lenox placed the talisman he was holding in his hand in front of the control room door.

Tudududuk!!

Cheolkeok!!

The dozens of talismans surrounding the door all broke, and the barrier disappeared as if it were a lie, and the sound of the lock being released was heard.

Lenox grabbed the doorknob and slowly opened the control room door.

Huuk!!

The cold wind flowing out from inside as soon as the door was opened.

The chill flowing out of the control room, which had been abandoned for over decades, was enough to make Lenox, who was protecting his body with various magic, flinch.

That was probably not just a matter of temperature, but because spiritual power was flowing out as the barrier created through military spirit magic was broken.

Lenox ignored the chill and quietly looked around.

The CCTV cameras that should have been illuminating various parts of the power plant were all broken, and the screens and levers of the instrument panel that filled one side of the wall were not working either.

[There’s nothing here?]

“No, he must have left something behind.”

Lenox answered that and began to search through the boxes and shelves where the instrument panel and lockers were located.

Cheap elixirs left on the shelves, light firearms, and brooch-shaped artifacts containing faint magic power.

In addition, explosives that superhumans would use during combat and rusty curved swords fell one after another.

Tududuk!!

“The reason Kaiser gave me the key to break the barrier of the control room is because he must have thought that this situation would come to me.”

That was probably because Kaiser himself was planning to hide something containing his achievements inside the control room after the research was over.

He remembered what he would have done before meeting Lenox, and predicted how he would act in a timeline where Lenox was not present.

Through that method, Kaiser succeeded in guiding Lenox to this place even after he disappeared.

“Kaiser in history knew that the research would ‘fail’ normally, and so he was planning to leave something here after the failure.”

He muttered, quickly recalling the things he had given to Lenox one by one.

“The Kaiser who met me predicted how the real him would have acted, and indirectly informed me of that fact… I see.”

Lenox, who had stopped abruptly, took out his cell phone from his coat.

The firewall code that was used to deliver Kaiser’s message.

The moment he quickly transferred the firewall code, which consisted of hundreds of character arrays, onto the keyboard of the broken instrument panel.

Cheolkeok!!

The inside of the broken screen of the instrument panel opened as it was, and something appeared from inside.

“…”

It was not a special artifact, a treasure, or even a powerful weapon.

But it was more precious than any other object or artifact Lenox had found in this power plant.

A short diary made by binding several old pieces of paper.

The only record made of paper that Kaiser had written by hand in the real world decades ago.

“Kaiser’s research journal.”

Lenox muttered that and immediately opened it without hesitation.

“It was here.”

Palak!!

[March 15th. Immediately after urgently gathering my colleagues during the civil war and starting the research, I realized that this research would fail.]

The first sentence of the research journal began with Kaiser’s own shocking confession.