Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 874

The Eye That Sees Fate (11)

The attack came just as the discussion about what to do next was wrapping up.

However, Lenok hadn’t forgotten that he was walking a tightrope in a place where he could be exposed at any time.

It was difficult for either Lapis or Lenok to conceal their presence and hide, or to run far away.

Although they were discovered sooner than expected, they had to find meaning in at least buying themselves some time to rest.

“They’re from a mercenary office. Plato?”

Lenok’s expression changed subtly as he identified the body.

It was an office he had heard of a long time ago, but one whose name he hadn’t heard for a while.

“Mage. The opponent was just one person.”

Patricia, unaware of the situation, helped Lapis up and asked.

“It seems they weren’t targeting our location specifically, but rather were just searching nearby by chance. Was there a reason to kill him and draw attention?”

“The documents were forged, but the district chief’s seal was real. It means the cooperation from the 21st district office isn’t a lie.”

Lenok said, searching the fallen body.

He took a terminal and a brush from the inside pocket of the shirt and the corpse’s hand, then stood up and said.

“The entire district will start to be controlled as time passes. Once the roads are blocked, it might be difficult to move at all. In that case…”

Chiiik!!

He took out a lighter from his pocket, lit it, and threw it onto the bed.

Watching the bed quickly catch fire, Lenok immediately gestured to Lapis.

“We need to focus their attention here and escape to another district. Let’s move.”

“Understood.”

If there was a possibility that both the car lanes and sidewalks would be blocked once the district office started cooperating, moving immediately would be the best option.

Lapis, understanding Lenok’s words, immediately left the room and ran out into the hallway.

Patricia was about to guide Lapis towards the emergency stairs when.

Kwaang!!

The doors of the rooms on all sides of the hallway exploded open, and mercenaries appeared from all directions.

More than a dozen superhumans, fully armed with all sorts of firearms, explosives, and magic-infused equipment, blocked the hallway.

“The Azure Eye!! That’s her, right?!”

“Capturing her alive is the most profitable, so don’t kill her!! We’ll get more if she’s alive!”

“Screw that. Taking just her head is the fastest. I won’t let anyone interfere.”

The mercenaries quickly exchanged words and closed the distance in an instant.

Patricia, who had spread her wings in front of Lapis as if to block them, was shocked.

“How long have they been here…!! Were they hiding beforehand?!”

“They came in through the room windows as soon as they knew our location.”

Lenok muttered, immediately grasping the mercenaries’ movements.

“Their actions are too fast. It seems like they had a manual prepared in advance.”

When he put the stolen terminal to his ear, he could hear dozens of voices shouting the name of the hotel where Lenok was located.

Through magic detection, he could feel dozens of superhumans simultaneously turning their steps towards the nearby streets.

“Lapis Falchier. Is that right?”

Kooong!!

A giant with purple skin at the front asked, dripping a gas-like smoke.

His eyes were bloodshot and black, with no focus, and the veins around his eyes were bulging, giving him a menacing impression as if he would lash out at any moment.

“I heard you’re the granddaughter of the Ascendant, but you’re too young.”

“……”

“The descendants of the Ascendants sell for a very high price anywhere. There’s a rumor that you can get an incentive of tens of billions just by bringing back the corpse.”

Clatter!!

The giant, who had a grappling hook in each hand, said, biting into his own mouth.

“I’d appreciate it if you’d resist moderately and then give up. I think I’ll need to take at least one organ intact to get a satisfactory reward.”

The giant’s chilling monologue. But Lapis didn’t even blink an eye at his words.

“I don’t have a life to give to someone who’s satisfied with just one organ, not even my whole corpse.”

“What?”

“I was prepared to risk my life. What more needs to be said?”

With a cold expression, Lapis turned around and raised her magic power, and the moment she swung her hand.

The vision of the mercenaries blocking the hallway on all sides was distorted on the spot.

Kiiing!!

“Damn it, what is this?!”

“Wait, my body…!!”

They swapped the vision of the mercenaries, making each of them see the world through a different body.

In the instant the mercenaries lost their positions and fell into confusion, Lapis retreated as if throwing herself backward.

Whirr!!

Lenok, with his hands clasped together and one eye closed, stepped forward.

Between his fingers, which were clenched with his hand lying horizontally, hot flames overflowed as if they were about to explode.

The moment some of the mercenaries who witnessed the red glow flashing from Lenok’s fingertips tried to step back, their faces changed drastically.

From Lenok’s grasp, which he had opened as if letting go of his hands, a tremendous amount of flames swept through the hallway and poured down.

Unique Flame Magic

Property Change Emission Manifestation

[Red Construction]

[Wave Fire Resonance]

Flash!

At that moment, hot flames exploded and overflowed throughout the hallway, rooms, windows, and vents connecting one floor of the hotel.

Kugwagwagwagwa!!!

“Hwaaaaak!!”

“My body, my body…!!”

With desperate screams, mercenaries fell all over the place, their bodies burning.

The giant with purple skin, who was exposed to the flames head-on, had already evaporated without a trace.

Other mercenaries, unable to withstand the heat and pain, fled into the rooms or threw themselves out of the windows.

However, the flames that clung to their bodies did not subside, burning the human muscles and flesh completely.

The fireballs that fell screaming out of the windows writhed as they fell, and only after they died did they disappear, leaving only ashes.

Lapis, who was watching the gruesome scene, silently closed her mouth, while Patricia, on the other hand, opened her beak wide.

Lenok, not caring about their reactions, immediately turned around and gestured to Lapis.

“The elevator is already unusable. This way.”

The flame magic that Lenok had just used against the mercenaries was a unique magic that forcibly detonated flames compressed to their limit.

Although the activation range and power were quite high compared to the magic consumption, it had the condition that the direction could not be specified from the moment of chanting.

It was difficult to use because it was hard to target a specific object, but in a narrow hallway like this, it was possible for Lenok to block one direction and unilaterally sweep away the enemies.

Now that it was difficult to make delicate manipulations while absorbing the magic of the outer sea, he had no choice but to deliberately unleash this kind of area-of-effect bombardment.

Whaaaaaaeng!!!

The fire alarm blared in the hotel hallway and lobby, and the sound of police car sirens could be heard from the distance.

“Evan. I can’t reach the Watchers right now.”

Lapis said, walking almost running behind Lenok.

“I think they’ve completely blocked the communication network in this area.”

Lapis’s eyes, looking down at the half-open emergency staircase entrance, calmly sank.

The stairs were melting, making it difficult to walk down. It would be faster to jump out of the window.

Lapis, having made up her mind, immediately flung open a nearby room door and said.

“Let’s escape this area first, and then I’ll try to contact them in another way using the artifact I have. First-”

Jjeoeoeong!!

At that moment, a strange resonance that seemed to crush the sky from above Lapis’s head rang out.

A strange hallucination that seemed to distort all the sounds heard as the atmospheric pressure in the vicinity was distorted as a whole.

The moment Lapis raised her magic power and put on the power of the first sight, and Patricia shook her head and spread her wings.

Lenok, grabbing the collars of the two, threw himself out of the window.

Immediately after, a missile fell on the roof of the unmanned hotel, and the entire building exploded and shattered into pieces.

Kwaaaaaaaang!!!

The entire street was engulfed in a dazzling blaze, and the asphalt melted like liquid and flowed out of the sidewalk.

In Lenok’s senses, as he fell while holding Lapis and Patricia, dozens of presences were simultaneously detected, glaring at them.

Clack!!

The reactions of the pursuers, who were simultaneously aiming and firing magic mixed with firearms and thoughts from the ground and building windows.

It would be too late to react after landing on the ground.

Sensing this, Lenok connected Lapis and Patricia with magic threads, tied them to his back, and immediately chanted flame magic.

With a simple hand seal, he spun his body around and swung down, extracting magic power.

Unique Flame Magic

Property Change Imbue Overlap

[Quadruple Ignition: Acceleration]

[Flame Seal: Adjoining Wings]

Whirr!!

The flames that burst from Lenok’s fingertips accelerated as if pushing the three of them away, moving away from the exploding hotel building.

“Kyaaaaak!!”

With the flames soaring high, wrapped around them in four directions like wings of fire, Lenok’s figure accelerated at an incredible speed immediately after falling.

He rotated without a center of gravity and traversed the downtown area of the 21st district at an invisible speed.

Dudududu!!!

“He’s escaping!!”

“He set himself on fire to propel himself, that crazy bastard!!”

“Catch him, we have to drag him out from the blocked roads!!”

Mercenaries sped through the vehicles abandoned in the middle of the road.

Some were running along the walls of buildings, and others were snipers who were waiting on the rooftops, preparing to snipe.

“Evan!”

As soon as Lapis saw the sniper, she blocked her vision and made the pursuers lose their balance, causing those running along the walls to fall.

Flap!

Patricia flapped her wings and pushed away the assassins who were following with knives or daggers while hiding.

The spirit, barely holding its crane head upside down, shrieked at Lenok, who was rotating and flying at high speed.

“Mage, can’t you keep your balance properly…!!”

“If I keep my balance in this state, my movements will be obvious.”

Whoong!!

Lenok replied with a pale face.

“It’s better to confuse them by shaking like this so they can’t aim-”

Shuuuuung!!

At that moment, a missile that flew like a snake between the buildings flew right in front of Lenok’s nose.

The head of the missile had a living eyeball embedded in it, writhing grotesquely, and the outer wall of the projectile had bloodshot veins bulging out like blood vessels, giving it a gruesome appearance.

It was a cursed weapon that maximized its manipulation and guidance capabilities by using a human sacrifice as a base.

Lenok, realizing this, tried to barely dodge the missile by quickly changing the direction of the flames he was using as a booster.

Then, the head of the missile opened like the mouth of a beast, and exploded right in front of Lenok’s nose.

Kwaaaaaaang!!

He swallowed the cursed magic that exploded in the air on the spot, so that it wouldn’t reach Lapis.

Due to the recoil, Lenok’s body was thrown far away, and Lapis and Patricia, who were tied by magic threads, fell helplessly to the ground.

“Kuh…!!”

“Lapis!”

Lapis quickly regained her balance by gathering her magic power, and with Patricia’s help, she safely landed on the sidewalk.

“I’m fine. Evan…!!”

“I saw him use Blink at the end. He’s okay!”

“…!!”

Lapis, wiping the soot from her face, stood up and lost her words as she looked back at the gruesome scene of the street she had just passed through.

The hotel building, which was bombed by a missile and was burning and collapsing, and the vehicles that were abandoned and stopped on all sides of the road without owners.

The chaos, filled with ear-splitting gunshots and the roar of explosives, was so chaotic that it could be mistaken for the middle of a battlefield, not a city.

Lapis, staggering as she stood up, struggled to sweep her hair back and muttered.

“…Does Vulcan casually carry out missile bombings even in such a busy downtown area?”

“That’s-”

“It’s not a frequent event.”

At that moment, a cheerful voice rang out from outside the burning street.

A dark-looking man wearing glasses was walking from outside the fire, holding a file.

The white gown he wore, as if he were a researcher, was covered in soot, and the ends of his sleeves were already burned and tattered.

However, the gaze that stared intently at Lapis from within the flames was strangely expressionless and eerie.