Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 122

It was a novel experience for him, a man who had lived as an elder of dark magic, to see experts from two completely different fields working together for a single goal. If they had met at a different time, in a different place, they might have been able to produce much better results than this. But now, that was meaningless. “Those guys are going to leave here without knowing anything in the end.” “That was the plan from the start.” Craig replied in a heavy voice. “It’s knowledge that would only leave them with sin, even if they knew it deeply.” “Isn’t that something you shouldn’t say in front of me, who worships that sin as a god?” “…Fanatics are incomprehensible. Is it because they can say such things about their own doctrine that they can be called fanatics?” The man’s attitude of observing himself while worshiping an incomprehensible being called a disaster as a religion was bizarre. Craig’s gaze naturally turned to the small pendant hanging around the man’s neck. Inside the pendant, the figure of a huge dragon with a shark’s head was intricately engraved. “Well,” the man said with a grin. “Isn’t it because of the fun of watching moths like you that I can’t stop my dalliance of putting aside my faith for a while?” “………” Craig couldn’t deny those words, so he kept his mouth shut instead of replying. “Anyway, that’s fine. In exchange for the data obtained from this experiment and the data on how to deploy the artificial domain… I will personally guarantee the safety of those guys.” Yes. That was enough. The remaining processes were things he could do alone now. There was no reason to increase unnecessary sacrifices now that the plan had gone so wrong. All of this had started with Craig’s stubbornness from the beginning. “It’s time. We should leave before Ivelin Marcia arrives. If we get entangled with that monster, it will interfere with our proselytizing in the Balkans.” A bowman who is considered to have the sharpest teeth among the city’s hounds. From the moment she directly appeared in this matter, it was no exaggeration to say that the success of the plan became completely uncertain. “It was a mistake. I never expected a superhuman like her to get involved in this… Was it the slush fund that was the problem after all?” “Wouldn’t it be?” The man spoke leisurely, as if it were someone else’s problem. Just as Craig was about to reply with a bitter smile. [Stop the chit-chat and finish this quickly.] Someone’s voice echoed loudly throughout the entire complex. It was Jaun Audis, the leader of Falcion. [The guys left at the main base won’t last long. There’s a limit to how long they can buy us time.] “…You’re something else.” Jaun Audis seemed to value his comrades, but the people he actually considered comrades were concentrated in a very small number. To him, the other members of Falcion were just pawns that could be sacrificed for money. …No, wasn’t it Craig who offered him a deal and borrowed his power, who shouldn’t be saying that? “Then, I’ll step back at this point.” As the man adjusted his glasses and tapped on his phone, an anomaly began to occur in the complex shortly after. Kkkkkkkkkkkkkk…!! With a strange sound like steel twisting, one side of the complex opened wide, and a completely different landscape from the complex began to appear from within. Craig’s eyebrows twitched as he realized what that phenomenon meant. ‘A transfer technique… and to use it without any warning like this.’ A space-type technique that could move dozens of people at once. Normally, it would be barely possible to do this after going through elaborate processes at both the starting point and the destination, and with enormous chanting and consumption costs, but the man was doing it without any difficulty. It was more reasonable to think that he was borrowing the power of something rather than his own power, which had no magic or power. And it was needless to say that that something was the power of the fanaticism they believed in. “Well, Elder…!!” “You must come back!!” Looking at the dark mages calling out to him with desperate expressions before entering the rift, Craig raised the corners of his mouth. “Don’t worry.” Thinking it was the last time, he no longer felt the need to lie. # It didn’t take long for Falcion’s main base to collapse. He had guessed it when he came to steal the encryption key for the Trade Center before, but the number of those who could handle magic among these terrorists was small. There were even fewer who could handle magic well and were burning with fighting spirit, like the swordsman Renok had just defeated and passed by. It was an organization created from the beginning by gathering vagrants and wanderers from outside the city. In this world where individual power can surpass that of a group, a small, extremely elite team play is more effective than such an ambiguous mob. That was already proven when they successfully entered the terrorist organization’s main base by gathering only freelancers who could handle magic like this. A long area where corridors split and meet. Renok felt the presence of a dozen people approaching quickly from the other side and stopped walking. Dada dada!! Soon after, a group of people appeared around the corner. Freelancers guarding their surroundings with their respective weapons and firearms. Chen’s face was visible among them, but Hina was not. Was she still wandering around the corridor? “B, Ban…!!” “You’re alive!” The freelancers’ expressions brightened as they recognized Renok’s face. A quick check of the numbers made it clear that nearly half of them had been left behind in that short time. It seemed that there were people like the doped-up swordsman Renok had met, guarding each corridor. Chen said with a dark look. “There were a lot of guys who were cutting into our ranks with almost suicidal charges. There weren’t many who avoided it because of the battlefield.” “……..” The resistance seemed to have been more intense than expected. Everyone’s expressions were not good, but no one had lost their will. They roughly understood that there was no way to carry out such an operation without casualties. Chen, who had tried to compose himself, raised his voice as if to encourage the group again. “Looking at how several corridors meet and connect, this is probably an intermediate area in the inner structure of Falcion’s main base. If we go down a little further from here, we’ll be able to find our target.” At Chen’s words, the other freelancers rearmed themselves. “…Right. We just need to confirm the faces of Jaun and Craig. If Cheisha can support us with her firepower…” “Unfortunately, that won’t happen.” Along with the voice from behind, a dazzling light flashed. Thud–!! The heads of two freelancers standing behind Chen were smashed like watermelons without even reacting. A young man with slanted eyes appeared, stepping on the corpses that had fallen while spilling brain fluid on the floor. Jaun Audis was standing here. The freelancers were horrified when they saw him and quickly distanced themselves. “J, Jaun Audis!!” “T, the terrorist is here himself!!” All sorts of weapons and guns rushed towards him, but he just smiled while looking at them. He didn’t react in any other way and just stared at them. “You guys are like bugs that are of no help to the plan.” He spat out curses while grinning. “Do you even know how much money I lost in this because of you guys?” “…You’re crazy. Is that what you have to say after committing terrorism against the city?” Chen’s words were sharp, but Jaun didn’t even bat an eye and scoffed. “You thugs who do anything for money are good at talking.” “What?” “To be blunt, what’s the difference between you guys and us? It’s just a difference of whether we set up our business in the Balkans or outside. The important thing is money. Doing anything for money. That’s our essence.” “…….No.” Chen slowly shook his head as he took out two curved swords from his waist. “No matter how much we need money, we don’t do human trafficking or organ harvesting.” “Can you say the same thing to your gang or the scavengers?” “We’re different from those criminals…!!” One of the freelancers standing next to him flared up and stepped forward, but unexpectedly, Chen grabbed his shoulder firmly and pushed him back. “That’s not my business. The point is different. Do you want to buy time?” Renok also nodded inwardly as he realized that Chen had grasped Jaun’s intention at once. It was a tone mixed with exaggeration and coercion, making one naturally refute it, rather than just venting anger. In fact, there were plenty of trash in the 40s district who committed crimes at a similar level to Jaun in the Balkans, but the freelancers gathered here were clearly different beings. However, Chen quickly realized that Jaun Audis’ intention was to waste time by refuting these words. “………” “We can’t be played by your intentions…!!” Whoosh! Realizing that Jaun had closed his mouth, Chen immediately pulled up his magic and rushed towards him. He was showing through his actions that no words were needed to deal with him now. The important thing was not to win a verbal fight with Jaun Audis in this place, nor to kill him. It was to pass through the wide corridor below that he was subtly blocking and confirm Craig’s presence! “Let’s go!!” “Kill that terrorist!!” With Chen’s sudden charge, the other freelancers quickly came to their senses and started running not towards Jaun, but towards the corridor behind him. Jaun’s mouth twisted strangely as he realized that things had gone wrong. “Man, I hate dealing with smart guys like this.” Tap!! At the same time as Jaun flicked his long, white fingers, something sparkling popped out of his sleeve. Renok pulled up his magic and shouted as he realized that the object, which was scattering brilliant light even in the air, was a meticulously crafted jewel. “Get out of the way!!” Flash–!! Kwaaaang!!! The jewel that had glowed around Jaun’s body exploded, and the magic that had been suppressed inside leaked out, turning into colorful blades that swirled around. Shwaaak!! “Kkyaaaak!!” “A, arm!!” Those who did not miss the moment when the jewel was taken out managed to avoid it somehow, but those who missed the movement were mercilessly punished. The freelancers staggered back, clutching their injured areas while scattering blood everywhere. “Don’t back down!! You’ll die!!” Chen shouted while twisting his whole body, but it was already too late. Jaun, with a vicious smile, dashed forward like a flash and instantly grabbed two people by the collar and slammed them to the ground. Kwaaang!! The eyes of the two freelancers whose heads were smashed turned over. Jaun tore at their throats, and blood gushed from their tattered throats. Jaun, raising his blood-soaked hands, caught the blades coming from behind with his bare hands. Ssaeak!! A movement that was so smooth that it was admirable. It was proof that he was a mage who used jewel techniques and at the same time a martial artist who knew how to perfectly control his own body. At the same time as Jaun’s left hand, which was holding a jewel from his waist, glowed bright blue. Kwaaaang!! A huge fist that had swelled up dozens of times along his arm swept around, sweeping the freelancers away. “Aaaaargh!!”