Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1267

The Fourth Paper (1)

District 5 of the megacity Balkan.

The Central Council Main Building, located in the heart of the bustling downtown area.

A wide-open avenue in front of the Council Main Building, sculpted from pure white marble like a majestic temple.

Along the path leading to the council, covered with thick carpets, a throng of people had gathered.

Lights and cameras were densely packed everywhere. Agents were stationed on nearby buildings and rooftops.

Special forces dispatched from the Maintenance Army and the elite superhumans of the Special Operations Agency were simultaneously monitoring the entire District 5 area.

Central Council councilors. High-ranking officials of the city government. Reporters and broadcasting crews from various news agencies and broadcasting stations.

And tens of thousands of citizens from all over the megacity who came to witness this moment firsthand.

“It’s quite a spectacle…”

“How long has it been since so many people gathered at the Central Council?”

Everywhere one turned, people were gathered, watching the central road leading to the council.

Beyond the horizon, people were visible in every possible place.

“It’s Headmaster Garteanon. The head of Lavatenon Magic University himself…”

“The director of the Carlisle Research Institute is by his side. Have all the research institutes directly under the city council come out?”

“There are also generals from the Maintenance Army and the Defense Forces. How long has it been since an event of this scale was held in Balkan?”

The highest-ranking research institutes and various research organizations in Balkan, which receive direct funding from the city government.

Renowned professors, authorities, researchers, and scholars who have made a name for themselves in academia were also present.

The magnificent and grand sight of high-ranking generals from the Maintenance Army and the Defense Forces marching with their elite units.

Everyone knew the reason why experts and authorities from all over Balkan had gathered.

“I heard that Evan Bailon’s fourth paper presentation will be held simultaneously with the victory parade.”

“With such a justification, it’s no wonder that experts and officials from all over Balkan would gather… The city council is really going all out.”

“Are they trying to elevate the status of the victory parade by making Professor Bailon’s paper presentation part of the event?”

“Just how much is the city council trying to push for Kyunroe…”

Each of the scheduled events during today’s victory parade were significant enough to determine the direction of the city.

The citizens were well aware of what it meant to cram all the events that might happen once in a few years into a single victory parade.

It was proof that the council was highly valuing the guests scheduled to attend the victory parade.

“Is he really coming?”

“Definitely. I heard it from a lower house member who was bribed.”

Reporters, buried in the crowd-filled street, whispered while holding their cameras.

“But the bribed lawmaker couldn’t even attend this event.”

“What can you do? If that mage tells you not to bring too many people, you have to follow.”

“I heard that many of the high-ranking officials who were supposed to attend were filtered out. They’re just going to meet his demands unconditionally.”

“How can they not? Who is this event even being held for in the first place?”

While grumbling with an earphone connected to the communication network, their hands were constantly pressing the camera shutter.

The first official event held in the name of the Central Council after the end of the war that had occurred in decades.

Even though it hadn’t started yet, there were more than enough news stories that could be made just by being at this place.

Click!

[(Photo) The tense atmosphere of the Central Council before the start of the victory parade. Citizens are quietly waiting for the time.]

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└This trash reporter has been posting only these kinds of photos since earlier.

└What’s the big deal about the Central Council being empty? I’m not curious at all.

└When the event starts, post the photos. Don’t make me click unnecessarily.

└Are you excited? Are you going to milk this event for news for a whole month?

“Damn it…”

The reporter, having confirmed the harsh reactions, quietly closed his laptop and grumbled.

“It’s not like the photos will capture it properly anyway. They don’t know anything…”

“Wow, how is it that your sarcastic tone is eerily similar to our editor’s?”

While other reporters patted him on the shoulder as if to comfort him, a staff member holding a light grumbled.

“If they’re so curious, they should come and see it themselves.”

“They probably just want to watch from afar because they value their lives.”

“Then what about the people who are here?”

“They’re the wise ones.”

“Wise?”

“Either way, if Kyunroe goes wild, everyone will die whether they watch it on TV from afar or see it up close. So, it’s better to watch it up close.”

“…”

At the seemingly logical words, the other reporters momentarily lost their words.

The reporters’ conversation was being broadcast through the working microphone, but getting chewed out by the director was a distant future story.

Before they even noticed that fact, the murmuring commotion spread like an infection, and the entire street began to stir.

Thump!!

“Wow, it’s here…!!”

The reporters, who had jumped up, ignored the people shouting from all directions and raised their cameras.

Even though they knew that it wouldn’t be captured properly on the screen, they would still get views if they took a picture.

The blurry images and even the shadows were the hottest topics of interest in this city right now.

At the moment when the reporters hurriedly turned their cameras and focused to capture the sight that was only allowed to be seen with the naked eye.

A huge shadow, swaying at the end of the horizon, rose and cast itself over the sky above the Council Main Building.

Whooshhhhh-!!

“W, waaaah…!!!”

A strong gust of wind swept across the ground, knocking over the people who were rushing out from all directions.

Blackened feathers fell on the heads of the citizens who were tumbling on the road.

At the same time as the surprised people looked up at the sky, huge wings spread out, darkening the ground.

A black giant bird, tens of meters in size, with red eyes. A raven floated above the sky of the main building, flapping its wings.

Kwaaaa!!

“A, a three-legged crow?”

“No way-!!!”

“Slein Onyx, is that the phantom beast himself!!”

A transcendent of level 8, responsible for one corner of the megacity Balkan. Among them, the phantom beast Slein Onyx, who had nested in the spirit realm.

Before the reporters who recognized the identity of the crow, called the mediator clan, could even turn their cameras, the ground shook greatly.

Thud!!!

Rumbleeeeee!!!!!

Complexly intertwined metal parts surged like a tidal wave from the other side of the horizon and assembled in real-time.

The metal parts, which flowed like water between the buildings and statues in front of the main building, gathered and scattered rough roars,

And soon, it transformed into a huge metal sphere, tens of meters in size, and slammed down hard in front of the main building’s avenue.

Kwaaaang!!!

The extreme golden lotus. The Golden Wheel Sphere Type 0.

An unknown incantation echoed over the heads of the people, but not many understood its meaning.

They only vaguely sensed the identity of the being who had arrived at this place through the dense magical power felt beyond the metal sphere.

“The Flagship Divine Bow…!!”

“It’s their first official activity in decades. I’ve seen their name occasionally on the list of city government cooperative businesses, but…”

“Is Kyunroe not the only one participating in this victory parade?”

Chwaaaak!!

With a chilling coldness, one side of the road froze, and a huge glacier rose diagonally.

Kiriya Yubertz, a knight with an icy impression, who had descended on the glacier, silently looked down at the ground.

Thump!!

Guided by the disciples of the Sword Sect of Revelation, the blind Habaek slowly moved his steps, holding his sword sheath.

The leader of the Mirror Divers, Marcus Tranquiller, descended as a hologram on the top of a building.

Claude Azlan, the protector of the Twin Lotus Gate, slowly moved his steps, wearing a pure white ceremonial robe and holding a spear.

Some led the officials of their respective forces, while others arrived alone without any attendants.

The figures of the transcendents, who had arrived at the main building as if by appointment, lined up in front of the people in the order they arrived.

Only then did those who had noticed the purpose of the transcendents who had appeared first whisper in surprise from various places…

“The Giants of the Light…!!”

“Have all the transcendents from Balkan attended this event?!!”

The high-ranking transcendents who had accepted the Golden Edict [a formal agreement or decree] at the suggestion of the city council after the end of the civil war.

The superhumans who had reached the pinnacle in a megacity where tens of millions of people lived, appeared in front of the Central Council in their own ways.

A giant with the impression of a mountain god, standing with a wooden club. A giant mole equipped with a spiral armor in the shape of a drill.

A woman riding a house-sized white tiger, jumping between buildings, and a middle-aged man walking with a shotgun on his shoulder.

The Giants of the Light who had attended the meeting, as well as the hermits who had not shown themselves since the end of the civil war, all gathered in front of the main building.

Kugugugugu!!!!

In accordance with the movements of the monstrous bird flapping its wings, the Flagship Divine Bow’s metal sphere and the frozen glacier moved simultaneously.

The martial artists of the Sword Sect of Revelation and the Twin Lotus Gate lined up on both sides of the road, creating a wide path as if piercing through the crowd.

The people who were watching the transcendents gathering in real-time from all over the megacity murmured in admiration.

“A phantom beast, a real phantom beast… How could such a creature live and roam the present world?”

“Arthur Mason. The hero of the civil war was still alive? Why did he only appear now…”

“Kiriya Yubertz. The former commander of the Kavahim Knights. He was still in Balkan.”

Decades had passed since the civil war over the hegemony of Balkan ended, and Kaise died with the failure of the project.

Among the citizens, there were many who knew of the transcendents belonging to Balkan but had never actually seen them in person.

It was only natural that the people who saw the superhumans who had appeared here all at once were shocked.

Moreover, if they were all standing in front of the Central Council Main Building, where tens of thousands of people had gathered, waiting for someone, it was even more so.

Rather, because of that, there were quite a few people who did not welcome the attendance of the transcendents.

“The Giants of the Light… It sounds good, but they’re just guys who didn’t even show their faces during this war.”

“Did they only come out to celebrate the victory after everything was over? The heroes of the civil war are quite cunning.”

“They’re superhumans who have officially formed a cooperative relationship with the city council. What were they doing during the entire subjugation war?”

“Why did they only appear now when Balkan was in danger? Were they afraid of the legion?”

As the Dead Rise’s attack was broadcast throughout the city, there were no citizens who did not know how dangerous this war was.

It was only natural that the attitude of the transcendents who had appeared only after the war with the legion was over did not look good.

However, those who were quick to notice were guessing the reason why they were drawing attention first.

“The transcendents have been bound by the Golden Edict for a long time since the end of the civil war. There must be a reason why they didn’t participate in the subjugation war.”

“If the transcendents who cooperate with the city council didn’t move, it’s right to see that decision as the council’s judgment.”

“Rather, the fact that they arrived first is more concerning. The fact that those who were bound by the Golden Edict appeared as if by appointment…”

A strange sight, as if the transcendents of Balkan had come out to greet someone who would arrive last.

That in itself was proof that showed better than anything else which side was in the superior position at this moment.

At this moment, when the transcendents were ignoring even the reactions of the people and seemed to be ‘waiting’ for someone in front of the Council Main Building.

“Wow, this is amazing.”

Thump!!

A house-sized white tiger, leaping off the wall of a high-rise building and landing in front of the main building, turned its body.

In terms of size alone, it was comparable to the phantom beast Slein Onyx, which was in its main form, with an overwhelming physique.

A woman with a playful smile was sitting on the back of the white tiger, passing by the maintenance army that was clearing the way.

“How long has it been since we stood in front of so many people like this? I don’t even remember if there were any events like this after the civil war.”

[Yupi.]

“Hello, Chucknoe. You’re still alive?”

The woman, Yupi, who waved her hand at Ollinik’s greeting, said.

“It’s also strange that the reason we gathered after decades is a celebration of victory. I guess we’re only meant to see each other for these kinds of events.”

[Your friend also seems to be still going strong despite the long time that has passed.]

Ollinik, who had his arms crossed, looked down at the white tiger while rotating the metal sphere.

[I heard that you suffered injuries that were too severe to be treated with taming, are you okay now?]

“Yeah. I still can’t do any major activities, but I’m okay enough to walk around outside. And today is a good opportunity.”

As Yupi stroked the white tiger she was riding, the huge beast purred like a cat.

Following the movements of the white tiger rubbing its front paws and removing eye boogers, Yupi said with an interesting expression.

“But there are a lot of people I know. I can understand the guys who cooperated with the Golden Edict like you, but I didn’t expect the mountain god and the gunslinger to be here.”

Not all the transcendents who accepted the Golden Edict were maintaining an official cooperative relationship with the city council.

Among them, there were those who were hostile to the city council or those who had lost interest in the world after the civil war.

However, among the transcendents who participated in today’s victory parade, there were even some who had not responded to the council’s calls.

Urji, the mountain god giant who boasted the largest physique among the transcendents gathered here.

Arthur Mason, the gunslinger who had killed the most superhumans who were on Kaise’s side during the civil war.

“Among the guys who survived, the only one who might come is… maybe Vista? Sakia will never come.”

“There’s no way a demon would be interested in these human ceremonies or events.”

Kiriya, who had been listening to the two’s conversation, replied with a cold expression.

“I contacted Vista, but there was no reply. He won’t attend.”

“Is that so? Well, it’s amazing that this many people gathered. Or should I say that the mage Kyunroe was that amazing?”

Yupi, who shrugged her shoulders, turned her gaze.

“I heard that he’s a powerful mage, but I didn’t know that the city council would treat him this well. Even during the civil war, the only transcendent who received this level of protocol was that Gagamyeon, right?”

“…”

There was no answer.

Instead, only the transcendents who had participated in the meeting looked at Yupi with a strange expression.

Yupi, who sensed the atmosphere, frowned slightly.

“What’s with the atmosphere? Don’t tell me Kyunroe is really a transcendent of that level?”

“Yupi. You, as a tamer, might have been too busy treating your spirit beast to properly watch the subjugation war.”

Habaek said with a hollow smile.

“But the reason why the Central Council treats him so well is not just about the level of power. You haven’t realized it yet.”

“…He killed Anathema, right? And he destroyed the Dead Rise. I don’t understand why they’re so favorable to that mage.”

Most of the transcendents gathered here were those who had fought for their lives, divided into two extremes during the Balkan civil war.

Since there were those who had sided with Anathema and those who had sided with Kaise, it would be normal for them not to be favorable to the mage who had killed both sides.

As Yupi said that, her gaze turned to the elf who was right next to her.

“Mistra, don’t you think so too?”

“…”

Reiji Mistra, the elf wearing a motorcycle helmet, did not answer Yupi’s words.

She just sat leaning against the seat of her pre-parked motorcycle, with her arms crossed in a strangely shrunken manner.

Reiji Mistra, a member of Systema Aurum and an acceleration ability user of level 8.

The elf who had been taken to the Council of Elders for siding with Anathema during the meeting was also participating here.

Yupi, who tilted her head at Mistra’s reaction, felt a sense of unease and was about to ask again when.

“He’s here.”

Slein, who had been silent until now, opened his mouth.

“Everyone needs to prepare.”

“Prepare? There’s no need for us to show protocol to Kyunroe-”

Yupi, who was saying that and turning her gaze, stopped talking.

“…Huh?”

In an instant, the street, which had been noisy due to the intrusion of the transcendents, began to quiet down quickly.

As the people who had gathered closed their mouths one by one and turned their gazes, the person next to them also turned their head.

A strange sense of unease that the people who were moving could not understand themselves why they had to act that way.

However, Yupi realized the identity of that unease and her face turned pale in an instant.

“What is this… How can a human…”

Kugugugugu…!!!!!

A very huge presence was approaching this way from beyond the invisible horizon.

An overwhelming mass that easily surpassed the consciousness and spirituality of all the transcendents gathered here.

At the moment when the pressure, as if the entire city was folding in half from the other side of the street, pressed down on the crowd.

Bwaaaang-

From the other side of the street, where tens of thousands of gazes were focused, a black car appeared.

It was driving on the carpeted road at a speed that was neither fast nor slow, passing by the people.

In the silence that everyone did not know the cause of, the car stopped,

Click.

The door opened, and a young man with a cane walked out with a blank face.

“…Ah.”

A calm and composed atmosphere where no presence or magical power could be felt.

A presence that was so weak that it could not even be compared to a single candle flame compared to the transcendents gathered here.

However, as soon as they saw his face and figure, all the transcendents who were lined up in front of the Council Main Building reacted.

Click!

Kugugung!!!!

The monstrous bird, having folded its wings, tilted its beak and lowered its head in place.

The sphere of the Golden Wheel Sphere rotated and emitted a resonance, and the frozen glacier that had risen above the street tilted.

The head of the Sword Sect of Revelation bowed while holding his sword, and the protector of the Twin Lotus Gate knelt respectfully while holding his spear.

The transcendents who were gathered here were all showing respect to the car that was approaching from afar, as if by appointment.

The sight of the transcendents, including the sphere, glacier, and monstrous bird, all bowing at the same time, even felt majestic at first glance.

“K, Kyunroe…!!”

At the moment when someone, among the people who had realized it without being told, uttered the words as if possessed.

The reporters who had turned their cameras on simultaneously flashed their lights, and a huge cheer erupted.

Waaaaaaaah!!!!!

The sound of tens of thousands of people erupting at the same time shook the entire street violently and echoed like an earthquake.

Along the road that was shaking incessantly, the sound grew louder each time he walked with his cane.

The joy of winning the war. The relief that the city they lived in was safe. The excitement of sharing the celebration together.

Amidst the pouring gazes and cheers, lights and fireworks. Lenox stood at the center of the distorted emotions and motives.

The mage, who was looking at the fireworks and confetti scattering in the sky with a blank face, moved his steps.

Everywhere on the street, steel giants showed respect to Lenox, and the martial artists of the Twin Lotus Gate lowered their heads.

The overwhelming sight of the Giants of the Light, who had been lined up in front of the Council Main Building, showing respect to Lenox alone.

Just as Lenox stopped walking as if he had finally recognized their existence, Ollinik opened his mouth.

[Kyunroe. It’s been a while.]

“Ollinik.”

At the cold gaze of the young man, the huge presence seemed to slowly move and tilt towards this side.

Just that alone made it feel as if all the thoughts existing in this space were pouring out towards the transcendents.

Ollinik, who had placed his hand on his chest on the sphere, replied.

[Welcome to today’s victory parade. Everyone here has been waiting for your arrival.]

“…”

[I was asked by the Central Council to guide you, is it okay to start the protocol?]

Lenox, who had looked at the transcendents who were waiting for him with a blank face, said.

“You’ve prepared an unnecessarily grand event. Did the council directly mobilize you?”

[Unnecessary? There’s a fallacy in that statement.]

Ollinik smiled while rotating the sphere.

[There’s no one on the entire continent who hasn’t watched this war, so how can you say that the act of greeting you is meaningless?]

“…”

[Most of the people gathered here are those who participated in the victory parade to meet you. I think it’s safe to say that they don’t want to be your enemies.]

“I don’t care. That’s not why I came here today.”

Lenox said that and turned his gaze.

“If there are so many people gathered, it would be a good place to watch the presentation of the fourth paper.”

[…]

“Let’s skip the meaningless procedures and get straight to the point. Where is the mayor?”

[Although many procedures have been omitted, not all of those processes are meaningless.]

Ollinik said leisurely.

[We came here to make you the owner of this city today.]