Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 219

Bloodline Front (2)

The low melody reached the ears of the two silent figures.

The man, seemingly oblivious to their presence, played the instrument in a trance, then rapidly increased the tempo.

As the tone intensified, the pool of blood at his feet splashed up in rhythm, creating large ripples.

It was unsettling to stand there, witnessing his nonchalant attitude.

Kilian growled, ready to transform into a wolf, but Lenok grabbed his shoulder, stopping him.

After a lengthy performance, the man slowly lowered the violin and stood up.

“I don’t want to work.”

“……”

“It’s the boss’s request, so I’m doing overtime, but… I need some kind of pleasure to keep going.”

Despite wearing a suit, he was thin and unusually pale.

His features were ordinary, showing no signs of strength or vitality.

However, the potent magical energy emanating from his body was undeniable.

Kilian remained tense, his eyes fixed on the man, but Lenok turned his gaze to the scene around him.

The corpses, drained of all blood.

The bloodstains spread like a carpet across the area.

And the ‘blood bags,’ still neatly preserved, hanging from the ceiling.

If these three clues pointed to one identity, it could only be one thing.

“I can see why blood mages aren’t well-regarded in this city,” Lenok said.

“If you kill people like this every time you fight, who would want to associate with you?”

“That’s not wrong.”

The young man smiled and bowed politely.

“It’s my first time meeting you in person. I’m Avid. Avid Yohnsen.”

Lenok, stepping forward while rubbing his stiff shoulders, said, “You feel different from the blood mages in District 44 I’ve known. Are you from a completely different faction?”

“I wish you wouldn’t compare me to those old-fashioned idiots,” Avid laughed.

“Those cowards who just try to get by while being mindful of the city government don’t deserve to wield this great magic.”

“……”

Even Lenok felt that the nature of his magic was vastly different from that of the blood mage boy, Ryan Eiter, he knew.

Unlike Ryan, who only used his own blood and lifespan, Avid’s current state was that of a complete murderer.

“To have the power to turn trash into fuel and still be doing odd jobs… it’s disgusting. Don’t you think so too, Ban?”

“Well, if it weren’t for those guys, blood mages would have been hunted down and banned from this city a long time ago,” Lenok replied indifferently.

“Do you want to end up like the necromancers?”

Black magic and blood magic. Both types of magic have survived in this city by reducing their inherent cruelty and increasing their acceptance.

On the other hand, necromancers were designated as forbidden magic, rare in the Balkans, because they couldn’t abandon the principle of using other people’s corpses for their magic without permission.

Even Avid’s ability to use blood magic, at least in name, was thanks to the blood mages who compromised with reality and accepted the city government’s recommendations.

But looking at the massacre he had committed, it seemed like it was already irreversible.

Avid shook his head.

“That’s not true at all. The shadow of the Balkans is much deeper and darker than you think. Our cartel’s protection is more solid and impressive than yours.”

“……”

He spread his arms wide and raised his head, as if intoxicated by his own words.

“We have our own order. Under this cloudy sky, we are all free. Because!”

“Because why?”

“Because we have power.”

Silence fell.

The smile on the pale young man’s lips stretched wider.

“It’s a world that is more merciful than anyone else to those who are qualified. I love this world so much.”

“Hmm.”

I thought he was more sane than Girard, but was he just subtly crazy?

No matter how I considered it, a normal conversation seemed impossible.

Considering the carnage he had created in the factory, it was impossible from the start.

“I heard a rough story from Girard Ogette,” Lenok said, slowly raising his magical energy.

“You chose us as sacrifices to conceal the massive transfer of business ownership within the cartel.”

“Oh.”

Avid laughed.

“Did that bat already blab that much?”

Lenok ignored his question and continued, “To be honest, I thought it would be possible to have a constructive conversation here. I thought that you, who betrayed the cartel and turned your back on them, would want to silence me through a deal.”

“……”

“But I was wrong.”

Lenok’s gaze turned to the corpses hanging upside down from the ceiling.

Knowing full well that he would come to this place, the intention of displaying people like that was obvious.

“You were just planning to shut my mouth completely.”

“Excellent.”

Avid clapped his hands and said, “That’s exactly right.”

Zzzzzzzing!!

At that moment, dozens of red laser pointers were aimed at Lenok’s body.

Simultaneously, people wielding various blades appeared from behind Kilian.

Immediately after that, dozens of intense presences filled the workshop.

It was clear that everyone gathered here was a high-level magic user.

Lenok’s eyes twitched slightly. As a magician, he could sense it more accurately.

It wasn’t just that they had a strong organization, but they had perfect teamwork, as if they were all sharing a single consciousness.

The center of this bizarre movement, moving like a single swarm, was undoubtedly…

“Let me introduce myself again,” Avid said.

“Avid Yohnsen. I am a contract employee holding the position of managing director in the cartel, and I lead the execution unit under the command of President McQueen, the 1st president.”

He slowly loosened his hands and walked out, smiling at Lenok.

“There are two things to be handled with President McQueen’s approval today. One is to secure Girard Ogette. And the second is…”

Whirrrl!

A huge whirlwind rose from the pool of blood that had gathered behind Avid.

At the same time as the whirlwind, which instantly blew away the entire roof of the production factory workbench, soared into the sky, rain began to pour down from the cloudy sky.

Kwaaaaaa!

“To execute the arrogant magician.”

Avid, who had slowly walked up to Lenok, asked, “It’s a perfect day to die, isn’t it?”

In the pouring rain, as if they had been waiting for it, the bodies of the two magicians were soaked.

Instead of deploying a shield to avoid the rain, Lenok silently looked up at the sky.

The cigarette he had been holding in his mouth was soaked, and the embers were extinguished.

“Before we do what we have to do, let me ask you one thing.”

“What is it?”

“Tell me the location of the magic core,” Lenok said.

“Then I’ll tell you where Girard is being held.”

“We can just tear off his limbs, and he’ll tell us anyway…”

Avid replied with a smile.

“It’s not a difficult request to grant.”

As he gestured, several members of the organization who had been hiding in the rain appeared and opened the door at the back of the workshop.

The engine room, which controlled the output of all the equipment in the factory.

In that room, where it had already been dissected and the location where the core would be combined was fully revealed, the magic core was shining brightly.

Right in the hands of a werewolf over 2 meters tall.

The werewolf grinned.

“Did I get caught?”

“……”

The expression disappeared from Avid’s face, and at the same time, the members of the organization who had surrounded Kilian swung their swords in unison.

Swish!

Instead of Kilian’s body being torn to shreds, it disappeared into harmless smoke.

Only then did Avid realize that Lenok had been mocking him from beginning to end, and he shouted, “You bug, how dare you deceive me!!!”

Ta-ta-ta-ta-tang!!!

The dozens of laser pointers that had been fixed on Lenok’s body disappeared instantly.

Before he could even take a breath, hundreds of bullets took their place.

Coated with thick magical energy, the bullets, which had been fully charged with firepower inside, were fired while rotating through the Mosin-Nagant [a type of rifle].

Outside the production factory workshop, lights flashed, and a wave of bullets poured down on Lenok in an instant.

Even in the midst of losing his composure due to anger, Avid did not make the wrong judgment.

He acknowledged that killing Lenok was more important than the magic core that had been handed over to Kilian.

The magic core was just a simple trophy, and the important thing was to defeat Lenok and find out Girard’s location directly.

But in that fleeting moment, the magical energy that Lenok had shot into the sky was also rushing back to the ground with a clear intention.

What he wanted was lightning. What he held in his hand was a will that was faster than anyone else.

The lightning falling from the cloudy sky was a clear white, as if it would blind you.

Transformation of the nature of electric magic.

[White Fall]

In that brief moment when Lenok’s shield shone blue and received the pouring bullets.

A pillar of white light fell, riding the pouring rain.

At the same time, Lenok, who had all the flow of magic in one hand, twisted his wrist and muttered, “Reverse Transfer.”

At that moment, the Compassion of the Archangel [a magical artifact], which suddenly appeared from the gap in his soaked cardigan, flashed.

And Davi, who was sitting on both wings, flashed his small body dazzlingly.

Lenok, who had naturally grasped Davi’s ability to calculate the powerful transfer ability built into the Compassion of the Archangel, immediately unleashed that powerful ability on this place.

[Yeoncheong], which overloads the artifact by using Davi’s calculation ability.

The secret magic that had annihilated the Arashak expedition in an instant was now directed at the Compassion of the Archangel in reverse.

The point of Yeoncheong is the overload of the artifact through magical energy.

In other words, it means that it is possible to forcibly stimulate the power source and draw out the ability of the artifact beyond its limits.

Stepping into a new horizon, he uses his more powerful intuition to draw out the power of the artifact beyond its limits.

All the calculations were already finished.

The Compassion of the Archangel, which had turned bright red, left Lenok’s hand and emitted white waves as it rotated in the air.

Woo-woo-woo-woong!!!

All the bullets fired at Lenok and the raindrops falling from the sky disappeared instantly.

The ‘mediums’ obtained in this way were randomly fired in a 300m radius through random number calculations generated by Davi’s powerful algorithm.

[Electric Resonance]

[Rotation]

Crackling…!!

The white lightning falling to the ground, riding the pouring rain, split, sprayed, and rushed in all directions, carried by the hundreds of bullets that were scattered everywhere.

The moment the white current, which had branched off from the lightning, rotated counterclockwise and swept through the factory site.

The intense firepower that evaporated humans alive became a huge wave and engulfed the cartel’s members in reverse.

The white wave rotated, drawing a huge hemispherical sphere.

Kwaaaaaaaa!

“Kkyaaaaaaak!!”

“Huuu! Haaaaa!!”

“D-Director!! This is…!!”

The cartel’s execution unit.

More than a hundred members, all of whom were high-level magic users.

They were a superhuman unit that had been strictly selected for their willingness to kill, as well as their ability to obey orders thoroughly, and had secured their organizational power through constant training.

The killing machines, who had been steadily injected with the blood serum created by the blood mage Avid and had been moving thoroughly as his subordinates and hands, were collapsing while screaming helplessly.

“T-This is… this is…”

Avid’s lips began to tremble as he barely managed to draw in a whirlwind of blood to protect his body.

It was a cautious and rational judgment based on his past experience to thoroughly surround Lenok from a distance and form a bullet group.

Attacking unilaterally from an invisible place without giving him the leeway to use magic.

It was the most correct way to deal with a magician, aiming to cut off his breath at once when he became impatient.

However, the unfamiliar environment of pouring rain. The psychological flaw of not being able to see through Kilian’s illusion for a brief moment when his eyes were on the magic core, and Avid’s misjudgment of not taking into account Lenok’s abnormally fast chanting time.

All of those causes of defeat gathered in a single moment and swallowed the lives of more than a hundred members of the unit.

If they had focused all their power on Lenok by putting individual abilities first, they could have bought a little more time.

However, from Avid’s point of view, who did not know what Lenok had gained by looking into his inner self, it was a judgment that he could never make.

Avid’s unfocused gaze turned to Lenok.

The moment he met the emotionless magician’s eyes, he felt a chilling sensation that froze his entire body and averted his gaze.

Lenok, who was slowly walking forward, said, “You chose this day knowing it would rain.”

“……”

“Manipulating the weather is inefficient, but it’s not difficult to use an existing environment. You must have known that I use electric magic, and if you knew that…”

For Lenok, who had succeeded in facing the desired image, wielding electric-type unique magic was easier than moving his hands and feet.

He created an illusion so precise that it could not be detected even with the magic eye, deceiving the eyes of everyone present.

In a fleeting moment, he transformed the magical energy he had shot into the sky and struck it down as white lightning.

He then released the power of the lightning that had been transferred through the raindrops in all directions, creating a huge wave of heat.

No one could avoid the wave of electricity flowing through the pouring rain.

Lenok, who was staring at Avid with his head bowed, slightly turned his gaze.

Kilian, who had been holding the magic core, was nowhere to be seen.

It seemed that he had already successfully escaped the factory site.

It was a plan that had been agreed upon from the beginning, but Lenok nodded in satisfaction, not thinking that it would work so well.

Nick’s emblem, which confuses life reactions, and Lenok’s sophisticated illusion manipulation ability.

It was an operation that could not have been established without either of the two, but from the beginning, Lenok had brought Kilian with this in mind.

With the explosive leg strength of a werewolf and the solid physique unique to beastmen, he would be able to escape from this place faster than any of his companions.

He succeeded in removing the magic core, which was at high risk of exploding, in advance, and at the same time, he swept away the cartel’s execution unit and prevented additional losses.

Now, all that was left was to cut off the right arm of the instigator who had started all of this.

Lenok took a step forward and muttered, “You said it was McQueen.”

Crackling…!!

At the same time, blue light flowed from Lenok’s eyes.

“That was the name of the president who led this.”

Twitch.

Lenok, who had confirmed that Avid’s shoulders were shaking greatly, slowly raised his magical energy.

“The cartel is a collection of several affiliates. It’s known for being large, but its unity is like sand.”

“……”

“If I kill you here and make a deal with the cartel in exchange for telling them who the traitor is, how will the chairman react?”

Lenok smiled faintly as he watched Avid slowly raise his head.

The opponent was a military mage who had reached level 6 and had reached the point of turning other people’s blood into magical energy.

He was a perfect opponent to gauge Lenok’s position.