Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 512

The Sniper’s True Worth (3)

Two arms of the statue scattered from the completely shattered theater roof.

It seemed certain that Maiya had failed to deflect the last arrow Ivelyn had shot.

‘If the statue is damaged, there’s a high chance the Doctor’s plan will be useless.’

The Doctor’s original plan was to forcibly extract the power accumulated in the statue through the settlement to open a space-time gate.

Without knowing the exact strength of the Aegis members and the Foreign Legion, it was more reasonable to retreat from this place rather than waste energy fighting them unnecessarily.

To protect the statue and divert attention, they had been fighting outside the theater, but Ivelyn’s sniping was much more powerful than anticipated.

The great bow sniping, imbued with small universe inertial bias. The single shot, mixed with magic and mental imagery, contained an overwhelming power that was impossible to receive head-on.

With two arms of the statue shattered, it was impossible for the Doctor’s plan to proceed as originally intended.

Lenok’s expression, which had been wavering behind his mask, turned cold.

‘It’s impossible to kill them all. They know that, and that’s why they’re being so aggressive.’

If Lenok were to exert his full power, it wouldn’t be impossible to annihilate most of the Aegis members in this city today.

However, doing so would mean revealing not only Lenok’s true technique but also Victor’s identity to some extent.

Ivelyn, who was continuously sniping from an unknown location, and the other Foreign Legion power, the superhuman, would surely confirm it.

Perhaps the other members, knowing this, were trying to blend into the situation instead of exerting their full power.

The mere presence of the Foreign Legion, not moving outside the city, made them cautious about using force when dealing with Aegis.

They were not the only enemies, and if a full-scale war broke out, they might have to face even the Foreign Legion.

The problem was that not only Lenok and Soryu but also the Aegis members were not entirely unaware of this.

[Time is on our side, everyone calm down.]

[Broken Arrow has started moving. Slowly push them!]

Having realized that Lenok could not be easily attacked after the previous fierce battle, the members began to switch to a war of attrition, blatantly stalling for time.

They also sensed that Ivelyn’s sniping from the rear was forcing Pandemonium to make a choice.

Shhh!

On the frozen river and ice shards, Soryu, half-melted by the cold, and the black visor clashed incessantly, engaging in a fierce battle.

Soryu’s face, half-transformed into a white skull, would revert, while the black visor would crush the cold with his bare hands and unleash black magic in succession.

Just as Lenok glanced at the two and tried to raise his magic power again,

Kiiiing…!!

A strange pulling force was felt strongly tugging at Lenok from behind his head.

“…”

It could be resisted with target designation resistance. However, the technique was powerful enough that he had to decide whether to resist now that it had been initiated.

Moreover, the direction from which this technique originated was not from the other Aegis members but from the theater where the Doctor was located.

Lenok recognized this and immediately submitted to the flow of the technique without resisting.

Whoosh!

Before he could even close and open his eyes, Lenok’s body was teleported and reappeared in the theater’s main hall.

Soryu walked in, still exuding cold from his whole body, and other members, who seemed to have been in the middle of a battle, were scattering their murderous magic power.

Before they could even say anything to each other, the Doctor, sitting on the statue with two arms torn off, opened his mouth.

“I called you. It seems there’s no reason to waste any more time.”

“What do you mean…?”

The Doctor turned his gaze.

“The sniping just now damaged the statue, making it impossible to open the gate. Instead, I used the remaining power to teleport you all inside the theater.”

“You’ve done a useless thing.”

Soryu looked up at the Doctor with a cold expression and dismissed him.

“It will only buy us a little time. If we show signs of retreating, they will push in even harder. What are you thinking?”

“I needed just that little bit of time.”

As the Doctor said that, the huge statue of the Eight-Armed Deity he was sitting on began to collapse, crumbling like a ball of fluff.

Kugugugu…!!

Amidst the statue crumbling and scattering like sand, ten jewels emitting a soft light appeared.

Considering the number, they probably represented the ten lenses that made up the statue’s eyes.

The Doctor silently rolled them to the other members.

One each for eight members, and two more for Maiya.

“The moment the statue began to break, I gave up on opening the gate and focused on compressing and backing up the internal data used in this settlement, distributing it into the lenses.”

The Doctor said, slightly tilting his head towards the lens Lenok was holding.

“If only four of the ten lenses are intact, the causality of this settlement can be fully maintained. I’m counting on you.”

“…”

Only then did the members realize why the Doctor had entrusted them with these lenses, and a hollow laugh formed on their lips.

From the moment Ivelyn’s sniping was allowed, the Doctor had given up on opening the gate without hesitation and was focusing on preserving the data entered through the settlement.

“The existence of the statue is merely to organize the causality of the old world into data format to facilitate input and output, and the causality of the old world collected so far will not disappear. However, the newly updated information in this settlement is different.”

The eyes of a beast shone clearly within the ball of fluff.

“Until the synchronization is complete, you must maintain the original form of the original data. So, from now on, you each take a lens and escape from this city on your own.”

“Heh heh, it’s not really my problem… Isn’t it just a matter of killing them all?”

Blood Old Man let out a sinister laugh, twirling the blade in his hand.

The Doctor immediately replied.

“The stronger the opponent’s power, the easier it is for our abilities to be revealed. Is there any reason to engage in a losing battle?”

From the start, this settlement was not intended for combat, so the Doctor was the one who had to worry about the statue being damaged as the battle continued.

Moreover, most of the Pandemonium members were individualists who were far from being organized.

In this situation, rather than forcing them to participate in protecting the statue, it was more reasonable to ask them to take care of themselves and just take a lens, so the Doctor had already come to a conclusion.

However, Blood Old Man did not seem to agree with that.

“I was having so much fun fighting, killing, and tasting, and now you’re just cutting off the fun… is that all you have to say…?”

He dropped the lens he was holding.

Thud!

Instead of breaking, the lens rolled and stopped at his feet.

“What happens if I just leave this here?”

“What difference would it make?”

The Doctor said indifferently.

“Unfortunately, you won’t be able to participate in the next settlement.”

“…”

Blood Old Man obediently picked up the lens and wiped it with his tattered clothes.

Even the blood-crazed old monster seemed to regret not being able to participate in the settlement and get a share of the spoils.

“If you roughly understand, let’s finish this settlement a little early. Is there anything else to say?”

“I think it’s a bit unfair to distribute the lenses to everyone gathered here…”

Chebien, the lanky doll, glanced back and said.

“Isn’t there an injured person?”

“No, don’t worry about it!!”

Vernon, with a slightly pale face, took a swig of alcohol and spat it out on his pierced shoulder.

Chiiik…!!

At the same time, steam rose from the shoulder area, and the wound began to heal instantly.

It was too fast and agile a reaction to be simply a disinfection effect from alcohol.

‘A disinfection and hemostasis [stopping of bleeding] technique using alcohol as a medium.’

Considering Vernon’s actions, the ability he wielded might be the power to manipulate effects derived from alcohol.

Seeing that everyone had chosen and held their lenses and were ready, the Doctor nodded.

“Okay. Then I’m done here.”

The Doctor, who had glanced up at Maiya standing behind him, smiled.

“Interesting people came to today’s settlement, and there are still many things I want to ask… but it can’t be helped, I’ll have to leave it for later.”

“…”

“Excuse me then.”

With those words, Maiya’s hand blade fell on the Doctor’s head.

Thud!

Without a single scream, the ball of fluff disappeared into a puddle of blood.

Lenok had seen a similar scene once before in the Hanghasa Labyrinth.

Hadn’t Maiya tried to reverse the situation of the labyrinth race by killing the life that represented the Doctor’s will and activating forbidden magic?

If the Doctor was planning to help in the same way as before, there should be a more visible change.

The answer came from Maiya’s mouth.

“Avoid the drawbridges and temple entrances on the northwest and southwest sides of Bairutz. The two locations where the astrological signs are most ominous are the strongest.”

“…”

“Escape in any other direction and take cover. That’s the Doctor’s last message.”

“Did you find that out from what you just did?”

“Maybe.”

Instead of answering, Maiya crossed her arms and nodded.

“If we stall for a little longer, Marcia’s bombardment will begin soon. Move.”

As Lenok passed through Maiya’s cold gaze, he asked.

“Are you planning to stay until the end and clean up the mess?”

“That’s ridiculous.”

Maiya cut off Lenok’s words sharply and raised her gaze.

“I was just wondering whether to watch the one shooting those arrows or not.”

“You speak as if you know each other.”

“It’s none of your business.”

Lenok nodded obediently at Maiya’s cold reply.

“Well, it’s not strange for civil servants from two cities to know each other.”

“…”

Lenok said, taking in Maiya’s sharp glare.

A sharp sneer formed on Maiya’s lips.

“If you have something to say, spit it out quickly.”

“There’s a way to disrupt the sniping of the Divine Bow.”

Lenok turned his gaze to the other members and continued naturally.

“Anyone who plans to follow the plan, stay and wait. Sabrina, can you make a few druid charms with your language magic?”

“It’s not difficult. What are you planning to do?”

Lenok smiled at Sabrina’s question.

“I’m thinking of moving the entire satellite city’s transportation system for a moment.”

* * *

Lenok immediately headed to the building next door through the passage behind the theater.

The ruined terminal located right next to the theater.

Perhaps it was designed from the beginning of the satellite city to have cultural life and transportation close by.

Lenok did not hesitate to forcibly open the door of the terminal’s power room and roughly connected the severed joints with magic power.

“Why are there so many severed parts?”

[The materials of the wires are worth money if you cut them off and sell them in bulk. There are many similar stolen goods at auctions. They were probably stolen in that way.]

“Even if the connection points are okay, it’s going to be difficult to touch the lost internal parts. Can you restore it?”

[What do you take me for?]

Davie grumbled and jumped out of Lenok’s arms, immediately spreading her tail wide.

As her four tails swayed, magic power was emitted from the spirit of the electronic brain.

It flowed into the severed power room and instantly restored the broken system.

Woo-oong!!!

Lights came on the dusty instrument panel, and monitors turned on one by one, displaying the screens of dozens of cameras.

The cameras were showing the lower part of dozens of railways located below the old terminal.

Under the railway cameras, which were dimly lit and difficult to see properly, dozens of trains that had stopped running a long time ago were left alone.

[System recovery rate 34%. Power connection 78%. Judged as unable to operate normally. Forcibly activating the system to enter emergency operation mode.]

Whirr-whirr!!

As Davie said that and manipulated the system, Lenok immediately raised his magic power and converted that energy into electricity.

Fzzzt…!!!

He directly supplied a large amount of the necessary power to the inside of the engine facility in the power unit.

He forcibly slammed the minimum power needed for emergency operation into the system and forced the trains on the tracks to operate.

[Signal activation based on the current stop position. Starting full-power escape operation towards the outskirts of the city.]

The dozens of trains that had been stopped lit up at once and simultaneously jumped out onto the road leading to the ground in front of the tracks.

They collided, crushed, and tumbled over each other, but still, more than a dozen trains rose from the underground railway and stood on the road leading to the surface.

Dudududududu!!!

The trains, which had started running from the terminal near the theater, quickly moved away to various parts of the satellite city.

The other members who had been holding out in the main hall looked at each other with a slightly surprised expression.

“…Was that Victor’s doing?”

“So that’s what he meant by diverting attention.”

“Was he telling us to grab one each on our own?”

Even if they didn’t use the trains, the mere fact that so many trains had started running at the same time would divert a considerable number of arrows.

It was virtually impossible for the Aegis members or Ivelyn to ignore the existence of the trains speeding towards the outskirts of the city.

There was no need to try to create confusion and divert attention.

Lenok had devised a way to easily get out of this place by simply restoring the broken train operation system of the nearby terminal for a moment.

“The response is strangely natural…”

“He’s an unpredictable guy. We can’t rule out the possibility of a trap.”

Of course, people like Chebien and Rogier were the first to suspect the situation.

Not many people could afford to worry for long with the rain of arrows pouring down from above.

Although there were no arrows with the size and power comparable to the spear-like arrow that had sniped Vernon at first, they were constantly shooting arrows the size of forearms, hindering their movements.

The fact that they were insisting on a wide-range projection instead of one powerful snipe at a time was proof that the opponent also wanted to stall for time.

There was no time to hesitate.

“I don’t care, damn it. I’m going first!!”

“Vernon.”

“The choice is yours, the deal is over!! You fools, go ahead and worry. Hahaha!!”

Vernon, clutching his injured shoulder, burst into laughter and climbed onto the theater roof, boarding the end of a departing train.

He laughed heartily, drank from his bottle, and quickly moved away.

At the same time, he grabbed the charm of language magic that Sabrina had created, and his presence began to fade quickly.

A druid’s charm that infinitely assimilates one’s presence into the surroundings on the condition that one does not move.

Vernon had immediately understood why Lenok had asked for a large number of those items.

Sabrina, seeing that, seemed to have made up her mind, chuckled, and immediately jumped onto another train.

“Well, it’s not like there’s any point in believing or not believing now. See you all later!”

She waved her hand innocently and moved away.

“Pathetic… Trying to rely on other people’s help…”

“Hah, it’s a very suspicious method for someone who told us to wait. I’ll go separately.”

“Heh heh, it wouldn’t matter if I killed more trash… I don’t need any help…”

There were also those who disappeared without relying on Lenok’s arrangement.

In any case, they were all trying to achieve their goals by taking advantage of the chaos caused by the trains.

All that remained were Lenok, Soryu, and Maiya.

Soryu turned his cold gaze to Lenok, who had returned after operating the terminal.

“Not a bad idea. You seem quite familiar with this kind of thing, am I wrong?”

“Think what you want.”

Lenok scoffed, but Soryu didn’t even raise an eyebrow.

Rather, he tilted his head for a moment, as if trying to guess the reason for his actions, lost in thought.

“A sorcerer who is familiar with creating chaos and the method… The Reding Revolutionary Army or Terror Gate wouldn’t teach it this way. I felt it during Kaius, but the direction of your thinking and scale are definitely unique.”

“…”

“There’s no need to refuse an efficient route. I’ll go first.”

Soryu disappeared in a flash of ice, boarded another train, and Maiya, who was the last to remain, turned her gaze.

“I’ve been feeling it since a while ago, but you’re a strange one.”

“…Are you talking about that ice guy?”

“No, I’m talking about you.”

Maiya’s eyes flashed sharply.

“You, you’ve met me in the Hanghasa Labyrinth, haven’t you?”