Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 590

“What do you mean what they rode in on… why is that important?”

Unlike Mila, who tilted her head in confusion, Cassia immediately grasped the meaning and exclaimed.

“The subway…! That’s it!”

“The subway line operated by the city government passes under Lavatenon University. I heard that the shamans used this to infiltrate,” Lenox said, unfolding a map of the university he had brought from the lab.

“The train they rode in on. We’ll take it in reverse to escape out of the university.”

“Ah, I see. Well, they would have left a way to escape after they were done,” Mila said, finally understanding Lenox’s words and nodding.

Mila quickly scanned the map, estimating the distance, and then looked up.

“It’s not far from the Elemental Studies lecture hall. It’ll take about 10 minutes on foot.”

“There are more than five stations inside the school where you can access the subway. We’ll pick one, occupy it, and seize the subway train,” Lenox said, pointing to the lecture hall where the students were resting.

Cassia asked with a troubled expression, “What about the students? If dozens of them move to the subway station, they’ll definitely be noticed.”

“I’ll move first, pretending to go to another station to draw attention,” Lenox immediately replied.

“If I distract the other shamans, it should give the students enough time to move. Mila, will you help?”

“Helping isn’t difficult, but… there are two problems,” Mila said, holding up her fingers.

“One. What if the train the shamans came on isn’t at the station we’re going to occupy?”

“I have a way to call it.”

Hacking the subway system through Davi wouldn’t be too difficult. Hiding the process wouldn’t be hard for Lenox either.

“…Okay. Then, second. How are you going to find the leader of the Weird God Palace?”

“I have a way for that too.”

“Ahahahah!”

Mila burst into laughter at Lenox’s nonchalant answer.

She grinned, slung her shotgun over her shoulder, and nodded. “If our assistant professor is that confident, then we’ll manage somehow. Okay. Let’s get started.”

* * *

Inside the Lavatenon Magic University subway station. The scene of the station was filled with a quiet, foggy atmosphere.

Beyond the fog, dozens of students were quietly tiptoeing down the transfer stairs.

Each of them had a tense, stiff expression. Some were carrying injured people on their backs, suppressing their tension and fear as they moved.

Cassia, who was leading the way for the students, also had a faintly strained expression.

“…If we go down this way, we’ll see the subway transfer area,” Cassia whispered quietly to the students behind her.

“Hide as long as you can and hold out until Assistant Professor Evan brings the train. Got it?”

“Um, Assistant Professor Cassia…?”

“What is it?”

Cassia turned to the student who had asked her a question, and then she noticed that all the other students were looking up at something above her head.

*Chiiik!!*

At the same time, she felt a stinging sensation on her shoulder.

A green liquid that had fallen from the station ceiling was melting her clothes and burning Cassia’s skin.

“…”

Forgetting even the pain, Cassia looked up with a pale face.

A spider, easily the size of a person, was clinging to the wall of the station stairs, dripping green venom as it looked down at them.

“I think we’ve been discovered already…”

“…Run!!” Cassia shouted, grabbing her injured shoulder and pushing the students forward.

“Please, please, please, not spiders…!!”

“This is so creepy!!”

“If we get caught, we’ll be turned into cocoons alive!”

*Thud thud thud!!*

The students ran down the stairs with pale faces.

The spider, which had been tilting its head while dripping green venom, quickly descended the stairs and blocked the students’ path.

Its three-dimensional mobility was so fast that ordinary humans could not even approach it.

The spider, with its eight slender legs tapping, was about to shoot a web at the students when a flash of blue lightning appeared above their heads.

*Pazik…!!*

The spider’s lower abdomen burst open from the lightning strike, and spiderwebs poured out.

[Kieeeek!!]

The spider, belatedly realizing that its lower body had been crushed, let out a sharp scream.

“Ugh…!!”

Someone couldn’t stand the bizarre sight and tried to vomit, but something like lightning flew and hit the back of the student’s head.

*Paak!!*

“Ow, ouch!!”

The male student, whose stomach had settled down, looked up with a bewildered expression.

“D, Davi?”

A dazzling, navy-blue light in the shape of a fox cub.

Davi looked at the student, raised his chin, and pointed his front paw confidently towards the bottom of the stairs.

“…Go?”

*Nod nod.*

“Okay. But you’re surprisingly strong?”

The student, grumbling, picked up Davi and started walking ahead. Davi emitted an electric shock to illuminate the inside of the station.

“But aren’t you supposed to be with Assistant Professor Evan? If you’re not there, the professor will…?”

*Shakes head.*

“You’re okay. So you’re staying with us because of us?”

*Nod nod.*

“Thank you. I’ll buy you snacks for spirits often.”

*Twitch.*

“What, you like that? You’re more picky than I thought?”

Davi turned his head away, ignoring the question.

While the students were giggling and whispering to Davi, the group arrived at the subway transfer area.

A passage with metal rails laid in a dark space. There was no light to rely on except for the faint magical glow emanating from Davi’s body.

“We’ll have to hide until Assistant Professor Evan arrives.”

“Assistant Professor Cassia, the management office is open.”

“Oh, really? That’s good…”

Cassia, who was about to turn her gaze naturally, stopped speaking.

She realized that the fact that the management office door was open at a time like this could not be a positive sign.

The student who grabbed the doorknob of the management office also noticed something was wrong, and his expression changed drastically.

“…Huh?”

The student, who had confirmed the white, sticky clumps of spiderwebs on the doorknob, took a step back. At that moment.

*Kwaaaang!!*

The door of the management office swung open, and more than a dozen spiders jumped out at once.

“Kyaaaaaaak!!”

It wasn’t just one spider spirit guarding this station.

Dozens of spiders, who had somehow gathered inside the management office, jumped out and scattered spiderwebs, instantly binding the students’ bodies to the floor and walls of the station.

[Kieeeeee.]

“H, hic…!!”

The students’ faces turned pale at the sight of the spiders dripping green venom in front of them.

[You’re not very smart for magic school students.]

A strange voice was heard from the dark passage where the train tracks were laid.

*Saaaak!!*

A giant spider, several times larger than the spiders that had captured the students, crawled out of the passage floor.

[Did you really think we wouldn’t be guarding the subway?]

“Ugh…” Cassia grimaced with difficulty. The tank spider stopped in front of her. A shaman wearing a spider mask got off the spider and stood in front of her.

[If you were planning to rely on luck, it’s too late. You are all destined to be chosen as sacrifices for our offering ritual…]

*Taang!!*

With the sudden sound of a gunshot, the shaman’s body shook violently.

“Destined?” Mila asked indifferently, holding a shotgun with smoke rising from behind the shaman.

“You’re a mage, and you believe in that kind of thing?”

[You… bastard, I’m not a mage…!!]

Mila kicked the shaman’s head, who couldn’t finish his sentence and collapsed, knocking him unconscious. She quickly tied the shaman’s body to a pillar with the same spiderwebs.

“If I kill him, the spirit might go berserk, so I’ll just knock him out for now.”

“…Isn’t it greedy to hope he’ll survive after being shot in the back with a shotgun?” Cassia asked, sounding dumbfounded.

Mila shook her head. “Mages these days are tough, so it’s okay. I’ve hit them a few times, and they don’t even get hurt.”

“…” Mila, who had given an absurd answer based on her extremely personal experience, took out a dagger from her pocket and began cutting the spiderwebs one by one.

“Mercenary, I’m sorry, but could you please hurry and untie us…?”

“Just wait a bit. Why is this so hard to cut?”

“Those spiders, they’re stopped now, but it wouldn’t be strange if they started moving again at any moment.”

“It’s okay… huh?” Mila said, responding to Cassia’s question, and then stopped, realizing that the shaman she had just tied up was gone.

She turned her gaze to where the spiderwebs were coming from and saw the tank spider stopped on the train tracks.

The tank spider was just moving its mouth without any other movement, and the shaman’s flesh was being chewed and swallowed alive.

“…”

[…]

The moment Mila’s eyes met the tank spider’s green eyes, the tank spider’s green eyes became bloodshot and began to glow red.

[Kkieeeeeek!!!]

At the sudden shriek, more than a dozen human-sized spiders, as if waking from a sleep, began to move.

At the same time, they opened their mouths wide as if they were about to devour the students bound by the spiderwebs.

“Waaaaaah!!”

“M, Mercenary!!”

“Wait, I’ll untie you right now…!!” Mila, sweating profusely as she cut the spiderwebs, suddenly raised her head as if she had remembered something.

“W, wait a minute!! Come to think of it, Evan’s spirit was here with us until just now…!!”

*Pajijik!!*

At that moment, a flash of blue lightning burst from the management office, burning all the spiderwebs in the station.

The release of lightning, which did not harm humans but only burned the spiderwebs, was in stark contrast to her previous struggles.

The students stood up and turned their gaze towards the management office.

The image of the fox spirit standing proudly, holding the control panel with both front paws, was clearly visible.

“Davi!!”

[Kkieeeeeee!!!]

As soon as it saw the fox spirit, the tank spider spirit screamed as if it had gone mad, trying to crawl into the station.

Venom dripped from its mouth, and it was frantically spewing spiderwebs from its limbs.

Its blatant gluttony made it seem like it couldn’t wait to devour the small spirit.

However, Davi did not back down even after seeing the tank spider’s outburst, and instead snorted openly.

*Pajik!!*

The direction of the subway tracks inside the subway was changed by the electrical signal sent by the electric spirit to the management office control panel.

A faint vibration and a flash of light appeared from the dark rails.

*Bbaaaaaang!!*

A huge train car that had rushed in from inside the passage instantly rammed into the tank spider’s side.

The impact severed all of the tank spider spirit’s limbs, and its body was crushed, scattering spiderwebs like a fountain.

[Kkeueeeek!!! Kkiheeeeee!!]

The spider spirit thrashed around, letting out a miserable scream that was hard to hear even with one’s ears covered.

However, it was helplessly crushed by the weight of the train, which continued to advance relentlessly, pressing down on the impact.

*Kiiiiik!!*

The train, which had finally braked after completely crushing and tearing apart the spirit, barely stopped at the end of the station.

In front of the train car’s driver’s seat window, which was covered in spiderwebs and unknown fluids.

“Am I a little late?” Lenox asked, waving to the students with a nonchalant expression while holding the steering wheel.