Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 591

“Assistant Professor Evan!!””I thought I was going to die…!!””But you didn’t die,” Lenox said, pressing the open button on the dashboard to quickly open the train doors. He glanced at the students sprawled on the seats and quickly explained to Cassia how to operate the train’s dashboard. “If you press this button and pull the lever, it will automatically run at a fixed speed. To brake, use this button…””Wait a minute,” Cassia interrupted Lenox, holding her injured shoulder. “So, you’re telling me how to operate the train now…?””Assistant Professor Cassia, you’ll drive this train and escape out of the school.” As Lenox said that, another train car slowly rolled into view on the opposite track. Lenox gestured behind him, pointing to the newly appeared train, and smiled. “I’m going to take that one and go deeper into the university.””…”Only then did Cassia realize how Lenox planned to evacuate the students and deal with the Evil God Palace at the same time, and her mouth fell open. “You’re crazy. Does ‘deal with it’ mean…?””Either way, if someone doesn’t directly draw the Evil God Palace’s attention, this train won’t be able to escape the school normally.” Lenox said, glancing at Mila outside, who was fiddling with her shotgun. “The two of us will draw their attention and hold them off, so Assistant Professor Cassia, please go outside and request help from the outside.””…”Cassia bit her lip and nodded with a somber expression. “Okay. There’s no point in stubbornly insisting that I’ll be helpful now; it won’t solve anything.””I knew you’d understand.””But promise me you’ll focus only on stalling for time.” Cassia shook her head with a determined expression. “This isn’t Evan’s responsibility. Even if something happens to the Dean, you have to prioritize your own safety. Do you understand?””…””I would have said the same thing even if the Director or the Dean were standing here.””I understand.” Lenox nodded and got off the train car. Cassia pressed the button on the dashboard with a hazy look, and the train slowly began to move. The students, who had been leaning against the train car with a relieved look, were startled and stood up when they saw Lenox standing outside the window. “A, Assistant Professor!! Where are you going!!””We have to escape together!!””Y, You have to stop the train…!!””Daviya!!!””I have something to do; I’ll follow slowly.” Lenox smiled and waved his hand. “I’m fine, so everyone escape first.”Around Lenox, the spider spirits that had been lying on their backs began to rise one by one and approach Lenox. In the dark terminal, the spider spirits, having lost their masters, went berserk and approached, seeking living beings. It was obvious how Evan, left among the spiders with the train moving away, would appear to the students. “N, No, if you stay here, you’ll definitely…!!””Please, let’s go together!!”The students, with reddened eyes, desperately pounded on the window. Mila, who was next to them, clearing the blocked muzzle of her shotgun, chuckled at the sight of the students. “You have good students. They even cry for you.””It’ll only be more awkward when we meet alive.””Oh, you’re confident you can survive?””Rather than confidence…”Lenox smiled. There was no point in explaining it in detail. “Well, everyone has their own circumstances.”Mila nodded, seeing Lenox trailing off, and turned her head, loading her shotgun. “I don’t know how you got a personal bodyguard contract with our captain, but I’ll do my best for now.” Mila smiled and raised her magic power, pointing her shotgun at the approaching spiders. Click!!”Let’s do our best not to die, okay?””Ah, there’s no need for that.” Lenox said, smiling as he jumped up and caught Davi in mid-air, pulling him into his arms. “[Spirit Hierarchy Common Magic Partial Deployment]”Fzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!At that moment, a tremendous amount of lightning burst from Davi’s body, and three foxfires began to appear next to the spirit. The students, watching the dazzling flash of lightning through the window of the departing train, had expressions of amazement on their faces. “Belly Tickle.”KWA-A-A-ANG!!The foxfires, rotating as if illuminating the dark station, incinerated all the approaching spiders while chanting different lightning magic. [Kkieeeek!!][Kkehe, eeeek!!]The spider spirits, screaming in agony, instantly turned into a pile of ashes. Mila looked back at Lenox with a dumbfounded expression. “…You gave such a cute skill name to such a gruesome magic?””That’s Davi’s personal preference.” Cassia shook her head, seeing Lenox pass the blame to Davi without batting an eye. Three foxfires scattered brilliant flashes of light among the spiders, and dozens of lightning bolts scattered and gathered, spraying a whirlwind of lightning into the underground terminal. The form of a fox cub, not only burning the approaching spiders but also actively penetrating and breaking through the spirits. [Tot, tot, tot!!]Every time Davi lightly stepped on the slippery bodies of the spiders and jumped up, with the foxfires rotating around him. The pieces of blue lightning that bloomed from where he jumped fiercely penetrated the spider spirits’ bodies and exploded. Puh-buh-buh-bung!!The spider spirits, screaming bizarrely from all directions, were crushed and annihilated. Lenox didn’t miss the chance to explain. “He says that’s his post-overeating digestion jump.””…Okay, can you stop explaining?”Leaving them behind, Davi landed lightly on the railroad tracks, and a beautiful illusion, like blue flowers blooming in the underground terminal, unfolded. The students, who were watching the spirits’ battle from inside the train, gaped at the overwhelming combat power. Kugugung!!In the meantime, Cassia seemed to have gotten used to the train’s dashboard, and the train slowly began to move towards the other side of the tracks. [Kiek?]The spiders, who had been focused on killing Davi and Lenox due to the sudden movement, turned their heads and intensely glowed their green eyes. “H, Huh…!!””T, They’re looking this way.”The students, pale with fear at the blatant, beastly gaze filled with sticky murderous intent, stepped back. The spider spirits instantly extended their webs under the train wheels, stopping the train car. Squeak!!The spiders, having sprayed webs all over the terminal pillars, slid and dashed on them, quickly surrounding the train car. Could it be that trying to move the train to escape had backfired? The undergraduate students, realizing that they couldn’t avoid the battle, tried to raise their magic power and counter with elemental magic. At that moment, BANG, BANG!!Lenox used the automatic pistol in his hand to shoot and cut the spiderwebs that were holding the train wheels. When he cut the spiderwebs that were tangled between the wheels and had stopped the train, the train started moving forward again. [Kkeueeee!!]The spiders, unable to shoot webs, tried to wrap their bodies around the train and grab it to eat it, their forms filled with greed. The students, seeing the spiders flashing their teeth and multiple eyes outside the window, gritted their teeth and tried to prevent the glass from breaking. However, the glass couldn’t withstand the spider spirits’ grip and shattered, their fluids melting even the glass shards. Chee-ik!! [Kihehehek!!]More than a dozen spider spirits, letting out screams that sounded like laughter, climbed onto the running train. They didn’t even glance at Lenox, who was holding a gun in the train terminal, and focused only on the students. Lenox’s eyes darkened as he immediately noticed this. ‘They don’t intend to fight me. Are they only targeting the prey?’The dozens of spider spirits that filled this station were far from being spirits simply summoned by a sorcerer under a contract. The only spirit that the sorcerer of the Evil God Palace had contracted with was the giant tank spider spirit that filled the railroad tracks. The spider spirits that were now running wild were nothing more than byproducts of the tank spider’s thoughts, which had been crushed by the train. In essence, they were similar to the foxfires that Davi had newly created. However, the thought forms of the spirits that had lost both their sorcerer and their main body were completely dependent on instinct, and they were beings that would disappear after satisfying their desires. That was why they were ignoring Lenox, Davi’s master, and targeting the students on the train, who seemed relatively vulnerable. TA-ANG!!Mila, who had fired her shotgun and burst the spider spirits’ bodies with the shockwave, asked urgently. “Shouldn’t we stop them for now?!””It’ll be fine.” Lenox grabbed Mila’s shoulder, who was about to jump down to the railroad tracks, and said, glancing back. “He complained, but he didn’t hate it.””…Who are you talking about?”The answer to Mila’s question came quickly. A flash of blue lightning had shot out from among the corpses of the spiders swarming in the terminal, and it had raced diagonally along the wall. Davi’s new form, flashing a dazzling light while bouncing on his four feet, quickly caught up with the speed of the train, and then, as if bouncing, changed direction and entered the train in an instant. KWA-A-A-ANG!!Davi landed on the roof of the train, as if he was a superhero, and the students’ gazes, surprised by the vortex of electricity flashing from his body, focused on the fox spirit. At that moment, Davi and the three foxfires rotating around his body simultaneously chanted and unleashed the same magic. Lightning System Common Magic Resonance Deployment Triple Chant [Ionic Bounce]WIIIIIIIIING!!!Three huge spheres of lightning, floating in the air, rotated in place, condensing lightning and scattering it in all directions. The lightning, reflected and bounced off the train walls and floor dozens of times, skillfully avoided the students and burst the heads and eyes of the spider spirits. Puh-buh-buh-bung!!More than a dozen spider spirits, which had been clinging to the train, evaporated and disappeared on the spot. “I, I’m alive.””The speed… it’s back…”The train, which had been unable to gain speed while being bound by spiderwebs, began to roll and move away from the terminal. Only then did the students, who had been holding onto the broken doors due to the spider spirits’ attack, seem to realize the situation, and one of them muttered. “He saved us again…”[…]Davi stared at the students for a moment, then, without saying anything, walked on all fours and stood at the end of the train. If he stayed on the train as it moved away, he would end up being separated from Lenox. “…Davi!”Behind Davi, who was about to jump down and return to Lenox, someone carefully stroked the spirit’s tail. The students, covered in dust from the intense battle and escape, were smiling at Davi. “Let’s definitely meet again in the lecture hall next time. Okay?”[…]Instead of answering, Davi lightly shook his tail and poked the students’ foreheads. The students giggled and stepped back at the tickling sensation on their foreheads, and at that moment, Davi’s figure had completely disappeared.* * *While waiting for Davi, who had left the train first, to return, Lenox focused on clearing the spiderwebs that were stuck to the terminal with Mila. Most of the spider spirits’ corpses had disappeared after being annihilated, but the spiderwebs, which were close to byproducts of their thoughts, remained. “Evan, look at this. It’s sticky,” Mila said, stretching a long strand of spiderweb and laughing. Lenox, who was holding a lighter and burning the spiderwebs stuck to the train, shook his head. “You’re not a child, what are you doing?””If they were children, they’d probably like this situation, wouldn’t they? It’s fun.””I don’t think there are any children who would like spiders the size of humans…” Lenox retorted, secretly checking the lingering magic power in the spiderwebs. ‘The residual magic power is excessively activated…’The tank spider, which had far exceeded the size of a normal spirit. And the dozens of spider spirits that had popped out one after another, like the tank spider was giving birth. Although they had been quickly dealt with by crushing them with the train, wasn’t it an excessively powerful spirit for a single sorcerer to control? ‘But it’s too weak to be a cursed spirit that grew by eating a magician… Have they not properly started the ritual yet?’The sorcerers who had infiltrated the Department of Elemental Studies had probably captured and confined the students as a preparation process for processing them as offerings. If the real growth promotion ritual had started and the cursed spirits of the Evil God Palace’s sorcerers had begun to grow, it wouldn’t have ended like this. The two of them soon easily cleared the spiderwebs that were stuck around the train and succeeded in moving the train. Click!! Woo-oong!!”The dashboard is working fine. Fortunately, it seems that no spiderwebs got mixed into the engine room.””That’s good. So, are we going to go kill that sorcerer leader right away?””What are you talking about?” Lenox asked back, looking at Mila, who was talking as if it was obvious that they would go and face the leader of the Evil God Palace. “There’s no way a normal researcher like me can face a high-ranking sorcerer of such a dangerous criminal organization.””…”Even under Mila’s somewhat sulky gaze, Lenox put on a straight face and diligently appealed to his own situation. “It’s true that my spirit awakened and showed good results, but of course, such dangerous criminals should be left to the city’s security forces.””A normal researcher… Well, okay. My job was to protect my younger sibling’s teacher.” Mila nodded with a bitter expression, then asked as if she had remembered something. “No, if that was the case, you could have just escaped with the students instead of staying here?””Ah, that’s also impossible.” Lenox shook his head. “If someone doesn’t draw their attention here, the sorcerers of the Evil God Palace won’t let the students escape.””…””Well, it’s clear that this is the most reasonable choice. The other students haven’t even properly learned how to protect themselves yet.”Leaving the silent Mila behind, Lenox said as he caught Davi, who had run out along the station wall. “Once things are settled, I should propose a motion to bring the combat magic proficiency curriculum forward to the second year and below… Of course, if the administrative staff are still alive.”Ultimately, this was the only way to reasonably reduce the burden without sacrificing the other students. No matter how well Lenox acted as a skilled spirit magician, it was too much to fight the sorcerers and win with dozens of students in tow. Even if they won in the process, it was inevitable that suspicion would be cast on Lenox’s and Davi’s abilities. Therefore, it was better to safely evacuate the students, and in the process, Lenox and Mila would separate and deal with the sorcerers of the Evil God Palace appropriately. “…Okay, I understand what our teacher is thinking. But drawing their attention won’t be possible with just any action.” Mila asked, plopping down on a makeshift chair behind Lenox. “Unless you’re going to attack the leader of the Evil God Palace, it’ll be difficult to keep the other sorcerers on our side.””As I said, there’s no need to directly confront the leader of the Evil God Palace. I’m not even sure if I can do that.” Lenox said, manipulating the dashboard to slowly start the train. The train, which had started moving quickly out of the railroad tracks, left the station and increased its speed. Kaga-ga-gak!!The scenery around them changed from dots to lines, along with the refreshing noise of the train wheels scraping against the railroad tracks. Lenox, who had moved the fixing device on the dashboard to fix the train’s speed, turned to Mila and nodded. “So, from now on, we’re going to go save the Dean.””…What?”Lenox, seeing Mila’s blank expression, got up from his seat and began rummaging through the shelves inside the train’s driver’s seat. “From the moment the Dean’s spirit requested help, it’s clear that he’s inside the school. Unless you have a special ability or condition, a spirit and a sorcerer can’t be far apart.”Lenox quickly found disposable coffee pots, cups, and snacks, and belatedly answered Mila’s question. “That means that the Dean himself is in a difficult situation, unable to provide any help in the current situation, even though he’s inside the school. If you connect this with the sorcerers of the Evil God Palace, doesn’t the answer come out?”Only then did Mila’s expression change slightly as she understood the meaning of Lenox’s words. “The sorcerers of the Evil God Palace are holding Garteanon Dean hostage?””To be precise, they’re planning to use him as the highest-grade offering for the spirit growth promotion ritual.” Lenox said, quickly making two cups of coffee and handing them to Mila. “Didn’t they say that they would increase the purity of the ritual sequentially, starting with low-level magicians?””…””In other words, it means that high-level magicians are also needed to properly complete the ritual.””Garteanon Dean is being held hostage to be an offering for the ritual… It’s true that if that’s not the case, this situation can’t be explained.” Mila said, then tilted her head. “But I know that the Dean himself is a level 7 Saint-level magician and a veteran who has participated in the Great War, so how could he be taken hostage?””The Dean himself wouldn’t have willingly been captured.” Lenox muttered, sipping his coffee. “I think he was unintentionally subdued while holding students or school officials hostage.”If it was the Dean he knew, he wouldn’t have willingly become a hostage even if he was aware of the sorcerers’ existence. However, if he had been forced to become an offering due to various factors that hindered him during the battle, it was not an unbelievable situation. Lenox had sensed that the Dean had sent a spirit to ask for help in the process, and he was planning to go save him. “As Mila said, Dean Siollus Garteanon is an excellent level 7 Saint-level magician and a veteran with a lot of experience.” Lenox shrugged his shoulders, seeing Mila’s face, which still hadn’t grasped the situation. “So, if we succeed in saving the Dean, we won’t have to worry about who will face the leader of the Evil God Palace, right?””That’s right… I understand.” Mila’s expression, which had understood why Lenox wasn’t paying much attention to the leader of the Evil God Palace, was filled with admiration. “We’ll save the Dean, and that old man will take care of the leader of the Evil God Palace. Are you a genius of mercenary tactics?”From the beginning, Lenox had no intention of solving this incident alone. If he faced the Evil God Palace alone under the identity of Evan Bailon, he would only draw attention in a bad way. He needed someone to find the clues to solve the problem and take responsibility for finishing the job in Lenox’s place. Lenox had known from the start that the only person who could do that was the Dean, Siollus Garteanon. “I think I roughly know where the Dean is.” Lenox, who had increased the speed by manipulating the train’s dashboard, unfolded a map. “It seems like I can see where we need to resolve and end this situation now.”