Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 614

Pandemonium.

I had thought that one day I might face that name without borrowing another identity, but I never imagined I’d find its traces here.

And it’s the statue of Iduparbi, the symbol of the doctor, who is considered one of the most outstanding researchers and engineers in Pandemonium.

Could I easily forget the time during the interim settlement when they measured the value of old-world relics and data, and gave appropriate compensation?

‘Of all people, it’s the doctor… This can’t be a coincidence.’

Pandemonium is, among the countless organizations Renok knows, the one that handles and uses old-world relics and knowledge most freely.

The core of that is the doctor’s ability to analyze and collect old-world relics and transform them into usable forms.

As far as Renok knew, the clown also seemed to be a fairly outstanding researcher, with knowledge comparable to the doctor.

However, the clown’s thirst for knowledge and research ability was more specialized in playing with humans like toys, a grotesque kind of thing, rather than old-world relics.

Therefore, the shadow agent’s thought circuit.

It was difficult for Renok to accept it as a coincidence that he found the doctor’s traces inside this thing.

It would be right to assume that the existence and construction of this thought circuit also borrowed the knowledge of the old world or the doctor’s power.

‘I wasn’t planning to move today originally…’

For the time being, he was planning to deal with the schemes that were crawling into this workshop and thoroughly investigate the mastermind, but if Pandemonium was involved, it was a different story.

Renok, who had connected a communication device to the thought circuit, calmly spoke to the shadow leader.

“Do you know who did the full-body modification on your body?”

[…All the agents of the side squad swear to keep secrets by erasing some of their memories before the body modification.]

The leader reluctantly replied.

[We only move for the order of the machine and the rules of steel. Nothing more, nothing less.]

“You’re just saying you don’t know in a grand, roundabout way.”

Renok nodded indifferently.

“Well, fine. If it were someone I knew, they wouldn’t have left important information here in the first place.”

[…]

“If I upload your thought circuit to the public network, it wouldn’t be strange for your consciousness to be torn to shreds by all sorts of dummy data. It would be quite fun to watch.”

The skill with which he skillfully disassembled the modified body he had seen for the first time, saving only the parts in charge of thinking and attaching a mouth, was impressive.

The leader also knew that Renok’s words were not empty threats, and the light inside the thought circuit flickered uneasily.

“I’ll ask you just once. Who moved you to try and kidnap me from this workshop?”

It didn’t take long for the leader’s mouth to open.

[Langmuir. That council member ordered you to be kidnapped and brought to him.]

“…”

Langmuir.

Renok smiled bitterly as he realized the meaning of that name.

The council member of Ex Machina who had allowed Renok to participate in the selection ceremony was now the first to covet Renok’s abilities and start making moves.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t understand the thought, but to use such extreme measures in just a few days.

Renok, who had been staring at the thought circuit, got up from his seat and asked.

“Okay. Where is Council Member Langmuir now?”

[The affluent district in the center of Machina. But without a beta-grade ticket, it’s impossible to even enter the streets of the affluent district.]

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Renok said that, picking up a machine chip from among the completely disassembled leader’s body.

“There are tickets you guys used scattered all over the place here.”

[Nonsense. How can another human use a ticket that’s customized to an individual’s biometric information…!!]

[Update complete.]

Click!!

The leader’s words, which had been coming from the speaker, suddenly stopped as Renok nonchalantly replaced the ticket attached to his artificial skin.

Renok, who had stroked the artificial skin-covered wrist a few times to check for any abnormalities, asked again.

“What is the number and scale of the security forces guarding the mansion?”

[…The security scale changes in real-time, and the security codes change, so it’s difficult to explain in words.]

The leader replied in a self-abandoning tone.

[Unless you see it directly and talk about it…]

“Okay.”

Renok replied and immediately got up from his seat.

The moment the giant crow robot spread its wings and created a strong wind,

Clank!!

The ceiling of the workshop opened wide, revealing the scenery of the night sky.

“Let’s leave right now.”

* * *

[Beta-grade ticket approval complete. Entering the Coldorado District.]

A guidance voice echoed between the giant mechanical barriers, and the steel barrier that blocked the sky hundreds of meters above slightly opened.

Sweeek!!

A black, grotesque bird-like figure appeared, flapping its wings through the gap. Renok was hanging on the back of the night crow that had soared into the sky with powerful wing flaps.

Renok, who looked down at the residential area spread out on the ground tens of meters below, lifted the thought circuit.

“Which way is Langmuir’s mansion?”

[…Before that, there’s one thing I want to ask.]

The leader asked Renok, seemingly lost in thought.

[You could have definitely made it so I couldn’t notice the anomaly in the communication network.]

“…”

[I thought I was late in noticing that Brett’s voice was fake, but looking back, even that wavering was intentional… What’s the reason?]

The leader’s voice, coming from the speaker, turned rigid.

[What are you aiming for by entering this city?]

Instead of answering, Renok stared at the night crow that was carrying them.

“The sky in this city is relatively comfortable. It’s possible to fly just by slightly assisting the lift without any grand technology or spells.”

[…]

“Even living in one continent, one world, the environment and conditions are so different. I wouldn’t have known this fact if I hadn’t visited the machine city directly.”

Renok said that and laughed, holding the microphone connected to the leader’s thought circuit.

“I think that experiences and logic that haven’t been directly experienced and gone through trial and error will ultimately not have much meaning.”

[What the heck does that…]

Crack!!

Renok didn’t wait for an answer and pulled out the microphone connected to the thought circuit.

Immediately after the only device that converted external sounds into signals and input them into the thought circuit was gone.

A grumbling sound was heard from inside the night crow that was silently flying in the sky.

[Honestly, Master is too kind to organic beings.]

The blue magical power of the cybernetic spirit flashed from inside the grotesque bird that had turned its crow’s head.

The night crow that had defeated the shadows was not a robot that was entirely controlled by Renok.

A new controller made for combat to use Davi’s abilities as a cybernetic spirit in Machina.

The fact that the night crow seemed to leap through space and attack the shadows was merely a product of Renok’s space magic.

Renok had completely entrusted the control of the night crow to Davi, and was lending the necessary magic or spells according to Davi’s requests.

[Why are you telling those things to organic beings who wouldn’t understand even if you gave them advice?]

Davi glanced sideways and said to Renok.

[If they could understand such words, they wouldn’t have modified their entire bodies in the first place.]

“I’m not saying these things to give advice.”

Renok replied with a smile.

“It’s part of a suggestion to persuade and repeat myself.”

[…]

“And there’s no guarantee that full-body modification isn’t the answer. The mechanical ascension of abandoning the human body must have yielded results somewhere.”

Renok said that and glanced back at the giant mechanical barrier he had passed.

A huge steel barrier that was difficult to even guess how far it stretched, even though they were flying in the sky.

Similar barriers were surrounding the city, blocking movement and defining space.

This scenery itself was proof that the machine city Machina once tried to redefine space and the world according to their standards.

“The fact that I imitated the human’s voice earlier is also on the same line. It’s about gauging the standard of the heterogeneity of language through mechanical modulation and reproduction.”

Renok’s eyes quietly shone.

“Through that, I’ll be able to see how the common language of Jinwa [a common language] works on intelligent beings.”

The fact that the shadow leader noticed that Brett’s voice was strange was not Davi’s mistake.

While imitating the voice of Brett, who had infiltrated the workshop, with Davi’s cybernetic abilities, he was experimenting with how much he had to modulate it for the other shadows to recognize it.

Part of the research to understand the common language of Jinwa, which the shaman of the grotesque shrine, Hyman Kilberg, had mentioned when he was shocked to see Davi using language.

“The fact that the name of a particular ascendant is heard so often is not a good sign.”

Renok muttered that and grabbed the handle attached to the back of the crow robot and lowered his body.

“Maybe I should start preparing from now on.”

[Hehehe, if Master entrusts the design to me like this, I can make it look very dignified!]

“…”

The shape of the night crow that was born after entrusting the design to Davi.

The cybernetic spirit seemed very satisfied with the appearance of this grotesque bird that he had designed himself.

However, Renok decided not to mention that it looked like an exterior that was a little too intoxicated with his own senses for the sake of the admirable spirit.

Whooong!!

Davi slowly lowered the altitude so that Renok, who had climbed on his back, would not lose his balance, and began to fly slowly over the residential area.

Even though the black grotesque bird was flying low to the ground, there was no one who noticed its appearance.

If you combine stealth magic and stealth functions to erase your appearance and presence, only the ripples that cut through the night wind will remain in the sky.

Perhaps because it was well past midnight, there were hardly any people walking the streets.

Faint lights were on in a few houses and mansions that occasionally passed by.

Renok, who had reconnected the microphone to the leader’s thought circuit, held the flickering crystal ball and whispered quietly.

“I’ve arrived at the intersection of the residential area. Tell me the location of the mansion where Council Member Langmuir resides.”

* * *

A high-rise mansion with walls surrounded by solid steel plates.

Except for a small window that allows you to look outside, the exterior completely blocks intrusion from the outside.

In the relatively large garage, the guards protecting the mansion were on guard without even hiding their personal weapons.

Whoosh…!!

A hot gust of wind blew between the faces of the guards, and in that instant when some of them frowned.

A huge figure that had descended from the darkness crumpled the garage door like a piece of paper and charged straight inside.

Crackling!!

Due to the impact, the vehicles parked in the garage were severely damaged, and broken parts were scattered everywhere.

“Intruder!!”

“This is insane. Who dares to do this in such an absurd way…!!”

“Escort the council member and evacuate!! Right now!!”

The guards who had been knocked away by the impact shouted and called others with their radios, but.

Chik, chik…!!

As if they had broken down at the same time, no story could reach them beyond the radios that had become inoperable.

The panicked people rushed into the inner passage to remove the object that had crashed into the garage.

Bwaaang!!

However, several vehicles that were thought to be broken moved on their own without drivers, hitting the guards in various places,

They were banging and breaking things all over the garage, turning it into a mess without even checking the intruder.

“Aaaah!! Why are the cars moving on their own…!!”

“Check the automatic driving system!! What the heck is going on!!”

“The intruder has disappeared…!! With that size, he’s already entered inside!!”

“Check the inner elevator, the lower ranks run and contact the department that guards the mansion!!”

Kwaaaang!!

However, despite the efforts of the guards, a series of loud noises erupted from above the ceiling.

“Open the CCTV screen and check it! Right now!!”

The faces of the guards who rushed to the control room and checked the video being sent to the first-floor lobby turned pale.

On the screen, a black crow-shaped monster that could not be hidden was flying low over the wide hallway, knocking down other guards like toys.

The faces of the guards who watched the people being crushed and crumpled between the wings and claws turned pale.

Kwaaaang!!

The night crow, controlled by Davi, flies around the 8-story mansion, breaking and smashing things.

Every time it flapped its wings, the electrical signals that came out overloaded the mansion’s lights and fire hydrants, causing them to light up and burst water.

Swaaa!!

The water pouring down from the hallway ceiling and the hallway that was flickering and starting to sink into darkness.

Among those who guarded the council member’s mansion, there were superhumans with decent skills and soldiers armed with advanced equipment, but

The night crow avoided confronting them and flew around the wide mansion, flapping its wings.

Charrrr!!

People tried to catch the beast that had entered the mansion by mobilizing a barrage of bullets, gunpowder, and even bombs, but

The night crow indifferently folded and unfolded its wings as if it didn’t care about such attacks, repeating its elegant low-altitude flight.

Hwaaaak!!

While their eyes were drawn to the figure of the night crow that was elegantly stirring the water pouring from the ceiling, the hail of bullets, and the scattered magic fragments.

No one noticed that someone who had gotten off its back was leisurely walking towards the top floor of the mansion.

[Pattern code input complete]

[Level 1 visitor approved]

[Lock security released]

Whirring, clank!!

A series of guidance sounds echoed, and at the same time, a guest opened the solid iron door and mechanical barrier.

Soon, Renok, who had forcefully opened the door to the dark study with the lights off, smiled when he saw the old man sitting stiffly in an armchair on one side of the study.

“You called me all this way, and I was late in responding.”

Renok naturally closed and locked the study door, then faced the old man’s face, which was faintly illuminated by the moonlight outside the window.

“The road here was so rough that it wasn’t easy to see your face like this.”

Clack!!

Renok, who had taken out the shadow leader’s thought circuit from his arms and placed it on the table, said.

“You even sent a friend like this to invite me, so shouldn’t I visit you in person to say hello?”

The old man stared at the thought circuit that Renok had placed and then slowly said, as if spitting out the words.

“To handle the side squad agents so easily and come all the way here, you were as I thought.”

“…”

“I clearly gave you a chance. Yet, you betrayed the machine heads and sided with the steel hearts, betraying us…”

Langmuir said, looking at Renok with a sharp gaze.

“If you’ve done wrong, you shouldn’t be able to receive punishment properly, but you dare to crawl into my residence and talk?”

Only then did Renok realize that the emotion Langmuir was showing him was anger, and he nodded.

Renok stroked his chin and muttered.

“I think you’re misunderstanding something.”

“What?”

“I have no interest in the other factions of Ex Machina. Do you think I made a mistake in the selection ceremony to betray the machine heads?”

Looking at Langmuir, who couldn’t speak, Renok slowly moved towards the wall of the study.

While scanning the titles of the various books that were placed there, Renok said.

“I don’t know if there’s that much value in the factional fights of Ex Machina.”

“…Do you think that an ordinary craftsman can not only touch old-world relics but also play with the side squad?”

Langmuir replied, trying to catch his breath.

“I shouldn’t have trusted Isabella from the beginning. Those enforcers from the steel hearts…!!”

Only then could Renok vaguely guess what Langmuir was thinking.

He was not angry that Renok had failed to obtain the Meister title.

He thought that the fact that Renok had touched something he shouldn’t have touched at the selection ceremony and had fallen was a self-made drama in collusion with Isabella.

That’s why Langmuir tried to forcefully secure Renok using force instead of talking to Renok immediately after the selection ceremony.

The moment the shadow agents called the side squad were subdued without even touching Renok’s body, he must have been convinced that Renok was no ordinary craftsman.

“Council member. You shouldn’t try to kill a craftsman who has stepped forward for your faction.”

“I wasn’t going to kill you. I was going to give you a punishment befitting your responsibility and treat you well enough for your abilities!!”

“That’s none of my business.”

“You bastard!!”

In front of Langmuir, who was shouting with a red face, Renok took out a book that he had been glancing at.

The history of the rule and council of the machine city.

The moment Renok flipped through the pages as if skimming through the book and placed it on the chair table where Langmuir was sitting.

He closed his mouth as if it were a lie.

Renok, who was looking at Langmuir’s eyes that were shaking uneasily, said.

“Even if I ask you the things I’m curious about now, you wouldn’t answer honestly.”

“…”

“So, I’m going to try to lubricate your mouth so that it can open.”

Renok said that and tapped the book.

“Out of hundreds of books, only this one is being sold in the market at a price that doesn’t fit this study.”

“Wh, what are you talking about…”

Of course, Renok doesn’t memorize the prices of these books in the machine city.

However, after scanning all the titles of the books through Davi, he found an anomaly that stood out among the characteristics, including serial numbers and categories.

“Among the high-end books and papers that easily exceed 200,000 cells per volume, only this book is a free gift distributed with cheap pamphlets. Considering that, maybe…”

The moment Renok picked up the book again and put it upside down in the place where the book was.

Kuuung!!

The middle of the bookshelf opened wide, revealing a hidden secret door.

“I thought it wouldn’t be noticeable to use a relatively cheap book.”

“…”

“Then, shall we check what the council member has hidden here?”

“What the heck are those stupid guards doing!!”

Leaving the council member who was bursting with anger behind, Renok immediately took out an old cell phone from a secluded warehouse behind the bookshelf.

“I found one.”

Instead of turning on the cell phone right away, Renok opened the back case and looked at the battery and parts, then nodded.

“A product from 25 years ago. A portable communicator made by the Taylor Workshop. But the screw parts used are not from the Taylor Workshop. It looks like it’s been modified.”

“You, what are you talking about… Aaaah!!”

Only then did the council member’s face begin to turn pale as he realized that Renok was using the intuition he had shown before to uncover his secrets.