Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 777

Ghostly Journey (4)

Ghostly Journey (4)

Suddenly encountering the priests of the Guido Order and their absurd proposal.

However, before responding, Lenok quietly reflected on his memories.

‘When was the last time I had contact with the Order?’

Come to think of it, it had been a while since he had directly interacted with the Order.

He had faced the head of the Order not long ago, but that transcendent being couldn’t be defined as a single concept in the first place.

Strictly speaking, it was almost the first time he had been involved with the Order since the Amrita incident.

However, it was clear that they were plotting something in the middle of the swamp.

“Luring monsters with the smell of blood, that was a deliberate plan.”

Lenok said, glancing at the corpse of the young man he had killed.

“Were you planning to offer this almost-apostle as a sacrifice?”

The passenger who couldn’t even speak properly and had thrown up the paprika sandwich Lenok had given him.

From the moment he didn’t die in the swaddling cloth and climbed onto the bug’s back, Lenok realized that the young man was not an ordinary human.

He had only been wondering if he was a monster that could speak human language or a different kind of creature.

The priest at the front asked, seemingly impressed by his words.

“You seem to know a lot about the Order’s rules. Are you also a follower of the same doctrine?”

“Is that the important issue right now?”

“Yes. It is important.”

The priest put his hands together and bowed respectfully towards Lenok.

“If you are a believer of the doctrine, would you be willing to become a sacrifice for our Order’s apostle?”

“…….”

While Lenok was speechless at the absurd proposal, the priest calmly explained.

“We need a sacrifice to escape this swamp. We will remember your grace for the well-being of the Order for a long time.”

“What if I’m not a believer?”

“…Then, we wouldn’t need to hesitate in seeking your cooperation.”

The priest replied, drawing a sharp sword from his robe.

“If we offer a non-believer, the God will gladly accept our devotion.”

[These crazy organisms. Let’s get rid of them quickly?]

Dabi, who had been listening from inside the robe, grumbled.

[Listening to them is making me annoyed.]

Whether he was a follower of the Order or not, they were asking him to become a human sacrifice.

The shameless request and the fanaticism-filled words, which lacked all sense of decency, were so typical of the Order that Lenok couldn’t help but laugh.

“It’s not just because you need to escape the swamp.”

Lenok said, looking at the priests surrounding him in the middle of the narrow island.

“The Order is not a group that hesitates to make sacrifices to solve problems. If it was just to cross the swamp, you would have offered yourselves as sacrifices and found a way.”

“…….”

“Yet, the reason you lured others crossing the swamp by calling monsters is…”

Lenok smiled.

“It must be because you have a very urgent problem that requires you to offer a high-level magic user to gain power.”

The followers of the Order, especially the priests who were allowed to engage in external activities, were nothing short of fanatics.

Most of them wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice themselves.

Yet, instead of offering themselves to gain the power to cross the swamp, they were waiting for another sacrifice.

It must be because there was a problem that couldn’t be solved by sacrificing the Order’s followers.

“Believer.”

The priest, who had been listening to Lenok, gave a pale smile.

“You know too much.”

“I already said it once, I’m not a believer.”

The moment Lenok said that and raised his hand.

The head of the priest standing right next to him exploded.

Poof!!

Lenok shook his head with a smile, looking at the Order members who remained expressionless even after being splattered with their colleague’s blood.

“I’d appreciate it if you refrained from using such unpleasant titles.”

“Kill him!!”

In the narrow island, dozens of Order members and mages clashed.

Long weapons and the Order’s spells collided, scattering flesh and blood of unknown origin.

In the midst of it, a silver-white thread that had penetrated the brain rippled.

Fwoosh, fwoosh, fwoosh!!!

Dozens of Order members put their hands together and took a reverent posture as if dancing.

The sight of the followers kneeling as if praying.

However, their posture was not to perform a common ritual or spell.

The magic threads intricately attached to their limbs manipulated their bodies like puppets, forcibly depriving them of control over their own bodies.

They used the weapons they held in their hands to stab their own hearts.

Stab!!

“……!!!”

The sight of the priests kneeling as if praying, stabbing their own hearts, and dying.

A series of attacks that didn’t even buy them a moment of time.

Lenok, who had killed all the Order members on the spot, shook off the severed magic threads and retrieved them.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to find out why the Guido Order was here, but Lenok knew what kind of people they were.

They were a group of fanatics who would never reveal the Order’s information through any interrogation or pressure.

For Lenok, it was only possible to use his magic eye to half-crush their minds and pick up the fragmented information they spat out.

It wasn’t impossible if he had enough time, but the situation was different when he was left alone in the middle of such a dangerous place.

“I need to find a way to cross the swamp again. Should I build a boat or something?”

He could somehow escape the swamp by spamming blink spells,

but if he used up the blinks he had charged in the papyrus here, he would have to refrain from using them while staying in the military city.

Lenok wanted to avoid such a situation.

[If you make a boat out of the trees that grew in this kind of magical environment, it will quickly become poisonous.]

Dabi replied to Lenok’s mutterings from inside the robe.

[It will be full of moisture and not suitable for waterproofing, so it’s not a good choice.]

“I should go up to the trees and think about it. If I increase my altitude, I’ll be able to see the surrounding environment in more detail.”

The moment Lenok said that and hooked the magic thread onto a tree growing above his head and slowly pulled it.

Thump, thump, thump…!!

At the same time as the entire swamp seemed to tremble, something suddenly rose from below the surface of the water.

A huge mass that filled his entire field of vision.

A toad as big as a house, with sharp thorns embedded all over its body, stared at Lenok with inorganic eyes.

[Bulge.]

The sheer amount of magic felt just by being stared at by Lenok.

Without being properly processed or circulated, it had accumulated in its body over time, easily surpassing even the most extraordinary humans.

Seeing that the presence of other monsters had disappeared as if washed away with the appearance of the toad, it was probably the predator at the top of the food chain in the nearby swamp.

However, instead of rushing at Lenok, the toad yawned as if it was languid.

[Goo-err.]

[It’s cuter than I thought?]

“…Is your word learning messed up?”

While Lenok and Dabi were talking, surprised by the toad’s unexpectedly defenseless appearance.

The toad, with its jaw greatly swollen, opened its mouth wide and swallowed the small island where Lenok had been standing whole.

Crunch, crunch!!

The sight of the corpses of dead monsters, beasts, and priests disappearing into the toad’s mouth.

Only Lenok, who was hanging on a tree with a magic thread, remained, watching the meal.

[Munch, munch.]

In the toad’s inorganic eyes, which had finished eating, there seemed to be a hint of a different color.

Most of those who died here were magic users, so it must have felt like a special meal for the monster.

The way it chewed and swallowed tons of dirt to eat a handful of meat was, rather, typical of a monster living in the swamp.

While Lenok was rummaging through his robe, the toad monster slowly began to approach Lenok.

Creak, creak!!

Dabi, who finally saw the toad’s body revealed from under the swamp, let out a strange scream.

[Ugh…]

“Do you still think it’s cute?”

Below the toad’s neck were long, slender limbs like a monkey, flailing in all directions.

It was a grotesque sight, as if a piece of ill-fitting machinery had been forced into operation.

The toad approached Lenok, who was hanging in the air, and slowly opened its mouth.

Dabi, who finally realized why the monster hadn’t eaten Lenok right away, muttered.

[It must have thought there was nowhere to run, so it was planning to eat you last.]

“It seems to save the best for last. I understand that feeling.”

Lenok said, dropping something from his robe.

“Then let’s see if you can eat this deliciously too.”

Beep, beep…!!

What he had prepared before leaving for the military city was not only the artifacts and personal weapons he had been using.

While thinking about how to easily project high firepower, he came up with the idea of explosives, which he had also tried in the Well of the Codex.

Explosives that compress and detonate magic in a specific way, like the mana resonance incendiary bombs he had used in the Great Forest, could unleash unimaginable power.

Among them, what Lenok had taken out this time was a penetrating heat bomb that focused on internal destruction rather than diffusion.

Sizzle!!

A fist-sized metal sphere emitting an unusually hot heat.

It fell, emitting a bright blue magic light through the cracked fissures, and he caught it in the air with a magic thread.

Using centrifugal force, he swung the magic thread and thrust the heat bomb attached to the end directly into the toad’s throat.

Boom!!

The toad’s head exploded, and its sticky skin and eyeballs began to melt on the spot.

Even after its head had completely melted, the monkey’s arms, with only the torso remaining, flailed in the air, as if the instinct to eat Lenok remained.

The monster’s torso, which had lost its strength and couldn’t find Lenok hanging on the magic thread, fell back into the swamp.

Lenok, watching him, immediately climbed onto the tree and prepared to leave.

“Let’s move quickly. Other monsters will soon gather here.”

The monsters in this swamp seemed to prefer the flesh of other monsters rather than humans.

He had killed the toad, which was quite powerful in the swamp, so other monsters would probably come looking for its flesh.

It would be better to quickly escape while the monsters’ attention was focused here.

“…Hmm?”

However, Lenok, who was about to run away without looking back, stopped again, recognizing a sense of familiarity in his vision.

He was staring at the corpse of the monster whose head he had just blown up.

To be precise, Lenok was staring at the belly of its torso.

“…….”

[Master?]

“There’s magic left.”

[It’s not unusual for a strong monster to leave magic behind even after death, is it?]

“No. It’s different. I was mistaken from the start.”

Lenok said, immediately jumping down from the tree.

He controlled his levitation magic to reduce his speed and landed on the monster’s belly, drawing his magic thread.

Slash!!

He used cutting magic to cleanly cut open the belly and dig into the intestines.

“…Found it.”

Inside the monster’s undigested intestines, he cut open another part that was particularly bulging.

Splash!!

Unspeakable remains of flesh and filth mixed together and flowed out of the split intestines.

Dabi was horrified, but Lenok didn’t waver and reached into the filth with his magic thread, immediately pulling something out.

Thud!!

A huge storage box, almost the size of Lenok’s height.

On the outside, there was a sculpture of a praying woman, like an Iron Maiden [a torture device shaped like a cabinet with spikes inside].

A unique object that seemed completely unrelated to something that would be found inside a monster’s digestive system.

Lenok looked down at the box and said.

“The magic I first felt from the monster was actually coming from this box. I mistook it for an overly primitive idea.”

It was natural for the magic of a powerful monster or transcendent to remain in its corpse when it died,

but the magic that had undergone the great change of death was bound to change to some extent immediately after death.

However, the magic that Lenok thought was from the monster had not changed at all even after he blew its head off.

Through that, Lenok realized that there was something quite unusual among the things the monster had swallowed.

Something very intense and special, enough to be caught by Lenok’s senses even more than the magic of a living monster.

“I see why the Order was holding out in the middle of this swamp.”

Lenok said, looking at the image of the praying woman engraved on the outside of the box.

“They needed power to retrieve this thing that the monster swallowed. So they were trying to find a way by using human sacrifices.”

[That means it’s a treasure that those crazy organisms wanted to get back no matter what.]

Dabi wagged his tail excitedly.

[Let’s open it right away!]

“…….”

However, as Lenok had just said, there was a high possibility that monsters would gather here soon.

Knowing that, was it worth opening it right here?

It might be more efficient to move to a secluded place while enduring the magic consumption, or perhaps it would be better to leave it behind.

“…Okay. Let’s open it.”

However, Lenok put aside such thoughts and immediately began to pour magic into the door of the box.

Unless he knew how much further he had to travel to get out of the swamp, it was inefficient to move while carrying this.

It would be better to check the contents here and see if he could carry it or not.

Click, click…!!

There was a considerable level of locking magic on the door of the storage box, but Lenok didn’t hesitate even knowing that.

Lenok’s particle-level magic manipulation and his transcendent level of intuition. With the magic of a great mage, he could break through any magic head-on with force.

Crack, crack…!!

Without even analyzing the system, he slammed magic into the part that supplied power to the magic and forcibly replaced it with the original structure of the magic.

That alone distorted the magic itself, making the basic principle ambiguous, and in that gap, Lenok’s will immediately replaced the magic.

Poof!!

At the same time as a light ripple formed on the surface of the swamp lake, the lock broke and the door opened wide.

“Okay. Then let’s see what treasure the Order was trying to hide…”

Lenok’s words stopped as he looked inside the storage box.

Dabi also fell silent after immediately confirming what had appeared before his eyes.

[…….]

“This is…”

What was inside the storage box was not an artifact or a sacred object of the Order.

The corpse of a woman, curled up in a praying position.

A peaceful face with closed eyes, wearing an antique robe.

Her appearance was somewhat similar to the praying goddess engraved on the outer wall of the storage box.

[Um…]

Dabi, after a moment of thought, asked with difficulty.

[I think we shouldn’t have opened it, should we just leave it as it is?]

The contents of the storage box, which seemed to have an unusual story at first glance.

If it was something that the Order priests were desperately trying to retrieve, then the importance of this corpse would be enormous.

Perhaps they had touched on a taboo or secret that the fanatics should not have touched.

From Lenok’s point of view, who was heading to Yorta, there was no need to touch it or retrieve it and be chased by the Order.

However, Lenok didn’t budge at Dabi’s suggestion and was staring at the corpse’s face.

“This is troublesome…”

[Master?]

“It’s someone I know. Someone I met as Victor.”

Lenok muttered, quietly running his hand through his hair.

The peaceful way she was dead, praying, was definitely a face he remembered.

“At the end of the Well of the Codex incident, she was the one who tried to persuade Tatiana on the outskirts of the Great Forest. This is really going to be a problem.”

[…Huh?]

Only then did Dabi, who didn’t remember people’s faces well, realize the meaning and ask back.

[Master, could this organism be…]

“There’s only one high-ranking member of the Order who can make others apostles.”

Lenok said, nodding his head.

He realized why the priests of the Order he had first encountered could so casually talk about creating an apostle.

“The Guido Order’s high priestess has died. If this fact is known to the outside world, it will become quite troublesome.”

The Order’s representative who appeared at the end of the Well of the Codex incident and tried to persuade Tatiana Chiglet to become an apostle.

The highest-ranking member of the Order who represented the will of the head of the Order and presided over all the rituals within the Order.

The corpse of the high priestess, Seina Naidri, was abandoned somewhere in this unknown dangerous place.

“No. It’s not over yet.”

At that moment, the high priestess, who had been closing her eyes in prayer, slowly opened her mouth and spoke.

“If even this is the result of His arrangement, then we must endure it.”

Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]

Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]

The Genius Wizard who takes Medicine, 약먹는 천재마법사 약먹는 천재 마법사
Status: Ongoing Author: Native Language: Korean
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In "Genius Wizard Takes Medicine," the protagonist, an avid gamer, meticulously crafts the ultimate wizard character in the game "World" by maximizing magical abilities and accepting numerous disadvantageous traits. However, he suddenly finds himself transmigrated into this very character—a prodigious talent who cannot survive a single day without relying on drugs. Set against a cyberpunk fantasy backdrop, the story blends action, adventure, and intricate magic systems, inviting readers to explore a world where extraordinary power comes at a significant cost.

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