Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 822

Woooong…!!

The sixth tail, glowing with a transparent light, slowly floated at the end of Davi’s tail.

Could it be that Davi absorbed the ghost ship Lenok acquired when entering Yorta and turned it into a new tail?

Considering that Davi has never attempted anything like this without Lenok’s permission, it’s certainly noteworthy.

It would be best to check Davi’s condition before investigating the ruins.

However, the moment Lenok grabbed the tail, Davi was startled and jumped up in place.

[Eek?!!]

The giant fox rolled around on the floor of the ruins as if surprised by a new sensation he didn’t even know he had.

As he moved, the ashes of the ruins stuck to Davi’s fur, making him even dirtier.

[W-what is this?]

He turned his head and spun around, trying to catch his tail, to check the suddenly appeared sixth tail.

Lenok shook his head at Davi, who was rolling around on the ground trying to look at his tail, when suddenly.

Flash!!

The sixth tail glowed and expanded explosively, transforming into a massive ship in the middle of the ruins.

The ship, shrouded in pale mist, crashed onto the ruins, sweeping through the remains.

Kooong!!

[Uwaaah!!]

Davi struggled at the sight, and the ship was repeatedly absorbed and released, returning to its tail form.

The ruins shook incessantly, and while Davi, with his eyes spinning, flailed his front paws.

Lenok sighed softly and pulled up his magic power.

Kiiing!!

He pulled out a magic thread, tied it around the giant fox’s belly, and lightly lifted him into the air.

Sharing his thoughts and forcibly stabilizing Davi’s magic power, Davi stopped, his tail drooping.

[Ugh.]

Lenok nodded, looking at Davi, who was hanging limply from the magic thread with his tongue sticking out.

“Let’s check what we can immediately. How are your senses?”

[……Ah.]

Davi finally looked at his six drooping tails and tilted his head.

[The sensation itself doesn’t seem any different from the other tails… It feels like it’s been there from the beginning.]

“What about your magic power? Is there any change in the overall flow?”

Lenok asked, watching Davi closely.

He had already come to a conclusion after observing the spirit, but he still needed to confirm it directly with Davi.

“There might be something different that you can feel directly. Think carefully.”

[Uuuuuum…]

Davi pondered for a while with his front paws curled up, then nodded vaguely.

[The amount of magic power has definitely increased… but there’s almost no problem in terms of numbers. I ran a simulation, and it’s the same.]

“I see.”

Lenok finally nodded, put Davi down, and said,

“I think I know why your sixth tail was created now.”

[Huh?]

“Through sharing my mind with you, you already possess a self-magnetic field. You haven’t reached the hierarchy, but you clearly recognize the concept.”

Davi’s self-magnetic field dreamscape is the power to bring the functions of the cybernetic space into reality and use them freely.

It was the ability Davi awakened in the battle with Gearsid, and it was the realm of the spirit he obtained with Lenok’s help.

Although he needs Lenok’s help to deploy it, it is clear that Davi recognizes the concept of the realm.

“I thought that since you already have a realm, you would naturally rise in hierarchy over time… I might have been wrong in my judgment.”

Lenok said, stroking Davi’s tail, which was swaying in the air.

“It seems that the sixth tail and beyond must be completed based on external properties or thoughts. The premise was wrong.”

The sixth tail has a transparent, ghost-like form.

The reason it looks different from the other tails is probably because it was created based on Onion’s ghost ship.

Then why must the sixth tail and beyond be completed by absorbing external thoughts or power?

Lenok thought the reason was based on the way to reach the hierarchy.

The seven hierarchies of self-modification. The change in the nature of magic power that is derived from the 6th level of the military rank.

Considering that, Davi’s sixth tail should be seen as having been completed by being stimulated by the nature of spiritual power.

“The change in nature that is properly handled at the sixth hierarchy. If the nature of the tail itself has to change under that influence…”

The reason why he hadn’t been able to create a new tail for a while after blooming the fifth tail.

The reason why Davi couldn’t keep up with Lenok’s growth might have been due to a lack of environment to reach a new hierarchy.

Only after recognizing that the nature of the sixth tail was different from the previous ones, he could vaguely guess it.

“When we return to Vulcan, let’s find a famous place or ruins that are good for spirits together.”

[Master…]

“Now that we know the method, creating the seventh tail won’t be difficult. After that, it’s up to you…”

The birth and growth of the cybernetic spirit were different from other spirits from the beginning, so it was difficult to grasp, but once you know the method, you can get results quickly.

If Lenok uses the connections and assets he has built up in Vulcan, it won’t be difficult to find an environment or variables suitable for Davi.

Davi looked at Lenok, seemingly touched, and then raised his front paw and stroked Lenok’s head.

[When we get back to Vulcan, I’ll hack into the city government network and find related information!]

“…Okay, I understand, so let’s talk after you get off me.”

His breath was getting stuck because Davi was clinging to his body, which hadn’t fully recovered from the injuries.

Lenok returned the excited Davi to his original size, put him in his arms, and turned around.

Thud!!

The underground staircase of Yorta, located deep in the Headrain River.

Although the Kraken Acilius Tower was smashed, the underground staircase hidden under the river still remains.

That’s probably because the ruins of this underground staircase were ruins created long before the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons [a major spiritual event in this world].

Lenok had finally reached the 19th underground level of the memorial tower that Naimel Naidri had mentioned.

Goooh!!

As he walked inside, passing the dried seaweed at the entrance of the ruins, he could feel the flow of air changing.

A huge arch-shaped gate located inside the ruins, where acrid ashes were scattered.

Around it were only black, burnt rocks and the remains of ashes.

Clatter!

A broken skull buried in the ashes rolled around as if kicked by his feet.

“…”

Naimel called this place a crematorium where the meritorious and traitors of Yorta were burned together.

Perhaps this place was used to burn the bodies of the old officials of Yorta.

Lenok thought so and picked up the broken skull with his gloved hand when.

[Ughhhhh!!]

A blue light flashed from inside the skull, and suddenly, it bit Lenok’s hand hard.

Crunch!!

It bit down on Lenok’s fingers in his glove, but it crumbled, blocked by the shield layered over his skin.

“What is it?”

He pulled up his magic power and smashed the skull he was holding, and then something began to rise from the ashes.

[Uuuuuh…!!]

[Krrrk!!]

They looked like ordinary humans on the outside, but each had their abdomen or chest torn open, revealing rotting corpses inside.

Lenok, who immediately recognized the monsters approaching with grotesque groans, nodded.

“Ghouls.”

[It’s a bit different from the unpleasant feeling I had before?]

“That’s because the decomposition has hardly progressed even after death due to some kind of variable.”

Lenok answered and glanced around.

“Since the cult performed a large-scale offering ritual here, it’s probably because of that.”

[Aaaah!!]

As if taking their cries as a signal, the ghouls spread their arms and rushed towards Lenok.

They drooled with dry saliva and dropped fragments of rotten entrails under their feet.

Davi, sensing that their speed and strength were unusual, asked.

[Master, shall I do it instead?]

He had pressured Naimel to release the restraints of the shrine and escape, but Lenok’s condition had not improved enough to move.

The series of battles that followed the battle with the Ascended, the Soul Calming Pavilion, and the Kraken.

The accumulated damage from recovering and getting injured could not be recovered by just resting for a few days.

It would have been impossible to even get out of bed if it weren’t for the power of the drugs that had been painstakingly combined for several years, including painkillers, stimulants, various potions, and elixirs.

Davi also knew that even consuming magic power was a burden for Lenok.

“No. I’ll do it.”

But Lenok shook his head and took out a small metal sphere from his arms and threw it.

The sphere missed the ghoul’s head, as expected from his terrible throwing skills.

[…Master?]

The moment Davi tilted his head, watching the metal object helplessly moving away behind the ghoul’s head.

A revolver, shining pure white, was caught in Lenok’s hand and glowed at the same time.

[Aim correction: 3-stage amplification]

[Trajectory guidance]

[Recoil control]

[Single shot: Precision]

The revolver bullet, which had instantly stacked four layers of shooting assist magic, was fired comfortably from Lenok’s fingertips.

Taang!!

It hit the sphere floating above the ghoul’s head accurately and triggered a powerful explosion on the spot.

Kwaaang!!

[Aaaah…!!]

Several ghouls that had come close were swept away by the explosion, but the heat did not reach Lenok and subsided.

Lenok watched the scene and took out a few more metal spheres of the same kind from his arms and threw them in all directions.

Compressed small bombs that only radiate power within a radius of 7.75m. If the range of power is calculated well, it can be used effectively indoors.

Even in ruins that exist underground like now, it is possible to minimize the explosion radius and control the damage to the interior.

Tatatang!!

Regardless of Lenok’s poor skills, he hit and detonated the small bombs with shooting assist magic from the point where they moved away from the radius of the small bombs.

Every time he pulled the trigger of the revolver, a violent explosion several times the size of an aimed shot erupted, sweeping away the ghouls indiscriminately.

Puhbububung!!!

[Gaaak…]

[Krrrk!!]

He aimed and shot at the ghoul’s forehead with the revolver, which had come to a distance that could not be covered by explosives.

A pure white light of magic rose from behind the ghoul’s head and cleanly blew off the top of its neck.

Lenok’s hand, with the assist magic stacked, moved smoothly as if guided by others, repeating the loading and firing.

Charrrrk!!

At the same time, several guns poured out from inside his robe and stuck to Lenok’s hand.

The ghouls rushing in quickly were pushed back with a rechargeable shotgun, breaking their bodies.

The ghouls rising from afar were turned into honeycombs in advance by firing a Predator machine gun.

Dududududu!!!

Immediately after, the explosives spread in all directions exploded when they hit the bullets, scattering hot gusts of wind.

[Uwaaaaaa…!!]

[Grrrk…!!]

He pulled the trigger a few more times on the heads of the ghouls, who were staggering even after falling down in flames.

Ta-tang!!

The magic power consumed while burning hundreds of ghouls that were constantly rising as if guarding the ruins was almost negligible.

Davi watched the scene and asked, as if he was tired of it.

[The efficiency of the assist magic has become almost perfect. How long are you going to keep modifying it?]

“Until I can use it against monsters like the Kraken.”

Lenok replied and began to rummage through the ashes and debris scattered around the crematorium.

Unlike the outside of the crematorium, which was cluttered, the surroundings began to become cleaner as he went inside.

The floor, shaped with pure white marble, began to appear, and the structure of the walls, separated by glass, displayed beautifully shaped urns.

Lenok, who found an empty urn, pondered and reached out to it.

Chwarak!!

Lenok took out the urn with a magic thread, looked at it, and muttered.

“It’s a good item. It’s designed to be easy to preserve and observe from the inside and outside. It’s old, but the design itself is flawless.”

[You needed something like this to prove that Master’s bad reputation isn’t just a rumor.]

“…I didn’t intend to use it for that purpose.”

Ignoring Davi’s words, he rummaged through his shadow robe and found the remains of ashes.

Lenok slowly knelt down and carefully transferred the ashes into the urn.

The remains left after winning against the body of the Ascended [a being of immense power] and disappearing.

Do-rae was once the vessel of the cult leader, and he was a berserker who had obtained the hierarchy of the Ascended.

If it was a strong remnant that remained even after his body disappeared, it would surely be useful someday.

Lenok, who had transferred Do-rae’s remains into the urn, put it in his arms and raised his gaze.

The shape of an old altar located at the deepest part of the crematorium.

At the end of it, a bizarre scene unfolded that even Lenok was momentarily overwhelmed by.

“This is…”

On both sides of the altar, huge blades that far exceeded Lenok’s height were lined up.

The sight of the blades lined up on all sides as if aiming at the altar and the corpses lying dead under the blades.

People who died kneeling in a praying position under the blades, wearing antique robes.

As if entrusting their lives under the execution platform, dozens of corpses were preserved in a circle around the altar.

“…”

The moment he faced it directly, he could immediately realize it.

The ritual site where the cult initiated the offering ritual and offered their followers to the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.

Did they offer only the souls to the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons through the offering, and leave the bodies here?

Lenok slowly approached the corpse under the blade, checked its appearance, and closed his mouth.

“The corpse…”

The corpses, dead as if praying with their eyes closed, are no longer ordinary humans.

The skin was cracked and transparent like glass, revealing the internal organs and skeleton inside.

He had seen the cult’s human sacrifices several times, but most of them were cruel and gruesome, and this was the first time he had seen an offering so bizarrely clean.

Is this the result of the tragedy created through the human sacrifice directly carried out by the cult leader?

Lenok silently followed the corpses and walked towards the altar, checking the structure of the magic circle engraved on the altar.

Unknown characters were rotating around the altar, forming a huge circle.

Perhaps it was here that Naimel and other cult officials were offered for the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.

[It doesn’t seem like any power or thoughts can be felt on the surface.]

“That’s right. But…”

Following Davi’s words, Lenok walked around the altar, stroked the flat surface, and muttered.

“It’s a little bit, but it’s definitely similar.”

The ritual of selecting apostles that the priestess Izel Naidri attempted in the Far East branch of the cult.

The offering altar that Izel had made at the time and the appearance of the altar here were very similar.

“The priestess of that time came here and made this altar herself.”

Considering that the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons is a very old ascension ritual, the priestess who made the altar at that time would not have been Izel Naidri.

However, the fact that the altar Izel made and the appearance of this altar are similar supports Lenok’s speculation.

[Unpleasant smell…]

Davi also knew what he was talking about, as he had watched the events in the Far East branch from the side.

The cybernetic spirit, who had jumped out of his arms, tapped the altar with his front paw and tilted his head.

[I’m radiating magic power waves to see inside, but it’s just a simple stone. There’s nothing but the unique appearance?]

“The cult is crazy, but they’re not the type to do things carelessly. They must have cleanly erased the traces after the offering was over. But…”

Lenok said, took off his glove, and held out his wrist.

“If it’s a symbol of the same cult, it’ll be different.”

The shape of a pure white stigma [a mark of divine favor or power] engraved below his wrist.

The authority of the priest that Seina Naidri had given to Lenok.

The moment he brought the stigma engraved on his wrist to the altar, the altar vibrated greatly.

A pure white light was imprinted on the empty altar, heating the altar to a pure white.

Chiiik!!

The light that was shining down on the altar and heating the stone slab began to engrave something on its surface.

The inscription engraved on the surface stretched out of the altar in an instant, spreading across the floor and all over the crematorium.

The characters that had been engraved in a circle around the altar responded to it and merged, turning into characters that Lenok could recognize.

Kigigik!!

“This is…”

The shape of a huge magic circle completed by densely engraving characters around the old altar.

Lenok silently looked at the magic circle and then stepped back to read the characters.

[Through a legitimate transaction between the Papal State and Yorta, evidence for the continuation of the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons is left here.]

In exchange for enshrining Do-rae’s remains in the Sanctuary of the Abyss, the Papal State will offer its followers to help the Night Parade.

A kind of statement that recorded the situation in detail at the time, to the point where there was not enough space to write the date, time, and deadline.

The Ghost Cult had left the details of the transaction with Yorta here as evidence of the ritual.

A record of the transaction details and circumstances. The principle of the ritual and the power of the borrowed outer god. Even the notary who was invited to prove the ritual.

“Give the spirit and entrust the flesh to inherit the grace, and record this ritual under the following name.”

Lenok quietly read the last verse engraved in the center of the altar.

“Transfer the price of this ritual to the notary, and postpone the infinite glory to the next…”

Lenok, who had read up to that point, smiled bitterly after checking the name written next.

“…I see.”

Why did the cult leader keep Do-rae’s vessel in the Abyss?

Even though he had fought against the body of the Ascended and annihilated its existence, Lenok could now understand his intention.

The cult leader had not kept the Ascended’s body in the Sanctuary of the Abyss for himself.

For someone who would one day come to Yorta and inhabit Do-rae’s body in place of the cult leader himself.

He had prepared an arrangement for a forgotten person who had already failed, died, and was even forgotten.

Instead of the silent Lenok, Davi slowly read the name written at the end of the altar.

[I certify this ritual and transfer the price in the name of Kaise Bajur.]