Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 918

The forbidden ritual site, which was supposed to be the meeting place for the conference.

The fact that someone had finished manifesting and disappeared at that very place, the one the necromancer had mentioned before.

Lenok immediately understood the implications.

Did the leader of Pandemonium briefly visit this city?

No, choosing a megacity as the manifestation site could never be a coincidence.

Perhaps, the purpose of this manifestation itself—

Just as Lenok was contemplating this, the necromancer added,

“Since the situation has changed, we’ve moved the location to another ritual site with similar properties. It has the same characteristics as the one I described earlier.”

“……”

Was he announcing the new location while also confirming the meeting schedule?

Jenny, sitting beside him, asked with a flustered expression,

“Wait, Ban. What’s this about a meeting between extreme ability users? I don’t know anything about that—”

The necromancer glanced back at Jenny and inquired,

“Who is this woman?”

“My partner.”

“Does a mage like you need a partner?”

“I do.”

Lenok said, leaning back on the sofa.

“More importantly, the fact that you don’t know Jenny means you’re not from the Balkans. Why is an outsider meddling in the city’s affairs and acting as a messenger?”

“What, is this woman famous?”

The necromancer shrugged.

“I’m not interested in weak living beings. A necromancer of my caliber can achieve success with the corpses of outstanding superhumans.”

“I’m not particularly interested in corpse manipulators either. I think you’re mistaken.”

Crack!!

The moment Lenok made a gesture, one of the young man’s eyeballs was crushed, oozing fluid.

The necromancer instinctively brought his hand to his eye, and Jenny frowned and turned her head away.

Lenok smiled as he watched the necromancer flinch as if he had been struck in a vital spot.

“I’m asking what your purpose is right now.”

“……I told you. I can achieve success with the corpses of outstanding superhumans.”

The necromancer replied, covering his eye with one hand.

“It’s a meeting where superhumans who have surpassed their limits gather. It’s unlikely that there won’t be any disturbances or conflicts in a place where the leaders of the light and dark sides gather. I just want to take advantage of that opportunity.”

“Are you going to call yourself a crow that feeds on corpses? That’s ridiculous.”

Lenok asked,

“Did the superhumans of the light side allow you to play such a role?”

“Necromancy is a very useful technique in many ways. It’s not for nothing that there’s a steady demand for it even after it was designated as forbidden magic.”

“No. I don’t need such excuses.”

With a cold gaze, Lenok sneered.

“There are people in the upper echelons who want to spy on the meeting, right? There are city council members who want to safely infiltrate the meeting with your fancy corpse manipulation skills.”

“……”

For the first time, the necromancer’s mouth snapped shut like a clam.

Looking at the necromancer, Lenok narrowed his eyes as if recalling a past memory.

“Do you remember what you said to me back then? You said you chose a forbidden ritual site as the meeting place. You said that all leakage of stimuli was prohibited.”

“That’s……”

“If a necromancer is useful in such a ritual site, it’s obvious. It’s a ritual site originally used for human sacrifice, so corpses are relatively free to enter, aren’t they?”

Lenok leaned back, sneering at the necromancer.

“It’s not strange that the higher-ups want to secretly spy on the meeting by borrowing corpses. It’s not strange that they’re already pulling meaningless tricks.”

“……Why did you ask me if you knew everything from the beginning?”

“It’s different from hearing it directly from your own mouth.”

Lenok replied nonchalantly, watching the necromancer agree with a look of disgust.

“If I don’t confirm it like this, I might burn all the annoying corpses.”

“……”

“I recently settled some grudges with the city council, so I’m going to pay a little more attention to those things for a while.”

“Are you still not over it after that mess at the hearing?”

The necromancer asked, as if dumbfounded.

“You’re really not right in the head. That’s a disease, a disease.”

“I hear that often.”

Lenok laughed.

“Rather, these days, there aren’t many guys who tell me that directly. It seems like you only show your true colors after securing your safety by using corpses as shields, like you.”

“……”

The young man’s corpse, as if at a loss for words, stared at the ceiling of the office for a long time before speaking.

“The time is midnight, 49 hours from now. The gathering is at the underground ritual site of the satellite city, Etanok.”

“Satellite city?”

Lenok frowned at the unexpected words.

He was well aware of the failed small and medium-sized cities that were once built on the outskirts of the Balkans as part of the city expansion development plan.

“That’s unexpected. What’s the reason for going outside the Balkans when holding a meeting?”

“The originally planned location is unusable. There are no more suitable places in the Balkans.”

The necromancer calmly retorted and explained.

“Since it’s premised on the gathering of level 8 monsters, they say they’ll thoroughly construct barriers and magic circles. Above all, if the magic density increases that much, the citizens won’t be able to handle it. It’s natural to go outside the city.”

“Hmm……”

Lenok, who had been silently staring at the necromancer, flicked his hand.

The necromancer, noticing the meaning of that ominous gesture, immediately covered his intact eye with both hands.

“Do I have to burst the remaining eye to get an honest answer?”

“Damn it, don’t!!”

“Did you think I’d believe such a ridiculous excuse?”

As Lenok slowly clenched his hand, the pressure on the eye the corpse was covering intensified.

Lenok’s gesture to burst the eyeball as if it didn’t matter that the necromancer was covering his eye with his hands.

“You still don’t know how big this city is. If you look for it, there are dozens of places that meet the conditions you mentioned.”

“Ggggrrr……!!”

Lenok said coldly, ignoring the necromancer’s pain.

“If it doesn’t work out, there’s no shortage of places to choose from among the closed areas as a meeting place, so why choose a satellite city as the stage?”

“A, it hurts……!! Let go and I’ll talk!!”

“Why choose it as the stage? Three. Two. One.”

“T, the existing ritual site was exposed, so everyone is sensitive. They’re expecting a clash!!”

“A clash?”

Lenok slightly loosened his hand at the urgent answer, and only then did the necromancer gasp for breath.

“Damn it. How do you know that the medium for my necromancy is my eyeballs? Usually, I engrave the magic on my internal organs or intestines……!!”

“I can tell by looking. More than that, what do you mean by expecting a clash?”

“……”

The corpse, glancing at Lenok, said,

“It means that it’s somewhat certain that a big fight will break out at least once, regardless of the outcome of the meeting.”

“Why?”

“Among the scheduled attendees, there are those who have grudges against each other. They’re already suspicious of each other because the meeting information was leaked in advance.”

The necromancer explained.

“Even if they’re forces of the light side, not everyone has the same intentions. There are those who haven’t resolved their grudges from the time of the civil war.”

“……”

“Moreover, this time, some big shots from the dark side, including you, are stepping forward, so conflict is inevitable. This meeting itself is a place created with that in mind.”

“Are you saying it’s a meeting where they’re gathering with the assumption that someone will die?”

Lenok chuckled.

Jenny, who had been listening from the side, had already turned paler than the corpse in front of her.

“To be able to set up a stage of this scale while openly telling them that, they’re quite skilled. Who’s the mastermind?”

“The Eye of Annihilation, Armas von Anathema.”

The necromancer’s expression turned serious.

“One of the nobles from the central city has agreed to lend his name to this meeting.”

“……A noble from Ars Nova?”

“He’s a transcendent dragon mage who has reached level 8, and a man who was once called the Six Heavenly Calamities [Likely a reference to a group of powerful figures] on the central front.”

The necromancer explained, seeing Lenok pause.

“He’s a recluse who has been in seclusion for decades, following the Prohibition Edict after the civil war ended in Kaise’s victory. He upheld justice even on the battlefield, so many people followed him.”

“The Eye of Annihilation……”

Born a noble of Ars Nova, and one of the big shots from the light side who accepted the Prohibition Edict.

He knew that many monsters had been living in seclusion under the city’s privileges since the Prohibition Edict was created, but their backgrounds and origins were all extraordinary.

“There are several masterminds, but if a man of that caliber hadn’t lent Anathema’s name, the meeting wouldn’t have even been established.”

“……”

“Anyway, that’s all I have to say. I really can’t take it anymore. Every time I say a word, you try to kill me, geez……!!”

“There’s a contradiction in that statement.”

Lenok gave a dark smile as he watched the corpse try to get up from his seat, trembling.

“Isn’t it you who killed that man and engraved the necromantic magic on his eyeball?”

“……”

“Looking at his appearance and the magic circuits in his body, he seems like someone who practiced martial arts, and I don’t particularly like necromancers who use innocent humans as their puppets.”

Kiiing……!!

Lenok’s right eye, staring intently at the young man, flashed a dark light.

The magic eye, imitating the power of revelation possessed by the priestess of the Order, pierced through the corpse.

It instantly crossed the contaminated mental network connected by necromancy, revealing a man sitting in the middle of a cemetery.

“A necromancer who knows the Balkan civil war unusually well, but isn’t actually from the megacity.”

Lenok whispered, watching the thin, haggard-looking man flinch and raise his gaze.

“If I rummage through your mind, I think I’ll find the reason. Shall we try it here?”

“……”

“If you act presumptuously one more time, I’ll rip your entire mental network out.”

Lenok laughed, watching the necromancer who couldn’t say a word.

“You’d better watch your mouth next time.”

“……It’s really absurd. Was that nonsense you spouted at the hearing not a lie?”

The necromancer said, gritting his teeth, hiding his intimidated expression.

“You’re the most abnormal mage I’ve ever met.”

“I’ll take that as a compliment.”

“Ha!”

Although Lenok’s words, which had seen through his true nature and promised the next time, were chilling even for a necromancer who had been through all sorts of dangers.

Conversely, it was also a tacit promise that he wouldn’t use his hands in this place.

Trusting that, the necromancer, who had jumped up from his seat, said as he left the office.

“If possible, try to enter the satellite city within the time limit. They said that they plan to completely close off the entire satellite city with a siege barrier after midnight.”

“I will.”

Lenok said, raising his hand.

“But I didn’t say I’d let you walk out on your own two feet, did I?”

“……What?”

Whoosh!!

At the same time, the necromancer’s corpse disappeared from the office.

Unlike the bluff he used in front of the apothecary, this time it was a spatial transfer that literally banished the opponent outside the tower.

He dropped him in a nearby junkyard, so if he’s lucky, his limbs will be intact.

Lenok, who had quickly removed the obstacle, dusted off his hands and got up from his seat.

Click!!

“There’s a smell of deceit left in the place where a necromancer has been. It’s good to ventilate often.”

Lenok, who had opened the window, finally turned to Jenny, who was sitting on the sofa.

“Did you understand what happened? I thought it would be a hassle to explain twice, so I thought it would be better to listen together.”

“……”

“Is there a problem?”

“……No.”

Jenny said, unable to hide her sullen expression.

“I think I know why you’re carrying such ominous rumors outside.”

“Now?”

“That necromancer just now. He was at least a level 7 mage. He probably turned an entire small or medium-sized city into undead to reach that level.”

Jenny rubbed her cheek, still not fully realizing it.

“Watching you play with such a psychopath without him being able to say a word, I feel like my head is going crazy.”

“How many pieces of trash like that are there in this world?”

Lenok said, sitting across from Jenny.

“Rather, he’s quite tame for someone who’s gone mad. He’s useful in that he’s sensitive to profit and loss.”

“……”

“I suspect that the city council is also keeping an eye on that nature and using him as a tool for this meeting.”

An invisible hand in the air picked up a teacup and spoon and stirred it before setting it down.

Jenny, who had picked up her coffee cup with a sulky expression, sighed.

“Coffee made with the telekinesis that burst the necromancer’s eyeball? It must have a special taste.”

“It’s not telekinesis.”

Lenok replied, tilting his coffee cup.

“It’s forcibly adjusting the osmotic pressure of magic particles by concentrating my will.”

“I don’t understand any of that?”

“It’s a trick to exert physical force on reality with just your will.”

Lenok explained casually.

“I naturally learned how to use it because I completely eliminated magic consumption and only increased the efficiency of my will.”

“……Let’s not talk about it. So, what are you going to do about the meeting?”

“I told you, I plan to participate.”

Lenok said, tapping on his phone.

“I’m concerned about the purpose of the meeting, but I also want to check out the superhumans on the light side.”

“……”

“I don’t expect everyone to attend, but looking at the Gisu Shrine, they’re not talentless. Rather, it’s the opposite.”

Lenok muttered with a thoughtful expression.

“And the reason why they’re only coming out now, long after the Prohibition Edict was lifted. They’re definitely hiding something.”

“According to the necromancer’s explanation, there will almost certainly be a clash. Are you sure you’ll be okay?”

“That’s why I have to go. If it’s something that could cause a big change in the city’s situation, it’s better to intervene directly.”

“……”

“Above all……”

Lenok, who had his chin in his hands and his head down, had a cold expression.

The decisive reason why Lenok was participating in the meeting proposed by the necromancer.

The most important issue he had been pondering throughout his explanation.

The leader of Pandemonium is in the Balkans.

If that man, who is stronger and has a more mysterious origin than anyone Lenok knows, is in the megacity.

Could that itself be related to this meeting?

Lenok was convinced that he had to attend this meeting because of that possibility.

“Haa…… Okay. I’ll gather information about the forces on the light side.”

Jenny nodded, silently looking at Lenok’s expression.

“But don’t get your hopes up. Most of the information has been secured since the civil war, so there isn’t much data left even if you go through the deep web.”

“I will.”

Jenny grumbled that it wouldn’t be easy to find information unless it was a force that was active in public like the Turyeon Gate, and got up from her seat.

Woo-oong!!

At that moment, Jenny’s phone vibrated violently.

Jenny’s expression changed drastically as soon as she checked the message.

“It’s a call from Virgil. He’s asking if we can meet at the Cartel?”

“Now?”

If the Cartel contacted them at this point, just after they had expressed their intention to attend the meeting, there could only be one reason.

Jenny, as if she had the same thought as Lenok, immediately nodded.

“It seems like the chairman of the Cartel is also planning to attend the meeting. What are you going to do?”

“……”

After all, Oliviera was also a great mage who had reached level 8.

Considering her level and status, there was no way she wouldn’t have been invited to the meeting in the first place.

However, what Lenok was thinking about her abilities right now was not her rank or intentions.

Oliviera Ron Maze is a gifted individual who has awakened the Seven-Colored Treasure’s magic eye that manipulates causality.

She is also a monster who completely reorganized and adjusted her own rank for the sake of her own magic eye.

If he could deduce the leader’s purpose at the meeting by borrowing the power of her magic eye.

Lenok, who had thought that far, grabbed his cane and got up from his seat.

“Let’s go right away. Tell him we’ll go to her lab.”