Drug-Eating Genius Mage

The Genius Wizard Who Takes Medicine Episode 986

Central Front Border Zone (3)

Grumbling!!

A wave of blazing fire sweeps over the altar and sets it on fire.

The altar made of layers of human skin was erased and disappeared as if evaporating from the heat that exceeded its limit.

The cultists, whose entire bodies were on fire, could not overcome the pain and fell to their knees.

“Ahhhh…!!”

“Oh God. please…!!”

[let’s go!!]

After confirming that the priests were neutralized, the search team rode their bikes all at once and rushed into the flames.

He cuts off the heads of the cult members who are lying down in between without hesitation.

Lennok, who was watching the scene from afar, took the ignition device he was holding.

“It’s a good start.”

It’s been three days since I joined the Gateway Search Team that was tracking the warlord with Head.

Lennok was helping the search party while heading to the first gate, burning down various hazards on the front line.

Order of Guido. Head warlord and Lee Neunghwajeonjeon.

Currently, there are countless powerful organizations that have established themselves in the central front and are making a name for themselves.

What the search party is actually looking at is not large organizations such as flyers or religious denominations, but mostly these remnants.

The cultists that are currently being subjugated are not actually a cult, but are merely imitations of their human sacrifices.

“Thank you thank you….”

People who were almost sacrificed at the hands of cultists keep lowering their heads with soulless faces.

As he watched how other people died right next to him, he must have been out of his mind during the entire ceremony.

“Thank you, Cheonbeon…!!”

“….”

People bowing their heads to Lennok as they move to a shelter near the gateway.

Lennok accepted these people’s greetings with a light glance and looked away.

I don’t mind helping out with the search party, but it’s something I still can’t get used to.

“After about three days, isn’t it time to get used to it?”

“Ulurik.”

Ulurik, the search party member who was guarding next to Lennok, said with a smile.

“You are doing a good thing. “Be proud.”

“…I’m just helping the search party on the way to the gateway.”

Lennok said, shaking his head with an expressionless face.

“These are people I will never see again after today. “There is no reason to bow down and bow down.”

“There are too many superhumans in this world who think of human life as expendable.”

Ulurik answered.

“Compared to them, the justification that Evan speaks of is much closer to good karma.”

“….”

“More than anything, Evan, who I spent three days with, was a much better person than rumored. “Wouldn’t that be enough?”

“Do you still want to talk about me being a war weapon made by Cheon Gyeon?”

“Hahaha!! Please go. “After today, we will reach the gate.”

Ulurik, who was looking at Rennok who was disgusted, burst into laughter.

He put his hand to his mouth and pretended to drink it and said happily.

“But you should have a drink at the end.”

* * *

“Evan. “From here, you can walk straight to the gate in one day.”

The sound of glasses clinking together with loud talking goes back and forth.

The ruins of a collapsed city. A spacious campsite with a bonfire.

Searchers with beer bottles in their hands were sitting around talking with Lennok.

“It’s late at night, so let’s spend the day here and leave for the gate.”

“What do you guys plan to do?”

“We will have to continue the search by looking around the gate.”

The crew grinned at Lennok’s question.

“There are a few days left until the replacement unit arrives. This time, the schedule was a little different because I had to guide Evan, but…”

“I have reported it to the higher-ups, so if you go to the gate, the search party command center will reward Evan.”

“Since an archmage like Evan helped the search party with its work, the command center will probably take care of it in many ways.”

“It’s not something I did with any expectation of receiving anything in return.”

The search party members looked at Lennok’s grumpy answer, pretending to be surprised.

“No, you’ve been so condescending for three days and now you’re telling me?”

“That’s not what I’m saying.”

Lennok chuckled and tapped the beer glass in his hand.

“It meant that there was no way the search party command could match my ransom.”

“…aha.”

A shy laugh broke out among the search party members who belatedly understood what Lennok meant.

“Hahaha! “How did you know that we were always under budget?”

“If the search party had ample power and budget, there would be no way the gateway would be operating in the same form as it is now.”

“….”

“I know that the reason you guided me to the gate was to lend my strength while carrying out the operation.”

At Lennok’s soft words, the surrounding atmosphere became quiet.

Lennok looked back at the crew over the campfire and spoke in a light tone.

“We just traded what we needed. “You already got paid.”

“…Evan.”

“So don’t worry about this.”

This is probably because the gateway is operated under the management of the Order Federation, and it costs a huge amount of money to maintain the gateway.

And it is impossible to fully cover the cost with the search party’s own power and budget.

Lennok had already known that the fact that the search party had guided Lennok to the gate in the first place was not entirely in good faith.

However, helping or cooperating with someone does not have to be done out of pure good will.

Lennok was more accustomed to making deals and adjusting conditions as needed.

If you accept the three days with the search party as you did now as a deal, it would be enough.

However, the search party seemed to have taken Lennok’s words that he would not accept compensation in a different way.

“I’m sorry, Evan.”

One of the search party members, whose face was slightly red from intoxication, spoke in a tongue-tied voice.

“To be honest… I think I’ve been misunderstanding this whole time.”

“misunderstanding?”

“I thought that a fire wizard who killed thousands of people would really be a fiery person in everything he did…”

“…Not to that extent. “For some reason, the numbers seem to keep increasing.”

Ulurik, Fizzer, Harken, and Wolfhild. In addition, the members who had been acting with Lennok for three days added their words one by one.

“Contrary to this idiot, I knew Cheonbeon well because I heard about him.”

“Didn’t you save the lighthouse keeper from the lightning attack and give us time to escape?”

“You’re talking about that again. Aren’t you tired of it?”

After spending three days with the search party, Lennok was able to see roughly how the rumor about Cheonbun was spreading.

A flame-type archmage and apostle slayer.

He is a superman who is blindly loyal to the eyes of the blue and will do anything for the lighthouse keeper.

Contrary to the high evaluation of his rigidity and loyalty, rumors about Evan Martinez’s hand are greatly exaggerated.

That’s probably because they opened the door a thousand times by turning the outskirts of Balkan into a sea of fire, and ultimately ended up being defeated by Lightning.

However, in the Central Front, even the thousand defeats he suffered seemed to have been a factor in increasing his evaluation.

“If you stay in a search party for a long time, your ears become more open to what’s going on outside. “I have heard a lot about the atrocities of fastness.”

“It is rare to find a wizard whose notoriety is so widespread even though he is not active in the center.”

“An archmage whose profession is killing. “Isn’t it amazing just to survive against such a madman?”

“….”

While Lennok tilted the beer bottle with a wry smile, the search party members chatted with excitement.

“In the first place, it was officially said that there were very few people who fought fastness and came back alive.”

“Among the great powers, there were many who said they wanted to meet Evan because of that.”

Seen from the outside, Cheonbun is the one who traveled all over the Balkans to save her lighthouse keeper, risking her life for her, and fighting against Lightning.

Although he was defeated in the end, it wouldn’t be surprising if the process itself was truly dramatic from the perspective of others.

Crucially, it became known that Lapis had survived in Balkan and that Thousand Times had left the Blue Eye in the process.

As the situation that caused an uproar in the Central Front ended in an incomprehensible conclusion, the evaluation of Thousand Times skyrocketed to a strange degree.

Renok shook his head with a wry smile.

“Again, that is not what happened in the Balkans.”

It’s not a bad thing to have your reputation or status raised a thousand times, but being portrayed as a loyalist who risked your life is not something you want.

Not only was Lennok not that kind of person to begin with, he had never acted like that in Evan’s name.

“What happened in the Balkans has nothing to do with me now. “There’s no reason to mention it now.”

“All right. If that’s Evan’s intention…”

The search party members are honest and rough, but they are not tactless.

When Lennok said nothing, the members, guessing his intention, retreated one by one.

“We won’t say anything about Blue Eyes.”

“In the name of the search party, I will take today’s conversation to the grave.”

“Bigore. Whose name are you choosing? “I haven’t agreed yet.”

“If you think about it that way, do you think we’ll be able to leave behind a grave when we die?”

The members suddenly begin a heated debate about where to place the name of the search party.

Lennok slowly drank his drink while looking at the crew members.

They rescued the refugees and said they were people they would never see again, but the same was true for the search party members.

It would be better to end it in a light atmosphere like this and leave.

As soon as the sun rises, we leave for the gate.

With that thought in mind, Lennok was about to drink beer, but soon put down the glass in his hand.

The other members, who felt a sense of discomfort at the sight of Lennok staring at the dark night sky, turned their gaze.

“…Evan?”

“Everyone prepare for battle.”

Lennok took out a thick cigar from his pocket and spoke while holding a glass in one hand.

“Something is coming from the sky.”

“…!!”

All of a sudden, the search team members with stiff faces stood up and grabbed their weapons.

The search party members who had been with Lennok for nearly three days understood how sensitive and sharp his senses were.

A level of sensitivity that goes beyond the level of distinguishing between enemy and enemy, and can even read murderous intent directed at you from thousands of meters away.

Kwaaaaaaaaaa!!!

Immediately after, a faint sound echoed above his head, and bright red flames rose beyond the horizon.

The expressions of the crew members distorted as they realized that that direction was the refuge that had guided the people they had rescued during the day.

“Damn it, at a time like this…!!”

“in action. “I’m going to check the shelter right now!!”

The Gate Search Team is a small, elite unit where everyone prioritizes mobility.

I quickly evaporated the intoxication by rotating the magic power in my body, and got on the bike while patting my cheek.

In an instant, we clear the campsite, pack our bags, and arm ourselves.

Buaaaaang!!!

That moment when the sound of the bike’s engine echoed across the dry wilderness.

Something fell from the sky and instantly turned the campsite into a sea of fire.

Swooooooong…!!!

Kwagwagwagwang!!!

Something blurry and distorted falls from the night sky, pounding on the ground without stopping.

It looks as if something invisible has aimed its gun at this direction and launched a preemptive strike.

“It’s an attack!!”

“Evan!!”

The search party members who quickly moved their bikes to avoid the bombing called out to Lennok, but Lennok did not turn around.

“Go first.”

“but…!!”

“More coming from the other side.”

Lennok said, looking at the dark night sky blurring.

“I’ll cut to the chase, so move first. “I’ll follow you soon.”

“…I’ll be waiting!”

He is a soldier.

Everyone knows that in these urgent situations, unnecessary hesitation can mean the difference between life and death.

The search party members gritted their teeth, turned their bikes, and began to ride quickly across the wilderness.

The ruins have become such a mess that it feels like the moment of lighting a bonfire and drinking a glass of wine just moments ago was a lie.

“You bit someone, so stop talking now.”

Lennok looked at the ruined camp with an expressionless face and then looked away.

“Weren’t you waiting for me from the beginning?”

The reason they lured the searchers by bombarding the area near the shelter was to intentionally throw Lennok and the search party away.

And the purpose was not to kill Lennok or the search party, but for further communication.

As soon as the attack began, Lennok was aware of a presence lurking nearby.

Cheeeeeek!!

At that moment, five airships hidden across the night sky suddenly appeared above Lennok’s head.

The shape of a steel airship that released the hiding force field and revealed itself. It is a war weapon produced with all units unified to a certain standard and size.

A covert preemptive strike and operational capability that only a very large and well-organized military organization can achieve.

There must be only one force on the central front capable of doing something like this.

[Deadrise 3rd Corps Air Assault Unit. Currently moving to carry out operations.]

A middle-aged man’s heavy voice rang through the airship’s speakers.

[Currently, we have received information that a cult member has infiltrated a civilian refuge, and ‘screening’ is in progress.]

“…Selection.”

Lennok asked, looking up at the airship with an expressionless gaze.

“Is that the justification the Legion gave for intervening in this matter?”

[The General Staff determined that the Gateway Search Team currently organized under the Order Federation would not be able to function fully.]

Little by little, life began to mix with the solid voice coming out of the speaker.

[It is also related to the fact that the Gate Search Team is carrying out operations with you and has lost the neutrality that the Search Party was supposed to maintain.]

“….”

[A thousand times Evan Martinez. Why are you, the Blue Eye watcher, moving with the gateway search party?]

Beyond the airship, Lennok had the feeling that something powerful enough to recognize was watching him.

[Keep in mind that depending on the answer, the main body of the legion may directly intervene here.]

“It seems the Central Front Corps Staff Department is very slow in receiving news.”

Lennok said, exhaling smoke from his cigar.

“It’s already been more than a few months since I left the Blue Eyes. “Now the lighthouse keeper’s mission has nothing to do with me.”

[no. The man who risked his life for Lapis Falseer would not sever his ties with the Blue Eye so easily.]

The man’s voice echoing through the airship became decisive.

[Considering what you did in the Balkans, leaving the Blue Eyes was probably a deliberate move.]

“…what?”

[They may be thinking of seizing the gate with a search party and handing over ownership to the lighthouse keeper. At least in this corps, we never want to ignore such risk factors.]

At that moment, it felt like someone was glaring sharply at Lennok from beyond the airship.

[Evan Martinez. This Legion will never underestimate you. The fact that a man like you has set foot on the front line at this time is undoubtedly possible because he harbors such a worthy cause.]

“….”

[I can understand because the main office also has a similar cause in mind. Sometimes you have to push for something, even if it means setting aside all other priorities!]

He is an upright soldier, as you can tell just by listening through the speakers.

He is a soldier who has gone beyond the level of obeying orders and has reached the level of directly giving and handing down orders.

However, it is clear that such a soldier has a different purpose when he appears in front of Lennok and asks him his intention.

If they had come to greet Lennok in such a grand way under the pretext of working as a refuge and search party.

“You have something you want to tell me.”

Lennok, who realized this, answered in a calm voice.

“What do you want?”

[On this battlefield, there is only one thing the headquarters wants to hear from a brave warrior like you.]

Slam!!

Dozens of artillery batteries protruded from both sides of the airship, spreading wide like wings.

An intense roar, as if someone were arming themselves on the spot and preparing for battle.

[Serge to Deadrise, Evan Martinez.]

At the same time, a heavy and solid man’s voice rang loudly from beyond the speaker.

[Ahead of a huge revolution that will determine the fate of the central front, the corps is looking for a new corps commander.]

“….”

[Be on the winning side in the great war. The position of fifth corps commander is yours!]