Drug-Eating Genius Mage – 176



Vault Exploration (2)

“If what Evan says is true then what needs to be done is decided.”

A young man with his arms crossed and his eyes closed received the message.

A youthful look as if he had just shed his boyishness. However in addition to being quite sharp it also holds a long spear in its arms.

I wondered if I had to bring that item to the conference room but it seemed like it wasn’t that strange to carry one’s own weapon in a world like this.

Lennok could only tilt his head as he had never had a meeting with people who used such long-armed weapons.

While I was lost in useless thoughts Cheonnyeon spoke.

“No matter how hard our observers try it will be impossible to single out the drug lord’s minions spread throughout the Dominion. It is much more realistic to crack the damn safe and check the existence of the ledgers within a three-day period. “You really have great insight.”

“…That’s right.”

Lennok responded awkwardly to the words of the young man who suddenly painted his face with gold.

“The conclusion has been reached.”

Lapis nodded calmly.

“Evan and Grisha took care of it themselves so we shouldn’t waste time. “I will move right away.”

* * *

At the point when the barrier was deployed the Blue Eye decided to divide its forces into two branches.

There was no reason to invest so much manpower in finding the drug lord’s safe and there was no reason to waste the time of other observers.

The observers who could provide military support including the young man holding the spear decided to go straight to the autonomous territory and help resolve the chaos.

Let them know that the current wartime system is a trick of a drug lord and actively request cooperation from other drinkers in the autonomous territory.

Even if only those two things are accomplished to a certain level the chaos in the floating island colony will be greatly reduced.

“You seem to have a lot on your mind.”

“…well.”

“Concentrate. “If the situation arises we may need to help with the magic maneuver.”

The upper part of the tower.

Grisha spoke to Lennok who was leaning against the wall of the celestial cavity once again.

The two people were looking at Lapis from afar as she was busy preparing the drink.

The purpose is to use the power of heavenly vision to find the drug lord’s safe in this cavity where the night sky is illuminated where the lighthouse keeper’s power is strongest.

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The medium needed is a sample of basilis mushrooms collected from the collapsed island.

Through this the location of Malabeth collected from the same collapsed island is searched for in relation to each other and the power of the magic trick is amplified with a statue taken from the government building’s underground vault.

In the end it may not be possible to pinpoint the exact location but this is definitely the most likely method.

In the end even if we don’t know anything else we can be sure of one thing: where Malabeth is.

In order to meet the conditions of the medicine I finally took a long long walk and climbed one more step.

The lighthouse servants assisting her busily walked around the hall drawing a drinking circle and Lapis landed in the center of the circle.

In his two small hands he was holding the statue that Lennok had brought.

A small floating island floating within three eyes.

Lapis spoke with a sad expression as she touched the rusted statue.

“This statue was made by my grandmother in hopes of creating a bond between the Dominion and the Lighthouse. “It is said that when my grandmother was at the height of her career as a lighthouse keeper everyone praised her.”

“….”

“But now it has become a symbol of each other’s vices.”

Everything changed during the hundred years that Madrea Falseer devoted herself to the duties of a lighthouse keeper.

Promises from long ago were buried in the ground and even the duties and qualifications that we once performed for each other were lost.

As an ascendant Madrea Falseer tried to close the rift between the Dominion and the Lighthouse before she died but to the people of the Dominion did that also seem like a pretense for the sake of a successor?

Once the gap has widened it is not easily bridged.

However Lapis tried not to cling to the past and the superficial dishonor.

“Rather than focusing on maintaining my grandmother’s care we should focus on what we can do for this land. “I have no regrets.”

Lapis’s Heavenly Presbyterian ability was deeply influenced by Grisha’s method of using magic and it was possible to greatly increase the Heavenly Presbyterian’s ability by sacrificing important objects.

Her grandmother’s last works which she has little left.

A symbolic object commemorating the relationship between the lighthouse keeper and the Dominion.

Cheongyeon’s eyes shine brighter as he burns past memories.

The statue that Lapis had put down slowly melted in the intense heat of magical energy and flowed into the magic circle and at the same time a brilliant light arose in the magic circle surrounding her.

Paaaa!!

She opened her eyes and began to emit a dark glow then raised her head and looked up at the night sky.

The eyes of the observer standing alone in the now broken lighthouse do not stop searching.

Basilis mushroom. Cheongyeon’s eyes began to piece together all the traces collected from the collapsed island.

Grisha who was watching the scene from afar crossed his arms and muttered.

“It’s been 40 years since I saw the lighthouse in operation.”

“…40 years?”

I knew that he lived a long time since he was said to be over 100 years old but isn’t his sense of time at this level completely different from that of humans?

However Grisha calmly responded to Lennok’s words.

“Hmm you don’t know but… the tribes where I lived generally had long lifespans. In addition I have learned witchcraft to a fairly high level so I have lived for a very long time. But it’s not that surprising is it?”

Lennok shook his head when he saw Grisha suddenly tilting his head after answering well.

“I was just curious whether all high-ranking magicians like you live that long.”

“If it were me it wouldn’t be such a special case. From the moment you start dealing with the power that touches the law you begin to walk in a different time from others. “Grandma must have lived dozens of times longer than me.”

“Is that so?”

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I knew that the lifespan of high-ranking magicians was different from that of ordinary humans but the important thing was whether that time period also applied to Lennok.

To what extent will the bondage of the trait [Jaeinbakmyeong] bind Lennok?

By increasing the level of magic I can handle and developing talents I could not even fathom

Lennok was now groping little by little to gauge the end of the stick.

But Grisha must have thought of something else in those words and slowly crossed his arms and muttered.

“So I didn’t know that he would leave like that leaving behind the granddaughter he had in his later years.”

“….”

“It’s ironic. I thought I would have to repay my debt to my grandmother someday but I never thought I would return to the Dominion like this. “Was the old lady looking all the way up here?”

Silent gaze followed Lapis’s back.

Her figure crouched inside the court and raising her head looked very distant even among the dozen people.

“Those who are not interested in ascension may not know it but observing the open sea has a very important meaning in ascension science. “When we observe monsters that transcend the law with our own eyes their existence is confirmed in the open sea and their movements are fixed.”

…I think I’ve heard something similar in physics but it didn’t make any sense.

But I was able to roughly understand the context of what she was saying.

“Are you saying that the lighthouse was the first line of defense against monsters of the open sea?”

“okay. Therefore the mission of the lighthouse keeper was handled by sharing the responsibility among the ascended people rather than anyone else. But now things have changed.”

“….”

“The transcendental people who were friendly to humans have been all but unheard of for nearly 100 years and most of them are just crazies who are somehow twisted. “In the end there was only one choice from the beginning.”

Lennok now understood what she was saying.

She was currently telling Lennoc the reasons why Lapis was selected as the next lighthouse keeper.

“So in the end Lapis was chosen.”

“In the end the only one who has the possibility of properly handling the ability of Heaven’s View is the bloodline of a fellow ascendant. “The size of that bowl is incomparable to others.”

As the conversation continues the glow of the drinking circle slowly fades and Lapis’s eyes become dull.

It won’t be long before the results come out one way or another.

“But still no one can guarantee whether that child will be able to become an ascendant. “In anticipation of such miraculous odds we entrusted her with an absurdly burdensome task.”

Grisha muttered.

“I have to pay back the debt I owe to my grandmother.”

“Well… I think you have a more plausible reason than debt.”

Just by looking at what Grisha who reacted indifferently to everything says about Lapis you can guess the amount of compassion she has for the young lighthouse keeper.

Even if you are a giant who has realized the principles of witchcraft is it true that you cannot be honest with your feelings rather than for the illusory reason of repaying the debt of your heart?

Grisha rubbed under his nose and stood up.

“The ceremony is over. let’s go.”

As she passed by Lennok her face turned infinitely colder than before.

“I don’t think I’ll be able to rest comfortably until I rip off the Juice Master.”

* * *

“I found traces.”

Lapis said as she sat down in the temple where all the lights were turned off.

The aftereffects of using the ability of Heavenly View had not yet subsided and he was dripping with cold sweat.

Other watchers who were looking after her next to her were diligently wiping away her sweat but Lapis said without paying attention.

“Inside the Dominion alone soil from that land remains in three places. “I will share the location with you right away so you can write something down…”

Lapis immediately grabbed a pen and paper and began drawing something with fluid hand movements.

The scenery of three places seen through the ability of heavenly vision was instantly captured on a single sheet of paper.

Lennok and Grisha looked at the paper at the same time lost in thought.

“hmm….”

“Do you have any guesses?”

“I can guess one of the three places.”

Lennok spoke first.

He pointed to the picture of a wide field drawn at the bottom of the paper.

“This is what the plant looks like from where I brought the basilis mushroom samples. “I think we can exclude him from being a candidate.”

Since we were looking for dirt taken from the collapsed island rather than specifying Malabeth it was natural that the locations overlapped.

This plant is probably selling samples of the remaining basilis mushrooms in addition to the ones Lennok purchased.

“I know the other place.”

Grisha then spoke.

“The old history museum directly managed by the Dominion. “There were rumors that it was moving to a new building but I don’t know if it’s still operating.”

“Then the one place left is….”

It is a view that looks like the sun is sinking from the tip of the floating island.

It was difficult to find out here with only the knowledge of three people.

“I guess I have no choice but to get help from others.”

“Luckily Lapis the scenery you saw showed the sun setting. If you carefully calculate the viewing angle when the sun is setting it may not be impossible to narrow the survey radius. but….”

“I don’t think there’s any need to search this far.”

Lennok continued Grisha’s words.

Lapis opened her eyes wide.

“Does that mean… the drug lord’s safe will be in the historical museum?”

“okay. “It’s probably true.”

Grisha declared.

From the moment the words “history museum” came out of her mouth Lennok also felt it.

“Dominic Cavarro is strictly from the Dominion government. I also touched the department that manages the relics. “At first I thought I was reaching out to people who were connected to the lighthouse but that wasn’t the case.”

The man disguised as Enrico knew that they were approaching from the lighthouse first so he set Lennok and Grisha into a trap but at most it was just an attack using dozens of soldiers.

Moreover after the initial raid was aborted instead of sending additional troops to capture them the drug lord himself threatened them.

In other words it was proof that the Dominion had not completely fallen into the hands of drug lords.

“Some of the government employees were touched by Juice Master. Among them it was Enrico head of the antiquities department. Why did they choose civil servants from the Antiquities Department rather than those who would be more useful in taking control of the Dominion?”

Only then did Lapis realize the meaning of what Lennok said and let out a small exclamation.

“okay…!! To use the old building site of the history museum…!!”

“okay. Officials involved with the site of the remaining museum which has now moved to a new building. He would also have taken complete control of the site by reaching out to the Dominion government’s antiquities department which was directly responsible for managing and transporting the museum’s remaining artifacts. “If you look at the drug lord’s tendencies that have been revealed so far it’s probably clear.”

There is no need to hide the location through elaborate concealment techniques and security techniques.

Since it is directly managed by the Dominion government there is no reason to hastily use it but it is a site that has already served its purpose.

In addition the drug lord accurately captured and obtained land located in an exquisite location that required relatively less attention even inside the government building.

“Old history museum. “Now they are boldly putting their assets into an abandoned building that no one can visit.”

Lennok smiled and stood up.

“Now it’s time for us to make the first move.”

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