Drug-Eating Genius Mage – 256



Remnants of Fanaticism (3)

Lennok immediately told him about the discovery that two people from the Necromancy Department had been expelled for performing Guido rituals and that one of them had known Priscilla.

Priscilla who heard the whole story had a complicated expression.

“Penia….”

“Our lab is looking for traces of the Guido Church for some reason. “I would like you to tell me what you know about a student named Fenia.”

“…I was my roommate when we were temporarily assigned a dormitory after my admission to Labatenon was confirmed.”

Priscilla said with a thoughtful expression.

“I heard he was from the machine city of Machina but his life was neat and his personality wasn’t that weird so we became friends.”

“okay.”

“But Fenia would have been a member of the Machine Cult not Guido… I have no idea why the story of Guido is being brought up.”

“….”

Lennok was lost in thought as the story was a little different from what he expected.

Mechanical Order.

Unlike Guido who worship the monsters of the open sea as gods they are an android-type religious group that prioritizes the reason and logic of machines over humanity.

As you can guess from the name he is powerful in the machine city of Machina and his actions are quite extreme although they cannot be compared to Guido.

“Necromancers often rely on specific beliefs.”

Mila joined in from the side with a displeased expression.

“They said it was because they felt the beings summoned to use the spell were so great. “I don’t think it’s that rare?”

“The problem is that both ghosts and machines are far outside the realm of ordinary faith.”

Guido who worships the monsters of the open sea as gods and the Mechanical Church which reveres the logic and reason of machines.

“There is no way the university administration would have expelled the two people based on suspicion alone so there is a very high probability that they were caught trying to do something.”

Lennok said.

“If it was two members of a different sect who worshiped each other and did something together it is highly likely that this would not be an ordinary incident.”

“…It’s been almost two months since I had no contact with Fenia.”

Priscilla said with a slightly distressed face.

“I thought you were concentrating on your school assignments and studying for exams but I never thought something like this would happen…”

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In the end doesn’t Priscilla also know why Fenia did such a thing?

Lennok nodded slightly and opened his mouth again.

“Priscilla. Do you know where Fenia lives?”

At least we have no choice but to find out where she lives.

* * *

District 37.

A shabby apartment complex located near an industrial complex.

An area that falls slightly short of the average security of a large city but doesn’t suffer from serious violent crimes.

Considering that Fenia lived alone here it seems that life was not that difficult for her either.

Priscilla followed Lennok and looked around with a dark expression.

“It was definitely around here… I can’t remember the specifics because the road was so complicated.”

It is not easy to properly remember a street that you visited only once eight months ago.

The streets here were so narrow and crowded that it seemed easy to get lost.

“Do you remember what floor it was?”

Priscilla got lost in thought when she heard Milla sneakily following Priscilla saying that it was a holiday and she was free.

“I don’t think it was that high. About the third floor…?”

Lennok and Mila looked at each other in silence.

Isn’t the floor height too awkward to pinpoint the location?

In the end I have no choice but to search for it myself and find out.

“ha….”

It’s so scary!!

Lennok sighed and wordlessly took Dabi out of his arms.

“Dabi!!”

Priscilla’s face brightened when she saw the wiggling fox cub and Mila tilted her head.

“What is this tiny animal?”

“Assistant Professor Evan is a very outstanding elementalist. Dabi is a spirit summoned by Assistant Professor.”

Priscilla said with a slight smile as she hugged Dabi who slightly turned his head.

“How popular is it in our department?”

“okay? “Why do I feel like I’ve seen this before somewhere…”

As Mila frowned slightly and was lost in thought Lennok also slightly turned his head.

I didn’t think I had ever brought Dabi out in the form of a fox cub when I was in my class but looking at her reaction I could guess it.

‘When we first met.’

The magic used by Lennok when he discovered her presence hidden in an undeveloped land using a druid’s amulet.

The encirclement of three foxes running around creating a huge net of lightning had not yet been forgotten in Mila’s mind.

Although Lennok’s magic had changed a lot since then it was inevitable that the image would come to mind as the spirit that took its motif from Dabi was Dabi.

‘Since I’m disguised as an elementalist I can’t not bring out Dabi…’

Since there was no reason to stop Mila from following it was better to cut off Mila’s memories appropriately.

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In fact he was looking at Mila and Priscilla’s faces in turn and was wagging his tail.

“Dabi.”

It’s so scary!!

Dabi who radiated electricity from his body in sync with the words released a huge wave of magical power from Lennok’s arms.

Whoa!!

The energy of magic search was so strong that even Mila who was standing crookedly flinched for a moment.

In reality it is Lennok’s power but since he is disguised as an elementalist this level of sincerity is essential.

In an instant Lennok opened his eyes in a sensory sphere that covered several kilometers nearby.

After learning magic I had been using magical power only to detect presence and detect danger.

However as Lennok advanced his level he focused on what he could accomplish within that range rather than simply increasing the range of his senses.

The important thing is not how much you can see but how accurately you can see it.

For Lennok ignoring the enormous amount of information pouring into his mind and choosing neatly what he wanted was not a matter of taste but a matter of survival.

In a corner of this vast apartment complex I pass by rotting corpses blood-stained stolen goods and various living spaces only following the reverberation of magical power.

Filter out the miscellaneous magical power mixed in artifacts and items and check for traces of liveliness.

Dabi opened his mouth.

[As a result of detection there are a total of seven magic users living in this apartment complex.]

“Oh… you know how to do something like that?”

Mila gave a small exclamation but Dabi completely ignored it and continued.

[Among them three are living on the 10th floor or higher and two are in the basement. The remaining two live on the 4th and 7th floors respectively and are currently out.]

“….”

Both sisters fell silent due to their search ability beyond imagination.

Of course both Milan and Priscilla are capable of high-level magic detection but they do not have the ability to accurately distinguish between magic users in such a wide range and even traces of those who are currently away.

Mila muttered with a shy expression.

“He was a very sensitive friend. “I’ll have to be more careful in the future.”

“First it would be a good idea to look for places on the 4th and 7th floors.”

“You said there were two people in the basement earlier. What could that be?”

Dabi responded to Priscilla’s words.

[Detected under the cement floor of a newly completed complex nearby. It appears that life response will soon cease.]

“….”

Dabi may not have any emotions but the content of his remarks was nothing short of creepy.

“…I don’t want to get involved for no reason.”

Mila smiled awkwardly and muttered.

If they buried a living person under cement it would be a shame to be a person in the shadows. That is also a method of handling that has a lot of gossip even in this area.

There was a possibility that if I got tangled up with that person for no reason things would become a hassle.

Following Dabi’s detection the group headed straight to the magic user’s residence located on the edge of the 4th floor.

Lennok asked standing in front of the front door with the number 402 written on it among the long hallway-style front doors.

“how is it?”

“…I don’t think so.”

Silas who was thinking about it shook her head and the group headed straight to the 7th floor residence candidate in another apartment.

Sheila clapped her hands in front of the front door marked with room 704.

“Oh it’s here. “I remember Fenia saying she was uncomfortable with the peeling paint on the doorbell.”

“good. So what should we do now?”

Mila asked.

“You don’t plan on waiting here for him to come home do you wizard?”

“…I don’t think that’s necessary.”

As Lennok said that he naturally grabbed the doorknob.

There was no need to use Dabi to unlock it.

As soon as I turned the doorknob the door opened softly and a thick bloody smell came out from inside.

It was an instant before the two sisters’ faces hardened.

“This is…!!”

Naturally Mila took the lead and Lennok followed with Dabi floating in the air.

Complex #704 with three rooms.

It’s an excessively large space for living alone but it doesn’t feel that way due to the clutter filled with the house.

An unknown bone fragment and an old piece of leather whose name it belongs to.

Artifacts with a faint scent of magic and even faded ores.

But the first thing that catches your eye are the unknown strange letters written on one side of the wall.

The letters written in bright red blood gave off a strong fishy smell.

The scene of this room turned into a mess points to only one fact.

It was clear that there was a problem.

“Penia!!”

Priscilla whose complexion turned pale began to search the house calling Fenia’s name.

Lennok looked at her like that and touched the blood dripping from the wall with his finger.

“It’s too greasy. “It’s not ordinary blood.”

[As a result of ingredient analysis it was confirmed that it contains 4% of tangerine oil which is not found in existing blood components.]

Tenzier oil. After searching the word with Dabi’s help it seemed to be an item mainly used as a lubricant by androids and those who had machines attached to their bodies.

It is an oil that does not place a significant burden on the human body so even if a certain amount is mixed with the blood there is no major health problem.

Dabi continued.

[After breaking into the blood research institute’s network inputting the composition structure and detecting the sample data it was concluded that there was a 71% probability that it was a woman of similar age to Priscilla.]

“Then I’m sure. The owner of this blood is Fenia. Considering the ingredient called tenzier oil… she is definitely a member of the Mechanical Church.”

Mila opened her mouth as the conversation between the wizard and the spirit continued quickly.

“No wait a minute… This is completely different from the spirit magic love I had in mind. “Are you really a wizard?”

It’s not surprising that a spirit hacks into the lab’s network and uses the system to detect blood components. This is the first time Mila has ever seen this in her life.

But Lennok smiled calmly with an iron plate on his face.

“Because this is the field of study I major in. “I am unintentionally indebted to many places.”

Now that it’s like this putting Dabi in the front and Lennok providing support would be much more helpful in preventing the image from overlapping with the class.

It was better. Once he had solidified his status as an elementalist under Aris there was a high possibility that the constant checks coming from those around him would become much less.

There were a lot of annoying things about my thesis but if I showed that my skills were up to par there would be less trouble.

“I knew there were a lot of ghosts in this city but… I never thought there would be a wizard who uses spirits like this…”

While Mila mumbled with a puzzled look on her face Dabi continued talking wagging his tail.

[The source of the strange letters carved on the wall was identified through image comparison on the network. There are not enough samples to guess the specific meaning but it is certain that it is a character used by the Guido Church.]

“good job.”

It was impossible to borrow her power in a magic tower or autonomous territory where there was no network but in a huge city there were endless things Dabi could do.

The way he quickly gathered and summarized the information that Lenno had to work hard to find out the clues himself was enough to be called a lightning spirit.

“It is the text of the Demonic Order written with the blood of members of the Mechanical Order. “There are many possibilities I can think of…”

Wouldn’t someone other than Fenia hold the key to all the answers?

“It looks like Penia was taken advantage of.”

Priscilla walked out of the room and said with a stiff face.

It is not difficult to guess what it means to see the house in disarray and the owner’s writing written in blood.

Lennok stared at the monster and muttered.

“This text… I can’t make out its specific meaning but it’s cut off in the upper right corner of the living room wall.”

“….”

“It’s as if I ended up writing all over the remaining space.”

“Were you trying to carry out a ritual?”

“It seems likely. “Probably for some reason they gave up trying to proceed with the work at Fenia’s house and moved to another location.”

If circumstances did not allow for the work to proceed where would the criminal in this case have found a new location?

It wasn’t difficult to come to a conclusion.

“I have to go back to school.”

Lennok muttered as he adjusted his glasses.

“Perhaps the consciousness itself has never been interrupted from the beginning.”

Did you say that it is dark under the lamp?

If the necessary preparations for the ritual had been made within the school there was an extremely high chance that the culprit would appear on the scene again.

* * *

Knock knock…

The sound of falling water drops resounds slowly.

Fenia was quietly looking at it feeling her hands and feet becoming stiff.

She who was hanging in the air called out the name of the person standing with her back to me in a dry voice.

“Ranpei….”

“why.”

“Let’s stop here.”

The first time I helped her was out of curiosity.

A proposal that it would be nice to rent a laboratory in the Necromancy Department to assist in the process of conducting the ceremony.

In fact Fenia was intrigued by the news that they would prepare a ceremony using a precious catalyst they had never seen before and that they would spend a considerable amount of money on it.

However after learning the identity of the spiritual consciousness there was no turning back.

“A lot of people will die.”

It is truly insane that they would build a huge altar for the Demonic Order in the basement of the Necromancy Faculty.

Although Fenia was a member of the Mechanical Church she was baptized a couple of times due to the influence of her childhood environment and was never influenced by its ideology.

However Ranfei was already a faithful member of the cult who followed the doctrines of the cult to his core.

Lan Fei heard those words and slowly turned his head.

“I’m actually sad too. “My undergraduate life at Labatenon was more enjoyable than I expected.”

“….”

“If you hadn’t interrupted me then I wouldn’t have done it this way.”

“that….”

“As a result the ritual was discovered and we were both expelled from school… so it’s only natural that someone has to take responsibility.”

Lanfei said as he looked up at Fenia who was hanging in the air.

“I don’t want to die.”

“…Me too.”

“Then you shouldn’t have interfered with my work!!”

Patter!!

As Lanfei roughly grabbed Fenia’s collar the sound of water drops became faster.

The water droplets that continued to fall down the knot that bound Fenia were bright red.

“If I hadn’t blown up the preparations for the ceremony with that interruption there would have been no reason to go to this length.”

Ranfei who was breathing heavily muttered.

“Once we filter out all the foul oils mixed in with your blood we will begin the ritual. “If that is not enough I must fulfill this duty even if it means borrowing someone else’s blood.”

“….”

“Thanks to you Fenia. “Because of you I also made a decision.”

I let go of the collar and stepped back.

“I thought that if they were followers of the same religion albeit in different forms they would understand my feelings… but this city is still full of uncivilized people.”

Lanfei slowly turned his back and started washing his hands in the sink.

The moment when Fenia was about to give up everything and helplessly close her eyes.

[Complete control of the power room system.]

With a unique somewhat foreign tone

[Operation begins.]

One step ahead the surroundings were immersed in darkness.

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