Drug-Eating Genius Mage – 325



Strength of nature (1)

I knew it.

The reason Aris participated in the fortress attack was not simply because she was concerned about the safety of the citizens.

I wonder where the faint doubt that existed inside her was heading.

In order to prevent that suspicion from turning into certainty we should have acted much more thoroughly than we do now.

I should have tried to hide my techniques change my tone and distance myself from her.

However the reason why Lennok did not do it even though he knew about it was because he felt pressured to succeed in the attack operation right away.

It may have been because he had a complacent belief that Aris would forgive him even after realizing all of this.

Even if you look at Lennok with a cold face I believe that after hearing the whole story he will sigh and tell you that there is nothing he can do.

With such complacent thoughts in his heart Lennok was able to confirm his thoughts only now.

I selfishly want her to remain without knowing all these secrets.

“….”

Every time I face a moment like this where I have to face someone’s heart I am reminded of something I had forgotten.

Lennok’s transcendent talent hides the shadow of a lifespan that even he himself cannot fathom.

The most lethal and dangerous characteristic of [Jaein Park Myeong].

How much time is left?

Is it really right to drag someone into this journey that rushes towards a cliff without knowing the end?

If it were Aris he would suffer with me. We will all grieve together.

Because I know that well I don’t want to see that kind of reaction even more.

They say that pain is halved when shared.

Lennok did not believe such obvious statements.

If I had to cling to hope without any promise it would be better…

“Haaa….”

In awkward silence.

Aris looked up at Dabi who had stiffened with his front paw raised and let out a deep sigh.

She closed her eyes and thought for a moment then glanced at Hina who was hesitant right next to her.

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I shook my head neatly.

“I guess I was mistaken.”

“Is that so…?”

Aris nodded cheerfully at Lennok’s words.

“yes. “The spirits I know are not that big and don’t wear strange masks.”

“….”

“Besides I’m not cute enough to make cute crying sounds like that.”

[….]

Only then did Dabi realize what he had done and slowly put his front paw down.

Could it be Lennok’s illusion that the tips of the three fluttering tails turned slightly red?

Aris who summed up the situation in an instant with just three words closed his eyes again and leaned against the gap in the rock.

“You made me worry by saying something unnecessary. “I will focus on recovering my magic power so please wait a moment.”

“Then I’ll take a look around and come back. “I think the Deputy Director is also around here.”

“…I’ll also search around the fortress and come back. “I think there might be something useful left.”

Anyway there is no elevation difference in the desert area around here so the surrounding scenery is clearly visible.

Since we’ve taken out all the enemies in the area no one will be in danger and if something like that happens we’ll know right away.

Lennok responded and quickly took Darby to the area near the fortress he had destroyed.

Although he made an appropriate excuse to avoid the situation it was not a complete lie.

Because I ran into Aris and Hina right after defeating Trefen I left without being able to properly harvest the loot.

[I feel like I was completely fooled by the professor.]

The lightning spirit carrying its owner on its back muttered in a cold voice.

[I will not easily forget this shame….]

“I plan on forgetting.”

Dabi asked Lennok as he walked among the ruins of the collapsed mobile fortress.

[Do you know or do you want to know? The attitude is so vague that I don’t really know.]

“Aris is not stupid. “In fact he is much more astute than other people.”

In a way it is natural that Aris did not delve into Dabi’s identity until the end.

No matter what her intentions were her agent Hina was also there.

Regardless of whether or not Hina O’Neill could be trusted he must have judged that revealing the relationship between Van and Lennok was extremely dangerous.

“Perhaps you may think that you have already achieved the confidence you aimed for in this matter…”

[I admit there were more gaps than usual.]

“Whose side are you on?”

[I don’t know. I will never do something like that again.]

Lennok smiled bitterly and patted the head of Dabi who was pretending to be upset while turning his head.

Dabi quietly accepted Lennok’s hand pretending not to notice.

While searching through the ruins of the fortress to find useful items the magic that filled the spirit’s body disappears and its size gradually decreases.

Even though it returned to its fox cub form its three tails still remained.

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Lennok who naturally put Dabi in his coat pocket searched through the rubble found something and extended his magician.

Kwasik!!

“I found it. “I thought there were still some left.”

[Is this… a fragment of the fortified Yeonsan Mountain Center?]

“This is an item that Gearside directly modified to make Trepen level 8. “There may be room for further digging.”

Lennok who placed the fragment of the computational center in his arms which had been shattered into small pieces and reduced to the size of his fist immediately turned around.

“This operation yielded more than expected. “It’s going to get a little busier in the future.”

Although he didn’t intend to Lennok learned many things from directly witnessing Trefen’s unstable level 8 supreme manifestation.

There are clues and ways to overcome the hierarchy but the thing that came most directly was the spatial leap he used inside the microcosm.

As a result Lennok detected the method of interfering with space several times during the battle and found room to apply it to his space magic.

[Data has been secured but the question is how useful it will be in practice.]

“It’s enough to just reduce the horsepower efficiency a little more. Now the consumption of magical energy is so extreme that it is almost impossible to use…”

With that thought in mind Lennok returned to the rock where Aris was resting.

Hina had already looked around and was sitting next to Aris quietly catching her breath.

Lennok did not bother to disturb them but sat at a distance and took out a cigar.

Cheek!

The moment I was about to light the fire and fill it with smoke Hina appeared next to me and snatched the tobacco away.

widely!

Lennok looked up at Hina with a bewildered expression.

“What are you doing?”

“What are you doing?”

Hina said with a smile.

“Isn’t that something someone who has been ejected from a fighter jet hundreds of meters into the air should ask first?”

“….”

“I think you have something to tell me.”

Lennok who belatedly noticed the veins on her forehead quietly kept his mouth shut.

I had something to say but it seems like I couldn’t say it because I was aware of the situation.

Lennok slightly averting his gaze answered.

“There must have been a parachute in the seat that was ejected together. “He wouldn’t have died.”

“Are you saying that now?”

“…I admit it was a bit rough.”

Hina who was looking at Lennok sighed and shook her head.

“It’s okay. Anyway I think I had a good experience thanks to the hard work of the two wizards.”

“Good experience?”

“yes. The one that Aris deployed at the end of the battle-.”

Tup!

Aris who was listening to the conversation between the two with a listless expression quickly raised her hand to cover Hina’s mouth.

Aris whispered to Hina with a bright smile.

“We were supposed to keep that a secret right?”

“Ah… I’m sorry. “I’ll stop…”

Hina closed her mouth with a slightly embarrassed expression.

“I don’t want to reveal it to others yet.”

Aris glanced away and answered with a calm expression.

“Actually it’s still a bit unreasonable because there’s someone I need to show it to first.”

“…I’ll take this to my grave.”

Lennok frowned slightly after reading the subtle gap in the conversation.

The two men also seemed to have overextended themselves to some extent in the process of destroying the fortress.

Well otherwise Aris wouldn’t have walked out looking so tired being supported by Hina.

Lennok slowly stood up seeing the two people becoming much closer than when they started the operation perhaps because they had shared a secret.

“I guess I’ll have to contact the main university.”

I can roughly guess what kind of magic Aris used.

And it is also polite to not ask about that right here and now between fellow wizards.

Lennok had a vague understanding of it so he appropriately changed the subject.

“The magnetic storm is getting worse. “We need to understand the situation before the satellite city’s communication network is completely cut off.”

A desert area full of sand without any obstacles.

However due to a magnetic storm blowing near the undeveloped area not only was communication between cities completely cut off but the satellite city of Delta several kilometers away was also hard to see.

Since I left the main force including Illya and Felix near the city I had to check the situation there and provide support if necessary.

The moment when Lennok looked up at the raging magnetic storm thinking about various things.

“Mr. Ban.”

Hina suddenly called Lenok over and stopped him.

Suddenly her face became stiff.

“A message has arrived from Representative Meyer.”

“…A message?”

A moment when even communication is difficult due to the magnetic storm that has begun to intensify.

Communication with large cities is completely cut off near the desert area.

How can Rep. Mayer send a message at a time like this?

“It’s an emergency contact network only allowed to the highest-ranking officials of the agency. Space transfer using top-class artifacts hidden in the headquarters’ underground safe. “It is an emergency guide that can transport an object the size of a finger and can be used once every two years.”

“So you have something to tell us right now even if it means using that contact network.”

Aris continued speaking with a stern expression.

“Right before the start of the operation I inherited authority from the deputy director and kept the contact network…”

As Hina said that she took out a thin chip from her pocket.

Lennok silently took the data chip and immediately inserted it into his cell phone.

A recorded voice message began to flow through the speaker.

[Van Palad. Are you listening? Anyone is fine. Please convey this message to all allies now.]

It was Mayer’s voice that was extremely urgent.

[The city government’s central council declared temporary martial law. An army temporarily freed from the prohibition law was deployed. This is an order to completely eliminate the National Guard that staged the coup and its hostile forces.]

The three people raised their heads and their gazes crossed at the same time.

[Communication was cut off due to a magnetic storm so we can’t contact the generals there. This is my only means of contacting you. Run away from there right now!!]

The silence that followed after the voice message ended.

There was a tense air between the three.

“What on earth do you mean military?”

Aris opened her mouth while pressing her temples.

“Are you saying that there is a military force that is completely different from the National Guard?”

“…I guess we have no choice but to judge it that way for now. “It appears that Representative Mayer was in a very urgent situation.”

Lennok answered and turned his gaze towards Hina.

“Is there anything you can guess from what the congressman said just now?”

Hina O’Neill is one of the agents who occupied a special position within the agency and moved around various departments.

There is also a possibility that they are aware of confidential information granted only to high-ranking officials.

But Hina shook her head with a confused expression.

“The rumor that there is a project to replace the National Guard’s military power is widely circulated but I have never witnessed the reality of it myself. However according to the director’s words…”

“In words?”

“It was transferred to District 13 and left the agent’s hands….”

“….”

Since it was District 13 wasn’t it simply a deception to divert attention to that area?

It seems that there was an inside story left that Trepen and Gearside did not hear.

However it is impossible to hear the circumstances from Trepen who has now disappeared without consciousness.

Lennok raised his head and quickly made a decision.

“It moves. “We need to move to a nearby satellite city and tell this to others.”

“Van is right. “We have to move before the city council’s new army shows up… Aris?”

Instead of answering Hina’s words Aris raised her gaze towards the sky clouded by the magnetic storm.

Almost at the same time Lennok who expanded his sensory area and realized the same thing as her frowned silently.

Immediately after that something appears through the clouds through the hazy magnetic storm.

Coo coo coo coo!!!

A flying vehicle so huge that its true size cannot be guessed from the ground.

The steel ship made in the shape of a pentagon pushed aside the magnetic storm and moved forward leisurely.

A black sphere rotates ceaselessly between the circular holes in various places raising the gigantic flying object into the sky.

Should we call it a ship or an air fortress?

There is no longer any need to ask what projects were being carried out in District 13 without the hands of agents.

It was natural for military power of that scale to be carried out through other departments rather than agents.

The city government’s central council had completely wiped out the National Guard’s ground power and was building up an even greater air force power.

While Hina looked back and forth between the two with a puzzled expression Aris opened her mouth.

“I’m really disillusioned with the council’s attitude.”

“I don’t think it’s wrong.”

Lennok looked up at the sky and muttered.

“No one would have thought that they would stop and kill the National Guard and make something like that.”

Wooooow…!!

A strange vibration spreads throughout the sky and a ship speeds slowly above the heads of the three people.

[Trefen… That friend ended up leaving like this.]

An unfamiliar voice rang out from beneath the ship leisurely flying through the sky.

[But on the other hand I was expecting it. The only thing that can be entrusted to a man who cannot read the trends is the role of captain of a collapsing ship.]

“….”

[At least he fulfilled that role very well. As the first deployment of our Balkan Air Force fleet.]

“Have we succeeded in creating an airship that can withstand magnetic storms?…”

It is not that the city council did not make efforts to strengthen aerial power because it lacked technical capabilities.

Undeveloped areas and the outer front lines where magnetic storms blow all the time are difficult environments to operate a ship of that size.

This is because although a small aircraft the size of a fighter jet can block the seams to prevent the invasion of iron and steel a ship cannot.

As a result only army power including mobile forts was available on the outer front but was the city government still preparing to obtain air force power?

Ongoing experimentation with building fleet power in closed areas.

Whenever a project achieved success the budget that had been invested in the National Guard was redirected to the Air Force and key figures who noticed the hint were called in and tasked with reorganizing the Air Force.

And the result that was created and the first to be put into combat was that huge pentagonal ship.

Weeeeeee!!

The fierce noise of a revving engine echoes from across the sky.

Dozens of fighter jets took off from all over the ship.

At the same time the gun ports on various parts of the ship opened and they all turned their guns to aim at the middle of the desert.

The broken mechanical sphere and Fortress Unit 3.

And towards the location where the three people were standing.

[In that sense you guys should keep your mouth shut here. In order for our major to be included in the minutes of the central council we need a grand justification for the agent’s failure.]

“….”

[The three superhumans had already concluded the situation before we even arrived… Isn’t this a story that you don’t like even if you think about it?]

“It’s not like we couldn’t get in touch with Mayer.”

Lennok muttered as he examined every corner of the ship with narrowed eyes.

“I had no intention of receiving a call from them from the beginning.”

[Please understand with an open mind. It’s not every day or two that the stupid worms that used to roam the back alleys of the city die for unknown reasons.]

The voice that had been resonating leisurely somewhere subsides coldly.

[Actually there is no need for you to understand.]

Kiiiiing…!!

Hundreds of gunshots protruding from various parts of the ship emitting magic light.

It may not be possible if it covers a huge area like a satellite city but if the bombing rains down on this place intensively the destructive power would be enormous.

The three people quickly raised their magic power and each began to shake their heads.

“I will take the first shot.”

Lennok glanced at Aris while making the summoning seal and said.

“In the meantime let’s find a way to get that ship out of the air.”

“We must not allow them to get close to the satellite city.”

Hina answered quickly.

“Unlike a mobile fortress that moves on the ground if it is a ship floating in the air it can receive a one-sided bombardment and die.”

“First let’s move towards the fortress we destroyed. “We need to set up barricades there and find a way to reach the ship.”

“Wait a minute.”

Aris interrupted the conversation between the two and pointed to a corner of the sky.

“What… is that?”

Shoooooo!!!

Above the ship’s sky. A white light was shining through the void in the sky that no one paid any attention to.

Running backwards toward the ground it fell like a meteor drawing a line of heavy light.

Something fell from a high altitude and directly hit the upper part of the ship.

Several circular shock waves exploded over the fuselage of the huge ship creating huge ripples.

Couuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!

The huge pentagonal ship which was in full swing tilted sharply to one side and its lights blinked like crazy.

[…!!!]

The loud noise coming from inside the ship gives you an idea of ​​how panicked they were about the situation.

But even that confusion lasted only for a moment. The shock wave that struck down explodes once more as if weighing down everything.

A meteor fell vertically from the sky crushing the entire ship and sending the huge aircraft crashing down to the ground.

[Aaaah!!!]

With a desperate scream the pentagonal ship plunges into the desert sand.

Coo coo coo coo coo coo!!!!

There was a tremor that shook the earth and a huge sandstorm swept everywhere turning the ground upside down.

Lennok and Aris deploy their shields in all directions almost simultaneously. I took the aftermath intact leaving only minimal space.

The sand nearby was pushed out like a wave around the circular shield creating a huge pit.

The ship which had boasted a majestic appearance just a moment ago was thrown to the ground in the blink of an eye and turned into a lump of junk.

Hina who was standing behind the two muttered with a puzzled expression on her face.

“What on earth is going on…?”

“Things are going strange.”

Aris said looking at the landing site where the ship landed.

In a chaotic landscape where you can’t even see clearly due to the endless sandstorm.

It is difficult to understand what is happening now.

“That magic power just didn’t belong to any of our troops. “It seems like there was intervention by an outsider targeting an Air Force ship… half?”

Aris took the pencil handed to her by Lennok and made a puzzled expression.

Lennok said to Hina throwing the five fingers of Enakpil in his arms.

“We must run away now.”

His face was stiffer than before.

“It’s not about the ship. “That magic power just now…!!”

Whoa!!

Another huge shock wave explodes from the landing site where the ship lands blowing away sand and dust nearby.

The first thing that catches your eye is a huge pentagonal ship that has been horribly damaged.

What was floating majestically in the sky just moments ago has been completely destroyed showing its insides as if it were a lie.

Crew members bleeding and moaning inside the shattered structure of the ship.

And at the heart of all that destruction.

A giant with the appearance of a crocodile was crouching.

Even though its body is crouched its size is as majestic as Mount Tai.

The scales are so strong that they shine a muted color and the tail stands upright like a rebar.

The murderous force emanating from its long snout and bright yellow eyes peeking behind it is so overwhelming that it freezes the entire body.

The crocodile giant slowly raised his head and Lennok’s eyes met at the same time.

Only one person twitched the corner of his mouth.

“It’s been a while baby.”

Even now when I close my eyes I remember that image clearly.

The factory raid was my second request as a freelancer. The appearance of a monster that surpassed the humans we encountered at the end.

Like the memory of the day when I first felt my life in danger.

Croken Asillus was standing in front of Lennok.

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