Drug-Eating Genius Mage – 444



Words of Optimism (1)

It’s shaky…!!

After the acceleration of consciousness the surrounding space-time which had slowed down begins to return to its original speed.

A black-haired man appeared in the bed of a truck with a pitch-black magical power that seemed to tremble.

“Things in this world don’t always go your way.”

“You…!!”

He was wearing a light black shirt as if he were about to drink something. As soon as the young man sat down on the chair across from him Lennok jumped up from his seat.

Lennok who sharply scanned the person’s entire body noticed an unknown abnormality and his expression hardened.

The clear presence of magical power as if boiling from an abyss still remains but a faint sense of discomfort is felt somewhere.

A strange sense of being present and absent at the same time.

Lennok asked realizing that it was not a simple illusion but a transcendent magical power that accurately recognized Ming’s state.

“You didn’t come directly. Are you just projecting your consciousness here…?”

“Hmm I guess I’m at a point where I can understand that now.”

Instead of answering Lennok’s question Myeong smiled strangely.

“As expected there has been significant accomplishment since I saw you in the labyrinth.”

“….”

“Well it’s not something you need to hear right now. “Let’s talk about what needs to be said first.”

When Lennok did not respond Myung grinned and casually changed the subject.

“This truck. This is something that serious drug addicts drive. “They’re so drugged up that they don’t really care who’s going where.”

Myung grinned leaning back against the backrest and crossing his legs.

“It is a very popular means of transportation in the West Continent because you just have to pay the fare in advance.”

“A transportation business that uses drug addicts as drivers…”

“It is a business created by Dominic Cavarro and spread throughout the Paraguine Republic and is now spreading throughout the Western Continent.”

Myung raised his finger and pointed at the driver.

“You see I don’t care what we talk about or what happens in the back of the truck. “Other than the fact that it only moves according to the fee it’s just like a drug-taking machine.”

Are they just gathering criminals who are addicted to drugs using them as truck drivers and paying them drugs in return?

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Criminals whose drugs have already spread to their bones cannot even remember the faces or identities of customers so they simply receive the promised payment and step on the accelerator to their destination.

Lennok who only then realized why the truck driver did not show any sign when he saw Tucker’s body nodded in bewilderment.

“The drug lord was also an unusual person. “Has he found a way to take advantage of his customers?”

“Because his talent as a businessman was considerable even within Pandemonium. I guess that’s why that body is still alive in the Republic.”

“….”

There’s no way he doesn’t know that Lennok personally killed Dominic Cavarro’s consciousness and put him in suspended animation but he calmly says that.

Lennok sighed and asked as he adjusted his mask.

“So what’s going on? “I didn’t think you would contact me here.”

When I met Hilea in Area 21 and received the mission I thought I would never encounter Myung.

The doctor said he had no intention of getting involved in this matter from leaving the operational selection to someone else.

So I thought this would be a time to find out if Lennok was willing to cooperate with Pandemonium’s work.

However Myung ignored Lennok’s words and asked.

“The tears of an archangel. “Why didn’t you take it?”

“what?”

“I deliberately selected and prepared the time series elixir that you have been looking for since you were working as a freelancer but if I do this my sincerity will not be conveyed properly.”

“I said something…”

So does that mean that the operation to steal the Archangel’s tears was planned in the first place?

Lennok let out a laugh and answered.

“Let alone the consequences of stealing and consuming this much elixir isn’t there a high possibility of losing consciousness at the time of taking it?”

A relic of the old world. A loss so strong that the city is reeling. An elixir of heaven that increases human lifespan.

Isn’t it natural that the user’s consciousness will fly away if he or she picks up and eats these items carelessly?

Considering that I had been sick for a full day the first time I took stemonia an elixir of much lower quality than the Archangel’s Tears it was only natural.

“Well… that’s true too.”

The person who was easily convinced grinned and shook his head.

“The Archangel series is one of the highest-ranking items in origin and performance among relics from the old world. “It is said that the force that produced this artifact was the closest to organized ascension in the second world.”

“It’s an organized ascension….”

Lennok remained silent as Ming’s words openly mentioned the old world before Ascension.

There was a high probability that it was a world related to the WORLD 2.0 that Lennok knew about.

And unlike the 3.0 world which Lennok had no knowledge of he remembered the 2.0 game to some extent.

According to my memory from the time I was playing the game as the Demon Musketeer there were approximately four forces that maintained power until the ending in the worldview of WORLD 2.0.

Among them there was only one force that could create an item with the same name as Archangel.

‘The Church. Even back then there was an organization called the Church of Christ that believed in multiple gods.’

The Archangel’s Compassion an artifact owned by Lennok was obtained from Irina Pesfield the leader of the exploration team.

And Irina Fesfield was a usurper who obtained the Archangel’s compassion through tacit cooperation with the Church.

It may not be that rare for a particular religious group to have more power than just numbers.

But is it a coincidence that at this point relics that penetrate the old world and the present world were being managed under the name of the church?

Until now I hadn’t thought about it because the knowledge of the Old World wasn’t very helpful but there might be useful information in Pandemonium.

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While Lennok was organizing in his head the knowledge he remembered from the game Myung looked away and muttered.

“If you are thinking about taking it it would be better to take it in advance. “The place I’m going from now is a place where I won’t be able to afford that easily.”

“…what?”

Only then did Lennok’s expression harden as he realized why Myung had appeared at this moment.

“Wait a minute then the stopover that the truck driver said he had to stop by…!!”

“It’s always good to be quick-witted.”

Myung muttered happily and turned his head.

“I told you earlier right? “As long as you pay the fare they don’t care where you go.”

Sigh!

As soon as I snapped my fingers the front of the truck’s window turned black and the truck entered the huge tunnel.

The surrounding scenery changes in an instant.

Even though the terrain and scenery in all directions change rapidly right in front of us the driver does not pay any attention.

Myeong looked back at the driver and smiled faintly.

“There are things that only a friend like this can show you. “I thought it was a good opportunity.”

“….”

Druddeuddeuddeuk!!!

The truck rattles and trembles like crazy racing through endless darkness toward the light.

As soon as I jumped into the bright light shining through the driver’s side window a completely different landscape came into view from the field I had been driving through just moments before.

Kwaaaa!!!

A canal so huge that you can’t see the other side.

Compared to the overwhelming width of the canal which appears to be hundreds of meters the amount of water flowing down the canal appears to be completely insufficient.

But still an overwhelming noise like pouring water was constantly echoing from all directions.

Lennok muttered as he held onto the back of the truck’s bed and stuck his head out.

“It’s a strange scene. “A canal like this is being built but there are no traces of a city around it…”

Isn’t the existence of the canal itself the fruit of construction to bring water to the vicinity of the city?

Of course the people carrying out this construction construction equipment or traces of civilization should be visible.

But somewhere on the withering field not a single person comes near.

Myeong listened to that with his legs crossed behind him and then laughed.

“Canal? Now that I think about it it might seem that way. “It was a refreshing interpretation.”

“…This isn’t a canal right now? “So this isn’t the scenery you want to show me?”

“half. “There’s no way I’m taking up your time just to show you a hole like this.”

Myung grinned and stood up.

“What I was talking about was not this pit but the entity that was moving and creating this in real time.”

“Someone alone is changing the terrain on this scale…?”

Lennok understanding the meaning of those words shook his head.

The width of the huge canyon that Lennok thought was a canal was hundreds of meters wide even at the shortest estimate.

Does this mean that the act of changing the terrain on this scale is not a one-time destruction but merely a trace of real-time movement?

Lennok might have been able to create a canal like this if he poured all his magic into it but he wasn’t confident that he could pull off this level of destruction with his breath.

If Lennok who had already surpassed his castle rank was like this then if he were a single entity with a weight class and destructive power that surpassed him-

“It would be quicker to see it in person than to explain it. Get ready. “The closer you get the harder it will be to breathe.”

“What on earth is that…!”

There was no need to think long about what Myung was saying.

Before Lennok could ask again the sky above the truck as it drove along the canal began to turn pitch black.

At the same time unknown dark energies begin to rain down on Lennok’s shield from all directions.

It melts cell by cell as if melting the shield and coveting the body inside.

“…!!”

The moment danger is recognized it quickly forms a hand seal and rapidly increases the strength and range of the shield.

Despite reacting extremely quickly the driver outside the shield’s range was already late.

“Gegegeek…. Ugegeeng….”

The driver who had been holding the steering wheel with a blank expression and not saying anything let out an inexplicable groan for the first time.

At the same time hundreds of black age spots began to spread on the driver’s skin covering his skin black.

“Gyaggyaggya…!!! Keheeeeek!!!”

The driver is seen scratching his drug-addled body in pain then finally letting go of the steering wheel and convulsing like crazy.

The driver who instantly lost his sense of reason as a human being howled viciously and turned his head towards the back of the luggage compartment.

“Khaaaaaa!!”

In place of the driver who went crazy banging on the luggage compartment isolated by the glass window Lennok naturally held the steering wheel like a magician and maintained the direction.

Even though the driver who had been fine until just now had turned into a monster neither Myung nor Lennok reacted too much.

Instead he just frowned slightly as the air suddenly began to break apart.

Even within Lennok’s sensory area which covers a radius of several kilometers the presence of something far ahead on the other side of the canal began to be detected.

Despite the noise of the monster pounding on the window Lennok muttered with a thoughtful expression.

“I don’t feel much of a magical response… It’s hard to even say it’s a vital response. “A sense of discomfort or a feeling of extreme foreignness… I can only feel a feeling of extremeness that goes beyond that.”

“That’s accurate.”

“If you see the driver change like that is it some type of disaster related to disease or infection?”

“It’s a disaster but that’s not the theme.”

Myeong said that and looked back at the driver who suddenly stopped banging on the window.

“If you see the signal slowly coming we’re almost there… Oh that’s it.”

“Kyaaak!!”

At that moment the driver who had been staring at the two people blankly turns his head away with his body stained black.

He clung to the direction of the canal writhed his limbs strangely then smashed the truck with his bare feet and started running toward the canal.

Kwasik!!

Even though it was staggering and running across the bare ground it had already surpassed the human strength.

The moment when the monster that jumped down the canal screamed and stretched out its arms forward.

Charrrrrrr!!

A pitch-black chain flew in front of him instantly tying it around his neck and taking away his body.

“Kyahak!! Kyahahahaha!!”

The sight of the driver letting out a scream of joy even though his body was being dragged helplessly.

As if he had been hoping for this from the beginning he started crawling on all fours as he was dragged along by the leash.

“I’ll see you soon. “Once you see it with your own eyes you will know even if you don’t like it.”

Myung said quietly as he looked at Lennok who was speechless as he looked down at the sight.

“Because Gyebaek is like that.”

Doo doo doo doo doo!!!

The noise gets louder.

The magnificent sound of water that I thought was flowing through the canal.

Lennok realized that it was not in fact the sound of water but the noise of someone digging in front of him with his bare hands and crawling forward as if struggling.

[Haaaaaaaah!!!]

It is not a sound made by one person.

Dozens hundreds thousands tens of thousands.

A black sphere made up of tens of thousands of people whose entire bodies were stained black like a driver who had just disappeared in chains.

A hideous sphere of human flesh embodied in the flesh of a living human being is digging out a pile of dirt and creating a canal with its tens of thousands of arms stretched out between them.

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