Drug-Eating Genius Mage – 648



The Genius Wizard Who Takes Medicine Episode 648

Bailiff(5)

The entrance to the eerie stairs leading down to the clock tower basement.

Committee members their hands tied with thin magic thread were walking down the basement in a row.

The members are taken hostage and are moving around as if they are being escorted as a group.

“The truck you were riding in. “It was a cash transport vehicle belonging to the central bank near the Jongsim district.”

Langmuir said while looking at Lennok who was walking silently at the back of the line.

“Although it is old it is still the model used around here. Did you secretly enter the Deep Earth on that?”

Lennog looked at Langmuir with amusement and then answered.

“In order to receive and store slush funds in real time internal security is set loosely in the financial district.”

“…what?”

“If you say you are leaving to collect cash no one will suspect anything. I think it is thanks to the committee members who worked hard day and night for the development of the city.”

Even though they knew that Lennok was not saying this with good intentions no one dared to open their mouth.

This was because every single plan he was talking about was like circumstantial evidence that he had been thoroughly preparing for this moment.

The craftsman standing in front of them knew that this moment would come.

“…Genga even knew that after receiving slush funds from the Clock Tower they were sent to the financial district using transport vehicles.”

“Commissioner Langmuir!!”

“How could you carelessly spread such rumors?!”

The other committee members were shocked and turned away but Langmuir ignored them and asked Lennok.

“What is the purpose? “What are you trying to do by holding us hostage?”

Before Lennok answered that question he looked up at the ceiling of the underground stairs of the clock tower they were walking through.

“They say the clock tower here is one of the oldest buildings in Machina.”

“….”

“The building itself has long since lagged behind Machina’s technological prowess but it remains in the Deep Earth because of its symbolism… Isn’t it ironic considering the prestige of the Machine City?”

The other committee members were also not shaken as they had gone through all kinds of hardships but they could not hide their nervousness.

After passing through a long spiral staircase and a dark hallway turn the thick lever and the clock tower’s engine room is revealed.

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All kinds of pumps and pistons are constantly moving in all directions filling the engine room with a mixture of steam and heat.

“Whoa….”

The members are sweating or waving their hands as if they are out of breath due to the sudden change in environment.

Langmuir ignored them and turned his gaze towards Lennok who was standing furthest behind.

“As you said it’s an old building so the power efficiency isn’t good. “It’s impossible to find anything here…”

Snap!!

At that moment Lennok closed the engine room door and locked it from the inside.

What does it mean to use your hands to prevent anyone including yourself from leaving the engine room?

“Huh…!!”

The other committee members’ complexions turned pale and everyone took a step back keeping their distance from Lennok.

“You lied…!!”

“Why the hell did you have to come to a place like this…!”

Instead of responding to the shout Lennok lifted the blunderbuss he was holding and aimed it at the committee members.

Before anyone could react the finger pulled the trigger and the moment the committee members covered their ears with both hands and closed their eyes.

Wow!!

The pumps and pistons that were busy inside the engine room stopped working all at once.

“…Huh?”

Lennok said as the committee members slowly removed their hands from their ears in bewilderment.

“47 large pumps. 80 medium-sized pistons. 693 bottom insertion pipes and 3 steam exhaust devices in the platoon workshop.”

Lennok lowered his hand holding the blunderbuss and started walking looking around.

“The power generated inside the engine room is too large to cover a single clock tower. “If output is supplied normally it would not be surprising if the internal facilities were overloaded and damaged.”

“What what?”

“Then isn’t the energy generated in this engine room being used for other functions rather than the clock tower?”

At that moment the floor of the engine room where Lennok and the committee members were standing shook violently and began to sink.

Kugugoogung!!

“Ugh!!”

“Fall!”

“Here’s a place to catch…!”

The members of the committee are staggering and somehow clinging to the handles found throughout the engine room.

The expressions of the committee members changed strangely as they inadvertently grabbed the handles that had dust piled up all over the place.

“I see. “The fact that there were several handles made in this way….”

Rattling rattling!!

It falls at high speed as if the engine room had become an elevator and was being plunged into the basement.

After a while it seemed to stop but this time it turned to the side and ran for a while.

The shape of the engine room shaking as if running on rails and then rising again.

“…hmm?”

Some of the committee members who had a good sense of humor tilted their heads as if they felt something strange.

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Shake!!

As soon as the engine room stopped the door that Lennok had locked was wide open.

The committee members who came out hesitantly looked at the scene outside and muttered as if they were embarrassed.

“What the hell is this….”

“This kind of hideous god statue was hidden in the clock tower?”

In the middle of a gloomy dirt pile that looks like it was just dug up. A huge statue of the eight-faced god was buried between piles of dirt.

A demon-like figure with two heads and eight arms.

All eight arms are tightly bound by unknown chains and the ten pupils are tightly closed.

A serene statue of a god half-buried between a pile of dirt as if asleep.

However its presence is truly overwhelming even though it does not exert any force.

While the other committee members hesitated and retreated when faced with the presence of the statue Lennok approached and touched the statue’s forearm.

‘The coordinates the doctor said were here.’

Lennok’s eyes lit up as he realized that the hardness and material of the forearm was similar to what he remembered.

‘New image of the eight-sided figure used in the interim settlement. Was this the prototype?’

While tracking down Narcissa Solmer’s assassin Lennok encountered a replica similar to the statue used by the doctor.

Didn’t he obtain the Hammer of the Furnace Jin Army from a Side Squad agent who was looking for the heart of a machine dragon and extract information about the manufacturing method of Arma Delta alloy?

At that time I didn’t know why the replica of the statue was here so I just used the statue’s abilities and ran away.

Only after learning that the doctor’s name was Atermire was I able to clearly understand the story.

Atermire the designer of the Ascension Gate.

A prototype to store information about the old world that he created after studying the old world for a long time in the Machine City.

That was the identity and source of the gods that existed in this mechanical city.

The new image used for interim accounts in Pandemonium is probably a new finished version created after the doctor left Machina.

However the original of the statue was still stored in this machine city.

And that too in the secret space of the clock tower with a long history where the Ex Machina members themselves live.

The engine room’s hidden function was activated because the clock tower’s extra power itself was being used to maintain this underground cavity.

Lennok investigated the series of processes through the coordinates received from the doctor and successfully found the identity of the person.

Driving a transport vehicle to the clock tower and taking the committee members hostage was itself a means of entering the coordinates given by the doctor.

Even though decades had passed since the name Atermire was completely forgotten the doctor’s personal image was still left here.

Lennok said while adjusting the chains that tightly bound the statue’s arms.

“This is an item made and hung by a meister-level craftsman.”

“…what?”

“It appears that equivalent authority is required to disable its own built-in security system.”

Lennok nodded lightly toward the committee members who hesitated and retreated.

“Does this require Ex Machina authority?”

“I can’t believe it. “I can’t believe this hideous thing was hidden in the basement of the clock tower…”

Everyone understood without having to say why Lennok had taken the committee members hostage and brought them here.

The committee members hesitated looking intimidated and stood in front of the chains that bound the eight arms of the statue.

The ticket is recognized by a device embedded next to a solid chain and the security measures are requested to be lifted with Ex Machina’s authority.

As soon as the system approved the authority the chains binding the identity were simultaneously released.

Wow!!

The fallen chain kicked up a cloud of dust creating a sandstorm and covering the heads of the committee members.

“Cluck cluck!!”

The committee members who were covered in dust in an instant stepped back and at the same time Lennok nodded toward them.

“Could you please go back to the engine room and wait?”

“Lyman… do you know what that new identity is?”

Another committee member asked with an anxious expression.

Lennok smiled faintly instead of answering that question.

“Because this cavity is undergoing development oxygen is very thin.”

“What is that…?”

“At least if we don’t quickly return to a well-ventilated engine room it might not be possible to hold out for long.”

“…!!”

Lennok who had sent the committee members back to the engine room with just a few words turned his gaze towards the statue.

Anyway the engine room’s movement function won’t work unless Lennok returns.

An engine room with relatively good ventilation would be a suitable place to confine the committee members.

This underground space is so hidden that you have to descend hundreds of meters from the clock tower to reach it making it ideal for holding committee members hostage.

All that remains is to achieve the desired goal using this statue located at the coordinates left by the doctor.

“Mya. Are you ready?”

“It has been confirmed that the new identity is real.”

Maiya who casually walked out from behind the statue responded.

“If I hadn’t taken the committee members in and out of the engine room it would have started a long time ago.”

“Although Atermire told me the location of the hidden statue I heard that it has been decades since he left Machina.”

Lennok calmly responded to Maiya’s words.

“There was a possibility that someone recognized the existence of the statue and wrote it down. Didn’t one of the Meisters actually discover the identity and chain it up?”

Maiya’s eyes brightened sharply as she immediately understood Lennok’s words.

“I see. “Did you think that if the Ex Machina members were so gathered together any security barrier would be easily resolved?”

“The chained Meister discovered the statue but was unable to find a way to retrieve it from inside the clock tower where the members of the Machine Head faction reside.”

Lennok said as he looked at the chains scattered all over the place.

“So I guess they wanted to put a chain on him that only those with the same authority could break and study his identity later.”

Considering that a replica of the new statue was actually used among Side Squad agents there is evidence that it was not only Lennok who discovered this prototype.

Perhaps among the machine-headed members that Lenno just sent back to the engine room as hostages there may be some who are aware of the existence of this statue.

If you take the time to interrogate and find out what’s inside it won’t be difficult to find out the history…

“Because I don’t have time. “First of all we will investigate Ex Machina’s activities related to the new statue separately later.”

Lennok said and lightly tapped his wrist.

“While moving from the engine room we succeeded in duplicating the tickets of two of the committee members. “It will be blocked after you use it once but you will be able to get through even the highest security barrier twice.”

If it weren’t for the route the doctor taught me I wouldn’t have been able to grab the leashes of the machine-headed members so easily.

Although it was not a situation to kill the members on the spot or take them hostage Lennok did not let them go easily.

The cramped environment of the engine room. In an unstable situation he penetrated the consciousness of committee members who had no time to spare and secretly copied the tickets of committee members who were weakly equipped.

At the same time if there were any unexpected security measures while raising personal information the plan was to use the committee members as shields to overcome them.

“In the meantime I even managed to duplicate the Ex Machina member’s ticket… Great.”

Maiya muttered with an expressionless face and nodded lightly.

“You have a lot more sense than I thought. “Let’s start right away.”

“If there is a problem I don’t know what purpose the new statue is used for. From now on you will have to take care of it yourself.”

Of course Lennok knew what kind of capabilities the new device had as he participated in the interim settlement but he took a step back here.

Since he did not come as Victor there is no reason to reveal that he knows anything about the doctor or his identity.

Maiya knew that Lennok was not an ordinary craftsman but she did not inquire about his identity in detail.

That’s not because you have no idea who Lyman’s true identity is but rather because you can guess it to some extent.

‘Do you know the existence of fastness and pretend not to know or do you think it doesn’t matter if you don’t know…?’

Lennok’s eyes sank deeply as he looked at Maiya’s back as she approached the statue.

Either way it was clear that Lennok had no need to pretend to know anything about the powers of the gods at this point.

Here we have no choice but to follow Maiya’s judgment after receiving the doctor’s advice.

Thinking so Lennok pretended not to know and spoke to Maiya first.

“If it is a new statue created by Atermire herself it is highly likely that it is a medium connected to the old world.”

“right. “If you came from Simseonggwan and looked through the door you would know.”

Since he came back from looking through the door as Lyman it would feel strange if he couldn’t guess this much.

Maiya also naturally nodded and climbed onto the palm of the statue.

“To be precise it is a storage device for trading and storing memories and information from the old world in the form of equivalent exchange.”

“….”

“The doctor had been planning this item for a long time but it was only after the planning was completed that it was completed properly.”

“You mean the failure of the Ascension Gate plan?”

What a disaster…!!

When Lennok mentioned that word openly Maiya’s demeanor suddenly became frighteningly sharp.

But Victor knows this but Lyman does not. It was a problem that needed to be addressed even if it meant mixing in obvious acting.

Maiya who was looking down at Lennok with a cold gaze slowly nodded.

“…Only after completing one failure did the doctor return to the way he had originally thought.”

“….”

“Only he will know what Atermire was thinking in the end why he abandoned his name threw away everything he had and left the city.”

Slam!!

Maiya took out a small sword from her arms and smiled coldly.

“But it would be a lie to say that I didn’t leave any regrets. If that were the case there would be no way the prototype of a new product would have been safely hidden here.”

Without hesitation Maiya climbed onto the palm of the statue and slowly raised her magical power.

Lennok watched Maiya’s work from behind with interest.

The principle of the new ability created by the doctor is to exchange information of equal value by offering information or relics from the old world and measuring their value.

Didn’t Lennok also obtain the recipe for Arma Delta alloy using a replica of the new statue?

When the doctor told me the coordinates where this new statue was hidden it was as if he was telling me to use him to get the necessary information.

So it is true that I am curious about what Maiya will trade in return for the new product at this point.

‘At the time of the interim financial statements Maiya wasn’t very noticeable. It seems like it has achieved some results but…’

At the time of the interim settlement in the satellite city of Bayruts Maiya seemed to be satisfied with only meeting the quota and had little interest in the transaction itself.

However he would not hesitate to offer important information in exchange for matters directly related to the Machine City Machina.

Lennok was secretly interested in what information Maiya would use in return for finding a way to stop Hermes.

The moment Lennok was waiting for Maiya who had climbed onto the palm of the statue and raised her magical power to open her mouth.

Maiya lightly took a step forward and quickly climbed onto the statue’s arm.

“…hmm?”

Before Lennok could even comment on the unexpected movement.

Suddenly!!

Maiya wielding a flashing sword cut off the statue’s head in one fell swoop.