Genius Wizard Takes Medicine - Chapter 822



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Chapter 822

Knot(9)

Lennok’s question about the origins of Nimel, an ancient heroic spirit awakened in the basement of Yorta.

However, Nimel did not immediately respond to that.

Nimel, who was looking down at Lennok with a cold gaze, spoke to Oris.

“Oris Eisen. Could you please step aside for a moment?”

“what?”

“I have no intention of hurting this person, but I think I have something urgent to tell you.”

“… … .”

Nimel said, staring at Lennok’s obsidian mask with an expressionless face.

“It is a personal secret. It doesn’t seem to have much to do with Yoreta’s work.”

“… … You’re bothering me. Does it have anything to do with the name you abandoned?”

Oris grumbled like that, but calmly followed Nimel’s words and stood up from her seat.

Oris, who glanced back at Lennok, said as if asking.

“I have already told the other Heroic Spirits, but I am the descendant of Onion. He should make sure not to tamper with it.”

“Didn’t we draw a conclusion about this person’s treatment at the festival?”

Nimel answered without taking his eyes off Lennok.

“Do not worry. Nothing to worry about will happen.”

“Damn it, I can’t trust the guys trapped deep in the tower… … .”

Silence came as Oris muttered and left the place.

Nimel stared blankly at Lennok, who was bound by the chains of the mist and unable to move.

“He was instrumental in putting your disposition at the festival suspended. It seems you’ve done yourself a favor.”

“I pretend not to, but I think you owe me.”

Lennok replied indifferently.

“It is an overly honest disposition to stand above someone else. If you’re thinking of giving him the power of Yorta, you’ll have to help him.”

“There’s no reason for you to care that much-”

“Or should I tell you properly about your origins now?”

Lennok cut off Nimel at once and looked away.

“It seems there is no need to double-check that you are from the church now.”

“… … .”

Lennok asked.

“Were you one of the souls who held the priesthood position of the Order?”

A sense of incongruity felt from the time Nimel first appeared here.

The intense sense of déjà vu felt from its presence and atmosphere certainly resembles that of the priestess Seina Naidri.

It is not a simple intuition or baseless reasoning that begins with vague suspicion.

The church’s stigma that was transferred to Seina. Because the stigma symbolizing the authority of the priest was reacting to Nimel.

That was undeniable proof that Nimel was related to high-ranking positions in the church, and to the existence of priestesses.

On the other hand, Nimel didn’t notice that Lennok had Stigma.

That’s why Lennok was suspicious of whether Nimel was the one who gave up the position of priestess.

For Lennok, who knew that the position of a priestess was inherited, it was natural to think that Nimel inherited the lineage.

Not to mention, if a soul of that size had enemies in Yorta, it wouldn’t be strange to become the highest-ranking commander like a Heroic Spirit.

“The religious leaders I know aren’t the kind of people who would let go of their followers without paying anything in return.”

Nimel’s shoulders trembled at the words of Lennok who casually called the leader.

Lennok looked closely at Nimel’s expression and asked.

“If you really were a priestess of the church, how did you abandon the doctrine and become a heroic spirit in Yoreta?”

“… … .”

“No, why did you abandon the church and hold onto Yoreta’s hand?”

The members of the church are only those who blindly serve and believe in and follow the leader.

Even Seina, who maintained a neutral attitude in doctrine, never wavered in her faith even for a moment.

However, Nimel, who is now standing in front of Lennok, has escaped from the Church and become a heroic spirit in Yorta.

What made her that way, and how is that even possible?

As soon as Lennok saw her, he knew what to ask.

“… … You know so much about the Order.”

Nimel closed her eyes trembling.

Would it be an illusion if even that trivial gesture felt similar to Seina’s that Lennok remembered?

Nimel, who quickly calmed down his agitation, opened his mouth to Lennok.

“If there are few outsiders who know this accurately about the gender, authority, and rules of the religious order given to priestesses from generation to generation… … .”

“… … .”

“There is just one thing you misunderstand.”

Nimel opened her eyes and spoke slowly.

“I am not a church priestess. To be precise, it is one of the substitutes prepared to become a priestess.”

“substitute?”

“At the time when the Mangwi Night was in full swing, the cult and Yoreta made a deal regarding the body of an ascendant.”

Nimel succinctly explained the secret history of the past.

“In exchange for keeping one holy relic in the dark, it was decided that the church would help with the nocturnal ritual.”

“… … .”

“I was one of those souls who were chosen to assist in the ceremony and were sacrificed to the nocturnal.”

A priestess candidate who was not formally given the position of priestess, but was prepared to replace her.

However, without becoming a priestess, was she an existence sacrificed to Yoreta to help with the ritual of Mangwi Night?

It’s ironic.

Seina Naidri, who formally inherited the title of priestess, sacrificed herself and perished.

That Nimel, sacrificed in the nocturnal ritual, still maintains its existence as a heroic spirit.

Should we be surprised that even a candidate who did not rise to the position of a priestess has become such a powerful heroic spirit?

Should I be satisfied with the realization that there will be more candidates to replace Seina?

“Then are you still a believer serving the doctrine?”

“… … I don’t know.”

Nimel looked away with a complicated expression.

“I have no regrets about being served at Yoreta and spending the night together. It is because I did my best to fulfill my mission even after I got away from the doctrine.”

“… … .”

“However, the moment when the trip to Mangwi failed and I was forced to make a choice… … . I felt the faith that remained in me shake.”

Nimel turned her head away from Lennok’s gaze and muttered as if confessing.

“What is worth doing at a point where you can’t fully follow him or go on a night trip? I couldn’t even understand it myself.”

The beginning was not of one’s own will, but as a result, faith in the church was shaken and it came to exist as an independent entity.

While Lennok was thinking about that fact, Nimel asked back.

“It seems that you have already met the priestess of the church. Did you try to overlap her me and her her, and guess where she came from?”

“The priestess knew that the requiem was trying to use the ascendant’s remains for her own personal use and tried to stop it.”

Lennok replied.

“They said they couldn’t forgive him for trying to obtain the body of an ascendant and increase the power of Yorta.”

“okay… … I heard from the Grand Inquisitor about what they were plotting in the requiem.”

Nimel asked hesitantly.

“Where is she now? If she’s still staying near Yorta, she’s even-”

“The priestess is dead.”

“… … .”

Lennok spoke quietly to the silent Nimel.

“In the crumbling Sanctuary of Infinity, I sacrificed myself and completely perished.”

“Eternal death… … .”

Nimel was speechless and raised her gaze.

“She has already achieved the ending I wished for a long time ago and left this world.”

“… … .”

“That might be the difference from me, who was just a substitute.”

What is the meaning of the ending Seina Naidri chose at the last moment?

The only thing that is certain is that she decided on her own and concluded the knot without leaving any regrets behind.

I wonder if Nimel, hearing of Seina’s death, is honoring her with thoughts similar to Lennok’s?

But instead of being sentimental, Lennok immediately straightened himself halfway up and opened his mouth again.

“There is one thing I would like to ask about the Church.”

It wasn’t to indulge in sentimentality to reveal Nimel’s origins and explain the end of the priestess.

“If you were dedicated to night travel as an official of the church, you would know in which direction the power of the religious leader worked in the process.”

“… … .”

“Before I enshrine the corpse of the arrival in the Sanctuary of Infinity, I want to know where the cult leader left his power in this city.”

There is a secret story that I did not know even after facing the corpse of Dorae in the sanctuary of infinity and looking into the memory.

“You are making demands that I cannot meet.”

Nimel shook her head with a blurry expression.

“I am not an insignificant soul or a person who does not know how to do it. How can I-”

The moment Nimel’s gaze touched the shining stigma on Lennok’s wrist, she fell silent.

The moment Lennok waved his hand while looking at Nimel’s expressionless face.

Limp!!

Like a lie, Lennok’s hands were free from their chains.

“Ask again.”

Lennok, who got up from his bed, walked towards Nimel and asked.

“Is there a place you can guess?”

“… … This is impossible.”

Nimel looked at Lennok’s stigma with a pale complexion and said with difficulty.

“The authority of a priestess cannot be handed down in this way, but how… … !!”

“Is there a place you can guess?”

“… … .”

Lennok’s question that he would openly escape from here and search for Yorta further.

However, Nimel nodded with a complicated expression instead of holding back or blocking such Lennok.

“There is a ceremonial hall used by religious officials. At the time, it was the only ruin that the church had touched—”

“Where is the location?”

“… … The 19th floor of the basement of Yoreta.”

Nimel let out a small sigh and replied.

“This is the crematorium where the meritorious and traitors of Yorta were gathered and burned.”

* * *

Kurrureuk!!

Deep in the headlane river.

Beneath the dark river bed, where the water pressure presses down, a huge ghost ship is swimming and sinking as if twisting.

Unlike when Lennok first got it, the shape of the ship was damaged, broken, and worn out.

Lennok shook his head, looking at the dangling mast that had broken in half.

“… … I’ll have to try repairing it separately when I get back.”

Onion’s ship is useful in many ways, but since it is an item obtained as Victor’s identity, you must be careful when using it.

It would be relatively safer for Lennok to handle the repair of the damaged ship alone rather than entrusting it to someone else.

As soon as he heard Lennok’s words, Darby stuck out his head as if he had been waiting.

[Should I download the ship parts procurement catalog?]

“it’s okay. The standard itself is too old, so it won’t be compatible with modern manuals.”

As Lennok said, he glanced around the ship.

Even after all parts are damaged and deteriorated, the function of the ship itself is not inferior.

It must be possible because of the power built into the ship that it can sail intact even after the mast is broken in half.

It was on that side that Lennok needed to see his hand and fix it.

“It would be easier to work if I properly mastered the commanding arts, but there is hardly any progress… … .”

The commanders clinging to the head of the ship and dragging it into the depths of the water.

However, unlike the ghost sharks that Oris was dealing with, the commanders that Lennok manipulates do not use their strength and just whimper.

[Ughhhh… … .]

As the commanding spells cast by Lennok remain at a low level, the commanding spirits that follow his will are also weak spiritual bodies.

The problem was that the reason he had to learn the military decree was that it wasn’t just to transport a ship.

Immediately after the decisive battle with Dorae, the incarnation of Lennok fell asleep enshrined in a white coffin.

Because the incarnation stopped moving and fell into a state of suspended animation.

‘I thought there would be a backlash for turning the apostle selection ceremony to the incarnation, but… … .’

With the self-region Gwangramu Haegung open, it was the only way to take out the incarnation dwelling in the body of the arrival and obtain the power of the guru.

However, it was unexpected that the incarnation of Lennok, who became an apostle through the selection ceremony, was trapped in a pure white coffin he made himself and did not move.

The only way left was to manipulate it directly with the Manipulation Spell, or forcibly awaken the incarnation through the Command Spell.

Even in order to find a solution, you must first awaken the incarnation and synchronize it with yourself again.

It is an incarnation that originated from the existence of Lennok himself and no one else. Even if he was selected as an apostle and changed, his essence would never have changed.

Above all, Lennok had no intention of having the incarnation he had obtained stolen from someone else.

‘Only when I have an incarnation will I be freed from the problem of coexisting identities.’

Unlike Onion’s ghost ship, the incarnation can be used in various ways regardless of status, so I can’t give up all the more.

Thinking so, Lennok manipulated the command hanging at the head of the ship and tried to drag the ship deeper into the water.

[Ooh ooh… … .]

The commanders only groaned and twisted their bodies, not following Lennok’s orders properly.

“… … It feels very different from when I learned the tricks in the past.”

Embarrassed, Lennok scratched his cheek and murmured.

“It was very easy to copy the tips of the military command techniques and apply them to other techniques, but the techniques themselves are rather difficult to learn.”

After gaining the conviction that learning military spirits would organically connect Lennok’s harvest.

Lennok borrowed the help of Oris and was taught the art of lordship several times, but he could hardly use lordship.

Although he immediately understood the principles and tricks of the technique, it was because the commanders did not follow Lennok’s will.

“Look. Like now like this… … .”

That moment when Lennok said that and stretched out his hand toward the white ghosts swimming down the Headlane River.

The white ghosts floating down the river with scythes were frightened and began to run away in a hurry.

[Heh, heh, heh!! Leave me alone!!]

[I apologize if I did anything wrong, please… … !!]

“… … .”

Warlords who are extremely afraid of being put under Lennok’s control and refuse to flee.

Either run away, be afraid, and just have a seizure trying to get out of Lennok’s spell right now.

[Hmm, even though Master is a scary person, it’s not like that… … .]

Darby also just tilted his head with his chin hanging as if he was surprised.

[If it wasn’t like this in the past, isn’t it because there was a change that made you fear the Master?]

“… … It doesn’t.”

Lennok replied with a timid expression.

“The problem is that there are so many guesses, it’s hard to pinpoint the cause.”

[…] … .]

Even if you come to Yorta right away and organize the new spells and authority that you have obtained, you will not be alone.

Acquisition of incarnation. Priestly authority transferred from priestess. The awakening of Kashuin, the archangel of the old world.

Not to mention the martial arts of Gujung Dorai learned over his shoulder from Dorae, as well as the martial arts he was learning from Oris.

There are so many factors that continue to change Lennok himself that it is difficult to narrow down the cause to one.

Since I’m not in a situation where I can research this issue right now, I’m just vaguely repeating trial and error.

Darby also gave up his worries at Lennok’s words and lay flat in his robe.

[Then I can’t help it~ How can I know something the master doesn’t know?]

“okay. I didn’t even expect it from the beginning… … .”

thud!!

At that moment, the commanders who had been hiding in chains at the head of the ship could not stand it and disappeared.

It has become so weak that it can no longer maintain its own shape under the increasing water pressure.

The appearance of a ghost ship that lost its guiding power at once and stopped in place.

Lennok, who was looking for a commanding officer to pull the ship in his place, turned the mana sensor once and shook his head.

“It’s difficult. Maybe it’s because we’ve come too deep, so there’s no sign of anything around.”

The ship is a legacy of Madric Onion, who was a warlord, and is rarely compatible with other spells other than warlords.

It may be possible to forcefully manipulate it with Lennok’s magic, but it will be unsuitable for long-distance voyages due to poor fuel economy.

On the deck of the ship stopped under the dark waterway, Lennok’s troubled gaze reached the spirit rolling in his arms.

[…] … .]

“… … .”

[master. I don’t even have fins.]

Darby replied as if he was absurd, but Lennok lifted the Darby with both hands.

The flaccid fox spirit stuck out its paws and looked back at Lennok with a stunned expression.

“The 19th basement floor that Nimel mentioned is right in front of you. Give it a try or quit right away.”

[…] … .]

“You don’t have to do it if you don’t feel like it. It’s the same as using magic anyway, so it doesn’t matter if I do it.”

[no. It’s not difficult, so I’ll give it a try.]

Booung!!

In an instant, the cyber spirit, which had grown to the size of Lennok’s body, jumped out in front of the ship’s deck, grabbed the chain, and closed its paws.

[My dream is to get on top of a palanquin and be praised, but on the contrary… … .]

While grumbling, Darby raised her magic power, inflated her whole body, and slowly walked down the river.

The five tails spun stiffly upright and began spinning like propellers.

Whoo!!

The shape of the ship slowly starting to move forward as Darby swims.

Although the existence of the spirit is distinctly different from that of the military spirit, it is compatible with the ghost ship as it is bound by the concept of the same spiritual body.

woo woo woo… … !!!

At the same time that Darby raised her magical power, the speed of the ship increased, and the spirit and the ship emitted light at the same time.

Lennok, who had been watching the scene from the deck, frowned at the strange sense of unity he felt at the moment.

“Wait, this… … .”

As the magic power of the spirit responds strongly to the ghost ship, the thoughts themselves merge into one and are mixed.

The moment when Lennok was about to call Darby and stop him immediately due to the unusual resonance of his will.

Woooooooooooooo!!!!

The brilliance that rose up around the ship’s chains began to be absorbed into Darby.

Following the will of the spirit that leads the ship from the front, the entire ship reacts and moves as if it were pulsating.

The entire Onion ship rotates as if being sucked into Dabi and disappears as it is.

Darby’s will quickly ran through the 19th floor with Lennok on his back.

It broke through the barriers colliding from all sides at once, and fell onto a barren plain in the middle of the water.

Kwaaaaang!!

[master!!]

As the shape of the ship was absorbed by Darby, the falling Lennok was picked up by the giant Darby with his paws.

Darby, who swung his tail in a panic and hugged Lennok, jumped up and picked up Lennok.

[Gwa, are you okay?!]

“okay. I can cover up the bruises.”

Lennok coughed lightly and landed in Darby’s arms.

The figure of Lennok who landed on the desolate field and the figure of ashes piled up around him.

And Darby waiting for Lennok with a worried look while wagging his six tails in front of his eyes.

The moment Lennok thought so, he passed Darby and tried to find the ruins and the missing ship.

“… … for a moment. sixth?”

Lennok grabbed the sixth tail that floated like a ghost at the end of the five tails.