Drug-Eating Genius Mage

Genius Magician Who Takes

Medicine Episode 861: Handover (29)

A girl looking at her consciousness floating in the sky with an unreadable expression.

“….”

An eerie scene where a huge snake makes a loop with its body and becomes a well, drawing up the darkness of the open sea.

The moment when the girl who was looking up at it blankly frowned in displeasure.

Damn it!!

The huge well floating in the sky of the ritual space began to break into pieces.

Kwaaaang!!

The snake’s massive body, which had been melting in the thick darkness, split, scattered, and disappeared little by little.

The wind blowing from all directions pushes the flowing darkness beyond the well.

Ignoring the mass of darkness that was convulsing and squirming as if it was still trying to remain in this world, I crushed the consciousness that had become a well.

Kugwagwagwagwa!!!!

The handbook handles all these issues with a single glance while standing still over the horizon.

If a real ascendant who exists in reality, not a part of the physical body or memory, intervenes, will he have this level of control?

“Even if it was a ritual space left arbitrarily, I thought I would intervene if a problem of this magnitude arose.”

Doo doo doo doo!!!

Cheongyeon laughed, swatting away the debris from the well that was falling like rain on his head with one hand.

The lighthouse keeper walked out, holding both hands together and turning around, looking down at the girl and saying.

“If the old consciousness becomes corrupted and becomes connected to the open sea, it may also affect you in reality. yes?”

“I don’t have much to say to the ghosts of the past.”

Despite Cheongyeon’s sonorous voice, the girl’s face was infinitely calm.

“Even our thoughts are meaningless now. “It’s too late to communicate anything.”

“….”

Rather than being angry or irritated, his expression was numb, as if he had not even felt any stimulation.

The extremely expressionless expression that does not match her age makes us guess that the girl in front of us is a transcendental person who borrows only her appearance.

“Thousands of nights have passed since you passed away, but I didn’t know that your regrets would still remain here.”

Handbook Padmé Chiesa, who borrowed the girl’s body and landed in the ritual space, answered quietly.

“I will personally deal with the problems that arise in the conscious body. “You too, get ready to leave.”

Handyang said, looking back at his consciousness breaking into pieces above his head.

“Since your body is in spiritual sleep in reality, wouldn’t it be strange if it became similar to that at some point?”

“You can’t do that. “I’m not here for you.”

Cheon Gyeon shook his head with a bitter smile.

“I have work to do. “It’s a little early to disappear.”

“The mission is to use the conscious body as a lighthouse to observe the open sea and postpone destruction.”

A faint pity flashed across the girl’s face for a moment.

“I remembered. We were definitely in a similar situation. “I endured it, but was tormented by responsibilities I didn’t want.”

“….”

“That way of speaking, that voice… Yes, you are very close to the Cheongyeon I remember.”

“You have changed a lot. Personality and way of speaking. “It was much gentler than this.”

Cheongyeon muttered softly to the silent handbook.

“know. Even ascenders change. Even after obtaining the qualification, my thoughts continue to change. Sometimes you change your mind right before you die. “Maybe I was like that too.”

“….”

Even after reaching level 9 at the end of the hierarchy and becoming an ascendant, things continue to change.

It gets better and it gets worse. It swims in the finite flow of time, adding things and wearing them out.

Just like Jindun, who handed over the barrier technique to Lennok, and like Gyebaek, who jumped into the foreign world, did it.

Cheongyeon of the past and Handyang of the present looked at each other like that and shared unwanted regret.

“…the well I must protect is not a new door that appears in my consciousness.”

Hyeonlab, who was staring at Cheongyeon with an expressionless face, opened his mouth.

“My hometown. The world I was born in. The land where those who raised me left. “I guard the gates of the Great Forest and prevent this world from connecting with the open sea.”

“Even if I forget why I have to protect it?”

“okay.”

Handyang muttered that and slowly raised his hand.

As soon as I stretched out my skinny brown hand, dozens of magic characters floating in the air began to gracefully wrap around my wrist.

“I will destroy everything that exists in this space of consciousness and reconstruct it anew.”

[Secret Law]

[Long Gate]

[Sarak] [Taeha

] A

huge magic magic circle that exceeded the height of the girl was completed, and a dazzling green radiance vibrated violently.

[Guyeop(求迲): External verse(外絶)]

Weeeeeeeing!!!

A spell from the past aeons that is used by a transcendental person who has reached the level of an ascendant as a shaman by chanting the spell himself.

Even Lennoc could only understand that the spell contained an unfathomable vibration.

The moment when the green brilliance brought out by the handbook shook violently and spread throughout the conscious space, threatening to engulf the entire space.

The lightning flashed in the air and struck precisely through the tangled green magic.

Dismissal!!!

The sharp thought of lightning embodied in the ritual space stabs and stops the spell precisely at the moment it is completed.

Cheongyeon, who was watching, whistled and the girl whose chanting was interrupted looked away with an expressionless face.

“human. “What is this?”

“Even if it is the ascendant’s decision, I have no intention of sitting still and disappearing.”

Lennok slowly lifted his gaze, breaking into a cold sweat.

Kagagagak!!!

A bright blue light penetrates between the magic letters that are assembled like a complex skein of thread, blocking their formation.

A magical device that temporarily halts the operation of magic by overlaying the will of the ascendant.

It’s just a matter of forcing the gap between the key and the lock to deflect, but delaying the chanting of the ascendant is nothing short of a miracle.

“Madrea. There is no time.”

It feels like my head is splitting just by forcing myself to stop between spells in the handbook.

Interfering with the Ascendant’s magic using only the power of intention, rather than countercalculation or destruction, was quite a task, even for Lennok.

However, Handyang was not very upset when he saw his spell stopped by Lennok.

“Are you planning to stop it?”

The girl who muttered absentmindedly tilted her head and then raised her other hand and shook it lightly.

“Then I have no choice but to make another one.”

“…!!!”

[Secret Law]

[Long Gate]

[Sarak] [Taeha]

[Nine

Rebellion: Outer Chapter]

Level 9, not bound by Lennok’s interference The incantation is completed by repeating the chant at exactly the same spot.

Kwaaaaaaaaaa!!!

The huge green pillar that rose up around the girl split into hundreds of pieces and scattered, creating a huge net in the sky.

The fragments of the well falling from the sky, he gathers all the spiritual bodies that were once his consciousness and grabs them all at once.

Like a hand with dozens of fingers, the shriveled net is squeezed and contracted.

At the moment when I was about to destroy this consciousness space entirely using the fragments of the conscious body that came into my hand as power.

“You’re trying to eliminate a problem by erasing part of your consciousness entirely. That way of thinking hasn’t changed at all.”

Cheongyeon, who suddenly appeared in front of the girl and snatched her wrist, spoke coldly.

“But not now. “You said you had work to do, right?”

Keyee!!!

At that moment, the girl’s expressionless face became slightly disturbed and she lost her balance and stumbled.

“…Madrea.”

“Just because it’s a space where consciousness resides doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want.”

Cheongyeon, who forcibly twisted the direction of the spell and broke the balance of the chant, snatched the handbook’s wrist and lifted it up.

The girl, floating helplessly in the air following the touch, looked blankly at Cheongyeon.

“If you have a body in this world, if only your consciousness came down here, aren’t you in the same condition as me?”

Cheongyeon grinned and pointed alternately at his eyes and the girl’s eyes.

“To be honest, I’m not really scared of snakes with dementia. “In fact, if you compare the past when you lost your memories, I think you are weaker now.”

“….”

Heavenly view was not something that was stretched out in the manual’s world of consciousness for no reason without any belief in it.

The reason why he stayed even though he knew that if the handbook’s powder was corrupted and turned into a well, the handbook would directly intervene.

This was because there was confidence that the decision could be postponed to some extent even with the intervention of Handan, the true ascendant.

However, Hyeonlab, whose chanting was interrupted, was not angry at Cheongyeon’s intervention.

“Memory loss or cognitive impairment that exists in the human body is a disease that has nothing to do with me. “That’s not why I fell into oblivion.”

“….”

“I understand what you said, but the consciousness still needs to be dealt with.”

I just looked at Cheon-gyeon with an unreadable expression and said something else.

“A being born from memories of the past, but differentiated into different possibilities. Someday I will be affected too. “You don’t want another door on top of the well, do you?”

“No way. “I wonder what will happen if the passage to the open ocean overlaps and opens at the same spatial coordinates.”

Cheon Gyeon shook his head with a bitter smile.

“What I want to propose to you is something else. The consciousness you just recovered. Instead of destroying it, how about transferring it to someone?”

“You mean both sheep?”

“okay. “To that wizard.”

When Cheongyeon said that and pointed at Lennok, handbook’s gaze naturally turned towards Lennok as well.

Lennok, who had been quietly watching the two ascendants, looked shocked at the sudden suggestion.

“…Don’t you want to bomb it rather than hand it over?”

* * *

“Think about it carefully. “If you destroy your consciousness like this, it will inevitably affect your mind.”

Cheongyeon explained.

“As you are already forgetting your memories and confusing the past and present, the disappearance of the consciousness that was born based on past memories will definitely have a negative impact.”

“That makes sense.”

Lennok asked in bewilderment at the sight of the girl nodding to Cheongyeon’s words.

“No, you’re telling me outright that your mind is going back and forth.”

“Wizard, does that matter now?”

“You’re not wrong, human.”

Cheon-gyeon scolded him and Hyeon-rang answered calmly.

“I’m out of the body now, so there’s no problem with communication, but it’s been quite a while since I lost my sense of time.”

“….”

“I don’t even know how much time has passed since I woke up. “I think I got help after I ran into trouble trying to protect the well and sorted things out.”

The girl who was muttering like that suddenly frowned and stared at Lennok.

“Yeah, now that I think about it, it was definitely….”

“….”

“….”

Lennoc was looking at each other with an expressionless face, and Handbook was looking worried with a frown on his face.

Cheongyeon, who was watching from the side, asked with a puzzled look.

“What do you want to say?”

“what?”

At that moment, Hyeonlab woke up from his worries and tilted his head.

“What was I trying to think of?”

“…”

I watched to see if I could remember Victor, but it seems my memory didn’t even reach that point in the first place.

The state of the handbook still seemed difficult to describe with empty words.

Cheongyeon looked at the girl with a strange expression and quickly changed the subject.

“Anyway, instead of destroying the consciousness, let’s hand it over to the wizard. To be precise, we want to hand it over to the wizard’s guardian spirit beast.”

“Guardian spirit beast?”

“for a moment.”

Only then did Lennok also look back at Cheongyeon with his cold gaze.

“Madrea Palsier. “What is this?”

“It won’t be a bad story for you either. “Rather, if you look at it, it’s close to a benefit.”

Cheongyeon answered.

“Padme is spirituality itself, born as a spirit beast and rising to the peak of a predator. “If the guardian spirit water absorbs that conscious body, the problem you are currently worrying about will be solved once and for all.”

“….”

“Although your conscious body has been contaminated by the open sea, you are also resistant to the magic power of the open sea, right? “There is no possibility of problems with the guardian spirit beast.”

“No, that’s not what I want to talk about.”

Lennok asked in a calm voice.

“Since when did you know that I came here through the ritual of a guardian spirit beast?”

“From the beginning. “Isn’t it obvious?”

Cheongyeon shrugged his shoulders.

“There are not many ways for mortals to enter the consciousness space of the Ascendant. Areas of the same lineage or similar relationships. Or, it is impossible without a curse.”

“….”

“Among them, the curse of metamorphosis is widely known even among the ascended.”

Cheongyeon said, slightly turning his head to hide his expression.

“It is a curse that not only the beasts that revere the logic of the law of the fittest, but we too cannot avoid it.”

“….”

“There is only one point. “Padme disposes of the damaged consciousness without any harm, and in return, you gain the opportunity to awaken the guardian spirit beast.”

Lennok muttered with an annoyed frown on his face.

“I guess this is why I explained the Ascendant’s death.”

“Padme. How about it? The consciousness you recovered. Are you willing to hand it over to this wizard?”

“…I have one question.”

The girl seemed to be thinking about Cheongyeon’s question, then walked in front of Lennok and said,

“Having a guardian spirit beast means that you are a wizard with a large enough presence in this world to form a sphere and establish influence.”

“….”

“It wouldn’t be that difficult if you wanted to survive until this world is destroyed, so why are you trying to ascend to heaven?”

For a moment, the blurry eyes of the handbook seemed to come back into focus.

“There are quite a few people who have given up on ascending to heaven and go into hiding. “It’s not strange to humbly admit that something is impossible with one’s abilities and try to do the best you can with the time you have left.”

“….”

“If you have risen to that level of rank, you can live much longer than most mortals, so why do you want more than that?”

The girl shook her head quietly.

“Treasure the time given to you. In a way, it is a blessing to have reached that point without receiving a mission.”

There was silence.

Cheongyeon was also looking at the girl with some surprise, as if he had not expected such a deep answer to come from the girl.

“That’s ironic.”

Lennok pursed his lips in silence at the handbook’s question and then burst out laughing.

“Originally, that question was what I was going to ask your consciousness.”

“….”

“Why do you want to challenge ascension? The answer is fixed.”

Transcendent talent and various penalties that come with it.

Time and limitations that Lennok does not even know how much he has left.

The destruction of the world continues to sound the alarm that it is never far away.

Lennok did not mention such detailed circumstances just for himself.

I had no intention of putting up a noble cause, such as saving the world or preventing its destruction.

At this point, after making the decision to become an Ascendant, the first answer that came to mind within Lennok was –

“Because I think I can do it.”

“…what?”

“Because I believe I can achieve the answer by challenging ascension.”

Lennok spoke quietly in front of the two Ascendants who seemed at a loss for words.

“From the time I awakened the original image and gained access to the realm of self-reflection, I have never once doubted that my aspirations were inferior to those of others.”

“….”

“The answer to the answer is within me. “It is the power of possibility that exists beyond what I believe and am confident in.”

A turning point of possibility that exists beyond the past, present and future.

From the moment I reached level 7 and faced my answer for the first time and realized its meaning.

Lennok had always thought he would reach this moment.

I may not have acknowledged it on the outside, but on the other hand, I may have been pretending not to know.

I tried not to be swayed by telling myself that I couldn’t let down my guard just because I couldn’t become conceited.

Apart from that, Lennok never once doubted his own potential.

This is not because it is a talent acquired at a price, but because it is a quality that has been verified numerically.

There is a possibility in this that has been proven without realizing it since the time when we survived without knowing what we were suspecting.

“Did I tell you to cherish the time given to you? “This is how I make the remaining time more valuable than anything else.”

widely!!

Lennok, who took a step forward, looked down at the handbook with his intense gaze and said.

“Training for the hierarchy, exploring for magic, even the time to talk, ponder, and pause for a moment to look back… It’s all just a process to convince myself.”

“….”

“I’m doing it because I can. “I take on the challenge because I believe I can do it.”

Lennok muttered, raising his gaze.

“So it’s still here.”

Even though everything has changed, Lennok’s job has not yet changed.

Taking on seemingly impossible feats and dreaming of a level of hierarchy and capabilities beyond what is permitted.

It adds confidence to all those moments when you fight against an enemy you cannot kill and enter a battlefield where you cannot survive.

“You truly are an arrogant person…”

Hyunlab muttered in an astounded tone.

“There have been many people throughout history who have been intoxicated with their own talents, but this one is truly different.”

“That’s really great confidence.”

Cheongyeon also let out a subtle laugh as if he was quite surprised.

“I don’t have an ounce of doubt about my belief in myself. “It is almost impossible to maintain such unwavering thoughts in the conscious space.”

“….”

“It seems like I really have changed a lot in my later years. “If I had met a wizard like you in real life, I would definitely have thought it was dangerous.”

Cheon-gyeon’s gaze, staring at Lennok, suddenly turned cold.

“Wizard, that’s not confidence, it’s called madness. “You haven’t even properly attempted ascension yet, but you still feel like it.”

“I hope this is a satisfactory answer.”

“That’s what you mean…”

Cheongyeon said as if he was taken aback by Lennok’s shameless reply, but then shook his head as if he had given up.

“okay. “If it’s a fundamental image that I can’t even see through with my supernormal abilities, then it wouldn’t be entirely wrong to say that.”

“I don’t like the proposal for the guardian spirit beast, but it seems clear that it is not a bad intervention at this point.”

Lennok, ignoring his intuition, turned his gaze towards the girl.

“I am willing to consider your offer if you select the essence of consciousness and hand it over to me. “What do you think?”

“….”

The handbook did not answer Lennok’s question at all.

However, with an expression on his face that was still unreadable, he just folded his hands and slowly raised them above his head.

The moment the girl folded her hands and turned her wrist, a complex spell appeared above her head once again.

Kiririk!!

The fragments of the consciousness body that had been compressed and held under the green net slowly soared into the sky of the world of consciousness.

The essence of consciousness that transcends the confines of conscious space and disappears beyond reality.

[Master. There’s a problem.]

At the same time, Dabi’s urgent shout rang out in Lennok’s mind.

[The egg mass is breaking apart and something is coming out from inside…?]

“…What?”

[Should we just push it back in so it doesn’t come out?]

“….”