Awakener (5)
A huge palace floating on the lake.
The man with the magnificent scenery in front of him turned to Lennok and smiled.
“I’m sorry, but I’ll have to deal with all the promises you made to meet Jindun first.”
“….”
“Because if you meet Zaegis and try to sabotage my cause, things will be a nuisance.”
Was Lennok wary of warning Jindun about losing his body?
The corners of the man’s lips parted as he glanced back.
“If we hadn’t been unnecessarily quick-witted, we would have been able to achieve what we both wanted…” … . Being smart isn’t always a good thing, is it?”
From the moment Lennok saw through the man’s hidden true intentions, the two men’s cooperation went beyond water.
“This is my advice as a senior in life, so listen carefully and deal with it wisely in the future. Then I will go first.”
The man who greeted the cradle dozens of meters ahead of Lennok leisurely declared victory.
Zaun consumes one of the powerful emotions he originally possessed to force him to move several tens of meters. At the same time, the door to the cradle was opened, so Lennok would no longer get caught.
Block the attack from behind with the power of the area that is still remaining, and go inside the cradle.
The moment the man thought so turned around and was about to activate the jewelery ceremony.
“I don’t know what you are talking about.”
Aaaaaaa!!
With Lennok’s words, a huge wave rose right behind the man.
The wave he just raised up with water current-type magic to attack the man.
It had changed the direction of the current and was moving forward with Lennok’s body still on it.
“I never expected you to keep your promise.”
“…!!”
Seeing Lennok riding the wave ahead, the man who completely changed his complexion used the jewel pillar to activate the spell.
His body floated in the air and began to fly at high speed.
Wedge liquid!!
If you don’t borrow the help of an artifact, it’s a flying technique that has near-diabolical efficiency.
However, the stronger the catalyst used for the spell, the higher the efficiency and the stronger the power.
Zaun is a one-time technique used to cut away human emotions.
The man casually consumed the power of a realm full of risks that he would never have used if it were his own body, and accelerated.
Although he considered Zaun to be a partner, he was not a compassionate mage enough to spare himself in the face of his own purposes.
Doo doo doo!!!
A new type of two people running on the water that is low and splashing. On one side, the atmosphere, on the other side, it rolls back and forth in a mess on the waves it has caused.
There is not much left in each other’s magic and stamina. The bodies of the two people, who had narrowly determined superiority and inferiority, passed through the intangible barrier at the same time and
fell into the spacious palace of the cradle at the same time.
The two mages who fell in the middle of the vast hall groaned in agony as if they had promised.
thud!!
“Cheukhak!!”
“Ugh…!!”
The man who couldn’t stop coughing shivered all over his body with a pale complexion.
“Um…!! Also, the physical condition… … !!”
It is said that he borrowed Zaun’s body, but this body itself was already defeated in the battle with Lennok and was exposed to the aftermath.
Not only did he consume most of his mana, but his muscles were damaged as mana that was not his own permeated throughout his body while being tortured by Lennok.
In addition, originally, as the man himself took control of Zaun’s body, the power of the grudge escaped from the vicinity of the heart and the blood circulation became difficult.
Lennok’s eyes flashed as he watched the man wriggling collapsed beside him.
“I see…!!”
The reason why the man was concentrating on defense instead of repelling Lennok’s attack, pretending to be relaxed all the time.
This is because Zaun’s body itself was driven to the brink of destruction in the first place, and it was deteriorating to the point where it was unable to engage in battle.
Lennok is also confident that he will be second to none when it comes to showing the bottom in terms of physical strength and durability.
Ajak!
With trembling hands, he took out a painkiller from his pocket and chewed it.
At the same time, take out an ampoule for physical recovery and inject it into the carotid artery.
It is an injection method that can lead to serious bleeding if done wrong, but the effect was excellent.
Lennok, who had regained some energy, succeeded in standing up first.
“Whoa….!!”
Seeing the man who was still squirming on his knees, Lennok sighed and pulled himself together.
“It was close, but I guess I’ll go first. Wait quietly there until you meet Jindun… … lee…go….”
As he walked forward, his head was lifted, and Lennox’s words were cut short and stopped suddenly.
It was because Lennok’s head, which had lifted his gaze along the stairs in front of him, did not stop, but straightened vertically.
“….”
Stairs spread so far and wide that you can’t see the end.
On both sides of the stairs, thousands of thick pipes tightly cover the walls and ceiling of the palace.
Lennok, who belatedly realized that the number of steps alone would exceed thousands, quietly cursed.
“Damn it….”
After all, Evelyn, not Lennok, should have been here.
It was not enough to be grateful for her consideration, but it was that Lennok, not the Ascendant, might die first while climbing these stairs.
* * *
“Hey heck…!!”
“Keep ugh…!!”
Beads of hot sweat drip endlessly down the stairs.
Unable to overcome the weight, the clothes she took off and threw are scattered at the bottom of the stairs several hundred meters.
“Ughhh…!!”
“…It looks very difficult.”
Lennok, who was almost crawling ahead of the stairs with a dazed expression, glanced back.
No matter how much stamina he had consumed, his eyes widened and his cheeks became thinner.
At the bottom of the stairs, slightly behind Lennok, a man who was crawling on all fours laughed helplessly.
“Hehe, do you mean that…?”
“….”
“thing…If you have any leftover medicine… … Why don’t you throw some more?”
The man looked up at Lennok with a tired expression and licked his lips.
“That ampoule tastes pretty…It was okay”
“Off…lose….”
The reason why the man who couldn’t even move properly was following Lennok up the stairs was simple.
The man picked up an ampoule bottle that Lennok had thrown away, broke the bottle, and ate the contents.
Lennok also admired the man’s evil behavior as he began to climb the stairs, probably because he licked the leftovers from the wall and regained his energy.
“People in the past were like that…Have you been messing around?”
“recently…It’s not to the extent of being compared to the younger guys… … ! Whoa… … !!”
“Heh….”
I can’t stand it because it’s ridiculous to see them arguing as they crawl up the stairs.
Although they are spitting sharp words at each other, instead of using their hands, they focus on climbing the stairs.
Unlike outside the cradle, both of them had an intuition that magic could no longer be restored inside this huge palace.
The mana flowing in this space is sucked in between the pipes on both sides of the stairs and the ceiling, before it settles in their bodies.
The intake of the pipe didn’t stop there, and worked greedily as if to scrape up the two people’s exhausted mana.
Even with Lennok’s magic manipulation ability, all he had to do was to hold out so that he wouldn’t be deprived of the Kijo magic that maintains his body.
It was only natural that a man of Zaun’s body could not last long.
“Ugh…!!”
Realizing that his legs were trembling as he prostrated himself on the stairs, Lenok took out a new ampoule from his bosom and held it up.
click!!
“Oh oh!!”
The man watching the scene from below let out a heated cheer.
With the ampoule slung over his shoulder, Lennok looked down at the man with cold eyes.
“I don’t know why you are happy. I won’t.”
“But I’m going to throw the bottle away…Isn’t it?”
The man answered with a flick of his tongue.
“This body magic talent isn’t very good, but the medicinal effect is pretty good. It is enough to leave only the residue.”
“….”
It’s such a nasty remark that it’s hard to believe that he was a high-ranking black magician hundreds of years ago.
But Lennok was not without thoughts either.
Instead of throwing the used ampoule bottle under his feet, he threw it down there.
“ah…!!”
The man who looked at the ampoule rolling down the stairs with a devastated expression lowered his head.
No matter how urgent the effect is, going down the stairs to pick up an ampoule is a waste.
For no reason, when Lennok was taking medicine, he put up an easy line so that the man next to him would not benefit from it.
Lennok looked at the man with satisfaction, then turned around and started climbing the stairwell.
Because his stamina and mana were close to the bottom, he climbed the stairs in such an ugly way, but he didn’t have time to rest for a long time.
‘Since Yoram appeared, Maiya must have noticed the abnormality.’
Neither Lennok nor the man had yet forgotten the existence of a third competitor who had entered the cradle with them.
‘Before that woman finds this place and reaches the stairs, I have to wake up Jindun first.’
I don’t know how much energy Maya has left, but compared to Lennok and Zaun, who were fighting with the cradle in front of them, they must be in relatively good condition.
In the end, I couldn’t let her benefit first.
‘Anyway, the environment is quite strange for a place where ascenders live.’
Lennok panted and crawled up the stairs, trying to capture the scenery around him.
The appearance of unknown pipes tightly packed on both sides of the vast cradle.
Is it for moving something or is it a device for listening to music from a distance?
Could it be that the pipe itself is used to generate a note?
Majestic magical power whirling overhead, elegant melodies, and a stairway that is not far from the end.
You no longer have to tilt your head back as far as you can, and you start to see the end of the stairs.
Realizing that he still couldn’t see Maija down there, Lennok gritted his teeth and got up and started running.
“Ugh…!!”
The side effects of the drug effect taken in succession and the poisoning are exhausted, and gastric juice leaks out of the mouth on an empty stomach that has reached its limit, but that is not the important thing.
‘Finally…!!’
Shortly after receiving the call from Lapis for the first time and joining the summons, he broke through the labyrinth between the canyons in the snowy fields of the northern continent and reached the deepest part, and the fruit of that was right in front of Lennok’s eyes.
Finally and only now can we meet with the Ascendant.
What should I ask first? What should I answer first?
Even though I’ve been thinking about this moment over and over again, I still feel like my head is about to explode with worry.
Even though I thought it was a problem for which there was no answer, I continued to worry that I could not stop.
What kind of ending awaits the transcendent who reached the answer before Lennok and higher than Lennok in this world where the end has been set.
Didn’t you burn everything to reach this point, thinking only of that and waiting for that?
Percussion!!
Lennok thought so and leaped up the stairs with all his might.
I stopped on the spot when I checked the sight in front of me.
“….”
“Heh heh… … !!”
Right after that, the man who caught up with Lennok with a face that seemed to be out of breath at any moment collapsed at Lennok’s feet.
“I finally picked it up and ate it…I couldn’t stand it… … .”
The man who went down the ampoule bottle that Lennok threw, drank the medicine, and climbed up with the effect of the medicine raised his head with difficulty.
“Zygis…!! I, Ermong, you… … .”
The scenery on the stairs made the man gasping for breath and trying to call out Jindun’s name.
the center of the cradle.
A man quietly closed his eyes on a small chair placed in the middle of a vast common space above thousands of stairs.
“….”
Small wrinkles around the eyes. Breathing so faintly that you can hardly feel it.
The two of them looked like they were sleeping peacefully, as if they were not interested in what they were doing.
But it wasn’t the Ascendant’s far more shabby appearance than he thought that left Lennok and the man speechless.
Thousands of pipes lined up tightly behind the small chair he was sitting on.
It was because all the pipes that filled the walls and ceiling of this palace were jammed into Jindun’s back and waist.
And right in front of the old man’s chair with his head down and his eyes closed.
Intricate magic formations densely carved under the floor. Fresh blood flowing down the elbow.
“It’s too late.”
Maiya smiled coldly as she placed her bloody hands on the floor.
Genius Wizard Who Takes Medicine Chapter 372
