In the words of optimism (1)
grip weave…!!
After the acceleration of consciousness ends, the space-time around you, which had been slowed down, begins to return to its original speed.
A black-haired man appeared in the truck’s luggage compartment with an exhilarating black mana.
“The things in the world don’t always go your way.”
“Myeong you…!!”
He was wearing a light black shirt, as if he had just had a drink. As the young man straddled the chair across from him, Lennok jumped up from his seat.
Lennok, who scanned Myeong’s whole body sharply, noticed an unknown abnormality and hardened his expression.
The magic power bubbling up from the abyss, the clear presence is still the same, but I feel a faint sense of incongruity somewhere.
A bizarre feeling, as if you are present in this place and yet absent at the same time.
Lennok asked, realizing that it was not a mere illusion, but because his transcendent magical powers accurately recognized the state of Myung.
“I didn’t come directly. Am I just projecting my consciousness here… … ?”
“Hmm, are you getting to the point where you know that now?”
Instead of answering Lennok’s question, Myeong smiled strangely.
“As expected, it seems that there has been a significant achievement since I saw it in the labyrinth.”
“….”
“It’s not something you need to hear right now. Let’s start with what needs to be said.”
When Lennok didn’t answer, Myeong grinned and casually changed the subject.
“This truck. It’s something that severe drug addicts drive. They’re drugged, so they don’t care who’s going where.”
The man with a grin said, leaning back on the backrest and crossing his legs.
“It is a means of transportation that is very popular in the western continent because it is enough to pay the fare in advance.”
“A transportation business that uses drug addicts as drivers….”
“It’s a business that Dominic Cavaro created and spread throughout the Republic of Paraguinea, and now it’s an item that spreads throughout the western continent.”
Myung raised a finger and pointed at the driver.
“You see, we don’t care what we talk about or what goes on behind the truck. It’s just like a drug-eating machine, except it works for what it’s paid to do.”
Is it just collecting drug-addicted criminals, using them as truck drivers, and paying them drugs in return?
Criminals whose drugs have already reached their marrow cannot even remember the customer’s face or identity, and simply receive the promised payment and press the accelerator to their destination.
Lennok nodded in bewilderment, realizing why the truck driver hadn’t shown anything about Tucker’s body.
“The drug lord was also an unusual guy. Has he found a way to use his guests somehow?”
“Because his talent as an entrepreneur was considerable even within Pandemonium. Isn’t that why he’s still keeping his body alive in the Republic?”
“….”
Even though there is no way that he would not know that Lennok directly killed Dominic Cavaro’s consciousness and put him in a state of suspended animation, he calmly said that.
Lennok sighed and asked, adjusting his mask.
“So what happened? I didn’t expect you to contact me here.”
When I met Hireah in District 21 and accepted the mission, I thought I would never run into Myung.
A doctor who has no intention of intervening in this matter at all, starting with the fact that he entrusted the operation personnel to someone else.
So I thought this would be a good time to see if Lennok was willing to cooperate with the Pandemonium.
However, Myeong ignored Lennok’s words and asked.
“Tears of the Archangel. Why didn’t you take it?”
“what?”
“I deliberately chose and prepared the time-based elixir that you have been searching for since you were freelance.
“I said something….”
If so, does that mean that the operation itself to steal the archangel’s tears was an arrangement in the first place?
Lennok let out a laugh and replied.
“Apart from the consequences of stealing and eating this elixir, isn’t there a high possibility of losing consciousness at the time of taking it?”
Relics of the old world. Jibo to the extent that the city stumbles. A divine elixir that extends human lifespan.
In a way, it is natural that the user’s consciousness will fly away if he carelessly picks up and eats such an item.
Considering that he had been ill for a whole day when he first took Stimonia, an elixir of a much lower quality than the Archangel’s Tears, it was only natural at first glance.
“but…. That too.”
The simple-minded man smiled and shook his head.
“The Archangel series is one of the highest in terms of origin and performance among the relics of the old world. It is said that the forces that produced this artifact were the closest to the most organized ascension in the 2nd World.”
“It is an organized ascension….”
At Myung’s words, which openly mentioned the old world before the ascension, Lennok remained silent.
It was probably a world related to WORLD 2.0 that Lennok knew with a high probability.
And unlike the world of 3.0, where Lennok had no knowledge, he remembered the game of 2.0 to some extent.
According to my memories of playing the game as the Horse Musketeer at that time, there were about four forces that maintained their power in the world of WORLD 2.0 until the ending.
Among them, there was only one faction capable of creating an item with the same name as the archangel.
‘Kyoto. Even then, there was an organization called the Church of God that believed in many gods.’
Archangel’s Compassion, an artifact Lennok possesses, was obtained from Irina Pesfield, who was the leader of the expedition team.
And Irina Pesfield was a plunderer who obtained the Archangel’s compassion through tacit cooperation with the Order.
It may not be so uncommon for a particular religious group to hold power beyond mere numbers.
However, is it a coincidence that at this point, the relics that penetrate the old world and the present world were being managed under the name of the church?
Until now, the knowledge of the old world wasn’t very helpful, so I didn’t think about it, but there might be useful information in Pandaemonium.
Myung averted his eyes and murmured as Lennok sorted out the information he remembered from the game in his head.
“If you have an idea, it would be better to take it in advance. The place to go from now on is a demonic world where you won’t be able to afford that easily.”
“…what?”
It was only then that Lennok’s complexion hardened as he realized why Myung had appeared at this moment.
“Wait a minute, then the stopover the truck driver said he had to stop at…!!”
“It’s always good to be quick-witted.”
Myung, muttering with a joyful expression, turned his head around.
“Did you tell me? They don’t care where you go as long as you pay.”
Fuck!
At the same time as I snapped my fingers, the front of the truck’s window turned black and the truck pushed itself into the huge tunnel.
The surrounding scenery changes in an instant.
The driver doesn’t even care while the terrain and scenery change in all directions in front of his nose.
Myeong looked back at the driver and smiled faintly.
“Because only a friend like this can show you something. I thought it was a good opportunity.”
“….”
Deed Deuk!!!
The truck rattles and trembles like mad, then races through the endless darkness toward the light.
At the same time as I jumped into the light shining through the driver’s side window, a completely different landscape came into view from the field I had just been running on.
Kwaaaaa!!!
The appearance of a canal so huge that you cannot see the other side.
Compared to the overwhelming width, which seems to be several hundred meters, the amount of water flowing down the canal seems to be insufficient.
But even so, an overwhelming noise like pouring water rang incessantly from all directions.
Lennok murmured, holding onto the back of the truck’s bed and sticking his head out.
“It is a strange landscape. A canal like this is being built, but there is no trace of a city around it… … .”
Isn’t the existence of the canal itself the fruit of the construction to bring the waterway to the vicinity of the city?
Of course, there must be a person who conducts this construction, construction equipment, or traces of civilization.
However, not a single person wanders over a field that is withering somewhere.
Myung laughed as he heard that with his legs crossed behind him.
“Canal? Come to think of it, it might seem that way. It was quite a fresh interpretation.”
“…Isn’t this the canal now? So, is this not the scenery you want to show me?”
“half. There’s no way I’m wasting your time just to show you a pit like this.”
The man who smiled and stood up.
“I wasn’t talking about this pit, it was a being that was making this while moving in real time.”
“Someone alone is changing the terrain on this scale…?”
Understanding the meaning of those words, Lennok shook his head.
The width of the huge gorge that Lennok thought of as a canal is hundreds of meters wide, no matter how short it is.
Does it mean that the act of changing the terrain on this scale is not a one-time destruction, but just a trace of movement in real time?
Lennok might be able to create a canal like this if he put all his mana into it, but he didn’t have the confidence to carry out this level of destruction like breathing.
If Lennok, who has already surpassed the rank level, is at this level, if he is a single entity with a weight class and destructive power that surpasses him- “It
would be quicker to see it directly than to explain it. Get ready. The closer you get, the harder it will be to breathe.”
“What the hell is that…!”
I didn’t have to think long about what Myung was saying.
Before Lennok could ask again, the sky above the truck as it raced along the canal began to turn black.
At the same time, unknown shady auras began to strike Lennok’s shield from all sides.
It melts the shield cell by cell and melts the body inside it as if coveting it.
“…!!”
As soon as he recognizes the danger, he quickly forms a hand sign and rapidly increases the strength and range of the shield.
Despite reacting extremely quickly, the driver, who was outside the range of the shield, was already late.
“Ge Gee Eek…. I’m sorry… … .”
For the first time, an incomprehensible moan escapes from the driver’s mouth, who had not said anything while holding the steering wheel with a blank expression.
At the same time, hundreds of dark spots spread over the driver’s skin, covering his skin black.
“Ughyagyagyakjae…!!! Kehehehehe!!!”
The image of a driver who scratches his drug-intoxicated body with a painful look and ends up letting go of the steering wheel and convulsing like crazy.
The driver, who lost his reason as a human in an instant, howled ferociously and turned his head to the back of the luggage compartment.
“Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
Instead of banging on the luggage compartment isolated by the glass window and emitting light, Lennok naturally grabbed the steering wheel as a magician and maintained the direction.
Neither Myung nor Lennok reacted greatly to the fact that the driver, who had been fine until just now, had turned into a monster.
Instead, he frowned slightly in the air that began to crumble in an instant.
Even in Lennok’s sensory sphere, which covered a radius of several kilometers, signs of something far ahead on the other side of the canal began to be detected.
Lennok murmured thoughtfully, despite the noise of the monster banging on the windows.
“I don’t feel much of a magical response…. It’s hard to even say it’s a life reaction. A sense of incongruity or a terrible sense of heterogeneity… … . I can only feel the bitterness that goes beyond that.”
“Exactly.”
“Seeing the driver change like that, is it some kind of disaster related to disease or infection?”
“It’s a disaster, but the theme isn’t there.”
Saying that, Myeong looked back at the driver, who had suddenly stopped banging on the windshield.
“If you see that the signal has come, you must have come almost… … . Oh, okay.”
“Kyaaak!!”
At that moment, the driver who had been staring blankly at the two turned his head around with his body stained black.
He clung to the direction of the canal, wriggling his limbs bizarrely, then smashed the truck with his bare feet and started running toward the canal.
Kwajik!!
Even though he was staggering and running on the bare ground, he had already surpassed the human power.
The moment the monster jumped down the canal and stretched out its arms toward the front, screaming.
Charreureuk!!
A black chain that flew in front of him was quickly tied around his neck and snatched away from his body.
“Kyahak!! Kyahahahaha!!”
Even though my body is being dragged powerlessly, the driver screams as if he is delighted.
As if he had been hoping for this from the beginning, he began to crawl on all fours as he was being dragged by a leash.
“You’ll see it soon. Once you see it with your own two eyes, you’ll know if you don’t like it.”
Myeong said quietly, looking down at the scene and seeing Lennok at a loss for words.
“Because Gyebaek is such a being.”
Doo doo doo doo!!!
The noise gets louder.
The magnificent sound of water that I thought only flowed through the canal.
Lennok realized that it wasn’t really the sound of water, but the noise of someone in front of him digging with his bare hands and crawling forward desperately. [Haah
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
!
Tens of thousands beyond hundreds of thousands.
A black orb made of tens of thousands of people whose bodies were stained black like the driver who just disappeared after being chained together.
Terrible spheres of human flesh, embodied in living human bodies, are digging up mounds of soil with tens of thousands of arms outstretched between them and making canals themselves.
Genius Wizard Who Eats Medicine Chapter 448
