Genius Magician Who Eats Medicine
Episode 594 Form Change (2)
A brain spirit that has changed its own attributes from lightning-type to ice-type.
Following the fox whose whole body has turned into a frozen shape, the shape of the fox fire that revolves around Dabi like a satellite also changes.
damn… … !!
The fox fire, which had been continuously emitting intense lightning bolts, froze on the spot and turned into a sphere of ice that shed chilly chills.
Seeing this, the gorilla spirit raised its veins and slashed the traces of destruction that had stopped right in front of its nose.
[Gwaaaaa!!]
Kwaaang!!
Debris from the smashed train and screws from the seats of the chairs flew and turned into a storm that shook everything in all directions.
However, the two fox fires that wrapped around Lennok and Priscilla’s bodies became a solid ice shield to protect them.
Taat!!
The moment the remaining fox-fire stretched out and turned into a smooth icy road, Darby jumped off Lennok’s shoulder and started running.
dodododog!!
The figure of a fox cub vigorously running on the frozen ground on its four dainty legs.
The figure of Dabi, who slipped at high speed between the icy roads, approached the gorilla spirit’s feet in an instant and soared up.
Chow!!
[Whoops…!!]
A gorilla spirit covering his toes and stepping back in embarrassment from the freezing cold.
As Priscilla looked at him and put on an indescribable expression, Lennok continued to open his mouth.
“Didn’t I say that the conversion of elemental magic recommends using the imprint association method through a specific object or memory? However, once you become accustomed to transforming your magical power, you can easily change the nature of your magical power without relying on your inner image.”
The gorilla, holding onto the half-shattered train car, snorted strongly and swung its arms as if to crush the back of the tiny Darby.
Kwaaaang!!
The impact turned the ground upside down and the damaged railroad rails stood up, waving like waves.
However, as if that kind of shock had nothing to do with Dabi, she quickly absorbed herself through the icy road and quickly ran down the ground.
It is as if he has changed into the nature of ice and hides in the cold air.
Lennok looked at Darby and said to Priscilla as if explaining again.
“Assimilation of elemental magic.”
[Keep off?!]
The panicking gorilla hurriedly stampede down the icy road to stop Darby’s approach, but Darby’s model reached the end of the icy road and rose behind the gorilla in an instant.
Jump!!
In an instant, the back of the gorilla’s head is visible, and the figure of the ice fox floats up in the sky in the front yard of the library.
“Stealth.”
The moment the gorilla tilts its back and flicks its shoulder to hit Dabi, Dabi’s body melts like ice water on the spot and disappears.
Shaak!!
“Acceleration.”
Darby’s body, which appeared from its place in a blink of an eye, landed lightly on the gorilla’s body and ran over it like crazy.
Wherever the fox spirit ran, cold frost oozes out, covering the body of the gorilla spirit in pure white and froze it.
“Slow suppression stacking repulsion.”
[Booooooooooooo!!]
Pale cold breath winds around the gorilla’s entire body covered in shaggy fur, freezing and tying it up without leaving anything behind.
The image of a gorilla wandering around without hastily catching the tabi that crosses over its body, which has grown as large as a house.
Priscilla listened to Lennok’s explanation and watched Darby freely transform and use the magic of the ice system.
Lennok looked at the dying spirit with an expressionless face and said,
“Originally, that spirit would not have been this large. His fighting power has increased as his weight class has grown, but he is not sure how to control his body that has grown on his own. The proof is that he tried to swing the train car with a club.”
When the gorilla spirit confirmed Darby’s existence, it dared to tear down a train car and tried to wield it as a club.
It would be inefficient to use the weight and size of a train car as a weapon against a being of that weight and size.
If he had the overwhelming strength he showed when he first stopped the train, why would he need a weapon in the first place?
But even so, the fact that he was looking for a weapon at that point in itself was proof that the gorilla spirit was not used to using its own body.
It was evidence that the spirit’s strength and weight class were forcibly increased through the spirit growth promotion ceremony.
“The rites that shamans speak of do not develop all the strengths of an elemental. The focus is on forcibly growing only one elemental essence or specialized strength. Considering that… … .”
At that moment, the fox fire surrounding Lennok’s body rotated in place and turned into a huge circular shield.
Kwaaaang!!
The appearance of a shaman holding a bright red blade in front of a shield made of fox fire.
The moment the sorcerer, clutching the blade with both hands, twisted his body to somehow insert it into Lennok’s throat.
Elemental Hierarchy Common Magic
Property Change Attribute Conversion
[Frost Horn]
A sharp spear of ice protruding from a shield made of ice pierced the shaman’s belly as it was.
Pooh!!
At the same time, from behind, the gorilla spirit was engulfed in waves of cold air emitted by Darby and stood still with his entire body frozen.
[Freeze Order]
“Cool!!”
Lennok nodded as he watched the shaman spit out black blood in response.
“A spirit’s ability and characteristics tend to resemble the image and spell of the caster. With that in mind, this shaman is likely to be a superhuman specializing in close combat.”
There is not even a hint of room left in the figure of reaching out to kill Lennok while convulsing from the excruciating pain in his intestines.
“As such, it is a very important ability to quickly recognize and predict the abilities and tendencies of opponents in the process of applying the conversion of elemental magic in practice. For most mages, the system of magical power that can be converted is fixed to some extent.”
Standing casually next to the gorilla spirit, Lennok patted him on the shoulder without hesitation.
“You need to figure out whether the magical power you can transform is suitable for the war situation and consider the means necessary for victory. And all these thought processes must be processed within 10 seconds of encountering the enemy to determine whether or not combat is possible.”
“Let it go X-foot…!!”
“….”
Priscilla didn’t say anything and just stared blankly at Lennok.
“Shall we give one more example? The shamans I’ve met so far resonated like echoes when they were wearing beast masks, and they had to take off the beast masks to summon the spirits.”
Seeing Priscilla like that, Lennok grabbed the gorilla mask the shaman had put on him.
“However, even after summoning his own spirit, this shaman wears the mask of a beast and his voice is almost unaltered. The conclusion that can be drawn from that is… … .”
Even though the gorilla mask is not removed and the mask is held still, the shape of the mask gradually fades and the face of a man with a shaggy beard is revealed.
Lennok said, looking at the shaman’s bare face as he glared at the two with bloodshot eyes.
“The animal mask he was wearing was an illusion close to hallucination.”
“okay….”
“Do you know why I am telling you this now?”
Saying so, Lennox annihilated the gorilla spirit and looked back at Priscilla as he put Darby on his shoulder.
“The abilities mentioned so far are basic knowledge that a wizard must have in order to go directly to the field.”
“….”
“The mercenary industry is where it is difficult to guarantee a survival rate of more than half even if you go into battle with the necessary skills and thorough preparation.”
Realizing that Lennok was pointing out Priscilla’s rash behavior, she lowered her head.
“Mila is not wrong. It is not enough to know your own aptitude and lineage and master the magic of the related attribute. The curriculum that Rabatenon University of Magic aims for is also far from that.”
“I know.”
Priscilla bit her lip and replied.
“But I did not become a wizard for the sake of magical research or technological development. I have a sister… … .”
“….”
I know what she wants to say.
Priscilla’s college tuition comes from the money Mila worked in the mercenary industry.
It was not so strange that she felt indebted to that fact.
It is only natural that Priscilla hopes for a future working with Mila in the field one day.
But on the contrary, it was necessary to let them know that it was still a long time ago.
“Cool!! You guys are playing… … .”
The shaman listened to Lennok’s words and sneered with a bloody mouth.
“okay. It wasn’t the Elementalist that I should be aiming for, it was over there, keuh… … !! Blinded by the smell… … I misunderstood… … .”
Priscilla’s shoulders flinched at the sight of the sorcerer glaring at her with a shiny gaze.
But instead of losing her composure and backing down, she rather quickly calmed her agitation and stared at the shaman.
Being able to maintain reason in front of an opponent who threatens oneself. For now, this was enough.
Thinking so, Lennok asked the sorcerer who was bleeding profusely from his stomach.
“You said you saw and smelled my spirit.”
[Is this a gorilla that stinks?]
Darby returned to Lennok’s head and patted his hair with a tail in silent protest.
But the witch doctor’s eyes widened even as he lay dying when he saw Darby exchanging ideas with Lennok.
“That’s right… … . What we want from the Spirit… … as soon as….”
“To smell the spirit is to pursue synesthesia of inspiration. This is impossible without breaking the taboo on the materialization of the soul.”
Lennok looked at the sorcerer and said.
“It is not simply to make a human spirit grow during the growth promotion ceremony. Isn’t that the purpose of tampering with the spirits and bodies of spirits to make them similar to humans in the end?”
“Yes….”
The shaman grinned, his bloodied face trying hard to hold on to his closing eyes.
“I stopped halfway, but…Even now, other colleagues… … You will be moving on.”
“….”
“Our answer is not of this world…out there… … there is….”
Breathing faint as if it would cut off at any moment.
But even though the shaman knew he was dying, he had no fear of stepping beyond.
The only thing that exists in those eyes is the strong conviction of one’s own answer.
“Not in the material world, but in the garden of the spirit world where the soul resides…my daughter… … .”
The appearance of the sorcerer, unable to continue talking until the end, and the focus disappearing from his eyes.
If I had saved my breath and chose my words, I would have lived a little longer. But he didn’t choose that way.
Lennok muttered quietly as he looked at the shaman who died after talking only about his longing until the end.
“The spirit world….”
[…] … .]
It is the name of a dimension whose existence has not been officially confirmed, although all magicians who work with spirits have heard of it at least once.
Where does the spirit come from? What is the talent that can work with the spirit and coexist?
Where are the qualifications and sources for being able to perform activities similar to life and possess intelligence without existing as a substance?
Since no one has yet properly identified and theorized it, the study of spiritism remains a force that is thoroughly based on talent.
Is the goal that the Goddess of God wants to achieve through this work beyond the simple growth of spirits?
Priscilla looked at the dead shaman’s corpse with a complicated expression and asked.
“Is everyone like this?”
“What?”
“Do I have to believe this much in my own answer to become a high-ranking wizard?”
“….”
“I don’t know. Is there such a thing as a truth that you can blindly believe in something and blindly follow? … .”
Priscilla looks somewhat confused.
Perhaps it wasn’t just because she felt something through this shaman.
Probably because she too has heard over her shoulder that one day everyone will have to come up with their own answer.
So instead of telling her whether she was right or wrong, Lennok decided to choose a different answer.
“Can’t it be called an answer only when it can lead even those who haven’t decided on an answer?”
“…yes?”
“I don’t know the details either, but after all, that’s the meaning of the truth that high-ranking sorcerers are looking for.”
Lennok stood up and looked away without waiting for Priscilla’s answer.
“I don’t have much time. We should check the central library first.”
A huge lobby leading into the Central Library, which was blocked by a shaman with a gorilla spirit.
“Mila will be waiting for you.”
* * *
Rabatenon University Central Library.
In terms of scale, it is one of the top three buildings in the university and a repository of knowledge known to hold 10 million books.
It is a place known to have existed longer than the history of Rabatenon University, and it
is also a place that played an important role in selecting the location of the university when an educational institution was created under the accreditation of the Balkan City Government.
To put it bluntly, the existence of this library is enough to say that Rabatenon University was created in this place.
As it has undergone countless reconstructions and constructions over its long history, there are rumors that there are hidden rooms or reading rooms that have disappeared and disappeared in the process.
The rumor that the hidden room was piled high with sorcery books and artifacts, and that a ghost released from the sorcery roamed around every night was one of the ghost stories as famous as Lennok knew.
‘That’s why, if the dean is captured, there’s a high possibility that the library will be the stage, not the university’s main building.’
Lennok thought as he cautiously opened the library’s glass door and stepped inside.
‘If there was a being who planned all of this from within to help the Goddess of Ghosts, he would surely have known about the existence of hidden rooms and reading rooms in the library.’
In this world where magic and mysteries live and breathe, there are surprisingly few false rumors or gossip.
No matter how absurd urban legends or rumors are, most of them are derived from a substance or truth with a reason and are inflated.
Lennok had assumed that the dean would be confined to such a hidden reading room.
squeaky!!
The smell of books wafts in as soon as you open the door and enter.
The unique calming scent created by collecting and stacking paper that has been stored for a long time gives a feeling of calming the mind.
“Priscilla. Are you familiar with the structure of the central library?”
“During the exam period, he often came to me to study. To some extent… … .”
Priscilla said with a nervous expression.
“May I guide you to the assistant professor?”
“No, thanks. I was just asking in case you didn’t know the structure.”
Lenock also visited the Central Library several times in the process of finding, reading, and researching various papers.
It was enough to know that this huge library not only boasts more than 10 floors, but also has a warehouse that stores books all the way to the basement.
“I’m running out of time, so I’ll explain briefly. The books of the Central Library are protected by strong conservation techniques that are hung inside the building.”
said Lennok, pulling a book from a nearby bookshelf and holding it open.
“It is a kind of ancient magic for book protection that has existed since a very long time ago. Through this, most of the damage is repaired on the spot in case of damage or loss of books.”
After lightly pressing a sheet of paper in an open book to fold it in half, cover the book and open it again, the crease disappears.
“This level of minor damage is immediately repaired, but it is not the case when the damage is so severe that the book is destroyed. It is designed to reproduce damaged books by implementing book information backed up in the basement of the library.”
I couldn’t tear the book right here, so Lennok calmly put it back on the shelf and said,
“It takes about 5 hours to restore a damaged book. If it’s short, it’s short, if it’s long, it’s a long time. Do you know what this means?”
Priscilla immediately understood the meaning and nodded.
“If the dean is confined here, it means that there may be a large pile of unrecovered books nearby.”
“It’s just a hypothesis, but the dean sent his own spirit to inform me that something was wrong with him.”
Lennok’s eyes shone sharply.
“Then, wouldn’t you have tried to leave as much trace as possible about the place where you were confined?”
If the dean himself had resisted as much as possible during the process of being detained, it would still be enough time for traces of it to remain.
“I understood. If so, maybe… … ?”
[…] … ?]
Priscilla hurriedly averted her gaze when she looked at Dabi with an expectant gaze and tilted her head.
Darby, who finally realized what she was thinking, quietly whispered to Lennok in a stunned tone.
[Master, this young organism seems to think of me as a handy all-purpose tool.]
“….”
After solving all kinds of situations in the name of Darby’s ability, it seems that the side effects began to appear.
Darby, unaware of Lennok’s thoughts, was still tilting his head with a cold expression.
Lennok cleared his throat and tried to change the subject again.
“Because there are some things that cannot be solved with spirit magic alone.
