Genius Wizard Who Eats Medicine Chapter 789
Prophet of Yoreta (3)
Quagmire!!
An incessant roar of explosions echoed through the frozen dungeon.
Prisoners running out of prison and those throwing themselves without hesitation over a huge crack where the cold wind blows.
“The Prophet really made the way!!”
“I, I will go first!”
The appearance of the prisoners raising their mana while shouting loudly.
As the prisoners, unable to control their excitement, swung their limbs, the bars and walls of the prison staggered and cracked in the aftermath.
Koo Goo Goo!!
Prisoners quickly spread to all directions on the 5th floor underground, invading other prisons where news has not reached.
Not only the nearby prisons, but also the release of prisoners from other districts far away, the number has increased rapidly.
“Are you that prophet?”
“You have an unlucky face, bro. I will never forget this favor!!”
Images of prisoners giggling around and running past Lennok and over the rift.
Hearing of Lennok’s existence, he seems to be interested, but he seems to be in a hurry to escape this place.
“This time, don’t get caught and kill people…” … !!”
“Because it’s so cold here, the ground will light a fire to keep you warm!!”
“Hee hee hee!!”
Lennok looked at the prisoners too, and followed them down the crack into which the wind blew.
The moment I fell through the wind that brushed my ears and fell over the curved crack passage.
Faaaa!!
A garden shining with blue light spread out in front of my eyes.
The overwhelming emptiness felt like an empty area of magical energy, as the magical power itself was not so faint around it.
But the wind that blows over the garden is getting stronger, and it’s hard to keep my eyes open and stare straight ahead.
“Ji, I really escaped!!”
“There will never be anything like being trapped anywhere!!”
Prisoners hurriedly run through the garden before Lennok and disappear.
At the point of leaving the prison, there is no one to follow the control anymore.
“Sir, Prophet….”
Lenok, who was watching the prisoners at the end of the garden, looked back at the giant who came out through the rift belatedly.
“Have you come to your senses now?”
“Crazy child…Did you come up with a plan like this just now?!”
The giant shouted at Lennok with a frightened expression.
“No one gets out of here this way. You are thinking wrongly!!”
With a look of fear at first sight, the giant pointed at the flying ghosts from afar.
“You don’t know how terrifying the commanders of Yorta are. I’ll sense this kind of commotion right away and run out!!”
“….”
“Damn it, everything is wrong…!! I wrote my hand so that I could pass through the rift very secretly, but because of you alone… … !!”
“Why do you think so?”
Lennok asked.
“Because the author of the Ghost Experiences told me to watch my back?”
“…!!”
The giant shrank his head as if he had been stabbed to the point.
“You, you…how to… … .”
“It is impossible to plan a specific escape route and form a team unless you have a very strong conviction.”
Lennok explained lightly.
“The memoirs were written in a location that would be easily recognizable if you had investigated the inside of the prison. It wouldn’t be strange if any of the prisoners knew about it.”
“…You mean you figured out all of that just one day after you entered this prison?”
At the point of discovering the text in the Ghost Sights, Lennok didn’t think he was the only one who saw it.
Perhaps among the prisoners who dreamed of escaping here, those with the ability to see outside the cell might have discovered this phrase.
In particular, the giant standing in front of Lennok is a body shapeshifter who can transform his body and pass through narrow gaps.
If you had this ability, it wouldn’t be strange if you sneaked around the hallways to avoid the surveillance of the hundred demons and discovered the writings of your experiences.
“I can’t understand even more that you come out like that even after reading the advice of the experience book. This underground floor is a demon cave where monsters abandoned in Yorta live.”
The giant hardened his face.
“To think that even if you gather only the necessary people and work with a small number of elites, you can’t guarantee success, and you can grow your work on your own…!!”
“Among the hundreds of demons chasing the prisoners, do you see someone directly attacking them?”
“what?”
Lennok averted his gaze before responding to the giant’s words.
Prisoners running to all directions of the garden, and ghosts chasing them while floating in the air.
Lennok said, looking at the white ghosts wearing gray-white hoods.
“Instead of attacking the fleeing prisoners, they are subtly driving them into the cracks.”
“uh…?”
“It’s been decided what to do if this happens.”
“….”
“Even though the criminals of Yorta were imprisoned, the restraints and monitoring were very poor.”
While the giant blinked his eyes, not understanding the meaning, Lennok laughed.
“It is an intentional trap. They are forcing the prisoners imprisoned in this prison through a deliberately constructed escape hatch.”
“That, like that…Are you saying that the exit itself didn’t exist in this prison in the first place!!”
“No, the exit itself must be real. There really is probably a way out of this prison.”
The Revelation of the Priestess and the writings of the Ghost Report. Neither of these things can be false, so it is true that there is a way out.
But what does it mean that Yorta is deliberately luring prisoners to the exit despite knowing that fact?
“It must be extremely difficult to escape from here, or a very dangerous monster is guarding the exit.”
“…Did you confirm that with your supernatural power?”
“No, considering the circumstances, there is no need to do that-”
Lennok, who was about to reply nonchalantly, paused and nodded.
“Yes. Because I know something you don’t know.”
“As expected!!”
[….]
Ignoring the priestess’s cold gaze at Lennok, Lennoch spoke shamelessly.
“Consequently, whether it is an intentional trap or not, it is true that that is the only way out of this prison.”
“….”
“Then wouldn’t it be right to release as many prisoners as possible and increase the odds of even one surviving?”
Only then did the giant, who understood Lennok’s true intentions, shut his mouth with a slightly fed up expression.
The Prophet standing here is not literally trying to release all the prisoners from this prison.
However, he thought that the road to the exit would be difficult, and he intended to throw prisoners in as a means.
Realizing this, the giant muttered blankly.
“If what you say is true, why did you tell me this?”
“The author of the travelogue is skillful enough to freely roam the Gunryeong City, and is a person who likes records enough to mention himself.”
Lennok replied, thinking of the passages from the travelogue written on the ceiling and walls of the prison.
“If you’ve urged escape by mentioning a crack hidden in the prison wall, chances are there’s more advice he left in this garden.”
“….”
“Gather the prisoners who know about the record and bring the records. Then I will read it, interpret it, and point you back.”
Saying that, Lennok secretly cast his gaze toward the giant’s back.
“From the looks of it, it seems that the necessary personnel are already prepared?”
Even in the chaotic corridors of the prison, several prisoners silently watch the conversation between the giant and Lennok.
His sunken eyes and gloomy expression stand out especially among the excited escaped prisoners.
“The last member I tried to embrace. After all, it was the story of that friend who came in most recently.”
Excluding giants, there were about 10 people. They’re probably the team members that the giant took over to escape.
The oldest-looking man among the dogs smiled strangely.
“Looks like the story worked out very well. To the point where we overturned our plans without consulting them.”
“…In my conversation with the Prophet, there are a few things I hadn’t figured out.”
The giant sighed and turned to the party.
“It seems unreasonable to try to escape right away. I guess I’ll have to look for more passages in the travelogue.”
“Twist…Have you already fallen for the author’s trick? It’s wrong.”
The old man laughed at the giant and shook his head.
“After the other prisoners run away, it may not be our turn. I’ll spend my time looking for something in the travelogue-”
“Quaaaaagh!!”
At that moment, someone’s terrible scream rang out from beyond the garden.
It must have belonged to the prisoner who escaped first, the final agony before letting go of the lifeline.
While the prisoners looked at the garden with a sullen expression, the expression of the prisoners slightly stiffened, and the giant opened his mouth.
“The Prophet says it’s likely something is blocking your way out of this stairway.”
“….”
“There is a high possibility that advice about him is written in the travel log, so let’s make it a priority to get out of the garden and find the record. Will you be okay?”
“I do not care.”
The skinny man replied with a puzzled expression.
“If it weren’t for the record of experiences in the first place, I wouldn’t have found a way out. Wouldn’t it be nice to look up a few more tips from that friend on the way out?”
“Similar opinions.”
“It’s an unexpected situation, but now that it’s like this, there’s no need to get excited.”
If they had planned their escape in advance and had been waiting for the right time, they would have been particularly patient and calm among the prisoners.
Maybe that’s why he didn’t seem to be easily rushed or excited even in the midst of this commotion.
When most of the prisoners captured by the giant agreed, the grimacing old man clicked his tongue and muttered.
“I was clearly against it. If anything goes wrong later, know that I am not responsible.”
“I will follow the direction the wind blows and find the record. I will write down the words separately and collect them all at once and deliver them.”
“do whatever you want.”
The giant glanced back at Lennok, then led the other prisoners across the garden and disappeared.
It’s probably going to spread out all over the garden, looking for a place where it might be written.
Considering the way the author of the travelogue left a message in prison, it is highly likely that once a message is found, the next piece of advice will be easy to find.
Geohan must have known that too and accepted Lennok’s offer.
Lennok thought about him for a moment, then belatedly started walking along with the other prisoners.
I escaped the prison, but it was still the same that I was walking backwards following the wind.
A frozen garden covered with strange, obscure plants and bushes.
In the garden where the cold wind blew, there were many tombstones that belonged to unknown people.
[This entire space seems to be a cemetery.]
The priestess glanced back at Lennok and murmured.
[There seems to be a reason why the 5th basement floor of the memorial tower was called a tomb.]
“….”
Instead of responding, Lennok stopped at a nearby tombstone within walking distance and checked the base of the stone in silence.
The writings of the ghost experiences that I checked in prison.
Because I was able to check one of those writings here.
[A tomb built in honor of the Frost Lord.]
[The name of the 5th basement floor is pointing here.]
“It’s a place to honor the Frost Lord… … It’s strange.”
Lennok muttered after checking the words written on the text.
[What do you mean?]
“It’s a tomb in honor of the Frost Lord, so why are there so many cemeteries?”
Lennok said as he looked around the thousands of cemeteries around him.
“There are so many cemeteries, but there are not a few cemeteries where bodies are not buried. It must have been made for someone who will die beforehand.”
Having said that, Lennok later realized the significance of this cemetery and smiled.
“Right. The reason why I let the escaped prisoner go… … .”
“Quaaaaagh!!”
As if in response, one of the prisoners running from afar screams and is dragged under the graveyard.
As if being pulled by something invisible, the figure of a prisoner buried under a graveyard built on a field.
“Stop, Prophet!! Help me!”
The prisoner, who was buried in the ground with a look of despair, found Lennok and screamed desperately.
“Sorry for running away first!! please please! Please, I beg you like this one more time!!”
Kudo deuk!!
The prisoner’s voice became thin and high as he begged for his life as he buried his face in the dirt.
“Live, live…!! Aaaaaa!!”
The moment the prisoner’s voice, screaming in a fit, cut off.
A white ghost appeared over the corpse of the prisoner who had been dragged under the tombstone.
As I swung the scythe while wearing a gray-white hood, a whitish spiritual body gushed out and fell into the hand of the white ghost.
Separation of body and spirit. The figure of taking only the soul from the already dead body so easily.
The priestess, who had been looking at the scene without a word, murmured.
[Separation of body and soul. This tomb was there to facilitate the process.]
“….”
The white ghost disappeared on the spot without even looking back at Lenok.
Probably moving to retrieve the soul of another prisoner who died elsewhere.
Lennok immediately got up from his seat and followed the ghost.
The noise of the prisoners’ voices disappeared before I knew it, and the vast field became quiet in an instant.
Only the piles of dirt in the graveyard wriggling without dying and dozens of white ghosts waiting for their time beneath them look terrifying.
Even though they were clearly aware of Lenok’s existence, they ignored him as if they had made a promise.
I walked along the path beside the graveyard, and finally reached the end of the windswept garden, and I began to see a different landscape than before.
A high barrier of ice blocking the way out of the garden.
And a gigantic, grayish figure that quietly stirs while trapped inside.
The prisoners who had survived and reached the end of the garden were pounding the ice barrier with dissatisfaction.
“Open the way!!”
“We’re getting out of here!”
bang, bang!!
Even if you put your mana into it and hit it with all your might, the ice barrier doesn’t break, and it doesn’t even show any signs of shaking.
The prisoners, who had been gasping for breath, looked back at Lennok with an angry expression.
“Prophet, this is a different story!”
“Wasn’t this the way out?!”
[….]
The priestess’ spirit body frowned as if it were displeased at the prisoners’ attitude of expressing resentment towards Lennok.
But instead of caring about those prisoners, Lennok silently watched the ice barrier and the cold winds blowing from beyond.
The wind penetrating the entire 5th floor underground, and a gigantic figure located at the epicenter.
It was because I remembered that I had encountered a composition similar to this a while ago.
“The Prophet.”
At that moment, the giant approaching with the other prisoners held out a small piece of paper to Lennok.
“I wrote only the words I could see while walking around the garden where the cemetery is located.”
“contents is?”
“That is…It’s such a complicated story that I don’t even know.”
The giant looked at the ice barrier with a strange expression that was difficult to describe and said.
“It seems to be an explanation of the monster guarding this prison….”
“Was there a story about the Guardian Spirit?”
“…!!!”
This time, as if I hadn’t expected it at all, the figure of a giant with both eyes wide open.
But Lennok ignored the giant’s reaction and picked up a piece of paper from his hand and unfolded it.
The wind that penetrates the entire prison and the epicenter from which the wind blows.
The fact that the identity of this wind itself is the breath of a creature so gigantic that its shape is difficult to guess.
It was because Lennok had encountered this exact composition once in the conscious world of Handbook.
As expected, the writings left by the author of the travelogue were filled with information about the owner of this tomb.
[Lord Frost. The corpse of the dead Guardian Spirit.]
[The result of an experiment conducted after one failed attempt at Mangwi Night.]
[As a corpse covered with the curse of metamorphosis, the essence was eaten and only instinct remained.]
The curse of metamorphosis.
A concept previously mentioned in the Ascendant Handbook and warned against Lennok’s own Guardian Spirit Beast.
While Lennok was silent after confirming the words, the giant asked urgently.
“How are you? Do you think there is a way?”
“….”
“If you already knew the contents of the travelogue, you would know how to get through this situation, right? Quickly tell me how!”
“Well….”
Lennok muttered as he turned his gaze toward the ice barrier.
“Maybe you should worry about staying alive, not running away.”
“what?”
At that moment, the gray figure that had been trapped inside the ice barrier began to swell.
coo cooo… … !!
With just that, huge cracks spread all over the ice barrier, and in an instant, the barrier was broken and the body stood up.
Kwaaaaang!!
“Aaaagh!”
“Get out of the way!!”
Figures of prisoners dying in an instant under the fragments of a collapsing barrier.
Awesome!!
A gray giant stepping on the corpses of those prisoners and slowly straightening out the crooked body.
[Whoa… … .]
The breath that flowed from the giant’s mouth contained an eerie chill that could be felt from a distance of several tens of meters.
“That is the corpse of a spirit beast born in the realm of Yoreta. It’s not something for criminals to deal with.”
But even as Lennok said that, he walked past the others without hesitation.
Lennok grinned as he met the gloomy eyes of the Frostlord staring straight at him.
“Maybe we can solve one of the goals that came to Yorta in advance.”
