alone (2)
Stella stared at Lennok and lowered her head slightly.
“…What are you talking about? The captain must have said he wasn’t there right now.”
“The reasons for kicking Dylan out were unnatural.”
“what?”
“What you said wasn’t something you had to say by biting someone else. I can’t help but think that Dylan sent me out because he was worried about giving me room.”
“….”
“The Antares I remember are not the ones who move for no reason. Obviously, this mercenary group was not created out of simple sympathy.”
Lennok tilted his head slowly, watching Stella’s mouth shut.
“that….”
“Then now that Felix, who is in charge of one axis of the mercenary corps, is in a coma…Aren’t you here, even if it’s late?”
A cool silence passed.
Stella, who stared into Lennok’s eyes, sighed deeply.
“ha….”
Stella knows too.
That her attitude in letting Dylan go could be a clue to Lennok’s sense of incongruity, but not conclusive evidence.
Even so, the reason why she didn’t shy away from it was because she knew that there was no point in arguing against a mage who was strong enough.
When a mage who survived dozens of battles single-handedly uttered such words, she would have appropriate conviction and grounds.
Even if Lennok didn’t tell her directly, he had already found his own reason why Antares was here.
Lennok nodded, confirming that Stella’s gaze glanced toward the hospital bed.
“I have no intention of fighting. If you don’t intend to answer, I’ll look for it myself.”
“No, that’s okay.”
As she said that, she quickly stood up.
“The captain will understand at this point. I don’t even want to pretend to be hot with you here… … . Let’s move on nicely.”
Stella put her hand on the bed door and smiled faintly.
“In exchange, you should also pass over the things I pretended not to know. Are you fine?”
“good. Shall we go then?”
Stella’s expression changed strangely when Lennok stood up first.
“…I already knew where you were. yes?”
Instead of replying to her flirtatious remark, Lennox laughed softly.
* * *
Dark night. The roof of the general ward.
The garden decorated for patients who can move is impressive.
Moist raindrops slid down between the growing blades of grass.
between the quiet rain. A large terrace overlooking the street on a rainy night.
At the end of it, someone was sitting with his head bowed, standing in the rain.
As soon as Stella climbed onto the roof, she took a step forward and opened her mouth.
“Antares. I brought you.”
“….”
“He’s a guest who came to you. How long are you planning to leave it to me? I have no intention of pretending to be with such a scary wizard.”
“…I’m sorry, Stella.”
A quiet voice came through the rain-soaked coat.
“There are things I want to think about for a moment. You made me wait a long time.”
The tone is so subdued that you can’t even properly guess the emotion.
Even Lennok, who was listening, slightly twitched his eyebrows, but Stella shrugged her shoulders.
“So, Cheongseung, stop trembling and come inside and talk. If you catch a cold with that body, you’ll be a laughing stock in the office for years.”
“No, let’s talk about it here.”
Antares smiled faintly and turned his head.
“Would you mind stepping aside for a moment? It won’t take long.”
“….”
Stella writhed for a moment, but she let out a small sigh and said nothing.
With a light tap on the shoulder, she disappears down the stairs to the roof.
Lennok looked at her from behind and immediately walked out of the terrace.
Antares asked, ignoring the raindrops starting to fall on his coat and not even looking back at Lennok, who was standing behind him.
“I heard you don’t have time. Is it the North Continent?”
“I said nothing.”
Antares laughed at Lennok’s plaintive answer.
“If it’s an event that’s big enough for a wizard like you to move out of the city at a time like this, it’s decided. Those in the know would have already roughly noticed.”
“…What the hell is going on there right now?”
“Have you not heard the proper circumstances yet?”
“….”
At the words of Antares, who casually turned the topic there, Lennok frowned slightly.
Antares looked back at Lennok and smiled.
“Then you’d better get there and hear the story yourself. Knowing what’s going on will only make your heart rush.”
“You mean there is no need to hurry?”
“The incident that happened in the North Continent has already left the scope of being solved by human hands.”
Saying that, Antares looked down at the night street spread out beneath his feet.
“It is impossible to share the same gaze with transcendent people who are outside of humanity. If you want, you have to check the ending yourself… … . But even meeting them won’t be easy.”
“Wait a minute, if you would say so….”
Lennox’s expression changed.
It was because he immediately understood the context of how far Antares was speaking.
A monster that a superhuman who has reached level 8 would refer to as a transcendent. If such a big man is involved in this case, it’s almost certain-.
However, Antares shook his head while laughing at such Lennok.
“Don’t be in a hurry. The person who called you must have asked you for help now because they thought there was no reason to rush.”
“….”
“But at this point, if you are thinking of heading to the North Continent belatedly, I can guess where you are lending a hand. There wouldn’t be many ways to move the Aspect Wizard to the North Continent, which is thousands of kilometers away.”
Antares withdrew his gaze from the ground and lifted it up to the sky.
“Sooner or later, the constellations will move greatly.”
“…You know a lot.”
Lennok, who had been silent for a long time, was the only thing he said again.
One encounter we encountered before we faced the cartel in earnest.
A lot has happened since then and not a little time has passed, but Antares has not changed.
Everything Antares says still pierces Lennok’s lungs deeply, and Lennok is just trying to grab a piece of truth between those words.
But Antares shook his head at Lennok’s words.
“You know a lot. But knowing and doing are completely different. While guessing how the end of this world will come… … Because there is not much you can do.”
“Are you saying you’re waiting for the right time?”
“no. It means that omniscience and omnipotence, at least in this world, are never equal.”
The eyes of the two met at the same time in the dark rain.
“At least that is the conclusion I came to.”
“….”
omniscience and omnipotence
That’s not something that Lennok, who hasn’t even realized the fragments of his ascension yet, will discuss.
But Antares seemed at least vaguely aware of the concept.
“Stella said you and your mercenary troupe traveled a long time across the continent.”
Lennok, who took out a cigarette from his bosom, put the filter in his mouth and lowered his head slightly.
profit!!
The tobacco quickly got wet in the rain, but nevertheless, the embers that Lennok had bounced easily stuck to the tobacco and began to smoke.
“I said I would see all the mysteries of this world with my own two eyes and give you an answer.”
“….”
“Antares. What you sought and hoped for was not omnipotence, but rather omnipotent power. Do you believe there is a way to save this world through knowledge?”
“I didn’t have such a grandiose goal from the beginning. It still is.”
Antares replied.
“I just tried to find something I could do with the time given to me…. Did you just believe that it would be possible?”
“…”
Lennok looked down at the end of the burning tobacco and slowly raised his gaze.
Doo doo doo!!
torrential rain.
The intensity of the raindrops hitting the coat is also getting stronger.
Lennok said looking up at the stream of water that had been pouring into this turbid sky for the first time in a long time.
“I was thinking of asking your intentions before heading to the North Continent. What are you moving for after leaving this city?”
“….”
“But what you just said seems to answer that question.”
“It’s not hard to tell you my purpose and why. but…Knowing now won’t change anything.”
“Because knowing and doing are different?”
“You are a wizard. You learn too fast.”
Antares laughed at Lennok’s plaintive words.
“okay. To be precise, the process of realizing what you don’t know is the journey of finding answers. Or maybe that time spent thinking about it could be the answer.”
“You’re making a buzzing noise.”
“The moment you skip the process and check the results, the path to get there is as if it has been set. The moment you perceive and observe, you come into existence.”
Antares looked away.
“Changing the pre-determined ending is not permitted even by transcendentalists. That is why we honored the act of defying fate by giving it a noble name.”
His two eyes shone brightly even in the rain.
“Ascension, I mean.”
“….”
“I peeked into the future of the answer I wanted and confirmed the ending. I have no regrets… … . But I see no reason for you to choose the same way as me.”
Looking at the silent Lennok, Antares laughed.
“Because your potential is greater than what I had. You might be able to come up with a better answer than me.”
“You’re pretty sure.”
said Lennok in a heavy voice.
“How can you say that so assertively?”
“It’s because when you look back on the road you’ve already passed, you see things you couldn’t see.”
Antares answered as he slowly stood up.
“There are things you can know only after you get out of the hierarchy. I can’t be sure, but I’m vaguely aware of that feeling of deja vu… … . When you’re this old, you become superstitious.”
“….”
In the end, are you saying that you can’t give a proper answer unless you reach level 8 and share the same gaze as him?
Antares spoke for a long time, but he understood that there was a reason for his words, which were close to Zen dialogue.
It was probably the authority of ‘omniscience’ that he was seeking. It must be because they are concerned about the side effects or aftermath.
Is knowledge power or ignorance medicine?
Although he evaded it at the end, it seemed clear that Antares had come to some conclusion between the two contradictions.
“It seems that I have roughly said everything I wanted to say. could you go down first? There is work left to do here.”
Antares said that and gestured towards Lennok.
However, Lennok, instead of moving obediently, turned his gaze to Antares’ arm.
“Looks like the blood hasn’t washed away yet, has it?”
“….”
His left hand was slightly hidden from his gaze behind him.
Dark, dead blood clung to his palms thickly and did not wash away even in the rain.
There was no need to ask where the gore came from.
Antares smiled and slowly turned around.
“This is true. If you had noticed from the beginning, you should have told me. You were trembling in the rain for no reason.”
“Isn’t it more awkward to think that you won’t know now?”
asked Lennok, who answered indifferently.
“Who was the opponent?”
Lennok was clearly aware of how absurd a monster an 8th-level superpower could be.
Even if he cannot directly understand and manipulate space, he is able to wield the space derived from his own power, and as a result, he is a superhuman who interferes with space-time.
Even Lennok could not fathom how highly refined the body of a person with physical abilities who had truly transcended the limits of the species by jumping the hierarchy.
If such Antares was still suffering from the aftereffects of the battle, it was unknown how strong the enemy would have been against.
However, Antares shook his head quietly at Lennok’s words.
“I faced a level 8 druid, but not because of that. It’s been a while since I didn’t get hurt in a fight.”
“…what?”
It’s been a long time since I didn’t get hurt while fighting, is that a word that can flow from the mouth of a living human being without hesitation?
To have such monstrous strength and body, yet to try to hide hematemesis… … .
“okay. I don’t know how the situation will change in the future, so it’s good to say this much.”
Turning his head, Antares’ eyes calmly settled.
“I checked my answer beforehand and paid the price. There won’t be much time left. So… … Try to do what needs to be done before then.”
Genius Wizard Who Eats Medicine Chapter 337
