Genius Wizard Who Eats Medicine Episode 538
The Giant of the Sun (5)
Jeruck!
A quiet cavity where even the sound of slow steps echoes like thunder.
Lennok was walking through a vast and far-flung hall where no one could be seen.
Felix and Illya look around with a curious look. The appearance of innocence moving slowly with hands behind the back of the front.
It’s not that I don’t understand either way.
The huge stone statues lined up on both sides of the joint where they are now walking are easily over 10 meters tall.
The magnificent Hall of Fame, where dozens of giants are displayed in different poses.
The four of them had just visited an informal exhibition hall located in District 5.
“Adachar Ibago, the commander of the civil war. Tabi Holgren Head of Urban Development Expansion Plan. Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Madrid Onion. Riyadh Hammer Allied Commander-in-Chief… … .”
Felix muttered, looking around with a calm glance.
“All of them are great men who left their mark on the history of the Balkans.”
“….”
“Azlan-sama, are you saying that someone higher than the Senate is waiting for us here?”
Illya let out a small sigh at Felix’s words.
“You seem to be a person who values formality very much. I think we should be prepared for it to take a lot of time.”
“No, there is absolutely no need for that.”
The innocence, who had been silently listening to the words, smiled a little.
“Rather, I would say that it is very far from formality.”
“yes?”
“It is only because of his will that he made this place the meeting place today.”
“What the hell is that….”
While the others blinked, not immediately understanding the meaning, Lennok quietly looked around at the stone statues around him.
Like armor and uniforms, old apparel and research gowns, the clothes, age, appearance, and appearance are very diverse.
If there is only one thing in common, it is that the size of the stone statue is ridiculously large.
Lennok looked around at the giants that were sculpted and exhibited in various ways, regardless of gender or age.
I met eyes with one of the stone statues staring this way.
“….”
“….”
Lennok tilted his head with an expressionless face, and the stone statue twitched his lips.
Illya, who looked back at Lennok, who had stopped, was surprised to see the stone statue and raised her magic power.
“Chi intruder…!! Oh no, is it a stone statue?!”
“Yes, that is the reaction I was looking for!”
coo!!
Only then did the stone statue begin to move, shouting with a satisfied look.
no, it’s not a stone statue.
It was just a tall giant who was mingling with the statues and holding his breath as if he were the same statue as them.
The appearance of a mature man with an impressive smirking expression, thick beard and thick belly with a huge body that easily exceeds 5 meters.
However, its size and weight were so huge and heavy that even the other four people in this seat could not compete.
thump thump thump!!
I feel as if the entire hall is reverberating with just the sound of my footsteps as I lightly step forward and stand in front of the four of them.
Only then did Felix and Illya, who belatedly grasped the situation, opened their mouths on the spot.
“Giant giants!!”
“How could a species that had been said to have gone extinct decades ago live in the central district of a megalopolis…!!”
“Huhahaha!! yes that is normal I chose this place because I wanted to see that expression!!”
The innocence also nodded, not looking surprised at all, towards the giant who shouted in a loud voice and pounded on the stomach.
“Please understand Lucinda. It’s been a long time since people of this era directly witnessed a being like you.”
“what? That’s not what I want to say. Damn it, I got caught by this boring guy first!”
“Isn’t it too obvious to say that he is hiding?”
Lennok, who had been listening to the giant’s murmur, responded calmly.
“If you wanted to see the reaction after being caught at the right time, you should have chosen your partner well. You have bizarre hobbies.”
“Heh, he’s a lot more cheeky than I thought.”
the giant snorted.
“How do I know that you are such a rock-solid bastard with no emotional ups and downs? I just wanted to play pranks on humans I haven’t seen in a while!!”
“….”
It’s not that there are no emotional ups and downs, it’s just that I noticed right after entering the exhibition hall.
However, with this, it became clear that the opponent is a skilled person who can deceive and hide even the senses of Felix and Illya.
It is an opponent with a spirit and vitality so difficult that even Lennok, who is watching in front of him, can hardly guess his potential and strength.
“You guys won’t be familiar, so I’ll introduce you.”
Innocence turned his back on such a giant and turned his gaze toward others and opened his mouth.
“There is no Castle Lucinda. One of the few surviving giants known to have been exterminated, and the Colossus Corps, which has existed for over 200 years. A disciple of the Ascendant… … .”
After a moment of silence, the innocence continued.
“As a member of the Senate, he was the one who was in charge of all the gateways throughout the city.”
senate.
Even Lennok knew that it was the name of an institution and organization that existed at a higher level than the Central Council mentioned by the innocent.
Didn’t Meyer mention them and say that it is the Senate’s job to decide the seat of the mayor?
A mysterious institution that was shrouded in a veil. The true giants of the sun who have been with us in every moment of the city’s establishment, development, expansion and glory.
Lennok was only now meeting a member of the Senate for the first time.
…I never dreamed that the Giant of the Sun would be a real giant.
“Call it an old pig who is only gaining weight. What are you doing so grandiosely?”
The titan Lucinda, who responded in a nonchalant way, spat out a voice of shame at the innocence.
“Anyway, you, Claude, have grown old and have become very strange. It’s about paying attention to rudeness and ostentation that don’t suit you. After all, humans are nothing special.”
“Please excuse me. Now I can’t even remember which faction or organization you belonged to.”
The innocence with a wry smile shook his head lightly and spoke again.
“Lucinder holds a special position as a key keeper in the Senate. He is also the only person who can temporarily grant us access to the closed area.”
“….”
“This operation is a designation order issued through the acting authority of the Senate, not the Central Council. This is the first time since the Nakcheon incident, and it is a new operation launched in 20 years related to the project.”
‘Rakuten?’
Hearing that, Lennok furrowed his brow.
It’s because I started to guess what kind of incident the innocence was referring to.
But as soon as Lucinda heard such words of innocence, he cut them off like a knife.
“I don’t know what Claude was talking about, but the Senate is not a superior body of the Central Council.”
“yes?”
“Most of the guys who have stepped back to get their hands off the field are the ones who think they’ll pay attention to what’s going on in the city now?”
“….”
“The fact that things turned out this way in the first place is also our mistake…ah done I checked the face roughly, so let’s finish it quickly.”
He picks his teeth with one hand while gripping his shaggy beard with the other.
Lucinda, who pulled his beard down and opened his mouth wide, put his finger down his throat.
“Ueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!”
“….”
Even while others are speechless at the bizarre sight, Lucinda’s deviation continues.
The moment I put it down as if spitting something out of my throat, an unknown array of ancient letters began swirling in the air above my thick fingers.
Faaaa!!
A shape of an array that assembles itself in the air while scattering a mysterious blue glow.
Lucinda gestured casually toward the other four.
“Are you sure all four of them have been in and out of District 6 at least once? Rejection might happen, so make sure.”
Apart from Lennok and Illya, did Felix and Claude also enter and exit the closed area in different ways?
Hagiya Lennok wouldn’t have been able to even get in and out of District 6 without the help of Palad Okon, who was the Deputy Director of Agents.
As the four people touch the letter array that floats in the air once, an unknown pattern like a barcode is engraved on the back of their left hand.
profit!!
Lucinda, who confirmed it, picked up the letter array again and swallowed it.
Lucinda, who had been belching heavily, grumbled as she licked her lips.
“Damn it, I feel dirty every time. Why do we have to make emergency access between zones into biometric codes and scream this shit? Is it true that I am still working at this age?”
“….”
A key keeper who holds access rights to all gateways in the megalopolis.
Ridiculously, the storage method was that the giant Lucinda himself swallowed it in his stomach and stored it.
Perhaps it is because the capacity of access rights made up of biometric codes is so vast and complex that an ordinary human would never be able to handle it.
It is not at all wrong to say that he is a key keeper, as he holds temporary access rights to the gates of the city, including closed areas, in his ship.
It was only then that Lennok understood why a special organization called the Senate could exist with a position and status different from that of the Central Council.
Special knowledge or authority that cannot be inherited within the order established by the city’s founders.
Those who keep and manage the legacy of an old-fashioned, close-to-old era, which is not strange even if they have already retired or died a long time ago.
Is that why it was able to coexist as a relationship that does not interfere with each other while nominally compatible with the mighty powers of the Central Council?
“Even if it looks like that, it’s a real living code…. Get into the area quickly before you die. Have you finished your preparations?”
Innocence, who was staring at the biocode engraved on the back of his hand, nodded.
“Thanks for your cooperation, Lucinda. It must be a burden for you as well.”
“It has become a useless public official. If it wasn’t for the other guys’ request, I wouldn’t have started in the first place… … .”
Lucinda murmured softly. His gaze scanned the other four and then stopped at Lennok.
“Because I wanted to see the face of the guy who killed Onion at least once.”
“….”
Despite the giant’s instantly subdued gaze, Lennok was not surprised.
Madrid Onion. 8th level warlord.
Lennok knew that he, a former chief justice and a direct participant in the project decades ago, was acting as an agent for the Senate.
Since I met a member of the Senate, I thought that this kind of topic would come up at least once in some way.
“Yeah, since I dealt with and killed that stiff judge, I thought it wouldn’t be an ordinary talent…This is definitely beyond expectations.”
Lucinda murmured, scratching his beard with a curious look.
“I mean, it has a very similar feeling. I can see why the others care.”
“Are you talking about the Madrid Onion?”
“…No, I didn’t say anything.”
Lucinda said that and slowly rose from her seat.
thud!!
Lucinda, who raised her gaze in an instant with heavy steps, spoke.
“However, it’s good to remember that someone else has to shoulder Onion’s karma instead, half.”
“….”
“It is our duty and right to deal with the failure of the project. Getting closer to that secret means you have to share that responsibility too.”
A completely different, hard and heavy inorganic declaration.
A sense of weight that feels like a proposal that should be accepted as the truth, just like that of a person in power who makes judgments and sentences.
“Keep in mind that leaving room for you in this matter is also an extension of that matter.”
thump thump!!
The voice of a giant stomping casually through the halls of the silent palace.
The appearance of him disappearing into the darkness with nonchalant steps, not paying attention to the eyes of the people around him.
Only Lucinda’s last words echoed quietly among the inorganic stone statues.
“Perhaps even all those people related to you.”
“….”
No one dared to open their mouth until the giant disappeared completely.
Because the intense will he scattered at the last moment was strong enough to press down the entire space.
It is not a mind that a being who has lived as a key keeper or a high-ranking official can have.
Proof that that fat, old, and bushy beard was once a perfectly trained warrior.
“They said he was the disciple of that giant Ascendant.”
Lennok turned his gaze toward innocence.
“Whose apprentice were you?”
“…If you don’t say it yourself, that’s not something I can tell you.”
Innocence, who quietly refused to answer, nodded while looking at the bio code engraved on his wrist.
“Like Lucinda said, we don’t have much time. I will guide you on the way to the gateway.”
* * *
Took!
At the same time as a slight misstep, pieces of broken bricks roll down.
Even after a long time, the sound of falling bricks hitting the ground is not heard.
Instead, the only thing that pierces the ears is the magnificent sound of water resounding without knowing the end.
Kwaaaa!!!
Because of the stream of water that constantly pours down and adjusts the water level, water mist rises from all sides and obscures the view so much that it is difficult to recognize even an inch ahead.
Every time you walk on the waterway boundary, only the enormously thick pipes that are sparsely visible through the fog make it possible to guess the size of the dam.
“It’s really huge.”
“It is said that it alone supplies 40% of the water resources in the 20th district, so the scale must be beyond imagination.”
Illya answered while gently fixing her backpack.
“The existence of this dam is said to have an effect on the climate of District 22, so it must have an impact beyond what is visible.”
District 22 multi-purpose gravity dam.
The tip of the facility boasts an overwhelming size and scale among all the facilities in the megalopolis.
Innocence had been walking along the border of this huge canal for a long time with three other people.
“But I don’t see how there is a way to enter the closed area from here.”
said Felix.
“Wasn’t that the way to enter the inside by going through the legal process at the time the authority was granted?”
“I wouldn’t be wrong.”
Lennok, who had been quietly listening to the story, said.
“What do you mean?”
“That means that the path we are heading towards right now is a legal process.”
At that moment, the stream of water that had been constantly pouring over the heads of the four people began to split on both sides.
Koo Goo Goo!!!
Thousands of tons of heavy waterfalls, which can easily pass through, split left and right, revealing the walls of the dam.
The water flow of the waterfall, which changed direction, hit the four people on the spot, but no one was shocked.
I just stared at the wall of the cracked dam on the spot as I was hit by the pouring water.
Felix muttered, gaping his beak and raising his head.
“…It was hidden in a place like this.”
The shape of a giant gateway surrounded by warning patterns of overlapping yellow and black stripes dozens of meters.
On the ceiling, red warning lights flashed ceaselessly to warn of the danger, and a shockwave close to a roar erupted, and the gate slowly began to open.
Koo Goo Goo!!!
A person walked out through a gap in the gate that was slightly open so that one person could barely get in and out and bowed his head.
[Welcome to Kurvas Multipurpose Gravity Dam.]
His whole body is wrapped in an unknown gray suit, and something like a giant gas mask is worn over his face.
A bizarre design where no skin is exposed on a body of unknown gender.
He stared blankly at the party with a gas mask resembling a dragonfly, then moved away and opened the way to the gate.
[The manager is waiting for you. I will guide you.]
“…There was a manager at this dam.”
Illya said with a slightly surprised expression.
Lennok heard that and turned his head.
“Are there any problems?”
“Except for the city government central council, it refers to the highest public office rank.”
said Felix.
“That means the person in charge of managing the dam is one of the most powerful people in the city, less than a hundred.”
“….”
It’s probably not the existence that was dispatched only to manage this dam. Felix and Illya realized that as soon as they heard the word manager.
The four of them immediately followed the man wearing the strange gas mask into the gate.
As soon as you enter the gateway, the first thing you see is a hangar that boasts an overwhelming floor area ratio with a room commensurate with its size.
People who covered their entire bodies in suits and gas masks were walking around, managing something piled up in the hangar.
The guide ignored them and led them to a remote passageway above the hangar.
Illya looked down at the people wandering beneath her feet with a rather curious expression.
“You are covering your body and face without omission. Is there something that needs to be sanitized or disinfected?”
“But if that’s the case, there’s no reason not to dress us in something similar near the hangar.”
“It is not a matter of disinfection or hygiene.”
Lennok, who had been looking around at Felix and Illya’s words, opened his mouth.
“It’s a question of survival, if you’re serious about it.”
“what?”
Hearing Lennok’s words, I felt as if the guide’s shoulders twitched slightly.
“The internal magic inside the gateway is split into very fine pieces and is splitting.”
Saying that, Lennok took off his gloves and lightly brushed the back of his hand.
His extremely sensitive mana-sensing power means that he was aware of how the magic of this space exists from an early age.
“It’s okay to be a finished superhuman, but if an ordinary person is exposed to it for a long time, their internal organs will be damaged. The suits they wear seem to be measures to protect them.”
“It could be….”
“Are you saying that a phenomenon close to radiation exposure is actually occurring inside this space?”
“It’s a bloodbath…That would be the most accurate.”
Lennok laughed.
“The fact that he is wearing a particularly large gas mask is probably for a similar reason. If this kind of exposure phenomenon invades the respiratory system, there will be no way to survive.”
“It’s really hard to believe that something like this is happening inside the Kurvas Dam….”
Illya said with a puzzled expression.
“The 20th district is a district where close to one-third of people live even in megacities. Is it really possible that such a dangerous exposure is occurring in a dam that manages water resources in such an area? … .”
[There is no radiation exposure at Kurvas Dam.]
At that moment, the guide who was going ahead quietly opened his mouth.
[The Kurvas Dam was built here to prevent exposure to magical particles.]
“What the hell is that….”
[Looks like Mr. Kyeonroe already guessed. I was surprised. The rumors weren’t false.]
Lennok didn’t bother to respond to the official.
He just nodded his head slightly with an expressionless face.
But the guide let out a low laugh, as if he liked Lennok’s attitude better.
[It wasn’t such a bad thing that the prohibition law was lifted and the boundary between the good and the bad collapsed. No one could have predicted that such a powerful and enchanting wizard would exist in the darkness of the city.]
“…what?”
[I will introduce you again.]
Knock!!
After passing through dark passages and corridors, we arrived at a dark room.
As the party entered, the door closed and he slowly took off the gas mask he was wearing.
Push yi profit!!
As soon as the lights were turned on in the room, gas and spray containing disinfectant burst out, soaking the guide from head to toe.
It was only then that Lennok realized that the room they had just entered was a passage close to a sort of sterilization room.
The guide, who brushed his damp hair, opened his mouth.
“Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, First Class Inspector Keegan Grimes.”
From the outside, the young man, who seemed to be around Lennok’s age, smiled lightly and turned his head.
“In this operation, I took on the role of guiding everyone including Claude Azlan to the closed area.”
“….”
At that moment, Felix and Ilya, who were standing behind me, felt a faint movement that slightly changed their posture.
The other side of the face of the young man who turned his head was that of an old man who looked well over eighty years old.
“It’s been a while since I’ve seen your face, Grimes.”
At the words of innocence, which he had watched without saying anything, Keegan smiled bitterly and held out his hand.
“Azlan-nim. Nice to meet you. Isn’t that the first time since the Juche Meeting 20 years ago?”
“I am truly sorry to meet you in a place like this.”
“it’s okay. It was my will that accepted the position of managing this dam.”
Keeping a light smile on his face, Keegan pointed to the spacious conference room that was projected out of the sterilization room.
“I don’t have much time. Can we get straight to the point?”
The manager’s eyes, with a mask-like smile on his face, seemed to shake nervously somewhere.
“Because it will take a lot of preparation to ‘launch’ you within the hour when the closed area access is activated.”
A message from Grimes that is very meaningful.
However, Felix, who was listening, asked with a rather serious expression.
“If you’re going to shoot up, do you mean you have to fly?”
“No, it’s a bit different from that…?
“It’s fortunate. It’s been over 30 years since I forgot the law….”
“….”
Does that mean you could fly before that?
Everyone forcibly held back the question that naturally popped up in the corner of their heads and headed for the conference room.
