Genius Magician Who Eats Medicine Episode 568
Remnants of Memory (1)
The megacity of Balkan.
A small church located at the end of District 3 in the very center.
The appearance of the cathedral, which was completely free of people, bore a striking resemblance to the place where Lennok had met his former innocence in the district of Ramahal.
The only difference is the small statue of the goddess placed in the center of the chapel.
Two old men quietly played chess in front of the old, dusty statue of the goddess.
Black and white stones move back and forth on the checkerboard, changing colors and turning the tables.
While the Ascendant Jindun Zygis Ethernor was known to have created and spread the game, he was playing it as if he were familiar with it.
The old man holding the black stone spoke first.
“The [recording] of Area 25 is over.”
“….”
“It took longer than expected. According to what Kaise said, it was a draft made as a testament, so I thought it would disappear soon.”
Another old man holding a white stone put on a thoughtful expression for a long time before answering after releasing the white stone.
“Area 25…Where are you talking about?”
“Ramahal.”
The old man holding the black stone immediately answered.
“It used to be a holy place and graveyard for traitors.”
“Ah yes…I can hear you say that… … .”
The old man in white, who responded in a relaxed tone, shook his head.
“After the development plan was completed, it became very difficult to distinguish the districts…. It was nice to have a name… … .”
“Because there is power in a name.”
The old man in black moved the stone again without hesitation.
Unlike the old man in white who looked somewhat slow, the old man in black seemed to have relatively little hesitation.
“So, in order to erase the remaining names on this land, we divided the districts and gave them numbers.”
“is it so…. I still remember…. You don’t need to point that out… … .”
The old man in white chuckled and stroked his thick beard and picked up the stone again.
“But what were we betting on?”
“….”
The old man in black couldn’t hide his embarrassment at those words, but his wrinkled hands stopped for a moment.
Soon after, the old man in black, who moved the stone again casually, spoke.
“There are still people outside the continent who do not speak the official language.”
“hmm.”
“Ascendant Jinwa is trying to open the sea for them. It means that they will embrace even those who do not learn their language and build a higher status.”
“This is no longer a human way of thinking….”
It is not to complete and transcend yourself, but to build based on the beliefs and hopes of others.
It is an altar made for those who are called gods, not for those who have already challenged the ascension.
And those who took the name of God in this world are only swimming towards the end on the other side of the dark sea.
The old man in black said while moving the stone.
“I intend to listen to Jinwa’s request.”
“Why?”
“Originally, we shouldn’t have increased uncontrollable variables at this point, but….”
Almost all of the checkerboards have already turned black, leaving only a few hundred stones.
The old man in white just fiddles with the white stone and asks if he has little will to continue the game.
However, the old man in black continued to answer sincerely.
“Because Evan Bylon will come up with anti-gravity technology and all the skies on the continent will open, at least for the first time. It gives us an option to filter them out while still granting Jinwa’s request.”
“okay….”
“The five hundred roads we are putting in now were a bet on whether to hand over the right to open the continent to the southerner of the continent.”
“….”
The old man in black continued to speak while the old man in white was silent.
“We will supply water to the jungle by connecting the trail swept away by Gyebaek with the waterways of the southern continent. At the same time, it will become a huge waterway that can bring in lives from outside the continent.”
“…Was this also in the plan?”
“of course.”
said the old man in black.
“Scenario 25, which was scrapped at the time of the project’s conception. It is a legacy of the [Grand Canal] scenario, which was to connect the waterways of the world as one by sequentially opening all the waterways of the continent.”
“….”
“Do you know why I am explaining this bet to you again?”
The old man in black said that while slowly holding the black stone.
“I don’t know if you’ll remember, but this has been one of the games we’ve been playing before big decisions for a very long time.”
Whenever each other’s hand gestures cross, the checkerboard is filled with black.
The old man in black, who was on the verge of victory, spoke calmly.
“It makes sense that, while trying to control the fate of the world, one of the 500 is not able to win…” … It was a childish battle of pride.”
“I see.”
“If Claude Azlan had filled in the broken parts of his past self, he might have known if your terrible forgetfulness could be fixed….”
It doesn’t matter now that he won the Obaekro.
The moment the old man in black said that while waiting for the opponent to throw a stone.
“Drawing the big picture well has always been a senior’s specialty.”
said the old man in white.
“But that’s why I end up making mistakes in the little things. It’s been decades since Kaise’s death and I still haven’t fixed it.”
“…what?”
Instead of answering, the old man in white picked up a white stone and set it down on the chess board.
At that moment, the few white stones left on the plate are all connected around that starting point, drawing a huge house.
All the black stones filling the chessboard were overturned with white stones.
Charreureuk!!
A miraculous reversal that is hard to believe even when you see it with your own eyes.
While the old man in black was at a loss for words, the old man in white spoke slowly.
“Gunryeong City will not obey your wishes, the noble Senate President is better.”
“….”
“Not all of Kaise’s legacy is right, but Jinwa is no longer worth waiting for.”
The white-clad old man, who had regained sharp focus before he knew it, said while slowly arranging the stones he was holding in his hands.
“If you really respect the time we spent working together, please follow my decision.”
“…Right.”
The old man in black, who was silently looking at the board, smiled nonchalantly and arranged the long game together.
“Since you’ve been fine for a long time, shall we talk about the world going on a bit more?”
Without waiting for an answer, the old man in black opened his mouth again.
“These days, King Myeong’s actions are becoming more and more dangerous. It travels around the continent and destroys all kinds of cities, but the level is going crazy.”
“….”
“Are you aware that the internal discipline of the warlords is in jeopardy? The relationship between the four generals who assist the enemy is said to be cracking. Something big might happen soon.”
The old man in black smiled emptyly as if recalling an old memory.
“A long time ago, I used to drink and talk loudly all night to snack on these stories…. Sometimes I miss that construction site without the Capitol Building.”
“…It has been over several decades.”
“that’s right.”
The old man in white agreed with the old man in black.
“So, as I approach retirement, I won’t be obsessed with these petty bets anymore.”
“….”
“The play is over. The plan will continue.”
From the beginning, the old man in black had no intention of leaving his decision to the outcome of the five white robes.
“Then it is unavoidable. You follow the law set by your senior.”
The eyes of the old man in white looking at the market began to slowly blur again.
“It is a law that needs to be restored to the five hundred roads that have been used as chess pieces in the world…. I’d like to think about it some more… … .”
“….”
The white-clad old man closed his eyes and fell asleep. It disappears like a ghost as if it never existed in the first place.
The state of being able to freely deal with the separation and separation of being and body through the leap of will.
It is another possibility that can be reached by transcending the path of military spiritism.
The old man in black looked at the situation, picked up the last white stone he put down, and left.
A brief breeze passed by, and only the silent figure of the goddess remained in the cathedral.
* * *
Whoa!!
The wind blowing through the landscape of an old power plant.
Feeling the breeze brushing the tip of his beak, Felix slowly opened his eyes.
“You woke up.”
The figure of a young man fiddling with something for a long time with his back to Felix.
At the end of the sleeve of the young man’s coat, the chain of an old pocket watch shook faintly.
Felix muttered after staring blankly for a long time.
“half…?”
Turning his back, Lennok poured the unknown liquid he was holding into the tip of Felix’s beak.
“Drink up. I will spend a lot.”
“what? Woo-wook?!”
Felix’s eyes widened as he muttered without being able to understand the words properly.
The huge body covered in feathers trembled in its place.
“Oops….!! Kek Kek!! Pretty much!!”
The figure of Felix, who clenched his burning throat and let out a commanding voice like a real bird.
said Lennok, shaking off the empty vial lightly.
“As the physical damage was getting serious while drawing on the magic of the arrival, I used my hands as soon as possible.”
“…!!”
“It was a potion made without a workbench, so I didn’t care about the taste, so bear with it. So who told you to abuse the ascendant’s magical powers?”
“Shut up…!!”
Felix, now unable to scream, rolls on the floor with his beak clenched with both hands.
However, it was unavoidable in order to quickly shake off the magic of arrival that remained in the body.
The battle hammer was taken away by Croken, but the magical power of ‘Dorae’, who died in the process, remained in Felix’s body.
In order to make this operation successful, Felix put aside his own comfort and used the magical power of the arrival as it was.
Lennok perched on the stone wall of a nearby ruin, watching Felix dripping saliva from the tip of his beak.
“If you continue to use the dead ascendant’s magic, you will be consumed by it yourself. You don’t know how dangerous it is.”
“Cool… … !! yes….”
said Felix, struggling to wipe his mouth and stand up.
“This time, too, it was close. If you hadn’t helped me, I would have had to stay in the hospital for a while.”
Just as the corpse remains after a person dies, the will and magic power of a mighty transcendental person remain in this world even after he dies.
Even more so, if you are an Ascendant who has reached level 9, you are on the level of imprinting your existence on the world.
Aside from what kind of superhuman nature the ascendant arrived, no one knows how dense and dangerous the emotions he left behind after his death are.
“What would happen if you risked your own death as a gias and left the remains in the world?”
Lennok asked.
“Hundreds of years have passed since Dorae died and disappeared, but that magic still remains in this world. If the Ascendant himself left the remains on condition, it would never have been out of goodwill.”
“….”
Looking at the silent Felix, Lennok smiled lightly.
“No, I can’t really say that….”
Sasangjeon Hanghasa Labyrinth.
Ascendant Jindun Zaigis Ethernor accepted death at the hands of Pandemonium’s leader at the last moment.
It’s absurd, but it was possible because Jindun himself believed that his death and its consequences would be more helpful to the world.
If you think about it, it may not be that Dorae didn’t necessarily leave his magic power in the world with only evil or vicious tenacity.
It was clear that at least the magic power that was eating away at Felix’s body was not that good.
“Unlike half of you, I don’t have time to argue about the good and evil of power.”
Saying that, Felix struggled to stand up.
Shaking off the debris and dust of the stone, the bird-headed giant grabbed the handle of a hammer sticking out nearby and lifted it up.
Rumble!!
Felix, carrying the hammer out among the collapsed piles of stones, replied, bending his neck from side to side.
“I just do what I need when I need it. It’s been a long time since means and methods didn’t matter. If I walk step by step like that, won’t someone someday take my place?”
“….”
I remember hearing something similar to that from someone who had just died carrying the responsibility of the past.
Even Lennok, who had no great feelings for others, had a hard time forgetting the moments that had passed today.
Lennok, lost in thought, recalling the feel of the pocket watch kept in his coat pocket.
Felix grabbed Lennok by the shoulder and shook him with a puzzled expression.
“half?”
“…It is nothing. Why?”
“Where are Illya and Azlan? I had a sign before I lost consciousness, but now I can’t feel it at all.”
Saying that, Felix looked around and then opened his eyes wide as if he had realized something.
“Wait a minute…!! Come to think of it, Kaise and the others… … !!!!”
“I think the fact that I can only remember that now is enough reason not to use the coming magic.”
Lennok smiled and briefly explained what had happened.
“It’s all over. You will probably never be trapped in the past timeline again.”
“That could be….”
Upon hearing what Kaise’s end was like, Felix’s expression was tinged with amazement and amazement, but soon sank into sullenness.
“In the end, I didn’t get to see how things worked out until the very end…. This time, the only thing I could do was deal with the enemy in front of me.”
“We did what each other had to do. Don’t worry too much.”
Lennok understood how valuable it was to have a warrior like Felix count and frame.
It is a great talent to not miss a moment of what you have to do in a battlefield that is close to chaos like this.
To put it bluntly, didn’t Lennok also take care of things in the line of helping Kaise expand his territory?
“Where are the others?”
Instead of answering, Lennox pointed at Felix’s feet.
As he pulled out the hammer, Felix’s complexion turned pale when he saw a pair of thin legs sticking out from under the pile of stones.
“You should have told me sooner…!!”
“I didn’t think he would come to his senses until he fed the potion anyway, so I left him alone.”
While Felix hurriedly pulled the fainting Ilya’s body out and laid it down, Lennok poured the second finished potion into Ilya’s mouth.
“…!!!”
Ilya’s eyes widened, and intense sparks began to rise between them.
Equipped with mechanical parts inside her body in the form of a cyborg, the effect was so intense that her body functions were overloaded.
Illya, who jumped up from her seat with a tingling expression as if she had been slapped on the cheek, stared blankly at the two of them.
“…half? Felix?”
“It’s a reaction like a ruler.”
“Kaise…What about the others?”
“….”
Felix cleared his throat at Illya’s fast-paced question.
Lennok immediately gave her a brief explanation of what had just happened.
“okay…. Maybe Kaise herself… … .”
Illya hesitated for a while, then nodded slowly.
“What a wonderful person you are. How can you not hesitate so much when you know that you are from the past… … .”
“It was the spirit of a man who took possession of the shadows of the Balkans. To agree.”
“My impression of this incident is about that and it moves slowly.”
Felix asked as Lennok turned around.
“Are you going to go back immediately without investigating the situation in the closed area?”
“No, there is one more thing to be done before that.”
“You mean what needs to be done…?”
Saying that, Illya tilted her head, then followed Lennok’s gaze and found a fallen human figure in the distance and stiffened her face.
The white coating that had been ripped off in a mess. Pure white hair that had been plucked and cut and tangled.
Even in the midst of being completely exhausted, he recognized the presence of this side and slowly regained consciousness.
Claude Azlan was looking this way with his eyes shining.
Seeing such innocence, Lennok lightly tugged on the chain of his pocket watch.
“Then first…Shall we start by checking if the guardian of the battle gate remembers his name?”
