Genius Magician Who Eats Medicine Episode 574
Power Game (1)
Lenok’s basement laboratory in a detached house.
Lennok was moving his pen with only one small lamp on.
The complex blueprint spread out on the workbench simulates the shape of a pocket watch by analyzing it down to a very precise unit.
“Internal lubrication is Taylor’s workshop, gearwheels are Jenkins casting, second hand and graduations are made by Hollinger mold….”
Lennok, who had been writing down the origins of the parts while rolling his pen for a long time with a blank face, sighed and tilted his head.
“All of them are now discontinued products or items from companies that have disappeared.”
An old pocket watch that Kaise left for Jenny as a last present.
Unlike Lennox’s, Jenny’s watch did not have any abilities, but was it a coincidence that there was one more like it left?
“Considering this case, Jenny might have more secrets that she doesn’t even know about.”
Could it be that this was the reason why he was strangely quick to master the basics of Ouroboros’ magic system?
If Kaise’s lineage is born with a similar brotherhood, it is not strange that a similar influence exists on his granddaughter, Jenny.
The only problem is how much Kaise knew about it right before he died.
“….”
It is unknown what Kaise was thinking when he left this watch to Jenny.
However, it is true that Lennok, who did not know anything about the origin of the pocket watch, had an option.
That’s why Lennok asked Jenny’s understanding and disassembled the pocket watch on the spot, tearing down the watch parts to the most precise unit and recording them.
[I ran a search by feeding different keywords about 500 times, but most of the manufacturers of the parts have stopped their official activities within decades.]
Darby, who was lying on the workbench, said, clapping her front paws.
[I wonder if it’s been too long since an organism called Kayse bought a watch.]
“I didn’t buy a pocket watch. Rather, it will be more certain if you come this far.”
Saying that, Lennok knocked on the Bajour’s watch that was lying next to him.
“From the beginning, Kaise purchased parts from different manufacturers and made the watch himself.”
A pocket watch made by bringing parts from different manufacturers from scratch and assembling them yourself.
However, the appearance of the artifact Lennok obtained was the same as the real pocket watch, but the origin of the product was not written, so it was impossible to guess its source.
It probably happened because it was materialized in Kaise’s image realm and left to Lennok at the last moment.
I accidentally found out about the parts of the pocket watch through Jenny, but the problem was that various parts, including batteries, were no longer produced.
“The company that produced the battery for this pocket watch is the Ultras Workshop in Machine City Makina….”
Lennok flicked his pen and shook his head.
“A company that went bankrupt and closed 28 years ago.”
[There’s virtually nothing left of that, right?]
Lennok’s thoughts weren’t too different from Darby’s.
Lennok, leaning back in his chair with his pocket watch in hand, nodded.
“Why did you make a watch in such a complicated way…Was it an effort to understand the concept of time in more detail?”
[Maybe it was simply a personal hobby. Humans like to assemble things, don’t they?]
Darby snobbed cheekily as he said that.
[Although I can’t fully sympathize with the bizarre hobbies of organisms.]
“….”
It wasn’t an instruction that would come out of the mouth of a wicked brain spirit who was messing around with the community.
Lennok, who held the fox cub’s ears with both hands and pressed them down, fell into thought again.
[Kwaeng.] Lennok
murmured as he rubbed Darby, who struggled and crumpled in his hand.
“If you collect parts from various manufacturers and customize them, it is proof that you have attachment. It must have been something special for Kaise himself as well.”
It is certain that the legacy of the image left by the disappearance of the past Kaise exists in the form of a pocket watch.
It must have been something that held special meaning to Kaise himself even at that time.
And what does it mean to leave such an item as a gift from the meeting with Jenny?
“What happened in the closed area was completely unexpected. Even if it was the real Kaise himself, it would be unlikely that he would have anticipated that and left the arrangement.”
[Do you think it’s just Kaise’s whim?]
“A whim? Rather than whim… … Could it be a decision?”
That he left behind something that contained his heart.
Wouldn’t that be proof that the future Kaise had such a huge change of heart?
Perhaps, as Kaise himself said, the project failed and the person he reached right before his death might have been a completely different person than before.
That was all Lennok could guess right away.
“Whoa….”
[Where are you going?]
“All of Kaise’s research journals and pocket watch parts point to Machine City.”
Lennok rubbed his eyes, turned on the screen on one side of the lab, and plugged the data chip into the computer.
“I have received information about the current state of Machine City Makina from Jenny. I should check it once before going to bed. I’ll ask for a brief briefing.”
Originally, I planned to listen to Jenny herself about Makina, but I
checked another pocket watch and took a lot of time to dismantle and record the parts on the spot.
[Whoops, it’s not difficult!!]
Darby jumped up on top of the projector in the lab with a somewhat excited look and wriggled his tail.
[The seaweed hair organism is a style that organizes data quite reasonably. Well, it’s not as good as my logic circuit, but it’s worth watching.]
“…You better never say that in front of Jenny.”
He doesn’t show it, but he knows that he cares about his curly hair.
If you can point out Jenny’s hair and work ability at the same time, it will be difficult for even a seasoned broker to manage her expression.
[But with the help of the community… … Abububu!!]
While I was crushing the cheeks of the messenger talking nonsense, the data loading finished and information about the machine city Makina began to emerge.
ugh!!
The shape of a giant cog wheel floating in the cloudy sky.
And beneath it lies the glittering city of machinery and metal.
[Machine City Machina.]
Darby jumped on top of Lennok’s head and said.
[Leader of mechanization. A pioneer of magic engineering. The birthplace of the automation industry. It is a paradise for artisans and a sacred place for workshops.]
It is the first city to integrate almost all parts of the city into a network system, and it is a unique city where each district has not yet lost its autonomy.
Unlike the inorganic image associated with the word machine city, it is also a place that has reached the pinnacle of bioengineering for humans.
[Like a megalopolis, each area of the city is divided into zones and barriers, but what is unusual is that the use and width of the zones and barriers are reset at regular intervals.] “You mean the zone itself changes dynamically
. .”
[Every time a new industry or company appears and disappears, the size of the city is often jagged in pursuit of efficiency, so it is easy to get lost without guided AI.] Darby continued
.
[The problem is that without a biometric code called a ticket, even the residents of the machine city cannot freely move in and out of the city.]
Each area of the city changes dynamically and each area has barriers, so even if you are lucky to infiltrate the outskirts of the city, you will be misled without a ticket. can’t even go
Even such unauthorized intruders are being weeded out by elite troops called enforcement officers.
[After the failure of the Ascension Gate plan, the city itself became very closed, and in fact, most outsiders could not easily enter the Machine City.] It was probably
because the aftereffects left in the Machine City after the failure of the Ascension Gate were so severe.
Didn’t Maya Lenslet, who was called the best enforcer in Machine City, keep that incident in mind even while working with Pandaemonium?
As much as that, it seemed self-evident that the failure that originated in the city was a great pain for them.
With Darby’s help, Lennok, who quickly looked through the files Jenny had handed over, quietly touched his chin.
“Looking at it like this, there are quite a few parts similar to the Balkan administrative system…Did you bring a motif when designing the city?”
[Actually, if you look around the related papers, there are quite a few speculations that complete control was abandoned in order to get order from the big frame and increase the scale of the Balkans.]
Darby replied.
[I don’t know who the designer of the megalopolis is, but he must have had similar experiences many times?]
“….”
a similar experience
Lennok knew that the concept of experience was not necessarily confined to this world.
“Anyway, in order to move legally in Machina, you need a biometric code called a ticket.”
After taking a break, should I try my best to find it?
Thinking so, Lennok turned to return the lab’s other systems to automation.
“It seems that the ironclad wings will be repaired sooner than expected if only the necessary parts and internal circuits are replaced….”
Since the wings themselves are artifacts and have a function to support spatial concept abilities, they may be more useful than you think.
Lennok looked at Gileon’s wings being restored through automated equipment in one of the labs, then turned off the lights and went up to the bedroom on the second floor of the mansion to lie down.
There was so much hard work and little time to rest.
As soon as the situation is over, all the things that need to be dealt with are taken care of.
Lennok had no intention of wasting this time.
“I’ll just sleep for the next three days, so take care of outside contact.”
[Master, even healthy people will get bedsores if they sleep that long.]
There was no answer to Darby’s grumbling.
As if losing consciousness, Lennok’s breathing thinned out little by little, and then it became quiet in an instant.
A habit from the days when I had to learn how to sleep without breathing in the factory.
Darby tried to say something more to such Lennok, but when he saw the thick dark circles around his eyes, he kept his mouth shut.
Instead, he sat curled up next to Lennok’s pillow and leaned his head cautiously.
The dark night passes, the dawn breaks, and the dawn is bright.
In the bedroom where the wizard and the spirit slept, there was only quiet silence for a long time.
* * *
“This is really bad.”
said Murphy, pulling up his spectacles.
The vampire doctor’s icy gaze revealed his contempt for Lennok.
“Your health care skills are really poor.”
“…Is there any reason I need to double-emphasize it?”
“It looks like I need to completely revise my prejudice against high-ranking wizards.”
As Murphy said, he tapped the keyboard keys nonstop with rather rough hand movements.
“Among the mages I’ve ever met, there is only one sorcerer as indifferent to his health as you. How could it be worse than when you first came to me?”
“….”
Maybe it’s because that time was the peak when he took the archangel’s tears and improved his condition.
A battle with monsters that took place in a row in the past space-time. Alkaid’s arrangement that he faced with Kaise.
From unfolding the magnetic domain to develop his image and rewinding the space-time gap in the closed area to disappear.
None of this was easy, and there was nothing that wasn’t overdoing it by borrowing the power of medicine.
Lennok’s face was slightly shiny after taking a break for three days, but apart from that, it was natural for him to suffer from the aftereffects of his injuries and magical overload.
Murphy didn’t even look at Lennok anymore, he tapped on his keyboard to pull out a medical certificate and handed it to Lennok.
“Take the medicines listed there three times a day within 30 minutes of eating. If you skip it even once, the effect will drop to less than half, so take care of yourself.”
“What if I don’t eat three meals a day?”
“….”
Received the indescribable gaze of the vampire doctor instead of an answer, Lennok did not ask any further questions and quietly stood up from his seat.
I visited on the day of regular inspection of the life support device used for cane use, but rather, only a few medical certificates were removed.
Lennok, who purchased the medicine written on the medical certificate at a nearby unlicensed pharmacy with an extra charge, picked up his medicine bag and walked away.
“You just came, Van. I was waiting.”
The headquarters of the Three Heads Cartel in the Shadows.
Virgil welcomed him in the first president’s office located on the top floor.
After having someone serve coffee, Virgil, who was sitting on the other side of the sofa in the office, looked at Lennok’s bag and asked with a puzzled expression.
“Why did you buy so many drugs?”
“The doctor told me to eat it.”
“….”
Virgil’s face turned slightly serious as he understood the meaning of the words.
He pointed to the male and female secretaries busily wandering around, setting up the cooks and chairs for the meeting.
“I should have heard, but are you okay?”
“hmm.”
“I can cover your mouth if need be.”
Needless to say, how the president of the cartel will silence his secretaries.
At those words, the secretaries’ faces turned pale, but none of them showed up prematurely or ran away screaming.
It was only that the fingertips that set down the coffee cup were faintly trembling.
Lennok looked at him, then shook his head with an expressionless face.
“No, it doesn’t matter.”
Virgil stared at Lennok’s face, then leaned back on the sofa with a smile.
“okay. It doesn’t matter if there are rumors now, is this?”
At the same time, it feels like the atmosphere of the president’s office, which has been frozen cold, is being relaxed.
“Whoop whoop….”
In the meantime, a sigh of relief escaped from the secretaries.
“I’m not interested, so let’s get to the point. Did you get information about the closed area from Jenny?”
“okay. I made sure.”
said Virgil with a grin.
“The timing was a bit tight, but we managed to get some of the bonds we needed before the containment measures were lifted.”
Jenny is under the assumption that if the company alone buys all the information, she can use it alone.
Even the cartel was allowed to intervene in the affairs of the closed area to share information and take advantage of it to some extent.
As the site of Area 25 is relatively vast, it is unlikely that Jenny and the Cartel will monopolize the entire area.
Nonetheless, it must mean that the cartel has also succeeded in taking profits in its own way.
“I know you intended to share the responsibility, but thanks to this, we benefited as well, so we’ll reward you later. Is there a price you want?”
“Where is Oliviera now?”
“Since you came back from the dam, you’ve been in the lab. They told me not to look for ships made with anti-gravity technology before they are mass-produced.”
“….”
“You seem to be quite interested in the anti-gravity technology recently presented at a conference. Sooner or later, the headquarters will also produce airships using commercialized anti-gravity engines. Evan Bylon, you know about him, right?”
“To some extent.”
“If you know anything about Assistant Professor Bylon…Nope. You talked nonsense.”
Virgil smiled bitterly and waved his hand.
“Even though they have genius talent in the field of magic, their fields of expertise are very different. I didn’t get in touch with Evan Bylon himself, so I did it just in case.”
Did Oliviera also find out the value of anti-gravity technology and be interested in it?
After all, there must be no one who is not interested in the news that the sky road is opening in this city now.
While drinking coffee with that thought in mind, Virgil placed a small data chip on the table.
“This is a sample of the internal redevelopment plan for District 25, which was designated as a closed zone. It has all the city areas and resource reclamation maps of the 25 districts written 50 years ago.”
If you share information with the cartel and make a profit, you can borrow their manpower and information power for free regarding the lifting of quarantine measures and redevelopment projects in closed areas.
Virgil must have naturally guessed that far and provided this information to Lennok on his own.
“The planning office is discussing tickets for Machine City. If you wait a moment, you can even check if there are ticket holders in the headquarters.”
“Thank you, but that’s not what I came to the headquarters for myself.”
Saying that, Lennok picked up the data chip and shook his head.
“There is something I want to ask you. I want to see your president’s face in person.”
“…About Kaise and the Chairman?”
“Tell them that you know how you obtained Chilchaebo’s Mystic Eye.”
There are a few things I learned about Oliviera while passing through the time and space of the past in Area 25.
Chilchaebo’s Mysterious Eye, which Oliviera obtained, was created through the failure of the project.
In other words, the failure of the project is deeply related to the cause of the awakening of the Mystic Eye.
If the real Oliviera is unable to tell Lennok the truth about the project because of her ban.
By focusing on Chilchaebo’s evil eye, it may be possible to talk about the project’s failure to escape the ban.
Lennok’s eyes glowed quietly.
“There is something I want to hear about Kaise. Then you will understand what I mean.”
“….”
What happened after the project failed.
Kaise’s death. What he did last and what he left behind.
Lennok had come to Oliviera to confirm the truth about him before heading to Machine City.
