Genius Magician Who Eats Medicine Episode 618
Ex Machina (5)
Artifact-grade crafting tool.
The moment Lennok mentioned the name, Narcissa didn’t react anymore, but fell silent.
“In general, relic-grade artifacts with such unique features are difficult to obtain and craft.”
Looking at Narcissa, who was silent, Lennok nodded.
“I think it was at least the equipment used by Meister level craftsmen for a very special process.”
“What is the character of the craftsman?”
Narcissa asked casually.
“Tell me what kind of personality the craftsman who created this artifact must have been.”
Lennok tilted his head at the words of Narcissa who suddenly asked a question that was off topic.
“To guess a person’s personality just by looking at an object, there is no choice but to mix it up… … .”
“doesn’t care.”
“….”
Lennok couldn’t figure out why Narcissa was curious about that, but it wasn’t difficult in itself to tell him what he’d learned from the pendant.
Lennok thought while fiddling with the artifact that returned in the shape of a pendant without a word, then slowly opened his mouth.
“I wonder if it wasn’t an extremely sensitive and nervous personality.”
“…Why?”
“That is the very idea and principle used in this automatic production tool.”
Lennok put down the pendant as he said that.
“Microscopic particle deterioration of magical power that rarely occurs when parts are manufactured at different times. Trying to apply the principle itself and make it into an artifact is very different in itself. Among the artifacts I have seen, cases like this are extremely rare.”
“….”
“An obsession close to paranoia. An obsession with sophistication. Beyond that level, I think there must have been a perverted tendency to enjoy the process itself, trying to completely control everything that came into contact with one’s hands.”
Faint alteration of other magical powers on the timeline.
It is a principle that even Lennok learned while studying Kaise’s pocket watch.
If I had to argue, it should be said that it was one of the trials and errors of high-ranking magicians to access the concept of time through magical power.
Not only did he persistently dig into such a concept and make it into an artifact of this size, but in the process, he made and used different parts at different times.
And even the fact that the pendant was not left behind after making it, making it difficult to repair.
“Nearly all of the designs left on the pendant do not appear to be personalities…After saying that, Lennok
cleared his throat and then refined his words again.
“I think he was probably the most craftsman-like person.”
At that moment, Mouser, who had been watching without saying anything until now, opened his mouth.
“…It belongs to Master.”
“Mouser.”
Narcissa looked at him with sharp eyes.
“Watch your mouth.”
“Come now?”
said Mouser, who shrugged indifferently.
“That pendant. It was not another customer, but the woman herself asked the artisans to repair it.”
“….”
It was only then that Lennok realized why Narcissa had brought the pendant and looked at her with a puzzled expression.
After all, if you think about it, it could be used to test Lennok’s abilities by recklessly borrowing things from other customers.
It was natural for Narcissa to use her belongings, which she could be responsible for, as well as the use and responsibility.
However, she didn’t know that Narcissa herself would want to hear about her mentor from Lennox’s mouth, even if entrusting the pendant to Lennok wasn’t enough.
Mouser also laughed at Narcissa with a face completely awake, as if his thoughts were not so different.
“Hehehe, you must have been curious about other people’s evaluation after taking care of that cranky old woman like a father for the rest of your life, right?”
Looking at Narcissa, who didn’t say anything, Mouser continued.
“That man was a madman who cared nothing but his own destiny until his death. Even the artisans who came in as disciples thought of it as a consumable item that would be ground and discarded.”
“….”
“You must have known when you were old enough to inherit the workshop. Even though I knew that, I just pretended not to know to keep the position. Isn’t it?”
In the cold silence of the workshop, Lenok put down the pendant and asked while rubbing his temples.
“Master Mouser. Who are you talking about?”
“Didn’t we both say that we had the same teacher at the studio?”
said Mouser with a big laugh.
“Once upon a time, there was an old lady who was revered as the best blacksmith in Machine City and was called Hwadeok Jingun.”
“….”
“He’s a person who has already passed away, but his disciples still remain throughout the Machine City and show off their prestige.”
Hwadeok Jin-gun. Literally, only the best blacksmith in Machine City could be called that grandiose nickname.
It was also ironic that Mouser and Narcissa had been active as Hwadeok Jingun’s disciples and are now completely separated.
Even Narcissa, who seems to have inherited the will of the Hwadeok advance, actually asked Lennok about the pendant he made.
But while Lennok was thinking about the contradiction, Narcissa seemed to come to her senses, grabbed the pendant, and jumped to her feet.
“…It was just part of the evaluation to set the standard.”
Having said that with a stern expression, Narcissa glanced down at Lennok and nodded.
“However, I cannot deny the fact that the evaluation of an outsider who had no knowledge of Hwadeok March was more accurate than I thought.”
“….”
“I just remembered a new job I could entrust you with in this city.”
Saying that, Narcissa turned her back and walked out of the workshop without hesitation.
Lennok looked at her with his chin resting slightly, and belatedly realized what she meant by asking.
“Then, has the location of the workshop been decided?”
“….”
Narcissa looked back at Lennok with a slight displeasure and snorted lightly.
“See you in the upper workshop area.”
squeaky!!
Right after that, the soldiers escorting her followed Narcissa as she left the workshop without hesitation.
Mouser finally let out a sigh of relief, and Lennok smiled faintly at the sight.
Among them, the soldier who remained in the workshop until the end hesitated a little and took off the helmet he was wearing.
The moment Lennok slightly tilted his head, realizing that it was the soldier woman who had touched the weight of the pistol the other day.
“…you are?”
“I knew it would work.”
After grinning and waving, he hurriedly put on his helmet and followed the ranks.
said Mouser, looking puzzled at Lennok.
“Your talent is also good. It’s already been a while since I came to Makina… … .”
“No, this is the customer who visited the studio the other day.”
Lennox waved his hand quickly.
“In the first place, people who do business shouldn’t have private conversations with customers….”
Seeing Lennok’s speechless expression as if he had said that and realized something, Mouser put the bottle down in front of Lennok as if he had caught the case.
“Okay, okay. Even though I’ve been dating a member of the opposite sex for over twenty years, it’s not difficult for me to grumble over a drink.”
Mouser, who sat down on the workbench with a warm face, nodded.
“Let’s talk about that woman all night tonight.”
“No, not that….”
When a military woman first came to this studio, the advice Lenok gave was a realm that could not be said to be completely private.
Destroying the sense of zeroing by intentionally replacing the weight of a pistol with a new one.
Didn’t she directly advise that such a thing happened because someone by her side wanted the bullet to miss?
But the fact that the soldier’s bodyguard is, of all things, Narcissa, who just visited Lennok’s workshop.
Thinking that far, Lennok set down the glass Mouser suggested on the workbench and jumped to his feet.
“I guess I should warn you again.”
“Gran warning? What warning?”
“They once told me that the subject they were guarding might be in danger.”
How to let go of an ominous thought lightly and come back with a big price.
Lennok had no intention of foolishly letting go of the danger that might arise from thinking that his guess was wrong.
Lennok, who immediately picked up the overcoat hanging on the wall of the workshop, responded quickly.
“And if Narcissa’s artisan is in danger, it’s not until now that she’s out on patrol in the middle of a street in a workshop district like this-”
Taang!!
A gunshot so intense that it penetrated the soundproofing of the workshop.
Only then did Mouser, realizing what Lennok was talking about, jump up from his seat with a stiff face.
The image of Mouser running out of the studio with a hammer on the workbench in a hurry.
Lennok immediately grabbed a pistol near the workbench and immediately ran after him.
“Heh heh… … !!” Mouser’s countenance turned bitter
as he heard gunshots, broke through the crowds in the middle of the street,
and looked over at the soldiers pointing their guns in one direction.
“I am Narcissa…!!”
Narcissa fell bleeding and a soldier hugged her and collapsed together.
And in front of the two, another soldier looked back with a ferocious face.
“Don’t come closer!!”
The assassin, who aimed his gun at the fallen Narcissa and the soldier, screamed sharply as he looked at the other soldiers.
“These two. Because I’m not dead yet. If you approach from there, you will kill Narcissa right away… … !!”
Lennok, who grasped the situation, immediately raised his magic power.
[Automatic shooting algorithm ver.5.0]
Lennok’s hand moved at an invisible speed, pulled the trigger, and three bullets fired in an instant pierced the ranks.
The moment when bullets containing more than 8 types of assistive shooting magic, including aim correction and trajectory crystal penetration specialization, were twisted in an impossible trajectory and pierced the body of an assassin.
Good food!!
The assassin’s body exploded on the spot, and something protruded from the inside and began to flee across the street in an instant.
“bar…Lyman!!”
Ignoring Mouser’s startled look back at Lennok, Lennok immediately stood in front of the soldiers.
“I’ll check the condition of the injured, so please get out of the way.”
“….”
The soldiers didn’t say anything, but they confirmed Lennok’s calm words and the face he remembered, and slowly opened the way.
Lennok immediately went over to Narcissa and hugged the fallen soldier, examining her condition.
‘It’s dangerous.’
He was barely breathing, but at this rate it wouldn’t be strange if he died of shock just by bleeding.
Without delay, Lennok took out a hemostatic agent from his bosom, applied it, and forcibly injected the painkiller into their necks.
‘I have to forcefully numb the senses and reduce the impact as much as possible.’
Perhaps the soldier whom Lennok had just shot and subdued tried to assassinate Narcissa, and another soldier who noticed it tried to hug and protect Narcissa, but both were killed.
Lennok’s expression instantly turned cold when he recognized that the unconscious soldier with Narcissa was the woman he had previously entrusted with servicing his handgun.
Lennok immediately stood up quietly without showing any expression.
The scene of an ambulance running from the other side of the street, sounding a siren, as if the commotion had already reached far.
Lennok, who had simply completed first aid, looked back at himself.
Mouser, who had arrived late, was coming back sweating profusely.
“Mouser, first aid has been completed. What about that one?”
“I missed it. It was insanely fast.”
Mouser shook his head.
“I have to call the bailiff. If you know that this happened against the Commissioner of Ex Machina, you must… … .”
“After calling the bailiff, it will be too late.”
Lennok said, remembering the human figure who had fled behind the body of the assassin who had exploded.
“I’ll have to track it down before things drag on.”
“how?”
Mouser asked.
“Considering that speed, he must have passed the street long ago. Maybe you’ve already reached the barrier… … !!”
Lennok stopped listening to Mouser and jumped up and headed for the roof of the building next door.
The moment when Mouser looked alternately at the fallen Narcissa and Lennok, then gritted his teeth and followed Lennok up.
Lennok took a long rifle out of his arms, opened the cradle, and pushed the magazine in.
Mouser, realizing Lennok’s thoughts, opened his mouth wide and stammered.
“You’re crazy. You’re going to shoot an assassin running away in the middle of the street?”
“Hasn’t it been studied by repeatedly remodeling firearms for a moment like this?”
Clap!!
As soon as the reloading was finished and magic was blown into it, the shape of the rifle changed on the spot to the shape of an elongated fox.
[Apply enemy bullet recognition: Auto-guided tracking intelligence activated]
“The opponent almost certainly allowed my bullet right before fleeing.”
The moment the muzzle of the rifle that had turned into a fox’s head tilted its head as it looked back at Lennok.
“If you’ve been hit once, you’ll be able to chase it almost unconditionally at this point.”
Lennok’s residual magic remaining in the successful magic bullet.
Adjusting the location and speed of the magical power with Darby’s computational ability to realize three-dimensional coordinates.
Using Lennok’s space magic as a medium, you can follow the coordinates almost exactly.
[Leap coordinates designated shooting.]
[Transition.]
As soon as Lenok pulled the trigger, his body became a flash of light and disappeared from the spot.
Dig!!
At the same time as the blackness in front of my eyes, the space conversion that takes place right after the coordinates are specified.
However, right after Lennok succeeded in tracking the assassin’s location, he was stopped by the shape in front of him.
“….”
An assassin standing with his back to Lennok.
In front of him, a huge statue of a bicep was looking down at him, showing off an overwhelming sense of intimidation.
