Genius Magician Who Eats Medicine Episode 731
The Wizard and the Magic Tower (8)
[Lucifer Fillion. The 2nd Secretary of the Balkan Senate. Former blood-stained manager.]
Blood-stained letters quickly surfaced on the pages of the blood-stained book.
The message, written without any emotion or agitation, revealed in front of the two without adding or subtracting the record about the human named Lucipos.
[Completion of the 95th curriculum of the Makina Archives, Second Class. In charge of recording and managing official documents in the early days of Balkan establishment. Retired after 35 years of service.]
“How is this…!!”
Lennox stared at the page with an expressionless face as Lupus, whose lips trembled because he couldn’t hide his agitation.
The reason why Lennok ignored him and entered the order even though he explained that the blood record was an inaccessible type of information about previous managers.
It was because Lennok had already been given the personal information of the caretaker when he had questioned Kaise’s body.
Even if it is information that is officially inaccessible, if it is the blood of Lennok, who is treated as an ascendant, he can read records that are not permitted.
That alone was enough to destroy Luciforce’s confidence that he had dealt with the blood register and dig into the base of that knowledge.
[The period of service as the manager of Blood Records was 5 years. Later, the manager’s authority was transferred to Madeleine.]
[The most searched record at the time was about how to become a vampire.]
“Oh no!!”
Luciforce rushes towards the notebook with a collapsed expression, but is blocked by an invisible curtain and stops.
Lennok spread a shield right next to him, blocking his movement.
With Luciforce desperately beating the surface of the shield, Lennok checked the information written on the next page.
[Attempted homologous bloodsucking several times and left related records periodically.]
“I see.”
Only then did Lennok laugh, realizing why Luciforce was so obsessed with blood.
“Did you find a way to become a vampire and leave a record of it in the Blood Chronicle? That’s why you’ve been sensitive to the existence of this thing.”
“….”
The reason why he vaguely avoided answering even though he said he knew about the project. The attitude that was strangely obsessed with blood writing.
Luciforce was more interested in Lennok’s blood register than the project in the first place.
Perhaps, while working as a manager of Blood Records, he felt the limitations of his birth and found out how to do it.
That’s why it’s understandable if you’re sure that fellow human Lennok won’t be able to properly handle Blood Rhythm and try to influence him.
“But I didn’t know that they sucked the blood of the same human and left a record. Is a powerful person with a career like yours driven to the point of clinging to such hopes?”
Although Rayan Aiter, a blood mage who works for Lennok’s company, became a vampire, it was only possible because of several coincidences.
In general, even if an ordinary human becomes a vampire, it is difficult to enjoy longevity and eternal life like the real one.
Since Luciforce also knew that, he must have tried to become a vampire in a way different from what was known to the world.
However, Lucifer’s shoulders trembled at Lennok’s cynicism, and he quietly shook his head.
“It is my turn to ask questions. Please remove the barrier.”
“I will.”
At the words of Lucipos, who gave up any excuses or answers, Lennok slowly removed the shield.
Not everyone involved in the project was driven by a noble duty or mission.
Among them, there must have been a considerable number of people who participated in the project for extremely personal reasons or greed and private motives.
What Kaise did was not gathering people who had the same faith as himself, but more like gathering talented people who could never be united under the name of ending.
It wouldn’t be strange if the people involved after his death split up in this way, each trying to survive.
Lucipos, who kept his mouth shut, wrote a letter in blood on the blood register.
An action not to question Lennok, but to ask a question about the Blood Riddle itself.
Does that mean that he couldn’t understand the answer of the blood record right now?
[Why did Pohyeolgong allow outsiders to view information? According to the contract, you would have assumed this situation and set the permissions in advance, right?]
[…] … .]
However, the blood register did not answer Lucipos’ question.
A subtle reaction, as if he was deliberately delaying his answer.
Lucifer wrote the text again without waiting for Lennok.
[As a former janitor, I have the right to hear back. Please answer the question above.]
[I recognize that the holder of the blood is Administrator Lucipos Fillion.]
[Then why don’t you answer?]
No answer came back. It’s as if he doesn’t respond to Luciforce’s question.
Luciforce’s expression, which was quickly recollecting his memories, turned blank in an instant.
“Please don’t… … .”
The first command that Lennok gave right before using the Blood Scrambler.
[Zebel. Just answer my questions without unnecessary adjectives.]
According to that order, Jable, the blood scribe, was literally only responding to Lennok’s questions.
It is an unbelievable reality that Lennok’s existence has a higher priority within the Blood Chronicle than Lucipos, who was the clerk’s manager.
Lennok said at Lucipos, who staggered back.
“You made a mistake entering the command. With this, it will be difficult to answer the question now.”
Once entered, the record cannot be modified until the blood register stops working.
As it is, even if Luciforce writes down a question on the blood registrant, the blood registrant will no longer respond.
However, Lucipos looked at him with a rather dejected expression at Lennok’s words.
“mistake? There’s no way you’ve made any mistakes at this point. Didn’t you try to end the question and answer with this and leave room at all?”
“I’m not sure what you’re talking about.”
“It must have been that he wanted to make sure of ownership at the point of showing the blood record. He must have thought of checking which one had the upper hand.”
“….”
It is extremely unlikely that the wizard will end the transaction simply by mistakenly entering the command.
From the time he first wrote down the command, he must have intended to use Luciforce’s knowledge to find out how far the command would work.
As a result, Lucipos even spit out the fact that the writer of the blood book was a blood gunner and that the project officials signed a contract with him.
After confirming that point, Lennok rejected Luciforce’s question with the set command and forcibly ended the question and answer at an early point.
“They decided that there wouldn’t be any particular benefit to digging into each other here.”
The chief clerk’s decrepit eyes flashed.
“You are already convinced that you can do it yourself. yes?”
“well…However, it is not wrong to say that I have no intention of relying on it.”
Lennok did not particularly affirm or deny Lucipos’ words.
Rather, he only caught the gaze of an old man approaching strongly with his arms crossed.
“Blood Scribe’s ability seems quite useful, but its limits are also clear.”
“what…?”
“Since it is a recording device and a tool for searching, in the end, we have no choice but to select and display only cross-sectional information. That’s why they mislead the truth.”
After saying that, Lennok slowly approached Lucipos and said.
Just by placing a hand on his shoulder without using any magic power, the chief clerk’s body stiffened.
Lennok put his hand on the old man’s shoulder and whispered softly in his ear.
“The project officials you met here. Wouldn’t it have been alive in the first place?”
“…!!!”
“They said the purpose of the rendezvous itself was because of the murder of a project official, but that alone doesn’t explain why other rendezvous didn’t appear here together.”
Lennok said, looking into Lucifer’s trembling eyes.
“It seems that the contact in Area 6 itself was a schedule to hand over the body of the murdered official.”
The meeting between the project officials in District 6, which was told by the Bloody Book Jable.
However, the information did not say that the officials contacted were alive.
The reason why Luciforce showed up alone even after recognizing the existence of Lennok.
The reason why other officials did not appear even though the purpose of the contact itself was to discuss the murder of the person concerned.
Wouldn’t it be established because the other contact person I met here in the first place was the person who had already been murdered.
An error that is easy to overlook if you don’t search with exact conditions.
But that must have happened because Jable wasn’t really alive, but rather an existence close to a search device.
Lennok asked about Lucipos, who couldn’t answer.
“The corpse of a murdered project official. Are you here?”
* * *
A reference room located quite deep inside District 6.
A hidden room at the back of an underground refrigerated archive that is strictly managed because it stores old documents.
“As far as I know, there is no such thing as a close bond between project members.”
Lennok, who was walking behind the secretary, said.
“There were quite a few cases where they were hostile to each other or rather burned with hatred. You probably don’t have a deep relationship with the person who was murdered either.”
“….”
“Then why did you go out to retrieve the body of the person concerned?”
“As you said, the project is completely finished. You can’t even say they’re standing in the same place anymore.”
Lucifer replied weakly.
“There are quite a few cases of killing and hostile to each other. But the reason I collected his body was… … .”
Squeak… … !!
Lucifer muttered as he opened the door.
“Because he could never die.”
“….”
A dark-colored coffin in the middle of a cramped closed room.
What lay beneath the coffin was no ordinary human corpse.
It barely maintains its human form, but the rotting skin and bone fragments exposed here and there are grotesque.
The appearance of a corpse as if it had been hacked to pieces by someone.
But instead of frowning at the corpse’s appearance, Lennok moved closer and quietly examined its condition.
“Corrupted skin and crumbling bones…An impressive feature, but not a direct sign.”
Instead of touching it directly with his hand, Lennok, who quietly stared at the figure with his demonic eyes slightly open, said.
“I put a splint on my shin and stuffed cotton under my collarbone. Proof that you were aware of your condition and tried to look normal. It seems to have maintained its appearance for a long time.”
Lennok looked down at the corpse and tilted his head slowly.
A shape close to a corpse. Even so, it is a species of life that can move around with intelligence.
The reason Luciforce defined this person’s death itself as a special event and retrieved the body.
It was because in Lennok’s memory there was a word for a similar condition.
“It’s a ghoul. yes?”
asked Lennok, without waiting for the chief clerk’s answer.
“The end of the commander-type or military command-type magicians. It becomes a body that can neither die nor live, and becomes a monster that covets the spirit and body of the living.”
“….”
At the time of Pandaemonium’s interim settlement, Lennok had dealt with the ghouls that roamed the satellite city of Bairutz.
Although it was relatively easy to deal with using the highest level artifact of the Holy Spirit, Archangel’s Compassion,
the alien energy and hunger in both eyes are not easily forgotten.
However, he did not expect to encounter the corpse of a ghoul in the secret room in District 6, where the archives are kept.
Looking at the body of the ghoul that had completely stopped moving, Lennok murmured.
“I heard that the soul dwells in the body buried in the aura-filled area and forms it, but if you are involved in the project, the possibility is low… … .”
Lennok looked away.
“Did you decide to retrieve the body of a ghoul that shouldn’t die because he died?”
“…That’s right.”
Lupus nodded with a firm expression.
“Because Grimulder, more than anyone else involved, should have died. Everyone understood its importance. Because of that, I was able to receive a special exception.”
“…Grimalder?”
The message given by Jable, the blood writer, when explaining where Kaise’s body was hidden.
[The location was selected with the cooperation of the Blood Lord, and Grimulder’s advice was sought to determine the storage method.] Grimulder, the
person who sought advice to decide how to store the body, was this ghoul.
On the contrary, Lucifer’s eyebrows wriggled at Lennok’s words.
“You know about Grimulder. Have you ever met him?”
“I know you gave advice on how to store Kaise’s body.”
“…“
It’s just that the fact that you’re a ghoul bothers me. Perhaps Kaise’s corpse was also in the same way… … .”
Lennok, frowning, asked Lucipos, but stopped talking when he saw his reaction.
As soon as he heard Lennok’s words, Lucifer’s face was as pale as a corpse’s and he couldn’t even breathe.
Lennok also intuited that it was a precursor to the activation of life-threatening restraints.
Just this conversation alone had reached the point where the ban was activated and the chief secretary was entangled.
It must be because the questions about Kaise’s death are themes that run through the secret history of the project.
“…hmm.”
Lennok, who was worried, sighed and put his hand on Luciforce’s shoulder.
As the mana rotated and flowed into the chief clerk’s body, the old man’s stiff body slowly relaxed.
“omg…!! Cool!!”
The appearance of the chief secretary breathing heavily while leaning his back against the wall as he staggered.
said Lennok, looking at Lucipos with his arms crossed.
“Since you forcibly stimulated your nervous system and relaxed your muscles, it would be difficult for you to stand upright.”
“…!!”
“Let’s stop talking about this because it will be difficult to see good things if you directly touch the gold. Tell me more about Grimulder.”
But even as he said that, Lennok pondered how he managed to get his hands on this information.
How they decided to store Kaise’s body. How did Grimulder’s advice go into the process?
Lennok obtained this information by searching the blood scribe jivel.
However, if Lucypos was banned just by being aware of this fact, why was the blood register able to inform Lennok of this fact?
‘Blood Scribe said that it was destroyed and recreated decades ago.’
If the process of being destroyed and recreated once was a way to avoid the invocation of the ban.
If this information was actually passed on to Lennok, it was information-sharing for other ascendants, not Lennok.
What if the writer, Pohyeolgong, recreated the blood record to convey this fact to the ascendants to escape the ban?
“….”
It’s an interesting hypothesis, but it’s a question that can’t be answered right away.
“Grimulder, more than any of us, should have died, but he feared death more than any of us.”
Lucipos leaned against the wall weakly and clung to his cane.
“So I learned necromancy and accepted the job of becoming a ghoul myself. That he was killed like this… … .”
A ghoul is a monster on the border between life and death.
What does it mean that the death of the body has already passed and only the soul has killed the living being?
“So Grimulder’s soul itself was annihilated, not his body.”
“…That’s all I have to say. Feel free to look at his body if you want.”
Lucipos, who stood up helplessly, shook his head and turned his back.
After realizing that he had been pushed out of the authority over the blood register, he seemed to have lost all motivation.
“How Grimulder was murdered or what happened to him is no longer my business.”
“Is it because you hold the position of chief secretary?”
“okay…It was like that then too.”
Lucifer laughed weakly.
“Because my job was to watch, record and preserve.”
“….”
After that, the chief secretary staggered and left the secret room first.
Is it because it is his remaining duty to retrieve and preserve the records of the project, so he put them here?
The idea of keeping Grimulder’s body in Precinct 6, where old archives were kept, seemed creepy at first, but Lennok
knew that it was a common alienation among those involved in the project.
“The death of a ghoul….”
Where on this continent can you cleanly touch and annihilate only the spirit, leaving only the body behind?
Lennok thought that far and took out a monocle from inside his bosom and placed it over one eye.
An artifact that allows you to see differently the projection rate of the magic that Mila gave you as a half-bribe.
Looking through him again at Grimulder’s corpse, I could see the shape of a previously invisible pattern on the nape of his neck.
It is as small as a coin, but the sophistication of the patterns drawn on it is beyond imagination.
A beautiful curve as if the waves of a howling ghost were compressed dozens of times and rushed.
The shape of an ancient letter whose form exists under the pattern is unrecognizable.
Lennok immediately picked up the blood register and copied the text directly into it.
[There is one record of interpretation. Would you like to read it?]
I cut off the deal with Luciforce at an early point, so I still have one free moment left.
In other words, for the time being, this is the last clue that can be found through the blood record.
But that one search was enough.
[The nocturne is not yet over, and the road to exorcism is long and rugged.]
As soon as the bloodstained text floated onto the page, Lennok immediately recognized who had killed Grimulder.
[Since we have punished the criminals who have played with the cause, we will put their end in the world for everyone to see.]
“The military command city….”
Yorta is a military city that collects all the spirits and curses of this world.
There, someone murdered a person involved in an already failed project and stole his soul.
