Drug-Eating Genius Mage

Chapter 841

< Handover (9) >

Even now, I remember it clearly when I close my eyes.

As I was running through the Charlotte cosmetics factory with Dylan, I was out of breath,

the appearance of a crocodile giant I had never seen before, and the unrealistic strength and viciousness.

And even the cold gaze of the agent who saved Lennok’s life.

A long time has passed and a lot has happened to overwrite all the memories, but there are still some things that do not easily disappear.

Memories that, regardless of their value and importance, are fleeting, meaningless, but ultimately caught your eye.

Dawn past midnight. Green eyes shining brightly under the quiet moonlight.

Even the way he looked at Lennok from under the open field was like that.

“Would it be okay to start in a place like this?”

Lennok asked, looking around with a cigarette in his mouth.

An abandoned field that is believed to have once been a zoo, located at the edge of District 33.

A desolate landscape with old and rusty cages and iron bars scattered everywhere.

But Lennok knew that even this stage was not enough for the two of them.

“If you really want to do it right, this won’t be enough.”

A battle between level 8 super-talented individuals who transcend hierarchy in different ways.

Moreover, it is the fight of a seeker who tried not to give up his humanity even while reaching a certain level.

If either Lennok or Evelyn gave their all, it wouldn’t be surprising if this entire area was swept away.

But Evelyn didn’t seem to care much about that fact.

“doesn’t care.”

Slam!!

Evelyn responded by adjusting the bow of the shortbow mounted on her wrist and pressing down on the visor.

“I believe you will be able to control that on your own.”

“......You mean in this situation?”

“Why can’t I do it?”

“.............”

Lennok couldn’t answer and smiled bitterly at the voice that seemed to ask out of genuine curiosity.

Because Evelyn didn’t actually know what she wanted from Lennok right now.

She doesn’t want to risk her life and fight to the death against Lennok.

I don’t want to feel at ease by beating him into a mess until he feels relieved.

Although she possessed an unrivaled sense of stoic inaction, she did not prefer the use of violence itself.

What drives Eveline Marcia is not the logic of power, but duty and pride for the absolute majority of people.

It was her own will, not anyone else’s, that made an archer like her bound to a special agency called an agent.

It was the result of the judgment that one’s own talent and inaction should be placed under the rules of order.

Lennok never agreed or sympathized with Evelyn’s methods.

Nevertheless, he acknowledged that the base was extremely arduous and noble.

It is dazzling because it is a path that has not been taken, and it is a way to yearn because it is a path that will not be taken.

That’s why Evelyn’s eyes may have continued to be drawn to the wizard who was walking a different path than herself.

“............”

He looks at Lennok in the middle of the dry grass with a dangerous gaze, as if he will disappear at any moment.

Evelyn’s hesitant lips softly softened as if she had something to say.

“I’m sorry for coming home on my own. “I guess I wanted to hide it.”

“Okay.”

Lennok puffed out smoke and laughed.

“If the best agent in Balkan had to use the Ascendant’s supernormal abilities to get discovered, it would be proof that he was extremely safe.”

“.............”

Evelyn’s visit to Lennok’s mansion was possible because she used the Ascendant’s supernormal ability called Lighthouse.

Even if the lighthouse’s abilities were used, a patroller as good as Evelyn would have to spend a long time using her unique observation skills to find it.

This is nothing more than proof that Lennok’s efforts to hide his laboratory and residence were perfect.

“Rather, I should say I’m sorry.”

“why?”

“Because I knew you were worried, but I pretended not to know.”

Lennok quietly looked up at the night sky.

“Maybe he thought it would be okay to get caught. It is inevitable to leave room in a rapidly changing situation. “Still, I might have arbitrarily expected you to understand.”

“........”

“I was imagining it without realizing it, understanding it on my own, expecting it, then being disappointed.”

I turn my gaze to follow the falling starlight and make eye contact again.

“You freely conclude that you know what you want.”

“.........half.”

He casually picks words that Evelyn doesn’t want to hear and stabs her in the lungs.

To support her who is unsure even after making her own choice. So that Evelyn can do her best at this moment.

It’s so easy to hate someone.

Contrary to how winning someone’s heart is such a difficult task.

Even though I know how to use thousands of spells, I can’t properly answer one person’s concerns, so I’m here.

Surely that’s the only thing Lennok can say right now.

“I said I would hear an answer that I couldn’t convey in words. You’re right.”

Lennok said and strengthened the hand holding the tobacco.

Kiiing....!!

At the same time, a tingling magic bloomed through Lennok’s fingertips and slowly covered his skin.

“No matter how hard you try, there are times when a gesture is more meaningful than a thousand words.”

“............”

“Come, Eveline Marcia.”

Lennok, who laid back his coat and put one hand behind his back, slowly lowered his posture and said.

“Check for yourself whether what you were wondering about is the answer.”

No answer came back.

Instead, Evelyn’s eyes, reflected through the visor, became infinitely cold.

The moment Lennok realized that it was the hunter’s gaze that went beyond construction and business.

‘The penetration power was increased by overlapping inertia within the shield more than five times. The fragment that even lost its shape as an arrow was used as a weapon.’

There is not even a trace of the arrow left where the shell shield was pierced.

Evelyn initially predicted that the arrow itself would be blocked by the shield and crushed the arrow immediately after impact.

By concentrating all the inertia of the scattered fragments at one point, the penetrating power was raised to the limit.

As a result of overlapping the process over five times in a split second, only a single fragment thinner than a hair penetrated the carapace shield.

But that alone was enough to send a chill down Lennok’s spine.

‘Know.’

Evelyn knows how to deal with Lennok’s quick, imperceptible first move.

He is also aware of the magic and equipment used by Lennok and the way he handles and wields them.

Van and Evan. The only comrade and powerful superhuman who fought alongside those two identities.

She truly understands what kind of wizard Lennoc is, as they have saved each other’s lives over and over again.

In that case, the next thing to prepare after taking the time through the performance of penetrating the shield is

‘ultra-long-distance sniping using a great bow.’

Faaah!!

Realizing this, Lennok used Blink to step back and began to put his hands together and make a hand sign.

The most powerful weapon of Evelyn, a natural archer, and the ultimate magic bow that is like a sacred weapon.

Unlike just shooting with a shortbow, you should not assume that you are blocking from the front.

Keyee!!

It spreads its magic perception widely and shallowly to listen to all movements around it.

In order to avoid sniping that begins without even a warning, you must read the direction and trajectory immediately after launch and move to get ahead in the battle.

The moment Lennok thought so, he immediately opened a barrier to advance and chanted around himself.

“Are you going to keep hiding it like that?”

Evelyn’s quiet voice rang from behind.

A light gesture of twisting the shoulder and shooting a black arrow while holding it backwards.

Just as Evelyn’s hand was about to shake away Lennok’s shadow.

Lennok’s image disappeared and reappeared on the spot, changing his posture and direction to avoid it.

“......!!”

Fababat!!

The shadows of two people flashing in the air, intersecting and disappearing.

Just by repeatedly blinking in place, you narrowly avoid Evelyn’s close-range attack, which is invisible to the eye.

A fluent close-range reaction and evasion that Evelyn had never seen from the Lennok she knew.

With just that, Evelyn’s magical power, which distorted her mouth, spun strongly for an instant, and the arrow that left her hand surpassed the speed of sound and stuck under Lennok’s chin.

A predictive projection that uses blinking and then hits the spot where it reappears.

Paaaaaaaa!!!

At that moment, Lennok’s divine form scattered and disappeared, then reappeared right in front of Evelyn.

Evelyn’s attack missed as it passed through the air perfectly, and her green eye glow wavered gracefully.

“Whoa...!!”

Feigenbaum’s ring obtained from Jindun’s Cradle.

An artifact that forces the user to move into imaginary space for less than a second and avoids all attacks.

Just now, Lennok used an item with a cooldown of nearly a month to avoid Evelyn’s attack.

But that wasn’t because Lennok couldn’t read Evelyn’s attacks or judgment.

On the contrary, Evelyn’s movements were unreasonable and did not follow the combat logic known to both sides.

“.......you.”

Immediately after piercing Lennok’s shield and diverting his attention, the decision Evelyn should have made was to use the great bow to shoot at an ultra-long distance.

It is the most powerful attack she can prepare and the only means of protecting the distance that opens up immediately after the battle begins.

However, instead of using the great bow to start sniping, she chose to close the distance and engage in close combat by swinging the arrow shaft directly.

At first glance, it seems like a surprise attack, but it is not very effective against a battle wizard like Lennok.

A battle wizard who has reached the level of Lennok does not waver even if the distance is narrowed.

It was possible to turn the situation around by hitting with a quick-fire, long-distance, high-firepower revelry that could be used at close range.

There is no way Evelyn doesn’t know that there are plenty of ways to avoid and save lives.

In fact, Lennok was able to launch a fatal counterattack immediately after dodging Evelyn’s attack using Feigenbaum’s eye.

However, the reason she did not move first even though she was aware of the loopholes she had exposed was because she knew the reason why Evelyn acted like this.

“............”

Evelyn is not standing here because she wants to kill Lennok or inflict an equally fatal wound on him.

If that had been the case, there would have been no conversation like this, just a sniper shot from the archer from thousands of meters away.

What she wants is something else.

Even though it was said that level 8 superhumans should stick together properly, the stage was set in this area where the aftermath of the surroundings had to be taken into consideration.

It is also important to close the distance to the archer to a disadvantageous level and not use large-scale techniques to go wild.

I guess that’s because what Evelyn wants to show and what she wants to see isn’t that kind of thing.

I think Lennok, who has not used lightning magic until now, would also know and understand it long ago.

“You can do more.”

Evelyn spoke with an unwavering voice.

She was already sure.

“You can do much better than this.”

“............”

The closer people are to Lennok and the more deeply they know him, the more they value his abilities and talents.

Human imagination cannot catch up with the vessel to be inflated by popular rumors, and the standards cannot measure the limits to judge it by external evaluation.

Because I realize that all of Lennok’s actions and times, as if he were breathing, are not possible without becoming more than his reputation.

And Evelyn was one of the people who watched Lennok closely.

Anytime, anywhere, in any situation and against any opponent.

Lennok can do more than you can imagine and more than is expected of him.

Lennok’s efforts to be independent of environmental and location conditions have long been bearing fruit.

That’s why-

“......Okay.”

The moment Lenok nodded and put his thumb and index finger together.

Sarak....!!

The black magician flowed down his fingertips and began to eat up space with an eerie and ferocious force.