Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 252

Lenox had no intention of settling the score with him here from the start.

That was a separate issue from the fact that he was in an environment and condition where it was difficult to unleash his magnetic domain.

The mental image of the domain Lenox had acquired was enough to cause an uncontrollable ripple effect once it was revealed to the outside world. [This refers to the powerful and unstable nature of his unique magical ability.]

In other words, if he wanted to keep it a secret, he had to kill his opponent within the domain he had deployed, no matter what.

The opponents standing before him now were the White Lion Turan and the Flame-type Saint-level mage, Gionis.

If Lenox were to deliberately deploy his magnetic domain and face both of them at once, there was no guarantee that he could kill them both and silence them.

Why make it difficult? Deploying the domain was just part of the plan to set the stage as he wanted.

And Lenox was already used to this kind of thing, even before he knew about the magnetic domain.

Thud, thud, thud!

The barrage of shots fired from a great distance never stopped, and the balance that had been broken by the continuous impacts on the stone slab did not return.

It wasn’t just a matter of shaking from the impact.

The reason why a stone slab the size of several tens of meters in radius could float intact hundreds of meters above the crater was because it had achieved a delicate balance by borrowing the power of the natural environment to the extreme.

The moment that balance collapsed, the power of magic vanished as if it were a lie.

Creak, creak, creak, creak, creak…

The tilted stone slab slowly began to collapse.

An illusion that the starlight filling the night sky was suddenly soaring upwards. It was a sign that the ground was sinking below.

At the same time, a strong wind enveloped the three of them from all directions, twisting their bodies.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!!!

“…He’s out of his mind.”

Gionis, belatedly realizing that it had reached a point of no return, broke out in a cold sweat.

“To avoid this situation, you decided to smash the entire secret place of the Magic Tower that has existed for hundreds of years…!!”

“Isn’t it much better than the entire Western Continent branch being taken over?”

Lenox, responding indifferently, slowly moved his body backward and subtly headed towards the tower.

“Where do you think you’re going, you arrogant bastard!!”

Turan, seeing that brief movement, instinctively knew that Lenox was trying to take care of the survivors and tried to stop him, but Gionis grabbed his shoulder.

“Turan, get a grip!!”

“What…!!”

“It’s not the time to deal with that mage. We need to escape right now.”

“What nonsense are you spouting!!”

Turan roared loudly, drawing up his magic power.

The beast’s fierce eyes gleamed, pressing down on his companion in reverse.

“Even after succeeding in cornering him this far, you’re saying we should back out now!!”

“…”

“What about all the trouble I went through, enduring by eating those tasteless humans!!”

“Look at the direction we’re falling.”

Turan turned his head, his face as if cold water had been poured on him, at Gionis’s chilling voice.

“Southwest. It’s the direction where Hyun-gung is waiting. If we go this way, we’ll have to allow ourselves to be surrounded by that mage and Hyun-gung.”

“…”

“Considering the tilt of the stone slab and the extent to which it was cut, that mage had been thinking about this from the beginning while exchanging attacks with us.”

He thought the tilted stone slab was just falling haphazardly, but even that was an illusion?

Turan, speechless, looked down at the ground while clinging to the stone slab.

There was no need to even guess how much this huge stone slab weighed.

The falling speed of the massive rock mass accelerated over time, quickly approaching the ground.

The moment he saw the figure of the archer with green eyes gleaming below.

Turan also understood what Gionis was saying.

The mage who was watching the situation while clinging to the stone slab with them was trying to completely turn the tables with a single trick of dropping the secret place of the Magic Tower.

If this continued, they would completely lose the meaning of having spent a long time taking over the Magic Tower and building an environment advantageous to them, and in just one day, they would be mercilessly beaten by Evelyn and him within the game board that Lenox had completed.

“…!!”

Having understood that far, Turan didn’t open his mouth any further.

He just immediately hoisted Gionis onto his shoulder and crouched down deeply.

Crack, crack, crack!!!

At the same time as the White Lion’s thick thighs swelled rapidly, the stone slab he was stepping on crumpled and folded in on itself.

Turan, who had gathered all his grip and leg strength, leaped forward.

Boom!!

At the same time as he leaped off the stone slab with his bare body, the half-tilted stone slab completely flipped over on the spot and spun around once.

At the same time, Turan, carrying Gionis, flew into the sky and dashed towards the crater.

If his judgment had been even a little late, he would have had to endure the barrage of attacks that Evelyn and Lenox would have fired simultaneously.

“But that’s too late.”

The ground was now close enough to be within Lenox’s line of sight. The edge of an unnamed hill in the volcanic area.

“Hoo…”

Evelyn, taking a light breath, drew her last arrow.

A long, black spear with green waves emanating from it. [This describes a magical arrow with unique properties.]

That equipment, which was usually used for close combat, spread its wings wide on both sides, taking root on the ground and transforming into a giant ballista. [A ballista is a large, ancient weapon similar to a crossbow.]

The archer’s back, slowly turning while holding the green string between the wings of the incredibly precise mechanical device.

A single black arrow held between her thumb and forefinger, imbued with a twisted rotation by magic power, flew straight up.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!!!!

The arrow, accelerating while emitting two shockwaves in the air, chased after the White Lion’s figure.

The black flash, drawing a long arc, dashed through the cold night sky without hesitation, outpacing the sound.

The night sky, where it was hard to see properly. A delicate prediction that accurately chased after the two people who were moving away from the stone slab at an incredible speed.

There was no time to even admire that miraculous archery.

“Kaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!”

He couldn’t avoid it.

Turan, suddenly realizing that fact, screamed at the top of his lungs and threw the two-handed axe he was holding with all his might.

The heavy axe, pushed out heavily in the air, rotated as it moved to deflect the arrow.

Screech-!

Evelyn’s arrow reacted to that direction.

“…!!!!”

That was the level that Evelyn Marcia had reached after completing the seven definitions of self-modification. [This refers to a rigorous training or self-improvement process.]

The point of interference reached only by those who had succeeded in facing themselves as a complete martial artist and embracing a microcosm. [A microcosm is a small world that reflects a larger one.]

Inner world projection.

Microcosm manifestation.

Inertia manipulation.

Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack…!!!

The head of the arrow, fired at supersonic speed, strangely rotated in the air, peeling off the two-bladed axe that Turan had thrown as if it were wrapping around it.

The skill of twisting in a direction that shouldn’t exist and chasing the target’s heart to the end had already far surpassed human archery.

The arrow, which had twisted its direction at a right angle in the empty air, plunged straight into Turan’s back.

Clang, clang, clang!!

“Hwaaaaaaaaah!!”

Along with the White Lion’s low roar, the figures of the beast and the mage, which had been drawing a parabola towards the Magic Tower, were slammed straight down to the ground.

Boom!!!

Only after confirming that sight did Evelyn slowly lower the bow she was holding.

Belatedly, a stone slab the size of several tens of meters fell behind her, emitting a tremendous roar.

A powerful earthquake that could shake the entire volcanic area struck the nearby arid rock area.

Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud!!!

A wave of impact that overturned the entire ground.

The rocks that had been embedded for a long time jumped up from their places, and the slow-flowing river of lava splashed in all directions.

The stone slab, which had fallen from a height of several hundred meters, stopped only after leaving a long trail near the southwest of the volcanic area.

And even in that spectacle of impact, only one tower standing in the center of the stone slab maintained its appearance intact.

Just before falling to the ground, Lenox, who had wrapped hundreds of strands of magic power around the tower in that fleeting moment and attached them to the surroundings, had protected the tower from the impact of the fall.

Evelyn, confirming Lenox’s figure standing at the top of the tower, holding hundreds of strands of magic power, finally let out a sigh of relief.

“Haa… That was close. You know that, right?”

“Things don’t always go as planned.”

Lenox, who had been slowly hanging from the top of the tower, finally came down to the ground and waved his arm.

In response to his gesture, the dust filling the vicinity was scattered in all directions by the wind.

“I didn’t think Gionis would try to recruit me so openly. I guess he was that confident in succeeding with his plan.”

Lenox said that and looked up at the direction of the Magic Tower’s main base, beyond the crater.

“I succeeded in rescuing the members of the Council of Elders and the Machina delegation that he had hidden… but now the problem is Hwalo and Mauzer.”

It wasn’t for nothing that Lenox had thought of dropping this secret place that had been floating on the top of the crater.

As a result of having already experienced it once in the Autonomous Territory, he had learned that bringing something floating in the air down to the ground was the most effective method.

It wasn’t just about smashing the game board that Gionis had created.

The numerous magic books hidden in the secret place, and the members of the Council of Elders and the Machine City delegation that Gionis had kept alive while barely keeping them alive.

Just by dropping this stone slab to the ground, he had succeeded in rescuing even the others who had not yet been eaten by Turan.

Of course, he couldn’t prevent Turan and Gionis from escaping because he was protecting the tower from the impact of that magnificent fall, but it was clear that it was a great gain just to have rescued the key figures of the Magic Tower.

“We were lucky.”

Lenox answered while rubbing his stiff shoulder.

He had been actively using levitation magic to cling to the tilting stone slab, but even so, it was difficult to prevent his body from being strained.

Only after taking out two cigarettes from his pocket and lighting them at the same time did he feel the trembling subside.

“I was able to get a rough explanation because he thought I was a high-level ice mage.”

When he briefly explained what he had heard from Gionis, Evelyn’s expression faintly distorted.

“…It’s true that there are many problems with the higher-ups of the Magic Tower. I don’t want to side with them either, but it’s crossing the line to harm other innocent people. How could they think of trusting the Demon Labyrinth?”

“Well… The problem is that it seems like they were really close to succeeding. From what I heard, it seemed like they were already done preparing to transport Hwalo.”

“If they start running away with the fire, it will be difficult to stop them. It’s like moving with a bomb… We have to end it here somehow.”

Lenox and Evelyn also didn’t think that the two superhumans would have died from the single arrow she had just shot.

That was because both of them knew too much about Pandemonium. [Pandemonium is likely a reference to a place or organization known for powerful beings.]

The important thing was to seize the opportunity and cut off their breath right away.

“…”

He could feel Evelyn’s hand trembling faintly.

She didn’t show it on the outside, but she must have been under a lot of pressure from this incident.

In particular, there was no way she wouldn’t have aftereffects from using up all her magic power to release the heat in the process of preventing the Hwalo accident. [Hwalo is likely a reference to a specific event or entity.]

It was only natural that she would be strained, having tried long-range snipes several times in that state to respond to Lenox.

Neither of them were in normal condition, but neither of them bothered to mention that fact.

They knew that battles could never be fought in perfect condition.

Fighting for life and death was always unfair and unreasonable. Even complaining and worrying about that fact was a luxury.

Evelyn turned her head back while rubbing her arm without saying anything.

The agents she had brought with her were busily taking out the people who had only been breathing inside the tower and laying them down.

“How are their conditions?”

One of the agents, who was busy with first aid, answered.

“They have vital signs, but their consciousness is almost gone. They seem to be practically in a vegetative state. I smell necromancy.”

Necromancy. [Necromancy is a type of magic that involves manipulating the dead.]

It was a type of necromancy that artificially infused souls into corpses or used them in the opposite way, and of course, it was a forbidden art that was thoroughly rejected in academia.

Lenox and Evelyn looked at each other and began to act separately.

Lenox grabbed one of the Council of Elders and extended his magic power inside, and Evelyn brought her nose to the mouths of the people who were lying down with blank eyes.

The conclusions came out simultaneously in different ways.

“They used drugs.”

Evelyn nodded at Lenox’s words.

“They put drugs in their meals to loosen their consciousness and then cast a dark art on them. It will be difficult for them to regain consciousness for a while. It will be difficult to get help from these people.”

He thought there was a high possibility that Gionis was acting unilaterally, ignoring the will of the Council of Elders, but he didn’t think he would have gone this far.

It wasn’t just about subduing them and making them listen, but because they needed to be thrown as food for the White Lion.

It was enough to guess how thoroughly he had prepared for this incident.

“Let’s move right away.”

Evelyn, looking down at her faintly trembling hand, said as she got up from her seat.

“If we let them get away here, we’ll lose Mauzer and Hwalo as well. We have to settle the score here before they return to the Magic Tower.”

“Don’t worry. Your last arrow definitely hit its mark.”

Lenox answered as he got up.

“They couldn’t have run far.”

Even without that, he had already scanned the entire volcanic area with magic power detection.

The unusually intense auras of the two people had not moved for a while after falling to the ground.

They probably knew that there wasn’t much they could do even if they ran away to the Magic Tower now.

From the moment they succeeded in shooting down the fleeing lion, the battlefield had already been decided.