Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 289

Apostle’s Descent (7)

It was a palpable sensation, even though it couldn’t be seen. The sky began to shake, and a hellish heat rapidly started to scorch the inside of the domain.

[Aaaaaaaah!!]

Only then did Walter realize his prediction had been completely wrong, and he began to scream and struggle madly. The Apostle, who had shown no movement until now, suddenly spread its dozens of legs wide.

The armor near its head cracked open, and the mouth revealed from within let out a majestic roar.

Booooooom!!!

A grating noise, like the flapping of thousands of insects’ wings, filled the air. Hundreds of eyes, visible through the gaps in the armor, began to flicker in different patterns. At the same time, unknown glyphs appeared on the Apostle’s hard armor, bathing the surroundings in a pale glow.

[Glacial Sea Pre-Access Confirmed]

[Deleted Data Recovery Complete]

[5 seconds until loading of Permafrost Cocytus [the deepest part of the underworld in Greek mythology].]

Spinning above the Apostle’s head, the energy transformed into a massive storm of cold. Saaaaaak!! A strange glow embraced the storm of cold, and it covered the ashen field entirely.

Dry ash, with not a trace of moisture left. However, the cold that spun above the Apostle’s head froze and solidified even those ashes in a way that shouldn’t have been possible. A chill that began to interfere with the conceptual components of matter. It was no longer even the concept of cold that could be defined by words.

Crack, crack, crack!!

The ashen field where Renok stood rapidly transformed into a pure white ice sheet. The chill of the outer sea, freezing the entire space, began to invade Renok’s magnetic domain.

[This is the power of the great God!!]

Walter, convinced that he had subdued the ashen field, which was undoubtedly the core of the domain Renok had deployed, burst out in a triumphant tone. [The power from beyond the predetermined spacetime, which only the chosen can reach…!! We have now succeeded in grasping a fragment of it!!]

Crackling!!

The boundaries of space began to blur as the magnetic domain, completed as a world, was being frozen whole. The technique of the Glacial Sea, which Walter used with all his might as soon as he was reborn as an Apostle. At this rate, the magnetic domain, which had been realized by gathering all his power to the limit, would collapse entirely.

However, even after confirming Walter’s desperate struggle, Renok silently looked up at the Apostle’s hideous body.

[Dieeeee!!!]

Cheeeeeeek!!

The torrent of permafrost, carrying the Apostle’s will to kill, approached right up to Renok, who was standing on the ashen hill. Even so, Renok only cast his gaze towards the sky.

[……?]

Belatedly, a question arose within Walter’s mind as he sensed a strangeness in Renok’s reaction. Why, even though there is no trace or lingering flame of any fire in this area, is the heat continuing to intensify?

No matter how powerful a magnetic domain is, it can’t exist without a heat source capable of burning everything in this place.

If the answer lies where the mage is looking, then it must be—

“The principle behind the Black Sea Goddess’s Fall isn’t complicated,” Renok said, as if reading Walter’s thoughts. “It’s simply about condensing the essence of a flame-based heat system into an intense heat source, and then dropping that concentrated energy onto the ground.”

The afterglow of the total solar eclipse still illuminated the ashen field.

The star, which had been mistaken for a satellite blocking the sky, was actually falling towards the ground.

That which had darkened the entire vast area wasn’t a satellite blocking the sun, but a black sun burning fiercely.

A heat source, implemented on a local scale, becomes a star and falls.

The intense gravity and heat pressed down on the ground, churning the field of ash and ice.

The mass of heat, burning fiercely with black flames, descended, and the dark sky began to brighten rapidly.

Renok smiled as he faced the domain’s sky, which was now illuminating his face.

“You chose the wrong place to exert your power.”

[You son of a bitch!!!!]

Walter’s desperate cry echoed, but it was already too late after he realized the truth.

Origin-level Formula Implementation

[Heavenly Chain Fall]

The small, black sun slowly rotated and fell directly onto the Apostle’s head.

KWA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAAA!!!

The sun, spewing black flames, shattered the Apostle’s armor as if it were nothing and began to burn the flesh beneath with savage intensity.

The force that had turned an entire mental image into ashes was now pouring its full power onto the outsider who had invaded this domain.

CHIIIIIIK!!

The heat that penetrated the Apostle’s body instantly crushed its massive form and turned it into fuel for the flames.

The pain was as if his soul was being consumed. A desperate scream echoed.

[KYYAAAA-AAAA-AAAAAAK!!!]

BZZZZZZZZT!!

The Apostle’s body, with black flames burning on its back, crashed to the ground.

The legs, writhing in the cold of the outer sea that he had unleashed, froze, but the heat of the flames coursing through his entire body was so overwhelming that he couldn’t even register the cold.

KAAANG!!

As the Apostle’s massive body fell onto the ashen field, the magnetic domain shattered, revealing the ruined mansion.

However, the black flames engulfing Walter’s body didn’t stop; they continued to burn his body and mind completely.

[AAAAAAAH!!! HWA-AAAA-AAAAK!!]

The Apostle’s body, emerging from the ruins of the empty mansion, rolled across the ground, indiscriminately destroying everything around it.

Dozens of legs stretched out into the streets, twitching, and the black flames burning through them turned the streets into a sea of fire.

The ground shook, and a massive tremor spread out. Walls of fire surged like waves through various parts of the street, sweeping through the central streets of the fortress.

KU-GU-GU-GU-GU-GU-GU-GU!!!!

Renok, standing amidst the fierce destruction, slowly stepped back and leaned against a collapsed wall.

Large beads of sweat flowed down his forehead as he lowered his head slightly.

“Hoo, hoo…!!”

The massive consumption of magical power made it difficult to maintain his focus.

The deployment of the self-generating domain and the manifestation of mental imagery, along with the act of dropping a small sun, made it impossible to even maintain the domain with his depleted magical power.

He had wanted to keep Walter inside the domain until the Apostle’s body was completely burned, but if even that was too difficult, leaving behind the manifested spell was the best he could do.

Right now, just maintaining the black flames that were burning the Apostle was draining his entire body’s magical power to its limit.

“Da, Davi…!!”

With trembling hands, he reached into his coat, but Renok gave up and called out the name of his mental spirit.

Just manipulating his magical power to its extreme to maintain the spell was overwhelming.

In his current state, he couldn’t rule out the possibility of dropping the magic recovery ampule while trying to take it out.

Davi didn’t say anything.

Instead, from inside Renok’s coat, she instantly pulled out an ampule filled with blue liquid and inserted it into the back of Renok’s hand.

Pshhh!

“Ugh…!!”

External magical power was directly injected through his skin and into his blood vessels.

The pain of mana poisoning, where his muscles and cells naturally reject magical power, began to gnaw at his entire body, but in this situation, there was no other choice.

This was why he had avoided using magic-related ampules, but their effect was faster than any other oral elixir.

Even this was only possible because he had been receiving treatment from the apothecary and periodically reducing the side effects of mana poisoning.

Davi quickly climbed onto Renok’s shoulder and began to lick her tongue.

[Master. I will detonate the sewer pipes at the nearby intersection. Please prepare for the impact.]

Thwack! Thwack!

At the same time as the explosion was heard in the distance, a stream of water that had risen from the ground poured directly towards the wall where Renok was standing.

Immediately after, the moisture evaporated and disappeared due to the heat rushing in from all directions, but the temperature that had been scorching his skin began to drop rapidly.

“Hoo, hoo…!!”

Only then, with his breathing somewhat eased, Renok quickly gathered his magical power and focused the firepower on the Apostle’s body.

Kugwagwagwagwa!!!

The flames that had burned away all the flesh inside the armor, burned away even the legs of the cephalopod [a marine animal with tentacles] that had been trembling and convulsing.

Heat and pain beyond limits. In the center of the self-destructive hellfire, Walter, realizing that his spirit was reaching its end, cried out.

[This can’t be… Even after receiving the will of the outer sea, I have to accept death…]

“…”

[In the end, without challenging ascension, is it impossible to break free from the shackles of mortality…]

The faint light shining between the carapace [a hard protective shell] turned its gaze towards Renok.

Even while receiving the gaze of a bizarre form that could never be understood by human emotions, Renok silently met his eyes.

After a moment of silence, Walter’s laughter leaked out from between the Apostle’s body.

[Heh, heh… Very well… This, too, is inevitable… For the sake of the brothers wandering between the fragments of the past and the future…]

“What… do you mean?”

Walter didn’t answer.

He gave up resisting the flames that were burning his entire body and simply laid his remaining body down on the street.

[From the other side where the heart is exhausted… In the name of the great God… I will curse you to the very end.]

“…”

His keen intellect and desires were all engulfed in flames and turned to ashes, and only the tenacious hatred that did not extinguish even in the scorching heat remained until the end, swirling around.

Renok, even while clearly feeling that blatant resentment, leaned against the broken wall and blankly let out smoke.

His coat was damp from the traces of the flood he had created by bursting the sewer, and his whole body was limp with fatigue from the aftereffects of the medicine.

Renok, gazing up at the wall of black flames, murmured absentmindedly.

“Things don’t always go as planned…”

Even after using all of his magical power, the wall of fire that Renok had unleashed continued to burn without extinguishing.

The black flames, having lost their power source, devoured their surroundings greedily, like a living thing trying to survive.

They didn’t even recognize their master, slowly closing the distance toward Renok.

Even amidst the scorching heat, Renok remained slumped, a cigarette in his mouth, lost in thought.

The self-created domain, a manifestation of the most likely future Renok would choose among the countless branching points stemming from his connection with the Blaver Magic Tower.

The power of the localized sun he had manifested was truly extraordinary.

However, the problem was that the scene of the Black Sea Goddess’s Fall that had manifested was not what Renok had intended.

The act of manifesting and dropping a small-scale sun itself was not wrong, but the scene that unfolded beneath it was completely different from Renok’s vision.

A vast, desolate field, burned to ashes, its heart completely incinerated. Was that the future that awaited Renok if he chose the Blaver Magic Tower?

It wasn’t impossible.

If he were not the person he was now, who was finding his own answers, but rather the factory worker he used to be, wavering and hesitating.

It wouldn’t be strange if he had envisioned only a desolate field in his heart after countless wars.

The observation of branching points in the self-created domain was reflecting even such a future within Renok’s heart.

‘It’s a close call… It’s becoming increasingly difficult to control.’

Renok’s self-created domain was not yet a completed technique, but rather an unfinished blueprint with much potential remaining.

A technique that could barely be manifested only after drawing upon all of his abilities and talents, forcibly boosting his condition, and stacking multiple doping effects.

Unlike other techniques that were perfectly controlled in Renok’s hands, this self-created domain was like a very delicate glasswork.

Beautiful, intricate, and seemingly perfect, but if touched carelessly, it could shatter into pieces in an instant.

The same was true.

The branching point created by his boundless talent and potential, pushing his abilities to their limits.

The direction of his mind, heading towards a future that should not have existed, was also strangely twisted and altered.

That was probably because Renok’s talent had reached a dangerous level.

The desolate, ashen field that the Black Sea Goddess’s Fall had shown was a warning about the end of another version of himself, who had veered off in a different direction.

With a complicated expression, Renok sighed and stubbed out his cigarette.

“Hoo…”

He couldn’t stay like this forever.

He had to get out of here as soon as possible before the flames, which had escaped Renok’s control, burned him as well.

He wondered if Asui had managed to escape safely. As he thought about this, he straightened his trembling legs. At that moment.

“Ban!!!”

A light breeze blew from the other side of the street, and a woman with long, navy blue hair descended from the sky.

“Mr. Ban!!”

Asui, who was on the woman’s back, waved her hand with a bright expression.

“Y-you succeeded!! I believed in you!!”

“We’ll talk later.”

Suryeon, who had a long glaive [a polearm weapon with a blade at the end] on her back, quickly approached and supported Renok.