Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 548

Chiiiiiiiiik!!!!

A massive power plant’s exhaust vent, tens of meters in size.

The side of the vast vent, large enough to accommodate dozens of people, was melting and dripping like ice cream.

Inside the engine room, where thousands of pipes managing the power plant’s exhaust function were chaotically intertwined.

Lenox restored the worn-out shield with his magic and rose from his spot.

An overwhelming presence was felt from beyond the tangled pipes.

‘Did they finish stabilizing the fixtures and join the fight already?’ Lenox chuckled bitterly.

‘I should have killed at least one of them when I was discovered, what a shame.’

Lenox understood that this place was a space with a distorted spacetime, but he didn’t know exactly how past figures could exist in this concept.

It was certain that this wasn’t a real past timeline, but if it was simply a space constructed from someone’s memories or traces, how could people like Kaise or Oliviera exist with their powers intact?

And how could they react and think naturally against variables like Lenox, who had intruded from the outside?

Could fixing spacetime mean something different from leaving behind memories or traces?

Even though he had helped with Kaise’s research, it was difficult even for Lenox to grasp the truth.

To see if the past beings in this space were actually alive, it would have been ideal to kill one and observe the results.

In fact, Lenox had almost killed Parden McQueen, but he missed the chance due to Gilleon’s intrusion.

‘To think he used his microcosm [a personal, self-contained space] to intrude into the domain at that moment…’

Lenox, with a cold gaze, straightened his coat and took out a cigarette from his pocket.

‘His judgment is very quick and bold. There must be a reason why he was working as Kaise’s right-hand man.’

Without knowing what Parden McQueen’s magnetic field or the White Rakshasa Cannon [a powerful weapon] were, Gilleon used his power to intrude into the domain.

That was possible because he judged that the risk of McQueen being killed on the spot was much greater than the damage he would take inside the domain.

The boldness to jump into a sorcerer’s domain without hesitation, knowing he would have to bear the risk.

The ability to read the changing battle situation in an instant and calculate the gains and losses.

And the power to act on his judgment, endure the confrontation with Lenox for a moment, even at his own expense.

It was a decision that would be difficult to make unless one was a seasoned vanguard who had been on the front lines.

If, as Jenny had said, Kaise’s aides all possessed such capabilities.

It was only natural that the organization called Dead Rise, formed by such individuals, would boast a strong power.

‘I haven’t figured out how many past superhumans are in this area yet. If there are more like Gilleon, it’ll be a headache…’

Flight ability through ironclad wings and proficiency with firearms. Even the space-tearing ability manifested through the microcosm. Each one was a truly difficult ability.

Having confirmed Gilleon’s judgment and boldness, it would have been best to track him down and kill him immediately after the battle was over.

But there was another reason why Lenox didn’t do that.

He already knew that an overwhelming presence, difficult to compare even with McQueen and Gilleon combined, had emerged from the power plant.

Kuuuung!!

Just by taking a step, the surrounding air became heavy.

The local climate changed, and the surrounding laws of physics seemed to solidify and sink into a dark aura.

A fluttering, colorful robe billowed, creating a faint current in the gloomy darkness.

The clear gleam of a magic eye was visible beyond the swaying veil.

[Parden told me you’ve been doing some interesting things.]

“……”

[Most of those who impersonate my name are insects whose essence doesn’t need to be examined…]

Even through the vision obscured by thousands of pipes, her figure was perfectly clear.

An overwhelming presence that boasted its existence as if it were imprinted through not only the five senses but also magic, consciousness, thoughts, and mental images.

Oliviera Ron Maze chuckled.

[You seem a bit different.]

“I have no intention of fighting.”

Lenox answered as he naturally walked through the engine room.

Oliviera also slightly lifted her flowing robe and followed.

“I don’t intend to kill Kaise either. I just want to fix the harm caused by the research that was being conducted at this power plant.”

[Harm?]

“You said you were going to fix the spacetime itself and leave it as a testbed in a specific area.”

Lenox, who had wiped the dust off a pipe with his finger, quietly looked at it and said.

“The timelines within the same space will diverge, magic particles will be forcibly decomposed, and a large-scale exposure phenomenon will occur.”

[……]

“If we can fully review the specific knowledge and processes used in the spacetime research and prevent side effects from occurring-”

[You’re lying.]

Oliviera immediately cut off Lenox’s words.

[You’re not interested in such things at all. You don’t really want to know what we’re doing here either.]

“……”

[If you really wanted to prevent the exposure phenomenon, you would have gone around the power plant to grasp the overall picture. That would be more efficient for fixing things.]

Oliviera turned her gaze.

[But instead, you kept watching Kaise from his side. I’ve seen people act like that a few times. I know their feelings very well.]

“Is that so?”

[You wanted to confirm it, didn’t you?]

“……”

[You wanted to know if he was capable of completing the project. If he was a person with that much potential, wasn’t it?]

She whispered as if she knew all of Lenox’s feelings, with a faint smile.

[By now, some of the more intelligent ones should have realized the truth. It’s not surprising.]

Leaving Lenox, who didn’t answer, Oliviera walked ahead with her hands behind her back.

[This is an eternal promise that changes the concept of the world itself… a false illusion that deceives the ending and plans for the next. Isn’t it absurd to expect not to shed a single drop of blood while walking on a thorny path?]

Lenox and Oliviera reached the end of the engine room. The two, standing in front of a thin iron door, stared at each other.

Oliviera chuckled and said.

[Even if a few more drops of someone else’s blood flow in the process, it’s not that strange.]

Crack…!!

At that moment, the forest of countless pipes that Lenox and Oliviera had passed through began to collapse.

As if time was belatedly moving along the path and steps the two had taken.

As if they had been cut thousands, tens of thousands of times by an invisible slash and magic.

Thousands of metal pipes turned into hundreds of thousands of fragments and shattered, soon turning into cold iron powder and scattering inside the engine room.

Faaaaaa!!

The storm of iron powder that burst out belatedly shook the coats and robes of Lenox and Oliviera.

The manifestation of the thoughts exchanged between the two high-level mages.

With just the light exchange of magic that followed, the entire engine room was completely ruined.

[You already understand the manifestation of magic through thoughts… That’s a pity.]

Oliviera shook her head.

[To bury a mage with your talent in this backwater and move on.]

“……”

Squeak!!

Slowly opening the iron door, she took a step outside.

The vast open space inside the power plant visible in the distance.

A space surrounded by towering chimneys and thick, massive facility buildings on all sides.

Facing the sunlight shining down under the clear sky, Oliviera slowly turned her back.

[But that’s what we’ve been doing all along.]

The moment she raised her hand and pretended to grab the empty air.

The sunlight shining from the sky rapidly concentrated and began to gather at her fingertips.

Kiiiiiiing…!!

A fierce light of powerful magic pulsed along her slender fingers.

The moment Lenox realized that it was not just a form of magic densely packed and shining, but an actual form of an attribute, he frowned.

Unique Light Attribute Magic

Single Point Cannon Shot

[Radiant Pierce]

Faaaaaaang!!!

The light that burst from Oliviera’s fingertips became a magnificent beam and swept over Lenox’s figure.

[Thunder Calling]

Fzzzzzt!!

Almost simultaneously, a bolt of lightning struck from the clear sky, colliding perpendicularly with the beam of light running across the ground.

The two beams of light that collided, extending in different directions, bent and split, creating dazzling flashes of light all around.

Kugwagwagwang!!!

Power and speed as strong as Lenox’s lightning magic from the front.

The series of incantations she showed just before casting the magic. It wasn’t difficult to guess what kind of power she was wielding.

‘Light attribute. Is it light attribute magic…!!’

[You blocked it.]

The moment Lenox paused, realizing that fact, Oliviera moved first.

[Then, can you react to this as well?]

Chichiching!!

The fragments of light scattered by the clash of the two mages resonated roughly all around, creating a strange echo.

The group of light, changing colors and shining brilliantly, as if touching them lightly with her hand.

The light that surrounded Lenox, connected like constellations in the night sky, exploded sequentially. Embracing different directions and trajectories, they swallowed the space as it was.

Unique Light Attribute Magic

Constellation Divine Radiance

[Pleiades Western Light]

Kwaaaaang!!!

The immense heat melted the ground and the power plant’s open space buildings, creating a hot wind.

The heat haze that rose from the explosion of light writhed, melting iron and scorching the ground.

A range magic that connects seven colors of light, resonates them from all directions, and maximizes the explosive power.

The concentrated firing technique is nearly impossible to avoid or withstand once trapped within its range.

But what was reflected between Oliviera’s fingers was not the melted flesh of a human, but the vast form of thunder that seemed about to burst.

Fzzzzzzzt!!!

The group of lightning flashing inside the coat devoured the light that Oliviera had unleashed and gradually swelled in size.

Several dozen thick currents, the size of forearms, rotated simultaneously at Lenox’s gesture.

All of them wriggled and popped out of the space like living creatures, transforming into tangible physical force.

Following the form of the lightning that rose from Lenox’s body, even his eyes flashed with a bright blue light.

The moment Oliviera once again grabbed the light from the sky and turned it into a weapon, Lenox’s figure disappeared from that spot.

Paat!!

The moment Lenox, who appeared behind her, twisted his shoulder and slammed his arm down,

Several dozen bolts of lightning that had dug into the ground simultaneously grabbed the ground and burned it, shooting up pillars of electricity.

Unique Lightning Attribute Magic

[Strange Thunder Collapse]

[Faint Thunder Veil]

At the same time, Oliviera, who had grabbed the group of light that fell from the sky, detonated it to hide her figure.

Between the pillars of lightning and the explosion of light, hundreds of magic and thoughts collided and began to explode like crazy.

Kugwagwagwagwa!!!!

The relentless exchange of thoughts flashed between the fierce and intense projection of magic and light.

Splitting the fleeting moments of countless consciousnesses that think and judge, cramming incantations and strategies into all those moments of time.

Beyond the trajectory of the light and flashes of lightning that brushed past and moved away, he fully felt the accelerating flow of thought.

After laughing off the warmth of death that approached amidst the roaring thunder and the explosion of light.

Behind the two mages, dozens of strands of magic light twisted and drew irregular spirals as if they were misaligned.

Kwaaaaang!!!

The scenery of reality was smeared as if painted over in the barrage of magic light.

Through the distorted vision, Oliviera’s figure, bringing her hand to her face, was glimpsed.

Zzzzzzt…!!

At the same time as Oliviera pulled her veil, the cloth covering her face was removed, revealing her face.

A cold expression, a nonchalant gaze looking at Lenox.

Beyond that, the dazzling form of a magic eye shining with a brilliant light.

The moment Lenox faced the light of that magic eye head-on, the ground where the two were standing began to collapse.

Kugugugu!!

Lenox’s figure began to fall beyond the endless abyss, cracking and splitting like glass.

Lenox’s body, constantly burning in the hellfire, began to be torn apart limb by limb by the hands of the rising demons.

Eujijijik!!

Oliviera’s figure, with a stern face, looked at Lenox’s body, which had been fragmented into pieces.

Lenox’s eyes and mouth, scattered in all directions, twitched and moved his lips as if trying to say something.

The moment Oliviera tilted her ear slightly to hear those words.

Lenox whispered quietly.

“As expected, it’s not the Seven-Colored Treasure Eye yet.”

Fzzzt…!!

Immediately, the scenery of the abyss surrounding Lenox and Oliviera shattered entirely, and they instantly returned to the power plant’s open space.

Lenox, wiping the bloody tears flowing from his right eye, and Oliviera, silently looking at him.

Lenox said calmly.

“The magic eye’s power doesn’t work. At this point, it wouldn’t even be your true ability.”

[……]

Lenox didn’t know much about Oliviera at this point in time.

He only knew that before she settled in Vulcan, she had traveled around the continent and interacted with various sorcerers.

She was also friends with the shaman Grisha and Nora, the matriarch of the Summoning Magic Tower, but she had cut off all relationships after entering the megacity.

However, he knew more about her abilities, having researched Oliviera’s magic eye and copied some of its powers.

Originally, Oliviera was a complete level 8 mage, but after developing the Seven-Colored Treasure Eye, she began to seclude herself, focusing on changing her system to the magic eye.

She had even temporarily lowered her rank in the process of shifting her power and system to focus on the magic eye.

The Oliviera he faced in this timeline was a being located in the timeline before she had fully opened the Seven-Colored Treasure Eye.

‘The fact that her true magic was a light attribute system must be for that reason. Now I understand.’

What Oliviera used before obtaining the Seven-Colored Treasure Eye was light attribute magic that implemented the dispersion and concentration of light as magic.

Even with that alone, she was a monster who had transcended ranks and reached the extreme level.

Because she had a transcendent understanding and intuition about light, enough to reach level 8, she was able to obtain the Seven-Colored Treasure Eye, which contained seven colors of light, in her later years.

The fact that she changed her main system from light attribute magic to the magic eye, even at the cost of lowering her rank, was also possible because the two abilities were fundamentally related to light.

Lenox, who slowly rose from his spot, wiped the tears flowing from under his eyes and thought.

‘The Seven-Colored Treasure Eye had the power to intervene in causality. I don’t know which one would be more difficult at this point…’

Just knowing that she hadn’t completed the magic eye yet was a great achievement.

Oliviera looked slightly surprised at Lenox’s words, then smiled softly.

[I see. I wondered how you had my signature on your body. So you’re someone who has met me before.]

“……”

[Judging from the fact that I don’t remember, it means that the connection we made back then wasn’t that important. Then there’s no need to ask further.]

Kugugugu…!!

In an instant, the magic emanating from Oliviera’s entire body amplified madly and began to rotate.

A powerful magic rotation that encompassed the entire sky of the power plant and pressed down on it as a whole.

The colorless wave that resonated powerfully under her fluttering robe swirled as if to cover the entire space.

Oliviera’s fingers, having completed a series of hand seals and incantations in an instant, lightly brushed her lips.

“Magnetic Field Deployment.”

[Exploring the Mirror of Light]

Faaaaaaaaaaat!!!!

With an intense amount of light that seemed to blind both eyes, the surrounding scenery flipped madly.

The angle and color of the light that burst out in front of his eyes flipped dozens of times in an instant.

The moment he noticed, the power plant’s open space was already surrounded by hundreds of huge mirror barriers.