Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 561

It wasn’t the first time for Lenox to peek into someone’s memories.

Whether intentional or not, he was used to watching time that had already passed.

A sluggish sensation, as if his body was entrusted to a slow-flowing river, even while his consciousness was wide awake.

An unfamiliar sense of déjà vu, where he recognized his own existence, yet his senses were directed towards the distant past.

However, he never imagined that Oliviera Ron Maze herself would directly show her memories in this way.

Did she gain access to a truth she shouldn’t have known the moment she awakened the Mystic Eyes of the Seven Colors [a rare type of magical eyes] and obtained its power?

“…”

While lost in thought, the time of Kaise unfolding before his eyes continued to flow.

The sight of people holding cheap coffee and wearing old gowns, bustling past Lenox.

Kaise was always standing in the middle of such people, engaging in lively conversations with different people each time.

However, one thing that seemed strange to Lenox was that Kaise’s appearance looked much older than what Lenox knew.

Graying hair, undeniable wrinkles, a thick beard, and a seasoned gaze.

Even though it was undoubtedly Oliviera’s own memories from the past, Kaise’s appearance looked older than Lenox remembered.

“I know that Kaise Bajur has been searching for answers for a very long time.”

Lenox muttered, watching Kaise’s receding figure.

“Even if I see that now, I don’t think I’ll learn anything in particular.”

There was no reply.

Instead, as if responding to that question, the flow of time only continued to accelerate.

The sight of countless people passing before Lenox’s eyes again.

However, the number of people surrounding Kaise had gradually decreased.

One by one, they disappeared.

Due to someone’s death, pessimism about failure, despair about the ending.

They got angry at him, burst into tears, begged and asked for forgiveness, and eventually exhausted their lives.

Each time family, friends, and lovers who had been by his side disappeared, the smile on Kaise’s face gradually faded.

The researchers and colleagues who remained by his side had aged, and their hair had turned gray.

Conversely, the wrinkles on Kaise’s face gradually disappeared.

His white hair turned black, his hunched shoulders straightened, and he continued to grow younger as if he was aging in reverse.

As if he was walking backward through time.

“…!!”

The moment Lenox realized the meaning and took a slight breath, Oliviera’s voice echoed quietly.

[Not much time left.]

“What…?”

There was no reply. Instead, the speed of time reflecting Kaise slowed down, returning to a speed close to reality.

Kaise, who had been passionately continuing his research, often ended up slumped in a corner of the lab, head down.

The piles of papers and research materials gathered dust, and those who had been with him were swept away by the flow of time, but

Kaise was still there.

As if he himself was walking backward through time, with the face of a man who seemed much younger than before.

Just like the day Lenox first met him at the particle power plant.

[……]

Kaise, left alone, looked around the quiet laboratory with a dazed expression.

He put down the last paper he was holding, straightened his back, and approached Lenox.

He stared in the direction where Lenox was standing, and then gave a hollow smile.

[You’re still here, Oliviera.]

“…”

[I didn’t think you’d just watch my failure without offering any help. How does it feel, are you satisfied now?]

Undoubtedly, Oliviera would have said something to Kaise at this point.

However, without her reply being heard, Kaise nodded as if he had heard it and continued to speak.

[Yes, that’s not wrong… but I haven’t given up yet.]

“…”

[I’ve found a new patron. Someone who knows a lot… and someone who is somewhat similar to me. No, I don’t know if I can even call it a person.]

Kaise, whose expression had slightly clouded, gave a weak smile and crossed his arms.

[I’m thinking of building a new city and using it as a base to organize the final project. How about it, are you interested?]

At that moment, Oliviera’s reply, which had not been heard until now, began to be heard.

[What is the name of the project?]

[Name?]

[You say you’re going to change the world, and you haven’t even thought of a name for the plan?]

Kaise stroked his chin, lost in thought with a haggard look.

[I haven’t really thought about it… but if you think about it, we’re in a position to force the idea of survival beyond destruction. From the world’s point of view, we’re more like troublesome guests.]

“…”

[That’s right. We’re being stubborn because we want to grasp the qualifications and future that haven’t been given to us. So, the name of the project is-]

At that moment, Kaise, with a smiling face, stopped abruptly in front of Lenox.

The end of that alien landscape where the memory playback had ended.

[The name of the project is Black Consumer.]

Oliviera quietly muttered from behind Lenox.

[We’ve been forcing our way, dreaming of unpermitted qualifications and rights, for decades.]

“…”

Instead of answering, Lenox slowly turned around.

Oliviera, who had obtained the Mystic Eyes that flashed with seven colors, was standing there quietly, looking at Lenox with a piercing gaze.

“A change of heart… that’s not an appropriate expression. You were waiting for me from the beginning for this.”

Lenox asked.

“I don’t know where you stand right now. What’s the reason for showing me this memory?”

[Well… I just thought I had to do this.]

Oliviera quietly raised her gaze and glanced at the vast space of the laboratory.

[The Mystic Eyes of your right eye that you used. From there, I occasionally glimpsed fragments of causality that I had been researching.]

She said.

[At the same time, I realized that the answer I had been pondering for a long time was there. Through you, I have opened a new possibility to interfere with causality.]

“…”

Lenox was speechless at her abnormal certainty.

Oliviera Ron Maze was saying that she had gained inspiration through the Mystic Eyes that Lenox had shown and awakened the Mystic Eyes of the Seven Colors.

The Mystic Eyes of the Seven Colors, which she should have obtained after decades of accepting a demotion in rank.

Just by witnessing and confirming a fragment of that power in advance, she was able to reach the answer by transcending that time?

He knew that her talent and capabilities were monstrous, exceeding standards, but he never imagined that she would find a completely new possibility with just that much of a clue.

However, Lenox thought that far and inwardly denied his own conclusion.

‘No, that’s not it… it was decided from the beginning.’

The Mystic Eyes of Lenox’s right eye, which he had opened, were made to store various abilities by imitating the Mystic Eyes of the Seven Colors.

The ability to cause causality to run wild was certainly a powerful and alien force, but it was not the essence.

However, it was also true that he was strongly influenced by the Mystic Eyes of the Seven Colors that the future Oliviera possessed.

Oliviera did not know that the Mystic Eyes were created by her future self, but she was still inspired by that power and succeeded in awakening new Mystic Eyes.

Because it was a possibility that the future her would find someday, just by showing it to the current her, she had accelerated her growth to an absurd degree.

However, even though Oliviera knew the value of the power she had obtained, she did not try to kill Lenox with the Mystic Eyes of the Seven Colors.

Instead, she was just staring blankly at the scenery of the laboratory where Kaise had disappeared.

After staring at the place where he had disappeared for a long time, Oliviera chuckled self-deprecatingly.

[Ha, to come this far and be consumed by weak sentimentality…]

The chairman of the Cartel, who glanced at Lenox, slowly turned her body around.

She stopped with her arms crossed, lifted her veil, and lightly shook her head.

[If you walk along the mirror wall, you’ll see the exit. The path to Kaise is that way.]

“…What are you thinking?”

She had put so much effort into holding Lenox back until just now, but now she seemed to have no regrets.

It was strange that she didn’t try to kill Lenox with causality manipulation using the Mystic Eyes of the Seven Colors.

It was also incomprehensible that she showed him the memories of Kaise and then willingly tried to send Lenox away.

However, Oliviera was silent for a moment at those words, and then sneered with a sharp tone.

[The moment I obtained the Mystic Eyes of the Seven Colors, I realized that it was impossible for me to awaken these Mystic Eyes at this point in time.]

“…”

[Looking at the world again with these eyes, I can see. This ability and idea are the result of causality that is not permitted to me at this time.]

Oliviera’s voice, as she said that, felt like it was gradually fading.

[It’s the product of a possibility that I would never have chosen… without directly witnessing the failure of the project…]

“Could it be…”

Lenox, who understood what those words meant, took a small breath.

Oliviera had not awakened the Mystic Eyes of the Seven Colors purely through her own research.

She had awakened the Mystic Eyes and changed her system after the project had completely failed and Kaise had died.

Because it was the Mystic Eyes of the Seven Colors with the power to intervene in causality, she was even able to know the reason why she had acquired the eyes.

Oliviera realized through him that the reason she awakened the Mystic Eyes was something that could not exist in this time and space.

The power of the Mystic Eyes that could only be obtained after the project that had not yet failed had failed.

The only conclusion that could be drawn from the gap in that distorted time was one.

[There were enough suspicious parts. It’s abnormal that strong people like you appear in the Ramahal area at this point in time. Considering the fierce battlefield situation due to the civil war, it was something that should not have happened in the first place.]

“…”

[Inconsistent words and actions, technology and combat abilities that are out of sync with the times. It would be understandable if all of that came from the future rather than this moment.]

Oliviera spoke in a quiet tone that was impossible to read.

[That I myself am an existence left in the past, and a part of it as well…]

She didn’t immediately realize the truth like Kaise, but Oliviera did not miss the sense of incongruity she had felt from time to time while fighting Lenox.

Instead of ignoring the accumulated awkwardness and alienation, she remembered and gathered them one by one, and finally found the perfect answer at this moment.

Instead of passively accepting and responding to the current situation, she reached the unbearable truth she wanted to deny through the clues accumulated in her mind.

Even if the conclusion at the end was an unbearable conclusion that denied her own existence.

She had a strong mind and mental strength to accept it and move on.

[The relativity of time is the same as absoluteness. You can live in different timelines, but if you meet in a timeline that has already passed, one of you must be fake.]

Oliviera said with a smiling tone.

[Then, wouldn’t it be obvious who is the truth and who is the lie?]

“…Are you accepting that fact yourself?”

[Kaise knew that fact early on, but he didn’t say anything.]

Oliviera said that and slowly turned her body to the side.

As if trying to open a path for Lenox.

[That’s because there must be a greater purpose than leaving meaning as our existence.]

She covered her face with a veil, as if trying to hide her expression, and turned her head.

[I don’t like that fact, but I respect his decision. If that’s the only way to move forward in this false space-time… I…]

“…”

That’s not right.

She was also the real Oliviera, so she was once the Oliviera who existed in a true space-time.

That’s why she could accept that she was an existence alienated in the past space-time.

The awareness of the contradiction hidden in her own existence, and the determination to accept it.

That was a true heart that must have existed in Oliviera Ron Maze herself, who had once devoted herself to the project.

However, instead of telling him that fact, Lenox shut his mouth and turned his steps.

There was no point in comforting Oliviera with such words now.

She wouldn’t want such pity either.

Crack…!!

Cracks spread through the mirror barrier, and dazzling light poured in from beyond.

Probably the only exit to escape her mental domain.

[You probably have some connection with the future me.]

The moment Lenox, who had been silently looking at Oliviera, turned his back and stepped forward, she spoke quietly.

[Your Mystic Eyes are the result of causality that cannot be established without assuming that fact.]

“That’s…”

[So, if you meet the future me again, about the failure of the project…]

Beyond the veil that covered her face, Oliviera tried to say something and smiled faintly.

[No, it’s meaningless.]

“…”

[If it’s me from decades later, I would have definitely come up with a much more plausible excuse than this.]

Whoosh!!

At the same time, the mirror space-time began to collapse entirely.

Fragments of broken mirrors poured down on Oliviera’s body, completely concealing her figure.

Kugwagwagwagwa!!!!

Lenox, who had been silently watching the mental domain that had begun to collapse and disappear in an instant, immediately turned his back.

Soon, no sound was left in the mirror maze.

* * *

Since entering the closed area to prevent the fallout phenomenon, unexpected things had been happening continuously.

However, the memories left in this isolated space-time were things that Lenox could not easily ignore.

Why the Balkan City Government had kept the existence of this area a secret and isolated it in forgotten history.

Why everyone who entered this area was buried in memories without ever getting out alive.

Now, it wasn’t that he didn’t know the answer, but Lenox was still walking to meet someone who was waiting for him.

A series of miracles that could not have been predicted from beginning to end.

While walking on a knife’s edge where he couldn’t even guarantee his own life, and going to meet an opponent whose intentions he couldn’t guess.

On the one hand, he was aware of an unknown sense of familiarity towards him.

He was someone who had the same worries.

He was someone who had walked a little ahead of the path Lenox was walking.

Even now, his name was being heard throughout the city, only by the traces of his will that had failed to achieve his goals.

Because he felt like he could understand a little of the worries and desires that he had suffered and longed for.

Because he felt that his heart was not a lie, Lenox was here.

Kwaaaaaa!!!!

A huge power plant outlet with a diameter of tens of meters.

A magnificent size that looked like a huge tower. The rooftop of the ventilation duct at the end.

The dazzling light that soared from the top of the ventilation duct ran up into the hazy sky, drawing a huge pillar of light.

A spectacle as if the power plant’s outlet was used as a cannon to fire energy as a whole.

In the middle of the pillar of light, the shape of a space-time fixing device, spread out like huge petals, was reflected.

And a black-haired young man was sitting on the edge of the light, looking down at this side.

“I’ve been waiting for you, Ban.”

Kaise was smiling.

“I knew you’d find me soon.”

“…”

“The only places where such a massive firepower can gather enough to handle the power supply of the fixing device are the underground power room and the top-floor firepower outlet.”

Kaise, who had slowly walked down from the device, said to Lenox.

“It was difficult to connect the lines and maintain the operation, but it’s not impossible if you manipulate the facilities inside the power plant well.”

Kaise, looking at Lenox who didn’t answer, walked along the outer edge of the outlet tower.

The scenery of the ruined particle power plant that could be seen tens of meters below.

The ghost ships that were continuously exploding with loud noises and shock waves in the distance, and the clash of the new white ships.

The desperate cutting sounds coming from outside the back gate, and the explosions erupting from the front yard.

“It’s strange.”

Kaise said.

“The particle power plant is so noisy and collapsing, but no one is thinking of coming back.”

“…”

“I can’t even contact my colleagues on the front lines. I can’t feel their presence or traces. I thought it was because of the anomalies inside the power plant, but in fact…”

Kaise said that, then stopped talking and was silent for a long time.

Kaise, who was looking down at the ground with a somewhat sunken expression, asked.

“How was Oliviera?”

“She knew.”

Lenox replied.

“What you’re thinking. And what situation she’s in.”

“I see.”

Kaise smiled.

“She’s a strong person. She always has been, but I may have been comforted by her detached appearance in everything…”

“…”

“Before I explain everything, there’s one last thing I need to do.”

Kaise said that and raised his hand towards Lenox.