Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 564

Thud!!

As he pulled his hand out, Kaise collapsed, spitting out blood, his face pale.

The shadow, seemingly formed from the gathered starlight of the Milky Way, nonchalantly walked past Kaise and began to move slowly.

“……”

Lenox watched the bloodstains scattered where the two figures had crossed paths, acutely aware of the contradiction in the situation.

It had said it would deliver the will left behind by Kaise after his death.

Then who was the man convulsing on the ground at the shadow’s feet?

To pierce Kaise’s heart and then say it would deliver the will of the already dead Kaise—what kind of irony was this?

However, instead of voicing his thoughts, Lenox lowered himself and reached out a hand to Kaise’s shoulder.

“Cough…!!”

The blood that had soaked through his chest overflowed.

He tried to block the wound with his fingertips, but the piercing wound through his heart was already too severe.

Kaise shook his head at Lenox, his eyes trembling.

“Calm down. Take deep breaths slowly.”

“It’s no, use… Already…”

Kaise muttered, smiling weakly, his lips stained with blood.

“This, level of critical injury… Can’t be, overcome… Magic power, too…”

“……”

He understood what he was saying.

Complete destruction of vital organs like the heart. Simultaneously, Kaise’s own lack of magic power due to continuous operations.

No matter how special and different Kaise’s constitution was, he was still human.

The possibility of surviving such a critical injury was virtually nonexistent.

However, knowing this, Lenox did not give up on Kaise. Instead, he silently placed his hand on his chest and began to pour magic power into him.

Whoosh…!!

“That’s, not… what I, know… Run…!!”

“Run away?”

Lenox retorted.

Where could they run in this closed-off area, where the path back to reality was blocked and they were being encroached upon by a past timeline?

From the beginning, there was no other way.

It was absurd to abandon Kaise now and seek another escape route with the newly appeared shadow.

Lenox already had a sense of who the shadow was.

“Don’t say useless things and focus.”

Fwoosh!!

Lenox, who had drawn up his magic power and placed it on Kaise’s wound, lightly flipped his hand over.

“I can imitate it, but it’s up to you to accept it.”

He reversed the flow of magic particles flowing through his fingertips and slammed it into Kaise’s damaged heart.

Clunk!!!

“……!!!!”

At that moment, Kaise’s body convulsed greatly once and began to tremble faintly.

The reverse-flowing magic power coursing through Kaise’s entire body.

He imitated the characteristics of that magic power he had seen and remembered, and supplied it to Kaise’s entire body.

The reason why Kaise’s injury was not being healed through time reversal was because of the severity of the injury as well as the lack of his own magic power.

If so, all he had to do was supply more of the reverse-flowing magic power that Kaise possessed than he originally had.

“Ugh…!!”

The absurd idea of imitating and injecting someone else’s innate magic power on the spot.

If an ordinary mage had tried it, not only Kaise but also the caster’s own magic flow would have been reversed, and their entire body would have exploded.

In reality, what Lenox was supplying to Kaise’s body was merely an imitation that reversed the nature of the magic power itself.

He could not reproduce the performance of the real reverse-flowing magic power itself.

However, if he could activate Kaise’s innate constitution to the extreme using Lenox’s magic power as a medium-

Crackling!!!

The reverse-flowing magic power overflowing from Kaise’s body became a new power source and began to rewind the time of his body.

Even as he trembled as if he were about to die, the pierced heart muscle was reconnected, the wound healed, and the muscles were reattached.

The reverse-flowing magic power overflowing in his body forcibly grabbed and rewound his fading life.

Lenox, seeing that new flesh was growing between his blood-soaked chest, filling the space, and that his pale complexion was returning to normal, slowly rose from his spot.

Kaise had not yet fully regained consciousness, but it didn’t matter.

He had used nearly half of the magic power he had left to use the self-resonance field, but it was okay.

Ultimately, without the cooperation of Kaise Bajir himself, it was difficult to resolve the current situation at once.

Therefore, Lenox had decided to save Kaise at this point, even if it meant sacrificing some of his remaining power.

Lenox, standing in front of the shadow that was silently waiting as if expecting him, wiped the blood from Kaise off his fingertips and asked.

“Alright, then, let’s hear what you mean by the will you’re talking about?”

While Lenox was healing Kaise’s injury, he was completely defenseless, but surprisingly, the shadow did not attack him.

Lenox also had some idea of this.

He knew that the words the shadow spoke were nothing more than playing a predetermined message.

The shadow that had pierced Kaise’s heart was not a being with intelligence or a firm will.

It was merely a ‘device’ that executed predetermined messages and actions towards anyone trying to break this space.

Kaise’s guess was wrong. It was not Alcaide himself who was having an endless dream in this space-time.

[I don’t know who is listening to this message, but this is a promise we made and a preparation for the next step.]

Alcaide had merely left preparations to ensure that this dream could continue, and then left.

The shadow, which had walked right up to Lenox, said.

[Because Kaise Bajir himself wanted to leave behind a ‘substitute’ even after his death.]

“……”

[The reason this space-time remains as a fixed testbed is to record and preserve the point in time when his intellect was still intact for reuse.]

“Reuse of a substitute…”

Regardless of Lenox’s disgusted reply, the shadow faithfully played the remaining audio.

[The experiment continues. Space-time repeats. Failure circulates.]

“What happens if that experiment stops here?”

The shadow did not answer.

Instead, fragments of dazzling light began to rotate between the fingertips of the shadow, which had raised its hand.

[Until the moment the conclusion arrives, this moment will be repeated forever.]

The shadow’s form twisted strangely, spreading a curtain of the Milky Way widely in all directions.

At its end, an overwhelming heat source, the power of which was impossible to guess, emitted light.

[Variables that interfere with circulation and fixation will be eliminated.]

Kiiing…!!!

The moment he realized that the shape of the light perfectly imitated Oliviera’s Light Magic.

“Damn it…”

Lenox took out a cigarette and laughed in dismay as he watched it.

“Nothing ever goes smoothly.”

Kwaaaang!!!

A huge flash erupted from the rooftop of the power plant’s exhaust outlet, sweeping away everything in all directions.

* * *

Drip, drip….

The sound of blood droplets falling could be heard.

His consciousness, which had been as hazy as if in a fog, slowly returned, followed by a shock that shook his insides.

Thump, thump!!

The strong vibrations echoing from the floor made his body feel like it was bouncing slightly and falling.

Belatedly, a dull pain rose from his abdomen.

“……?”

The moment Kaise opened his eyes with difficulty and raised his head.

Something that had flown next to him crashed and scattered blood as it tumbled.

Kwaaaang!!

A battered mage, sprawled out in a similar position to Kaise, smiled weakly at him.

“Looks like you’re finally coming to.”

“……Van?”

There was no answer.

Lenox, who had pulled out a magic staff and grabbed Kaise’s neck before throwing him far away, was directly hit by the huge light source that was erupting from above.

Kwaaaang!!!

Lightning flashed through the fragmented space as if it had been completely overturned by the ability of spatial separation.

[Thunder Comes, Piercing the Wall]

A curtain of thunder that erupted like a clap of hands cut through the waves of the military order, widening the space.

[Strong Chain of Electric Lotus]

Charrrr…!!

In an instant, chains of lightning connected from all directions forcibly held open the widened space.

Lenox’s figure, which had leaped and disappeared as if bouncing, appeared in the gap.

A dazzling red lightning flashed at the fingertips of the mage who had jumped through space more than five times using blink [a short-range teleportation spell].

[Red Lightning Shift]

Kwaaaang!!!

The red lightning, colored by the change in the nature of magic power, collided with the shadow’s magic power, bisecting the dark sky of the particle power plant.

[Constant Thunder: Immortal Training]

[Thunder Calamity: Trampling Fate]

Thududududuk!!!

The magic power that erupted from Lenox and the shadow’s fingertips exploded in all directions, transforming into waves of light and the shape of lightning, carried by their thoughts.

Fragments of thunder that tore and evaporated the surrounding atmosphere itself, and a curtain of military orders that encroached upon and gnawed at space.

Between the explosions and emissions of two opposing forces that constantly swelled and subsided, the magic power of the two figures crossed paths madly, striking the space in a row.

Kugwagwagwagwa!!!!

A super-speed battle that was impossible to understand the way of thinking and combat logic even while watching it unfold before his eyes.

However, the more desperately Lenox’s lightning burned, the more magnificent and dense the various techniques the shadow pulled out became.

Lenox’s figure, which had barely endured with insufficient magic power, slid backward and then staggered before falling over.

Thud!!

“Van!!”

At Kaise’s cry, Lenox raised himself up and muttered.

“It’s okay. It’s just imitating the techniques, the way it uses them is extremely simple.”

“……”

“Enough, just look at that.”

Kaise looked at the shadow standing in front of Lenox and widened his eyes.

“That is…”

“It’s said to be a preparation left by Alcaide. Do you remember being stabbed?”

Lenox said, taking out another painkiller ampule and injecting it into his neck.

“It’s the cause of maintaining the anomaly in the closed area, and it plays the role of infinitely repeating this moment by reversing space-time if things go wrong. And…”

Kwaaaang!!

Lenox, who had deflected the flash of light extending from his opponent’s fingertips with lightning and bounced it into the sky, laughed.

“It’s an unbelievable monster.”

Gooooo…!!

Ironclad wings fluttering behind the shadow’s back. The flash of Light Magic flickering at his fingertips.

A huge ghost ship floating above his head, and the summoned beast Arjumarta [a powerful magical creature], taking its place inside and emitting a bright yellow light.

The opponent was freely wielding the techniques and powers that originally belonged to Kaise’s companions, as if they were his own.

Kaise, who had been staring blankly at the scene, suddenly turned his gaze to check the landscape on the ground below the exhaust outlet and was speechless.

“This can’t be…”

The once intact ground of the Ramahal district was distorted and overturned, and the cracks that had erupted from all directions were gnawing away at space-time without leaving anything behind.

It was being crushed and shattered as if trying to completely destroy and reset the existing space-time.

Contrary to the scenery that was being distorted and destroyed in all directions, only the collapsed Kaise and the shape of the fixation device remained intact.

Only then did Kaise realize why Lenox was rolling around in such a mess.

Even as everything around him was being destroyed, Lenox knew that he could not solve this problem unless he protected Kaise.

Even the fact that he was in such a battered state was the result of him holding out to protect the fixation device and Kaise’s body.

“It’s probably not really using Oliviera’s or Onion’s techniques. That’s what a level 8 extreme technique means.”

Lenox muttered, raising himself up.

“It must have chosen the images remaining in this space to materialize its own power. But in this space, it’s a clear reality, and the power and characteristics are roughly similar.”

Lenox glanced back at Kaise and said.

“It’s not that there’s no way, but I want to hear your thoughts first. After all, you were the one who devised this space-time area.”