Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 596

To create a spirit directly with human hands.

The Dean shook his head in disbelief at those words, his shoulders trembling.

“Don’t talk nonsense, Hyman…!!”

[……]

“I’ve told you countless times. Your plan is nothing more than a far-fetched delusion!”

[Delusion? Even after seeing me like this, you still can’t believe it.]

The lion said, glancing towards the sunset-lit meadow.

The lion’s mane also rose with the surging currents of magical power, drawing a beautiful silver curve beyond the setting horizon.

The deep voice, regardless of the current situation, sounded surprisingly calm and composed.

[Offering a magician to the growth promotion ritual isn’t to grow the spirit. It’s a turning point to create a new creation spirit by using an existing spirit body as a vessel, in exchange for offering a special and unique spirituality.]

The lion, leisurely strolling through the meadow beyond the horizon, smiled.

[Human or spirit. We are standing at a crossroads here to determine the direction of spirituality.]

The passionate Dean and the somewhat leisurely Hyman’s conversation.

However, Lenox, who was listening to the conversation between the human and the beast, which was more like a fierce debate, quietly lowered his gaze.

[……?]

Davi, curled up in Lenox’s arms, merely perked up his ears with a puzzled look.

The story of a creation spirit made by human hands.

The very fruit of that grand talk about a far-fetched delusion and a turning point of birth was wriggling in Lenox’s arms.

“……”

It was a distant memory when he had thought about creating a spirit.

The electronic spirit born from stealing necromancy from the black magician Craig Tillion and obtaining a powerful artificial intelligence algorithm, combining it with transcendent sensitivity.

It’s easy to mistake because they’ve spent a considerable amount of time together, and the density of their memories is too high.

Davi was a being that Lenox had created directly after awakening his magical property change and reaching level 6, and had been keeping by his side ever since.

The absurd fact that dozens of humans and magicians were about to be sacrificed to create a being like Davi, which Lenox had attempted at the beginning of level 6.

However, it also seemed certain that the conversation the two were having in front of him was reality.

In the end, is it that what is needed to create a spirit is not a level or hierarchy, but a more fundamental spirituality or concept?

[I apologize for deceiving you with the lie that the university was requesting cooperation. It would have been difficult for you, as a member of the technical advisory committee, to refuse the councilors’ request.]

“……It wasn’t because of the city councilor’s request.”

The Dean rose from his seat with a bitter smile.

The Dean, who stood up alone, holding his trembling legs, muttered while looking at the lion’s profile.

“It was because it was your request, Hyman, whom I thought was the most trustworthy person in the Central Council.”

[……]

“When I was kicked out of the Magic Tower and drifted into this city, when I achieved results and returned to academia. When I said let’s create an educational institution centered around the library… You were the first to reach out and help me…”

The Dean, hesitant for a long time, as if unable to continue speaking, closed his eyes and said.

“In the end, was it all just a ploy to use the library in this way someday? I can’t understand…”

[It’s not that you couldn’t understand, Saiolus. It’s just that you didn’t try to understand.]

Hyman said in a soft voice.

[But if it’s just a process to be reborn as a being with better spirituality… I will even try to understand that absurdity.]

“Hyman, I…!!”

The Dean’s words did not continue to the end.

The powerful silver magic of Hyman, which had swelled up to the fullest, gave a chilling illusion as if it was all turning this way at once.

KWA-A-A-A-ANG!!

At the same time as the lion roughly swung its front paw, a silver flash flickered and a shockwave erupted.

At that moment, the fur ball spirit that the Dean was holding swelled up, and received the attack with its enlarged fur cushion.

POOONG!!

The silver flash that bounced off the cushion was bent and struck the meadow behind Lenox and the Dean, tens of meters away.

KWA-A-A-A-ANG!!

It shot a dazzling pillar of light into the middle of the plain.

Such a vast output that it felt like the entire meadow was covered in silver light.

Lenox, frowning at the heat felt from behind, asked the Dean.

“You were acquaintances. Is that person really the head of the Strange God Palace?”

“Hyman Kilberg. A shaman who came to the city and rose to the position of senator, one of the most influential politicians,” the Dean replied, not taking his eyes off the lion in front of him.

“Decades before entering the city council, he read my thesis on the existence of the spirit realm and became interested, and even sponsored me.”

“Then that form is…?”

“He used the spirit growth promotion ritual to completely transform his own body into something close to a spirit.”

The Dean, panting, quickly continued.

“By forcibly fitting himself into the ritual for the spirit through human sacrifice, he forcibly altered his body to be closer to a spirit body.”

“……”

Starting from the low-level, by sacrificing level 6 magicians and altering the ritual itself, Hyman succeeded in becoming closer to a spirit.

“And the final goal you want to achieve by sacrificing the Dean is to obtain a creation spirit with your own hands, Hyman.”

Lenox said.

“Or for Hyman himself to become a creation spirit.”

“…Step back, Evan. I can’t let you get caught up in this.”

The Dean, swallowing hard, looked back at Lenox while raising his magic power.

“After coming all this way?”

“Hyman was already a Saint-level shaman who had completed his hierarchy even when he was human. Now that he’s closer to a spirit body, I can’t even guess how far his power has reached.”

“……”

“I never thought that Hyman would go this far to complete his plan. It’s all my fault.”

The Dean nodded with a bitter smile.

“I’ll take all the responsibility. So, no matter what happens, I’ll make sure to save you and get you out of here safely.”

At that moment, an explosive magic power erupted from the Dean’s body, pushing up a huge ripple across the field.

PA-A-A-A-ANG!!

A powerful current of magic that made his white hair slightly rise.

Colorful attribute magic of red and blue rose from all around the Dean’s body, dyeing the middle of the meadow with a brilliant light.

In front of Saiolus Garteanon, who was wrapped in a massive glow of magic, the silver lion glared at him with a fierce glint in its eyes.

The Dean did not hesitate and immediately raised both hands high.

“Hyman…!!”

KWA-A-A-A!!

The elemental magic, dyed in all sorts of colors, swirled through the Dean’s two hands, transforming into a huge ring of light.

The moment that ring of light was compressed and concentrated in the Dean’s hands.

A vast swarm of light was shot like a laser, sweeping through the spot where the lion was standing and blasting everything.

PUH-BUH-BUH-BUH-BUNG!!

A level 7 Saint-level magician.

A veteran magician who has been perfecting his power for decades since completing his hierarchy, wielding Saint-level magic with all his might.

[Saiolus!!]

Hyman, in the form of a giant lion, roared as he ran across the meadow.

Every time his silver mane fluttered, the sparks scattered turned into magic light and covered the Dean’s body.

The Dean’s elemental magic and Hyman’s silver flashes crossed paths against the horizon of the meadow, crushing and tearing apart the space.

KU-GWA-GWA-GWA-GWANG!!

The collision of lethal magic that each of them unleashed with all their might.

The lion’s form, which had been roughly gouging the ground and bending its body, turned into a speed close to subsonic in that spot.

PA-ANG!!

A body slam that shot out a body much larger than an average person like a battering ram.

The amount of impact would be enough to instantly kill anyone who was hit head-on, with their joints and flesh severed and crushed.

However, the Dean did not try to avoid Hyman’s attack, even while constantly chanting spells and casting magic.

Instead, the spirit, which had rapidly swelled up and turned into a giant cushion, once again received the lion’s attack head-on.

PA-A-A-A-ANG!!

[BOO-OOT…!!]

Although he groaned in pain, the spirit, still not losing his fighting spirit, continued to block the lion’s melee attacks and buy time.

However, he could not overcome the lion’s strength, which firmly grabbed the fur ball with its front paw and threw it away, and was thrown backward.

In the meantime, a sphere of light resembling a planet rotated violently in the Dean’s hand, who had quickly chanted magic once again.

KII-II-IING!!

Celestial System Unique Magic

[Company Shining Star : Great Celestial Sphere]

A strange shape with dozens of dazzling magic particles rotating around the sphere of light like planetary orbits.

A powerful compression of power as if an asteroid itself had been temporarily materialized and summoned to this place.

KWA-A-A-A-ANG!!

The explosions that rose as the colorful elemental magic and silver-white spirit magic collided overlapped dozens of times, creating a circular shockwave.

The acrid smell of burning, as if the grass and air were burning at the same time, covered the entire meadow, and the parched heat pressed down on his shoulders and blocked his breath.

The battle between two high-level superhumans, who turned the entire space into a hell where life could not survive just by projecting the power that exploded head-on.

It was already difficult to open his eyes properly with just the light of the magic that exploded and spread without rest.

KWA-A-A-A-ANG!!

“Cough!!”

But that was only for a moment, as the Dean’s momentum, which had temporarily replenished his energy and stamina, quickly began to wane and break.

The Dean, realizing that he couldn’t last long, quickly made hand signs and took a step back for the first time.

At the same time, a colorless wave erupted from under the Dean’s feet.

Self-Magnetic Field Deployment

City Sight Sea-

[That’s enough.]

BBEEOK!!

As if waiting for that moment, Hyman, who appeared right next to him, struck the back of the Dean’s leg with his tail.

The Dean’s leg was easily bent backward, and the Dean, who had lost his balance, fell to the ground.

“Kuh…!!”

The Dean tried to continue the spell somehow, but the lion’s front paw was placed on the Dean’s wrist, adding weight.

DU-DU-DUK!!

“Aaaagh!!!”

Hyman, who had lightly broken both of the Dean’s wrists with a single gesture, looked down at him and said.

[In the end, this is what happens with an old human body.]

“……”

[How many years has it been since you reached level 7? You were already quite old when you completed your hierarchy. You can slow down the flow of time, but you can’t defy it.]

Silence flowed.

The Dean was breathing roughly and writhing, and the spirit was crying desperately next to him.

The lion grabbed the Dean’s collar with its sharp claws and turned its body completely towards Lenox.

He made eye contact with Lenox, who was staring at him, and passed by at a distance close enough to feel his breath.

[Evan Bailon. Assistant professor of the Department of Elemental Studies, and a disciple of Aris Richelen. A talented researcher and a spiritist with useful qualities.]

Hyman slowly called out Lenox’s name.

[And the creator of anti-gravity technology, and a nominee for the Technical Advisory Committee.]

“……”

[I won’t kill you here. I don’t want to touch you either, even because of the committee’s influence.]

The lion spirit, who slowly looked at Lenox’s face right next to him, said, slightly baring its teeth.

[Just stay here and watch the process of the creation spirit being born for the first time.]

Leaving Lenox, who did not answer, Hyman dragged the slumped Dean to the ritual origin with stone pillars.

[The essence of a spirit is the materialization of a concept. Therefore, the ability, characteristics, and direction of growth are determined at the point of materialization… but creation spirits are different.]

PLOP!!

Hyman, who had placed the Dean in front of the seventh empty stone pillar, raised his magic power, and at the same time, the entire meadow was covered in a dazzling silver wave.

PA-A-A-A-A-T!!!

[Because it is a spirit born with a blank spirituality, it can imitate, learn, and grow faster than existing spirits, according to the direction the sorcerer wants.]

“……”

[I have perfectly matched all the environment and catalysts for the growth and learning of the newly born spirit. If I just sacrifice Saiolus and twist the essence of the ritual…!!]

At the same time as those words, the powerful silver-white magic that rose up and wrapped around Hyman’s entire body became a huge pillar of light and fell on the seventh stone pillar.

KU-GWA-GWA-GWA-GWA!!!!

The last moment of the great achievement to create a spirit that did not exist before, by combining shamanism and spiritism, using humans as materials.

The end of the silver-white magic wave that was constantly heating up opened wide, and Hyman opened his eyes wide to confirm the appearance of the spirit that had newly appeared from within.

HOO-OONG…!!

The silver pillar collapsed and disappeared as if its power had been released, and the ritual was broken.

Hyman, realizing that he had failed to even sacrifice Saiolus, let alone create a new spirit, muttered.

[No… This, after coming all this way, I failed?]

The answer was not from Hyman himself or the fallen Dean, but from Lenox, who was standing behind him.

“Isn’t it not that surprising for us sorcerers?”

Lenox said, slowly walking forward.

“The proof of non-existence that always follows large-scale rituals that use magic circles. If the goal you want to reach exists in the space where the ritual is taking place, the ritual will not work.”

[Nonsense…!!]

Hyman turned to Lenox and roared fiercely.

[Who dares to say that they have attempted and succeeded in this feat before me…!! This miracle that can only be attempted by betting dozens of humans!!]

“That’s what I’m saying.”

Lenox replied indifferently without batting an eye.

At that moment, a clear blue light walked out softly from behind Lenox.

The fox spirit, which had been small enough to fit in Lenox’s arms, was now standing calmly in the form of a nine-tailed fox, much larger than Lenox.

Around Davi, four huge foxfire shapes were rapidly rotating.

“You said you created the environment and catalysts yourself for the newly born creation spirit.”

Instead of answering Hyman’s words, Lenox glanced at the sunset over the meadow and said.

“It seems that it’s not wrong.”

[What the hell is that…!!]

At that moment, an illusion occurred where the entire twilight of the sunset meadow tilted.

The silver light that had been scattered and disappeared into the sky as the ritual failed, fell down as if wrapping around Davi and began to be quietly absorbed.

Hyman, realizing that the power prepared for the newly born creation spirit was converging on the spirit in front of him instead of disappearing due to failure, gritted his teeth and glared.

PA-JI-JI-JIK…!!!

A huge pillar of lightning struck down from behind Davi, who was imbued with silver-white magic, and soon turned into a lush tail and began to wriggle behind him.

At the same time as the electronic spirit, who had newly awakened its fifth tail, grew a little larger,

The number of foxfires also increased to five according to the number of tails, and they rotated fiercely behind Davi.

“My spirit says it ate very well.”

Lenox slowly raised his hand and smiled.

“Thank you. Senator Hyman Kilberg.”

[Could it be that the spirit corresponding to the proof of non-existence you are talking about is…]

The moment Hyman, who had finally realized what Lenox had been saying, muttered in a boiling voice.

[Haaah…!!]

The electronic spirit, standing with a dazzling pentagram of thunder on its back, raised its head and took a step forward, scattering blue light.