Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 597

Crack, crack…!!

The foxfires rising from the tips of the five tails rotated, drawing a giant pentagram.

As if commanding the intense curtain of lightning bursting forth against the sunset-lit meadow, the thunder surged in time with Davi’s steps.

Intense lightning erupted from Davi’s grown form, which had grown to a size that easily surpassed Lenox.

Davi, who had been stagnant at four tails for a long time, had finally awakened his fifth tail.

A spirit growth acceleration ritual created through human sacrifice. And several high-grade catalysts and spirit magic that Hyman had prepared separately for the creation spirit that would be born from it.

Hyman’s plan itself was never wrong.

Just by absorbing the arrangements prepared in advance for the growth of the creation spirit, Davi succeeded in obtaining his fifth tail without relying on the power of the ritual created by human sacrifice.

Could there be a stronger realization that all the arrangements and rituals he had prepared were stolen and turned into a failure?

Even Lenox could not easily grasp the sense of deprivation and emptiness that Hyman, who was watching the scene unfold before his eyes, must have felt.

[I thought there was a limit to the talent for breaking the mold and the intellect that surpassed limitations…]

Hyman, who had been staring blankly at Davi in silence for a long time, slowly turned his lion’s massive body around.

[My predictions were completely wrong. Now I finally understand why the Dean cherished you so much.]

Hyman lowered his head as he faced the elegant figure of the Nine-tailed Fox, and his abundant mane fluttered along with him.

[You’re saying that you succeeded in creating a spirit long ago, something I wanted to achieve so badly, even going to these lengths.]

“…”

Even though he knew that the ritual had failed entirely because the creation spirit he had so desperately wanted already existed.

Even though he knew that the creation spirit had devoured all of his arrangements as an adversary, Hyman did not seem angry.

He was so calm that he simply lowered his head slowly in a silent stillness that seemed as if it would explode at any moment.

[What does it feel like?]

Hyman asked as if he was genuinely curious.

[What does it feel like to so casually seize the desires and achievements that others crave, and to watch the results from so far ahead?]

“You’re mistaken about something, Senator,” Lenox replied quietly, wrapped in a curtain of flashing lightning.

Even amidst the intense firepower that instantly burned the meadow’s undergrowth and extended its electrodes to the horizon, Lenox’s body was not injured in the slightest.

“Even transcendents who challenge ascension, or sages who change the fate of the world, all begin with deficiency and desire.”

[…]

“The power to envision unfulfilled desires. We call it ‘imagery’ and simply use it by defining its form. We must not forget its essence.”

[Huhu… Are you trying to give me advice right now?]

At Hyman’s bitter laugh, Lenox slowly shook his head.

“It’s just a personal anecdote.”

[An anecdote… I see. I understand.]

Whoosh!!

At the same time as Hyman’s figure disappeared like smoke with a hollow laugh, a faint transmission echoed like a reverberation.

[That greedy fruit created from your experience. I will take it directly from this place.]

From the moment he realized that the creation spirit already existed, he had been planning to take Davi away from Lenox.

The moment Lenox realized this and smiled wryly, a silver flash appeared before his eyes and struck down diagonally.

A sharp and heavy preemptive strike, as if trying to tear off his head alive.

But Lenox did not move, even as he saw the lion’s paw faltering before his eyes. Instead, he simply turned his gaze slightly backward and nodded.

Immediately after, a bright blue forepaw that shot out like lightning from beyond Lenox’s shoulder caught the lion’s lower jaw as it rushed in, stopping it in its tracks.

Pa-a-a-ang!!

The impact caused the surrounding space to vibrate greatly and the ground to tremble, but the foxfires that had risen around Lenox had perfectly blocked even the aftereffects.

[Creation spirit…!!!]

At the same time as the enraged Hyman clamped his jaws shut, he released a shockwave and shook off Davi’s forepaw.

But Davi, as if anticipating Hyman’s movements, lightly retreated behind Lenox.

The intense glow of foxfires that appeared around the electronic spirit’s body and flashed in all directions.

Whoooong!!!

As Davi’s size increased, the size of the foxfires also changed into spheres the size of an average person.

Pa-ji-ji-jik!!!

A magnificent scene of five giant lightning foxfires orbiting the electronic spirit like asteroids.

Hyman, who had been momentarily speechless by the sharp storm of lightning, quickly regained his senses and bared his teeth again.

[Even if you are a creation spirit, considering your origins, you are just a young entity that is not even ten years old… And yet, you dare to challenge me to a fight!!!]

At the same time as a silver glow erupted, something began to materialize, enveloping the massive lion’s body.

A silver-white armor that drew smooth yet angular lines of steel. An overwhelming appearance of a lion’s form clad in heavy armor.

[Outer Beast Armor: Heavenly Form]

Clank!!

In an instant, a dazzling magical light emanated from all over the silver armor that enveloped the lion’s entire body, and Hyman’s movements accelerated explosively.

He smashed the giant foxfire rushing at him head-on and landed in front of Davi in an instant.

Kwaaaang!!

The lion and the fox, which had grown to a huge size exceeding several meters, stood facing each other at the same time, with the wide plain behind them.

The forms of five foxfires that were fiercely rotating around the two enlarged spirits.

The moment Lenox drew up his magic and resonated it once more with Davi’s body.

[Outer Beast Armor: War Lion]

[Automatic Combat Algorithm: Spirit Combat Activated]

The two spirits, flashing with silver and deep navy blue, collided head-on at the same time.

Kuuuuung!!

The lion, tearing through the air with claws encased in armor, and Davi’s spirit, dodging Hyman’s attack and shaking its head at close range.

Between the gazes that passed by at subsonic speed, the eyes of the two spirits flashed with dazzling magical light.

Hyman, realizing that calculation formulas and character arrays were appearing in Davi’s eyes at an incredible speed, hesitated slightly.

[Melee Mode Install Complete]

Davi, raising his forepaw, struck Hyman’s jaw like lightning.

[Emergency Execution]

Kwaaaang!!!

The impact shattered part of the armor covering the lion’s face, exposing the crushed spirit’s flesh.

Davi did not stop there, but instantly slipped under Hyman’s mane and rotated as if sliding.

The five tails of the electronic spirit, bent firmly, tripped Hyman’s legs and threw him off balance.

Thud!!

Davi, who had slipped out behind the tilting lion spirit’s massive body, instantly climbed onto Hyman’s back and stomped roughly.

Shapes of dozens of lightning bolts burst out and rotated sharply, as if finely splitting Hyman’s back.

Spirit-Class Common Magic Partial Deployment

[Thunder Break: Pistol Driver]

Pa-ji-ji-jik!!!

Each time dozens of lightning bolts split and struck down, Hyman’s spirit burst out as if crushed on the spot, scattering silver smoke.

But Hyman also endured the shock of his spirit bursting out on the spot with the power of his armor, and pressed down on the ground, collapsing part of the foundation.

Hyman’s armor, which had quickly flipped his body through the space created by the collapsed foundation, began to regenerate.

The five foxfires that had been spinning madly around Davi’s body began to chant different spells.

[Lightning Sequence]

[Multi-Spell: Penta Verse]

Whoooong!!!

The foxfires, rotating in a pentagram, chanted and released different lightning spells, increasing their rotation speed like crazy.

The light emanating from the ends of the five pentagrams intersected at the center, brightly illuminating Davi’s spirit.

The two spirits collided the magic they projected almost simultaneously on the horizon of the sunset-lit meadow.

[Outer Beast Armor: Fighting Spirit]

[Plasma Cartridge]

[Electronic Barrel]

[Call Advance]

Ku-gwa-gwa-gwa!!!

The lion and fox forms slipped, intertwined, and bounced away, and the magic of the rotating foxfires filled the gap.

[Lightning Bringer]

The lightning spears and pillars that struck down exploded like artillery fire, illuminating the area and burning the scenery of the meadow once more.

Every time the giant thunder pentagram rotated behind Davi’s back, it unleashed a barrage of different lightning spells like lightning, scattering them with tremendous firepower.

Du-du-du-du!!!

Hyman also countered with the silver armor and melee abilities, presumed to be the power of the spirit, but he was only being beaten down as if his hands and feet were tied in the rain of lightning.

[Cough…!!]

Hyman roared lowly as he realized that the scattering lightning was a calculated battle of wits, perfectly tailored to his movements.

[You, a creation spirit who was born not long ago… How dare you try to imitate the way of thinking of a sorcerer!!!]

The battle between the two spirits seems fierce and desperate, but in reality, Davi does not often engage in melee combat with Hyman.

Unless there is an opportunity for Davi himself to land a perfect counterattack on Hyman, he does not bother to aim for a direct hit.

He dodges and deflects all of Hyman’s melee attacks through the calculations of the automatic combat algorithm, and in the meantime, he fires the magic of the foxfires like artillery.

Even the first attack where Davi directly struck Hyman was part of a psychological warfare to hide Davi’s style.

But Hyman also immediately grasped the intention and was taking the most unconventional movements possible to move in an area that could not be calculated.

[Breath of the Soul]

At the same time as intense magical light concentrated inside the lion’s wide-open mouth, it was spewed out as if breathing fire.

A projectile that gathers and fires magic that is clearly different from the existing melee combat.

Davi’s form was swept away on the spot without any time to dodge, becoming faint.

But surprisingly, a voice was heard from within the flames that Hyman himself had spewed out.

[I’m not imitating.]

A tone that was completely different from anyone else present in this place, utterly unfamiliar.

The moment Hyman realized that it was the will of the spirit standing before his eyes, his eyes widened.

[I understand, analyze, and ultimately reverse-engineer it.]

Hwa-a-a-ak!!

Davi, who had emerged from the flames that Hyman had spewed out without any trouble, spoke.

Although the Dean, who was unconscious, could not hear it, a clear voice echoed clearly to Lenox and Hyman.

Davi, who had conveyed his will to a living being other than Lenox for the first time, opened his mouth as he looked at him.

[Shedding the human body and becoming a spirit, the attempt to become a being beyond that through ritual, even the structure of this space that you define as the spirit realm.]

[E-even if you are a creation spirit with intelligence… this is impossible.]

Hyman took a step back slightly, looking terrified at Davi’s clear words.

Surprisingly, Hyman seemed more surprised and horrified by that fact than by any other variable that had occurred so far.

[The language of the true self is a miracle only allowed to intelligent beings with a physical body. How can a creation spirit born under the will of a human…!!]

Hyman muttered up to that point, and then, as if he had finally realized something, his silver eyes widened.

[T-that’s right. If it’s not the will and imagery allowed to humans in the first place…!!]

Spirit-Class Common Magic

[Nova Sphere]

A pillar of light that burst out right next to him became a lightning spear and pierced the lion spirit’s side.

Kwa-jik, kwa-jik!!

Without stopping there, five consecutive lightning spears rose up and pierced Hyman like skewers, lifting him into the air.

It was not a lightning spell that was chanted, but a sure hit that transformed the form of the foxfires into giant spears and embedded them into Hyman’s spirit.

[Aaaaargh!!]

Perhaps he had sensed that the match was completely decided beyond any possibility of reversal.

[Show me how you were able to obtain the spirit’s soul. Even the imagery of the organic beings who were sacrificed in the process.]

Looking at Hyman, who was wailing miserably with the voice of a beast, Davi spoke quietly with his eyes closed.

[So I am…]

Pa-a-a-at!!

From within the electronic spirit, which had transformed into the form of a Nine-tailed Fox, the color spread like a thick paint, deeply dyed as if sinking into darkness.

As if containing the abyss of the universe in one body, Davi, who had bound the faintly shining starlight under the yoke of the spirit, sat coiled and stared at Hyman.

[H-huh…!!]

An overwhelming imagery that was hard to imagine a life form could contain.

Davi, who was quietly fluttering his black and blue fur, lowered his head containing the starlight of the universe, and spoke.

His voice, unlike before, was filled with a deep resonance and spirituality, declaring Hyman’s end.

[I intend to comfort them by burning your spirit in this place. You pitiful being who can be neither human nor spirit.]

Whoosh!!

At that moment, the form containing the abyss disappeared like an illusion, and Davi, who had returned to the form of dazzling lightning, slowly moved his tail.

Not simply swaying according to instinct, but a movement that crossed with a clear image and purpose.

The moment Hyman realized that it was changing the nature of magic and distorting space, like a sorcerer’s hand seal, he groaned with a strangled voice.

[Magnetic Field Deployment]

Spirit-Class Imagery Manifestation

[Dream-Thought Electric Mirror: Partial Deployment]

Pa-a-a-a-at!!!

Partial deployment of the magnetic field, unfolding around the foxfires that had pierced Hyman’s spirit.

The electronic spirit controlled and directed the partial deployment application, which Lenox had only just grasped the concept of, in the realm of calculation.

Using the imagery of Lenox, the caster, as a driving force, and adding Davi’s own heart, the partial area of the Dream-Thought Electric Mirror, which contains the most fundamental essence of the electronic spirit.

Within it, Davi’s amplified electronic field designation command was directly implemented and extended in reality.

[Prime Order: Anti-Balance]

Ku-gwa-gwa-gwa!!!

A five-layered resonance deployment in which five foxfires simultaneously chanted a single spell.

The moment the pale pillar of light implemented through it struck Hyman’s form, the silver armor surrounding the lion’s body shattered, and even the spirit’s flesh began to fade and disappear little by little.

The lion, realizing that it was going beyond simply killing the spirit and completely dismantling Hyman Kilberg’s spirit, struggled madly.

[No, no!! How, how could this happen…!!]

[Canceling]

[Aaaaaaaargh!!!]

At the same time as a desperate scream, Hyman’s figure gradually scattered and disappeared on the spot.

Ku-gwa-gwa-gwa!!

The shock of Hyman Kilberg’s existence being completely dismantled and annihilated caused the space of the meadow itself to shake madly and fall apart.

Lenox, who had picked up the Dean, who had startled awake from the intense vibration, glanced sideways.

“Evan…?! What on earth is this…!!”

The Dean said, looking around, and then his eyes widened at the sight of Davi surrounded by a pale pillar of light.

[I won’t… I won’t end it like this!!!]

In the midst of all that, the disappearing Hyman squeezed out his last bit of strength and tried to rush towards Lenox.

[Spirit-Class Common Magic]

Davi, who was standing right next to him, opened his mouth and swallowed Hyman’s spirit as it rushed in.

[Bite and Swallow.]

“…Davi?”

Even Lenox, who had been quietly reviewing the flow of the battle from behind, was taken aback by Davi’s sudden action and stood up.

But Davi shook his tail as if he was okay, then chewed on Hyman as if he was chewing gum and spat him out.

[It tastes bad!!]

[Kkuaaaaaak!!]

The huge lion’s body, which had become a rag, was completely dismantled and annihilated.

Wha-chang!!!

The shock shattered the scenery of the meadow, and the light of the magic that Davi had cast covered the sky above the library’s rooftop.

* * *

Clunk, clunk…!!

Silence filled the train that was leaving the Lavatenon Magic University.

The students’ faces, covered in dust and cobwebs, were also filled with a sense of unease.

They could not shake off the guilt of having barely escaped the school by using Evan as bait at the last moment.

“…Priscilla, she stayed at the school until the very end.”

“She must be planning to help the assistant professor. Sila was the only one who dealt with the masked assailant wearing a leopard mask earlier.”

“Damn it, we were completely useless after all…”

They muttered self-deprecatingly, but the students also knew that they should not refuse Evan’s consideration.

Because they had been thoroughly educated by several professors on how powerless a magician who had not received combat training was on the field.

It is not enough to simply know how to use powerful magic.

The composure and calmness to chant and implement magic in a chaotic battlefield.

The ability to judge and control to accurately aim and hit the enemy with the lump of firepower in their hands.

All the abilities necessary for combat can only be obtained after countless practical experiences, including mock training.

Even combat magicians who are active on the field often become cold corpses due to a moment’s mistake.

The undergraduate students of Lavatenon are all those who can handle magic, and they know to some extent what kind of lives magicians live.

If they rashly tried to help Evan or Mila, they would be lucky if they didn’t accidentally hit and kill a fellow student or ally.

The students were not foolish enough to think that they could fill their lack of ability with bravado and pride alone.

“Ah, the signal is working now.”

“Everyone has their cell phones, right? We need to quickly contact our acquaintances and inform them of the situation…!!”

“I’ll leak Assistant Professor Evan’s name to the media to increase attention. I’ll try to find a way to resolve the situation as quickly as possible…!!”

Kwaaaang!!

At that moment, a loud roar echoed from the rear window of the train, which was quickly moving away from the school facilities.

The students, startled, turned their gaze towards the rear of the train, and saw a pale pillar of light rising towards the sky in the distance.

“Where is it? Where is the location?!”

“It’s the central library…!!”

The moment the pillar of light pierced through the ceiling of the library and rose high into the sky, the sound of glass breaking and shattering echoed.

Wha-chang!!

Along with that, the scenery inside the university, which had been somewhat blurry and difficult to recognize, became clearly visible, and the pale flash of light began to scatter and disappear on the spot.

The students, who had been staring blankly at the scene, noticed something and hurriedly pointed with their hands and shouted.

“Look, something is falling!!”

“Who is it?”

The form of something that was falling to the ground, wrapped in the fading flash of light.

The moment the students realized that it was in the form of a giant fox, they opened their mouths with a sense of emotion.

The illusion of the fox that had risen into the air chewed its mouth and spat something out before disappearing.

The students, who had stopped blankly at the completely unexpected sight.

“…Davi, weren’t you fighting the spirit?”

“It didn’t taste very good, I guess.”

“Well, he didn’t eat spirit feed unless it was a high-end product…”

“T-that’s not a matter of taste, is it?”

“…”

The terrorist attack by the Gyeshingung that attacked Lavatenon Magic University.

Even though they had realized that everything had finally come to an end with the power of the assistant professor of the Department of Elemental Studies and his spirit, a strange silence fell in the train.