Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 857

Heavenly Eye Madrea Falsier.

A level 9 Ascendant. A great observer who inherited the mission of the Lighthouse Keeper [a guardian of the world, tasked with observing and protecting against threats from the outer seas].

Among those who had earned the qualifications, she was the most human-friendly transcendent, an existence who had spent her entire life observing the outer seas and striving to postpone destruction.

Even the Balkan City Council had signed a non-aggression pact with the autonomous territory after just one visit from the Heavenly Eye, her power and influence transcending the concept of units.

She was great simply by being there, and many of the things she had done throughout her life were footprints for the world, a giant of an era.

Even her death was used to stop a war, and her end was so sublime that Lenok had remembered her for a long time.

However, since he had only spoken with her directly for a fleeting moment, he had never imagined that he would meet her again in this way.

In the consciousness world of the guardian spirit. At the altar that Compendium was guarding, a young Heavenly Eye was waiting for Lenok.

“Hmm, I don’t know who you are….”

Whoosh!!

The moment the Heavenly Eye took a step from the edge of the altar.

She crossed a distance of hundreds of meters in an instant and landed in front of Lenok.

She was tall and her physique was strong. Standing straight, her eye level was slightly higher than Lenok’s.

A dignified and overbearing figure that was completely unimaginable from the Heavenly Eye in her later years, whom Lenok remembered.

A straight and direct appearance that was perfectly suited to the name of Lighthouse Keeper.

Staring at Lenok right in front of her, she smiled and very naturally put her arm around Lenok’s shoulder.

“For a mage, you’re better looking than I thought. I like it.”

“……”

“I don’t know why you came all the way here, but if you have time, shall we talk for a bit?”

A sudden remark that was completely unimaginable from the Heavenly Eye in her later years, whom Lenok remembered.

Even though he knew it couldn’t be true, he even wondered if she was a person with the same name.

A strong vitality and cheerful tone that matched her youthful appearance. Was the Heavenly Eye like this before she became an Ascendant?

‘Considering Compendium’s case, she probably isn’t the real one. It’s probably a memory or a fragment….’

Just like Compendium, whom he had met here before, was a part of his consciousness, the possibility that this consciousness body standing in front of him was the real Heavenly Eye was low.

Perhaps it was one of the arrangements that the Heavenly Eye had left in the consciousness world during her lifetime.

But even considering that, the presence of the consciousness body, which was calmly putting her arm around Lenok’s shoulder and chattering away, was truly surreal.

“It’s an old habit. If you’re cooped up in a lighthouse all the time, observing the outside, you don’t get to meet people often. So, whenever I get the chance, I end up grabbing someone and talking.”

“……”

“Especially now. There are hardly any guys who can understand me, so I can’t even complain anywhere. I guess that’s why everyone makes a family.”

With just that simple gesture of laughing and waving her hand in the air, it was an illusion as if the entire space was being dyed in her colors.

Kiiing……!!

All the objects visible in the field of view seemed to be distorted and listening to the Heavenly Eye.

A fragment left by an Ascendant. Is it possible that even a consciousness body that is only a part of a memory possesses this level of dignity?

However, despite the suffocating pressure that the Heavenly Eye was giving off, Lenok was thinking about something else first.

‘Even if Compendium is gone, why is it the Heavenly Eye’s consciousness body of all things?’

Why was it Madrea Falsier’s memory that was waiting for him at this altar, which should have originally belonged to Compendium?

Why is the consciousness body of an Ascendant who died a long time ago still here?

Even though it was a completely unexpected situation, Lenok was intuitively aware that this was not a coincidence.

‘Lapis said that she would come to Balkan to recover all of the Heavenly Eye’s abilities.’

Why Balkan of all places, and why is she trying to enter a restricted area even while breaking the non-aggression pact of the autonomous territory?

Would it be a mistake to feel that the reason itself is strongly linked to the existence of the Heavenly Eye standing here now?

That Lapis’s journey, which felt particularly sudden, was strongly related to the memory of the Heavenly Eye he had just encountered.

Lenok understood that the series of information he had heard from Ivelin was a sign pointing to this situation.

“Hmm…….”

However, as soon as the Heavenly Eye saw Lenok’s face, which was regaining its composure in an instant, she abruptly stopped her trivial words.

Looking at Lenok with an interesting look, she muttered.

“That’s a strange reaction. You were clearly greatly agitated as soon as you saw me, but immediately after that, you collected all your emotions.”

“……”

“It’s not just that you’re maintaining your consciousness stably here, but did you find a reason to understand this situation in the meantime? No, more than that-”

The Heavenly Eye, who had her arm around his shoulder, tilted her head and met Lenok’s gaze.

A distance close enough for her navy blue hair to fall between Lenok’s shoulders.

Looking straight at Lenok with her clear sky-blue eyes, the Heavenly Eye said.

“You weren’t just aware of me. You’ve met me directly.”

“……”

“If I had met a mage like you, there’s no way I wouldn’t remember. Are you a guy who was born after I embedded my consciousness here?”

Thump!!

The Heavenly Eye, who had her arm around Lenok’s shoulder, turned her body around and asked.

“Tell me. How much time has passed since I died in reality?”

“……Amazing.”

Lenok hesitated and answered at her straightforward question.

“Even though you’re just a part of the memory left by an Ascendant, you’re aware that the real you has died?”

No matter how outstanding a transcendent is, their memories or consciousness are ultimately just concepts that are subordinate to the main body.

Even if the Heavenly Eye had left her memories here, she could not become the real Heavenly Eye.

Unless she had a talent that defied the natural order like Kaise Bajur, she would not be able to read a future that was not her own in the flow of time.

Is it because it is the memory of the Heavenly Eye who sees everything that she is even aware of her own death?

Just as Lenok was about to nod, impressed by the great intuition of the Ascendant, the Heavenly Eye tilted her head.

“No, how could that be? How would I know that.”

“…….”

“Judging by your reaction, it seems you have no idea how I exist here.”

The Heavenly Eye chuckled as she looked at the silent Lenok.

“It’s about infinitely dividing consciousness and filling the flow of time in between. A moment becomes close to eternity, and eternity is soon the same as a moment. What I am now is a fragment of consciousness that has been chosen and divided from countless divided consciousnesses.”

“That’s….”

“It’s something Ascendants often do. I know it too.”

The Heavenly Eye smiled and raised her finger.

As if slicing through an invisible time very briefly, she lightly waved her finger and said.

“Just like cutting and pasting a scene from a frame, I am a consciousness body created by taking the Heavenly Eye who lived in that time as it is. It can’t prevent the loss of the main body’s time as much as it was cut, but it can leave the past self that definitely existed in the consciousness space.”

“……”

“I don’t know if you understood me properly because you’re not reacting. In short, to put it briefly-”

Thud!!

The Heavenly Eye, who had placed her palm on Lenok’s chest, lowered her head.

Her navy blue hair flowed over her shoulders, creating a cool breeze.

The Heavenly Eye whispered softly.

“A guy like you shouldn’t be here in the first place.”

“……!!”

Kaaang!!!

The moment a sharp, clear sound pierced his eardrums, the entire consciousness space surrounding Lenok was distorted, and a flood of illusions unfolded.

The objects in front of him all tilted their eyes as if they were looking at Lenok, and at the same time, they tried to steal Lenok’s vision.

Lenok, realizing that it was the Lighthouse Keeper’s ability to steal and wield the vision of all things in the universe, far surpassing the level used by Lapis, pulled up his mental power with all his might.

Kwaaaang!!

The place where Lenok and the Heavenly Eye were standing exploded.

Half of the altar that had sprung up behind the man was split and scattered its fragments in all directions.

“I was going to banish you at once, but you withstood that?”

Lenok’s figure, which had been thrown back by the intense shockwave, regained its balance, and the Heavenly Eye, who had risen into the air, burst into laughter.

“I was going to steal your mind’s eye and send you back to reality, but you’re not even affected by the interference. The stability of your consciousness body is even superior to mine.”

“What is this all about?”

“I thought it would be boring from the moment we could communicate, but you’re more dangerous than I thought.”

The Heavenly Eye, who had her arms crossed and tilted her head, slowly landed on the ground and said.

“The minds of mages around level 8 are all unstable, so most of them are more vulnerable in the consciousness space than in reality….”

The Heavenly Eye’s sky-blue eyes flashed, ignoring Lenok’s question.

“Then how dangerous are you in reality?”

Kwaaaang!!!

A beam of mental power, encompassing a radius of hundreds of meters, exploded and swept across the horizon, from one end of the altar where Compendium was sleeping to the other.

In the consciousness world where physical laws do not exist, the power of will is the law.

And if it is a consciousness body created by an Ascendant by cutting out the actual past time, its level here is almost the same as an Ascendant.

Lenok, who sensed this, tried to pull up his mental power with all his might and wield it instead of magic to counter it.

But the Heavenly Eye’s tall figure had already reached Lenok’s nose again.

Whoosh-!

A kick that extended at an invisible speed.

The moment he dodged by leaping through consciousness, the blue light that was swung along his leg destroyed dozens of ancient city buildings and ran.

Kugwagwagwa!!!

The ground shook and the atmosphere was distorted with a deafening roar.

When she threw a straight punch, a storm of tens of meters swept in, and when she twisted her shoulder, the altar was shattered by the shockwave.

The operation of consciousness. Is this the level of power just by purely speeding up without using any spells?

Lenok, who had not expected that the Heavenly Eye of her lifetime, especially the Lighthouse Keeper, would be capable of such violent combat, tumbled over the ruined altar.

“Space leap? You’re using annoying techniques.”

The Heavenly Eye’s figure, which was catching up with Lenok’s blink at lightning speed, punched the consciousness space as she leaped.

“If you can naturally unleash it even in this consciousness space, are you a successor of space magic? Don’t dodge!”

“Wait, a minute…!!”

Kwaaaang!!!

Every time she moved with her long limbs, it seemed as if the sky and the earth were tilting along with her gestures.

Lenok, who was leaping on the fragments of the altar that had been shattered and scattered, shouted with difficulty.

“If this whole place collapses, Compendium’s consciousness will inevitably be damaged…!!”

Thwack!!

The moment the Heavenly Eye’s kick was sucked into Lenok’s abdomen as if it was being pulled in without an answer.

His figure was slammed into the ground below the altar and pushed back tens of meters.

In the brief moment that it heated up, raising a huge cloud of dust like a curtain, the Heavenly Eye’s fist, which had fallen while scattering her navy blue hair, struck Lenok’s solar plexus.

Paah-ang!!

But in that short moment, Lenok’s hand, which had intervened, blocked the Heavenly Eye’s fist and stopped it in its place.

The Heavenly Eye’s movement, which was about to blow Lenok’s body away, rippled slowly at the same time.

On the altar where dust was flying, the Heavenly Eye’s face, which was chuckling, could be seen.

“Oh ho. So you’ve done some punching, huh?”

“Don’t get excited and listen. I said I was willing to answer.”

A miracle that would be impossible to even attempt in reality without borrowing the power of the Guangramuhae Palace [a powerful organization or location].

But in this consciousness world, the strength of will is the strength of the body.

Lenok, who had received the punch using the power of the Touin [a specific technique or power] without being pushed back by the power of the Ascendant at all, met the Heavenly Eye’s gaze.

“Or are the words of a mortal not even heard by the ears of an Ascendant?”

“Mortal? How are you a mortal?”

The Heavenly Eye laughed as if she couldn’t believe it.

“You are an existence with more diverse abilities than any mage I have ever seen. I’m curious how you gathered so many powers from different systems and origins.”

“……”

“I don’t know what happened in the present world that created a guy like you, but what makes you think I should listen to you?”

Kkkkkk……!!

At the same time as the Heavenly Eye’s fist gained strength, the fist that Lenok had blocked with both arms slowly began to move forward.

The Heavenly Eye, who had immediately thrust her fist into the center of Lenok’s heart, said in a low voice.

“Decisively, your fundamental mind is not visible at all.”

“……”

“I can’t call someone whose mind is not visible even with my abilities a mere mortal.”

The Heavenly Eye stared at Lenok intently and muttered.

“I don’t know if you’re an incarnation borrowing the power of an outer god, or if you’re the real one, but I’ll find out once I knock you down. I’ll listen to your answer next.”

She was said to be a human-friendly Ascendant, but the Heavenly Eye of her lifetime seemed to have a much more fiery personality than he thought.

The power emitted by the Heavenly Eye’s consciousness body, which was holding her fist, amplified like crazy, and it became so huge that it already filled the entire vast city.

Lenok, who intuitively knew that they would end up in a power struggle until one of their consciousnesses was shattered, gritted his teeth and racked his brain before answering.

“The last time I saw you, you were an old man on the verge of death…!!”

“So what?”

Saying that, the Heavenly Eye tilted her fist even more.

As soon as she realized that the Lighthouse Keeper’s ability was not working, her skill in thoroughly pushing him into a melee was surprisingly skillful.

A martial art with a high degree of implementation that was hard to believe was a battle taking place in this space where only consciousness bodies existed.

But even in the midst of that, Lenok slowly pushed back the Heavenly Eye’s consciousness and retorted.

“Even if the main body’s time is lost when creating a consciousness body, you wouldn’t have aged with just one or two times-”

“……”

“The mission of the Lighthouse Keeper that you had to protect even while creating hundreds, thousands of consciousness bodies.”

Lenok said, meeting the Heavenly Eye’s gaze directly.

“Your granddaughter is trying to postpone destruction by inheriting that mission.”

“……What?”

“You should know.”

The moment the Heavenly Eye’s expression, which had been looking at Lenok with a blank face, twitched, Lenok spat out as if he was sure.

“The observation authority of the fifth lighthouse that your granddaughter gave me. Are you pretending not to know even though you’ve already seen it from me?”

“……”

Whoosh!!

At that moment, the immense pressure that had been pressing down on Lenok disappeared like a lie.

Lenok coughed lightly as he caught his breath belatedly and got up from his seat.

“Cough…!!”

The Heavenly Eye had observed all kinds of authorities and magic from within Lenok as soon as she saw him with her unique ability.

Although it seemed that she had not been able to see through the kaleidoscope’s mind, if she had seen even the authority left by the goddess, there was no way she would not have seen other things.

The observation authority of the fifth lighthouse that Lapis had gifted to Lenok.

She must have been aware of its existence, but she was pretending not to know in order to interrogate and exclude Lenok.

Even though she seemed cheerful and human on the outside, she was endlessly cold and resolute about what she had to do.

Lenok slowly continued, recalling what kind of nature the Heavenly Eye had in her lifetime.

“I’ve been thinking about it since earlier. If you were already in that form when you reached level 9, why were you an old man when you died?”

“……”

“Was it because you had divided your time into countless pieces in the consciousness world that your main body had aged?”

An existence that had this level of ego and power even though it was only a part of the memory left by the Heavenly Eye.

That was because the Heavenly Eye had infinitely divided her time and attached her consciousness, which had once definitely existed, to the consciousness world.

However, if you cut out a scene from a frame and paste it somewhere else, the original film of the main body will definitely be lost little by little.

If you repeat that an immeasurable number of times, even an Ascendant who lives for a long time will inevitably experience the loss of time.

Unlike the Heavenly Eye standing in front of Lenok, who was young, the reason why the Heavenly Eye on the verge of death was an old man must have been because of that.

“After the lighthouse that observed the world was broken, you were using your consciousness body as a substitute for the lighthouse to carry out your mission.”

Lenok, who had quickly regained his composure, said.

“The reason why the observation of the outer sea was cut off after you died must be because most of the consciousness bodies you created at that time disappeared with the death of the main body.”

“……”

“Lapis is moving to postpone destruction by taking over what you were doing. But if observing the outer sea is only possible in that way, then that’s….”

Wasn’t that a sign that the lighthouses that Lapis was rebuilding all over the continent might not have any meaning in postponing destruction?

Lenok understood that as soon as he heard the Heavenly Eye’s explanation, but he could not figure out how to convince the Ascendant in front of him.

Therefore, he ended up just stopping the Heavenly Eye’s decision for the time being by simply spitting out the impressions he had been contemplating.

However, the Heavenly Eye listened to Lenok’s words with an expression that could not read her emotions and muttered.

“Lapis. Lapis Falsier… you gave her such a name.”

“……”

“My granddaughter….”

The Heavenly Eye, who had closed her eyes and was repeating the name as if she was savoring it, said.

“That child inherited the mission of the Lighthouse Keeper in my place?”

“To be precise, she is trying to create a new lighthouse and observe the outer sea.”

Lenok answered.

“Thinking that one is not enough, she is proceeding with a plan to occupy all the hidden places of the continent and rebuild the lighthouses.”

“……”

The Heavenly Eye, who had been silent, suddenly asked.

“Then are you a follower of my granddaughter?”

“That’s….”

When Lenok didn’t answer, the Heavenly Eye chuckled as if she knew it.

“That can’t be true. If a mage like you said that you were staying under someone, I wouldn’t believe it.”

“……”

“Well, fine. I know what you’re saying. Follow me.”

The Heavenly Eye, who had casually withdrawn her hand, turned around, shaking her abundant hair.

Looking at the Heavenly Eye, who was walking away without waiting for an answer, Lenok asked with a bewildered look.

“Where are you going? Where is there to go in this consciousness world?”

“Weren’t you here to meet Padme?”

The Heavenly Eye retorted.

“Padme’s consciousness body disappeared before you arrived. It’s because a new door that threatens this space has opened.”

“Yeah, I thought you opened the passage at first, but now that I see it, it doesn’t seem like it.”

“……”

“Let’s talk as we go. I think I know why you came here.”

The Heavenly Eye said that and nodded to Lenok.

“I’ll show you what happens to an Ascendant who fails in their challenge after they die.”