Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 861

The Handbook’s consciousness space was vast, its end difficult to fathom.

A massive jungle sprawled, with only the undergrowth between the old stone floor thriving.

The consciousness that had become a well, corrupted and leading to the Outer Seas, ascended to reality, and in the empty field left behind, the Handbook spoke.

“You are right, human.”

Even setting aside her physical body for a moment, this vast world of consciousness was where she resided.

The transcendent being, who had been trying to shatter space-time by chanting the highest-level spells in succession, seemed to have no interest in what she had been doing.

Instead, she simply stared at Lenok with transparent eyes that could not read any emotion.

The magician, who had barely finished connecting with Davi’s consciousness, turned to see the shadow of a young girl stretching long.

“You may laugh at my arrogance, but in a way, it is also a conviction that I will reach the end.”

“……”

“Before reaching it, it is merely a vague sensation, but after surpassing it, it becomes a clear belief.”

The shadow cast at the feet of the girl, who stood with her disheveled white hair spread out haphazardly, somehow resembled a giant snake.

The ascendant, in the guise of a young girl, slowly shook off the hands she had gathered and turned her gaze.

“You already possess it. You are more certain than anyone I remember.”

“……Yes.”

“Anyone who has raised their own level beyond a certain point will gain the stubbornness that their method is right.”

The Handbook turned her gaze with a blank face.

“If you do not waver, then that is good. It will not be too late to watch your answer beyond the end you reach and decide.”

The decision Padme Kiesa was talking about was probably not just about whether or not to cooperate with Lenok.

The snake guarding the well. The transcendent being born with the Handbook’s alias.

Even as she gradually lost her own memories, she fulfilled her duties, and to her, Lenok’s existence, who was trying to ascend, was not just a criterion for distinguishing friend from foe.

If Lenok were to challenge the ascension in the future and the result she obtained was deemed to conflict with her mission.

She would literally try to exclude Lenok from this world with all her might as an ascendant.

“I will accept the mediation of the Heavenly Eye. As promised, I will hand over the essence of the consciousness to that magician’s guardian spirit.”

“If you are going to say that, it would be better to notify me before you take action.”

Lenok replied with a dumbfounded look.

“Thanks to you acting without notice, the guardian spirit has awakened in reality. I am barely able to leave this place and fix the situation.”

The Handbook tilted her head.

“What does that have to do with me?”

“……”

“Well, let’s stop there, both of you.”

The Heavenly Eye stepped forward, leaving Lenok speechless.

She patted the girl’s shoulder leisurely and said with a grin.

“Padme. Thank you for accepting the offer. It wouldn’t have ended smoothly without your help.”

“I didn’t do it to receive thanks.”

The girl, who was languidly touching one eyelid, said.

“As I said, one well to protect is enough. As long as the result is the same, that it is handled without being overwritten, the method doesn’t matter.”

“I know. I heard it before. Even after a long time, that hasn’t changed.”

The Heavenly Eye laughed.

“But I am different. The mission I have chosen is not a task with a clear goal, but a postponement that endlessly stretches out the process.”

“……”

“I was a little suspicious, but after meeting that magician and you, I understand. I will leave, having acted as I first believed until the moment I die.”

The Heavenly Eye slowly took her hand off the Handbook’s shoulder and said.

“Then I must follow.”

“……Even if you are just a fragment of the past, you are still a fragment from the point when you obtained the qualification.”

The Handbook, who brushed off the Heavenly Eye’s hand with a nonchalant look, retorted.

“To care about how the end of the present world was now, it doesn’t suit you.”

“Really?”

“……”

A strange silence flowed, and the Handbook turned her gaze.

“There is nothing more to do here. I will return.”

The problem that occurred in this consciousness space, the commotion that clashed with Lenok and the Heavenly Eye in the process.

Even the series of actions of splitting the consciousness and handing it over to the guardian spirit seemed to have no particular meaning to her.

That was probably because the various times and memories layered within the Handbook were already sinking endlessly with her.

She quietly watched the back of the girl as she turned and walked away beyond the horizon.

“Goodbye.”

The Handbook lightly raised her finger, with her arms crossed.

She swept back her abundant dark blue hair, and with a face that had escaped the flow of time, she smiled softly.

“Farewell, Padme.”

“……”

She does not say see you next time.

The moment Lenok felt something from the Heavenly Eye’s words and quietly raised her gaze.

The Handbook’s footsteps, which had been walking and disappearing beyond the horizon, stopped for a moment.

“……”

The horizon shattered and scattered, and the evening sky was dyed red with sunset.

As if feeling the same thing, the girl captured the Heavenly Eye’s figure in her transparent eyes.

As if trying to remember someone who had left this world first.

Without a word, the girl’s figure, who had been facing the Heavenly Eye, soared into the form of a giant snake, and at that moment.

The consciousness of the ascendant, who had filled the vast field and turned around, completely disappeared.

Whoosh!!

“Did she leave?”

The Heavenly Eye, who had been acting all serious, finally sighed and smiled bitterly.

“She has no sense at all, but she has a good sense in strange areas. That hasn’t changed.”

The Heavenly Eye, ignoring Lenok who was looking at her in bewilderment, turned her head and said.

“Well, now that it’s like this, shall we take care of the remaining things between us?”

“Remaining things?”

“This consciousness space, where the owner has disappeared, will soon collapse.”

The Heavenly Eye said, pointing above her head.

“Before that, there is one thing I want to tell you. I hope we can make it in time.”

Crack!!

As she said, the consciousness space where the Handbook had disappeared was rapidly contracting, creating cracks everywhere.

The space, where the consciousness that originally resided in this space, as well as the real Handbook, had left, was losing its meaning and slowly fading away.

Lenok, who understood that, said to the Heavenly Eye.

“I understood that you were trying to save the consciousness in the process of mediating the Handbook. I also acknowledge that the method helped me.”

It was easy to miss because the situation had become urgent due to the clash between the two ascendants, but the Heavenly Eye was clearly trying to help Lenok.

At least, the process of transferring the Handbook’s consciousness to Lenok was impossible without noticing the concern about the guardian spirit.

It was not her intention, but it was clear that she had received help from her. But-

“That doesn’t mean I have to listen to your request. Why do you think I will cooperate with you?”

“You are difficult. But I knew you would be.”

The Heavenly Eye smiled and waved her hand, and a simple chair was placed behind her.

The Heavenly Eye, who seemed to be struggling a bit, sat down on the chair and said.

“Don’t worry. I don’t want to ask you for a feat that would be a burden. In the first place, you are too dangerous to entrust such a task to.”

“……”

“Yes, you are dangerous… so honestly, I’m not sure if it’s okay to ask you for this favor right now.”

The Heavenly Eye muttered, rubbing her forehead in thought.

“The function of the lighthouse keeper is specialized in seeing farther than anyone else, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they can see all futures. In a way, it is a power closer to a higher version of foresight, but it does not reach the curse of omniscience.”

“Just get to the point. Didn’t you say there was no time?”

“Lapis.”

The Heavenly Eye said.

“I need to meet that child you mentioned.”

“……”

“The fact that you have transferred the authority of the lighthouse to someone else means that the child must know about it.”

The Heavenly Eye’s eyes flashed with an unknown emotion through her deep blue hair.

“If she truly accepted the duty of the lighthouse keeper to protect her mission, she will try to finish it.”

“Finish it.”

Lenok crossed his arms and stared at the Heavenly Eye.

“Is that related to the curse of metamorphosis you mentioned earlier?”

“……”

The Heavenly Eye did not answer.

Lenok, watching the Heavenly Eye’s expression with a sharp gaze, said slowly.

“I will refuse if it will cause any problems for Lapis. The Azure Eye she leads has a considerable position on the continent, and it helps in many ways-”

Lenok, who was about to say more, closed his mouth and shook his head.

It was already the memory of a dead ascendant. There was no need to explain other reasons one by one.

“She is a child.”

“……”

“She is struggling because of the mission you passed on.”

“……So?”

“If it’s something you’ll regret, it’s better not to do it. For you and for Lapis.”

The Heavenly Eye looked at Lenok with a somewhat surprised look and then laughed.

“That’s a very human answer… Is there still such compassion left in a magician like you?”

“Didn’t I tell you?”

Lenok asked nonchalantly.

“If I was going to fall apart because I couldn’t even control my own emotions and will, I wouldn’t have started.”

“……”

The Heavenly Eye’s face seemed to be lost in thought.

The expression that was reflected through her hair seemed to be filled with an emotion that was hard to describe.

“Okay… then just tell her one thing.”

The Heavenly Eye said in a low voice.

“Tell her that I want to meet her. That’s enough. Do you understand?”

“If I don’t know what your intentions are, there’s no reason to tell her.”

Lenok cut her off sharply.

“I need to hear your answer.”

“No, you know.”

The Heavenly Eye smiled quietly and raised her gaze.

“You know that child is looking for me. You vaguely feel that she wants to settle things. Isn’t that why you are wary of me?”

“……”

“If you are going to refuse, then do so. No matter how you move, nothing will change in the end.”

The Heavenly Eye’s mention of letting go of even the words she had told Lenok so far without any regrets, and readily entrusting it to him.

Even Lenok hesitated for a moment, unable to read her intentions at the easy acceptance.

Was that detached attitude because she was a transcendent being who had surpassed the hierarchy, or was there another reason?

Thud thud thud!!!

Cracks appeared on the field where they were facing each other, and in the collapsing space-time, the two people’s consciousnesses rose and sank in different directions.

Lenok’s consciousness, which rapidly rose and ascended to reality, was looked up at by the Heavenly Eye, who was sinking below.

She leaned her chin leisurely on the chair she had created, as if the world collapsing all around her was of no concern to her.

The Heavenly Eye smiled softly at Lenok.

“But I will be waiting.”

Whoosh!!!

Immediately after that, Lenok, who had risen from the consciousness space and escaped, coughed lightly.

“Cough, cough!!”

As he returned to reality from the space where he had existed as a consciousness, the weight of his body pressed down on his mind again.

A cycle in which it was difficult to live even for a short time without the power of medicine and magic.

However, what truly made Lenok strong was not only the reason of the magician or the transcendent intuition.

“Hoo……”

Lenok, who wiped the sweat falling down his cheek, finally realized that he was sitting leaning against a large eggshell.

The size of the egg was as big as Lenok, so it could stand upright while bearing the weight.

“……Wait.”

Lenok, who was organizing his thoughts while leaning back blankly, noticed a sense of incongruity and stopped his hand.

The eggshell, which should have been shaking heavily and ponderously, was strangely light.

Clearly, something that should have been inside had escaped outside-

[Hey, I told you not to run around!]

Swoosh!!

Something whizzed past Lenok at an incredible speed.

Something, with pieces of eggshell still hanging all over its body, was running around the underground chamber of the magic tower as if it was having fun.

It was shaking its head wildly as if it was crazy, with a small fox cub on its head.

[Yoohoo, yoohoo~]

With a strange cry that was difficult to imitate, the speed at which it circled around Lenok was so fast that it was difficult to even capture with the naked eye.

“……No way.”

The moment Lenok, who intuitively knew that the meaningless shape was the entity that had been sleeping inside the egg, pulled up his magic detection.

Something that had been running around the chamber in an excited manner sensed Lenok’s magic and stopped in front of him.

Only then was Lenok able to see with his own eyes the shape of the entity that had stopped in front of him and was slowly floating.

[Yoohoo?]

The shape of a baby dragon, tilting its head towards Lenok with a strange cry.

It was up to Lenok’s waist, with a plump belly sticking out.

Standing with its hind legs supporting its body, it covered its two eyes shining between its long snout with its thick forepaws.

The guardian spirit, who had groomed himself by stroking various parts of his head with his forepaws, looked at Lenok with sparkling eyes.

It was as if he was trying to groom himself to look good to Lenok.

“……Wait.”

Lenok made a strange expression.

“What kind of guardian spirit is this fat……”

[……Eekhoo.]

The baby dragon’s reaction, who suddenly placed his forepaw on Lenok’s head, as if he didn’t want to hear those words.

As soon as he saw that, Davi, who was riding on the spirit beast’s head, immediately pulled the dragon’s whiskers.

[What are you doing being rude to Master!]

[Ahoo, ahoo~]

He couldn’t get Davi off and rolled around on the floor as if he was in pain.

When he was lying down and watched him quietly, the shape looked so round that it felt like a ball rather than a dragon.

He never thought that the shape would catch his eye first, rather than the problem of race or lineage.

Was it a direct result of hiding in the egg and gobbling up food?

[Koo~]

While Lenok was pondering for a moment, the guardian spirit fell asleep right where he was lying down.

With his long snout raised upwards, he was sound asleep with even his nostrils dangling on both sides.

“……”

Lenok stared at the guardian spirit who had fallen asleep without knowing the world, and took out his cell phone and made a call somewhere.

“……Ivelin, it’s me.”

Lenok, who had picked up the cell phone that was immediately connected, said as he stood up.

“About the security for Lapis that I mentioned last time. I’ll accept it.”

[……!!]

Listening to Ivelin’s voice quickly answering from the other side of the cell phone, Lenok fell into thought.

The Heavenly Eye’s consciousness said she would meet Lapis, but she did not tell him the reason until the end.

It might be nothing, but if the reason why the Heavenly Eye was trying to meet Lapis was related to the curse of metamorphosis she mentioned.

If the curse that converges on the predator was not a lie, that it also applied to ascendants as well as spirit beasts.

At least this time, it would be necessary to check how the situation progressed by Lapis’s side.

It was not only for Lapis, but it was also an opportunity to find out how the feat of ascension worked on transcendent beings.

“Okay. I’ll go as an observer, so tell Lapis in advance. I’m asking you.”

Of course, he would have to move under the identity of Evan Martinez for the task of escorting Lapis.

He didn’t know that he would be moving to the observer side in Vulcan, but Lapis was one of the people who had known Evan for a long time.

If he gave her a warning in advance, there would be no particular problem.

“Then……”

Lenok, who had finished the call, immediately turned his gaze to the guardian spirit.

A guardian spirit born with the power of Ouroboros, and of a lineage close to the Handbook enough to be bound by the curse of metamorphosis.

That was why Lenok had also guessed which side the species was on, but he never thought that it would be born in such a complete dragon form.

‘I expected it to take the form of a snake, a serpent, or a high-level magical beast or spirit beast close to reptiles, but why a dragon…’

He had traveled all over the continent and met many lives, but Lenok did not know many real dragons.

The ghost dragon Yao Xun he met in Yorta. The only dragon species Lenok had seen directly was the dragon’s avatar that was said to be a member of Kundara.

At least, it was necessary to check what abilities and origins the guardian spirit had, and how it recognized Lenok.

Thinking that, Lenok calmly calmed his mind and tried to wake up the guardian spirit who had fallen asleep.

[This guy doesn’t seem to want to wake up?]

“……”

[Snore, pooh~]

Even if he turned him over and shook him, even if he tapped his head with magic, there was no sign of him waking up.

The baby dragon was so deeply asleep that he wouldn’t even know if someone suddenly grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and carried him away.

“……Because he is young. It’s the age when he sleeps a lot.”

Lenok also had no intention of forcibly waking up or stimulating a spirit beast that had just hatched from an egg.

Would it be better to wait for the guardian spirit to wake up naturally?

Just as he was thinking that and was about to gather the eggshell fragments that had fallen around him with magic, his cell phone, which had not yet turned off the notification, rang again.

Beep!

He tried to ignore it, but the message that appeared on the screen through magic detection was immediately read by his senses.

Sender unknown. It was a direct message to the line that Gyeonryoe used for external business purposes.

[I have something to say regarding the meeting between the extreme ability users.]

“……”

[If it’s okay with you, could you come to the coordinates indicated below?]

“A meeting……”

Lenok covered his cell phone and raised his head.

He thought it would take some time, but the discussion was faster than he thought.

If the guardian spirit was asleep now, he could take some time, but-

“It’s a bit annoying, that’s for sure.”

Regardless of how they found out about Lenok’s line, there must be a reason if they called him directly.

Thinking that, Lenok immediately got up from his seat.