Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 922

A cold wind swept through the dark satellite city.

White sand covered the ruins, abandoned for a long time without human touch.

As a city left in the middle of the desert, sand must have flowed in and out with the wind.

Crack, crackle!

The lightning that burst from the thunderbird’s body dyed the sky above the satellite city of Etanok in a deep blue.

The lightning was so intense and vivid that the ruins shrouded in darkness were illuminated for a moment.

Lenok, who had no intention of hiding his arrival, was watching when the thunderbird flying over the satellite city began to twist its body uncomfortably.

Caw…!

It seemed as if the act of flapping its wings in this place felt very awkward.

Its presence began to turn violent, as if it would break free from Lenok’s control at any moment.

As soon as Lenok saw this, he immediately canceled the summoning and reverse-summoned the summoned beast.

“Good work.”

Poof!

Although he had summoned it to crush the black mage’s pride, the thunderbird was not a summoned beast that had a formal contract with Lenok.

Just like how he used the power of the Red Star System to summon a fire-type summoned beast, it was merely a being forcibly drawn out using electric-type mana as a medium.

The thunderbird, which used the lightning of the sky as its feathers, was suitable as a means of transportation to show off to others.

However, it was not a summoned beast that was organically connected to Lenok enough to pass through the barrier spread out in the satellite city.

‘I should make a separate contract with an electric-type summoned beast soon.’

He had never felt the need for summoning magic because of Davi, the guardian spirit beast, the giant demon of the underworld, and even the kaleidoscope of Lenok’s mind.

However, as a public figure of the Adamantine Fortress, there were times when it was needed like this.

Until now, he had only used summoning magic in a simplified way to add to spells or as a temporary tool.

However, it wouldn’t be bad to make a contract with a powerful summoned beast in advance when he had the time.

Considering Lenok’s current achievements, he could definitely summon a powerful summoned beast, regardless of the talent or luck required for summoning magic.

Thinking so, Lenok reverse-summoned the thunderbird and immediately jumped from the sky above the satellite city.

Whoosh!

A strong sandstorm blew, pushing Lenok’s figure up from below.

The wind speed was so intense that it was difficult for Lenok, who was only holding a staff, to withstand it.

However, Lenok manipulated the flow of the atmosphere and landed on the rooftop of a high-rise building in an instant.

He placed one foot on the edge of the rooftop, which was tilted as if it would collapse, and reached out to the end of his sleeve.

Click!

A heavy metallic friction sound rang out, and a huge sniper rifle appeared in Lenok’s hand.

With a wave of his hand, he unfolded the support and scope and rested his arm on his knee.

Lenok, who had brought his eye to the scope of the rifle, muttered.

“Was it called an underground ritual site?”

He could guess the location.

The plaza in the middle of the city center that was empty when viewed from the sky above the satellite city. It must be the place where the ruins and sand were deliberately cleared away.

However, the reason why Lenok took out the rifle and observed the surroundings instead of using his mana detection as soon as he arrived was different.

If the leader was still near the giant city, and if he was aiming for something at this meeting.

He had to find even a trace of him before the meeting started to have a chance to meet him.

Krrrrik!

At the same time as Lenok brought his eye to the scope, the platinum-colored eyes attached to the front of the scope moved quickly.

The Heavenly Eye, a spell weapon given to Lenok by Lapis, the Eye of Heavenly Grace. [Lapis is a character known for her wisdom and magical artifacts.]

True to its name, which is a metaphor for the Well of Wisdom, it is an information-type artifact that analyzes everything in sight and transmits it to the user.

Even without borrowing Oliviera’s magic eye, Lenok could find traces of the leader himself.

If, he was in this satellite city right now-

Thinking so, Lenok quickly scanned the entire city with the rifle’s scope.

‘The city area is wider than I thought.’

The satellite city was the final piece of the urban expansion development plan to disperse the saturated population of Vulcan and become self-sufficient.

As a large satellite city designed to accommodate millions of people, Etanok also had a vast site.

Well, it was a satellite city of this size, so it was chosen as the venue for the meeting of level 8 transcendents, but that was not the problem.

Kugugugu…!!!

When he looked around the entire satellite city through the Heavenly Eye, he could feel strange flows of power from all directions.

The satellite city was divided into eight directions, and each direction had a distinctly different power swirling around.

The density of each power and thought was so high that even Lenok had difficulty estimating its power unless he concentrated.

It was almost certainly the presence of the extreme ability users who participated in the meeting.

‘Five have taken their places. One place is empty. Two places have no owner.’

Lenok, who had quickly grasped the types and number of powers in the entire satellite city, thought.

‘They are trying to occupy one axis of the eight directions each. Is there a benefit that must be secured before the meeting?’

When Etanok was divided into eight equal parts like a cake from the center of the city, intense presences were clashing in more than two areas.

As the necromancer had warned, were those who had not resolved their grudges from the civil war clashing as soon as they met?

‘I haven’t found the leader’s presence, but if level 8 transcendents are fighting right now, it’s worth watching.’

After pondering, Lenok lowered the rifle’s muzzle and immediately drew up his mana.

Crack…!

The moment he took a step on the tilted rooftop of the building, the lightning that flashed under Lenok’s feet pushed his figure up.

He compressed the constantly deployed shield magic by overlapping incantations. After minimizing air resistance and recoil, he accelerated.

Bang!

At the same time as a blurry ripple, Lenok’s body moved explosively, narrowing the distance by traversing the sand-covered city center.

Currently, there were two places where direct combat was taking place in Etanok. He would first find the place where he felt a relatively familiar presence.

A control tower standing buried in the sand. He jumped through the broken windows and landed.

Whoosh!

An airfield located on the outskirts of the satellite city. Helicopters and airplanes left to rust on the wide runway.

Containers and cargo holds stacked in layers, and a C-shaped airport facility that was abandoned during construction.

Two shadows were colliding and crossing at tremendous speed through the damaged airport passages.

Clatter!

Along with the eerie noise of metal clashing and grinding, mana light flashed incessantly through the passage windows.

The shadows that were violently bent in the light-filled passage only indirectly showed how fierce the battle was.

Kwaaang!!!

With an impact like a meteor falling, the tollgate near the airport collapsed.

A sharp shout echoed through the completely shattered debris.

“Damn it, you old geezer!”

A thin figure with an eight-pronged magic circle floating above its head was running low to the ground, holding a spear at a slant.

Even though it was running on the ground with two legs, its speed was unusual, so much so that Lenok had to draw up his mana to chase after it.

The thin figure, running with light movements as if bouncing, collided with the hunched opponent in front of it in an instant.

Kwaaaang!

The impact caused the surrounding ground to sink, emitting a strong shockwave.

It shattered all the windows of the airport building that were still intact.

Crash!

In the rain of countless glass fragments, a calm voice echoed in response to the woman’s sharp voice.

“It’s amazing that you’re still alive, but your bad habit is still the same.”

“Die!”

Drrrrk!!!

The woman holding the spear grabbed the old man by the collar and ran him straight into the wall.

The moment the magic circle rotated above the woman’s head, her strength exploded, suppressing the man’s resistance.

The woman, who had torn through the airport passage, swung the man as if grinding him to a pulp and aimed the spearhead with her other hand.

Just as she was about to pierce his neck at an invisible speed, the man moved.

“You’re pathetically slow. Is that all you can do even with the support of the Eight Trigrams?” [Eight Trigrams refers to a set of symbols used in ancient Chinese philosophy and cosmology.]

Clack!

A sharp flash of light flickered from the man’s hand, and the woman was easily thrown back.

The woman, who had broken through the airport wall and slid dozens of meters on the runway, groaned in pain.

“Kuh…!”

“It’s really absurd.”

The man approached the woman, who was lying on the runway, struggling to spit out blood.

A middle-aged man with neat facial hair, his white hair combed back.

The sight of his suit shirt sleeves rolled up gave him a refined appearance, like a butler.

The only unusual thing was that the man’s two eyes were tightly closed, covered in scars as if they had been gouged out.

Wooong!

The man, who had put a blade emitting a strange vibration into its scabbard with one hand, asked.

“You haven’t grown at all. What have you been doing all this time?”

“Damn it, it’s none of your business…!!!”

“Heh, your language.”

The man smiled and tapped the scabbard, and blood spurted from the woman’s shoulder.

Swoosh!

The man nodded in satisfaction only after the woman hurriedly grabbed her shoulder, stopped the bleeding, and fell forward.

“Yes, now you look a little more polite.”

‘That’s amazing swordsmanship.’

Lenok, who was hiding his presence in the control tower and watching the battle, was unintentionally impressed.

The physical ability of the woman holding the spear was very violent and ferocious, and even though it seemed disorderly, it contained a mystery.

However, the blind man not only blocked the woman’s attack without drawing his sword, but also ended the match unilaterally the moment he drew it.

The sword itself seemed to be an artifact that emitted a unique vibration, and he was wielding such a sword perfectly even though he couldn’t see with his eyes.

He had occasionally seen excellent swordsmen like Hina of the Agents and Hyulno of the Demon Realm, but he was definitely the most outstanding among them.

Thinking so, Lenok stared at the woman’s face, which was revealed through the runway lights.

She was thin and emaciated, but her eyes were as sharp as if possessed by a ghost.

Her disheveled hair and haggard face. The magic circle floating above her head was out of place, but it was definitely a familiar sight to Lenok’s eyes.

‘Oliviera….’

[She’s really a terrible organism.]

Lenok, who had already realized who the ‘proxy’ Oliviera had mentioned was, smiled wryly, and even Davi clicked his tongue as if he was fed up.

The blind man also had a complicated expression when he saw her face.

“Peisha. Where have you been wandering all this time?”

The elder of Dead Rise. A level 8 spear master. The successor of ancestral spirits.

The Ghost Princess, Peisha Grisburn.

A level 8 transcendent who had lost in a one-on-one battle with Lenok and was handed over to Oliviera.

Oliviera did not choose her proxy from among the board members.

She had Peisha Grisburn, whom Lenok had captured and handed over to her in their deal, attend this meeting as her proxy, as if to show off.

* * *

“If it’s your personality, you would have taken someone else’s meal, not gone hungry.”

The blind man asked, fiddling with his scabbard.

“Did you escape after being locked up in some prison for a few months?”

“Tch! It’s none of your business, old man.”

Peisha, who spat out blood-mixed saliva, glared at him and retorted.

“What business does a dying blind man have to come to this kind of meeting?”

“You brat. I’m the one who taught your precious young master how to use a sword.”

The blind man sighed quietly.

“I even raised that weakling Songha by beating him up. You just don’t understand.”

“Don’t talk nonsense. You traitor…!!”

Peisha went into a fit at the calm answer.

“How dare you speak with that face, you who stood against Bajur during the civil war!!”

“….”

“I’ve never liked you. I wanted to kill you because your ridiculous hypocrisy bothered me!!”

“It was an era of war, Peisha.”

The blind man said calmly to Peisha, who was screaming like crazy while spitting out blood.

“Kaise and I both knew that we couldn’t always be on the same side. Even knowing that, we still interacted and tried to improve.”

The blind man smiled wryly as he looked at the trembling Peisha.

“But it’s surprising that I felt that I would eventually stand against him. Well, you were particularly sharp among those who followed Kaise.”

“You bastard…!!”

“But I didn’t know you would reach level 8 in that way. I thought you had a violent side, but I never thought you would break through your limits while being consumed by your murderous intent.”

Peisha foamed at the mouth at the blind man’s answer, which he didn’t even bother to deny, but the blind man looked at Peisha as if he pitied her.

“It’s amazing that you, of all people, have achieved such a remarkable feat among Kaise’s lackeys. The human heart is truly complex and mysterious.”

“…!!”

The blind man, who had a troubled look, slowly lifted his scabbard and lamented.

“Is there really no standard of right and wrong in this world? It’s a deplorable thing.”

“Die….”

Peisha muttered in a chilling tone.

“Die, die…!! Die…!!!”

“The ability to express one’s feelings so honestly is also a rare talent.”

The blind man, who had grabbed his sword with one hand, nodded.

“I’ll miss you a lot.”

A calm conversation that didn’t even feel a hint of murderous intent.

However, Peisha was certain that the swordsman would completely kill her with his next strike.

Instead of lowering her head even though she knew him, she only glared at the blind man until the end, swallowing her blood.

The blind man, who faced her spirit, finished drawing his sword from its scabbard without any hesitation.

The moment a slash with intense vibrations fell like a guillotine on the back of Peisha’s neck.

[Thunder Step]

Pale lightning raced as if drawn from behind the blind man, colliding with the falling blade.

Clang!!!

At the same time as a violent vibration that seemed to deafen the ears, the slash that the blind man had unleashed slightly missed Peisha’s neck.

A blade mark tens of meters in size was deeply gouged next to where Peisha had fallen, and the runway was cut diagonally.

Krrr!

Peisha, who had rolled down the tilted runway, let out a painful scream, but quickly regained her senses and raised her eyes.

The afterimage of lightning that contained an incomparably deadly power, even though she couldn’t feel even a hint of a sign.

She already knew who the owner of this thunderbolt was.

From the moment she was taken over by Oliviera, she had imagined and mulled over killing him dozens of times, the very one-

“Ah, you’ve finally come out.”

The blind man smiled as he casually sheathed his blade.

“I knew you were watching from somewhere, but I couldn’t pinpoint your location. You have a really perfect cloaking ability.”

Click.

Just by lightly stepping his staff, a heavy sound like loading a bullet echoed.

The life support device was rapidly activated, traversing his body and observing the flow of blood.

A magician with a blank expression, wearing a black coat over his shoulders and a cigarette in his mouth.

The blind man nodded as he faced the cold face of the young man under his fluttering black hair.

“Nice to meet you, Adamantine. Is this the first time we’ve met in person?”

“….”

“It’s a bit presumptuous to ask so suddenly, but would you mind yielding the task of dealing with Peisha?”

The blind man said with a hearty laugh.

“To meet the conditions of the Acquired Eight Trigrams Formation surrounding Etanok, I need to kill that child once.”

“Acquired Eight Trigrams Formation?”

“I’ll explain it at the meeting, but it’s a ritual to inherit the innate ability of Anathema by taking on one of the eight directions.”

The blind man explained, looking at the magic circle floating above Peisha’s head.

“To meet the conditions, you have to occupy one of the eight directions and obtain the Eight Trigrams, but because Peisha occupied this axis first, I have to take the right to occupy the Eight Trigrams from her….”

The blind man’s voice slowly slowed down as he spoke, and then stopped completely.

“Did you say that the condition for taking the right of occupancy was to kill the target who has the Eight Trigrams?”

Lenok said, slowly turning his gaze above his head.

Above Lenok’s head, who was standing with a blank expression, a huge magic circle divided into eight directions was rotating and emitting light.

“It’s not bad to settle the scores for what happened in the past.”

“….”

“So, what is the innate ability of Anathema used for?”