Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1016

Rumbling…!!!!

The ground was being crushed by the wandering dark giants.

A massive dark tower floated above the sky.

Two mages faced each other in the immeasurable darkness.

Myung even smiled leisurely as he turned towards Lenok.

“…Myung.”

“Your five senses haven’t completely disappeared. You’re luckier than I thought.”

Myung slowly clenched and opened one hand, staring at it as he spoke.

“At this level, I can still move.”

“…”

Myung’s voice was exceptionally clear amidst the rising darkness.

However, even Lenok hadn’t expected Myung to regain his senses so quickly.

He knew that Myung’s mind was unstable due to the backlash of becoming incomparably stronger.

It was obvious that he wouldn’t easily escape the side effects while wielding such transcendent power.

Yet, Myung was regaining his senses right before Lenok’s eyes, and smiling at him.

Just like when he first met Lenok and showed interest in him.

“You’ve… regained your senses?”

“Thanks to you. Or should I say, as planned?”

As Myung smiled and tilted his head, the darkness clinging to his body slowly fell away.

The moment he regained his reason, the surrounding darkness was already under his complete control.

He quickly regained his human form and walked slowly towards Lenok, smiling.

“It’s been a while, Ban. Seeing you again like this is much more… welcoming than I thought.”

“…”

“Hmm.”

Myung’s eyes narrowed as he looked at Lenok, who didn’t answer.

“Your body is a mess. You seem badly injured.”

“…I had a bit of trouble.”

He had not only fought with the Conjunction Master, but also pushed himself a bit to approach Myung.

The blood he had shed on this dark tower was considerable.

Myung seemed to notice this, as he casually placed his hand on Lenok’s shoulder.

“This won’t do. I’ll heal you.”

“Heal?”

Whoosh!

At that moment, a bright, pure light flowed from Myung’s hand and landed on Lenok’s wounds.

Lenok’s expression hardened at the warmth he felt from the light, but it enveloped his body and disappeared before he could activate his target designation resistance.

“This is…”

The moment the light’s wave disappeared, it was as if the pain and fatigue in his body had also vanished.

Lenok, checking his cleanly healed wounds, turned to Myung with a slightly surprised expression.

“Is that a healing spell? Black magic shouldn’t have such abilities.”

Black magic was one of the most alien magic systems among all the spells that existed in the history of the continent.

Even if the same process was used, the result of the spell would be completely different if black magic was used.

A power that produced output in a completely different way from existing magic systems.

Therefore, although black magic could interfere with concepts like death, which existing mages did not handle, it was also infinitely distant from abilities like healing.

The healing ability that Myung had just used was an ability that shouldn’t even exist in the black magic system.

However, Myung understood Lenok’s question and leisurely smiled, shaking his hand.

“It’s called ‘Transcendence’.”

“…Transcendence?”

“It’s one of the two directions you reach when the Law of Blackness reaches its peak and transcends.”

Myung said, spreading his fingers.

“Negative energy overflows, then it’s completely worn away and washed away. The purified energy that remains in the process acts as a beneficial function for life.”

“…”

“I can create a power that is the opposite of the magic system I possess. In layman’s terms, you could say that opposites attract.”

He had raised black magic to the level of transcendence, and as a result, he was able to draw out a completely opposite power.

Lenok had heard stories of mages who, after mastering magic to its limits, would shed their madness, but he never imagined that it could be done under the concept of a magic system.

While Lenok was speechless at the absurd explanation, Myung glanced at the ruins of the gate city below.

“It’s near the first gate. It’s been a while since I’ve been back to the central front.”

“…”

“The corpse of the long-lived species that acted as the gate. I once helped to ensure that its death wouldn’t lose its meaning.”

Myung’s gaze, looking down at the gate city stained with darkness, was mixed with complex emotions.

“It must not be a coincidence that I started the Gabi Flight [a ritual or process] here again.”

“Wait a minute.”

Lenok, holding his forehead with one hand, asked.

“You intervened in the death of a long-lived species? No, more than that-”

“You killed the Conjunction Master?”

“…”

As Lenok closed his mouth, Myung smiled with a seemingly cheerful expression.

“Amazing. He was a very skilled member of the Alliance’s Grand Masters. If you only consider the potential of his spells, he was unparalleled within the Alliance.”

“That’s…”

“The Life Domain and the operating room. Were you trying to revive the long-lived species? It seems like you were doing a nasty experiment. Considering the Master’s hobbies, it’s not surprising…”

“…”

Just by regaining his senses and looking around, he naturally read what had happened in the vicinity as if he were breathing.

He felt what could not be felt with the five senses, and remembered what could not be remembered by going back in time.

Just like the Ascended One who woke up from the well, Pyunram, who explored and read the lives of other Ascended Ones on a planetary scale.

Myung’s power and senses had already reached a similar level.

“You deployed a magnetic field to settle the score. As a result, you’ve started to manipulate time.”

Myung looked at Lenok and smiled gently.

“So, you’ve already reached this point…”

“…”

“Indeed… my choice was not wrong.”

Myung closed his eyes and whispered quietly, as if recalling a distant memory.

Lenok, unable to answer the deep satisfaction he felt from his monologue, opened his mouth with difficulty.

“You’ve already… reached a level comparable to the Ascended Ones.”

“…”

“If you’ve gained such power without challenging Ascension…”

The Doctor had once said that the Gabi Flight was a ritual not directly linked to Ascension.

If that statement, which he hadn’t understood at the time, was a precaution from the beginning to avoid gaining the qualifications for Ascension.

If surpassing the Ascended Ones without ascending was Myung’s true goal.

“Is the true purpose of the Gabi Flight to transcend without gaining qualifications?”

Since he first met Myung, his power had grown explosively to the point that even Lenok was surprised.

Even after transcending the hierarchy, it continued to grow without stopping, to the point of reaching the door of unwanted transcendence.

However, the ‘something’ that had made Myung so strong was continuing to run wild, even consuming Myung himself.

That secret was the core that made Myung strong and his mind endlessly unstable.

“What secret exists within the curse you bear and the oldest lineage?”

“It seems you’re already beginning to see what I’m trying to become.”

Myung smiled.

“You must be curious. If you’ve guessed that far, anyone would be.”

“…”

“But before I answer, there’s one thing I want to do first.”

At the same time as Myung lightly gestured, black darkness surged from his hand.

The darkness that had spread over the dark tower rotated, greatly expanding the space where the two were standing.

Whoosh!

Lenok and Myung stood facing each other in the middle of a violently rotating vortex of darkness.

Lenok tilted his head in the space created by modifying the tower’s shape.

“What are you trying to do?”

“In this darkness, all senses can be blocked. Nothing that happens here will leak out.”

Kugugu!!!

The dark barrier rotated, constantly erasing all signs and gazes from all directions.

As Myung said, this space itself existed to conceal and isolate, functioning as a complete blackout.

Myung, who had instantly confined and isolated the surrounding space, walked towards Lenok and said.

“Use your spells, Ban.”

“…What?”

“I’ve healed your body, so there shouldn’t be any problems with your incantation.”

Myung smiled and spread his hand.

“I want to see your magic. I want to see your talent one last time while I’m still sane.”

“…”

“You’re right. If not now, there might not be another chance. There might not even be time for this anymore.”

Woo-oong…!!

Just by lightly raising his magic power, the surrounding space shook violently as if it were fluctuating.

Myung tilted his head, splashing through the overflowing darkness.

“Your answer. The conclusion I’ve reached. If you’re a mage like you, you should be able to put all that cause and effect into a single spell.”

“That’s…”

“There’s no need to think too hard. Just do it like you did with Seager Bang. Remember?”

Myung grinned.

“Do it with the intention to kill. I happen to have something I want to teach you.”

The moment when he first met Myung, when he felt death but still lunged at him.

Myung was still remembering that moment as he looked at Lenok.

Now that he had met Myung again, there were many things he needed to ask him.

Unresolved doubts, the secrets of his family, the truth of the Gabi Flight, and the ending that Myung desired.

He still didn’t know the meaning of the role that Myung had shown him favor and tried to entrust to him.

“…Okay.”

However, even knowing this, Lenok gathered his magic power and composed his breathing.

He sensed that Myung had also been waiting for this moment, just as Lenok had.

That there was something he wanted to convey to Lenok, even if he put everything else aside.

If Myung wanted to replace his answer with magic, if he wanted to confirm his decision with his will.

Lenok was now at a level where he could answer such a wish.

Tap!

Lenok lightly stepped back, twisted his body, and spoke.

“I can only show you for a very brief moment. You know that, right?”

“Of course.”

Myung nodded leisurely with his arms crossed.

“A moment is enough. It will be more than enough.”

“…Then.”

Lenok’s thoughts and mental state were quite depleted from the battle with the Conjunction Master.

Apart from the recovery of his magic power, his physical condition was also not normal.

He was at a disadvantage that could not be compared to Myung, who had restarted the Gabi Flight.

However, even so, it was not impossible to fight on the premise of using up all his remaining strength.

A single spell that poured out everything without leaving anything behind, setting aside the complex situation and battlefield on the ground.

Perhaps that was what Myung wanted from Lenok as well.

“Hoo…”

A battle that started with a bare body, without any doping, drugs, or enhancements.

However, Lenok seemed to know what he had to show to the Myung King in front of him.

Even though he hadn’t explained it properly, and even though Lenok hadn’t answered properly.

He knew what kind of magic he had to wield against Myung now.

That was-

Tap.

In the quiet silence, Lenok took a deep breath and stepped forward.

He narrowed the distance to Myung, who was standing in the darkness, and increased his speed on the third step.

Tap. Tap.

Four. Five. Six.

On the seventh step, he rotated his magic power at full power and chanted the spell.

With a faint trail of flames, Lenok’s body accelerated explosively.

Fwoooosh!!!

Lenok’s figure, shot out at an invisible speed, collided with Myung. Immediately after, it unleashed a shockwave of flames in all directions.

Myung grabbed the distorted flames with his bare hands and twisted them to deflect the direction.

Thud!

In the darkness-distorted space, the two’s arms and shoulders collided and intertwined.

The two mages’ figures, exploding with flames and darkness, were instantly flung in opposite directions.

Clang!!!

“Kuh…!!”

Myung, who seemed unfazed as he massaged his wrist, and Lenok, who was panting and bowing his head.

Lenok’s hands, overflowing with flames, were faintly convulsing.

‘The form isn’t taking shape. It’s like hitting a wave with my bare hands…’

The black magic power that had become one with Myung’s body was the darkness itself that was engulfing the surroundings.

Even if he struck with spells or martial arts, the impact would not be transmitted, but would only be absorbed and disappear into Myung’s inner self.

Was this what it meant to face a darkness that had taken shape and materialized?

Even briefly facing Myung now, without using the Jeongryun Barrier and the Divine Barrier, was overwhelming.

“You’re badly injured, are you sure you’re okay like this?”

Myung also seemed to sense this, as he turned around and asked.

“That’s why I was going to just look at your magic briefly and end it.”

“…No. This is enough.”

Lenok replied, swallowing the blood that was welling up.

“It was a necessary process.”

Kuhwaaaak!!!

At the same time, the flames that had risen from under his feet rotated violently and surged.

The shape of a flame that burned brightly in the dark space, drawing a huge cross of fire.

“You’ve refined the movements of martial arts into hand seals and incantations.”

Myung’s eyes lit up with admiration as he immediately understood Lenok’s alternative incantation.

“Amazing. I’m confident in martial arts, but mixing hand seals into movements and constructing them into the desired spells is not something that can be learned.”

Myung’s insight dismissed the concept and principles of alternative incantation, which the mages of Vulcan were focusing on.

“The preparation is complete.”

Lenok spat out the words as he turned his body.

“This is the last one…!!”

Unique Flame-Type Magic

Property Change Creation Transformation

[Crossfire Seal]

Kugugu!!!

Following Lenok’s outstretched hand, the cross of fire rotated fiercely and accelerated.

The blazing cross of fire filled the entire dark space and rushed right in front of Myung’s face.

“I see.”

However, Myung’s expression was calm as he looked at the approaching Crossfire Seal.

“It seems a little lacking, but considering the situation, it can’t be helped.”

Myung clenched one hand and spread it out as if dropping it, raising his magic power, and a black, distorted sphere appeared.

[Death Eye]

Crack…!!

The shape of a dark sphere created by compressing the darkness that existed in the surroundings to its limit.

The moment Myung floated it up, looking like someone’s eye, and showed it in front of the Crossfire Seal.

Lenok poured all of his remaining thoughts into the cross of fire he was holding.

Crack, crackle…!!!

From within the blazing Crossfire Seal, a dazzling blue electric current began to explode.

Lenok’s most powerful magic, and the lightning he did not use in his Thousand Identities.

Lenok’s full power, which had been restricted to only his Adamantine Identity due to its power and noise.

Property Change Attribute Conversion

Unique Lightning-Type Magic

Zzzzzzzzz!!!

A dazzling flash of intense thunder swallowed the Crossfire Seal.

A new lightning magic that manifested by completely changing the properties of the already chanted flame magic.

The secret of the unique lightning-type magic that naturally followed through the attribute conversion of the Fire Seal.

[Thunder Seal]

Kwoooo!!!

Lenok, holding the brilliantly shining silver-white lightning in reverse, turned his body.

The light of the Thunder Seal, which dyed the inside of the dark space with beautiful starlight.

Myung’s expression, who had floated up the dark eye, also changed as if he was momentarily surprised.

“This is…!!”

The secret technique that Lenok used at the same time as the awakening of his unique magic when he killed the lightning mage of the Seager Bang gang.

Myung suddenly raised his gaze, and Lenok, who was holding the silver-white lightning as if to crush it, gritted his teeth and swung his arm.

The moment the lightning of the Thunder Seal, held in reverse, collided with the dark eye that Myung had floated up.

At the same time as a tremendous resonance, the entire space was divided and distorted by darkness and silver-white light.

Kwaaaaaaaa!!!

The entire dark space, unable to withstand the collision, shook madly and began to fade to white.

The moment the light of the Thunder Seal, which annihilated the black magic power itself and erased the space entirely, rotated violently.

Crack!!

The silver-white lightning that pierced through the eye, pierced through Myung’s lungs and extended to the opposite side of the space.

At the same time, it scattered a dazzling shockwave of lightning behind Myung, making the surroundings tingle and explode.

Clang!!!

The silver-white lightning that pierced through and crushed the dark space.

Myung, whose body had been pierced by the lightning of the Thunder Seal, slowly let out a breath.

“…!!!”

The quiet silence that came to the battlefield at the same time as Myung’s lungs were pierced.

Lenok, who had stopped with his hand outstretched, and Myung, who had stepped back in front of him and was buried in darkness.

Myung, who was looking down and watching the lingering silver-white afterglow flickering in the darkness, muttered.

“A system conversion of an already completed spell…”

Was he chanting by converting the spell through a system conversion in order to detonate the lightning, which was originally used as a projectile, at close range?

Because he had chanted by converting the properties of the Crossfire Seal, the spell of the Thunder Seal could be compressed without exploding.

Alternative incantation using martial arts. Attribute conversion of flame magic. Even the compression of the Thunder Seal.

The only way to pierce Myung’s gap until the end, while compressing the remaining power into one point.

Even the magic of a miracle that perfectly reproduced the first moment when Lenok and Myung met.

Even though he had deviated from Myung’s expectations in every moment, all of those results were incredibly amazing.

“You’re changing the predetermined results… and trying to manipulate the process as well.”

“Kuh…!! Cough!!”

Myung, who opened his eyes with a satisfied expression, slowly lowered his gaze.

He looked at Lenok, who was reaching out his hand weakly and staggering as if he was about to collapse, and said.

“Yes… you’re right after all.”

“…”

“From the beginning, it should have been you, not me.”

Myung, who bowed his head, placed his hand on Lenok’s shoulder again and tapped it lightly.

With just that, warmth flowed into Lenok’s tattered body, and his energy slowly began to recover.

He must be directly injecting the purified light that Myung had explained into Lenok’s body.

Lenok, who was breathing with a pale expression, looked at Myung and twisted his lips.

“Now… it’s time to hear the answers to the questions I asked.”

“…”

Myung, who had been smiling silently, opened his mouth.

“Ban. Now you have the ‘result’ of having injured me.”

“What?”

“This is the cause and effect that had to be arranged before it was too late, and a connection point that replaces my ending.”

As Myung said this and spread his hand, a broken eye appeared in his hand.

The darkness that had taken shape had hardened, like a black gem, the Death Eye.

Myung handed it to Lenok and said.

“With this, you have the qualifications to inherit my black magic.”

“Qualifications…?”

“To be precise, it’s the ‘possibility’ of inheriting my black magic.”

Was the battle that Lenok and Myung had just fought to pass on the qualifications to inherit black magic?

However, Lenok’s thoughts were swept away by the next words that Myung threw out.

“But that alone will be enough for you. Right?”

“…!!”

Myung smiled and slowly raised his gaze.

“I can’t see the exact form, but I can understand it. The answer and talent you’ve shown are all ultimately…”

“…Myung.”

Did he already know?

However, even though Lenok knew about it, he found himself not surprised on the one hand.

Myung knew about Lenok’s various names, and even created his identity himself.

Why Lenok was moving like this, trying to learn various possibilities and branching points.

Why Lenok was researching and handling various spells and abilities without being bound by systems.

If Myung understood that, it wouldn’t be strange to guess the origin from the traces of infinite branching points.

But why did Myung explain it to Lenok at this point, and try to pass it on instead?

Why did he scrape out all of Lenok’s remaining power to confirm the answer and try to be certain?

“You want to hear an explanation. I know.”

“…”

“But once you hear the answer, all the time given to me will be over.”

The moment Myung took a step and turned around, the dark tower that had passed through the gate city turned its head.

Kugugugugu!!!!!

The tower, carrying a wave of darkness and sweeping across the ground, tilted and looked down at the humans on the ground.

A faint contempt flashed in Myung’s eyes as he looked at the dying superhumans on the ground.

“Then, those bugs that survived in the place I left will try to interfere with your fate this time.”

“…”

“It’s not something I should do to you, who scraped out your magic at my request. So from now on…”

Myung, who naturally stood next to Lenok, gave a cold smile.

Myung, who stretched out his index finger towards the ground, whispered coldly.

“I’ll clean up all the bugs left on the ground for you while I explain.”

“…What?”