Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1037

The Sky Palace Floating War Magic Tower, Torben, tore through the sky above District 49, plummeting down.

Like a living engine and turbine, it rotated fiercely, emitting a powerful roar.

Kugugugugu!!!

Its solid metallic exoskeleton and the blue lightning currents supporting its base.

A colossal war tower, unconcerned with the magnetic storms affecting the outer districts and the border guards of Vulcan’s airspace.

[Electronic field deployed. Electrical grounding established.]

Pajijijijik!!!

Thousands of lightning bolts extended from all sides of the floating magic tower, arching gently as they reached the ground.

Pillars of current plunged down, connecting the massive war tower floating in the air to the entirety of District 49’s ground.

[Space energy stabilization initiated. 4 minutes and 40 seconds until required power circulation.]

[Engine cooling started. Overload heat vents opened.]

[Descent initiated.]

Chiiiiik!!!

Hot steam billowed from all sides of the massive floating island made of metal.

Simultaneously, the massive tower, now connected to the ground, accelerated, blurring as it distorted.

The vast electrical field spread beneath the steel floating island flashed incessantly, boosting the tower’s output.

It was forcefully descending towards Lenok’s domain in the center of District 49.

Kuaaaang!!!!

The moment the falling war tower entered the airspace of the domain, dozens of magic circles lit up in the air, forming a barrier.

Massive magic circles, glowing like constellations, overlapped in dozens, isolating the space of the domain.

The fiercely rotating magic circles cut and divided the space, dispersing and pushing back the weight of the descending tower.

Kiiiiiiing!!!

Teteoteoteoteong!!!

A sound like metal twisting and breaking echoed like thunder from hundreds of meters above, and invisible shockwaves burst out continuously.

The war tower floating in the sky and Lenok’s magic tower rising from the ground.

The domains of each, centered around the two towers, collided from above and below, encroaching and pushing back their boundaries.

“Jenny!!”

Dillon, running through the tower’s stairwells, shouted as he saw Jenny tapping on her phone in the distance.

Squeak!

Leaping over the railing, Dillon stopped in front of Jenny in an instant, panting.

“This isn’t the time to be on the phone. Outside…!!”

“I know, so be quiet.”

Jenny said calmly, holding the phone to her ear.

“The signal is still fine. It means there’s no problem with the tower’s functions themselves.”

“……”

“If the Torben tower has started a fight, it must be because of the Tower Lord’s presence. Securing his safety is the most important thing right now.”

“The outer barrier of the tower is breaking.”

Dillon asked in a serious voice.

“Unless Ban responds directly, it won’t hold indefinitely. We need to move too.”

The domain’s own durability and the barrier Lenok had set up were blocking the war tower, but it was impossible to know how long they could hold.

If that massive metal lump fell to the ground without resistance, it would cause damage equivalent to a strategic weapon.

If things went wrong, the entire District 49 could suffer irreparable damage and be reduced to rubble.

“I’ve eaten enough damn meals in this tower, I can’t just sit still.”

Clank!!

Dillon, drawing his ominous red-glowing katana, adjusted his mask.

“I’ll deal with it outside with the others, so start the Phoenix Formation right away-”

“I think it’s better to watch the situation for now.”

At that moment, a woman wearing glasses interjected from behind Dillon in a languid voice.

Dillon, who was fiddling with his mask, blinked and asked.

“Ah, were you… the noble lady?”

“I’m Jutiya. Nice to meet you.”

Jutiya shook Dillon’s hand with sleepy eyes.

Looking at Dillon’s skin visible through his gloves, Jutiya asked.

“You’re a participant in the Undying experiment, aren’t you? There are hardly any survivors from that. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a survivor.”

“……We can talk about that later, so please tell me quickly why we shouldn’t move now.”

“If Torben intended to attack the Adamantine Tower, they wouldn’t have so recklessly collided their domains.”

Jutiya replied, watching Dillon pull his hand away with a displeased look.

“Rather, they would have tried to nullify the Adamantine domain and attack the tower directly.”

“They know the Tower Lord is here, so those war mages wouldn’t bury our tower.”

Jenny retorted calmly.

“That’s why I don’t know what they’re aiming for. Why did they start the attack at this time?”

“They need a justification.”

“Justification?”

“While they don’t do business in Vulcan, the scale of the war business that the Torben Tower is involved in is quite large.”

Jutiya said in a flat voice.

“There are rumors that they are involved in over a dozen civil wars, and the war business is a huge money-making venture.”

“……”

“Having come all the way to Vulcan, leaving all that behind, they can’t go back empty-handed.”

“Are you saying that such a big shot is moving for some ridiculous reason, just to swing their sword at anything?”

“Rather, I think this performance itself might be the result of a mutual agreement.”

Jutiya, looking out the window, pushed up her glasses.

“Whether it’s Adamantine or Akendrias, they wouldn’t just stand by and watch until things got this bad.”

“……”

“Hmm, now that I hear it, that’s true….”

If it was the Ban that Jenny and Dillon knew, there was no way he wouldn’t have grasped the situation until things got this bad.

This situation where the two towers are colliding is likely the result of a pre-arranged agreement, or the result of a disagreement.

If it was a result of Lenok’s own choice, should they respond accordingly?

“And, either way, you guys don’t need to step forward first.”

While Jenny and Dillon were lost in thought, Jutiya said, looking at the sky.

“Adamantine had us stay in this tower because he wanted to prepare for this kind of situation.”

“……Huh?”

Shuuuuung…!!!

The moment Jenny turned her gaze, following Jutiya, with a bewildered expression, a scene of a swaying meadow entered her eyes.

Several tombstones erected on a meadow of immeasurable width, and a huge church built inside the cemetery.

And a gaunt, large man with a hollow face, looking up at the sky in front of the church’s chapel.

“That’s…!!”

The magnetic domain of Cyrus Ardeltio, the funeral director who had been staying above the magic tower, the Funeral Return Sea.

A domain that only functions for the repose of the dead, a domain that appears in reality and does not disappear, was rising slowly.

The moment the war tower, pulsating like a living engine, fell, and the distant meadow domain rose above the domain to receive it.

Dillon shouted, drawing up his magic power.

“Jenny, cover your ears!!”

Jjeoeoeoeong!!!!

The massive body of the war tower collided with the Funeral Return Sea’s domain, unleashing a massive shockwave.

“Kuh…!!!”

The shockwave, spreading like an explosion above the domain’s sky, spread throughout the sky of District 49.

Even inside the tower, protected by barriers and formulas, the vibrations were enough to make their heads shake for a moment.

“Crazy. To forcibly intervene in the battle between magic towers and take the shock instead…!!!”

While Jenny staggered with a pale face, Dillon muttered in disbelief.

“The domain’s durability is insane. Do all nobles have such monstrous imprints?”

“Cyrus’s domain isn’t a power that can be deployed or withdrawn in the first place.”

Jutiya, who had rolled on the floor, unable to withstand the impact, said while lying flat on her back.

“The domain will continue to exist as long as the funeral director himself doesn’t die. Cyrus knew that and took the war tower’s impact instead.”

“I thought there was a creepy eyesore floating above the tower for the past few days, so Ban had foreseen even that?”

“Eyesore, you say.”

Jutiya, expressing her dissatisfaction with Dillon’s blunt assessment, struggled to get up and looked at the sky.

“Well, as a result, there’s no damage to the Adamantine Tower. And from here on-”

The war tower and the Funeral Return Sea’s magnetic domain, stopped in mid-air, colliding with each other above the magic tower’s domain.

A brief lull caused by the collision of the domain and the territory.

Before they could fully grasp the result, a powerful lightning bolt struck down from the far side of the sky.

The moment Jenny realized who the owner of that lightning was, Jutiya quietly muttered.

“It seems like Adamantine himself is going to take care of it.”

* * *

Hundreds of meters above, where the domain and territory collided and distorted.

Blue lightning flashed on the outermost metal wall of the war tower, where a fierce wind was blowing.

Clank!!

A sharp metallic sound like metal interlocking and twisting. The armored wings mounted on his back flapped roughly.

The moment Gileon’s armored wings, made of special alloy, blurred, Lenok’s new form accelerated at an incredible speed.

He flew through the fierce wind hundreds of meters above, circling halfway around the outer edge of the war tower.

[Subsonic flying object detected above the war tower’s domain.]

[44 Thunder Invitation formulas activated.]

Swaaeeek!!

From the outer domain of the war tower, which had recognized the intruder, a lightning-based interception formula was activated.

Numerous lightning bolts shot out in a row, aiming at Lenok’s new form, but they did not reach him.

With just a light shake of the armored wings attached to his back, Lenok’s body bent sideways, changing direction.

Repeating flashes and accelerations, he pierced through the war tower’s domain at subsonic speed and descended vertically.

Kwaaaang!!!

A bolt of lightning struck down from the cloudy sky.

Lenok, who landed on the deck of the war tower with a powerful thunderclap, looked around.

A fierce wind blew through the state-of-the-art formula interception equipment installed on the deck.

Whioooo!!

“……”

A void of silence filled with a rigid and tense atmosphere.

Was it like this when he attacked the mobile fortress of the defense forces alone a long time ago?

The size of the mobile fortress led by Lieutenant General Edmus Trepen, who had committed treason against the City Council, was also very large.

But it was nothing compared to the area and scale of the war tower floating alone in the sky now.

Kugugugu!!!

The Sky Palace Floating War Collective, Torben.

A bizarre shape that seemed to have lifted a huge engine itself, rather than a tower.

A steel fortress surrounded by metallic outer walls. An airship floating in the cloudy sky, bursting with lightning.

He had not heard the specific operating principles or the origins of its creation, but he could tell.

This war tower is not floating through a specific propulsion or flight formula.

The fact that this entire massive floating island is floating in the air is merely a ‘byproduct’ of the war tower constantly producing energy.

The entire tower is a single massive artifact, practically a mythical relic.

Its value easily surpasses that of a medium-sized city.

It was a spectacle befitting the Torben Tower, which held one of the largest assets on the continent through the war business.

While Lenok was lost in thought and moving, he arrived at a huge pavilion located in the center of the tower, beyond the deck of the war tower.

The shape of the pavilion, with a majestic appearance like the palace of a thunder god, flashing with blue lightning.

An overwhelming scale that seemed to have soared up, forming a staircase around the three sides of the war tower’s deck.

From all sides of the grand pavilion, countless presences were looking down at this place.

“Those wings. I’ve definitely seen them somewhere.”

While Lenok silently received the gazes looking down at him, a sharp lightning bolt flashed from the other side of the pavilion.

Pajik, pajik…!!

It was racing at an incredible speed along the metallic outer wall of the war tower.

By electrifying a part of their body to increase speed and reduce resistance, they gained mobility that surpassed physical limitations.

Paat!!

Two mages, clad in flashing electricity, fell like lightning in front of Lenok.

A dignified-looking woman carrying a lightning katana and a boy with several circular magic circles floating behind him.

“Ah, I remember.”

The boy, who was sitting on a formula turret with his hands behind his back, said, looking down at Lenok.

“The subordinate unit led by the Gray Ghost of Dead Rise was using similar equipment. Are you perhaps from the Legion?”

“……”

Instead of answering, Lenok stared at the faces of the two people.

Were these two mages the vanguard who had stepped forward first to face Lenok before this incident?

Both were Saint-level mages who had completed their hierarchies and reached level 7. Moreover, their own presences were very firmly stabilized.

Judging by the fact that their minds were not shaken at all despite facing Lenok, both of them must be war mages with a lot of practical experience.

“I’m more interested in that magnetic domain that blocked our tower.”

The dignified-looking woman opened her mouth in a relaxed tone, looking at Lenok.

“To use a funeral director like that, as expected, the most insane mage in the megacity is different.”

“……”

“It’s well-known that the nobles of the Central have unique talents, but it’s hard to find such skills even if you travel all over the continent.”

Pajik!!

The woman, adjusting her lightning katana, smiled.

“Well, I didn’t think you would accept Lyell’s proposal so readily in the first place.”

“I didn’t come all the way here to hear your impressions.”

Jjeok!!

As Lenok massaged his wrist, blue electricity burst out between his fingers.

The overwhelming radiation of magic power, overflowing as if he had put his hand in a full water tank.

The moment the mages’ faces changed at the terrifying voltage, Lenok asked.

“I don’t see a woman named Lyell. Can we start right here?”

“……Before that, there are a few things we need to explain about this matter.”

“Explanation?”

“This ritual is to open the door to the Thunder God’s Shrine, but there are a few more things that this tower needs to gain.”

The boy said.

“Torben’s war business is established because all the tower’s mages are war mages who can be active on any battlefield. Therefore, we have a duty to explain and promote these capabilities to investors on a regular basis.”

“So?”

“In other words, today’s event could also be a demonstration of how effectively this war tower can deal with high-level combat mages.”

“……Depending on the outcome of the ritual, you want to use the battle with me as part of the Torben Tower’s career?”

Only then did Lenok understand the purpose of the two people coming before the start, and he chuckled.

“You’re honest. Among those who have fought me, no one has ever mentioned that openly and asked for permission.”

“We watched Evan Martinez gain fame throughout the central front through his battle with you.”

The boy smiled wryly, confirming that Lenok’s reaction was not sharp.

“Due to the achievement of Cheonbeon [Lenok’s alias] in the first gate, your name currently has an unbelievable premium attached to it.”

“……”

“If we can’t get the Tower Lord back, we’ll try to get what we can. I wanted to tell you about this in advance.”

It seemed that Torben was quite impressed with how Cheonbeon had gained fame by surviving against Adamantine.

Or perhaps they placed significance on the fact that the evaluation of Adamantine had risen along with the point when Cheonbeon defeated the Grafting Sorcerer.

Either way, it was clear that Torben highly valued Adamantine’s reputation.

And that they were honestly telling Lenok that they wanted to take advantage of that before the start.

The moment Lenok opened his mouth to respond to that.

“Well, actually, what Ron is saying is just an excuse.”

Kwajik!

The woman, slamming her lightning katana into the ground in reverse, grinned.

“To be honest, I just want to fight a mage who has defeated the Tower Lord.”

“……”

The boy called Ron sighed.

“Harlin. If you say that, it makes me look like a fool for explaining so hard.”

“It feels like I can see the path if I take one more step. It feels like I can gain enlightenment if I look a little further.”

Harlin, ignoring Ron’s words, said.

“If I can go even a little higher, I want to glimpse the higher realm, even if it means risking my life. Don’t you think so, senior?”

“Who are you calling your senior?”

“Hmm, it was a sign of intimacy. Was it too clumsy?”

Harlin, with an awkward smile, slowly drew the lightning katana she had been holding in reverse.

The expression on her face, reflected on the blade of the katana flashing with blue lightning, changed to an utmost seriousness in an instant.

“So, I hope you don’t hold back and do it properly. I want to see your real ‘magic,’ even if it means dying here.”

“……”

“If you’ve faced the Tower Lord, you’ll surely understand what I mean?”

“You’re mistaken about something.”

Lenok replied indifferently.

“I don’t care what you think of me or how you use my reputation. But….”

While conducting war business all over the continent, its members possessed a stronger desire for improvement than anyone else.

If they could fight a strong opponent, gain enlightenment, and go higher, they were willing to risk their lives.

The contradictory behavior of the Torben Tower, which pursued profit as an organization but transcended profit as individuals.

But perhaps that was why they had the strongest power and scale as a single magic tower on this continent.

Lenok, having thought that far, spread his hands and drew up his magic power.

[Lightning Well]

[Lightning Void Eye]

[Lightning Collection Bias]

[Potential Resonance: Harmonics]

Bbaaaaaaang!!!

A blue halo appeared behind Lenok’s back and began to rotate at an incredible speed.

“……!!!!”

A tremendous amount of power gathered and rotated in a circle, and each time, power burst out in all directions without reduction.

The moment Ron and Harlin’s faces hardened at the overwhelming flames of destruction that dyed the surrounding space blue.

“I never intended to be lax against the origin of all lightning-based unique magic.”

“……”

“The skills and techniques you’ve accumulated in your tower for hundreds of years. Even the secrets and mysteries.”

Lenok, walking towards the majestic pavilion with the overflowing waves of electricity, smiled.

“I want to keep a close eye on as much as possible. Shall we begin?”