Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1089

Crack, crack!!!!

The ascension magic circle, which had soared into the misty cosmos, violently fractured and exploded from all sides.

Each time, the magic circle was dyed black, and it slowly began to erode Maleon’s body.

Crack, crack, crack…!!

Crack, crack, crack!!

The sounds of twisting, cracking, and crumbling, as if being gnawed away.

A harbinger of destruction that conjured up horrific outcomes just by hearing it.

Ominous black lightning struck down from beyond the misty cosmos.

As it fell upon the ascension magic circle, it was corrupting and destroying it.

Each time, Maleon’s shadow twisted grotesquely, changing in strange ways.

[Aaaaaaack!!!!]

Maleon’s horribly distorted scream echoed throughout the Eight Calamities, becoming a chilling transmission.

Fwaaaang!!

With just that scream, all the glass windows in the hall shattered, and the ground shook.

Something was wrong with Maleon.

Realizing this, Lenok cut off his magic and rose from his seat.

“M-Maleon-nim!!!”

“No, no!!!!”

“Please…!!!!”

The long-lived species, noticing the anomaly, cried out in screams and wails.

They, who had lived for hundreds of years, were trembling with their eyes closed, like children.

Their faces pale, they trembled incessantly, busy praying to non-existent gods and the heavens.

“P-Please help Maleon-nim…”

One of the long-lived species, supporting the Hollow, grabbed Lenok, unable to speak properly.

“I-I’d even offer my life. Please!!”

“…”

“You’re the only one… I beg you…!!!”

“I was going to intervene anyway, so wait.”

Lenok, who had sprung up from his seat, looked at Maleon’s shadow floating in the sky and began to draw up his magic.

At the same time, Lenok’s eyes glowed with an intense purple light, illuminating Maleon.

He simultaneously activated the Eye of Possibility and the power of Revelation to see through what was happening inside.

‘The flow of magic within the magic circle is continuously misaligning at the particle level.’

Lenok, his expression hardening, quickly organized his thoughts.

‘It’s not a minor error or misfortune. Something foreign has interfered in the ritual process.’

The creation and destruction of dismantling and reconstructing Maleon’s existence.

A process of endlessly connecting and severing causes and effects, imprinting that miracle into the instinctual level of life.

However, the ritual, which had been progressing smoothly until just now, was suddenly twisting and heading towards the worst possible outcome.

It wasn’t a problem with the ritual’s process or order, but the presence of an external factor that was collapsing the very foundation of the ritual.

‘The black lightning is clearly the cause. But the source of that power—’

Just as his thoughts reached that point, Oliviera grabbed Lenok’s shoulder.

[Lenok. I see something.]

Whook!

Oliviera, tilting Lenok’s shoulder to match his gaze with her own, spoke.

[Look above. Can you see it with your magic eye?]

“…Oliviera.”

[Since part of your magic eye mimics mine, you might be able to see the same place, even if it’s imperfectly.]

Oliviera whispered in a cold transmission, drawing up her magic.

[Higher than the ascension magic circle you were using. Higher than the misty cosmos.]

“…That is.”

Only then did Lenok realize what Oliviera was talking about, and he gasped.

Zzzzzzzzz…!!!

Ominous black lightning struck down from beyond the misty cosmos.

As it fell upon the ascension magic circle, it was corrupting and destroying it.

From above the misty cosmos where Kundara was located.

Farther than the [veil] that formed the misty cosmos.

Coming from a place even farther than the world where Lenok stood.

“From the Outer Sea… is something interfering with Maleon’s ascension?”

Something unknown from beyond the dark sea was ruining Maleon’s challenge.

A powerful yet formless will, more venomous than resentment and more ominous than thought.

It was descending like black lightning, tearing apart the ascension magic circle and interfering with Maleon’s ascension.

[As the ascension ritual began, its light shone even beyond the misty cosmos.]

Oliviera said calmly.

[Because of that, ‘something’ from beyond the Outer Sea seems to have noticed this moment.]

“The darkness of the Outer Sea that was concealing the trials of the Nine Calamities… it has intervened using that as a medium.”

Since it was the process of gaining the qualifications to challenge ascension, conversely, that moment was transmitted beyond the world to the Outer Sea.

It was understandable that the birth of an ascender would have such an impact, but to think that something from beyond the Outer Sea would intervene as soon as it was recognized.

‘But, that lightning—’

The pitch-black lightning falling from beyond the Outer Sea.

Even if it was a power that visualized will itself through the magic eye, he felt a sense of déjà vu, as if he had seen it somewhere.

The black lightning, familiar even though it didn’t exist in Lenok’s own memories.

[It seems that the one watching this situation from beyond the Outer Sea does not want the Jewel Dragon’s ascension.]

Oliviera asked.

[If this continues, the plan will fail. What will you do?]

“…”

Even at this moment, black lightning was descending from beyond the misty cosmos, binding the magic circle.

Each time the strangely twisted black lightning brushed against the magic circle, the magic circle floating in the misty cosmos was erased and crushed.

Each time, Maleon’s shadow, visible beyond the magic circle, distorted violently and let out a terrible scream.

[Kuaaa… Aaaaaack!!!]

A scream so desperate and full of resentment that he never thought he would hear from Maleon.

There was no need to explain what kind of pain Maleon was suffering inside that magic circle.

If this continued, not only would the ascension magic circle be destroyed, but Maleon’s concentration would also be broken, and the ritual would fail.

That was the same as saying that Maleon would fail his ascension and die here.

“Black lightning pouring from beyond the Outer Sea…”

Lenok, with a hardened expression, looked at the black lightning pouring towards the magic circle and asked.

“I can’t adjust the magic circle to restore the ritual and remove that lightning, can I?”

[Are you saying you’re going to take a trip to the Outer Sea in this state?]

“…It’s also impossible to stand in front of the magic circle and block the black lightning.”

The black lightning falling from the sky now was a manifestation of will pouring towards the magic circle from beyond the Outer Sea.

If Lenok used a spell to block the black lightning, that alone would inevitably affect the ascension ritual.

However, even if he stood by and watched, the magic circle would be destroyed by the power of the black lightning, and the ritual would fail.

The moment the Outer Sea’s inflammation mixed with Maleon’s desire to be reborn as an ascender, an irreversible result would occur.

Even so, it wasn’t as if there was no way.

“I can’t just stand by and watch the plan fail after coming this far.”

If Maleon failed, it would be impossible for Lenok to follow him into the Nine Calamities.

Lenok, with a hardened face, turned around and knelt down below the ascension magic circle.

Thud!

Lenok, placing both hands on the magic circle and drawing up his magic, closed his eyes and focused his mind, saying.

“There’s one method we can try. Can you cooperate?”

[What are you planning to do?]

“It’s a simple but the most straightforward method.”

Uuuuuuung…!!!

Lenok, drawing up his magic and pushing it into the ascension magic circle, regaining the control he had given to Maleon, said.

“I will directly assist Maleon’s ascension ritual and guide it to success.”

* * *

At the same time as pushing magic into the ascension magic circle, Lenok’s senses extended to every corner of the magic circle.

For Lenok, magic was another sensory organ, far more sensitive and intuitive than the five senses of the body.

Pushing magic into the magic circle and letting his consciousness flow through it felt like a new bodily organ.

Lenok, having pushed his senses into the magic circle, could finally realize how bad the situation was.

‘Most of the processes have collapsed into a mess.’

All the stages and processes that made up the ascension ritual were severed and damaged beyond repair.

The fact that the ritual was still being maintained was thanks to Maleon’s strong will, which was the core of the ritual.

Even while being ravaged by the black lightning pouring from the Outer Sea, he was somehow holding himself together to prevent the ritual from failing.

That was probably because he believed in someone who was watching this situation from outside the magic circle, not himself.

Even while suffering from pain that he couldn’t resolve on his own, he believed that a way would be found from the outside.

[Focus.]

Tap!!

Oliviera, placing her hand on Lenok’s shoulder, lifted her veil with one hand and wiped her eyes.

The moment the magic eye of the seven colors, shining with rainbow light, flashed and glared at the magic circle that Lenok’s hand touched.

[Seven Colors Seven Laws: Magic Eye Synchronization]

[Immutable Buddha Power: Causality Fixation]

[True Stop]

Kiiiiiiing!!!

At the same time as a strange resonance, the flow of magic in the magic circle stabilized and began to maintain its flow.

Among the seven powers of the seven colors that existed in the magic eye of the seven treasures.

Among them, the power of True Stop, which fixed the observed causality itself in place and made it unchangeable.

[I have fixed the flow of magic in the magic circle that you have stabilized and made it unchangeable.]

Oliviera said, pressing her hand against her eye.

[I will force the stabilization process with my magic eye. You focus on Maleon’s ritual.]

“…Are you sure?”

The magic eye of the seven treasures was certainly a powerful force, but it was a congenital ability that placed a tremendous burden on the body each time it was used.

Oliviera had also refrained from using her magic eye herself until the decisive moment for that reason.

Even though she had washed away the impurities in Nibeck’s nest, was it okay to be using her magic eye so recklessly already?

However, there was no time to discuss and dissuade Oliviera about that fact.

The black lightning that flashed violently from the sky. Maleon’s scream that echoed even at this moment.

Lenok, quickly organizing his thoughts, calmly closed his eyes.

“Let’s begin.”

Uuung…!!

He let his magic flow, connecting the severed parts of the magic circle.

He rewrote the damaged parts, and boldly discarded the parts that were beyond repair.

He used the barrier techniques that Jintun had left behind, choosing where to discard and where to fix, and repaired the magic circle.

He lowered the performance to the bare minimum that could maintain the ascension ritual, and repaired the parts to prevent a backlash from erupting.

Wiiiiiiing!!!!

At the same time, the magic circle surrounding Maleon began to rotate violently.

The complex sequences, letters, and symbols that made up the inside of the magic circle changed their positions at an incredible speed, rearranging their placements.

The other long-lived species, who had been watching the scene while praying earnestly, began to murmur in confusion.

“W-What is it?”

“What is he trying to do?”

“D-Don’t change the position of the magic circle recklessly. If the ritual escapes Maleon-nim’s control…!!”

[You’re being awfully noisy.]

Oliviera, who was standing behind Lenok with her hand on his shoulder, sent a chilling gaze.

[Shut up and watch. What he has to do from now on will not be easy for him either.]

“Just what are you planning to do…”

Oliviera didn’t even respond to that and raised her gaze towards the sky.

The long-lived species, naturally turning their gaze following her, stared blankly with their mouths open at what was happening in the distance.

Flash!!

Black lightning fell from the sky, ruthlessly crushing the ascension magic circle.

Originally, a part of the magic circle that was hit should have disappeared, and the damage should have reached Maleon.

However, even though the black lightning had struck and scorched the magic circle, Maleon did not scream.

Immediately after the black lightning flashed from beyond the Outer Sea, Lenok manipulated the ascension magic circle.

He had moved all the letters and sequences that made up the inside of the magic circle, leaving the point where the black lightning was falling empty.

Crack!!

The black lightning struck the magic circle, but it disappeared futilely without erasing anything.

Each time the black lightning flashed from beyond the Outer Sea, he manipulated the magic circle to empty the space and minimize the damage.

Each time, the ascension magic circle was being completed again, gradually regaining its brilliant radiance.

Fwaaaaaat!!!

“I-Is it possible…”

Only then did the long-lived species realize what Lenok was doing, and they burst out in shocked voices.

“He’s proceeding with the ritual while repairing the magic circle one by one and avoiding the black lightning!!!”

“That’s impossible. That’s not something a human can do!!”

“Even if he repairs the magic circle before calculating the coordinates, the timing wouldn’t match…!!!”

He was avoiding the black lightning while rearranging the symbols, letters, and sequences that made up the ascension magic circle in real time.

Anyone with even a little knowledge of barrier techniques could understand how absurd that was.

“He’s out of his mind. Does he want to die with his head exploding?!”

Regnus shouted with a dumbfounded expression.

He was so shocked that his face, disguised as a human, was pale.

As an excellent barrier technician, he would know better than anyone how absurd Lenok was attempting.

“Even Jintun couldn’t handle barrier techniques in that way. You’re maintaining the ritual by denying the mysteries of barrier techniques head-on!”

It was like replacing hundreds of parts of a very complex machine in real time, making it work without stopping for even a moment.

It was like changing the numbers and symbols of tens of thousands of equations, making the same result come out every moment.

Moreover, barrier techniques had great significance in the symbols’ meanings, order, and arrangement.

It was not something that could be thought of or attempted in the realm of calculation or prediction.

A task that relied on intuition in a thoroughly sensory realm, making a process that could not be reached by logic a reality.

Drip, drip…!!

As if proving Regnus’s words, blood dripped from the tip of Lenok’s nose.

The Eye of Possibility. The power of Revelation. Davi’s calculation ability. The control of the Infinite Labyrinth.

Even using all those abilities to their limits was not enough, and the burden was reaching Lenok’s brain.

“Stop it. You’ll get caught up and die too!!”

“No.”

Lenok, wiping the blood from his nose with one arm, replied.

“I’m doing it because I can.”

“…What?”

“You can’t change someone else’s fate as you please. Thinking that way is close to arrogance.”

“…”

“But if they need an opportunity to choose, I can create it.”

He had a memory of saying something similar to someone once.

At the end of the closed area. To the memory of someone who no longer existed.

If Lenok himself could become a standard for those who had not even been given the opportunity to choose.

If it was just to set the seekers wandering in a closed world on the starting line.

“I can do it. If it’s an existence that tries to change its own fate.”

Lenok said, looking up at the ascension magic circle.

“Just like Maleon’s challenge, someday—”

So that he could say that to himself as well.

Fwaaaaaaaaaat!!!

The speed of the black lightning falling from the sky was increasing.

However, the speed of the magic circle’s rearrangement that Lenok was manipulating was even faster.

The ominous will falling from beyond the Outer Sea struck the void of the magic circle and disappeared futilely.

Conversely, the ascension magic circle surrounding Maleon was burning even more brilliantly, completing itself.

He manipulated the ritual with his own senses and intuition, awakening Maleon, who was asleep in the center of the magic circle.

“Wake up, Maleon.”

Lenok, clenching his teeth and raising his hand, said quietly.

“Prove for yourself in the end whether you are a challenger worthy of success…!!!”

Kwaaang!!!

At the same time as slamming the end of the magic circle down, a dazzling magical light spread throughout the entire magic circle.

It filled the entire vast circuit that was divided into tens of thousands of branches, and now it was changing its own arrangement and avoiding the black lightning.

Passing through the lightning that futilely cut through the void and disappeared, the ritual completed in infinite change embraced Maleon and rotated.

Kkiririririk…!!

The magic circle, which had been rotating in a circle, slowly split and unfolded like a butterfly’s cocoon.

From within, a brilliant light that could not be contained by the eyes burst out, illuminating the misty cosmos brightly.

The night of Kundara became day, and the light that leaked from beyond the veil erased the shadows of the stars.

The veil that had been spread out as if to cover the central city of Ars Nova flickered momentarily and disappeared.

At that moment, when a powerful and explosive will that made one forget the void filled the spacetime of the world in a circle.

Flash!!

All sound disappeared, and the world was filled with a transparent silver light.

The silver light that filled the entire world pushed away the black lightning falling from the sky and headed beyond the boundaries of the world towards the Outer Sea.

Kugwagwagwagwagwa!!!!!

A huge pillar of silver light soaring into the sky extended throughout Kundara, warmly illuminating its radiance.

All the lifeforms throughout Kundara were overwhelmed by that transcendent will and the flood of consciousness, and immediately after, they realized its meaning and cheered.

[Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!]

A cry of the soul. A roar of life. A celebration of birth.

The trumpet call of birth, announcing that another miracle had been born in this world.

At the soundless shout that seemed to deafen him, Lenok quietly removed his hand and raised his gaze.

“…”

Oooooooo!!!!

Maleon Gnosis stood at the center of the silver pillar that enveloped the entire Hall of the Eight Calamities.

With his head tilted back and his eyes closed, he spread his arms out to the sides and leaned back.

With his naked body, he shone the jewel-like scales engraved all over his body.

Without even breathing, he savored everything without exception.

As if he already had everything without breathing, as if every moment given to him was incomparably comfortable.

With just his existence, he engraved himself into the world, along with an overwhelming and magnificent aura.