Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1112

Oooooooo!!!!!

The dark door rotated in a circle, scattering a distant black ripple.

The world surged and violently convulsed as if a stone had been thrown into a sea of darkness.

The image of the [Door] closing after sending Seonjong’s soul and consciousness to a future of destruction.

A failed ending that had lost its meaning of ‘next’. The future of a timeline that had reached its end.

The moment the black star swirled and deviated from reality, engulfing the sky where the Ascendant had risen.

Lenox, who had been staring at the door with empty eyes, slowly knelt down and slumped.

“Ugh…!”

He coughed, spilling black blood between his lapels.

The hemoptysis worsened to the point that he couldn’t catch it all with both hands.

Lenox, who had been silently looking down at him, gave a hollow smile.

“…Ha.”

The Self-Resonance Domain is the power to project the caster’s core image onto reality.

However, the domain that Lenox reached at the end of the corrupted divergence was different.

It was not a form of domain expansion that projected the core image onto reality.

But rather, a form that opened the [Door] and showed the core image that existed beyond it.

The ability to open the door itself was just a part of the form of domain expansion.

Was the domain that the failed Lenox had obtained, transformed in this way, losing even its name and form?

Just as Lenox was thinking that and staring blankly at the crack of the closing [Door].

……

Something faintly peeked out from the other side of the endless void.

A fragment of the future that Lenox had not yet faced, a future that had failed and reached its end.

The other side of the [Door], which he had reached and grasped himself, yet did not even know its name.

“……”

Lenox looked into the door.

‘The other side’ also looked at Lenox.

The longer he looked at it, the more the other side looked at this side.

It wasn’t particularly reacting, nor was it forcibly ignoring it. It was just ‘aware’.

Lenox, who had thought that far, forcibly took his gaze away from the closing door.

Shuuuuuuuuu…!!!

At the same time as the door disappeared, the sanctuary of the Thunder God Temple also slowly faded away.

The Thunderclap Sword that had disappeared engulfed in lightning. The Firefly Star that scattered and vanished into flames.

Only Lenox, who was sitting in the center of the collapsing Nine Calamities and spitting out black blood, remained alone.

The sky of reality where the [Door] and the Ideological Battlefield had disappeared simultaneously.

Lenox, realizing that Maleon’s presence had vanished, quietly closed his eyes.

“……Maleon.”

What Lenox had obtained was the extreme of a failed and corrupted divergence that he could not reach on his own.

He was simply wielding the runaway spell that was exploding beyond its limits, without controlling it.

Even though he could open the [Door] and unfold the image of the destroyed future, controlling it was impossible from the start.

That was why Lenox was able to decide how to end Maleon’s story only at the last moment.

Because he knew that Maleon had tried his best to be himself until the very end.

Because he understood that Maleon had entrusted the end of his journey, which he himself deemed futile, to Lenox.

Lenox did not choose Maleon’s ending directly-

“Cough…!!”

Lenox, who was breathing as if his breath would break, rose from his seat with blurry eyes.

He had settled things by sending Seonjong’s thoughts into the future, but it was not over yet.

If he didn’t escape the Nine Calamities, he would burn to death in this place, making the insurance he had prepared useless.

He had to escape this battlefield, which was falling at an incredible speed, to properly finish everything.

Thinking that, the moment Lenox took a step forward.

Thud!!

Lenox, who had lost his balance, fell headfirst and rolled down the corridor filled with flames.

“…Kuh!!!”

Burning and melting debris. The station was shaking violently and increasing in heat.

His breathing stopped as the oxygen became scarce, and his vision blurred.

He had used all the remaining time and energy before opening the Thunder God Temple.

He wouldn’t have been able to move like this if it hadn’t been for the power of the sanctuary.

Opening the [Door] and winning was the last thing Lenox could calculate.

However, even so, there was one arrangement left that he had prepared for this moment.

“Ugh…!!”

Lenox, who was coughing up black blood and retching, struggled to reach into his chest.

With trembling hands, he took out an old notebook and threw it down.

The Blood Record, a blood-based database created by the Blood Forging Clan. A recording device and communicator that responded using blood as a material.

Flap!

He raised his finger over the page of the Blood Record that had been opened haphazardly.

With trembling hands, he dipped his finger into the black blood that was pooling beneath him and smeared it on the paper.

The black blood was smudged clumsily, to the point that he couldn’t even draw letters.

However, someone who recognized Lenox’s blood beyond that responded.

[Kyonroe.]

“…Just once.”

Lenox muttered in a broken voice.

“If I don’t get the timing right…”

[……]

Since he didn’t have the strength to write letters in the Blood Record, the Blood Forging Clan wouldn’t have heard the answer.

However, the vampire on the other side of the notebook, who was aware of this moment, did not hesitate.

Chrarararak!!!

Bright red blood rose on the old page, forming a complex blood magic circle inside the notebook.

Lenox, who was watching it with blurry eyes, dropped his head weakly.

“…I.”

In the end, did Lenox do well until the very end?

Can he do well until the very end?

Even though he had poured everything into it, it was not perfect, and he still had regrets.

However, because Lenox himself had decided not to choose everything directly.

Because he had decided to leave that possibility itself within this, there was something he had to do.

Even if it was unsatisfactory, incomplete, clumsy, and futile, if this was the only way.

If the only thing left for Lenox was the desire to move on to the next.

Kugwagwagwagwagwa!!!!

Below the melted glass window, the scenery of the ground was rapidly approaching.

The outer boundary of the central front line, where vast forests and grasslands stretched out.

The Nine Calamities falling while burning, and Lenox’s figure shaking at its end.

And the storm of flames that scattered, burning everything.

The moment they met at one point as they fell thousands of kilometers to the ground.

Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!

The distant light that filled the horizon covered Lenox’s consciousness.

* * *

Something like a blurry haze flickered in front of his eyes.

Everything around him was blurry and difficult to see.

Even when he opened his eyes, his focus wouldn’t adjust, and the discomfort only worsened.

“……”

However, instead of forcing himself to get up, Lenox quietly recalled his memories.

When you lose consciousness, you should recall the last moment you remember, they say.

Fortunately, Lenox could easily remember what he had been doing.

He had taken the elixir, climbed onto the Nine Calamities, fought on the falling battlefield, and used the ‘failed’ domain to settle things.

As well as the memory of the [Door] that Lenox himself had opened.

“……”

How long had it been since he lost consciousness? How much time had passed since then?

Lenox, who had been staring blankly, soon realized that his eyesight had not deteriorated.

It wasn’t that everything around him was blurry.

It was just that a wet towel was covering his face and blocking his vision.

At that moment, a familiar voice echoed in Lenox’s ear.

“You’re awake?”

Whoosh!!

With a hand brushing his face, the towel disappeared.

A black-haired girl with red eyes was sitting and looking at Lenox.

Only then did Lenox realize that he was lying on a soft and wide bed.

The Blood Forging Clan, who was checking a medical chart in her hand with a small pen, turned around and asked.

“You regained consciousness faster than I thought. Considering the extent of your injuries, I thought it wouldn’t be strange if you were unconscious for another two weeks.”

“……”

“You ‘died’ once and came back to life, you know that?”

“…At the end.”

Lenox, who coughed with difficulty, said in a dry voice.

“It seems… I managed to get the timing right.”

The Blood Shadow Palace, located on the border between reality and the imaginary dimension. The blood management room located in its depths.

The Blood Forging Clan had been treating Lenox, who had lost consciousness, here.

“It was only possible because I’m contracted to you as your summon. If I had been just a little late in opening the Blood Shadow Palace and bringing you here, it would have been a disaster.”

The Blood Forging Clan scoffed.

“But is that all you have to say after waking up? I thought you’d have a more plausible impression.”

“An impression…”

Lenox muttered weakly and asked.

“Is it the Life Vessel?”

After taking the Ascendant Elixir, Lenox knew that he had to die once.

Although he had suppressed the poison using the Ink Scale of the Compendium, he could not completely block the poison that had spread throughout his body.

Over time, Lenox’s entire body would literally rot and he would face an unavoidable death.

To prepare for that, he had prepared two insurances, the Life Vessel and the Resurrection Spell.

Lenox realized that he had barely survived by consuming the Life Vessel.

“It’ll be easier to explain if you know what happened.”

The girl, leaning back in her chair, answered languidly.

“At the same time as your body entered a state of suspended animation, some of the damage that should have accumulated in your body disappeared. I guess the Life Vessel was consumed instead.”

“……”

“But since all the backlash and damage that had accumulated in your body during that time didn’t disappear, I was treating you here.”

“…It only takes the damage that leads to death once, it’s not an item that restores the damage to the body.”

Lenox said with a wry smile.

“For something like that, your body doesn’t seem to be in as bad of a condition as I thought.”

“The Life Vessel isn’t just a convenient item. You knew that and prepared for it, didn’t you?”

The Blood Forging Clan asked.

“And most importantly, the scale that was embedded in your carotid artery. I don’t know where you got it, but you have something unbelievable?”

The Blood Forging Clan pointed to the ink-colored scale placed next to Lenox’s bed.

“The Eight Dragon Kings have a transcendent will that can’t even be compared. Just one scale is like a relic-grade magical artifact.”

“……”

“Thanks to this, which prevented the poison from spreading to your head, the damage to your nervous system was minimized. You were lucky in many ways.”

“…It would have been impossible to fix it just by preserving the head and nervous system.”

Lenox replied weakly.

“It was a gamble that I made assuming I would die once. The poison would have spread to the ends of every cell in my body, and you extracted all of that?”

“You already prepared the method for that, didn’t you?”

Swoosh!!

The girl grabbed something wriggling at the end of the bed and held it out to Lenox.

“You left this guy with Oliviera. I knew it was because of this.”

“……”

Sssshhh…!!

A small snake figure landed on Lenox’s bed and roughly flicked its tongue.

It was clearly terrified even after seeing Lenox lying there with a pale complexion.

Lenox, who was a step late in recognizing the snake’s identity, muttered.

“Nivex Oroshia.”

“This guy had the antidote for the elixir you drank.”

The Blood Forging Clan, holding Nivex’s tail, which was resisting, lightly lifted it up.

“The amount was far too little, so I mixed in some more pure blood and poured it directly into your body. Fortunately, it worked well.”

“Let, let go…!!”

Nivex, who was caught in the Blood Forging Clan’s hand, cried out weakly.

“Now, now that he’s awake, isn’t that enough…!! I’m going to leave!!”

“Where are you going? You’re Oliviera Ron Maze’s summon now.”

“Vampire…!!”

The snake, grinding its teeth, glared at Lacy with reptilian pupils.

“You’ve fallen so low. To claim to be a summon of a human species, do you have no pride?!!”

“Oh, is that so?”

The Blood Forging Clan gave a cold smile.

“I threw away my pride a long time ago, so I don’t really understand it.”

“You!!”

“Don’t hate me so much. When you think about it, you and I are in the same boat, aren’t we?”

The girl, who had dropped Nivex on the floor, gestured lightly.

“I asked Oliviera to summon you, so she’ll reverse summon you again. Wait outside.”

“This, this can’t be…!! This isn’t the ending I wanted!!”

Following the Blood Forging Clan’s gesture, a shadow of blood rose from the floor of the Blood Shadow Palace and dragged Nivex away.

“You, you dare- Kundara-!!”

Thud!!

With a final scream, the door to the blood transfusion room closed, and the sickroom became quiet in an instant.

The Blood Forging Clan, who had calmly turned her gaze to Lenox, shrugged her shoulders.

“Anyway, due to a combination of various coincidences, I managed to save your body somehow.”

“…I see.”

“You said you had insurance to revive yourself after taking the elixir, but I would have been in trouble if you had died due to a combination of bad luck.”

The girl, turning her red eyes to meet Lenox’s gaze, said.

“As long as you and I are bound by a contract, your death will rebound to me in some way.”

“……”

“If I’m not careful, there might be a problem with my spirituality or bloodline. I hate that kind of unpleasant experience. Got it?”

Since the death of a summoner can affect the summon, the Blood Forging Clan had saved Lenox herself.

Lenox smiled wryly and nodded.

“I said it was insurance, but I don’t know exactly how the revival will be done. In the worst case, I might have had to bear the damage to my hierarchy.”

“……”

“Considering the state of my body, avoiding unpredictable variables is welcome for me as well. You don’t have to make excuses.”

The Life Vessel and the Resurrection Spell.

Both were set to activate using Lenox’s death as a trigger,

but Lenox was not sure exactly what principle the process was based on.

As much as the ‘sensation’ he gained from taking the elixir was immense, the backlash would have been severe as well.

If he had been revived with his whole body soaked in poison instead of washing away the poison and recovering like now, there would have been a problem.

If it hadn’t been for the Blood Forging Clan’s help, the backlash might have affected Lenox’s hierarchy as well.

“…The state of your body.”

However, the Blood Forging Clan seemed to have focused on a slightly different part of Lenox’s answer.

“I have something to say about that. I guess it’s okay to say it since Nivex isn’t here.”

The Blood Forging Clan, Lacy, who was tapping the medical chart in her hand, looked at Lenox with a serious expression.

“Your condition is much worse than I thought, not just because you took the Ascendant Elixir and broke down. Was your body this broken from the start?”

“……”

“The damage to your circulatory and immune systems is too severe. Your metabolic efficiency is so low that you can’t properly circulate blood in your body.”

Saying that, the Blood Forging Clan pointed to the cluster of IV drips hanging over Lenox’s head.

“So I’m taking the blood out of your whole body and circulating it. Can you see?”

“……”

All the IV drips in the blood transfusion room were densely hanging over Lenox’s bed.

The IV drips inserted into Lenox’s wrists, shoulders, and sides branched out in several directions, hanging hundreds of IV drips.

Inside, purified blood was slowly being injected back into Lenox’s body.

“I wouldn’t have been able to do this much if I hadn’t been contracted to you as your summon.”

The Blood Forging Clan said with a serious expression.

“But you wouldn’t have let things get this bad if it wasn’t for the contract either.”

“……”

That was not wrong.

The fact that Lenox borrowed the power of the Blood Forging Clan at the last moment was largely due to the summoning contract he had made with her.

Since he had experience entrusting his body to Murphy, a doctor from Vulcan, there was no reason why he couldn’t entrust his treatment to the Blood Forging Clan, who had a summoning contract with him.

Lenox knew from his past experiences that the penalties engraved on his body were not something that could be found through such examinations.

“I’d like to know what’s going on outside.”

However, instead of explaining about his body, Lenox naturally changed the subject.

“When will I be able to move out of the blood transfusion room?”

“You… you’re talking as if it’s a given, but you need to focus on recovering for more than a week.”

Lacy sighed with a dumbfounded expression.

“In the first place, are you in a position to worry about the situation outside right now?”

“I did drop the Nine Calamities below the outer sea, but that doesn’t mean everything is over.”

Lenox replied quietly.

“Seonjong’s thoughts have disappeared and Maleon is dead. The repercussions on Kundara would have been more than that.”

“……”

“Where is Kundara now?”

Lacy was silent instead of answering that question.

It wasn’t because she didn’t want to answer, but because she was choosing what to say.

Before and after taking the elixir and climbing onto the Nine Calamities, Lacy had not changed.

She acknowledged that Lenox deserved to hear the ending of this city.

“It was already too late when the Nine Calamities’ gravity started pulling Kundara.”

The Blood Forging Clan, who had slowly turned around, said as she walked out of the blood transfusion room.

“It was precarious even before you climbed onto the Nine Calamities. It was impossible from the start to remain inside the veil.”

“…Then?”

“Originally, this city should have been pulled by the gravity of the Nine Calamities, detached from the outer sea, and shattered into pieces.”

Click.

The girl, grabbing the red curtain that was covering the wall, said.

“But you dropped the Nine Calamities to erase the gravity, and you held the city in the Dragon Kings’ territory, reducing the damage by half.”

“……”

Half the damage.

Did that mean that half of the long-lived species of Kundara, who lived in the outer city, had died?

While Lenox was silent with a blank face, the Blood Forging Clan, who had glanced at him, said.

“I think you’re misunderstanding, I’m not talking about casualties. What I mean by half the damage is-”

Whack!!

At the same time as she pulled back the curtain, the scenery outside the Blood Shadow Palace was revealed beyond it.

The art of reflecting reality from within the Blood Shadow Palace, which the Blood Forging Clan had shown once before.

The moment Lenox confirmed the scenery of Kundara reflected outside the Blood Shadow Palace through it-

“…The city…”

A giant satellite that had been floating in the misty universe.

The satellite, which was once Kundara itself, was scattered in pieces and scattered all over the plains.

The western boundary of the central front line. Inside and outside the veil where the Druids and the Head Warlords had clashed.

The fragments of the city that was once Kundara were scattered across the endless field.

The moment Lenox silently closed his mouth at the sight of the terrible destruction.

Among the broken city fragments, countless long-lived species began to be seen moving in and out of the city.

“What is that…?”

Even though Kundara was shattered and scattered on the front line, the long-lived species who lived there still remained.

They were moving, rebuilding, and restoring the layers of each city that had been divided into eight calamities.

Thousands of long-lived species moving among the shattered satellite fragments.

Unlike the outer city that was destroyed and died, the light of life still alive there.

“The core facilities and main structures of the city were protected, but the form itself could not be protected.”

The Blood Forging Clan, who was standing next to Lenox, explained.

“Now that it’s impossible to maintain the form of the satellite, it’s also impossible to hide back inside the veil.”

“……”

“Do you understand what I mean?”

The vampire asked with a strange expression and turned her gaze.

“The outer city will now advance to the central front line… and live with the humans of the mortal world.”

The advance of the outer city Kundara, which had been hidden behind the veil, into the central front line.

Maleon’s plan had failed, but its repercussions changed the direction of the city.

The long-lived species, who had been hiding in the mist for hundreds of years, had begun to advance into the continent in earnest.

* * *

Thud…!!

The ink-colored giant body that had been walking in the darkness flickered faintly.

Something that had turned its steps with a heavy roar raised its gaze.

“……”

Bright yellow reptilian eyes. Ink-colored scales covering its entire body.

The moment the figure of a magnificent alligator giant appeared, cutting through the shadows.

[Why is that?]

A mineral-like voice echoed from behind it.

[We still have a little further to go to the port. Considering the distorted space-time coordinates of the continent, it will take another half a day.]

“Somewhere on the continent…”

The giant, baring its teeth, replied.

“Something unpleasant opened and closed.”

[…Something unpleasant?]

“…Kha.”

The reptile’s bright yellow pupils, which had been staring at the dark horizon, curved as if mocking.

“If you’re going to stop without going all the way, you shouldn’t have started in the first place.”

[……]

The alligator giant didn’t say anything more and moved its steps.

The ground tilted faintly, and the surroundings echoed as if an earthquake had occurred.

Thud, thud…!!

The voice looked at the back of the giant and quietly opened its mouth.