Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1004

Click!!

He opened the case and took out a small syringe. With a practiced hand, he filled it with the drug, tilted his head, and injected it into his shoulder.

Ignoring the pain of the needle piercing his collarbone, he then took out a vial and swallowed a handful of pills.

Crunch!!

He inserted a needle into the vein on the inside of his elbow. Connecting a tube, he inverted the vial and plugged it in.

Ampules, vials, tubes—Lenok quickly adorned himself with a multitude of attachments.

[Is he insane?]

Jellich, watching from the side, recoiled slightly from Lenok’s actions.

However, Lenok, unfazed by Jellich’s horrified reaction, said,

“These are items I obtained from the Conjunction Master’s drug storage. He’s an excellent physician, so there’s no need to suspect defects or side effects.”

[Even so, what kind of drugs is he taking in such rapid succession… Overdosing on stimulants and cardiac drugs like that will cause all the blood vessels in his body to burst and kill him.]

Jellich couldn’t hide his shock and sent out a series of mental waves.

Perhaps it was because he, too, was a member of the Ability Awakening Corps and had a knack for using drugs to control his superpowers.

He seemed to be fully aware of how absurd Lenok’s doping was.

[Repeatedly taking incompatible elixirs will erode your energy. If you want to commit suicide, there are better ways.]

“It’s fine.”

Lenok said with a smirk.

The reason for using the Adamantine Combat Style under the guise of Evan Martinez was already prepared.

“I saw a great mage of Vulcan boosting himself like this. I understand the gist of how to do it.”

[…….]

“What needs to be adjusted isn’t the dosage but the combination ratio. If you consider the overlapping and neutralizing effects of the drugs and combine them, you can actually maximize their effectiveness by administering them this way.”

Ampule needles stuck into his shirt, tubes wrapped around his arms, and a catheter inserted into his neck.

He was inflicting wounds on himself and pouring foreign substances and impurities into his body.

Immediately after starting the drug administration, his heart pounded wildly, his head heated up, and he felt a tingling sensation as if all the blood in his body was flowing backward.

The heat and air felt on his skin became numb, and his sense of touch dulled.

However, in contrast, an energy that had not existed in Lenok’s body began to surge, and a heat began to boil in his stomach.

“Hoo……”

He let out a hot breath, knelt on one knee, and reached into his coat.

Flap!!

The Papyrus Argenteus, acquired from the Cradle of the Hidden Path [a place of ancient knowledge].

Lenok, having spread out the massive papyrus and knelt, began to form hand seals with both hands.

Each time Lenok formed a seal, complex barrier formations appeared on the papyrus and emitted light.

Fwoooosh…!!!

“Fortitude. Adamantine. Immovable.”

He used his spell-infused weapon to deploy and construct three types of Fixed Wheel Barriers, specialized for defense and harmony, around his entire body.

“Excavate. Advance. Observe.”

He deployed and compressed three types of Flowing Line Barriers, specialized for exploration and vigilance, in all directions.

“Repel. Divine Bear. Reject Dawn.”

He manifested and layered three types of Expulsion Barriers, specialized for exclusion and rejection.

Over the nine barriers of Fixed Wheel, Flowing Line, and Expulsion, he overlaid a tenth augmentation barrier to complete his own aura.

“Divine Barrier Manifestation.”

Kkiririk…!!!

The nine great barriers enveloping his entire body, along with the one divine barrier.

Beneath them, dozens of small barriers he had chanted beforehand swirled around Lenok, completely isolating and protecting his body.

He converged and circulated the energy flowing within his body without wasting a single bit, creating a grand formation that claimed its own completion.

Thump!!

As he took a step forward, the writhing corridor of the operating room rippled greatly.

Jellich, who had been silent, asked, taken aback by Lenok’s menacing aura, layered with dozens of drugs and barriers.

[…What, are you going to war or something?]

“Once I achieve my goal in the operating room, I might have to run away immediately.”

Lenok, who had concealed the Nix emblem inside his coat and perfectly hidden even the slightest trace of his presence, said,

“While heading to the gate entrance, there might not be any more time to prepare than this.”

Lenok, placing a hand on the writhing wall of the operating room, nodded.

“Follow me. We’re moving now.”

[Moving? But there’s no open path here…]

Creak…!!

Jellich’s question was cut short as soon as he saw Lenok place his hand on the operating room wall.

The moment Lenok’s arm touched the wall, the fleshy wall began to writhe and swallow Lenok.

It was as if a thick mass of muscle was sucking Lenok in like a swamp.

He activated his target designation resistance and synchronized himself with the aura of this living domain.

That alone made the living domain recognize Lenok as the same entity and try to assimilate him as one.

“There’s no reason to walk along a complicated path now.”

Lenok said, grabbing the tank containing Jellich’s left brain.

“I’ll move through this wall and go straight to the gate entrance.”

[No, even if you say that, if the tank breaks, I’ll—!!]

Lenok’s body, holding the tank, disappeared into the reddish-pink wall in an instant.

Creak, creak, creak…!!!

The living flesh and muscle moved this way and that, compressing and pressing down on Lenok.

If he hadn’t deployed the barriers beforehand, he would have turned into a puddle of blood the moment he was buried in the flesh.

However, even in the midst of that, Lenok reached out and began to find his way.

The Conjunction Master’s living domain was shaped to encompass the gate entrance. And the gate entrance was adjacent to the ground.

Therefore, it wouldn’t be difficult to gauge the direction of gravity and find the part that touched the ground.

Squelch…!!!

The flesh squeezed and crushed Lenok, oozing fluids. The moment Lenok, holding the tank, stepped through the crushed cracks,

The wall of the operating room split open, finally spitting Lenok out onto the ground.

Thwack!!

“Found it.”

Not a floor made of writhing flesh and muscle, but solid ground where he could stand firmly with both feet.

Lenok, standing in front of the vast first-floor lobby, surrounded by living flesh, looked around.

[Ah… Ahh…]

[Hoo, hoo…]

Chimeras wandered through the lobby, letting out strange moans and sighs.

They were carrying heavy iron bars on their shoulders and backs, perhaps transporting materials needed for the operating room.

They didn’t even pay attention to Lenok, as if they had not been given any orders other than transportation.

He walked past the chimeras moving in all directions and looked up at the structure located at the far end of the lobby.

The skull of a giant demonic beast with its mouth wide open.

The skull of a demonic beast, several tens of meters in size, was located at the end of the lobby.

The corpse of the giant demonic beast he had seen just before entering the gate city. A transparent haze shimmered below the gaping mouth of the skeletal remains.

Whoosh…!!

The haze, swaying like a curtain inside the mouth, emitted a dazzling light.

The first gate and the entrance to the barrier leading to the central city of Ars Nova.

The first gate of the central front was the corpse of this giant demonic beast itself.

He walked into the gaping skull and stood before the shimmering haze, which was breaking apart.

“Hoo……”

Standing in front of the shimmering haze, he slowly formed hand seals with both hands.

Each time Lenok’s hand seals slashed through the air, complex barrier formations were engraved on the barrier, rotating.

Kkiririk…!!

With a sound like forcing clock parts together, the barrier in front of him began to creak and twist.

Unlike when he tried to collect fragments of the barrier outside the gate city, the reaction was much more intense.

The gate entrance existed within the corpse of the giant demonic beast. The barrier was most unstable and had a point of fracture.

Therefore, it was possible to directly collect fragments of the barrier here using Lenok’s barrier techniques.

Barrier Formation: Isolation Granting

Barrier Combination: Catalyst Extraction

Crack, crack, crack…!!

The barrier formation rotating in Lenok’s hand slowly tore away at the barrier as if cutting it out.

The fragment of the barrier contained within the barrier formation shattered and scattered the moment it separated from the barrier.

Oooooh…!!

The form of stardust falling in front of him, emitting a dazzling light.

The stardust contained within the barrier formation piled up on Lenok’s hand.

“Hoo……”

Lenok, who had been concentrating while sweating, belatedly tilted his head back and let out a soft sigh.

The manipulation of an extremely precise barrier technique that even Lenok found difficult to control, which preserved the nature and original form of the barrier while extracting it.

The consumption of magic power was considerable because it was more difficult than expected, but it was something that had to be done at this place.

A fragment of the barrier created using the shadow of a star as a medium.

The reason why Lenok had come to the central front was now finally in his hands.

[You are…]

Jellich’s left brain, watching the scene from within the floating tank, asked.

[You weren’t looking for the gate to head into the central front, were you?]

“……”

[Reaching the gate entrance was your goal. Entering the operating room itself was to obtain the fragment of the barrier.]

“Yes.”

He took out a transparent glass case from his coat and carefully transferred the stardust into it.

The fragment of the barrier was a top-grade catalyst to be used in a ritual. It was important to preserve its condition by storing it in a sealed container.

Lenok, having filled the case halfway with the stardust piled up in his hand, put it inside his coat and turned to leave.

“My business is done. Now I just need to get out of here.”

[…….]

“Bernard and Angel will be waiting outside. I’ll hand you over to the corps and immediately escape the gate city.”

If he started using magic power in earnest, the Conjunction Master would surely notice.

However, while operating on the Master of the Blaber Magic Tower, the Conjunction Master couldn’t leave his post.

The important thing was to increase his firepower and break through the outer wall of the operating room at once and escape outside the gate city.

If Jebyeok moved according to the signal and added to the confusion, it would also be possible to distract the Conjunction Master.

“It’s a shame that I can’t recover the ritual weapon you mentioned, the Mars, but I don’t have time to worry about that-”

[…….]

“Mikal Jellich.”

Lenok, turning to the silent brain, asked with a blank face.

“Why haven’t you been answering me since a while ago?”

[…I’m sorry.]

Jellich answered hesitantly.

[Actually, I lied to you. I lied that I didn’t want to die even in this state…]

“……”

[Even after failing the immortal body experiment, I was still looking for a place to die…]

Jellich’s mental wave, as if lamenting, began to blur as if it was being contaminated.

At the same time as a stuttering noise, the tone of his voice slowly changed.

[If it was someone who could grant that wish, it might not have mattered who it was.]

Jellich’s left brain said as it spun around.

Behind the silent Lenok, a young man in surgical scrubs was standing.

“The thoughts of a high-ranking archmage are truly difficult to read. Don’t you think?”

“……”

“By repeating pressure and neglect, constantly tightening and loosening your nerves, I wondered when I would see an opening… In the end, I only managed to meet you at the very end.”

The Conjunction Master, Avesta Chapman, who should have been operating on the Master of the Blaber Magic Tower.

His true form, not a chimera clone, was standing in front of Lenok.

“About the absurd fact that Vulcan’s Adamantine and Thousandfold have joined hands.”

“……Conjunction Master.”

“Before we end everything, let’s talk for a bit.”

The Conjunction Master smiled and tilted his head.

“About the reason for this gate’s existence and our end.”