Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1009

The sphere of flesh, swelling explosively, engulfs the Conjunction Master.

Flames surge through the tattered walls and ceiling of the life domain.

All around, the corpses of chimeras, burned and melted, lie lifeless.

Amidst the chaos of everything breaking and collapsing, the swollen sphere of flesh slowly rotates.

*Kkiririk…!!*

As if coiling and tightening around itself, belatedly trying to manage the uncontrollably surging power.

It instantly compresses its form, reshaping itself anew, and descends barefoot.

*Jjeoeop!!*

“Haa….”

With a soft sigh, the Conjunction Master, emerging from the sphere of flesh, lifted his gaze.

A blood-soaked head. A grotesque figure with half of his face burned and distorted.

But what felt most bizarre was the pale gray brain itself, exposed without even a scalp.

The gray, glistening brain trembled and convulsed within Sulju’s head.

The central nervous system connected to the brain. A violent rejection reaction spreading through the nerves to the whole body.

Sulju’s body, twisting uncontrollably, was visible even to Lenok’s naked eye.

*Burururu… Ttuk!*

At that moment, the convulsions that had spread throughout Sulju’s body stopped as if a lie.

The skull and scalp regenerate over the exposed brain, covering his head, and he raises one hand.

The moment the Conjunction Master, slowly clenching his fist, raised his head and met Lenok’s gaze.

*Kwaaaang!!!*

Sulju’s fist slammed into Lenok’s solar plexus with tremendous speed, sending Lenok flying dozens of meters backward.

“……!!!”

*Teoteoteoteong!!!*

The fleshy walls and membranes of the life domain tear like paper.

Lenok’s body, flung away, collided with the walls and ceiling dozens of times, tumbling through the circulatory chambers intertwined with blood vessels.

“Kulok……!!!”

Shattering the outer barrier that repels external shocks in a single blow, crushing bones and organs.

Even with the Red Star Domain [a protective magical field] surrounding his entire body, the impact force penetrates through the flames with bare force.

Sulju’s arm burns and vanishes, his upper body incinerated and scattered, yet he does not stop.

[Ppuuuuu!!!]

From all directions of the domain, dozens of colossal elephant-like chimeras appear, pressing down on Lenok and exploding.

Sulju, regenerating his body by absorbing the exploding flesh and blood, fell on top of the tumbling Lenok.

*Eujijijijik!!!*

The chanting speed and output of the conjunction spell have nearly doubled compared to just now.

Before he could even change the barrier conditions and react, the remaining divine barriers are torn to shreds by the barrage.

As Lenok is helplessly pushed back, Sulju, with his hand outstretched, draws up black, twisted magic.

Conjunction Spell Activation

[Void Junction]

*Jjeoeoeong!!!!*

Lenok’s figure is flung backward at tremendous speed, crashing into the life domain.

He smashes through the organ storage room, destroys the freezer, passes through the medicine storage room, and pierces through five corridors.

Lenok, barely stopping in front of the storage room, coughed up blood and drew up his magic.

‘It’s not a simple space junction. Could it be…!’

He ignites the flames of healing, slowly massaging the gaps between his ribs where he was struck.

If he hadn’t taken painkillers beforehand, he wouldn’t have been able to move his body due to the pain.

Lenok, having coughed up blood a few more times, opened his mouth with difficulty.

“…You’re insane.”

When would Lenok ever say such a thing to another mage?

But the moment he realized what the Conjunction Master had done, Lenok could only say these words to Sulju.

A procedure that he had never dared to attempt, even after opening his eyes in this world and living as a mage.

Even Lenok, who had witnessed countless mysteries and miracles, found it hard to believe what Sulju had just done.

“His own left brain and… Jellyh’s right brain…”

“I joined them.”

Sulju, who had walked in front of Lenok, poked his temple with his finger.

“I thought the rejection reaction would be severe, but this is beyond what I expected. My head… it’s all twisted.”

“…….”

“The first thing is the backflow of emotions. Then comes the memory. However, the memory side is too impure, making it difficult to filter out.”

As he said that, Sulju’s eyes were spinning around like a madman.

“It would be faster to reject the newly incoming information for now and sort it out after the battle. It would have been easier if I had a mental stabilizer…”

The central nervous system, connected by joining the brains, was unable to accept the presence of the new right brain and was going berserk.

But Lenok knew that this was not the only ‘insane thing’ Sulju had done.

The final move the Conjunction Master used at the last moment of the battle with Lenok.

The Conjunction Master had not simply prepared a spare brain and attached it to his head.

From the beginning, he had been fighting and talking with Lenok with half of his own brain cut off.

“…There was a reason why you didn’t deploy the magnetic domain. You had already excised your right brain the moment you faced me.”

Lenok, who had struggled to catch his breath, slowly opened his mouth.

“How… how can you think and move normally with such a body?”

The Conjunction Master’s life domain, as Sulju had said, was not an ability that directly helped in battle.

It only functioned as a factory for the production of chimeras, surgical assistance, and the storage of excised organs and test subjects.

Wasn’t its purpose to revive the long-lived species that served as a gateway?

That’s why Lenok was surprised by Sulju’s ability to continue fighting without relying on the domain, but even that was actually done with half of his brain excised.

“No matter how powerful a mage is, it would be difficult to control the body without half of the brain.”

Lenok, turning to look at Sulju, asked.

“Not only would physical functions be impaired, but also thinking ability and reaction speed would decrease. The imprinting efficiency of the root mind [a core part of a mage’s being] would also be significantly reduced.”

“The body of a being that transcends the hierarchy is also closely synchronized with the mind and the root mind. It doesn’t stop functioning just because one part is missing.”

Sulju replied, touching his brain through his temple.

“My excision of the right brain was entirely my own will. Because it was something I decided after thinking and judging for myself, my root mind and soul can recognize the deficiency of the body and maintain balance.”

“…….”

“Of course, this is only because my body and soul are at the minimum cut-off point where they can maintain their ego. I’ve already dissected myself several times, experimenting on how much my soul can withstand the damage to my body.”

The Conjunction Master’s declaration that even he himself could not be an exception to the rules of research and experimentation.

True to his words, Sulju had already dissected his own body and soul, perhaps to test his own ‘strength’.

Lenok had also repeated experiments on his own body, going through trial and error, but the research Sulju was talking about involved even more damage.

“As a result of the experiment, I can’t maintain balance from the moment the damage ratio of the body falls below 49%. If I fail to control the content, then I will no longer be Avesta Chapman.”

*Pudeuk!!*

Sulju, forcibly twisting Jellyh’s right brain, which was showing a rejection reaction, and attaching it to the brainstem, said.

“What is the human ego? Where does the concept of free will originate? Are we really choosing what we want ourselves?”

*Kkujijijik…!!*

Even as he spoke, parts of Sulju’s body swelled up like balloons and exploded.

While dripping blood and pus, he regenerates his body in the blink of an eye, restoring it to its original state.

Sulju’s figure, dying from the side effects of joining another’s brain, and regenerating from its positive effects.

*Jjeoeong!!*

The moment Sulju raised his hand, space twisted and distorted before Lenok’s eyes.

As he distanced himself to avoid the ‘junction’ of space exploding before his eyes, Sulju was already standing behind Lenok.

Before he could even meet Sulju’s indifferent gaze as he raised his hand from behind, he compressed and concentrated all of his chakra barriers.

*Kwaaaang!!*

This time, Lenok’s figure completely broke through the floor of the life domain and crashed to the ground.

“……!!!”

“Perhaps all those questions may not even have any meaning. But I need to know.”

Sulju said, looking down at Lenok, who was kneeling in the center of the blast.

“If I have to understand and dismantle everything in this world, and then reassemble it with my spell… I will do it.”

“Obtaining Michael Jellyh’s innate ability was itself a preparation for that…”

The conjunction spell is the power to join and control the objects that one understands and clarifies.

That is why Sulju seeks to understand and dismantle everything in this world, making it the object of his spell.

It is one of the answers that Avesta Chapman has given as the axis of the Great Connection that the Order Alliance envisions.

To do that, he can even cut off his own brain and replace it with a new one.

Sulju was proving it directly to Lenok in this very place.

“Evan Martinez. We mages don’t move for just one reason.”

The Conjunction Master replied, extending his palm towards Lenok.

A strange gesture as if strongly pulling something invisible.

“Even this moment when you face me is intertwined with a tangle of threads that cannot be explained by a single cause.”

*Kiiing…!!*

At the same time as a strange resonance echoed in Lenok’s ears, Sulju whispered.

“That’s why I need a special talent like you even more.”

“……!!”

*Huuuk!!*

There was no time to react.

As if cutting out the very scenery in front of him, the next moment Sulju was gripping Lenok’s neck.

“Kuek…!!”

“If you’re a slayer of apostles, you’d know.”

Sulju, who had instantly grabbed Lenok’s throat and pushed him down as if subduing him, met his gaze.

“That a special ‘power’ is needed to kill the incarnation of the end. A miracle is needed to suppress the blessing of the outer gods and bring death to the incarnation.”

“…….”

“Show me, Evan Martinez.”

*Kkwaaak…!!*

He breaks the barrier around Lenok’s neck with one hand and tightens his fingers strongly.

With magic twisted black as if he were about to use a spell, Sulju whispered.

“There’s still something you haven’t shown me, isn’t there?”

Conjunction Spell Activation

[Extraction]

*Ppeoeoeong!!!*

The sticky magic that burst out from his hand exploded, tearing off the neck that was held in his hand.

A killing technique that joins and extracts all body parts except the head of a living being.

But what was held in that hand and had its head torn off was not Lenok, but the corpse of a chimera that had died.

Lenok, who had used blink [a teleportation spell] to move away from behind Sulju, breathed roughly.

“Kulok……!!”

“I can’t believe it.”

*Peoeok!!*

Sulju’s right arm exploded on the spot, but Sulju’s expression was filled with surprise rather than pain.

Because he realized that Lenok had literally recognized and reacted to his attack.

“You predicted and reacted to the space junction?”

“As expected, there was no speed at all. From the beginning, that was…”

Lenok replied with difficulty, panting.

“…a divine skill that joins space without touching it.”

The speed that Sulju was showing was not simply increasing his own speed.

By ‘joining’ the space around himself and Lenok, he forcibly narrowed the distance and delivered a fatal blow without even giving him time to react.

A divine skill that forcibly applies the concept of shrinking the earth, which an apostle would use by borrowing authority, to the surrounding space.

Lenok, looking at Sulju’s right hand that had exploded and burst, said.

“You forcibly increased and expanded the range of the spell that could only be applied by touching it directly.”

“…….”

The only things that the conjunction spell could join were the objects that Sulju himself had directly touched and understood.

But Sulju forcibly joined the entire space, narrowing the distance with Lenok.

An expansion of the unrealistic spell concept that is possible because it is a special trait spell. But even so, he cannot escape the price.

At the point of joining and compressing space, Sulju’s hand should have been broken beyond repair.

Sulju was using Michael Jellyh’s immortality to bear that penalty.

“Forcibly joining objects that exceed the limits of the spell, and recovering from the penalty with immortality.”

“The physical restoration using chimeras is ultimately through the conjunction spell, so it cannot nullify the spell’s own penalty.”

Sulju affirmed.

“To bear the price of forcibly increasing the limits of the spell, I needed an ability that was not included in the scope of the spell.”

Forcibly joining objects that he has not understood or touched, and offsetting the price with immortality.

A rampage of the conjunction spell that is not bound by distance or object. The power to manipulate even the ‘concept’ of the spell.

He transcends the strict and fatal limits and prices of a special trait spell through a life-threatening gamble.

It is difficult for even Lenok to guess how much stronger Sulju will become after he finishes adapting to Jellyh’s brain.

A new horizon that he reaches by surpassing even himself, who transcends the hierarchy.

After the left and right brains have completely synchronized, the root and mind that the Conjunction Master will newly obtain-

*Kwaaaaa…!!!*

The massive body of the long-lived species, writhing while trapped inside the barrier of the Thousand Mile Fragrance [a powerful magical barrier].

The life domain is constantly shaking, and the huge masses of flesh are burning and distorting from all directions.

“This is the end, Evan Martinez.”

*Huuuk!!*

The Conjunction Master, who had descended in front of Lenok, said.

The figure of him unable to control his physical regeneration due to the side effects of joining Jellyh’s brain is now gone.

He has perfectly restored his original form, wearing his surgical gown, and appeared in front of Lenok.

“With the end of this fight, I will make the first gateway my domain and move the central front.”

“…….”

“The Alliance’s Great Connection will now extend its power beyond the center to the entire continent. Even the Balkans will not be able to avoid its influence.”

Sulju, looking down at Lenok with an indifferent gaze, declared softly.

“Before becoming a part of the Great Connection and witnessing all those achievements… do you have any last words you want to leave?”

Avesta Chapman, the Great Mage of the Order Alliance, the Conjunction Master.

But what makes him a great mage is not just his innate talent.

A curiosity that has abandoned ethics to understand and explore his spell.

A cruel determination to sweep across the entire continent for the sake of the Great Connection.

And a ruthlessness that does not make even himself an exception to that implication.

The madness of making a move that even Lenok could not imagine, switching his own brain in the middle of a life-or-death battle.

All those factors and impulses, desires and wills, come together to make him who he is.

That is why, even after replacing half of his brain, the Conjunction Master was still himself.

But-

“Special trait spells are really difficult.”

“…What?”

“Is it because the spell itself is intertwined with the caster’s origin? Even though I’ve gotten a feel for it, I can’t get the balance right.”

Lenok said as he rose from his spot.

Lenok, who had been looking at the blood dripping down his wrist, grabbed it with one hand.

“If I’m still like this even after being hit this much… then I’ll have to forcibly dismantle and analyze it.”

*Uuuuuuung!!!!*

Amidst the blood flowing down his arm, a golden glow mixed in.

A spiral of gold and blood intertwining and rotating shone on Lenok’s wrist.

“That’s…!!!”

It was a faint light as if it would disappear at any moment, but Sulju could sense it instinctively.

That was it.

The secret that the mage had been hiding from Sulju until now.

Perhaps even the Conjunction Master’s doppelganger had failed to glimpse it, his origin.

A miracle that even Sulju himself, who was witnessing it before his eyes, could not read its source.

The gold flowing through the blood filled Sulju’s mind, crushing all thoughts as if pushing them away.

[Magic System Uroboros Activation]

[Special Trait Conjunction Spell Dismantling Calculation]

[Incomplete Magic Conversion Power Conversion Ready]

[Perpetual Motion Machine Deployment: Power Flow Connection Junction]

*Kkigigigigik!!!*

The sound of gears twisting unpleasantly.

A perpetual motion machine that forcibly balances the misaligned balance of mind and soul, thoughts and root mind, dismantling and absorbing the spell.

“I admit it, Conjunction Master.”

Lenok, who had reached out weakly, raised the Uroboros magic circle rotating on his wrist.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve used this on another mage.”

*Jjeojeok!!!*

His vision turned red, and he felt as if more than half of his energy had been drained in an instant.

The magic power that is being burned and consumed at a tremendous speed even at this moment due to the deployment of the magnetic domain.

The imbalance that cannot maintain its center even with the magic assistance of the Red Star Domain, added to the activation of Uroboros.

A body that is tattered after the fierce battle with Sulju. Even the thoughts that are being worn away, unable to withstand the continuous use of spells.

But even so, Lenok knew how to deal with the Conjunction Master here.

*Hwareuk!!*

Behind Lenok, six stars lit up one by one, drawing a dazzling trajectory and rotating.

The re-ignition of the amplification secret technique, the Red Star Domain, which had blown off half of Sulju’s head immediately after its release.

He restarts the secret technique that has reached the solar zenith and draws up the flames.

*Kukwakwakwawa!!!!*

In the midst of a flurry of scorching flames that seemed to stop his breath, even Sulju, who had become immortal, momentarily frowned faintly.

“The conjunction of the conjunction spell and immortality. A monster that emits unlimited output through it.”

But Lenok, unconcerned, raised his finger while floating six stars like a halo.

“But after being hit this much, it’s not difficult to get a feel for it.”

“…What did you say?”

“Magic System Start.”