Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1028

Sharp lightning pierced through dozens of high-rise buildings simultaneously.

Amidst the debris of exploding and collapsing buildings, two mages wreathed in lightning accelerated.

One used blink, leaping through space, while the other transformed their entire body into lightning, dashing forward.

Each time the distorted thunder of different lights collided, a chilling shockwave spread, vaporizing the surrounding terrain.

[Auspicious Body Lightning]

[Spiral Thunder Kill]

Zzzzzzzzzzz!!!

The tingling, twisted lightning collided with the spiraling thunder, scattering in all directions.

Thousands of fragments of lightning burst and scattered.

Kugugugugu!!!!

Lenok and Torben simultaneously dashed along the collapsing, tilting walls of the high-rise building.

Lenok slipped on the scattered lightning fragments, while Torben’s figure, wrapped in flashing lightning, sped forward.

[Sole of Dawn Fall]

A bolt of lightning fell from the sky, striking between Lenok and the Tower Master, piercing through the tilted building vertically.

Wajangchangchang!!!

The aftermath shattered the glass windows of the building below, creating a deafening noise.

Innumerable shards of glass scattered in all directions, reflecting the lightning in every direction.

As the Tower Master’s figure, reflected behind the glass fragments, blurred and tilted, the Tower Master, having closed the distance in an instant, began to chant a spell.

[Thunder Dull]

Kwaaaang!!!

The Tower Master’s faintly flickering hand slammed down on Lenok’s forearm once more, shaking it heavily.

“……!!”

This was it.

Among the electric magic used by the Tower Master, this was the power that scattered a particularly heavy and dull sense of incongruity.

One of the secrets of the unique electric magic that Lenok had not properly learned.

Realizing this, Lenok gritted his teeth, pulled up his magic power, and countered the Tower Master’s Thunder Dull.

[Thunder Void Eye]

[Treading Thunder]

Pajijijijik!!!!

The backflow of electricity condensed at Lenok’s fingertips surged wildly, blocking the Tower Master’s lightning.

The impact warped the wall of the building where the two were standing, throwing Lenok and the Tower Master into the building.

Kwaang!!

Inside the tilting building, they crashed through the walls and doors of offices dozens of times.

Scattered partitions, monitors, and telephone fragments. Hundreds of sheets of paper burned and disappeared.

The intersection where the Tower Master’s Thunder Dull and Lenok’s Treading Thunder collided and struck down.

Looking at Lenok, who was staring at his Thunder Dull with a cold gaze, the Tower Master slowly opened his mouth.

“It’s about catching the speed of lightning and slowing it down to the extreme.”

“What?”

“It’s about forcibly slowing down the speed of lightning that should originally pass quickly to increase its power.”

Torben began to explain the knack of the magic he was using.

However, Torben, unconcerned with Lenok’s reaction, slowly reached out his hand and said.

“Beyond the level of slowing down the speed, when it reaches the extreme of being able to hold the lightning, it becomes like this-”

Jeojeojeojeok!!!

The distorted lightning in Torben’s hand eventually transformed into a huge lightning hammer.

The Tower Master, gripping the hammer of Thunder Dull in one hand, smiled and tilted his head.

“It becomes possible to imitate the modeling of matter.”

“……!!!”

Uuuuuung!!!

The moment the hammer of Thunder Dull struck down, a huge concentric circle spread out from the point of impact with Lenok.

The lightning, compressed and fixed to the extreme, had an overwhelming explosive power as if it were being released at the moment of impact.

There was not even time to pull out the carapace shield [a magical shield shaped like a shell].

Lenok’s figure, which had fallen through the floors of the building, was slammed vertically into the ground.

Kwaaaaaang!!!

“Kuh……!!”

He operated levitation magic and shield magic with all his might. He grabbed his body with magic threads and reduced his speed just before reaching the ground.

The moment he detonated electricity under his feet to lift his body with repulsive force and manipulated the gravity of the vicinity to regain his balance.

“This is the basic qualification to stand at the beginning of Lightning Transformation.”

The Tower Master, gripping the hammer of Thunder Dull falling from the sky in one hand, said.

“It’s about ‘fixing’ the lightning, synchronizing it with the body, and temporarily changing the nature of the body to lightning.”

“…….”

Even after Lenok’s lightning pierced his heart, the Tower Master was still moving perfectly fine.

It was not something that could be simply dismissed as having excellent recovery power or being tough.

Lenok’s lightning, which had reached the extreme level, had reached the point of tearing nerves and killing cells.

Even if he used Lightning Transformation, it was inevitable that he would suffer a fatal injury that would be impossible to recover from if his heart was directly hit.

If he was able to continue fighting perfectly fine even after suffering such an injury, it was possible that the Tower Master did not rely heavily on the heart as an organ in the first place.

‘The information is insufficient, so the speculation becomes vague. It wasn’t even this bad when I was fighting the spirit master…’

Each time the fight dragged on and they exchanged electric magic, he realized how strong the Tower Master was.

Conversely, he could no longer understand what kind of being Arkendrias El Torben was.

All he could know was that the old man was a madman who would easily throw away his life to convey enlightenment.

The reason why he attacked Lenok out of the blue and the reason why he took Lenok’s magic with his bare body were the same.

Even though they were learning the same type of magic, it was more difficult to grasp the foundation of his power than the spirit master he had fought.

That was also because it had not even been an hour since he had faced Torben, unlike the spirit master-

“I thought that since you learned magic without belonging to a tower, you would be a guy with one extremely outstanding advantage, but rather, your basics are abnormally excellent.”

“…….”

“You are already perfect in terms of cutting down the attributes and properties of lightning to the extreme and detonating it. Rather, Bonno should learn a thing or two from you in terms of the sense and knack for handling instantaneous output.”

It was also because the old man in front of him understood the magic that Lenok had learned as deeply as Lenok himself.

“I was going to point out the lacking parts and correct them, but apart from a few property changes, there is nothing that Bonno can find fault with in your achievements.”

The Tower Master asked, looking somewhat satisfied.

“You learned well. Who is your teacher?”

“I don’t have one.”

“……What?”

“I don’t have a teacher who taught me electric magic.”

He stuck the staff he was holding into the ground and took out an ampule from his pocket and injected it into his wrist.

Chik!

The Tower Master, watching Lenok insert the ampule into his forearm, said with a bewildered look.

“That can’t be. Are you saying that you dug up the ground and learned the electric magic you learned all by yourself?”

“If I were to call the mages I killed my teachers, I could talk about one or two.”

“…….”

“I have no intention of taking anyone as my teacher now. Especially not now that I don’t even know what Extreme Lightning Magic is.”

Torben had risked his life to pass on Extreme Lightning Magic to Lenok, but he had not explained what Extreme Lightning was at all.

He had only pulled each other down in a chaotic battle that disregarded even his and Lenok’s lives, and had only detonated electric magic without rest.

Whioooo……!!

The sky, which was getting closer to midnight, turned dark, making the air chilly.

Lenok, pulling up his magic power while adjusting his robe, pressed his hand on the back of his hand and said.

“Even if lightning is like a moment of enlightenment, I cannot agree with that method.”

“I told you. The intuition that cannot be conveyed in words dwells in our lightning.”

Torben chuckled and nodded.

“Is explaining worse than not explaining? Useless words are unnecessary.”

“Worse than not explaining?”

“From the moment the cause and effect of lightning is engraved in life, this lightning stands at the forefront of our lives. The transmission of techniques is the same.”

Kung!!

The Tower Master, who had stuck the flashing hammer of Thunder Dull diagonally into the ground, said.

“Extreme Lightning is an enlightenment that goes against the process of understanding. It is a word that refers to the very premonition that does not exist but must exist.”

“……Premonition, then.”

Is he trying to talk about the essence of the power without directly explaining Extreme Lightning?

However, just by listening to the Tower Master’s words, Lenok vaguely sensed how dangerous the power he was trying to convey was.

Torben was not trying to convey a specific technique or skill to Lenok right now.

Just one possibility that could be reached by mastering electric magic to the extreme.

He was only trying to directly hammer the enlightenment that already existed as a result into Lenok.

“Bonno has lived for a long time and has seen many ascendants [those who have achieved a higher level of power], but I have realized that they are all unreliable.”

The Tower Master said with a somewhat pathetic expression.

“Even if you dedicate yourself to ascension, you will only go crazy without an answer. What can you go to even if you cross the outer sea in a world where the ending is already decided?”

“…….”

“That outer god floating in the sky. The end that comes without even cause and effect. If you can become the lightning that precedes all of that…”

At that moment, the Tower Master’s eyes, looking at Lenok, seemed to sink endlessly deep.

“Wouldn’t it be worth trying to challenge an impossible feat, even if I use myself as a tool?”

“……You. You think of ascension not as a goal, but as a means.”

A secret wish that even the hasty and proud old mage could not be sure of himself.

He had clearly encountered the size and danger of that wish somewhere before.

Lenok, realizing what Torben was trying to imply, asked.

“Could it be that you’re trying to take on the outer god with your magic alone-”

“Oh, this old man’s rambling has been too long.”

Flash!!

At that moment, the lightning dragon floating in the sky opened its mouth wide and spat out a huge bolt of lightning.

The falling lightning compressed and reduced in size in an instant, falling in front of Torben once more.

Pajijijijik!!!!

The compressed body of Thunder Dull, glowing and rotating. However, its firepower and hardness were incomparable to what it had been before.

Was he stalling for time all this time to prepare this?

“Don’t cling to pathetic wishes that cannot be spoken, that should not be spoken.”

Pajik!!

The moment Torben gripped the hammer of Thunder Dull, the clumped current distorted and began to take shape again.

Torben, who had lifted the hammer of Thunder Dull that was stuck in the ground, smiled, dripping blue light from his eyes.

“From here on, only sudden enlightenment will be the only way to understand each other’s wishes…!!!”

The moment the lightning flashed and accelerated, Lenok and the Tower Master’s lightning collided, bisecting the heavens and the earth.

Zzzzzzzzzzz!!!

The lightning, distorted by the cold air.

The blue flames of thunder resonated with a huge thunder from Torben’s hand.

With tremendous recoil, the terrain where the two mages were standing collapsed.

Torben, who had fallen like a meteor in front of Lenok, swung the lightning he was holding in his hand at an incredible speed.

[Heavenly Thunder Key]

Zzzzzzzzzzz!!!

A condensed mass of lightning that flashed with a light so intense that it could not be captured by the naked eye.

He twisted the chilling thunder, which felt eerie just by looking at it, and slammed it into his chest.

The moment the Tower Master took a step forward, he slammed the key of lightning into Lenok’s chest.

[Thunder Awakening]

It was directly embedded into Lenok’s forearm, which was wrapped in thick electricity.

Hwaaaaaaaak!!!!

“……!!!”

A tremendous amount of thought flowed through his mind.

The lightning of the two mages mixed, and an immeasurable amount of vast inspiration overflowed.

Like a key that forcibly opens a closed door, he perceives and realizes it first in the realm of the mind, even though he blocked it.

Enlightenment that takes precedence over actions or results. The Tower Master’s words were not wrong.

Extreme Lightning Magic, that is-

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!

At that moment, a tremendous amount of current exploded in front of Lenok’s eyes, pushing his body straight back.

Lenok’s figure was thrown back dozens of meters, and he crashed into the ruins without even being able to regain his balance.

For the first time, the Tower Master’s expression, looking at Lenok, was stiff.

“To forcibly reject and push away the moment of sudden enlightenment, I can’t believe it.”

“Cough, cough……!!”

“Could it be that you already had a cause and effect that transcends premonition…?”

Lenok’s figure, who could not even catch his breath properly and had his head bowed, was shaking more than ever before, with cold sweat dripping down his face.

The key of lightning that the Tower Master had shaped last, the Heavenly Thunder Key. The enlightenment about Extreme Lightning contained within it.

It was only after directly facing the phenomenon through Thunder Awakening that Lenok was able to understand it as well.

“Extreme Lightning… was it a word that refers to lightning that stands above all cause and effect and compatibility?”

The words that the Tower Master had given to Lenok were not wrong at all.

From the moment the cause and effect of lightning was engraved in life, it was the power that took precedence at the forefront of life.

Lenok also realized that the concept of Extreme Lightning was a magic that had refined and shaped the cause and effect of such lightning to the extreme.

“Precedence and premonition. Like the lightning that arrives first, it is a power that takes precedence over all kinds of phenomena and results.”

Lenok, staggering to his feet, swept back his hair and looked at the Tower Master.

“Certainly, with such power, even the purpose you dream of can be understood, but…”

“…….”

“Even if it is enlightenment, do you think that such a thing can actually be realized in reality?”

“Well. Your existence is rather the answer to that, isn’t it?”

The Tower Master’s gaze, looking at Lenok, shone sharply.

“Your achievement is not something that can be reached without learning in the first place. There must be a very powerful cause and effect that made you strong inside you.”

“…….”

Lenok was about to say something to the Tower Master’s confident words, but he closed his mouth.

A grand wish to make even ascension a means to discuss results beyond that.

The madness to achieve his will by making even himself and magic a single bolt of lightning.

Even the arrogance of trying to make the ends of the outer sea an object of will instead of revering them.

There was a strong inevitability there, where the cause was not connected to the result, but the result was determined and the cause was connected.

Lenok was vaguely aware that Torben’s way of thinking, which was to do what he wanted, was similar to the captain in some ways.

If what the Tower Master was trying to convey to Lenok right now was literally a power that preceded all cause and effect and compatibility.

If he was trying to convey it by realizing the lightning that precedes all things as a result.

Lenok also had something to say to the Tower Master.

“If the achievements of others are not the only answer, then the answer also exists within me.”

“What?”

“Knowing that I can always reach the end on every path, I am finding the standard within myself.”

Lenok, who had quietly raised his head, muttered.

“Even failures and mistakes are paths to the answer, so I can always… not lose my way.”

“…….”

The image of a kaleidoscope that uses the possibility of the future as a branching point, not the past or the present.

The moment he obtains a possibility, Lenok’s image already exists in the form of looking back at the present from the future.

The most transcendent power that Lenok possesses, which forcibly draws out the branching point of the future that he will reach someday.

That is why Lenok can always move forward correctly without losing his way, no matter what magic he learns or what technique he learns.

The moment he first awakened the kaleidoscope and opened the realm of the Eight-Linked Lightning Palace.

Lenok knew where the achievement he could achieve with electric magic was.

The important thing is not the result, but the process.

It is in the journey itself that Lenok is taking towards the scenery he once glimpsed.

“In order not to fix the answer in one direction, I am trying to avoid the possibility of my magic being fixed.”

Lenok said, staring straight at the Tower Master.

“Even if I can contain the Extreme Lightning you are conveying within me, I cannot ‘choose’ it in that way.”

“You are…”

Did he understand the meaning of what Lenok had said?

The Tower Master’s expression, which had never lost its composure, sank deeply as if he was lost in thought for a moment.

The relaxed and lightheartedness that had been felt until now was nowhere to be found, and the gloomy and dull magic power filled its place.

The essence of a war mage that he had never shown to Lenok before.

The Tower Master, looking at Lenok in the heavy air that felt suffocating, said.

“You are not facing Bonno in this place right now.”

“…….”

“Has your lightning already crossed time and arrived on the other side?”

He senses that Lenok’s answer is not a simple lie. It was an explanation that hinted at some of his essence.

He also understood that it was an answer that was formal for this moment.

“If your answer has an unattainable ideal, then there is nothing I can do.”

The Tower Master, who had raised one hand, tilted his head.

“Good. If the enlightenment you have gained is already so vast that it cannot be accepted…”

Kwaaaang!!!

From the Tower Master’s entire body, who had made a hand seal with one hand, a vast amount of magic power exploded.

The backflow of surging magic power. The magnificent thoughts and the full power that were mixed in without restraint.

“I will forcibly expand your vessel to make it able to contain even that.”

“……What?”

Paaaaaaaat!!!!

There was no time to hear the answer.

The colorless ripples that exploded from under the Tower Master’s feet instantly devoured the surrounding space and began to rotate.

The origin image that a great mage of level 8, a strongman comparable to the 2nd Apostle, unfolds with his own will.

The moment Lenok realized this and hardened his face and pulled up his magic power.

“If I make your body into a Celestial Lightning Body, that problem will be solved.”

The Tower Master smiled and clasped his hands together.

“Don’t worry, Bonno will take care of it.”

“Wait…!!”

“Self-Domain Deployment.”

Kiiing……!!!

The Tower Master said with a smile.

“Thunder God Guiding Flower Garden.”