Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1032

Signpost (20)

The memory of the last day Anathema was banished from the central city. A moment he had pondered and recalled throughout his life.

The one who appeared to escort Anathema, imprisoned in the dungeon, was an Ascendant even Lenok had never seen.

A level 9 Spirit Language user. A transcendent being who created and spread the continent’s common language.

Now, a fallen being in the central paradise, using humans as letters, mimicking the outer gods.

The Ascendant, Jinwa.

“It seems the central protocol has fallen apart quite a bit in my absence,” Jinwa, the white-haired woman, said with a gentle smile upon hearing Anathema’s dry voice.

Her face was beaming as if she had heard words that should not have come from his mouth.

However, the words that came from her ageless lips were chillingly cold.

“I don’t recall ever allowing such a failure to call me by my title.”

“……”

“Well, that doesn’t matter. If you’re awake, won’t you come out?”

Clank!!

The moment Jinwa said those words, the door to the prison where Anathema was confined swung open.

Jinwa smiled as she looked at Anathema, who had collapsed in the deepest corner of the prison.

“I have a final story I want to share with you for a moment.”

Her spirit language, which opened the seal of the Time-Release Prison that even the nobles of the Central City could not resist, with just a single word.

However, Anathema did not move at Jinwa’s words, but stared intently at her face.

“The Emperor clearly… warned you.”

Anathema, who had been gazing at the woman with a gaunt face, opened his mouth.

“You have finally made a living human your avatar.”

“Hmm. I thought I had done a pretty good job of crafting it.”

The woman’s eyes narrowed as she looked down at Anathema.

She stroked her cheek with one hand and said,

“It seems it’s still quite clumsy in the eyes of a Dragon Sorcerer. Should I try to reduce the individuality of the avatar a bit more?”

“……”

The woman’s appearance of touching her face as if it belonged to someone else.

Lenok was carefully observing the woman who called herself Jinwa from beside the two of them.

‘Were there already signs of this from this time?’

It’s hard to gauge because the context of the conversation is short, but it’s certain that this woman is not Jinwa’s true self.

Jinwa’s title held a rather unique meaning among all the Ascendants in history.

If it is a word that indicates her achievement and origin of spreading the common language, there must be at least a secret related to it.

Jinwa raised a finger towards the silent Anathema.

“If you don’t intend to move, I’ll help you.”

“Kuh…!!”

Crack!

At that moment, Anathema’s body was thrown forward as if his collar had been grabbed.

His body, which had hit the prison floor with his head, was forcibly dragged out of the prison.

Bang!!

“This is…”

Anathema, who was unable to resist and was rolling on the floor, confirmed the surrounding scenery and gritted his teeth.

The forbidden zone located on the outermost edge of Ars Nova. A research complex that conducts experiments that go against the laws of nature on superhumans who have committed serious crimes.

Jinwa had not appeared in the underground tower of the Central High Court where the Time-Release Prison was located.

She had simply teleported the entire prison where Anathema was confined to where she was.

“Haa, haa…!!”

“Head.”

The white-haired woman, with her arms crossed, looked down at Anathema, who had struggled to lift his gaze, with a smile.

“It’s still too high.”

“…!!”

Koo-oong!!!

Behind Jinwa, whose ornate robe was fluttering, hundreds and thousands of people were lined up, bowing their heads.

Armor of brilliant radiance. Soft silk. Exquisite ceremonial robes rippled under the purple-tinged sky.

The Imperial Dragon Knights. The Soul-Reaping Inquisitors. The Hybrid Armored Division. The Holy Palace Observatory. The Immortal Alchemists. The Sky-Soaring Magic Alliance.

All sorts of names that Lenok did not know and had never heard of surged within Anathema’s memory.

Goo-ooo…!!!

Talented and outstanding superhumans who had been with Ars Nova during its golden age bowed their heads to a single Ascendant.

The reverence shown towards Jinwa was so clear that even Lenok, who was looking into the memory, felt breathless.

The existence of an Ascendant who could change the color of the sky just by sending down their will to this place.

Was this the kind of treatment that a transcendent being who had earned the right to challenge received even in the Central City of that era?

However, Jinwa did not seem to feel any emotion even while looking at the humans who were worshiping her.

“Ah, this is why I shouldn’t have accepted the position of the Great General of Logic.”

“……”

“After all, worship towards my status, not me, is meaningless. Or was this even something the old men of the Council of Destiny planned?”

Having said that, Jinwa turned around without hesitation.

Every time she moved through the crowd, people saluted, and magnificent golden light rippled to the end of the horizon.

Anathema’s body, bound by purple chains, was dragged behind her without resistance.

Clank, clank!!

The sound of the chains hitting the ground echoed with a sharp noise.

“It was a request from Crimson, but the reason I came to this city today wasn’t originally because of you.”

Jinwa said languidly without even looking back at Anathema, who had struggled to lower his head.

“Before the handbook arrives, shall we just finish the final adjustments?”

As thousands of people parted to the sides, a huge barrier loomed before Jinwa.

A barrier that distorted the ‘perception’ itself to hide its location and coordinates, so much so that even Anathema only realized it after getting close.

Koo-oh…!!

A sense of ominous and precarious deja vu that was felt from beyond the barrier.

The moment he felt a familiar deja vu from that presence, a chilling roar began to echo from beyond the barrier.

Thud…!! Thud…!!!

A bizarre sound as if scraping the ground with bare hands, yet conversely, as if tearing it apart.

“That is…!!”

“If you also participated in the Council of Destiny’s tricks, you would know.”

Jinwa’s avatar smiled and raised her hand.

“What the end of a failed Ascendant is like. Would you like me to show you?”

Jjeo-eong!!!

The words the woman uttered became a real spirit language and floated before Anathema’s eyes.

The moment the spirit language, where ancient and modern letters were mixed and distorted, was engraved in reality.

Jinwa and Anathema’s bodies instantly crossed the barrier of perception and headed into the space inside.

[Aaaaaaaaah!!!!]

Charrrr-rrr-rrrk!!!!

Thousands of humans, their entire bodies dyed black, screamed while bound by black chains.

They scratched the ground with their blackened hands, letting out screams that echoed from the end of hell.

The spheres of humans bound by chains scraped the ground, shaking and overturning the foundation.

Kugugugugu!!!!!

A fallen transcendent being, spinning madly while dyeing the horizon beyond the barrier black.

Lenok’s expression also hardened at the sight of the unclean and depraved collection of flames that seemed to pollute the mind just by looking at it.

Because he had looked into that eerie appearance from the well of the handbook so much that he could never forget it.

An Ascendant who was created in the Central City and whose failure was artificially planned.

Gyebaek, Aurel Silford.

“Cough…!!”

Anathema’s face, who had lost all motivation, turned pale.

He grabbed his neck with his chained hands and knelt down.

Unable to properly resist the pouring flames, he was helplessly flooded and repainted.

However, Jinwa ignored Anathema’s convulsions and moved on.

She walked out, her robe fluttering, and opened her mouth while running her thumb over her lips.

[Restraint.]

Jjeo-eong!!

At the same time as her spirit language was released, letters shining with intense magical power floated in the air.

[Blockade.]

As the letters of the spirit language were engraved in the air, they emitted a vast ripple in all directions.

[Non-transmission.]

Jjeo-jeo-jeo-jeok!!

The spirit language that Jinwa released rapidly floated into the air one after another and intertwined with each other.

The moment the dazzlingly glowing spirit language was slammed down onto the sphere of humans convulsing in the distance.

[Engrave.]

Charrrr-rrr-rrrk!!!

The intertwined spirit language became a new chain, binding the sphere of humans and beginning to become a part of it.

[Oooooooooh!!!!]

The thousands of humans bound by chains wailed, trying to break free from the spirit language that Jinwa had bound, but it was useless.

The spirit language of blockade and suppression that she had directly engraved bound the limbs of the broken and transcended monster and blocked its transformation.

“This will be the last time I suppress it by adding a geas [a binding magical oath] with my spirit language.”

Jinwa, who had removed the spirit language from in front of Anathema with a wave of her hand, said.

“In the end, the plan to create an artificial Ascendant completely failed. Or should I say it failed ‘as planned’?”

“……”

“The Council of Destiny called him Gyebaek. Isn’t that name itself too obvious in what it’s aiming for?”

Jinwa laughed, leaving Anathema, who did not answer.

“It is said that power resides in a name, but if it is excessive, it is rather avoided from the perspective of handling spirit language.”

A cold sneer settled on the woman’s face as she looked at Anathema.

“Like your name, the more meaning you give it… the more it ends up being twisted from its essence.”

“……”

“Anathema. The Emperor did not give you that name because he wanted an ending like this.”

“…Ending.”

Anathema uttered different words for the first time.

The light of the spirit language that floated in the air illuminated his face completely for the first time.

A handsome young man with a completely different impression from the scaled appearance that Lenok remembered.

He slowly said, biting his lip.

“From the moment the Emperor left, such things became meaningless to us.”

“……”

“You Ascendants are the same. You are just breaking down because you cannot find a way in a world without a future.”

Anathema sneered as he looked at Jinwa, who was smiling.

“Even mimicking the outer gods by using humans as avatars… isn’t it because you feel impatient when you see that Aurel Silford?”

“You should be careful with your words.”

The woman, who had been silently grooming her nails, said.

“Are you comparing yourself to such a half-baked Ascendant? Even before you were punished, you’ve become fearless, haven’t you?”

“You’re agitated. Your tone is mixing up.”

“……”

Jinwa did not answer.

She just fiddled with her hands with a blank face, then opened her mouth as if nothing had happened.

[Come out.]

Paat!!

Anathema’s body tumbled onto the purple-tinged field.

His wrists were bound by amethyst chains, and he was instantly thrown out of the barrier.

Jinwa gave a cold smile as she looked at Anathema, who was struggling to regain his balance.

[Kneel.]

Pujik!!

Anathema’s knees twisted in the opposite direction and were crushed like a reverse joint.

A faint groan escaped Anathema’s mouth at the excruciating pain that tore apart his joints and nerves.

“Kuh…!”

A bizarre sight of him kneeling before the woman with his knees bent backwards.

Lenok, who had followed Anathema out of the prison, hardened his expression at the power of that formidable spirit language.

‘She performs spatial teleportation and bio-manipulation with just spirit language, and there isn’t even a sign of it…’

It’s not like she’s clearly specifying actions and targets, but she manipulates the surrounding phenomena with just a single command-like word.

A transcendent power that far exceeded the limits and scope of spirit language that Lenok knew.

Is this the power of an Ascendant who has obtained the qualification by using spirit language formulas?

[You can’t even resist my spirit language, yet you dare to talk like that, you’re quite bold.]

The woman, who had unleashed her spirit language without hesitation, said with a cold expression.

[I was going to let it slide with a generous heart, but it was not the words I should hear from a sinner who tried to drink the death of an Ascendant.]

“……”

[You who committed cannibalism on the corpse of a Saint and tried to imitate its status, who do you think you are to give advice?]

“You too, are you not seeking an unpermitted status by using living humans as tools…”

Anathema asked, raising his head while sweating profusely.

“What is the difference between you mimicking a god and the sin I committed?”

“……”

“I respected you for creating and spreading the common language, and for having compassion for humans…”

Anathema said, smiling weakly in the cold silence.

“It has become like this now.”

[It’s time.]

Jinwa, who had been listening to Anathema’s words with a blank face, tilted her head.

[The handbook has arrived at the forbidden zone.]

At that moment, a huge shadow began to be cast over the purple-tinged sky.

Kugugugu…!!!

A huge body covered in scales was floating and rotating at an incredible speed in the sky.

Its shape was so fast that even in Anathema’s memory, it was impossible to discern its exact appearance.

However, both Anathema and Lenok, who were watching the memory, knew.

The Ascendant Handbook, the serpent guarding the well.

A being born as a spirit beast and becoming an Ascendant had arrived in the sky above the Central City, leading its true form.

Weeeeee-ing…!!!

The huge serpent’s body rotated in the purple sky, drawing a huge circle of unimaginable size.

A strange gesture as if trying to create a crack in the outside of the sky by drawing a circle with its body.

At the same time, a very large barrier formation unfolded in the sky and began to shine.

Pa-a-a-at!!!

A huge barrier formation that covered the entire purple-tinged sky, the size of which could not even be estimated.

Above the barrier formation that was large enough to contain the handbook’s massive body of hundreds of meters, powerful presences fell one after another from the other side of the sky.

Kugwagwagwa!!!

Although it could not be seen or heard, ‘something’ transcended time and space and took its place here.

The miracle of Ascendants scattered in all directions of this planet, scanning the surface of the planet and sending down their will.

[The Saint imitates death, and the handbook becomes a passage and opens the door.]

Jinwa’s avatar, who was looking at him, said.

[Jindun will establish this process as a barrier formation, and Crimson will prove its existence.]

Du-du-duk!!

Even though the woman did not open her mouth, her voice became a spirit language and fell upon Anathema’s entire body.

[This will be a message to the being who has deviated from causality through your fate, which the Emperor had arranged but went awry.]

Jinwa whispered with a smile.

[Therefore, only your name can be a message that the Ascendants agree on.]

“Jinwa…!!”

Anathema paused at the unexpected words, but Jinwa did not answer any further.

As if there was no need to respond to Anathema’s words or communicate with him any longer.

[The fact that the foolish Jindun agreed to this matter proves your sin.]

She simply grabbed the spirit language that flowed from her lips with one hand and poured it onto his forehead.

Weeeeee-ing…!!!

The spirit language that had accumulated above Anathema’s head dug into his forehead and was imprinted like a brand.

The moment Anathema cried out in that indescribable pain.

Lenok’s vision, who had been watching Anathema, was distorted into a pure white.

Flicker!!

In the memory that flickered pure white, Lenok, who had faced the endless light, raised his gaze.

“…Is it over?”

Because she had made a living human her avatar, she had used Jinwa’s spirit language, but there was a limit to that as well.

The act of acting as a proxy for an Ascendant’s spirit language was a huge burden on the human body.

However, Jinwa did not even care about such a burden and achieved her goal by using humans as tools.

The former Jinwa, who spread the common language and had compassion for humans, and the current her, who regarded humans as materials.

Even the achievements she had accomplished became mere tools, and she had become a monster that claimed to be a god.

That monster, who had the power to change reality with a single word, might become an opponent that Lenok would have to face someday.

The moment Lenok was thinking about that and waiting for the memory to end.

He came to his senses when he faced Anathema, who was glaring at him in the pure white light.

“……”

Anathema’s appearance, with tears of blood streaming down his face and breathing roughly.

His pale face was half-buried in the pure white light, glaring at this side.

He couldn’t take his eyes off him for even a moment, his bloodshot eyes staring at Lenok.

Lenok confirmed Anathema’s face and then quietly turned his body around.

The last memory that Armas von Anathema had regretted throughout his life.

If he had to face him like this as a price for peeking into his memory, he would endure that price-

‘…Wait a minute.’

Anathema’s memory has not ended yet.

In the unfinished memory, he was still watching the end that Anathema had faced.

Anathema was not glaring at Lenok right now.

Not Lenok, but at the one located behind him-

Whoosh!!

A field that was dyed in a pure white light that was as dazzling as the sun.

In the sea of shimmering light, someone was standing with their back to Anathema.

“Huk, huk…!!”

Anathema’s voice, breathing roughly.

The amethyst chains that had been binding his wrists were completely broken, leaving no trace.

“Haa, haa…!!”

He could tell.

Just by recognizing that existence, everything about Anathema was shattered and scattered.

All the elements that made up the human being called Anathema were broken, collapsed, and flowed down.

Even while staring blankly, even the breath he desperately exhaled was split and disappeared.

Crack, crackle…!!

Cracks appeared on his skin, and the cracks reached his soul.

The remnants of a power that was more powerful and transcendent than any Ascendant Anathema had ever seen in his life.

An existential exclusion that banished that existence from reality forever.

A power that literally defied the order of the heavens.

Anathema, who had realized that, let out a blank sigh.

“Ah…”

Lenok and Anathema’s gazes overlapped, and their senses diverged.

The moment someone standing beyond the light-filled field turned towards Anathema.

Crack!!

A black line was engraved in the sky, and the world of memory began to shatter like glass.