Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1039

Kugwagwagwa!!!!

Amidst the dark clouds, the War Magic Tower, engulfed in lightning, ascends at an incredible speed.

Simultaneously summoning a familiar and seizing the War Magic Tower’s automatic flight algorithm, followed by hacking its control authority.

The steel fortress, momentarily losing its directional control, shook and swayed madly.

“Even for a Great Mage, this is…!!”

Ron, riding on the lightning bird he summoned, looked down with a bewildered expression.

The boy’s eyes widened in disbelief as he stared at the violently shaking tower.

“It’s impossible to interfere with the tower’s control system in such a short time. What exactly is the ability of that summon…!!!”

“You’re not the only ones who can build fortresses.”

The lightning toad that Lenok summoned was originally an entity belonging to the temporary fortress technique [Above: Heavenly Shield Dragon Fortress].

It is a power originating from the magnetic field obtained through the branching point of the artifact system.

It’s not just about summoning the toad; the summoning fortifies the surrounding space to Lenok’s advantage.

A divine feat that temporarily overwrites this massive steel pavilion, which exists as a War Magic Tower and an aerial fortress, as Lenok’s own fortress.

Through this, Lenok was able to connect Davi’s ability to the War Magic Tower’s system and temporarily seize control.

“Shall we change locations for a bit?”

Kwaoooong!!!!

On the shaking deck, Lenok swung his hand down, and as the heavy engine sound grew louder, the War Magic Tower began to tilt.

The propulsion device mounted on the tower’s keel activated at full power. The moment it accelerated from its position, bursting with lightning.

The War Magic Tower, having escaped the Funeral Sea’s domain, began to spin rapidly like a top as it moved.

Charrrrrk!!!

“Uwaaaaaaak!!!”

The War Mages standing on the deck momentarily lost their balance due to the centrifugal force of the War Magic Tower spinning while tilted.

The War Magic Tower, which spun through the dark clouds at an incredible speed, quickly left the airspace of District 49 and accelerated.

Enveloped in lightning striking from all directions, it spun and traversed the outer districts and undeveloped areas.

It crashed in the middle of the undeveloped desert where sandstorms raged.

Kwaaaaaaaa!!!!

The moment the massive aerial fortress fell into the middle of the desert, a sand tsunami reaching tens of meters high surged.

The swirling sand covered the sky, and the ground shook as if an earthquake had struck.

“T-the tower…!!!”

“No, it’s leaving the territory!!”

“Uwaaaa!!!”

Even the mages who had somehow managed to hold on while maintaining flight could not withstand the impact of the tower crashing into the desert.

The mages, unable to overcome the centrifugal force and repulsion they had built up, were flung off the deck and tumbled onto the desert sand.

Lenok, who had climbed to the front of the deck and looked down at the desert, smiled wryly.

“It looked familiar; it was near the place I visited before.”

After attacking the Defense Force’s mobile fortress and defeating Edmus Trepen.

The desert where he met Kroken Asilus was right near here.

The memory of desperately trying to survive by throwing even the mobile fortress against that monstrous crocodile giant was vivid.

Now, Lenok was looking down at the ground with a much larger War Magic Tower beneath his feet than he had back then.

Did Lenok’s feelings as he looked at the mages helplessly collapsed around the desert resemble Kroken’s at that time?

Lenok, who had been lost in thought for a moment, immediately turned his gaze downward.

“I was planning to start by half-destroying the tower. The damage isn’t as severe as I thought.”

At the contact point where the tower and the desert collided, a vast lake, not sand, had spread out.

The landscape of the vast and serene lake was so unbelievable that it was an oasis in the middle of this desert.

The lake had absorbed the impact of the tower falling, preventing it from being destroyed.

Lenok already knew that it was not a naturally formed geographical feature.

A composed woman with glasses, her hands clasped together at the end of the lake.

And the colorless ripples spreading out from under her feet.

“The area of the Lightning Flower Mirror has disappeared. Did you deploy a magnetic field to absorb the impact right before the collision instead of Lyell?”

“My name is Giselle, Great Mage.”

The woman smiled weakly, sweating profusely.

“I didn’t expect you to use the tower’s control authority in this way, even after seizing it. You weren’t interested in the War Magic Tower from the start.”

“There’s not much point in taking over a tower that belongs to the tower lord’s territory.”

Lenok, standing on the broken deck, replied languidly.

“From the beginning, what I wanted was the automatic flight system of the Thorben Tower. I was planning to build an aerial fortress with my own tower anyway.”

“……”

Although he had temporarily seized control of the War Magic Tower, Lenok had no intention of owning this massive steel fortress from the start.

Since this tower itself was an artifact formed based on the territory of the Thorben Tower Lord, taking it over would involve a complicated process.

Naturally, Lyell and the high-ranking mages of the tower would not stand idly by.

At the point when he copied the system that made the tower float in the air through Davi’s hacking, his initial goal had been achieved.

“A magnetic field with the scenery of a lake. Well, just because you’ve mastered lightning magic doesn’t mean your core image has to be lightning.”

Lenok stroked his chin with an intrigued look.

“But even though it’s not a special form like the Funeral Sea, it’s still withstanding the weight of the tower. Is the area effect itself extremely specialized in impact resistance?”

“I’m sorry, but I have no intention of talking about the abilities of my area to a transcendent like you.”

Giselle said, pushing up her glasses with a pale face.

“Rather, we will do what we can.”

“What you can do?”

Paahhh!!!!

At that moment, Lenok felt a sense of déjà vu as the mental energy rapidly amplified in both directions of his sensory field.

A strong sense of incongruity, as if someone was forcibly overlaying their mental image onto the surrounding space-time.

The moment Lenok felt it and quickly raised his gaze.

Different voices echoed from both sides of the deck.

“Magnetic field deployment.”

Kugwagwagwagwaga!!!!

A massive arch, glowing blue, soared up as if to protect the War Magic Tower that had fallen onto the desert lake.

A bright blue lightning moon (雷月) appeared above Lenok’s head, emitting a tingling electric current.

A dignified middle-aged man stood on the arch with his hands behind his back.

A beast-like young man with a scar on his face, grinning from the back of the deck.

Even Giselle, who was maintaining the area at the end of the lake.

All three of them were Level 7 Saint-Rank Mages capable of deploying and maintaining a magnetic field on their own.

After being overwhelmed in the preliminary battle led by the War Mages, have mages capable of area combat stepped forward?

However, Lenok’s eyes lit up as he looked at the magnetic fields deployed simultaneously by the three mages.

“…I see. This itself was the ability of the War Territory?”

Magnetic field deployment is the power to project a core image onto reality, temporarily altering reality itself.

Therefore, if different magnetic fields are deployed in the same space, the reality alterations of the two areas will overlap and be affected.

Either the scenery of the area is overwritten by the stronger one, or a clash occurs, causing adverse effects.

However, the areas deployed by Thorben’s mages coexist in the same space without pushing each other away or overwriting each other.

A strange form that projects abilities in different ways without interfering with each other’s existence.

Lenok muttered, realizing that the phenomenon was similar to the area that Thorben Tower Lord had shown, which did not alter reality.

“It was a miracle possible because the War Territory itself belonged to Akendrias El Thorben.”

Akendrias El Thorben’s magnetic field, the Lightning God’s Painting, is a core image that is deployed without altering reality.

Since reality alteration itself is the ability of the area, it does not alter reality immediately after deploying the area.

However, it was unlikely that all of Thorben’s other Saint-Rank Mages possessed that unique ability, which even Lenok was seeing for the first time.

If so, the effect that could be obtained by deploying a magnetic field within this War Territory must be due to that.

To assist in deploying areas with different mental images without altering reality.

Only then did Lenok realize why Thorben’s mages could have predicted a chance of victory against him, and he smiled wryly.

“Certainly, if you can overlap magnetic fields without altering reality, your combat ability will increase dramatically.”

“Perhaps Lord Lyell’s judgment was wrong from the start.”

The middle-aged man, standing on the lightning arch, opened his mouth as he looked at Lenok.

“You are too outstanding. Your achievements and insights, not relying on others, are so unique that I don’t think we can learn from each other.”

“……”

“Even though you have reached the same level as the Tower Lord, you are fundamentally on a completely different path.”

The man’s gaze deepened.

“That’s why you seem even more… dangerous to me.”

“Old man Albert. What are you rambling about?”

[Six Gates (六關)]

Kwaaaang!!!

Before he could finish speaking, a young man engulfed in lightning descended in front of Lenok.

The scar on his cheek made his impression fierce, and a menacing aura flowed from his muscular body.

“There’s a uniquely strong mage in front of us who has transcended the tower’s lineage.”

“…Lazart.”

Pajik!!!

The moment the beast-like young man, Lazart, clenched his fist, the air around his arm began to electrify rapidly.

“Then, even if it means dying, I have to fight him!!”

A preemptive strike, closing the distance without hesitation, not even recovering after deploying the magnetic field.

The opponent was also a mage who had reached a high level.

Lenok, gripping the compressed lightning in reverse, swung it towards Lazart without hesitation.

[Fluttering Lightning (翩雷)]

The moment the rotating Fluttering Lightning and Six Gates collided head-on in the air, Lazart’s lightning shattered and exploded.

Bbeoeoeong!!

“Kuh…!!!”

At the same time as the deafening roar, Lazart’s shoulder shook violently.

The aftereffects of the Fluttering Lightning, which disrupted not only the basic senses of controlling magic power but also the body’s balance, were felt throughout his body.

The moment Lenok closed the distance towards Lazart without delay, a bright blue shimmering spell fell at an incredible speed.

[Soaring Lightning (凌雷): Piercing Dagger (匕穿)]

Kwaaaang!!!

Twisting the lightning strike to halve its power, he pushed back his body with the remaining force.

He turned his body to avoid the bombardment that struck his body at near-sonic speed.

The man called Albert chanted lightning magic in succession towards Lenok, and Giselle added another spell bombardment on top of it.

[Lightning Well (雷光井)]

[Hundred and Eight Lightning Rain (百八射雷雨)]

Drrrrrrrk!!!

The three high-ranking mages’ lightning magic, which was constantly increasing in size and power, poured down relentlessly.

He pushed away the chants accelerating while wrapped in lightning from both sides by crossing his arms.

[Heavenly Collapse Lightning Brand (穿崩雷烙)]

[Armored Lightning Slaughter (加胛電戮)]

Kwaaaang!!! He sped through the underground main facilities beneath the War Magic Tower’s deck. Hangars storing artifacts and weapons. Supply rooms. Food storage. Research labs and studies for the tower’s mages. Various types of lightning, each altered in nature and preserved. He pierced through the lower levels of the War Magic Tower, a living space akin to a city, at tremendous speed. [Serpent Lightning Bow (蛇霹弓)] Kuhaaaak!! He traversed hundreds of meters across the War Magic Tower’s massive fortress in an instant. War magic, completed in a flash, poured down like a bombardment, and mages zipped through the gaps at subsonic speeds. If they showed even a moment’s opening, a high-level spell akin to a finishing move would fly at them, just like before. Its terrifying power didn’t allow for blocking, let alone evasion or mitigation. “This is truly absurd…!!” Giselle, who had turned her body into lightning and slid back following Lenok, muttered with a dumbfounded expression. “You’ve come this far and you’re still holding back your domain?!” Three high-ranking mages were simultaneously deploying their self-domains from the ground and underground of the War Magic Tower. Even as they were being pushed into a corner by a miracle only possible within the war domain, Lenok was still responding with lightning magic. Kiiiiiing!!! The halo of the Eight Trigrams formation that had appeared behind Lenok rotated at full power, and each time, an overwhelming lightning strike that surpassed the three people’s chanting speed and output poured down. It was proof that they hadn’t even properly understood Lenok’s sense and skill in handling magic, as he was fighting against the entire tower. But conversely, Lenok had grasped the abilities of the domains the three had deployed after a brief exchange. Lazart’s Thunder Moon (雷月), which electrifies space to accelerate the chanting and casting of lightning magic to near-instantaneous speeds. Giselle’s Lake, which is specialized in mitigating and absorbing impacts within the domain. Albert’s domain, which creates a massive arch and grants localized property changes to the materials it passes through. As befitting the War Mages of the War Magic Tower, all three of their self-domains were considerably helpful in battle. ‘The abilities of the domains themselves are significant, but they’re also continuing to fight without difficulty while maintaining their domains.’ Lenok’s gaze deepened as he watched the three high-ranking mages gradually intensifying their mental power. ‘This is clear evidence that they have a lot of experience with this kind of domain battle.’ The 7th level, which completes the self-modification, is the realm with the greatest variance in power among all levels. This is because it is important whether the self-domain and microcosm, which have imprinted the fundamental image, are specialized for combat, but also because it is extremely difficult to become accustomed to fighting using the self-domain even after obtaining it. It is true that the caster’s magical capacity and spell aptitude greatly increase the moment a domain is deployed, but it is also true that maintaining a self-domain requires enormous consumption. Furthermore, the abilities and effects gained by deploying a domain are practically like giving a mage an extra pair of hands and feet. If used well, they can unleash a potential that is on a different level from before, but there is also a part where one must be born with the ‘sense’ to control that potential. Just as not everyone can skillfully handle an extra pair of hands and feet, the same is true for the existence of a domain. Lenok himself had won several times by exploiting the weaknesses of enemies who were unskilled in handling their self-domains. But the War Mages of Thorben rampaging before his eyes seemed far from such inexperience. They must have been constantly practicing to maintain their domains in any situation. Preparing for the worst possible situations in battle, and building up the senses and experience that can be used in actual combat through training. Drawing out the potential they gained by completing their level to the limit and pouring it out in actual combat. He felt like he could understand why the Thorben Magic Tower was so highly regarded on the continent, just from this one exchange. Kagagagak!!! He turned his body to avoid dozens of falling lightning spears. A wave of lightning surging from beneath his feet along with thunder embraced Lenok’s body. A giant’s fist made of lightning surged from beneath Lenok’s feet, and the moment it clapped its hands together. [Lightning Radiance Arrival (雷曜申來)] Kwaaaaaaang!!! A tremendous amount of electricity spread out from the epicenter, pushing away everything that was rushing towards Lenok. “Kuh, how can it have physical force…!!!” The lightning, which barely had a form, seemed to have gained physical force and was suppressing the magic of others. Even though they were pushing with all their might while deploying their domains, the eerie sense of threat was enough to make them retreat for a moment. The moment Giselle lifted her gaze to confirm Lenok’s position, somehow managing to hold her ground. “Sometimes, unilaterally pouring out attacks is more difficult than exchanging blows.” Lenok’s figure had already reached Lazart’s eyes. “If you speed up to maintain the flow, there will always be a gap where you lose control.” [One Awakening (一覺): Piercing Thunder Collapse (穿雷崩)] Kwaaaaaaang!! At the same time as the eerie lightning exploded, Lazart’s body was pushed back at tremendous speed and slammed into the tower’s stairwell. “Cough…!!” The young man lowered his head without even screaming. “Lazart!!” “Indeed, mages skilled in domain battles are good at enduring spell battles.” Lenok said as he brought his hands together. “It’s not like I can’t suppress you, but there’s no reason to take a long detour when there’s an easier way.” “Could it be…!!!” Paahhhh!!! At that moment, a colorless ripple exploded from beneath Lenok’s feet. The overwhelming weight of his mental image was incomparable to that of the tower’s War Mages. It was as if the surrounding space-time was being swallowed whole and dragged into Lenok’s domain. The War Mages, having guessed his intention, hardened their faces, and Lenok, who had flipped and overlapped his left and right hands, said. “This time, I’ll show you how I mess with domains.” Self-Domain Reverse Deployment Paradoxical Level Image Manifestation [False Guiding Star (虛僞啓明星)] Under the space-time covered in colorless waves, the afterimage of the imaginary dimension wriggled and burst out. Jjeojeojeojeok!!!! Instead of drawing the image of a kaleidoscope, it was a domain reversal that reverse-calculated the other’s domain from the imaginary dimension. From the reverse side of the imaginary dimension, it interprets the opponent’s domain, dismantles the image imprinting, and collapses the domain from its roots. Kugugugugu!!! “T-This can’t be…!!” Albert, who was trying to control the surrounding property changes by moving his domain, was sweating profusely. “How can you achieve this level of reality alteration with a domain that hasn’t imprinted a fundamental image…!!” “No, it doesn’t matter!!” But even knowing that, Giselle took out an artifact from her bosom and poured magic power into it. “Within the Lord’s domain, a power struggle between domains is meaningless. It’s their misstep!!” The self-domains deployed by the War Mages were in a form that only projected abilities without altering reality. It was a miracle only allowed within the war domain of Akendrias El Thorben. But that was why they should be able to exert their abilities without being affected by that monster mage’s domain. Lazart, having realized that as well, immediately electrified the surrounding space and raised his mental power. By electrifying the entire space and making it the target of his mental power, he could strike with lightning chants at a speed close to certain hit, regardless of distance. Pajijijik!!! But even while watching the multiple chants of the War Mages rushing from both sides, Lenok did not stop chanting. “You’re mistaken. What I’m aiming for isn’t your self-domains.” At the tip of Lenok’s fingers, with his eyes closed, the eye of Feigenbaum, looking into the imaginary dimension, flickered. The moment he overlapped his mental power by forming a hand seal that he did not usually use, with his hands flipped and touching each other. “The target of the reverse calculation is… Thorben’s war domain itself.” “……!!!” Jjeojeojeojeok!!!! The entire space-time of the domain that had spread out around the tower began to be torn apart as if it were breaking. The war domain, which was directly constructed and activated by the Thorben Magic Tower Lord, was being neutralized through the reverse calculation of the False Guiding Star. The faces of the War Mages, who belatedly realized this, turned pale in an instant. “That’s impossible!!!” “Even if you’re a Great Mage, how can a human…!!!!” The ability of the False Guiding Star is to reverse-calculate the self-domain designed by the opponent from the reverse side of the imaginary dimension. It is the power to dismantle the existing domain by colliding the mirrored domain from the reverse side of the imaginary dimension. But because it is a power that is thoroughly made as a counter to domains, Lenok also cannot completely dismantle the domain when it is the target. Furthermore, if the target is the war domain of Akendrias El Thorben, it would only be able to neutralize it for a moment. But that very imperfect result was the result that Lenok was aiming for at this very moment. Paahhhh! The moment the Tower Lord’s war domain was temporarily neutralized, and the miracles and laws that existed under the domain lost their power. The source that had allowed the three War Mages to draw out their abilities without being affected by each other’s domains disappeared. The domains deployed by the three mages began to alter reality at the same time as they left the war domain. Kugwagwagwagwa!!!! Electrifying and blasting the floor of the tower indiscriminately, the waves of the lake surged and wrapped around the tower. The moment the massive arch sucked in and pushed out all the surrounding currents and mental power indiscriminately. “Damn it…!!!” “Lazart, we have to retrieve our self-domains-!” The three self-domains collided with each other, and the backlash caused them to collapse as if they were exploding. Ppeoeoeoeong!!!!! The completed fundamental images collided and repelled each other, overwriting and altering each other’s domains, causing them to break down. The self-domains that collided at close range collapsed helplessly, and the backlash was directly transmitted to the casters. The mages, who were not prepared for the impact, coughed up blood and collapsed. “Judging by how skilled you are in domain battles, you must have prepared for cases where your self-domains are checked.” Lenok opened his mouth, looking at the mages who had fallen in three different directions, unable to withstand the backlash. “Then, all I have to do is nullify the war domain, which was the basis for your domains to coexist.” “Kueuk…!!!” “T-The backlash…!!” “Well then, I think the process of overloading the war domain is sufficiently achieved with this much….” Lenok said, turning his gaze towards the sky above the half-destroyed lightning pavilion. The reason he had deployed the False Guiding Star and ended the battle was not just to detonate the backlash by colliding domains. The reverse domain of the imaginary dimension itself is not a self-domain, so it has the advantage of not showing Lenok’s fundamental image or origin. And in the process of temporarily reverse-calculating the war domain and nullifying it, the domain also inevitably undergoes an overload. And according to Lyell, the process of forcibly opening the Thunder God Sanctuary is precisely by overloading the domain- Flash!!! From beyond the cloudy sky, a majestic eye made of lightning opened its eyes. Looking down at the sky and turning its gaze towards this side, Lenok raised his magic power. “The Thunder God Sanctuary. Let’s see what it looks like.”