Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1054

Immediately after Lenok finished his conversation with the leader in the glass garden and returned to reality, he found himself on the shattered deck, looking down at the fallen Corpse Demon Sorcerer.

“……”

The meeting with the leader in the glass garden felt like it had lasted about ten minutes. However, observing the flow of mana in his body, Lenok realized that less than five seconds had passed in reality. The time spent in the Order Alliance Leader’s glass garden was clearly detached from the timeline of reality.

Even after realizing this, Lenok lowered his head slightly, concealing his complicated expression.

‘Of all things, the Celestial Formula…’

The unique formula of the Ascendant of the Old World, the Celestial, and the power to manipulate the celestial sphere borrowed from the Library of Darkness. The Celestial Formula that Lenok had obtained as a means to twist the barrier on the way to the outer city of Kundara.

Lenok only realized at the end of the meeting that the leader was searching for it. Come to think of it, it wasn’t so strange.

The model garden constructed through the Celestial Formula was, in essence, the origin of a magnetic domain. It granted the power to freely adjust the rules within the garden according to the caster’s will. If the leader needed to rewrite the physical laws of reality to descend, what formula would be more suitable than a model garden?

If the existence of the glass garden itself was, in a way, implying the existence of a model garden—

Thinking that far, Lenok looked down at the Corpse Demon Sorcerer who had fallen at his feet.

Glug, glug…!!

A pale-faced woman lay in a pool of blood. Her eyes were unfocused, and blood dripped from her mouth and nose, solidifying. The Corpse Demon Sorcerer, now a cold corpse, had breathed her last before Lenok’s eyes.

“I know you’re alive, so get up already.”

But Lenok spoke, looking at the seemingly dead Corpse Demon Sorcerer.

“How long are you going to keep pretending to be dead like that?”

“……”

“You can’t understand with words.”

Zap!!

“Kyaaak!! I, I got up…!!”

When Lenok threw a ball of lightning into the pool of blood, the Corpse Demon Sorcerer jumped up as if she had been launched. She hurriedly shook off her clothes to avoid being electrocuted, and cautiously glanced around with a pale face, stammering.

“P-pretending to be dead… I, I’m confident in it, but how…”

“If you had died from being hit by a Constant Lightning [a powerful lightning spell], there’s no way your corpse would be left intact.”

Although the situation had become chaotic after meeting the leader, he remembered the events of reality relatively accurately. He had entered the glass garden right after chanting Constant Lightning to kill the Corpse Demon Sorcerer and burning the deck of the ship.

If the Corpse Demon Sorcerer had died from being hit by Constant Lightning, it would be strange for her corpse to remain intact. As soon as he saw the fallen Corpse Demon Sorcerer, Lenok knew that she was not dead.

“But if you weren’t hit, there’s no reason for you to fall in front of me and pretend to be dead. You would have run away long ago.”

Lenok’s eyes shone sharply as he looked at the pale Corpse Demon Sorcerer.

“You were fatally injured by Constant Lightning, but did you restore your body by some means?”

“……”

“You look more like a corpse than a human, but if you’re an inanimate object, restoration itself wouldn’t be difficult.”

“…Ha, ha… That, that’s a power I can’t use without consuming a large number of Corpse Demons…”

The Corpse Demon Sorcerer let out an awkward laugh. She carefully said, rolling her pale eyes.

“I, I’ll give you everything I have and go… F-first, let’s agree to let me live…”

“Agree? You’re worrying about unnecessary things.”

“Huh?”

“If I was going to kill you here, I wouldn’t be hesitating like this.”

In this situation, where there was room to trade with the leader, there was no need to kill the Corpse Demon Sorcerer. Considering Lenok’s current situation, it would be more reasonable to keep the Corpse Demon Sorcerer alive and use her as an informant.

“If you want to live, follow me from now on.”

“N-no… Th-that’s a bit…”

The Corpse Demon Sorcerer stammered, but desperately refused.

“I have a lot of things to do… I have to visit the northern front… There’s a big ceremony soon-”

“I heard about the reconstruction of the Great Connection from the leader.”

Lenok said, turning his head towards the direction of the blowing wind.

“I already know what your alliance is trying to do. I have something to ask about that-”

“…Hee.”

The moment Lenok mentioned the leader, the Corpse Demon Sorcerer’s eyes, which had been filled with fear, changed completely. An indescribable, bizarre mana began to flow from the stammering sorcerer who raised her hand.

“Th-then… There’s no need to persuade with words in the first place…”

“……”

“U-unnecessary words are enough, please let me go. If you keep bothering me-”

“I don’t think you’ve understood my words properly yet.”

Lenok said.

“It doesn’t mean that I’ll spare your life if you follow me.”

“Huh?”

Clank!!

Lenok, who was standing at the edge of the deck looking down, crossed his arms and raised his mana. The armored wings mounted on his back sharply stood up, spreading their steel feathers wide.

“It meant that you could only save your life in this place if you did.”

“W-what do you mean by that-”

Thud!!

At that moment, the massive aircraft carrier that Lenok and the Corpse Demon Sorcerer were on lost its balance and tilted greatly. The carrier lost the power that was making it fly in the sky and rapidly lowered its altitude. The tilted ship was caught in a strong wind and began to fall at a tremendous speed.

Kwaaaaaaah!!!

“Yiaaaaaak!!”

The Corpse Demon Sorcerer, who grabbed onto a piece of debris that had popped out nearby, let out a bizarre scream. Lenok, who had fixed his body by embedding his armored wings into the deck, lowered his gaze to avoid the wind.

“Davi.”

[Considering the gravitational acceleration, the fall time is 6 minutes and 25 seconds.]

Davi answered immediately, as if he had been waiting, from inside Lenok’s arms.

[Considering the angle of descent, air resistance due to the ship’s shape, and orbital changes due to the lack of mana concentration, the point of impact will be around 8km from the battlefield.]

“Near the battlefield where the Head Military’s tank corps and druids are engaged in battle.”

Using the vast forest spread out on the ground as a front line, monsters and druids were clashing everywhere. The Head Military’s tank units, trampling through bushes and trees and firing shells, and the druids responding with a barrage of formulas [magical spells].

“Most of the western front’s border area is covered with a huge forest.”

Lenok, who quickly checked the war situation on the ground from the falling ship, shook his head.

“We’ll avoid them and join the Torben Magic Tower. Can you control the flight path of the carrier?”

[It’s not impossible, but first, I need to access the ship’s flight control system.]

Davi wiggled his tail inside his arms.

[It seems like I can use the know-how of the automatic flight algorithm copied from the War Magic Tower?]

Crack!!

The armored wings embedded in the deck moved, shifting Lenok’s figure on the ship. He strode across the tilted deck and headed towards the control room located on the carrier’s bridge.

Clang!!

When he shattered the door by blasting the bolts, red flesh oozed out from inside the control room. The disgusting sight of flesh filling the entire control room of the carrier.

Lenok frowned and moved his wings to avoid the flesh inside the control room.

Crack, crack!!

He moved by stabbing the end of his armored wings into the tilted floor of the control room. The flesh that had flowed onto the floor was torn apart, scattering bodily fluids everywhere. A bizarre scene that was enough to make Lenok, who had a weak stomach, frown just by looking at it.

However, the scene inside the control room surpassed even Lenok’s imagination.

“……”

Glug, glug…!!

The flesh, presumed to have been the operator, was wriggling, stuck to the control room chair. Flowing eyeballs, blood vessels, and nerve clusters popped out, convulsing on the armrests and floor of the chair. In the center of the captain’s seat, something like a giant tentacle was sitting in place of a human. On the gray tentacle, dozens of eyeballs were rotating grotesquely, constantly emitting a damp, ominous thought.

[Ugh.]

A bizarrely twisted form of a monster that even Davi was horrified by and hid in Lenok’s arms. This was the source of the general-level entity that had become one with the ship. It must have been the commander who was directing the Head Military’s aircraft carrier.

The entire military had been corrupted through a forbidden ritual, becoming monsters that had merged with war machines and would forever roam the battlefield. However, Lenok focused not on its bizarre appearance, but on the thoughts emitted by the tentacle.

“The direction of the emitted thoughts is being maintained very consistently.”

Lenok said, calmly looking at the wriggling tentacle.

“It’s constantly sending thoughts somewhere… Is there a separate entity within the military that receives the thoughts of the monsters?”

[Wouldn’t we be able to find out if we tear off this monster lump?]

“From the point that the Corpse Demon Sorcerer extracted the monster’s control ability as a formula, this is already as good as dead.”

Lenok answered, heading towards the instrument panel located at the front of the control room.

“It’s just barely alive, so damaged that it can’t even maintain its cellular structure. It’ll die soon.”

Crack!!

Lenok muttered, embedding one of his armored wings into the instrument panel.

“But I don’t know what the meaning of sending thoughts is. Is it a simple survival instinct, or an artificially set mechanism…”

[Master, I’ve connected to the aircraft carrier’s flight control system, but there’s a problem.]

Clank!

Davi, who had connected his consciousness through the armored wing embedded in the instrument panel, said.

[Hacking itself is possible, but there’s almost no power left in the ship. It’s as good as dead, just like you said?]

“It must be because the Corpse Demon Sorcerer forcibly extracted the essence of the monster.”

[At this rate, even if I hack the flight control system, I don’t think I’ll be able to operate it properly.]

“…It can’t be helped.”

Lenok turned towards the tentacle sitting in the captain’s seat, then brought his left hand to his eye. The moment he touched and lifted his eyelid with his hand, Lenok’s eyes turned a clear purple.

Kiiiiing…!!

The dozens of eyeballs attached to the surface of the tentacle all turned their gaze towards Lenok’s mystic eye.

“Look here.”

…!!!!

In an instant, it was felt that the tentacle, which had met Lenok’s mystic eye, was greatly convulsing. The forced transfer of information using the mystic eye’s gaze-sharing ability.

A technique developed to interrogate opponents when he first awakened his mystic eye, by creating dummy data with Davi’s ability, then making eye contact with the opponent and slamming it into their brain, but he hadn’t used it often because it shattered the opponent’s brain immediately after use.

Was the last time he used it in the snowy field to save Lapis when he was heading to the Hanghasa Labyrinth in the Northern Continent?

[Kwieeeek…!!]

In the short time he was recalling his memories, the eyeballs attached to the tentacle began to become bloodshot. The tentacle, unable to avoid Lenok’s mystic eye, was heating up as if it would burst.

Immediately after, a crimson light began to appear wildly on the control room instrument panel.

[The power needed to operate the system has recovered a little!]

“I overloaded the monster’s cognitive ability and squeezed out the remaining power.”

Lenok said, turning his body.

“It won’t last long, so please do it quickly.”

[Master, there’s something hidden in the system’s internal biological database?]

Davi, who was diligently hacking the system following Lenok’s words, tilted his head.

[I’ve simply decoded the encrypted data, and it seems to be the Head Military’s operation plan.]

“…Operation plan?”

Was it possible that there were operations and plans for the monsters who had been corrupted and turned into monsters?

When Lenok turned his head at those words, Davi immediately displayed the decoded information on the instrument panel.

=Central Front of the Western Continent. [Barrier] Contamination rate 24%.

“……”

Contamination of the barrier.

Lenok quickly scanned through the other information at the unusual combination of words.

=Druids. Natural Formulas. Movement through the forest. Western Front area.

=Top priority for extermination.

A series of explanations consisting only of simple words, not sentences. However, it was not difficult to understand its meaning.

“Lalavelli’s druids. If it’s a terrain with forests, they can move freely anywhere on the western front.”

Lenok’s eyes shone with an interesting expression.

“Then, is it possible to move right up to the [Barrier] from this place?”

[Master. There’s one related material about the contamination keyword of the barrier.]

Davi said.

[But this isn’t something that can be opened in a normal way… It seems like thoughts have been fragmented into biological data?]

“Send a command to the system to transmit the data.”

Lenok said, turning his gaze towards the tentacle.

“I’ll use my mystic eye to share my gaze and read the data together.”

[Kieeeek…!]

The tentacle struggled weakly as if it understood those words, but it was useless. Davi followed Lenok’s words and activated the transmission command. At the same time, Lenok, who had activated his mystic eye, used gaze sharing to read the direction the thoughts were heading.

However, the scene that Lenok confirmed using gaze sharing far exceeded his expectations.

“…This is.”

Flash!!

It deeply illuminates the inside of the western front where the [Barrier] is spread out, far past the battlefield where the druids and monsters were fighting. The border area of the central front formed across the western continent.

Inside the contaminated forest, monsters scattering dark red blood were densely packed.

Kugugugu!!!

Heavy tank units were speeding through the trees, and self-propelled guns covered in blood vessels were firing shells into the sky. Fighters with eyeballs were flying in the airspace, and huge carriers were supplying flesh and blood like fuel from the sky.

[Kuaaaak…!!!]

[Kekekekek!!!]

The monsters, whose skin all over their bodies had turned bright red, were marching with guns stuck all over their bodies. The army of thousands of monsters was forming ranks, dyeing the entire front line red.

The monsters gathered here were blatantly trying to surround and protect something located near the [Barrier]. Following that reaction, Lenok’s gaze naturally turned to the [Barrier], and he was speechless.

“……”

The figure of a giant human head, located at the very center of the corrupted monster army. A man’s head, tens of meters in size, was wriggling with its neck attached to the [Barrier].

[Aaaak, aaak…!!]

With his bloodshot eyes wide open, he was opening his mouth wide and constantly spewing out monsters from his throat. The head of a human man, conspicuously present in the center of the monsters twisted into bizarre shapes.

That was the entity that was receiving the thoughts sent by the ship’s tentacle. Why was that head the only one among the Head Military’s monsters that was maintaining the shape of a normal human?

At that moment, someone’s telepathy clearly echoed in Lenok’s ears.

[The Head Military’s Overmind is clinging to the [Barrier] on the central front, contaminating the western land.]

“…!”

[The executor of the ritual that corrupted the military is birthing monsters, and the west has become a demonic realm that humans cannot cross.]

It was not directly interfering with Lenok’s consciousness. Someone was speaking directly to Lenok, using the flow of thoughts that Lenok was currently seeing through gaze sharing as a medium.

On the ground battlefield, someone was reading what was happening in the sky and conveying their will to Lenok.

[To have to endure this much consumption just by communicating through thoughts, if they have such a powerful consciousness, it must be the War Magic Tower Lord himself.]

“……”

[I won’t speak long. If it’s a path to the barrier, we can help you.]

With those words, the telepathy abruptly cut off, and the gaze sharing that had been illuminating the western front ended. The tentacle sitting in the captain’s seat could not withstand it and crumbled on its own, scattering blood.

[Master, the flight control system hacking is complete. If we change the orbit and catch up with the War Magic Tower-]

“…No. The plan has changed.”

Lenok said, looking down at the forest spread out on the ground.

“Turn the flight path at a right angle. Allocate all the remaining power to the propulsion system.”

[…Huh?]

“Lalavelli’s druids say they have something to say.”

Lenok, who had brought his hand to the instrument panel, slowly raised his mana.

“From now on, I’m going to crash this ship at full speed on top of the monsters’ heads.”

Whoooosh!!!!

The massive body of the ship, which had been falling diagonally, began to change its flight path on the spot. The aircraft carrier covered in flesh tilted as if bowing its head, and accelerated as it fell towards the ground.

Kugwagwagwa!!!

Immediately after the boosters located at the rear of the ship activated, Lenok spread his armored wings and raised his mana. The aircraft carrier covered in flesh crashed at tremendous speed into the gathering place where the Head Military’s tank units were gathered.

Kwaaaaaaaaaaang!!!

A pillar of fire of tremendous light soared and exploded, and the surrounding trees and bushes were completely burned away by the aftermath. Shockwaves burst out incessantly, shaking the ground as if an earthquake had occurred.

[Kkeueeek!!!!]

[Kkuluk, kuguguk…!]

The Head Military’s tank units, which had been firing shells from the outskirts of the forest and narrowing the front line, evaporated. The monsters that had been rampaging on the battlefield screamed madly, unable to avoid the impact of the falling carrier.

The sight of flesh clinging to the burnt-out tank turrets and caterpillars scattered everywhere.

Kuuuung…!!

The aircraft carrier, engulfed in flames and burning fiercely, was stuck in the ground, bent in half. Sharp lightning flashed from the debris of the deck, and the flesh clinging to the outer walls of the ship burned and disappeared.

The druids, who had been fighting the Head Military’s monsters for a while, looked up at the ship with shocked expressions.

“A, a monster ship…”

“A general-level entity committed suicide…!!”

“What on earth happened…!!”

Thud!!

Lenok kicked off the burning debris of the ship’s deck and walked out of the wreckage. With armored wings around his head, he was catching the debris, and the figure of a mage who had pierced the Corpse Demon Sorcerer’s neck with mana threads and dragged her out.

“The result didn’t turn out as well as I thought.”

Lenok muttered, stepping forward on the squishy corpses of the monsters.

“Did the damage become ambiguous because I adjusted the orbit to kill as many monsters as possible?”

“U, uaaah…!!”

The Corpse Demon Sorcerer, who was pierced by Lenok’s mana threads and dragged out, struggled with a pale face. The druids who remained on the battlefield raised their weapons, looking at Lenok with hardened expressions.

An unexpected silence came to the battlefield that had been noisy until just now.

“I heard about the shortcut to the barrier that you druids use.”

Lenok, turning towards the druids with the huge, burning ship behind him, asked.

“If I killed this many monsters, would that be enough as compensation?”

“……”

Silence.

The druids looked up at Lenok with bewildered expressions, as if they were looking at a madman. The Corpse Demon Sorcerer, whose neck was pierced by Lenok’s mana threads, stammered with a dazed expression.

“I, I want to go home…”