Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1123

Residue (12)

In the 49th district of the great city of Balkan, near the rear training grounds of the Adamantine Magic Tower.

Two young men stood in the center of the vast training ground, used solely for training.

A blue-haired man with thick eyebrows, smiling confidently.

A young man with a sharp, cool demeanor and an expressionless face.

Crack!!!

Each time Torben rotated his shoulders, bright blue lightning burst out as if exploding.

The blue lightning split and fluttered like small wings along Torben’s arms.

Lenox, standing in front of Akendrias, silently massaged his wrist.

Flicker, flicker…!!!

Each time he lightly massaged his wrist, faint lightning flickered between his fingers.

A faint glow that seemed as if it would go out at any moment, contrasting with Torben’s violently exploding lightning.

However, Lenox was carefully watching the lightning blooming from his fingertips.

As if that alone was more than enough, and he didn’t need any more.

“I heard from the non-combat mages that you’ve been through some big things outside,” Torben asked leisurely.

“It’s a bit late to ask now, but is it really okay for you to stand here facing Bono like this?”

“If I said it was okay, I’d probably be lying,” Lenox replied, looking down at his hand.

“But even if time passes, nothing much will change. So, I plan to do it while I can.”

Whoosh!

Lenox, lightly shaking his hand, stepped forward and said,

“I won’t be able to move during the duel. I won’t use artifacts, and I’ll refrain from chanting spells as much as possible. You can fight however you want.”

“Bono has always done as he pleased, so don’t worry about that,” Torben said, chuckling.

“However, we should consider what will happen if Bono and your lightning clash and this training ground can’t withstand it.”

“It’s fine,” Lenox said, gesturing with his eyes.

“I’ve taken out insurance for that.”

“……Hoh.”

Torben, with a strange smile, and Lenox, who was massaging his wrist, moved at the same time.

In the center of the vast training ground where a dry wind blew. In the silence that quietly settled.

Kugugugugu!!!

Three people were watching the two mages approaching each other from hundreds of meters away from the training ground.

“He shows up after a long time and does nothing but stupid things. What the hell is this all of a sudden?”

Crack!!

A raspy voice, disheveled hair. Eyes that were sharp to the point of being glaring.

Guihee, Paysha Grisburn, glared at Lenox’s back, holding a blood-red spear.

“I went through all that trouble to teach this birdbrain, and now he’s making me play a damn guard dog.”

“Grisburn, don’t be so negative,” said a mysterious man with white hair fluttering next to Paysha.

With a white robe fluttering, he stood with his wide sleeves folded neatly.

Behind him, a white spear, different from Paysha’s, floated horizontally.

Klod Azlan, the protector of the Turyeon Gate, the Immaculate, opened his mouth with a smile.

“If not us, who else could watch this duel from the side? The Tower Lord has made an appropriate selection.”

“Bullshit, old man. Why the hell should I work my ass off for that guy’s tower?”

Paysha’s mouth twisted into a ghastly grin.

“Are they going to fight as much as they want and then leave us to clean up the mess? No matter how I think about it, I feel like I’m going to die from being used like this every time.”

Thwack!!

Paysha, gripping the blood-red spear shaft, swung the spear at a speed that was invisible to the eye.

A sharp shockwave burst out, striking the back of the bird-headed giant in front of her.

“Don’t you think so, birdbrain?”

“……Hmm.”

However, Felix didn’t even scream after being hit by the shockwave that Paysha unleashed.

Instead, he just scratched his cheek with a calm expression while carrying his hammer.

“I’m not sure. If I can help Ban in any way, wouldn’t that be good?”

“Ugh, disgusting loyalty.”

“……Isn’t that something you shouldn’t be saying, Grisburn?”

Klod added, looking bewildered at Paysha, who was sticking out her tongue and pretending to vomit.

Felix shrugged, not caring about those words.

“Ban isn’t the type to use or exploit others carelessly. He’s someone who always gives something in return when he asks for something.”

“So what?”

“That’s what I mean about today, Guihee,” Felix said, stepping forward with the huge hammer on his shoulder.

“How many opportunities will there be to witness a transcendent’s battle who has reached the limit of level 8 this close?”

“……”

“Either way, I want to use this opportunity as a stepping stone for growth. So, I ask for your cooperation as well.”

“Screw that. Why would I?”

Paysha turned away, grumbling.

“There’s a limit to positive thinking, damn it. Anyway, all the bastards who have settled in this tower are out of their minds.”

“But, I’m still not sure why the Tower Lord asked us for cooperation in the duel,” Klod said, tilting his head and moving his feet.

“He’s more perceptive than any sorcerer I know, so there’s no way he wouldn’t be able to control his power.”

“Maybe he can’t control his excitement when he fights that old man. Why are you thinking so complicatedly?” Paysha scoffed.

“Like crazy mages or old hags, those who are born with it are all obsessed with themselves-”

Thud!!

At that moment, Paysha’s face changed drastically as she felt Lenox’s magic power pressing down on her shoulders.

“What the hell is this…!!”

The pressure of vast magic power that was overflowing and bursting out uncontrollably.

It wasn’t just the output or power that would be used in a duel. It was the prelude to a powerful spell that could easily destroy the entire area.

The three people with hardened expressions quickly took their positions in three directions of the training ground and began to draw up their magic power.

They enhanced their physical abilities by filling their entire bodies with magic power, lowering their bodies as if they were about to jump out at any moment.

Whooooosh…!!

In the sandstorm that blew, Lenox and Torben’s gazes lightly brushed past each other for a moment.

Blue and deep lightning collided, and the training ground exploded with intense light that made it impossible to see.

Kwaaaang!!!

“……!!!”

Even Felix, who had enhanced his eyesight, couldn’t see the trajectory for a moment.

Instead of Felix, Klod, who was holding a spear, moved first.

The spearman’s figure, accelerated to subsonic speed, turned at a right angle and struck the scattering lightning.

At the same time, the fragments of lightning that were flying out of the training ground were bent down and crashed to the ground.

Kwarurung!!!

Felix gripped his hammer tightly, watching the exploding lightning streaks.

“The speed…!!”

“Felix, prioritize adapting to the Tower Lord’s lightning,” Klod said, landing lightly.

“Grisburn and I have been hit by the Tower Lord’s lightning, but you’re not used to it yet.”

Whirrr!

Klod, quickly rotating his spear with one hand, turned his gaze.

“Until then, we will intercept all the lightning that flies out of the training ground.”

“Bullshit, if you’re going to hold me back, get lost!”

Bang!!

Paysha, wrapped in a red glow, ran and caught up with the accelerating lightning from afar and pressed it down.

Holding the blood-red spear in reverse, she twisted it diagonally and slammed it down.

Kwajijijijik!!!

A clumsy hand as if skewering and pressing down on a wriggling fish with a harpoon.

However, Paysha’s expression was already twisted into a ghastly grimace.

“Ha, not even a spell, but the fragments of lightning that collided and broke apart have this kind of recoil…!!”

Peeing…!!

Paysha, roughly readjusting the slightly trembling spear shaft, sneered.

“Both of them are unlucky. Are all lightning mages just annoying bastards like that?”

The three people’s mission was to prevent the aftermath of the duel from spreading outside the training ground.

To that end, they had instructed the three most outstanding physical ability users in the tower to intercept all the aftermath of the spells.

It was possible to control magic or magic power from spreading outside the area by using the tower’s area, but it was not possible to prevent the flow of power from concentrating on the magic tower or other internal facilities within the area.

However, this was the power even when they weren’t receiving a completed spell, but just deflecting fragments of broken lightning.

“Damn it…!!!!”

They never thought they could catch up, but they were already further away.

They were so far ahead that they couldn’t even guess the distance.

The moment Paysha cursed and angrily swung her spear to deflect the lightning.

“Guihee!”

Bang!!

Kwaddeudeuk!!

Bright blue rays of light fell from the sky and began to strike the training ground in all directions at tremendous speed.

Paysha, instantly erasing her expression, twisted her upper body as if bending it backward and threw her spear.

Swaeak!!

The red blade accelerated faster than sound, and a moment later, it rotated and blocked the scattering lightning.

The split lightning poured onto the ground of the training ground, and pillars of dust, tens of meters high, soared up.

Fububeobeong!!!

In the storm of scattering dust, two great mages were scattering different lightning.

Watching the two mages who were seriously drawing up their magic power, Paysha and the Immaculate moved at the same time.

“It’s started. Get ready!”

“Damn it, really…!!”

Jjeojeojeojeojeong!!!!

Each time the two mages’ hands crossed, lightning descended through the cold air.

Dozens of lightning bolts poured down from the sky like rain, and blue waves surged beneath their feet.

The moment they grabbed the air and slashed down, all the lightning in the surroundings obeyed their will and exploded.

The lightning, with different properties and intentions, collided dozens of times and split hundreds of times in a fleeting moment.

Two spearmen were deflecting all the fragments of lightning that were splitting in all directions at tremendous speed.

Dudududududu!!!!

The ground shook as if there was an earthquake, the ground twisted, and sand pillars soared up.

Inside, the figures of warriors were operating their magic power with all their might, deflecting the lightning that was scattering outside.

Bright blue shockwaves burst out one after another behind the Immaculate and Guihee, pushing their bodies back as if pressing down on them.

“Kuh…!!!”

Flash!!

In front of Felix’s eyes, who was concentrating, a rough lightning strike flashed down.

The fragments of lightning that exploded while rotating in place accelerated under Felix’s feet.

“Hooop!!!”

Felix, gripping his hammer, struck the fragments of lightning that were passing by with all his might.

Jjeoeoeoeong!!!

A clear resonance as if hitting a very large bell.

Immediately after, an intense recoil that made it hard to breathe pressed down on Felix’s entire body.

“……!!!!”

The muscles of his entire body were stiffly paralyzed, and the intense shock stopped his thoughts for a moment.

However, what filled Felix’s mind was not pain, but the gap that existed between Lenox and himself.

The last time he fought with Lenox was when he clashed with the members of Pandemonium at the Anathema Temple.

However, since he was on the same side as Lenox, he had rarely experienced his magic directly like this.

‘Was it this much…!’

Was he already at this level at the Anathema Temple?

Did Pandemonium achieve their goals and return alive while facing this kind of magic?

Bbaajijijik!!!

The fragments of lightning pressing down on the surface of the hammer crushed Felix’s resistance and advanced.

The shape of the dark blue lightning that was trying to break out while crushing the head of the heavy hammer.

Crunch!!

Felix, clenching his teeth until they were about to break, glared with both eyes and drew up his magic power.

The moment a pale, ghostly figure descended on the shoulders of the wide-shouldered giant.

“Oooooooo!!!!”

Felix, letting out a fierce roar, lifted the fragments of lightning and shot them into the sky.

Kwaaaang!!!

Due to the recoil, the ground of the training ground where Felix was standing split and sank.

Paysha landed on Felix’s shoulder, breathing roughly and kneeling.

Pat!

“You’re getting used to the technique of summoning ancestral spirits. You have good senses for a stupid beast,” Paysha said, giving a ghostly smile while riding on Felix’s shoulder and glaring at him.

“If the guys I taught were only as good as you, I would have taken them to the legion.”

“Hoo, hoo…!!”

Felix, unable to answer anything, waved his hand while sweating profusely.

However, Paysha shook her head while stepping on Felix’s hand with her foot.

Crack!

“Just shut up. This isn’t a place for you to interfere.”

She raised her eyes that were shining brightly and looked at the center of the training ground that was flashing in the distance.

“It seems like the crazy mage and the old hag have no intention of controlling their excitement.”

Kugugugugu!!!!

The image of a lightning dragon rising above Torben’s head.

A vast solar sphere of electricity rotating behind Lenox’s back.

“Kyahahahahahahahat!!!!”

In that storm, Torben, who was laughing wildly, and Lenox, who was expressionless, could be seen alternately.

Torben tilted his body forward, laughing like crazy.

Lenox, who had formed a hand seal, twisted his index and middle fingers and slashed down in the air.

The moment the two mages unleashed their intentions for the first time and chanted spells.

[Flipping Lightning Dragon]

[Constant Lightning]

Flash!!

At the same time as the lightning sun rotated, the ground was torn apart and evaporated, resonating with the roar of the lightning dragon.

The moment the huge lightning dragon opened its mouth and bit the solar sphere, Lenox’s magic went out of control and detonated.

It dyed the training ground with dark blue lightning and rotated at tremendous speed.

Kwagwagwagwagwagwa!!!!!

The dark blue lightning solar sphere rotated on its own, forming gravity.

Everything around it was drawn in, and even Felix and Paysha were drawn to the center of the training ground.

“No way, how can such magic…!!!”

“Birdbrain, I told you to shut up!”

Kigigigik!!!

Felix, who was shocked but somehow holding onto his hammer, and Paysha, who was arranging her posture while her hair was flying, were there.

She glared with her eyes wide open at the Immaculate, who was holding the spear shaft in reverse on the opposite side in the distance.

“Match the timing, old man. Or you and I will both die!!!”

“I have put my life into one spear, so I will not fail to match even a fleeting moment.”

They already knew what to do without saying a word.

Lenox’s electric magic [Constant Lightning], which was shining like a dark blue sun and rotating.

They would intercept the monstrous lightning solar sphere before it completely exploded and suppress its power to a minimum.

At the same time, Paysha and the Immaculate, who had finished their judgment, drew up their magic power with all their might and operated their microcosms [a personal reality-bending field].

A miracle of creating a microcosm within and rewriting the laws of physics that apply only to the body.

The two spearmen gripped their spear shafts at the same time, and the moment they stepped forward as if they had promised.

Swaeak!!

A black-green light that flew from outside the training ground pierced the rotating solar sphere at tremendous speed.

“Hmm.”

“……Huh?”

Crack!!

Transcendental acceleration that even Paysha’s dynamic vision could not gauge the speed.

No, she didn’t even notice the black-green light until right before it hit her.

A stealth that was so subtle that it was chillingly perfect. Nevertheless, a ‘sniper’ that pierced this battlefield with unparalleled sharpness.

“Damn it, who the hell-!!!!”

The moment Paysha cursed, making eye contact with a green-eyed archer holding a black bow that was larger than his own body on the rooftop of an unknown building located at the edge of the 49th district, far beyond the training ground.

The lightning solar sphere, pierced by the black-green arrow, cracked on the spot and then exploded.

“Birdbrain!!!”

The moment Paysha grabbed Felix by the collar and threw herself out of the training ground.

A beam of dark blue lightning soared into the sky and rotated in a spiral.

Kwagwagwagwagwagwa!!!!!

“Agh…!!!”

Paysha, who screamed, fell out, and Felix and the Immaculate blankly raised their gazes.

“Ban. What the hell is this…”

“……The magic that the Tower Lord uses shouldn’t all feel like this.”

It was as if a huge pillar of lightning was piercing the sky and the ground and connecting them.

In the center of hell that was driving even the onlookers to destruction, the magic light and smoke scattered and disappeared.

“Cough…!!!”

The Tower Lord Torben, covered in dust all over his body, was lying sprawled out.

Lenox stood in front of Torben, who was coughing weakly, and looked down at him silently.

Torben, who was in tatters, smiled and opened his mouth.

“Damn it, it seems like Bono has lost again.”

“There’s nothing you can do when your magnetic field is sealed,” Lenox replied with an expressionless face.

“You probably didn’t ask for a duel with the intention of winning against me from the beginning.”

Akendrias El Torben’s magnetic field, the Lightning God’s Guiding Flower Garden, is the power to forcibly turn all matter within the field into lightning.

It was a unique and powerful source image [a fundamental magical concept] that was unprecedented among all the fields Lenox had faced so far.

Since he fought with such a source image sealed, there would have been problems not only with not being able to use the field, but also with the operation of magic.

The fact that he could compete with Lenox head-on with such a penalty proves Akendrias’s transcendental strength.

Moreover, Lenox’s magic was now running wild, breaking through the upper limit of its output.

There was no need to say how strong Torben was to have survived while facing such magic head-on.

Lenox also would not have allowed this kind of duel in the first place if it had not been the Tower Lord Torben.

But-

“You understand what problem I have, right?” Lenox said, taking out his staff and leaning on it.

“Even with this much insurance in place, I can’t control the aftermath of the magic.”

“……Hmm.”

“If Ivelyn hadn’t been there at the end, it wouldn’t have been possible to turn all the output of Constant Lightning into the sky.”

Ivelyn Marcia’s microcosm, Inertia Bias, is the power to artificially redirect the direction of the generated force.

Although rapid changes in direction or reversals are impossible, it is possible to gather and bind the direction of force or twist its trajectory.

Lenox, with her help at the last moment, shot the rampaging Constant Lightning into the sky, preventing its aftermath from reaching the ground.

“So, if you know something, I’d like to ask for your advice,” Lenox’s gaze towards the Tower Lord changed strangely for a moment.

“You’re not going to say that you’d have to experience that magic directly to know, are you?”

“There’s no way that would happen, you rascal,” Torben said with a bewildered expression, raising his body with a groan.

“If I had intended to be burned to death by lightning, Bono wouldn’t be alive in such a miserable state.”

“……”

“But yes, I have an idea of what the problem is,” Torben said, resting his chin and pondering.

“Although your path was very different, Bono also faced a similar dilemma at some point.”

“A similar dilemma?”

“An unwanted ascension is not a blessing but a curse,” Akendrias’s eyes calmed down for a moment.

“That doesn’t change even if it’s not you but your magic that’s the target.”

“……What?”

“The reason why your magic is trying to break free from control is not because of any other reason,” Torben said calmly, getting up from his seat and shaking off the dust.

“It’s because your lightning is trying to reach the 9th level of hierarchy before you.”