Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1158

Kwaaaang!!!

Breaking through the golden shockwave, Lennok and the clown burst out.

From beyond the majestic golden corridor, the Royal Knights, accelerating and gathering their magic, followed closely behind.

However, the two ignored the knights chasing them, running while simultaneously raising their gazes.

Woo-oo-oo-oong…!!!!

In the distant illusion of the Imperial Palace, where the melody of beautiful stringed instruments echoed.

Along with the singing voice coming from the distance, the ‘presence’ was gradually becoming clearer.

“The Nayuta Shrine is a pseudonym for a kind of punishment room that exists within the Imperial Palace.”

The clown said, matching his speed with Lennok’s as they ran.

“It’s literally a huge maze with endless rooms, and it’s said that even a transcendent of the highest level would starve to death if trapped without a map.”

“……”

“Of course, the real Nayuta Shrine is only a very small part of the Imperial Palace, and this sanctuary is just a mimicry of the Nayuta Shrine-”

Shwaak!!

As soon as they turned the corner of the left corridor, the clown, leaning against the wall, bit his thumb and scattered blood.

The illusion activated, riding on the blood that spread through the air. It deceived and refracted the direction and scenery of the corridor, instantly tricking the path they had come from.

“This way!! They went to the right!”

“No, judging by the shadows and magic patterns, it’s straight ahead!”

Having completely fooled the knights with the illusion, the clown, dusting off his knees, laughed.

“If you think about it, this entire sanctuary is a kind of illusion, so there’s room to exploit it like this.”

“Is that how you’ve been moving around alone and staying alive in this sanctuary until now?”

“No, does this look okay to you, Victor?”

Ignoring the clown, who pointed at himself with a dumbfounded expression, Lennok turned his gaze.

“I don’t know which is faster, killing all the knights or shaking them off and finding the way.”

“I know the way. Actually, before Victor came, I arrived before Aron Baiger and marked it.”

The clown said, flipping a dagger in one hand.

“Since I didn’t have the ‘right’ to steal the dead god, I was thoroughly beaten and chased out.”

“Is this what you mean by the key?”

Click!!

As Lennok raised his gauntlet, the clown grinned.

“Yes, that’s it. Chapman did a pretty good job after all- eh?”

The clown’s expression instantly turned sour as he saw the cracks engraved like tree roots on the gauntlet.

“No, this is a bit much. Who drew this picture on the gauntlet?”

“What’s the problem?”

“Isn’t it unnecessarily ominous? It’s a coincidence, but it would be troublesome if the Destruction Eye [a powerful, destructive force] is involved.”

The clown, who had changed his words in an instant, grumbled.

“In the first place, that’s a power that can only be handled by the blood of the Black Law. Are you planning to summon the Underworld King to this place?”

“That would be difficult. Myung just entered Jinwa’s Paradise Lost [a place of great importance or danger].”

“Right. In the first place, Myung is busy in many ways… what did you say?”

The clown, who had been naturally agreeing, widened his eyes.

It was an expression of shock that Lennok had almost never seen on the clown.

However, Lennok, with the gauntlet equipped on his left arm, gathered his magic.

“I know what you’re worried about, but I won’t lose control of the gauntlet. That’s what took me so long to confirm.”

“……”

“I understand the method. All that’s left is to steal the remains of the god that exists in this sanctuary in a legitimate way.”

Cheeeek…!!

He took a step, enveloped in black shockwaves that poured out like steam from the seams of the gauntlet.

At the same time as walking out of the corridor hidden by the illusion, a storm of murderous intent poured in from all directions.

Lennok, matching his pace with the knights who were accelerating from afar, said,

“Let’s start from this side first. You support with illusions and open the way.”

“…Hmm. I don’t really like roles that don’t get much attention.”

The clown, who had been silent, smiled with his arms crossed.

“But when I work with Victor, it can’t be helped. What’s the point of having the same trait?”

“There’s no such idiom.”

Kwajik!!

Lennok retorted, strongly clenching the air with his gauntlet.

The five fingers of the gauntlet pierced through space, spreading thin cracks.

The moment the black shockwave rotated, Lennok twisted the gauntlet, and the vast corridor rotated and flipped over entirely.

Kwaaaaang!!!

“Kuh…!!”

“He’s interfering with the space of the sanctuary!!”

The knights who were rushing through the corridor lost their balance and fell over as the space flipped.

Immediately after regaining their balance, the knights drew their swords from between the flipped walls and ceilings.

Lennok, not missing the gap, fearlessly plunged into the knights’ ranks.

Paang-!

The shadow robe stretched out long, turning into a streak of black light.

The flash collided with the silver armor and blades. The knights who were rushing in were thrown back at tremendous speed.

Tuttertuttertung!!!

“Uweeek!!”

“How can a mage have such power…!!”

The screams of the knights who were either smashed headfirst into the wall and died, vomited, or fell with broken limbs.

Even amidst that, the knights who had endured the power struggle twisted their bodies and swung their swords like lightning.

Swaeeeek!!!

The magic-infused blades rotated from various angles, mincing and grinding Lennok’s figure like a mixer.

However, Lennok let all the sword lights pouring in from all directions flow away, and pulled out and swung his magic threads.

“Get out of the way.”

He connected black magic threads between the knights’ armor and blades, hands and knees.

In the tangled battlefield, the knights connected by magic threads pulled each other down.

They collided in a lump without even touching Lennok, and began to break and shatter.

Kwajik!!

Ududududuk!!

“Kuaaaak…!! Keok!!”

“Don’t move-”

“I have to cut the magic threads… Keok!!”

“Puhahahat!! Good, this isn’t bad either!!”

The clown burst into laughter, stomping on the knights’ helmets and kicking their heads.

The clown’s dagger was embedded in the necks of the knights who were trying to regain their senses.

He stepped over the confused knights and plunged his dagger into the crown of their heads.

The knights, with their eyes rolled back, fell like dolls with their strings cut, opening the way to the left and right.

“Victor, do you see that?”

A huge barrier unfolded beyond the corridor. Golden waves rippled, isolating the space.

The barrier seemed to reject and push away everything that approached, emitting a strange resonance.

“It’s inside there. It seems they blocked the way while I was escaping.”

“……”

“They are infinitely overlapping the same memories at specific coordinates, continuously copying the space. It’s one of the construction techniques used in the Nayuta Shrine.”

The clown said leisurely.

“The scenery implemented in the sanctuary is just a clumsy imitation of a part of the Imperial Palace, but the knowledge to reproduce that technique is very sophisticated.”

“Is this one of the things Aron Baiger Kabahim is doing after getting his hands on the remains of the dead god?”

“If you come this far, can’t you roughly see what that friend wants?”

The clown asked in response to Lennok’s question.

“He has no intention of being satisfied with this frozen kingdom. He’s trying to imitate the Emperor using the knowledge of Ars Nova [a powerful, ancient technology].”

“……”

He had been thinking about it.

The reason why the bloodline ability passed down through the royal family was similar to the genetic modification of Ars Nova.

The identity of the long-cherished wish that Kabahim’s lord dreams of after obtaining the knowledge of the archive.

“It’s an incredibly grand wish. You could even say he’s out of his mind.”

The clown stated with a beaming smile.

“If he knew what kind of being the Emperor was, he wouldn’t dare dream of such a thing. Or rather, is he trying to do it because he ‘knows’?”

“……”

“It doesn’t matter, but we can’t let our things get damaged because of that friend’s vain wish.”

The clown, who had grabbed his dagger and stuck it into the wall of the corridor, turned to look at Lennok.

“So, please do your best this time too. Can you do it?”

“Don’t make me say it twice.”

Lennok, raising his gauntlet, replied as he slammed it into the barrier.

Kwajik!!

Surely, what makes up this barrier is the result of the knowledge Aron obtained from the archive.

Spatial shaping used in Ars Nova. A construction technique that overlaps scenery in one space.

It is undoubtedly a top-tier technology with the highest value among all the knowledge and literature of the continent.

However, Lennok now had a weapon that could crush even such technology head-on.

Cheeeek…!!

The moment a black shockwave flashed between the gauntlet, the ceiling and floor were distorted in a circle like the refraction of a lens.

The distorted scenery of the corridor rotated once, drawing a circle, and the moment the beginning and end met.

The huge barrier shattered like glass and began to scatter into pieces.

Wajangchang!!!

Beyond the shattered barrier, a majestic lobby hall unfolded.

Behind the vast lobby, the appearance of a lavishly decorated inner door, firmly closed.

A young man with a blank expression stood in front of it, holding a sword.

“Urwin, the 1st Knight Commander of the Ten Royal Families.”

Time seemed to flow slowly amidst the scattering golden fragments.

The young man, who had opened his eyes in a momentarily slowed consciousness, muttered.

“I will execute the traitor who has defied the will of the royal family.”

“Dodge…!!”

A sense of déjà vu that pierced deep into his mind crossed the line of death, and consciousness regained its speed in an instant.

The moment Lennok pulled out his magic threads, grabbed the clown by the collar, and rotated his body with all his might.

The sword light that sprang from Urwin’s fingertips slashed diagonally across the lobby hall, hundreds of meters long.

Jjeoeoeoeong!!!!

The ear-piercing cracking sound that occurs when space is cut and forcibly reconnected.

The recoil alone sent Lennok and the clown flying and crashing into the lower part of the lobby.

“An 8th-level swordsman. Is he the possessor of a sword aura that interferes with space as a result?”

Kwaaa!!!

The clown, who had rolled while being hit by the wind, looked at Urwin with narrowed eyes.

“I thought there would be one of the knight commanders, but the scale of the sword aura he uses is ridiculous. Is that also a blessing?”

“Why are you asking me that?”

Lennok, who landed next to the clown a beat later, looked at the sword mark left above his head.

The scenery that had been cut off along with the space remained for tens of meters, flickering ominously.

The size and range of the sword aura he used were so enormous that it was surging like a wave.

“This entire space is within that swordsman’s range.”

“If we fail to dodge even once, our limbs will be cut off like a frog’s.”

Lennok and the clown naturally distanced themselves from each other and exchanged words.

The clown smeared blood on his dagger, and Lennok, wrapping magic threads around his gauntlet, said,

“We don’t have time to fight for long. Let’s break through quickly.”

“Isn’t it a bit unfair to say that while you’re the only one with such a reliable weapon?”

While the clown was grumbling, the knight commander’s expression, who was watching them, changed slightly.

“That gauntlet… is that the weapon of the prophecy?”

“You’re worthy of being Aron’s confidant. You recognize the forbidden weapon?”

“I don’t know what it’s called. However…”

Urwin, who had walked out holding his sword, said with a blank face.

“I know that it is one of the means that Aron is pursuing.”

“……”

Is he a knight commander loyal to the royal family, yet he calls Aron by his name?

Judging from the circumstances so far, it is clear that the swordsman is in a different position from the other knights.

However, more than that, Lennok was feeling a unique sense of incongruity from Urwin in front of him.

“The resonance and pronunciation of his voice are very unique… His voice is almost unheard of.”

“Huh? I don’t know about that.”

The clown glanced away.

‘More than that, isn’t it a bit unsettling that you remember the voice patterns and pronunciations of everyone you meet?’

‘Shut up.’

Ignoring the clown’s words, Lennok stared intently at Urwin.

‘There’s a sense of incongruity in his pronunciation and articulation. It’s as if he’s using a completely different language, and only learned the common tongue later…’

‘……’

‘I see. So, you’re perhaps a human from beyond the continent?’

A linguistic incongruity that differs from those who crossed the sea of understanding, like the Baracheda Liberation Front [a group known for their unique dialect].

Moreover, among the humans from beyond the continent that Lennok has seen, he is the first level 8 physical ability user.

Is he a human from beyond the continent, directly recruited by Aron Byger Kabahim and placed as the commander of the knights?

‘I understand why the other knight commanders are so eager to kill you.’

However, instead of answering Lennok’s words, Urwin raised his hand to his sword as if it couldn’t be helped.

‘On this continent, there’s a tendency to dislike those who are particularly quick-witted.’

‘Oh, I thought it was nonsense, but did you actually hit the nail on the head?’

The clown tilted his head with a bewildered expression.

‘This is quite interesting. The ‘knowledge’ your king possesses extends beyond the continent, which means-‘

‘Let’s stop talking about where I came from.’

Kiiiiing!!!

With a smooth downward slash, the space along the blade is cut, revealing the other side of space.

A level 8 physical ability user who uses the highest level of swordsmanship, space cutting, as easily as breathing.

Urwin, who slowly cut through space with his sword, looked at Lennok with heavy eyes.

‘I will not let you pass this place.’

‘You won’t be able to do anything with such a lukewarm attitude.’

Lennok moved forward with a sneer.

Lennok, who quickly installed mana threads around the lobby, clenched and unclenched his hands.

‘And, it’s already too late.’

‘Too late…?’

Whoosh!!

At that moment, the clown’s figure, who was standing behind Lennok, disappeared like smoke.

At the same time, the clown, who appeared behind Urwin, grinned as he opened a splendid inner gate [a portal or gateway].

‘Was my disappearing act okay?’

‘…….!!!’

Urwin, whose expression hardened for the first time, gripped his sword and swung it overhead.

The light that was drawn from the scabbard bent three times in the air, gaining speed, and chased after the clown at supersonic speed.

However, it narrowly missed, as the clown threw himself into the inner gate, and instead, it cut the vast ceiling vertically.

Kwaaaang!!!

‘Tch…!!’

He missed.

Urwin’s sword light, having made a quick judgment, bent twice more in the air, changing direction.

Tearing through the wall of the lobby, it leaped through space towards Lennok’s neck in an instant.

Just then, Antares appeared in front of Lennok and deflected Urwin’s attack with one hand.

Jjeoeoeoeong!!!

In the exploding shockwave, Urwin and Antares faced each other.

Antares, who was holding his hand with a calm face, turned to Urwin and said.

‘I’ll take care of this one.’

‘……Antares?’

‘From now on, it’s an area that even I can’t foresee.’

Antares pulled up his mana and tilted his neck.

‘If you’ve come this far, even if I lend you my strength, it won’t deviate much from the future.’

‘……’

‘Go. He’ll be waiting, won’t he?’

After using foresight to guide Lennok to the Archive, he remained in the Royal City, waiting for the moment he could move.

This very moment, when Lennok is closest to what is hidden beneath this Royal City.

If Antares has stepped forward to help him now, when the outcome of the operation cannot be foreseen, and even the success or failure of the operation is blurred.

At the very least, he might have certainly fulfilled the meaning of the clown’s participation in this operation.

Lennok, who had been silent, immediately increased his speed and traversed the lobby.

The moment he stepped towards the open inner gate, passing Urwin, who was facing Antares.

Hwaaaak!!

Lennok could see the landscape of a vast snowy field, where snow was falling heavily, spread out in the deepest part of the sanctuary.

A black ring floating above the broken sky. A frozen throne, hit by black tears flowing beneath it.

The figure of a huge knight, whose whole body was old and cracked, sleeping on the throne frozen like black ice.

A cold comet [a celestial body that caused a cataclysmic event].

A disaster that fell on the Northern Continent and permanently changed its climate.

A dead Outer God who died at the hands of an Ascendant [a being of immense power], leaving only its remains and remnants.

In the arms of that dead god, Aron Byger Kabahim was sitting with his eyes closed, concentrating his mind.

He seemed to be in the middle of a ritual to wield the power of the god as a forbidden weapon, and he didn’t even seem to recognize Lennok’s presence.

‘I have to take the remains before Aron regains his senses.’

Instinctively sensing this, Lennok pulled up his mana and took a step forward.

Jjeoeoeoeong!!!!

Everything in front of him was distorted into white, and Lennok’s body was pushed back.

A divine power that froze Lennok’s very gaze the moment he recognized the remains of the dead god.

Its overwhelming majesty, as if it did not even dare to allow being looked upon.

‘Victor…!!’

Kwaang!!

The clown, whose left arm was frozen white, fell and tumbled next to Lennok.

Sharp ice fragments were embedded in his side, and his ankles and back were frozen.

However, even in the midst of that, the clown ignored the pain, stood up, and immediately pulled up his mana.

‘It’s below! Dodge it!!’

‘……!!’

Jjeojeojeojeojeong!!!

The snowfield beneath his feet erupted like an explosion, and ice pillars tens of meters in size shot up.

Sharp ice fragments fell like stakes, rushing in as if to tear his body apart.

The entire space was freezing and condensing, not even allowing existence.

A sanctuary of another world existing beyond the [Gate]. The echo emitted by the dead god sleeping in its deepest part.

Is it that the remnants of the dead god are rejecting Aron’s existence, who is trying to become one with it, and are spewing out a backlash?

Kwajik!!

The clown took the falling ice fragments on his shoulder, bit down on his dagger, and pulled up his mana.

The ice that bounced off in all directions glittered like smooth mirrors, melting each other with reflected light.

‘I’ll open a path. Quickly…!!’

Antares was holding Urwin’s feet and buying time.

Soon, the surviving knights would return and surround them, leaving no way to escape.

Above all, they had to steal the remains of the dead god before Aron finished the ritual and woke up.

But-

Pat!!

Suppressing the question that came to mind, Lennok used Blink [a teleportation ability]. He accelerated through the collapsing crevasse.

Kugwagwagwagwa!!!

He flew low between the huge ice fragments that stretched out like a distant cliff, increasing his speed.

The closer he got to the cold comet, the stronger the cold became, the space became stiff, and his senses dulled.

But each time, the clown changed the surrounding environment with illusions, opening a path.

Kwang!!

He slammed his gauntlet down, using the recoil to bounce his body up. Without even thinking about balancing his center of gravity, he pulled out a mana thread.

Lennok, who had hooked a mana thread between his shoulder blades, passed by Aron’s face, who was sleeping with his eyes closed, right in front of him.

The remains of the dead god sleeping behind Aron. He slammed the glass-colored gauntlet directly towards the area near its heart.

Paahhhng!!!!

A huge black wave, like a total lunar eclipse, swept over the frozen knight’s body and rotated.

A powerful shock that made the entire armor of the huge knight heave greatly. Immediately after, a quiet silence came.

However, Lennok’s expression inside the mask was subtly hardened.

‘As I thought, this is…’

The remains of the dead god are not reacting.

When he communicated through the ice craftsman, it clearly had consciousness, but the reason why there was no reaction at all after facing it directly.

The reason why there was no reaction or assimilation even though Lennok could sense its presence immediately after entering the sanctuary.

As I thought, that is-

It doesn’t react.

When he communicated through the ice craftsman, it clearly had consciousness, but the reason why there was no reaction at all after facing it directly.

The reason why there was no reaction or assimilation even though Lennok could sense its presence immediately after entering the sanctuary.

As I thought, that is-

‘Which do you think came first?’

A cold voice was heard from behind Lennok.

Before he knew it, Aron, who had opened his eyes, was looking at Lennok with a blank face.

‘Was it first to obtain the remains of the dead god? Or was it first to obtain the authority of the Ascendant?’

‘……’

‘It’s a question without an answer, but that’s why I had to decide on an answer. The answer I came to is simple.’

Jjeoeoeong!!

At that moment, a frozen ring of light exploded from behind Aron.

A distorted circle, like a frozen halo, rotated intensely, stopping time and space.

Six wings soared from the center of the frozen frost ring, wrapping around his body in a circle.

Kwaaaaaaa!!!

The blue-white wave that spread out from Aron expanded at an incredible speed, crossing the sanctuary.

The crevasse collapsed, and an avalanche occurred, scattering like a white wave.

The afterimage of a transcendent power that was unbelievable to be that of a mere human.

He didn’t need to ask to know what had happened.

‘……So, you’ve already succeeded in obtaining and controlling the remains of the dead god.’

Lennok slowly lowered his gaze and turned to Aron.

‘You knew from the beginning, but you deliberately waited for me here.’

The reason why the soul of the cold comet did not react to Lennok’s gauntlet.

Freezing thousands of humans, preserving and processing their talents, and drawing power to use as sacrifices.

Taking the knowledge that exists in the Archive as a talent of duality and even obtaining the method.

Aron had succeeded in processing the remains of the dead god into a forbidden weapon.

Kugugugugu!!!!

From outside the fluctuating sanctuary, hundreds of intense presences were rapidly approaching.

The ten knight orders under the Royal City that Lennok and the clown had avoided and outmaneuvered with illusions.

The elite superhuman group that had dramatically increased their power with the blessing of the Royal City and completed their battle preparations.

‘This is the end, Manipulator.’

Aron, facing Lennok on the hand of the giant knight, said.

‘I have no intention of repeating the same mistake twice. With this, your existence will be entirely ‘used’ for this country.’

‘……’

‘Come down before me, kneel, and kiss my feet, honoring the glory of Kabahim.’

Aron’s eyes flashed white in the blizzard.

‘Or, shall I step on your head myself for you?’

‘No. There’s no need for that.’

Lennok said, slowly reaching out his hand.

‘Because what I needed from the beginning was here.’

‘……What?’

Whoosh!!

Lennok’s hand, holding the gauntlet, grasped the black sphere that replaced the heart of the dead god.

[Mandala Open.]

The Mandala of Authority [a symbolic representation of power]. The last insurance left by the Ascendant for the next.

The essence of the manipulation technique he uses, and an eternal vessel that even stores the death of an Outer God.

However, for Lennok, this is not just that.

Seeing the memories of the Archive, crossing three worlds.

Passing through the moments of confusion and uncharted territory where he was himself and not himself.

The moment what he left in the Mandala opens its eyes.

Lennok was able to realize the identity of the arrangement left in the darkness.

[Transcendental Unique Magic Manifestation.]

[World 10 Law Activation.]