Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1163

Clang!!

As the sword was drawn, Aaron collapsed on the spot.

Before Aaron’s body, with a sword wound etched into his chest, could fall, Eldritch moved.

“Oh dear.”

The 5th Apostle, carefully catching Aaron’s body, turned around with a gentle smile.

“We mustn’t allow even the slightest damage to this precious body. That was a close call.”

“…You.”

However, Renok, watching this, couldn’t move rashly and furrowed his brow.

More shocking than Eldritch’s sudden killing of Aaron was what he had said.

They intend to use Aaron Weiger’s corpse as a key to unlock the 1st Apostle’s Fate Seal.

The identity of the plan the Cult, which had been interfering since Tokerphz, revealed at the last moment.

Renok already knew that he could not simply ignore those words.

“I am grateful in many ways for what happened in the royal capital today.”

Eldritch, supporting Aaron with one hand, adjusted his top hat and greeted Renok.

“You are naturally suspicious and cautious. If it weren’t for you, he wouldn’t have given us an opening like this.”

“Hmm, this is quite something.”

The clown, who had been watching the situation with a grin, tilted his head.

“It’s not like we haven’t seen the Cult being untrustworthy before, but the Apostles usually don’t handle things this way. What changed your mind?”

“The Oracle Ureka is very dissatisfied with the way the Cult is currently engaging in war.”

Eldritch said leisurely.

“She believes the previous Oracle oversimplified the operation of the Apostle forces, so she is trying to change that direction a bit.”

“I didn’t know there was any other way to use a crazed Avatar other than throwing them onto the battlefield to fight until they die.”

“For the Cult, the Apostles’ madness is no longer an unsolvable problem.”

Thud thud thud!!!!

It could be felt that the surviving knights were quickly gathering from all over the palace.

The chilling presence of the high-ranking knights at the commander level who had not died at the hands of Renok or the Demonic Labyrinth.

However, Eldritch did not lose his composure, even knowing that the knights were approaching from all directions.

“We were all once human, or something similar. For the sake of the teachings of the myriad gods, we must endure associating with non-believers, wouldn’t you agree?”

“You’ve been spouting nonsense since a while ago.”

Clang!!

Renok, pulling on the mana threads and binding them to the fragments of the audience chamber, said in a cold voice.

“Enough with the useless talk, tell me about the seal on the 1st Apostle. Didn’t you need the power of the [Gate] to break the 1st Apostle’s seal?”

“To be precise, we were trying to obtain the key to unlock it from the [Gate].”

Eldritch gestured towards Aaron’s corpse with a smile.

“Through the events in the royal capital, we confirmed that His Majesty possessed the causality of the key. In that process, we knew that His Majesty’s life or death was not important.”

“……”

Ironically, Renok could also understand what the 5th Apostle was trying to say.

In this world, there existed locks and keys that could only be used by those with the talent of duality.

Gyro’s Coffer, which he had obtained while searching for the Ring of the Guide, also possessed such properties.

If Aaron, who possessed the talent of duality, could function as a key to the seal, that would be the reason.

“What kind of being is the 1st Apostle that you’re going to such lengths to break the seal?”

“I understand what you’re curious about, but I don’t know much about it myself. I’ve only heard that he is a being born with a transcendence so great that he cannot control it himself.”

“Born with transcendence…?”

“If he is the first Apostle ‘appointed’ in this world, wouldn’t it be fitting for him to possess such power?”

The 5th Apostle’s every word seemed to vaguely touch and then slip away from the guesses Renok had momentarily made.

Amidst the wavering thoughts, unable to determine whether they were right or wrong, he saw Eldritch turning away.

“However, not all of this went according to the main branch’s plan to reach this point.”

“……”

“Originally, the seal should have been affected by His Majesty’s death, and the signs should have appeared in the royal capital… but as always, things don’t go as planned.”

Clang!!

Eldritch, grabbing the sword he had stuck into the floor, carefully lifted Aaron’s body and smiled.

“So, shall we part with a smile here today? It seems you have all obtained what you originally wanted.”

“It’s not up to you to decide that.”

The clown grinned eerily and flicked his hand.

“Put down what you’re holding and step back while you still can. Did you not get enough of a beating in Tokerphz?”

“If you remember the battle of Tokerphz, you should know what I’m capable of.”

Eldritch smiled gently.

“Don’t you think it’s already a little too late?”

Outer World Small Universe: Heresy

[Heavenly Greatsword]

Shuuuuuuuuu…!!!!

A shadow falls over the sky, which was blown open above the audience chamber.

A giant sword with grotesquely intertwined blood vessels falls diagonally into the palace.

A powerful shockwave sweeps through the palace and explodes, blasting the ground.

Kwaaa kwaaa kwaaaang!!!!

“Antares!!”

Eldritch, carrying Aaron’s corpse, runs along the face of the giant sword that had been driven diagonally into the ground.

Antares chased after Eldritch, who was leaping up, stepping on the pulsating blood vessels like stairs, almost simultaneously.

Clang!!

“Seer. You shouldn’t get too deeply involved with the main branch.”

Eldritch, blocking a kick aimed at his side with his sword, glanced back.

“That’s why you were satisfied with just gifting the illusionist with foresight in Tokerphz, wasn’t it?”

“It wasn’t my intention, but I owe them a debt.”

Antares, leaning diagonally on the giant sword, said calmly.

“I intend to move as they wish until the very end.”

“I see…!!”

At the same time as Eldritch lowered his head, a huge slash that tore through the sky exploded.

A technique that cut through the nearby space as it slashed diagonally across the face of the giant sword.

Kwaaaaaaaang!!!!

“Aaron is dead. The plan has failed.”

In the ruined streets of the royal capital. On the rooftop of a burnt-down government building, a young man with a blank face stood.

“If he wasn’t cut by my spatial severance, then it’s a small universe… a mental landscape that has reached the same level as mine.”

Clang!!

Uruwin, the 1st Knight Commander, who had instantly returned his sword to its sheath, immediately drew up his mana.

“Then, I have no choice but to increase the number instead of the power to bring it down.”

Pat!!

The moment Uruwin’s hand disappeared, a distorted sword light exploded above his head.

Sharp sword auras, numbering in the dozens, burst forth like an explosion, decorating the sky.

A barrage of sword auras that focused on the power and number of slashes instead of spatial severance.

The sword auras, fired like a bombardment from several kilometers away, poured down onto Eldritch’s giant sword.

Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa!!!!

Eldritch and Antares clashing on the rotating giant sword. Uruwin, firing dozens of sword auras to snipe them.

A three-way battle between three level 8 physical ability users clashing simultaneously in the center of the royal capital.

“Victor.”

As Renok watched the scene from the ground, the clown called out to him from the side.

“Is it okay to let them have that? If this keeps up, they’ll take it.”

“I don’t care.”

“I don’t mind either, but Victor, you’re… huh? What did you say?”

“The fact that the 5th Apostle intervened at this point is proof that their goal from the beginning was to kill Aaron.”

Renok retorted as the clown tilted his head with a bewildered expression.

“Looking at their escape route, it seems they’ve already prepared a way to escape… If we want to take the corpse in this situation, it’s impossible without killing him.”

Both Renok and the clown had used up almost all of their mana and mental strength while running around the royal capital.

Having even used the Magnetic Field Domain to face Aaron and the knights, they had almost no remaining power.

If they tried to kill the 5th Apostle at this point, it would clearly require them to overexert themselves unnecessarily.

“A dead man’s corpse. I don’t intend to waste my mental strength on something I won’t use.”

“…That’s so cold it’s chilling. Is it okay if the 1st Apostle’s seal is broken with that?”

“The work that needed to be done is finished. There’s no room for future trouble now.”

Renok smiled.

“Even if something was predetermined, I intend to manipulate even that result according to my will. That was the purpose of the Magnetic Field Domain.”

Perhaps, the death of Aaron Weiger Kabahim was not an end in itself, but a kind of trigger.

Perhaps, by breaking the 1st Apostle’s seal at this point, a disaster greater than facing Aaron had been arranged.

However, Renok had taken away the causality and branching point that Aaron possessed, eliminating all possibilities that could have arisen from it.

Therefore, he knew that the possibility of the 1st Apostle’s seal being affected by Aaron’s existence had been eliminated.

There is no future trouble. Renok held the possibilities.

However-

Looking at Eldritch with cold eyes from behind his mask, Renok averted his gaze.

“However, I definitely don’t like how things are ending like this.”

“Huh?”

“Shall we give him a big middle finger before sending him off?”

Kwa kwa kwa kwa!!!!

Amidst the barrage of falling sword auras, Eldritch’s figure runs along the face of the giant sword.

At the same time as Eldritch leaps from the end of the giant sword, he soars tens of meters into the sky.

At the same time, a bizarre spatial rift, as if cut out with scissors, opens wide in the distance of the sky.

Crack crack crack…!!!

The Scales of the 10th Apostle. The Apostle technique that once belonged to Amrita Praubel is deployed, opening a path to escape.

“Everyone, it was fun while it lasted.”

Eldritch, floating in the air and rising, turned his body slightly.

“Then, I hope to see you on a battlefield closer to the end next time.”

“Isn’t there something you’re missing?”

Renok, looking up at the scene from the ground, chuckled.

“The Cult must have lost more than one or two things in Tokerphz.”

“…Hmm?”

“Let me remind you.”

Renok, raising his communicator, said.

“Fire.”

Kiiiiiiiiing-!!!!

At that moment, a pale flash flickered from the opposite side of the royal capital’s city, darkening the sky.

A beam of light emanating from a pale cannon installed on the roof of a cruise ship docked at the rear gate harbor of the royal capital.

The moment the Artificer, crouching next to the cannon, finished adjusting it with an indifferent expression.

[Sorrow Activation]

[Pain Firing]

The pale flash that diagonally crossed the sky of the royal capital struck Eldritch at an incredible speed.

“…!!!!!”

There was no time to raise his mana to dodge or deflect it.

He could only twist his body to protect Aaron’s corpse from being damaged and swing his sword with all his might.

Kwaaaaaaaaaang!!!!!

The Apostle’s figure, unable to even scream, was flung away, disappearing beyond the spatial rift that had opened in the sky.

At the same time, the heat of ‘Sorrow’ that exploded and scattered in that spot began to pour down over the sky of the palace.

“That’s a very flashy farewell. That guy must be full by now.”

The clown chuckled as he watched the scene.

“Maybe he’s already burst?”

“The power of the forbidden weapon that the Artificer adjusted was more considerable than I thought.”

Renok said, looking at the countless beams of light falling from the sky.

“I thought there might be another chance to use it, so I made arrangements beforehand before we parted.”

“It’s the perfect fireworks to end this operation.”

“Let’s go back.”

Renok said, turning to leave.

“The capture operation ends here.”

Fragments of pale light fell from the sky in dozens, turning the sky white.

The intense heat that changed the climate and even momentarily warmed the frozen weather of the royal capital.

The bombardment of ‘Sorrow’ falling from the sky fell over the palace, erasing everything entirely.

Kwaaaaaaaaaang!!!!

* * *

He was dreaming.

He was having an endless dream, swimming in a sea that was close to eternity.

A cold, dark sea filled only with darkness and emptiness.

It was painful to be conscious, so he could only keep sleeping.

In the depths of his unconsciousness, he searched for a warm warmth.

The starlight that was not swept away by the sea. A world that had not lost its causality [the relationship between cause and effect].

A star where life still breathed.

He breaks and devours. He brings about unwanted endings.

He does not grieve. He does not mourn. He does not remember.

In this sea, the deaths of others and his own death are all part of an infinite cycle.

It is enough to devour as he pleases, and in the end, even he himself becomes fertilizer.

But, if that’s the case.

Even so, the reason he accepted the offer at the last moment-

Splash…!!

“……”

Renok opened his eyes, listening to the sound of the waves.

A churning stomach and a throbbing head.

His whole body ached as if he had been beaten, and his stomach hurt so much that he felt like throwing up.

Forcibly suppressing the nausea rising from deep within his stomach, he struggled to lift his gaze.

Woo woo woo-!!

A cruise ship with peeling paint and damage in various places was bobbing on the waves.

The cruise ship was sailing in the middle of the sea, where nothing could be seen around it.

Only then did Renok realize that he was seasick and frowned.

“Victor, are you awake?”

The clown, who was sitting at a baccarat table on the deck and fiddling with cards, turned his gaze.

“It took longer than I thought. No, considering you even used your domain, should I say your recovery is fast?”

“…Where is this?”

Bombarding the royal capital and boarding the ship to escape was the last thing Renok remembered.

After leaving the royal capital by river, he had set up a simple barrier and rested before falling asleep.

But when he opened his eyes, the surroundings had already changed from a river to the sea.

“I don’t know if you remember, but there was a confluence where the river and the sea met outside the royal capital.”

The clown said leisurely.

“We took that and came out towards the sea. By now, we’re probably going around the top of the North Continent.”

“……”

“There’s no specific name for this sea, but if I had to say, it’s near the Arctic Ocean?”

The clown chuckled, leaving Renok in silence.

“Think of it as a trip. Doesn’t your heart flutter at the thought of going on an adventure?”

“Do you want to escape from a cold place only to crawl into another cold place?”

Renok said, struggling to get up from his seat.

Clang!!

At the same time as he stood up, his center of gravity was strangely leaning to the left.

Turning his gaze to the dull sensation, he saw the glass-colored gauntlet attached to his left arm.

“…I see.”

After taking the soul of the cold comet and putting it into the gauntlet, he hadn’t removed it yet.

Looking down at the empty deck, it seemed that the memories of the royal capital were returning one by one.

‘My thoughts… aren’t connecting well. Is it the backlash from the No-Point Convergence?’

The No-Point Convergence is the Magnetic Field Domain that requires the most cognitive ability among the branching points of the Kaleidoscope.

The ‘Reconfiguration’ using the manipulation technique is the power of the domain, but the calculations, acquisition, and manipulation that make it possible are entirely Renok’s responsibility.

The amount of mental capacity required is so absurd that even Renok was feeling that his head wasn’t working properly for a moment.

Considering that he had felt a similar sensation when he held the Ten Laws of the World in the Mandala, it wasn’t a backlash that was completely unrelated.

Renok walked down to the deck and said.

“I’m getting off. Stop the ship.”

“Huh? Suddenly?”

The clown turned his head with a dumbfounded expression.

“Where are you going to go from here?”

“The capture operation should be over since we stole the remains of the dead god.”

Renok retorted, pressing his temples next to his mask.

“There’s nothing more to see here. I’m going back around here.”

The reason Renok participated in this capture operation was to investigate the power of the [Gate] that existed in the underground of the royal capital.

In order to control the runaway electric magic that was mixed with the power of the Half-Bow, he needed to investigate the [Gate] and find a way to handle the power of the Half-Bow.

As a result, the runaway of the electric magic had worsened as he obtained the memories of the Half-Bow and the Mandala, but it was not without its gains.

The Authority Domain Mandala and the knowledge of the Ten Laws of the World contained within it.

If he could research them and simulate the power of the Half-Bow, it wouldn’t be impossible to regain control of the electric magic.

Rather, it might be a good thing that he could try this in Renok’s lab instead of the [Gate] in the royal capital.

At that point, Renok realized that he no longer had any business in Pandemonium and was about to leave immediately.

“Victor. Didn’t I tell you during the operation meeting?”

However, the clown shook his head at Renok’s words.

“We’re stealing the dead god to make a wish. After working this hard, are you going to leave without getting your reward?”

“…A wish?”

The series of objectives that the clown had explained in the briefing just before arriving at the royal capital.

His words that he would steal the dead god to make a wish, was that not a metaphor but the literal meaning?

However, even after immediately remembering those words, Renok frowned instead.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. Wasn’t the remains of the dead god a necessary item for the Master?”