Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1167

Pandemonium’s leader.

The head of the most dangerous criminal organization across the continent, a transcendent being known as the Walker Behind.

A unique monster who killed a god in the second world and ascended, a ruler who governs the origin of inevitability.

Those who don’t know him and those who do, all watch his every move with caution and fear.

This is not only because the leader’s power and authority have reached a level that no other transcendent can easily approach,

but also because the origin of ‘inevitability’ is inherently a dangerous and guarded concept.

A post-creation power that transcends causality, forcibly creating results, and reversing the process to inevitably reach the outcome.

Lenok is watching the moment when the being who shot down even the sea god and succeeded in ascension resides in the third world.

“……”

Even though he stood quietly in the darkness-filled space, no trace of him could be felt.

Footsteps and breath. Body temperature and magic power, even thoughts and spells, he has no ‘signs’ or ‘indications’.

The emptiness, a characteristic of the leader, always looking elsewhere even while present in this place.

He is the symbol of inevitability, existing only as a result, not a process.

Although a long time had passed since he received the obsidian mask from Myung and joined Pandemonium, this was practically the first time Lenok stood before the leader as Victor.

Before Lenok could even feel any emotion about the situation, he was focused on what the leader had said.

“Is this place… one of the demonic realms located at the deepest part of the central front?”

After the Royal Capital conquest operation, the cruise ship was sailing near the sea north of the Northern Continent.

How could they be directly connected to the deepest part of the central front from an unknown island they arrived at near the Arctic Ocean?

Even if you simply calculate the distance on the map, it’s easily over thousands of kilometers.

The leader did not ignore Lenok’s question.

“The heat that surges in the Six Netherworld Demon Realm is not caused by ordinary combustion or heating.”

“……”

“The heat generated there is so intense that we created craters in necessary places across the planet to preserve the demonic realm.”

So, the entire island located in the Arctic Ocean was a crater created to preserve the demonic realm of the central front in its complete form.

It was understandable why the island Lenok had passed through had the shape of a volcano, but was it really possible?

The idea of digging craters on a planetary scale to release heat in order to preserve a demonic realm was something that was not allowed for ordinary humans in the first place.

Lenok couldn’t easily grasp how much power the leader and Myung had wielded to accomplish such a feat.

“It may seem impossible, but it was a necessary measure to prevent the crust and mantle from splitting and the continent from falling apart.”

The leader said, walking along the dark corridor with a noisy gaze.

“The creation of such a demonic realm was something they brought upon themselves from the beginning.”

“Are you saying that the demonic realms inside the central front were intentionally created spaces?”

The leader stopped answering and started walking down the corridor.

“Leader.”

Agneta, who had been listening blankly to the conversation, lowered her head towards the leader while hanging from the ceiling of the corridor.

“The clown wants to meet the leader. Everyone is here.”

“……”

“He said he’s going to make a wish to the leader. Should I bring him here now?”

“The conversation with the others is already over.”

The leader answered without stopping his walk.

“I told them what they would wish for someday, and I told them the reason why. That’s all I can do.”

“What they will wish for someday? What is that?”

Agneta tilted her head.

“Isn’t it just like making a wish on a shooting star?”

“The Billion Changes [referring to a group or organization] tend to twist and interpret many things in their own way.”

Beyond the noise that covered his face, Lenok could feel the leader closing his eyes.

“A wish… it’s not wrong, but the subject is not me. All I can do is bring the inevitability they will gain in the future to the present and convey it at this point in time.”

“I don’t really understand what you’re saying.”

“I’m bringing the inevitability they will face someday from a future timeline that hasn’t arrived yet.”

The leader said.

“Shortening the time from cause to result, refining it to be as close to inevitability as possible… but it would be unreasonable to call that a wish.”

“……That’s absurd.”

Lenok’s expression hardened as he listened to the leader’s explanation.

“You… you know what that means. Do you know what you’re saying right now?”

Bringing the future inevitability to the present and conveying it at this point in time.

That is not something that can be explained by a simple concept like precognition, which tells you about the future.

The achievement a person will reach someday. Or the results they will obtain in the future, or the relationships they will encounter.

The leader had said that he had skipped the time and process required to reach that point and conveyed it to them only as a ‘result’.

A reversal of causality made possible by reaching the realm of post-creation, creating a non-existent contradiction by twisting the order of cause and effect.

“I don’t know if that will truly help them. Perhaps they have just shared the ending they will face at an earlier point in time.”

“……”

“No one knows the answer. But…”

The leader murmured, looking at the red light approaching from the end of the corridor.

“I have gathered those who desire the same thing as me in Pandemonium.”

Whoosh-!!!!

From the end of the dark passage, hot flames erupted.

Covering everything in all directions with a bright red glow, it instantly shattered the passage and burst out.

Kwaaaaaa!!!!

Before he knew it, Lenok was standing in a volcanic area where he could see hazy dark clouds and a sky stained red.

Among the endless volcanic areas, dozens to hundreds of huge craters were rising.

Hot pillars of fire soared into the sky like a tornado, turning into flames that connected the ground to the sky.

“This is…”

The Six Netherworld Demon Realm located at the deepest part of the central front.

Is this the hell of the human world, comparable to the Four Heavenly Fire Demon Realm?

Everywhere he looked, lava overflowed, forming lakes, waterfalls, seas, and waves.

There was no place to stand properly on the constantly melting ground, and the roar of the crust melting, collapsing, and splitting echoed.

Volcanic ash scattering before his eyes. Lava melting beneath his feet. The acrid smell of sulfur stinging his nose.

Even though he was protecting his body with public magic, it felt difficult to even breathe.

The helplessness he felt when he entered the Old Abyss with Maleon in the outer city of Kundara.

As soon as he came out of the passage, Lenok was simultaneously feeling an intense pressure and heat comparable to that.

Chiiiik…!!!

The glass-colored gauntlet on his left hand flashed sharply and echoed.

The outer god within the gauntlet, the soul of the cold comet, emitted a powerful coldness.

The leader, who had been standing silently in the hellish heat, was now looking at Lenok’s gauntlet.

“Is that the outer god’s soul that the clown recovered? It seems to have recognized where its remains are.”

“Did you guide me here… because you needed the god’s soul within the gauntlet?”

“Although it’s called a god’s soul, it’s not a concept that can be equated with a human soul.”

The leader replied.

“The end that floats in the dark sea has an unclear concept of spirit and flesh, and even the boundary between dream and reality is blurred.”

“……”

“What’s contained in the gauntlet is will… something like the remnants of an origin. It can correspond to a soul in the realm of catalysts or spells, but it’s not a real soul.”

The leader murmured as he walked through the lava area.

“It’s an unnecessary process for what I’m trying to do.”

“……”

Even without speaking, he could feel it.

The fact that the leader was intentionally trying to answer Lenok more than usual.

Was it the price for Lenok stealing the remains of the cold comet from the Royal Capital underground?

Or was it because he knew that even this moment would not last long?

Now that they had accessed the archive, everyone was intuitively aware that the end was near, so like this-

“Let’s go.”

The leader said.

“What I need to give you is over there.”

“……”

Even Lenok’s thoughts and monologues were naturally anticipated, as if he already knew them.

As if the leader had once pondered the same things as Lenok.

As if he knew what was needed to solve it.

It wouldn’t be strange. In a way, he would have been the closest being to Lenok.

Unlike the irreversibly twisted cult leader, the leader was similar to Lenok in many ways.

That’s why he knew him even without reading his thoughts. That’s why he was reading him even without knowing Lenok’s answer.

Kugugugu!!!

They walked silently through the lava land that overflowed from all directions.

The hellish heat that burned spells and magic and evaporated thoughts.

“Hek, hek…”

Agneta, with a pale face, sweated and then pulled out a magic scroll and escaped into the imaginary dimension.

As a mixed-blood of an ancient race, it would have been difficult for her to withstand such a rapid change in environment.

If the leader didn’t say anything about it, there wouldn’t be any particular problem.

Lenok thought so and quietly looked around the scenery beyond his mask.

Kugugugugugu!!!!

A huge lava wall stretching to the end of the horizon was perfectly blocking the detection of what was beyond it.

Sight, sound, magic power, and even will were burned, melted, and isolated by the flowing lava wall.

Chiiiiik!!!!

The lava wall that had risen to the mountains and cliffs flowed down, revealing something trapped inside.

Trapped inside the majestic lava wall, a bizarre shape was convulsing and maintaining its form without melting.

[Kkuaaaaaak!!!!]

[Aaaaaaaak!!!!]

[Kkeuheueueue!!!!]

‘Something’ with a face distorted as miserably as a demon, screamed while trapped inside the wall.

Every time it flailed and stretched out its arms through the wall, lava flowed down, melting and constricting its body.

Chiiiiik!!!

Each of the entities trapped inside the lava wall was huge, reaching tens of meters in size.

On the arms of the convulsing and thrashing entities, metal objects that looked like gun barrels or weapons were randomly embedded.

“Are those creatures that inhabit the demonic realm trapped like that?”

“Strictly speaking, they are not creatures of this world.”

Antares, who was walking next to Lenok, opened his mouth.

“Those trapped there are the alien evil spirits who lost in the war against the Empire.”

“……Alien evil spirits?”

“The remnants of a world that has already met its demise. Ghosts that can only survive by taking over the bodies of others and devouring souls.”

Antares said with a hardened face.

“The central city had trapped their souls in steel bodies from which they could not escape, and used them as tools for the Empire.”

Kiiiiiing-!

From within the volcanic crater with a radius of hundreds of meters, a steel machine rose to its feet.

With red eyes flashing, lava flowed down between the gun ports and barrels attached to its entire body.

The flames that had heated up on the steel body were glowing like blood vessels.

Antares said, looking at the evil spirits that were wailing beyond the lava wall but unable to approach.

“The Six Netherworld Demon Realm was the area where the Empire’s hangars were located in the past, and it was also the place where tactical weapons were manufactured for the war across the continent.”

“……”

“Only the alien evil spirits that were used as materials for tactical weapons remained here, and it was transformed into a demonic realm that steals and covets life.”

The Empire’s Royal Capital Large Tactical Weapon Hangar.

The entire hangar that stored Ars Nova’s war weapons had merged with the volcanic area and turned into a single demonic realm.

A disaster where ghosts possessed weapons that should not have had a will, transforming an entire area into a hell where people could not live.

Uuuuuung!!!

Before he could finish his thoughts, one by one, the demons trapped in steel bodies beyond the lava wall began to awaken.

Distorted by pain and hatred, they screamed, laughed maniacally, and struggled with hideous and bizarre faces.

The malignant weapons, tens of times larger than humans, looked down at them with bloodshot reverse eyes.

They were aware of their presence and were staring with a gaze filled with hunger, but they were unable to approach, a chilling sight.

Even Antares’ face, who was explaining in a calm voice, had turned pale.

“This area is already saturated with radiation and magic power collapse. Disasters that directly interfere with existence, including soul contagion and mental contamination, are spreading.”

“……”

“It’s a hell that was not allowed to be entered until the moment Ars Nova was destroyed. Yet, the reason we can stand here now is…”

Antares said, looking at the leader as if he were dazzling.

“Because he has already conquered this demonic realm once.”

Kwagwagwagwagwagwa!!!!!!

Every time the leader moved, the lava wall that had divided the world split to the left and right and bent.

All the heat and flames of the endless Six Netherworld Demon Realm bowed their heads as if worshiping and revering a single person.

The moment he opened the door in the middle of hell, where no living, breathing being could stay even for a moment.

Beneath the huge flames of lava falling from the end of the sky, a massive corpse, thousands of meters in size, was lying down.

Kuuuuuung!!!!

On the vast volcanic area, a gruesome sight of a body that was pierced through, crushed, and broken all over.

On top of a mountain made of the remains of metal that did not melt even in the lava, a huge something was lying dead.

A size so large that it could not be captured with the naked eye, so large that even Lenok was momentarily overwhelmed the moment he faced it.

A corpse of a creature with a turtle’s head, thousands of meters in size, with lava flowing like blood, was lying sprawled out.

“This is…”

“The level 9 bio-warship, Megiddo, that the alien evil spirits used to navigate the outer seas.”

Antares said.

“It is the ark they rode down to this world, and it is an outer beast that was used as a strategic weapon of the Empire after losing the war.”

“……”

“The immortal ship that was said to be comparable to a large city by itself. He… killed even its corrupted incarnation soaked in demonic energy?”

Kwajik!!

The leader did not answer and stopped walking in front of the corpse he had ‘killed’.

He stepped on the corpse of the bio-warship, whose head alone was close to tens of meters in size, and reached out his hand.

The moment his hand, with its form obscured by noise, dug into the head of the huge remains.

The corpse of Megiddo vibrated in place, and the entire Six Netherworld Demon Realm began to shake.

Uuuuuuung!!!!

The entire demonic realm vibrated violently. The space-time coordinates were twisted and shattered.

The space and timeline where Lenok was standing resonated in different directions, shaking as if they would split the demonic realm at any moment.

As if forcibly grabbing and reversing all the discrepancies and twists, the leader slowly withdrew his hand and turned around.

In the leader’s hand, which was covered in noise and flickering, a sphere that emitted a light as intense as the sun was now held.

Whirr!!

The miniature sun sphere shining in the leader’s hand burned through space-time and emitted light.

It seemed to be raising the temperature of the star by burning the world just by being taken out of the corpse and revealing its form.

The power source, presumed to be the core of the ark, forcibly extracted from the corpse of the bio-warship Megiddo.

The moment Lenok realized that it was a miniature star itself that was burning itself and emitting infinite energy.

The leader, clutching the miniature sun, reached out his hand towards Lenok.

“Take it.”

“……Is that the ‘inevitability’ you are giving me?”

Lenok asked hesitantly.

“Is it the result that exists in some future of mine, reached through the reversal of causality?”

“I thought you already knew.”

The leader slowly turned and looked at Lenok.

“Your choice transcends the concepts that can exist in this world. Just as you feel that way when you look at me, I cannot bring your inevitability.”

“Then…”

Why was the leader conquering the demonic realm and trying to give him the core of this huge bio-warship?

What was the reason for giving him this answer in the deepest part of this otherworld hell, where the current Lenok could not have entered-

The leader’s following answer was something that Lenok had not expected at all, even until the very end.

“You’ll need that to meet Ethan Bajur.”