Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1188

“Krrrrrr!”\n\n”Kweeeeeek!!!”\n\nGhouls with their eyes rolled back were tearing at each other’s flesh all over the military base.\n\nA feast of bodily fluids and flesh fragments scattered between the solid alloy walls of the base.\n\nThe sight of monsters crawling around, having lost their intellect and reason, and screaming bizarrely.\n\nSoldiers who had been serving here under the command of the headquarters had become ghouls, unable to even die properly.\n\nKwarurururu!!!\n\nTrampling over the ghouls that were filling the bridge like a wave of flesh, the bike moved forward.\n\nGhouls lunged from all directions, scratching and biting at the bike, but the bike, clad in metal armor, didn’t even get a scratch.\n\n[Eueeeek…….]\n\nOnly Davi’s terrified voice, controlling the automatic driving algorithm embedded in the bike, reached Lenok’s ears.\n\nBuaaang!!!\n\nQuickly increasing the speed, he moved to a place where the entire military base could be seen at a glance.\n\nLenok, with a hardened expression, looked down at the scene from the bridge leading to the upper part of the base.\n\n“The entire military base is already caught up in this. Most of them have already turned into ghouls.”\n\n“This isn’t the work of Conqueror Baitan.”\n\nYufria said, looking down at the base with a calm gaze.\n\n“The massacre he committed was just death as a result. It wasn’t a way of mocking the concept of death. But what happened here is……”\n\n“Necromancy that raises corpses as undead. And it’s a trace of the command system.”\n\nNecromancy is a forbidden art that can only work on dead bodies and exert its power.\n\nHowever, as much as it has such strict restrictions, it is also a technique with tremendous potential under certain conditions.\n\nA powerful necromancer could massacre an entire small city alone and raise it as undead.\n\nThe problem was that such a disaster had occurred inside the Dead Rise military base.\n\nWhat had happened to the Legion that all the soldiers here had turned into ghouls? Why was Dead Rise neglecting this situation?\n\nDepending on the situation, this was a major event that could even affect the schedule of the planned parade.\n\nSqueak!!\n\nLenok, having made his judgment, immediately stopped the bike and raised his magic power.\n\n“I need to go down to the military base and check the communication records. I need to investigate what happened.”\n\n“I understand the situation.”\n\nYufria said, getting out of the sidecar.\n\nThe long-lived species, with her hands clasped together, nodded on the bridge overlooking the base.\n\n“I will lend you my technique. Let’s finish this as quickly as possible.”\n\n“What are you planning to do?”\n\n“Actually, my life technique isn’t very compatible with necromantic techniques.”\n\nYufria answered calmly.\n\n“Due to the nature of my technique, which deals with living beings, I cannot directly break through necromancy, which governs the dead. It won’t be of much help if I go to the battlefield.”\n\n“……”\n\nCome to think of it, even in the power rankings, Yufria Aosel was described as having tremendous killing power, but there was no mention of her technique’s firepower being strong.\n\nEven if she could artificially increase her killing power by targeting living beings, her firepower against inanimate objects was not particularly outstanding.\n\n“Although it’s not much of a substitute, I will at least help prevent those ghouls from easily wandering around the military base.”\n\nPaahhh!!!\n\nAt the same time as Yufria, with her hands clasped together, raised her magic power, a clear green magic power bloomed around her.\n\nThe green wave, gently rotating around the long-lived species, expanded explosively in an instant, covering a range of hundreds of meters.\n\nYufria closed her eyes and whispered quietly.\n\n“Creation Manipulation Technique (昌生調術) Outer Method (外法).”\n\nOriginal Magic (原始魔法) : Creation Manipulation Technique (昌生調術)\n\nEight Forms (八種) – Outer Method (外法)\n\n[Myriad Unfolding Green Lineage (萬解綠姓)]\n\nKugugugugugu!!!!\n\nFrom all sides of the base, below the bridge where Lenok was standing, bushes and trees sprouted.\n\nA barrier of nature, mixed with blue and green, covered the base and transformed into a huge semi-circular dome.\n\nA miracle that forcibly caused the growth of mountains, rivers, and plants to run wild, covering the entire military base and blocking the ghouls from escaping.\n\n“Kueeeuk……!!”\n\n“Kaak! Kaak!!”\n\nThe ghouls, reacting violently to the natural barrier surrounding the base, bit at the wall, but the vegetation immediately regenerated, trapping the ghouls.\n\nMany ghouls were trapped and crushed between the rapidly growing vegetation.\n\nLenok, watching the scene, looked around at the tree barrier that had sprung up on all sides with a slightly surprised expression.\n\n‘The consumption of magic power isn’t high, but the application target and range of the technique are at an unrealistic level. Is this the characteristic of a life technique?’\n\nThe magic power that Yufria had just used through incantation was, by Lenok’s standards, about two or three level 7 spells.\n\nHowever, the natural barrier she had built covered an area of hundreds of meters in radius and surrounded the military base.\n\nBeyond the level of discussing the efficiency of magic power and incantation, the application target of the life technique itself was fundamentally absurd.\n\n‘Non-application targets, such as living beings or organic matter, are assimilated and move together. As a result, the scale and power of the life technique explode beyond expectations…….’\n\nWhether it was simply Yufria’s ability or the characteristic of the original magic she used.\n\nEither way, it was certain that she was a monster capable of freely manipulating organic matter of this scale.\n\nAnd if Yufria limited the battlefield and set the stage like this, Lenok’s job was clear.\n\nTuk!!\n\nLenok, with one foot on the bridge, took out a thick cigar from his pocket and lit it.\n\nWhile exhaling thick smoke, he quickly counted the number of ghouls swarming below.\n\n“There are hundreds just in the visible distance…… Considering the ghouls inside and outside the base, it would be several times that.”\n\nThe number of people presumed to have died at this base was over several thousand. Even if the number of ghouls that had finished transforming was low, it would be more than half.\n\nHowever, Lenok did not hesitate to raise his magic power, even knowing that fact.\n\nGhouls are originally byproducts created in the process of a necromancer dying.\n\nTherefore, there are quite a few cases of ghouls having memories or intelligence from their previous lives, but ghouls created by a necromancer using other people’s corpses are just monsters without intelligence.\n\nThe soldiers at the base were already all dead, and only their bodies were being used as tools of necromancy.\n\nIt was better for them to be cleanly incinerated on the spot.\n\nPat!!\n\nAt the same time as taking a step off the bridge, Lenok’s body fell towards the base.\n\nThe ghouls, smelling the scent of a living human, all raised their heads and stretched out their arms, drooling.\n\n“Aaaaaaaak!!”\n\n“Kweeeek!! Eeek!!”\n\nDudududu!!!\n\nThe ghouls climbed over each other, forming a mountain on the spot.\n\nThe moment Lenok fell from the bridge and the ghouls climbed over each other, intersecting in the air.\n\nA bright blue plasma sphere appeared in the middle of the base, dyeing the surroundings in blue light.\n\n[Exploding Flame Sphere (炸炎球)]\n\n[Eightfold Transformation (八衆化) – Nuclear Fusion (核融合)]\n\n[Rotation (自轉) : Blue (靑)]\n\nKwaaaaaaaa!!!!!\n\n“Kkieeeek!!”\n\n“Kkegegek!! Gegegek……!!”\n\nThe appearance of a bright blue plasma sphere rotating majestically above Lenok’s head.\n\nThe ghouls’ bodies evaporated in the heat that poured down without any chance to stop it.\n\nThe sight of corpses being incinerated without even feeling the pain, while screaming miserably.\n\nOne of the new powers he had obtained through a thousand identities, the ultimate of flame-heat property transformation, Nuclear Fusion (核融合).\n\nThe limit of property transformation, which he had acquired after stealing the fusion technique at the first gate, burned the ghouls without holding back.\n\nLenok, having eliminated the mountain of struggling ghouls, raised his wings of fire before even touching the ground.\n\n[Flame Seal (火炎印): Adjoining Wings (接翼)]\n\n[Quadruple Ignition (點火) : Acceleration]\n\nPhuhaaak!!!\n\nFour flames exploded from Lenok’s back like boosters, pushing his body up.\n\nThe fiercely sprayed flames precisely controlled the flight path, becoming wings of fire that fluttered.\n\nAt the same time as Lenok’s figure, which had been falling, turned vertically, he flew low as if touching the ground.\n\nKukwakwakwa!!!\n\n“That is…….”\n\nLenok’s figure, wrapped in flames, burned the ghouls just by quickly passing through the outskirts of the base.\n\nWhile Yufria watched the scene with a surprised expression from the bridge, Lenok immediately changed direction.\n\nKwaaang!!\n\nJust by clenching his fist and bringing it down, a shockwave of fire exploded, shattering the walls of the base made of alloy.\n\nAs if waiting for it, he quickly focused his magic power towards the mass of ghouls that rolled out from inside.\n\n[Flame Breath Annihilation (火喘殲抉)]\n\nThe breath of fire that burst from Lenok’s mouth penetrated the base building and burned all the ghouls that were gathered together.\n\nKwakwakwakwakwakwa!!!!\n\n“Grrrrrrrk……!!!”\n\n“Egegegegek!!!”\n\nFlames surged and overflowed through the windows, vents, corridors, and doors of the base.\n\nThe flames, shot out like a breath, swept through the distance and between buildings, incinerating the corpses.\n\nBang!!!\n\nHe smashed through the barely maintained partition and jumped over the ghouls staggering inside.\n\nEven amidst the monsters trying to grab his ankles and bite his flesh, he entered the building.\n\nAdjusting the output to prevent the building’s shape from collapsing as much as possible, he headed inside.\n\n“……Found it.”\n\nThe computer server where the communication records of the military base were stored.\n\nThanks to the fire-resistant design to withstand the heat of the server, it was still safe in the breath of fire that had been adjusted.\n\nLenok, grabbing the intact server in sight and connecting the connector, raised his magic power and called Davi.\n\n“Davi. Can you do it?”\n\n[Only the outer form looks intact, and a significant amount of information has already been damaged.]\n\nDavi answered immediately.\n\n[The data has been erased by overwriting, so the information that can be recovered is too fragmented.]\n\n“What about the communication network that the Legion uses, not the server’s internal storage?”\n\nLenok said, stepping on a ghoul’s arm and dropping flames to incinerate it.\n\n“Due to the nature of the Legion, they would have been transmitting communication records in encrypted form. There’s a possibility that the encryption conversion pattern is left as a log on the network.”\n\n[Ah! I found it. As Master said, if I reverse-calculate the encryption pattern and infer what information was encrypted-]\n\nDavi, with a look of delight, quickly proceeded with the reverse calculation and began to slowly recite the keywords left on the network.\n\n[Necromancy…… Attack…… Massacre…… Sacrificial Ritual…… Legion Commander, Betrayal…… Informant?]\n\n“……”\n\nWhirr!!\n\nLenok’s hand, which had pierced and burned the shoulder of a charging ghoul, paused slightly on the spot.\n\nBetrayal of the Legion Commander. Did this mean that the current situation was due to an informant among the Legion Commanders?\n\n“It doesn’t say whether the Legion was attacked or not, or the specific situation.”\n\nLenok asked, looking at the ghouls melting away from all sides.\n\n“What about the specific casualties inside the military base?”\n\n[It’s not that no one evacuated, but most of the troops stationed there seem to have already died.]\n\nDavi’s answer slowed down slightly for a moment.\n\n[Most of the dead have turned into ghouls, so they had no choice but to push them underground…….]\n\n“……Pushed them underground?”\n\nKururururung!!!!!\n\nAt that moment, the ground where Lenok was standing cracked, and dozens of hands popped out from below.\n\nThe sight of ghouls, with barely attached flesh that was decaying in real-time, reaching out their hands to seek life.\n\nThe ghouls, crushed between the ground but not losing their movement, burst out from under his feet, screaming.\n\n“Kuaaaaak!!”\n\nKugugugugu!!!\n\nAt the same time, the entire base surrounding Lenok shook as if an earthquake had occurred, and cracks began to appear in the ground.\n\nFrom between the collapsing ground, dozens of times more ghouls than what was visible crawled out, filling the ground.\n\n“I knew that the ghouls I could see weren’t all of them…… but this is unexpected.”\n\nLenok turned his body around with a hardened expression.\n\n“Were the ghouls wandering above the base the last survivors to be transformed after most of the ghouls were pushed underground?”\n\nEven at this moment, the entire base was swarming with ghouls crawling up from between the underground bedrock…….\n\nIf he had to face this many ghouls, it wouldn’t be a simple skirmish, but a scale that was comparable to a war.\n\nWhat kind of necromancer had done this to the Legion and hidden the traces?\n\nTick, tick……!!\n\nLenok, who was about to snap his fingers to create a spark, frowned at the sensation of his magic power momentarily misfiring.\n\n‘Considering that we don’t know what will happen at the parade, I need to conserve my magic power here. But…….’\n\nSince increasing his maximum magic power in the closed area, the number of times he had trouble due to lack of magic power had decreased, but even so, he couldn’t use magic power like water.\n\nThe reason why Lenok could use large-scale firepower magic without any burden with his thousand identities was entirely due to the existence of the Red Star System.\n\nThe Red Star System, which obtained explosive magic power amplification by using flames as its core, was a transcendent power source, but he couldn’t just take out the Red Star System itself at any time.\n\nNow that he had to conserve the activation of the Red Star System, he had to use it while calculating the amount of magic power consumed.\n\nIf he wanted to, he could incinerate all the ghouls on the spot, but how much time would it take to do the same thing while conserving magic power?\n\nAnd if he left the military base unattended, the ghouls would go down the mountain and wander all over the East Continent, so he needed Yufria’s help in this situation-\n\n“All troops, fire.”\n\nAt that moment, a man’s voice, endlessly cold, faintly echoed in Lenok’s ears.\n\nAt that cold declaration that could be heard through the ghouls’ screams, Lenok immediately raised his magic power.\n\nFrom the sky beyond, a bombardment that broke through the natural barrier poured down onto the military base.\n\nPuhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhng!!!!\n\nHot fireballs rained down like rain from the sky, which had been covered with clouds, dyeing the ground red.\n\nMagic power bullets with bombardment techniques and ultra-long-range interceptor missiles. Various military weapons that had finished aiming from a far distance fired at the base.\n\nThey burned all the ghouls that had crawled up through the collapsed ground in real-time, erasing them without leaving a trace.\n\nKwakwakwakwakwakwa!!!!\n\n“Kkegegegegegek……!!!”\n\n“Keok……!!! Geogeogeok……!!!”\n\nThe bombardment, dyeing the entire sky red, rained down fiercely without a moment’s rest.\n\nEven the ghouls’ screams and cries were buried under the pouring bombardment and disappeared in an instant.\n\nEven while turning the entire military base into a sea of fire, several times more bombardment poured down, breaking through the barrier that Yufria had created.\n\nA crude explosion that scraped out a huge powder magazine to the bottom and dumped it on the base and set it on fire.\n\nLenok, who was outside the center of the bombardment, watched the scenery of the base disappearing with the flames.\n\nKwaaaang!!!!\n\nThe barrier made by weaving tree roots was shattered, and the shape of a huge self-propelled gun appeared.\n\nA tank corps equipped with long barrels. Launchers carrying dozens of missile magazines.\n\nMagicians who were adding magic circles on top of the barrels, and enchanters who were adding techniques to the bullets.\n\nKugugugugu!!!\n\nA magnificent armored unit broke through the flames of the bombardment they had fired and traversed the center of the military base.\n\nSoldiers wearing black uniforms and countless armored vehicles surrounded the entire base, centering on Lenok.\n\nKuuung……!!!\n\nDozens of sleek, oiled black barrels turned their heads towards him.\n\nThe engines, which had not yet cooled down, vibrated violently, shaking the ground.\n\nFrom afar, something heavy was moving regularly and incessantly, like the beating of a heart.\n\nThe Legion, which had appeared and simultaneously eliminated the ghouls swarming inside the military base and surrounded Lenok.\n\nClank!!\n\nFrom the tank at the front, an officer with a cold impression got off and raised his hand.\n\nThe officer, after glancing at Lenok and saying something to his subordinates, immediately began to approach him.\n\nLenok, standing in the center of the Legion that had surrounded him from all sides, tilted his head at the sight of the officer’s uniform.\n\n“……Dead Rise.”\n\nThere was only one place that Lenok knew of that could operate a tank unit of this scale and pour down a bombardment of this scale on a military base.\n\nThe location coordinates of the Legion headquarters that he had visited before the parade. The Legion, which was still maintaining its power even after the entire military base had turned into ghouls.\n\nDead Rise had directly intervened and incinerated all the ghouls trapped in the military base.\n\nLenok, stepping on the cigar he had been holding to put it out, asked in a cold voice.\n\n“I don’t know what the hell is going on right now.”\n\n“……”\n\nThe officer did not answer.\n\nHe just stared at Lenok’s face for a long time with a cold expression that seemed like he wouldn’t bleed even if he was stabbed.\n\nLenok, seeing that, slowly flicked his fingers.\n\n“You need to give a clear answer as to why this happened before the parade. Where was the Legion and what were they doing?”\n\n“……”\n\nWhat did it mean that the Legion’s main force remained intact even after the Legion headquarters was attacked?\n\nWhat did it mean that they had intervened at this point, eliminated the ghouls instead of Lenok, and surrounded Lenok?\n\nIn the worst case, it wouldn’t be strange if he immediately became hostile to the Legion on the spot.\n\nWhioooo!!!\n\nIn the center of the blast zone where the storm of heat was raging, the tense air was endlessly cold.\n\nHowever, the answer from the officer in front of him was something that Lenok had not expected at all.\n\n“Dead Rise 5th Legion Staff Department Brigadier General Riyad Enel.”\n\nThe officer, who had been looking at Lenok without any change in expression, knelt down on the spot and bowed his head.\n\n“I offer my greetings to the new Legion Commander of the 5th Legion first.”\n\n“……What?”