Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1218

Kyunroe Subjugation (10)

The aerial fortress, casting a gloomy glow, darkened the sky outside Balkan.

The air of the battlefield grew heavy as the 3rd Corps Command, Primo Alert, appeared on the outskirts of the massive city.

KU-GU-GU-GU-GU!!!!

From the horizon, tens of thousands of troops advanced, forming ranks and narrowing the front lines.

So many fighters and transport ships filled the sky that it seemed as if the heavens had turned black.

The war clouds hanging over the outer district made the inside of Balkan become uncontrollably chaotic.

[Martial law declared. 27th announcement broadcast.]

[We repeat the announcement. Citizens currently in Balkan’s 58th district, please evacuate immediately.]

[The city government is currently monitoring the outer district, but the connection may be lost at any time…]

[Citizens who have not evacuated, please refer to the location coordinates of the underground facility bunkers and move sequentially…]

BEEEEP! BEEEEP!!

Red warning messages and mechanical announcements echoed from the giant electronic billboards throughout the city.

Advertising airships floating above turned on their warning lights, projecting red letters onto the cloudy sky.

The final message sent to the citizens who remained despite the declaration of martial law and repeated evacuation notices.

The entire outer district was flashing red, visible even from the undeveloped areas outside Balkan.

“Wow… I don’t know why they’re giving such earnest warnings.”

Lenok stood on the deck of the massive mobile fortress with Ermong, watching the scene.

Ermong, who had his hands cupped around his eyes like binoculars, tilted his head.

“Knowing the current situation, isn’t remaining there just wanting to die? I don’t remember the Balkan City Council being such a compassionate group that they would care for those who wish to commit suicide.”

“Are you stupid, or are you just pretending not to know?”

Lenok scoffed.

“Just as the Corps used the recapture of the outer district as a justification for war, the City Council is doing the same. They want to secure at least the minimum justification that they cared for the citizens.”

“Heeeee.”

“Those who remain are probably gangs or outlaws who use the outer district as their base… or mercenaries looking to profit from the chaos. Either way, they’re not worth worrying about.”

WHOOSH!

Lenok, pressing down his shadow robe against the wind, looked at the distant outer district cityscape.

“Rather, that announcement is proof that the City Council will not intervene after this time. I don’t know exactly what kind of deal the City Council made with the Corps, but…”

It probably wasn’t much different from the City Council’s position that Lenok had been told.

As Lenok trailed off, Highrea, who had just come up to the deck, spoke.

“There was talk that a senator from the Central Council attended the parade, just as Victor predicted. Judging by how quickly the subjugation war is progressing, we can guess what was discussed.”

“……”

The City Council senator, Conrad Haven, whom Lenok had met before the parade.

He had been waiting for Lenok at the airport in the satellite city of La Haven to go to the parade, and he had conveyed the City Council’s position.

Although he had conveyed the position in a somewhat roundabout way, the City Council’s policy he had mentioned at that time was to remain neutral in this situation.

Given that he had informed Lenok of this fact before the subjugation war began, it was possible to guess which side the City Council wanted to support.

Even so, if the reason they were not intervening in this subjugation war was-

“The City Council probably thinks it won’t suffer much loss no matter who wins. They maintain a decent relationship with Kyunroe, but they weren’t hostile to the Corps even before the Dead Rise advanced to the center.”

Highrea said.

“If Kyunroe wins, they can maintain the item business in the 49th district centered around the Magic Tower, and if the Corps wins, the largest military faction on the central front will join Balkan.”

“I don’t know if they’re naive or just stupid…”

Chebien muttered with a sneer.

“The Corps is the military group that has absorbed the most forces on the central front… Most of the territory they have occupied was war spoils, taken and seized…”

“……”

“How can you so easily assert that the Corps, which has returned after decades, has no intention of swallowing this entire city…?”

“Well, the details of the deal between the City Council and the Corps at the parade are known only to those involved.”

Highrea answered Chebien’s question.

“But based on my experience as a broker in this city, the fact that the City Council isn’t moving means there’s a good reason. It’s either confidence that they can maintain the status quo no matter how the subjugation war ends… or they have something they believe in.”

“Something they believe in?”

“The Dead Rise was once related to the deepest darkness of Balkan.”

Highrea’s expression, as she looked up at the sky, was momentarily hidden.

“If the City Council left a ‘leash’ to control them as insurance… it wouldn’t be that strange, would it?”

“…Highrea.”

Ermong, feeling a faint sense of unease, glanced at her.

“You, about the City Council, you know something-”

“Everyone, that’s enough.”

The Doctor, who was the last to come up to the deck, raised his gaze.

“It’s starting now.”

WHOOSH!!!!!

As assault ships and fighters streaked through the sky, other forces participating in the subjugation war began to appear one by one.

[Blaber Magic Tower’s Heavenly Punishment Unit. Arriving on the battlefield, leading the Flame Majesty Temple.]

KOOOH!!!

The cloudy sky turned red as a huge, blazing temple appeared from beyond the horizon.

Flame giants with their entire bodies on fire moved, carrying the temple on their shoulders, and screamed in agony.

The flames falling from the giants’ bodies melted the ground beneath them, flowing like hot lava.

[Mechanized Corps. Fuel supply complete. Internal combustion engines activated. Engineering Fortress open.]

CHIIIIK!!!

A massive internal combustion engine, equipped with thousands of exhaust ports and spewing smoke, appeared, shaking the ground.

The ancient weapon, which served as both a giant engine and a mobile fortress, spewed fuel, beginning to supply power to the mechanical soldiers.

Creatures that had been modified with machines all over their bodies, having almost lost their human forms, such as mechanical centipedes, scorpions, or monsters with pipes stuck in their backs, breathed roughly.

[5th Seat of the Ability Awakening Corps, Esteban Eisen. Now answering the call of the throne and engaging in the great battle.]

WHOOOM…!!

A sleek white airship appeared silently from the void, accompanied by strange ripples.

Its mere presence interfered with the surrounding space, creating a mental network and expanding the senses and consciousness.

At the same time, the psychics accompanying the Corps’ main force began to tremble, rolling their eyes and having seizures.

The Blaber Magic Tower’s war weapon and super-large spell weapon, the Flame Majesty Temple.

The masterpiece of the Machina Mechanized Corps, the living internal combustion engine, the Engineering Fortress.

The ritual weapon only allowed to be used by the 10 Seats of the Ability Awakening Corps. The special airship, Nohwa.

A withered sapling that seemed to have been brought by the Druids. A pure white makeshift altar, led by the clergy, followed behind.

Superhumans and inhuman monsters, gathered around each force’s war weapons, took their positions on one side of the front line and began to prepare.

They surrounded the outskirts, drawing up magic power and beginning their incantations.

Spell weapons and artifacts began to activate from all directions, shooting barrier formations and spell formations into the sky.

“Opening the Six Thousand Armaments. Summoning the Three Thousand Flame God Gates.”

[Parallel construction of vacuum magic amplification mechanized process.]

[Avatar El Tara. Batamirya Aeon.]

“Expanding the ritual domain. Constructing a collective mental network. Initiating ability amplification magic.”

KU-GWA-GWA-GWA-GWA-GWA!!!!!

A circular spell formation, thousands of meters in diameter, was engraved in the cloudy sky and began to rotate.

Hemispherical barriers fell like parachutes between the Corps forces that had formed the front line, setting up axes on the ground.

Transparent barriers and shields spread out to a width and height of tens of meters, creating barricades.

“Activating spell weapons. Viewing the Illybatara Ten Gates.”

“Atmosphere barrier installation complete. Forward deployment at 30 km/h!!”

[Expanding the transmutation ritual formation. May the blessings of the gods be upon this battlefield.]

PA-BA-BA-BA-BAT!!

WHOOSH…!!

The Flame Majesty Temple rotated violently, summoning and launching a series of flaming cannons into the sky.

The Corps’ tanks, which had been supplied with fuel around the Engineering Fortress, were undergoing real-time modifications and reinforcements.

The mental network spread around the Corps’ Nohwa and the blessings of the clergy poured down alternately, transforming the battlefield.

Super-large area spells and blessings, applied to the entire tens of thousands of troops, unfolded in succession, raining down light in all directions.

Large-scale barriers and spell formations, designed solely for war, which a single mage could not even attempt, and would never have the chance to use in their lifetime, floated into the sky and altered space-time.

“Military spells developed thoroughly for war.”

Ermong, standing on the deck of the mobile fortress, whistled as he looked up at the light of the vast spell formations that had instantly covered the sky.

“It brings back a lot of old memories. In the past, those kinds of spell formations in the sky never disappeared.”

“Ah, that’s right.”

The Doctor, who had been leaning against one side of the deck, looking at the operation system, said as if he had just remembered.

“Come to think of it, Ermong, wasn’t the era you lived in around that time?”

“There were fewer high-ranking superhumans than now, but wars themselves were much more frequent.”

Ermong said leisurely.

“Before city-states were established in each continent like now, there was a time when invasion and conquest were rampant throughout the continent.”

“……”

“It seems there haven’t been any major wars since the holy war caused by the clergy. It’s okay to reminisce for a bit here-”

“By the way, seeing it with my own eyes, it’s a huge scale.”

Sarin, who had neatly ignored Ermong’s nonsense, said.

The vampire’s red eyes, as she sat on the edge of the deck, swinging her legs and looking up at the sky, glowed eerily.

“The Blaber Magic Tower’s firepower. Machina’s sacred mechanization process. The Druids’ natural rifts. The Corps’ mind expansion techniques… They were all methods that were used so terribly in the past.”

“……”

“Even though high-ranking superhumans have participated, it’s been decades since I’ve seen a war where forces are mobilized on such a large scale.”

“The Corps isn’t just facing Kyunroe in this subjugation war.”

The Doctor said.

“We must also consider the superhumans of the Magic Tower led by Kyunroe… and the existence of mercenary groups and cartels that maintain cooperative relationships. The Corps command is also assuming a group battle.”

“I once fought against their war mercenaries when I stole the Anathema Gauntlet. I’m sure his name was Felix, a beastman…”

Ermong frowned as if recalling a memory.

“He wasn’t comparable to Kyunroe or Maiya, but he was a pretty skilled warrior. If there are such superhumans stationed in the Magic Tower on a large scale, we might need to be concerned?”

“Kyunroe himself is a powerful mage who will go down in history, but since he mainly uses lightning magic, he doesn’t have no weaknesses.”

Highrea said.

“The spell output itself is unrealistically powerful, but the magic consumption is considerable, and the fuel efficiency is poor. Even if it’s a weakness that he can overcome with his own abilities, lightning magic itself isn’t particularly outstanding in terms of sustained firepower or endurance.”

“If the Corps command has come to the same conclusion, they would think it’s meaningful to just push in our forces and induce a war of attrition.”

The Doctor naturally took over Highrea’s words.

His eyes, which had been resting on his chin while looking at the system, sank deeply.

“The important thing is how much the Corps is prepared to ‘consume’ our forces… and whether they will introduce any variables to balance that.”

[The adjustment of magic power and attributes on the battlefield is complete, so the 3rd Corps’ assault force will move immediately.]

BEEP!!

As the system communication network opened, Daymus, who was commanding the Corps from the situation room, spoke.

The Corps Commander, who had been looking at the vast spell formations and blessings that covered the sky with an indifferent gaze, turned his head.

[If we occupy the air and bombard the outer district, we’ll immediately know if the enemy will respond.]

“……”

[Although the 3rd Corps’ forces have decreased, the air force, including assault ships and transport ships, is almost intact, so they will play various roles in the subjugation war.]

KU-GU-GU-GU!!!!

At the same time as a deafening sonic boom echoed, dozens of fighters accelerated through the complex spell formation.

They flew over the outer district at tremendous speed and entered Balkan’s airspace.

[The 5th Air Squadron of the 3rd Corps enters the outer district of Balkan.]

WHOOSH…!!!

At the same time as the pilot transmitted the order in a cold voice, the entire squadron changed direction.

The shockwaves that spread out along with the fighters drew a gentle trajectory, quickly passing over the streets of the outer district.

They dropped hundreds of bombs onto the streets in succession and pressed the detonation button simultaneously.

[Sequentially drop magic incendiary bombs from the point where the city is visible.]

PUH-BUH-BUH-BUH-BUNG!!!!

Following the path of the fighters, white flames exploded in succession, turning the ground into a sea of fire.

Buildings burned and collapsed, and trees and traffic lights evaporated without a trace.

A wall of white flames rose, dividing the outer district in two, turning everything beneath it to ashes.

KWA-GWA-GWA-GWA-GWA!!!!

[Artillery Unit Activated. Spirit Summoning Formation Deployment Initiated.]

As soon as the Blaber Magic Tower confirmed the outer district of Balkan was engulfed in flames, it began to move.

Using the raging fire in the middle of the heat-filled city as the border of its magic circle, it began its incantation.

The moment the Flame Authority Temple assisted the mages’ incantation, adding their will and expanding the spell’s output and range.

Flaming giants began to rise from the burning city, letting out low roars.

[GWOO-AAAHHHH…!!!]

A burning legion that endlessly regenerates and multiplies as long as the Flame Authority Temple exists.

The fiery army, with lava-like flames dripping from their bodies, began to advance.

KU-GU-GU-GU…!!!!

[Entry Route Secured. 1st Patrol Battalion of the 2nd Corps Entering.]

[Summoning Squad of the 8th Corps Moves to Provide Rear Support.]

The patrol, fully armed with the latest equipment, took the lead, clearing the path and securing visibility.

Summoned birds and bat familiars, called forth by the summoners, flew through the ash storm, seeing through blind spots.

They traversed the collapsed outer district airspace, installing cameras and sharing information with the system.

[West Defense Line Cleared. Vanguard Flame Division Moving North, Checking for Survivors.]

[South Barrier Line Collapse Complete. Engineering Company of the 4th Corps Entering.]

[North Evacuation Route Secured. Blaber Magic Tower Grenadiers Moving.]

PA-BA-BA-BAT!!!

The field of vision expanded at an incredible speed across the system screen.

An operation system that observes and transmits the battlefield situation in real-time, regardless of time or place.

Combining the screens of thousands of installed cameras to create a massive 3D stereoscopic map.

“13th Patrol Battalion moving north. 4th Company on standby for rear supply.”

“After aerial resupply of the assault forces is complete, completely secure the airspace of the outer district.”

Support troops from other corps arrived one after another from all directions of the secured outer district.

The elite forces of the Magic Tower and the vanguard joined, breaking through blocked paths and smashing obstacles that appeared to be barricades.

Daymus did not take his eyes off the hundreds of screens moving in real-time from all directions.

“Bridge installed. Barricades dismantled. Secure a path for the tank units to move.”

“Simultaneously with the completion of the installation, activate the internal engraving barrier to expand the range of the war spell.”

“Drop bunkers near the city. Move immediately after the engineering corps finishes their work.”

KU-GU-GU-GU-GUNG!!!!

Hundreds of superhumans who were not affected by the allied bombardment from the sky, relentlessly securing the outer district.

Their actions and judgments were without any hesitation, as if they had been training for this moment for a long time.

Their movements were as if they had practiced the operation of securing and capturing the nearby city several times through simulations.

However, Daymus’s expression was still stiff with undisguised tension.

“Why aren’t you making a move… Kyunroe?”

The corps commander, who had been staring at the screen without blinking, muttered in an anxious voice.

“Where are you right now?”

“Victor, what do you think?”

At the same time, the doctor, who was sitting on the deck, turned his gaze towards Lenok.

“If you’ve fought Kyunroe directly, you’d know that he wouldn’t give up his battlefield so easily.”

“……”

“That mage, who has killed countless transcendents, must have prepared an alternative for the subjugation battle. So, what do you think is the reason he hasn’t moved yet?”

“I don’t know why you’re asking me that.”

Lenok coldly sneered, pressing down on his obsidian mask.

Inside his shadow robe, Lenok moved the glass-colored gauntlet on his left arm and said,

“I only faced Kyunroe once during the Anathema incident. And that was just a moment when I was stealing the gauntlet and running away, so I’m not in a position to add anything about him.”

“……”

“Above all, I don’t know how dangerous Kyunroe is as an ‘enemy.’ If I had to say, this place is also to confirm that, but…”

Lenok’s red eyes flashed from inside the mask as he muttered.

“Either way, it’s probably not as normal as I thought.”

The existence of a manifestation body that has reached the boundary of level 9 and projects the rampaging electric magic as it is.

In a way, it is a manifestation of power that retains Kyunroe’s identity as much as Lenok himself.

Something that not only does not receive Lenok’s control, but also rampages and inflates its output and will on its own.

From the point when the connection with the manifestation body was temporarily severed by feeding it the fruit of Jinwa, it is impossible to be sure how the manifestation body will respond to this situation.

However, since Lenok has prepared something, he is just thinking that the manifestation body will follow that flow.

Even though his judgment and talent may be lacking compared to Lenok, the magnitude of his power itself is another Kyunroe who has reached the boundary of level 9.

What it means for Lenok himself to face Kyunroe, who holds the cause and effect of the lightning he has built up so far.

How powerful Kyunroe is as a transcendent when met as an ‘enemy.’

In this subjugation battle, which targets only Kyunroe, it will be clearly confirmed.

“Not in a normal state… that’s a very interesting thing to say.”

The doctor muttered, stroking his chin.

His expression, as he quietly repeated Lenok’s words, was unusually full of curiosity.

“Indeed, if that’s the case, then Kyunroe isn’t waiting for the corps, but-”

[Area 58 Cleared!!]

[Supply Route Secured. Base Construction Commences. Compressing the Front Lines.]

[3rd Patrol Battalion. Entering Area 55. Provide Cover.]

As soon as Lenok finished speaking, the capture of the outer district began to be completed one by one.

Cold reports suppressing emotions continued, and the field of vision expanded in real-time.

Hundreds of camera screens widely illuminated the outer district, and finally, a familiar scene began to be captured by the transmission camera in Lenok’s eyes.

[Securing Vision of the Outer Border of Area 49.]

[The Mechanized Corps’ Spirit Cannon Battalion is Joining.]

[Collective Mental Network Activated. Ritual Weapon Summoning. Psychometry Amplification Initiated.]

KIIIIIIIIING!!!!

At the same time as completing the encirclement, the main force of the corps began to move.

The tanks, which had been heating their barrels while supporting themselves, changed their forms, and the superhumans of the mechanized corps raised their magic power.

The psychics of the Ability Awakening Vanguard constructed a mental network and summoned ritual weapons. They took out bizarrely large horns and began to blow them.

BOOOOOOOOOOOO-

The sound of the war horn announcing the start of the battle.

A giant excavator, tens of meters in size, dug into the ground without rest, creating a huge canal next to the battlefield.

Burning meteorites that fell diagonally from outside the city exploded with a roar and became giant fire spirits, opening their eyes.

KU-GU-GU-GU!!!!

[GWOO-AAAHHHH!!!!]

[Summoning Squad of the 8th Corps Preemptively Enters.]

[Projecting the Internal Scenery of Area 49.]

The corps’ patrol units entered at high speed from all directions of the outer district.

The army of fire spirits, endlessly shot out from the Flame Authority Temple, multiplied in number.

The consciousness expanded by the collective mental network inflated the power and spirituality of the spirits, and the mechanized soldiers who had modified their entire bodies followed behind.

They marched forward, trampling through the city without taking any damage in the burning sea of fire.

A giant water phoenix, made entirely of water, accelerated quickly across the sky of the battlefield.

SHUUUUUUUNG!!!!

“This is Townsend. We are about to enter Kyunroe’s domain airspace.”

A faint tension lingered in the eyes of the phoenix as it spread its flowing water wings and accelerated.

Townsend, the commander of the Dead Rise 8th Corps, a lieutenant general. An 8th-level summoner who fused his body with a beast race.

[Lieutenant General Townsend. Remember what your mission is.]

The instructions from the staff headquarters echoed through the communication network.

[Currently, the area around Area 49 cannot be observed using any of the corps’ equipment or spells. The staff headquarters has already assumed that the entire Area 49 has become Kyunroe’s domain.]

“……”

[Your mission is to enter Area 49, observe what form Kyunroe’s domain takes, and assist the subsequent entry of our patrol units. Understood?]

“……Understood. I will do so.”

Townsend is a powerful summoner who can take on various roles by fusing with his summons, making him the corps itself.

From the moment he fuses with his summons, even if Townsend suffers fatal damage, it will only result in the reverse summoning or disappearance of the summons, and the summoner will not die.

That is why he was assigned the role of being the first to enter the still unobserved Area 49, observe Kyunroe’s domain, and return.

Townsend, who was partly responsible for the disturbance at the parade, was assigned that role as a result of several complex situations.

BEEP-BEEP, BEEP-BEEP…!!

[Noise is clearing. Observation of the internal scenery of Area 49 begins.]

“Area 49 airspace entry complete. After observing the corresponding spatial coordinates, I will connect to the communication network for transmission…”

The only beast race summon that Townsend himself possesses, and a water phoenix with a powerful innate ability of the water system.

The transcendent, who was freer than anyone else from the flames of the battlefield, entered the airspace of Area 49 at that moment.

Townsend, who looked down at Area 49 through the eyes of the phoenix, was speechless.

“……This is.”

QUARRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

A huge vortex was rotating throughout Area 49.

Dark blue nebulae spread out in all directions, sparkling and emitting starlight.

A surreal scene as if a part of the scenery of that universe had been taken and brought here, not the space-time of this world.

However, what made Townsend speechless was not just the cosmic scenery that filled his vision.

“Ma, magic power… the entire domain is…!!”

The entire dark blue nebula that covered Area 49 was made entirely of magic power.

As if someone had released their magic power and turned the entire Area 49 into lightning, fragments of lightning that endlessly sparkled and overflowed.

Lightning gathered and concentrated in the center of the rotating nebula, endlessly creating black-blue lightning.

A breathtaking scene as if lightning was being born instead of a star in the nebula called the cradle of stars.

“Ah, ah…!!!! No!!!!!”

Townsend, fused with the water phoenix, realized this and turned his wings, frantically trying to escape.

A tragedy that a level 8 transcendent could not properly accept and refused to recognize, just by briefly seeing it.

[Lieutenant General Townsend. Where are you going!!]

“Ma, the Magic Tower…!!! The tower is rising!!!!”

Townsend shouted roughly.

“No way. The entire Area 49 is…!!!!”

The moment the nebula opened wide as the dark blue lightning that had sprung up from its center soared.

The entire sky of the outer district was dyed with a dark blue darkness, like the void of the outer sea.

KWA-AAAAAAA!!!!

“Ah, ahhh…!!!!”

The moment he faced ‘something’ contained beyond the dark blue nebula, Townsend let out a groan as if he was having a seizure.

Townsend did not even understand what the will and laws contained within were.

He did not even remember his original mission of observing Kyunroe’s domain built in Area 49 and screamed.

At that moment, he was consumed by the fear that surged from the depths of his soul, as if he had witnessed the gods of the sea with his bare body.

Townsend’s memories and consciousness were swept away by the overflowing dark blue lightning and scattered to oblivion.

PAAAT!!

The communication between the patrol units and the staff headquarters surrounding Area 49 became frantic.

[Signal Lost. Lieutenant General Townsend’s signal beacon has been destroyed!!]

[Even though he was fused with his summons, Lieutenant General Townsend is dead…?!]

[Impossible. Are you saying he was annihilated along with his summons!!]

[The ground is shaking. Mana resonance at a depth of level 19…!!]

KU-GU-GU-GU!!!!

The turbulent black-blue nebula rotated, piercing through all directions and exploding violently, scattering.

The entire Area 49 shook violently, thrashing as if it would collapse everything standing on two feet.

Townsend, an 8th-level summoner who was fused with his summons, died instantly after entering Kyunroe’s domain.

The moment the patrol units, pale-faced, looked up at the sky at the intense resonance that followed.

[The sky… is opening.]

[No way. That’s Kyunroe’s…!!!]

From within the split nebula, a huge golden sphere exploded and soared into the sky, rotating gracefully.

KWA-AAAAAAANG!!!!!!