Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1219

“Kki-ki-ki-ki……!!!”\n\n”Kkeueeeeee!!!”\n\nThud!! Thud!!\n\nBats and avian summons, their eyes bloodshot, shrieked madly and slammed their heads against the walls.\n\nEven the massive beasts and monstrous summons accompanying the patrol units lost control and rampaged.\n\n”We’re losing them. They’re not listening…!!”\n\n”Lieutenant General Townsend’s summoning contracts with the 8th Corps’ summons have been severed.”\n\nThe officer groaned, listening to the soldier’s panicked voice.\n\n”The medium that could exist in the material realm is gone. It must be a shock close to death for the summons.”\n\n”That means… the Lieutenant General…”\n\n”I can’t believe it. How could Lieutenant General Townsend fall so easily….”\n\nTownsend was an 8th-level summoner, a corps commander who had contracts with multiple summons on his own.\n\nThe moment he died, the summons he had contracts with were swept away by the backlash and began to be reverse-summoned.\n\nThe shock was affecting even other summons on the battlefield that were not contracted to Townsend.\n\nA key figure of the Dead Rise Corps. A great sorcerer who had transcended levels by reaching the 8th level.\n\nThe shocking result was that the powerful summoner, who was supposed to be the spearhead of the corps, died instantly upon entering Kyunroe’s domain.\n\nHowever, those participating in the subjugation battle were not even given time to mourn Townsend’s death.\n\nKU-GU-GU-GU-GU!!!!\n\nThe massive golden sphere that had risen into the sky above the outer district of Balkan.\n\nThe moment they faced the sphere that had surged up like an explosion, wrapped in the dark blue nebula flooding Area 49, everyone realized one thing.\n\nThe single target that the superhuman forces, gathered around the corps, were aiming for in this subjugation battle.\n\nDaymus, his face pale and stiff, raised his gaze and said,\n\n”That is… Kyunroe’s magic tower.”\n\nOooooooooh!!!!\n\nThe sphere, scattering brilliant golden lightning, rotated gracefully.\n\nIts size, spanning hundreds of meters in radius, was comparable to the 3rd Corps Command’s aerial fortress, Primo Alert.\n\nThe majestic sight of it simply rising into the sky, obscuring part of the outer district and casting a golden shadow on the ground.\n\nBeyond the dark blue nebula wrapped around the dazzling golden sun, lightning flashed beautifully like starlight, even making those who watched it marvel.\n\nThose who were briefly drawn to the unattainable beauty, like stars in the night sky, belatedly regained their senses, and the communication network became as noisy as if it would explode.\n\n[Kyunroe has begun to respond!!!]\n\n[All corps, prepare for interception. Target the sphere in the sky!]\n\n[Open the spell weapon. Redirect the war magic formation. Prepare to fire!]\n\n[This can’t be. How could Lieutenant General Townsend…!!!!!]\n\nWoo-woo-woo-woong!!!!!\n\nThe strategic magic formation, thousands of meters in size, etched into the cloudy sky, slowly changed direction.\n\nThe light of blessing pouring down from all directions turned ominous, and an intangible barrier rose sharply.\n\nThe Engineium Fortress spewed smoke, and the fireballs pouring from the Flame Temple added to the firepower.\n\nA tense atmosphere as war weapons spanning hundreds of meters across the battlefield increased their output as if they were about to move at any moment.\n\n”Lieutenant General Townsend was the most resilient special force among the corps’ generals.”\n\nDaymus, who was watching the battlefield from the situation room, turned his gaze with a stiff expression.\n\n”From the moment he fused with a phantom beast, he existed simultaneously in the material and spiritual realms, partially gaining immunity to death. For such a general to die instantly from Kyunroe’s lightning….”\n\n”It is presumed to be the effect of a lightning spell mixed with a ‘death’ related property change [a magical effect that alters the fundamental nature of a spell].”\n\nThe staff officers said with stiff expressions.\n\n”A high-dimensional mystery that simultaneously captures and annihilates beings in the real and spiritual realms… or a spell mixed with the concept of instant death.”\n\n”He wields a power that even an 8th-level summoner cannot understand. We must avoid a short-term battle at all costs….”\n\n”He is the monster who directly faced and defeated the Thousand Times [a reference to a previous battle or event]. We must pour in our forces as planned and induce a war of attrition.”\n\n”That’s right. But….”\n\nThe fact that Kyunroe would have prepared measures for the subjugation battle was something the staff department had predicted.\n\nUsing his magic tower as a weapon was not an entirely unthinkable method.\n\nWhat they had not predicted was the shape of the magic tower and the power of the dark blue nebula that enveloped it.\n\nIt might be information that could be confirmed once they engaged in direct combat-\n\nNevertheless, Daymus felt an unknown, eerie sense of unease as he looked at the strange golden sphere.\n\n”Even using the system’s measurements, it can’t be measured. How strong is the spatial distortion… ?”\n\nBeep, beep-beep…!!\n\nNow that the corps had seized the outer district, there were no limits to the information that could be confirmed through the operation system.\n\nIf necessary, it was even possible to precisely measure and record a single speck of dust in a city dozens of kilometers away.\n\nHowever, even though Kyunroe’s magic tower was within the system’s observation range, its size and width could not be measured at all.\n\nEvidence that the size and area of the magic tower were unrealistically vast compared to what was visible.\n\nIt meant that the spatial distortion inside the magic tower was also affecting the tower’s appearance.\n\n”That was the countermeasure Kyunroe was preparing for the subjugation battle.”\n\nHairea, who was watching the situation from the deck of the mobile fortress, said with a hint of admiration.\n\n”Did he use the entire Area 49 as his domain to replenish his mana and then create a strategic weapon capable of waging war?”\n\n”Judging by the power I feel, it’s certain that he used part of the magic tower… no, is that itself Kyunroe’s new magic tower….”\n\n”If it’s a magic tower that moves and fights, it’s highly likely that it was influenced by Thorben’s war magic tower. Let’s take a look.”\n\nThe doctor narrowed his eyes and muttered.\n\nUnknown numbers appeared on the lenses of his glasses, and he began to analyze the golden sphere in real time.\n\n”Based on the uncertainty of mana particles, it exists simultaneously as mass in multiple dimensions. It’s trying to force changes in the realm of concepts beyond the material aspect.”\n\n”U-Uncer… what did you say?”\n\n”The reason why its specifications cannot be measured is because it’s playing tricks by being observed simultaneously in different dimensions… If so, it might be practically meaningless to estimate when it was created.”\n\n”Damn it, can’t you explain it in a way that’s easier to understand?”\n\n”The reason it appeared late on the battlefield is because it took time to change the shape of the tower and lift it up.”\n\nSarin, ignoring Ermong’s words, naturally took over the doctor’s explanation.\n\nHer red eyes flashed with a sinister crimson light, and she began to stare directly at the shape of the golden sphere.\n\nUsing her unique vampire vision to pierce through mana and light sources, she looked into the sphere and said,\n\n”Although it’s hidden by the nebula, there are intricate cracks all over the surface of the sphere. It looks like the entire tower isn’t a unified material, but rather made by assembling various parts.”\n\n”Indeed, that’s what it looks like. But there’s no consistency in the patterns of the joints on the surface… It seems like there’s a specific intention….”\n\nA strange shape that seemed to have been created by assembling countless parts into a massive golden sphere.\n\nHowever, its appearance was not a regular one, like a puzzle made by assembling pieces of uniform size and joints.\n\nA strange sense of unease, as if the final form had been harmoniously shaped by fitting together randomly shaped parts.\n\nHairea, realizing the nature of that unease, muttered,\n\n”Doesn’t it look like… something is crouching?”\n\n”……”\n\nA strange shape that was crouching and concealing its own form, as if it were about to hatch from an egg.\n\nThe moment those who had sensed something from Hairea’s words fell silent, Kyunroe moved.\n\nKU-GU-GU-GU!!!!\n\nThe golden sphere, wrapped in the dark blue nebula, slowly began to move forward, leaving the airspace above Area 49.\n\nA majestic figure that effortlessly crossed the outer district adjacent to Area 49 and advanced towards the airspace seized by the corps.\n\nThe corps side, recognizing the anomaly, immediately took action.\n\n[Stop it!!!!]\n\n[Prevent Kyunroe from leaving Area 49!!]\n\nThe patrol units under the 2nd Corps rushed into the bunkers they had built, and the reconnaissance aircraft of the 3rd Corps accelerated in the sky.\n\nFlame spirits summoned from the Blaber Magic Tower and the modified weapons of the mechanized corps took the lead in establishing a non-human barrier.\n\nThey began to pour firepower towards the golden sphere entering the airspace of the outer district.\n\nKwa-gwa-gwa-gwa!!!!\n\nMissiles accelerated along the trajectories of bombers and fighters, falling onto the sphere.\n\nFlame spirits that relentlessly spewed fire, and beam weapons of the corps that emitted powerful heat sources.\n\n[Mueo-eo-eo…!!]\n\nA tree giant summoned by a druid stretched its branches towards the magic tower, and the collective mental network of the vanguard suppressed the operation of thoughts.\n\nHowever, Kyunroe’s magic tower did not respond to the preemptive attacks pouring down on it.\n\nInstead, it simply passed through them all without even acknowledging them.\n\nThe dark blue nebula, overflowing around the golden sphere, immediately swallowed the entire outer district.\n\nKwaaaaaaaaah-\n\nThere was no explosion, no roar, no loud noise or screams.\n\nThe moment they touched the dark blue nebula, everything in the outer district was shattered and reduced to mana.\n\n”Th-That’s….”\n\nPas-sus-sus-sus!!!!\n\nAirplanes and transport ships flying in the sky scattered into dust before they even touched the golden sphere.\n\nFlame spirits with their entire bodies on fire, modified weapons of the mechanized corps, and special forces of the vanguard with innate abilities.\n\nEverything, including the corps patrol units, engineers, transport units, and bunkers, disappeared into a handful of dust.\n\nHwaaaah!!\n\nThe ability to dismantle and decompose all matter it touches simply by existing, turning it into power.\n\nThe commanders in the situation room, watching the scene in real time, were shocked.\n\nThey had been active on the central front for a long time, and they knew of transcendents with such powers.\n\n”Is it decomposing matter into lightning!”\n\n”This can’t be. That’s Thorben’s magic tower lord…!!”\n\n”No, it’s a little different.”\n\nDaymus said calmly.\n\n”It’s not decomposing matter into lightning, but rather converting it into pure mana. It has already reached the extreme of property change [a magical effect that alters the fundamental nature of a spell].”\n\n”That’s impossible. It’s not extracting mana, so how…!!”\n\n”Is it possible for a human to use property change in such a way?”\n\n”Such a thing is impossible unless it’s a god….”\n\nThe moment Daymus and even his subordinate commanders realized the truth and fell silent.\n\nThe golden sphere, having ground down everything that approached it, floated leisurely out of the outer district.\n\nShuuuuuung…!!!!\n\nThe forces of the allied army, forming a line to the end of the horizon and surrounding the undeveloped district.\n\nA force of tens of thousands, encircling the entire outer district starting from Area 49 to prevent it from escaping.\n\nThe sphere, having risen into the sky where the forces of the subjugation battle could be clearly seen, rotated in place and stirred.\n\nKiiiiiiing…!!!\n\nWith a sharp resonance, the center of the sphere resonated, and the dark blue lightning flashed within it.\n\nThe will of ‘something’ echoed heavily like thunder across the horizon.\n\n[■■ ■■■.]\n\nJjeo-eo-eo-eo-eong!!!!\n\n”……!!!”\n\nThe moment they heard the transmission echoing through the sphere, the expressions of the superhumans on the battlefield changed drastically.\n\nThe Six Harmonies Transmission [a technique that uses mana resonance to transmit thoughts or power], which detonated by resonating mana. The power contained in the will had reached an incomprehensible realm.\n\nThe thought felt through the lightning mana that pierced the eardrums and penetrated the senses was only one.\n\nA dangerous will of destruction that was endlessly burning, running wild, and trying to annihilate everything.\n\n[■■■■ ■■ ■■ ■■■■.]

“Kuh…!!!”\n\n”No way. What kind of will is this…!!!”\n\n”Has he already become something other than human?”\n\nEven as they tried to speak, their words devolved into unclear noise.\n\nIt wasn’t language, but only the will and mana within that they could vaguely perceive.\n\nThe will felt through the mana was so erratic and chaotic, it was closer to that of a monster or beast than a human.\n\nThe will of a mad mage, filled only with madness and a ferocious roar, devoid of any trace of reason.\n\nEven though it was clear that he was so insane he couldn’t even form words, let alone convey his intentions, he was ‘aware’ of the legion.\n\nThat incomprehensible, eerie sense of incongruity spread throughout the legion, chilling their blood.\n\n[■■ ■■■ ■■■ ■■ ■■■ ■■.]\n\n”Uwaaaagghh!!!”\n\n”H-Heok… No, this is…!!”\n\n”Great Lord, please…!!”\n\nThe superhumans of the vanguard, who were in resonance with the consciousness of the Fortress, vomited and clutched their heads.\n\nFor those with innate abilities sensitive to the workings of consciousness and will, the madness of a transcendent being was unbearable, even for a moment.\n\nJust by hearing the transmission, they felt as if they were being consumed by the mage’s madness, losing their grip on consciousness and teetering on the brink of insanity.\n\nThe more they resonated with the rampaging will of the monster, the more they felt the urge to tear their throats out and commit suicide.\n\n”Truly a demon…”\n\n”He is no longer even human.”
\nThe high-ranking mages of the Blaver Magic Tower, who had been observing the situation with pale faces, sighed.\n\n”This is… it’s over. He’s completely insane.”
\n”There was a reason why he only revealed himself now… He was already this broken.”
\n”It’s no wonder the previous Tower Lord was injured, trying to face such a monster.”
\n[Logic circuit error. Algorithm error.]\n\n[Access failed. Parallel construction of thought circuits. Damage response sequence activated.]\n\nKugugugugu!!!\n\nCrack, crackle-\n\nThe transmission, intertwined with the rampaging will of destruction, became a tangible force, crushing and pressing down on everything that moved by that will alone.\n\nMages, their faces pale from the overwhelming spiritual pressure, gasped for breath, and the mechanical soldiers, their bodies modified, sparked and malfunctioned.\n\n”All artillery units under the command of the entire legion, concentrate all available firepower and commence bombardment,” Daymus said, his voice suppressing his agitation.\n\n”The opponent is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It has been confirmed that there is no room for dialogue. We will proceed with subjugation.”
\n[Executing command.]\n\nBuaaaaaaaaaaang!!!!\n\nThe war magic circles, thousands of meters in size, hanging in the sky, rotated in unison and aimed at the golden sphere.\n\nFrom all directions, self-propelled guns, fully loaded, aimed at the golden sphere and drew up mana.\n\nBlessings and enhancement spells poured down like rain over the intangible barrier that slanted across the horizon.\n\nBehind the shadow of the stately rotating Primo Alert, hundreds of fighters soared, breaking the sound barrier.\n\nKiiiiiiing!!!!\n\nThe military chaplains of the Order chanted prayers, and the druids recited spells.\n\nThe command headquarters’ cannons, the mobile fortresses of the 7th Legion, the assault battleships of the 3rd Legion, and the siege tanks of the 2nd Legion.\n\nThe core weapons of each legion ignited their engines as if they had been waiting, and drew up their firepower.\n\n[Firearm 45 manifested. Flame Projectile Loading deployed.]\n\n[Collective mental network overload initiated. Phase domain expansion. Private Eye opened.]\n\n[Particle acceleration wave focusing rounds loaded. Mechanized corps cannon modification complete.]\n\nMages aboard the Flame Majesty Shrine raised a giant meteor made of blazing flames.\n\nIn the phase domain of the collective mental network implemented by the ability users of Nung-hwa, an ominous eye, created by mixing innate abilities, floated up.\n\nThe modified weapons of the Engineum Fortress combined and fused their parts, focusing energy.\n\nThey flooded the horizon with different waves of light.\n\n”We will intercept and bring down the Fortress of Fortitude from this spot.”
\n[Fire.]\n\n[Chanting complete. Commencing fire.]\n\n[In the name of the Great Lord!!]\n\n[Oooooooo!!!]\n\nKuoohhhhhhhhh!!!!\n\nAn endless wave of light surged from outside Balkan, engulfing the Fortress of Fortitude.\n\nThousands of projectiles, slanted from the sky, rotated sharply, burning through space and falling like a meteor shower.\n\nSpace-time, unable to withstand the mass and heat, was crushed and distorted, scattering a sinister haze that could not be observed with the naked eye.\n\nKwaaa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa!!!!!!\n\nA preemptive strike launched by mobilizing the artillery units of more than four legions, magic towers, ability-awakened vanguards, and mechanized corps.\n\nA crossfire that exceeded its limits, enough to erase a medium-sized city from the map.\n\nIt was a barrage unleashed by tens of thousands of superhumans, pushing their mental images and wills to their limits.\n\nNo matter how powerful the Fortress of Fortitude was, it would not be able to withstand a war of attrition with the legion.\n\nThe moment everyone watching the battlefield reached the same conclusion and stared at the golden sphere.\n\nA faint flash of lightning rose above the Fortress of Fortitude floating in the sky.\n\n[■■ ■■.]\n\nPajik!!\n\nThe dark blue lightning flowed along the surface of the golden sphere.\n\nThe mana used to create the lightning was only a fraction compared to the legion’s crossfire pouring from the sky.\n\nA faint sign that only the members of the Underworld or the high-ranking generals of the legion could notice.\n\nHowever, the mage ‘contained’ within that golden sphere did not draw out any more mana than that.\n\nInstead, he only began to focus the dark blue nebula rotating around the golden sphere in one place.\n\nKugugugugugu!!!!\n\nKwaaaaaaaa!!!!\n\nAround the golden sphere floating in the sky above the outer district, a dark blue nebula rotated counterclockwise and gathered.\n\nA bizarre shape as if the entire nebula in all directions was being sucked in, revolving around the Fortress of Fortitude.\n\nPajik, pajijijik…!!!!\n\nAt the center of the nebula, which was being focused and compressed in real time, dark blue lightning flared even more fiercely.\n\nJust the prelude to the birth of dark blue lightning within the nebula caused all the electronic devices in the area to malfunction.\n\n[Communication, error- system shut-]\n\n[Mechanized ■■. Logic circuit runaway. ■■. ■■■-]\n\n[How can he use EMP without even using spells@$#%@$#%!!!!]\n\nJijik, jijijik!!!!\n\nThe communication network was cut off with static, and all kinds of electronic equipment were powered down.\n\nThe soldiers of the mechanized corps rolled their eyes back, convulsed, and collapsed, uttering unknown screams.\n\nA powerful EMP [Electromagnetic Pulse] that could paralyze and shatter the logic circuits of the mechanized corps, whose bodies had been modified.\n\nThe moment Daymus realized that it was only a ‘prelude’ generated by compressing the nebula.\n\nThe golden sphere, for the first time, chanted a clear incantation with a definite meaning, not an inhuman transmission.\n\nElectric-type unique magic\n\nProperty change runaway manifestation\n\nDestiny’s Scales: Extreme Art 5\n\nIt was a magic that anyone who knew about the Fortress of Fortitude had heard of at least once.\n\n’Skewed Lightning,’ which the Fortress of Fortitude often used in battles.\n\nDesigned to maximize its penetrating power but only exert its power at close range.\n\nThe moment the electric magic, which was not suitable for a battlefield that required such a wide-area barrage, finished chanting along the surface of the tower.\n\nThe dark blue lightning that had rotated around the golden sphere descended as a real magic.\n\n[Fluttering Lightning]\n\nFlash!!\n\nThere was no sound.\n\nIt was just that the dark blue lightning, which had manifested at an incredible speed, swept through everything before it could even be imprinted on the naked eye.\n\nThe lightning accelerated and rotated along the ground and airspace of the outer district that the legion’s patrol had cleared.\n\nAs if increasing its power while gaining speed along the front lines, the dark blue lightning gracefully illuminated the world.\n\nThe dark blue light that flashed around the golden sphere swallowed the entire horizon.\n\n[Retreat!! Retreat!!!]\n\n[No, it’s already too late-!!]\n\n[Save me. Sa…!!!!]\n\nPaahhhhhh!!!!\n\nHundreds of fighters flying at supersonic speeds vanished on the spot.\n\nTanks that had been heating their barrels and pounding the ground at high speed evaporated and disappeared.\n\nThe bombardment and spells falling from the sky were sucked into the lightning and disappeared, and an even greater power took their place.\n\nThe moment everything that had been surrounding the outer district and dominating the space until just now was evaporated.\n\nA huge curtain of death descended along the lightning that swept across the horizon of the undeveloped area.\n\nKugugugugugugu…!!!\n\nKwaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!\n\nThe lightning of Fluttering Lightning, which swept across the horizon where the main force of the legion was lined up, from end to end, in a single moment.\n\nImmediately after, huge pillars of lightning, following the trajectory where the dark blue lightning had descended, rose sequentially, burning through space-time.\n\nA huge curtain made of dark blue lightning exploded and rose, obscuring the horizon, and in that instant, everything was evaporated.\n\nDaymus, who was watching the scene, quietly muttered.\n\n”…This can’t be.”
\nA single spell.\n\nThe plan to gradually seize the outer district by deploying friendly forces, narrowing the front lines, and forcing a war of attrition.\n\nA single response that nullified all the attempts that the legion command had planned and carried out so far.\n\nA massacre of a scale that Daymus had never seen in his life, unbelievable even when witnessed with his own eyes.\n\nScreams and cries were echoing madly through the communication network.\n\n[Kkyaaaaaaak!!! Aaaaaaak!!!]\n\n[Three flight squadrons under the 3rd Legion annihilated!!! Contact lost with the 8th Legion’s summoning squad!!]\n\n[40% loss of the Dead Rise Legion’s main tank unit. The front line is collapsing!!]\n\n[Half of the Magic Tower’s anti-war unit is down!!! Deploy the medical team right now…]\n\n[Collective mental network damaged. Consciousness domain reduced. Will minimize the backlash.]\n\n[Retreat!! Retreat!! Survivors, fall back and reorganize the ranks!!!!]\n\nThere were no corpses, no blood, no acrid smell, and no roar.\n\nIt just erased the space where the legion’s subordinate units were located and filled that space with a maddened murderous intent.\n\nOnly the communication network, which had fallen into chaos in an instant, and the shock transmitted through consciousness proved what had happened.\n\nThe moment Daymus, who had turned his gaze blankly, realized that nearly half of the signal devices had been completely lost.\n\n”Spell output unmeasurable. Observation speed 0 due to space-time division. Confirmation of the manifestation of a strategic-level asymmetric spell that captures the entire outer district…”\n\nThe adjutant standing behind him muttered blankly, as if he couldn’t believe it.\n\n”Half of the main force of the Dead Rise Legion that participated in the subjugation battle… annihilated.”
\nThud.\n\nThe communicator that Daymus was holding rolled and fell to the floor.