Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1229

Kyunroe Subjugation (21)

Kwaaaaaang!!!!

Dark blue lightning flashed, filling the gate and part of the corridor as it surged forth.

Each time the house-sized hammer swung, the shockwaves rippled out, sweeping across the ground.

“Uwaaaaaaak!!”

Errmong, who had been fleeing madly, tumbled across the floor, gasping for breath.

Daymus, too, struggled to turn his gaze, forcibly heightening his suppressed will.

The Kyunroe’s domain covered the entire Sector 49. The battle had begun in front of the endless labyrinth’s gate.

However, immediately after the engagement began, Daymus was focused solely on escaping from the enemy before him.

“Felix Magart….”

Felix Magart. A member of the Antares Mercenary Corps and a level 7 physical ability user.

Once a war mercenary who was active in the central region, he was one of the key figures in Kyunroe’s magic tower that the military command was wary of.

His martial prowess was not on par with a corps commander, but he was highly respected and had many followers, making him a superhuman targeted for assassination.

Except for Antares himself, the leader of the mercenary corps, there was no reason to hesitate in confronting him, or so the command had judged, but-

Kugugugugugu!!!!!!

The figure of the bird-headed giant, wielding a house-sized lightning hammer and radiating a golden halo.

Emitting an immense will and wrapped in lightning, he possessed an intense and elegant aura, as if blessed by the god of thunder.

The warrior’s presence, shrouded in dark blue lightning and scattering red glints, was already-

“Hoo-ah, phew… Daymus, that thing.”

“Yes. It’s definitely Kyunroe’s lightning.”

Daymus replied weakly to Errmong, who was panting for breath in the suffocating labyrinth.

“The output is different, but the power it holds is similar… If we face it head-on, we’ll probably….”

“Pandemonium.”

Felix, with a golden halo behind him, spoke in a deep voice.

“I thought you would surely come here.”

“…….”

“A heinous criminal group with no chance of redemption, but their abilities were outstanding. You must have somehow survived and reached this point.”

“Ahem, ahem. It’s been a while, Felix. How have you been?”

Errmong, having caught his breath, coughed awkwardly and waved his hand.

“Isn’t this the first time since we met at the Anathema Temple? We had a healthy competition with our gauntlets, based on sportsmanship.”

“…….”

Felix didn’t even bother to respond to Errmong’s nonsense.

He merely stared with heavy eyes at Victor, who stood faintly like a ghost in the distance.

“Well, you know… we were both so busy back then that we didn’t have time to say hello.”

Errmong said with difficulty, shrinking his shoulders at the lowered gaze.

“How about we take some time to get to know each other now-”

“That gauntlet should have originally belonged to Ban.”

Felix muttered, cutting off Errmong’s words.

“It was his legacy, which Ban, who subjugated Anathema, should have rightfully possessed.”

“…….”

“If only I could have done better… we wouldn’t have lost the gauntlet so meaninglessly.”

The gauntlet.

As soon as Daymus heard those words, he understood what Felix was talking about.

The fleeting moment when Victor clashed head-on with Kyunroe while entering the 3rd Command.

The image of the beautiful glass-colored gauntlet that had ‘grasped’ Kyunroe’s lightning at that time.

He knew at a glance that it wasn’t an ordinary item, but was it really a treasure stolen directly from Kyunroe himself?

“Since then, I have never forgotten the defeat I suffered at your hands… not for a single moment.”

By now, Felix’s eyes, looking at Victor, were burning intensely.

“I will make sure to repay that debt today, in this place.”

“Damn it.”

Errmong muttered with a crumpled expression.

“There was no room for negotiation from the start, and I went and made useless flattery-”

Jjeoooooong!!!!

In an instant, the cross-section of a house-sized hammer appeared where Errmong had been standing.

With a tremendous roar, Errmong was sent flying and crashed into the far side of the chamber.

A blow so intense and deadly that Daymus’s face changed drastically. In the blink of an eye, Errmong’s body was a bloody mess.

“Cough, cough…!! Uweeek…!!”

“Pandemonium.”

Felix turned his gaze with piercing eyes, leaving Errmong, who was coughing up black blood.

“Don’t even think about leaving this labyrinth alive.”

“Victor…!!!”

Daymus shouted, forcibly rotating the magic power that had become stiff since entering the labyrinth.

“We’ll take care of this one. You go to the gate first-”

Bwoong-!!!

Before he could finish speaking, Felix turned around, and Daymus leaned his upper body back.

At the same time as the house-sized hammer was brought down, dark blue lightning flashed faintly.

Immediately after, a powerful shockwave wrapped in lightning exploded, violently shaking the chamber.

Ppeoooeeoong!!!

“Ugh…!!!”

His vision flickered, and thunder crushed his senses, pushing Daymus backward.

Even though the hammer was swung without properly aiming, he felt an oppressive weight crushing his insides.

“Cough!! Daymus… are you crazy…?”

Errmong, covered in blood, muttered in disbelief as he watched Daymus tumbling on the floor.

“Victor has the gauntlet. Why are we, who haven’t even touched the gauntlet, facing a furious monster?”

“Among us… Victor has the most outstanding formulaic aptitude and talent… Ugh!!”

Daymus retched and pulled up his magic power.

His gaze, looking at the gate floating in the center of the chamber, sank deeply.

“The golden arch that Felix is guarding. It’s not just a connection point of the tower. It’s probably one of the gates leading to the center of this labyrinth.”

“…….”

“But even though I’m looking at it right in front of me, I can’t figure out how it works… If analyzing it requires formulaic capabilities, then Victor is the only one who can find a way.”

“Hey, I was also a pretty good black magician in the past….”

“We need to hurry if we want to reach the center of the domain before Kyunroe. While Victor moves, we’ll keep Felix occupied here.”

Daymus ignored Errmong’s protest and took off his glove, raising his hand.

“I’ll… start first.”

Chwaak!!

Five rings connected by chains were on Daymus’s fingers.

As he rotated the gems on the rings, the chains that had been binding them came undone, and they slipped off.

At the same time as Daymus’s bare hand was revealed, magic power began to rotate around his hand.

Errmong, who was watching from behind, tilted his head.

“There was a reason why the corps commander could enter Pandemonium. What kind of bizarre ability is that?”

“I thought you, who use the body of Zaun Odis, would recognize it right away?”

The moment Daymus flicked his finger, a diamond emitting a transparent glow floated in the air.

“It’s gem formulaic magic.”

Jjeoooooong!!!

A barrier with the structure of a diamond unfolded, blocking Felix’s hammer.

Felix’s red magic power and the barrier exploded and scattered around the point of impact.

Amidst the fragments falling like rain, Felix, Errmong, and Daymus began to move simultaneously.

“Run!!”

“Hek, hek…!!”

Kwang!!

Dudududu!!!!

Forcing himself to get up in the labyrinth where even breathing was difficult, he threw himself to Felix’s sides.

Following Errmong, who was rolling on the floor, Felix’s hammer fell repeatedly as if catching moles.

The pillars of shockwaves wrapped in lightning surged up one after another, unleashing a deafening roar.

Errmong, who barely managed to avoid the hammer by sliding, engraved ancient characters on the floor with black magic.

“I, I’m alive!! Black magic activation!!”

A barely visible, bizarrely distorted cursive script.

As the black-stained magic circle unfolded and chains of shadows bound Felix’s feet, Daymus scattered gems in the air.

The gem light that flashed from all directions illuminated Felix and exploded at the same time. Light with different attributes struck down like lasers.

Flash!!

Kwagwagwang!!!!

Smoke billowed, momentarily obscuring Felix’s massive form.

“D, did we get him?”

“Errmong!”

The moment Daymus shouted at Errmong, who had recited a suicide spell, Felix’s arm pierced through the smoke and grabbed Errmong’s collar.

Udeuk!!

Tteoteoteong!!

At the same time as kicking his ankle and knocking him over, he grabbed his collar, spun him around, and slammed him into the floor.

Felix, leaving Errmong, who had collided with the floor and bounced into the air, gripped the hammer with both hands.

At the moment when Felix, as if swinging a bat, aimed at Errmong with all his might and swung the hammer, matching the falling speed.

Daymus, who had intervened with ten gems in both hands, absorbed the impact in response to the black magic that Errmong had unleashed.

Jjeoooooooong!!!!!

The gems that had absorbed the impact instead of Daymus scattered into dust between his fingers.

Even with that, the remaining force was not enough, and Daymus’s body was crushed along with Errmong, crashing into the cold chamber wall.

Kwaaaang!!!!

“K, ack…!!!”

“Gweeeek!!”

His ten fingers were bent in bizarre directions, and the muscles in both arms ruptured, turning purple and bleeding.

This much power, even after using more than ten high-grade gems for defense at the same time and absorbing the impact in response to Errmong’s black magic.

Daymus’s expression wavered at the excruciating pain of his arm bones being crushed.

‘This can’t be. What kind of power…!!’

Not even having reached the center of Sector 49 yet, at this moment, blocked in front of the gate.

Not even Kyunroe himself, but even the war mercenaries who followed him possessed such immense power.

More agonizing than the pain rushing through his arms was the sense of hopelessness and despair, with no end in sight even after coming this far.

‘This is… wrong. It’s already….’

The extreme environment that suppresses life activities and metabolism. The oppressive weight that even suppresses the operation of magic power and will.

The existence of monsters, blessed by lightning and blocking the gate in the endless labyrinth.

Everything that made up Kyunroe’s labyrinth frustrated Daymus, making him feel that there was not even a glimmer of a chance of victory.

“Gem formulaic magic.”

Hwoong-

Felix, who had swung his house-sized hammer and shouldered it, opened his mouth.

“So you were a type of mage who uses consumables to exert power beyond your capabilities.”

“Compared to other corps commanders… I’m not particularly talented in combat.”

Daymus replied, struggling to stand up with his trembling arms.

“In a position where I have to lead troops, I had to pursue methods that were efficient.”

“…….”

“In an environment where catalysts can be smoothly supplied, it’s a power that can achieve the best efficiency… Once I knew I had an aptitude for it, there was no reason to hesitate to learn.”

“So you’re saying that it was a formulaic magic and ability you learned to fight as a commander.”

Felix aimed his hammer with a heavy expression.

“But now you are standing before me without even a single squad.”

“That’s right. It’s entirely my fault.”

Daymus agreed.

“Even though I planned the operation assuming the worst-case scenario… there was always something more. I didn’t think that Kyunroe’s domain was such a dangerous demonic realm, or that even those who followed him would be this overwhelming.”

“…….”

“What kind of seeker Kyunroe is. What he can do if he decides to go to war… I only found out after sacrificing tens of thousands of lives.”

Cheolkeok.

Daymus, taking out a blue sapphire from his pocket, muttered.

“So I will not run away, and I will try to take responsibility for my mistakes with my life until the end.”

“You are a soldier.”

Felix said quietly.

“The pride of obeying orders and taking responsibility, and the cruelty of taking the sacrifices of your subordinates for granted. I respect it, but it’s something I cannot understand.”

“…….”

“For you, Ban’s existence is also just one of the necessary sacrifices for the corps.”

Felix slowly raised his hammer and said, pulling up his magic power.

“So I will kill you here for Ban.”

There were no more words.

The shadows of Felix, walking with his massive hammer aimed, and Daymus, holding gems in both hands, intersected.

At the same time as countless gem fragments scattered into the sky, the figures of the two clashed violently.

Kwang!!!

Each time Felix’s hammer struck down with a heavy glow, the gems that Daymus threw exploded.

Amidst the flashes of gem light, Felix’s massive form rotated, glowing dazzlingly.

His figure, rushing forward while enduring the falling heat and formulaic bombardment head-on, was like a berserker.

The moment Daymus felt a sense of déjà vu from the mad magic power that seemed to burn with his will.

Felix, who had knocked away the gem fragments with the side of his hammer, grabbed Daymus’s collar and slammed him into the floor.

Kuuung!!!

“Keok…!!!”

“There will be no pain.”

A single move that nullified all the previous attacks in one go.

Felix’s grip, empowered by the will enhancement through the halo, crushed the space at this moment.

The moment Felix, who was holding Daymus’s convulsing neck, put strength into his hand with a blank face.

“Cough! Birdbrain. Have you forgotten when we fought last time…?”

Errmong, who had been lying down, grinned with a blood-soaked face.

“Even if a black magician’s arms and legs are broken… they can still use magic.”

Cheolpeok!!

The moment Daymus slammed his hand into the pool of blood beneath his feet, forming a seal, his figure vanished.

Daymus’s form slipped and sank into the shadows of the chamber floor.

In its place, an obsidian mask rose from the shadows, transforming into the shape of a robe.

Shwaaaak!!

“……!!!”

Felix, who had been about to grab the disappearing Daymus, recoiled the moment he saw Victor.

He pushed off with his hammer, creating distance in an instant, and began to draw up his magic power with all his might.

The wariness he showed was incomparable to when he was facing both Daymus and Errmong at the same time.

“Victor. The method to manipulate the gate, is……”

Daymus lifted his gaze with a pale face, then lowered his head upon seeing the gate, which showed no change.

Daymus, struggling to stand with his crushed arms trembling, said,

“If you haven’t found it… can I… ask you to take care of Felix Magart?”

“Daymus.”

Victor said mockingly, without even turning to look at Daymus.

“I didn’t come all this way to listen to your orders.”

“……”

“The reason I’ve been conserving my strength is for something else.”

With that, Victor took out a small communication device and tossed it to Daymus.

“If you want a method, find it yourself.”

“What is that supposed to….”

[Daymus. Are you there?]

Daymus froze upon hearing the languid voice coming through the communication device.

[There aren’t that many commanders on the Legion’s side who are reasonable. I’d prefer it if you were still alive, at least for now.]

“D-Doctor…?”

Daymus said with a surprised expression, recognizing the voice.

“How… all communications should be blocked inside the labyrinth?”

[It’s nothing much. I just created a new communication network that only works inside this labyrinth.]

The Doctor said nonchalantly.

[However, I couldn’t find a relay point to connect the communication, so I borrowed your location.]

“Borrowed my location…? You pinpointed our location inside the labyrinth?”

[No matter how special the Adamantine Domain is, there can’t be two places where both black magic and special trait magic are observed at the same time.]

The Doctor replied in a relaxed voice.

[If Victor is there, you’ll be next to him, whether alive or dead. It’s not a difficult deduction, is it?]

“……”

He had detected their location by pinpointing the magic power of Victor and Errmong and connected the communication.

How such a thing was possible was unknown, but it was right to assume that the Doctor had prepared a method.

If that was the case, the reason Victor had been ignoring Felix and observing the situation until now was-

[Daymus. I know what you’re thinking, but we don’t have much time.]

Before he could finish his thought, the Doctor spoke through the communication device.

[I’m going to guide you using the method I’ve prepared, is that alright?]

“The labyrinth’s environment is working against us too much… it won’t be easy.”

Daymus said with difficulty.

“The superhumans guarding each gate are also incredibly strong. If we don’t deal with them….”

[That’s exactly what I’m going to tell you how to solve.]

“……”

[Leave the on-site judgment to Victor and move accordingly. I’ll explain from now on.]

Whoooosh!!!

Beyond Daymus’s gaze, holding the communication device, Victor and Felix were facing each other.

The shadow robe fluttered in the hot wind. Red eyes gleamed like a ghost behind the obsidian mask.

Even in the extreme environment that crushed life, his presence was free, as if he was unaffected by anything.

“Manipulator. I’ve been waiting for you.”

Felix looked at Victor and slowly grasped his hammer with both hands.

“You too must have appeared on this battlefield to interfere with the ‘Half’.”

“……”

“This time, I will never… let you take what you want like last time.”

Gooooooo……!!

Red magic power rose from Felix’s entire body, and a golden halo slowly rotated.

At the same time, Felix’s magic power began to amplify madly, and the size of his will and mind became so large that it felt like it would explode.

Felix, who was in charge of guarding the gate, was using the power of Ouroboros [a symbol of infinity and cyclicality] to unleash his full power for the first time.

“W-Wait a minute…!! I’m going to get out of here-”

Before Errmong, who had noticed the signs and was terrified, could say anything, Felix’s shoulder holding the hammer disappeared.

Inner World Microcosm: Impact Transfer

Kwaaaaaang!!!!!!

One side of the vast chamber wall where Victor was standing exploded and blew away.

The enormous output swept away nearly half of the chamber, which was hundreds of meters wide.

“Waaaaaak?!!!”

The shock even sent Errmong’s body flying into the air, soaring over dozens of meters.

Even the words Errmong spat out with a dumbfounded expression as he tumbled through the chamber were swept away by the shock.

“Cough!! What the hell did he take-!!”

Kwaaaaaaaa!!!

Errmong had seen Felix use the microcosm in the Anathema Temple before.

However, the microcosm Felix was using now was dozens of times more powerful than it had been then.

A tactical skill that amplified the impact by striking space, causing damage comparable to that of a high-level mage.

While Errmong was staring at the half-destroyed chamber with a dumbfounded expression, Felix and Victor moved within the debris.

Victor, who had flicked the magic thread and wrapped it around his wrist, and Felix’s massive form, which was breaking through the chamber like a tank.

[Ram: Crushing Blow]

Kwagwagwang!!

The power of the hammer Felix swung gathered on the hammer’s surface along with red magic power.

An intangible shockwave wrapped around the hammer, rotating fiercely and creating an intense ripple, grinding everything it touched.

The eerie sight of him dragging the heavy hammer forward, grinding the floor to pieces.

The magic threads entangled in all directions rotated intricately, instantly grabbing and tangling the space.

Following the movements of the two, the outer wall of the chamber crumbled, revealing a dark blue nebula.

“Oooooooo!!!!”

He compressed the shock he had unleashed back into the hammer, and then swung the hammer again, continuously increasing its power.

A miracle that endlessly amplified power by ‘circulating’ the intuitive ability of shock transfer under the law of Ouroboros.

However, even after understanding the true value of the power in his hands, Felix never lowered his guard.

“Victor!!”

Among the members of Pandemonium, the special trait manipulator with a particularly unique nature and abilities.

Felix also knew how dangerous this superhuman who had stolen the gauntlet was.

Unlike the others, he seemed completely unaffected by the environment of this labyrinth.

He might be a more dangerous variable than the Legion’s commanders in this war.

Even if he couldn’t win, at least, his spell and the gauntlet’s ability-

“No.”

Hwaaak!!!

In an instant, a shadow robe unfolded in front of Felix’s eyes, blocking his vision.

Without panicking, Felix channeled his magic power with all his might. The moment he broke through by detonating all the shock concentrated in the hammer.

The shape of a glass-like gauntlet pressed down precisely on the handle of the hammer Felix was swinging.

Clack!!

A single countermeasure that changed the trajectory by pressing the center of the force using leverage.

The shockwave, which had narrowly missed, exploded diagonally, shattering the chamber ceiling.

Kwaaaang!!!!!

“Th-This…!!!”

He had momentarily missed the movement of pressing the hammer handle.

Just as Felix, with goosebumps on his spine, was about to roar and heighten his fighting spirit, Victor spoke in a modulated voice.

“I am not your opponent. You’re wasting time.”

“You…!!!”

“The opponent you should be pouring your power into is elsewhere.”

Wooowoong!!!!

At that moment, the golden gate that had appeared behind Felix began to violently fluctuate.

As Felix, startled, lifted his gaze, Victor said with a smile.

“So, we’ll have to change the stage here.”

“No way…!!”

Paahhhhhh!!!!

The golden arch that had appeared in the center of the half-destroyed chamber flipped over in place.

The gate that had appeared in the center of the chamber seemed to be reacting and moving according to someone’s will.

Before he knew it, Daymus, covered in blood, was standing below the golden gate, holding a communication device.

[Daymus. The gates that exist in this labyrinth are designed based on the ‘knowledge’ I have.]

The Doctor said under the dazzling golden light.

[It’s a type of method devised in my hometown, which establishes a fixed singularity in a spacetime that seeks infinite change, and uses it as a link…]

“……That’s.”

[The reason Adamantine applied this knowledge to his domain must be because he visited Machina [a mechanical city] once before. But that also means that if he’s absent now… we can use this gate, albeit clumsily.]

The reason the Doctor was able to create a communication network that could only be used in Adamantine’s domain was because he understood the way the gate existed.

However, Daymus swallowed his breath, not understanding exactly what ‘knowledge’ the Doctor was referring to.

Artermeyer. The greatest designer in the history of the mechanical city.

The last thing he designed before being exiled from Machina was the ascension ritual of the mechanical city itself-

[Temporary Ascension Gate Open]

Kiiiiiiik……!!!!

The golden arch swelled up like a balloon in place and rotated strangely.

It expanded explosively, as if grabbing and pulling apart a huge [door] on both sides, and flashed a glass-like light like an opaque mirror.

[Location adjustment initiated. Direction change function interference. Connection point adjustment.]

The knowledge of a failed door that reflected a world that already existed, not the spacetime of this world.

Using it, he adjusted the direction and location of the gate, opening new paths and changing passages in real time.

A failed law that Adamantine had accepted as part of his domain. A lingering attachment that the Doctor himself had once designed and dreamed of.

A small miracle that was only allowed in this moment when Adamantine himself was absent.

[Destination setting complete. Movement initiated.]

As the golden mirror changed its angle to reflect a different landscape, the spacetime surrounding the labyrinth rotated fiercely and changed drastically.

The entire chamber where Victor and Felix were standing was flipped upside down, beginning to reorganize spacetime.

Kiiiiiiing!!!!

“This…!!!”

The moment Felix, with a hardened expression, began to draw up his magic power, Victor, who had extended his magic thread, disappeared like a ghost.

Daymus and Errmong’s forms were instantly sucked into the golden gate and began to fall.

“Waaaaaak!!! N-Not a fan of high places!!!”

“We’re falling…!!!”

Whoooosh!!!!

Beyond the golden gate, a beautiful glass-like passage unfolded, and the surroundings were filled with beautiful crystal light.

Beyond the distant horizon of light, the sunset glowed with a twilight hue.

The moment Daymus faced the dark blue ‘cradle’ that was faintly visible in the distance, his eyes widened.

[It took some time to prepare, but it seems we can manage somehow with just the ‘price’ we paid on this side.]

The Doctor said in a relaxed voice.

[I’ll send you to the center of this labyrinth first.]

* * *

Felix stood in front of the empty golden gate, holding his hammer.

A beautiful halo rotated behind him, and a house-sized thunder hammer was in his hand.

However, Victor and Daymus, whom he had been fighting just a moment ago, were nowhere to be seen.

Instead, a fierce-looking man appeared, leading a superhuman unit of dozens of people.

“All troops, prepare for battle!!”

“A new enemy has appeared!!!”

“……”

The superhumans, who were drawing up their magic power as they looked at Felix, were all skilled individuals who had awakened their nature transformation.

A man walked out in front of the soldiers, who were filled with killing intent as if they had been fighting for a long time somewhere.

“I am Yuzef, the commander of the 2nd Deadrise Legion.”

Chiiik!!

The fierce-looking man, lighting a cigarette with one hand, looked up at Felix and said,

“We’re heading to the center of the 49th district to stop Adamantine’s ascension. So, I’ll ask you just one thing.”

“……”

“Get out of the gate. Or I’ll kill you.”

“……I see. In the end, I let them get away.”

Only then did Felix close his eyes slightly with a complicated expression.

Even though he had let Victor and Daymus get away right in front of him, he only lamented quietly. Felix did not get angry or agitated.

It was a strange attitude, as if he had known this would happen, calmly accepting reality.

“It was expected… but I wanted to cut them down a little, now that we’ve met like this. Was it not enough?”

“What are you babbling about?”

“No. It’s nothing.”

Clack!!

At the same time as he readjusted his hammer, a heavy magic power rose from Felix’s entire body.

Felix, who had walked in front of the gate, grabbed the neck of a soldier who was rushing at him from behind, concealing his presence.

Crack!!

A gruesome cracking sound as he broke the soldier’s neck with one hand.

At the same time as he threw away the corpse of the soldier who had died instantly, a pillar of dark blue lightning soared up.

Kwaaaang!!!!

“……!!!”

The dark blue lightning, which now felt like a nightmare that would leave a trauma.

The legion commander’s expression changed completely as he faced the unforgettable color, and the soldiers flinched. Felix slowly turned his gaze.

“It’s a painful thing, but nothing can take precedence over helping the ‘Half’.”

The magic power, dyed red, wrapped around Felix’s eyes, turning even his gaze red.

“In that sense, I will make sure to filter you out here.”