Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 123

“Shit, you son of a bitch!!”

‘I can’t keep up…’

It was briefed beforehand that Jaun Audiss used spell formulas that operated through jewels, but the allies’ reactions are quite slow.

It’s not because the freelancers rushed at Jaun carelessly.

There wasn’t a single fool here who would be careless against the leader of a notorious terrorist organization.

It’s just that Jaun’s speed in activating his spell formulas is so fast and natural that it’s difficult for the freelancers to react.

The way he naturally mixes the activation of spell formulas at the moment of shaking off his hands clearly showed that Jaun was not only a powerful mage but also had a mastery of martial arts.

“I roughly figured it out while watching the fight with Daron.”

Jaun, who had instantly turned the tide of the battle, looked directly at Lenok, who was standing at the very back, and said.

“I don’t need the others. If I can just keep you tied up here… this operation is as good as a success.”

(Check)

Jaun grinned.

“So, just stay there and watch. I’ll deal with you after I kill all these morons.”

Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!

At the same time as he loosely clenched his fists and swung his arms wildly, the face of the man standing next to him turned into a mangled mess.

Jaun, who had been toying with the freelancer who couldn’t even react, tilted his head and, with two fingers, grabbed the blade that flew from behind and stabbed it straight into the chest of the man standing in front of him.

Thud!

“Gurgle…!!”

“Dale!!”

Jaun shoved a jewel into Dale’s mouth as he collapsed, foaming at the mouth, and then kicked him in the chest.

Dale’s body, staggering backward, exploded, and a dazzling flash engulfed the surroundings.

Crack! Crunch! Thud! Thud!

Only the sounds of flesh tearing echoed in the mysterious radiance that numbed the five senses.

The freelancers, who had regained their senses, tried to respond hastily, but Jaun, as if he knew the exact time his spell formula would end, grabbed and killed five people before immediately turning his body.

“Hahahaha!! Is this all you got, you buggers!! Let’s play a little more!!”

As he quickly sprinted down the long corridor, he threw two jewels on the floor, and huge pillars rose up, forming an arch and transforming into the shape of a door.

Creak!

The figure of a huge beast walking out from inside the door.

A huge wolf with white fur. Its red eyes gleamed as it bared its teeth.

“He can even use summoning spell formulas…?”

As someone muttered in disbelief, it was said that he used rare spell formulas, but the scope was at an absurd level.

He had used three spell formulas so far: wide-area cutting, five-sense paralysis, and even a summoning spell formula, and their types were so diverse that they couldn’t be categorized into one.

“Damn it… it looks like we’re going to be held up right here.”

As Chen said, it was obvious what Jaun’s intention was. He had powerful spell formulas and skilled martial arts, but rather than confronting them head-on, he was using hit-and-run tactics.

He was probably buying time to prevent Lenok’s group from going down while waiting for the dark mana rising from below to grow stronger.

How long would it take to defeat Jaun Audiss and clear the path? And what would be the cost of using such a direct approach?

Lenok, who had quickly finished calculating, shook his head.

“We’ll have to split our forces.”

“Right.”

Chen quickly agreed.

It was the same situation as when they met Mad Manson in the underground waterway, who would be busy smashing Falchion’s other temporary bases by now.

It was difficult for Lenok to use his specialty, high-powered magic, in such a complex underground structure.

The problem was that it seemed impossible to fight Jaun on equal terms without using such powerful moves.

They could tell just from the brief exchange of attacks.

That terrorist who shouted that money was everything was a powerful mage who easily surpassed level 5, even at the lowest estimate.

Considering that he used excellent martial arts and the rare jewel spell formulas, his combat power could easily be considered level 6 or higher.

Comparing the current forces present, someone needed to go down below, even at the cost of sacrifice.

Dealing with Jaun, who was rampaging in this narrow corridor, and killing Craig, who was lurking below.

It didn’t need to be said which was the riskier task.

Chen grinned and said,

“Go down first.”

“Are you sure?”

“I’ll call the agent waiting outside, and if I hold out until then and we attack together, we’ll somehow manage.”

As he said that, he slowly began to rub the two blades he was holding in his hand.

Clack! Clack! Clack…!!

The sparks caused by the friction of the blades gradually grew in size, and then, like a beacon, they clung to Chen’s blades and began to blaze.

Chen, who had readjusted the curved blades that were running with flames, turned to Lenok and grinned.

“You did the hard work last time, so let’s call it even this time.”

“………”

Lenok couldn’t help but chuckle at his not-unpleasant nonchalance.

He knew too well how to make others like him, but the fact that his offer to take turns while accepting losses didn’t sound bad was purely due to his talent.

Lenok, putting a feather fall [a spell that reduces the user’s weight] in his mouth and lighting it, said,

“You know how to draw his attention, right?”

“Of course. I may not be able to win, but I’m good at clinging on like a leech.”

“You must have never lost an argument.”

“How did you know?”

The two of them talked like that while slowly drawing up their mana.

Lenok, who had also injected the mana he had drawn up after a long time into his legs, began to run.

He had been avoiding directly injecting mana into his body to strengthen it due to the [Mana Addict] trait, but this was the final operation.

Once this was over, he could rest for a while.

At least he wouldn’t be able to walk properly for two weeks, but even considering that, it was necessary to break through the situation in an unexpected way.

Especially since he had just heard those words from Jaun.

Whoosh!

Lenok began to run, passing through the chaotic intersection where he was fighting with the summoned beast that Jaun had called.

The feather fall that made his body light. When he started moving by injecting physical enhancement with mana, the speed was enough to make Lenok flinch.

He staggered because he couldn’t keep his balance due to his poor motor skills, but he suppressed it with his leg strength and immediately sprinted down the corridor.

“……..!!”

Jaun’s expression, which had been relaxed all along, slightly distorted, as if he hadn’t imagined that Lenok would charge straight at him head-on.

He probably didn’t feel good about being refuted head-on after confidently making such assumptions.

Jaun, who had been twitching his lips, took out a jewel from his sleeve and rushed at him.

Whoosh!

Kwaaaang!!

The metal pieces that Lenok had thrown up rapidly expanded and turned into large iron plates, completely blocking the corridor.

“With just this kind of thing!”

Crack!

Jaun tore off the iron plate with his bare hands and immediately tried to chase after Lenok, but his steps were blocked by Chen’s blade that suddenly popped out in front of him.

Swish!

In that gap, Lenok quickly ran out of the corridor that Jaun was blocking.

“Where do you think you’re going, you bastard!!”

But even in the midst of that, Jaun dropped the jewel he was holding in his hand and kicked it with his heel, sending it flying towards Lenok.

His movements were so flexible that even Lenok was impressed.

His innate combat sense was combined with the special weapon of jewel spell formulas to produce the best efficiency.

The jewel that Jaun kicked and sent flying emitted light and instantly transformed into a solid crystal wall that blocked Lenok’s path and filled the corridor leading down.

He was confident that if he could hold Lenok for even a brief moment, he could shake off Chen and block the corridor again.

But Lenok snorted and slid his mana.

“You’re not even fighting me directly, and you think you can stop me with just this kind of wall?”

“What…?”

At the same time as he put his hand on the wall, he activated mana interference.

Crack!

Along with a strong, grating noise, the crystal wall shattered like a broken window, scattering into pieces.

Hundreds of fragments reflected light in thousands of directions, scattering beautiful light in the corridor where blood was splattering.

Lenok, who turned back to look at Jaun and raised the corner of his mouth once, threw himself down the corridor.

“You son of a bitch!!!”

A moment of carelessness.

And the gap where he hadn’t even imagined that his spell formula would be broken so quickly.

Jaun, who realized that he had missed Lenok, let out a roar of rage.

Chen, who had been receiving Jaun’s punches right in front of him, smiled even as he was sweating profusely.

“What’s wrong? Aren’t I just a weak mage, as you said?”

Click!

When he twisted and interlocked the handles of the two curved blades, a long chain popped out from inside the handle, connecting the curved blades into one.

Whoosh!

A loud sound of air being torn apart erupted as he grabbed the chain and swung it around.

“Let’s play here for a long, long time.”

“Hahaha… do you know how much money has been spent to deal with trash like you?”

‘I know it well.’

Lenok had noticed it, and so had Chen.

Jaun’s jewel spell formulas had a wide variety of abilities, and their power was strong and their activation time was abnormally short.

Even after being far away from the caster, they could be activated without any problems, which was truly optimized for use during urgent battles.

All of this couldn’t be explained by simply saying that the jewel spell formulas he used were excellent.

He must be using a corresponding price or a corresponding catalyst.

And in Jaun’s case, it must be because he was using such expensive and elaborately crafted jewels as a medium for his spell formulas.

Perhaps if he used spell formulas without the help of those jewels, he would not be able to exert even half of the power he was currently showing.

The fact that Jaun continued to act as if he was obsessed with money was probably not unrelated to that.

Whoosh!

Chen, who had slung the chain over his shoulder, grinned and said,

“Let’s see if your jewels run out first, or if I die first.”

Or maybe Hina O’Neil, who he had just contacted, would arrive here faster.

Chen suppressed the last words in his throat and immediately rushed towards Jaun.

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The dark mana that was felt while running down the corridor only grew stronger.

The stuffy and long space seemed to continue endlessly, but at some point, it suddenly opened up, revealing a huge underground cavern.

There was a similar space in the basement of the power plant that the gang, Cigar Bang, had used as their base, but the area here was at least three times larger and much more rugged.

Dust from the rocks flying everywhere and construction equipment abandoned in the corners. Safety helmets and worn-out gloves.

Lenok, who smelled the traces scattered around and the acrid smell that tickled his nose, immediately realized what this place was originally used for.

‘It was a quarry.’

A space created to extract stones and secure space, as well as to simultaneously supply building materials.

Was Falchion based here to utilize the labor camp and open space created in this process?

To completely eradicate the roots of this terrorist organization, it would be faster to find and burn all the data on their command system and communication security, but…

There was something more important than that right now.

When he raised his mana and quickly scanned the surroundings, he could guess to some extent how they had been using this space.

The command and control room made of glass on the upper part of the cavern was still full of computers that were running, and sticky mana of unknown origin was overflowing on the ground.

‘No, this is… a magic circle.’

A huge magic circle that not only filled the cavern but also extended to Lenok’s feet, who had just stepped into its entrance.

Lenok tried to erase it on the spot, but it didn’t disappear even when he dug up the floor, as if it had already occupied the space and was fixed in place.

It was probably a work created over a long period of time by utilizing the enchantment and installation magic to the extreme.