Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1239

A cold wind swept through the fallen bodies, stained with blood.

The hot scent of blood mixed with the wind, transforming into the lukewarm stench of death.

Whioooooooo!!!!

Surrounded by a pale, white halo, his entire body flashed with dark blue lightning.

A dignified figure, walking with both hands extended benevolently towards the corpses he had slain.

“A god…”

A grotesque, hideous, and somehow broken, empty yet sacred divinity.

Everyone who witnessed it was thinking the same thing.

‘What… should we do…’

Daymus trembled, lost in thought.

‘What should we do…’

If sacrificing Daymus’s life could resolve this situation, he wouldn’t have hesitated for a moment.

But their opponent was a monster who could crush even an 8th-level legion commander like a toy.

The shattered prayer beads of the Blaber Magic Tower beneath his feet. The 9th seat of the Ability Bloom Squad, his face melted into the ground behind him.

The cult priests who worshipped him until their heads exploded, and the modified soldiers who malfunctioned, unable to measure his power.

Superhumans comparable to or even surpassing Daymus in combat ability were being trampled and crushed like insects.

The Martial Extreme [a pinnacle of martial arts], which had never been considered from Kyunroe throughout the subjugation battle.

Destruction, wielding a martial prowess that humans could not comprehend, mixed with his lightning.

No matter how much he replayed it in his mind, he couldn’t understand how it was possible.

He couldn’t even guess why Kyunroe had revealed such power at the last moment.

In the midst of endless confusion, Daymus’s mind became tangled, gnawing at his own sanity.

Crack.

Kyunroe began to move again.

[……]

Whioooooooo!!!

Surrounded by a pale halo, flashing like lightning, he turned towards those he had killed.

Just by slowly turning his body, the corpses scattered around him evaporated and vanished.

Unable to leave even a trace of their bodies, they turned into a handful of ashes on the spot.

In the ashen wind, a pale light flooded, and the moment Kyunroe slowly raised his hand towards him.

Crack.

Kyunroe pierced his own neck with the hand he had raised.

“…Huh?”

Crack. Crack.

He raised his fingers, slowly scratching at his own neck.

He dug his fingers into his collarbone, tearing away at his shoulder little by little.

Each time, dark blue lightning scattered and fell from Kyunroe’s body.

Everyone watched in stunned silence, unable to even breathe.

“…What, is he doing?”

“What in the world…”

Crack. Crack.

Standing blankly among the corpses, he slowly tore at his flesh, gripping his arm.

He pierced his neck with one hand, slowly tearing out the contents inside, piece by piece.

With a gruesome, eerie cracking sound, dark blue lightning dripped like blood each time.

A bizarre sight, as if he were artificially tearing himself apart, forcibly inflicting damage.

Belatedly, Daymus guessed the meaning of his actions, his voice trembling.

“He’s… hurting himself…?”

Crack. Crack. Crack-

Wielding martial arts, committing slaughter.

Sitting in the middle of the corpses he had created, he endlessly repeated self-harm.

With mechanical movements, as if repeating a routine he had done thousands, tens of thousands of times. As if he had been destroying himself like that since long ago.

“What is this…”

Daymus did not know that it was a remnant of the ‘first’ that existed in the distant past, beyond comprehension.

A remnant of madness, broken for an immeasurable amount of time, solidified into a compulsion beyond habit.

The moment Daymus felt a completely shattered humanity in his indifferent actions, he was overcome with fear for the first time.

Behind Kyunroe, a golden halo exploded and began to rotate violently.

Buaaaaaaang!!!!

“…!!!!!”

The pale halo and the golden halo collided violently behind Kyunroe, intersecting.

The pale light that destroyed itself and the golden light that restored itself collided and rotated.

The moment they met and merged as if melting, rotating in different directions, drawing an infinite shape.

Mana that exploded as if boiling from within Kyunroe began to overflow, filling the area.

Kwaaaaaaa!!!!

The shockwave from the collision of the halos pushed against space-time, and the domain collapsed.

The continuous barrage and melee that had been pouring down since the start of the subjugation battle. The backlash from the failed ascension ritual.

The labyrinth, broken amidst the continuous shocks as if testing the limits of its durability.

At the end, the domain collapsed, unable to withstand the backflow of power that Kyunroe himself had unleashed.

Kwagwagwagwa!!!!

The dark blue nebula split, revealing the cloudy sky.

The reality outside of District 49, which had existed until just before they entered this labyrinth.

“The sky is… opening again.”

“The domain is collapsing…”

The superhumans, facing this incomprehensible phenomenon, flinched and raised their heads. Then, Baragan’s hoarse voice echoed from behind.

“Daymus…”

Chiiik…!!

The shaman, his entire skin burned and disfigured, one eye melted.

His left wrist and right knee were gone, and even his fingernails and body hair had melted, flowing like bodily fluids, a miserable sight.

The aftermath of being directly struck by Kyunroe’s lightning at the last moment to stop the ascension ritual.

But Baragan’s one eye had not yet lost focus, and he was looking at Kyunroe, who was opening the domain.

“It’s not… over yet…”

“…Baragan-nim.”

“Having come this far… either way…”

Chiiiiik…!!

He forced his body, where flesh and muscle were melting, to stand up.

Even as he was dying, emitting smoke from his entire body, he was drawing up his magic power.

Chwaak!!

While dripping black blood, he embedded wooden totems into his left wrist and right knee.

Baragan, who had embedded totems into the severed areas like splints, staggered to his feet, using them as replacements for his hands and feet.

“Let’s go. I’ll lead the way…”

“…Understood.”

Both Baragan and Daymus had already reached their limits long ago.

There wasn’t much time left. The conclusion of this battle was also already decided.

If they had reached the point where logic and rebuttal were meaningless, then what they had to do was-

“Currently, Kyunroe is using a power completely different from lightning magic. An incomprehensible martial art… or perhaps a kind of transcendent martial art.”

Daymus said quietly.

“Judging from the course of the battle so far… it’s probably not a power he can control at will. The fact that he revealed this form only now must mean there are limitations.”

“Limitations… you say?”

“The most likely possibility is that it’s a kind of protocol… an alternate personality that appears when Kyunroe’s own will is lost.”

“…”

“If so, isn’t it possible that this is an insurance policy in case the ascension ritual fails…?”

“…An insurance policy.”

Esteban, who was lying on the ground covered in blood, said with his head bowed.

“Then, this is the only chance we have…”

“…”

There was no need for complex explanations, well-structured plans, or discussions.

Kyunroe’s anomaly, repeating slaughter and self-harm, damaging himself with irrational decisions.

Now, with the two halos colliding behind him, and the domain collapsing as a result.

In all of that process, Kyunroe’s lightning was rapidly being depleted, only at this moment.

If this was the only time they could put up any kind of resistance-

Paat!!!

There was no further discussion.

Baragan, who had embedded wooden totems below his knees, and Esteban, who had replaced his internal organs with mercury, ran forward at the same time.

“Kyunroe. Over here…!!”

Esteban extended his hand, drawing up his psychic powers with a pale expression.

The mercury, manipulated by his will, rose up and plunged towards Kyunroe, who was still engrossed in self-harm.

Chiiik!!

The mercury blades, far from piercing Kyunroe’s self-harming body, evaporated and disappeared the moment they touched the lightning.

However, as soon as Kyunroe saw Esteban’s mercury, he stopped self-harming and slowly turned his body.

Kyunroe was also aware that Aphelia’s spirituality, which had greatly contributed to the failure of the ascension ritual at the last moment, was contained in Esteban’s mercury.

Esteban also noticed this and immediately turned his body, starting to create distance with all his might.

Esteban, who was panting with a pale face, turned his gaze.

“Shaman…!!”

“Yes. I know…!!!”

Now that Kyunroe had recognized Esteban’s presence, he would start to be wary of him from now on.

Now that he had lost his intellect, he might focus on killing him, putting aside the others.

Esteban wouldn’t be able to last long, but even so, it would buy the allies a moment.

In this desperate situation where they could no longer predict their victory, there was only one thing to do.

Everyone gathered here had to pour out their lives to whittle down that monster.

Paahhh!!!

From under Baragan’s feet, who had clasped his hands together, a colorless ripple exploded.

“Cough…!!”

The Self-Magnetic Domain [a personal space controlled by a shaman], which had been used once inside Kyunroe’s labyrinth and destroyed, was being deployed again in succession.

Black blood flowed endlessly from Baragan’s nose and mouth, unable to withstand the backlash.

But Baragan gritted his teeth and chanted, even as he felt his lifespan being shaved away.

“Self-Magnetic Domain… Deployment.”

Self-Magnetic Domain Deployment

Origin-Level Mental Image Manifestation

[Serpentine Private Palace of Woven Souls (編魄私蛇宮)]

Kwagwagwagwagwagwa!!!!!!

Hundreds of giant snakes, biting each other’s tails and intertwining, formed a giant snake nest.

As the snake nest rose from the ruins of the labyrinth, transforming the battlefield, and instantly embraced the allies.

The entire snake nest became a living totem, scattering the embedded spells indiscriminately to the allies.

Pa-ba-ba-ba-bat!!!!!

Baragan’s Self-Magnetic Domain, the Serpentine Private Palace of Woven Souls, was a ‘living’ Self-Magnetic Domain and a totem itself.

For as long as the domain was maintained, Baragan could freely wield secret sect spells without relying on totems.

A power that surpassed the limits allowed to Baragan, who could only wield all types of spells by using totems.

[Damage Restoration] [Willpower Enhancement] [Mental Fortification] [Durability Enhancement] [Necrosis Immunity] [Mana Restoration]

Kwaaaaaaaa!!!!!

Enhancement spells that boosted physical and mental abilities. Anesthetic spells that numbed pain and erased senses.

Sacrificial spells that made even dying superhumans fight for a moment by burning their life force. Inhuman spells that breathed life into dead souls and held them in their bodies.

Even superhumans who had been crushed or torn to pieces in the collision with Kyunroe were forcibly made to participate in the battle, even for a moment.

Even if it was a miracle that would disappear like a bubble when Baragan’s Self-Magnetic Domain vanished, they could still fight more.

The superhumans who were aware of this slowly rose, dragging their broken bodies from all directions.

“Ugh, ugh…”

“Ah, ahhh…!”

Atiya, covered in blood, raised her arm, which was broken in half and crushed, trembling as she rotated her mana.

Roberaide, with armor fragments piercing his shoulders and waist, spilling his internal organs, drew up his will.

Transcendent beings, who had regained consciousness with Baragan’s spells on the border between life and death, convulsed and activated their microcosms [a personal manifestation of one’s inner world].

They burned their remaining lives and drew up their mental images.

“Microcosm… Activation.”

“…Heavenly Evasion.”

Inner World Microcosm: Mana Dispersion

Mind’s Full Bloom

[Eight Piercings (捌穿)]

Inner World Microcosm: Heavenly Evasion

Mind’s Amplification

[Twelve Thousand Three Hundred Thousand-Pound Strikes (一萬二千三百撥千斤)]

Kwaaaang!!!!

The microcosms, manifested by burning their lives, appeared, and Atiya and Roberaide simultaneously leaped forward.

A cardinal, who was dying after losing his right upper body, muttered, clutching a blood-stained prayer.

“That one, is not him…”

Sanctuary Declaration

[Lent Frog God Heat (貸蛙神熱).]

Puhwaaaaaak!!!

A giant toad’s tongue surged from under the cardinal’s feet, sweeping across the ground as if licking it.

Wherever the tongue swept, eerily pale flames bloomed and burned.

Puh-buh-buh-bung!!!

The Blaber Magic Tower’s Flame Authority Temple, which had remained outside the labyrinth, floated into the sky and unleashed a barrage.

The completely broken Quetzalcoatl and fragments of Ryunghwa became firewood, burning in the pouring flames.

“Oooooooo!!!!”

In the midst of the scattering cult and magic tower’s fire rain, the officers who had drawn up their microcosms charged forward.

Following Esteban, Kyunroe turned, and with a will fueled by burning life, he struck his own body.

Crack-!!!

Kuhwaaaaak!!!

Dark blue lightning rippled like dark wings, sweeping away the superhumans rushing from behind.

It melted the bodies of the surviving military chaplains and sniped down the Flame Authority Temple flying above.

Kwaaaang!!!!

The Flame Authority Temple, which had fallen onto the giant snake’s nest, was engulfed in the pale flames of the cult and blazed fiercely.

As if by agreement, other superhumans rushed towards Kyunroe, who stood at its center.

“Kyunroe!!!!!!”

“Let’s go together. The end…!!!”

“If we can’t win, at least…!!!”

The victory or defeat of the war, the question of life or death. Everything depended on how they could somehow whittle down the monster before them.

They forgot the interests of their respective organizations, their beliefs, and their convictions at this moment.

They would stop this monstrous god, who was completely insane, destroying himself and others indiscriminately.

Crack!!

Kyunroe, who had been chasing Esteban, turned his head, his dark blue eyes flashing.

The moment they felt the flash of lightning, he pierced the hearts of four superhumans and blew their heads off.

Dark blue wings spread, deflecting and pushing back the barrage of spells, and a pale halo rotated, wrapping around his fist in an instant.

He ground down the soldiers, priests, and ability users rushing from all directions, turning them into corpses beyond recovery.

Kwaaaaaaa!!!!

“Aaaaaaa!!!!”

“In the name of God…!!!”

“Aisen-nim. I’ll go first…!!”

The 6th-level veterans who had mastered the extreme of nature transformation. The 7th-level attainers who had completed their hierarchy.

Superhumans, treated as the elite forces of their respective organizations, were being ground down and killed like madmen.

They threw their secret techniques of martial arts and spells, which they had drawn out at the cost of their lives, before the dark blue thunder god.

They couldn’t even stop his stride, their bodies crushed into pieces, their entire bodies burned and mangled.

Kwaddeudeudeuk!!!

“Cough…!! Uweeek!!!”

Atiya, catching a corpse that was flying away like a cannonball with one arm, limped forward.

She broke through the pouring lightning by releasing her magic power to the limit and rotated backward.

She swung her broken, protruding, and mangled arm, slamming it into Kyunroe’s side.

Kwaaaang!!

A blue shockwave rose along Kyunroe’s body, wrapping around Atiya’s left arm in reverse.

The dark blue lightning, like the jaws of a beast, bit into Atiya’s upper body and accelerated as if exploding.

It tore her left arm to shreds and blew it away backward.

“Kack…!!!!”

A fatal wound where her left arm, shoulder, collarbone, and neck muscles were completely blown away.

But Atiya, bleeding profusely and panting, burst into insane laughter.

“Haha, I… here… die…!!!!”

Eueueueueuek!!!

A hole was pierced through Roberaide’s lower abdomen, and his insides leaked out through his armor.

The old general, unable to even scream, knelt on the spot and fell forward.

But Roberaide’s blurred eyes were fixed on the magic power exploding around Kyunroe.

Thud!!!

“Magic power, consumption…”

Kyunroe was also using magic power to fight them.

The power that allowed him to exist in reality was being continuously ‘consumed’ to kill them.

“I can do it…!!!!”

Daymus, panting, poured magic power into the jewel and chanted a bombardment spell.

He didn’t need to win against that irresistible thunder god.

He no longer desired such meaningful results or gains.

Like the others, he just wanted to sacrifice his life to whittle down the monster’s power, even a little.

If he could reduce the time that the transcendent who failed to ascend existed in the world, even by a little.

[……]

Teteoteoteoteong!!!!

At the end of the fierce battle, Kyunroe also stopped restraining his power.

Kyunroe, who had spread dark blue lightning like wings, killed all the soldiers rushing from all directions.

He stepped on Roberaide’s back, who had fallen at his feet, breaking and bursting his spine and neck.

Bang!! Eudeudeudeuk!!!

Immediately after kicking away Atiya, whose left upper body had been blown away, the thunder god raised his gaze and stared at Daymus.

Kyunroe’s figure, reaching sub-light speed, traversed the snake’s nest diagonally and slammed into the ground.

He collided with Ezekiel, who had landed in front of Daymus, at an incredible speed.

Kwaaaaaaaaaaang!!!!!

The two figures collided on the ground, and a shockwave tens of meters in size exploded in both directions.

With that impact, the cloth that had been covering Ezekiel’s face was finally removed, revealing his face.

“…!!!”

A surprisingly beautiful face. An artificial sense of incongruity, like a work of art rather than a human.

Daymus, who had fallen at his feet, paused for a moment, inadvertently looking at Ezekiel’s face.

“Pandemonium.”

Ezekiel looked down at Daymus.

“I have received grace from the one who walks backward, so I will say it only once.”

Chiiik!!!!

Kyunroe’s hand, which had pierced through the barrier that Ezekiel had deployed, clashed with the royal’s hand and blazed.

The power to break through Ezekiel’s barrier, which had blocked Songha’s slashes and even the magic tower’s electric magic.

Kwaddeudeuk!!!

“This transcendent is an unprecedented concept that did not exist even when the Imperial City was intact.”

But Ezekiel spoke with a calm expression, even as his hand was being crushed by lightning in real time.

“He harbors a corruption equal to the great failures, so it is foolish to confront him with the laws of the mortal world.”

“……”

“But he himself desires the end, so it is not impossible.”

“What, what does that…”

“A broken divinity. A masochism submerged in emptiness.”

Ezekiel closed his eyes.

“I think I know what kind of ending he wants.”

“……”

Was Kyunroe, who had lost his body and become a thunder god, desiring his own destruction?

Perhaps even his broken behavior of repeating massacres and self-harm was evidence of that.

But such emptiness or nihilism was not the Kyunroe that Daymus knew.

Was it because the thunder god before him was a different being from Kyunroe that such emotions or wills existed?

Thoughts flashed through Daymus’s mind, but there was no time to combine them into an answer.

The moment the thunder god and the royal collided and stopped at the deepest part of the snake’s nest.

A brief respite where Ezekiel sacrificed his hand to buy time.

At the same time as the royal retreated, the surviving transcendents burned their lives and rushed towards the end.

“Ooooooo!!!!”

Baragan, scattering black blood from his five viscera, used his own intestines as a catalyst to deploy an extreme-level spell.

He cut off his flowing intestines, drew a magic circle, and used his body as a sacrifice to increase the power.

[Secret Sect Gate Sarak Taeha Malje] [This is a high-level spell from a secret sect, using intestines as a catalyst]

[Reincarnation Cannon: Jonggyeong] [A powerful spell that uses the caster’s life force]

The highest-level spell bombardment that exists in the secret sect magic that originates from the Dharma [Buddhist teachings].

Among them, the ultimate technique corresponding to the final part of the phrase flowed sticky from Baragan’s hands.

Kugwagwagwagwa!!!!!

“Ceremonial weapon… Manifestation.”

[Silver Guard Holy Hall] [A powerful defensive barrier]

Esteban gathered all the mercury that had been blocking his wounds and unleashed his psychic power.

Ignoring his flowing intestines, he scraped off even the mercury used in Ryunghwa and wrapped it around his entire body.

Kuoohhhhh!!!!

[Flame Heat Spiral: Self-Inflicted Calamity] [A self-destructive fire attack]

[Command: Enginium Fortress Self-Destruct Sequence Initiated]

The Flame Authority Temple and the Enginium Fortress exploded, setting the snake’s nest ablaze.

A bombardment that burned and erased all life that had survived on the battlefield.

At its center, dark blue lightning flashed madly, constantly being consumed.

Kugwagwagwagwagwa!!!!!!

Crack, crack…!!!!!

It erased Baragan’s Reincarnation Cannon and even swept away and annihilated his self-magnetic field.

It burned and dropped the cult’s sanctuary, the mechanized corps’ engine, and the magic tower’s temple, crushing them.

It burst, pressed down, and bounced away the superhumans wielding spells and microcosms, taking their lives.

Kwaaaang!!!!!

Amidst the surging lightning and flames, Esteban, who was covered in mercury armor, reached out his hand.

Kyunroe, who turned like lightning, pierced and burst the body of the psychic user armed with a ceremonial weapon in an instant.

Jjeoeoeoeong!!!!

Esteban’s body staggered as it was pierced, and the mercury that had been wrapping around him exploded and evaporated.

But even after his entire upper body was pierced, Esteban showed no reaction.

He simply remained still, with his hand outstretched, wrapped in the mercury armor he had donned.

Only then did Kyunroe realize that Esteban had already died standing.

Baragan, who had appeared from behind, grabbed the pale halo that had risen behind Kyunroe’s back.

Kwajik!!

“I caught, it…”

Baragan, whose eyes had completely melted, smiled eerily as he shed tears of blood.

“Kyunroe. I… touched…”

[……]

Kyunroe did not look back at Baragan, who had grabbed the halo.

As if he knew his condition, he calmly ignored him and moved on.

Plop!!

Baragan, unable to stop Kyunroe, was dragged along by his stride and collapsed powerlessly.

Baragan’s figure, who had fallen behind Kyunroe without even breaking the halo he had managed to grab.

His eyes had already lost focus, and his heart had stopped, completely out of breath.

“……”

Baragan’s corpse, which had collapsed without even closing his eyes and had stopped breathing.

Esteban’s corpse, who had died standing, wrapped in mercury armor.

The moment the two transcendents, who had been the mainstays of the subjugation front, died simultaneously before Kyunroe’s eyes.

“…Ah.”

Daymus felt his end as he watched Kyunroe slowly approach him.

It was not surprising. It was not even an unacceptable ending.

It was just that even after pouring everything out, it was still far from enough, and the end was impossible to gauge.

If he were to meet the same end as his comrades who had participated in the subjugation, he could accept it.

The fact that he had survived until now was, rather, close to a stroke of luck for him.

Step.

He slowly walked towards him.

The moment he closed and opened his eyes, he had already arrived in front of him from a distant place.

An overwhelming sight of a pale halo and a golden halo colliding and shattering.

With that above his head, he slowly extended his hand, dyed with dark blue lightning.

The moment Daymus was about to close his eyes as he saw the hand approaching him.

Whoosh-

Kyunroe nonchalantly walked past Daymus and moved on.

“…Ah?”

Crack, crack…!!!!

The massacre that began immediately after the failed ascension ceremony.

The continuous battles that progressed while killing the surviving superhumans one by one.

The existence power that had been gradually breaking down in the self-harm that was repeated following the first one.

The power that had been used excessively to the point of collapsing the domain as the two halos collided.

The resistance of the transcendents who had sacrificed their lives in three decisive battles to deplete his power.

Little by little, very faintly. But surely, the accumulated consumption was piling up and becoming clear.

And finally, at this moment-

[……]

Kyunroe slowly moved, leaving behind the mountain of corpses piled up all around.

In the silence that was so still it felt almost sacred, the lightning flickered faintly.

Kugugugugu!!!!

He walked slowly towards the broken throne behind Daymus.

The completely collapsed ruins of the labyrinth. The golden debris piled up and rising looked like a broken throne.

Kyunroe, who had walked up between the debris, took his place at the center and slowly leaned back.

[……]

Whioooooooo!!!!!

A dry wind blew through the empty ruins.

The battlefield where the domain, the labyrinth, Baragan’s self-magnetic field, and the war weapons were all crushed and scattered.

Kyunroe, who was sitting on the broken throne and silently watching the scene, slowly tilted his head with his arm propped up.

The moment the transcendent who had massacred tens of thousands of people finished his long duty and finally entered complete rest.

Pajik!!!

The pale halo that had floated above Kyunroe’s head cracked and shattered like glass.

At the same time, the lightning that had been filling his body faded as if it were a lie.

The incarnate body stopped all movement and froze in place.

“…Why, is that.”

Daymus, with a pale, frozen expression, looked up at the god who had fallen asleep, tilting his head gently.