Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1242

“Ba…!!!!”Edan Bajur.His figure stood faintly alone beyond the horizon of the ruined outer district. A man’s face, expressionless, quietly watching this way as if he had been there since long ago. The moment Lenok called his name, the dying transcendents could also see him simultaneously. It was as if only after Lenok faced and recognized him could others become aware of his existence. However, there was no one left with enough composure to feel a sense of incongruity about that fact. The Kyunroe Subjugation. Immediately after realizing that the entire journey of grinding down the legion to stop the ascension ritual was merely a stepping stone for Kyunroe himself. Just before being consumed by an endless sense of despair as they faced the level 9 lightning magic he had obtained. The only emotion they could feel upon seeing the nemesis who arrived on the battlefield at the last moment was one thing.”The Archduke has, returned…””Fi, finally…!!”The efforts of risking their lives to fight Kyunroe, stopping the ritual, and whittling down the mage were not in vain. The determination of the soldiers who were prepared to give their lives for the legion. The resolve of the transcendents who jumped into the jaws of death to subjugate Kyunroe. If all those sacrifices were a necessary process to buy time for the legion’s Archduke to arrive. If they could leave meaning in their deaths.”It wasn’t in vain… it wasn’t, in vain…”The transcendents, dying and gasping for breath, filled with emotion or lost in regret. They let go of their attachment to life as they moved towards the same end as the corpses that had fallen beside them. Daymus, who had been knocked down by the shockwave, raised his unfocused gaze and whispered weakly.”Edan… sir…””…”Edan’s figure was not clearly visible in Daymus’s blurry eyes. He could only tell that a shadow was swaying beyond the ruined horizon. The moment he closed and opened his eyes, the shadow that had been standing far away was now in front of Daymus.Whoosh!!”…”There were no words, but he could feel that Edan was close. Only then did Daymus weakly close his eyes.”I’m sorry… the subjugation, failed…””…”Edan said nothing. Instead, he simply looked down at Daymus with a blank stare beneath his swaying curly hair. Daymus could sense that this was his last moment.’I see.’There was no pain. That made him realize how much he had been overworking his body. Is it a blessing or a curse for a soldier to feel death not as pain but as rest? Either way, what was clear was that Daymus was willingly accepting this end.’I lasted… longer than I thought.’The fierce battle that had continued without a single moment of rest since the subjugation began. The injuries and damage that had gradually accumulated on Daymus’s body during countless battles. Even the moment he used the jewel technique [a technique that uses a gem to enhance abilities at the cost of lifespan] at the cost of his lifespan to tie down Ibelin. He had only managed to survive by sheer luck. He knew that the end was near. Yet, perhaps the reason Daymus was still alive was because he had been waiting for this moment. As the commander and person in charge of the subjugation, to report the final results to the Archduke he served.”I’m sorry. I’ll… go first…”Daymus muttered, gasping for breath.”The legion’s unification… please, make sure to achieve it…””Live.”Daymus’s voice paused for a moment. Edan looked down at Daymus with an expressionless gaze and said.”You are a soldier. If the commander is alive, it would be okay to entrust him with the task of controlling the legion.””…””I will rewind your death once in this place.””A soldier, am I…”A faint smile formed on Daymus’s lips. Ironically, the moment he heard those words, Daymus was able to make a decision. Daymus, shivering from the rapidly approaching cold, spoke.”A soldier, doesn’t get a second chance…””…”Did he know that those were the words that Peisha used to say like a habit? Leaving the silent Edan behind, Daymus whispered.”Commander… always, responsible…”How many miserable failures had filled the path of the subjugation so far. How much he had been frustrated. How much despair he had felt after realizing that all the struggles he had attempted at the cost of his life were merely a process for Kyunroe. Perhaps the mage had kept him alive until now just to show Daymus this moment. Even though he could have killed Daymus with a single glance, wasn’t it just to let him know? To make him realize what meaning all the failures he had committed would return with. To make him fully feel that responsibility. In the end, the answer was unknown. Even if Daymus wanted to know, the mage would not answer. No, he couldn’t even be sure if Daymus truly wondered about it anymore. The legion’s commander who had planned and led the subjugation that was filled with nothing but failure. As someone had said before, Daymus’s end was already decided.”From the beginning… it should have been… like this…”If he had known that Kyunroe had no intention of fighting the legion properly, would anything have changed? Would he have been able to persuade the legion’s leaders and change direction through that fact? He didn’t know. In fact, he didn’t want to know anymore. Since the subjugation began, worrying about something hopeless had only been painful. His breathing grew shallow, and his voice became a whisper. Daymus, who had been breathing slowly, quietly muttered.”To meet my subordinates…”Whoosh!!!Daymus was no longer there in the place where the wind blew and left. Edan, who had been looking at Daymus’s lifeless body, slowly stood up.”Archduke…””You’ve, come to your senses…”Soldiers who were dying all around slowly called out to him. However, Edan did not look back at his slowly dying subordinates and Roveride. He passed by the corpses of Esteban and Yeomju, the cardinal who had died with his lower body severed, and the mechanized corps. He only slowly moved towards Lenok, who was standing in the center of the area where dark blue lightning was flickering, in front of the fallen Baragan.”Edan…”Baragan gritted his teeth and raised his gaze to see his face.”Edan…!!!”Baragan, seeing that he did not answer, spat out in a voice that was boiling over.”Why… why did you come now…!!””…””Why…!! Songha, is already…!!!”Although he could no longer see Songha’s face, Baragan knew. Too much time had passed to revive Songha using magic. Everything was too late to be reversed. The swordsman who was called the greatest talent of Dead Rise. His friend who had been with Edan for over decades. The leader who had silently dedicated himself to the legion without a single complaint despite the absence of the leadership. Songha had died without even seeing Edan’s face at the last moment. Tears of blood mixed with anger flowed from Baragan’s bloodshot eyes.”Let’s go back to Balkan…!!! Everyone…!!! For your wish…!!!!””…””Why…!!!””Baragan.”Lenok quietly called him.”Don’t you still understand?”Crack…!!!Lenok, who had raised his face, shadowed by the dark blue lightning, asked.”Who is the Bajur standing in front of you right now. Or are you just wanting to deny it even though you know?””…What?””The very fact that he appeared like this only after everything was over clearly tells you who he is.”The black-blue lightning in his hand rotated elegantly, flickering slowly. Lenok raised it and slowly pointed it at Edan, saying.”He must have come to confirm the moment the result is confirmed. Because if he ‘returned’ before that, the result might change.””…””Since he plans to turn it back anyway, he has no feelings about death. Even pain and failure are just passing trial and errors.””…””Having tasted and worn down all those failures and frustrations without exception… isn’t that why you are still here?”This moment of giving an answer to a question that had been unclear for a long time. Perhaps Lenok had known the answer from the beginning. Who ‘he’ was. Why he had returned like this and was standing in front of Lenok. He knew even though there were no scars or cuts on Edan’s neck, and he had already sensed it even before meeting him. Yet, the reason he was confirming it like this at the last moment was because the project had a special meaning for Lenok as well. The truth of the project that he had been chasing for half his life since he opened his eyes in this world. The end of the project that he had once thought might be Lenok’s own origin. It was to give it himself with his own hands.”I knew that I would face this moment someday.”Lenok smiled as he looked at him, who did not answer.”It’s been a while. Kaise Bajur.””…”A quiet silence flowed. Baragan dropped his head weakly, and Edan raised his gaze. Edan, looking up at Lenok with an expressionless face, did not deny those words. He simply closed his eyes as if he had heard that name for the first time.”Kaise, Bajur…”Edan muttered with his eyes closed.”I don’t know how long it’s been since someone called me that…””…””I came all this way to abandon that name, but in the end, nothing changed.”Edan muttered as he moved silently and quietly. In the terribly cold silence, Lenok and Edan’s gazes crossed at the same time.”You know me.”Kaise asked.”No… are you someone who knows that I am a regressor?””Know? That word is misleading.”Lenok laughed.Lenok, who had slowly turned around, said.”The secret you guys tried to hide until the end using the taboo. The alternative found at the end of the Black Consumer Project’s failure.””…””If you understand all of that… isn’t it not strange to reach the same conclusion?”Kaise does not remember Lenok, but Lenok remembers Kaise. The afterimage of the past that remained in the closed area. The past Kaise who had tried to save the world before everything changed. The sacrifice he had made for Lenok at the last moment still remained within Lenok. That memory was still moving Lenok like this. The Black Consumer Project, which was incomprehensible the more he dug into it, and empty the more he looked into it. It was none other than Kaise Bajur himself who helped him confirm the end of that project until the very end. Therefore, Lenok-“I was waiting to put an end to the delusion I had been chasing for a long time.”Lenok slowly moved his feet. Lenok, who had walked past Baragan and down the ruins, said while holding the lightning.”The secret of the project that I had always been curious about since I opened my eyes in this world… the end of you, the designer… even the failure left in this city.””…””I’ve been chasing that fact for a very long time.”Lenok closed his eyes.”Hoping that you guys would reach it even a little bit next time… hoping that I could put an end to all those journeys, I-“Lenok, who had slowly opened his eyes, abruptly cut off the words he had been quietly uttering. In the suffocating silence, Lenok and Kaise faced each other. The deepest part of the demon realm where the subjugation had ended. An emptiness filled only with ruins and corpses. However, what was rising within Lenok was not emotion, fear, or wariness. As if pushing away the pure curiosity that was rising from within, Lenok quietly asked.”How does it feel, Kaise?””…””How does it feel to be resurrected in the present by taking over your son’s body… what does it feel like?”He said, looking at the expressionless face of Edan standing in front of him.”To steal even the talent of a reviver that he possessed, to devour even his fate and be reborn. How broken do you have to be to do that?””…”He didn’t need to ask why Kaise had done such a thing. The talent of defying the heavens that Edan Bajur possessed. The ability of a reviver who had returned from death. Therefore, what Lenok was curious about was not why Kaise had taken over Edan’s body. The betrayal that Kaise, who had designed the Black Consumer Project, had not even imagined at first. He just wanted to hear his feelings after he had changed so much, even to the point of taking his son’s body.”How does it feel to abandon everything you had decided at first and change… what does it feel like?””Nothing.”Kaise raised his gaze.”I have no feelings. This is also a result that I have reached after countless experiments a long time ago.””…””This is the first time I have succeeded in obtaining Edan’s body in its entirety… but I have been trying to do so for a long time.”Kaise, who had slowly flicked his hand and walked in front of Lenok, looked at him. In his eyes, only an endless emptiness was darkly reflected.”Was it so important what feelings I had at that time?””…””The feelings and emotions of that time… are just fleeting moments even at this moment.”The Black Consumer Project was a plan centered around Kaise Bajur’s regression. It was a process of looking into all the failures of this world without exception and finding the answer to move on to the next. However, how terrible and immense were the failures that Kaise had faced in that process? Failing, and failing again, and failing until he failed. If he had reached the point where he could not feel any emotion about all those failures. If he had come to think that even this moment was just a failure that would soon disappear. That was the end of Kaise Bajur who was standing in front of Lenok.”I see…”Kaise does not grieve over the death of his comrades. He can just revive them by regressing. He does not care about the destruction and collapse of the legion. He can just turn it back by regressing. His subordinates who believe in him and follow him, the soldiers who are dying for him. His friends and comrades who had been with him. They are all just meaningless trial and errors that must be turned back in a failed regression. However, Lenok was not surprised even after hearing that fact from him. Since he had learned that Kaise was a regressor, he had been constantly thinking about the reason why he had changed. He had been thinking about what was different between the past Kaise who had given up his own potential and sacrificed himself for Lenok in the closed area and the current Kaise who had been resurrected by taking over Edan’s body. There was only the bitterness of actually confirming what he had been guessing.”You are the biggest variable that occurred during the time I stopped regressing to obtain Edan’s body.”Kaise turned his gaze with an expressionless face.”You were born in this world, but you are not the fate of this world… a variable that exists in a different dimension from Alcaide [a term for the world or reality].””…””So, I will ask you one last time.”Kaise, who had raised his gaze, said.”Can you hand over Jenisia?””No.”Lenok, who had been silent, answered.”I refuse. Under no circumstances will I ever abandon Jenie’s choice.””That child is the only attachment that keeps Edan in this world.”Kaise closed his eyes.”That child must be by my side… I will be able to maintain this body in its complete form. There is no other choice.””It’s not about how you intend to use Jenie, Kaise.”Lenok laughed.”Kaise. You know that, so you said you would ask ‘one last time’, right?””…”Kaise does not double-check every problem he faces. Once an answer is decided, he can just regress and change the answer. Lenok was aware that the regressor’s aspect was deeply embedded in all of Kaise’s actions.”I’ll make it clear in this place.”Lenok, who had slowly lowered his hand, said.”No matter how many times you regress, my answer will not change. No matter how many times you turn it back, my decision will not change.””…””Unlike you, I am here to remain unchanged from the beginning.””No. That’s not true.”Kaise closed his eyes. He slowly raised both hands, and as he brought his hands together as if in prayer, he answered.”Because I have abandoned everything and changed… I am trying to accomplish at least one thing that I decided at the beginning.””…””I don’t know if it was right or wrong anymore, but-“He could not let everything he had sacrificed for it be in vain. The failure that Kaise had faced. The time he had rewound. The memories and relationships he had lost as a price. He was here to give meaning to everything that only Kaise himself remembered and was forgetting. So-“Even if I have to change everything else… I must not hesitate.”Fwoooooosh!!!!The power of defying the heavens that spread out from Kaise began to rotate, drawing a huge circle. Lenok also stepped forward, holding the dark blue lightning, and bent the lightning to its limit. The Kyunroe Subjugation. The end of the war that had massacred tens of thousands of transcendents and obliterated the outer district of Balkan. The final battle where the leaders of both sides, who had finally faced each other at the end, clashed. Baragan, who was bleeding and staring blankly at the scene, muttered.”Kaise…””Baragan. I am sorry about the failure of the subjugation.”Kaise opened his mouth without looking back at Baragan in the overflowing light.”I will make sure that this does not happen in the next round.””…That’s.”The next round. Baragan was not given the time to properly ponder the meaning of those words. The moment he realized that Kaise was planning to use his power in this place. Lenok and Kaise had simultaneously stepped forward towards each other at the end of the battlefield. In the storm of overflowing power, Lenok looked at Kaise and chuckled.”In the end, you were planning to solve it with force from the beginning.””Now that I have obtained Edan’s body, there is such a method.”Kaise said.”But that’s not my way. Fighting was the job of my comrades.””No, it looks the same to me.”Lenok sneered.”If you are just postponing the answer of this moment and ‘turning it back’… how is that different from suppressing it with force?””…””Well, it doesn’t matter. Kaise. I wasn’t waiting for you to argue about right and wrong.”In the overflowing light, Lenok planted the black-blue lightning on the ground. Lenok, who had raised his hand, glared at Kaise with dark blue eyes.”Let’s settle this. This war-“And, the story of Kaise Bajur.Kwaaaaaang!!!The black-blue lightning exploded, spreading out behind Lenok like wings that were tens of meters long. The power of defying the heavens glitched like noise and reversed counterclockwise from under Kaise’s feet. Transcending decades of time, transcending the success and failure of the Black Consumer Project. The moment Lenok and Kaise simultaneously reached out towards each other. Incantations with the same meaning and different forms flowed from the mouths of the two.”Ideological Domain Manifestation [a technique to project one’s inner world onto reality].””Magnetic Domain Deployment [a technique to manipulate the laws of physics].”Fwoooooooooosh!!!!A colorless ripple overflowed like a tidal wave, covering space-time. The origin of the answerer, who changes and alters the world, and finally builds the world, was beginning to rewrite the laws by projecting and altering reality. In the moment when consciousness accelerated to its limit and time slowed down as if it had stopped. A roar that sounded like the hands of a clock colliding and turning roughly covered the world.Charrrrrrrr!!!The branching point of the reverse that goes back in time in endless regret. The pinnacle of defying the heavens that defies the order of the sky and reverses the flow of time to reverse cause and effect. The moment when Kaise Bajur’s origin was rewriting the laws and reversing them by altering the world. The moment when the origin that made him exist as a regressor began to devour reality and spread out fiercely.Kugwagwagwagwa!!!!However, Kaise was feeling a strong sense of incongruity from Lenok immediately after starting the incantation. Immediately after the two had deployed their Ideological Domain and Magnetic Domain towards each other. However, Lenok’s origin, which should have been in this space-time, was not felt. Lenok, who had even temporarily put down the transcendent lightning he had obtained using the subjugation, was deploying the Magnetic Domain by making hand seals with both hands. Instead, what was felt from the mage’s inner self, who had stretched out his hand towards this side, was-“Ideological Hierarchy Image Realization [a technique to manifest a specific concept or image into reality].”There were two voices calling out the incantation. But only one responding heart. The heart that someone from the past had left behind in the closed area was reaching the present, transcending space-time at this moment. The moment Kaise realized that fact in the far distance of his slowed consciousness and suddenly raised his gaze. Lenok and Kaise simultaneously uttered the same words, transcending decades of time.”Fetal Reversal Shackled Leaf [a technique to reverse the flow of time and fate].”