Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1243

Kyunroe Subjugation (35)

The moment the Ideological Domain and the Magnetic Domain collided, overlapping in the same space-time.

A vast disc unfolded, reaching into the distant reaches of space-time, slowly rotating beneath the feet of the two men.

Kwarurururuk!!!!

The great earth transformed into an endlessly turning clock.

Using the hour and minute hands as boats, they ascended the great river of time.

Kaise Bajur’s primal image, directly manipulating the concept of time, powered by the magic of reverse heaven [a magic that manipulates time in reverse].

The heart of the pioneer who, even after endlessly rewinding time and repeating failures, was determined to find an answer.

Magnetic Domain Deployment

Ideological Hierarchy Image Realization

[Fetal Reversal Shackled Leaf] [a technique to reverse the flow of time and fate]

Kwaga gwaga gwaga gwaga!!!!!!!

Lenok and Kaise stood upon a massive clock of immeasurable size.

Below the surface, the distorted shapes of the numerals were barely visible.

Lenok and Kaise, standing on the slowly moving hour and minute hands, faced each other.

Kugugugu……!!!

Kaise’s empty gaze looked down at the bowed Lenok.

The gaze of the worn-out returner slowly followed the mage’s figure.

It was as if even he, who had gone through endless regressions, had never anticipated this moment.

“…You.”

Two incantations were spoken to deploy the Ideological Domain and the Magnetic Domain. But the primal image that covered and unfolded across the world was one.

A miracle where their respective images and techniques did not collide but overlapped and expanded simultaneously.

Something impossible unless two people simultaneously deployed the same domain.

He momentarily doubted it, but it was undeniable.

Lenok had simultaneously deployed the same Magnetic Domain as Kaise, unfolding it in space-time.

Moreover, it was the image of the Fetal Reversal Shackled Leaf, which only Kaise, with his magic of reverse heaven, possessed.

“From the start, the subjugation meant nothing to you.”

Kaise spoke.

“To steal and use another’s domain… you haven’t even used such an unprecedented power until now?”

“I didn’t steal it, Kaise.”

Lenok, who had been bowing his head, spoke quietly.

“This is the answer that you gave me directly, decades ago.”

“……”

“You said that if I didn’t lose the heart I had at the beginning, I wouldn’t regret any outcome.”

Lenok’s expression as he looked at Kaise was so blurred that it was impossible to describe.

“Even if everything is fake, if the choice is true… it can become an echo for the future.”

“……”

“I am here because I received your answer back then.”

Lenok stepped forward.

Lenok, standing on the rotating minute hand, looked at Kaise.

“I was waiting to give you your ending, in your stead.”

“…You are.”

“Kaise. This is a message from you, decades ago, to the you of now.”

Lenok slowly closed his eyes.

“Even if everything that made up the old you was fake… that heart is definitely true.”

Lenok quietly answered Kaise.

“If you are a being who seeks answers, then in my world, you must be a true being until the very end.”

“That’s an arrogant statement.”

Kaise asked.

“Are you planning to judge this world based on your own image?”

“……”

Kaise’s every word brought back the last moments of the closed area.

The answer left by the past Kaise, who sacrificed himself for Lenok, now sounded completely different.

If everything was already different from then. If even that memory meant nothing to Kaise.

If it only remained true within Lenok’s own heart.

In the end, they had no choice but to uphold their own answers until the very end.

Kaise took a step.

“I know why you deployed the same Magnetic Domain as me. You were planning to directly intervene in my regression using the Fetal Reversal Shackled Leaf’s ability to rewind time.”

“……”

“But that itself is proof that you don’t understand what regression is… Regardless of how it’s possible, it’s just a meaningless attempt.”

Kaise spoke with a blank face, leaving Lenok without an answer.

“Regression is a miracle that completely defies the order of the world. Therefore, that power cannot be used without the existence of an Ideological Domain that rewrites the laws of the world.”

“……”

“Judging from the deployment method of the Magnetic Domain, the Fetal Reversal Shackled Leaf you used is a possibility from when I was designing the testbed for the project… That ability is limited to rewinding and restoring the time of objects or targets, merely embodying the talent of reverse heaven in the realm of technology.”

Regression is a miracle that cannot be established without reaching the realm of power that rewrites the laws of the world.

That is why Kaise obtained the Ideological Domain through the project to complete his regression ability.

Even that was only possible because Kaise himself was an exceptional genius who possessed the talent of reverse heaven and held it as a primal image.

The power of the Magnetic Domain that the past Kaise had given was not enough to properly intervene in Kaise’s regression.

Kaise immediately deduced the timing by looking at the scene of the Fetal Reversal Shackled Leaf that Lenok had deployed.

At the same time, he was intuitively aware that no matter what means Lenok used, he could not stand on the same timeline as him.

“Kyunroe. With the method you’ve prepared, you cannot interfere with regression. It’s impossible to stand on the same timeline as me, and it’s impossible to stop my regression.”

Kaise, turning to look at Lenok with a blank face, said.

“In the first place, do you think that you, who do not possess the talent of reverse heaven, can fully withstand the miracle of reversing time?”

“No. Perhaps it would be impossible for a human.”

But Lenok smiled without denying those words.

As if he already knew that Kaise would say that.

“Isn’t that why even you came all the way here to obtain Edan’s body?”

“……”

“If you’re going to regress, then go ahead, Kaise. I won’t follow.”

Lenok crossed his arms, leaving Kaise momentarily speechless.

Lenok’s gaze, tilting his head, flashed with a dark blue light.

“Using the Fetal Reversal Shackled Leaf was just to say one last thing… In the first place, regression isn’t the answer I want.”

“……”

“No matter what we do, it won’t take long. Either way, the fight will end soon.”

The final battle of the subjugation, where transcendents who defy the laws clash in overflowing time.

In real time, even that clash is only a fleeting moment.

They knew from the beginning what they had to do.

“All preparations are complete.”

Lenok raised his gaze.

“It’s not the ending I wanted, but it will be enough to conclude this war.”

“…Is that so.”

Kaise nodded.

He still didn’t know what Lenok wanted and why he deployed the same domain.

He also didn’t know what he was aiming for and why he wasn’t trying to stop Kaise’s regression.

Even after obtaining the transcendent lightning through the subjugation, his detached attitude made it seem like he didn’t even want to fight Kaise for long.

But even while acknowledging all those facts, Kaise didn’t bother asking why.

Since he started regressing, he only needed to ask a question once.

Confirming the bewilderment and questions that Lenok had left behind was not for now, but-

“I’ll check it directly in the next round.”

Charrrrrrrrk!!!!!

The second hand rapidly reversed, increasing the speed as the minute and hour hands also rotated counterclockwise.

A miracle of directly ascending the great river of time, using the hour and minute hands as boats.

The power of regression given only to Kaise Bajur in this world.

He ‘defied’ the world by imaging it in the form of an Ideological Domain and a Magnetic Domain.

The pinnacle of reverse heaven, denying and rejecting the very time that this world had existed.

[Regression Initiated.]

Buaaaaaaaaaaang!!!!

Lenok’s figure, who had been standing on the minute hand, receded, and only Kaise remained, riding on the hour hand.

In the scene where everything blurred into light, Kaise turned without hesitation.

* * *

The talent of reverse heaven is not a blessing, but a curse.

Kaise Bajur knew that fact better than anyone since birth.

‘You were born with a constitution where magic flows in reverse.’

As always, during the days when he was ‘failing’ and wandering the continent.

A quack doctor he met by chance on his travels, while sharing a drink, said that.

‘Magic flows in the opposite direction of your body’s blood circulation, constantly clashing.’

‘Your time will flow differently from others, and you won’t be able to live long.’

‘If you have family, it would be best to say your goodbyes in advance.’

The doctor’s words were not wrong.

That night, after drinking and falling asleep, the doctor tried to kill him and take his body.

The talent of reverse heaven. The only special bloodline ability in the world, a curse that flowed through his blood.

Those who noticed Kaise’s talent all coveted his power and body, trying to steal it even if it meant killing him.

At that time, he didn’t know why they craved this power so much.

At that time, he didn’t know why they feared this power so much.

Looking back, all the time that Kaise Bajur had lived was like that.

What he truly wanted never came into his hands on time, and he only realized it much later.

Always… he was regretting, in the time that slipped through his fingers like grains of sand.

If he could have done a little better back then. If he hadn’t ignored the discomfort he felt back then. If he had delved a little deeper into the secret he saw back then.

He wouldn’t have failed.

Regret becomes lingering attachment, and lingering attachment becomes remorse, deeply embedded in his heart.

In Kaise’s inner self, who lived a different time than others, [regret] became his origin.

And before he knew it, Kaise’s primal image was taking a form to defy that regret.

Charrrrrrrrk!!!!

Ideological Domain Fetal Reversal Shackled Leaf.

The pinnacle of reverse heaven that Kaise, who had regretted his entire life, created within his heart.

The genius’s disposition to change everything, even time, to avoid regret.

He walks alone through the endlessly rewinding time.

On the turning clock hands, Kaise rewinds the time he has passed through.

An illusion as if the scenery and memories that Kaise had faced were reversing before his eyes.

At the same time, Kaise’s mind and body burned, beginning to melt without even leaving their original form.

“……”

Chiiiiiiik!!!!

Regression is a miracle that defies the laws and order of the world and reverses time.

But it is impossible to avoid the deterioration of the caster’s mind and body in the process of reversing time.

Water wears away stone. Just as even the hardest rock cannot withstand flowing water droplets.

If you ascend the river of time, your soul and spirit will be worn away by the flowing waves.

Personality. Intellect. Humanity. Eventually, even memories, destroying the identity that makes up the self, and ultimately becoming a part of eternal time.

The reason why Kaise obtained Edan’s body was to find a way to avoid that rebound.

The talent of a resurrector.

It was not a talent that rewound time like Kaise, but a talent that could reverse the damage to the body and ignore even death.

As Edan’s ability grew stronger, to the point where he could resurrect him from death, Kaise saw another possibility in his son.

A vessel that could prevent the soul and spirit from being worn away, no matter how many times he regressed.

The power to be completely free from the side effects of regression and to ‘challenge’ endlessly as before.

The reason why Kaise, after a long period of trial and error, obtained the body of his son.

Pajijijik-

The erosion of the soul and spirit that inevitably occurs while ascending the river of time.

The pain that had driven him mad every time he regressed since some time ago was rapidly subsiding.

The erosion of the mind and the damage to the body and mind that had made Kaise worse than a beast were reversing and returning.

A miracle that became possible from the moment he obtained Edan’s body, who was born with the talent of a resurrector.

Having confirmed that, Kaise began to regress again without hesitation.

Charrrrrrrrk!!!!

He restores his mind and body within the turning clock hands and walks through time again.

Kyunroe. A transcendent who massacred tens of thousands in the subjugation and awakened to level 9 lightning magic.

A monster who challenged transcendence by using the war that was started to kill him as an ascension ritual.

A genius who reached the realm with a heart soaked in blood, after killing countless transcendents.

If they had faced each other head-on, he couldn’t have been sure of victory.

Even though he had obtained Edan’s body, fighting was not his forte, either now or then.

But even so, Kaise had defeated geniuses and monsters who would go down in history and stood at the pinnacle of Balkan.

He won the civil war that determined the fate of Balkan, dominated the shadows, designed the project, and dreamed of salvation by coaxing transcendents.

The reason why Kaise was able to ultimately win against countless monsters and geniuses, or to bring them in.

It wasn’t because Kaise had an advantage in their ‘present’ and ‘future’.

Charrrrrrrrk!!!!!

He continues to regress, going back through the time that Kyunroe has existed.

Before he defeated Madrich Onion and reached level 8.

Before he killed Parden McQueen, the first president of the Cartel, and completed level 7.

He heads back to before he stole and learned the unique lightning magic and became a true mage.

The ‘past’ where even the transcendents who shook the world were weak and humble, which they could not avoid.

Hwaak!!!

The moment he closed and opened his eyes, Kaise was standing on one side of a messy back alley.

A scene of the 49th district that was more than familiar to Kaise himself. An old memory that now held no emotion.

A bustling and lively downtown area in the shadows, still crowded with mercenaries and outlaws even after decades.

“……”

People passing by. Even the voices coming from all directions felt distant and faint.

In this moment of rewinding time and regressing to the past. Everything felt unfamiliar and awkward, as if it was detached from Kaise.

A timeline that had nothing to do with Kaise himself, but one that had definitely existed there at some point.

Kaise, standing in the back alley of the 49th district with a blank face, slowly took a step.

The loneliness of a failure who walks a different timeline than others forever.

This solitude felt immediately after regression was always his alone.

The despair he had faced every time after rewinding the failure of the project and endlessly collecting and editing talents.

Even though it was a feeling he was experiencing after so long, it was surprisingly familiar and devoid of emotion.

Even this moment was just a part of countless passing trials and errors.

Therefore, what he had to do was decided.

Squeak!

He opens the old door, passes through the stairs leading down, and enters a dimly lit bar.

The moment he opens the door and enters, a sharp-looking woman with curly hair turns around.

“Oh, I don’t recognize your face. A new customer?”

“……”

Kaise didn’t answer.

He just stared at the woman standing in front of him for a long time with an expressionless face.

A slightly trembling fingertip. A sense of discomfort as if he was reacting as soon as he saw her, regardless of his own will.

But the woman crossed her arms with a nonchalant look, as if she was used to such gazes.

“Sorry, but staring like that won’t get you any money. But I can give you a job.”

“……”

“Oh, did my joke not land? Well, whatever, close the door and come in.”

The woman shrugged, looking at Kaise who didn’t answer.

She skillfully organized the glasses and pointed to a person sitting at the bar.

“There’s someone who just came looking for work, just like you.”

“……”

Only then did Kaise’s expressionless eyes turn to follow that gesture.

A black-haired young man sitting at the bar opposite the woman, looking at a catalog with his back turned.

Wearing a black coat and holding a cigarette, he looked so thin that it was impossible to hide.

The woman, who was shaking a cocktail, shrugged.

“Was it Ban? He’s a lightning mage, and he’s pretty good. If you’re thinking of working together-”

“……”

Ignoring the woman’s voice, Kaise slowly walked towards the young man.

It was the first time he had seen him with his own eyes, but as soon as he saw him, he knew he had arrived properly.

A transcendent archmage who had reached level 8. A transcendent who had obtained level 9 lightning magic.

But even such a genius had a time when he was weak, unstable, and lacked power.

The past timeline that existed before he had properly built up his hierarchy.

Back then, when he had first flowed into this city and started freelance work.

Kaise had regressed by endlessly repeating timelines, going back to the time when Kyunroe first started working in Balkan.

“……”

The past Kyunroe, not even noticing Kaise’s presence, was engrossed in the catalog.

He approaches Kyunroe, who was within reach as if he could touch him if he reached out.

Now, anything is possible.

Killing Kyunroe in this place. Or, conversely, coaxing Kyunroe and becoming his companion.

Even designing his fate from now on and bending it in the direction that Kaise wants.

Now that he has obtained Edan’s body, no matter what method he chooses, the past Kyunroe wouldn’t even be aware of it.

If he fails, he will try again. If he gives up, he will try again. He will endlessly repeat trial and error until he gets the desired result.

Standing here, facing the past Kyunroe, was the first proof that Kaise had truly returned to this world.

So-

“Aren’t you going to sit down?”

At that moment, Kyunroe, who had been turning his back, opened his mouth.

He spoke calmly, still looking at the catalog.

“The cocktails they mix here are pretty good. You’ll regret it if you don’t try one now.”

“……”

“At this time, Jorden is still healthy, so he often makes the cocktails himself. If you come then, the taste is even more special.”

Kyunroe spoke calmly to Kaise, who had stopped as if frozen.

“I thought it might be a little embellished because it’s such an old memory… but coming back here, it’s not. It’s exactly as I remembered.”

A regretful attitude that didn’t seem like a mage who had just started freelance work.

An answer that seemed to know the details of the cocktails in a bar he hadn’t visited many times.

Even the fact that he recognized Kaise’s presence first and spoke to him.

Kyunroe slowly raised his glass and muttered quietly.

“I had to earn a day to buy tomorrow. I had nothing, and sometimes I was afraid to fall asleep.”

“……”

“A lot has changed… but why do I still think of this time sometimes?”

Something is different.

Kaise, sensing that, unconsciously twitched his fingers.

This man is not a past being that exists in the timeline that Kaise has regressed to, but-

“Sit down, Kaise.”

Lenok slowly turned his head.

Following that gaze, a dark blue light flashed, illuminating Kaise’s face.

“As I said, the fight will end soon.”

“…You are.”

The last message that Lenok had given to Kaise right before he turned back time and regressed.

Realizing that, an unhideable crack appeared on Kaise’s expressionless face for the first time.

The reason why Lenok had deployed the same domain as Kaise, but did not directly follow his regression.

The reason why he didn’t stop Kaise even while watching him regress through time before his eyes.

Lenok had arrived in the timeline he had regressed to before Kaise and was waiting for him.