Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 132

‘It’s something you can’t do alone. No one can live alone.’

‘So, are you saying you’re going to help me, Raul?’

‘Yes.’

A moment of silence fell between the two.

The slanting sunset seeped through the old window cracks, landing on their dry knees.

‘If you need artifacts, come to me. Even if I can’t be of great help, I’ll support you with the necessary items as far as I can. Considering your skills, it might just be providing you with consumables.’

Croken Asillas, a declaration of cooperation from a high-ranking enchantment-type black magician, enough to ensure their safety for business purposes.

Just being able to freely receive the talismans, bombs, or cursed items they create would be a great help to Lenok.

However, Lenok didn’t blindly rejoice at the unsolicited favor.

The Raul he had seen so far was not someone to be easily trusted.

‘That’s amusing.’

Lenok chuckled.

‘Are you feeling guilty all of a sudden?’

‘No.’

Raul slowly closed his eyes and replied.

‘I think I can understand that friend.’

‘………’

The story of Craig Tillion, who was caught up in Senator Reisen’s greed and frustrated with his own goals, ended there.

But how many similar things have happened in this city, and how many more will happen in the future?

Lenok was the only one who heard his cry against the irrationality of the world, but it seems that the unheard cry reached Raul’s heart as well.

Lenok tried not to think too deeply.

He always told himself that only one thing was important.

But Raul’s words that he couldn’t live alone didn’t easily disappear from his heart.

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Ding, ding!

Lenok, who had been looking at his incessantly ringing phone with a displeased expression, finally turned off the alarm.

The alarm sound, which was usually hard to hear, filled the house for a reason.

Finally, the compensation and bonuses for the past operations were being settled and deposited into his account.

Lenok’s own value was considerable, but how many times had he succeeded in completing tasks, taking on the shares of others in the process?

The price for overcoming the alienation of not trusting anyone around him and surviving like this, exponentially increased as Lenok climbed higher, and was deposited into his account.

‘One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand…’

Hundred million, and a billion.

The settlement funds from the gang’s vault that came in periodically from Dyke Corporation. The success bonuses from the operations he had received from the agent.

In the meantime, his value continued to skyrocket.

In total, one billion and eight hundred million cell.

A huge sum of about 1.8 billion cell had accumulated in Lenok’s account.

It was something he had only vaguely imagined, but it was still hard to believe that it was actually in his bank account.

Lenok had acquired money he could never have touched on Earth, in just one year, and only in cash.

Lenok, staring blankly at the numbers on his account that had surpassed ten digits, threw his phone onto the bed and lay down.

Considering the cost of the cigarettes, elixirs, nutritional supplements, food, and the expenses of this house, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that he had earned almost 2 billion cell alone.

The reward for all the hardships he had gone through without stopping for a single moment was here.

If he saved this money well, he could probably live comfortably for the rest of his life.

‘………’

But Lenok turned off his phone screen and got up from his seat, sitting at his desk.

The dwindling time. The weak body. The talent he had honed while bearing all those penalties.

After running towards the goal of breaking free from the shackles that bound him, a problem he had never thought about before had arisen.

‘The Extinction Acrotreenier. Craig called it the end coming from the outer sea.’

The monsters from beyond the world that the Sky Watcher, Madrea Falsier, had observed and guarded against.

Craig had said that contact with those monsters had become easier at the same time as her death.

The end is approaching.

And it wasn’t Evelyn, Aris, or Raul who told Lenok this fact.

A high-ranking black magician of Pandemonium.

The very person who first handed him the brooch and told him to follow its trail.

‘Pandemonium knows what’s happening now. Or—’

They might be the instigators of everything that’s happening now.

But one thing is clear.

If there really is a flow called the mainstream in this world.

It was impossible for Lenok to escape that flow.

‘Damn it…’

In the dark laboratory.

Lenok covered his eyes with both hands and muttered a curse.

Even the simple wish to survive and secure the future was difficult to achieve.

The fragments of the end and the mainstream. The words of a closed world.

Was Pandemonium, who had hinted at all these facts to him, an enemy or an ally?

What was the relationship between the word ‘Alcaid’ that the Sky Watcher had left behind at the end and the monsters that had invaded the outer sea?

He had no intention of just watching, but he didn’t have enough information to actively step forward alone.

‘Problems can’t be solved just by worrying… Let’s do what we have to do first.’

It wasn’t just about monetary compensation.

In the process of dealing with Craig and the black magicians, the knowledge that Lenok had gained through his transcendent five senses remained in his memory without being forgotten, even as time passed.

Rather, the knowledge preserved in his mind was becoming more logically organized and becoming nourishment for him to climb higher.

A magician above level 6. The ‘magnetic field’ that only a very few of them could use.

And the mysteries of necromancy that he had realized while constantly fighting necromancers.

‘Let’s put the field aside for now.’

In the battle with Craig, Lenok had grasped how to use the field at once, but unfortunately, he didn’t know exactly how to utilize it.

Considering that Lenok couldn’t get a grasp of it even in his conversation with Aris, it could be said that it was a very secretive knowledge passed down among high-ranking magicians.

For now, he only knew that the field allowed a magician to use spells that exceeded their limits.

It would be good to visit her later and subtly get information about the field or data on the thesis.

‘I have something in mind regarding necromancy.’

There were three things to prepare.

Craig’s artificial intelligence data module that he had received from Evelyn, and the engine he had taken from Daron’s corpse.

And the mysteries of the necromantic formula that Lenok had newly realized.

Craig tried to rebel against the giant city by summoning an uncontrollable monster, but Lenok thought that the idea itself was not wrong.

The method of controlling the necromantic formula through the algorithm of artificial intelligence had actually been somewhat successful.

Instead of ignoring it as a black magician’s formula, he had to absorb all the advantages.

No, he couldn’t just stop at absorbing it.

He would extract the ideals that the guy had pursued to the root and move on to the next level.

Lenok made that resolution and pulled up his magic power from deep within his body.

Woo-woo-woo-woong!!!

A huge backflow of magic power. It was so overwhelming that Lenok himself flinched.

Every time he risked his life and crossed the line.

Every time he glimpsed a higher level.

Lenok’s magic power exploded and expanded its horizon.

The magic power that filled his whole body and overflowed. But the control was perfect.

Lenok slowly brought both hands to the artificial intelligence data module and converted the flowing magic power directly into electricity.

Tzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!

Would it be like this if the sound of birds chirping was layered in ten thousand ways?

Along with the terrible noise that could not be blocked even by the soundproofing equipment of the laboratory, the pure white current flowed into the module.

Considering the amount of heat, it wouldn’t be strange if the module turned to ashes in the blink of an eye.

However, the module that received the current falling from under his hands only twitched, and its brilliance increased without a single part being damaged.

‘The true value of the change in the nature of magic power used by a magician who has reached level 6 is not just about increasing the power of magic.’

A temporary ability designed to allow the grafting of completely different types of spells.

In the unique magic system designed to handle only one system, it serves as the cornerstone to help move on to another possibility.

Just like this.

[Electric Magic Nature Change: Necromancy.]

Faaaaaaat!!!

In the torrent of blindingly white electricity, something began to wriggle and be born.

Birth (2)

In the torrent of blindingly white electricity, something began to wriggle and be born.

‘It’, which was given a soul that did not originally exist, flowed into the module following the path that Lenok had guided.

And, according to the algorithm of artificial intelligence, it was given a logical intellect.

Woo-woo-woong!!

‘I can’t stop here. I have to connect the power source quickly.’

Lenok’s magic power, which had grown through the battles so far, was draining away like a lump in this process.

Lenok raised his trembling hand, grabbed Daron’s engine, and connected it to the module.

The connector that had been prepared for this moment melted down because it couldn’t handle the amount of information, but it didn’t matter.

The important thing was the ‘concept’ that it was connected.

A life that had once recognized a power source naturally pulled its own heart and opened its eyes.

It is born.

A soul that has not been summoned anywhere, given a heart that does not move, grasping an intellect that cannot think for itself.

But that which holds those three contradictory concepts together, under the law of the Trinity, transforms into a completely new life.

The artificial intelligence module and Daron’s engine melted and stuck to the desk.

The substance that supported life disappeared, but the concept remained.

‘…..Haha.’

Lenok let out a hollow laugh, sweating profusely all over his body.

The form of the pure white magic power that had landed on the desk,

It was in the shape of a small fox.

[FALMERS VER 2.997 Artificial Intelligence Activation Control Confirmed]

The artificial mechanical sound flowing from the fox.

[Recognizing the AI controller and starting activity from this time. The remaining operating time with the power source disconnected is—unmeasurable.]

The fox spoke in a business-like tone, then tilted its head.

[Confirming that the power structure pattern is fundamentally broken. I cannot understand the operating principle.]

‘That’s because you’re trying to think only with the logic of artificial intelligence.’

Lenok said in a tired voice.

‘You’re not just a simple artificial intelligence. You’re not a soul that was summoned by a proper necromantic formula either. You’re a new life created by combining the intellect of artificial intelligence and the principle of borrowing the soul of a necromantic formula.’

Lenok, slumped in his chair, tilted his head to match the fox’s gaze and muttered.

‘Yeah… If I were to actually create a cyber spirit, would it feel like this?’

[………]

‘You don’t have to stick to the system’s voice. You’re aware that you’re thinking beyond the limits of artificial intelligence, aren’t you?’

Was it because Lenok’s words hit the nail on the head, or was it because it was finally starting to recognize its own identity correctly?

The fox didn’t answer for a long time after hearing Lenok’s words.

‘While researching the necromantic formula to kill Craig, I realized that the core of the formula is not about summoning a soul, but about ‘giving’ the summoned soul.’

That was also why Lenok was able to research the principles of necromantic formulas and buff Hina’s body by giving it electricity.

Even then, Lenok had been moving with a vague conviction that if he got his hands on artificial intelligence and a power source, he could create something more than just a living AI.

‘I can’t just be swept away without knowing anything… If I’ve found the problem, now I have to move to find the answer.’

Originally, he wanted to create a reliable vanguard to help Lenok’s battles more easily, but if this was the limit even after pouring out that much magic power, he had no regrets.

The important thing was the fact that he had directly created a spirit that could think for itself.

This fox, born with the powerful calculation ability of artificial intelligence, a magnificent life force, and the powerful attribute of electricity.

It could be one answer to the spirit summoning that Craig so desperately wanted and longed for.