Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 254

Interference (1)

“So, this was your plan all along,” Evelyn said, her expression cold as she glared at Turan.

“You pretended to offer yourself as a sacrifice, waited for Giognis to activate his magnetic field, and then stabbed him in the back.”

“Something like that,” Turan replied, his tone indifferent.

Hot flames flickered from his mouth as he picked at his teeth.

“Did you call him Ban? If you’ve met that old man, you should know. We don’t need weak mages who can’t even protect themselves.”

“…”

“We need ruthless individuals who will do anything to achieve their goals. The guy I just ate was a complete failure in that regard.”

He chuckled and added, “Well, if I thought I had a chance of winning when I fought you guys, I might have changed my mind… but things turned out this way. What can you do?”

Whirr!

As Turan raised his double-edged axe, the fire that had been licking along the handle instantly flared up along the blade.

“I have to survive and get out of here, even if it’s just me.”

It was a magnificent sight, as if he were holding up a giant wing of flames in one hand.

An environment where he could maximize the White Lion’s ability to use the magic he had gained through cannibalism.

And what did it mean that the magnetic field Giognis had deployed was still active?

Screech!

Evelyn, blocking Lenox’s path and taking a defensive stance, spoke with a tense expression. “Ban, is what you said earlier really possible?”

“…”

“If that murderer has truly taken control of Giognis’s field, we might have to rethink our entire plan.”

Evelyn knew beforehand that it would be difficult for Lenox to use his field right away.

Not only could she not counter the magnetic field with her own, but her own magic was also running low, leaving her with few options.

Turan, seeing Evelyn’s tense face, burst into a hearty laugh.

“That’s it! I wanted to see that terrified, cowering face!”

As Turan’s thick hand moved, dozens of fire pillars swirling from all directions writhed and narrowed the space.

A dome of blazing heat, connecting the sky and the ground, moved like a living thing, relentlessly closing in on the battlefield.

An ability that perfectly reconstructed the battlefield to his liking by fully utilizing the space of the magnetic field.

It was a perfect power for Turan, who had fully recovered at this moment, even if it wasn’t for the dead Giognis.

“After I eat you here and steal your magic, it won’t be difficult to steal the fire from the furnace. Hehehe, a mage and an archer… I’m so curious what you’ll taste like.”

Thud!

As Turan swung his axe, the wings of flame clinging to the blade spread out, drawing a huge red arc.

The space between Lenox and Evelyn was completely split, and a huge slash swept through the surroundings.

Kwaaaang!

“So, the talent that Myung saw was only this much, kehahahahahat!”

Just by breathing and gathering strength, he drew in the heat from the huge fire pillars surrounding him and scattered it.

It was making it possible to use fire-type magic, which would normally have to gradually increase in scale and heat, without restraint from the moment the field was deployed.

As Turan raised his double-edged axe and jumped into the center of the field, a huge cage of blazing heat responded, rotating around the axe blade.

Whirr!

Dozens of fire pillars bent and converged at one point, compressed to the limit by the lion giant’s will, and turned into hellfire.

[Jade Flame]

A jade-colored flame, considered the highest grade among flames, formed like a water droplet at the tip of the axe blade and fell.

The mere appearance of the jade flame in the field caused all the moisture in the space to dry up, making it difficult to even breathe.

In front of a flame that greedily devoured even the moisture in the body, the human body would skip the burning process and evaporate into a puff of gas.

Evelyn immediately grabbed Lenox’s shoulder and tried to break the field, but Lenox, on the contrary, walked forward and stretched his hand towards the sky.

“Ban…!!!”

Ignoring her shocked expression, Lenox stepped forward and channeled his magic.

The White Lion Turan thought he had devoured Giognis and completely stolen his abilities, but he was wrong.

Even if the magic and magnetic field he left behind were still active, he could not devour his knowledge.

The operating principle of the unique fire-type magic that Giognis Verbane had pondered, worked hard on, and trained in throughout his life.

If one did not understand the creator’s idea of creating a huge wave from a small spark, even the magnetic field would be nothing more than an illusion.

Originally, it wouldn’t be strange if it had collapsed the moment Giognis died.

Then, who was taking over and maintaining control of this magnetic field right now?

The answer was obvious.

The jade-colored flame that had fallen from the sky landed gently in Lenox’s hand.

“No…?”

Turan’s face hardened for a moment at Lenox’s reaction, which was completely different from what he had imagined.

The dozens of fire pillars that had gathered around Turan immediately wrapped around the lion giant’s body and slammed him into the ground.

Kuuuuuung!

“Ugh, ugh!!!”

Only then did Turan realize that the scenery of the field rotating around him was not of his own will, and he began to howl like a madman.

“Damn it, damn it, this is impossible!! I ate Giognis Verbane!! Why is that power that should be mine!!!”

“Did that fact mean much to you?” Lenox asked nonchalantly as he walked towards the slowly collapsing Turan.

“If it’s a power that will be wasted and disappear meaninglessly by killing just one person, it would be better if someone who can carry on its meaning remembers it.”

The magnetic field was being maintained by the power of Giognis’s magic.

It was Turan who had it in his body, having eaten him and gained his power, but it was Lenox who was controlling the fire-type magic.

Lenox, who perhaps understood fire-type magic more deeply than Giognis himself, had been constantly trying to interfere with the field from the moment he died.

And he succeeded in taking over the ownership of the field by using the fire magic remaining in Turan’s body as a key.

The White Lion Turan might have thought that by eating Giognis, he could control the field he had deployed, but that thought was wrong.

He had, in fact, allowed Lenox to directly experiment with the possibility of interfering with another sorcerer’s field.

However, instead of explaining these facts to Turan in detail, Lenox quietly muttered to himself.

“Perhaps the image of the flame I will create next will not be this kind of scenery. This cage is too inefficient, crude, and desolate.”

Lenox, standing above Turan’s head, slowly tilted the hand holding the jade flame.

Turan, terrified, struggled and thrashed wildly, but it was already too late.

Lenox was using not his own magic as power, but the residual magic that Giognis had left in Turan’s body.

No matter how powerful a monster he was, there was no way he could resist the magic raging inside his own body.

The White Lion Turan was caught by the gears and abilities he had created.

Turan howled at the heat of the jade flame that slowly tilted and revealed itself above his head.

“D-don’t do it…! You crazy bastard, what are you babbling about…!!!”

“But I will remember the fact that the trajectory of your life has taken on meaning as a form,” Lenox said.

At the same time as he tilted his palm, the jade flame fell on Turan’s head as if flowing.

“That’s the only mourning I can offer as a fellow mage.”

“Aaaaaaaaah!!!!”

Only then did Turan realize that Lenox was talking to Giognis, and he screamed at the top of his lungs,

but the scream of despair, sensing death, was buried under the jade flame falling from above and disappeared.

Chiiiiiiiiiiik…!!!!!

As the jade-colored flame fell on the White Lion’s head, the beast’s head disappeared as if it had evaporated.

The heat was so intense that not a single drop of blood came out of the severed section of the neck, and the section was sealed shut.

The lion giant’s body, whose head had disappeared, trembled, then slumped down in an instant.

And the magic of Giognis, which had been filling his body, scattered and disappeared.

Kugugugugu!!!

The field that had been filling and closing in on the surroundings collapsed.

Dozens of fire pillars lost their center and spread out in all directions, spraying flames and illuminating the night sky.

The cage that had started from the heart of a betrayed mage collapsed, and even its lingering attachments were blown away without a trace.

Amidst Giognis’s collapsing field, Lenox sat down weakly and looked back at Evelyn.

She looked at Lenox with a dazed expression, as if she had a lot to say.

But she sighed and shook her head as if there was nothing she could do.

She must have had a lot of questions.

Why Lenox was able to manipulate another person’s field, what the meaning of his last words to Turan were.

And even why he was able to control fire-type magic.

“…I want to eat cucumbers.”

But instead of asking such things, she sat quietly next to Lenox and focused on catching her breath.

He was grateful for her consideration.

“What would have happened if it had been Kroken?”

“Are you even asking that?” Evelyn, who had come to Lenox’s side and sat back-to-back with him, laughed loudly.

“That old man is so impatient that he wouldn’t have been able to hide for this long. If he had planned to fight, he would have come out to greet us the moment we arrived at the Magic Tower.”

“Hmm. It’s hard to deny that so decisively,” Lenox said, letting out a weak laugh.

“…Still, if there is a next time, we need to prepare thoroughly.”

Thud.

Lenox, who had slipped and lay down on the ground, reached out his hand.

The red book that Giognis had been holding. Considering that it was the item he used when deploying his field, it was definitely a valuable artifact.

Lenox stared at it for a while, then naturally put it in his arms and muttered, “Because you can’t find the answer you want while standing still.”

“…”

Even though he said that, the gains Lenox had made on this journey were by no means small.

A branch point strongly connected to the Blaver Magic Tower, proficiency in ice-type magic, and a new change in the magic eye he had opened before.

In particular, the fact that he succeeded in interfering with the magnetic field deployed by another sorcerer had great significance for Lenox.

Of course, the reason why he was able to touch Giognis’s field even for a moment was because Turan had not been able to properly control that magic immediately after Giognis’s death, but even so, what did it mean that he had seen that possibility?

Perhaps Lenox didn’t need to try so hard to hide his own magnetic field.

Of course, he had received a lot of help from Evelyn to reach that result, but the achievements Lenox had made in the process were by no means negligible.

‘When I return to Vulcan, I’ll have a lot to research…’

Lenox thought that and glanced at Evelyn.

Come to think of it, wasn’t it this person sitting next to him right now who needed to move in order to do proper research?

While he was pondering whether to casually bring up the topic of the journey back to the mega-city, Evelyn took a deep breath and got up.

“Haa… Let’s get up now. There are too many things to take care of.”

“Is that so?”

“When we get back to the Magic Tower, I have no idea how to bring it up… just thinking about it makes my head hurt.”

Lenox also understood exactly what Evelyn was talking about.

Even now, the mages of the Magic Tower would have a considerable liking for Giognis Verbane, but what would they say if they were told that he had colluded with the Demon Realm to steal the essence of the furnace and had fed the elders to the Demon Realm’s lion giant?

It was fortunate that there were traces of the battle, the surviving members of the elders, and Turan’s corpse, but if that wasn’t the case, it might have been better to give up on persuasion.

Giognis’s magnetic field, the rocky area where the Red-Eyed Owl Cage had disappeared, was already full of scars from the heat of battle and the massive firepower that had been unleashed.

The uneven ground had all melted and flowed down, forming wave patterns, and the rocks that had risen several meters above the ground were now gone without a trace.

In the wasteland, where not even a single blade of grass remained, only small bone fragments, presumed to be the remains of the lava monster, remained.

Lenox and Evelyn were lost in thought in front of Turan’s corpse, which had lost its head.

Even without a head, it wouldn’t be difficult to prove that he was Turan, a member of the Demon Realm and a man-eater, given his huge size and thick mane, but there was another problem that was just as important.

“Should we… cut him open?” Lenox muttered with a reluctant expression.

The two’s gazes simultaneously landed on the White Lion’s corpse.

A gruesome sight of a body with its limbs spread wide, the cross-section of its neck crushed and melted.

“It’s not going to be a pretty sight.”