Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 263

Puh-uh-uh-ung!!

A fountain of blood erupts, staining the ground crimson.

Walter’s headless corpse and a battered Mila fall to the ground in a tangled heap.

Thud!!

“Ugh!!”

[…That’s a nasty smell.]

Davy, who had been clinging to Mila’s head, hopped down and sighed.

“…Cut me some slack.”

Mila, sprawled on the ground, groaned as she tried to sit up. Just then,

“That was a good finish.”

“…!!!”

A voice came from Walter’s headless body.

His chest heaved, and a mouth sprouted near his heart, beginning to speak.

“But you can’t stop me with that.”

“He wasn’t just a cultist, he was a monster… !”

Mila had long since used up the magazine Lenok had given her.

She tried to grab the broken dagger from her chest, but Walter easily snatched it away.

“Ugh…!!”

“Are all the mercenaries in this city as skilled as you?”

Walter’s head, fully grown from his chest, grinned.

“You’ll find out soon enough. I’m thrilled for my first mission in a long time.”

Once he killed Mila, the most annoying one, escaping the university wouldn’t be difficult.

The magic manipulation of the mage who controlled electricity was extraordinary, but it would be easy to evade pursuit unless they were a physical powerhouse.

Once he hid in the sewers, he could disappear into the city in no time.

Just as Walter was thinking this, about to plunge the dagger into Mila’s chest, Lenok, who had been calmly making hand seals in the distance, muttered.

“That won’t happen.”

Pajijijik…!!

A powerful surge of electricity, emanating from Davy, pierced through Walter’s body.

“Ugh…!!”

Even after having his head blown off, he didn’t lose consciousness, displaying bizarre regenerative abilities.

In the previous battle, Mila had killed Walter at least five times, yet she had given him an opening at the very end.

It was only natural that Mila struggled against a power that had far surpassed the realm of magic or psychic abilities.

But conversely, thanks to the fatal opening she had created, Lenok was able to seize the right moment to step in without much effort.

Woo-oo-oong!!!

Through a single ray of lightning that relentlessly pierced Walter, Lenok and Davy resonated simultaneously.

The discrepancy between the body and consciousness that occurred due to the temporary possession.

Once they could gauge that gap with their senses, it became possible to target only Walter’s consciousness and interfere from their side.

For this one moment that would not have been revealed in a normal human body and consciousness, Lenok had been observing Mila’s battle, constantly looking for an opening.

Pajijijijik!!

Lenok’s magic, which had penetrated Walter’s body, spread through him in an instant, capturing and interpreting all the phenomena occurring within. Davy immediately received and analyzed that information.

Not only physical information, but also the ability to sense the imagery of the consciousness residing within that body.

Lenok’s incredibly delicate and sensitive sensory ability reacted to Walter’s mental world, immediately delving into his memories and consciousness.

Walter’s face changed drastically as he belatedly realized that something had gone wrong.

“W-wait a minute… What are you doing…!!!!!”

Koo-oong!!

Even after Walter’s headless body fell to the ground, his struggles continued, but Lenok’s magic detection, which had already spread through his body, did not stop.

At the same moment that Lenok’s consciousness flashed, he switched the timeline, following the faint thread connected to that body.

Across a chaotic and messy world of consciousness, to the side of the person watching all of this from the other side.

Faaaaaaah!!

He sees it.

A street lined with exotic wooden buildings with tiled roofs.

A densely packed, chaotic cityscape with no gaps.

On a balcony of a high-rise tiled building overlooking most of the street.

A middle-aged man kneeling and praying.

“Stooooooop!!!”

Walter screamed, finally realizing that Lenok was interpreting his magic in reverse and looking into the essence of his consciousness, but it was already too late.

“You were closer than I thought.”

Lenok smiled as he looked down at Walter.

“The Eight Directions Fortress… This is going to make things a lot easier.”

“Damn youuuu!!!”

Walter, who had lost all composure, started screaming madly and running away.

His form, which had been thoroughly investigated to its core by Lenok’s lightning, could no longer maintain a proper human shape.

Only an unknown entity, floating like a ghost behind his back, was holding his body together.

“Where do you think you’re going… !”

Lenok tried to grab him immediately, but he paused for a moment due to the backlash of having peered deeply into another’s mind.

He could feel that his magic detection had become abnormally sensitive, and he couldn’t properly control his power.

If he used magic here to catch Walter, he could end up blowing up the entire Department of Necromancy research building.

The confusion in his sensory ability lasted about two seconds. Considering that he had almost perfectly synchronized with another’s mind, it was an unbelievable recovery speed, but in that time, Walter had evaded the lightning Davy had unleashed and ran away.

Sssshhh!

Lenok immediately realized which direction Walter was heading and shook Mila.

“Mila, you need to wake up.”

“What? Isn’t it all over?”

“He’s heading towards the Department of Elemental Studies.”

Lenok said with a slightly stiff face.

“It seems he’s targeting Priscilla and Penia.”

“…Damn it.”

Mila, who had been sprawled on the ground with slightly unfocused eyes, got up.

She took out her phone from her chest and immediately called Priscilla.

“Silla, are you listening?”

She headed straight for the Department of Elemental Studies research building while making the call.

Mila gritted her teeth and chased after Walter, and Lenok followed behind.

It was easy to guess why Walter was targeting Priscilla and Penia.

If he had taken over Lanfei’s body and temporarily possessed it, there was a high possibility that he had also inherited some of Lanfei’s memories.

Considering that the blood used in the possession process was a mixture of Lanfei’s and Penia’s blood, Walter might have thought it was possible to take over Penia’s body as well.

And if all those assumptions were true, there was only one conclusion.

Lenok, panting as he ran behind Mila, muttered.

“He can’t end the ritual on his own… There must be a condition that he has to stay in the possessed body for a certain amount of time.”

Otherwise, there was no explanation for why he didn’t cancel the ritual and run away the moment his main body’s location was revealed.

Davy, floating above Lenok’s head and looking down at him, said.

[It looks like Master is going to die before that bishop.]

“…This is unavoidable… Hooo!”

It had been a long time since he had sprinted at full speed without the help of drugs.

If he had a cigarette, he could at least run like a normal person with the help of the drug, but there was no choice but to pant and follow Mila.

Fortunately, the Department of Elemental Studies research building was not far from the Department of Necromancy dormitory.

A wide open space in the center of the research building.

In the middle of it, Priscilla and Penia were facing Walter.

Priscilla was sweating profusely, and Penia was exhausted from losing too much blood.

However, both of them were not losing consciousness, but rather burning with fighting spirit against Walter.

Glug, glug…!!

Walter’s mouth popped out from the mass of flesh that could no longer be called human, and he spoke.

“I won’t make it long. If you hand over that woman, I’ll quietly step back.”

“…”

Priscilla, who had grabbed Penia’s shoulder, shook her head firmly with a hazy look.

“Get lost.”

Kwaaaang!!

Immediately after, Mila, who had quickly run from behind, kicked Walter in the back, slicing through the strangely protruding flesh.

“I don’t know what you’re relying on to struggle like this.”

Mila said, stomping on Walter’s body with her combat boots.

“Do you think you can escape from here? Shall we see how long you can cling to that body?”

The battle was already over the moment she blew off Walter’s head.

Looking at how he couldn’t properly regenerate his head afterward, it was proof that the power contained in that body was almost exhausted.

But even so, Walter was still struggling, not giving up on even a shred of hope.

“It seems there’s some misunderstanding.”

Walter chuckled, gurgling.

“I’m not doing this because I like it. It’s not enjoyable to guide barbarians who haven’t woken up from their dreams.”

“What?”

“But I believe that spreading the great will on this land is so important that I must endure such insults… That’s why I can make such a decision without hesitation.”

At that moment, the blurry tentacle-like shape that had been faintly floating behind Walter’s back began to be sucked into his body.

A bizarre scene where the blurry shape, which had been thought to be simply part of the necromantic ritual, was directly entering his body.

Lenok, who had followed behind, immediately pulled up his magic to stir Walter’s consciousness, but it was useless.

It was a high-dimensional ritual that operated with a completely different method and rules than magic.

Another fork in the road of physical manipulation that uses a twisted way to express the illusions one believes in, powered by a faith and mental strength bordering on madness.

At that moment, Walter’s body, which had been trampled by Mila, began to swell madly.

Wood-deud-deud-deuk!!!

The massive mass of flesh, which was hard to believe was coming from a small boy’s body, spread out as if to cover the entire Department of Elemental Studies research building.

“Waaaaaah!!”

“W-what is this…!!”

Other students from other departments, who had not yet grasped the situation, came out of the research building with horrified faces and stared at the scene.

But what caught Lenok’s eye before that abnormal growth rate was that it was starting to take a concrete shape and balance even while swelling so quickly.

Lenok also began to move immediately at that abnormal growth rate.

“Davy.”

[What should we do?]

“That level of growth without any process. It’s an overload ritual that will turn this area into a wasteland using the body as collateral. If we don’t stop it here, things will get troublesome.”

If it was possible to estimate its power just by looking at it, it was a drastic method that would not only sacrifice the possessed body but also affect the main body.

It was practically a suicide bombing.

If they didn’t do something here, it wouldn’t be strange if the entire Department of Elemental Studies was destroyed.

Since he had promised to handle things smoothly with the department’s administration through Archwood, he had to do what he could.

Of course, that didn’t mean he was going to reveal his disguised identity, which he had worked so hard to maintain.

Giving up his position as an assistant professor for just one bishop of the Guido Order was too much of a loss.

Fortunately, there were plenty of efficient options without having to make such an extreme choice.

“If we give it a little more time, the other professors at the university will start to intervene. It’s enough to just hold him back until then.”

[Understood. I’ll analyze the internal magic flow and configure the optimal cooling efficiency scenario right away.]

“Good. Then… Hmm?”

Just as Lenok was about to pull up his magic with Davy to subdue the mass of flesh that had been Walter, a tremendous surge of magic suddenly erupted from the sky.

The pressure that weighed down on his shoulders was so intense that even Lenok flinched for a moment.

Immediately after, a downpour began to fall from the cloudy sky.

Kwaaaaaa!!

The surroundings instantly turned into a flood due to the sudden downpour, but before they could be horrified by that fact, a series of strange phenomena occurred.

The water that had poured down as rain did not collect on the ground, but instead, it shot up into the air and trapped the mass of flesh swelling in the middle of the research building.

The mass of flesh wriggled as if annoyed by the mass of water that was restraining it,

but as if not allowing even that small resistance, the mass of water gathered and rotated at high speed, grinding the mass of flesh as it was.

Kagagagagak!!!

[Kkeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!]

Only then did the mass of flesh let out a bizarre scream mixed with pain and begin to twist its body.

There was no trace of reason in that barbaric scream. Walter’s consciousness had already disappeared from that mass of flesh.

“Oh…”

And Lenok was watching the mass of flesh being ground while getting rained on.

To be precise, he was watching the mage’s ability to perfectly control that massive flow of water rather than the mass of flesh itself.

The students of the Department of Elemental Studies, who had belatedly rushed out, were also staring at the phenomenon with astonished faces, but they probably couldn’t fathom how precise the magic manipulation was to create such a spectacle.

It was beyond simply manipulating the flow of water according to one’s will. The magic that controlled the water flow was split into dozens of strands and rotated at different speeds.

The rotating bodies of water, rotating at different speeds, collided with each other according to the flowing magic, creating powerful friction even within the liquid.

In the twisting and colliding rotation, the mass of flesh was also being torn and ground, no longer able to swell in size, but rather shrinking.

Just as the mass of flesh was trying to jump out of the mass of water while struggling, the water that had been mercilessly grinding the mass of flesh into dozens of strands began to freeze instantly.

Jjeo-jeo-jeo-jeok…!!!

Along with a chilling cold, white frost formed everywhere, and even the falling rain turned into hail.

The twisted mass of flesh, torn and ground, was trapped inside a white ice pillar and hardened.

A high-level rapid cooling that gave the illusion that time had stopped.

Only then did the students, who had belatedly regained their senses, start contacting various places.

Even if others were already moving elsewhere to deal with this situation, Lenok had no intention of stopping them.

“Evan…!!”

Mila, who had been unable to approach the mass of flesh rashly, quickly approached Lenok after discovering him and asked.

“Is that okay? Is it an ally?”

“Yes. Fortunately, it seems they arrived at just the right time.”

“Do you know them?”

“Rather than knowing them…”

It was after the magic suddenly appeared in the sky that he realized it.

It was a magic pattern that Lenok remembered more clearly than anyone else.

Moreover, such precise and diverse attribute manifestation and water flow manipulation.

If this magic didn’t belong to the mage he knew, then whose would it be?

Instead of answering Mila’s question, Lenok smiled faintly and gazed at the sky.

“See for yourself.”

A white ice pillar, twisted in a spiral and frozen.

An ice staircase, precisely carved on the slope where the flow of water had twisted and rotated, frozen as it was.

At the end of that ice pillar, someone was slowly walking down the stairs.

“I didn’t expect to see such a monster in my research building as soon as I returned.”

With a sweep of her soft blonde hair, the cloudy weather cleared, and a clear sky appeared.

Her hair shone dazzlingly as the sunlight poured into the research building.

Her blue eyes, like the sea, looked down at the ground and curved gently.

Aris, who had found Lenok at the end of her gaze, smiled playfully and said.

“I clearly told you in writing to take good care of the students.”