Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 281

“Wh-What is going on……?”

It was clear to everyone that Oren, the head of the Samyoung family, was the one trying to de-escalate the situation and evacuate the residents. Far from helping, the Yvon family head’s sudden attack was baffling.

However, Yvon, seemingly oblivious to the tense atmosphere, shamelessly shouted, “The Samyoung family head is the one who ruined the proxy battle! For the safety of the citadel’s residents, he must be dealt with immediately!”

The real culprit and the truth of the situation were irrelevant. What mattered was to deceive everyone and shift the blame, even if it meant being unreasonable and stubborn. It was enough if she could cloud the judgment of the other family heads, even for a moment.

As Yvon shouted and stretched out her arm, blood vessels instantly bulged, smoothing out her wrinkled skin. While the other family heads stared in disbelief at this bizarre transformation, a giant wooden fist rose from beneath the VIP seats, striking the spot where Oren had been standing. Magical slashes followed in quick succession, turning the area where the family heads had been into a wasteland, and a powerful explosion erupted.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

“Yvon family head!!!”

“Please calm down! What is this nonsense!!”

Above all, Oren’s mouth must not be allowed to speak. If they couldn’t resolve the situation before all the citadel residents escaped outside the manor…!!

However, Yvon’s face quickly contorted as she gathered her magic. Beyond the thick cloud of dust, she sensed the presence of someone holding a long spear. It was Suyeon, who had taken on the role of the Oryun family head, standing as if to block Oren’s form, which was now rising into the sky with focused concentration. She smiled leisurely, looking at the Yvon family head’s stiff expression.

“You seem to be in a great hurry.”

“You…!!”

“You colluded with the Guido Order and orchestrated all of this, and now you’re trying to play innocent?”

“……”

Whoosh!

Suyeon lightly swung her glaive, clearing away the dust, and slowly took her stance. “Ban was right. You guys thought from the beginning that the outcome of the proxy battle didn’t matter.”

It would be good if they won the proxy battle and gained the authority of the Citadel Lord. They could then access the citadel’s ruins and achieve their goal. But even if things went wrong, they intended to forcibly summon the Guido Order’s forces by plundering the life force of the humans gathered in the manor. If they performed a human sacrifice on thousands of people, they could transfer at least several hundred Order members to this place. With that, they could seize the citadel and kill the Citadel Lord again to open the proxy battle. From the beginning, Yvon had intended to seize the Citadel Lord’s authority, even if it meant completely destroying the citadel.

“……It seems some sorcerer has been spouting nonsense.”

The Yvon family head said, forcing a smile. “What benefit would I have in colluding with the Order to orchestrate this?”

“Well, if you want to say that……”

Suyeon cut off her words and slammed the glaive in her hand into the air.

Crack!

Yvon’s attendant, who had been passing through the dust and extending his blade towards Oren, was split in half, spraying blood. “Instead of killing the Samyoung family head, shouldn’t we be helping him? It is entirely thanks to Samyoung’s power that the citadel’s residents are being safely evacuated.”

It wasn’t just the Yvon family head attacking Oren alone. In that brief moment while the two were talking, Yvon’s attendants, whom she had brought to this place, began to rush fiercely towards Oren, taking the place of their family head. Their momentum was so fierce that it was hard to believe they hadn’t been emitting any killing intent until just a moment ago. There were far too few of them to block all of their attacks with Suyeon’s glaive.

The moment the blades of the attendants, who had seeped into the darkness, were about to reach Oren, who had closed his eyes beyond the shadows.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

A sharp silver flash that had intervened twisted the direction of all the converging blades. A muscular man who had climbed up the spectator seats in the blink of an eye. A swordsman with a robot head instead of a human head readjusted the blade in his hand, and at the same time, bloodstains began to scatter haphazardly in all directions.

Swoosh!

[Yeah, it should have been like this from the start!!]

He moved quickly, spewing out an alien mechanical voice without pause. A body that had long since abandoned human breathing methods contracted and expanded abnormally, sweeping through the surroundings.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

[I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to use this combat body that I brought all this way!!!]

He laughed like a madman, slashing his blade here and there, without any logic or reason. His movements seemed to be based solely on impulse and instinct. However, there was no one who could properly understand and counter the mysteries of swordsmanship contained within. Each time Manson twisted his wrist, the tip of his raised blade disappeared, and each time, the limbs of the attendants who had been rushing in from all directions were cut off in vain.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The mad, living, and writhing swordsmanship was the result of having been saved up until he gave up on the proxy battle. Lenok had been saving Chen and Manson’s stamina up to this moment, preparing for the decisive moment. It was to thwart the plan that the Yvon family head would choose from the beginning if he failed to obtain the Citadel Lord’s position.

Suyeon and Manson. As warriors who had reached the realm of military might, each wielding different methods and weapons, blocked Oren’s front and rear and began to hold their ground, Yvon’s attendants could not easily break through their perimeter and distanced themselves. Unlike the warriors brought for the proxy battle, those positioned here were far from the main forces of the families. To reassure the family heads, the attendants of each family were made up of those with relatively low combat abilities.

“Useless things……!!”

In the end, the Yvon family head, with a distorted face, rolled up her sleeves and stepped forward herself.

“……I am sorry.”

“Take the Ilwon family head and get out of here!!”

At Yvon’s sharp shout, the attendants moved without delay. As Suyeon watched the attendants snatch Taeoh’s trembling body, his face pale, and disappear, she also gripped her spear with a hardened expression. “Ilwon…… Did no one stop the family head until he reached that state? They’ve already lost their self-sufficiency as a family.”

“What are you talking about?”

Yvon laughed. Even though she was left alone, she was still confident.

Crack!

The thick blood vessels that had risen to her face rapidly expanded, instantly turning her age back to her youth. In the time it took to take a breath, the old woman was turning her time back to a young woman. Yvon, who had swept back her hair that had returned to a clean black color, smiled with a confident face.

“Since the establishment of the Palgwang Citadel, Ilwon and Yvon have always been together. There was only a difference in their roles.”

“……”

“From now on, it is our Yvon who will be at the forefront of the citadel, and Ilwon will be supporting us from behind.”

Yvon said, slowly raising her hand. In an instant, unknown energies gathered in her grasp, forming a huge aggregate. After the death of the Ilwon family head and the previous Citadel Lord, the Yvon family head was one of the most powerful figures in the citadel, along with Oren. She had not only completed her rank but also had more than enough time and experience. What was the reason she had not stepped forward until now? Wasn’t it to thoroughly conceal the existence of the Order and seize everything she wanted while operating in the shadows? The power of the citadel and eternal youth. It would be a lie to say that she didn’t want to have both. However, not everything in life goes as planned, and if she had to choose only one. Shouldn’t she give it her all for her own sake?

Crack! Crack! Crack!

What was coiling in her hand and slowly swelling in size was a plant stem of unknown origin. The moment Suyeon and Manson, who had faced an exceptional individual, were about to raise their momentum and take their stance. Something flew in right next to Yvon and slammed into the VIP seats where the family heads had been sitting.

Thud!

“Ugh……!!”

It didn’t take long for the Yvon family head, who had been about to continue her attack without paying attention, to turn her head. “……Martinez?”

“Yvon family head. The plan has changed.”

Walter, whose arms were tattered, smiled wryly and stood up. “We have to run away right now.”

Walter’s gaze was directed towards the direction. From below the stage where the proxy battle had been taking place, a man in a coat was looking up at them.

* * *

‘He’s much weaker than I thought. Below expectations.’

Lenok lightly cracked his neck as he walked up to the VIP seats. A student from Lavatenon University. A bishop who had possessed the body of a sorcerer who was not even properly completed and showed a high level of combat ability. Naturally, he had thought that his true combat ability would far exceed the level he had seen at that time, and he had been thoroughly saving his magic power throughout the proxy battle. However, Walter was not even able to properly withstand Lenok’s attacks. Lenok, who had been trying to focus on dealing with Walter even while knowing about the Ilwon family head Taeoh’s escape, was in a situation where he felt a sense of incongruity.

‘If his response is much weaker than it was in university, then perhaps……’

As soon as Lenok realized this, he decided to join Oren, where the situation was rapidly changing, rather than focusing on killing Walter. Walter, who had stood up, coughed dryly and said, “As soon as he grasped our forces, he’s trying to capture us instead. He’s a dangerous friend in the way he thinks.”

“……”

“Fortunately, we managed to get the Ilwon family head out safely, so the big picture hasn’t collapsed.”

He nodded, having come to a clean conclusion. “Let’s retreat.”

“……We haven’t obtained any of the expected results yet. Are you telling me to tuck our tails and run away in this situation!”

The Yvon family head’s face contorted. “I can handle a wizard who was a bit successful outside…!! You go and catch the people who are running away right now!!”

Only after hearing that shout did the other family heads realize who the mastermind behind all of this was. If the unidentified young man, who was only known as the Ilwon family head’s proxy, and Yvon were conspiring as if they had made a promise, the conclusion was obvious. The Sagun family head trembled his lips and shouted, “Yvon family head. What on earth are you doing!” “Have you colluded with an outsider and thrown away the safety of the citadel!”

The other family heads also realized the situation and began to gather their magic power towards the Yvon family head. The reason they had formed an alliance following the Yvon family head’s words and pressured the other three families was only to divide the power of the citadel among themselves. They never wanted the safety of the Palgwang Citadel itself to be shaken.

“Tch……”

Yvon clicked her tongue quietly, but there was nothing she could do at this point when her scheme had been exposed. The number of people who could benefit from colluding with the Order was limited, and she had no intention of sharing this regained youth with the other family heads. With Walter’s existence and the scheme caused by him exposed, it was a waste of time to pretend otherwise. Instead, she coldly sneered at the family heads and muttered, “Family heads, think about it. How long are you going to be trapped in this narrow area, playing the role of frogs in a well?”

“Wh-What did you say?”

“It’s been decades since you made an agreement with the old fogeys of the City Council and made this land the territory of the citadel. How long do you think those old men will guarantee our rights?”

“……”

“The world is changing day by day. You, who don’t listen to the news from the outside, may not know, but there are even rumors that the restrictive laws that bind the hands and feet of high-ranking ability users will be lifted soon.”

Silence fell at her cold rebuke. The Yvon family head continued to speak without concern. “Change is imminent. And I have no intention of designing my remaining life by relying on the mercy of crazy old men. So…… I just chose first before I was abandoned.”

“Are you saying that you’re going to sacrifice the citadel’s residents as a whole and go on a new life?”

Whoosh!

Oren, who had been concentrating and closing his eyes until then, opened his mouth. “That’s not wrong. But if you really thought that way, you should have consulted with the Citadel Lord first and sought a way for the citadel to move forward.”

He calmly opened his eyes and descended to the ground, gazing at the Yvon family head with a composed gaze. “Your petty selfishness killed my old friend, and his son became a puppet. Do you really believe that you can play with human life and death?”

“Why not?”

Yvon laughed. “This world has guaranteed that you and I, who have completed our ranks, are qualified to do so.”

“……”

“If my wish can be fulfilled by bowing down to the monsters of the outer sea…… I won’t hesitate for a moment.”

“Is that so? In my eyes, you look no different from the crazy old men of the City Council.”

Oren retorted. “How much blood and flesh did you consume to obtain that youth?”

The Yvon family head no longer answered. She simply took a step back with a chilling smile. Walter, who had reattached his shoulders, stood in front of her, blocking her path. Lenok watched the scene and opened his mouth. “Affiliated with the Guido Order. Judging by the spells he uses, he’s a high-ranking member.”

“Understood.”

“His combat ability is terrible, but he doesn’t seem to feel pain at all. Yet, his body’s recovery isn’t very smooth.”

Oren, sensing something unusual in Lenok’s words, turned his gaze. “……What do you mean?”

“Think about it carefully.”

Lenok said, holding a cigarette and exhaling smoke. “The body of a middle-aged man in his forties. A pale face and bruises below his neck. Terrible combat power and regeneration. Even the Ilwon family head, who was unusually cooperative.”

“……”

“Don’t you think the reason is there?”

“Wait, could it be that you’re saying……”

Oren’s eyes widened unusually as he realized Lenok’s intention. Lenok nodded his head towards Walter, who was smiling strangely. “There’s a high possibility that that’s the body of the dead Citadel Lord. If he’s been playing around with that body until now, in some way, a lot of things make sense.”