Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 283

Apostle’s Descent (1)

A level 7 Saint-ranked ability user.

A realm achieved by harmonizing the power of a warrior and the family’s secret arts as a sorcerer.

While it might be difficult to compare him to superhumans who have fully mastered a single discipline in either of those two aspects, the Yvon family head’s reaction speed is undeniably exceptional.

But even so, how could he not react until the rosary was fastened on his right forearm?

Lenok’s skill in activating the archangel’s compassion, his sharp intuition that pierced through the gap between breath and perception, was already far beyond Yvon’s level.

However, the Yvon family head didn’t have time to analyze these details.

“……!”

“Wait, this feeling is……!!”

The rosary fastened on his wrist began to rotate, using Lenok’s magic as its power source, and activated.

Starting from the wrist where the rosary was fastened, it began to freeze the space itself.

In an instant, it traveled up the wrist, solidified the elbow, and even encroached upon the shoulder.

“Kyaaaaaaaak!!”

It wasn’t an ordinary artifact. It was one of the nine tools favored by the Heavenly Eye [a powerful being or entity] right before ascending to become a Transcendent [a being that has surpassed normal limitations].

Yvon let out a terrible scream, realizing that even if he resisted with all his might, he might not be able to escape the rosary’s restraints.

If this continued, it wouldn’t be surprising if his entire body was frozen in space in an instant.

Not a rational judgment, but a body that sensed a life-threatening crisis moved before Yvon’s conscious decision.

Swoosh!!

Almost simultaneously with the bracelet being fastened, she raised her left hand and severed her entire arm.

Everyone in the room except Lenok widened their eyes at this extreme measure.

As Yvon, who had cut off her entire arm, retreated, Chen caught Oren’s body and rushed towards Lenok.

“Ughhhhhh……!!!”

No matter how skilled a sorcerer or powerful a warrior one might be, there was no way to avoid the pain of cutting off one’s entire arm.

Not only the physical body, but also the flow of magic in the arm was severed to avoid the spatial freezing.

The Yvon family head’s face, screaming in pain, twisted hideously.

Meanwhile, Walter, who had escaped from the encirclement of Suren and Manson, supported her.

“……You!!”

“Let’s retreat. I told you, didn’t I?”

Walter replied casually.

“We still have a chance. We kept the Ilwon family head alive for times like this, even though we postponed it until the very end, right?”

“That’s not for you to decide.”

Lenok, who had quickly retrieved the magical artifact, stepped forward.

He had used a considerable amount of magic to preheat the Pure Land Mantra [a binding artifact], but cutting off one of the Yvon family head’s arms wasn’t a bad outcome.

While others seemed pressured by the power of Yvon and Walter, who had defeated Oren, Lenok guessed that Walter wouldn’t be able to maintain his combat ability for long.

It goes without saying how inefficient it is to animate a dead corpse.

If they could stall for time and keep the two of them pinned down, Walter’s combat ability would naturally disappear, and then they would only have to deal with the Yvon family head, who had lost an arm.

There was no reason to let the two of them escape here.

Click!!

However, Walter smiled calmly even when he saw Lenok raising the double-barreled shotgun.

“Spatial freezing… I was surprised when I first saw it, but there’s no way you can use that kind of artifact in succession.”

“…….”

“The preparations are already complete. It’s over if the Yvon family head agrees.”

“Wait, that means…….”

At Walter’s words, who glanced slightly towards the sky, Lenok, realizing his intention, immediately channeled his magic, but he was a step too late.

At the same time as the Yvon family head bit her lip and raised her hand, her attendants simultaneously stabbed their long weapons into their own necks.

“……!!!!!!”

Although a considerable number of the Yvon family’s attendants who had tried to attack Oren had died, there were still at least a few dozen left alive.

It was obvious what kind of ritual they would reactivate by sacrificing all of that power.

The Scales of Amrita [a ritualistic artifact], which had swallowed dozens of lives, were reactivated, and the crack that opened in the sky sucked in Walter and Yvon at lightning speed.

From the beginning, the two had intended to escape from this place by sacrificing the lives of others if things went wrong.

Crunch!!

The sound of flesh being chewed.

“It’s not your fault. Please don’t be too disappointed.”

Walter, perched on the edge of the rapidly closing crack, looked down at Lenok and smiled.

“This is a miracle woven by the will that has manifested directly on the ground through the Order’s apostle. Unlike ordinary Order rituals, it changes the hierarchy itself depending on the number of lives offered.”

“…….”

“It’s impossible to reverse the miracle that Amrita has bestowed. You’ve really been had today. I’ll see you again soon.”

Beyond simply moving through space by offering the same amount of life, the hierarchy of the ritual itself changes depending on the number of lives offered?

Considering the word ‘apostle’ that Walter mentioned, it meant that the ritual of spatial movement was the crack that the apostle Amrita had directly manifested by receiving the will of the end.

However, Lenok raised his hand while looking at the rapidly closing crack in front of him.

“I don’t have much faith in what a fanatic says.”

He understood that they had prepared a way to escape somehow.

A teleportation ritual that had already been activated after paying the price. Moreover, it was a case where the scale had been increased by offering the lives of at least a few dozen people.

Even Lenok couldn’t interpret and cancel this kind of ritual on the spot.

However, it was more than possible to interfere.

Dozens of magic threads that stretched out from his hand grabbed and penetrated the rapidly closing crack.

Thuddddddd!!!

On the other side of space.

He completely interpreted and accepted the operating principle of the ritual, which designated coordinates and moved physical forms in exchange for sacrificing lives, through magic threads,

And at the same time, he interfered.

Walter’s face, who was looking down at the scene from beyond the crack, distorted.

“Until the end……!!”

“I can’t let you go so easily.”

Lenok smiled, looking up at the crack with a face that had quickly become tired.

At the same time as interpreting the operating principle of the ritual called Amrita’s Scales through magic threads, he overloaded the ritual by hitting the crack with magic in all directions.

Overloading the already completed ritual with an advantage through overwhelming magic sensitivity and manipulation ability.

The space inside the crack heated up to a strange degree, and began to burn the skin of Walter and Yvon.

“Aaaaaaaah!!”

With a final scream, the crack closed as it was, and the two disappeared.

Everyone in the manor looked up at the scene, which had disappeared, leaving a blurry haze in the space as it twisted in a spiral, with blank faces.

“D, did they escape…….”

Suren muttered with a somber expression.

Chen sighed and sat down.

“In the end, we couldn’t settle things here.”

The plan to reveal the Yvon family head’s true intentions at the end of the proxy war, gain justification, and punish the Guido Order’s bishop and the Yvon family head had been thwarted.

They had been pushed back in the meticulousness of the plans they had prepared while hiding their intentions from each other.

The damage they had suffered in the process was immeasurably devastating.

They had succeeded in protecting the safety of the citadel residents, but they had lost the Ilwon family head, and Oren was in critical condition.

But despite that, Lenok shook his head with a calm expression.

“I wasn’t just standing by. They wouldn’t have arrived with their bodies intact.”

He hadn’t been able to stop the activation itself, but he had certainly succeeded in overloading the ritual at the last moment.

If there was a problem with the ritual of jumping through space, it wouldn’t be strange if a part of their body was permanently lost in the worst-case scenario.

Walter’s last cry before escaping was probably an expression of anger at sensing that.

“Besides, I found out their destination. That’s enough.”

The central part of the Eight Directions Citadel. The Yvon family’s headquarters, which had been gathering information as the root of the citadel.

Instead of escaping outside the citadel, they had chosen to escape into the deepest part of Yvon’s inner sanctum. There was no need to say what their intention was.

“Ban’s…… Ban’s words are not wrong.”

Oren, who had been helped up by Chen, muttered with difficulty.

“Family head!!”

The attendants of the Samyoung family, who had evacuated the citadel residents and joined them late, hurriedly received his body.

Oren spoke to the others, ignoring the reactions around him.

“Things…… Cough! Got twisted, but I succeeded in taking the authority of the Citadel Lord…… I won in the proxy war…….”

“Yes. That’s what’s important.”

Lenok nodded.

The authority of the Citadel Lord, which could manage not only the outer barrier of the citadel but also all the internal facilities without exception through the proxy war system.

Lenok had obtained the qualification to appoint the Citadel Lord by winning against Walter Martinez in the final captain’s match.

The thing that the Yvon family head and Walter had tried to do at the end by sacrificing the citadel residents was probably an attempt to change the target of the qualification for the Citadel Lord appointment.

“Ci, Citadel Lord…… Cough!!”

At the sight of Oren coughing up blood and bowing his body, the warriors of the Samyoung family quickly supported Oren and moved him.

“You shouldn’t talk anymore!!”

“Call a doctor right now. What are you doing!”

Oren’s condition was so serious that the attendants couldn’t even go far.

The group silently watched as they laid the unconscious Oren down in an unknown mansion near the manor and began treatment.

[The plan went awry.]

Manson, who had approached Lenok, muttered.

Lenok, who was glancing at him, asked.

“Is your arm okay?”

[Huh? Well… I have to endure this much.]

His left elbow was stained with blood, probably from the damage he had sustained in the process of suppressing Walter, who had absorbed the life force of the two family heads.

Manson glanced at his arm and replied in an indifferent tone.

[That woman is not in good shape either.]

“…….”

Suren, who was touching her shoulder and faintly frowning.

And Chen and Asui, who had sat down in their places with pale faces.

While Lenok was silently looking around, the others hesitated and approached him, asking.

“Was it… Ban, you said?”

The other family heads, who had been on Yvon’s side until before the proxy war.

They also did not know all the details of the incident that had just occurred, but they knew which side they should take now.

The family head of the Six Spirits said with a stern face.

“I know that you are the only one who fully understands this situation now that the Samyoung family head has fallen.”

“…….”

“I was deceived by the Yvon family head, but I never intended to join hands with the Order. From now on, I will fully cooperate with you.”

“Same here.”

The family head of the Eight Shields said with a sullen expression.

“Not only did they bring in fanatics, but they also tried to make us all human sacrifices… The Yvon family head is crazy. I will cooperate as much as possible without harming my family.”

“Without harming your family, you say.”

Lenok laughed.

“I think you’re mistaken about who’s in a hurry right now.”

“Wh, what did you say?”

“It’s not me, but you who will be devoured by Yvon if things continue like this. If you’re thinking of passing on the responsibility and minimizing the damage from behind, I have no reason to care about you.”

“That’s…….”

They were the ones who had been wavering and observing the situation from behind when this side was engaged in a fierce battle with Yvon’s attendants.

There was no reason to look out for their convenience in this situation.

“If you want to survive after Oren regains consciousness, you’d better listen carefully to what I’m about to say.”

The other family heads could not say a word and closed their mouths at Lenok’s cold words.

Lenok quickly turned his head while sharply staring at the family heads.

Now that Oren had lost consciousness and collapsed, someone had to gather the scattered citadel residents and evacuate them to the outer areas.

There was also the issue of humanitarianism, but beyond that, they had to prevent the residents’ lives from being used as weapons by Walter.

Lenok was planning to pass that troublesome task on to the family heads. If he was thinking about that, he had to take the initiative from now on.

“Will it be okay?”

Chen asked, watching the family heads hurriedly taking their attendants and moving away.

“They’re not people you can trust.”

The family heads of the eight families were mostly neither good nor very capable.

There was a possibility that the family heads would be greedy in the process of gathering the citadel residents.

However, Lenok shook his head while holding a cigarette in his mouth.

“They won’t have time to play tricks. I’m planning to come to a conclusion within a day, one way or another.”

The reason why the status of the citadel, which had been weakened to the point where it was difficult to call it the Three Heads, was still maintained was probably because it had refused communication with the outside world, maintained a closed society, and controlled information.

But that vain glory would all end today.

Chen’s eyes widened at the unexpected answer.

“……A day, you say?”

“They didn’t withdraw because they lacked the strength. They escaped to Yvon’s main house only after confirming that they had recovered the Ilwon family head in advance. It’s impossible without preparing another secret plan.”

Considering what the two had done so far, it was highly likely that they were planning to do something using the Ilwon family head’s body.

He wasn’t very interested in Taeoh’s safety, who had tried to sacrifice thousands of lives for his father’s revival.

However, if they were planning to carry out a ritual, it would be most effective to take the initiative again by taking advantage of that gap.

It was the best opportunity to observe the true purpose of the Order right next to them.

Lenok’s eyes, looking down at the ruined manor, shone sharply.

“Since things have dragged on this far, they won’t be in good shape either. I’ll move as soon as my magic recovers.”

* * *

A secluded hollow trapped in darkness.

A crack that appeared as if tearing through space opened its mouth, piercing through the cold silence where no trace of life could be felt.

Two figures that had popped out from inside the crack fell to the ground as if they had been thrown.

Thuddddddd!!

“Kuhhhhhh!!!”

Walter, whose whole body was burning red, twisted his body and rolled on the floor.

“Damn, it……!! Ughhhhhh……!!”

Chiiiiik!!

The large-scale teleportation ritual, Amrita’s Scales.

A powerful teleportation ritual that transfers the same amount of life as the number of lives offered.

They had succeeded in activating the ritual, but they couldn’t avoid the ritual itself being overloaded due to Lenok’s interference at the last moment.

To what extent of magic manipulation and sensitivity would one have to possess to interfere with a ritual that an apostle had directly bestowed by receiving the will of the outer sea?

If an error occurred in the door connecting different spaces, it was natural that the damage would extend to the person using the door.

It was a delicate task that touched space. It was fortunate that he had opened his eyes while still conscious.

Walter’s thoughts disappeared without a trace as soon as he saw the Yvon family head who had fallen right next to him.

“Kyaaaaaaaaaak!!”

The Yvon family head screamed, letting out a strange cry that was not human.

The sight of a young woman’s face and an old man’s face mixed up explained how much pain she was experiencing.

The sight of her right shoulder, including the upper half of her body and the area near her side, being completely severed.

She had suffered the loss of her body, which was the worst case of the side effects of spatial teleportation.

“Fa, Family head……!!”

“This is……!!”

“Haaaaaaak!!”

The attendants who had rushed over at the sound of Yvon’s scream scattered blood and died in the blink of an eye.

The Yvon family head, who had gone mad with pain, began to greedily devour the corpses that had not yet died.

“Bring, bring more!! Quicklyyyy!!”

Walter sighed deeply at the sight of her, who had lost her reason and become closer to a beast that ate people.

“Well, I guess it can’t be helped…….”

The burns caused by the cut surface due to spatial teleportation were not the kind of pain that could be explained by ordinary pain.

This was because the physical entity that should have been temporarily ignored during the teleportation process was observed, and the friction of the distance that the spatial teleportation had traveled was manifested as it was on the cut surface.

It was the same as grinding the injured area on asphalt at full speed.

If the Yvon family head’s body had not already been half-human, it wouldn’t be surprising if she had died of shock long ago.

Walter, who had been watching her devour human flesh indiscriminately, not even recognizing her family’s attendants, stood up.

“Bring the Ilwon family head.”

“Bu, but the family head is…….”

“She’ll regain her senses after eating a few more. Even if she can’t regenerate right away, it won’t be difficult to stop the bleeding. There’s something much more important than that.”

Now that things had come to this, Walter knew what he had to do.

His gaze, which had risen with difficulty, reached a small garden.

The water droplets that had formed on the leaves of the plants were slowly falling down.

“Although it’s different from the plan, I will start the ritual of the Apostle’s Descent here.”