Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 285

“Damn it…!!”

She furiously scratched her shoulder, then turned her head sharply towards Walter.

“How long will it take?”

“Pardon?”

Ivon’s family head shouted roughly.

“How long will it take to open the barrier and proceed with the ritual?!”

“Ten minutes will be sufficient.”

Walter replied.

“The key is to deceive the barrier’s security, even for a moment. If we can send a signal through the ruins, we can consider it a success.”

“Signal?”

“Yes. It’s one of the best ways to utilize the ruins of the old world left behind like this.”

Walter smiled coldly, unconcerned by Ivon’s glare.

“In this closed world, there are only a few faint cracks… you could say they’re communication channels to the outside.”

* * *

“Haa, haa…!!”

Even while sweating profusely, Asui didn’t stop his work.

The shadows extending from his feet spread endlessly into the sky, surrounding Ivon’s towering eight-story mansion and concealing it from view.

The achromatic waves emanating from Asui’s small frame constantly pulsed, amplifying the spell and adjusting the flow of magic power.

His condition didn’t look good.

He had offered to help Renok, but he himself had contributed to evacuating the fortress residents with Oren at the manor where the proxy battle had taken place.

It had only been a day since that incident. It was far too short a time for his magic power to fully recover.

Renok, who had been quietly watching him, took something out of his pocket.

A treatment ampule he had received in exchange for helping with an agent’s work in the past.

He had filled it with a diluted potion he had made himself, creating an enhancer.

“It’ll sting.”

“…Ugh!”

He inserted the ampule into Asui’s arm and waited for the potion to be injected.

Renok looked directly into Asui’s eyes and said.

“It’s something that elevates your spirit and increases your recovery power.”

“Huff, huff…”

Asui’s rough breathing slowly began to stabilize.

Renok watched Asui for a moment, then reached into his coat again.

He placed a few pill packets and two ampules at Asui’s feet and stood up.

“The pills will help with magic power, and the ampules will help with stamina recovery. They’re not things with severe side effects. If you can’t handle it, give up and get out.”

Asui didn’t answer anymore.

He just reached behind his back with a weary hand and handed something to Renok.

A coat that looked like it was shaped like a raven’s wings. It was the ceremonial attire that Oren, the head of the Three Youngs, always wore.

“…”

Renok silently accepted the coat and draped it over his shoulders.

Reacting to his magic power, the coat naturally melded into the outer layer of his coat, turning into a calm, dark color that didn’t reflect even a single point of light.

Only after watching that scene to the end did Asui lower his head again.

Instead, the shadow flowing from under his body began to cover the entire sky like a curtain.

Swoooosh!!

Renok also immediately stood up and turned his head.

Ivon, who boasted the most powerful influence and reputation among the eight families.

In this street, filled with various shapes of tiled-roof houses, the eight-story mansion that uniquely increased its height was in front of Renok’s eyes.

“Hoo…”

Renok, standing in front of the mansion’s gate, took a deep breath without a word.

He stared at the cigarette in his mouth, then spat it out.

The new cigarette he took out of his pocket instead had a completely different shape from the previous one.

The highest-grade painkiller, Defiler 3.0, sold at Plumber’s orchard.

It was a ready-made product with a different version from the Defiler 2.0 he used before.

“Cough!!”

[Ew, it looks disgusting…]

Only then did Davi, who had peeked out of his pocket, frown, but Renok’s hand didn’t stop.

He inserted the green liquid, which was different from the contents of the ampule he had given to Asui earlier, directly into his shoulder and injected it.

Fwoosh!!

In addition, he chewed and swallowed a magic power enhancer and a sensitivity accelerator that he always carried with him, just in case.

He administered a few more ampules to adjust his physical condition.

Finally, after forcing down two kinds of elixirs in finger-sized test tubes, Renok, who had gagged a few times, stood up.

“…It tastes like vomit no matter when I take it.”

[I don’t remember it being this bad last time.]

“I’ve been experimenting with various things to reduce the side effects while maintaining the efficacy.”

Renok wiped his mouth with his coat sleeve and smiled weakly.

“Good medicine is bitter to the mouth.”

[That idiom is not in my database.]

Renok neatly ignored Davi’s words and slowly raised his magic power.

It had been a long time since he had felt this level of exhilaration after the battle with the Cartel.

Renok also extremely refrained from forcibly raising his condition like this unless it was a very serious matter.

He believed that if he couldn’t compress the process enough to fully deploy his self-generating domain with his own abilities, he would eventually lose the opportunity to choose for himself in a life-threatening moment.

But he still needed time, and fortunately, he had been preparing for a long time to create a situation like today.

No matter what was waiting for him inside that mansion, Renok was confident that he could survive and return, no matter who he faced.

“Shall we go?”

He slowly stretched his arms and legs, loosening his body.

As he massaged his shoulders and rotated his magic power, a violent noise like an engine turning began to be heard from within his body.

Weeeeeeeeee!!!

Davi muttered, as if disgusted.

[Isn’t this cheating?]

The magic power flowing majestically within his body writhed powerfully according to his will and slowly began to seep out beyond his skin.

The magic power that flowed out like smoke flowed through Renok’s coat and soaked the street.

Swoooosh…!!

His figure, moving with blue light and thick smoke, far exceeded the presence that a human could possess.

Everyone waiting at Ivon’s main house swallowed hard.

“…He’s coming.”

Kwaaaang!!

The thick iron gate crumpled like paper and fell into the corner of the yard, completely shattered.

Before they could even be startled by the deafening sound, the flash of light that had flickered outside the mansion slowly walked into the courtyard.

Woo-woo-woong…!!!

A magician wearing a thick black coat silently looked around the mansion and chuckled.

The towering eight-story mansion.

On the wide tiled floors, hundreds of Ivon’s attendants were perched, looking down at Renok.

From blades such as swords, spears, and blunt weapons, to gunpowder weapons such as guns and cannons, they were lined up and pointed their muzzles at Renok.

A total war, mobilizing all the family’s forces to face a single magician.

“I’m not too late, am I?”

[You are truly arrogant, magician.]

The faint voice of Ivon’s family head echoed from beyond the mansion.

[How far do you think your meager skills shown in the proxy battle will work?]

“…”

[Even the head of the Three Youngs knelt before me with his proud shadow magic… If you thought your rampage would work here, you are greatly mistaken.]

“Is that so?”

[After tearing off all your limbs, I will throw your torso to the street vagrants. Even if it’s just to see your face begging at that time, I must see your blood today.]

“Vagrants, that’s a big lie.”

Renok scoffed.

“Even after sacrificing your own body to the cult to regain your youth, do you still have assets left to share with others?”

Ivon’s family head was silent for a long time, then replied coldly.

[Kill him.]

Uooooooo!!!

With those words, hundreds of warriors who had jumped down from the tiled roofs of the mansion rushed towards Renok all at once.

Instead of responding immediately, Renok quietly watched the warriors rushing towards him.

They were at a level that was by no means inferior to the warriors of the Three Youngs. In terms of the number of warriors they possessed, they already surpassed all the other eight families combined.

Looking at some of the different-looking figures among the warriors rushing towards Renok, it seemed that they had already smoothly absorbed the power of the Ilwon family.

It wasn’t difficult to understand the intentions of Ivon’s family head.

Each individual was a considerable magic power user.

Even if Renok didn’t lose to them, they were by no means at a level that he could easily trample over.

Ivon was waiting for Renok to consume a considerable amount of magic power in the process of fighting them, just like Oren had done, and then arrive in front of her.

In a battle between superhumans, the depletion of magic power and mental strength is an absolutely crucial factor.

Regardless of one’s condition, if there is no weapon to wield, one will inevitably lose in the battle of wits.

‘Or it wouldn’t be strange if all of this was just a way to buy time.’

For Ivon’s family head, who had tried to sacrifice the fortress residents as a whole for the ritual, the prestige of the family or the fortress was no longer important.

If necessary, she would try to achieve what she wanted even if it meant abandoning all the family’s forces.

They both knew that they didn’t have much time left.

The important thing was to break through all these obstacles as quickly as possible and find out Walter Martinez’s purpose.

He had to find out at this place why the Guido Cult was so interested in those ruins.

Warriors who traversed hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye and extended their blades.

Behind them, the rear guard, who had come to support with all sorts of long-range firepower weapons.

Tu-tu-tu-tu-tu!!

A barrage of explosions and bullets covering the entire sky poured down to erase one person completely.

But Renok simply flicked his fingers while looking at the blades and the storm of gunpowder that had come right in front of him.

“Shall we begin?”

[I’m ready.]

It seemed that Ivon’s family head had also made considerable preparations to make this work a success, but Renok had not been idle either.

Despite being aware that it was a difficult environment to receive Davi’s help, unlike other areas of the megacity, he had succeeded in finding several useful elements while wandering around the fortress.

[Sewer system overload. Full opening of the fortress’s central area. Acceleration of flow bias.]

Kugugugugugugu!!!

A huge roar began to echo from under Renok’s feet.

Davi’s voice echoed like a declaration.

[89% damage confirmed in 8 main sewer pipes. Backflow occurring. Prepare for impact.]

Kwaaaaaaaaaaang!!!

Immediately after that, the ground collapsed from below the mansion’s courtyard, and a huge amount of water burst out from the underground.

Renok raised both hands towards the enormous flow of water that was bursting out right in front of him, and then quickly formed hand seals.

A large-scale spell that Renok, who mostly omits incantations, would personally carve out hand seals to draw out.

The magic power that responded to that intense will and rule seized the bursting water and slammed it down towards the mansion.

Water-type unique magic

Property change: Multi-layered

Flow manipulation: Large water dragon type

[Ten Thousand Acres of Azure Waves]

The essence of water-type manipulation magic that he had obtained through research with Aris.

A huge tidal wave, rising to a height of at least ten meters, relentlessly swallowed the dry land.

Swaaaaaaaaaa!!!

It was not just a simple wave, but the power of a unique magic that contained magic power to the fullest and crushed and burst the space with clear will and physical force.

The warriors who had rushed towards Renok were swept away without even being able to resist the immense pressure that could not even be thought of as the realization of a natural phenomenon.

“Uwaaaaak!!”

“A, a tidal wave from the ground…!!”

“Where did this much water come from!!”

Some of the more outstanding ones managed to maintain their balance and began to swim in the fast-flowing water,

but at the same time as Renok’s revolver flashed, they scattered blood and sank into the water.

The courtyard had become a flood centered around the mansion. He walked nonchalantly on the surging water, accurately targeting and shooting those who were trying to regain their senses.

Bang, bang, bang!!

The important thing was not to deal with everyone who showed hostility towards him.

If he only dealt with those who were trying to regain their senses and gather the group in this chaos, the rest would be swept away and buried by this indiscriminate wave and crowd.

“So, he took control of the fortress’s sewer system and blew it up…!!”

Someone who had finally understood what Renok had done hurriedly swam and muttered.

“He’s insane… How can he do this to the eight families…!!”

Crack!!

“It’s not difficult.”

“Arrrgh!!”

Renok said, stepping on the head of the man who was swimming with his boots and plunging him under the surface of the water.

“The fortress’s sewer system operates autonomously within the barrier. It was easier to tamper with than the sewer system of a megacity that shares the city government’s strong network security.”

Renok realized this fact right after the proxy battle ended, when Walter was trying to take away the authority to appoint the fortress lord.

If he hadn’t been aware that the security of the fortress’s internal spells was relatively lax, such an attempt would not have existed in the first place.

If so, it was possible to speculate that the security managing the fortress’s public facilities might also be relatively vulnerable.

That’s why Renok had taken the time to hack and manipulate the sewer system inside the entire fortress for a day and blow up a fountain right above Ivon’s mansion.

It didn’t matter how many warriors and how much effort Ivon’s family head had put into preparing to defend the mansion.

Once he overturned the board as he wanted, Renok was confident that he would never let go of the initiative.

Weeeeeeeeee!!

Water-type unique magic.

[Turbulent Current Grinding]

Renok’s magic power relentlessly dug into the mass of water under his feet and rotated violently.

The water manipulation that had ground up the flesh that Walter had possessed was perfectly reproduced at this place, mercilessly twisting the people who were still struggling.

Thud thud thud!!

“…!!!”

Silent screams echoed from all directions, and a red mist of blood rose from the puddles of water under his feet.

The friction caused by dividing the flow of water itself into several branches and rotating them in different directions.

Even warriors with strong bodies found it difficult to resist in the waves where there was no place to set foot.

The bodies of people who had been struggling in the water floated to the surface one by one, limp.

Renok calmly used the backs of those who had floated up as stepping stones and began to walk towards the mansion.