Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 318

Metamorphosis (1)

“I know that Lieutenant General Trepen colluded with Gearside to plot a coup.”

Lenok, having shaken off the smoke from his revolver, pressed the barrel against Barclay’s forehead.

Chiiik!!

The heated barrel began to burn and press into the Major General’s forehead.

“Kuh…!!”

“And that he might try to recreate the failure of the Ascension Gate.”

“……”

“If the Lieutenant General is indeed trying to transcend humanity at this point, it’s only natural that he wouldn’t be able to show himself here.”

Lenok knew it too. That the answers to all these questions he was asking were already known.

Barclay looked up at Lenok’s face, then shook his head with a defeated expression.

“It’s already too late. The Commander accepted the offer from those cogs [referring to machines or cyborgs] a long time ago.”

“…When are you talking about?”

Instead of answering Lenok’s question, he turned his head away.

“Isn’t it foolish?”

Barclay asked, gazing down at the scenery below the deck.

“We completed the seven stages of self-modification and became powerful figures that everyone looks up to… yet, we are still just human.”

“……”

“The Commander was distrustful of that fact. And he believed that if he could transcend humanity and reach level 8, the Defense Force would be treated as an extremely rare power within the city.”

Lenok and Barclay’s empty gazes met.

“They acted like they could give the Commander everything he wanted. The Lieutenant General couldn’t resist the temptation. That’s all.”

“The Lieutenant General joined the ascension dreamed of by machines?”

Lenok asked.

“Did Trepen really believe that was possible?”

“……”

Barclay didn’t say anything more.

He simply closed his eyes as if sensing his own end.

Lenok also acknowledged Barclay’s answer from that posture and nodded.

Click!

He rotated the cylinder once and pulled the hammer.

Barclay opened his eyes, fully accepting the sensation of the hot barrel pressed against his forehead.

Lenok did not avoid that gaze until the end and pulled the trigger.

Bang!

The gunshot echoed, and purple chains scattered and disappeared in the air.

A dull thud was heard as something fell back onto the deck.

Lenok imprinted that moment in his memory as he slowly turned his back.

Davi, who had been watching the scene without saying a word, asked.

[Are you planning to enter the fortress right away?]

Thanks to Davi’s hacking of the central control system, which temporarily disrupted the fortress’s balance, Barclay was easily killed, but as a result, the firewall was updated, losing the chance to intervene in the system.

To regain control of the fortress in this state, they would have to enter the control room directly and begin hacking the internal authority.

However, Lenok shook his head, even though he was aware of this fact.

“There’s still something I need to do.”

Kooong!!

Using impact magic, he cleared away the wreckage of tanks and supply boxes scattered nearby and moved towards the inside of the deck.

Passing through the 8th gate, which had been blocked once, he reached a huge cylindrical pillar located further inside.

Around the pillar, dozens of large plugs, about the thickness of an adult man, were plugged in, and those thick lines were all digging into the lower part of the deck.

Davi, who immediately recognized the identity of the object, said.

[It’s the mobile fortress’s external power converter. Why is this…]

“While the tanks were firing cannonballs in a row on the deck, I memorized the movements of the other command soldiers. They were particularly trying to protect this thing so that no debris would flow near it.”

Lenok replied, taking a deep drag of his cigarette.

[That means…]

“It’s proof that this power converter alone is operating normally even on the deck. It’s a core component responsible for charging the mobile fortress’s power source using the reactor.”

Perhaps this was also the reason why Major General Barclay and some of the command soldiers were guarding this place.

And with such an energy-intensive object, there were many ways a mage like Lenok could utilize it.

Charrrrrrrr!

He focused his mind for a moment, drawing up his magic power to the maximum and extracting hundreds of strands of magic power at once.

After wrapping the magic strands around the plug joints, he pulled them straight.

Crack!!

At the same time as dozens of huge plugs connected to the converter were pulled out, a massive current began to erupt from the huge cylindrical pillar.

Pajijijijik!!!

A storm of massive current, wandering aimlessly after losing its path, surged through the converter and shot straight into the sky.

The cloudy sky was instantly illuminated by the lightning, glowing pale.

Kugugugugu!!

Looking up at the sky, which was flashing blue, Lenok muttered.

“Davi, you may not know, but the first unique magic I saw was similar to this.”

The power plant battle with the Cigar Bang gang.

Eden, the gang boss who was from the Torburn Magic Tower, used the power plant’s electricity as his own power source to unleash magic beyond his capabilities.

It had been over three years, but it was as vivid as yesterday in Lenok’s memory.

The shock of witnessing real magic for the first time, other than his own.

The countless blades of lightning that poured down like rain from the sky. The scorching power of the electric thunder that covered and swept through a radius of hundreds of meters.

Lenok, who had barely stepped on the edge of the deck, began to form hand seals without hesitation.

His coat flapped wildly in the storm of rushing current, but the blue light emanating from Lenok’s eyes flickered madly as if such an environment had no effect on him.

Woo woong!!!

An alien cry was heard from the cloudy sky.

A bizarre and eerie noise, as if the sky was tearing apart. Lenok’s magic, flowing along with the hand seals, flew over the fortress and grabbed the aimlessly floating electricity.

The magic power he threw up was insignificant compared to the lightning flashing in the sky, but the magic power condensed with the will of a Saint-level mage was enough to overturn and wield the natural environment that had no will of its own.

He reversed the hand seals and pointed them.

The direction of his will was towards the middle of the battlefield, which was still burning without end.

Lenok whispered.

“Go.”

Lightning-type unique magic

Property change converter application

Pre-resonance confirmation bias

[White Fall Hundred Gather (白落百斂)]

[Base Thunder Extending Pillar (基雷伸柱)]

At the same time as Lenok’s wrist rotated, a wave of magic power with the exact same frequency spread out, rotating through the clouds, illuminating the fortress sky.

The hazy sky opened up as if it were a gaping maw, and from within, hundreds of pillars of lightning rushed madly towards the ground.

Thududududududududu!!!!

Hundreds of lightning strikes fell behind the Defense Force, which was engaged in a fierce battle near the fortress.

In an instant, the city area around the satellite city was blown apart, and desperate screams began to echo from all over.

“Uwaaaaaaack!!”

“H-Hey, it’s rear bombardment!!”

“Is it another friendly fire incident!!”

“No, no it’s not!!”

The expressions of the Defense Force, who looked up at the sky, were filled with fear of the unknown.

The object that turned human bodies into ashes with a single breath was not the fortress’s gun ports, but the concentration of lightning pouring from the sky.

Someone, realizing that the massive current that had risen from the center of the fortress’s deck was shooting straight into the sky and pouring down on the ground, muttered blankly.

“The headquarters… how could they do this to us…”

Kwaaaaaaang!!

Even that low cry was engulfed and disappeared in the heat of the lightning that struck from the sky.

[Successfully infiltrated the fortress deck.]

[I’ve dealt with Major General Barclay. I’ll start providing forward fire support from now on.]

Lenok’s calm voice echoed through the allied communication network.

Only then did the freelancers and agents realize that all of this was not just a coincidence, and they swallowed hard.

“…It was half of it.”

“It’s impossible unless you have the Iron Will.”

“Not only did he break through the fortress single-handedly, but he also recaptured the upper deck and was providing fire support to us.”

“He’s insane. How can a mage do such a thing…”

“Isn’t it possible because he’s a mage?”

The freelancers turned their heads at the cold voice coming from behind them.

Aris, who had a heavy mass of water floating above her hand, looked at them and smiled faintly.

“I appreciate the contributions of the vanguard, but if you’re distracted like this on the battlefield…”

Kwagagagak!!

Even in the meantime, Aris’s magic was constantly alive, grabbing the shrapnel pouring in from all directions, pouring it towards the enemy in front of her, and freezing it.

“I’m sorry.”

“I’ll move forward and take the hits.”

“Please provide fire support. I’m going!”

There were no freelancers here who were bold enough to refuse the cooperation request of a level 7 Saint-level mage.

Aris, watching the backs of the freelancers rushing towards the fortress, glanced at the sky.

The countless rain of lightning that rose from the fortress deck and poured down.

A spectacle of miracles that was even beautiful at first glance.

Her blue eyes carefully observed the flow of electricity flashing in the sky.

Others would simply perceive that Lenok had used magic and accept the situation.

However, Aris, who had completed her own image and built her domain, knew how absurd the principles behind the rain of lightning that Lenok had created were.

‘It’s not a one-time bombardment that ends after it’s poured out. He designed a magic flow chart in the entire sky and maximized the rotation and emission to increase its sustainability.’

Aris’s gaze deepened.

‘It’s not a magic power that can be handled even with the completion of the hierarchy [referring to a system of power levels]. The reason why he can extend the duration of a wide-area lightning magic with a short duration like this is…’

The converter that was charged on the fortress deck. It must be because he is using all the power stored in it as a power source.

At the very least, for 10 minutes.

There would be no Defense Force anywhere that could avoid the pillars of thunder falling from the fortress during that time.

And that was the same story for the two Major Generals who were blocking the area near the fortress.

“Damn it, nothing ever goes right.”

Among the collapsing reactor core storage containers, with lightning pillars falling from all directions.

Alburn, having spat out the phlegm stuck in his throat, cursed.

“I shouldn’t have trusted those nerd bastards, becoming a test subject for those bookworms who only studied theories is too much to handle.”

“Considering that, you seem to be using Gearside’s technology quite well.”

Whoosh!!

Ilya, who had grabbed two ultra-vibration spheres floating behind her with both hands, replied calmly.

“I never thought that even general-level superhumans would accept such reckless body modifications… Aren’t you afraid of losing your humanity?”

“Oh? It seems you know something about those guys. No one has ever asked me that before.”

“……”

Major General Alburn smiled as he looked at Ilya, who did not answer.

An alien magical light was slightly leaking out from between his cracked skin, and his appearance was already slightly off from the human form.

“Humanity… it sounds nice, but from my perspective, having lived as a soldier for almost 20 years, I don’t feel anything in particular.”

“Humanity is not just about character or personality.”

Ilya replied as she stepped sideways, injecting magic power into the spheres.

“The minimum standard for defining oneself as a living being must exist somewhere, and losing it is like carving away at one’s own heart.”

“……”

“Are you prepared to accept the fact that your own image will be worn away?”

“Sort of?”

Alburn said nonchalantly and started walking with her.

“Those guys said that the missing parts can be filled with other parts.”

“……”

“Machines have their own hearts. Since the Commander decided to follow that law, shouldn’t we join him?”

“You guys… you’re not even soldiers anymore.”

“We haven’t been for a long time. Everyone knew it, but they were just trying to deny it.”

Click!!

The gauntlet, which emitted a heavy noise as if it were being loaded at the same time as he raised his elbow.

Alburn, raising his heavy iron fist, turned to Ilya and muttered.

“So, let’s settle this. I want to see what choice our Commander will make in the end.”

A level 7 physical ability user who has completed the hierarchy. Combat experience honed over decades of service. On top of that, body modification combined with Gearside’s technology.

But more than anything, what makes Alburn so strong is his own strong mentality that can laugh at this bleak reality where the future is not visible.

He was speaking like a loafer, but his loyalty to the Commander would break rather than bend.

It was clear that he was not an easy opponent.

Ilya silently turned her gaze towards the shattered reactor ceiling.

Unfortunately, her limit was to keep Alburn tied up here.

The rest had to be left to the owner of the lightning that now covered the entire sky.

Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]

Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]

The Genius Wizard who takes Medicine, 약먹는 천재마법사 약먹는 천재 마법사
Status: Ongoing Author: Native Language: Korean
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In "Genius Wizard Takes Medicine," the protagonist, an avid gamer, meticulously crafts the ultimate wizard character in the game "World" by maximizing magical abilities and accepting numerous disadvantageous traits. However, he suddenly finds himself transmigrated into this very character—a prodigious talent who cannot survive a single day without relying on drugs. Set against a cyberpunk fantasy backdrop, the story blends action, adventure, and intricate magic systems, inviting readers to explore a world where extraordinary power comes at a significant cost.

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