Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 326

Level 8, the pinnacle of power.

Lieutenant General Trepen had ascended to the realm of monsters, transcending human limitations and surpassing all ranks.

Yet, even his formidable body was ultimately analyzed and disassembled within Davi’s spirit domain, reverting him to a human form.

This was not something Davi could have accomplished alone.

A mobile fortress with immense computational power and a potent energy source had served as Trepen’s body.

It was a temporary miracle manifested by Davi, who had absorbed the fortress’s essence to her limits, greatly expanding her vessel, and Lenok, who guided her from behind.

However, the spirit domain [Dreamscape of Virtual Reality] created as a result was the ultimate counter to Trepen’s weaknesses.

Thousands of blue cubes fell like snow within the domain. Countless blue lines connecting points and surfaces moved as if alive.

A visualization of information exchange at incredible speed.

Davi’s will, contained in all those fragments, permeated and interfered with Trepen’s body as if melting into it.

Hacking circuits that didn’t exist in his body, bypassing firewalls that shouldn’t have been there, filling and transforming empty system spaces.

The physical manifestation of the cerebral space.

It meant Davi had gained the ability to interact with the magical engineering civilization of this land.

Tududududuk!!

The number of parts pouring out of Trepen’s body increased rapidly.

Even if he tried to pick them up, the screws and bolts slipping through his fingers multiplied.

At this rate, he would lose all the parts that made up his body in less than five minutes.

For Trepen, who had lost control of the mobile fortress and was left with only this small body, it meant true death.

From the moment he deployed the spirit domain with Davi, Lenok had declared Trepen’s inevitable end.

Trepen, who had been watching the parts falling from his body, slowly raised his head.

Charrrrk!!

Ignoring the parts that poured out as if shaking off dust, he raised his fist again.

He spread his wings, which were gradually thinning, and rotated his magic power.

Lenok confirmed Trepen’s response and nodded.

“So, you haven’t stopped thinking just because your ego is shaken.”

Just before the spirit domain, Dreamscape of Virtual Reality, was deployed, Trepen’s conclusion was correct.

The physical manifestation of this virtual space network, centered around the cerebral spirit, was ultimately a miracle that could not exist without Lenok, the caster.

The moment he killed Lenok, Davi would disappear, and the domain would vanish. He could even repair his collapsing body.

All he needed to do was kill Lenok and return everything to normal before his body was completely worn away and disappeared.

Lenok, who had instantly unleashed his magic power, took a step forward and muttered.

“Show me everything you’ve got. Show me what it means to have stepped into level 8.”

[Uwaaaaaaaa!!!]

He swung his fist and spread his wings. His forearms became emaciated, and the wing membranes fell off.

Kuuung!!

He charged forward and rammed his shoulder. A shockwave erupted, and his shoulder joint shattered.

The sphere’s ceiling trembled precariously.

Leaving behind the rain of screws and bolts falling endlessly to the ground below, Trepen moved his body like a madman.

The more he exerted himself to kill Lenok, the faster his body wore away.

The heavy weight that had once emitted a thunderous roar with each step was now gone, and a sound like a broken tin can echoed every time he rushed forward.

Clang, clang!!

[Die, dieeeeee!!!]

Every time he turned his body, the parts falling from it scattered in all directions, creating a loud noise.

The endless back-and-forth continued. But Trepen’s limbs, which had become so thin that they resembled twigs, made it easy to guess the outcome.

Tuk!!

Trepen’s fist, swung weakly, stopped without even piercing Lenok’s bare hand.

[…….]

Lenok stared at Trepen’s emaciated body, which had lowered its head, then grabbed his shoulder and pushed him back.

Trepen’s body fell dozens of meters from the sphere’s ceiling, which was open to the sky, and crashed into a pile of scrap metal under the deck.

Thud!!

The surrounding area was already filled with the debris of parts he had been shedding.

[……It’s not over.]

Trepen, who had lost all control of his body to Davi and was left with only a skeletal frame, muttered.

A bizarre sight of a red heart throbbing faintly between the bones.

[As long as my consciousness data is uploaded to the network, I am immortal……!! If I was going to die here, I wouldn’t have even started in the first place!!]

“…….”

[Are you going to remain a dog of the City Council until the moment you die!!!]

Lenok spoke in response to Trepen’s desperate cry.

“I can guess that the Vulcan City Council is not in a normal state.”

[……What?]

“But I just couldn’t agree with your methods. This city maintains a precarious balance on the interests of tens of millions of people. If you wanted to take revenge on the City Council, you should have chosen a smarter way.”

Wooong!!

Lenok reached out his hand towards Trepen from the crack in the sphere.

“At least that’s not the answer I wanted.”

At the same time as Davi, who was standing behind Lenok, began to draw in magic power, thousands of cubes floating aimlessly within the domain soared into the sky.

Following them, thousands of lines spread throughout the domain moved along the cubes, grabbing the walls of the mechanical sphere and rotating.

As the scenery inside the domain changed entirely, the appearance of the mechanical sphere, which had accepted Davi’s command, changed dramatically.

The huge sphere with an open ceiling straightened its walls, leaving a circular floor.

Kugugugugu!!

A giant cylindrical prison connecting the ground and the ceiling. Lenok, standing on the ceiling, raised his magic power towards Trepen, who had fallen to the floor.

A huge spark ignited on the walls of the giant cylinder, forming rails. It began to draw a long path as if drawing a target group.

Pajijijik!!!

[Aaaaaaaaah!!]

Trepen screamed like a madman as he realized that the end of the rail of electromagnetic waves was pointing directly at his chest.

A metal bullet the size of an arm, formed at the tip of Lenok’s hand, was fired downwards and turned into a streak of light.

Weeeeeeeeeeeng!!!

The modified mobile fortress was transformed into a cylinder. A railgun that fired by using the entire fortress as two huge rails.

The barrel, unable to withstand the impact, was crushed and collapsed, and the bottom of the cylinder exploded as the bullet hit the ground.

Kwaaaaah!!!

Trepen’s body, which was nothing more than a skeleton, evaporated into dust and disappeared.

The consciousness data of Trepen, who had lost his body in an instant, was retransmitted to the Gearsides’ backup server.

However, even that series of electrical signals was trapped within the cubes that filled the domain and melted away.

[Please…… No…….]

Trepen’s last cry echoed.

The electrical signal that had lost the organ to produce a voice. That voice, which should not have been heard, transformed into a sound in the physically realized cerebral space and reached Lenok’s ears.

Lenok slowly sighed as he felt Trepen’s consciousness completely disappearing within the domain.

“Huuu…….”

From the moment he succeeded in awakening Davi through focused lightning and deploying the magnetic domain, the battle was practically over.

Nevertheless, the reason why Lenok had put so much effort into dealing with Trepen was to leave no room for any possibility.

He instantly modified the entire mobile fortress into a railgun battery, using extremely compressed firepower to evaporate even the remaining debris under the deck, extracting the consciousness data to the outside.

Immediately after that, by fully deploying Davi’s domain and erasing Trepen’s consciousness and backup network, he completely eliminated the possibility of Trepen coming back to life.

Kugugugugu!!!

The mobile fortress, modified into a giant mechanical tower, began to shake slowly.

It could no longer withstand the continuous transformations and the recoil from being used as a railgun battery.

Kwaang!!

The top of the collapsing mechanical tower. The giant three-tailed fox, as if waiting for it, caught Lenok’s body, which had lost its balance and was staggering, and placed him on its back.

It slowly changed the shape of the domain and landed on the ground as if walking down from the sky.

Lenok, who had safely landed in the middle of the sandy desert, stroked Davi’s head.

“You did a great job.”

[It was more difficult than I thought.]

Davi said, rubbing her much larger head against Lenok’s hand.

[According to the calculations, I should have been able to take control of Trepen’s consciousness the moment I deployed the domain.]

“That’s probably because there are aspects of their wishes that cannot be explained by theory alone. In fact, Trepen couldn’t give up his heart in the process of transplanting his consciousness into the mobile fortress.”

Even though he had made the entire mobile fortress his body, he had ultimately transplanted his heart into a combat body and used it as the center of his will.

Although it was already over, Lenok thought that there might be a different meaning to Trepen’s actions than what was generally assumed.

“Whether a person’s soul resides in the head or the heart. It’s not strange that he couldn’t let go of that concern even after modifying his entire body.”

The reason why the result of the battle was one-sided, even though there was a clear difference in power between Trepen and Lenok.

It was because Trepen, who was reconstructed with a mechanical body, and Davi’s abilities were perfectly compatible.

Such extreme compatibility was rare even in this world where all sorts of abilities and spells ran rampant.

Moreover, because Lenok had thoroughly concealed Davi’s existence, the Gearsides had no chance to even realize her existence and were defeated.

Once the consciousness of the researchers who should have been supporting Trepen in real-time, adjusting his condition, and coming up with countermeasures was eliminated first, Trepen was unable to resist Davi’s interference and self-destructed.

Lenok had only helped Davi build the magnetic domain and bought her time to adapt to her changed power and abilities.

The one who had destroyed Trepen and Gearsides’ ambition was none other than this cerebral spirit.

“How does it feel to be a spirit with a domain?”

Lenok asked with a smile as he stroked Davi’s head.

Through various conditions, and because of the opponent, Davi had obtained a spirit domain.

Her spirit domain was a type of illusion that defined a specific area as a unique network, physically realizing the interference ability that was only possible in the cerebral world.

It was the same as forcibly granting a cerebral space to objects that did not have a system or network, allowing them to be interfered with.

Since almost all civilizations in this world were based on magical engineering, the area she could interfere with had expanded dramatically from a non-existent network.

Of course, Davi’s own level had not reached the Saint level, and she was subject to various conditions and compatibility, so it was difficult for her to possess a power close to omnipotence.

However, it was a great advantage that the number of ways to interfere with various objects without placing a heavy burden on Lenok himself had increased.

[Well…… I don’t really feel like I’ve accomplished anything great. It’s only possible because of Master.]

But Davi leisurely licked her front paw, despite Lenok’s words.

[Rather than that, shouldn’t we be thinking about how to play dumb when we research spirit formulas with the professor?]

“…….”

Indeed, until just before participating in this operation, he had been researching with Aris on how to raise spirit formulas to level 7.

[If we return to the next meeting with a bunch of new abilities, that woman will be very happy.]

“Why do you keep talking like it’s not your problem?”

Lenok grabbed Davi’s ears and rubbed them roughly at her sharp, unhesitatingly accurate point.

“First, we need to think about how to make that tail and body smaller.”

[If the power taken from the mobile fortress runs out, my body size will return to normal. The tail… wait a minute.]

Davi, who had suddenly raised her head, muttered.

[It seems like things are roughly finished over there too. They’re coming this way.]

“……What?”

Two fortresses were rushing towards the giant city.

One of the fortresses that Trepen had obtained through body synchronization was dealt with directly by Lenok.

The other fortress, which Aris and Hina were in charge of, had also stopped its rush and was tilting and collapsing.

Its slow tilt, puffing out smoke.

Even the sight of the two people walking out of the desert, leaving behind the burning wreckage of the fortress.

Hina was carefully supporting Aris’s slumped shoulders.

The aftereffects of the [Thunder God] that Lenok had placed were still leaking from the top of Hina’s head, where she had roughly placed her broken glasses on the tip of her nose.

Lenok and Davi made eye contact at the same time and clicked their tongues.

“……What should we do?”

[My body isn’t shrinking. Should we run away somewhere and drain some magic power?]

“…….”

Lenok, who had quickly thought it through, shook his head.

“No. It’s too late. At this point, it would only look suspicious. Rather-”

[Rather?]

“Ban-nim!!”

Hina, who was walking with a tired face, stopped as she waved her hand happily when she saw Lenok sitting on the sand.

“Um, what are you riding on?”

“It’s a summoned beast.”

Lenok replied with a nonchalant face as he got off Davi’s back.

“The battle was so intense that I summoned it for help.”

[…….]

Davi, who was wearing the carapace fragment of the Apostle Walter like a mask, wagged her tail silently.

With the carapace completely covering the upper body of the three-tailed fox, it would be difficult to tell that it was a fox, even if one thought it was an animal.

It was Lenok’s instantaneous decision, but Hina’s expression was far from pleased.

“Ah, yes…….”

“…….”

[…….]

Lenok confirmed that Aris, who was leaning on Hina’s shoulder, had her eyes closed and asked casually.

“Is Professor Richelieu okay?”

“It seems she pushed herself a bit too hard in the process of drawing magic power. It’s a mild case of exhaustion, so she’ll come to her senses after a short rest.”

“I see…….”

The important thing was to not let Aris see Davi’s appearance.

All he had to do was reduce Davi’s size before Aris regained consciousness and then hide her back in his arms.

Just as Lenok was about to let out a sigh of relief.

“Umm…….”

Aris slowly opened her eyes with a somewhat subdued voice.

Her blue eyes met Lenok’s gaze precisely and naturally turned to the three-tailed fox standing behind him.

“……”

Silence fell.

Aris asked.

“What is this?”

“Um, it’s my summoned beast.”