Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 365

The words the furball had spoken flashed quickly through Lenok’s mind as he saw that scene.

Wasn’t it said that suicide and homicide have completely different meanings under the principle of Geass [a magical binding or command]?

If so, then Maiya’s actions were not simply a betrayal of her partner, but……!!

“Dodge!!”

Lenok shouted and pulled up his mana, but it was already too late.

The radiance that flowed out as the furball’s life was cut off began to race after Lenok and Ivelin at an incredible speed.

Fwaaaaat!!

Immediately after, a similar form of radiance began to flow out from around Lenok, and instantly, they were drawn to each other.

A massive attractive force, as if grabbing and pulling on a coat. In the midst of that, Lenok’s expression hardened as he realized what the power of the radiance was through his spatial awareness.

“Spatial designation location transformation…… Could it be that they were aiming for this from the start……!!”

[It’s not a power that can be used…… anytime…….]

A faint, leisurely voice flowed out as the furball’s life was cut off.

[A forbidden art close to human sacrifice……. To use that power…… you need to satisfy…… the trigger…….]

Lenok didn’t know, but Maiya, who had been acting with him, knew the furball’s secret.

An artificial life form created by forcibly combining dozens of living humans. A forbidden art of spatial designation location transformation that is activated by stabbing its heart and killing it in one go.

The forbidden ritual, which assumes human sacrifice as its basis, was somewhat in line with the large-scale space movement ritual that the cult used in exchange for human lives.

Lenok, who immediately noticed the similarity and looked back at his conversation with the furball, clicked his tongue with a look of dismay.

The series of meaningless questions that the Doctor had thrown at Lenok. From the beginning, was it a ploy to spend time in the same space and satisfy the conditions?

Just as Lenok had grasped the Doctor’s affiliation and purpose, the other party had also hidden a one-shot reversal like a blade in their conversation.

The Doctor’s last transmission echoed through the light that had instantly traversed the distance Lenok and Ivelin had passed.

[If we meet again…… I’ll tell you more about how to use humans as materials……. If there is a next time, that is…… hahaha!!]

“…….”

Lenok looked at the light seeping out from between his chest, then turned his head towards Ivelin.

“Do you remember what I said before?”

“Ban……!!”

“It’s a ritual activated in exchange for human sacrifice. If we were to forcibly break through that, we would have to pay a considerable price.”

Lenok smiled bitterly and said as he slightly turned his body.

“If the intention was to kill me, I would have to resist unconditionally…… but if it’s just about Maiya appearing here, then I have no choice but to accept it.”

Lenok said that and finished preparing to throw himself in the opposite direction towards the approaching radiance.

“I’ll try to put as much distance as possible between us here, so don’t worry.”

The one who would appear in place of Lenok was most likely Maiya herself, who had killed the furball.

He couldn’t let her stand on the same starting line as Ivelin in the final race towards the gate, after crossing thousands of meters.

To prevent that, Lenok was planning to jump off the carapace arrow right now and put as much distance as possible between himself and Ivelin.

Hoping that she would remember the conversation they had on the bike.

The moment Lenok was about to jump down below the bridge without hesitation.

Thud.

Ivelin, who grabbed his shoulder, pulled Lenok’s body back.

The moment Lenok was left hanging precariously on the spearhead due to her unexpected reaction, Ivelin jumped off the end of the spearhead with that recoil.

Lenok’s expression contorted as he looked down at Ivelin moving away.

“Ivelin……!!”

“You wanted to meet Jin-Doon, didn’t you?”

Ivelin, who had fallen upside down with the ground behind her, gave an awkward smile.

“That, what was it……. The vegetable bundle was delicious. Let’s call it a repayment for that.”

“……!!!!”

Ivelin winked at Lenok, who was making a rare expression of bewilderment, and her body hit the radiance instead of Lenok.

She swapped places with Maiya, who had been left behind thousands of meters away.

Lenok stared blankly at her empty spot that had disappeared in an instant, and clenched his fist until it was about to break.

From the beginning, Ivelin had decided that if a moment came when one of them had to choose, she would send Lenok forward.

She had just attached a ridiculous excuse of repayment. The thought that he knew why she had acted that way made Lenok’s heart ache.

Clank!!

“A tearful friendship, I see.”

“Maiya…….”

And the last competitor who appeared in place of Ivelin.

“But for public officials like us, those are useless emotions.”

Maiya Lenslet looked up at Lenok with a cold gaze as she fell to the ground.

“If you were really planning to win this race, you should have been competing with the bow user.”

“…….”

“It doesn’t matter. I’ll be the one to meet the Ascended.”

Her figure, which had gracefully flipped over, landed in the middle of the vast bridge in an instant.

Immediately after, Maiya’s body, which had pulled up her mana with all her might, was shot out as a pale flash.

A speed close to the speed of sound. Even considering that she was a skilled person, it was an incredible acceleration.

With the gate not far away, Maiya, who sensed that it was her last chance, was also pouring out all her power without holding back.

Kagagagak!!!

A pale flash running across the endless, vast bridge.

But the mana source that entered Lenok’s eyes was not just her.

“Evaaaaaaaan!!”

Even Jaun, who was desperately calling out to Lenok and had started to pick up speed along the edge of the bridge.

Jaun, who had lost his flight technique and had started to fall behind, was also finding his own way to chase after him.

Thud thud!!

Jaun and Maiya, at both ends of the bridge, simultaneously confirmed each other’s presence and frowned.

They had faced each other before, separated by the secret passage leading from outside the snowy mountain to the labyrinth.

They had exchanged blows once before and hadn’t backed down, had they?

They knew that they were opponents that they could never underestimate. That’s why the two of them could easily agree.

“Don’t get in my way, Executor……!!”

“After I catch up to that mage, it’s your turn.”

Instead of wasting their strength to check each other in this place, they decided to simply ignore each other and focus on chasing after Lenok.

Lenok, who had confirmed that scene from tens of meters above, furrowed his brow.

“Damn it…….”

He had hoped that the two of them would fight each other and self-destruct, but neither of them were stupid or brainless enough for that.

They weren’t on good enough terms to cooperate, but they were aware that there was a more important goal, weren’t they?

Lenok thought that and glanced down at the carapace spear he was barely clinging to.

It was still flying at an incredible speed, but he could feel that the speed had clearly slowed down compared to before.

No matter how much he had shot it out through the Barista [a large crossbow-like weapon], it was impossible to fly at the same speed over a distance of thousands of meters.

Lenok was also aware of that, so he had tried to reduce the resistance by adding public magic as much as possible and adding boosters, but that was also reaching its limit.

The heavy weight of the carapace spear itself was slowing down the speed to the point where it was hindering the flight.

If he continued like this, he would not only be caught up to soon, but he would also be overtaken and miss the path to the gate.

“…….”

His worries didn’t last long.

Lenok, who was desperately clinging to the carapace spear, quickly took out and began to drink potions from his chest.

Two bottles of stamina recovery potion and an injectable ampoule for pain relief. He chewed and swallowed three mana recovery elixirs.

The sensation of his stomach being turned upside down as his balance continued to sway was as if it was completely paralyzed.

But on the contrary, the vitality of his whole body was rising fiercely, and his mind was rapidly elevated.

The mana that had been consumed was beginning to rise and overflow, and soon it was burning so fiercely that he couldn’t control it.

“Uweeeck!!”

He could feel that the pain in his body had dulled to the point where he couldn’t even realize it until the moment he felt nauseous.

Lenok wiped his mouth roughly and raised his head, and a sharp glint flowed between his two eyes.

The mana that had exceeded its limits overflowed the vessel, and the gaze that represented his will was the first to reveal itself.

Weeeeeeeng!!

Without being conscious of it, the purple magic eye was rapidly rotating, and the crack engraved between its pupils deepened further.

A phenomenon that seemed to foreshadow a new omen, as if a crack had formed between eggshells.

Without realizing it, he glimpsed into the realm of possibilities.

Whirrrrr!!

The flames that flowed out from Lenok’s hands rotated and instantly began to swell in size.

[Exploding Flame Orb]

[6-Layer Collapse]

[8-Layer Melting]

[9-Layer Acceleration]

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuung!!!

The Blaber Magic Tower’s flame magic is basically a method of constantly increasing its size and power by spending time and mana.

It runs until the snowball rolled from the top of the mountain becomes uncontrollably large, beyond the caster’s own control, to the point where they cannot even guess its own end.

And all of that series of amplification processes was being realized in Lenok’s hands, rotating at dozens of times faster.

The flames of the exploding flame orbs that were constantly being realized and bursting out in his hands were added to the endless cycle of flames, swelling their breath.

The melted flames gained speed in the flow and changed into a form that even he himself did not know.

[Nature Transformation 3-Layer Resonance]

[Flame Spiral: Crimson Arrival]

Kwaaaaaaaa!!!!!

The moment Lenok spread his hands, the flames that had been trapped in the flow of rotation rushed out into reality.

A wave of flames so grand that it was hard to believe that it was created by one mage began to fill and overflow the entire bridge.

Thud thud thud thud!!!!

Would it be like this if the breath of a fire dragon were realized in reality?

As if opening the door to contain the fires of hell, the compressed flames burst out from the fiercely rotating spiral of flames, scattering red, fiery petals.

A requiem of flames that dyed the dark, empty sky a bright crimson.

It was a majestic breath of heat that was hard to believe had started from the smallest exploding flame orb.

Jaun and Maiya’s expressions also changed in astonishment at the sight of the flame spiral that had filled their eyes in an instant.

“……!!!”

“That crazy bastard, was he this strong?”

A scale so grand that it was hard to believe that it was created during this urgent race.

Even if he was an excellent flame mage, was it even possible for a Saint-level caster to use magic of this power without using a domain?

But what made the two of them more urgent than that was Lenok’s intention to unleash this kind of magic only now.

Unless he was determined to take the lead in this place, there was no way he would have used up the mana he had been saving all this time, was there?

There was no time to worry.

Jaun, who was holding a jewel and chanting a spell, and Maiya, who had pulled up her mana and taken out all sorts of equipment, slipped into the sea of flames.

Kwaaaaaaaa!!!

“Damn, it……!!!!”

“Hoo……!!”

Even though they had prepared and had time to prepare, it was difficult to regain their senses due to the heat that seemed to melt their entire bodies.

It wasn’t a real flame that had no physical force and was only full of heat.

The spiral of flames completed with flame magic was not a terrible heat close to hellfire, but a real substance that blocked and pushed the two of them away.

The moment they took a step forward, the heat intensified several times, forcing them to retreat.

It burned and devoured not only the tips of their outstretched fingers, but also the mana that they had layered several times to protect their bodies.

“Aaaaaaaaah!!!”

In the midst of the inferno that didn’t even allow them to breathe.

They struggled to endure a moment by exhaling all the air left in their stomachs.

Even so, Jaun’s body was walking through the burning heat in order to somehow move forward.

The inferno of heat that felt like an eternity. But that pain was something that Jaun and Maiya had fully prepared for.

The flame spiral that Lenok had created was not meant to hit a target, but was the essence of a wide-area magic that focused only on increasing its size and power.

There was no need to shoot it at the two of them. All that was needed was a flame that was strong enough to fill and burn the entire vast bridge.

Whirr!!

“Hah!!”

The shield that used the jewel had long since worn out.

Jaun, who was panting without even being able to open his eyes properly, let out a scream mixed with pain at the same time as he escaped from the flames.

The ordinary air that he faced immediately after breaking through the flame spiral felt as cold as ice.

Flames that burned the inside of his body and cold air that froze his skin.

Waves of gravity and sharp arrows that were shot down from all directions without distinguishing between opponents.

Thud thud thud!!

Even in the midst of this, Balak and Ivelin, who had fallen behind, were somehow trying to help their respective partners.

A cold voice echoed in Jaun’s staggering mind.

[Get a grip! If you stop here, it’s all over!]

“……!!!”

Jaun’s gaze, which had suddenly lifted his head as if he had been hit on the head with a hammer, caught sight of Lenok’s figure moving ahead.

The mage’s back, running on the bridge just like him, with no sign of the unknown giant arrow that resembled a spear.

He was far ahead, but his speed was no different from that of an ordinary human.

He could catch up.

Jaun’s eyes flashed as he realized that, and his legs began to move without him realizing it.

50 meters to the last gate leading to the cradle of the Ascended.

As if knowing the existence of the three people who were desperately sprinting.

Squeak…….

The gap in the third gate, which had been tightly closed, began to open faintly.