Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 401

The night streets were soaked with rain.

On the empty asphalt, where not a single person or car could be seen, about twenty people stood with their heads bowed, getting drenched in the downpour.

Swish, swish, swish!!!

They were scattered haphazardly without any formation, but not one of them faltered in their posture, even amidst the pouring rain.

“…It’s not too late yet. Should we move in now?”

At the words coming from within the group, the man standing at the very front of the group spoke.

“I’ve told you several times that we need to wait until the magic pattern observation is complete.”

As if protesting those words, another voice from behind the man said,

“But it’s already been almost five minutes since the signal was lost. Being silent for more than five minutes against someone like Gyeonroe probably means…”

Snap!

There was no reply.

At the same time as the man snapped his fingers, red eyes glowed in the darkness, and the upper body of the voice that had spoken to him was sliced diagonally.

“Hic…!!”

While someone swallowed a scream at the sight of the corpse that had died instantly without even reacting properly, a heavy body that had appeared from right behind emitted a quiet noise.

Click, click…!!

What was wriggling, with red eyes glowing in the dark night air, was a mechanical spider with eight legs, about the size of a motorcycle.

The fresh blood flowing down between the legs that had dug into the road clearly showed what weapon had just sliced the voice.

There was no proper sign or reaction. Only the red eyes wandering in the dark rain illuminated the surroundings.

Such dozens of red eyes were quietly glowing one by one around the superhumans standing in the rain.

Their appearance, occupying various spots on the street, on the walls of buildings, under bridges, on the roofs of flower gardens, on top of traffic lights, and on the sides of streetlights, waiting for orders, gave off a different atmosphere from those gathered here.

Swoosh….

“It seems like you didn’t understand properly, so let me explain again. From the moment we confirmed that we had to face Gyeonroe in this operation, your roles were already decided.”

The man said, stepping on the hot fresh blood flowing to his feet with the rain.

The man looked around at the people staring at him with cold eyes and muttered.

“The reason we’ve been able to maintain security until now is because all of you are inmates whose personal information has been erased. It’s only natural that it’s difficult to find traces since we’ve taken out erased individuals who should have been spending their remaining lives locked in single rooms.”

Click, click.

The man, who had taken out a small terminal from his pocket and started operating it, continued.

“Soon, a technical team dispatched from headquarters will build a Level 7 defense system in this entire area and freeze all of Gyeonroe’s magic. Until then, you just need to take turns infiltrating the Dyke branch office, buy some time, and then, when the program installation is complete, capture Gyeonroe and bring him to me. Understood?”

“……”

“No, it’s okay if you don’t understand. I’ll explain it as many times as necessary. It’s my fault.”

The lenses of the glasses the man raised in the darkness shone coldly.

“It’s useless to get angry and raise my voice against ignorant people. I still need more mental training.”

Even at the man’s mocking words, no one dared to talk back.

They had just seen clearly how the mechanical spiders, standing as if dead, could change at any moment with a single signal.

The magic control suppression chips embedded in their bodies prevented them from even attempting proper resistance.

If they didn’t want to die like the superhuman who had just talked back to the man, they had no choice but to silently follow his orders.

If there was any consolation, it was that if the Level 7 defense system he had just mentioned was completed, it would be difficult for even Gyeonroe to hold out for long.

The essence of a project ambitiously started by Achilles headquarters as soon as the ban was lifted.

Having personally experienced its power, they were keenly aware that Gyeonroe could never win this battle.

The only important thing was to buy time until the defense system, which was being adjusted for only one sorcerer, was completed.

At that moment, as they silently waited for their turn, hoping that they would be alive until the system was completed.

Thud!!

Immediately after, a heavy figure fell right in front of the man, creating a tremendous roar.

Wiping away the rain that was obscuring his vision, the man nudged what had fallen in front of him with his foot.

“…What is this?”

“Ugh, ugh….”

What had fallen from a height of tens of meters was surprisingly a giant who was wriggling all over while still alive.

His appearance, with thick iron bar-like pillars embedded in both arms, was that of the vanguard who had been moving with the spellcaster named Levi.

The sight of a superhuman with outstanding skills, enough to work in sync with a special-type spellcaster, struggling like a child, silenced the crowd.

Only the man at the very front began to poke the giant with his wet boots, with a puzzled expression.

“Did he run away while fighting Gyeonroe? But why is he in this state?”

“Ugh…!!”

The giant, groaning in pain, couldn’t even speak properly and kept rolling around.

“It’s a sealing ceremony.”

Another figure, watching the man’s expression, cautiously opened his mouth.

“A seal? Is such an old-fashioned technique still being passed down?”

“Can I touch him for a moment?”

As soon as the man nodded, a figure who had walked out from behind carefully touched the giant’s body.

“There’s no doubt. It’s a seal that restricts not only movement but also most of the body’s functions to a minimum.”

“Is that so?”

“The level of the technique is… beyond my ability to discuss. To be able to completely break down a physical ability user like this, I can’t even guess the principle.”

The figure, who had sent magic power into the inside of the giant’s stiff shoulder blade to grasp the situation, kept exclaiming in admiration.

“Judging by the bullet wounds on his body, it seems to be mediated by bullets, but how can it be so precise… At this level, even proper thinking would be impossible.”

The figure, who was admiring and examining his companion who had fallen so miserably, was not in his right mind either.

However, the man also nodded as if he understood only after hearing those words.

“I see… He was a type who cared much more about performance than I thought.”

“Yes?”

“What do you mean by that?”

The others, oblivious, kept asking the man questions.

However, instead of snapping his fingers again this time, the man wriggled his lips with an amused expression.

“Why would a magician who has been killing anyone who dares to challenge him do something like this? It’s because he’s telling us to wait, since he’s going to make us all look like this.”

“……”

“It’s quite a cute idea… As expected of someone who crawled out from underground, his thoughts are incredibly sinister.”

Only then did the figures understand the man’s words and fall silent.

It had not even been five minutes since the signals from Levi and the giant had been lost.

In that short time, they had realized why the magician, who had killed the spellcaster and made the giant look like this, had done such a thing.

It wasn’t to show off his power to the superhumans who had been rolling around in this city.

It was simply a calm declaration that he would make you all look like this and display you in front of the branch office.

The man, who had been deep in thought, looked up at the building that had risen slightly above his head and opened his mouth.

“Change of plans. Everyone, prepare to move in.”

“Yes, yes?”

Unlike the figure who was flustered and stammering in a slightly embarrassed voice, the others silently began to check their equipment and gather their magic power.

They were, after all, people who were more than used to killing people and committing crimes.

Under the neatly organized logic of power, most of them were skilled individuals without any hesitation.

The man looked around at them and nodded.

“I sent the two who were the most level-headed first, but they couldn’t even last five minutes.”

“……”

“Sending them up one or two at a time would be nothing more than playing with toys. In that case, we should just overwhelm them with numbers.”

Swoosh!!

With those words, the spiders that had been standing as if dead all began to wriggle at once, and their legs, hidden in the darkness, began to flail wildly.

The spiders, sliding across the rainy street, quickly climbed up the walls of the Dyke branch office building.

Leaving behind those who were hesitating at the gruesome sight, the man licked his lips with his tongue, looking up at the building with sharp eyes.

“This is the sixth demonstration of the spell-security combat-specialized spirit weapon 71-Aranea. Let’s see how long it can hold out.”

* * *

“I always think this…”

Lenok, who was glancing out the window, wiggled his hands and muttered.

“It seems like the crazy people in this city just keep pouring out endlessly.”

[Master, I’ve succeeded in hacking into a part of the database of the Kertritz detention facility.]

Davie, who was rubbing against the inside of his coat, said.

[Compared to the inmates locked inside the facility, the data on the escapees is relatively easier to access, probably because of the wanted notices. Leviore Mortenson, 85 years old. Level 7 spellcaster. He’s a former cult leader who was charged with trying to establish a new country with 5,000 followers.]

“…This man was the leader of a cult?”

Lenok looked down at Levi’s headless corpse with a dumbfounded expression.

[He was planning to use spells to bewitch people and settle in a satellite city. Because of his unique techniques, he received a life sentence instead of the death penalty through a plea bargain, and he occasionally cooperated with the city government through special pardons. He escaped during a terrorist attack five years ago and has been missing ever since.]

“If you’re a Level 7 offender, the charges against you are quite grand…”

The bigger problem was that those with such grand criminal records were starting to roam the streets without a care.

As the ban was lifted, even the Level 7 completers who had been secretly restraining their activities began to move in earnest for their own benefit.

Until now, even if you weren’t a big shot in the shadows, you didn’t have many chances to face a Saint-level, but that was proof that this city was becoming more of a mess.

“As far as I know, there are quite a few crazy people locked up in such detention facilities… If these guys keep getting released one by one, that would be a problem.”

[It seems that it was an open secret that the city council was using the power and techniques of death row inmates for their own benefit. According to the Dyke strategy room, if the current trend continues, it will probably get worse and worse.]

“When did you get Dyke’s information again?”

[I swiped the security code during a meeting with a human named Panoa. The old code was updated once, making it difficult to access, but I couldn’t resist this time.]

Lenok chuckled at the sight of Davie waving his front paw as if stealing something.

“Good job. If what you say is true, then this kind of thing will happen much more frequently in the future.”

[If you have some time, it would be good to look at this data as well. It’s a document that was under the highest level of security in the strategy room, and it shows that the rate of increase in the level of magic users based on observations and statistics over the past few decades has increased dramatically-]

“I’ll listen later.”

Lenok, interrupting Davie’s words, stood up and lifted the object he was holding in his hand.

Click!!

With that gesture, the revolver was instantly assembled and held in Lenok’s hand, and it began to emit a stream of bright blue magic light.

Lenok quietly smelled the bullets in the revolver’s cylinder and muttered.

“It’s much later than I thought.”

Whoosh!!

Immediately after, a harpoon rushed towards Lenok’s chest.

The moment he extended a shield to deflect it, the harpoon tip exploded like a bomb, scattering its contents wildly in all directions.

Thud, thud, thud!!

Dozens of wires, installed like bullets in the room, blocked Lenok’s movements,

and at the same time, several mechanical spiders that had crashed through the window rushed towards Lenok all at once.

Kiri-ri-rik!!

Dozens of wires filled the vast lobby on the 7th floor of the building where Lenok was standing.

The mechanical spiders, moving in perfect unison as if they were one body, rushed towards Lenok, riding the wires like spiderwebs.

The spiders that had entered first closed the distance and pressed their bodies against him, and the spiders that followed pulled out machine guns and all sorts of magic weapons from inside their bodies and warmed them up.

The preemptive attack from the spirit weapons, which had occupied Lenok’s top, bottom, left, and right, riding the wires that had spread in all directions, was perfectly coordinated.

Boom!!

No sooner had the barrage ended than the door at the end of the opposite corridor was smashed, and a swordsman wielding two blades charged through the spiders.

The sword strikes quickly shaved off the shield that had been battered. The firepower support from the mechanical spiders followed suit.

Before Lenok could react to the sight, a man with a cold expression, who had broken through the opposite wall, swung the scythe in his hand.

Swoosh!!

He cleanly cut through the shield that had been battered in one exchange and passed through the carapace shield like a ghost.

An attack using a spirit. And a sorcerer of a considerable level at that.

Lenok also moved without hesitation.

[Space leap coordinate designation. Leap distance 5m. Casting time 0.25 seconds. Magic injection complete.]

Whoosh!!

He consumed 30% of his magic power in an instant to leap 5 meters forward.

He planted the blazing lightning directly into the spine of the man who was swinging his scythe in the empty air.

[Anti-Lightning]

Boom!!

It exploded from inside the man’s back, blooming a dazzling flower of light in the middle of his spine.

Leaving behind the man who had turned into a handful of blood without even resisting, Lenok immediately swung his hand.

At the same time as the carapace shield moved above his head, the shape of a giant hammer smashed down, breaking through the ceiling.

Thud!!

Lenok chuckled as he confirmed that flames like rockets were spewing out from the other side of the hammer.

“I’ve seen something similar before.”

[System takeover complete. It’s too easy!]

Boom!!!

With Davie’s hacking ability, he instantly hacked the hammer’s abilities,

overloading the magic power remaining inside the weapon and increasing the flames spewing out from the opposite side of the hammer.

Whoosh!!

Amidst the hammer that was exploding because it couldn’t handle its own output, he pushed an ice blade into the face of the bewildered giant.

[Ice Shattering Awl: Explosion]

[White Demon Snow Halberd]

The blade, refined like an awl, exploded at the same time as it pierced through. Immediately after, the ice blades that had exploded turned into a sharp blizzard.

Thud, thud, thud!!

A gruesome sound of flesh and muscle being pierced through. A moment later, the sound of a heavy body falling backwards was heard.

Ignoring the corpse that had collapsed behind him, he grabbed a single wire hanging in the air with his gloved hand and deployed magic.

A precise technique that combined three different attributes and systems—unique magic, alchemy, and barrier magic—was assembled within his body as if he were breathing.

Electric-type unique magic: Alchemy application

Barrier formation: Magnetization

[Magnetic Collection: Homogeneous Group]

Zzzzzzz!!!

He instantly created a barrier technique that required prior preparation as a catalyst through alchemy, and realized the result based on his unique magic.

Finally, taking the will of the falling sorcerer as nourishment, he instantly altered reality and revealed his form.

The violet lightning that spread from Lenok’s fingertips transferred along the wires installed throughout the lobby, reaching even the spiders riding on them.

Kiri-ri-rik!!!

A technique that simultaneously captured and pierced the mechanical spiders that had been thoroughly distracting Lenok and dividing his time.

The moment they were pierced, their function did not just stop.

The spiders, connected by different powerful magnetic forces, began to clump together with tremendous attractive force.

Thud, thud, thud!!!

Unable to withstand the attractive force pulling from all directions, the heavy bodies of the mechanical spiders clumped together in one place.

In that fierce flow, even the superhumans who had been fighting Lenok at close range were helplessly entangled and their flesh began to be crushed.

“Kuaaaak!!!”

“Get awayyy!!”

The bodies of the superhumans who had fallen under Lenok’s feet were caught between the bodies of the mechanical spiders that were clumping together and were crushed as if they were being crumpled into one.

With that force, the joints and bones of the superhumans were helplessly shattered, and they were pulled as if they would become a single lump of meat.

Even the others screamed in terror at the overwhelming attractive force.

Kiri-ri-ri-rik!!

“No, no!!”

“This isn’t it, this isn’t…!!”

“Aaaaaaak!!”

Crack, crack, crack!!!

Dozens of mechanical spiders, clumped together and wriggling their legs grotesquely, and the flesh and blood that flowed out as they were crushed by the pressure generated between them.

Lenok looked down at the figures of those who had gathered together and stopped breathing, then began to move out of the room.

The giant he had thrown down earlier was a sample of those to be displayed alive.

This is a sample of those who will be killed from now on.