Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 421

8th level, the pinnacle.

Beyond the seven stages of self-modification, the end of power that can be reached by truly transcending the hierarchy.

Magicians who reach this point are revered and called great mages, a simple yet clear title.

But is moving beyond an already completed hierarchy truly the path to becoming closer to perfection?

Can the form after completing the seven established levels as a superhuman be called a better completion?

Drip, drip…!

Even after fully deploying the magic system and absorbing the power of the military spirits, the blood dripping from his body does not stop.

The magician, clutching his side with a somewhat dazed expression, looks utterly pathetic.

[A spiral of gold and blood… truly beautiful.]

Madrich said, gazing at Lenox’s figure.

[But great power comes with a price. Even if your talent truly reaches the heavens, it is a power that cannot be obtained without sacrificing everything.]

“……”

[You harbor a contradiction, seeking perfection but never reaching it. Do you realize that the name itself is irrational?]

Madrich said, watching Lenox slowly lose power and fall from the upper part of the memorial tower.

[You must also be nearing your limit. Neither of us is in a position to be leisurely.]

Thud!!

As Lenox’s body fell into the middle of the sandy beach, dust fluttered.

Burst internal organs and bones, and joints. A hot, throbbing pain that ceaselessly pierces his head.

But what weighs down on Lenox’s body, which is covered in all sorts of drugs, is not the aftermath of the fierce battle, but the spiral halo that has risen behind him.

Madrich’s words are not wrong.

The Magic System Ouroboros.

It claims to be a perpetual motion machine that analyzes, understands, and converts all existing power sources, but such power comes with a price.

Every time the magic system is activated to absorb and steal such power and mental images, a corresponding price must be paid.

Now that the magic system has been amplified using the trigger of the spell that Grisha used, the price required of Lenox is blood.

Lenox, at the same time as grasping the mental images of the four military spirits, was losing that much blood to maintain the magic system.

Ouroboros is by no means a power that circulates completely on its own and moves towards infinity.

It is merely the result of countless powers and mental images converging, taking and plundering everything from oneself and others to maintain that desire and power.

Can this truly be called a power close to perfection? Lenox already knew it was not.

Completing the hierarchy is in itself the completion of a superhuman.

Taking a step further can be called overcoming, but in a sense, it is turning back to an incomplete form.

Abandoning the closest state to perfection that can be reached while bearing the shackles of a living human and stepping back onto an incomplete path.

But even knowing that, Lenox believed that this was not the wrong answer.

The countless ascendants he had encountered in this world were also not perfect or complete beings.

Even the giants of the mortal world who have transcended the realm of the pinnacle and obtained the qualifications to challenge ascension, are beings who cannot let go of their regrets until the end of their lives.

He does not hesitate at all to go beyond the completed hierarchy.

Whirrrrr…!!

Lenox’s body becomes battered and his complexion, drained of blood, turns pale, but conversely, the magic power rotating in his body increases exponentially.

He completed the extreme state of exaltation he had reached by absorbing the residual magic power of Jintun in the Hanghasa Labyrinth, by grinding his body.

He knows that if he makes even the slightest mistake, he will lose his balance between life and death and collapse, but he does not stop.

Wasn’t it for this very moment that he fought countless monsters at the risk of his life, trying to observe and understand their visions, mental images, and small universe magnetic domains?

It doesn’t matter if his body can’t move anymore. As long as his thoughts and magic power can circulate, there are still many ways he can try before this time ends.

Swish…!!

From between Lenox’s body, which had fallen powerlessly, magic threads stretched out, pulling his body up as if holding and raising a doll.

Squeak…!!

The memorial tower, which had soared high into the sky, suddenly tilted towards Madrich, and the grudges that had been screaming inside poured down on the body of the military spirit user.

“……”

[…….]

Lenox, slumped and leaning, and Madrich, carrying thousands of grudges on his shoulders, faced each other.

Without either of them moving first, their hands moved.

[Spiral Lightning Kill: Piercing Thrust]

[Slaughtering Finger Command]

[Linked Space Reflection]

Kwaaaang!!!

From the huge magic circle that rose behind Lenox, dozens of bursts of lightning poured out, illuminating the night sky.

At the same time, it collided with the wave of spiritual energy that Madrich was extending, creating a powerful shockwave.

The two mages, who did not stop closing the distance amidst the fierce barrage of firepower being fired head-on, clashed simultaneously.

They stirred the magic power in their hands and extended their thoughts in all directions.

Clear will transforms into miracles projected onto reality based on powerful power.

A feast of dozens of spells and formulas erupting at close range from the two mages who are not afraid of hand-to-hand combat.

[Great Flower Flying Azure]

[Ghost Gathering]

Dududududu!!!

A fierce noise, as if blades were being shaved off in the air, echoed incessantly.

The faded lightning and the backflow of magic power. The flashes that crossed dozens of times in front of their eyes bounced and missed in the fierce battle, barely grazing the two mages’ bodies before disappearing.

“Hoo…!!

He recognizes and feels every moment, from the instant he leans forward on both legs to the moment he manipulates magic power with his fingers.

Every spell and branch of magic power he unleashes has a clear basis and intention, and a fierce battle where even a single oversight leads to a fatal injury.

He perceives and accepts everything, even amidst the barrage of firepower that is difficult to even properly see with the naked eye.

Kugwagwagwagwa!!!

Every time the magic and military spirit techniques that the two mages unleash with all their might collide, the atmosphere burns to its limit and turns into plasma.

Spheres of heat sources, like small suns, rise up in various places along the coast, rotate, and explode, sweeping away and evaporating the sand and seawater.

The shockwaves that erupted like breathing every time they gestured lined up in all directions and soared into the sky.

A mage who staggers incessantly while somehow waving his hands, and a young military spirit user who fearlessly penetrates the gaps.

[Damn it…!!]

But even amidst the fierce battle that seems almost equal, it is the face of the young man that continues to distort.

Every time he wields the power of the grudges he carries with military spirit techniques, the double helix that rises behind Lenox rotates and swallows that power whole.

Wajajajak!!

It doesn’t end there, but rather, it drastically inflates the caster’s magic power, creating an absurd situation where the power he unleashes returns as an even stronger attack.

[Open Circuit: External Link]

Pajijijijik!!!

Even the higher-level lightning-type magic that would normally require pre-chanting is now implemented with only its power, omitting the process, due to his extremely heightened condition.

A huge breath of lightning erupts over the dark night sky, above the white bridge.

Kwaaaang!!!

But Madrich also reacts in a split second, twisting his body to somehow avoid and receive the blow.

An evasion chosen in the realm of prediction and intuition, which is close to precognition, and cannot be believed to be simply fast reaction speed.

In a mind more elevated than ever, Madrich’s intuition tells him an answer close to certainty, and it naturally flows from his mouth.

[Die…!!]

Simultaneously manifesting mental images that have ground down the very existence of grudges, implementing the distortion of physical laws to the extreme.

The eight branches of the huge spiritual spear that rose into the air rotated as if they were seeping into the shadows, piercing and twisting through Lenox’s barrier.

[No Spirit]

Kagagagak!!!

But instead of counting the insufficient number of teleportation spells, Lenox raised his hand towards the sky.

At the same time, the light of the helix rotating behind him grew even stronger, transmitting an immeasurable light of magic power to his fingertips.

[Thunder Seal]

It is a magic that is not easily used.

Perhaps because it is part of the ultimate technique that he first became aware of the existence of unique magic and awakened himself in an awakened state.

It consumes that much power and cost, and sometimes contains a part of Lenox’s mental image.

The torrent of lightning that had just erupted behind Madrich, as if time were rewinding, gathered back into Lenox’s hand and twisted into a completely different form.

Pajijijijik…!!

A pure white flash erupts from between his fingers, which are bent slightly. A clear golden ring, impossible to hide, is mixed in and shines.

The ultimate technique of the lightning system, which directly projects Lenox’s firm will, transformed into a dazzling light that cut across the night sky.

Kwaaaaaaaaa!!!

A heat that seems as if the basic substances that make up his entire body, as well as his mind, memory, and even spirit, will all be swept away and disappear.

The ferocity that shatters and crushes the senses, beyond simply being hot and heavy, is felt acutely until the moment his consciousness is cut off.

[Aaaaaaah!!!]

Madrich’s figure, which was thrown back with a huge shockwave, was thrown tens of meters into the air, barely stopping after collapsing on the tower.

[No way… this can’t be…!! How could a mere unique magic…!!]

Madrich, who had not expected the ceaseless exchange of attacks to end like this, twisted his body powerlessly.

[It’s not over, nothing is over yet!!!]

Bang!!

The moment he pounded the spire of the memorial tower with both hands as if in a desperate struggle, the night sky began to rotate violently, centered on the huge memorial tower that had risen behind him.

As if time were flowing thousands of times faster, countless starlight drew a huge concentric circle in the sky and rotated.

A hallucination as if space itself was being distorted and converging to a single point, being sucked into the back of Madrich, who was standing with the full moon behind him.

All the military spirits that had been condensed inside the tower surged above the head of the military spirit user standing at the top of the memorial.

Faaaah!!

Military Spirit Technique, Main Body Technique

[Heroic Spirit Realm: Function Return]

[If I have to be robbed, I’ll just inflate it so much that it can’t be swallowed and explode…!!!]

The moment Madrich, who had unleashed a resounding roar, raised his finger towards Lenox, thousands of grudges that had soared into the sky from the memorial tower descended and grabbed Lenox’s limbs.

[Can you even understand and swallow my judgment!!!]

Immediately after, the figure of a huge giant appears as if tearing through space in the sky above the memorial tower.

With a huge spiritual scythe in one hand, he stares down at the ground and extends a pale hand towards Lenox.

It is one of the military spirit technique techniques that Madrich Onion used during the war era decades ago.

A fragment of his prime when he judged sinners and made their spirits and bodies his military spirits, creating an army on his own.

[Unthinkable Declaration]

The only verdict for a rebel who disrupts the order of the city and resists Madrich’s answer is death.

To forcibly judge the spirit and body of the opponent and make even the result his own military spirit, moving eternally towards the answer.

Even though he directly faced the vision technique that permeated all the time Madrich Onion had lived, Lenox shook his head.

“Wrong. You still don’t understand.”

[What did you say… ?]

Kiiiiing!!!

At that moment, as if space was splitting and the other side of reality was opening, a golden kaleidoscope appeared behind the giant holding the scythe.

A landscape of a heterogeneous form, clearly different from the form and brilliance of military spirit techniques.

Only then did Madrich’s expression harden as he realized that the golden ring was not his power.

[No, wait… This isn’t it…!! What on earth is that…!!]

If the owner of the power rising within this domain is not Madrich, then whose is the magnificent kaleidoscope landscape?

It didn’t take long to find the answer.

Madrich’s furious gaze quickly turned to Lenox, who was barely hanging on the lower part of the memorial tower.

[You bastard!!!]

“Instead of a magnetic domain that is relatively unspecialized for combat, you forcibly implemented the functions you used in the past? That’s really impressive.”

Lenox, who had struggled to get up, smiled as he swept his hair back with a tired face.

“But it was a mistake to forcibly inflate the power of the technique because you saw through my magic system and were worried. That sharp intuition has become a poison.”

[Impossible, impossible…!! You’re saying you interfered with my technique and changed its direction…!! You, a mere Saint-level mage, dare!!]

Madrich knew that Lenox paid a price for taking the opponent’s power.

To prevent that, he forcibly inflated the scale and firepower of the technique, even consuming the memorial tower,

But instead of forcibly stealing the military spirit techniques using Ouroboros, Lenox used the torn space on the other side as a stepping stone to deploy the kaleidoscope.

He had already converted the mental images of the four military spirits into power, so the output was sufficient.

The partial deployment of the magnetic domain, which he had not been able to use because the output was insufficient, is now fully formed and begins to appear.

[This can’t be!! This can’t be happening…!!]

The embarrassment of realizing that he was not the only one who had been biding his time and looking for an opportunity.

The incompetence and ignorance of not recognizing the young mage’s scheme.

But more than anything, what fills Madrich’s mind is the rage that comes from the fact that the landscape of the answer he thought was perfect is being used by his opponent without any resistance.

He cannot accept it.

The fact that the technique from the time when Madrich Onion himself was the most powerful is being so easily altered and moved by another mage.

Accepting and acknowledging that is no different from denying and destroying all of Madrich’s ways of life and answers.

The powerful self-righteousness and stubbornness that do not accept the reality unfolding before his eyes, and the arrogance that has blinded his eyes, instead transform into a powerful force that supports Madrich Onion.

[Aaaaaaaah!!!]

The huge spiritual body of the giant holding the scythe, which had risen into the night sky, grabbed the long scythe with both hands and swung it down.

A wave of spiritual energy that is impossibly huge and heavy for one person, one being, one spirit to handle.

The moment he swung the powerful wave of annihilation that tried to erase his very existence beyond the actual physical force directly at Lenox.

Jjeojeojeojeok!!!

A huge ice pillar, the size of which could not be estimated, blocked Madrich’s eyes.

“As long as no one interferes. A paradise that nothing can invade. I can understand what you dream of and desire.”

Lenox raises his head and looks up at Madrich.

Or rather, at the dazzling golden kaleidoscope landscape that has risen behind him.

The moment he recognizes and understands it, it is already close enough to be grasped in Lenox’s hand.

“But I am here to find an answer that transcends all those relationships.”

If what he obtained to reach level 7 was a kaleidoscope that emitted the branching points of infinite possibilities,

What is needed to reach level 8 is the scenery of a helix that converges all those possibilities to one point.

The miracle that is possible because he has fully grasped that enormous output in his own hands is now spreading out in all directions, piercing through the kaleidoscope.

[Magnetic Domain Deployment: Branch Point Observation]

[Partial Deployment Reality Modification]

[Origin Hierarchy Mental Image Implementation]

[Emperor’s Void Ice Accumulation]

Jjeojeojeojeok!!!

The thousands of liters of seawater that Madrich had raised begin to freeze solid.

The sea, which contains an immeasurable amount of seawater. A partial deployment of the freezing domain that uses the largest and most powerful water source on this planet as a medium.

Dudududududu!!!

The enormous seawater that rose as if rotating according to Lenox’s gesture freezes solid.

Huge rings of ice, all rising at an angle as if surrounding the huge memorial tower.

They rotate fiercely without a single trajectory overlapping and unite. He has implemented a vast ice asteroid in this place.

Kugwagwagwagwa!!!!

A huge ice prison as if the entire sea had been lifted, poured, and frozen.

The cold ice pillars that stretched out between them pierced Madrich’s limbs and fixed him in the air.

Puhbuhbuhbuk!!

[Kuhak…!!]

The magnificent and majestic form surrounding the memorial tower was so elegant that it resembled a shrine.

In the center of the huge frozen shrine, as if the entire sea had been frozen and piled up on top of it.

In the center of the memorial tower, which had slowly begun to freeze along with the space, Madrich, realizing that everything had lost its meaning, screamed.

[No… No…!!]

It slowly stops.

His own body, which had newly incarnated within the domain.

His own ambition, which had been climbing the memorial tower endlessly and increasing its height.

The enormous spiritual power that had been surging throughout his body, and the power of the small universe that had been hovering around him.

Even the powerful desire that had never lost its heat, and the cognitive ability and spirit that remembered and recalled it.

All of that freezes, stops moving, and is slowly forgotten.

Reversing the order of the world, which is to move and become chaotic, the cold air steals and permeates all the heat sources and power that the being called Madrich Onion possessed.

That cold breath was stealing not only himself but also all the hopes and ambitions he had gathered at this naval base.