Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 422

KWAHAAA!

The military spirits, having lost their target and master, slowly cease their movements and vanish, and the grand scenery of the memorial tower collapses.

A devastating collapse that freezes a person’s mind and memories whole, shattering their inner world.

At the center of the ice domain that burst out of the inner world through partial deployment, only Madrich, frozen along with the remains of the memorial tower, remains, screaming.

The kaleidoscope that emerged from the foundation of his full-force power. The existence of a massive ice domain that erupted from within it.

Madrich, possessing a powerful intuition befitting a transcendent, realized just how absurdly miraculous it was.

[What is this, what on earth is this… how can it be… a living human’s heart…!!]

A kaleidoscope of a turning point that guarantees a future that will not return, not the past or the present. Because he did not understand the meaning of the answer it conveyed.

He denied it even more because he knew that the scene was a miracle that should never exist within a human’s heart.

If the conviction he had believed in and followed as the correct answer his entire life had wavered even for a moment, wouldn’t Madrich Onion’s journey have already ended at that moment?

[That’s not the answer!! That’s not the answer for our ending…!! You are an existence that shouldn’t exist!!]

Pierced by dozens of ice pillars, Madrich’s figure, sobbing and wailing like a child, is truly pathetic.

Lenox stared at his disgraceful state and nodded.

“Maybe so.”

[What…?]

“But that’s not something someone else decides, it’s an answer I have to find myself.”

Lenox, raising his hand towards the ice shrine that filled the entire sea, muttered.

“At least I can still do it… If there’s time left, that’s enough.”

[Small Shattering: Ice Orb]

At the same time as he gently curled his five fingers, the asteroid constructed of massive ice began to contract.

It warps the space, narrowing its range, and strongly crushes even the existence of Madrich, who was pierced and fixed inside.

[Others won’t leave you alone… The City Council will never stop here!!!]

“That’s not your concern.”

[BAAAAAAN!!!!]

The massive ice domain, which had spread out to a scale spanning hundreds of meters in radius, warps and contracts entirely, turning into a fist-sized sphere.

CRACK CRACK CRACK!!!

A small sphere of ice slowly floats in Lenox’s hand.

But the existence that Lenox has fixed inside is none other than Madrich Onion himself, an 8th-level transcendent.

The ice sphere, which had been constantly vibrating and trembling, slowly settles onto Lenox’s palm and becomes still.

At the same time, the entire sea area that had been frozen cold begins to return to normal.

SWAAAAAAAH!!!

“Hoo…”

Leaning against the collapsed iron gate of the naval base, he faces the raging sea breeze.

Lenox, clutching the frozen ice sphere in his hand, looked up at the night sky, powerless.

Another difficult battle has ended, and Lenox has not yet lost his way.

A former Chief Justice and an 8th-level transcendent military spirit user. He was a big shot that he shouldn’t have faced at this point, so the price was also harsh.

The continuous use of the blink spell, exploiting the flaws of the spell weapon, and the construction of a new magic system that had been continuously postponed.

If he hadn’t found the answers to these two problems, it would have been difficult for Lenox to calculate his chances of victory.

Let alone capturing Madrich Onion as he did now, he might not have even been able to guarantee his survival.

PLOP!!

On the shore where the kaleidoscope of the magnetic field and the spiral of the magic system had lost their light and disappeared, Lenox, who had taken the brunt of all the injuries, buried his head in the sand.

The baby fox, wriggling out from his arms, carefully called out to Lenox.

[Master…]

“……I told you not to come out yet.”

He smiled wryly and stroked Davi’s head.

In front of a military spirit user who handles spirits more perfectly than Lenox himself, you never know what might happen if you recklessly bring out a spirit.

[Your body’s metabolism is rapidly decreasing. If you don’t get emergency treatment right now, it’s too dangerous considering your recovery ability, Master.]

“I guess so…”

He can barely feel the sensation in his fingertips.

The pain that felt like it was burning his side has also disappeared, leaving only a dull fatigue.

They say the moment when you can’t even feel pain is the really dangerous moment.

If that’s true, then Lenox’s current condition is not something he can just laugh off.

[I’ll contact the broker right away. Or should I call the mercenary group?]

It’s been a long time since his whole body has been so battered.

It was amusing to see the digital spirit he had created and raised together looking unusually flustered, but he couldn’t just collapse like this in the cold wind.

“It’s okay… I made a deal… If I signal, they’ll come right away… Just contact… her…”

Lenox, with trembling hands, took out his cell phone from his pocket and placed it in front of Davi.

There was still something he had to do before the effects of the medicine wore off and he fainted.

* * *

The outermost part of the Western Continent.

The Republic of Paragini, which had become a ruin due to a long war.

A lawless zone where Dominic Cabaro, known as the drug king, had seized power, and which had fallen into chaos again after he fell into an unknown coma.

Above the remnants of civilization where there is no order or law, and only thugs carrying guns and magic like weapons roam.

A woman with the body of a spider was playing among the spiderwebs hanging in the air.

“Yeah, Dominic’s condition is still the same. It doesn’t look like he’ll wake up anytime soon.”

A member of Pandemonium, Agneta.

As a descendant of an ancient species, she is skilled in manipulation-type spells using spiderwebs, and has the special ability to freely roam the imaginary dimension, acting as a messenger that penetrates the entire continent.

“It’s time to think about handing him over to the doctor. I recommend dealing with it before attention is focused on the central front.”

She keeps muttering as if talking to someone, but from the side, it just looks like she’s talking to herself in the air.

“I’m going to head to the southern continent jungle now. The direction Gye-baek is moving is unusual. I’ll check it out and report it to the commander separately-”

KUWAGWAGWAGWA!!!

At that moment, the sky of the Republic of Paragini, covered in dark clouds, split in two, and a clear blue sky appeared in between.

Agneta, who had been looking at the clear sky that had opened up without any warning, turned the direction she was moving.

“I’ll talk to you later.”

DADDADADAK!!

She rides the spiderweb towards the center of the impact where the sky was split in two.

Passing through abandoned forests and ruins, factory areas and open spaces, in the middle of a mountain of scrap metal piled high with abandoned military supplies.

At the end of a field filled with old scrap metal to the horizon,

The figure of a giant giant, with smoke billowing from his whole body, was visible.

KUOOOOOO…!!

His massive body is covered in dark scales, and his thick tail, like a steel bar, firmly holds his center of gravity like a weight.

Agneta, who recognized the opponent’s appearance at a glance, frowned.

“Ugh… why here…”

Among the countless powerhouses in the Demon Realm, one of the few monsters with a different level of power and standards.

There are not even five beings within Pandemonium who can have a conversation with him on an equal footing.

In a situation where she cannot retreat since she has come within his range of sight.

Agneta sighed softly and carefully landed a few hundred meters behind the crocodile giant, Kroken Asilus.

“It was a spider.”

Kroken said without even looking back.

The steam billowing from between his scales made the giant stand out like a living engine.

“What business do you have here?”

“That’s what I want to ask you, Asilus.”

Agneta said, slightly averting her gaze.

“It doesn’t matter that you’re ignoring the commander’s request and moving as you please, but it’s troublesome to be so conspicuous.”

“……”

“The Republic of Paragini is still included in the plan. I wish you wouldn’t just destroy everything.”

Kroken turned his bright yellow eyes and glanced at her face before replying.

“An 8th-level transcendent just died.”

“……What?”

While Agneta blinked at the completely unexpected words, Kroken muttered.

“I don’t know who it was, but a high-level curse that was pressing down on my body has disappeared. I failed to control my power because of that.”

“……”

It is impossible to know how many monsters Kroken Asilus, who has lived as a war mercenary for a long time, has had grudges with.

However, it was absurd that the monstrous power he had been spewing out so far was something he had been doing with a curse bestowed directly by a transcendent mage on his body.

Who would believe that the power that had just cleared the cloudy sky was because one of the curses that had been pressing down on his body had disappeared?

The steam billowing from his whole body due to the influence of his frantically running metabolism.

Kroken, who was quietly looking down at his own body, dropped what he was holding in his hand.

The figure of a young man who had lost his human form and died miserably.

Kroken looked at the young man’s corpse with an indifferent gaze before turning his body away.

“I had hoped, but it’s not worth it. In the end, the only one that catches my eye is that guy… I don’t like coming to the same conclusion as the black magician…”

At the same time as the crocodile giant, clicking his tongue, took a step forward, he passed by Agneta in an instant without any sign.

The chilling sight of a massive body weighing several tons, disappearing after traversing hundreds of meters without a sound.

Behind Agneta, who was standing blankly, only the voice of the disappeared Kroken remained, echoing.

“Find out who the dead mage was. I’ll be waiting in the jungle.”

Agneta, left alone with the corpse of the fallen young man, muttered in a hollow voice.

“……Were you listening to everything from the beginning?”

* * *

A quiet beach where the sound of waves can be heard.

At the end of the early dawn, where the sun slowly rises and taps on his eyelids, Madrich opened his eyes.

“Where am I…?”

[It is the end of a dream, Onion.]

As if answering his question, a powerful telepathic message was heard from right next to him.

Madrich, who turned his head sharply at the woman’s voice that felt strangely familiar, let out a hollow laugh.

“I see… so it was you after all.”

A fluttering robe. A long braid of hair that was so long that its length could not be guessed.

And even the overwhelmingly powerful magic flowing from her body.

Oliviera Ron Maze. The chairman of the Cartel and a transcendent mage who had reached the 8th level was waiting for him to wake up next to him instead of Lenox.

Her two eyes, which had taken off the veil that had always covered her face, were sparkling with a dazzling brilliance.

Madrich looked at her eyes, then glanced down at his own body and nodded.

“You used the power of your eyes to suspend my condition. Is that the Seven-Colored Treasure’s Eye of Magic that observes and fixes only the results of causality?”

The moment he was fixed and sealed in Lenox’s ice domain, the existence of Madrich Onion was as good as meaningless.

The totality of freezing that binds and collapses not only the life of a living being but also its thoughts and inner world.

It was natural that not only ordinary life but also Madrich himself, who had transformed himself into the form of a military spirit, could not fully maintain that form.

The fact that his consciousness, which should have disappeared the moment Madrich’s own existence was sealed, still remains here is purely due to Oliviera’s power.

She had observed Madrich’s spirit, which was about to disappear, with her eye of magic, and forcibly kept his existence in this reality.

[It is a power that is far too weak to touch fate, but it is enough to hold onto an old hag who is about to die for a moment.]

Oliviera said, turning her brilliant light towards Madrich.

[Just like the old men who borrowed your power so desperately wanted.]

He laughed without caring about the words that mocked Madrich’s actions of deceiving high-ranking city officials using military spirit magic.

“Intervention in causality using innate abilities… You must have abandoned the project halfway through and devoted yourself to research. Or were you already sensing failure from that time?”

[……]

There was no answer.

The two sat on the beach for a while, watching the sunrise on the horizon.

“We don’t have much time.”

Madrich said indifferently.

“If you have something to do, why don’t you finish it and get out of here?”

[There was still something we needed to confirm with each other.]

Oliviera answered casually.

[So I made a separate request through Kyunroe.]

Madrich scoffed at her words.

“To make a young kid do your dirty work at your age… You’re at the end of your rope.”

[Heh heh… You’re not wrong. But if you’ve met Ban, you’d know?]

“……”

[He’s a man who constantly tests and evaluates not only others but also himself. I don’t know if it will be the right answer, but he is qualified to stand before the ending.]

“That’s a monster.”

Madrich opened his mouth with difficulty. His voice was trembling so clearly that he could no longer hide it.

“He wasn’t a vessel that could be called human. It wasn’t a form of answer that a living person could have. Not just reality, but completely, incomprehensible…!!

Oliviera, who had been quietly watching Madrich’s figure, who could not finish his words and was shaking his shoulders, turned her head.

[You said you wouldn’t be able to understand even if you saw it, and it was true.]

“……”

Even Parden McQueen, the 1st director who had assisted Oliviera for decades, had not lost his life to that power.

Although he did not expect that even Madrich Onion, an 8th-level transcendent who had transcended the hierarchy, would say this, it was natural that Lenox’s inner world had a very unique power at its base.

No, the fact that no information about that ability and scenery had been rumored at all was proof of how dangerous that scene was.

Is it possible that an incomprehensible realm that even an old hag who has lived on the battlefield for decades cannot understand is sleeping in that man’s heart?

Madrich’s shoulders, which had been shaking at Oliviera’s calm words, slowly calmed down.

“Yeah… What’s the point of saying this now? It’s absurd, but the moment I thought that the sight wasn’t bad, it might have already been over.”

[……]

“If there is a possibility that only that man can choose, then it should be him, not me, who goes next.”

What kind of scenery did he face that made this arrogant military spirit user change like this?

Oliviera felt a curiosity rising in a corner of her heart, but shook her head to not forget her original purpose.

[Not everything is over yet. I can give you a little bit of time to look at the ending.]

“Do you want a deal?”

Madrich let out a hollow laugh.

“You’ve already recovered all the military spirits that were under my command, so what do you want now?”

If Oliviera was the first to appear at this abandoned naval base where Lenox and Madrich had fought fiercely, then all of this could not be a coincidence.

The reason why Madrich Onion was able to exert a powerful influence on the high-ranking city officials even after he stepped down from the Chief Justice.

Oliviera was here to recover the spirits of the high-ranking city officials that he was holding hostage.

Knowing that, Madrich could not understand what she wanted from him.

[Of course, I plan to use the spirits you were holding as bargaining chips to regain my access rights to the city government.]

“I figured.”

[But what you can do is not over yet.]

Oliviera said, flashing her eye of magic.

[If you have lost most of the power of military spirit magic and are fading away, wouldn’t the power of the restriction placed on you have also faded?]

“Wait, don’t tell me you…”

Madrich’s eyes widened as he finally realized what Oliviera wanted.

[The shackles of the restriction that Alcaide placed on us. It’s a unique opportunity to gauge its limits.]

The sound of waves crashing can be heard.

The collapsed memorial tower. The end of a dream that would not stop.

[In exchange for revealing the knowledge bound by the restriction here, I will prepare a spare body for you in the laboratory.]

In front of a scene where everything Madrich had dreamed of had become meaningless, Oliviera was smiling.

[The secret of Alcaide. What happened to him at the end of the project. It will begin when Kyunroe regains consciousness.]