Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 441

The speed was so terrifying that even Lenok couldn’t ignore it.

Tucker, pierced through the shoulder, tumbled helplessly to the ground.

Immediately after, hundreds of ice shards exploded in the air, raining down like a storm.

Dudududu!!!

“Hide behind the tollgate!!”

“No, I can’t avoid it… Kahak!!”

Unlike Olga, who retreated in horror, Rick couldn’t move properly and was helplessly pierced by the ice shards.

Rick’s corpse, unable to use illusion magic, died, likely due to overexertion during the vault breach.

Olga cursed and quickly retreated, dragging the convulsing Tucker with her.

Lenok’s eyes gleamed as he watched her struggling.

‘Both Rick and Olga overdid it. It must have been incredibly difficult to break into the vault.’

While Rick was an illusionist, Olga was a Saint-level physical ability user. She was a renowned powerhouse who could handle herself in any situation.

If she was struggling to even protect Tucker from Soryu’s attacks, there must have been a significant reason.

However, instead of dwelling on that fact, Lenok pulled out his mana threads and immediately shifted his gaze.

Swaaek!!

The sight of cold ice shards filled his vision as soon as he turned his head.

They were blocked by the tightly woven mana threads, spinning violently before falling to the ground.

At the same time as the shards fell, Soryu appeared before Lenok in an instant.

With a cold, hardened face, he stared intently at Lenok’s masked face.

“…”

Lenok wasn’t surprised by Soryu’s cold gaze.

From the start, the claim that he had hidden the Tears of the Archangel was a lie. It was a bluff to sway Jebyuk’s thoughts between his grandson and the elixir.

It was obvious that Soryu, who claimed to have found the Tears of the Archangel that Lenok hadn’t even hidden, was not on anyone’s side.

He didn’t expect a high-ranking executive of the same Bokmajeon [a powerful organization] to try to kill him as soon as he appeared, but what he had to do hadn’t changed.

Soryu stared at Lenok for a moment before speaking.

“You’re calm. Do you already know about us?”

“More than the guy you just tried to kill.”

Soryu’s lips twisted slightly at Lenok’s indifferent reply.

“The plan has changed. We’ll be recovering the Tears of the Archangel, so hand it over.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Lenok remained unfazed by Soryu’s words, throwing back a cold sneer.

“Isn’t it you who found and obtained the elixir I hid? I’ve already handed over the elixir, so what else do you want me to return?”

“…”

Only then did Soryu’s expression lose its smile as he realized why Lenok was speaking in riddles.

Lenok wasn’t talking to Soryu standing in front of him.

He was openly telling the old monster, the city’s ruler, who was still standing in the smoke and listening to their conversation, that he was the one who craved the Tears of the Archangel more than anyone else.

The target wasn’t himself, but Soryu, who had deceived and attacked him.

[Blink]

Lenok’s figure disappeared from the spot.

Unlike Rick and Tucker, who couldn’t recognize its true nature even after seeing it, Soryu immediately understood that it was a teleportation technique.

The moment he realized it, a flash of light erupted from where Lenok had disappeared.

Kwaaaang!!

A fist shot out from within the fluttering purple dragon robe, becoming a massive shockwave that swept through the surroundings.

Even though his health had deteriorated and his energy had weakened, he was still an Level 8 physical ability user.

It was impossible for a human to perceive, react to, or evade that power and speed.

It was a privilege reserved for those who had become or surpassed superhumans.

With his two fists clenched, Jebyuk slowly extended his arms, and Soryu moved relentlessly through the storm of light.

He spun his body wildly against the sweeping fist strikes, rapidly forming hand seals with both hands.

At the same time, Soryu’s breath froze coldly, beginning to freeze Jebyuk’s arm.

Crack, crack, crack!!

“With such a trick…”

As Jebyuk clenched his fist, the ice shattered, and he grabbed Soryu by the collar.

“You dared to steal in my city!!”

Boom!!

At that moment, a flash of light followed Jebyuk’s arm, binding Soryu’s body and throwing him over his shoulder.

A bright yellow mana light drew a dull arc, slamming Soryu’s body headfirst into the ground.

Crack, crack, crack!!

The impact caused the road surface to crack as if an earthquake had struck, with fissures spreading hundreds of meters in all directions.

“Kyaaaaak!!”

“Please save me, please save me!!”

Amidst all this, the citizens were still screaming and praying for salvation.

Soryu was nowhere to be seen in the middle of the shattered road, only a soaked wooden box remained.

Just as Jebyuk was about to grab it without turning his head, the soaked wood instantly froze, transforming into Soryu’s figure.

Was it ice in the shape of a human, or a human made of ice?

Only then did Jebyuk, realizing that his opponent was no ordinary being, faintly frown.

“You…”

“You’re strong, Yanicus Barbaria. I see why the Doctor said there was no need to touch you yet.”

With a blank face, he snapped his twisted neck back into place, and a thick chill emanated from it.

“I thought you were a weakened old leader, but you’ve preserved your strength much more than I expected. You’re more cautious than I thought. The Kaius overthrow plan needs to be reevaluated.”

He was neither an ordinary superhuman nor an ordinary sorcerer.

Soryu had turned into a puddle of water the moment his body was shattered by the attack, and then reassembled as if frozen.

If so, the ice barrier that had blocked Jebyuk’s initial attack must have been…

‘Part of his body.’

That would explain why the ice shards that had suddenly flown in were so unusually fast.

If the ice that made up Soryu’s body was not a freezing technique or magic, but something closer to an ability.

As Lenok thought this and used Blink to hide behind the tollgate, Tucker, clutching his shoulder, spoke with difficulty.

“We, we have to escape… He appeared because he thought the plan had failed…!! He’s not here to help us, he’s here to clean up and fix things…!!”

“I suppose so.”

The relic called the Tears of the Archangel was a treasure that even they couldn’t ignore.

Therefore, it wasn’t strange that a high-ranking executive of Bokmajeon would take action directly, separate from using Hairea to form a team.

However, Lenok kept wondering why it had to be at this specific moment.

If the plan itself was a bait to steal the elixir, there would have been better times to do it.

Even as he pondered, the battle between the two superhumans continued.

Kwaaaang!!

Jebyuk was on the offensive, and Soryu was on the defensive.

Woodudududuk!!

His body was relentlessly battered, melting into water, then freezing and reforming.

Even if he was a dying Level 8 physical ability user, Soryu’s capabilities were on a different level when facing him in a one-on-one battle.

Jebyuk deflected the fragments of cold air that Soryu spewed out without using any mana, simply by changing the direction of his power.

Conversely, he was constantly crushing Soryu’s body and melting the ice shards.

Thud!!

Soryu, regaining his footing after his half-melted body slipped, muttered with a blank face.

“…I can’t do it alone. Come out.”

“You’re out of your mind, you mutant!! Where would you find allies to help you in this situation…!!”

Faaaah!!

At that moment, a brilliant light erupted from beside the two of them. Jebyuk turned his head sharply.

“Victor, what are you doing!! You know the way…!! We need to get out of Kaius quickly and hide where Hairea can’t see us…!!”

“Oh, isn’t that a familiar face?”

Someone walked out from behind Tucker, who was desperately clinging to Lenok’s pant leg.

A cold, sharp face like a snake. Apart from that, a well-trained body.

The young man who had suddenly appeared from behind them grabbed the hair of the fallen Tucker and Olga and pulled them up.

“I’ve definitely seen you somewhere~ Where was it~?”

“Eeeek…!! You, what the hell are you doing…!!”

“Let, let go…!! This isn’t the time for this-!!”

Tucker turned his head and screamed desperately, then his mouth fell open.

“J, Jaun… sir?”

“Hmm, you know that name?”

The young man smiled, then instantly wiped the smile off his face and stood up.

“It was a useless connection.”

Crack!

The young man called Jaun released Tucker and Olga’s hair, and their heads hit the ground, shattering into pieces.

Like fragile glass beads breaking, they shattered the moment they fell from Jaun’s hands.

The brain fluid and blood that spilled out formed sticky clumps and scattered.

However, Lenok was too focused on the identity of the person who had just appeared to pay attention to that.

Jaun Audis. No, it was the black magician Ermong, who had taken over his body.

The black magician who had lived for hundreds of years and had parted ways in the Hanghasami Labyrinth was now standing next to Pandemonium.

The reason Tucker had died without saying anything was probably because he, a member of the terrorist organization Falchion, had mistaken Ermong for the real Jaun Audis.

Ermong dusted off his hands and turned to Lenok with a smile.

“Are you also a friend who was forcibly dragged into Bokmajeon~?”

“…”

‘Forcibly?’

When Lenok didn’t answer, Ermong nodded instead.

“Good. It seems Soryu intentionally spared you. Let’s work together, since we’re in the same boat.”

“What for?”

Ermong chuckled at Lenok’s reply.

At the same time, a dozen jewels popped out of Ermong’s fingers, and a black vortex writhed beneath his feet.

Ermong, who had completely taken over Jaun’s body, was already wielding both jewel techniques and black magic.

Whoosh!!

Ermong’s figure disappeared from the spot as if rotating, and appeared behind Jebyuk in an instant.

Almost simultaneously, Jebyuk twisted his body to evade the dark mana and slammed his foot down, unleashing a blinding mana light on the ground.

“Not so fast.”

Ermong, who had blocked all the cracks in the ground where the mana light was erupting with black mana, raised a jewel.

“Judging by the martial arts you use, it’s the Southern Hyungok’s Grip!! To think that barbaric fist technique is still around!!”

“Shut up!!”

“Yes!!”

At the same time, some of the jewels in Ermong’s hand scattered.

Some exploded after embedding themselves in Jebyuk’s body, while others embedded themselves in Soryu’s body and melted into it.

Jebyuk, whose purple dragon robe was torn in places, distorted his expression, while Soryu breathed out comfortably.

“Four healing types, three release types. Good, the restraints have loosened. As always, they’re useful.”

“I told you, I’m not a tool!!”

Kwaaaang!!

Even while annoyed, Ermong and Soryu quickly pressed Jebyuk.

Ermong set up a wall of fire by unleashing jewel techniques and black magic from the front, and Soryu relentlessly penetrated the gaps where mana exploded.

Even as his body melted and shattered from the shock and heat, Soryu’s expression remained cold.

Even as his limbs were melted and regenerated like toys, he was gauging his limits with an icy judgment.

A huge beast summoned by jewel techniques rubbed against his body from the front, and black magic that erupted from below condensed, piercing through the shadows with sharp skewers.

Soryu slid through the gaps, relentlessly charging towards Jebyuk.

A chilling blade of ice that had risen in the time it took to fold and unfold his hand was grasped in his hand, then disappeared as if leaping through space.

Fwip!!

Momentary acceleration using a crystal explosion.

It was clear that he was not just made of ice, but that he was also adept at handling the attribute of ice.

Lenok, who had also once constructed a freezing domain, watched Soryu’s attribute manipulation with interest.

Kugugugugu!!!

Ice shards, black magic, the light of jewels, and the fist light that Jebyuk unleashed intertwined and exploded incessantly.

In a precarious balance that seemed about to break at any moment, the superhumans’ attacks continued relentlessly.

However, Lenok had no intention of watching this battle for long.

He touched the old wooden box inside his jacket, which he had never let go of for a moment.

“…!!!!”

Even while exchanging blows in seconds, Jebyuk, recognizing the presence of the wooden box, turned his head sharply, spotted the wooden box in Lenok’s hand, and swung his arm.

“Hand it over!!!”

Ssaeeak!!

As Jebyuk extended his hand, an intangible energy rose like a wildfire and engulfed Lenok.

As Lenok’s body disappeared from the spot using the Blink technique, Jebyuk appeared in that spot as if switching places and slammed his fist into the ground.

Kwaaaang!!

“I didn’t feel any distance at all!”

“No way…!!”

The expressions of the other three changed as they realized that Lenok had teleported through space amidst the scattering asphalt fragments.

A special-type sorcerer who could freely store the wooden box and had the mobility to easily evade the attacks of an extreme-level ability user.

If he was a skilled individual who was reluctant to reveal his face to the point of hiding his identity with a mask, yet was participating in Bokmajeon’s operation.

“Is he a space-type magician!! Then!!”

While there were monsters who could interfere with space-time as a result of reaching Level 8, sorcerers who could directly manipulate space were rare.

This was because techniques that directly manipulated space were very secretive and not very efficient, only being passed down to those who were born with the talent.

However, it was certain that someone in this world of over billions of people must have obtained that vision.

Ermong and Soryu, convinced that Lenok was a space-type special sorcerer, moved simultaneously.

Kwaaang!!

“Eek…!!”

They left the task of escaping with the Tears of the Archangel to Lenok and began to focus all their efforts on attacking Jebyuk.

If Lenok escaped with the relic, Jebyuk, obsessed with it, would have no choice but to chase after him.

In the meantime, the two only needed to keep attacking the defenseless Jebyuk and force him into a dilemma.

Kwagwagwagwa!!!

Jebyuk twisted his waist and turned into a huge flash of light, following Lenok, who had become blurry and disappeared from the spot in an instant.

Jebyuk’s monstrous power, which closed the distance created by Blink in the blink of an eye and crushed the space itself.

However, at the point where there seemed to be no way to evade, Lenok’s body tilted as if being pulled somewhere.

Squeak…!!

At the same time, the masked magician slid and dashed, bouncing off buildings on the outskirts of the city.

Numerous mana threads that had been hanging around the outskirts of the tollgate were now rapidly pushing Lenok’s body out of the city.

He escaped relentlessly, reducing his momentum with Blink and creating distance at the precise moment when his body was about to lose control or be caught by Jebyuk.

In the process, he tossed the wooden box he was holding into the air, pulled it back with mana threads, and even distracted and mocked the old monster.

Thud!!

“You insect…!!”

Jebyuk’s face turned red as he saw the wooden box that had bounced out of Lenok’s grasp return to his hand as if disappearing.

Ermong tossed two jewels into the air above his head and clicked his tongue.

“Tsk, tsk…”

At the moment he used the jewel technique, the masked magician cleverly tossed the wooden box, and Jebyuk’s attention was diverted, allowing the attack to hit.

The light of the jewels that erupted above his head turned into sharp needles, piercing Jebyuk’s skin.

The figure of Yanicus Barbaria staggering in pain.

The magician’s reaction was as if he knew exactly when Ermong would attack and when he needed to appear to distract Jebyuk.

It was as if he was manipulating the three people wielding mana in this place from an unseen location.

Soryu, sensing this as well, was looking towards where the masked magician would appear, even as he charged towards Jebyuk.

Lenok, holding the wooden box, slipped out of the city’s outskirts, concealing his presence.

Since the initial battle area was near the outer ring road, it wasn’t difficult to cross the city’s border.

From here, where there were no obstacles and everything was wide open, it would be difficult to evade Jebyuk’s senses with just disguise magic and tricks to hide his presence.

The moment Lenok appeared in the field where the dust-filled wind was blowing, Jebyuk, who had been chasing him, slammed his fist down as if he had been waiting.

Kwaaaang!!

His arm, twisted and rotated, turned into a pillar of light with a white flash.

The fist that had fallen, shattering the ground, pushed away all the dust that was blowing in the field with a powerful shockwave.

Whoooom!!!

At the center of the crushed fragments where the ground had sunk, a voice echoed.

“You seem to be in such a hurry that you can’t even see properly.”

“Hoo…!!”

A sigh escaped from Jebyuk’s mouth as he raised his body.

Even though he tried not to show it, the sweat dripping from his forehead indirectly showed how exhausted he was.

The attacks from Ermong and Soryu, which he had inevitably allowed in the process of chasing Lenok out of the city, had left considerable damage on Jebyuk’s strong body.

It was as if he had been pushing himself from the moment he had forcibly stopped Lenok.

Lenok walked out from behind Jebyuk and shook the wooden box in his hand.

“For a strong person like you to be toyed with like a child over a relic, it’s proof that you’re psychologically cornered.”

“You young brat, are you trying to insult me…!!”

“Don’t rush me. There’s no one here in this field to look up to you anymore. Let’s be honest.”

Lenok said, adjusting his mask and glancing behind him.

“It seems like everyone who’s coming has arrived.”

Thud, thud!!

At the same time, Soryu and Ermong appeared from both sides of the field, dragging countless corpses behind them.

“T, this…!!”

They all appeared to be Kaius superhumans who had attacked them.

However, from the equipment and weapons they were holding, nothing was intact.