Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 442

The manipulation of mana was as skillful as if he were born with it. His movements were so refined that he could evade even a Supreme-level ability user’s pursuit while concealing his identity and mana. Not only did he possess the extremely rare ability to directly manipulate space, but even in this situation, he exuded a strange sense of composure. It wasn’t just Jebyuk who felt like he was being toyed with by this man. Despite being a member of the same Pandemonium organization, his presence felt alien and unsettling. Rather, the fact that he didn’t emit any traces from inside his robe made the sense of déjà vu even stronger. Soryu, maintaining a position that kept both Jebyuk and Lenok in check, frowned with a chilling aura. “I didn’t hear about a mage like you participating in this operation. I don’t understand.”
“That’s what I’m saying.”
Ermong shrugged at Soryu’s cold mutter. “I’ve been dragged around everywhere with this unlucky prince, and I’ve never heard of the organization having a weirdo like you.”
He smiled, shaking off the blood from his hands. “A special type of manipulator who directly handles spatial magic… I didn’t expect to meet such a rare breed here, someone I’d only see once or twice in my era.”
“I haven’t heard about you being involved in this operation either,” Lenok replied indifferently. “It seems there was some confusion in the information during Hairea’s planning of the operation.”
“Do you think you can explain this situation with such words-”
Click.
Everyone flinched at the sight of Lenok opening the wooden box and taking out its contents without hesitation. Lenok’s fingers gently scraped off the residue that looked like a divine elixir stuck to the inside of the wooden box. At the same time, he activated the eyes of his magic weapon, Fiegenbaum, so that others couldn’t see. ‘It was here.’ By looking at reality from the reverse side of the imaginary dimension, it was possible to grasp and understand the hidden or designed structures more quickly. Lenok quickly found the hidden space inside the wooden box and moved his hand a few times, grasping something firm yet soft.
Fwoosh!!
At the same time, a clear light emanated from inside the wooden box. As Jebyuk’s eyes widened, Lenok slowly pulled the object out of the box.
Whooosh!!
It was transparent, yet it seemed as if white mist was swirling inside. A teardrop-shaped jewel. Its beautiful appearance was carefully embraced by a golden crown. It was said that just possessing it would bring divine energy. Seeing it in person, the words made sense. The exterior was so elegantly crafted that it was hard to believe it was a divine elixir. Even holding it up felt delicate. Lenok looked at Soryu and Ermong, a faint smile behind his mask. “Well, what does it matter anyway?”
“…”
Soryu and Ermong, understanding the meaning of his words, simultaneously shut their mouths. In the end, the Archangel’s Tear never left Lenok’s hand from the moment it entered it. Lenok had appeared at an unexpected moment and manipulated everyone in this place, even using Soryu, who had disrupted the situation. From beginning to end, Lenok had been in control of this entire situation.
“You worm…!!” Jebyuk’s neck bulged with thick veins as he realized that Lenok had been deceiving him from the start.
Thud!!
At the same time, the surrounding air grew heavy, and the mana he emitted made it feel as if the ground was sinking. However, Lenok, unfazed by the pressure, turned his gaze to Jebyuk and said, “Yanikus Barbaria. Make your choice.”
As he shook the radiant jewel between his fingers, the other three’s gazes followed it. “If you give up the Archangel’s Tear, I’ll help you and your grandson escape.”
“…What?”
“Wouldn’t I be more trustworthy than that guy Soryu, who’s dreaming of a strange plan to overthrow Kaius?”
Bang!!
In that instant, Lenok’s body was crushed and exploded, mask and all. Just by raising his hand in the air and clenching his fist, Jebyuk had crushed Lenok by distorting the surrounding air.
“You’re… not very good at talking.”
“Don’t talk nonsense, you scoundrel,” Jebyuk, his face flushed red, hissed at Lenok, who walked out from the haze as if nothing had happened. “I don’t make deals with thieving worms. If I had succumbed to such threats, how could I have stood here today?!!”
If Jebyuk had been the kind of person who compromised and gave up in the face of all the hardships he had faced, he would never have reached the Supreme level and become a powerful figure who controlled a city. It was an extraordinary level that was difficult to reach even with the kind of greed that demanded everything he wanted. Even though his health was failing and his mind and body were wavering, his power was undoubtedly that of a Supreme.
“That’s enough. No more words are needed,” Soryu, who had been watching the two’s conversation, coldly muttered and stepped forward.
Crackling!!
As he caressed the air with his cold hand, the atmosphere froze, and he grasped a frost-colored sword from within. Soryu, who had drawn a sharp blade from the frozen air, held it in reverse and began to form hand seals with his other hand. “It’s different from the plan, but there’s no need to give up this opportunity. I’ll kill Yanikus Barbaria here and take Kaius.”
“But the Tear is in that guy’s hands, not ours.”
At Ermong’s words, Soryu looked down at Lenok with a cold gaze. “He’s a rare spatial mage. There’s no need to fight him now.”
“…”
“It’s strange that Hairea put someone like him in the relic collection operation. Let’s think about it again after killing Jebyuk.”
“You’re more reasonable than I thought.”
Was he saying that he could turn against Lenok at any time if necessary, but he would give him time to assess the situation since he seemed useful right now? It was quite an arrogant statement, but Lenok understood Soryu’s attitude. Even though Ermong was a black magician who had lived for hundreds of years, Soryu seemed to be the one in control between the two. After Ermong was kidnapped by Maiya in the Hanghasa Labyrinth, Lenok was curious as to why he had come to cooperate with Pandemonium. But there was no time to ask that sly black magician.
Soryu and Ermong, who had made eye contact, almost simultaneously rushed forward and unleashed their mana at Jebyuk.
Kwaaaang!!
The speed of their attacks was not much different from before, but the firepower of their collisions had increased several times over. Now that Lenok had secured the Archangel’s Tear and they were outside the city, there were no obstacles to restrain the three’s power.
Fwoooosh!!
Naturally, a colorless wave rotated from under Ermong’s feet, and a jewel pillar rose up. Soryu’s entire body began to turn white, as if it had frozen and bleached. Almost simultaneously, Jebyuk frowned and raised his mind, seeing the two deploying a corrosive magnetic field and a small universe.
Crackling!!!
Just by warming up his body to use a small universe, the air around the level 8 Supreme ability user was crushed and shattered. Dark, refined light spread out like smoke from between his wrinkled hands, following his fingers in five directions. As Ermong had said, the martial art that Jebyuk used as his foundation was the Aksoo, rooted in the southern jungle. A violent martial art of immense power that used powerful grip and centrifugal force to crush the opponent. It was obvious how Jebyuk’s small universe, built upon that martial art, would interfere with reality.
Crackling!!!
The space around Jebyuk was distorted indiscriminately, and heat haze rose from within. Just by gesturing in the air, the jewel pillars of Ermong’s corrosive field were shattered and crumbled into dust. He grabbed Soryu, who had disappeared into the air and was rushing in with sharp snowstorms, and slammed him into the ground.
Crackling!!!
Soryu’s body was easily given up, and his head was crushed from the bottom up. But rather, the body that had collapsed in such a way climbed up Jebyuk’s arm and quickly recovered from behind, swinging a blade.
Swish!!
A sharp flash of light flickered through the snowstorm, cutting through Jebyuk’s dragon robe without mercy. The clear blood that seeped out showed that Soryu’s attack was not easily brushed aside.
Saaahhh!!
A chilling sound like a snake slithering. At the same time, Soryu’s body slowly began to walk around Jebyuk in the frozen field. In the midst of the snowstorm that had begun to rage, Soryu’s body gradually split and increased in number. Two, four, six, eight, then ten, twelve. Jebyuk, clutching his bleeding wound, muttered as he watched the scene. “I’ve heard that the Kavahim royals who maintain the Northern Continent’s dynasty have the coldest blood of all.”
“…”
“A power inherited through bloodlines, not abilities or small universes… It’s certainly unique.”
Lenok, who had not missed Jebyuk’s words, also nodded inwardly. It seemed that Ermong’s mocking of Soryu as a prince was not entirely false. Soryu cleanly ignored Jebyuk’s words and had his twelve clones charge at Jebyuk without hesitation. Jebyuk also slammed down the five-pronged refined light rotating in his grip.
Whizzing!!
The moment they collided head-on, their bodies shattered and crumbled into ice shards. A series of destructive actions as futile as throwing an egg at a rock. Although Jebyuk’s health was not good, the power of a level 8 physical ability user was evident in that scene. The difference in stopping power was so overwhelming that it felt foolish to compete with physical strength against the being in front of them. Nevertheless, Soryu, who had risen again from the snowstorm, rushed in and relentlessly pushed Jebyuk. While crushing Soryu with a single gesture, Jebyuk was unable to recklessly continue his counterattacks. Every time Jebyuk changed his momentum to find and kill Soryu’s main body, Ermong intervened and slammed down powerful jewel spells.
Kwaaaang!!
Was it because he had already perfectly mastered the jewel spells of Jaun Odis? The jewel fragments he took out from his chest resonated with the jewel pillars that rose around him, amplifying their power several times over. [Changling Stone: Spell Resonance Multi-Deployment] [Ten-Faced Jade: Catalyst Conversion] [Heavenly River Stone: Spatial Interlocking Exfoliation] The dozens of jewels scattered in all directions glowed simultaneously, and the light that burst out bounced randomly between the jewels, reflecting hundreds of times. The space, which had been shaved down to its limit by the brilliance of the jewel spells, peeled off like a shell and rotated in a spiral.
Screeching…!!
The cross-section of the peeled space rapidly recovered, and the frictional heat generated by it heated the surrounding air and exploded. [Sentence: Great Advance Horn]
Kwaaaaaaa!!!
A huge spiral formed by five rotating lights in the air, bent into a horn shape, poured down on Jebyuk like divine punishment. The ground melted like molten metal with immense firepower, evaporated, and only the remnants turned into black ashes like sand grains. A bombardment that no living human, let alone a superhuman who had already surpassed that realm, could easily withstand. However, as if he had been waiting for the moment when Ermong had unleashed his full-power jewel spell bombardment, Jebyuk moved immediately. In the brief moment when he received the bombardment that had spread out like a giant horn with a piece of his dragon robe, he instantly closed the distance and kicked Ermong in the chest.
Thud!!
“Kahak!!!” The jewel barrier that had been deployed in advance shattered like glass, and Jebyuk’s foot struck Ermong’s solar plexus. The black magician, who had absorbed the impact several times and was sent flying dozens of meters away, rolled on the ground. The face of the snake-like youth was contorted in pain. “Kieeeek… That’s a bit too, painful…?”
“If you can still talk, it seems you’re not hurt enough!!” Soryu blocked Jebyuk from stomping on Ermong’s head to crush it, but he couldn’t change the situation.
Squeak!!
“Ugh…!!” Since their abilities and specializations were so different, they were bound to be pushed back without Ermong’s firepower support. Lenok watched the three’s fight and slowly raised his mana. ‘I need to intervene.’ Since Jebyuk had not compromised, he had to make that monster incapacitated in this place to resolve the situation. He didn’t know how many cards Soryu and Ermong had hidden, but if he didn’t act now, things would drag on too long. He had to finish things quickly before the commotion in Kaius leaked out and other forces intervened. With that thought, Lenok secretly stroked a pure white staff inside his robe. A beautiful staff with a rainbow-colored jewel and white wings spread out on both sides. An ancient relic he had obtained from the battle with the Arashak expedition, the Archangel’s Compassion. It was a top-tier relic equipped with various auxiliary spells, but its core was the jewel’s ability to teleport inanimate objects. By injecting mana into the jewel and emitting it through the staff, it was possible to teleport inanimate objects within the sensory range. If Soryu and Ermong thought of Lenok as a special type of mage who manipulated space, wouldn’t this item be a suitable means? Thinking so, he immediately activated the Archangel’s Compassion, designated the target, and turned the spell on.
Keeeing…!!
“Hmm?” A strange resonance began to be heard from the Archangel’s Tear that Lenok was holding in his hand.