Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 454

A light humming, as if testing a pitch. But the timbre was richer and clearer than any voice Lenok had ever heard.

It was obvious whose voice was echoing down from the sky.

Freya was transmitting her voice into the plaza, thousands of meters away, with just a single speaker attached to her airship.

But what surprised Lenok was not her overwhelming volume, but the powerful intent contained within it.

A clear will, conveyed through the timbre, without any meaning conveyed through lyrics.

With just that communication, the surrounding mana resonated and began to synchronize with her intent.

Whioooooo!!!!

‘Mana…!!’

She wasn’t using magic or spells in a specific way.

Just the powerful imagery contained in the melody was enough to shake the surroundings, causing all the mana swirling in the plaza to rotate according to her will and press down on all sides.

Paahhh!!!!

A soft intent that enveloped Lenok’s body and simultaneously uplifted his inner self.

The mana rotating according to her will began to align in a specific direction and manifest as a visible power.

It quietly boosted his metabolism, adjusted his condition, made him forget fatigue, and stabilized his mood.

A powerful buff that even Lenok, who was insensitive to physical changes, could feel.

But what was even more surprising was the reaction of the Ascended [individuals who have achieved a higher level of power] who were listening to her humming around Lenok.

Unlike Lenok, who had instantly received a condition boost and powerful enhancements, the others were all writhing in agony.

“Damn it, my mind…!!”

“It’s a top-tier sonic spell, everyone cover your ears!!”

“How can we cover our ears in this situation…!!”

The blades they were wielding at the beasts went astray, and they looked around as if they were hearing hallucinations.

Even without focusing on the song, their thoughts were scattered, their mana flow was twisted, and it was reversed according to the timbre.

Kwaaaang!!!!

“Maintain formation!! We must hold out until we reach the altar!!”

“Ah, no…!! The warriors at the front are collapsing…!!”

“We can’t stop the jungle beasts, where are they all coming from and causing such chaos…!!”

The artifacts, damaged by the Great Azure Lotus Technique that Lenok had unleashed, combined with the reduced combat focus, caused the formations to collapse in various places.

The leaders of each organization, who were positioned around the plaza as if they were besieging the altar, were also looking at the plaza with serious expressions, raising their mana.

Across the vast plaza, which was spread out like a giant airplane runway, the corpses of flesh and beasts piled up like mountains, blocking the path to the altar.

‘There was a reason why she was so confident…’

Only then did Lenok realize what Leya’s ability was and inwardly expressed his admiration.

A wide-area sonic spell that unleashed intent using the resonance of timbre as a catalyst.

But its true value lay in its overwhelming range and precision, which even Lenok could not understand.

She was affecting this plaza from thousands of meters away, accurately identifying the hundreds of people fighting within it, and selectively granting buffs and debuffs.

She was probably giving buffs to the clown, Lenok, and the surviving Glenn, while pouring curses and debuffs that even high-level Ascended would find difficult to ignore on the others.

If the enhancement spells were so powerful that Lenok could feel them, then the curse and vulnerability spells would probably be comparable for other Ascended.

It was said that it was difficult for even a high-level Ascended to exert power with just one of these enhancement and curse spells.

But what if multiple curses were stacked in this situation where beasts and various forces were causing chaos, and the artifact was broken?

Being one of the most famous divas on the continent was not an empty boast.

Freya was a more powerful curse caster than anyone Lenok had ever seen, and a bard who had reached a transcendent level.

“No, covering your ears doesn’t work…!! It’s a method of vibrating the senses using vibrations!”

“Don’t focus on the song, advance!! Ignore the beasts and go to the altar!!”

“Did such a powerful sonic mage enter the Demon Realm…!! What is happening to the world!!”

At that moment, Leya’s voice, which had been simply humming, changed dramatically.

She matched the pitch with unknown words that could not be translated into the language of this world.

She applied a song made using ancient language to the spell, multiplying its power.

Her song, echoing from the sky, filled and vibrated his entire body more than the sight of the altar before his eyes.

The moment a clear meaning began to be imbued in the song, the power of the spell multiplied and exploded, shaking the minds of those who were barely trying to regain their senses.

Seeing this, Lenok immediately used Blink [a teleportation ability] to jump over the heads of the beasts and Ascended who were fighting all around.

Swaeeeeeek!!

The thick shadow robe fluttered like smoke, and he appeared in the middle of the towering staircase in an instant.

He adjusted his mask and looked down at the Ascended who had just arrived at the bottom of the altar and were beginning to climb the stairs.

“I’ll show you how dangerous this place is for humans.”

[…You mean the altar, not the stairs, right?]

Ignoring Davi’s untimely words, Lenok immediately spread his fingers and drew mana threads in all directions.

Chwararararak!!

At the same time, several Ascended who were rushing up the altar screamed, scattering blood, and rolled down from their positions.

Hundreds of mana threads, densely installed throughout the thousands of steps leading to the altar, were constantly changing their positions like living creatures, cutting through flesh and muscle.

“He was a manipulator…!!”

“That ridiculous interference spell from before was a manipulation type!!”

“It doesn’t matter now that we’ve come this far, just charge through!!”

As they pushed through with force, not caring about being cut by the mana threads, the mana threads installed in various places could not withstand it and were cut off.

Tududududuk!!!

Lenok nodded as he looked at the people who had quickly blackened the bottom of the stairs.

“Not a bad decision.”

The strength of the mana threads that Lenok controlled was considerable, but in the end, it was closer to a thin extension of mana that was manifested in the form of a manipulation spell.

Unless he gathered hundreds of them together and twisted them, it was natural that the tensile strength of a single mana thread would not be able to withstand the Ascended’s physical attacks.

But Lenok was not flustered even when he saw the Ascended closing the distance in an instant, running up the stairs as if they were on flat ground.

Instead, he raised his hand from his robe and pointed to the mana threads that had already been cut off.

At that moment, the mana threads that had been fluttering in all directions attached themselves to the limbs of other Ascended and began to tangle with each other.

Eujijijik!!!

He connected the two ends of the mana threads, which were barely visible, to the bodies of different Ascended.

The moment the tensile strength of the mana threads held, the Ascended’s muscles contracted in different directions, pulling each other at the same time,

and dozens of Ascended were instantly tangled and fell to the ground, hindered by the mana threads.

Kwadangtangtang!!!

“Kuaaaak!!”

“This damn bastard!!”

“Damn mage…!!!”

Even if the mana thread fragments stuck to their clothes and skin, they were so thin and transparent that they were barely visible.

They slipped on the blood that was smeared all over the stairs, tangled, staggered, and fell from their positions.

Even though the Ascended were not seriously injured by bruising their bodies and spraining their joints, they knew that it was not important.

The masked mage who was looking down at them from dozens of meters above the stairs only wanted to buy time until the well opened.

It was clear that he had no intention of wasting his strength to fight and kill them right now.

A brief lull in the battle that had taken place across hundreds of stairs.

And finally, even those who had been watching the whole situation from the outskirts of the plaza began to step forward.

“It can’t be helped.”

“To think that just one person could cause so much trouble…”

“We’ll buy time, and send the lower ones up. Prepare.”

A middle-aged man in military uniform with heavy weapons, a shabby young man in a tattered robe, and a cold-faced elderly woman in uniform.

The three commanders who led the elite troops of the Head Military Faction, the Ability Awakening Front, and the Reding Revolutionary Army had stepped forward.

They quickly traversed the stairs where dozens and hundreds of people were tangled up, bound by mana thread fragments, and stood before Lenok.

At the same time as the white-haired woman in uniform drew her saber, the young man in the robe opened his mouth wide and let out a high-pitched scream.

Uuuuuung!!!

Intense high-frequency waves poured towards the spot where Lenok was standing.

Along with the old stone stairs exploding, a cold silver flash swirled around the spot.

Between the flashes of the saber that cut through the faintly fluttering robe, a grenade the size of an arm flew and landed at his feet, exploding on the spot.

Kwaaaang!!

“That’s why special-type mages are so annoying,” the man in military uniform said, adjusting the heavy weapon on his shoulder, looking at Lenok who was unharmed.

“The combat doctrines I’ve learned my whole life are so ambiguous.”

“…”

“Well, whatever. From now on, we’ll hold you back and keep that clown in check.”

Click!!

“If we overwhelm them with numbers, even the god of war can’t do anything, right? It’s one of our military faction’s old lessons.”

“It’s difficult to adjust my abilities because of the sonic mage’s curse.”

The young man in the robe mumbled, twisting his neck.

“I’ll just shoot roughly, so try to dodge it.”

“You ignorant fool. Is that all you have to say?”

The elderly woman in uniform adjusted her saber and rebuked him, but the two did not even respond to her words.

All three of them were aware that the special-type mage standing before them was not an easy opponent.

Lenok quietly smiled as he looked at them.

“It seems you don’t mind wasting time talking like that.”

“…”

“Whatever. If you were an important variable in this, I would have been told. If you’re going to do it, start quickly.”

“Let’s see how much of a sham the famous Pandemonium’s true power is! I’ll take this opportunity to find out!!!”

The elderly woman, as if provoked by Lenok’s indifferent reply, disappeared from her spot, and at the same time, three streams of Saint-level power exploded.

Kwagwagwagwa!!!

The firepower support of the heavy weapons, the vanguard of the saber, and the interference of the high-frequency waves.

The massive impact that erupted between the thousands of stairs was enough to make the huge altar, which had risen high into the sky, sway.

But Lenok, through Blink and mana threads, forcibly adjusted his own body, and in turn, held them back.

He flowed through the endless attacks like a ghost, and in the gaps, he even grabbed the feet of other elite troops who were trying to climb onto the altar.

Hundreds and thousands of mana thread fragments, cut off from all directions, scattered like feathers, gripping the stairs and perfectly controlling the battlefield, which was tilted diagonally.

“Mi, chin…!!”

“He’s a monster, what kind of combat ability is this…!!”

“His mobility is unbelievable, everyone be careful!!”

At that moment, when the other three people’s faces turned pale at the fact that they were being pushed back in a 1-on-3 fight, beyond the level of simply holding out better than expected.

Tatianna, who had been observing the battlefield from afar with a slightly puzzled look, suddenly raised her head.

“This is…!!”

“It seems the time has come.”

At the same time as Lenok nodded, a noisy groan was heard from below.

[Kkuuuuuuuu…]

[Kkiiik… Kkiiik…]

It wasn’t just people.

The beasts that had been rampaging endlessly below the stairs and the altar hesitated and wandered around with uneasy expressions.

At the same time as a specific meaning began to be contained in Leya’s song, the beasts hesitated and wandered around with uneasy expressions.

They were so docile that it was hard to believe that they were the beasts that had been going berserk in search of the bait that Lenok had thrown just a moment ago.

But Lenok sensed that the beasts’ attitude was not simply due to Leya’s song and quickly turned his head.

The clown, who had been focusing on adjusting the altar, out of place in the midst of the plaza turning into hell, had finally finished his calculations and raised his illusion.

[I have found a suitable timeline.]

The clown’s spine was bent into a bizarre shape as if his whole body was burning.

With his long, stretched limbs, he grabbed the huge stone ring on the altar and slowly began to turn it.

[Kihihit, shall we go a little more smoothly this time?]

At the same time, the dice that had been constantly falling from the clown’s mouth rolled, once again testing his luck.

The illusion that an extreme-level ability user was testing by exerting his full power.

Even his own geas [a magical compulsion or oath], which determined his abilities solely by his own luck, could now be arbitrarily interfered with, now that he had transcended the hierarchy.

Five dice fell from the clown’s mouth. But the numbers engraved on all six sides were all 4, 5, and 6.

The clown’s dice, which had excluded the low numbers of 1, 2, and 3 from the start, rolled on the floor and determined his fate.

[5] [4] [6] [6] [4]

[Let’s go!!]

The clown, as if he had been waiting for it, forcefully rotated the ring counterclockwise.

Charrrrrrrrk!!!

A fierce and dazzling speed, like a roulette spinning.

At the same time, as if driving out the mana that was blackening the sky of the altar, the fog that had been hanging over the plaza began to shatter like glass.

A heterogeneous peeling phenomenon, as if space was breaking due to the cracks in the sky.

The earth shook and explosions of mana echoed everywhere, but the clown did not care.

[Kihihhihihihihit!!!!]

With the air of a child who was simply anticipating what was about to happen, he turned the ring on the altar like a clock, while enduring the attacks pouring from behind.

Kwaaaaaaa…!!

The clown, who had reached the extreme level of level 8, deceived the timeline of the altar by fully deploying his illusion.

What would happen if the privilege of an extreme-level ability user who interfered with space-time was given to an illusionist?

Why was it so difficult for illusionists to transcend the hierarchy?

The clown, who had burned his own body, twisted luck and fate, and reached that place, was showing it to everyone.

Kkirik, kkirik, kkirik…!!!

[Behold…!!]

Every time the huge circular ring on the altar turned according to the clown’s touch, the sound of a clock’s second hand moving echoed.

At the same time, the scenery inside the hollow ring gradually twisted and began to show something different from the jungle.

Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii…

The sound of a very old door opening was heard.

No one directly witnessed the moment the door opened, but the scenery beyond it was already in front of everyone’s eyes.

In the endless darkness, a huge meteor shower swam like fish.

The flashes of light shone so brightly that it seemed like they would blind everyone, but the deep darkness, as if it would make them lose consciousness at any moment, swallowed the light like a wave.

A sea of chaos where light and darkness endlessly intersected and coexisted, confusing the senses.

The mirror of the world that reflected the outer sea.

The well that the Ascended Compendium had been guarding for generations, inheriting their mission, had opened its door again in this place, transcending time.

[Kkiiiiing, kkiiiiing…]

[Heeek, heek, heek…!!]

[Kkukkukku, kugu…!!]

The beasts sat down on the spot, panting madly.

As if they could not even think of running away from the overwhelming power that was about to appear.

The monsters that had been tearing people apart, eating them, and enjoying their flesh, let out weak whimpers and shed tears like chicken droppings.

Leya’s song, which was constantly echoing from the sky.

The clown, who was silently turning the ring on the altar, which had a radius of dozens of meters.

Hundreds of Ascended who could not regain their senses and were barely looking up at the altar, and the beasts who had already given up everything.

At that climax, when the sharp, heated, and frozen tension was about to explode.

[…]

At some point, the clown realized that the altar he was holding with both hands was not turning.

No, it was no longer even a solid stone altar.

A thick body that could not be grasped with one hand, and a huge mass of scales that had hardened.

Solid muscles that were vividly writhing and alive in between.

The stone ring with a radius of dozens of meters that had been placed on the altar no longer existed.

Instead, a huge snake of comparable size was quietly staring down at the bottom of the altar.

Lenok muttered to himself as he saw it.

“It’s huge…”

A magnificent physique that was hard to believe was a living thing. Its body length alone was hundreds of meters, and its circumference was dozens of meters.

An overwhelming sensation, as if a living skyscraper was writhing before his eyes.

A snake with a huge body that occupied a third of the jungle plaza, simply looked down at the clown who had awakened it with its huge green eyes.

[O’ imprisoned god who dwells in the ancient jungle…]

The clown, leading his burning body, slowly stepped back and grinned.

[It is truly an honor to meet you like this at the end of a great mission.]

The snake that guarded the well leading to the outer sea.

A transcendent being that unified all the faiths of the southern jungle.

A predator at the top of the food chain of the entire vast southern continent.

A recluse who had been in hibernation for hundreds of years and had shown no interest in the world.

A spiritual snake who had inherited a great mission and was qualified to challenge ascension.

The Ascended Compendium had transcended hundreds of years and revealed itself from within the well.