Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 456

The Ascended Compendium (3)

With Gye Baek’s appearance, the sky turned black. A vast void appeared amidst it, cracking open as if breaking apart.

Beneath the pitch-black sky, with the spiraling well above, two Ascended beings, each boasting a body hundreds of meters tall, simultaneously recognized each other and stood face to face.

Click, click…!!

Once, they were beings who possessed the most noble and stern qualifications in this world.

But now, they were merely monsters writhing in the flow of time, their fleeting glory faded.

Yet, even in their current state, they still possessed a power capable of overturning the heavens and the earth.

Kuoohhh…!!

The aftereffects emanating from the two Ascended beings’ bodies reversed and rotated the gravity of the area.

The shattered altar and the debris of the plaza were kicked off the ground, soaring out of the vast well’s space that had opened in the sky.

The center of a demonic realm where the laws of physics were being completely reversed.

Amidst the silence that had sunk as if frozen, the Compendium slowly tilted its head.

‘…Is it an intruder… into the well…?’

[Haaaaaaah….]

Surprisingly, Gye Baek no longer screamed at the Compendium’s question.

The human flesh spheres that made up Gye Baek’s body. The tens of thousands of people hanging between them, who had been letting out pitiful screams, stopped their cries and raised their heads.

A chilling sight of tens of thousands of heads rising from the giant spheres, all staring at the giant snake.

From the mouths of the people bound by sticky, black mucus and chains, the same voice leaked out simultaneously, echoing throughout the plaza.

[Padme… Kie… Sa….]

All sorts of voices, high and low, male and female, shouted as if screaming, but surprisingly, the voices formed understandable language.

The bizarre resonance of a former being, erupting from the mouth of a monster that seemed to have no intelligence left.

Surprisingly, that resonance was precisely pointing at the giant snake standing before them.

[Long… promise… great… proof… filthy… message….]

‘…’

Gye Baek was not speaking with his own will.

It was merely one of the tens of thousands of geas [a magical compulsion or oath] bound to his body that was activated, delivering the message prepared for this moment.

Realizing this, the Compendium’s sharp pupils twitched greatly for a moment.

[Haaaaaaaaak!!!!]

The corrupted Ascended being, who had lost even a shred of meaning, began to roll its entire body forward.

Kugwagwagwagwa!!!!

It tore through the stone floor of the plaza, extending tens of thousands of arms forward as if trying to gnaw at it.

It wasn’t rolling forward, but moving its massive body as if crawling, a ridiculously crude movement.

But with that, the ground and bedrock within a radius of hundreds of meters shattered and sank, creating a giant canal.

It rushed forward as if to bite and devour the giant snake before its eyes.

Click, click.

A sound like the ticking of a second hand was heard.

But this time, it wasn’t the clown’s illusion that was exerting its power.

Immediately after, Lenok, realizing what the clicking sound meant, muttered.

‘Gears…’

‘Yes. Now I remember…’

The sound of gears echoing from within the giant snake’s head. As the speed gradually increased and the intervals shortened, the Compendium widened its eyes.

‘My beloved kin, my cherished children… What was I doing… Who was the master of this jungle…!!!’

The pupils of the snake’s eyes, which had seemed distant as if looking somewhere far away, rapidly expanded, then instantly contracted, focusing on the opponent in front of it.

As if it could finally see the opponent properly.

The Compendium, having replayed its lost memories as if rewinding a broken film, flicked its tongue and stretched its mouth out ferociously.

‘Aurel Silford… Are you still playing the ghost of Ars Nova [a reference to a historical musical movement]!!!’

Whoooom!!!

At that moment, the wave that spread out from the Compendium’s long body instantly gathered above her head and transformed into a giant pillar of light.

It rotated diagonally like a spiral drill, soaring into the sky in an instant, then slammed down on Gye Baek’s head.

Kwaaaaah!!!

The strike, lightly manifested by the Ascended being’s will alone, was as intense as the bombardment that Tatiana and the mages of the Magic Tower had unleashed.

Gye Baek, too, howled as if going berserk from the heat slamming down on his head, and rushed towards the Compendium.

[Haaaaaaak!!]

Just as he had crawled into this jungle until now, he desperately dug into the ground and rolled his body forward.

The tens of thousands of black-stained monsters bound by chains screamed and constantly extended their hands towards the snake’s scales.

The Compendium, with a roar borrowed from the snake’s former self, unleashed a series of majestic shockwaves, shaking its presence outward.

The moment two distinct wills, clearly imprinted from beyond time and space, clashed, the clock seemed to distort greatly and stretch endlessly.

Squeak…!!

A grating noise, as if a rusty hinge was constantly wearing away.

The power and presence, concentrated to their limits, overlapped to the extreme within a certain space, stretching all time within that space.

‘Damn… it…’

‘Hell… escape…’

Those who realized what was beginning to happen belatedly tried to escape, but were swept away by Gye Baek’s power pouring down like rain from the sky and lost consciousness.

Gye Baek’s presence, which was on a different level from magic. Who could have predicted and responded to the fact that its true nature was a living geas?

Those who could not properly cope and were helplessly robbed of their bodies and minds were appearing everywhere.

[Kiyaaaaaak!!!!]

Charrrrrk!!

The black-stained superhumans were constantly bound by the empty chains of the geas, becoming a part of Gye Baek’s power.

The giant snake’s scales twitched all over its body, shining dazzlingly, and from within, more than a thousand lasers covered the sky.

Kugwagwagwagwa!!!

It was endlessly advancing forward, taking all the rain of light that was being fired as if to burn away the tens of thousands of subordinates that made up its existence.

The plaza was turning into a scene close to hell just by the two Ascended beings fully recognizing each other and starting to move.

Lenok, who was watching the scene, sighed and shook his head.

‘They’re already out of their minds… They fell asleep a long time ago, already insane.’

Because she had been in hibernation for too long to fulfill her mission, almost all of her memories had been lost.

The only moment she would regain her memories was the moment she fulfilled her mission of guarding the well.

The Compendium, unable to find a being to inherit her mission, had effectively become a component of the world for the purpose of fulfilling her mission.

The sound of gears echoing in her head was likely a kind of trigger that represented her condition.

At Lenok’s feet, the clown, who had been picking himself up, let out a bizarre laugh.

[Kihihit, that’s why I should have finished things before encountering Gye Baek… I failed because of useless vermin.]

‘…’

The clown probably knew when the Compendium would regain her memories.

That’s why he had planned to open the well and awaken the snake before Gye Baek arrived, and then cast an illusion, but everything had been messed up when the Compendium rejected the illusion.

He stood up, waving his strangely bent back and thin, elongated limbs.

[How nice it would have been if I could have finished things in one try, but nothing ever goes as planned.]

‘There isn’t much time.’

Lenok said, looking back at the plaza that had already been completely shattered, even starting to melt and evaporate.

The collision of two monsters rampaging through the giant ancient ruins plaza, thousands of meters in size.

The ground of the plaza, unable to fully contain the aftereffects, melted and collapsed, and the shockwaves and heat rays that were flung in all directions tore through the jungle and tilted it.

The scenery of the vast jungle surrounding the plaza was gradually collapsing and tilting.

It was obvious to anyone that the horizon was collapsing and the sky was turning upside down, and that they couldn’t hold out for long.

‘It’s hard to guarantee success even if we choose one side and concentrate our capabilities. Will you proceed?’

They had to decide whether to stop the rampaging Compendium or focus on throwing Gye Baek into the well, and then act.

The clown chuckled as he looked at Lenok.

[Kihihit… Of course. Now that things have come this far, there will be a conclusion one way or another.]

‘…’

The moment Lenok frowned inside his mask, the clown slowly stood up.

[Didn’t we say that the beginning and the end are set? All we’re doing is greasing the process.]

With a single gesture, he brushed off the grotesque sight of his upper body being severed by the Compendium’s tail.

The clown, who had instantly restored his entire body, began to walk, rattling dice between his long, elongated fingers.

[Now that we know the first plan failed, reinforcements will come. Until then, we’ll hold out and wait for the airship to arrive.]

‘Reinforcements… Good.’

The Blaver Magic Tower, the Head Warlords, the Reding Revolutionary Army, and the Ability Awakening Corps.

Even though all four organizations had high-level superhumans in their ranks who had managed to break through this harsh jungle and reach the plaza amidst all sorts of checks and competitions.

In the clash of the Ascended beings, they were just like mere insects, swept away by the waves of power, breaking and collapsing.

Who, unless they were completely insane, would come into the jungle and send reinforcements?

It was a nonsensical statement, but Lenok had an idea of what he meant, so he turned his gaze and raised his magic power.

‘I’ll tie up the Compendium. You keep Gye Baek’s movements in check.’

[Alrighty!!]

The clown’s body flipped and disappeared from the spot, and at the same time, Lenok also extended his magic threads and flew back towards the collapsing giant plaza.

He took out another motion sickness pill from inside his robe, pushed it into his mask, contracted his magic threads, and thrust his body into the storm of shockwaves.

[Haaaaaaak!!]

The space was filled with Gye Baek’s physique alone, who had completely stepped from outside the jungle into the plaza.

The vast plaza, which was reminiscent of an airplane runway, was covered by the giant snake and Gye Baek’s human flesh sphere, and they were surging from all directions.

The pyramid-like altar was nowhere to be seen, and the two monsters were only engaged in a melee in front of the well floating in the sky.

The aftereffects alone were causing shockwaves and storms comparable to military magic, and humans were floating around like toys and being smashed.

Kwaaaaang!!

‘Uwaaaaak!!’

‘Hwaaaak!! No, no…!! Haaaa…!!’

The sight of superhumans becoming one with Gye Baek while letting out bizarre groans, or being crushed and trampled by the power poured out by the two monsters.

There was no one in this space who was maintaining their sanity.

‘There are 13 remaining blink spells.’

Lenok, who quickly counted the number of blinks recorded on the Papyrus Argenteus [a magical artifact], nodded.

‘That’s enough.’

A number that was woefully insufficient to protect his own body amidst the clash of the Ascended beings.

But for Lenok, who had been out of touch with mobility for too long, this was more than enough.

Using two blink spells, he quickly approached the Compendium’s massive body, attached his magic threads, and quickly climbed onto the writhing mass of scales.

Thud!!

The thousands of scales covering the giant snake’s body heaved as if breathing, and from beneath them, powerful flashes and magic power were constantly being spewed out.

A realm where the will was not manifested through spells, but where the will naturally created by simply moving the body manifested spells.

The Compendium, realizing that Lenok had climbed onto its back, let out a shriek and rotated its scales, and at the same time, the flashes that erupted from all directions pierced through Lenok’s body dozens of times.

Thududududu!!!

He slid between the scales, letting all the flashes pass over his eyelids.

The movements of his body, which were creaking and not moving well, were adjusted with magic threads, and unavoidable attacks were avoided using blinks, and he quickly reversed the giant snake’s body.

All that remained in the place where the magic light, manifested by primal magic, had passed was a tattered piece of robe.

Amidst it, hundreds of magic threads fluttered violently, grabbing onto the Compendium’s scales and beginning to bind its massive body to various parts of the ground.

Chwararararak!!

‘…Let go!!’

The mass of magic threads, which had been constructed with all his power, was cut off by the giant snake simply twisting its body, but Lenok did not stop.

The magic threads that were first extended were a decoy to distract the Ascended being’s nerves. The real ones were actually somewhere else.

Manipulation-type Unique Magic

Magic Projection Concentrated Resonance

[Will Release(意念解隷)]

[Thread Binding(絲牽鑄迫)]

The moment Lenok chanted the manipulation-type unique magic, the ends of the magic threads that had been attached between the scales and cut off began to glow blue and emit light.

The thousands of magic threads that had been fluttering aimlessly suddenly raised their heads and soared into the sky.

The moment the Compendium tried to twist its body once more, not leaving the trick alone.

‘…!!!’

The giant snake stopped moving and suddenly raised its head, looking at the collapsed sky.

The mass of magic threads, firmly bound to her scales, was connecting the other end of the threads to various parts of the giant well’s ring that had opened in the sky.

A manipulation-type unique magic that directly connected the magic threads to the ring of the well, which had risen above the altar and transformed into a giant ring.

Both Will Release, which released the magic threads in the form of flames, and Thread Binding, which grasped what did not exist, were high-level magic that consumed enormous amounts of magic power, but the results were certain.

According to the Ascended being’s mission to protect the well, the Compendium’s movements stopped abruptly at the thought that her struggles might damage the well.

‘How dare you…!!!’

The snake’s eyes, looking at Lenok, were stained with clear anger.

A bizarre and chilling situation where he was receiving the full attention of the Ascended being.

But Lenok was calmly assessing the situation while sliding on the Compendium’s scales and avoiding her primal magic.

‘It won’t last long.’

He had only bought some time by unexpectedly catching her off guard.

In the first place, it would have been impossible to even attempt this if the Compendium hadn’t been focusing all her attention on dealing with Gye Baek.

It was possible to exploit the gaps in perception that even the Ascended being had not recognized by using the variability of the manipulation-type system to its limits, but he could not keep the snake tied up forever.

Even now, the magic threads that connected the well and the Compendium’s scales were evaporating and breaking from the enormous magic power flowing from the Ascended being’s body.

‘Clown, there’s no time.’

[I’m here, here!!]

Only the bizarre clown, who was burning all over and bent out of shape, was waving his hand towards this side while holding onto Gye Baek’s rampaging chains.

No, was he just being dragged around by the chains that turned humans into living geas just by being held?

In any case, it seemed that only the clown was maintaining the same attitude as before in this chaos.

[From now on, we’ll start preparing to throw Gye Baek into the well!!]

‘My eardrums are going to burst. I can hear you fine, so shut up.’

[We have to finish things before the Compendium regains her memories. She’s just mindlessly engaging in melee combat because she hasn’t fully regained her memories yet, but if she starts using magic, we won’t be able to stop her then!!]

‘…Melee combat?’

Lenok, hearing those words, blankly raised his gaze.

‘Is that thing just using its body without using any power?’

With the hole of the pitch-black well, which seemed to reflect the galaxy, above her head, the Compendium flicked her tail.

At that moment, the giant snake’s scales bristled in all directions, and at the same time, the snake’s lower body disappeared from view.

Paang!!

The tail, swung at supersonic speed, bisected the center of the collapsed plaza and accurately pierced Gye Baek’s body.

With that one gesture, thousands of black humans who made up Gye Baek’s exterior were crushed and burst, letting out miserable screams.

[Haaaaaaak!!]

The chains that had lost their master shook aimlessly and rushed to grab the snake’s tail, but the bristled scales rotated and tore the inside of the flesh to shreds.

Kagagagagak!!!

Not a living animal, but a scale and impact force that could be called a war weapon.

The speed of the strike that it unleashed with its massive body had already broken the sound barrier and exceeded human perception.

Was this magnificent strike, which felt like it was almost perfectly controlling the giant snake’s body, still in a state where she hadn’t even remembered her original magic?

The clown summarized Lenok’s question in a single word.

[Isn’t she a level 9 Ascended being?]

‘…’

[The Compendium is a being of a different level than Gye Baek. Unlike Gye Baek, who failed to ascend and went insane, she is a transcendent being who has inherited a completed mission and been granted power.]

Shhhhhh!!

The giant snake’s body twitched, then mysteriously rotated its body, instantly tangling and crushing Gye Baek’s body.

A natural movement, like an anaconda crushing its prey to suffocate it.

But the pressure emanating from that massive body was close to the level of crushing and bursting not objects, but space itself.

[Kiyaaaaaaaak!!]

The clown was dragged around, being pulled by the sphere of human flesh that was being crushed and bursting like black fluid, and hurriedly shouted.

[If she regains her memories as a complete Ascended being, we will also be dead according to her mission. I’ll start right away, so prepare…!!]

Kwaaaang!!

The clown’s figure was flung more than tens of meters away by a shock that seemed to have come from nowhere.

Lenok looked down at the scene and coldly retorted.

‘Stop talking nonsense and start whatever you call preparation. If things go wrong, I’m going to pull out right away, plan or not.’

[Kkeuek… D-don’t worry…]

The clown, who had struggled to stand up with his bent body, smiled crookedly.

At the same time, his body, which had been broken and crushed in various places, began to recover instantly.

Was he even deceiving his own injuries with an illusion that had reached the extreme level of level 8?

While Lenok faintly frowned at the unusual spell composition.

The clown smiled crookedly and pointed behind Lenok’s back.

[Our friends who will help us have just arrived.]

Charrrrng…!

Along with a quiet bell sound, a dozen people dressed in white slowly moved their feet.

Even in the midst of this chaos, they were humbly putting their hands together, bowing their heads, and moving forward as if marching.

Somehow familiar priest robes and the never-to-be-forgotten emblem of the Order.

The young woman who was leading them at the front raised her head and looked around, smiling elegantly.

‘Oh my, you’ve already arrived.’

A leisurely voice that was completely out of place in this chaos.

But Lenok sighed after confirming the priest robes she was wearing and the emblem of the Guido Order shining between them.

‘My ominous predictions are never wrong…’

The new reinforcements that the clown had mentioned, and the insane fanatics who were crazy enough to crawl into this jungle to help them.

The Guido Order had dispatched its full force to support them.