Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 457

With an unusually gentle demeanor for someone in this jungle, she had a face that wouldn’t look out of place helping people at a relief site, rather than on a battlefield.

The woman gracefully swept her hair back, then leisurely looked around before extending a hand to Lenok.

“Are you the person in charge here? It’s nice to meet you. It’s my first time working with ruffians, so I might be a bit rude. But please, take care of me.”

“……”

Lenok remained silent instead of responding to the woman’s words, which were already starting to sound rude.

The woman, with a peculiar smile at Lenok’s refusal to shake her hand, nodded.

“Ohoho… It seems this kind of greeting isn’t popular in the secular world these days. Otherwise, how could my greeting be so blatantly—”

“Did you come under the orders of the Pontiff?”

Lenok cut her off immediately and asked.

The people who the clown said would help them. The sudden appearance of the Order. Even the various pieces of advice mentioned in the Pontiff’s memories from Balkan.

The Guido Order was definitely aware of this situation and knew that a conclusion would be reached soon.

The last thing he said, that there would be a time when they would join hands, was referring to the collaboration between Pandemonium and the Guido Order.

A collaboration between two organizations that had grand goals that others could not even dream of, and moved as they pleased.

Considering that their desires were completely different, it was hard to believe, but the procession of priests in front of them made it impossible to consider any other possibility.

“If you have something to do, start quickly.”

Lenok said, glancing down at the plaza below.

“I don’t think either of them will last long.”

It wasn’t Lenok who was being tossed and turned between the clashes of the two Ascended beings, but the fact that the clown was sending a telepathic message to Lenok in the midst of it was absurd.

With the power he had gained by sacrificing dozens of Glen’s hearts, he was using illusions to deceive and withstand all the attacks and damage being inflicted on him.

“Is that so.”

The woman, who had been staring at Lenok’s eyes that were glowing darkly behind his mask, slowly nodded.

“It seems the secular world has become much more pragmatic than when I was there. Let’s get straight to the point.”

[Kkyaaaaaaaak!!]

Ignoring the clown’s scream-like telepathic message, the priest turned her head sharply.

“It’s a shame. If the place I lived was like this, I wouldn’t have given up so easily either.”

“What?”

“The heretic is right. Since there’s no time, let’s start quickly.”

With her words, the priests who had been standing together with their hands clasped, parted like a wave.

From the center of the priests, someone who had been silent until now revealed themselves.

“……Ugh.”

A wheelchair made of thin bones.

A young man faintly writhing on wheels that looked as if they would collapse at any moment.

An unknown ancient script was densely engraved on his emaciated body, clad in a patient’s gown.

His eyes were gouged out, and his eyelids were sewn together, creating a gruesome appearance.

His mouth, nose, ears, and other holes in his body were plugged with wet cotton, and he was only occasionally letting out an unknown groan.

A patient’s appearance that was completely different from the neat appearance of the priests.

However, Lenok sensed the energy emanating from the man’s inner self and hardened his expression.

Walter Martinez, the missionary who had succeeded in summoning an Apostle in the Eight Directions Fortress.

Lenok felt a faint sense of similarity between Walter, who had transformed into a giant crustacean jellyfish, and the patient in front of him.

The word that referred to the Order’s special forces naturally flowed from Lenok’s mouth.

“Apostle……”

“Oh my, you’ve met one of our Order’s esteemed guests before.”

The woman smiled and reached out her hand to the top of the convulsing man’s head.

“I don’t know if you know, but many of our esteemed guests who have received the will of God cannot control their madness.”

Zzzzzzzzz!

At that moment, the countless ancient characters engraved on the man’s skin were sucked into the woman’s hand that was extended above his head.

Each time the characters moved, the man’s skin tore, revealing the red flesh, but the woman did not stop despite the man’s struggling.

“Among them, the Sixth Apostle here is a case where his ego was completely destroyed due to his unusually strong power, and even the Order’s headquarters is barely controlling his movements.”

“……”

Only then did Lenok realize what the woman was saying and fell silent.

The battle between the two monsters rampaging in the center of the destroyed ancient civilization was already beyond human control.

The Order had come with the intention of throwing the Apostle, whom they could not control either, into the middle of the battlefield as a weapon.

Could this be called cooperation?

From the Order’s point of view, it was no different from finding a trash can to dispose of a power that they could not properly use.

While Lenok was lost in thought, the woman who had collected the ancient characters from the man’s entire body slowly stepped back.

“It would be best if you stayed far away. Now that all the seals that suppress his metabolism have been released, he will awaken soon.”

“……”

However, even as she said that, the woman did not step away from the man.

Lenok also ignored her words and quietly observed the Apostle sitting in the wheelchair.

His skin was torn and his whole body was covered in blood, but as she said, his bodily organs began to regenerate rapidly as if the seal had been released.

Zzzzzzz…!!

The emaciated muscles swelled up, and the torn skin was quickly restored.

The sunken eyelids swelled up, and the sewn eyes opened on their own, with the lens regenerating within.

“Ah……”

The man, who had let out a soft groan and spat out the cotton in his mouth, looked up at the woman with his newly regenerated, blurry pupils.

“Seina……?”

“Yes, it’s me.”

The woman called Seina replied immediately.

The man stared at her face for a moment, then looked down at his rapidly recovering body once more before asking.

“Is it…… time?”

“In just a little while, you won’t be able to regain your reason again.”

Seina said with a smile still on her face.

Unlike her calm expression, her hands behind her back were trembling as if trying to hide her emotions.

“If you have any last words, I will listen.”

“I see……”

The man made a thoughtful expression, then chuckled.

“A long time ago…… I traveled with the Pontiff and you.”

The face that had gained flesh was quite handsome, even to Lenok.

The man naturally rose from the wheelchair and muttered.

“It was very enjoyable to recall that memory after so long. Please tell him that as well.”

“……”

Seina did not answer, but quietly lowered her head. Her expression, hidden by her hair, was no longer visible.

The man, who had glanced around at the completely destroyed jungle, nodded.

“I understand what I have to do.”

The man naturally turned to Lenok and said with a smile.

“I’m ready. Shall we go right away?”

The man did not ask who Lenok was, why he was here, or what he was planning to do.

He simply spoke to Lenok like a friend, as if he already understood everything.

Even though they had only talked for a moment, a pleasant atmosphere was conveyed. It seemed like he knew what kind of person he was without having to ask.

Before becoming an Apostle, he must have been loved by many people.

“……Once you start, we’ll prepare immediately.”

The man nodded at Lenok’s reply.

“It won’t take long. Once I regain my consciousness, a revelation will come down again soon.”

Without waiting for a reply, the man muttered blankly.

“It’s been long…… I don’t regret our choice, but it’s been too long…… On the other hand, I feel relieved.”

Kugugugugu…!!

At that moment, an overwhelming power suddenly surged from within the man.

A powerful output that seemed to be transmitted and emitted all at once from a distant place.

At the same time as the man’s body in the patient’s gown was torn to shreds, the massive body of a monster made of fur and muscle burst out.

“Hooooooo…!!!”

The appearance of a beast with three goat-like horned heads on one body. Its eyes were blackened, as if completely consumed by madness.

Each time it stomped the ground with its thorny hooves, the ground rippled like a wave, shaking the surface of the jungle.

Dudududu!!!

The woman and the other priests stepped back, and the Apostle, who had snorted roughly, lowered his head deeply.

At that moment, the Sixth Apostle with black goat-like eyes slammed directly into the body of the giant snake, causing a shockwave.

Kwaaaang!!!

At the same time, the ground in an area of hundreds of meters tilted sharply, greatly overturning the huge plaza where Pyunram and Gyebaek were clashing.

Pyunram’s massive body, which was focused on fighting Gyebaek while burning the magic threads that bound the scales and the well, could not withstand the impact and bent and twisted greatly.

As the snake’s long, hundreds-of-meters-long body convulsed while rolling along the outskirts of the plaza, the jungle shook as if an earthquake had occurred due to the impact.

Kugugugugugu!!!

Pyunram also quickly recognized the identity of the suddenly appeared goat and muttered in an angry tone.

“A monster chosen by the end dares to act in front of me…!!”

“Hooooooo!!”

“The evil power of the outer sea cannot pass through the well. It is my duty to bear the qualifications of ancestral succession!!”

Paahhh!!!

Numerous spell characters shone and rose from between Pyunram’s scales, and thick plant stems grew from various parts of the ground, beginning to bind Gyebaek and the Apostle’s bodies.

The plant stems began to quickly absorb the energy of Gyebaek and the Apostle, as if sucking water with their roots.

At the same time, the giant goat’s Sixth Apostle and Gyebaek, made of human flesh spheres, let out a desperate scream.

[Kkiiiiiiik!!!!]

“Kekekekek…!!!”

A powerful spell ability that could inflict damage even on Apostles and Ascended beings.

It was clear evidence that Pyunram had remembered and begun to use the proper spells.

The longer the battle went on, the faster Pyunram’s memories would return due to the pressure to fulfill her mission, and she too would awaken as a complete Ascended being.

However, neither the Sixth Apostle nor Gyebaek were simply being defeated by Pyunram’s spells.

Gyebaek, who had escaped by having the black monsters that had become part of the human flesh sphere gnaw at the plant stems, bit at Pyunram’s tail and scales in turn.

Not missing the opportunity, the Sixth Apostle, who had climbed onto the snake’s body, began to run along Pyunram’s body, and a brand in the shape of a burning hoof began to be engraved on the scales.

Kwaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

In the middle of the thousands-of-meters-wide plaza, three monsters intertwined and exploded at speeds faster than sound.

Each time they struck, pushed, and bit each other, the shockwaves that erupted were immediately swallowed by the onrushing storm, and were crushed and annihilated by even heavier forces and mass.

The clown was riding on Gyebaek’s head, constantly using illusions to control the direction of the attacks.

The Sixth Apostle, despite his completely insane appearance, was also relentlessly targeting only Pyunram.

Pyunram’s power, which was essentially single-handedly receiving and enduring all of the attacks, was overwhelming the battlefield with pure hand-to-hand combat alone.

However, before Pyunram could fully remember all of her own spells, the situation began to change rapidly.

“Hooooooo!!!”

Along with the Sixth Apostle’s roar, which sounded like a horn, the hoof-shaped brands that had been stamped on Pyunram’s scales all lit up at once.

At the same time, the soil on the ground around the Sixth Apostle rose up all at once, beginning to form a sphere with a radius of hundreds of meters.

Kugugugugugu!!!

The ground and piles of dirt in the plaza rose up from their places like living creatures, surrounding Pyunram and the Sixth Apostle.

The Sixth Apostle’s ability to transform the surrounding terrain and environment into a battlefield solely for the two of them.

It was not just about confining them with terrain, but an Apostle’s spell that arbitrarily separated and held the space itself.

“Was it a monster that served the subterranean god…!! I am disgusted by the madness of worshiping and honoring something that is not even life as a god!!!”

The Sixth Apostle’s entire body was crushed, shattered, and broken as Pyunram struggled to escape the Apostle’s spell.

An Apostle who served the end of the outer sea and was granted power as its avatar.

However, as a monster whose reason had been consumed by madness, he could never defeat an Ascended being.

The Sixth Apostle was essentially sacrificing his own body to hold Pyunram’s feet, risking death.

The fact that an Apostle, who should have been completely insane and unable to distinguish between friend and foe, was showing such precise actions was absurd.

Lenok sensed that the Pontiff’s will was definitely involved in the Apostle’s movements, but he did not have the time to worry about that now.

This fleeting moment when the Sixth Apostle succeeded in holding Pyunram. This brief respite, which would not even amount to a minute in terms of time, was the very moment that the clown had been so desperately hoping for.

As if waiting for this moment, with the well leading to the outer sea open, and Gyebaek, who had lost his opponent, left alone in the middle of the ruined plaza.

Something quickly flew from the other side of the jungle.

Buaaaaaang!!

A black-bodied airship. The one that Lenok and the members of the Devil’s Den had ridden to the middle of the jungle.

With the warehouse that served as a hangar wide open, it was staggering as if it would fall at any moment, spewing out black smoke.

Even if it was a relic-class airship made with the technology of the old world, flying in this hellish sky where all sorts of powers and magic collided was practically a suicidal act.

Glen, who was holding the airship’s controls, gritted his teeth and changed direction, and Leya, who was hanging from the cargo hold, screamed in a hoarse voice.

“F**k, I don’t know anymore. You bastards!!”

At the same time, countless cargo that had been piled up inside the wide-open hangar began to fall to the ground all at once.

[Victor!!]

Before the clown’s telepathic message could be heard, Lenok moved.

He scattered hundreds of magic threads into the sky, then caught all of the falling cargo.

He cut open the thickly wrapped packages and took out the contents, arranging them neatly in the air.

Chwarararararak!!

What appeared according to Lenok’s magic thread manipulation were dozens of long and massive black stakes, as tall as a human.

The magic circles, densely engraved on the black pillars with an unknown golden material, flickered incessantly, illuminating the surroundings.

[Oooooh!!]

Unlike the clown’s exclamation, Lenok, who was gritting his teeth and moving his fingers gracefully, shouted.

“I can’t hold on for long…!!”

The weight itself was considerable, making it difficult to hold on for long, and the magic threads kept disappearing as if the stakes themselves were rejecting the approach of magic.

At this rate, the stakes would fall to the ground and be smashed to pieces before he could even properly balance and start working.

However, at the critical moment, the clown hesitated for a moment before gritting his teeth.

[Damn it, if that person doesn’t come, it’s still too close…!!!]

“What…?”

Who that person was. What the last reinforcements the clown was waiting for were.

Before Lenok could ask, the clown’s body was pierced and slammed by something that flew like lightning.

Kwajik!!

“You are so foolish…!!”

One side of the massive sphere of earth that had risen up to surround Pyunram and the Apostle collapsed, and the snake’s tail that had sprung out from the gap pierced the clown.

“The challenge for the world’s order and existence is a qualification only granted to Ascended beings!!”

Pyunram’s stern declaration echoed loudly from inside the sphere. Unlike before, her roar contained a clear will.

The Sixth Apostle’s Apostle spell. The power of the end that used the earth’s power to isolate the space itself could not properly bind a great Ascended being for even a minute.

Eudeudeudeuk!!!

At the same time as she swung her tail a few times, the clown’s body was flung away.

The bizarre form of the clown, who was rolling on the dirt floor, was in tatters with a hole blown through his chest.

However, the fingertips of the clown who had been thrown away were moving incessantly, drawing precise hand seals.

Self-Magnetic Field Full Deployment

Illusion Hierarchy Domain Frequency

A self-magnetic field that an 8th-level extreme illusionist had unleashed, ignoring even a fatal wound.

High-level illusions can go beyond the level of deceiving senses or phenomena, reaching the point of partially reorganizing and manipulating reality.

This is because the illusion system, which belongs to the special trait system, is one of the very few systems that can purely intervene in causality.

That is why powerful illusionists often suffer from endless madness.

Because they can never deceive reality without deceiving themselves.

Kkiiik…!!

As if the physical space of reality was endlessly twisting and collapsing, grating noises echoed continuously.

At the same time, the colorless wave that had risen from the clown’s fingertips began to rewrite all the surrounding scenery.

He overwrote the chaotic scenery of the altar with the clown’s own mental image.

The pyramid-like altar, which had completely collapsed and lost its shape, was now restored.

The black stakes were piled up along the well’s hole that had been created on the altar, drawing a huge one-way path like a runway.

And in the middle of that path was Gyebaek Aurel Silford, who had been struggling and raging against Pyunram’s attacks until just now.

A one-way path leading to the well, as if it had been created solely for Gyebaek.

The clown, clutching his pierced chest, panted madly and muttered.

[The, the board is set… so please… take care of the finish… Kihihihit…]

“Hoo…”

Lenok, who had let out a light sigh, adjusted his mask and immediately pulled up his magic power to the maximum.

Thousands of magic threads that had burst out from Lenok’s back covered the area created by the clown and rotated.

Chwarararararak!!

The writhing body of Gyebaek was visible through the magic threads that were pouring down like a flowing stream.

Lenok did not miss the opportunity and ruthlessly wrapped the stakes piled on the altar with his magic threads.

Kwajik!!

He drove dozens of stakes into Gyebaek’s body almost simultaneously.

[Haaaaaak!!]

The monsters bound to Gyebaek’s body struggled and tried to block the stakes, but Lenok’s magic thread manipulation, which had activated both of his magic eyes at the same time, was determining the results in a completely different realm.

Kwajik, Kwajik, Kwajik, Kwajik!!

Each time a stake was driven in, the black light ore that composed it was dismantled, and the golden magic circle melted and flowed into Gyebaek’s body.

The transcendentally powerful idea contained within it transformed into a geas [a magical binding or compulsion], riding on Gyebaek’s body.

The last geas that had completed Gyebaek as an Ascended being.

By reversing the essence of his existence, he activated the geas that was now located in the deepest part of his inner self at this very moment.

[■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■.]

A geas containing instructions that could not be explained in words spread ruthlessly through the body of the fallen Ascended being.

That alone was enough.

[Haaaaaaaaaaak!!!]

The black monsters, who had begun to rage madly, flailed their arms and began to roll their bodies towards the altar.

Gyebaek’s massive body dug into the ground and climbed onto the altar that the clown had created, as if he had been waiting for this moment from the beginning.

He desperately rushed towards the well that had opened in the sky above, as if he had been waiting for this moment from the beginning.

The moment the sphere made of tens of thousands of human flesh rushed out of the well, trying to pass through the boundary line connecting the world and the outer sea.

The radius of the huge well floating in the sky above narrowed instantly, stopping Gyebaek’s body in its tracks.

Kwaaaaang!!!

The huge sphere of earth that had been floating above the plaza collapsed.

At the same time, Pyunram, who was holding the tattered body of the Sixth Apostle by its tail, rose into the air and looked down at Lenok.

A snake hundreds of meters long that had risen into the air with its own will, without using any power.

Its elegant figure floating in the air was like a dragon that had not yet ascended.

It was not simply stopping Gyebaek with force.

It had adjusted the size of the world’s crack itself, which should have been fixed to the outer wall of the world and never changed, preventing Gyebaek from jumping out.

[I forbid those who are not qualified from trespassing the well.]

Pyunram’s voice was no longer filled with anger.

With an endless dizziness in her sharp snake pupils, she was simply staring at Lenok quietly.

[I too loved the will of life that was moving towards the uncharted, but at the end of it, there was only immeasurable failure and despair.]

“……”

[The promise and agreement for the world’s existence. The embodiment of the survival instinct that excludes resistance. We are keeping our mission… to live in this world.]

Pyunram’s attitude seemed to be trying to persuade Lenok.

Perhaps this calm and quiet nature was the essence of Pyunram, who was originally praised as a complete Ascended being.

Has she regained enough of her memories to suppress the snake’s body and the instincts of a predator and regain her spirit as an Ascended being?

If Pyunram had already regained her complete spell abilities as an Ascended being, the success or failure of this matter and Lenok’s fate would be as good as decided.

“……”

Perhaps it was a mistake to get involved in this matter from the beginning.

However, despite the negative thoughts that were shaking his head, Lenok gritted his teeth and began to pull up his magic power.

“……I never thought it would go according to plan from the beginning.”

It was not too late yet.

Rather, if he thought rationally, it would be more likely to survive if he moved before Pyunram’s memories returned even a little more.

From the moment he entered Pandemonium, before he accepted Myung’s proposal and arrived in this jungle.

Has he ever gained anything without taking risks?

“Since I’m in charge of the finish, I have to see it with my own two eyes.”

In the acrid stench that made it feel like his lungs were rotting just by breathing, Lenok began to form hand seals without wavering.

“What awaits us outside the outer sea.”

At the same time as the golden magic circle rotated, the magic power that had been flowing out of Lenok’s body completely disappeared.

Instead, an immense attractive force burst out, as if trying to absorb all the power around it.

Kiiiiiiing!!!

[Magic System Uroboros Activated.]

[Ascended being Gyebaek’s 84,341 types of geas are being dismantled and calculated.]

[Incomplete magic power conversion power conversion preparation complete.]

[Perpetual engine deployment: Connection of power flow connection.]

Paahhh!!!

Amidst the onrushing golden magic light, Lenok looked up at the scenery of the well and slowly raised both of his hands.

At this moment when all plans had reached the brink of failure. The final solution that Lenok had come up with.

“From now on, I will dismantle Gyebaek Aurel Silford’s geas.”