Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 458

Compendium (5)

Interpreting the geas [a magical binding or compulsion] that constitutes Gyebaek, dismantling it on the spot, and using it as power.

A monster that failed to ascend. A gamble to completely convert the power of an incomprehensible being whose very existence is twisted by geas.

It’s an extreme task, not just interpreting all 80,000+ geas and starting, but converting them into power within the Uroboros [a magic system] simultaneously with the calculation.

To put it bluntly, it’s an arrogant idea to openly seize the power of an ascended being and use it as one’s own fuel.

However, Lenok was convinced that this was the most efficient way to succeed in his plan.

Gyebaek doesn’t have a specific intellect or goal, but only moves according to the laws of the geas that make up his essence.

He doesn’t react to external interference in any way. He only writhes his chains to grab any life that comes close and make it the target of his geas.

Therefore, Lenok was able to deploy his magic system to interpret Gyebaek’s geas to his heart’s content without worrying about Gyebaek’s backlash or resistance.

Kkkkkkkkkkkk…!!

He quickly interprets the countless geas embedded in Gyebaek’s body and confirms their contents.

Numerous restrictions were designed to thoroughly process the direction of power at the cost of eroding the vessel and essence of Aurel Silford, a talented human.

[Remove magic circuits at the cost of losing eyesight.]

[Destroy the vessel of the soul at the cost of losing the sense of smell.]

[Absorb the spirituality of others at the cost of abandoning the human form.]

[Reverse the nature of magic power at the cost of devouring relatives.]

Each one is a powerful and terrible condition, geas designed to thoroughly process and refine the being called Gyebaek from the ground up.

The fact that such geas could be created and imposed indirectly shows the extent to which the technology of the central city had reached.

A process of refining a being as a war machine to thoroughly challenge ascension, while removing the elements that make up existence as a human one by one.

If Lenok tried to absorb these geas without any restrictions, he wouldn’t be able to avoid being bound by this cycle either.

That’s why Lenok pushed the magic system Uroboros to its limits, analyzed and dismantled the geas, and then released it without holding onto it.

After dismantling the geas that made up Gyebaek’s body, he released it without absorbing it.

The black chains that made up the grand mass of human flesh were released and began to writhe madly like living earthworms.

Charrrrrrrrrk!!!!

[Haa, haa!!]

The black-bodied monsters who had been restrained in between also naturally broke free from Gyebaek’s body and let out short death cries.

Numerous chains that writhe and thrash as if they are alive even after being separated from Gyebaek’s body.

Lenok stretched out hundreds of strands of magic threads in all directions, and then almost simultaneously grabbed the ends of the chains and began to lift them.

Kiiiiiiiiik!!

He wielded the chains lifted through the magic threads with near-divine power control, wrapped them around Gyebaek’s detached torso, and then lifted the huge weight with all his might.

Kwaaaaaaaaah!!!!

The shock of Gyebaek’s body briefly floating in the air was enough to collapse the illusionary realm that the clown had deployed with all his might, revealing the chaotic landscape of the plaza.

The great body of the great ascended being, gazing at Lenok from afar and emitting a strong will.

On the altar, it only appears faintly like a distant illusion that will never be reached.

Perhaps it’s better that it doesn’t feel real at a moment like this.

Lenok felt such useless thoughts flash through his mind, and then slammed all of his remaining magic power into the strands of magic threads he held in his hands.

Tzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!

Magic threads used as a medium for manipulation-type techniques.

He had only used them to simply pick up and move objects, or to manipulate the physical power of the magic threads themselves, but Lenok understood that there was a greater potential left in manipulation-type techniques.

Agnetta, the herald of the Demon Realm that he had encountered at the end of the Blaber Magic Tower, used her own manipulation techniques to completely destroy human minds or to travel through the dimensions of the imaginary realm to deliver news.

It’s the same. To correctly recognize the concept of manipulating something, and to embody the versatility of the concept of manipulation to the extreme by using magic threads as a medium.

He can’t become like Agnetta, who was born differently from ordinary humans and built up her thought system in an alien way, but he can at least imitate her.

And it was by no means impossible for Lenok to find a better way than her.

At that moment, hundreds of magic threads that had stretched out like tree branches from his fingertips began to darken, harden, and contract.

Tzejejejejeok…!!!

As the magic threads that had wrapped around and lifted the chains contracted and shortened their length, Gyebaek’s massive body, which had been lifted between them, also slowly rose into the sky.

It slowly moves towards the sub-space of the well created within the huge ring above the altar.

He dismantled Gyebaek’s geas and used it as the power source for the well, widening the radius of the well, and at the same time, reduced Gyebaek’s power and made him enter the ring.

“Magician…!!”

The massive body of the Compendium let out a majestic roar and opened its mouth wide.

At the same time, thousands of pieces of spell characters were rapidly assembled around her head, forming a huge oval ring.

[Secret Law Sect Sarak Taeha]

[Reincarnation Cannon: Gyunhae Chong]

Kwaaaaaaaaah!!!!

The fragments of transcendent spells that had made her a complete ascended being rose stiffly on her scales and turned into pillars of light.

A bombardment of the essence of spells, which is the basis and the extreme of spells, that completely decomposes the target at the cellular level and uses it as a catalyst for spells.

In another sense, it is a blow that could be more fatal than anything else to Gyebaek, who is closest to the origin of existence.

If Lenok’s body were to be swept away by that flash even a little, he would be decomposed to a degree that he would never be able to think again.

However, the moment Lenok saw the Reincarnation Cannon of Gyunhae Chong, he immediately understood its power, and spurred on the work of manipulating the magic threads.

Kkkkkkkkkkkk…!!

He lifted Gyebaek’s body by connecting the magic threads crisscross between the huge well and the horribly swarming mass of human flesh, and then skillfully fitting the wrapped chains between them.

The terrible noise of space splitting, crumbling, and being crushed echoed incessantly, but he couldn’t stop.

In the meantime, Lenok’s eardrums burst as he was briefly negligent in protecting his hearing, and blood seeped out of his ears.

For a very brief moment, Lenok’s inner self was exposed to Gyebaek’s energy, and dark red fluid began to flow from his nose and mouth.

Even though his face inside the mask was instantly covered in blood, Lenok did not stop.

If he stopped manipulating the magic threads here, both Gyebaek and Lenok would be swept away by the Compendium’s spell bombardment.

It is right to maintain Gyebaek’s floating state even by force, to withstand the Compendium’s spell, and then immediately throw that massive body into the well.

The problem is how long Lenok’s body can withstand this demonic realm where the Compendium’s spells and Gyebaek’s strange geas are raging.

His body has returned to its original state by taking the tears of an archangel, but that doesn’t mean that the fundamental problem of Lenok’s body has been completely resolved.

[Master!!]

Dabi, who was restless in his arms, took out various ampoules and elixirs from inside his robe and pushed them into Lenok’s body.

[It’s a symptom of tissue cell breakdown. I’ll administer antibiotics as a matter of urgency. It’s only a temporary measure, so you need to get out of here quickly and wash away the magic circuits…!!]

“…!!!”

He couldn’t even answer properly and spat out blood from under his mask.

Even while clearly aware that Gyebaek’s geas energy was eating away at his nerves, the fingers that manipulated the magic threads moved without delay, just as he had planned.

Kwaaaaaaaaah!!!

He lifts Gyebaek’s terrible mass of human flesh even higher, even after fully receiving the Compendium’s spell, Gyunhae Chong Reincarnation Cannon.

As a result, the illusionary realm that the clown had deployed was completely shattered, and the landscape of the ruined plaza was revealed as it was.

Thousands of magic threads that densely covered the jungle in all directions rolled the huge black mass of human flesh around, testing the expansion and contraction of the magic threads to their limits.

Kkiririririk!!

They stretch and shrink to the extreme, playing with physical force as if testing their tension.

Not only did he lift the massive body, but he also interfered with the mass and gravity of the entire space, reducing all the burden as much as possible and paving the way to the well.

The moment a huge snake and a mountain goat, who had thrown away their human voices, intertwined and let out a desperate will in unison.

Kwajik!!

Finally, Gyebaek took a step into the other side of the huge well.

“Aaaaaaaaaah!!!”

The Compendium screamed, trampling and crushing the corpses of the six apostles who had lost all their energy and slumped down.

Her song covered the entire sky and soared, raising a huge sphere of magic power into the black sky.

The powerful magic power that responded to the call rotated like a small star and fell to the ground.

Kwaaaaaaaaah!!!!

“Cough…!!”

Lenok, who had slightly lifted his mask and spat out blood, smiled as he stared at the pure white sky with hollow eyes.

“A 9th level ascended being….”

Is this the extent of her capabilities even after having her memories lost while living as a component of a mission for a long time?

Why are all ascended beings always in such a mess without fully preserving their power? It was always a question, but now he could understand.

For transcendents who have earned the right to challenge ascension, the total amount and size of power are not of great significance.

What is needed for the desired wish is not a stronger and greater power, but only one answer to transcend everything and reach the truth.

That is why they were able to cut off their memories, ego, lifespan, and relationships without hesitation and run towards only one goal.

Cheongyeon, Jindun, and the Compendium that Lenok is facing now were the same.

To stand shoulder to shoulder with such beings, to look further than such monsters, how far would he have to go?

Until the moment he reaches the end, will Lenok be able to endure while maintaining his current heart and will?

To find out, he would have to go to the end first.

“Ugh…!!”

Lenok thought so and took out a broken pencil piece with his trembling hand.

The five fingers of the Enac pencil.

It was something he had hardly used since he was able to record the blink technique on Papyrus Argenteus [a magical artifact].

Originally, it was made for the purpose of salvation in a desperate moment like now when it was impossible to avoid.

In the illusion that everything was converging into one point, the huge sphere of magic power falling from above, and the well that was beginning to close as if waiting for Gyebaek to enter, he unconsciously stuck the pencil into his forearm and pulled up his magic power.

Paaaaaaah!!!!

At that moment, Lenok’s eyes turned pure white and seemed to blink, then instantly darkened and began to reflect the black universe.

* * *

‘….’

The endless rotation of cause and effect.

If there is a cause, there is an end, and from that end, a cause is derived again, and the world circulates.

An absolute law that never changes in this world, where we are born, live, breathe, and endlessly consume and scatter things.

The moment the cycle stops, the world is at a turning point where it accepts a predetermined ending.

To escape a predetermined future that has been observed, one must pay a much more severe price….

Gyebaek Aurel Silford understood this and accepted his ending.

No, he thought he had accepted it.

Until he realized that he was not challenging ascension, but was made to fail at ascension.

‘….’

He could endure the sacrifice of abandoning the heavenly order.

He could endure the patricide of killing his relatives.

He could endure the asceticism of abandoning human dignity.

If the salvation of the world that Aurel Silford desired was like a flower placed on a cliff stained with blood.

Even if the only answer to a world with a predetermined end was created by countless breaths of death.

He could accept it if he could create a meaning called the next that does not exist.

Aurel Silford realized too late what it meant to challenge ascension in this world.

‘….’

He feels like he has woken up from a long sleep.

He had been lying on a painful thorny path, trembling for a very long time.

The cold sensation of the chains that had bound his whole body, and eventually even robbed him of his essence, is vividly felt.

‘I am….’

I am not Aurel Silford.

I am not the ascended being Gyebaek.

The ego that he thought had been buried and swept away in the memories of a very desperate and dark time is revived.

The consciousness of the powerful magician, which no one had been able to break, rapidly emerges from the shadows.

‘What is this…?’

Lenok’s consciousness, which should have been cut off at the same time as Gyebaek walked out of the well, is still there, watching Gyebaek’s last moments.

No, to be precise, he has become a part of his geas and is experiencing all those moments together.

Gyebaek’s massive body, which has risen out of the well, swims in a vast sea of darkness.

Lenok, who has become a part of Gyebaek and is witnessing the scene with his own eyes, quietly took a breath.

The Outer Sea.

The incomprehensible demonic realm that he had only heard of but never seen before was spread out before Lenok’s eyes.