Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 459

A sea of utter stillness.

Only the dark groans that Gyebaek occasionally lets out echo through the void where even the sound of the wind cannot be heard.

Faintly shining star clusters on the far side of the dark sea, and even the shapes of countless galaxy clusters shining from further away.

Lenok, synchronized with Gyebaek’s consciousness, was able to clearly perceive the miracles and the ends that human senses could not even properly recognize.

In an unthinking moment, a flame that arose from the far side of the sea disappears like a flash, and the remnants of magical power, clumped together in a viscous form, float stickily.

A giant tree trunk that takes root among the stars, absorbs nutrients, and breathes endlessly.

The remains of a giant, huddled in the void, surrounded by countless meteorites like rings, staring at the sea from the other side of the void.

Large wings resembling a ray flap, absorbing the heat of the star, and a satellite made of a giant eye orbits, observing the passing stars.

Black lightning and blue flames surge like waves, and countless lives and consciousnesses merge, split, disappear, and are created again.

Any ordinary human would have gone mad the moment they faced any of these phenomena.

“…….”

The scenery of the Outer Sea that he encountered for the first time in his life.

None of them properly reveal their true nature, but just by facing their fragments, Lenok could vaguely understand what kind of beings they were.

Each one held a monstrousness that was like the end of the world from a human perspective, but in this dark sea, each moment was just a fleeting afterimage.

The monsters that exist outside the Outer Sea, transcending the cycle of cause and effect, are no longer bound by the laws of creation and destruction.

Even the infinite repetition of being born, disappearing, and resurrecting is just a light whim that occurs in the regression of unconsciousness.

Why the Guiding Order calls them gods and worships them, and why such a fanatical religion has become the leading faith on the continent.

Lenok, looking out at the Outer Sea through Gyebaek’s consciousness, understood.

Even why the apostles, who were born as incarnations after receiving revelations of such divine power, eventually fall into madness and become monsters.

The logic of human reason, the laws of the world, the logic of the survival of the fittest, and the survival of the fittest have no meaning to them.

They are just wandering in immeasurable boredom and hunger, searching for something to satisfy their desires.

And it was obvious that one of the destinations of that wandering and agony was this world.

However, even after seeing the scenery that strongly implied the ending more than anything else, the first emotion that came to Lenok’s mind was not fear, but something closer to admiration.

‘Beautiful.’

Just by continuing to look at and observe the scenery of the sea, an endless, powerful spirituality and intuition seep into Lenok’s inner self.

Just by observing and recognizing the fragments that pass by mockingly, looking down from a much higher place than Lenok, the horizon of his thoughts is rapidly expanding.

It feels like he could fill himself with strange and great ideas and inspiration by looking at this sea forever.

However, Lenok forcibly ignored the powerful impulse that surged from a corner of his heart and turned his consciousness away.

It’s dangerous to get any more immersed.

Right now, he was only looking at the Outer Sea in a state of synchronization with Gyebaek’s consciousness.

He had to keep his mind sharp so that he could quickly escape if necessary.

‘My vision…….’

He wanted to turn his gaze to the well that Gyebaek had come out of and the shape of that star, but Gyebaek did not turn his consciousness back.

He was just faithfully moving according to the last geas [a magical compulsion or binding] that he had driven into his body through the stake and activated.

Only then did Lenok realize that Gyebaek had not changed at all even after jumping out of the Outer Sea.

The memory of Aurel Silford that he had just recalled was just a byproduct of Lenok sharing Gyebaek’s senses.

The real Aurel Silford had already lost even his essence, and only his fragments remained, swirling around in his body like dregs.

‘……The opportunity is now.’

No matter how much he thought about it, there were too many strange things about this operation, and Gyebaek’s existence was by far the most heterogeneous.

Not only did they suddenly pull the mad monster, who had been digging into the sea near the continental coastline, up to the surface of the sea, but they also made him run straight to the well.

Even the series of measures that made Gyebaek crawl into the well on his own just by driving in the prepared stake.

The clown said that he had activated the last geas, but Lenok needed to know exactly what that meant.

Why the last geas that bound Gyebaek had not been activated and was dormant, why it had been left alone until now, and why it was activated now.

What was the content of that geas?

Gooooooo……!!

While he was lost in thought, Gyebaek’s speed, which had risen from the far side of the Outer Sea, began to increase even more.

At the same time, something flashed past the dark side where nothing had been visible.

Even Lenok, who was looking out at the Outer Sea by borrowing some of Gyebaek’s senses, could not properly perceive its shape.

There was no time to think for long.

Using the experience of searching through Amila Bainzer’s consciousness, he penetrated straight into the deepest part of Gyebaek’s consciousness.

All of this was a function that arose because Lenok had broken down and absorbed Gyebaek’s geas into the Uroboros magic system.

It was a reckless idea to touch Gyebaek’s geas through the Uroboros, but as a result, Lenok succeeded.

He had gone beyond the level of understanding the law of geas itself, and was able to interfere and touch it on a direct and indirect level.

In a way, it was a great achievement that he had learned how to deal with the laws that were fundamentally related to the penalty that Lenok possessed.

He might even be able to create and transform new geas, going beyond the level of simply touching other people’s geas.

However, instead of thinking deeply about that endless possibility and new ability, Lenok began to focus on what he had to do right now.

Chareuk!!

He grabbed the end of a chain that was intertwined in an immeasurably complex way in Gyebaek’s body and headed to the other side.

From within the body of the ascendant [a being that has transcended mortal limitations], who was swimming through the Outer Sea at a rapid speed and heading into the vast void, he delved deep into the bottom of his consciousness.

Passing through the geas that had been interpreted and classified once through the Uroboros magic system, passing through the waste that had lost its target and lost its effect, he finally reached the key hidden in the innermost center.

The last command given among the 80,000 geas that completed Gyebaek Aurel Silford.

The last geas that was placed at the very core of his existence as Gyebaek’s essence was completely reversed.

[■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■.]

Lenok grabbed the end of the geas, which had the shape of the black stake that he had driven in with his own hands, and slowly opened it.

Because he activated the geas with the power of the stake that the leader had made himself, and clearly conveyed its meaning to Gyebaek.

It was enough to follow the flow of that power in reverse and read the meaning of the inherent geas.

A strange sensation, as if grasping the end of an endlessly complex tangle of threads and unraveling it in an instant.

At the same time, the unknown characters engraved on its surface began to transform into shapes that could be understood one by one.

Kkiririk…….

[Try again ■■■■ ■■■■.]

‘Try again……?’

Kkiririk……!!

[Try again to ascend ■■■■.]

Kkiriririririk……!!!!

[Try again to challenge the ascension.]

The last geas that completed the being called Gyebaek.

And the last command that had been dormant in the deepest part of his consciousness, and was only now activated.

The phrase engraved on the stake that the leader had made himself, which even the clown did not know, was.

It was a stern declaration to ‘try again to challenge the ascension.’

‘…….’

Lenok hesitated at the unexpected phrase.

Try again to challenge the ascension.

The moment Gyebaek remembered this phrase, he jumped out of the well as if he had forgotten all the moments he had fought against the Compendium.

All Lenok did was drive in the stake and assist Gyebaek’s movement as he tried to crawl into the well on his own.

Why should Gyebaek, who had already failed to ascend, challenge that grand goal again?

And why did Gyebaek throw himself into the Outer Sea without hesitation when he heard the words to challenge the ascension?

The moment Lenok discovered a ray of light among all those questions and tried to piece together all the puzzles.

Puuuuuuuu…….

A faint sound of music began to be heard from somewhere.

‘……What?’

The Outer Sea, which exists outside the world, is a void where nothing exists.

In that void where everything that exists loses its meaning, all the senses that humans possess do not work properly and are distorted.

In the void that does not react to all the stimuli and signals emitted by living things and absorbs everything, humans forget even their own essence and go mad.

A vast sea of darkness where cause and effect are emitted and do not converge without the cycle of cause and effect, regardless of their origins.

What does it mean that a sound that should not be heard is heard in that space?

Before Lenok could properly think about and understand it, Gyebaek curled his body into a ball.

Chareureuk…….

The tens of thousands of chains that made up his body gathered together, compressed into a long, spiral pillar, and narrowed as they converged at both ends.

From the other side of Gyebaek’s body, which had transformed into a giant bullet, the darkness that had been constantly shaking and dancing began to subside little by little.

No, it’s not subsiding.

Something so huge that it obscures the dark sea that is constantly dancing is approaching Gyebaek.

It was just that even with Gyebaek’s senses, he could not fully recognize and see it, so the scenery beyond it was being reflected.

The moment Lenok began to vaguely realize what that being was, it already existed.

Puuuuuuuu……!!

Amidst the faintly echoing trumpet sound, something splits open as if it is being torn apart at the end of the subsided darkness.

A huge crack, large enough to hold Gyebaek’s body, which was hundreds of meters long, was opened at both ends, and a huge circle appeared from between them and slowly rotated.

It moved little by little, but surely, contracting and expanding.

Even though the radius of the circle encompassed hundreds of meters, Lenok could tell.

‘……No way.’

He could not believe it even though he saw it through Gyebaek’s senses and was convinced.

The movement of the circle that he was seeing in front of him now looked like the expansion and contraction of a pupil.

The circle that had split open on both sides in front of Gyebaek was the eye of some being larger than the fallen ascendant.

The moment he recognized it, the sound of music began to resonate louder than ever before for Lenok.

Bbaaaaaaaaang!!

Even though Gyebaek had no ears, and Lenok only had his consciousness floating, the sound of the music was about to tear his eardrums.

As if to say that he had finally recognized its existence, it endlessly increased the volume, praising and showing off.

His senses fluctuated as if his vision was shaking violently at the sound, and his consciousness faded.

Gyebaek let out a scream that was close to a shriek, and pushed his body, which had been rolled up like a bullet, straight forward.

Conversely, immediately after that, Lenok’s consciousness was bounced back as if it was repelled by that movement.

As if the moment he had been swimming towards the outside of the Outer Sea had been a lie, he was returning the way he had come at twice the speed.

It was as if his whole mind, consciousness, and soul were shouting in one voice that this was not the way.

Kwaaaaaaaa!!

The sound of waves crashing against his ears as if trying to erase the sound of the music.

In the shock that made him feel like he was about to lose consciousness, Lenok somehow opened his eyes and stared at the rapidly receding scenery.

Even though he was moving away from that place so quickly, he could not see the whole body of the life form that was much larger than Gyebaek with his own eyes.

A long torso with a scaly appearance, resting heavily between the seas with a head shaped like a solid ship, in a languid posture.

If there was a dragon that used a ship thousands of meters in size as its head, would it look like that?

Could he dare call that a life form like Lenok?

The one who floats among the stars, swims among the galaxies, eats the meteors that wander around the stars, and drinks the tears of the sun.

The being who is prophesied to descend to earth when the sky opens with the end of the world.

Lenok had witnessed the true form of one of those great evils for the first time with his own eyes.

Kkiririk…….

Gyebaek’s body slowly rotated like a bullet and slowly rushed into the center of the giant eye.

As if he knew that he had to kill that being by using his body as a weapon.

Then the words to try again to challenge the ascension-

Pshoo!

The moment Gyebaek’s body penetrated the center of the eye, a part of the pupil of the giant eye began to be dyed black.

Black viscous fluid, as if ink had been dissolved, penetrated the eye without hesitation.

The eye stared blankly at Gyebaek, who had attacked it, then looked up a little and looked elsewhere.

The moment that gaze was directed exactly at Lenok, who was gradually moving away.

Pajijik!!

With the sound of electricity that suddenly rang out, Lenok’s consciousness went out completely.

* * *

“Haa, haa……!!”

Philemon Autonomous Territory, floating island cluster.

The Moon Garden, hidden by transcendental barrier magic.

The headquarters of the Azure Eye, where the now collapsed giant tower, the lighthouse, was located.

Watcher Fern was running down the hallway, panting like crazy.

“I, I have to report it……! If I don’t tell them now!!”

Even though she was crying and sweating profusely, she did not stop.

The figures of watchers lying dead in various places in the hallway.

Some of them had clumsily picked up weapons, but they were in a pathetic posture as if they had fallen without even being able to swing them.

They were faintly breathing, but their consciousness was completely gone, and only their bodies were holding on to life signs.

Was the defense not sufficient? Fern could not even dare to guess that fact.

That was because the opponent who had invaded this lighthouse was a monster that she could not understand with her common sense.

A strange person who had passed through the Moon Barrier, which was directly constructed by the Thousand Eyes and could even temporarily bind an ascendant, without any difficulty and had instantly destroyed the lighthouse’s computer network.

Not only the numerous watchers who remained in the lighthouse, but even the extreme ability user who was protecting the autonomous territory in place of Lapis could not last long in front of him.

Perhaps there was an ending that was worse than death for humans.

And even though she sensed that that moment would soon come to her, Fern did not stop.

The top of the tower where the lighthouse was located.

She pushed aside the fallen watchers and began to touch the device after bursting into the control tower, which had now been restored.

The situation had become irreversible, but someone had to let the outside know about this fact.

If she could not convey this fact to the lighthouse keeper who was away from his post, that would be an ending worse than death for Fern.

Beep, beep beep……!!

“No, just a little, just a little more……!!”

Her hands, which were touching the equipment in the control tower, lost strength, and her eyes slowly closed.

She bit her lower lip to draw blood to regain her senses, but she did not stop.

If she fell asleep like this, would she also meet the other watchers?

She might fall into an eternal sleep that was worse than death, without ever waking up.

Perhaps that was better than the terrible and long sacrifice that she had been prepared for when she became a watcher.

Click……!!

Fern, who had barely completed the message while constantly dripping blood onto the instrument panel, pressed the send button with her trembling hands.

The moment her finger fell on the instrument panel and she was about to report all the situations that had occurred at the lighthouse to the main force.

Thump!!

A hand that appeared from somewhere strongly grabbed her wrist.

“Ah…….”

Despair settled on Fern’s fading face.

She struggled to lift her trembling gaze and tried to at least confirm the face of the person who had grabbed her hand.

But the stuttering noise above his neck only made Fern’s last resistance futile.

She could not hold on any longer and slammed her head into the instrument panel and lost consciousness.

Thud!!

The figure, who had been looking down at Fern’s limp figure, quietly released her wrist and turned his back.

He walked through the quiet hallway with neither slow nor fast steps, heading to the top of the tower.

A huge circular hollow.

A huge sphere slowly floating in the center of the hollow.

Woo woo woo……!

A faint glow rotated like stars around the sphere, illuminating the dark interior of the hollow with a mysterious light.

The figure passed by the armchair that was placed in front of the sphere and carefully placed his hand on the sphere.

The moment his smooth fingers were about to gently stroke the surface of the sphere.

“I’ve been imagining this moment for a very long time.”

A quiet female voice echoed from behind the figure.

“But I never thought we would meet like this.”

“…….”

The figure, who turned his gaze with a crackling noise, noticed the armchair he had passed by.

A woman who had not yet shed her girlishness was sitting neatly in the armchair that had been empty until just now, looking at him.

Bright blue hair. Eyes that shone brilliantly, and a firmly set mouth.

The firm and clear determination contained in that expression.

The figure stared blankly at the figure and muttered.

“I didn’t intend to meet you in person……, it looks like the timeline is going to get twisted again.”

“…….”

“I thought I had cut off all means of contact, but where did the variable come from?”

A strange resonance that sounded like a mixture of a man’s and a woman’s, an old man’s and a child’s voice.

The figure, who was pondering with a gesture of resting his chin, remembered Fern’s blood that had fallen on the instrument panel and nodded.

“Was the instrument panel touch-sensitive……, I didn’t expect that. It would be considered quite old-fashioned in this world, but I’m impressed that you thought of installing it in the lighthouse control tower.”

“I myself did not expect that this would happen.”

Lapis replied coldly.

“Because I never thought that the leader of Pandemonium would invade the lighthouse alone.”