Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 492

Koo-oong…!!

The fused being took a step forward, exuding an overwhelming aura.

“Unbelievable…!”

Even Tritan, who had been approaching with a sharp glint, stopped as if shocked.

“Did they fuse? Abandoning their individual bodies?”

“To be precise, it’s a new horizon of possibility reached by combining mutation and synchronization,” the result of Pio and Gio’s fusion stated calmly.

“It’s difficult to fuse something that isn’t one’s own body, but stabilizing it is much harder.”

The fusion of bodies was solved with Pio’s mutation technique, and the two’s mental images and mana were unified with Gio’s synchronization technique.

A powerful vow chosen by two Saint-level ability users, who had become a single superhuman, even to the point of temporarily abandoning their own existence.

“Is it possible to transcend the level and reach level 8 in such a way…? That’s a very innovative idea.”

Lenok also watched the scene from outside the altar, unable to take his eyes off it.

When he learned that the twins were Saint-level ability users who had each mastered different types of techniques, he had considered that there might be something more.

But he had not expected that it would be possible for two different people to completely fuse in both body and mind.

It was possible because the two were identical twins, and each had built up different types of techniques to the point of mastering their levels.

At the same time, it was a truly dangerous geas [a binding oath or curse] that required both twins to willingly give up themselves.

But despite that, or rather, because of it, it was certain that they had crossed the ‘boundary’ of transcending levels as a result.

They did not transcend levels with the appropriate qualifications and power as individuals.

They reached the realm of transcending levels as one, so they were simply granted the appropriate qualifications and power.

The super-fused being of Pio and Gio, thus completed,…

“Shall we begin?”

Kkiiiiiik…!!

Chiiiiik…!!

Became a monster that simultaneously manifested level 8 mutation and synchronization techniques.

It accepted all the dozens of spear-like weapons that were piercing into its body from all directions.

Thud, thud, thud!!

The fused being, pierced and cut by all sorts of blades like spears, swords, and axes, lowered its head and grabbed the spearheads of the knights who had pierced it with both hands.

At the same time, the fused being’s entire body transformed into hundreds of spear blades, swelling and bursting out.

Kagagagagagak!!!

A wave of spear blades mercilessly battered the armor of the countless correction knights who were rushing in from all directions.

Exclamations of shock erupted from all sides at the completely unexpected and incredibly tough counterattack.

The fused being, walking out from the wave of blades, transformed its arm into a machine gun and simultaneously spewed fire.

Mutation-type Unique Technique

Massive Army Technique Activation

[Thousand Ghosts, Hundred Demons, Blessed Soldiers]

Kwaaaang!!

A blinding flash and a flamboyant pillar of fire rose up through the void in front of the altar.

A huge lion’s head emerged from the shimmering heat haze, devouring armor and flesh indiscriminately.

Kugwagwagwagwa!!!

“There’s no pattern or trajectory, we can’t block it head-on…!!”

“If we don’t predict and prepare, this is practically…!!!”

“Hwaaaak!!”

The fused being’s rampage, transforming into all sorts of bizarre monsters and weapons, swept through the area and indiscriminately trampled the believers.

‘The mutation speed and pattern variations are unbelievable.’

Lenok was slightly impressed as he watched the priests of the Order being torn apart like crazy below the altar.

It wasn’t completely transforming its body, but powerful superhumans were being blown apart like toys as it briefly changed its limbs and swung them.

But what was truly tricky was not its firepower or strength, but the speed and variety with which it mutated its own body.

‘If he’s manipulating his body like that, the strain must be enormous, is he suppressing it with Gio’s synchronization technique?’

The moment he blinked, a wave of spears turned into a dump truck and crashed down, and the shards of glass that had fallen earlier turned into clay bombs.

A snake that had been biting at his feet and injecting poison suddenly turned into a huge toad and swallowed a person, then transformed into a giant man-eating plant and devoured another.

It was changing parts of its limbs into weapons and creatures, and even into more than eight different mutations almost simultaneously, changing its combat patterns every second.

No matter how skilled Pio was as a mutation mage, if he transformed his body to that extent, it wouldn’t be strange for his body to be crushed and melted due to the friction and overheating of his tissue cells.

Is he suppressing that with Gio’s synchronization technique, and enduring the tendency to return to the original form with the unification of his body?

The fused being, which had bitten the shoulder of a correction knight with its right hand transformed into a snake’s head, quickly turned its gaze.

“Bishop, are you just going to watch?!”

“Of course not…!!”

Bishop Tritan, wielding a scythe that emitted a cold chill, charged with a terrifying rush, colliding his body with all his might.

The fused being also mutated one of its shoulders into a huge iron wall, receiving Tritan’s scythe.

Jjeo-eo-eong!!!

Tritan, who had pushed the fused being back at a speed close to the speed of sound while flapping his frozen wings behind him, gritted his teeth and pulled up his mana.

“Alright, let’s go as far as we can…!!”

As Tritan’s mana grew stronger, the arched scythe pierced through the iron wall.

The moment he cut through the iron wall and the fused being beyond it, using the small universe of cold and the transformation of mana to the extreme.

Kagak!!

One of the frozen wings that had appeared behind Tritan was cut off as if it had been hit by the slash.

“…!!”

The moment Tritan realized that it was not another anomaly but the power of the person standing in front of him, his face hardened.

“It’s already too late.”

The fused being muttered, grabbing the structure of the temple with its tattered hands.

Synchronization-type Unique Technique

Universal Horizon Extension

[Shifting Flow Synchronization]

Fzzzzzt!!

Using the fused being’s mana, the structures of the surrounding terrain and its own body were synchronized.

The moment Tritan’s scythe pierced through the iron wall and split it in two, the temple’s internal structure that the fused being had synchronized was neatly cut in half.

Jjeojeok…!!

A huge crack spread from the structure to the altar behind the chapel.

Several of the altar’s supports were instantly split vertically, losing their balance and tilting greatly to one side.

Kugugugugung!!

A gentle slope was created from the altar to the top where the two apostles were fighting a bloody battle.

A path created by the fused being’s brief rampage, synchronizing all the impacts of the surrounding terrain.

“Good heavens, this is absurd…!!”

“How can such a high-level synchronization technique be used in the great Order’s temple…!!”

Even the other Delegates could not hide their agitation at the unbelievable speed.

Originally, synchronization techniques were one of the designated techniques used to connect different concepts in an equal state or condition.

Since it interfered with the concept itself, its power was very strong and its versatility was enormous, but the synchronizer had a serious disadvantage of not being able to move from that spot.

The fundamental reason why Pio participated in this operation while Gio remained in the rear, despite being twins.

But even that disadvantage could be temporarily overcome the moment the two twins merged into one body and reached level 8.

While sweeping through the area indiscriminately with mutation techniques, the impact created was synchronized with the surrounding space using synchronization techniques.

It was an absurd idea to manipulate that power entirely in his own space-time and create a path for Lenok to reach Amrita.

The twins’ fused being had succeeded in carrying out that task in this isolated situation, alone in the enemy’s territory.

Kugwagwagwagwa!!!

In addition, silver and divine radiance flashed and burst out from all directions.

Even the hundreds of talismans that floated and fluttered in the sky like waves.

Liza, Leppard, and Gapseon arrived a step later than Pio and Gio and began to intrude into the battlefield.

Pat!!

A streak of dark light flashed and landed next to Lenok.

It was the copper-skinned shaman, Grisha, who had landed, fluttering her thick robe.

She was the one who had deployed the Southern Barbarian Sea Territory and slammed it down on the Far East Branch temple, and she was the last to appear at this place.

“Evan, let’s go.”

Grisha, who turned to Lenok with sweat dripping down her face, said.

“We don’t have much time. I need your help to settle this.”

Even in a situation where she had thrown herself into the middle of the Delegates who had surrounded Lenok, she was not flustered at all.

The fat bishop, Border, who was standing at the forefront of the Delegates, also narrowed his eyes at her appearance.

“Secret Sect Spell… So you were the shaman of the Returning Path?”

“……”

“You’re out of your mind. No matter how urgent the situation is, to intervene by making such a big deal out of it… Is this mage that important to you?”

“All preparations are complete.”

Grisha, who was holding a long cigarette with trembling hands, replied.

“Evan bought us much more time than I thought. I came here prepared to risk a war if necessary… but that won’t happen.”

“Huh?”

“We’ve surrounded and blockaded the entire Sea of Understanding with the autonomous territory’s navy. For the next three hours, no one will be able to enter the territorial waters.”

“……”

Only then did Border’s face stiffen as he understood the meaning of Grisha’s words.

“Not only will the Order’s reinforcements not arrive, but third-party intervention will also be impossible. Today, the 10th Apostle Amrita will die in this place, and the Far East Branch will fall.”

Grisha’s lips, which were holding the long cigarette, were stained purple.

That was proof that it was difficult and arduous for her to maintain the territory that covered the entire island upside down.

Border stared at Grisha’s face for a while, then quietly gestured to the other Delegates.

The Delegates, realizing the meaning of the gesture, began to prepare for a full-scale battle in their own ways.

“Release the first stage of the binding spell.”

“Designate the spell territory. Prepare the Yin-Yang Ritual Sequence.”

They not only released the binding spells and pulled up their power like Tritan, but also amplified the spells with the power of the land designated as the Order’s territory, forcibly raising their condition.

Du-du-du-du-du!!!

Among them were also some of the Delegates who had been dealing with the battle between the two apostles until just now.

This was because there was no longer any need to stop the battle that had occurred between Amrita and Zaif.

The battle between the two monsters who had lost their human forms had already ended in a one-sided victory for one side.

[Kkeueuk…….]

Crunch, crunch!!

A huge, hairy mass, emitting an unknown screech, was devouring Zaif’s body.

Even while dripping blood, it was constantly devouring the body of the same apostle, gradually changing its form into something more than a simple hairy mass.

Zaif, who had been used as a channel to summon an Outer God and was injured, and even lost the intellect he had regained after the ritual, could not defeat Amrita even after landing a preemptive strike.

It was proof that the difference in level, realm, and physical ability between the two apostles was that extreme.

The superiority among the apostles, which was governed by the law of the jungle, had determined the outcome from the beginning.

Zaif’s eyes, which were swaying under Amrita’s touch, had long lost the light of life.

“……”

In the end, Lenok could not answer whether what Zaif had believed in at the end was a true reality.

He could only resolve not to stop in order to confirm it.

Did he die believing that what he desired was the truth until the very end? Lenok only hoped that the ending he desired would be at least similar to that.

Then he had to move.

Hwaaaahhhak!!!

As Lenok pulled up his mana, the surrounding air heated up greatly, and Grisha slowly nodded her head.

“Let’s go.”

“That won’t do…!!”

The moment Border, who had formed a hand seal with both hands, released a dazzling light, Lenok’s body disappeared from that spot.

“Wait, what is this…!!”

The Delegates, realizing that they had lost Lenok in an instant, tried to grab his feet, but they did not stop.

Rather, he only walked through the slope, flickering faintly as if he were there and yet not there.

“I can’t feel his presence at all!!”

“I can’t observe his mana pattern, this is absurd…!!”

“Even his life reaction is so faint, is he no longer human…!!”

While the Delegates wasted time trying to track Lenok, who was difficult to catch or even feel, some others hurriedly tried to return to Amrita’s side.

“Too late, you idiots!!”

Liza and Leppard appeared from the silver storm that had erupted from the side of the altar and kicked the Delegates away.

Kwaaang!!

The muscular dog-headed giant and the martial artist instantly slammed half a dozen Delegates to the ground and continued their bloody battle.

At the same time, hundreds of talismans that had fallen from the sky became a huge barrier, momentarily blocking the path between Lenok and the Delegates.

[Heavenly Unmoving Barrier]

The jungle forest that had spread out in the sky fell down as it was, completely covering the area with a damp swamp.

“This…!!”

Border’s expression contorted greatly as he realized that he had been properly tied up at the last moment, and Grisha smiled wearily.

“Don’t bother us unnecessarily, let’s play among ourselves.”

* * *

When he pulled up his mana sensing to the limit, Grisha’s Southern Barbarian Sea Territory and everything around the Far East Branch island reached his senses.

The sight of the correction knight captain, Gerbin, clashing with Liza, who was wearing silver gauntlets.

The confrontation between Leppard, the giant dog-headed man wielding a huge temple pillar, and a Delegate wielding a massive halberd.

Grisha and Border were releasing dazzling light on one side of the altar’s steps, and Gapseon and a bishop wearing an eye patch were firing spells in the sky to seize air superiority.

All of those battles and movements were directed towards the temple located in the center of the island and the altar in its depths.

Some were desperately fighting their opponents, exchanging killing intent, to stop Lenok, and others were doing the same to send Lenok on his way.

But Lenok, while correctly recognizing all that chaos, stepped onto the slope leading to the end of the altar.

‘Not far now.’

It was no coincidence that most of the Delegates had just missed Lenok’s presence and reaction.

From the moment he participated in the Outer God’s ritual and faced their breath head-on, Lenok’s own mana had been constantly fluctuating.

A temporary loss and fluctuation of life reaction and mana pattern that Lenok himself had not intended.

It was unknown whether this was an unintended stroke of luck or a path towards an unbearable destruction.

He could only vaguely think that it was a side effect of being very close to the end of the outer sea, causing his own intuition to overflow.

‘Not far now….’

Fzzzzzt…!!

It overflowed.

The individuality and values that made him up, his way of thinking and purpose of existence.

Mana and momentum, stamina and spirituality, mind and consciousness were all uncontrollably bursting out in all directions, wanting and pulling in something more powerful.

He clearly recognized that he was definitely present in this place, yet also infinitely far away from it.

A feeling as if he was becoming something closer to non-human.

Whioo-o…!!

Above the spire of the altar where the wind was blowing. The figure of Amrita, who had fallen asleep covered in blood after eating Izel and Zaif, who had fallen as if dead.

There was no resistance. Only the huge body of the 10th Apostle, exhausted from the bloody battle with the same apostle, was breathing in this space.

He did not know why the other observers had entrusted Lenok with the task of killing Amrita. He did not know the reason.

The control code of Jintun that was handed over by Gapseon for a one-time use to request reinforcements.

Even if he did not know exactly what it was, it was not difficult to understand that it was a secret plan to break down the Arch Bishop’s barrier itself.

It was also natural for Gapseon and the other observers to think that Lenok had a means to kill Amrita from that.

The time that Zaif had bought by sacrificing his own life, and the time that Grisha and the other observers were still buying for Lenok.

Originally, he should have immediately thought of a secret plan or spell to kill Amrita and put it into action.

But instead of pulling up his mana to create a powerful magic to blow up Amrita’s huge body at once, Lenok,

Taang!!

Pulled out the revolver from his chest and shot Izel’s head, who had fallen behind him.

“……!!”

Izel’s head, which had fallen and hardened into a white porcelain-like form, swayed greatly, and crimson blood seeped out from it.

But instead of collapsing as it was, Izel, who had suffered a gunshot wound to the head, slowly turned her head back and began to stagger to her feet.

“Oh my….”

Izel’s face, which had stood up while slumped, was smiling in a long, drawn-out manner, as if possessed by a ghost.

“I thought I had completely fooled you, how did you know?”

A completely different tone of voice from Izel’s, like that of an innocent child.

But instead of being surprised by that fact, Lenok pulled the trigger of the revolver once more.

Ta-aang!!

The moment Izel’s forehead was pierced through, blood gushed out once more, but rather, cracks appeared on her porcelain-like skin.

Jjeojeok!!

As her skin cracked, a completely new flesh-colored skin fully revealed itself from within.

Another person’s appearance that had newly emerged from the hardened skin that was falling off as if shedding a shell.

Surprisingly, she no longer even had Izel’s face.

“Huuu….”

She straightened her back and stood up, flicking her hair back with a light gesture.

When she slowly opened her eyes, only endless darkness filled her pupils.

Among the pitch-black eyes, traces of countless starlight were occasionally visible.

She smiled as she stared at Lenok without any concern with her deformed eyes that seemed to contain the starlight of the night sky.

“Thank you, Evan. I was having a hard time breaking out of my shell anyway. I’ll take it as you being considerate of me.”

“Considerate… That’s what I want to ask you.”

A refreshing and pleasant gesture, as if she had been reborn after breaking out of an egg. A terrible sense of incongruity that was completely out of place in this chaotic battlefield.

But precisely because of that, Lenok understood that this very moment was the final turning point for settling this matter.

Lenok, who smiled coldly, asked.

“I never thought that an apostle… would take over a human body and awaken. Was it all planned from the beginning?”

What had newly emerged from Izel’s body was not another being.

The voice of the apostle that he had spoken to briefly after regaining consciousness during the Arch Bishop’s ritual of revelation.

The exact same tone was coming from that being that had awakened through Izel’s body.

“10th Apostle Amrita. I thought you were completely devoted to the Arch Bishop in the face of certain death, but you had completely different thoughts.”

“Well, I don’t think the priestess expected things to turn out this way either.”

Amrita, who replied leisurely, leaned against one of the pillars of the altar and looked down at the ground.

“It seems that Priestess Naidri wanted to increase the rate of assimilation with the outer sea through me, and to refine herself as a vessel to contain her will… But that means that she would become a being that is fundamentally very similar to me.”

“……”

“It was purely by chance that I found an opportunity with a body that couldn’t withstand the madness for long… It’s not my fault that I’m recycling the body that the priestess left behind, is it?”

Amrita’s words as she smiled with an innocent face.

Was it that Izel’s body, which had been assimilated with Amrita and completed as a vessel, became similar to Amrita’s essence, and her spirit naturally transferred as well?

“Does the body control the mind, or does the mind control the body? It’s a question that has no answer, but it’s clear that neither is entirely wrong.”

Lenok, who slowly walked over and stood next to her, said.

“The madness that spreads to the apostles. What if the madness that turns them into mere beasts driven by instinct is not just a problem of the mind?”

Lenok had witnessed the apostles of the Order turning into monsters, losing their human forms, several times.

Even the ending where those whose madness had spread to their very bones met their deaths without ever returning to their human forms.

But what if that madness was not only because they had glimpsed the memories of the Outer Gods, but also because they could not properly control their bodies that were turning into monsters?

“If the mind cannot escape the influence of madness within a body that has completely turned into a beast, then you thought you could just switch bodies.”

Lenok said, turning to look at Amrita.

“If it was Izel Naidri’s body, which had become fundamentally similar to you, wouldn’t you have been able to escape the madness that was tormenting you and regain your reason?”

“Ohoho, to be able to see through this situation so deeply…”

Amrita let out a languid laugh.

“You really were a being similar to us… Priestess Naidri didn’t understand that until the very end.”

“……”

“An instinct close to intuition, or a sense of homogeneity close to discomfort? Well, it doesn’t matter which one it is. There are things that cannot be explained unless it’s a miracle.”

Amrita, leaving Lenok who did not answer, carefully hugged her own shoulders with both arms.

“Poor priestess… How pitiful… It’s a shame that things turned out this way, even though it wasn’t my intention.”

“……”

“But I will definitely carry on your will, even in this way.”

“I see.”

Lenok could not help but smile sarcastically.

“But considering that you claim it wasn’t your intention… don’t you think you’re smiling too brightly?”

An endless silence flowed.

Amrita’s lips stretched out as if they were tearing apart.

“Hehe… Do you know why I hate mages?”

Lenok also smiled quietly as he looked at her face.

“Because they’re quick-witted?”

Kwaaaang!!!

A corner of the altar exploded as if it had burst.