Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 493

Archbishop Izel Naidry, using the tenth Apostle Amrita as a medium, forcefully conducted a ritual to summon Outer Gods.

Her goal was to become an Apostle herself and regain the lost power of the priestess.

She created an environment close to the Outer Sea within the Sea of Understanding [a metaphorical space representing the collective unconscious or a realm of higher knowledge]. All preparations were complete, but the Outer Gods’ attention focused on Lenok, who was prepared as a sacrifice, causing the ritual to fail.

Due to the backlash of the failed ritual and the betrayal of Apostle Zaif, the Archbishop’s body collapsed. However, it was not Izel herself who opened her eyes again.

A side effect of assimilating her own body with Amrita. The unbelievable truth that she was robbed of her body by the Apostle she had favored, taking advantage of that gap.

Even the madness that torments high-ranking Apostles can be temporarily overcome to regain rationality by shedding the body that has become closer to a beast.

Amrita, with the rationality she regained during the ritual, realized this truth and acted without hesitation the moment Izel showed an opening.

Kugugugu!!!

Amidst the collapsing altar, the human bodies that had been hanging as sacrifices fell like rain.

Amrita, hanging upside down on the altar wall, quickly picked out a few of the falling humans who were still breathing.

Crack!!

A shocking sight of her piercing and taking the hearts of the still-living humans without hesitation.

Even though she was reborn from Izel’s body and had a human form, her actions were already far removed from those of a human.

“Are you planning to use forbidden arts as soon as you’re reborn?”

Lenok, hanging vertically on the altar wall using magic power, shook his head.

“If you act like that, that new body you got won’t last long before it ends up in a similar state.”

“I don’t care.”

Amrita retorted.

“It’s necessary to use the spell. Eating a few humans won’t make me fall into madness, you know?”

“Then?”

“It was the priestess’s decision. The Apostle technique, Amrita’s Scales, was too useful.”

A sharp sneer spread across Amrita’s lips.

“If I were normal, I wouldn’t accept being locked in a room to create spells, and if I were completely mad, I wouldn’t listen because I’d be a beast. So, what’s the answer?”

“To make you moderately mad and then feed you humans to make you easier to control?”

“Correct!!”

Amrita cackled, strongly clenching the hearts she held in both hands.

“Well, it’s not like I didn’t understand the priestess’s thinking. She actually treated me reasonably well after that.”

“……”

“But whether I wanted that is another matter. In fact, the priestess used my power to solidify her position in the Far East branch.”

In Amrita’s eyes, as she looked down at her own body, a cold determination had settled.

“I didn’t want to blame her now, but I wasn’t going to pass up the opportunity that came my way… That’s all.”

“Some of the agents already knew,” Lenok muttered.

“That’s why they focused on stopping Zaif from the beginning and dealing with the watchers.”

“Hehe, Zissen was my adjutant. There’s no way that friend wouldn’t know what state I was in.”

“…Adjutant?”

“Ah, is it hard to understand if I say it like that?”

Amrita, tossing the hearts she was holding and grinning, spread her blood-soaked hands wide.

“The 10th Inquisitor of the Guido Order, Bishop Amrita Praubel.”

Fwaat-!

At the same time, the spatial rift that spread from her fingertips devoured Amrita’s body whole, and she disappeared from that spot.

Immediately after, Amrita’s soft voice whispered in Lenok’s ear.

“From now on, I will return to my mission of hunting mages.”

Kwaaaang!!!

As Lenok’s body was slammed down below the altar, Amrita, who had space-jumped a dozen times, landed again in that spot.

Chwaak!!

She nonchalantly cut off the wrist of a correction knight who was fighting nearby and gripped the blade she was holding in reverse.

Amrita, who silenced the screams behind her with a single slash, burrowed into Lenok’s arms.

Kagagagak!!

Not only did she wield the blade gracefully, but the position of the blade flickered and poured in as if jumping around in all directions.

An instantaneous flash that accurately pierced vital points simultaneously with almost no gap.

A killing swordsmanship that was thoroughly focused on inflicting pain and killing the opponent.

Perhaps she was using her Apostle technique, Amrita’s Scales, by converting it into personal spatial interference for combat.

In essence, a battle structure against a physical combatant who skillfully uses spatial magic.

Lenok didn’t hesitate for long either.

After offsetting the impact with his broken shield, he rolled his body to the side and unleashed a barrage of blinks [short-range teleportation spells].

The bodies of the mage and the Apostle disappeared from that spot, exchanging dozens of sword strikes and flames in an instant.

Dudududududu!!!!

“Kyahahahaha!!!”

Amrita’s murderous intent as she laughed madly and space-jumped to slam into Lenok.

She charged, wielding all sorts of weapons she had taken from other correction knights, such as axes, spears, and blades held in reverse.

After throwing the sharp blades into the air haphazardly, she space-jumped and grabbed them one by one, swinging them dozens of times.

Kwaaang!!

After unleashing a slash that surpassed the military rank with a single gesture, she changed to another weapon without hesitation.

Ultra-high-speed attacks and defenses where it was impossible to accurately grasp the distance and position even with a superhuman’s five senses.

Amrita was checking which weapons and tactics were effective against Lenok, while spamming her Apostle technique.

Kkiiiiiik……!!

“This is amazing, you’re practically perfect at countering blades, for a mage!!”

Amrita, who was shouting as if she was having fun while constantly unleashing slashes.

Kagak!!

“Blunt weapons are a failure, boxing is the wrong answer, whips are no good, stakes are not great either!!”

Kwagwagwang!!

“The only things that work are the reach of a long spear and overpowering with size!!”

“Are you done showing off?”

“……!!”

Swaaeeek!!

[Crimson Piercing Strike]

Lenok, who had instantly pierced through Amrita’s slashes, tied the flames that had formed at his fingertips into a knot and struck her.

The crimson flame’s curse rotated between Amrita’s throat, blocking any escape and exploding.

Chiiik!!!

[Vermillion Net]

The moment a thin red line passed through Amrita’s chest as if piercing it.

[Jade Flame]

The jade-colored flames, drawn from the depths of hell, ignited along the line, engulfing and burning Amrita’s body.

Kuoohhhhh!!!

The sight of the corpse, completely charred to the point where it was difficult to recognize the face.

Instead of staring at the gruesome sight for long, Lenok quickly turned his head to one side.

Chaeng!!

Immediately after, a sword light that had narrowly entered from his chin, grazed his neck.

Amrita, who had disappeared from that spot and reappeared a dozen meters away, smiled.

“You’re quick to notice.”

“If you were planning to deceive me, you shouldn’t have left a corpse behind.”

Lenok said, massaging his stiff neck muscles.

“That kind of large-scale magic used to work well if you pretended to be hit, but it seems that’s not always the case these days?”

Amrita smiled, holding the blade she was gripping in reverse.

It was as if she knew exactly which parts of a mage like Lenok were most unguarded and vulnerable.

She fearlessly pierced the sharp gaps in his consciousness, which even made Lenok feel a chill at times.

“Please understand. It’s been a while since I’ve fought a skilled mage like you. My experience has gotten rusty.”

Swish!!

At the same time as Amrita’s arm disappeared, the neck of the correction knight standing next to her was cut off.

“You can feel it, right? That I’m a bit above you.”

Amrita, who was holding the corpse and drinking its blood without hesitation, had an emotion like an unknown joy on her face.

“To be precise, I’m about one step ahead. Until just now, it was half a step. From now on, it will be two steps.”

“……”

“I know how to deal with you. The gap will widen to the point where you can’t catch up.”

Surprisingly, Lenok did not laugh at Amrita’s confidence.

He had been aware that Amrita’s movements were changing strangely during the intense back-and-forth where they had been spamming space jumps until just now.

‘There are no patterns or tendencies at all. The mind games themselves don’t work.’

Until the moment they first clashed, he could read Amrita’s intentions and psychology, but as the battle intensified, that intuition became increasingly blurred.

The exchange of attacks and defenses that could not be properly grasped even with the magic eye that illuminates the realm of possibilities.

‘She is thoroughly avoiding the judgment of falling behind. No, it’s like she’s changing as if she doesn’t even need to do it.’

A strange sensation, as if he was facing a machine that had thoroughly learned combat abilities, rather than a living being.

‘Rather than changing her style itself, this is…’

“It’s a reaction closer to the realm of one-sided foresight than intuition gained through calculation.”

Lenok stared at Amrita with a blank face.

“Is that the power of the priestess’s revelation?”

“Hehe… Did you already notice?”

Amrita had not simply escaped madness by taking over the Archbishop’s body.

She had succeeded in obtaining the power of revelation, a power close to foresight, that Izel herself had once possessed but lost.

The priestess’s power of revelation was, to be precise, a telepathic ability close to directly hearing the will and voice of the Outer Gods.

However, the spirituality opened to its limits through it made it possible to foresee even one’s own approaching death.

Amrita had noticed this fact immediately after her battle with Lenok and was changing her combat style by relying on the power of revelation and not engaging in mind games.

“The madness that comes to Apostles is originally due to the gap between the body that has become closer to the Outer Sea and the human mind.”

Amrita tapped her own temple.

“But if you directly receive the voice of the Outer Gods through the power of revelation, even that mind can roam above the dark sea.”

“……”

“Raising both the mind and body to the level of reaching the Outer Sea, and being reborn as a new being.”

Amrita smiled.

“This is the new ascension that Priestess Naidry desired, and the one and only immortality granted to mortals…!!”

The two pillars treated as the special forces of the Order, the Apostles and the priestesses. The existence of the Apostles who received the bodies of the Outer Gods and the priestesses who conveyed their will are like two sides of the same coin.

Is it really a coincidence that a being who has grasped these two aspects, which are difficult to possess even one of, was born at this moment?

“Perhaps I have awakened as the first being to be compatible as both a priestess and an Apostle.”

Amrita, lowering her stance and gripping the blade in reverse, began to draw up her magic power again.

With her quiet whisper, a sharp flash of light rotated like the wind.

“Today, I will take this place as the first step to confirm that fact…!!”

Fabababat!!!

Amrita’s body began to blink dozens of times in that spot.

A state where she could not control her overflowing power, space-jumping in place and overlapping her own existence.

Amrita’s grotesque smile, which had been flickering as if she would disappear from sight at any moment, came right in front of his eyes before he could even blink.

Amrita’s blade had already begun to cut into the skin inside his collarbone.

While pushing away the cold sensation of the metal with all his might, Lenok also used the remaining blink spells without holding back.

Kagagagak!!!

The figures of the two people jumped through space a dozen times in an instant, clashing from all directions.

A battle between two superhumans who shared only one commonality, that they directly manipulated space, even though the spells they used, their principles, and their origins were different.

In the overlapping blinks where the distinction between distance and direction had become meaningless, the clash between Lenok and Amrita left the altar and spread throughout the temple.

Dududududu!!!

They passed through the corridor walls and ceilings of the temple that had been burned and destroyed, and the chandeliers, and quickly left the main street of the island.

They passed by the battle between Tritan, who was covered in blood, and the twins, scattering cold air and shockwaves.

They slammed down next to Liza and Gerbin, who were covered in wounds with pieces of flesh torn off.

Kwaaang!!

“Uwaaak!! Evan!!”

“Priestess…?!!”

Without even having time to answer, he grabbed Amrita’s collar and unleashed flames.

[Constructed Fire]

[Red Phosphorus]

Kwaaaang!!

Amrita’s body disappeared from that spot, kicking him in the back, and Lenok’s body was thrown forward due to the aftermath of his shield being shattered.

He rolled through the jungle of Grisha, broke through the immovable barrier of the armored ship, and passed through the small universes and domains of the agents as if brushing past them.

Just before the shock completely spread throughout his body, he blinked once more. Amrita and Lenok’s bodies disappeared simultaneously, flashing all over the main street.

Kuuung!!”

“Cough…!!”

Since they were using space jumps close to blinks, the speed at which the attacks and defenses were exchanged and the structure changed was unbelievable.

It was only possible to maintain the confrontation if they thought about their next move and acted on it the moment an explosion occurred from a head-on collision.

Amrita was purely avoiding negative choices through revelation and matching her combat structure with Lenok by wielding her Apostle technique with her senses.

However, from Lenok’s point of view, who was directly calculating and acting on all those mind games and their aftermath, the burden on his body was enormous.

“It’s absurd, for a mage, your combat sense is at an unbelievable level…!!”

Crack!!

The leg that Amrita stretched out and swung behind her disappeared from Lenok’s sight at that moment.

Her kick, which had changed her posture in an instant, was embedded between Lenok’s ribs.

“…!!”

The shockwave that erupted before Lenok could react pushed his body dozens of meters back.

Bang!!

“Ugh…!!”

Lenok let out a painful groan and sharpened his senses, but it was unavoidable that his reaction would falter due to the throbbing pain that shook his mind.

“Still, I’m very different from you, right?”

Amrita laughed as she looked at Lenok.

It wasn’t that she hadn’t inflicted damage on him during the fierce back-and-forth.

Amrita’s body, which had been torn apart by flesh, muscles, joints, and bones, and had its flesh burned, was covered in blood and a mess.

However, despite that, she was forcibly regenerating her body with the power of an Apostle, and using the power of foresight to force her way through the mind games, and bringing the battle this far.

Her judgment, which had instantly grasped which method of combat would be most fatal against the mage in front of her, was amazing, but.

What made her even more outstanding was the fanatic-like conviction with which she entrusted her whole body to that judgment without hesitation.

She was not just a monster that was strong or had a high physique.

A perfect warrior who had thoroughly gained long practical experience, combat intelligence, skillful judgment, and techniques that transcended ranks.

A monster born between coincidence and providence, who had taken up the mission of an Inquisitor to hunt mages again.

“Judging from how you’ve been conserving your blinks since the middle, it seems like there’s a limit to the number of times you can use it… Shall I guess how many you have left?”

Amrita asked, winking.

“You don’t have even five left, do you?”

Amrita, looking at Lenok who didn’t answer, raised the blade she was holding in reverse.

Sreung!!

Her eyes, which had gently stroked the blade, shone darkly as if they were trapped in a pitch-black universe.

“Once I completely take over the priestess’s body, the power of revelation will become even stronger. With a mind and body that are closest to the Outer Sea, I will throw away the concept of death.”

“……”

“No matter how long it takes, there will be no more factors that can help you now.”

A sharp sneer crossed Amrita’s lips.

“Because you cut off all intervention itself in this sea with your own hands.”

She had heard everything, even the notification that Grisha had given to Border.

Lenok, with a slightly dazed expression, looked at Amrita, who was rambling on, and quietly sighed and stood up.

“Hoo…”

Chik!!

He took out an ampule from his pocket and inserted it into his shoulder, and the pain that pierced his stomach quickly subsided.

Amrita watched the scene with a curious expression and asked.

“Do mages use such things?”

“There are no eyes watching now.”

As he had been moving around like crazy, smashing things without any intention of controlling his direction, he had somehow reached the edge of the island where no one was around.

Even with Lenok’s magic power detection, he couldn’t see a single person lurking nearby.

He took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it.

He took a deep breath of the smoke, and as he felt his body getting used to the pain relief and awakening effects, he felt much better.

With a more relaxed demeanor, Lenok exhaled.

“Shall we start again?”

“Well, a mast or so… Hehe.”

Of course, Amrita had not waited for Lenok to regain his strength.

She had been aiming for a careful and certain result from the moment she knew that Lenok didn’t have many blinks left.

‘It would be a problem if he ran away. I must…’

Amrita’s sharp eyes greedily scanned Lenok’s entire body.

Amrita knew well how valuable the spirit and body of a mage who had built up an incredibly high rank were.

[Forbidden Armament] [a type of weapon or artifact], which reconstructs living humans alive into artifact forms.

If mediocre humans were used as materials, only useless junk would be created, but the Forbidden Armament made with high-ranking superhumans as materials was a completely different story.

The weapons of betrayal, obtained by using the same kind as materials, sometimes surpassed the power of time and history engraved on mythical relics.

She imagined herself reaching a trinity with the power of revelation and the Apostle’s abilities remaining in Izel’s body, and the mage Evan as her weapon.

Just that made Amrita feel as if the time she had been immersed in madness for so long was being sweetly rewarded.

“……”

Unlike the fierce battle where she had been tearing apart handfuls of space without hesitation, her steps had become more cautious.

Only a quiet silence lingered in the gap that entered her vision as she held the blade in reverse.

Lenok and Amrita slowly moved in a semicircle, measuring the distance, facing each other across the quiet plain.

In the confrontation that continued, moving forward and backward, not knowing how long it would last.

The moment Lenok’s back touched the wall of a white building and stopped for a moment, Amrita rushed in like a flash of light.

Swaaeeek!!

“I saw it…!!”

The number of blinks remaining, and the dead end where Lenok was standing now.

After reducing the variables to the limit, she moved without hesitation as soon as all the escape routes and attack and defense reactions that Lenok could choose were entered into her mind.

The Apostle technique accumulated in her body by using humans as sacrifices was activated without holding back.

She transferred Amrita’s figure dozens of times, unleashing slashes from above the spatial distance.

Dududududu!!!

All the reactions and countermeasures that the mage in front of her could choose were drawn clearly like a photograph in her mind.

She already perfectly recognized that moment and transcended it with the power of foresight that operated outside the timeline of the world.

It was something completely different from the power of the Apostle technique that Amrita originally possessed or her combat ability as an Inquisitor.

“Kyahahahaha!!!!”

Even while pouring out attacks unilaterally, not a single attack missed.

At the end of every moment she held and unleashed her attacks, the opponent Amrita wanted to kill was located.

Kagak!!!

She minimized the time it took to change her posture and bend her body to swing the blade by using space jumps.

She used blinks in every moment of turning her body, widening the distance, adjusting her breathing, and timing, reducing the wasted time to almost zero.

The distortion and collapse of space that had been torn open by the edge of the blade crumpled the mage’s barrier like paper.

‘Once he uses up all his blinks, now…!!’

The moment Lenok couldn’t withstand it and used a blink to change his position was the turning point.

Amrita was about to reach out towards the overwhelming victory that was visible as if it could be grasped, beyond the countless trajectories of sword strikes engraved between her retinas, at that very moment.

“494th attack branch point observed. I think I’ve seen enough now.”

Lenok, who had been receiving all the sword strikes that jumped through space a dozen times, muttered.

Swaaeeek!!

At that moment, Amrita’s blade, which had bent into space towards Lenok’s back, missed for the first time.

In the fleeting moment when Amrita’s gaze, which had been filled with unwavering conviction, stopped towards Lenok.

“An immortal closest to the end of the Outer Sea… If I can kill you, will I be able to reach them too?”

“What…!!”

“I’ve been thinking about how to kill a god for a long time.”

Under the blade that grazed and missed the back of his neck, Lenok’s eyes began to leak black light.

“I roughly understand what revelation is. I’ll test it out myself from now on.”