Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 494

The moment black light burst from Lenok’s eyes,

Amrita was struck by an ominous premonition, as if her cognitive abilities had been seized and blocked.

“…!!”

A deeply unpleasant sensation, as if her body and mind were bound by invisible chains.

An indescribable unease that even Amrita, with her near-prophetic precognitive abilities, could not endure for long.

In a desperate attempt to escape it, Amrita flipped her body, trying to create distance from Lenok, but in that fleeting moment.

Kwaaang!!

Lenok, seizing that moment with unnatural ease, slammed his fist into Amrita’s solar plexus.

“Kahaak…!!”

Amrita’s voice was a mix of shock and pain.

However, despite the pain, Amrita’s body reacted swiftly to the follow-up attack.

Swaaek!!

Amrita’s form vanished from its spot, reappearing behind Lenok, thrusting her blade.

Even with her body still stiff from the pain, she leaped across tens of meters with ease,

planting chilling sword strikes into vital points every moment she passed by her opponent.

Immediately after, the spatial afterimages left by her blade distorted, twisting Lenok’s flesh and bones as if wringing them out, and a series of explosions engulfed the mage’s body.

Dudududu!!

A series of attacks so fierce they felt eerie.

Amrita’s movements had already surpassed the limits of perception, moving ahead of her own cognitive abilities.

In a normal battle of wits and attacks, she was not only impossible to catch up with, but even to properly perceive the end of her afterimages.

“Die…!!”

Amrita’s cry, filled with vicious and insidious hostility.

However, Lenok’s response was completely different from how he had been unilaterally pushed back until just now.

He turned his black, burning gaze, staring through Amrita as if piercing everything, and moved his hand.

Lenok’s counterattack began, deflecting all of Amrita’s sword strikes without even a single blink.

[Triple Convergence – Repulsion]

[Blood Flower Line]

Hwarururuk!!

A fan-shaped wave of flames accurately pinpointed and swept through the dozens of jump points where Amrita appeared.

[Six Advances Red: Strange Flame Wheel]

Six pillars of fire rose from the wave, sweeping and rotating across the space.

[Eight Flame Worlds]

An endless number of fireballs rotated like asteroids, concentrating heat.

[Vermilion Starfall]

Finally, it transformed into a massive wave of heat, piercing through Amrita’s body.

Kwaaaaaaa!!!

“Aaaaaaak…!!”

Red waves and heat rays danced wildly at Lenok’s gesture, violently striking Amrita’s body.

The fierce attacks from just moments ago were now a lie, replaced by a dance of overwhelming flame magic that crushed Amrita.

Amrita also struggled desperately, trying to reverse the situation, but.

Lenok seemed to read all her resistance a step ahead, completely nullifying it.

“This isn’t it…!!”

She glared at Lenok as if to kill him, but the Apostle’s techniques she used were all shattered before they could even be properly implemented.

If she tried to escape by leaping, explosions would detonate in advance as if he already knew her location.

If she tried to evade and attack with distortion, he would reverse-calculate the trajectory and counterattack.

The variations, transfers, and attacks from leaps were thoroughly suppressed at the starting stage, not even giving her time to react.

A sense of helplessness, as if the mage understood all the skills and experiences Amrita used in spatial combat even more perfectly than she did herself.

Amrita gritted her teeth until they felt like they would break.

“How the hell…!!”

The power of revelation that Izel Naidri, the priestess, possessed.

It was a function that existed to hear the voices of the Outer Gods floating outside the Outer Sea, but the privilege given to the priestess was not just that.

The power to see what others could not see and hear what others could not hear through an infinitely powerful and sensitive spiritual sense.

That was why priestesses were able to see and hear more probable futures than others, even without receiving revelations.

Amrita had been using the priestess’s revelation in combat, essentially maintaining a favorable battle by predicting the future, but.

Even so, she had not been able to gain an advantage even once in her battle with Lenok since just before.

It was impossible unless the mage before her had a more powerful precognitive ability than Amrita.

Was it possible that this heretic, who did not believe in gods, possessed a stronger spiritual sense than she, an Apostle of the Order and a priestess?

Amrita vaguely guessed at this fact, but she could not easily believe it.

“It’s not spiritual sense.”

Lenok looked at Amrita and slowly brought his hand to his eye.

Black light flowed from his right eye like water.

The black light, as if stained with ink, slowly flowed and fell like mist.

A strange form, as if the light, which should have been a simple formless light, had weight and was moving.

“It’s a power specifically designed for beings like you who have obtained heterogeneous powers.”

Unlike his left eye, which directly reflected Lenok’s own mind, his right eye was a magic eye opened with the help of Oliviera Ron Maze.

Because it was opened based on her [Seven-Colored Treasure Magic Eye], a powerful magic eye user, it was an eye born with the ability to interfere with causality.

Even though it could not contain seven abilities like the Seven-Colored Treasure Magic Eye, it was a magic eye with a large enough capacity to accommodate more than one ability.

Therefore, instead of leaving the magic eye’s abilities empty, Lenok had been steadily developing it in preparation for situations like this.

“Precognition through the power of revelation. You said it was like eavesdropping on the causality of your own death, right?”

Lenok smiled as he watched Amrita’s expression become increasingly distorted.

“It’s a very good power to be given only to Apostles. Good things should be shared.”

“That’s absurd!! The power of revelation is the qualification and right of a priestess…!! It cannot be allowed to a mere heretic…!!!”

Jjiing…!!

At that moment, Amrita’s mind was shaken by a shock as if it had been completely rattled, and she collapsed.

The Apostle touched her face with a bewildered expression, as if she could not believe her own senses.

“No, this isn’t it…!! Too, too…!!”

It was not because the power of revelation was no longer working.

It was because she realized the nature of the discomfort she had felt from the light emanating from Lenok’s eyes until now.

She had no choice but to scream because she understood what it was trying to do to her.

She frantically tore and scratched at her own facial skin with her bare hands, blocking her ears and tearing her eardrums.

Amrita screamed in agony, her face a gruesome mess of blood flowing from her eyes and ears.

“It’s too, loud…!!!!!”

Lenok smiled.

“40 seconds have passed since the opening. It seems like you’re starting to feel it.”

Cause and effect. Directly interfering with causality is extremely dangerous.

Even Oliviera Ron Maze had to endure a tremendous price, lowering her own rank to obtain that power.

Didn’t the Clown also take on enormous side effects by manipulating causality in the process of manipulating his own rank?

Lenok had watched the way monsters handled Geas [a magical binding oath] and causality right next to him, and he clearly understood the danger.

And that was why he realized that if he could actually encourage that danger, it could become a fatal weapon against monsters.

It was not about eliminating or suppressing the opponent’s ability to manipulate causality.

Rather, it was about understanding and interfering with that ability, amplifying it to an uncontrollable level.

Through this, the user would self-destruct due to the runaway of an ability they could not control.

The mutual assured destruction of causality, amplifying and running wild by repeating cause and effect.

It was limited to opponents with the ability to interfere with causality, but it was a reverse-thinking ability that could almost certainly act as a fatal blow.

Tuk!!

Lenok, grabbing Amrita’s neck with magic power, said.

“The link connecting cause and effect is so delicate that it can be distorted by adding just a little bit of force.”

“Kahak…!!”

The black light that had flowed from his right eye fell directly onto Amrita’s face, causing her revelation to burst so loudly that she could not withstand it.

The will of the Outer Gods, so powerful and overflowing that even an Apostle’s body could not withstand it.

Amrita’s brain, unable to withstand it, was crushed whole, and her brain fluid flowed out of her nose and eyes.

“Even the gods you serve cannot be free from that absolute law.”

“Aggggh, guuuh…!!”

Lenok muttered, staring at Amrita’s fading presence.

“If I can capture that fleeting moment when the end of the Outer Sea messes with the results, and if I can break its immortality in this way…”

He could surely reach that shark-headed dragon.

Lenok thought so and was about to raise his magic power while holding Amrita’s neck when.

“…No.”

Amrita opened her eyes with difficulty and smiled.

“It’s not enough yet…”

“Is that so?”

Lenok also smiled softly at her.

“Then let’s keep going.”

Hwaaaaaak!!!

Without giving the confused Amrita even a moment’s gap, he relentlessly bombarded her with flame magic.

The flame magic, increasing in scale and power over time, was compressed to its maximum within a defined space, increasing its density.

Even the magic particles mixed in the flames burned and evaporated, burning their power to add to the force.

“Aaaah… Aaaaak!!!!”

A huge blade of fire pierced her back, a whip of fire bound and burned her shoulders, and stakes lacerated her calves.

And even the mark of fire, branded on Amrita’s shoulder, burned relentlessly.

Even a superhuman would turn to ashes if they allowed just one of those spells, yet she was still holding on after being hit dozens of times.

“Aaaak!!! It’s hot…!!”

While writhing in agony from the heat that burned her whole body, she grabbed her bleeding head with trembling hands.

The power of revelation, amplified to the extreme and running wild, devoured Amrita’s existence completely, swelling it in a direction that should not have existed.

‘Aaaah, aaaaah…!!’

Jijijijik…!!

White fur sprouted on Amrita’s skin, and her body rapidly increased in size as if swelling, transforming into a form completely different from a human.

The form of a large, white fur ball that she had already seen once in the secret space of the temple.

However, unlike back then when it was crushed beyond recognition and only sleeping, Amrita’s true form began to transform into a more definite shape.

[Hoo…!!]

A slender white giant with red eyes and long, protruding ears.

A bizarre form that looked like a giant, white rabbit elongated into a human form.

Was that the true form of the Apostle that Amrita possessed before she went completely insane?

Before Lenok could react, Amrita began to quickly form hand seals with her transformed body.

An overwhelming and brilliant light burst from Amrita’s body.

[Sanctuary Declaration]

Paaaaaaat!!!

The light that covered Lenok and Amrita and burst out dyed the surroundings in a vast expanse, and soon completely isolated the space itself.

A vast void that gave the illusion that gravity did not exist at all.

A bottomless abyss with flashes of purple lightning and gray light. A void landscape similar to an endless sea of darkness.

Sanctuary Declaration

Arbitrary Composition Outside the Heavens

[Transcendent Sanctuary: Sea Bottom Moon Scythe]

Amrita’s voice echoed faintly from somewhere.

Lenok naturally raised his gaze behind his head and realized that a giant rabbit giant was looking down at him with a chilling gaze.

[If you push the concept of space to its limit, in the end, all layers of space-time are stripped away, and only the empty void remains.]

Amrita’s gaze, looking down at Lenok with her overwhelming physique, was truly cold.

[The god I serve dreams of a naked universe every moment, where the shells of all worlds are stripped away and nothing remains.]

A huge crescent moon that had risen behind Amrita was slowly emitting light and rotating.

[This is just a very minor miracle for me, borrowing a small fragment of that dream.]

“If that’s true, then this sanctuary isn’t a proper sea after all.”

Lenok quietly looked at Amrita and asked.

“If this place were conceptually the same space as the Outer Sea, there would be no need to have this conversation at the point of declaring the sanctuary.”

“…”

“No, rather…”

He looked at the ring emitting light between his fingers without a word.

The technique weapon acquired at the end of the Jintun’s Infinite Labyrinth, [Figenbaum’s Eye].

What did it mean that this eye, which originally only reacted when reflecting a virtual space, was working inside Amrita’s sanctuary?

“Was it a realm closer to the concept of a virtual dimension?”

Technically, a virtual dimension is not a concept that actually exists.

It was just a virtual concept arbitrarily created to explain the laws and principles that operate on the other side of reality.

A consequential concept created not because it actually exists, but because of the laws that are established only by assuming such a void space-time.

In the space-time of this world, where there is no other side, the traces of a complex and elaborate design that can only be explained by assuming something that does not exist.

If something that did not exist was made to exist, wouldn’t that be due to the power of the end that Amrita served, rather than a spatial technique?

“You call it a sanctuary, but in the end, you don’t fully understand the concept either.”

Lenok muttered, floating proudly in the virtual dimension where the top and bottom had disappeared.

Even in the moment of being trapped in the sanctuary of an unknown opponent, there was nothing but mockery left in Lenok’s gaze towards Amrita.

“You’re just entrusting your mind and body to an endless dream, supporting a power and will that you don’t understand yourself.”

[The great wills of the Pantheon see everything we do and bestow grace upon us accordingly.]

Amrita retorted coldly.

[It’s not a name light enough for a mere heretic to speak of.]

With her firm declaration, the image of a huge crescent moon rose beyond the void of the virtual dimension.

The huge virtual dimension, with the faint moon rising upside down, was reassembled as a whole and began to rotate around Lenok alone.

Kukwakwakwakwa!!!!!

Amrita closed her eyes and floated as if entrusting herself to the space of that distant sanctuary.

She floated in the void, appearing upside down in front of Lenok, and said.

[In all these moments, great reverence. And endless gratitude to you.]

“…”

[Thanks to the runaway of the power of revelation, I was able to realize it between the crossroads of immortality and annihilation.]

A voice so faint, as if intoxicated by a distant ecstasy.

[The true paradise that He desires. The one and only future for us to stand in the paradise of return. The end of the dream that the great Outer God dreams.]

Amrita, with her hands clasped and outstretched, presented it to Lenok as if bestowing a gift.

[The answer is here. From now on, I will give it to you. For this moment of bestowing great spirituality.]

The power of the sanctuary rotated as if concentrating into one, gathering at Amrita’s fingertips.

But just before the sanctuary of the Sea Bottom Moon Scythe was completely concentrated and pointed directly at Lenok.

“No.”

Lenok shook his head with a smirk.

“I know. The end floating outside the Outer Sea is not such a merciful or human-like being.”

“…”

“Knowing that everything might disappear into a handful of echoes, how can you devote your mind and body to the end like that?”

Lenok said that and slowly brought his wrist to his mouth.

“It must be because you also desire a completely different ending, not a future where you are submerged in destruction.”

Return (歸度) [a concept of returning to a state of origin or enlightenment].

If that meaning, which is called the name of the Order, held a meaning that Lenok did not know.

Kiiing…!!

At that moment, a faint golden light began to mix with the blood flowing from Lenok’s wrist.

The double helix of the Ouroboros [a symbol of a snake eating its own tail, representing infinity and cyclicality] was caught between his clasped hands.

At the same time, a golden kaleidoscope began to unfold behind Lenok.

The moment the scenery of the snake eating its own head and the kaleidoscope unfolded simultaneously, surrounding Lenok from the front and back.

“Self-Magnetic Field Deployment.”