Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 559

In front of the main gate bridge of the power plant.

On the massive bridge where the marching of the military spirits summoned by Madchiri Onion converged.

The dull gleam of a battle hammer flashed on the bridge, roughly cutting through the air.

Thud!!

The shockwave that burst out after hitting the air slammed into Felix’s massive body, repelling the charging military spirits.

However, he couldn’t block the spear that pierced through the gap in that instant.

Clack!!

He received the spearhead aimed at his neck without even blinking.

Though his collarbone muscles were pierced, scattering blood and severing ligaments, Felix gritted his teeth and pushed his shoulder forward.

He heavily pressed down on his opponent’s ribs and crushed them.

“……!!”

The spear shaft, with its wrist completely reversed and rotated, barely wedged itself between the two.

Clack!!

With the sound of metal and muscle colliding and twisting, it was crushed on the spot.

With a light collision, black and white hair swayed before Felix’s eyes.

The young man smiled wryly.

“You’re incredibly tough. Are all of your kind like this?”

“…….”

“Even if you are a powerful warrior, usually, if those muscles are severed, you wouldn’t even be able to move your neck.”

“I was taught that a great warrior should not lose focus in a life-or-death battle.”

Felix replied in a blunt tone.

“I am simply following the teachings.”

“I see. I don’t know who taught you the ways of a warrior, but……!!”

The young man kicked the spear shaft with one foot, abruptly disrupting the balance and breaking the standoff, then retreated.

Swish!!

Watching Felix slip while scattering blood, the young man, Claude Azlan, grinned.

“Judging by your skills, you must have been a great warrior.”

“…….”

Felix didn’t answer.

For Felix Magart, who had settled in Balkan after a long journey, the person who had shown him the path of a warrior was right in front of him.

Kuuuuuung!!!

A roar echoed from the other side of the shaking bridge.

At the same time, a desperate wail filled both of their heads.

[Oooooooo!!!]

A dazzling white light flashed from the outskirts of the particle power plant, and a massive wave of ghosts poured out, staggering like a tide.

A huge pillar of light pierced through the back of a screaming skeletal giant, drawing a wide crescent moon as if setting on the horizon.

A fierce battle was raging thousands of meters away, yet its aftermath echoed loudly even here.

The outermost edge of hell, where level 8 extreme ability users were risking their lives to kill each other.

However, just like Felix’s expression, Claude’s face, as he watched the scene, also changed strangely.

“I’ve been bothered by it since a while ago, but… who is that, exactly?”

“…….”

“Why does it make me feel such a terrible sense of incongruity? Why does that pure white magical light feel so familiar, as if it were mine….”

Though he wasn’t certain yet, the past Claude also intuitively sensed it.

That the white light echoing grandly from thousands of meters away was, at first glance, similar to his own magical power.

However, it was so severely twisted and distorted that it was unbelievable to be his future self.

He just hadn’t fully accepted that fact in his mind yet.

Felix didn’t bother to answer Claude’s question. Instead, he gripped the handle of his hammer so hard it seemed like it would break and pulled up his magical power.

Clang!!

The flat side of the hammer, which had slipped along Claude’s feet, collided directly with Claude’s spear shaft.

At that moment, it cleanly erased the confusion that remained in Claude.

Looking at the new head giant, who was bleeding profusely, Claude finally turned his head with difficulty.

“Right, there was still something left to do.”

“Focus.”

“Focus?”

Claude asked back with a smile.

“It’s you who is in a hurry, not me.”

Thwack!!

Immediately after, Felix’s body trembled greatly and faintly convulsed.

In the brief moment of confronting Claude, the swarm of military spirits that had densely filled the surroundings stabbed Felix in the back with their swords.

[Die, die……!!]

[I’m hungry, I’m in pain……!!]

They pierced and bit into his feather-covered, hard upper body, tearing through flesh and muscle.

“They’ve already swarmed so much that it’s hard to pay attention to the surroundings. You must have been at your limit for a while now.”

Claude whispered quietly.

“What is it that you seek so desperately that you would expose your back to such low-level ghosts and break your whole body?”

“…….”

The limit reached from continuous battles. The harm and side effects of using the power of the ‘Arrival’ consecutively were eating away at his body beyond concealment.

The physical and mental strength he had mustered to maintain the battle stance with Claude and forcibly hold his ground had also reached their limit.

However, Felix, knowing this clearly, offered his flesh to the charging military spirits without hesitation.

Crack……!!

Bearing the forms of countless military spirits clinging to his entire body, he pushed against Claude’s spear shaft.

A desolate black magical power, rising from the heavy battle hammer, rotated and instantly dyed the hammer’s surface black.

At that moment, when Claude’s expression changed drastically due to the unusual momentum.

The spear shaft that Claude was holding slightly bent, and the hammer that had slipped through the gap struck his side directly.

Wham!!

“Kuh……!!!”

“The teeth of these ghosts don’t even tickle anymore.”

Felix said with a smile as he crushed a military spirit clinging to his back.

Claude, who had risen while clutching his side, looked at him with a slightly dazed expression.

“You…….”

The wounds all over Felix’s body began to heal in real-time, and conversely, they began to recover beyond their original state.

“Before coming to the power plant, I fought and got injured to my heart’s content, and temporarily gained resistance.”

With the power of the ‘Arrival’ in his hands, Felix’s constitution had changed drastically, for better or worse.

A temporary resistance to injuries gained against the type of attack he had once been hit by.

Felix, in the process of rushing to the particle power plant to help Lenox, had fought the military spirits he encountered and had already gained that injury resistance.

That appearance of him fully reproducing the characteristics contained in the power of the ‘Arrival’, the Ascended One who was called the legendary berserker.

Beneath the feet of the new head giant, who was holding the black-stained, burning hammer with both hands, shadows surged wildly and grew in size.

At the same time, a fierce explosion of magical power erupted from his entire body.

“I can still endure it.”

Felix muttered, feeling the bridge slowly collapsing from the impact.

“This is enough for now. Let’s continue.”

* * *

“Okay…….”

Lenox, who had been walking through the mirror maze for a long time, sighed and shook his head.

“I should give up on finding my way alone.”

After Oliviera’s message disappeared, Lenox tried to find a way out of the maze, but he couldn’t gain any particular results.

This was because the structure of the maze wasn’t fixed, but rather, he was aware through magical power detection that the paths were appearing and disappearing in real-time.

‘The paths are changing and splitting depending on the direction and scenery reflected by the mirrors.’

Lenox pondered.

‘Is it trapping the target in this space by altering the direction and structure of the maze depending on the direction of the gaze?’

A power that was incomparable to the mirror barrier, the ‘Tae-Tae So-Cheon-Gyeong’ [Great-Great Small Sky Mirror], which Oliviera used to enhance her light magic.

Unlike the invasive self-domain that directly applied the concept of light to combat, the second deployment-type self-domain she chose was focused on the subtleties of dispersion and reflection.

The volatility of the mind that even Lenox found difficult to believe even after seeing it directly.

Was it because she could handle the changes in her mind so fluidly that she was able to later change her main magic to the eye-type system?

Considering that, it is highly possible that the self-domain that the real Oliviera possesses is completely different.

However, what he needs to think about now is not what choice Oliviera will make in the future, but how to escape this maze.

If he can’t find a way, he will eventually have to break it. The answer he could think of was already decided.

Lenox, who had taken out his revolver from his pocket, fell into thought.

‘If I use all my power, I can deploy the domain once. After that, there’s no backup.’

The most effective way to break Oliviera’s domain was for Lenox to deploy his own domain in response.

Through the collision of domains, he could gauge Oliviera’s location, confront her, and then search for Kaiser.

However, the reason Lenox, knowing this, hadn’t used his domain yet was because the one remaining use he had left was in preparation for his meeting with Kaiser.

He hadn’t heard anything about why Kaiser wanted to meet Lenox again.

If it was to leave himself the right to choose at the moment everything collapsed, he had to hold onto one last card until the end.

Considering that, he had to break through this mirror maze without using his domain here.

Click!!

Lenox, who had loaded his revolver, pulled the trigger towards a nearby mirror.

Bang!!

The moment the bullet hit the mirror directly, the bullet, which was reflected back like light, aimed for Lenox’s face.

The bullet fell after hitting the shield that had been deployed in advance, even before it hit his face.

[Bolt]

Zap!!

He tried to strike it with electric magic, but it was reflected back along the reflection angle just the same.

Lenox quietly pondered as he watched the scene.

“It’s not just a simple mirror. It’s reflecting magical power and physical force like the concept of a mirror…….”

If Oliviera had transformed her own mind and overlaid that scenery onto reality, there must be a reason for it.

This mirror maze is now applying the concept of power itself to the mirror, going beyond the dispersion and reflection of light.

Is it reflecting various forces as they are, following the reflection angle of the mirror?

However, just because the mirror reflected the bullet, it didn’t mean there was no impact at all.

Bang, bang!!

After enduring the random reflections of the bullets and pulling the trigger a few more times, the mirror finally shattered, and another mirror appeared beyond it.

As Lenox walked into it, dozens of Lenox’s figures were reflected, surrounding him.

At the scene of the mirror that relentlessly continued to reflect himself, Lenox smiled as if he understood something.

Without hesitation, he held up his revolver, pulled the trigger, and walked forward.

Bang, bang, bang, bang!!!

The mirror shattered, and the space hidden inside became wider.

The further he went, the more mirrors there were, and the number of mirrors reflecting Lenox increased to hundreds, then thousands.

At the end, he reached the shape of a huge hemispherical mirror dome.

Whoooosh……!!

A bizarre and eerie sight of thousands of Lenox’s own selves looking down at Lenox himself.

Above Lenox’s head, Oliviera’s Six Harmonies Transmission quietly echoed.

[Do you know the story that a human who has become a vampire cannot be seen in a mirror?]

“…….”

[The saying that a vampire, who is merely a demi-human, cannot be seen in a mirror is a baseless rumor that no one knows where it came from… but surprisingly, the meaning that the saying conveys is not wrong.]

Fwoosh!!

[Those who have lost their essence cannot face themselves after all.]

The shape of a dazzling light source descended through the thousands of barriers formed by the mirror images.

Thousands of mirrors projected and reflected the image of Lenox, overlapping them in one place.

Just by overlapping thousands of mirror images to reflect one image, something began to appear as if it was being manifested from the empty air.

Fwoooosh……!!

A black-haired young man slowly stepped out from the dazzling light and stood facing him.

The face that was staring at Lenox was that of the haggard young man he faced in the mirror every morning.

Between the two people facing each other, Oliviera’s voice, mixed with laughter, was heard.

[I wonder what you think.]

Crackling……!!

A massive electric discharge, extending from the fingertips of another Lenox, burst out directly towards Lenox.