Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 580

Chik, chik…!! The sound of the serum syringes pumping, delivering blood from the vampire’s back. With each slow twitch of Virgil’s body, the entire chamber seemed to pulse, like a heart beating. Blood constantly flowed from the half-collapsed ceiling and walls of the underground chamber. It was as if the entire chamber had become a living creature, drawing blood as if it were dying. In the middle of the blood-soaked room, the vampire continued to receive blood, enhancing himself. “Virgil.” Greta nodded, looking at Virgil’s face. “That pale face of yours hasn’t changed. Did you like my greeting?” “On the contrary, you’ve aged a lot. Well, I suppose it can’t be helped since your original rank wasn’t that high.” Virgil mocked her, not hiding his scorn. “You’re not at an age to be on the front lines anymore, are you? It seems you still haven’t grasped your place. Thanks to that, you were thoroughly humiliated by Kaise decades ago.” Glug, glug…!! The speed of the serum syringes pumping increased, and the magic surging from the vampire’s body swirled like an explosion. Doping by injecting his own pre-extracted blood. What did it mean to apply a similar act with the vampire’s own blood, and that too, dozens of times over? The vampire, standing in the center of the massive chamber, completely covered in red blood, waved his hand. The blood soldiers lined up on either side of Virgil turned into thousands of blood droplets and scattered in all directions. Paang!! The red droplets, faintly glowing in the darkness of the chamber, stopped in mid-air as if time had frozen. Lines of blood extended from the droplets, connecting in all directions, creating tens of thousands of blood melodies in the underground chamber. Bloodline Unique Ability: Superior Blood Tears [Myriad Blood Auspice] [Constant Dripping Wears Away Stone] Jjeojeojeok!! The net of blood filled the chamber. The blood streaks, scattered like drawings in the air, extended indiscriminately. The agents, unable to escape the trajectory, turned pale as their bodies were pierced. “Blood absorption…!!” A chilling sensation as blood rapidly drained from their bodies. They were restrained, unable to move, and simultaneously used as sacrifices to steal the power needed to maintain the spell. Kagagagak!! “If you get hit even once, it’s over, move!!” “Protect the Director!!” The head of the Cartel’s board of directors, Olivier Ron Maze’s right-hand man. But regardless of his symbolism, it was also true that the Cartel’s CEO had appeared in person. If they could subdue Virgil here, it would be the same as taking down the head of the Cartel. Several veteran agents, who had been holding back their strength until the last moment, rushed towards Virgil, dodging the rain of blood. Almost simultaneously, they plunged all sorts of blades and firearms into Virgil from three sides, where his gaze couldn’t reach. Kagagagak!! The blades and bullets, and all sorts of explosives, pierced through Virgil’s body and out the other side. But Virgil’s body did not get cut to pieces, crushed, or turn into a corpse. Rather, countless arms made of blood emerged from inside the vampire’s body, grabbing, pushing, shaking off, and slamming the agents away. Kuuung!! Virgil didn’t even look back at the agents, shrugging his shoulders at Greta. “How cruel. Weren’t you briefed beforehand?” “I figured the operation was a failure at this point.” Greta replied indifferently. “You should have adjusted the operation time to prevent this situation in the first place. It was my mistake.” Greta said, slowly walking through the agents. Her body was cut and bleeding as she passed through the net of blood, but she didn’t stop. “But that doesn’t mean I’ll just give up here.” Greta’s eyes gleamed as she glanced back at Virgil. “Once I start, I don’t stop until I reach a satisfactory agreement. That’s what I used to do. Then…” At the same time as she raised the remote control, the pyrokinesis user’s breathing became rapid and rough, and she began to exhale violently. [Haa, haa, haaaaaaa!!!] Whirr!! Flames spread instantly along the lines of blood, using Virgil’s [Myriad Blood Auspice] as fuel to increase in size. The flames, powered by the magic contained within the blood droplets, quickly grew in size, and a huge wall of fire rose up, dividing the underground chamber in half. Greta nodded, her back to the huge wall of fire. “I have no choice but to force that agreement.” Ku-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa!! A huge wave of fire surged towards the vault where the board of directors was located. At the same time as Angel quickly formed hand seals, he crossed his hands and gripped his neck tightly. Whooook!! The breath that came out of his mouth spread out as a cold chill, directly confronting the blazing wall of fire. The wall of fire and the cold breath clashed, repelling each other and neutralizing, and the aftermath caused a huge amount of steam to explode in all directions. Chiiiiik!! The amount of steam that erupted was so enormous that everyone standing there was soaked to the bone. It was difficult to see even an inch ahead in the landscape mixed with vapor and steam. Even O’Neil clicked his tongue, muttering as if he was inwardly surprised. “Unbelievable. How much moisture does he have in his body…!!” Greta’s pyrokinesis user was summoning flames with her own mental power, but Angel, who was emitting cold air against it, was different. The fact that he created cold air by exhaling meant that he was turning his own moisture into cold air, not a power like magic or mental strength. The steam that was now spreading throughout the underground chamber was the result of Angel drawing out his own moisture. At that moment when the surroundings were obscured by the hazy steam, a noise echoed from behind Greta. Eudeudeuk!! “Kkyaaaaak!!” The white beast’s forelimbs, appearing through the steam, ruthlessly crushed the agents’ bodies and broke their limbs. [Damn it, so this is all that bastard Angel’s spit!!] Even as she said that, Merilda swung her tail through the agents, creating a gap in their formation in an instant. Kwaaaang!! The shockwave that erupted from simply shaking her tail muscles pushed back the agents’ defensive formation. She roughly kicked O’Neil in the stomach, who was injured, and instantly reversed the situation. In the blurry vision, the beast’s sensitive senses surpassed the superhuman senses without hesitation. The pyrokinesis user was focused on projecting firepower while directly confronting Angel’s cold air, and Cade was nearly incapacitated due to his battle with Lenox. Only O’Neil and Chain, who had belatedly regained their senses, were desperately trying to hold back Merilda’s movements using their respective magic. The power of the two newly appeared board members alone was collapsing the confrontation between the two organizations, but Greta was not paying any attention to that fact, staring intently only at the movements of Virgil and Lenox. “Now that our forces have largely withdrawn, it’s not strange that the structure is collapsing so easily.” Greta smiled and pointed her finger at the sky. “But I’ve also prepared a way in case things go wrong. Are you ready?” At her gesture, the others’ gazes turned to the ceiling of the chamber. The steam that had filled the underground chamber to its limit could not withstand the pressure and began to collapse the underground chamber. Kugugugu!!! Along the cracks in the diagonally split ceiling of the chamber, the steam, which had expanded to its limit, leaked out, revealing the landscape of the surface through the gaps. The ground collapsed, and buildings swayed in all directions in the area where the Cartel headquarters was located due to the impact. The shape of a huge pillar, scattering a dense purple light, was visible through the cracks in the collapsed chamber ceiling. Kuooh…!! Virgil’s brow furrowed as he realized that it was not a simple artillery weapon or mechanical device. “Wait… this magic, is it an anti-gravity engine…?” “Perhaps because it hasn’t been fully commercialized yet, people underestimate the value of anti-gravity technology too much.” Greta snapped her fingers, with the huge light scattering purple across the night sky above her head. “What Evan Bailen created wasn’t a technology that defies gravity with the power of magic. How amazing the principle of imitating the updraft of the Philemon Autonomous Region is, people don’t seem to fully grasp it even after reading the explanation and thesis.” The source of the purple light was not a tactical weapon prepared for satellites or aerial bombardment. More than a dozen anti-gravity airships that the agents had arrived in were circling in the air, simultaneously increasing their engine output and resonating. At the same time, the updrafts that erupted from all sides of the airships turned into a huge purple glow and began to fall to the ground. “It’s a concept that projects by imitating a specific physical law itself. In other words, even if you just overload the engine and concentrate the output like this…” Greta said. “It can also be made into an anti-matter particle weapon that decomposes physical laws.” Only then did Angel realize what Greta was saying, and he shouted with a stiff expression. “You’re insane. Are you planning to sink the entire Cartel headquarters…!!” Uuuuuuung!!!! Others who belatedly realized the abnormality also turned their gazes, but the purple light that filled the sky above the headquarters was already falling to the ground. The intuition that sharply pierced through the Cartel’s schedule and the gaps in their work process. The huge bombardment that understood the essence of anti-gravity technology and used it as a weapon. Even the skill with which Greta herself acted as bait, bought time, and brought the operation, which had deviated from the plan, to this point. Greta, at the point where she sensed that the operation would completely fail, was already planning to wipe out the entire board. ‘If it was a fully completed weapon, they wouldn’t have kept it hidden until this point.’ Lenox’s eyes calmly sank as he looked at the anti-matter particle cannon falling from the sky. ‘It’s reasonable to think that it’s something brought for testing purposes. The fact that they’ve started using it so urgently means… there’s another purpose.’ Lenox didn’t know if anti-matter actually had a purple glow. He could only guess that perhaps the visible light of the particle weapon, which was manifested as magic particles mixed in, was turning into a light close to the end of the wavelength. But the problem was not the power of the anti-matter particle cannon or the misuse of the technology Lenox had created, but where Greta’s purpose lay. It didn’t matter if they couldn’t secure the Cartel’s ledger in the underground vault. The mere fact that they had turned the Cartel headquarters into ruins through this small elite operation would cause the Agent’s status to rise like crazy. Greta, less than half a year after returning to her position as director, was about to achieve such a feat with less than a hundred superhuman forces. Angel’s face also turned pale as he looked at the purple light. “As space collapses, all the matter in the headquarters will be mixed and reversed. It’s probably more about spreading the power across the area than killing…!!” [What are you hesitating about, you idiots?] Bbeoeok!! Merilda, who had kicked away the agents who were struggling to protect Greta, growled and shouted. [Give up on the headquarters building. I’m about to chew that annoying old hag to pieces, what are you talking about?] “That’s not something you can say so easily…!” [If we kill the Agent Director here and make up for it, it’s not our problem, it’s the Chairman’s!!] “Oh.” Angel unintentionally exclaimed at Merilda’s words. “That’s a very beastly idea…!!” Kwaaang!! Even in the chaos, Merilda’s temper was not ordinary as she threw broken rocks at Angel. “Prevent the headquarters from collapsing. Prepare.” Virgil listened to the board members, then shook his head, unfolded his arms, and walked forward. “Unless you knew that Evan Bailen’s anti-gravity engine could be used as an anti-matter particle weapon, we have no choice but to change our priorities here.” [Virgil, are you out of your mind?!] Merilda retorted irritably. [Are you going to let that unlucky old woman’s scheme get to us here?] “Who said I would let it?” Cheolpeok!! The squishy puddle of blood at the vampire’s feet rose up and turned into a huge pillar of blood. At the same time as arms extended from both ends of the pillar, the pillar of blood transformed into the shape of a giant resembling a demon, and following the hand seals that Virgil formed, the blood giant began to chant hand seals simultaneously. Bloodline Unique Ability [Reverse Blood Sanctuary] Kiiiiiing…!! A gruesome vortex of blood swirled, and a huge gate resembling the gates of hell rose up in front of Virgil and the giant, opening both doors wide. Demons, covered in blood, crawled out of the huge blood gate, as if reaching out their hands. The moment the others realized that they were the beings that had just emerged from Virgil’s body and had taken the agents’ attacks. Kkeueooooo!! Hundreds of demons crawled out of the gate and began to stack their bodies on top of each other, forming a huge tower. The demons moved in unison, as if to intercept the anti-matter particle cannon falling from the sky. Yet, their gazes were all directed at Greta, who was standing in the chamber. Virgil’s eyes shone coldly. “The capture of Greta Witherhill and the annihilation of the anti-matter particle weapon. I will end both here.” “Are you planning to intercept the particle weapon by forming a subspace with your bloodline ability? But you won’t be able to block everything.” At that moment, someone’s footsteps echoed from behind Virgil. “…Van?” “Greta’s words aren’t wrong. I also thought it was another possibility that could be derived from anti-gravity technology.” Lenox, standing next to Virgil, was looking up at the purple light falling from the sky. “But at this point, it’s a technology that can’t be perfectly implemented in this way.” Greta’s ability to understand how anti-gravity technology actually worked and to find another destructive effect derived from that function was remarkable. It was an intuition she had gained because she had accumulated overwhelming experience in both theory and practice. But regardless of that, the anti-matter particle bombardment should not fall on the Cartel headquarters right now. Even if they didn’t get the ticket to the mechanical city of Machina stored in the underground vault, or the knowledge about Kaise’s tomb that Virgil had promised, if the situation escalated any further, the fight might not end until either the Cartel or the Agents were completely wiped out. A large-scale war between the underworld and the surface. He had thought it would happen someday, but he didn’t want it to happen like this. It could still be stopped. “Focus on dealing with the situation in the chamber.” Lenox nodded lightly towards Virgil, who turned around abruptly. “I’ll take care of the anti-gravity engine’s functional runaway with post-maintenance.” “…Maintenance? How are you going to do that?” As Virgil said that and turned around, he saw countless bundles of wires trailing behind Lenox. Lenox had gathered dozens or hundreds of thick wires and casually put one hand into the cut end. The moment Virgil’s expression changed as he realized that it was not to supply power, but rather to draw all the remaining reserve power. Pajijik!! Lenox began to absorb all the remaining power through the gathered wires. The reserve power of the Cartel headquarters did not stop at supplying power to the area near the headquarters. It was a system that circulated through public facilities, railway stations, power plants, and underground shelters connected to the headquarters’ high-rise buildings, stealing and replenishing the insufficient power. And the moment Lenox began to draw out all the energy remaining in the reserve power. Huung…!! With a faint wave sound, the underground chamber and the surrounding area were plunged into darkness.