Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 594

“Should we split up and search separately?”

“I’ll check from the second floor upwards, so I’ll leave the first-floor lobby and the underground book storage to you.”

Though he said that, it wasn’t safe to entrust Priscilla, who had no combat power, with exploring dangerous places.

The ground level, where they could evacuate to the surface relatively quickly, and the first floor, which wouldn’t have many hidden places, and the underground book storage, where Priscilla couldn’t go far alone, would be better for her to handle.

Lenox thought so and was about to step onto the central staircase leading to the second floor when—

Puh-wuh-wuhng!!

Along with an intense surge of magical energy that suddenly descended from above, something crashed into the bookshelves on the first floor, sending books flying.

Waaarrrr!!

With that impact, the bookshelves that had been standing in neat rows collapsed like dominoes, scattering countless books across the floor.

A corpse, head lolling, covered in blood, lay amidst the scattered books.

As Priscilla stepped back, slightly surprised, a familiar voice echoed from the second-floor railing.

“Silla? Are you already done?”

“Sister!!”

Milla raised her shotgun and turned her head, slightly flustered.

“You really finished it in an instant. I thought I’d have to break through to the second floor alone.”

“…Break through?”

“Look at that.”

Following Milla’s words, Lenox turned his gaze and frowned at the creature that appeared above the wide central staircase on the second floor.

[Krrrruuuurrr…!!]

A beastly figure covered in black fur. It had an ambiguous appearance, a mix of a dog and a leopard, making it difficult to identify its species.

What was even more surprising was that five heads protruded from its muscular torso.

One of the five heads was drooping, as if it had been injured in the battle with Milla, but the other four heads were drooling, their mouths wide open.

That appearance was more reminiscent of a mythical beast than a spirit, as it was modeled after an animal.

“It seems certain that something is hidden in this library. There’s a sorcerer and a spirit stationed on each floor, you know?”

Click!!

Milla said, reloading her shotgun.

“I took care of the sorcerer and spirit guarding the first floor, and I roughly finished off the sorcerer guarding the second floor too? But the spirit is just left alone like that.”

While Lenox was dealing with the gorilla spirit with Priscilla, Milla had also taken down two of the executives of the Evil God Palace in succession.

“A spirit that’s still alive and moving even though the sorcerer is dead…”

Come to think of it, the spider spirit they met in the subway also tried to go berserk by eating its subdued master, rather than relying on the existence of the sorcerer.

“Perhaps, the spirits handled by the sorcerers of the Evil God Palace may not be beings enslaved to one sorcerer.”

Lenox quietly muttered, carefully observing the spirit that was openly growling at him.

“It seems certain that what they want to hide is on the upper floors of the library. Let’s deal with it quickly and go up.”

Lenox said that and stroked Davi’s head, who was still in the form of an ice fox, at that moment.

[Kuhng, kuhng…!!]

As if sensing a crisis as soon as it saw Davi’s appearance, the mythical beast spirit with five heads howled fiercely.

At the same time, another head that had been drooping regained its vitality as if it had been regenerated on the spot, and quickly revealed its hostility with a lively appearance.

Milla frowned as she reloaded her shotgun again…

“Its regeneration ability is annoying. Even if I blow all five heads at once, it regenerates on the spot.”

“There was a reason why you were stuck around the second floor.”

Lenox nodded and placed the ice fox, which was emitting a faint chill, at his feet.

“Alright. I’ll take this opportunity to teach you two how to deal with regenerators.”

“…Huh?”

“Teacher, are you saying you’re going to give us a lesson right now?”

Milla shook her head, letting out a hollow laugh.

“Your work ethic is good, but that’s completely the opposite of saying you’ll deal with it quickly and move on.”

“It won’t take long. I just need to give you a few quick tips.”

Lenox said that and snapped his fingers.

“First, I’ll arbitrarily blow away one of the parts that it absolutely has to regenerate.”

“What?”

Suh-guhk!!

Before Milla could even ask, Davi’s body instantly moved behind the mythical beast spirit and swung its tail.

The tail, which had turned into a sharp ice blade, cleanly severed one of the mythical beast spirit’s heads.

While the two sisters were staring blankly at the scene, one of the foxfires [a type of magical flame] was directly embedded in the severed cross-section of the mythical beast spirit’s neck.

Jjeo-jeo-jeok!!

The foxfire completely enveloped the severed neck and froze it solid.

[Kahaaaak, kahahak!!]

Only then did the mythical beast spirit struggle and frantically try to tear off the ice mass that was stuck to its severed head.

Davi lightly ignored that struggle and blew a breath, freezing the mythical beast spirit’s four legs solid, binding it in place.

In the meantime, Lenox, who had searched the inside of the lobby and brought a thick strand of wire, threw the bundle of wires to Davi.

Davi bit one of the mythical beast spirit’s other intact heads and tied it up.

“After forcibly blocking the cross-section that needs to be regenerated, and then forcibly supplying power to forcibly accelerate the regeneration ability, it becomes like this…”

Bulge, bulge!!

The spirit, which was forcibly supplied with power, writhed on the spot to regenerate its head, but the cross-section of the severed neck was frozen solid and blocked.

The regeneration ability, having nowhere to go, wildly grew the spirit’s body in various places, then burst it, and finally twisted and burst its entire body.

Puh-uh-wuhng!!!

“You can safely and surely eliminate a being with regeneration abilities.”

Lenox said that and turned his head towards the two, smiling.

“If you want to use it against life-type sorcerers or psychics, you’ll have to put in a little more effort than this, but the principle is similar.”

Lenox said, watching Davi lightly shake off his body and wriggle onto his leg.

“The important thing is to forcibly twist the direction of the regeneration ability, causing a massive overload on the target’s body. If you can do that much, the rest isn’t difficult.”

“…No, isn’t it not easy to blow off one head and block the cross-section in the first place?”

Milla muttered, as if dumbfounded.

“The fact that it’s possible means that you have to be completely superior to your opponent in terms of skill from the start.”

“Is that so?”

“Is your spirit stronger than us, by any chance?”

“I’m not sure either.”

Lenox smiled as he picked up Davi again.

“I’m working hard to train him to be that way someday.”

“…”

The automatic combat algorithm that currently only works for spirit battles.

Its true value lies not only in perfectly coping with given situations and manipulating all the necessary magic appropriately.

It learns the abilities and combat patterns of the opponents it encounters, deconstructs them and uses them in reverse, and endlessly grows Davi’s own combat intelligence to an unfathomable level.

The powerful calculation ability and the combat ability acquired by imitating Lenox were enough to make Davi seem much more perceptive than an average magician.

“I thought your assistant professor’s abilities and rank were too far apart…”

Unlike Milla, Priscilla nodded as if she understood.

“You’ve been constantly applying various magic theories in practice through Davi. I understand now.”

“Silla, this isn’t something that can be done through training or research. In the first place, is it even possible to apply magic theory through a spirit?”

Milla retorted.

“If you tell anyone that your teacher is trying to raise his spirit as a magician, not a spirit, no one will believe you.”

“Sister, have you forgotten what kind of paper Assistant Professor Evan recently published?”

“…”

Priscilla shook her head, looking at Milla, who had become speechless.

“He’s already reached a pinnacle in his research on magic theory and its derivative effects. If he says so, what more can we say?”

“No, this is something that even people who have been researching spirit magic for decades…”

Lenox chuckled and shook his head.

“My research major isn’t even in spirits in the first place, what are you talking about?”

“It’s too much to accept just by saying you applied magic theory, your tiny spirit is too strong. What the heck did you do?”

“I just cherished him with love and care.”

“…”

Milla was speechless and closed her mouth at Lenox’s brazen words as he lifted Davi with both hands.

[Boo!!]

Davi also raised his front paw with a confident expression and wagged his tail wildly.

Not only that, but he subtly raised his tail towards Milla, who was doubting him, and straightened it into the shape of a middle finger.

Milla twitched her lips and asked Priscilla.

“Was he originally this slightly arrogant…?”

“…Maybe?”

“…”

Milla sighed, turned away from Davi, and shook her head.

“Let’s go up. We need to check what’s hidden on the upper floors of the library.”

* * *

The group immediately passed the second-floor staircase guarded by the leopard spirit and began walking between the rows of bookshelves.

Unlike the first floor, which had a desk and lobby, from the second floor onwards, there was nothing but bookshelves where books were stored and desks where people could read.

Since the library was large, the area per floor was also considerable, so it took quite a bit of time for the three of them to look around.

“This won’t do.”

That was the conclusion Lenox reached after looking around the entire second floor.

“What?”

“I think we should stop searching on foot. It takes too long to look around each floor.”

Lenox said that and looked back at the library corridor they had passed through so far.

Goo-ooo…!!

The silence was so quiet that it was almost deafening.

Apart from the sound of the three of them talking and walking, no other noise could be heard.

“I’ve felt it every time I’ve come to the library, but the soundproofing is very good.”

He lightly stomped his foot, but the sound only lingered around the three of them and disappeared.

“The structure of the library itself is designed so that sound doesn’t leak out, and the bookshelves, floors, and walls absorb sound.”

Lenox said, turning to Milla.

“Even if someone is hiding and doing something on another floor or space, it’s difficult to notice with just our five senses.”

“It would be dangerous to search while being far apart from each other. If the three of us continue to stick together, it will take time to search…”

Milla agreed with Priscilla’s words.

“That’s not wrong. Originally, search-type ability users are important in this kind of situation…”

“The opponent will be waiting for us to show an opening, and they will try to hide the location of the headmaster or where the ritual is taking place. I think it would be good to take a different approach here.”

“You’re saying there’s no need to do a meaningless search for a long time? But is there another solution besides walking around here?”

Milla asked innocently, wondering if she should raise her shotgun and break the ceiling.

Lenox, who smiled at Priscilla, who was shaking her head with a pale face, walked towards the wall of the second-floor corridor.

“You shouldn’t talk about problems without thinking of alternatives. Would you help me a little?”

“You want me to move the bookshelf?”

With Milla’s help, who lightly pushed the bookshelf near the wall, Lenox found an outlet behind the bookshelf and nodded.

“I found it. I thought it would be around here.”

“There weren’t any outlets as we passed by so far?”

“It seems that during the several reconstructions while the Central Library existed, they buried all these outlets as built-in types.”

Lenox said that and placed Davi in front of the outlet.

“Still, they should have left at least one near the stairs between the second and third floors for events or occasions.”

“What are you planning to do with the outlet? Surely you’re not going to try to tamper with the library’s facilities with that tiny connector…”

Fzzzt!!

At that moment, the light above Milla’s head flickered, momentarily darkening the surroundings.

“…”

Milla, who had lost her words, looked at Lenox with a gaze as if she were looking at a monster.

“You’re completely insane. Is it really possible to do something like this?”

“The faculty of Lavatenon University have the authority to remotely control the internal facilities of the school.”

Lenox said that and began to amplify Davi’s brainwave interference ability by drawing up magic power.

“If I can combine my spirit’s power with this authority and forcibly expand the authority, like this…”

Kuuuung!!

No sooner had he finished speaking than the floor of the library’s second floor, where the three of them were standing, began to shake wildly.

“Whoa?!”

Priscilla was startled and grabbed Milla’s arm, while Milla looked around curiously.

Leaving only the space where the three of them were standing, the bookshelves that had been standing around began to slide and move as if they were running on the ground.

Thud, gu-gu-gung!!

From all directions, the floor and pillars were dismantled and moved, and reassembled after moving from tens of meters away.

The ceiling of the second floor opened wide, and the bookshelves that should have been on the third and fourth floors came down and slid into place.

Conversely, the floor and walls of the second floor were disassembled and soared into the sky, greatly circulating as if mixing the entire staircase of the library.

Kugwagwagwagwa!!!

A bizarre sight that seemed to stir up the entire reading room of the Central Library and mix it up once.

All the structures that came into view changed their positions and rotated, reorganizing the library’s internal paths and bookshelves.

“Wow…”

While Priscilla was blankly admiring the magnificent wave of change, Milla instead turned to Lenox and her eyes lit up.

“You can’t possibly manipulate the entire library like this just by amplifying your faculty authority. This kind of function was built into the Central Library from the start?”

“There were quite a few bookshelves in the first-floor lobby that were irregularly categorized. I thought there must be a reason if the book arrangement on the first floor, which is like the face of the library, was like that.”

Lenox answered, stroking Davi, who was concentrating with his front paw extended to the outlet connector.

“You guessed that there would be a function to arbitrarily move the library’s bookshelves there?”

“It must be a system designed to easily organize bookshelves and books without affecting the external structure of the Central Library.”

“Is it because the library is too large that they deliberately included this function…?”

Lenox just smiled instead of answering Milla’s question.

To be precise, this whole situation was part of an idea to dramatically reduce the time spent on exploration.

He told Priscilla and Milla that they couldn’t find anything unusual with their magic detection, but the reality was different.

Lenox’s magic detection and sensitivity were already far beyond the level of his peers.

It was difficult to pay attention when sensing a range of thousands of meters, but if he concentrated his mind on one place like now, he could perceive even the movement of a single strand of magic power.

Using that unique detection ability, Lenox had noticed the identity of the faint sense of incongruity that existed in the library.

He never intended to break through the library staircases where several sorcerers of the Evil God Palace were waiting.

By forcibly manipulating the library’s internal system, forcibly overturning the established board, and reorganizing the situation and structure as Lenox wanted.

To derive a convincing result within the abilities and situation given to Evan’s identity.

That was what Lenox did best, no matter what identity or face he moved with.

The sight of the sorcerers on each staircase being bewildered. Along with that, the sight of the spirits guarding the staircases becoming agitated and running wild.

And a corner of a remote corridor on the top floor of the library, where books were scattered and blood was flowing.

“I’ve found the place where the ritual is taking place.”

Lenox muttered that and lightly grabbed Davi’s tail and drew up magic power.

“Then, shall we now ruin the tower that they have painstakingly built?”