Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 595

Kugugugugu!!!

By mixing the library’s staircases and shifting the positions of the bookshelves, the growth acceleration ritual is disrupted.

The balance of a dozen sorcerers drawing magic circles and conducting the ritual at various points on the staircases is simultaneously broken.

The meticulously drawn ritual circles are covered and torn apart by the railings, staircases, and wall structures, causing them to collapse.

As a reaction, intense magical energy erupts from various places, and the spirits controlled by the sorcerers begin to rampage.

[Damn it, someone is ruining the ritual!!]

[What are the guys outside doing…!!]

[Communication is down from the second floor.]

[Intruders!! Kill them!!]

Lenox, who overheard the sorcerers’ conversation using Davi’s ability, immediately turned his gaze to Mila.

“We’ve been discovered. They’ll be here soon.”

They hadn’t discovered the source of the library system manipulation, but once Mila killed the sorcerers, it wouldn’t be difficult to pinpoint the floor where communication was cut off.

Lenox also knew that, given the situation, they couldn’t hide their location for long.

Mila, unfazed by Lenox’s words, fiddled with her shotgun and asked,

“Did we succeed in disrupting the ritual?”

“Unless they restore all the scattered positions inside the library, it will be difficult to restart it.”

“Good. That’s more than I expected.”

Click!!

Mila, who had reloaded her shotgun and stood up, nodded.

“That’s enough.”

Amidst the ceaselessly vibrating structures of the library, the faint sound of animal cries could be heard.

[Krrrk…!!]

In the bizarre aerial space where hundreds of bookshelves filled with over ten thousand books floated as if they were weightless.

Among those bookshelves, a dozen spirits appeared from various places as if they had been forcibly dragged out.

[Krrrreerrrr!!]

[Kahhhak!!]

An eagle made entirely of ice flew above the library’s ceiling, and an alligator with blade-like scales crawled up the wall.

A dozen lizards spitting flames simultaneously popped out from between the bookshelves, flicking their tongues.

A giant hedgehog with sharp metal spines, a four-armed monkey, and a two-headed gorilla.

Similar beings to the spirits Lenox had already dealt with, or should have dealt with, appeared all over the library and glared at the two of them in an instant.

The presence of spirits filled every corner of the library, making it hard to believe it was the same quiet place from just moments ago.

“Amazing. It’s the first time I’ve seen so many spirits gathered together.”

Mila, finally realizing that Lenox had summoned all the spirits hidden throughout the library, whistled softly.

“Instead of searching for them one by one, you’re going to gather them all in one place and deal with them?”

“No, it’s impossible to deal with all of these spirits. It’s not something we two can do in the first place.”

“…Two people?”

The moment Priscilla asked, as if sensing something, Lenox snapped his fingers again without answering.

Click!!

At that moment, the floor behind Priscilla opened up on both sides, forming a gentle slide leading underground.

Mila, making eye contact with Lenox, lightly pushed Priscilla’s shoulder.

“Ah?! Sister…!!”

As Priscilla slid down the slope with a surprised expression, the floor closed, sealing it off.

Lenox, who had quickly pushed Priscilla down the underground slide, said,

“I’m moving her to a hideout used by the librarians. It seems to have ventilation, emergency rations, and an escape route connected to the subway, so she should be able to escape on her own.”

“Okay. Thanks for looking out for her. You’re definitely like a teacher in this regard.”

Mila smiled awkwardly.

“It would have been difficult to separate her like this if it weren’t for now. I’ll try to talk to her properly later.”

“I’ll buy time against the spirits, so please take care of the Dean.”

However, Mila immediately shook her head at Lenox’s words.

“…No, that’s not it.”

Mila said, taking out unknown parts from her waist and quickly assembling them onto the shotgun she was holding.

Click, click!!

She attached an exhaust for releasing heat, replaced the magazine with a different one, and swapped the barrel for a multi-barrel that looked three times thicker than before.

Mila, who had transformed the shotgun into a massive bazooka, turned to Lenox and grinned.

“I’ll buy time and hold the spirits, so you find the Dean and save him. That’s the right thing to do.”

“Mila, but…”

Davi’s auto-combat algorithm was a power still specialized for spirit battles.

Therefore, Lenox was confident that he could hold out among dozens of spirits with Evan’s spirit magic alone.

However, Mila, who used superpowers, could easily suffer serious injuries if something went wrong.

“Anyway, even if you go to the top floor, you’ll have to search inside to find where the Dean is, right?”

Mila interrupted Lenox.

“I’m not good at that kind of thinking. I’ll finish up quickly and follow you.”

“…”

Mila’s proposal to take on the much more difficult task of dealing with the spirits to buy time. There was no time to argue with that.

Lenox, who had stood up from his spot while holding Davi, nodded to Mila.

“Let’s meet again alive.”

“Of course. If I die here, how can our Captain show his face?”

Mila said, pulling two levers attached to the side of the shotgun at the same time and inserting a magazine.

At the same time as a dazzling magical light erupted, a strong resonance echoed, gradually linking with Mila’s superpowers.

“I’m going first…!!”

Mila, who had shouldered the thick barrel and sprinted forward, pulled the trigger while tilting the barrel backward.

Kwaaang!!

The massive blast from the muzzle propelled Mila’s body like a rocket, instantly pushing her tens of meters away.

Mila, who was freely flying among the floating bookshelves and began fighting the spirits with a long curved sword in her other hand.

Lenox noticed that the output of Mila’s superpowers had increased dramatically and nodded.

‘The output and efficiency have both increased significantly. Did she succeed in raising her tier by changing her weapon?’

Mila’s superpower was a direct and powerful type that compressed and pushed out shockwaves.

However, it was difficult to control and the output was not well regulated, so she used it by imagining it in the form of a shotgun.

However, that meant she could only use her superpower in a fixed form.

Therefore, Mila had chosen to push the form and specifications of the shotgun to the limit, making it into a bazooka as big as her body and wielding it.

“Look here, you monster bastards!!”

Kugwagwagwa!!!

Even though she was freely manipulating the storm of shockwaves, the mental energy consumption required to use her superpower was actually decreasing.

Superpowers are innate abilities that rely on the ambiguous power of human mental energy.

However, that’s why it’s possible to move to a different dimension with just a change in perspective and mindset.

She must have been constantly adjusting her abilities and equipment to increase her combat power and compensate for her weaknesses.

Someone once said that everything depends on how you think.

At least when it came to the supernatural ability of superpowers, that statement had never been wrong.

Lenox thought so and turned his gaze away from Mila, who had transformed into a storm, drawing the spirits’ attention and moving around.

“Davi, open the path to the top floor.”

[I’m ready!]

Davi’s body rippled like pale blue and navy blue waves, like colorful autumn leaves, moving the internal structure of the library as a whole.

Immediately, dozens and hundreds of bookshelves floated up in front of Lenox, firmly supporting his feet like a giant staircase.

However, Lenox’s expression, looking at the endless staircase, had turned somewhat sullen.

“You’re doing this on purpose, aren’t you?”

[Hehe.]

Davi made an embarrassed chuckle and immediately moved the bookshelf Lenox was standing on, lifting his body straight up.

Lenox’s figure quickly passed through the floating space of bookshelves and headed towards the top of the massive library.

Click!!

He forcefully opened the heavy, dark brown wooden door and stepped inside, the smell of old paper wafting from within.

As if completely unrelated to the commotion outside, the corridor inside the door on the top floor of the library was still quiet.

The top floor reading room, which boasted a larger and more expansive area than any of the library’s staircases he had passed through so far.

However, the reason Lenox had deduced that the Dean was trapped here was not simply because magic detection didn’t work properly on this floor.

[Lavatenon University History Exhibition Hall]

[Master’s and Doctoral Thesis Storage Room]

The culmination of research and effort accumulated by the great scholars of Lavatenon University over the years.

A place where the flow of time, in which they continued to explore endlessly without letting go of knowledge even in the magical realm of Balkan, was recorded.

It was clear that this was the place where the Dean would organize the clues and answers to the questions he had given to Lenox himself.

“Mila was right. The Dean wanted me to find him myself.”

Regardless of whether Mila or Lenox was more intelligent, it was Lenox who had directly heard the Dean’s message and hints.

If the Dean had sent a message to Lenox before being detained, he would have tried to convey where he would be trapped and at what point the problem would occur through his spirit.

Thinking about that, Lenox quietly opened the door to the storage room where the theses were kept.

Click!!

In the dimly lit storage room, thousands of file folders containing theses were neatly arranged instead of books.

Lenox stood in front of them, continuing to rack his brain to interpret the meaning of the message left by the Dean.

“He wouldn’t have twisted the message into something obscure… Let’s think simply.”

It was different from when he was trying to find traces of Kaise.

The message left by the Dean was meant to quickly convey meaning in a rapidly changing situation.

He wouldn’t have left a code that was difficult to remember or decipher.

“The spirit’s cries? No, that’s hard to remember, and the code decoding based on the musical scale is unclear.”

Lenox muttered to himself quickly and started pulling out the theses, quickly flipping through them one by one.

“Nothing came out when I searched the spirit’s body. It’s not a physical form. If there’s anything specific in the message, it’s…”

Lenox, who had thought that far, stopped walking and retraced the path he had passed.

The Master’s thesis storage area and the Doctoral thesis storage area. The integrated Master’s and Doctoral thesis storage room located between them.

Since different processes are treated differently, the classifications are also different.

Lenox, who found a particularly familiar name among them, finally nodded slowly.

“This was it.”

[Flavis Magic Tower. 492nd Great Magic Power Research Society. Passed the review of all 32 Magic Tower Elders.]

[Integrated Master’s and Doctoral Review Passed Thesis: Saiolus Garteanon.]

[Title: The Immaterial Realm Where Spirits Live. Clarifying the Existence of the Spirit Realm]

The Dean hadn’t just told Lenox about the incorrect review schedule for the integrated Master’s and Doctoral program for no reason.

That itself was an excuse to make Lenox realize the abnormality and a keyword to make him find himself.

Saiolus Garteanon, the Dean of Lavatenon Magic University, was also a research magician of the Magic Tower a long time ago.

The Dean was trying to tell Lenox how to find him through that fact.

Drrrrk!!

Without hesitation, Lenox picked up the Dean’s thesis and quickly began to read it.

The preface of the thesis described the existence of spirits and the justification for the existence of the spirit realm, but Lenox skipped it all.

Tak!!

The serial number written on the last page. One of the unique codes used to classify books in the central library.

Lenox took the code written on that thesis page and immediately left the reading room, heading to the very end of the corridor on the top floor of the library.

A massive gate in the shape of a book at the end of the corridor.

“The only structure that couldn’t be interfered with using the library’s parallel operation system. This is it, right?”

[Not only can’t I change its position, but I’m also set up so that I can’t use any magic or commands using the system’s internal authority.]

Davi, who was on Lenox’s head, replied.

Below the gate with mysterious ancient characters, there was a lock and a space to enter a sequence of numbers and letters.

The moment Lenox entered the recognition code from the thesis into it.

Click!!

The gate, which had been in the shape of a book, opened wide as if unfolding, revealing the scenery beyond to Lenox’s eyes.

A blurry view of an unknown landscape beyond a curtain with a somewhat slimy texture.

“A hideout or an escape route? No, it’s more like a hidden space within the library itself…”

Either way, it was somewhere connected to this library, but not a space inherent to Lavatenon University.

The moment he stepped inside, parting the curtain.

Paat!!

Lenox realized that he was standing in the middle of a plain overlooking a vast field.

Swaaaaaa!!

Every time a warm breeze blew, the lush vegetation in the field swayed and rustled.

The vegetation swayed with the wind, rippling like waves.

“…”

Lenox, who had been looking around the wide field, noticed a structure protruding from the edge of his vision and moved towards it.

Ten stone slabs, much larger than any ordinary person, were lined up vertically.

Like they were prepared to write something on them, the massive stone slabs were neatly arranged.

Six of the ten stone slabs had people nailed to them, their bodies pierced and covered in blood.

Besides that, three other stone slabs. Right in front of the smooth seventh stone slab, an old man was collapsed, his whole body bound.

“Dean?”

“…E, van.”

Saiolus, who had opened his eyes with difficulty, muttered while looking at Lenox.

Lenox immediately checked the Dean’s physical condition, including his breathing and magic circuits, without waiting for a response.

‘His magic is depleted, but it’s not at a level that threatens his life. He’s just exhausted from using all his energy and stamina to the limit.’

Lenox, who had taken out an emergency kit from his pocket and started connecting an IV drip and injecting nutrients, calmed his eyes.

‘His condition is worse than I thought, but it hasn’t reached the worst. It’s as I expected.’

The confession he had heard from the monkey-masked sorcerer, that they would offer low-level magicians as sacrifices in order, to proceed with the ritual.

It was clear that Saiolus, a Saint-level magician who had reached level 7, would be much later in the line.

Therefore, Lenox was certain that even if the Dean was in a weakened state, he would not have reached a level where his life was in danger.

As he put a quick-acting elixir into his mouth and supplied nutrients through the IV, the Dean’s complexion slowly began to return.

His breathing stabilized, and his trembling eyelids calmed down.

As Lenox stepped back, watching the Dean’s complexion gradually return to normal, the Dean raised his hand and waved it in the air with his eyes closed.

Poong!!

[Buuuu!!]

The furry spirit, summoned back by the caster himself, was called back to the Dean.

It rubbed its face against the Dean’s chest, crying incessantly.

[Bubu, bububu!!!]

The Dean smiled weakly at the sight of the spirit pouring out sounds quickly, as if excited.

“Thank you… You never fail to meet my expectations.”

“I haven’t heard anything about this matter yet. Nor about this prairie scenery.”

Lenox said, rubbing his temples with a tired expression.

“I know that the Evil God Palace’s backers might be the Central Council. Can you explain the other parts?”

“…It was about two weeks ago.”

The Dean’s expression darkened slightly.

“Rumors began to circulate that the isolation measures for District 25, which had been designated as a restricted area, would be lifted.”

“…”

“Some city council members have buried their past mistakes in the restricted area. If District 25’s isolation is lifted, it could lead to a reshuffle of council members in both the upper and lower houses.”

Was this the butterfly effect of resolving Kaise’s memories in the restricted area?

“Most of them have something to rely on besides their positions, but there are some who don’t. They are criminals who wouldn’t be surprised to be imprisoned immediately if they were removed from their council positions.”

“Criminals?”

It was natural to think that the city of Balkan had a tendency not to care about the past, but he never imagined that there would be so many people from the underworld among the city council members.

To be able to hold onto power despite having charges that could get them arrested at any moment, perhaps it was fitting for the city of Balkan.

“Do you know how those criminals got their council positions? It’s because they provided something beneficial to the council that could cover up their past mistakes.”

“…”

“With the lifting of the isolation of District 25 confirmed, they had two options. To rush to the restricted area and find and eliminate the evidence first…”

The Dean turned to Lenox and said,

“Or to cover up their mistakes with a greater achievement.”

“So, you’re saying that the council members who were on the verge of losing their positions caused this?”

Lenox asked, shaking his head.

“I don’t know what kind of achievement could result from using the power of sorcery to sacrifice students of Lavatenon University. Even if the council members were to share the results created in this way-”

[Of course, ordinary results wouldn’t be enough to cover up this incident.]

A deep, heavy voice came from behind.

A profound voice with an undeniable sense of weight.

[But before the ban on the law was lifted, decades ago, it was common to cover up minor mistakes by achieving unprecedented feats.]

“…”

[A new era has opened, and the world has changed a lot, but isn’t it natural for small mistakes to be obscured by a genius achievement?]

Instead of answering, Lenox slowly turned his gaze back.

A massive lion with a magnificent silver mane.

From the lion’s body, which shone with a dazzling silver-white light in its eyes, an enormous amount of magic power was constantly surging.

The lion, with the face of a beast, but with a kind smile like a human, looked at Lenox and said,

[For example, to show the miracle of creating spirits directly with human hands.]