Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 629

“So, how exactly are you planning to look into my mind…?”, Elaba asked, her voice trembling as she stared at the wires connected between the tickets [personal devices for identification and data storage].

“Of course, Artisan Lyman is also an exceptional individual, but I know he’s far from being a high-level transcendent…”

“Just focus on this side for a moment. That will be enough,” Renok reassured her gently.

“What I can show you will only be for a brief moment.”

“A brief moment, you say.”

Renok, with his hand in front of Elaba’s wavering eyes, slowly opened his palm and murmured,

“I’ll take care of the rest.”

At that moment, the magic power that surged from the deepest part of Renok’s body instantly engulfed the realm of the mind and exploded.

KWA-AAA!!!

The immense magic power, enough to burn down the entire upper workshop district, rotated and dissipated within 0.11 seconds inside Renok’s body.

Just before the magic power, drawn up by a high-level mage who had transcended the ranks, filled the entire workshop.

The golden double helix that bloomed from Renok’s fingertips neatly devoured the exploding magic power and revealed itself.

PAA-AT!!

The embodiment of what the caster desires, the magic system Uroboros [a self-perfecting magic system].

Renok, having summoned Uroboros for a fleeting moment by feeding it the minimum magic power needed to operate, held the golden helix in his hand and scattered it before Elaba’s eyes.

The double helix, rotating and blooming from his fingertips, twisted in place, forming a small concentric circle.

“…!!!”

Elaba’s pupils, having faced that sight head-on, seemed to widen rapidly, and she began to breathe heavily, beads of cold sweat streaming down her face.

“Huu, haa…!!”

The magic system Uroboros is an artificial perpetual motion machine created by Renok, combining all the experience and talent he had accumulated.

It is an infinite serpent that analyzes, dismantles, and transforms all the powers that exist in this world, forever striving for perfection without ever being completed.

KII-ING…!!

The form of Uroboros that bloomed before Elaba’s eyes rotated on its own and disappeared at the same time.

With perfect magic manipulation and quantitative calculation, the magic power and traces consumed in the operation of Uroboros did not leak out of the workshop but were canceled out and faded away.

However, the overwhelming amount of information had already struck Elaba’s mind head-on, causing an overload that an ordinary human could not handle.

“Ah, ahh…!!”

Seeing Elaba, unable to speak properly, start to shake her hands wildly.

Renok immediately stored his magic power and focused his mind on the wires connecting their tickets.

Connecting their consciousness through the medium of their tickets, randomly reading and interpreting the information that spilled out from the outside of Elaba’s consciousness.

This was precisely why he had forced himself to operate Uroboros, even at some risk, and summoned it before Elaba’s eyes.

To overflow Elaba’s consciousness and forcibly read the hidden information beyond it, a massive amount of information was needed.

And among the abilities Renok possessed, only the magic eye opened in his right eye and Uroboros were capable of that.

‘If I use the magic eye, there’s a possibility that Elaba’s mind will be completely destroyed. I must avoid that at all costs.’

Renok did not believe that it was a coincidence that the descendant of the Ascension Gate designer had come to him at this particular time.

Someone who had noticed the various exceptional qualities he had shown as Lyman had sent Elaba to Renok.

And they were undoubtedly trying to see how far Renok could help Elaba through her.

If that was the case, then forcing himself to read her memories at this point and destroying Elaba’s mind would be a severe loss for both Renok and Elaba.

He had pushed himself to quickly summon Uroboros, but it was also true that there was no more efficient method than this.

‘It’s the power that even dismantled Gye Baek’s geas [a magical compulsion]. If the restriction on Elaba’s mind is a powerful geas, it might be possible to melt it away here…’

As Renok thought this, he stopped moving due to the chaotic memories and information flowing into his consciousness from Elaba’s mind.

[…Huh?]

Instead, Davi, who had been sleeping soundly, not paying attention to what Renok was doing, raised his head.

The cyber spirit, speaking on behalf of his silent master, jumped onto Elaba’s forehead, who had lost consciousness, and muttered.

[I’m sensing a very regular electrical signal in this organic being’s head?]

“…”

That was not wrong.

Beep, beep, beep-beep-beep…!!

The fragments of random memories and information flowing through his consciousness.

Normally, they should be irregular and chaotic, and take the form of senses that have been converted from analog images or sounds.

However, the information overflowing from Elaba’s subconscious was not in that form, but in the form of electronic sounds with patterns and speeds.

“…I see. It wasn’t that memories or images were hidden.”

Only then did Renok realize the true nature of the restriction in Elaba’s mind and smiled bitterly.

“A machine program itself is stored intact in Elaba’s head.”

[The cerebral cortex of an organic being is not suitable for remembering and storing complex cyber execution processes.]

Davi licked his front paw and muttered, and Renok nodded.

“That’s right. It’s impossible unless it’s a transcendent who has reached a high level. And not a mental-type sorcerer. The fact that this is possible is proof that the power of geas was used.”

Renok’s eyes shone coldly.

“I think I know why Elaba couldn’t properly control the senses of her own body.”

The person who stored the program in Elaba’s head had literally turned Elaba into a living memory device.

To store a program that a human brain could not fully remember, they borrowed the power of geas.

However, even if program code was forcibly stored in the head, it was natural for some of the brain’s abilities to become biased and cause abnormalities.

The reason why Elaba was unable to get a grasp on controlling her body was not due to any other reason.

“Part of her cognitive ability has been cyberized, so her human senses themselves cannot keep up with the process.”

The machine program code stored in her head was constantly causing confusion by conflicting with actual human senses.

“I also understand why no one was able to solve Elaba’s problem. It wouldn’t have been possible to even recognize the problem with just a deep understanding of engineering.”

She breathes, thinks, and has emotions like Renok, but her essence is already far removed from that of a human.

It is a task that is difficult to even touch without a deep understanding of both human spirituality and the cyber field.

If this was the result of a mad genius experimenting with how far he could cyberize the human brain, this would be it.

Renok could vaguely guess what kind of being the engineer Artermeier, who designed the Ascension Gate, was.

[Master, what are you going to do?]

“…I probably can’t completely extract the program code stored in Elaba’s head.”

Even if he continued to overload Elaba’s consciousness and forcibly extract the code, her mind would only collapse.

The next best thing would be to copy the program code and get it into his hands. But even that wouldn’t solve Elaba’s problem.

However, now that he recognized that what was occupying Elaba’s mind was a program in the cyber realm, there were many ways to intervene.

In the cyber realm, there was always an expert who was more naturally gifted in this field than Renok himself.

“Davi. Can you touch the program stored inside Elaba’s mind?”

At Renok’s words, Davi tapped Elaba’s forehead as if he were knocking on a watermelon, and then turned his head as if he had thought of something.

[The program that exists in this organic being’s head. I think I can reduce the capacity a bit through optimization?]

“Optimization…”

[Perhaps because they tried to directly implant the program into the organic being’s cerebral cortex, they’re using a surprisingly simple old operating system. If I just update it, I think I can optimize the performance…]

“What are the expected side effects?”

[Unless you also adjust the capacity of the geas that is being used to store the program in its original form, her consciousness will be severely damaged as a result.]

Renok, understanding Davi’s words, immediately nodded.

“You mean I have to adjust the scope of the geas. Okay. I’ll take care of that.”

The program code hidden in Elaba’s head.

And the geas that allows the code to exist in its stored form.

Naturally, the geas is only applied to the extent that it can accurately preserve the original program code.

If Davi optimizes and transforms Elaba’s program through his cyber abilities in the process, the geas, which is tailored to the original, will also be distorted and cause a reaction.

Davi was saying that if he didn’t adjust that process at the same time, Elaba would have difficulty enduring the overload.

Those who have reached a high level of self-modification have a firm grasp on their spiritual self, so it is rare for their minds to be completely destroyed, but Elaba is not one of them.

While Davi watches over the optimization of the program, Renok must simultaneously adjust Elaba’s geas.

He had to complete all of this before Ibert returned, while simultaneously touching both the human mental realm and the cyber realm.

Knowing that both were precarious, Renok did not hesitate.

“We don’t have much time. Let’s start.”

[I’ll start the internal operating system processor efficiency work.]

WOO-WOO-WOONG…!!

With those words, Davi carefully released magic power onto Elaba’s pupils.

The electrical signal, entering Elaba’s head through her optic nerves, flowed into the program in her head with commands compatible with it, without harming her biological mechanisms.

CHIK, CHIK…!!

[I’m going to erase unnecessary dummy data and compress the operating system processor itself to reduce the storage capacity. When I send a signal, you can adjust the geas at the same time, and it should be fine.]

“…”

Renok didn’t even answer, and just stared intently at Elaba’s reaction.

Solving Elaba’s problem, without destroying her mind, and on the other hand, completely copying the program code within her and getting it into his hands.

Knowing how sensitive and fragile the human mind and body are, a single moment of timing could determine success or failure.

[Master!!]

Even before Davi sent the message, Renok was already moving.

The golden magic light pierced between Elaba’s eyebrows, then rotated half a turn like a key, opening the geas.

A high-level operation that controlled the scope and reaction of the geas in real-time, through the deep understanding he had gained by directly dismantling Gye Baek’s geas.

Renok, who was engrossed in the work without blinking, checked the size of the geas that was gradually decreasing from beyond the seven senses and smiled faintly.

“…It’s done.”

[Perfect, Master. I’ll start compressing the program code now!!]

* * *

“It would be good to twist your wrist a little more to the left and apply force.”

“Like this?”

“Yes. Like that.”

Elaba, sitting at Renok’s workbench, was constantly hammering away.

And next to Elaba, Mauser was sitting and adjusting and guiding her smithing skills in real-time.

Clang, clang, clang!!

The sound of hammering was rhythmic even to Renok, who was an amateur in smithing, and the direction of the iron being forged along the workbench was flawless.

“Being constantly rhythmic isn’t always good. For good performance, there are times when you need to kill the force and take a breath for the next hammer blow.”

Following those words, the hammering immediately changed to a somewhat irregular but rhythmic beat.

Mauser nodded in satisfaction.

“Good. You’re doing well. You’re understanding very quickly.”

“…!!”

Perhaps it was a very happy thing for Elaba to receive direct praise from an artisan like Mauser.

Her face was flushed and excited, unlike when she first came to the workshop, and she maintained the perfect concentration of an artisan.

“This is truly a bizarre thing.”

Ibert, who was facing Renok, muttered, unable to take his eyes off Elaba.

“What on earth did you do to completely change a person in such a short time?”