Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 709

The unsettling feeling that the surrounding air was slowing down infinitely just by him standing there.

At the same time, the superhumans of the garrison, realizing his identity, began to retreat in terror.

“K-Kenroe…!!”

“The communications officer is down!!”

“Damn it, were they aiming for this…!!”

As if in a desperate struggle, they pulled the triggers, and the superhumans at the front of the garrison threw themselves forward with gritted teeth.

“Too late. Move it!!”

“Kill the mage!!!”

Engaging at this distance, escape was impossible.

Everyone knew that the only option was to risk their lives to kill Lenox.

Tatatatata!!!

Bullets fired at Lenox and the superhumans rushing in behind the barrage.

Lenox, leaning on his cane, watched them and smiled.

“Quick decision-making. It’s beyond what can be explained as just experience.”

In the rapidly changing battlefield, they all shared the same understanding of the most urgent danger.

It was evidence that they had thoroughly integrated combat training for such difficult superhuman battles, not just practical experience.

A single move that showed how outstanding and agile the Dead Rise garrison’s organization and combat power were.

But before Lenox could finish speaking, armored wings that appeared out of thin air crushed all their attacks.

KWA-AAANG!!!

The surface of the thick armored wings, reinforced to the extreme with fragments of Apostle’s carapace [Apostle’s carapace refers to the hardened outer shell of a powerful, possibly divine, being].

It withstood all kinds of impacts simultaneously without a single scratch.

Even with a dozen superhumans at the front throwing their entire bodies at it almost simultaneously, its overwhelming weight didn’t budge.

“Kuhhh…!!!”

“Th-those wings… I’ve definitely seen them somewhere…!!”

At that surreal outcome, other superhumans screamed in realization of their impending death, and someone muttered blankly.

“You don’t know about these wings, do you?”

Clank!!

The wings split open like a giant hand, and the muzzle of a musket emerged from the gap.

Kiiiiing…!!

The musket’s barrel, charged with intensely condensed magic power, vibrated wildly and resonated.

As if stretching its head, it split and amplified into dozens of muzzles, emitting light.

Amidst the storm of heat, hundreds of soldiers stared blankly at the dozens of musket muzzles that had multiplied.

“Then, there’s nothing more to see.”

TAAAAANG!!!

The intense magical light that erupted from the musket split into hundreds of fragments, sweeping across the entire area.

“……!!!”

Hundreds of soldiers and superhumans were swept away by the storm, letting out silent screams.

Only shadows, writhing and flailing as if in a fit, danced amidst the magical light before disappearing without a trace.

At the point of impact, which had been erased from the ground, only unrecognizable ashes scattered here and there.

Dududududu!!

Even amidst all that, Tatianna, with her machine gun, quickly cleared out the remaining soldiers in the garrison.

Flame magic, using the embers granted by the Phoenix Battle, was unleashed in a rapid-fire manner.

With Lenox directly assisting with the embers, the firepower and density were beyond expectations.

Perhaps she could have cleared the garrison alone.

However, the reason Lenox specifically moved with her to subdue this facility was elsewhere.

Clank!!

Passing by the unconscious communications officer, who was covering his ears, he quickly switched the communication device’s lines.

-Support troops are moving to the front!! Hold on a little longer!!

-Uwaaaah!!

-Krrreerrrr…!!!

Excited voices and screams, non-human reverberations, and strange cracking sounds intersected from all directions.

As Lenox quickly switched lines to grasp the situation, he grabbed the microphone as soon as he heard the rough breathing of a beast.

“Merylda. Can you hear me?”

-……Kenroe?

The beast, belatedly recognizing Lenox’s voice, awkwardly uttered human speech.

There was the sound of things being broken and exploding as she searched for her location, and the sound of things being touched.

After a while, as if she had finally found the communication device, Merylda answered sheepishly.

-What, there was a communication device here?

“……”

A single sentence that made it clear how carelessly she had been killing the garrison soldiers.

However, Lenox didn’t show it and only confirmed the necessary facts.

“We’ve secured two garrison facilities and confirmed the direction. Where are you?”

-Bashing the fourth one. The direction… I’m not sure. I just found out about this communication line too.

“I gave you flares. Did you use them?”

-Of course. I was just going to follow the scent, why?

Lenox said that and glanced up at the sky.

“I can’t see any light from the flares here. It seems like there’s a problem.”

[Whaaaat?]

From the moment they started fighting at the second garrison facility, Lenox had been aware of a strange feeling.

By now, Merylda and Angel should have smashed two or three garrison facilities and be moving forward. Yet, the light from the flares was still not visible in the sky.

Realizing this, Lenox immediately tried to explain the situation to Merylda.

Because the further they moved away from each other inside the closed area, the less likely it was that they could even communicate between garrison facilities.

Lenox’s gaze, looking at the foggy dawn sky, turned cold.

“It seems like there’s someone on the Dead Rise side who can think for themselves.”

He didn’t know how they did it, but as soon as they realized that the garrison was being attacked, they blocked the light in the sky.

The only way to communicate in this closed area filled with self-storms was through the communication devices installed in the adjacent garrison facilities.

‘The preparation for the sky is too thorough… Are they that worried about bombings?’

-So, now we just have to find the communication devices at each garrison and contact each other?

“What we have to do hasn’t changed. If we raid the adjacent garrison facilities, we’ll find out where the final destination for the supplies is.”

The original plan was to use flares to track each other’s locations in real-time and plan the optimal attack route.

But as things had turned out this way, they had no choice but to continue their individual actions from now on.

“With Feisha absent, there must be a second-in-command who is in charge of the overall flow of the garrison. We need to find that person.”

Milo Stockton and Benje Solcier. The Dead Rise executives that Tatianna had mentioned along with Feisha.

It was highly likely that they were commanding the scene in place of Feisha.

-Okay. Then I’ll-

Merylda’s voice suddenly stopped.

Immediately after, along with the rough breathing of a beast, Merylda let out a low curse.

“What’s wrong?”

-The werewolf’s sound disappeared.

Merylda replied irritably.

“……Did Killian send a signal?”

Perhaps because they were the same type of demi-human, Merylda and Killian had abnormally good hearing that reacted to howling.

At the point where communication with the outside was cut off as they went deeper into the closed area, Killian and Merylda’s howling was the only way to communicate with the outside.

And the role Lenox had entrusted to Killian was to monitor Feisha Greeceburn at the 47th District Casino.

-The howling just stopped. As we shared the information beforehand, he might have detected Feisha’s movements.

The fact that Killian’s presence, who was waiting outside the area, had completely disappeared.

The meaning of that fact was clear.

-The Ghoul noticed the anomaly.

“……”

He knew that he might not be able to keep her tied up at the casino for long, but her reaction was faster than he thought.

Was she already aware of the anomaly that had occurred in this closed area filled with self-storms?

Lenox, who had been silent, cut off the communication and immediately got into the armored vehicle.

Tatianna immediately stepped on the accelerator and shouted.

“Ban, I’ll tie them up right now. You have the Phoenix Battle, so destroy the factory instead of me and get the engine…!!”

“No. That won’t be enough. It won’t be very effective.”

Destroying the satellite’s engine and capturing Feisha Greeceburn to hand over to Oliviera.

If he had to prioritize one, it would be destroying the factory, but there was no reason to sacrifice Tatianna’s life for that.

Although the two had been rolling around in the central front for a long time, one was a physical ability user and the other was a mage specialized in bombardment formulas.

It was obvious how much difference there would be in the two’s combat abilities against each other.

Even if Tatianna was determined to buy time, that time wouldn’t be long.

There was no reason to sacrifice her life for something meaningless.

The experience and magic of the Witch of Bombardment could be used in a more valuable place.

“But we’re running out of time. It’s not the time to consider efficiency!! If we don’t move while accepting losses…!!”

“Then we just need to move faster.”

At the same time, Lenox slowly began to form hand seals with both hands.

For Lenox, who usually skipped chanting and even simple hand gestures, this was an extremely rare hand seal manipulation.

However, as the level 8 Archmage began to chant magic with all his might, the surrounding air began to change following his intent.

Creation-type Unique Magic: Alchemy Application

Triple Transmutation(三重鍊成) [Triple Transmutation is a technique that allows the user to transmute matter into three different forms simultaneously]

[Reverse Gravity]

[Magnetic Control]

[Electronic Field]

[Current Sensing Domain(感流電域)] [Current Sensing Domain is a technique that allows the user to sense and manipulate electrical currents in a specific area]

As a powerful electromagnetic field exploded following Lenox’s chant, the mountains of trash scattered everywhere vibrated wildly.

Drrrrrrr!!!

Metallic waste and scrap metal rose up in response to the electromagnetic field that Lenox had unleashed and gathered around the armored vehicle.

Crack!! Crackle!!

All sorts of scrap metal and trash stuck to the bottom of the armored vehicle from all directions and began to rotate rapidly and wildly.

Zzzzzzz!!

The electric current and magnetic force that sprang up between the scrap metal connected all kinds of metals, rising up as a giant wave of metal.

KWA-AAAAAAA!!!!

The entire field of massive waste rose like wildfire, an overwhelming spectacle rushing across the ground.

Tatianna, who was holding the steering wheel of the armored vehicle riding on that wave, gaped.

“You… this is….”

“It’s a creation magic I made before by applying the characteristics of flame magic.”

Lenox answered while continuing to form hand seals.

“Resonance and amplification that connects the concept of combustion. A magic of scale that gradually increases in power.”

Back when he first met Antares at the junkyard, Lenox was in the midst of learning flame magic and working hard to apply its principles.

The result of trial and error to create new creation magic, crossing the boundaries of common magic and unique magic.

However, the creation magic he chanted again now, following Lenox’s growth, had become a magnetic magic of enormous scale that could be called great magic.

The speed of the hand seals he was making with both hands slowly slowed down, and at the moment he finally lightly punched his fist on his palm as if putting a period.

Fiiiing!!

Lenox’s intent, riding on the powerful electromagnetic field, mixed into the giant wave of metal.

[Grrrrrrr!!!]

[Uooooooo!!!]

In response to that will, over hundreds of mechanical soldiers began to stagger and rise on the wave of metal.

Like assembling the dead with parts and raising them, the forms of robots creaked, emitting a dim light.

The mechanical specters that rose on the wave of metal rushed forward according to Lenox’s will.

KWA-AAANG!!!

The wave of metal carrying the armored vehicle and the army of scrap metal that rose beneath it increased its speed and shot forward.

The scenery around the armored vehicle riding on the wave of scrap metal and trash flashed by like colorful lines.

The garrison facilities and the Dead Rise garrison below were swept away like toys by the wave of metal and disappeared.

Even the screams of terror and shouts were buried in the flow and lost their sound.