Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 716

Hwareureuk!!

As the form of a woman flickering with flames enveloped Tatiana’s hand, dazzling flames engulfed her body.

However, instead of burning, the witch’s body was enveloped in a warm sensation, regaining its vitality.

Tatiana, who had struggled to lift her gaze, was surprised, but soon her expression turned into a sorrowful smile.

“Tessa…”

[I’m sorry, Tatiana.]

The woman called Tessa spoke quietly.

[Our last operation. It ended up failing after all.]

“…No.”

Tatiana shook her head, her voice choked with emotion.

“I was wrong. I shouldn’t have made a deal with the master. Even though I promised myself several times, I…”

She had felt disillusioned with the Tower’s affairs and had thought about quitting the rosary [a group of mages] several times.

It took a long time for Tatiana to confess her decision to the other mages.

They had gathered their courage and received a promise from the Tower Lord that they would leave the Tower after this operation.

But even that ended up being a meaningless sacrifice, as they were thrown into a mission that was impossible to succeed.

Tatiana’s wish to withdraw from the battlefield was ultimately a fleeting hope, like smoke, but even now, with all hope shattered, she could not stop.

She couldn’t allow the deaths of the mages who had believed in her and followed her to the end to be mocked.

Even though she had desperately resolved and repeated it, she felt her eyes redden the moment she saw the faces she remembered.

“I’m sorry, Tessa. I wanted to keep apologizing.”

Clear tears fell from within the flames.

“I made you all die. It’s my fault…”

[It was our decision. We accepted it to leave the Tower, so I don’t regret it.]

Tessa silently stroked Tatiana’s cheek.

[Still, it’s enough that you’re alive. It’s okay if you’re the one who’s left.]

“…”

[You can fulfill our wish instead.]

“…Okay.”

Tatiana shed tears.

She smiled even as she cried.

Because there was a more fitting response to send off her departing comrades than explaining the Tower’s flaws and betrayals.

Paat!! Pat! Pat!!

One by one, the crimson glows from the engine power unit were released, transforming into the forms of burning humans.

The forms of a dozen mages quietly disappeared from Tatiana’s side.

The boundary between the living and the dead.

As if crossing to the other shore within a cage, the spirits of the mages rose up, turning into a handful of flames.

The flames gently embraced Tatiana and burned.

At the same time, she felt the shackles that had been within her being burned away one by one.

The flames of the soul that burned away the geas [a magical compulsion] that forcibly bound her mind.

As she raised her hand following the swirling flames, the flames of the launchpad began to extinguish, guided by the witch’s will.

Shuuuuuuuu…!!!

The propellant and the flames of the launchpad that had been overflowing on the ground quietly disappeared, as if melting into the atmosphere.

Tatiana, realizing that she had extinguished the overflowing flames and completely stopped the satellite launch, sat down and lowered her head.

“What do you think?”

Lenox, who had been silently watching, asked Feisha.

“Is it possible for the mental shackles placed on humans to be released and undone in such a way?”

“Don’t be ridiculous!!!”

Feisha immediately kicked Lenox, sending him flying backward.

The impact alone caused the launchpad to collapse, leaving a long scar on the ground.

Ku Kwakwang!!

Feisha, who had sprung up from the collapsed debris, spoke while looking at Lenox, who had been pushed back.

The monstrous strength she exerted even with her whole body broken and covered in blood.

The tenacity of a top-tier physical ability user who had resolved to die had already transcended the boundaries of life.

“If you are indeed the spokesperson of that person…!! You should know how meaningless this cycle is.”

“…”

“Knowing that, are you still clinging to meaningless meanings?”

“That’s right. Perhaps the answer is already set.”

Lenox muttered, looking at his faintly twitching arms.

The side effect of the Uroboros Eight Views, which he had used for the third time to properly land the Wheel Axis Construction [a powerful technique].

It was powerful enough to instantly turn Feisha’s charge into a counterattack, but now he seemed to know for sure.

The side effects of this abnormal power were something Lenox could never easily control.

The sense of alienation that made it seem as if Lenox’s body was becoming something that wasn’t his each time he used the technique.

Something that hadn’t been able to invade Lenox’s mind was slowly eating away at Lenox’s body.

Suppressing the emptiness that made it feel as if the sensation was disappearing from his fingertips, Lenox said.

“However, I need certainty.”

“…”

“Something that cannot be explained by rational judgment and efficiency alone…”

Lenox, who slowly stood up, had his eyes sink deeply.

“I am still searching for it.”

“Who do you think you are!!”

Uuuuuung!!!

With her body in shambles, Feisha once again fully powered up her microcosm [a personal inner world].

The space was torn apart by the mere outburst of her will, and dozens of spirits behind her were rapidly replaced.

Puuuuu!!

The moment Feisha’s body broke the sound barrier, her severed blood vessels and muscles couldn’t withstand it and scattered blood everywhere.

A ghost covered in crimson blood from head to toe tore through the air with her bare hands and charged toward Lenox.

Ddddddeuk!!

“Aaaaaaaa!!!”

The earth crumbled as if an invisible giant was swinging his fist.

The wind raged, the terrain twisted and disappeared, and lava boiled beneath her feet.

Kugugugu!!

By merely grasping and wielding her will, her mind was reacting violently, unleashing the power she possessed indiscriminately.

A monstrous force that grabbed and swung everything around her like a living crusher.

Lenox also immediately responded by pouring in his magic power.

[Chant Thunder]

[Strange Thunderous Collapse]

He threw hundreds of fragments of thunder that scattered and exploded in front of Feisha’s eyes.

Before the afterglow of the lightning that dyed the world could fade, he struck down with a breath of cold air, grabbing her form.

[Ice Chain Injection]

[Waterfall Freeze]

Hwaaaaaak!!

On the ripple of ice, dozens of chains twisted and grabbed Feisha’s legs, and a waterfall of cold air poured down over her head.

“Don’t play such petty tricks!!!”

Feisha twisted her shoulders, and the ice chains exploded in an instant, scattering into the sky.

Hundreds of shattered ice fragments floated above the two of them.

Breaking through the lightning barrier and the chains of cold, enduring dozens of types of fire magic and shield overlaps, and even receiving the checks of armored wings and magic guns.

Feisha, who had landed in front of Lenox, stepping on the cold wind, laughed as she spat out blood.

“Do you think you can achieve anything properly with such ambiguous resolve?”

“…”

Kuo oooo!!!!

At such close range, where she could tear apart Lenox’s gap with just a flick of her hand.

However, Lenox was not looking at her, but at the forms of the spirits flickering behind her.

Rather than taking the form of a specific animal or monster, they were distorted, crude, and unstable, constantly shaking.

A somewhat different appearance from the highly complete forms and abilities of the spirits she had shown so far.

Lenox intuitively understood the reason and asked.

“The Supreme Seal of the Wheel Axis Construction. You didn’t forcibly endure it or tear the seal apart and run away, did you?”

Lenox’s gaze calmly sank.

“You left your spirits and mind inside the seal and ran away, didn’t you?”

“…”

“It’s not a wrong method. It was the most appropriate judgment at that point. The Supreme Seal, which is based on the perception of the subject, is a power that binds the mind, not the subject.”

The sealing technique of the Wheel Axis Construction that Lenox had planted in Feisha.

However, Feisha had not torn the seal apart with force and escaped.

She had only torn a part of her inner world, her microcosm, to be sealed instead, and forcibly escaped from the restraints in that gap.

A miracle made possible because Feisha’s microcosm was the concept of spirit possession, which manifested by dividing the mind into objects.

However, the aftermath of forcibly separating a part of her spirit and mind was something she could not ignore.

The aftermath of tearing apart a part of her microcosm was affecting her body.

“Since you forcibly tore off a part of your mind and came out, it’s natural that it’s not working properly. Isn’t that right?”

Lenox said.

“You must have left more than half of the spirits you could control behind. You split your microcosm in half, so it’s collapsing from the root.”

Even if one transcends the hierarchy and reaches level 8, a top-tier ability user is not more stable than a lower-level superhuman.

Because they are the ones who pioneer paths that have not been taken, the hierarchy they have built can become even more unstable.

The decision to split the mind of the microcosm and use it as bait to avoid the seal of the Wheel Axis Construction was bold and excellent.

However, as a result, the hierarchy of the microcosm she had built was shaking from the root and collapsing.

As time passed, the hierarchy that Feisha had built would only collapse and decline.

The Ghost Princess had taken measures to escape Lenox’s sealing technique, even at the risk of a decline in her hierarchy.

“So. What about it?”

However, even after being pointed out the fact, Feisha smiled calmly.

Even though she was abandoning the hierarchy she had built over a lifetime, and even though she might never be able to regain it, she did not waver.

“A collapsed hierarchy can be rebuilt. Lost spirits can be created again.”

“This isn’t the time to think about the future. Do you think there’s anything more important than killing you and putting an end to all of this? I-”

“I suppose so.”

Lenox laughed.

“You can just kill another person to replenish your psyche and desires.”

Feisha didn’t respond to Lenox’s cynicism.

Instead, she lightly twisted her shoulder, her hand lashing out directly at Lenox’s neck.

Whoosh!

A strike that surpassed sound the moment her wrist flicked.

The gesture, accelerated with her grip, twisted space with the eerie energy of a spirit.

A deadly move that instantly suppressed the surrounding space, completely blocking any possibility of escape or evasion.

But just as that hand was about to pierce Lenox’s neck and mercilessly claim his life.

Crash!

Lenox’s figure shattered like a mirror on the spot, revealing only an empty ruin behind it.

An illusion using light.

Feisha, realizing it was a powerful illusion created by refracting light sources, quickly raised her gaze.

Lenox, now perched on the wings of a giant firebird that had reappeared, was looking down at her.

“A mirage? No, the system is completely…!!!”

“An illusion created by forcibly bending the angle of light. A moment is enough.”

A light-based illusion arbitrarily created by combining the principles of the Wheel Axis Construction [a technique that manipulates the fundamental forces of the world].

By imitating the subtleties of the mirage technique used by Duren, the sense of distance could be deceived in this urgent situation.

What was being chanted during the brief moment created by deceiving Feisha was a transcendent composite magic that would completely annihilate even the remaining spirits.

“…!!!”

Feisha’s expression changed drastically as she looked at the mass of magical power floating above Lenox’s head.

Thump, thump, thump!

Within a pale sphere of ice, the hellish flames of karma swirled.

The contradiction of containing heat within cold was suppressed by a firm chain of gravity, maintaining its form.

A beautifully distorted crystallization of thought, as if creating a small planet.

As Lenox grabbed the sphere with his will and pointed it directly at the ground, the heavens and earth trembled.

Creation-type Unique Magic: Alchemy Application

Triple Transmutation

[Flame Void: Pseudo-Frozen Star]

Whoosh!

Even before reaching the ground, the power of the Pseudo-Frozen Star pressed down on the earth and bent the horizon.

The moment the rotation stopped, the attractive force of the chains that had bound the flames inside the sphere reversed.

The flames contained within the ice sphere swelled with power, engulfing all of creation.

The rotational force from the center of the exploding small planet pulled in and devoured the surrounding space.

The purple chains snapped, distorting the bound gravity, and the contained fire and ice danced.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!!!!

“Aaaaaaaah!!!”

In the midst of the hell where fire and ice raged, she dashed across the ground.

Her entire body burned, she searched for a weapon like a beast seeking water.

Whoosh!

The power of a spirit, unleashing a ghostly cry, became her third arm, representing her will.

She grabbed the observation tower that had maintained its shape amidst the chaos of the ruined theme park’s outskirts, where everything was being overturned and vaporized.

Thud, thud, thud!

The spirit’s arm wrapped around the tens-of-meters-tall observation tower, breaking it off and aiming it like a weapon at Lenox.

An idea that transcended common sense, as if trying to use the observation tower as a spear.

“Kaaaaaak!!”

Even as she was dying from the flames and cold of the Pseudo-Frozen Star, her body moved on instinct.

The psyche of a spear wielder, using the observation tower as a spear, unconsciously reproduced a stance she had practiced hundreds of thousands of times.

Her psyche, on the verge of death, created a new spirit that did not originally exist.

[Kkuwoooooooo!!!!]

What appeared, tearing through space, was a giant monstrous dragon covered in black scales.

The monstrous dragon with black scales wrapped its form around the spear and tilted its head back.

Gathering all of Feisha Grisburn’s remaining possibilities, a spear throw that threw the essence of a spear wielder entirely.

Lenox, perched on the form of the firebird, smiled wearily.

“Right. It wouldn’t make sense to stop after coming this far.”

Feisha was facing the final battle with the mindset that she was willing to lose everything in this place.

The power of the mind unleashed by a level 8 physical ability user, willing to accept losses, was incredibly dangerous, even after being broken and torn apart.

An abnormal spirit body drawn out by accepting the externally created deficiencies and voids, even the emptiness within.

Lenox’s fingers twitched faintly as he recognized its power.

The moment he sensed the danger of that technique, Lenox also thought of his most powerful trump card.

‘A domain would be difficult.’

But Lenox immediately gave up on that possibility as soon as he thought of it.

The battle had been non-stop since the start of the operation. The final battle with Feisha and the sealing technique of the Wheel Axis Construction.

Having used magic continuously, he now had very little magic power left.

If he had intended to use a self-generating domain, he should have deployed it immediately after encountering Feisha and dragged out the battle.

‘Once for the Kaleidoscope, twice for observing the branching point. Three times for magic incantations. Even considering the remaining elixirs and potions, it’s not enough.’

Using unique magic allowed only within the domain would give him a clear advantage in the fight.

But Lenox knew that and still decided against using a domain.

Because he knew that there was still work to be done, separate from winning.

‘Settle this while conserving my strength. If possible, as quickly as possible…!!!’

Having made his decision, Lenox jumped off the firebird’s form and quickly fell to the ground.

He began to form hand seals, neatly gathering both hands between the fluttering shadows of his coat.

[Great Net of Lightning]

[Thunder Void Eye]

[Lightning Convergence]

Zzzzzzzzzzz!

Among the lightning-based magic that Lenox possessed, he chanted unique magic that amplified and raised the attributes in succession.

Thousands of currents burst out simultaneously, dyeing the dark sky blue.

The roaring sound of the currents colliding overlapped thousands of times, turning into a deafening roar that tore through space.

[Electric Resonance: Harmonics]

Crack!

He gathered all the currents he had unleashed and condensed them under his hand.

The electricity flowing through his arm began to compress without a single strand deviating.

Thud, thud, thud!

A bright blue regular tetrahedron was created by compressing and pressing down thousands of currents to their limit.

A condensation of thought created by perfectly controlling thousands of irregular currents that only had a starting and ending point.

Load and repulsion, resonance and diffusion, compression and shaping.

Amplifying the thunder’s flames by controlling six changes in the nature of magic to their limit, and one of the points of arrival gauged by borrowing Davi’s calculation power.

Crack, crack…!!!

At the same time, the monstrous dragon, having finished its preparations on the ground, soared towards Lenox, using the tens-of-meters-tall observation tower as a pillar.

[Extreme: Divine Spear]

[Asura’s Revolving Ruinous Dragon]

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!!!

A deafening roar. A desperate cry like a dragon’s roar.

The light that soared against gravity transcended form and material, becoming a sure-hit spear that pierced its target.

The spirit of the monstrous dragon, pieced together from fragmented spirits, broke through the cloudy sky and opened its mouth wide towards Lenox.

The form of a psyche, united by malice, was about to swallow and break the magician’s figure entirely.

Lenox slowly lowered his trembling hand.

Mind’s Eye.

[Sand-borne Divine Lightning]

Flash!

The tetrahedron, glowing with blue light, fell without any warning.

Without being launched with great force or quickly slammed down.

It fell from Lenox’s hand as if losing control, and met the breath of the monstrous dragon.

The moment the monstrous dragon, which had swallowed even that single ray of light, stretched its tongue out towards Lenox.

The monstrous dragon’s form was crushed and distorted on the spot, and conversely, its body began to be torn apart miserably.

Crack, crack, crack, crack!

“…!!!!”

The monstrous dragon, tens of meters in size, was crushed by the light of the Sand-borne Divine Lightning, which was not even as big as a single tooth.

It struggled to soar into the sky and swallow Lenox, but it writhed as if it could not bear the weight of the tiny lightning.

Crack, crack!

Despite the monstrous dragon’s convulsions, the lightning of the Mind’s Eye maintained the speed at which it had first fallen, piercing and cutting through the spear.

The incongruity of a bright blue light shining from within the spirit covered in black scales as it fell.

The compressive force that tore apart everything, regardless of the obstacles in its path.

[Kkuooooooo!!!!]

The spirit, writhing around the observation tower, let out a desperate cry, and the moment it lowered its head.

Whoosh!

The light of the Sand-borne Divine Lightning pierced through the monstrous dragon from head to tail and reached Feisha’s head.

“Ah…”

Above Feisha’s dazed head, her spirit was completely annihilated, and the powerless observation tower fell.

“Quite a long time ago…”

Lenox murmured.

“I sent your disciple off in this way.”

He recalled her disciple whom he had bound and killed in the clock tower, and the moment he flicked his finger.