Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 720

The majestic image of a surging sea of fire.

The tattered corpse stood at the center of the fiery waves.

However, the will that had descended upon the already dead body was filling the entire space, blazing fiercely.

The Eighth Magic Tower Master of the Blaber Magic Tower.

Tatianna’s mentor, a schemer on the central front, and the administrator of the first gate.

A great mage who had transcended the ranks with flame magic, reaching the pinnacle of extreme power.

A monster who had become the sun of the magic tower, illuminating the front lines with flames, descended here as a manifestation that surpassed reason and law.

[I’ve only just heard that the work I entrusted to a partner has reached a disastrous end.]

The Tower Master laughed.

[It’s late, but wouldn’t it be necessary to at least pretend to fix it? Fortunately, with the help of this child, Duren, I can save face.]

“……!!!”

How could the already dead Duren possibly help the Tower Master? The method was as obvious as the fire burning in this place.

The principle of soul-burning that Duren himself used to burn the lower mages.

The Tower Master was directly burning the spirit of a high-ranking mage, using that power to manifest his will here.

Tatianna gritted her teeth.

“How could you even use the spirit and flesh of your own disciple…!!”

[When I think about it, I’ve been acting as the Tower Master for a long time with a rather lacking body.]

Kugugugugu…!!

The Tower Master said, descending to the ground beneath the sea of fire.

[After gaining a broader perspective, I’ve become capable of doing things like this.]

“…….”

[Although your teacher is not a god, and never wanted to be one…]

The Tower Master, using the corpse of the possessed Duren as a messenger, whispered as he slowly walked.

[I’ve become capable of playing with the laws of magic, creating a plausible imitation.]

The answer of the Tower Master, who manifested himself by sacrificing the soul of a level 7 Saint-level mage [a very high rank of mage].

Lenox’s eyes sank deeply as he fully grasped the meaning.

“A divine manifestation and a fire god…”

A being that manifests by using the spirit and flesh of his own disciple as fuel.

That method is closer to a one-time consumable than a true divine manifestation or the appearance of an apostle.

Rather, because of that, the Tower Master could manifest himself here just by burning Duren’s spirit.

The act of burning and discarding a level 7 Saint-level mage for a single manifestation.

Contrary to his relaxed and gentle tone, the rumors that the Tower Master’s nature was cruel and meticulous were not false.

However, the Tower Master also seemed to sense something from Lenox’s monologue, and immediately turned his gaze towards him.

[Oh, you understand my essence, so you’re not an ordinary mage after all.]

Beyond the stiff, dead corpse, it felt as if the Tower Master was smiling faintly.

[Well, that’s why Tatianna asked you to release her from the shackles of her mind, right?]

“…….”

He had already grasped the fact that Tatianna’s geas [a magical compulsion] had been released.

Perhaps that fact itself was the decisive reason why the Tower Master came here.

Whioooo…!!

The air grew hot. Tatianna was fully tense and determined.

Lenox and the Tower Master didn’t show any reaction, but they understood.

The fact that the Tower Master appeared late at this point, after everything was over, was by no means an ordinary cleanup.

[You were always a bright and meticulous child.]

The Tower Master said, looking at Tatianna.

[From the moment I first took you in as a disciple and brought you into the tower, I have never doubted your talent and character.]

“…….”

[I thought that if there was a high-ranking mage who could find a way, it would be you, so I entrusted you with the important affairs of the tower, but I never thought you would hurt my heart like this.]

“But Master, you personally placed geases on your beloved disciples.”

Tatianna gritted her teeth and replied.

“Looking back, it was always the same. Someone who dedicated themselves to the operation always had to be sacrificed. Only things that couldn’t be done otherwise were given to us.”

[……]

“I believed without a doubt that it was for the sake of the tower. My colleagues who have already died were the same.”

As she spoke, her emotions seemed to surge, and Tatianna’s magic began to surge and blaze fiercely.

“They left believing that until the moment they died. No, even after they died!!!”

Kwaang!!

The flames of the barrage that Tatianna unleashed pushed back the Tower Master’s crimson flames.

An unbelievably poignant and powerful will wielded by a body that had exhausted its stamina and magic.

Tatianna said in a trembling voice.

“I didn’t love the magic tower, but the moments when I believed we were together. That time that will never come back…”

[Indeed.]

The Tower Master nodded gently.

An undisguised smile was mixed in that pleasant tone.

[So, when you said you would leave the tower, I could see that the lingering attachment that bound you had faded. That’s why I threw you into the well of the compendium, hoping you could become a shred of meaning.]

A cruel answer that was hard to believe was spoken in such a gentle tone.

[The moment you came back alive from that place, everything might have gone wrong. It’s my fault.]

“…….”

[I should have realized that the impact would be greater when you turned your back on the tower, as I had entrusted so much to you.]

He lifted Duren’s broken and twisted arm, holding both hands together.

An awkward shape as if making a hand seal with his broken hands.

But Lenox realized that it was a movement to form the minimum hand seal.

[So, I’ll have to take you back with my own hands, even now.]

Re-ignition ritual magic.

Transcendental manifestation of property change.

[Taiji Divine Manifestation]

Oooooo!!!

The sea of fire that engulfed the ruins of the theme park rotated according to the Tower Master’s will, drawing a huge circle.

At the center of the circle, the will split into two, transforming into flames of different shapes.

One was a white flame that flickered poignantly like plasma, and the other was a dark flame that sank darkly.

The flames burning with different glows surged like the waves of a majestic sea of fire.

The white and dark flames containing two different wills met precisely at the place where Lenox and Tatianna were standing.

Kukwakwakwakwa!!!!

The entire field of vision was split in half, igniting in different directions.

The illusion of the horizon tilting.

“Taiji Divine Manifestation…!!”

Tatianna looked up at the sky in a shocked voice, her whole body stiffening.

“Ban, we have to run away right now. This is the salvation magic that Master has obtained!!!”

“…Salvation magic?”

[Unlike you, your judgment is too late, Tatianna.]

Even in the meantime, the Tower Master was gently coaxing Tatianna in a soft voice.

[From the moment I appeared here in person, you would have immediately realized that the purpose was to make this whole thing disappear, if it were the old you.]

“No way. No matter how strong the power of soul-burning is…!!”

Even while saying they had to run away, Tatianna couldn’t take a single step.

It wasn’t that her legs wouldn’t move, but rather that she didn’t seem to know where to run.

Lenox also looked around at the surrounding scenery and the movement of magic, and immediately understood the reason.

The sea of fire surging from all directions, except for this island floating in the air.

The waves of flames that surrounded the perimeter without any gaps were not the power of ordinary flame magic.

‘It’s fast and irreversible. It’s not a principle that would generally be accepted in this world.’

A contradictory incantation that divides the concept of combustion into two and forcibly amplifies the firepower at the center.

It was a combustion with a completely different, explosive, and ferocious direction than the flame magic Lenox knew.

Even the shape of the concept of combustion being divided and rotating differently in the magic that had finished the incantation.

However, Lenox didn’t stop there, and he also discerned that the price of the magic that the Tower Master had chanted didn’t exactly match.

‘The correlation between the amount of magic consumed, the range, and the firepower is excessively high. Even considering the amplification of the mind, it’s unrealistic.’

The Tower Master is burning Duren’s spirit with soul-burning, becoming a divine manifestation and a fire god, and descending to this place.

A level 7 Saint-level mage, and the fact that he used the soul of a disciple he had directly taught as fuel, the power from that betrayal and taboo would be enormous.

However, the power of the Taiji Divine Manifestation that is unfolding here is so great that it would be hard to believe even if the Tower Master had come here in person and chanted it.

There is room to understand the situation in that incomprehensible gap and the words ‘salvation magic’ that Tatianna mentioned.

“…….”

A cumbersome combustion method for something designed to burn the enemy.

An incredibly powerful firepower that is hard to believe was chanted by a proxy manifestation.

Even the waves of fire that surged and danced around Lenox and Tatianna, engulfing the entire ground.

“It wasn’t just simple flame magic. Salvation magic…”

Lenox scoffed as he realized the identity of the sense of déjà vu he felt from all directions.

“Are you elevating a ritual magic that forcibly makes the opponent a sacrifice with such a noble expression?”

[……]

The huge flames that rose up, drawing the shape of Taiji [a Chinese philosophical concept representing the balance of opposing forces], surrounded Lenox and Tatianna.

Lenox had experienced that strange sense of unity, which seemed to dance and look down on the two of them, before.

The Far East branch of the Guido Order. The grand sacrificial ritual in which the priestess Izel Naidri tried to summon outer gods and make him a new apostle.

The sense of unity he felt in the ritual that the gifted person was worshiping with all their might was now trying to forcibly designate Lenox.

What the Blaber Magic Tower Master used in this place was not the flame magic of the magic tower.

It was one of the extremes of a forced ritual magic that had been passed down from a completely different world.

Lenox muttered, looking at the towers of flames that surrounded him and rose high.

Kugugugugu!!!

“It draws power on the premise that the ritual will succeed, and if it fails, it takes the backlash instead… There was a reason why the output was so unusually strong.”

[Huhu, you can see the true value of a great ritual magic just by glancing at it?]

The Tower Master laughed in a low voice and moved Duren’s corpse to nod.

[Even with outstanding talent, it’s not easy to have an intuition that surpasses ignorance…]

Even as he spoke, Duren’s whole body was gradually turning to ashes and scattering, disappearing.

Unable to withstand the power of the ritual magic that the Tower Master was wielding, his mind and body were burning and disappearing.

[Tatianna entrusted her brilliance to you. Then I have no choice but to take that away as well.]

Kuooooo!!

A ritual magic that forcibly makes the target a sacrifice of the ritual, regardless of their will.

The moment it is completed as a sacrifice, the power of the ritual that was drawn is matched, and the backlash disappears.

The incantation of Taiji Divine Manifestation, which uses the process of completion itself as a weapon, rather than killing the sacrifice through the completion of the ritual.

But what is the result that appears through the completed ritual?

Lenox believed that the answer lay in the memories he had seen and heard since he had obtained the Phoenix Hall.

“A ritual magic from another world. A flame that is different from the existing magic system. I roughly understand how the Blaber Magic Tower is operating.”

As Lenox said that and reached out his hand, the firebird that had landed on the joint of the engine spread its wings.

[Confirmation of the call of the suitable successor.]

Paruru!!

The moment the will of the Phoenix Hall landed on Lenox’s fingertips and trembled, the Tower Master’s will, recognizing it, shook violently.

[Wait, that’s-]

“If you still haven’t properly recognized the meaning even after seeing this in front of you…”

Lenox muttered, slowly caressing the Phoenix Hall and drawing up magic power.

“It means that you are not a Tower Master who has inherited the authority of the magic tower in a legitimate way either.”

A ritual magic of a different magic system than the Blaber Magic Tower.

The circumstances of the Tower Master wielding a ritual magic that was not of the tower, and the Phoenix Hall’s actions of inheriting authority to Lenox.

Why was the ninth authority trying to be inherited to Lenox even though the owner of the tower already existed?

If you dig into the fundamental cause and effect, you can understand the current situation.

It must be because the Tower Master’s authority itself was not legitimately passed down, or it was deprived for some reason.

And the ritual magic he is using now must be a big part of why the authority of the Eighth Magic Tower Master has weakened.

“If the authority has been twisted in exchange for wielding a different magic, shouldn’t you also bear the price directly?”

The existence of the Phoenix Hall. The way it was placed on the back of Lenox’s hand without any rejection.

Perhaps he felt something from Lenox’s face, which showed no sign of agitation.

[…That’s impossible.]

As if the intuition of a schemer who had maintained his position for a long time was telling him the truth, the Tower Master’s voice became rapidly cold.

[That woman’s thoughts have recognized you as a legitimate successor!!]

Kugugugugu!!!

The flames of the Taiji Divine Manifestation instantly engulfed Lenox and soared his figure high into the sky.

The end of the ritual that works to make Lenox a sacrifice, offering him along with the altar.

As if he had forgotten even Tatianna’s existence, he instantly focused all his attention on Lenox and checked him.

The black and red flames collided and exploded incessantly, desperately trying to burn Lenox’s body as an offering.

But Lenox ignored the storm of fire that was raging around him and only slightly lowered his head.

“It’s not that it recognized me.”

Kiiiiiing!!

He poured the remaining magic power into the flames of the Phoenix Hall that had risen onto Lenox’s hand without leaving any behind.

“I’m the one who’s allowing it.”

[……!!!]

The important thing was not the amount of magic power, but the will itself to allow the authority of the Phoenix Hall, which had been burning its body eagerly all this time.

Immediately after Lenox formally approved and accepted the Tower Master’s succession authority, which had been postponed.

The shape of the firebird that had landed on his hand began to swell explosively.

[Approval of the possessor of the compatible factor.]

[Confirmation of the extreme user of flame-type unique magic.]

[Starting the authority succession process.]

At the end of the two flames that the Tower Master had wrapped around, a new spark spread its wings and took off.

The firebird, which had become dozens of times larger than Lenox’s body in an instant, wrapped its crimson feathers around and embraced the successor’s body.

The moment the thick wings of flame covered Lenox’s eyes and protected him in the center of the blazing ritual magic.

[Accessing the Solar System.]

Kuhwaaaak!!!

Even the flames that the Tower Master had raised engulfed Lenox and soared, turning into a passage that ascended the ritual.

An illusion arose as if the shapes of different suns were looking down on this place.

The moment Lenox stepped directly into the other side of that ritual world without hesitation.

[Entering the Altar of the Sun.]

A majestic hall of flames unfolded before his eyes.