Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 740

The moment the corpse giant’s palm slammed into the ground, the hollow shook, and fragments scattered in all directions.

Kwaaaang!!

An immense crushing force pressed down on Jillian, just from the impact of one palm.

It was a pressure so intense that an ordinary human would have been instantly pulverized into a puddle of blood.

Only then did Agneta, realizing that Lenox was completely manipulating the corpse giant, whisper.

[Your idea is truly unique. In the meantime, you thought of manipulating the giant’s corpse that was taxidermied there?]

After realizing that Jillian was aware of Agneta’s presence, she didn’t seem to bother hiding herself.

[He’s manipulating the entire body, not just a part of it. It’s just like what Chebien does.]

However, Lenox scoffed at Agneta’s admiration and retorted.

“Don’t compare me to that pathetic puppeteer.”

[I’m saying it looks like that on the surface. I know the method is different.]

“Watch from the side and understand clearly.”

[I get it. Why are you so confident?]

Agneta understood the method of manipulating the corpse giant, having seen it once in the underground of the fortress.

It wasn’t about attaching a magic user from the outside to manipulate it, but rather directly manipulating the movements of the muscles and joints by replacing the nervous system.

The precision and compatibility would be incomparably more complex and intricate than simply manipulating a puppet.

Jillian’s reaction was slightly delayed, perhaps because he hadn’t expected Lenox to manipulate the giant in such a way.

“Kuh…!!”

He hurriedly enlarged one hand to receive the blow, but his fingers were all bent, as if he couldn’t handle the weight.

Rather, it seemed that Jillian had blocked the corpse giant’s power and weight.

“It seems that the corpses of the Giant Soldier Corps have an absurd level of weight and durability even in death.”

Lenox looked down at Jillian and nodded.

Following that simple gesture, the corpse giant standing behind him also turned its gaze.

Lenox, leaving Jillian looking at the giant’s corpse with a complex expression, asked.

“Was it because you used the corpses of the Giant Soldier Corps that the knights of the fortress were so tough?”

“…What?”

Jillian’s expression momentarily went blank at those words, but soon, as if he had guessed something, a vein popped out on his forehead.

“These bastards, could it be…!!”

Jillian, gritting his teeth and rising to his feet, forcefully rotated his magic power and detonated it.

Lenox also immediately manipulated the corpse giant on the spot and swung its arm.

Jillian’s explosively expanding fist and the corpse giant’s hand collided head-on at different altitudes.

The circular shockwaves overlapped and exploded, sending both of them flying in opposite directions.

Paah-aah-aang!!

Lenox’s form, wrapped in a shadow robe, was pushed back as if repelled by the force.

However, instead of resisting the flow and stopping his body, Lenox pulled out a magic thread again and threw it above his head.

At that moment, another giant’s corpse in the ruins stood up and received Lenox’s form with both hands.

Squeak…!!

Movements so delicate and precise that it was hard to believe it was a corpse moving.

Lenox, using light manipulation, climbed onto the corpse giant’s shoulder and looked down at Jillian.

Loud shouts echoed from all around them.

The knights who had survived had recognized the situation and rushed to the source of the shock.

“Lord Jillian!!”

“Are you alright?!!”

The shock of the ruins collapsing and the fortress shaking. It would be stranger if they didn’t notice this much commotion.

The knights who had rushed out of the ruins’ passage, seeing the giant standing tall and Lenox on top of it, gaped.

“A, a Giant Soldier…!!”

“The ruins are moving!!”

However, Jillian, seeing the knights, turned his head in annoyance and shouted roughly.

“Stop the nonsense and fall back!!”

“Yes? What on earth…!!”

“Lord Jillian!!”

Looking at the flustered knights, Jillian picked up the magic thread that was tied to his arm.

Even though it had been a long time since the connection with Lenox was severed, the thread’s shape hadn’t disappeared, and its tension hadn’t weakened.

It didn’t seem to contain much magic on the surface, so what was this maintenance and durability?

Crack…!!

However, before confirming that, Jillian suddenly glared at the knights and asked.

“Did you guys eat the giant’s serum while I was gone?”

“…!!”

A faint contempt flashed across Jillian’s face as he saw the knights flinch without answering properly.

“Pathetic fools… Was this also something the royal family instigated?”

“Th, that’s…”

The knights hesitated, looking pale, but Jillian didn’t pursue the matter for long.

Instead, he burned the magic thread he was holding with his own magic power and turned his gaze away.

“That guy is an extremely dangerous manipulator, as you can see. If you get close, you might be controlled, so get lost.”

“But…!!”

“More importantly, quickly find out information about this guy.”

Jillian spoke quickly, not taking his eyes off Lenox’s fingertips.

“His combat experience and skill proficiency are absurd. If a manipulator with this level of skill is moving, there must be someone behind him.”

He was not just a petty thief who coveted treasure; his skill and experience were extraordinary.

Jillian, with his long experience, instinctively knew that someone with this level of skill wouldn’t cause trouble just for the sake of wealth.

Jillian himself hadn’t been on the front lines for a long time, so he didn’t know well, but there was a high possibility that he was a well-known strongman.

The knights also immediately understood Jillian’s words and quickly began to retreat.

“Move the injured to a safe place. Everyone, prepare!!”

“Investigate the manipulators who have been active on the central front recently. Move quickly!!”

Leaving the knights who were giving and receiving various instructions and creating distance, Jillian, who had strode out, swept back his hair and said.

“Let’s start again. This time will be different.”

A warrior with only one arm grotesquely swollen, walking barefoot.

His size was so large that he completely blocked one side of the fortress’s outer wall, which had collapsed from the mountain ridge.

“There are no wounds.”

Lenox looked closely at Jillian’s arm and said.

“If it was a power that directly grew your body, it should have been fatal even with that level of injury.”

“…”

Jillian didn’t answer.

Instead, he poured his magic power into his swollen forearm.

Woo-woo-woong!!!

Vast magic power swirled around his giant arm, dyeing his skin blue.

Jillian’s mental enhancement, who never used magic except to wield his inner universe [a personal power system], was now on full display.

The aftermath alone distorted the surrounding air, creating the illusion that it was being sucked towards Jillian.

Kukwakwakwa!!!

Inner World Universe: Giant Soldier Commander

[Jeongjunghwa (Pure Center Flower)]

The illusion that the surrounding air was being sucked into the giant’s arm. Following the spiraling convergence, a single flower seemed to bloom.

The giant’s arm, imbued with the mysteries of martial arts, shot towards Lenox’s body at an incredible speed.

Swae-aek!!

The corpse giant that Lenox was riding on immediately raised both arms to guard, but Jillian’s straight punch pushed the corpse giant’s solid body away.

The corpse giant’s arm, which was being manipulated by replacing nerves with magic threads, was crushed, and control over it was lost in an instant.

Eudeudeudeuk!!

Kwaaang!!

The corpse giant’s body was flipped upside down and slammed into the wall of the ruins.

Lenox, who had landed in front of Jillian with his bare body, asked mockingly.

“Is it okay to hit your precious comrade’s corpse like that?”

“Of course. We were friends.”

Jillian chuckled and replied.

“When he was alive, this wasn’t even a tickle.”

“…”

“Now, I’m the last one.”

Jillian’s smile, as he muttered that, was somewhat twisted.

“The only thing left for me to do is this…!!”

Jillian’s fist, which had instantly blown away the corpse giant, was bent and slammed down on Lenox’s head.

“Die, manipulator!!”

Whoo-oong!!

There wasn’t enough time to manipulate another corpse giant to use as a shield. An unavoidable area where there was no place to escape.

However, even knowing that, Lenox raised his hand towards the giant’s fist approaching before his eyes.

The moment dozens of magic threads tied between his fingers were cut simultaneously, dozens of times more threads poured down, blocking Jillian’s fist.

Chwajajajak!!

Without a proper impact sound, the fist, wrapped in magic threads, pushed in, accompanied by the sound of the threads stretching.

The impact tore through the corridor ceiling and walls, conveying the shouts of the panicked knights outside.

Ujijijik!!

The closer the distance, the more magic threads wrapped around the giant’s arm, pulling and drawing out its tension to the limit to block it.

The moment countless magic threads, so many that Jillian’s skin couldn’t be seen, endlessly stretched out and completely covered his fist.

His fist stopped right in front of Lenox’s nose.

Kkiiii…!!

Only the strange sound of the magic threads stretching echoed like the scream of a stringed instrument with a broken string.

The knights, who had been watching the exchange from above, gaped.

“He, he blocked it…!!”

An 8-level physical ability user using his inner universe to unleash a full-force strike.

Was it even possible to receive that head-on by simply layering magic threads?

He divided the monstrous power, which was impossible to perceive with human senses, into hundreds and thousands of magic threads.

It was proof that he had mastered the method of perfectly controlling tension and elasticity in the realm of manipulation techniques.

While the knights were in awe of the unrealistic result that had reached the pinnacle of skill, Jillian moved without delay.

At the same time as returning his giant right arm to its original size, he instantly enlarged his left arm and struck Lenox again.

Kwaaaang!!

The corridor, blocked by the debris of collapsed stones, exploded in one blow, piercing through the space beyond.

However, what remained in that place was not Lenox, but only a messy lump of magic threads.

Lenox, who had easily dodged with a blink at the last moment, quickly escaped the outer wall and climbed onto the half-collapsed fortress corridor.

The giant’s fortress was a natural stronghold where the mountain range and the outer walls were connected.

As the mountain range near the hidden ruins collapsed and piles of dirt poured out, Lenox’s form naturally returned to the fortress.

While his gaze was drawn to the giant’s corpse revealed from the other side of the collapsed ruins, Lenox quickly concealed his presence and walked along the corridor.

Cheek!!

Lenox, taking out an ampoule from his pocket and injecting it into his neck, muttered.

“Brute force. It will be difficult to deal with it like this.”

[Shall I help?]

Agneta, who had been quietly watching, asked, but Lenox shook his head.

“The compatibility isn’t good. There aren’t many openings to exploit with this type of ability.”

[How about tying his limbs with magic threads in advance, and then tightening them the moment he transforms?]

Agneta also seemed to have her own ideas, having watched Jillian’s abilities from right next to him.

[If it’s an ability that explosively enlarges the body, it seems like it wouldn’t be able to withstand the parts tied with magic threads.]

“I thought of that at first, but-”

Kwaaang!!

The giant’s fist surged up in the place where Lenox had been standing just a moment ago, sweeping away the corridor.

Dudududu!!!

Just by lightly clenching his hand, the corridor and floor of the fortress, made of solid stone, were crushed.

The giant’s grasp, quickly approaching Lenox and eliminating even the space to stand.

However, Lenox, looking at that, cut the magic thread he had hooked on his finger in advance with his own hand.

Ding!!

At that moment, Lenox’s body bounced up from that spot as if it had sprung forward.

A tightrope walk, quickly pulling his body forward along the corridor by instantly shortening the magic thread he had hooked in advance.

Lenox’s form, covered in a shadow robe, flipped dozens of times in that spot, flying while avoiding the decorations and obstacles in all directions of the corridor.

Pa-ba-bat!!

He had taken a drug to numb his sense of balance in preparation for this situation.

Lenox, pulling on his muffled ears, floated in the air and glanced back, saying.

“The wounds don’t open up even after transforming. I think it’s not about making his body bigger, but rather replacing his body with the mental image of the giant’s arm.”

[Ah, then it might be difficult to fight head-on.]

If Jillian was an ability user who honestly enlarged his body, it would be enough to inflict a wound and wait until he transformed.

Then the wound would open up on its own, and the amount of bleeding would become uncontrollably large.

However, on the skin of Jillian’s arm, which he had enlarged, there were no wounds that Lenox had cut with magic threads.

There were two possibilities that could be inferred from this.

Either he had the ability to heal at the same time as transforming, or the thing he was enlarging was not Jillian’s arm in the first place.

Either way, it was difficult to deal with using magic threads.

“Even if I grab the transformed arm with magic threads, he can escape the restraints by releasing the transformation. There are too many conditions to consider on this side to engage in a head-on battle.”

In the first place, manipulation techniques were not compatible with physical ability users who combined transformation and brute force like Jillian.

Since he used his magic threads to perform techniques, the battle became easier when there was room to intervene in the opponent’s abilities or fighting style.

[So, are you going to run away like this?]

Instead of answering, Lenox pulled out magic threads with both hands, grasped them in a cross, and pulled them hard.

At that moment, he stopped abruptly in mid-air, then instantly changed direction and flew low to the ground.

“Grab him!!”

“We must stop him from escaping!!”

The knights who were waiting nearby tried to grab Lenox and pull him down, but as Lenox tapped his hands in the air, dozens of magic threads pulled his form, changing direction and accelerating.

He dodged the knights’ attacks by a hair’s breadth, swung the magic threads he had pulled out, tied their limbs, and stuck them to the walls and ceiling.

Chwaaaak!!

The knights, who were instantly bound to the ceiling and floor of the corridor, let out screams mixed with shock.

“Kuh, what kind of power is this…!!”

“The nature of his magic is strange. Everyone, be careful!!”

An overwhelming result where even a moment of exchange was not established.

The moment they briefly clashed magic and exchanged patterns, they had already reached a defeat where they couldn’t think of the next step.

Even in the midst of that, Lenox’s form became even faster, creating distance from the hand that was chasing him, smashing through the corridor.

Swae-aek!!

The pitch-black shadow robe flew at an incredible speed, grabbing and bouncing off everything that got in its way and going berserk.

Even the knights of Kabahim who blocked his path were equally grabbed and slammed into the ceiling and walls in all directions without even a single exchange.

Kwaaang!!

“The fortress’s security is being breached by just one manipulator…!!”

Ignoring the knights’ shouts, which seemed to be in shock, the moment Lenox circled the corridor and reached the wide lobby hall below.

A long deer hoof that appeared from the side kicked Lenox in the back.

Kwaaang!!

A nimble speed that was difficult to even react to. The power contained in that kick created a circular concentric circle in the air for a moment.

The form of the shadow robe blurred and instantly disappeared to one side, scattering away.

Pio, a shapeshifter who had transformed his lower body into the form of a deer, planted his feet on the ground and glared at Lenox.

“Are you the thief who has been causing a ruckus in this fortress since earlier?”

“Pio!!”

Pio, rubbing his chin with a tired look, stretched out his arm to stop Geo, who had belatedly rushed over.

“Geo. Don’t come closer. Wait there until Jillian returns.”