Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 759

(Munch munch)

“…….”

(Crunch crunch)

[…….]

(Slurp!!)

“……Hmm.”

The eggshell heaved incessantly, and loud eating noises echoed from within.

The guardian spirit beast showed a different reaction each time it picked up and ate something, making one wonder what it found so delicious.

[Master, this isn’t working, is it?]

Davi, who had returned to Lenok’s shoulder, glanced back and said.

[Looking at it now, it doesn’t seem to be picky at all. Could that immortal have been lying?]

“…….”

A series of exploratory actions to investigate the guardian spirit beast’s preferences.

Before feeding it the diluted elixir and checking the results, they first tried feeding it various catalysts and snacks as a test.

And surprisingly, the guardian spirit beast was gobbling up everything Lenok gave it.

Almost half of the items prepared for the guardian spirit beast had already disappeared.

It was a completely different reaction from what Dylan had said about it being extremely picky.

Davi, who had been looking at the guardian spirit beast with suspicious eyes, jumped onto the eggshell.

Davi tapped the shell with its front paws and began interrogating the inside of the eggshell.

[Hey, are you pretending to enjoy it so much because Master is here?]

(……?!!)

It was startled and quickly turned its whole body, indicating denial.

However, Davi tilted its head, looking at the spirit snacks the guardian spirit beast had devoured, as if it couldn’t understand.

[That’s strange. How can it enjoy these snacks so much…….]

“It seems like you’re the one with the picky taste.”

Lenok said, subtly grabbing Davi’s tail as it sniffed near the phone battery.

Lenok pondered, leaving Davi dangling by its five tails.

“It eats anything well, whether it’s an item imbued with magic or not. This is going to disrupt the plan……”

The items Lenok had fed the guardian spirit beast were not just catalysts, spirit snacks, or various herbs.

It was also eating artifacts like necklaces that ordinary living beings couldn’t consume, and even storage boxes, seemingly enjoying them.

It was completely different from the picky eater Dylan had described.

Could it be that the guardian spirit beast was pretending to be picky?

While Lenok was pondering the gap, Davi spoke as if it had suddenly thought of something.

[Ah, could it be because Master is giving it the snacks directly?]

“That’s an interesting point. The problem is with the person giving the food?”

[From my perspective, eating Master’s phone battery, I’m not really interested in other people’s batteries.]

Davi, as if realizing an important fact, dangled upside down and waved its front paws.

[The guardian spirit beast might also depend on who is giving the food!]

“You’re so proud of that.”

While scolding Davi, holding its tail, the guardian spirit beast slowly tilted its huge egg backward, as if it had finished eating.

A peculiar action that had not been seen until now. Could it be that it had reacted to the spirit snacks?

The moment Lenok focused on the guardian spirit beast’s movement and heightened his vision.

(Snore snore)

[It’s sleeping?]

“…….”

Come to think of it, he had fed it quite a lot of leftover items and artifacts.

No matter how strong the guardian spirit beast’s appetite was, it should be full by now.

But to think it would fall asleep again right after filling its belly, even in front of Lenok.

A result that made him wonder whether to accept it positively as a growth phase or to worry about not figuring out the guardian spirit beast’s identity.

“Still, the magic power felt inside the egg has definitely changed a bit. It’s not just eating, it’s also growing little by little…….”

The amount of magic power was more inflated than when he first arrived with Dylan, and the eggshell seemed to be glistening with oil for some reason.

In any case, since the guardian spirit beast is rooted in the Ouroboros magic system [a magic system based on a self-consuming cycle], it might show an effect if he keeps feeding it artifacts or catalysts.

Lenok thought so and retrieved the items and catalysts he had not yet fed to the guardian spirit beast, putting them in his arms.

“Let’s stop here. Even if we wake up the sleeping guardian spirit beast and feed it more, it doesn’t seem like there will be any reaction.”

[Then are you going to leave it like this?]

“No, that wasn’t the original purpose of the experiment, was it?”

Lenok replied, taking out the diluted elixir and reaching out to the eggshell that was lying on its back.

Whoosh……!!

The magic power swirling around Lenok surged violently for a moment, causing his clothes to flutter fiercely.

The golden double helix that started from his fingertip rotated, and the moment it bit its head and tail, the Ouroboros magic system activated.

Fwoosh!!

Immediately, a huge golden halo rose behind Lenok’s back.

[Master?]

Lenok, with his magic eyes open on both eyes and rotating his magic power, looked as if he could enter battle at any moment, except for the golden vial in his hand.

“Davi. Observe the flow of the barrier from the outside, and if there are any intruders, let me know immediately.”

[What are you going to do?]

Lenok opened his mouth, leaving Davi, who was clinging to his head, looking puzzled.

“I’m going to share consciousness with the guardian spirit beast right after feeding it the diluted elixir, and check its inner self directly.”

Lenok said, carefully caressing the guardian spirit beast’s egg with both hands.

“Since the base is the phoenix hall’s thought, the guardian spirit beast is likely to have its own consciousness.”

The phoenix hall, which was the basis of the guardian spirit beast, was also the entrance to the Hall of the Sun, the consciousness world of the Blaver Magic Tower.

Considering that, it was highly likely that the guardian spirit beast also had its own unique consciousness world.

Lenok was thinking about that and was planning to forcibly share the guardian spirit beast’s consciousness by directly manifesting the Ouroboros magic system.

“Since the guardian spirit beast is based on my magic power and thoughts, it will be able to fully enjoy the effects of the elixir.”

Lenok said, slowly pouring the diluted liquid into the cracks in the eggshell.

“Penetrate the subconscious the moment the magic power is fixed right after ingestion. Build the most stable state and look inside without any backlash, then come back.”

Woo woo woo!!!

Without waiting for Davi’s reply, he carefully injects the elixir, watching the shape of the egg with his magic eyes.

The golden liquid of the diluted elixir slowly seemed to seep into the cracks of the egg.

The moment the unknown shape curled up inside and Lenok’s magic power met.

Lenok’s consciousness, which had activated both the eyes of possibility and revelation, was instantly sucked into the egg.

Fwoooosh!!!

The consciousness of the spirit body, which had fallen asleep in the darkness where nothing could be seen.

The boundary line blurred as the sensation of himself touching the egg and the sensation on the other side of consciousness overlapped.

It was now quite familiar to peek into memories or subconsciousness within another being’s consciousness.

He mixed the remaining tips in his memory appropriately and navigated through the guardian spirit beast’s consciousness.

An intense appetite and curiosity that knew no end.

A very intense golden thought that the spirit beast itself did not know the origin of.

Even an imprint close to instinct that it should not come out of the eggshell yet.

Lenok, who had passed through all the information the spirit beast usually saw and heard, and approached the source of its subconscious, shone his eyes.

It was because he felt a completely different, heterogeneous emptiness underlying the base of consciousness.

‘There’s something there, after all.’

He had thought that there might be something based on the phoenix hall of the seven great magic tower lords.

However, he tried to refrain from rashly approaching the base consciousness at the time the guardian spirit beast was born, thinking it was dangerous, but Lenok also did not have much time to spare.

Apart from running various businesses and research, he might have to leave Vulcan again soon.

Now that he didn’t know when things would be finished, he needed to take care of what he could in advance.

‘Collect the indiscriminately scattered images and construct them into an image. Filter and sort only the information that can be received visually, and sort it according to the size of the thought…….’

He understood what kind of sensation it was by looking into the memories and consciousness of others at the Ascension Gate of the Machine City.

If he reproduced the sensation of reorganizing scattered memories, he could first peek at the source of the consciousness that the spirit beast was not aware of.

The moment he gathered the scattered pieces in the subconscious and output them as visual information, as if putting together a puzzle.

Fwoooosh!!!

Lenok was standing in front of a vast field that had no end in sight.

“…….”

What was visible under his feet was a hard stone floor.

A vast plain with desolate traces of sparse grass roots.

The scenery was visible far into the distance, with a hazy sky and horizon.

Is this wilderness, where nothing was visible around, the appearance of the consciousness world that the guardian spirit beast possessed?

Lenok, who had been silently staring at the wilderness, slowly began to walk around.

Lenok murmured, feeling the warm breeze coming from the distance.

“Is it because the magic tower hasn’t been properly completed yet?”

A landscape that was completely different from the altar of the sun that existed in the Blaver Magic Tower.

It was not clear whether it was because the magic tower was not properly constructed, or because Lenok had not yet intervened in the tower’s consciousness world.

It would be nice if he could get advice from Tatiana, but she also didn’t know much about the authority of the tower lord.

Here, he had no choice but to find out by bumping into it himself.

“Where should I go first…….”

A wilderness where nothing was visible around.

The only thing he could feel was the warm breeze blowing from a distant place.

The only unusual thing was that the speed of the wind was quite regular.

It was not a consistent pattern or tendency as if it had been calculated, but it was still at a level that felt quite regular in terms of sensation.

If this is the only variable given in this wilderness, then perhaps the essence of this consciousness world is also in this wind.

The part that was troubling was which of the two directions the wind was pointing to should he go.

The direction from which the wind was blowing and the direction in which the wind was moving away.

Once he chose one, he could not change his choice for a while.

The time he could spend in the consciousness world was limited, so he had to choose well now to get meaningful results.

“…….”

Lenok, who had been pondering, soon stared at the stone floor under his feet.

The focus returned to his eyes, which had been wandering through his memories for a long time.

“I see. But why……?”

He tilted his head as if more questions had arisen, but nevertheless, Lenok soon chose a direction and began to walk.

In the consciousness world, the sense of distance and time were variables based on subjective criteria.

Lenok’s pace seemed to quicken, and soon he leaped tens of meters, sliding quickly across the wilderness.

Fwoosh fwoosh fwoosh!!

Even though he was just walking slowly, the speed increased so much that everything around him passed by as white lines.

But even in the midst of that, he kept checking the direction of the wind as he moved.

After some time had passed since he had chosen one direction of the wind and quickly traversed the wilderness, something began to appear beyond the horizon.

Thud thud thud!!!

A huge structure that seemed to be precisely built.

An altar with bizarre murals that looked like an ancient city.

All the scenery that came into view was filled with traces of a grand civilization.

However, unlike the mysterious ancient city scenery that was precisely and beautifully built, there was no sign of life inside.

A civilization built by human hands, and a ghost city where no humans remained.

But Lenok, knowing that, continued to move with the wind.

Whoosh……!!

Inside the huge plaza of the ancient city.

The center of the storm where the wind was constantly blowing and escaping out of the city.

Inside, something huge, whose shape was difficult to guess, was curled up and sleeping.

Lenok silently stared at the being, and then opened his mouth.

“I thought I would meet you if I followed the direction the wind was blowing.”

[…….]

The warm wind that Lenok had felt from the other side of the wilderness was not just a natural phenomenon.

The slow breath that someone was exhaling while in a deep sleep.

That alone was enough to become a warm wind that swept across the entire vast consciousness world.

The fact that it was not completely regular, but still blew consistently, was also possible because it was the exhalation of someone so huge that it was beyond imagination.

“The scale and width were too vast to be the consciousness of a newly born spirit beast. It was at a level that could not be understood unless someone else added consciousness.”

The hard stone floor that he saw as soon as he opened his eyes.

At first, he didn’t recognize it, but he quickly remembered it because he had recently talked about the clown and related incidents.

Thanks to that, he knew that there would be an answer if he went in the direction the wind was blowing, so he could say he was lucky.

But such a basis for speculation and logic were nothing the moment he faced the being sleeping in this place.

He had a vague idea, but the overwhelming presence was so great that he couldn’t even realize the moment his guess became a certainty.

A transcendent being curled up in the middle of the city, breathing in and out, creating a storm that swept through the consciousness world.

“Then, may I ask why you are sleeping inside my guardian spirit beast’s consciousness?”

Beyond the vast consciousness world that had no end in sight.

In the middle of a forgotten ancient city located on the outskirts.

A huge snake, hundreds of meters long, was quietly sleeping with its eyes closed.

Dark scales where light was submerged, and a muscular, firm, and thick body.

Just by breathing in and out, the breath became a storm that swept through the city.

[I am not inside you. You pitiful magician.]

The moment Lenok slowly tilted his head, a low telepathic sound echoed from the snake, which had not answered anything until now.

[You have entered my consciousness and are waking up a beast that has barely fallen asleep. Don’t you know yet?]

With those words, the green pupils that had slowly opened stared at Lenok.

[That this strange encounter is not a coincidence.]

“…….”

An overwhelming presence that was felt without fail, even though it was not a physical entity, but a confrontation by sharing each other’s consciousness.

A great transcendent being that he could never guarantee survival if he met.

But Lenok already knew that he had met this being once before.

The end of the great operation that had begun to launch the fallen ascendant Gye Baek to the other side of the outer sea.

The snake guarding the gate, the well, that existed on the boundary between the world and the outer sea.

The spiritual snake at the top of the food chain in the southern jungle.

A transcendent being who had forgotten his mission and was suffering from oblivion for hundreds of years.

The Ascendant’s Deviation.

The monster that had scattered more powerful forces than anyone else in the well was coiled up on the other side of the guardian spirit beast’s consciousness.