Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 803

I had suspected that the ghost dragon Yao Xun wanted something from Lenok.

But I never imagined it would be to become Lenok’s Incarnation himself.

In the first place, is it even possible to replace an Incarnation built for a sorcerer with another being?

Especially if that being has already been born as an Incarnation in the hands of another sorcerer and has endured for a long time?

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. Change my Incarnation to reach the Interstice [a space between realms]?”

Lenok, having made a decision in an instant, shook his head sharply.

“I refuse. Whether it’s possible or not is secondary, it’s a proposal that doesn’t even need consideration.”

“Even if I say you can’t go to the Interstice through your Incarnation?”

“Yao Xun.”

Lenok smiled coldly.

“You said your goal was to erase yourself in the Interstice and find rest.”

“…So?”

“Then even if I make you my Incarnation, wouldn’t your existence disappear after everything is over?”

Lenok spoke, leaving the ghost dragon unable to answer.

“I didn’t create an Incarnation for such a short-sighted achievement. If I were going to use it once and throw it away, I wouldn’t have accepted your proposal. And…”

Lenok openly scanned Yao Xun up and down, then chuckled.

“I’m not sure if your existence is more valuable than my Incarnation to warrant that.”

“…”

The precarious, swaying Incarnation of the martial artist and the ghost dragon’s spirit body filling the entire ossuary [a burial chamber].

It was obvious which of the two Incarnations seemed more powerful and high-level.

However, Lenok knew well that the value of his Incarnation was not limited to immediate power or weaknesses.

It was the remnant of someone who had the potential to be comparable to Lenok himself, something Lenok could not have obtained now.

If this was refined well, it might become something of greater significance than expected someday.

Knowing this, Lenok had no intention of abandoning or changing his Incarnation from the start.

“I see… That’s unfortunate.”

The ghost dragon’s voice lowered as it realized there was no hesitation in Lenok’s answer.

Kugugung!!

The entire ossuary vibrated as the ghost dragon’s spirit body tilted its head.

The true blood of Kundara. Just the twisting of its spirit body was shaking the entire underground chamber.

The ghost dragon slowly turned its head and approached Lenok’s face, exhaling a cold breath.

“But I didn’t go through this tedious talk to hear that answer.”

“…”

“It’s not a matter of whether you accept the proposal or not. What I’m about to do is… like an inevitable outcome for you.”

Krrrung!!

With a low roar that seemed to echo from the depths of the abyss, the ghost dragon’s magic surged rapidly.

“Understand that there isn’t much time left, talented sorcerer.”

“We didn’t gather here to exchange pleasantries.”

The moment Lenok calmly agreed and brought his hands together in a prayer, the ghost dragon opened its mouth wide towards Lenok and exhaled a cold mist.

Kwaaaaah!!!

Formless resentment coalesced into a tangible form, becoming a sharp vortex that lashed out at the open space of the ossuary.

A tremendous wind pressure that would have torn apart a living human body in an instant.

However, a pure white shockwave that erupted from the center of that wind blocked Lenok and deflected all attacks.

Tzeoeong!!

The figure of the Incarnation stood with a pure white gauntlet, now full of cracks, extended forward.

“I have certainly observed the martial arts and noble skills of your Incarnation.”

Yao Xun gave a dark smile as he watched the scene.

“But with such a tattered appearance, how long can it protect you?”

The ghost dragon said that and was about to unleash another breath of resentment towards Lenok, intending to sweep him away along with his Incarnation, when the Incarnation’s figure disappeared from the spot.

Paat!!

The Incarnation’s figure, which had appeared as if it had crossed space, instantly appeared in front of the ghost dragon’s nose.

Immediately after, it pressed down on the gaping maw of the beast, forcing its mouth shut.

Kung!!

Tudududuk!!

The breath of resentment that seemed about to burst out was forcibly returned into Yao Xun’s throat.

The ghost dragon’s neck swelled in a bizarre direction, and its face contorted greatly in pain.

“…You!!”

It tried to shake off the Incarnation by swinging its massive body, but Lenok’s Incarnation had already created distance.

“You’re right. My Incarnation can only move on the premise that it will be destroyed. But…”

Lenok said, watching the scene.

“For a short while, I can solve that problem with my sorcery.”

Tzeojeok!!

A hawk-nosed old monster with eight arms appeared from the void, tearing through the empty air.

[Khehehehehet.]

While Yao Xun was startled by the appearance of the tailor, who was waving his arms and cackling grotesquely,

thousands of strands of magical threads fell from the tailor’s fingertips towards the Incarnation.

The moment hundreds of strands of magical threads wrapped around Lenok’s Incarnation and pulled up its magic,

Kiriririk…!!

The Incarnation’s spirit body, shining with a pale flash, began to rapidly recover on the spot.

“…!!”

The unrealistic idea of overlaying magical threads between spirit bodies to repair damage in real-time.

The moment Yao Xun’s neck twitched at the absurd phenomenon,

Chwaak!!

The tailor stretched out both hands and began to directly manipulate the Incarnation, moving it like a puppet.

The Incarnation, hanging from the hands of a special-type artificial summon, began to walk towards the ghost dragon.

Lenok nodded, pulling up magic into the Incarnation’s form.

“Let’s go.”

Kwang!!!

Underground in the courtyard cemetery of the fortress. The scenery of the ossuary, which filled the vast castle chamber, shook incessantly.

Every time a rough roar echoed, a dazzling magical light flashed, turning the scene white.

The illusion of floating was created as the surrounding gravity momentarily disappeared.

Du du du du!!

[Khehehet!!]

The tailor, who was emitting magical threads with a grotesque laugh, and the dragon of mist, who was roaring.

Just that alone amplified the will of the Incarnation and Yao Xun, causing a dazzling light to burst forth.

Udeudeuk…!!

The dragon of mist let out a chilling cry and spat out orbs of resentment at a speed that could not be seen properly.

The remnants of an intense mental image that seemed to be wielded and hammered down by will itself.

Lenok also immediately manipulated his summon to perform a proxy incantation.

As the tailor chanted the manipulation technique, thousands of magical threads intertwined into a hexagonal shield, rising up and receiving the attack head-on.

Tzeojeok!!

The shield cracked under the impact, but the tailor continuously pulled out magical threads to repair the cracking shield.

The tailor, without any prior preparation, was pulling out magical threads like bringing out a pile of yarn.

Yao Xun turned his gaze towards the artificial summon floating above Lenok’s head.

“I wondered why you had such outstanding talent in manipulating Incarnations, but you already had something even greater…!!!”

He laughed as he watched the tailor, who was chuckling in the air and caressing the magical threads.

“A summon that travels through the void and manipulates special-type sorcery… Are you saying you’re handling such a monster as a mere summon!!”

“It’s not the time to be paying attention to that.”

Lenok countered, avoiding Yao Xun’s attack that was falling down using Blink [a teleportation spell].

“My Incarnation’s abilities. You haven’t even properly checked them yet, have you?”

At that moment, the Incarnation that had appeared in front of Yao Xun’s nose fell behind the ghost dragon, striking its back.

Kagagagak!!!

Every time the pure white gauntlet collided with Yao Xun’s spirit body, it shattered and scattered fragments,

but conversely, every time that happened, the ghost dragon’s scales were torn off and fell from between the gauntlet’s grip.

“Kuaaaak!!”

While the ghost dragon screamed in pain as if its soul was being torn apart, the Incarnation grabbed the scales it had pulled out.

Paat!!

The Incarnation suddenly shoved the scales it had pulled from Yao Xun’s back into its chest.

Even Lenok’s expression momentarily turned strange at that bizarre action, as it nodded in satisfaction.

“…What is it doing?”

“How dare you!!!”

Yao Xun, enraged by the fact that a part of his spirit body had been taken, began to twist and move madly.

The figures of the Incarnation and Yao Xun leaped beyond sound and collided repeatedly in all directions of the ossuary.

Scattering intense shockwaves, they overturned and ravaged the battlefield.

The scene of the small Incarnation and the giant beast’s spirit body clashing and intertwining.

However, it was not Yao Xun who had the upper hand, but Lenok’s Incarnation, which was moving with its whole body broken and twisted.

Teong!!

The Incarnation parried all the impacts scattered by the ghost dragon’s spirit body moving at tremendous speed with the Eight Extremities [a martial arts style].

Even as the Incarnation was being destroyed by the impact, it continued to accumulate effective hits by wielding the Yiragucheon [a martial arts technique].

The Incarnation’s movements were mechanical, as if it was very skilled at hunting such monsters.

“Damn it, an incomplete Incarnation…!!”

Contrary to Yao Xun’s desperate cries, the Incarnation began to crush the ancient ghost in an instant.

Eujijijik!!

Tududuk!!

Tzeojeojeok!!

It crushed claws by stepping on them, tore off scales, and struck the jaw, pulling out fangs with the impact.

It hunted the monster alive, plundered its byproducts, and shoved them into its own Incarnation to replenish itself.

It attached fragments of molars to the broken gauntlet, added crushed scale powder to its legs, and draped leather over its shoulders.

A strange combat method that used the Incarnation’s form, which was being destroyed every time it moved, as a source of power by plundering it from the enemy.

“…”

Lenok forgot to flee from Yao Xun and was watching the wondrous ‘disassembly’ process that the Incarnation was showing.

Perhaps long ago, someone had prepared to face such a huge monster.

If they had tried to oppose the ending by killing monsters living beyond the sea and using their byproducts as meaning,

perhaps they would not have tried to choose this wrong answer by taking the hands of the Outer Gods at first.

“Stop, stop!!!”

Yao Xun, who was desperately trying to escape from the Incarnation’s grasp, forgot to resist and screamed.

“Stop…!! No more. If the curse of the Interstice and the record of my spirit body change, even my annihilation won’t be properly achieved!!”

Kung!!

Yao Xun’s massive body, now tattered all over, lost its strength and collapsed on the spot.

Lenok silently watched the scene, then shook his head and began to walk towards Yao Xun.

“That’s a ridiculous surrender. Do you think I’ll fulfill your wish now?”

“Cough…!!”

Yao Xun did not answer that. He only looked down at the places where the stolen molars, some leather, and hundreds of scales had disappeared with a gloomy gaze.

Even though he still had plenty of strength left to fight, the reason he gave up so easily was to prevent his spirit body from being taken by Lenok’s Incarnation any further.

If Yao Xun’s form recorded in the Interstice were to change from its current state, perhaps he would not be able to disappear just by removing the curse in the Interstice.

That fear had prevented Yao Xun from resisting with his remaining power.

“It doesn’t matter if I don’t cross the reverse gate through the Incarnation technique.”

Lenok, turning away from the fallen spirit body of Yao Xun, took out the Record of Observation from his pocket.

“Because I was already looking for a way.”

The travelogue of Ethan Bajur, who had traveled and recorded this military city long ago.

On the papyrus, the words that Ethan had left about the reverse gate were already visible.

=The ghost dragon Yao Xun is a wraith bound to Yorta. He regrets that fact and wants to reverse it.

=If you grant his request, you can pass through the fortress, but he will not show you the reverse gate until you learn the Incarnation technique.

=I am not interested in obtaining an Incarnation, so I skipped Yao Xun’s test and headed for the reverse gate.

One fact that could be learned through the words of the Record of Observation that appeared the moment he entered near the fortress sanctuary.

Ethan Bajur had gone to the Interstice and back without learning the Incarnation technique.

Contrary to Yao Xun’s words, it meant that there was a way to enter the Interstice beyond the spirit realm without an Incarnation.

Lenok was intuitively aware that the method lay in the talent of reversing fate that Ethan Bajur had inherited from Kaise.

If Ethan was able to go to the Interstice without getting lost because of his talent of reversing fate,

then Lenok, who possessed Kaise’s Origin Imprint, the Fetal Reversal Shackled Leaf, would also be able to reach the Interstice without getting lost.

Thinking that, Lenok began to pull up his magic to its full power in front of the reverse gate.

Uuung!!

Lenok’s magic, which had rotated lightly, increased its speed and expanded its area every time it circulated through his body.

The surging waves of magic flowed out of Lenok’s body, soaking the surroundings and pressing down heavily.

“…This can’t be!!”

Without any incantation or hand seals, the intangible pressure that was encroaching and pressing down on the surroundings just by operating magic at full power.

Yao Xun’s face changed drastically as he shouted at Lenok while still collapsed.

A wave of will that was so vast and overwhelming that the battle they had fought using the Incarnation was rendered meaningless.

Kugwagwagwagwa!!!

Centered around the fluttering shadow robe, all the surrounding scenery and sounds seemed to be swirling around.

Far away, the figure of Balia, who had fallen, was heaving with the vibration of magic, and the entire vast sanctuary space was shaking.

A strange illusion where all the senses that were seen and felt seemed to be leaning towards Lenok and slowly converging.

The moment Yao Xun realized how high a level of power had to be accumulated to make that possible and suddenly raised his head,

Lenok slowly reached out his hand towards the dark reverse gate.

Kiiing!!

The reverse gate, covered in darkness, rippled, and the moment the pale hand of the Incarnation grabbed the door,

dense darkness enveloped Lenok’s figure and pulled him inside.

Hwaak!!

The fallen Yao Xun was staring blankly at Lenok’s figure, which had disappeared from the spot without a trace.

* * *

A silence that made the ears ring. In the darkness where even an inch ahead could not be seen properly.

The illusion that even the sense of touch that should be felt on the skin had been paralyzed.

The entire five senses seemed to have lost their meaning and were wandering aimlessly.

Only the sixth sense, made up of magic and will, told Lenok where he was now.

Immediately after entering the reverse gate, Lenok understood that he was being helplessly swept away among countless waves of spirit bodies that he could not comprehend.

Kwaaaaaaa!!!

Even though no sound was heard, it felt as if the intense flow was being felt directly.

The flow of countless spirit bodies, the number of which could not be counted even with magic detection.

Some died and became spirits, some lost their bodies and fell, and some were born as lowly spirits from the beginning.

In this space where only souls could enter and exit, they had become part of a vast flow.

For a living being with a physical body that had entered there, it was nothing more than an impurity that could not follow the flow.

Du du du du du!!!!

The swarm of spirit bodies, which could not be seen or heard, were constantly pounding on Lenok’s entire body.

“…!!”

Although the senses were still not felt, Lenok intuitively knew that he was in a dangerous situation.

At this rate, the shield and the barrier of will would be worn away, and his bare body would be exposed in an instant.

If Lenok’s perception ability had not reached the point of observing even the subconscious, he would have been eroded without even knowing what was hitting him.

Kagagak!!

The speed at which the shield was being worn away and crushed was faster than expected.

If he did not supply magic to replenish the shield and increase the resilience, it would be worn away and disappear before long.

However, instead of investing magic into the shield, Lenok focused his mind and began to manipulate the Incarnation.

Paat!!

At the same time as a pale flash flickered, the Incarnation rose above Lenok’s body and protected Lenok.

Just by reflecting its existence beyond the spirit realm, the flow of souls colliding from all directions seemed to have lessened.

The method of crossing the spirit realm by learning the Incarnation technique that the ghost dragon Yao Xun had mentioned.

That was because in order to reach the Interstice by going against this overwhelming flow of souls that existed beyond the spirit realm,

one had to be able to handle an Incarnation made of spirit bodies, not a living being.

However, Lenok’s Incarnation was already cracking and collapsing just by standing there and enduring.

Tzeojeok…!!

(…..)

Because the Incarnation, whose existence was inherently unstable and had low durability, was struggling to even protect Lenok for long in this place.

‘What should I do…’

Lenok was lost in thought as he watched the Incarnation’s form, which was rapidly wearing away and breaking.

If he used the eyes of Feigenbaum, or the power of the Kaleidoscope, escaping itself would not be difficult.

The power of the False Commandment Star or the Dream Transmission Scripture was specialized in intervening in such environments, so it was possible to withdraw at any time.

However, if he did that, he would be moving away from the original goal of infiltrating the Interstice.

‘Kaise’s Origin Imprint won’t be of much use in this environment either.’

The meaning that Kaise had left in Lenok’s inner self was still alive and breathing beyond the Kaleidoscope.

However, the Self-Generating Domain, the Fetal Reversal Shackled Leaf, was a power that was too structurally unstable, as it was not Lenok’s Origin Imprint.

If he were to take it out in a place where the flow of souls was so intense, he might suffer great damage during the deployment process and be forced to cancel it.

He was not confident in this method enough to take such a risk and try it right now.

He had to decide whether to be satisfied with confirming the environment of the spirit realm and find another method, or to throw a winning move as planned.

Paat!

At that moment, the Incarnation that had been receiving the waves of souls tapped Lenok’s left hand.

The Incarnation was caressing the Guide’s Ring that was on his hand without saying anything.

(…..)

The pale hand, which was broken and scattered, seemed to vaguely express its intention, but Lenok hesitated for a moment even after understanding it.

This was because he could not guess what kind of reaction she would show if he took out the spirit body of the priestess in front of Lenok’s Incarnation now.

The priestess, Seina Naidre, was one of the followers who had served the cult leader and assisted him for a long time.

Even if their appearances and forms were different, there was no way she would not know what kind of being Lenok’s Incarnation was.

Knowing that, the Incarnation was telling him to take out the spirit body of the priestess using the ring.

“…”

It was an Incarnation that originated from Lenok, but he still did not know for sure what it was.

What did the Incarnation know, and could he trust it?

Was this perhaps a trap, or an arrangement for someone other than Lenok?

Thoughts and worries always piled up like mountains, and no clear answers ever came back.

However, Lenok chuckled, knowing that, and began to caress the Guide’s Ring.

“…Alright.”

There was no perfect secret, and no perfect success.

The secrets of the multiple identities and talents that Lenok had created, the penalties that bound his body.

All of that was just a stepping stone and a means for the next step. He must not mistake his priorities.

He was there not to settle down and feel at ease, but to walk a little further.

Having made that decision, Lenok immediately summoned the spirit body of the priestess from within the Guide’s Ring.

Pa a a at!!

[…Your Grace?]

Even beyond the spirit realm where the five senses were blocked, the presence of the priestess’s soul was felt more clearly than ever.

The priestess, Seina Naidre, who was looking around in confusion, opened her mouth towards Lenok.

[How did this happen-]

“There’s no need to explain.”

Lenok, cutting off the priestess’s words, turned his gaze.

“See for yourself and judge.”

The waves of souls that were surging from all directions.

Seina’s gaze, which had been looking at the spirit realm that was overflowing with pitch-black darkness, then turned towards Lenok’s Incarnation.

[…]

A pale, pure white halo.

A bizarre appearance where only the pure white gauntlet had a form, without a proper shape.

Lenok’s Incarnation, which seemed to resemble someone, and the priestess of the Order, finally faced each other’s different spirit bodies.