Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 811

The Kaleidoscope’s Branching Point, Self-Domain: Mad Naked Unsea Palace.

However, even Lenok couldn’t freely wield the power of this branching point.

It was originally a domain forcibly bloomed by choosing a possibility that Lenok himself would never have selected.

A domain that bloomed with a power that is both extremely difficult to activate and has severe repercussions, yet is also infinitely unique and alien.

The power to kill that which cannot die.

The temple of the madman who craves immortality.

Kugwagwagwa!!!

Several black pillars rose simultaneously above the Sanctuary of the Abyss, overlaying the scenery of the cathedral.

The scenery of the Outer Sea, which should not be visible, was cast over the sky of the temple, scattering dark starlight beneath the black temple.

Gooooooo……!!

A bizarre, inhuman roar echoed incessantly within the temple, distorting everything that existed.

The will of the Unsea [a term referring to the chaotic, formless void], withered and blackened, collapsing the scenery inside the temple and even the temple itself.

The possibility of a madman who became an apostle without serving any god, premised on his own destruction.

[From the beginning… you never intended to choose any god.]

The priestess, who had been blankly staring at the scene, finally realized Lenok’s intentions and murmured.

[An apostle completed by not serving a god… how can a human make such a choice-]

Lenok had asked the priestess for the apostle selection ritual not to become an apostle by choosing one of the Outer Gods [powerful, cosmic entities].

From the beginning, Lenok never even considered choosing any of the Outer Gods.

He simply needed a very special and intense ‘trigger’ to go through the process of becoming an apostle through the selection ritual.

However, the Ascendant did not let it continue for long.

“You deceive the Outer Gods, forcing the laws of the world for a fleeting moment…!!”

Dark, ink-like magic surged and coiled around the Ascendant’s arms.

“Having made such a choice in your heart, can you dare to lecture me that I am wrong!!!”

The form of magic that exploded from behind his elbows instantly covered both forearms, transforming into thick gauntlets.

Becoming a giant fist twice the size of the Ascendant’s forearm, it instantly struck Lenok’s chest.

Hooong……!

A faint sound of tearing air brushed past his ear. A dark ripple flashed before his eyes.

The Ascendant’s heart, exploding as if sucked in and rotating, fired like a bullet, transcending sound and perception.

The heart-fist, ejected as if disappearing into the void, struck Lenok’s solar plexus, piercing through muscle and bone to shatter his heart.

Tudududuk!!

A single blow, directly into the center of the defenseless sorcerer’s body, immediately after deploying the Self-Domain.

The Ascendant, who had penetrated Lenok’s body as he staggered backward, gestured as if caressing the empty air.

The Ascendant’s touch struck Lenok’s entire body, and dark flashes burst out in dozens of overlapping layers behind him.

Du-du-du-du-duk!!

The mage’s form, scattering like dancing in the wind beneath the Unsea Palace, torn apart and devoured by the Ascendant’s magic.

With a tremendous roar as if his entire body was exploding, Lenok’s figure was sent flying dozens of meters backward.

[……!!!]

A battle that ended in an instant, before the power of the domain could even be properly displayed.

The moment the Ascendant fully drew upon his will, shaping the ‘equipment’ necessary for a martial artist.

With his dramatically increased martial prowess, he instantly eliminated all the elements necessary for Lenok to survive.

The priestess, shaken but still trying to maintain the selection ritual with her fading spirit, desperately prayed.

However, the Ascendant immediately grabbed the priestess’s spirit with one hand, clutching it tightly as if to annihilate her at any moment.

Tududuk!!

“How foolish. If you hadn’t deployed the Self-Domain, you could have lasted a little longer.”

The Ascendant sneered, glaring at the priestess’s spirit, which was shaking in pain.

“The blessing your god left on this body is in conflict with the apostle selection ritual, creating a void… and you threw it away with your own hands to deploy a domain?”

[Ah……!!]

“To be a replacement for the cult leader, you were unbelievably arrogant.”

The moment Lenok unfolded the apostle selection ritual and drew the attention of the Outer Gods.

The reason the Ascendant could not interfere with Lenok was not because his power was insufficient, nor because the Ascendant’s rank did not reach that of the Outer Gods.

The blessing engraved on the body that existed as the vessel of the cult leader clashed with the existence of the Outer Gods, forcibly colliding.

It was that which prevented the Ascendant from drawing upon his magic and killing Lenok on the spot.

However, the moment Lenok deployed his domain, the Mad Naked Unsea Palace, under the guise of the selection ritual, and shook off the gaze of the Outer Gods, that interference also disappeared.

Lenok, unaware of what had been delaying his death, had simply offered his own life.

He might have thought that the power of the domain would become a weapon to fight against the Ascendant.

But he did not know how free a transcendent who had reached level 9 in physical combat was from the constraints of time and space at this distance.

“It’s not over.”

Tuduk!!

The Ascendant, gripping Seyna’s spirit with the iron fist of the dark gauntlet he wore on his forearm, shaped by magic and will, muttered.

“This is just the beginning. I will gather all the memories and traces left in Yorta, and before the cult leader himself awakens again in this world-!!”

“No.”

Kuoong!!

Lenok’s voice echoed clearly through the wreckage of the temple, distorted and collapsed by the Ascendant’s heart.

“It ends here. There is nothing after this.”

Paah-aah-aht!!!

At that moment, a pale flash of light began to shine from inside the Ascendant’s body, being pulled out at an incredible speed.

It was as if something sleeping beneath that body was being forcibly extracted and manifested in this place.

“……!!”

The Ascendant, realizing this, belatedly tried to stabilize his body by manipulating his will, but it was already too late.

The pale, pure white light that had been dwelling inside his body was pulled out of the Ascendant and sucked into the spot where Lenok had fallen.

Tududuk!!

Beyond the Mad Naked Unsea Palace, something completely trampled and broken suddenly rises.

As if regenerating its form from the darkness, it rises from that spot as if time were rewinding.

Tuduk, tudu-du-duk!!

Kuuuung!!

He rolls up his robe sleeves and lightly strokes his blood-soaked forearm.

With just that, his elbow, which had been broken to pieces, was restored, his blood vessels regenerated, and his joints reconnected.

The overwhelming magic of the Outer Sea, enough to temporarily ignore Lenok’s mana poisoning and scarecrow constitution, was pouring down on his entire body, restoring it.

With each step he took, his swaying balance was restored, and strength returned to his feet.

Lenok’s figure, walking out from under the shadows of the candles that shone from all directions, was covered in blood.

However, behind Lenok’s dark figure, a dazzlingly shining pure white altar had already appeared.

Paah-aht!!

The form of a pale altar, rising in the middle of the dark temple, brightly illuminating the surroundings.

On the altar, a pure white coffin was shining, constantly sending light down towards Lenok.

The Ascendant, sensing that the power emanating from the coffin was that of the incarnate body that had been dwelling in his own body, distorted his face.

“You… you don’t mean to say that the apostle selection ritual was for, not yourself, but…!!!”

Lenok used the apostle selection ritual as a trigger to summon the branching point of the Mad Naked Unsea Palace.

However, that does not mean that the gazes of the Outer Gods, which had already been gathered, would immediately disappear from this place.

Once a ritual has begun, the process must be concluded with either success or failure, without any suspension.

If that is not the case, the ritual initiated in the Sanctuary of the Abyss will continue to coexist, exposed to the Outer Sea without end.

Therefore, Lenok, while using the selection ritual as a trigger to deploy the Mad Naked Unsea Palace.

At the same time, he turned the gazes of the Outer Gods caused by the selection ritual towards a completely different target, forcibly concluding the ritual.

And that target was none other than Lenok’s incarnate body, which had been sleeping inside the Ascendant’s body all along.

“To forcibly extract the completely assimilated incarnate body from your body, this was the only way.”

Lenok said, looking back at the pure white altar erected in the middle of the temple.

He had thought that the incarnate body chosen as an apostle would react, but he never imagined that it would appear in the form of a pure white coffin, not even human.

The memories of the cult leader he had obtained by assimilating with the Ascendant’s body. The series of rituals of being selected as an apostle must have had such a strong influence that it redefined the existence of the incarnate body.

But the true meaning Lenok sought through these trials and errors lay elsewhere.

“A power stronger than the vessel of the cult leader. The power of an incarnate being, chosen by the end times dwelling in the outer sea, reborn as their apostle. And-”

Crack!!

The pale radiance flowing from the coffin is rapidly absorbed, as if being sucked into Lenok’s body.

It was as if Lenok was devouring the power of the incarnate body on the spot, amplifying his own magic and will.

The endlessly pale light poured down like a waterfall over Lenok’s shoulders, streaming down.

Watching Lenok’s completely restored body, the priestess muttered blankly to herself.

[To directly absorb the power of the incarnate body that became an apostle…]

What the Mad Naked Unsea Palace [a mystical structure or domain] unfolds through its divergence point is the apostle of the Unsea [a term referring to the outer sea or its entities], who devours the power and immortality of the outer sea.

Therefore, Lenok, through the apostle selection ritual, designated the incarnate body as an apostle, forcibly extracting it from the body of the Ascendant [a powerful being or entity].

Then, using the power of the Unsea Palace, he was directly imbuing the power and talent of the incarnate body, which had become an apostle, into his own body on the spot.

The power and aptitude of the incarnate body as a former world’s martial artist.

The moment the Mad Naked Unsea Palace unfolds, Lenok directly takes and uses the talent of the incarnate body designated as an apostle.

It was the temporary release of the penalties that had bound him for so long, and the realization of the prior benefit of physical enhancement that Lenok had yearned for.

Crack…!!

At the same time as cracks like shattered glass appeared on his skin, Lenok’s forearm swelled.

Twisting his body into a muscular physique that did not originally exist, he etched scars that were not his own onto his body.

Crack, crack, crack!!

Like a chick breaking out of its shell and being reborn, the cracks etched into his skin shattered, emitting tremendous magical power.

Kugugugu!!!

A muscular figure, borrowing the talent of the incarnate body to ignore penalties and hammering physical enhancements into his entire body, walked towards the Ascendant.

Borrowing the talent of a martial artist who had reached the pinnacle with both fists, he continuously restored and strengthened his frail body with the magic of the outer sea.

He forcibly moved his body beyond its limits through magic manipulation and the combat pull of his mental image.

At this moment, having unfolded the Mad Naked Unsea Palace and absorbed the power of the incarnate body, Lenok was no longer a frail mage.

He inherited the realm of a martial artist, which he had believed would one day be possible and had so desperately yearned for.

The aptitude of a warrior who chooses life and death by moving his own body. He forcibly grasped that talent, which was not originally permitted, in this place.

Thud!!

“…He’s not in his right mind.”

The Ascendant, finally realizing how Lenok was restoring his body and intending to fight him, muttered with a hardened expression.

“Did you go so far as to modify yourself just to compete with me?”

“If I have to face the Ascendant’s body, it has to be this much to be balanced.”

Swish!!

As Lenok said this and raised his hand, the magic threads that had plunged from the sky immediately wrapped around Lenok’s arm and his entire body.

The tailor of the imaginary dimension, attaching thousands of magic threads to Lenok’s body from above.

And the apostle of the Unsea, receiving the will of the outer sea in this place, hammering physical enhancements into his entire body.

From the fingertips of Lenok, who slowly clenched his fist, magic twisted and distorted, beginning to bloom like a flower.

Crack!!!

A void will that, merely by blooming in that place, tore apart the space and dyed it darkly, erasing it.

The power of a madman prepared to erase the existing immortality and kill what cannot die.

The Ascendant, realizing that it was the driving force to completely kill and eliminate him in this place, hardened his face.

Lenok, who had his entire body held in place by magic threads, lowered his stance deeply.

Kugugugu…!!

Just that alone caused the entire ground to vibrate violently, and a massive pressure spread out from Lenok’s body.

“A non-existent warrior’s divergence point, forged with the talent of a mage.”

Lenok whispered softly.

“You’ll be a worthy first opponent in this state.”

No more words were needed.

Lenok’s tightly clenched fist twisted along his wrist, immediately rotating through his elbow and shoulder.

He disappeared from that spot as if leaping through space, and slammed directly into the Ascendant’s face.

Unique Skill: Body Manipulation

Ninefold Ascendant Martial Arts First Form

Combat Pull.

Kwaaaang!!!

With a roar like a steel plate exploding, the Ascendant’s figure was flung back dozens of meters.

The moment Lenok’s figure appeared, leaping through space, above the Ascendant’s body that had crashed into a pillar of the Mad Naked Unsea Palace.

Lenok, who had trampled on the Ascendant, began to hammer magic and will into all sides of the Ascendant’s body.

Dududududu!!!

The void will erupting from the end of his fist, and the madman’s magic that flashed in support, mixed around Lenok’s body, amplifying speed and increasing power.

An explosive acceleration that even the Ascendant himself found difficult to react to with his own eyes.

“Where…!!”

The Ascendant, having fully raised his senses, leaned against the shattered pillar fragments and raised both hands.

The moment he clashed his hands together as if striking them down, the Ascendant’s magic exploded and scattered within his hands.

It erupted from that spot, carrying a chilling will, and surged towards Lenok.

Numerous fragments of magic that had surged from the Ascendant rotated in arcs like missiles, immediately crashing down roughly on Lenok’s head.

Ninefold Ascendant Will Technique

Flying Suitable Flower.

Kwaaaa!!!

The Ascendant’s will, which had crashed down on the spot where Lenok had been standing, exploded and surged, detonating a massive pillar of light nearly a dozen meters high.

An overwhelming firepower that could easily encompass the entire Mad Naked Unsea Palace with a single light gesture.

The Ascendant’s will, overlapping the sanctuary of the void, swelled and rotated as if to shatter the domain of the unfolded temple.

Amidst the black pillars surging from all sides, the Ascendant’s figure accelerated beyond the speed of sound in an instant.

He accurately pinpointed Lenok’s presence buried within the storm of magic and hammered a kick into him.

Jjeoeoeong!!

The moment Lenok and the Ascendant’s hands collided in the air, an intangible shockwave erupted from the two of them, sweeping through the sanctuary of the void and the scenery of the temple.

The black-stained magic of the void and the Ascendant’s will, sinking into a dark hue, rotated as if entangled and vanished.

The mental images of the two monsters, bisecting the sanctuary of the void, collided incessantly, constantly filling the spaces that collapsed and deviated with new functions.

At the boundary of a vast, endless domain, it was as if two beasts the size of houses were devouring and mixing with each other.

With every action of swinging a fist, rotating a shoulder, and pulling an elbow, a radiance of magic flowed out like a waterfall, flashing in all directions.

Kugwagwagwa!!!

Becoming a living storm centered on his own body, he hammered all his remaining power to kill the opponent in front of him.

The Ascendant’s gauntlet struck and deflected Lenok’s shoulder, pressing down and directly slamming Lenok’s figure into the lower part of the temple.

At that moment, a pale, pure white ripple surged upwards from the ground, receiving the will that the Ascendant had detonated.

“I told you.”

Kiiiiiing!!

Ninefold Ascendant Martial Arts Eighth Form

Eight Mirrors.

A counterattack technique that had reached a transcendent realm, twisting the laws of physics to forcibly deflect attacks.

The moment the Ascendant realized that it had reached a high-dimensional realm comparable to the Ninefold Ascendant Martial Arts that he himself used.

Thududuk!!

The Unsea’s magic, which had erupted from Lenok’s fingertips that had seized the Ascendant’s hand, invaded the Ascendant’s body.

It immediately shattered the gauntlet, twisted it in reverse, and hammered the broken arm into the Ascendant’s solar plexus.

“It’s the power to kill what cannot die…!!”

The talent of a warrior forged in a fleeting moment through the Mad Naked Unsea Palace.

The microcosm that Lenok wielded within the twisted domain was the power of contradiction itself, killing immortality.

Lenok’s figure, stained with the magic of the void, pierced through the cult leader’s protection and dashed forward. Immediately after the Ascendant staggered back as if brushing against a shadow.

Bbeoeoeong!!

The Ascendant’s side exploded as if bursting, scattering black, dried bloodstains in all directions.

“…!!!”

The inviolable barrier, completed with the cult leader’s protection on his entire body and the power of the Ascendant.

That body, which should never be invaded by the will of others, was pierced for the first time.