Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 849

Takeover (18)

Takeover (18)

White Stone National Park, nestled between Area 35 and Area 36.

A secluded factory stood a short distance from the research institute, hidden within the boundaries of these areas.

This was a power generation facility, built to produce and supply electricity to the entire national park.

Thousands of meters away, hundreds of soldiers had surrounded and besieged the facility.

Clank, clank!

The sounds of mana-powered cannons being activated echoed from various locations, and hushed voices moved swiftly through the communication network.

Soldiers in full-body exosuits formed ranks, encircling the power facility and completing their preparations.

“Hmm….”

A red-haired woman, concealed in the bushes slightly ahead of them, tilted her head, a puzzled expression on her face.

After staring at the distant facility for a while, she picked up a rose-colored visor she had placed at her feet and asked,

“Are you sure he’s there?”

“The measured mana confirms it.”

A boy, still with a youthful air, replied with a sullen expression.

“Considering we can’t identify the mana pattern at all, it’s almost certainly him. It’s like he doesn’t even bother to hide it.”

“……”

The boy chuckled bitterly and muttered.

“I guess he doesn’t care whether we intervene or not….”

“Theo, watch your mouth.”

A young man standing next to the boy spoke calmly.

“He might be listening. It’ll be too late after lightning strikes your head.”

“Ugh….”

“The distance from here to the power facility is over 6km. And you’re saying he might be listening?”

A yellow visor asked, sounding dumbfounded. His unmodulated voice flowed naturally from beyond his helmet.

The young man turned to the yellow visor and replied,

“He’s known for not being in good health, but he’s a mage with senses sharp enough to overcome that. You would have been caught immediately too.”

“……Right. He saw through my earth manipulation technique and laughed at it.”

The yellow visor nodded with a heavy expression for a moment.

“I couldn’t answer properly. I was more afraid than angry….”

“He’s a madman who can’t stop fighting even with a sickly body. It’s not strange.”

An jade-colored visor, standing at the rear with his arms crossed, comforted them in a soft voice.

“The City Council suspects that Kyun-Roe’s health might be much worse than we thought. They believe the reason he keeps going to the front lines is related to his method of transcending hierarchies [referring to a system of power levels].”

“He’s insane. Is he saying he can only maintain his current state by seeking out fights?”

“That’s just a guess written in the report, nothing is certain. However, it’s likely that Kyun-Roe is broken, like the monsters who have transcended hierarchies.”

“……”

A tense atmosphere filled the ranks of the Aegis members.

A great mage who could only maintain his sanity through a madness bordering on destruction.

They realized that the mage they might have to face was a monster more dangerous than any superhuman.

“No matter what happens, we must prevent the core technology of the research institute from being leaked. Especially if the secret research being conducted at the institute falls into Kyun-Roe’s hands, none of us will be able to escape responsibility.”

“Ha, I don’t want to die for nothing….”

Not all members of Aegis serve for the noble cause of protecting the city.

The reason they joined the special forces was mostly based on personal deals, so they couldn’t avoid orders.

It wasn’t that they were afraid of dying in battle and hesitated. They didn’t want their deaths to be meaningless.

They had to jump in there not to win, but to delay their defeat even a little longer.

And that was to hinder an opponent they could never defeat, even if they were to die and come back to life.

In the gloomy atmosphere, a green visor nudged the man standing next to him on the shoulder.

“Hey, Druid. Don’t just stand there, say something.”

“……”

A tall man, over 190cm, wearing an animal hide hood, glared at the green visor.

The green visor didn’t care and just nodded his head.

“I heard you fought Kyun-Roe earlier. Do you have any facts or feelings to share with us?”

“……His lightning.”

The druid, Ipasa, muttered after thinking for a moment.

“Don’t get hit. It hurts.”

“That’s it?”

The other members, who were looking at Ipasa, muttered in disbelief.

“Lightning-type magic is the fastest magic in the pure spell system, except for the Light Domain. Avoiding it is practically impossible.”

“Then teach us how to get hit without it hurting.”

“I don’t know that.”

Ipasa said, scratching his head with an annoyed expression.

“The moment I was hit by lightning, the foundation of my spell was shaken. I felt my will being severed.”

“……What?”

Ipasa scoffed lightly and turned his head.

“If that’s how it was for me, who doesn’t use mana, you mortals wouldn’t be able to withstand it.”

“Hmm….”

The Aegis members fell silent for a moment as they realized the meaning of his words.

If a druid who uses natural magic felt that way, the fate of a mana user would probably be obvious.

“Maybe we should wait until Black arrives?”

“No, there’s no time. He must be planning to use Hayward and Professor Raphael, whom he kidnapped, to restore the data. If those two are together, they’ll get results quickly.”

Professor Raphael was not only a resident of Vulcan, but also one of the leading authorities in mana theory analysis.

“There is a way. We can delay his plan by forcibly cutting off the power supply to the facility.”

“Infiltrate the power facility, damage the power unit, and then assess the situation based on Kyun-Roe’s reaction to rescue the professors.”

“Absolutely do not fight head-on. Assume you will run away the moment you encounter him.”

With the blue briefing, the other members also immediately equipped their gear and stood up.

At that moment, the Aegis members, who had been gathered in one place, quickly spread out around the power facility, keeping their distance from each other.

Whoosh!

Hiding in the shadows of trees and the swaying of bushes, they infiltrated the power facility through different paths.

Crackle…!

The moment they entered the factory, they heard a faint noise in their ears, but no one had time to pay attention to it.

[Begin!]

Whoosh!

The moment they entered the power facility, the members simultaneously began running in different directions inside the factory.

They maximized their mana to strengthen their bodies and opened their senses wide.

They took in all the information they saw and felt around the facility, and communicated only the optimal decisions for the success of the operation.

[This side is far from the power unit. I’ll move around and draw Kyun-Roe’s attention.]

[The garrison is on standby. I’ll have them enter from the rear and block the path.]

[I’m close to the power unit. I’ll go first-!!]

Dozens of messages crossed the communication network in an instant, and all that communication was converted into meaningful actions.

A quiet corridor. Control devices of the facility running without anyone guarding them.

The members, who had been walking quietly under the dense network of wires on the ceiling and walls, slowly closing the distance, simultaneously raised their mana at that moment.

KWA-A-A-ANG!!!

At that moment, the entire factory shook with a deafening roar, and the communication was cut off.

A chilling static that made their skin tingle. A stinging sensation that made their hair stand on end and their hearts pound.

The members scattered throughout the power facility turned their heads in a flash at an ominous sense of déjà vu that they couldn’t explain.

[Oooooooo!!!!]

A wave of lightning that exploded with a majestic roar swept through the entire power facility.

Crackling, crackling!!!!

A fantasy as if a giant lightning bolt had seized the entire facility and lifted it up.

The metallic barriers and steel plates were imbued with a tingling lightning property, instantly turning the entire facility into a conduit and hall of electricity.

Whoooom!

The wires scattered everywhere were cut and shaken indiscriminately, and the sparks that burst from their cross-sections gathered together and transformed into a specific shape.

Tsutsutsutsu!!

[……Toads?]

[Croak, croak.]

Toad spirits born with the property of electricity, devouring the rampant power around them and swelling their bodies.

In an instant, dozens of toad spirits appeared in the facility corridors and lobbies, bringing their mouths to the severed ends of the wires, ignoring the intruders.

[Bulge, bulge.]

The sight of the toad spirits swelling their bodies as they devoured the sparks coming from the wires.

The members who were watching this quickly reconnected the communication network and exchanged the information they had gathered.

[They’re not real spirits.]

[They’re elemental spirits that are randomly born in a space where attributes are temporarily overflowing.]

[That’s impossible. There was nothing like that until just now!!]

[Kyun-Roe has recognized our intrusion. No, maybe this is-]

At that moment, the toad spirits, having grown in size by consuming electricity from all directions, began to emit intense lightning through their bodies.

Crack, crack!!!

The impact shattered the ceilings and walls of the power facility, and the control devices and converters installed everywhere were helplessly destroyed.

KWA-A-ANG!!

[Wh, what is this…….]

A bizarre act of not protecting the power facility, but rather destroying it and scattering its fragments indiscriminately.

All sorts of parts, including screws, steel plates, steel frames, and springs, fell helplessly to the floor, making noise, and almost simultaneously began to reassemble in place.

Charrrrk!!

A legion of steel, forming bodies by gathering broken parts, and standing up with bright blue lightning crackling.

Mechanical soldiers, with bright blue lights flashing instead of eyes, blocked the paths of the facility in an instant.

Above their heads, a curtain of lightning covered all directions, and a tingling current bounced off the floor and walls, dyeing the factory in a blue light.

Crack, crackling……!!!

Flashes of lightning fragments gathered together to form a mass, and then, as if possessing their own will, wandered around and scattered small lightning bolts indiscriminately.

The lightning spirits and the steel legion, created in an instant, scattered their power indiscriminately, then simultaneously turned their gaze towards the Aegis members.

A hostile reaction as if they had discovered intruders who should not be in this hall of lightning, where an intense current flowed.

[Over 300 artificial spirits and mechanical soldiers combined. Over 30 types of spells are estimated to be manifested using steel and electricity as a medium.]

[We can’t break through the barrier. Retreat the garrison. Open the communication network!!]

[Imbued with lightning attribute. This is a spatial property change corresponding to the highest level.]

[No way…….]

The members who faced the lightning spirits and the mechanical legion muttered in disbelief.

[From the beginning, he didn’t intend to use the facility’s power like this. Rather-]

[He turned the entire power facility into his own fortress in that short time?]

* * *

“A good start.”

KWA-A-ANG!!

Lenok muttered, watching the exploding mechanical soldiers on the monitor.

Dozens of monitors located in the power facility control room.

They were monitoring equipment made to monitor power leaks and overloads in the power room, but now they were only showing the intruders being brutally beaten.

Numerous mechanical legions rising up using the parts that Lenok had directly smashed and created as materials.

Lightning spirits created by altering the current of the power facility, and a lightning barrier being built with the entire facility within its range.

On every screen displayed on the monitor, lightning fell irregularly, and the lightning fence rotated violently, binding everything that moved.

Kugwagwagwa!!!!

The sight of the members being helplessly swept away in the storm of lightning and steel, unable to even put up a proper resistance.

The druid and the army guarding the research institute, who noticed the abnormality and belatedly rushed in, did not change the situation.

[Retreat, retreat!!]

[Don’t touch it, you’ll get electrocuted!!!]

[Everyone, take off your metal gear, cyborgs and those with prosthetic limbs, run away immediately!!]

[No, the power of the trap-!!]

[Aaaaargh!!]

KWA-A-ANG!!

Desperate shouts and screams erupted from all sides of the monitor.

Soldiers falling down after being electrocuted all over their bodies, and superhumans from the special forces running away and trying to infiltrate the power unit.

A chaotic scene unfolded throughout the facility amidst the dazzling lightning that the pixels could not fully capture.

Raphael, who was watching the carnage from behind, forgot about his work and muttered from behind.

“……This is impossible.”

“What is?”

The wave of electricity that densely covered the vast facility and overflowed.

The overwhelming amount of light as if the entire power facility was submerged in a sea of lightning and slowly sinking.

It was enough to make one’s eyes go blind just by watching, but Raphael did not take his eyes off the monitor even for a moment.

Even as his eyes quickly became bloodshot, he couldn’t resist his curiosity and instead brought his face closer.

Raphael said with a captivated expression.

“The mana conversion rate of the lightning system deteriorates rapidly in proportion to its power. No matter how much power is converted, it’s impossible to project such a change in properties in such a short time. With the human mana dispersion speed, it’s absolutely-”

“It’s not impossible.”

Lenok replied, coughing weakly as he leaned back in his chair.

Raphael flinched greatly as if regaining his senses, but Lenok ignored him and answered.

“There are beings who can do this purely with the amount of mana they possess. Monsters who are not bound by the concept of mana property change or efficiency….”

“……”

There are monsters who are so overwhelmingly powerful that even Lenok cannot catch up to them, purely in terms of the amount of mana they possess.

Originally, the amount of mana is a power that is as much bound by the time one has passed as it is by their talent.

After reaching level 8, he had never been greatly bound by the absolute amount of mana, but there were monsters that made even Lenok pale in comparison.

Transcendent beings who have been stuck in madness for tens of times the time Lenok has lived, constantly accumulating power.

If it were them, they would be able to wield transcendent power not just against a power facility, but against an entire city-state.

Raphael’s lips turned pale at those words, which he muttered as if in passing.

He, too, would know what kind of status a monster that even Kyun-Roe would call a monster had in this world.

“Therefore, your words are wrong. That’s how mana theory is. It’s just a consequential academic field that proves existing magic in the form of theory, and it doesn’t encompass all exceptions.”

“Isn’t that the same for other academic fields as well…!!”

“The moment you forcibly break the hierarchy completed under the seven stages of self-modification and move forward, rules and classifications lose their meaning.”

Lenok turned his gaze to the monitor.

“If you keep adding exceptions on top of exceptions and create your own rules… you won’t even know what you based it on in the beginning.”

“……”

“And the moment you forget the rules within yourself….”

Lenok said, kicking a wire rolling around under his feet.

“It doesn’t matter whether what you’re handling is your own power or not.”

The amount of mana Lenok consumed to turn the entire power facility into a lightning fortress was not even a handful.

The fact that the entire fortress was wrapped in lightning and electrocuted, and that lightning spirits and mechanical legions were created, was not an achievement of Lenok, but a miracle achieved with the power stored in the power facility.

“That’s, that’s…….”

Raphael also understood how Lenok had turned the entire power facility into a fortress, and his expression twitched.

He, who had not been able to speak carelessly, took a breath and muttered.

“That’s not human. It’s not even life.”

“……”

“From the point of thinking like that, isn’t it something that can’t be defined as a living being anymore…?”

“Maybe so.”

Lenok readily agreed.

“Forgetting the boundary between things and self is, in a way, the same as losing the qualifications of a living being. That’s the fundamental reason why many superhumans who reach level 8 break down.”

“……”

Where is the standard for distinguishing between living and non-living things?

For a superhuman who can materialize and handle their own will, will is the standard.

However, if you keep handling that standard outside of your body and mind, you will forget what was yourself.

To transcend the hierarchy and reach level 8 means to dominate that concept itself as your own rule.

That is why many of the superhumans who reach level 8 either give up their humanity or go mad because they cannot endure it.

Raphael also seemed to agree with Lenok’s words, and he closed his mouth with a gloomy expression.

The demonstration, which did not end with an explanation, but perfectly handled the concept itself that transcended the hierarchy, had that much power.

Lenok looked at Raphael and suddenly asked,

“Do you understand why I’m telling you this story?”

“……?”

“You’ve been subtly putting off the work I gave you and watching this from the beginning.”

Lenok gave a sinister smile to Raphael, who was looking at him with a puzzled expression.

“It meant that you should finish the work I gave you before I get annoyed and go crazy.”

“H, heup!!”

Raphael, who had completely forgotten the serious atmosphere until now, quickly ran away.

Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]

Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]

The Genius Wizard who takes Medicine, 약먹는 천재마법사 약먹는 천재 마법사
Status: Ongoing Author: Native Language: Korean
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In "Genius Wizard Takes Medicine," the protagonist, an avid gamer, meticulously crafts the ultimate wizard character in the game "World" by maximizing magical abilities and accepting numerous disadvantageous traits. However, he suddenly finds himself transmigrated into this very character—a prodigious talent who cannot survive a single day without relying on drugs. Set against a cyberpunk fantasy backdrop, the story blends action, adventure, and intricate magic systems, inviting readers to explore a world where extraordinary power comes at a significant cost.

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