Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 883

A streak of flame and a lance of fluorescent light alternated as they sped through the dusty, dark back alley.

A mage accelerating by spewing flames from his back and a girl running on all fours with a spear in her mouth.

Thud thud thud!!!

Surprisingly, however, it was Merilda who was faster, her arms and legs propelling her forward as she sprinted.

“She’s disgustingly fast.”

Renok, who was flying low to the ground, shook his head as he saw Merilda quickly catching up from behind.

“To be able to move that fast on all fours with a human body, what’s wrong with her joints?”

“I told you to stop!!”

Thud!

With the spear still clenched in her teeth, she twisted her entire body, rotating in mid-air.

The long spear blade flashed in response to the beast-kin’s grip, and just as it was about to pierce Renok’s back, who was accelerating.

Fwoooosh!!

The output of the flame wings exploded, pushing Renok’s figure even faster.

A flexible double acceleration that was hard to believe he could pull off while already at full speed.

The flames spread out like a spiral of fire, instantly setting the abandoned path ablaze.

Whoosh!!

“……!!”

Even the execution squad that had been aiming at Renok from all sides momentarily lost track of his movements due to the explosive force.

Merilda, who had almost caught up but lost Renok in an instant, scowled.

“Damn it, how can a pyromancer be so fast…!!”

Born as a hybrid of a beast-kin, she was faithful to the instincts of an animal that plays, eats, and sleeps, but she had not been a director for a long time for nothing.

Merilda, who had been handling the cartel’s affairs alongside Oliviera, also had a wealth of experience and knowledge of various techniques.

She was naturally aware of the characteristics of pyromantic magic, even among pure elemental magic.

Considering that typical pyromantic techniques require time for preheating and ignition, his casting speed and mobility were clearly abnormal.

At this rate, she would just be chasing after the mage’s tail in vain.

Merilda spun her spear around and bounced off the nearby building walls, soaring onto the rooftop.

Looking down at the execution squad moving to avoid the flames engulfing the alley, she shouted.

“Get out of the area and control access. Don’t let anyone inside the planned boundary!!”

If a pyromancer specialized in wide-area attacks had mobility, it was a near-perfect counter to an organized execution squad.

Rather than wasting their forces unnecessarily, it would be better to have them control the inner and outer perimeters of the area and block any variables.

[Understood!]

Leaving the execution squad scattering before Merilda had even finished speaking, she took out a communicator from her pocket.

“Hey, Angel!! Are you listening!!”

-Yeah~ I’m listening.

The moment she pressed the communicator button, Merilda’s voice screamed, and a languid reply came from the other end.

“I’m heading your way, so block him!! You can freeze him with your ability, right?!”

-No, what are you talking about?

Angel asked back in a bewildered voice.

-He’s fire, and I’m ice. What did Merilda learn in school science class?

“I didn’t go to school!!”

Merilda yelled into the communicator, but there was no reply.

Only a faint mist began to spread from the sky with a loud roar.

Merilda, sensing that Angel had encountered the mage, clicked her tongue and increased her speed.

* * *

“Hoo… I didn’t want to get involved because I thought it would turn out like this…”

Angel sighed deeply after confirming that the communication with Merilda had been cut off.

Whoosh…!!

With each breath, cold frost formed, and the frozen frost cooled the heated air.

After navigating through a narrow back alley, he arrived at the remains of a closed dam located at the edge of a steep cliff.

A young man with wings of flame was approaching Angel, who was standing at the end of the dam’s stone wall, at an incredible speed.

Although he was a stranger, it was not difficult to recognize who he was.

The lighthouse keeper who was leading the eyes of the Azure [a powerful organization]. The pyromancer who had been guarding the Ascendant’s bloodline single-handedly.

Now, a monster rampaging through the megacity to retrieve his master who had been kidnapped by Kyonroe.

“Okay, stop right there! This is a speed-restricted zone from here on out…!!”

Crack!

The moment Angel clasped his hands together and slammed one foot onto the frozen stone wall, a wall of ice rose up to block Renok’s path.

Immediately after, Renok’s body, engulfed in flames, collided with the wall. Flames and ice mixed, melted, and exploded, emitting a huge amount of steam.

Whoosh!!

Red flames spilled out from beyond the collapsing ice wall, melting like flowing water.

It was like a living beast’s tongue, gently licking the ice and approaching, piercing through the cold in an instant.

Chiii!

Angel, seeing the expressionless face of the mage up close, broke out in a cold sweat.

“Haha, what kind of heat is that…!! Are you some kind of fire spirit?!”

There was no reply.

[Exploding Flame Orb]

[Triple Cast – Repel]

Three fire orbs rose from Renok’s hand, rotating violently and converging into one point.

Immediately after, they repelled each other, shooting out an enormous amount of heat directly forward.

[Blood Flame Line]

Fwoooosh!!

The radiance of the flame, with a real impact, spread out like a fan, burning everything in front of it.

“Aaaah!! I’m melting…!!”

Angel was sent flying, screaming amidst the evaporating frost mist.

However, even in the midst of this, Angel was skillfully drawing moisture from his body to somehow deflect the heat of the Blood Flame Line.

Kugugugug!

Along the long boundary line of the dam, flame wings several meters in size fluttered and accelerated.

As if pressing down on the ripples of flame that swept over the structure, the frost mist drawn from all sides flashed.

Kugugugu!!

A clash between two elemental ability users, as if the natural phenomena themselves were going haywire around the dam.

The execution squad, who were late to the scene, watched the dazzling dance of fire and frost, their faces turning pale.

“No way. Angel is a Saint-level innate ability user…!!”

“Is he someone with qualities comparable to a psychic in elemental manipulation!!”

Chiii!

Ice melted and water splashed, and Angel and Renok’s figures became entangled and slid across it.

He scooped up the flames burning at his fingertips like lava, melting the ice chunks that Angel was spewing.

They wrapped their fists in flames and ice, freezing and melting the intent and techniques as they unleashed them.

However, the firepower of Renok’s techniques was so explosive that each time they clashed, a fiery blast erupted behind Angel, sending his body flying haphazardly.

Fwoooosh!!

Angel screamed as he watched a huge pillar of flame erupt and obliterate the ice barrier.

“Kyaaak!! I’m terrible at close combat!”

“It seems so.”

From Renok’s perspective, who had also won against Dylan, the punches that Angel was throwing were not even worth paying attention to.

From the start, his output of techniques was overwhelmingly superior.

When Renok, who had stopped trying to assess him, began to overpower him, Angel’s figure was helplessly sent flying, barely hanging onto the edge of the dam.

“Ouch…!!”

He quickly blew on his hand, freezing the edge of the dam and his hand to prevent himself from falling.

The frozen surface of the dam where Renok and Angel had slid was now a boiling river, having been heated up by the two of them.

Bubbling!

“You’re holding up quite well for someone who’s making such a fuss.”

Renok said, looking down at Angel hanging on the edge, walking on the water that was boiling and evaporating.

“It’s commendable that your innate ability’s output isn’t dropping even in this situation. Is your unwavering mental strength a natural talent?”

“……”

Psychic abilities are the most dependent on the user’s mental strength among all innate abilities.

That’s why they are the most unstable, but sometimes they can even transcend the laws of techniques.

However, even as Angel was helplessly pushed back by Renok’s magic, he never lost control of his ability.

Even while fighting Renok alone, his mental strength, which was the basis of his ability, did not waver.

“Conversely, the output of your ability itself is somewhat strangely amplified. It seems like you’ve been doping somewhere.”

“Haha, that’s not the kind of compliment I wanted to hear…”

Angel’s expression turned awkward as he realized that Renok had seen through it immediately.

Renok, taking out a cigar from his pocket and putting it in his mouth, said.

“I’m not going to such lengths because I want to spare you. So, why don’t you just give me some face and step aside?”

Renok’s eyes gleamed eerily as he looked down at Angel.

“If things go wrong and become irreversible, I don’t think I’ll be able to end it like this then.”

Of course, he had no intention of killing the cartel’s directors here.

However, he needed at least a minimal justification for fighting them and not causing casualties.

He had used Lapis’s name as a reason, but Angel seemed to be quite deeply moved by those words.

“That’s a good answer. I can tell how good the Azure Eye is just from those words.”

“……”

“I used to belong to such a place myself. That’s why I can understand that desire to maintain the center.”

Creak!

As Angel took a light breath, the air around him began to cool rapidly.

“But the mage you’re trying to confront is someone who is not at all bound by such logic and sorrow. We are wary of him.”

Angel’s gaze, as he looked at Renok’s face while hanging, sank deeply for a moment.

“As excellent and outstanding as you are, I’m worried that you might be stimulating him in the wrong direction…”

“……”

“I personally respect Mr. Ban’s character, but it’s clear that he could be twisted at any time. I’m sorry to the lighthouse keeper, but I can’t take her circumstances into account.”

Angel shook his head quietly.

“The cartel’s policy has been decided, and I’ve boarded the ship. It’s a pity that your flame will be extinguished in this city, but it can’t be helped.”

“I see.”

Whoosh!

As Renok smiled and raised his hand, the flames that had risen from his fingertips began to swell on their own.

The magic power that had escaped Renok’s control instantly amplified the power of the technique uncontrollably.

The fireball, which had been the size of a fist, transformed into the shape of a huge greatsword above Angel’s head.

Pyromantic Unique Magic

Property Change Melting Shaping

[Searing Demon Sword]

Whoooosh!!

“Crazy…”

Flames that rose without any medium, using only their own magic power as fuel.

However, the heat was so intense and powerful that it completely evaporated the ice-type innate ability that Angel was manipulating.

The moment the burning greatsword rotated and fell above Angel’s head, Angel, sensing death, gathered his remaining mental strength and activated his psychic ability.

A huge hexagonal ice shield was created, and the moment it collided with the falling blade of the greatsword.

Kuhwaaaak!!

A huge amount of steam, enough to overturn the entire dam, erupted, turning the surroundings into a white mist.

“Cough, cough!!”

Angel, who had fallen from the top of the sloping dam, coughed incessantly as he tumbled.

A bizarre sight of half of his body melting like flowing water.

Even a psychic who could change his body into frost could not withstand the heat that Renok had just unleashed.

But even so, Angel was still alive.

That was not because he had drawn out more than his limit at the moment he sensed death-

“Louder, you’re late!!”

“Oh, I’m sorry.”

A slender young man wearing a flowing robe and glasses walked out leisurely from the mist.

The man, holding a large scroll in one hand, smiled as he looked at the sprawled Angel.

“The newly transferred pharmaceutical division has been so busy lately. There were so many things to fix that I lost track of time.”

“Don’t lie.”

Angel spat out and got up from his spot.

Looking back at Louder, who was wearing a refreshing smile, Angel asked with a displeased look.

“Wasn’t it that you didn’t want to get involved in something that the chairman and Virgil couldn’t agree on?”

“Because Mr. Virgil is not the owner of this huge cartel.”

Louder agreed without changing his expression.

When he rolled up the wide robe that covered his wrist, all sorts of complex tattoos could be seen on Louder’s forearm.

As he tapped his forearm and the scroll alternately, the same shapes as the tattoos were quickly engraved on the scroll.

Kiiing!!

Louder, who had instantly gathered all sorts of shapes and completed a magic circle on the scroll, turned around and said.

“There’s no reason to get involved in something that’s not included in the directors’ duties, is there?”

“It seems the new 6th director isn’t very interested in the internal structure of the cartel.”

Angel grumbled.

“Even if Virgil has disagreements with the Chairman, is it likely that their trust would be broken?”

“You never know what might happen in life.”

Louder’s eyes, which had been smiling, seemed to gleam strangely for a moment.

“We haven’t heard anything about what the Chairman thinks about this matter, have we?”

“……”

“Well, even so, I appreciate your advice, Angel. Sometimes, it’s necessary to do some legwork without expecting anything in return.”

Flap!!

Curse-type Unique Technique

Property Change Catalyst Enhancement

[Ghost Spirit]

[Disaster Joy Bone Collection]

The moment Louder unfurled the scroll and infused it with magical power, a huge purple skull figure surged up and swallowed the two executives.

Immediately after, a wave of flames fell from above, sweeping over the spot where the two presidents had been standing.

Flame-type Unique Magic

Property Change Diffusion Combustion

[Shore Red Lotus Fire]

Kwaaaah!!

The purple skull figure was swept away by the wave of flames and quickly eroded and disappeared.

However, each time the skull burned and vanished, a gloomy thought burst out like bone marrow, grabbing onto the blazing flames and extinguishing them.

In the moment when the heat weakened, an ice path spread out behind the skull, and Angel and Louder slipped out as if sliding.

Kwaaang!!

Immediately after, Renok’s new form, wrapped in a burst of flames, crashed down, smashing the skull’s head to pieces.

“That’s no ordinary system technique.”

Renok, having pressed the array device on his forearm to release the heat, looked around at the damp thoughts scattered around and asked.

“Is he a curse mage?”

“It’s a curse made using the resentment of the victims who burned to death in the Tarashas Great Fire 25 years ago.”

Louder nodded.

“Humans have a pathetic tendency to cling to the medium or object that caused them pain. Rather than retracing the cause or trigger, they simply cling to and try to remember the weapon, shape, or image that killed them.”

“……”

“By using that tendency to process the resentment of humans who died in fire into a curse, they try to cling to the medium of fire.”

Louder said, putting away the scroll.

“Clinging and never letting go, sticking to you relentlessly. That’s what I think is the essence of a curse.”

Instead of directly confronting Renok’s magic using the curse, he thoroughly prevented the heat from spreading.

Considering that curse mages usually focus on various forms of rear support rather than directly attacking their opponents, it’s not a strange thing.

Rather than Renok, who was calmly listening to Louder’s words, Angel clicked his tongue with a strange expression.

“Ugh, isn’t that too unpleasant?”

“In short, a curse is a power that cannot be explained simply by the concept of belittling and hating the other party.”

Louder said with a beaming smile.

“The more you delve into it, the more you are drawn to the ugliness and contradictory aspects of humans. It’s a very fascinating technique.”

“It’s well known that curse mages suffer from human hatred.”

Renok retorted.

“It’s such a cliché that I don’t even know how to respond.”

“Then how about this?”

As Renok walked out with a sneer, Louder immediately unfurled the scroll again.

The curse completed on the scroll was now turned around and aimed at Angel.

“Uuuuuh…!!”

Each time Angel writhed, letting out a strange scream, an icy chill, incomparable to before, burst out from his body.

Whoooosh!!

The storm of cold air was so intense that it instantly froze the air below the dam that had been heating up.

The cold even reached Renok’s skin, who was standing wrapped in flames, chilling his blood for a moment.

A chilling sensation of an eerie level that had never been felt from Angel until just now.

“Negative emotions and words stimulate the human mind very powerfully.”

Louder said from behind Angel, the moment Renok realized that it was the result of doping that exceeded the output of the innate ability originally granted to him.

“Moreover, if you are a psychic who uses innate abilities based on your own mind, can you imagine what kind of synergistic effect would occur when a curse close to obsession is injected into the mind?”

“Hey, Louder!!”

Kwaaang!!!

At that moment, a spear blade like a ray of light pierced through the cold storm and struck down.

A girl who had climbed onto the spear shaft embedded in the slope wall below the dam shouted, looking down at Angel and Louder.

“I told you not to use techniques like that!!”

“Miss Merilda. I mean, this is a versatile application method, I’ve explained it several times-”

“What kind of crazy bastard puts a curse on an ally instead of an enemy!”

“……I can’t reason with her.”

For the first time, Louder’s smile seemed to fade, but he quickly regained his composure and turned to Renok.

“Well, it’s fine. I’ve finished confirming the principle of the flame magic you use.”

“Confirm?”

“An abnormally fast chanting speed and mobility that are far from flame-type techniques. That’s the result of giving up projecting firepower over a wide area and concentrating it in a narrow space, right?”

Louder asked.

“Instead of spreading the range of the technique widely to occupy space, you tried to burn us by moving your body directly. That’s proof that the range of your concentrated firepower is limited to the area around your body.”

“……”

“The firestorm that burned down the apartment complex was powerful magic, but the chanting only started right before the battle ended… Even if you can switch the way you use magic, it must take a very long time. If so-”

“Euryahhh!!”

Crack!!

The moment Merilda forcefully gripped and twisted the spear shaft she had embedded, cracks began to form on the dam’s slope, centered around it.

The walls of the closed dam, which had remained firm despite the impact of the three people clashing, shook as if they were collapsing.

Kwaaaang!!!

The thick stone wall crumbled, and the water that had been stored inside the dam fell like a waterfall.

A dilapidated dam. A waterfall of polluted wastewater, stagnant for a long time, mixed with green algae.

The moment Renok frowned, looking at the grand stream of water falling from above,

Clack!!

Angel, wrapped in cold air, dashed towards the crack where the dam was breaking, and Louder quickly retreated.

“Miss Merilda!”

“Shut up!!”

Merilda shook the spear shaft as if flicking it away, widening the crack in the dam, and retrieved Louder as if snatching him as he fell.

Louder unfurled the scroll and activated the last curse formation he had completed.

Curse-type Unique Technique

Catalyst Transfer Thought Interference

[Regret Basket]

This dam in District 45 is a dilapidated facility that has been closed for over ten years. The water inside is also stagnant and rotten, polluted water.

If it’s a substance with such a strong negative energy, it can be used as a catalyst for a curse to forcibly amplify the power of the technique.

The target of amplification is Angel, an innate ability user of the ice system, who had been cursed in advance.

A mind pushed to its limits through a curse, and an innate ability enhanced by using the surrounding polluted water as a catalyst.

The forced amplification of thoughts and the creation of an environment optimally suited to innate abilities.

Through this, he reaches a level of technique that he could never normally use with his own mental strength.

“Phase Domain Transfer.”

Phase Domain Ability Transfer

Ice-type Mental Image Enhancement

Crackling!!!

The water falling down below the dilapidated dam instantly froze, surrounding Renok and Angel.

Several dozen pure white frozen pillars fell around Renok, and began to build a prison-like structure, isolating the space.

An overwhelming scale, as if it were being created to restrain and bind a giant, not a human, made by freezing the entire volume of the dam.

Kugugugugu!!!

Renok smiled wryly as he realized that the heat of the flames was rapidly weakening within the area of the prison being built in real time.

It was because he understood that the reason the executives were waiting near the abandoned dam was a setup from the beginning to capture him.

“Is it a concept of designating a specific space and changing its properties entirely? It’s different from the magnetic domain, but there are strangely similar aspects.”

Unlike the magnetic domain that unfolds around oneself, the phase domain uses the coordinates of space by designating them around others.

Is it the power to change the phase or priority of a specific concept itself, creating an environment optimized for attribute-based psychics?

If it requires such meticulous preparation to unfold, using the dam’s polluted water as a catalyst and with the help of a curse mage, then the power itself must be at a very strong level.

“This kind of response is troublesome…”

“Don’t worry…!!”

Angel, unable to withstand his own cold, gritted his teeth, his complexion turning purple.

“First, take him to the Chairman… and discuss the future schedule…!!”

“That’s not what I’m talking about.”

In the air that was freezing and solidifying the space all around, Renok slowly raised his hand.

“It’s okay to show it here.”

“…What do you mean?”

The moment he gently swirled his hand as if reaching into the air, a huge fire orb appeared as if melting.

Kuoohhhh!!!

The endlessly glowing red light was intensely rotating and burning inside the huge fire orb.

Would this be the appearance if a massive amount of fire was drawn in by gravity and forcibly formed?

Around the fire orb, a very elaborate and complex magic circle was rotating like a planetary ring, adding a silver glow.

Whoooom!!!

Like a planet rotating around Renok, like a fire of gravity drawing an orbit with the caster as the sun.

The moment he placed his hand on the first fire orb, which was slowly rotating and floating diagonally.

“Release start.”

Kiiiiiing!!

The magic circle surrounding the fire orb like a planetary ring began to rotate violently, increasing its size.

At the same time, the magical power rising from Renok’s body exploded, turning everything around him red.

The power of the flame-type unique magic, growing and amplifying without knowing its limits.

Renok’s magical power, which still does not come under control while greatly increasing the maximum amount of magic.

Therefore, Renok gave up controlling the endlessly increasing magical power and the power of the chant, its scale and firepower, within his body.

Instead, he took it out of his body and re-established it as a new concept of power source.

Kuwaaaaak!!!

“Huh?”

“Damn it, keep your distance!!”

“Try to survive. We absolutely can’t withstand it…!!”

Looking back at the execution squad that was frantically trying to communicate, Renok thought.

When fighting Parden McQueen, the 1st President of the Cartel, Renok had used a magic core to replenish the magic power needed to deploy his domain.

A storage device that stored magic power in advance and used it to compensate for the lack of magic consumption right before chanting.

He reproduced that concept, which was treated as a type of artifact, using his own uncontrollable magic as a power source.

After completing the chant and warm-up, he compressed the fire that was glowing in search of firewood to the limit and embodied it in the form of a fire orb.

Using the barrier technique of Jintun, he fixed the shape and reorganized the internal circulation system to have the structure of a core.

The completed fire orb became a new sun, literally for Evan Martinez alone-

“Wait, this is…!!!”

The moment a chilling heat surged up Merilda’s spine as she quickly ran around the dam.

Renok, who had placed his fist on his palm and pushed it up as if pulling towards the fire orb, whispered.

“Manhong.”

Flame-type Unique Magic

Property Change Amplification Pinnacle

Red Star System: Solar Zenith

Third Star: Return

[Fetal Star Spring]

[Manhong]