Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 896

The Eye That Sees Fate (33)

A Self-Formed Domain is the ultimate technique where the caster’s core inner image is projected to overwrite space-time.

It is the final destination that only casters who have built up all seven levels of self-modification can reach.

A caster who has undergone a series of processes to completely modify and understand themselves will face the core inner image located in the deepest part of their being.

The reason why they exist as themselves.

The reason why they think as themselves.

Even if it is not the shape or scenery they desired, it is something that fundamentally identifies and defines the caster’s own identity.

The most ideal point of completion that a human being can reach.

Those who try to move beyond this point either forcibly break the completed level and fall, or conversely, transcend the level and reach an uncharted realm.

Only after defining the time they have existed in the world and the life they have lived can they fully recognize and face it.

And that is why the Self-Formed Domain, Heavenly Flower Myriad Miles Fragrance, was still an incomplete, unfinished domain.

Kugwagwagwa!!!!

A flame flower, hundreds of meters in size, descended to the ground, blooming and blossoming at the center of the city.

The length of each of the six petals alone is tens of meters. A size that far surpasses even the tallest skyscrapers.

Hwaaaahhh!!

Each time the petals bloomed, swayed, and spread, a hot wind surged, burning both the sky and the ground simultaneously.

The giant flower of fire that was plunged into the heart of Balkan City flashed its light so intensely that it was even captured by satellite cameras.

Saaahhh!!

Soon, it began to close its petals, enveloping Evan and Kyun-ryeo, and began to close its bud.

The six petals swirled and converged, embracing the two mages and closing its mouth.

Three-Headed Cartel.

In the huge common area where Oliviera Ron Maze herself had come, the board of directors, who had been observing the situation, began to murmur.

“What is that…?”

“Is that… the Thousandfold Self-Formed Domain?”

Meryl and Angel, who had been watching without thinking, scratched their heads, while Virgil and Lauder, on the other hand, began to analyze the situation.

“It’s not just Evan, but he’s also dragged Kyun-ryeo in and locked them up. Is it a kind of barrier technique?”

“Self-Formed Domains are not barrier techniques. If it were, then the Thousandfold would have had to separately imbue the domain with the power of a barrier technique…”

A Self-Formed Domain is not a barrier technique, but a secret art that forcibly changes the properties of the surrounding space-time.

The reason why space-time can be changed is because the driving force is the caster’s own core inner image.

If Evan’s domain takes the form of trapping the caster and the opponent, it must be unique to Evan.

Perhaps his talent for handling very complex barrier techniques was mixed into his core inner image and manifested.

“The very act of constructing and externalizing a magic core is the power of a barrier technique. He’s already skilled at using it mixed with his unique magic.”

“But why did he deploy such a domain at this point?”

“In my opinion, that itself seems to be the purpose of deploying the domain.”

Jay-rak, a special forces mercenary from the Central Front who recently took a position as one of the three directors, raised his hand and said.

“The purpose of the domain, you say?”

“After fighting so wildly until just now, suddenly pulling out something like that means he has another idea.”

Jay-rak answered in a nonchalant tone, then lay back in his armchair and tilted his head back.

“Even if it means taking a loss in the strategic battle, he wants to narrow the battlefield by revealing his hand first. Isn’t that it?”

“Hoo, that’s an interesting point.”

Lauder turned his gaze towards Jay-rak with a smile.

Although the explanation was very perfunctory, the context was accurately understood.

“Are you saying that Evan Martinez’s Self-Formed Domain is actually an ability that doesn’t directly help in combat?”

“Well, something like that. I heard that mage has never used a domain before, right?”

Jay-rak said, scratching his ear with one hand.

“Then, doesn’t that mean it’s a domain that’s not very helpful in most battles?”

“Huh, is that so?”

Meryl listened to Jay-rak’s words with a pouty expression, then her eyes lit up, and Angel agreed.

“Come to think of it, there’s some truth to that?”

“It is strange that a mage of that caliber would show off his Self-Formed Domain for the first time in a place like this.”

It is not uncommon for a talented mage’s Self-Formed Domain to have abilities that are not helpful in combat.

The form of the core inner image created by each individual’s life, and the direction in which their talents manifest, are all different.

In extreme cases, there are even mages who become weaker when they deploy their domain.

In battles between high-level casters, they sometimes force their opponents to deploy their domain to twist the situation.

Angel and Jay-rak, who are from the Central Front, would probably have heard of such things, even vaguely.

“That’s an interesting hypothesis, but there are some flaws in that assumption.”

However, Virgil, who had been listening to the board’s conversation, spoke.

“Mages who are good at fighting usually have domain abilities that are also specialized for combat. It’s not that there are no exceptions, but if that were the case, they wouldn’t even be here in the first place.”

“Are you saying that being a great mage and being good at fighting are different things?”

“There’s also a clear basis rather than considering abstract exceptions. In the previous phase, the Thousandfold was at a disadvantage.”

Virgil replied with his arms crossed and a blank face.

“If you reveal your hand first in this situation, you must be able to gain an advantage at the moment you attempt the first move. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Thousandfold’s domain ability is actually extremely specialized for combat.”

“Disadvantage…? You mean the Thousandfold?”

Wasn’t it the power of that monstrous flame mage that had been overwhelming and burning the battlefield until now?

Even Angel, a psychic, couldn’t even fathom that capacity, but Virgil’s words completely reversed the interpretation of the situation so far.

The moment Angel tilted his head, Oliviera’s leisurely voice echoed.

[The Thousandfold’s flames keep growing, but Kyun-ryeo’s lightning has never changed in output.]

“…That’s…”

[Then what does it mean that the battle is still going on evenly?]

“…”

Only then did the other directors, who understood what Virgil and Oliviera were saying, fall silent.

The meaning was that the flames, which had been increased through such augmentation and rampage, had still not surpassed the power of the lightning.

It was Evan, not Kyun-ryeo, who had to constantly increase the output by shifting gears.

“The Thousandfold probably knew it from the start. That’s why he went around the city gathering firewood to start a fire, and set up the board by gathering magic power and output.”

Virgil said.

“It was an outstanding achievement that was hard to believe was started as an improvisation. But rather, because of that… it was decided from the beginning which side had the advantage.”

Regardless of the overwhelming output that was second to none, the battle between Kyun-ryeo and the Thousandfold had been gradually tilting from the moment it began.

The very fact that the Thousandfold was challenging Kyun-ryeo by constructing flame cores throughout the city and gathering magic power and output beyond his capacity was impossible without recognizing the gap between them.

No, rather, it would be more accurate to say that he was only able to stand on the same battlefield as Kyun-ryeo because he was able to do this much.

As Virgil had asserted to Oliviera before, the opponent to bet on was decided from the beginning.

“Anyway, he must have thought he had a chance of winning when he decided to fight.”

Meryl said, lying barefoot on the chair given to the board of directors.

She scratched her stomach and yawned, then looked at the tightly closed bud of fire in the distance and asked.

“That domain, doesn’t it have a much more powerful ability than we think?”

“When I faced him before, Evan Martinez showed a very high level of understanding of the application of Geass [a magical contract or binding].”

Lauder said, staring silently at the burning bud on the screen.

“Perhaps it’s because he’s been using Geass for a long time to increase the power by bending his own techniques.”

“So? Do you think you know what the domain’s ability is?”

“An ability that has never been revealed despite its reputation. Yet, a gamble that is worth taking at the moment that determines victory or defeat in a battle of this magnitude. Above all, if the caster himself is familiar with the constraints of Geass-”

Lauder said with a thoughtful expression.

“A final, fire-power compression projection with a limited number of uses. That’s the kind of card you’d need to pull out in a situation like this, wouldn’t you say?”

“…A limited number of uses?”

While the other directors were taken aback by the unexpected idea, Lauder smiled wryly.

“A domain deployment that increases power in exchange for limiting the number of activations. If I were the Thousandfold, I would need to have a card like that to enter such a battlefield.”

“Hoo…”

Certainly, that assumption would explain why Evan Martinez had never deployed his domain before.

A constraint so powerful that it limits the number of activations, and once all are used, it can never be deployed again.

If Geass was bent to such an extreme, it might be able to reach that great mage who wields the lightning in the sky.

“It’s a result-oriented conclusion, but there are quite a few aspects that fit together…”

“Even if I were the Thousandfold, I wouldn’t hesitate to reveal my hand first if I had such a domain, would I?”

Lauder’s conjecture, which drew everyone’s attention so much that even Virgil and Meryl were lost in thought.

However, Oliviera slowly shook her head at those words.

[Perhaps it’s because you have a talent for dealing with curses, but your way of thinking is quite twisted. It’s a great inference, but it’s far from the correct answer.]

“Is that so?”

A compliment from the great mage that is very rarely given even to her own directors.

As Lauder readily accepted, Oliviera slowly waved her hand from behind the curtain.

[If the Thousandfold had such a volatile ability, would he have bothered to spend time searching for sparks all over the city?]

“…”

[He is a caster with the patience and macroscopic vision to set up a plan while spending several days on the run from a wanted order.]

Oliviera’s voice seemed to be mixed with a faint cynicism.

[There’s no way such a guy would make the mistake of burning the present by pulling in the future as his ability. I think it’s closer to the complete opposite.]

“The opposite, then…”

[It’s not the number of times, but the time limit. The constraint condition of Geass is probably… the time itself that the technique is kept active.]

Kugwagwagwa!!

At that moment, the flower bud that had been tightly closed on the screen began to slowly wriggle and bloom again.

But this time, instead of the petals reappearing, they each lost their strength and slowly withered and fell.

Oliviera nodded her head as she watched the scene.

[A full bloom that concentrates its power and explodes at the moment it blooms again… beautiful. He’s planning to end it all at once, literally.]

“…”

Her voice was so excited that even the attendants who looked up to her from behind the curtain could tell.

[So, how do you plan to finish this situation?]

* * *

Kuhwaaaahhh!!!

Six dazzling red petals of fire.

Evan, who had closed and folded the bud, completely blocking the surrounding view, descended to the center of the domain.

Kyun-ryeo, who was wrapped in lightning all over his body, stood on the opposite side of the bud with a blank face.

“Well, then…”

Lenox muttered, slowly rubbing his shoulder and turning his head.

“Somehow, I’ve made it this far.”

Even after taking large doses of painkillers and stimulants, his whole body was stiff from forcing his martial arts.

While he was with Particia, he had managed to get by, but now there was only one person on this battlefield.

Lenox had to handle and cope with all the battle situations that were visible from the outside alone.

He thought he had done well so far, but the reason why he deployed the Self-Formed Domain at this point was-

‘Heavenly Flower Myriad Miles Fragrance is an unfinished domain. That’s why I have to use it here.’

The Self-Formed Domain, Heavenly Flower Myriad Miles Fragrance, is not a possibility that Lenox had been using before, strictly speaking.

From the beginning, Lenox had been using the Kaleidoscope Domain even when fighting under the identity of Evan.

Black Sea Goddess’s Fall, False Guiding Star, and Mad Naked Sea Palace.

The karma that Evan had built up was also unfolded beyond the infinite possibilities of the Kaleidoscope, wasn’t it?

The power of Heavenly Flower Myriad Miles Fragrance is a new domain that began to differentiate itself by separating the possibilities of Evan Martinez, who was wanted in this city.

The Thousandfold’s Self-Formed Domain, which began to accumulate karma and manifest a few days ago, using the flame core as a possibility for a new domain.

However, because it had not been long since that possibility began to differentiate, it was still a power that was closer to being unfinished, unlike other Kaleidoscope Domains.

The very act of grandly displaying the Heavenly Flower Myriad Miles Fragrance domain to the outside was possible because it was an unfinished domain.

That is why Lenox used the power of this domain as a screen to cover the battlefield, and to block the surrounding view at the decisive moment.

For this moment of facing the Avatar one-on-one.

“…”

The figure of the Avatar, standing on the opposite side of the bud and staring at Lenox without any reaction.

The moment Lenox took a step forward while looking at that figure.

Thud…!!

The Avatar and Lenox simultaneously began to move towards each other.

In the instant that the two mages passed each other in the blooming flower of fire.

Their appearance and form were also reversed and changed as if reflecting in a mirror.

Hwaaak!!

A transformation that instantly changes not only Lenox himself, but also the form of the Avatar.

Lenox, who had instantly exchanged the position and appearance of the Avatar, immediately raised his hand.

He was about to start a new incantation over the surging Heavenly Flower Myriad Miles Fragrance domain, but stopped as if he had thought of something.

“…”

Lenox, who had been silently staring at the standing Avatar, approached the Avatar.

He grabbed the Avatar’s neck with one hand, and applied strong force.

Uuung…!!

As he applied force as if strangling the neck and swung his will, Lenox’s and the Avatar’s magic power began to resonate simultaneously.

The two mages’ figures shook violently and repelled each other, but nothing more happened.

Lenox, who sensed the failure, smiled wryly and withdrew his hand.

“…As expected, it was still too much?”

The most dangerous and powerful taboo that a caster who has mastered the Avatar technique can attempt with their Avatar.

He thought that it might be possible if it was a moment when his mind and body were extremely elevated like now, but he didn’t feel even a shred of possibility.

That must be because Lenox’s Avatar has a very different origin from other Avatar casters.

To solve this problem, it seemed that he would have to go to the owner of that origin.

Kugugugu…!!

After a moment of fruitless contemplation, the petals of the Heavenly Flower Myriad Miles Fragrance began to wriggle and fall off one by one.

The timer that increased the power by using the technique maintenance time as a condition was over, and the domain began to bloom in earnest.

The fragrance of the flower from the heavens reaches ten thousand miles away.

The flower that bloomed by using the concept of time as nourishment would release a fragrance that could be smelled throughout Balkan, just like the name of the domain.

“Well, then…”

Lenox, who had slowly retreated and returned to his position, operated the Avatar again and raised his magic power.

At the same time that the Heavenly Flower Myriad Miles Fragrance bloomed, Lenox also filled his magic power and chanted an electric magic spell.

“Shall we begin?”

Pajijik…!!

What he had to do now was to explode and consume all of Lenox’s and the Avatar’s magic power, literally scraping it to the bottom.

The magic power of the outer sea, which had acted as a catalyst for increasing the maximum magic power.

He would output and vomit all of that raw material mixed in Lenox’s body, and use it as a material to stimulate the cracks in the fortress.

The first thing to explode for the re-ignition was a very powerful lightning that rivaled the output of the flame flower.

It was a secret art of electric magic that had reached the extreme of excess, which even Lenox himself had never used in his right mind.

“Hoo…”

While constantly taking deep breaths, he quickly heightened his own will.

He continued to inflate the image of the abundant lightning within without manipulating it.

Pajik, pajik…!!!

The image of the lightning that does not disappear as long as the will exists, simply overflows infinitely.

The pinnacle of meaninglessness, where pure output itself is released like paint in a specific space without any manipulation or intervention.

Thunder Overflow.

The paradox of wielding the magic that completely severed the immortality of the 10th Apostle of the Order, Amrita, against the flame mage who was known to have defeated Amrita.

The moment he became aware of it himself, the incantation of Thunder Overflow, which had only been pieced together at the end of madness, was completed like a puzzle and descended into reality.

Pajijijijijik!!!!

A noisy chirping that echoed like thunder in his ears.

The lightning, overflowing like an infinite sea, tried to surge while splitting the flower of fire.

At the moment when Lenox raised his hand to draw that vivid image that seemed to be drawn right in front of his eyes, as it was in reality.

“…!!!”

He inadvertently turned his gaze to the ground due to an eerie and intense sense of incongruity that shook his intuition.

At the same time, a bizarre metallic sound echoed, and a pitch-black crack opened beneath the ground where the Heavenly Flower Myriad Miles Fragrance had bloomed.

Jjeojeok…!!

In the instant that Lenox stopped the spell with a hardened expression at the formation of the crack that had no sign of it, whatsoever.

A huge snake, completely dyed black, surged from beyond the gate and let out a thunderous roar.

[Kahaaaaak!!!]

Kugwagwagwaga!!!

Its size was so enormous that it seemed like a black pillar was rising from the ground to the sky.

The dark scales were stained with black mud, and its eyes had already lost focus and were blurred and hazy.

The moment he realized that he could see a fragment of the Ascended One guarding the well in that miserable appearance that was even doubtful of being alive.

Lenox muttered quietly with a cold and calm gaze.

“A thought entity of the Compendium…”

* * *

The endless sea of darkness.

The stars that shine emptily.

The monsters that swim eternally and sing of the end.

But even in this sea that is dying towards destruction, there is still a world where life breathes.

Infinitely weak, and pathetic.

Yet, they are still here.

Every moment of their birth and death is proof of a miracle.

The light emitted by life is so faint that it is only a handful of lamps in this sea.

That is why it has value, and that is why it becomes the object of longing and greed.

All the ends that swim in that sea want and crave this seemingly meaningless spark of life.

The end, which no one knows where it started, was running towards the end after completing all the processes.

Perhaps, we will surely be the last.

A small death rattle that echoes like an echo only after everything is over.

That is the meaning of this shabby and beautiful world.

Lapis Palshier, the lighthouse keeper, thought so and slowly opened her eyes.

“Welcome, Lapis.”

A rich head of navy blue hair that looked like a mirror image.

A woman with a very familiar face was smiling at Lapis.

Thousand Eyes, Madrea Palshier, said.

“I’ve been waiting for you.”