Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 929

Clang!!

The ring of light surrounding Lenok and Anathema shattered, and the two of them fell from the altar.

With a shockwave, Lenok knocked away Anathema’s hand that had been choking him, summoned lightning, and slammed his body into the floor below the ritual site.

[White Fall]

Kwaaaang!!!

A pillar of pure white lightning struck the center of the ritual site, emitting a tremendous roar and incinerating the flesh monsters that were rampaging in all directions.

[Kweeek!!]

[Kkiiik, Kkigik!!]

The flesh monsters let out miserable screams, and Anathema’s body was slammed under the shattered altar, coughing up blood.

The intense lightning caused the attendees who were dealing with the monsters that had invaded the ritual site to turn their heads at once.

“What’s going on?”

“That’s the lightning technique used by Gyeonroe. Something’s gone wrong with the ritual.”

“Anathema!”

Shuuuuu…!!!

From the clearing below the altar where smoke was rising, Lenok walked out and asked,

“Where is Slane?”

The red-eyed man was nowhere to be seen, and in his place were hundreds of flesh monsters.

Everyone who had been watching the ritual was now focused on killing and clearing away the flesh monsters.

Did the situation change immediately after Lenok was surrounded by Anathema and the ring of light?

“There was an anomaly among the other attendees on the outskirts of the satellite city, so he urgently left his post.”

“……”

“More importantly, I think an explanation is needed for this situation.”

Thud!

Haebaek, who had crushed the head of a flesh monster with his scabbard, twitched his eyes and said,

“Why did you attack Anathema? What happened during the ritual?”

“This guy tried to kill me while pretending to transfer his ability.”

Lenok replied with a blank face.

“He was colluding with the Order and became an apostle.”

“……”

At Lenok’s explanation that Anathema had become a tool of the Order, everyone silently closed their mouths and exchanged glances.

Ignoring the surrounding atmosphere, Lenok quickly explained.

“First, I took away the Eight Trigrams Formation [a magical formation based on ancient Chinese philosophy] to prevent Anathema from awakening his innate ability. I’ve neutralized him, so for now-”

“Gyeonroe. I think you’re mistaken about something.”

However, Rage cut off Lenok’s words with a sharp denial.

“Armas is a noble with powers and abilities that are almost the opposite of the Order. He’s not the kind of guy who would get involved in this kind of human sacrifice… !”

Whoosh!

Rage’s body accelerated explosively, blowing away the pouring monsters.

As her whole body rotated with a red light as if on fire, she became a whirlwind of flames that swept through the ritual site.

Whirr, whirr, whirr!!!

A physical ability user who uses acceleration as a weapon.

I had guessed when she was wearing a motorcycle helmet, but she must be the type who has an extreme advantage in her speed.

Rage, who tore apart and burned the flesh and bones of the monsters with a wave of her hand, landed on the broken altar at an incredible speed.

Kwaaang!!!

“He may have stood against Kaise, but he wasn’t the kind of guy who would kill people without a reason.”

Rage, who supported Anathema who was slumped on the broken altar, said in a cold voice.

Contrary to how friendly she had been just a moment ago, her attitude was now extremely cold.

“Aren’t you the one framing Armas while claiming to protect Kaise’s granddaughter?”

“I don’t see what protecting Jenisia Bajur has to do with pointing out Anathema’s betrayal.”

Kiiiing…!!

Lenok asked, looking at the Eight Trigrams Formation that was spinning violently above his head.

“Anathema himself should know best whose hand he took and what kind of being he has become, right?”

“What?”

Lenok looked at Anathema, who was slumped down below the altar, and touched his wrist.

“He must already know that he can’t hide it.”

“……”

Seina Naidri, the former high priestess of the Order.

A comrade who stayed with Lenok until the end in Yorta’s Mugan, leaving behind her will before departing.

I still don’t sympathize with her fanaticism. But I don’t disagree with her decision.

The authority of the high priestess that she left behind while sacrificing herself for Lenok remains by his side, emitting a pale light.

Woo-oong!!

Even the hesitation she felt at the last moment, wondering if Lenok might be okay, is still so clear.

The same amount of agitation that Seina felt at that time, and the same amount of determination as the sacrifice she made with difficulty, is contained here.

Because he has the authority of a high priest to access the faith system that forms the core of the Order, Lenok can know the existence of an apostle even though he is not a member of the Order.

Anathema must have felt it too, which is why he couldn’t even deny Lenok’s words and fell.

“Do you believe that the resolve and heart you once had will never change?”

“……”

“Can you really be sure that your comrades, whom you’ve met again after decades, are the same beings they were back then?”

The flesh monsters, thrashing miserably, were reflected in Lenok’s eyes.

Monsters that have lost their minds and devour humans, and victims who were once human themselves.

It has already been confirmed that Anathema himself is directly involved in all of this tragedy.

“It’s not strange to be broken and twisted. Even giving up and falling is natural for humans. At least…”

Lenok’s cold gaze turned towards the unconscious Anathema.

“It seems clear that the nobles of Ars Nova are not as noble as they seem.”

“Hey, enough is enough.”

Flap!

Rage said in a calm voice.

“What do you know that you keep talking like that? What do you know about what happened in the civil war?”

“……”

“Armas saved us several times. Every time we were about to die because of Gilleon’s plan, he gave up his time to stay in reality and saved others.”

Rage’s gaze, which had turned cold, sharply stared at Lenok from behind her helmet.

“Do you know that you are more suspected of being a mole than Anathema, who has powers that are the opposite of the Order?”

“……”

“Your actions are similar to those of the 2nd Apostle who wreaked havoc in the Machine City. There were also rumors that you fought the Apostle Slayer Thousand because you were related to the Order.”

“Ah, so that’s what it was.”

I wondered why she suddenly brought that up, but it seems that such suspicions had already been circulating among the other attendees.

Lenok, who had thought that far, immediately raised his magic power and nodded.

“Okay. I didn’t intend to explain everything in detail in the first place. Let’s take care of the urgent matter first and then talk.”

“Who do you think will let you do as you please?”

There is no time to invest in explaining and proving how Lenok knew that Anathema was an apostle.

He will just deal with Rage who is rushing at him and do what he needs to do.

A power user who uses acceleration as a weapon.

Considering her fickle personality that she has shown so far, it is unnatural for her to be wearing a helmet in any situation.

That motorcycle helmet is probably a kind of restraint or suppressor to control her power.

If he can’t react immediately after she takes off her helmet, Lenok might suffer a fatal injury.

‘It would have been nice if I could have taken all of Anathema’s innate abilities here…’

With the authority of the high priest, he stimulated Anathema, who had become an apostle, and broke the operation of the Eight Trigrams Formation.

Even though the control has already been transferred to Lenok, he is still not good enough to handle the ability.

At least, it will only be possible when Anathema himself clearly gives up his ability or is in a similar state.

‘Subdue Rage and Haebaek while dealing with Anathema.’

Woo-oong!!!

Lenok’s senses, which had raised his magic power, rotated violently and received information pouring in from all directions.

‘I can handle the intervention of a psychic. The problem is that side.’

A man wearing a strange visor has been watching the ritual site from the ground since a while ago.

Marcus Tranquiller. The leader of the Mirror Divers, and the first being to have crossed the event horizon in Vulcan, or so they said.

The problem is that Lenok has no idea what the event horizon means.

It’s different from opponents like Haebaek or psychics, whose abilities and countermeasures can be guessed.

Swoosh!

At that moment, Rage’s body disappeared from Lenok’s sight.

Light shockwaves and strong winds swept through the ritual site from all directions, from the bizarre stone statues surrounding it.

A technique that maximizes the amount of impact by leaping and matching the distance needed for acceleration, using all sides of the vast ritual site as a foothold.

Speed is power. The flames that burn without overcoming air friction become a driving force that adds to the acceleration.

Elizart Extreme Chain: Double Open

Propulsion

Divine Speed

Flap!

The moment the flames that had spread from her toes rotated once in front of Lenok’s eyes.

Rage kicked Lenok’s stomach at a speed that exceeded the speed of sound.

[Annihilation Kick]

Bboooong!!!

Shockwaves that reached dozens of layers exploded like ripples, and Lenok’s body heaved greatly.

The aftermath alone caused dozens of flesh monsters that were swarming in all directions to be crushed and spew out bodily fluids.

[Tzziiiik!!]

“…!!”

The impact was so great that Lenok’s body was bent into an L-shape on the spot.

However, even after taking Rage’s attack head-on, Lenok did not cough up blood, roll his eyes, or faint.

“Blocked…?!”

Rage, who had never even imagined that he would openly receive a preemptive attack head-on, was shocked.

At that moment, compressed flames that burst from Lenok’s fingertips slammed Rage’s body into the floor of the ritual site.

[Fire Construction]

Kwaaaang!!!!

“Ugh…!!”

Rage, who was pushed back while scraping the stone floor of the ritual site, finally realized what means Lenok had used and said in an absurd voice.

“Did you give up defending other parts of your body and concentrate your magic power on your stomach, you crazy bastard…!! I couldn’t even see the path, how did you!!!”

“Even if you’re an acceleration ability user, you can’t be perfectly controlling that much speed.”

Lenok smiled with a pale face.

“If you have to overlap leaps to measure the distance, it would be difficult to hit me unless you aim for the center of my body in the first place, wouldn’t it?”

“You…!!”

The reason why Rage ran around the ritual site before attacking was not to increase her acceleration by increasing the leap distance.

It was to embody the sense of distance by running around the ritual site and increase the accuracy of [Annihilation Kick].

However, Rage herself also has difficulty properly capturing Lenok’s appearance in that accelerated state.

In order to avoid missing a preemptive attack that has been accelerated, she would try to hit the center of the target with [Annihilation Kick] as much as possible.

That’s why Lenok sensed that Rage would not aim for other places and took the attack head-on by slamming his magic power into his abdomen.

A reckless countermeasure that uses magic power to replace physical strength, which was possible because his maximum magic power had greatly increased due to Lapis’s incident.

And there was a reason why Lenok endured in front of Rage like this.

“It’s my turn.”

“You…!!!”

Click!

Lenok, who had taken out a sniper rifle, aimed at Anathema’s body that was lying on the altar.

He will keep Rage here and completely erase Anathema’s body.

Just as he was about to forcibly grab Rage’s presence by wrapping magic power around her like a cloud and simultaneously fire a bullet containing a destruction technique at the altar.

“She’s right.”

Anathema’s voice echoed from behind Rage.

A handsome young man covered in blue scales was standing behind her, wearing a black robe.

“She and I are people who owe each other our lives on the battlefield. We were comrades bound by an incredibly strong bond.”

“Arma-”

Thud!

A finger covered in blue scales popped out from behind Rage’s neck.

He said, pushing his finger into the carotid artery that was exposed through the gap in the helmet without a moment’s hesitation.

“So, this time, I’ll take the life I owe.”

“……”

The sight of Anathema slumped on the altar and another Anathema piercing Rage’s neck from behind.

It’s not that Lenok missed Anathema’s presence even though he used magic power detection.

It was just that another Anathema’s body was literally created here.

And it goes without saying that the driving force that made it possible was human sacrifice.

“Ar…ma…”

Rage grabbed Anathema’s arm as if she couldn’t believe it.

She fumbled with a body that couldn’t even breathe because her carotid artery, esophagus, and neck bone supporting her head were broken.

“I tried to save you…”

“No one can save me, Rage.”

Anathema replied in a truly gentle voice.

“Because there was no salvation in this world from the beginning.”

“……”

“No matter how much I devoted myself and saved many lives, I was just a stranger. I was always an audience member outside the stage.”

While Lenok’s mouth hardened at the lament that felt somewhat familiar, Anathema said quietly.

“I believed that a reward would come someday, that karma would settle on me someday. I followed the laws I had learned all my life, but…”

Swoosh!

Anathema whispered, twisting the hand he had stuck into Rage’s neck.

“My salvation was not in this world, but out there.”

“Why…”

Rage’s figure collapsed without being able to finish her sentence.

Looking down at Rage, who had collapsed while clutching her neck, Anathema closed his eyes.

“Come, my god.”

Goooooo…!!

Anathema, who had spread his arms wide, soared into the air and spoke to himself, looking at the endlessly dark night sky.

“Your incarnation is here…!!!”

Faaaah!!!

The pale light of fanaticism that soared from all directions wrapped around his body and finally settled completely.

Black fur grew on his body, which had been covered in blue scales, and horns grew.

The joints of his legs were twisted backward, turning them into those of a beast, and the size and muscle mass of his entire body increased explosively.

Kugugugugu!!!

Anathema’s body rose explosively, instantly leaving the ritual site and standing tall in the sky above Etanok.

Without rejecting the pale light that was swirling from below, he was bound by the shackles and doctrines of fanaticism and fell into ruin.

The moment the noble of Ars Nova completely accepted his fate as an apostle and completed his incarnation.

Crack!

The goat’s horns that curved and soared on both sides.

The elongated goat’s snout and the dragon’s teeth inside.

A bizarre skin covered in membranous wings, scales, and fur.

A monstrous creature that seemed to be a mixture of the forms of a goat and a dragon, scattered tremendous thoughts and descended upon the earth.

“Ha…”

Anathema, who had placed his hand on his forehead with a soft sigh, tilted his head back.

“The 6th Apostle under the Gui-do Order. The Six Heavenly Calamities Anathema.”