Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 943

The memories of the second world, now reaching their conclusion and fading away.

The moment a Transcendent succeeds in their ascension. A pioneer’s methodology, dreaming in a different direction from other challengers.

Naoise Penn, a level 9 necromancer, collided two continents to push the power of his necromantic formula to its limits.

Using this, he succeeded in summoning a part of the third world into reality.

The miracle of ‘Dapcheon,’ imbuing the earth’s crust with his necromancy to artificially amplify its power. [Dapcheon is a term referring to a powerful, almost divine, act of manipulating the earth’s energy].

Though the entire process may not have been entirely under his control, this moment, created in this way, belongs solely to the Transcendent himself.

Arranging and guiding countless miracles and disasters, gathering them all at one time to create a single moment.

Summoning and pulling down a part of the third world that did not yet exist into the present, a fleeting moment where a wish is fulfilled within a distorted desire.

Kuoohhhhh…!!

A pillar of black-green light connecting the sky and the earth.

At its center, the heart of a massive, shadowy divine temple floats as if suspended.

In the memories of ascension where time has stopped, the Cult Leader and the Commander faced each other.

[…….]

“……”

It was clear they recognized each other’s presence, yet words did not come easily.

As if both were recalling the memory of the moment they actually faced each other in this place long ago.

At the heart of the second world, having overcome the end and destruction once, wandering and agonizing in the third, and finally, like this.

The three people who were the past, present, and future were able to meet.

An encounter that was a coincidence because the timing was not set. An inevitability because it was something that had to happen someday.

A fleeting moment where their respective domains overlapped without clashing, despite being born from opposing origins.

Then, was Lenok here because this moment was fate?

[Welcome, my mirror…….]

In the silence that seemed to stop one’s breath, it was the Cult Leader who spoke first.

A total solar eclipse unfolding in the sky.

The moment of a lunar eclipse where the world and humanity become equal, obscuring each other.

He slowly moved past the lich, Naoise Penn, who spread his arms and yearned for that moment.

[It’s been a while since the Travesh’s Principle Seal, hasn’t it……?] [The Travesh’s Principle Seal is likely a reference to a powerful, ancient binding or restriction].

“……”

[After the second ending, it is no longer permitted for us two to stand on the same timeline, a forbidden taboo.]

“……”

[Yet, the skill to twist causality and create contradictions like this is truly astonishing. This is a power that only you have acquired across three worlds.]

Leaving the Commander who did not answer, the Cult Leader seemed to smile gently.

[The aiming and reversal of causality allowed by reaching the ‘Post-Heaven’…… indeed, you are a far superior respondent compared to the old me…….]

“I said it once before.”

At that moment, the silent Commander spoke for the first time.

“The beginning was different, and we diverged at the end, so no moment can be compared. It’s a meaningless question at the point where we can no longer distinguish each other’s answers.”

Even as he saw the Cult Leader walking past him, he did not turn his gaze or raise his voice.

Even in this chaos where time has stopped, his will surely reaches where he desires.

The Commander’s gaze, raised beyond the noise, seemed to coldly pierce through the Cult Leader’s face.

“You still try to give meaning to useless standards.”

A rare moment when the Commander, who is indifferent to everything, reveals his emotions by his own will.

However, Lenok felt a strong sense of incongruity in the Commander’s answer, as if looking in a mirror.

The old world’s magic marksman, in a sense, was the one standing in the middle of the three.

The second one following the first, and the inevitability waiting for the coming fate.

He was the Cult Leader’s mirror, and at the same time, he had similar aspects to Lenok.

That is why, among the three, only the Commander could have created this place directly.

[Hahaha…… Even if it’s meaningless, how can I stop…….]

However, even after hearing the Commander’s words, the Cult Leader burst into laughter as if he was delighted.

[Even while transcending the world and heading to the next, how can we stop trying to understand each other in the face of this moment that we dared not even imagine?]

“……”

[Now, reasons or justifications are no longer mine, and only futile expectations lie before us.]

The Cult Leader, who stopped walking right in front of the Commander, turned his gaze.

[You understand me that much as well, so you believed that I would respond to this call, didn’t you…….]

Beyond the end of the world, everything exists by chance and has meaning by chance.

The Cult Leader, who exists by taking that miracle as his origin, does not cling to the concept of reasons or justifications.

The death of Anathema. The sanctuary declared by the priestess. The stage for this moment was set through the miracles that the Cult Leader had haphazardly thrown out, but.

Accepting the Commander’s proposal and descending to this place was solely the Cult Leader’s own will.

The Cult Leader was asking if the Commander knew that fact from the beginning and called him here.

[Our meeting always has meaning, and this moment alone is a miracle we long for…… but that’s why it cannot last long.]

Beyond the veiled gaze, the Cult Leader seemed to be looking at the Commander.

[You know that, don’t you……?]

“……”

The origins of the Cult Leader and the Commander are inherently at opposing points.

Therefore, the two have acknowledged and tolerated each other’s existence, but have not tried to forcibly overlap their time.

When the Commander broke that first and came to find the Cult Leader, the Cult Leader also recognized the omen through Anathema’s death and accepted the invitation.

However, from the beginning, this meeting itself is a result that exists through a cause that cannot exist in this world.

Even if they borrow the concepts of the Cult’s sanctuary and the palace of memories, it cannot be maintained for long.

That is why the Cult Leader deliberately delayed the meeting and had a dialogue with Lenok first, and now he is reminding the Commander again.

Did he understand the Cult Leader’s words that time was short?

“I intend to get things done before the pseudo-lunar eclipse approaches.”

The Commander, who had been listening silently, opened his mouth.

His gaze, which had been looking at the sky with his arms crossed, seemed to turn sharp for a moment.

“If we don’t set a time for the concept of ‘Heaven’s Bottom’ to be reversed, the timeline will be twisted. So, I’ll ask.”

[Speak.]

The Commander turned his gaze beyond the noise.

The Cult Leader received the gaze that was so cold that it did not feel any emotion.

The two transcendents, who were not accepted as beings of this world, exchanged gazes that could not read each other’s intentions.

After staring at the Cult Leader for a long time, the Commander asked in a voice that had no emotion.

“The contraction formula. How much is left?”

[None left.]

“……”

[Long ago, it passed the event horizon and is only going back towards the result.]

The Cult Leader tilted his head slowly as he watched that scene.

[I thought you would have known that already, but it’s unexpected…… In a way, it’s similar to how you control your origin…….]

The Commander did not answer.

As if that silence itself was the answer.

The Cult Leader smiled brightly as if he understood.

[Ah, is that so…… You are already…….]

“……”

[You are truly amazing. Even though we are walking different paths, how can we be so similar? How can we be so alike…….]

The Cult Leader, who turned around with his hands behind his back, shook his head weakly.

[After all, we are not fundamentally the same. Just as we can no longer call the concept that distinguishes us an origin…….]

“I can’t be the same as you, who still desires salvation.”

Beyond the noise, the Commander seemed to close his eyes.

“I do not regret it. There was value and meaning beyond being born and disappearing, and there are memories. As long as I remember, it will never disappear.”

[Is that so…….]

The Cult Leader smiled.

His composure, which had been calm throughout, twisted bitterly for a moment.

[I don’t remember those things anymore…….]

“……”

Perhaps the Commander did not expect to hear the Cult Leader’s inner thoughts directly.

For a moment, the presence that had felt indifferent seemed to loosen slightly.

“That’s all I have to say.”

The Commander muttered.

“The rest is up to each other to figure out as they see fit.”

[I know…… The moment we should meet is not now…….]

The Cult Leader, who answered that way, turned his gaze towards Lenok.

[If it weren’t for the third, I wouldn’t have come to greet you either…….]

“……”

[So, let’s hear it…… our destiny.]

The Cult Leader asked.

[What is the ending of this world that you desire……?]

* * *

A single moment in the world that has passed through the first and second and reached the third.

However, the fourth miracle does not exist.

The world is completed and destroyed through three transformations, and what remains is only the end where the end of the outer sea descends.

Three is the number that represents perfection.

No more opportunities are allowed, and the unfinished world will disappear.

That countless worlds have met similar ends.

“……”

While unraveling the secrets of the world, facing the end of countless failures.

What was Lenok thinking while tasting the tears and blood he shed in the meantime?

The struggles and curses of the transcendents who realized that there was no next in this world.

What was he going to say in front of the respondents who were seeking answers even beyond the world?

Even though he had imagined this moment countless times, words did not come easily.

Because he knew.

That all the paths Lenok had passed through while agonizing and suffering, they had also passed through once.

That the creation and destruction, good deeds and evil deeds, sacrifices and sorrows they experienced were so terrible and painful that they could not bear it.

That is why the Cult Leader was broken, the Commander was twisted, and Lenok was still searching.

The next that does not exist in this world where the ending is set.

The only way that could be the answer to all agony and suffering.

“I……”

Even after opening his mouth with difficulty, words did not follow easily.

Even at this moment, Lenok was still thinking, agonizing, and hesitating.

Perhaps, it might be better to ask them directly in this place.

The meaning of the Commander’s words about the concept of Heaven’s Bottom being reversed.

The pseudo-lunar eclipse. The lingering attachment to salvation. The purpose of killing gods. The ending of the third.

If he were to spit out those words that now had a real meaning and were circling in his head, his mind might be at ease.

It is painful to suffer from incomprehensible words, and it is only difficult to unravel the secrets of the world.

But-

“Am I…… your destiny?”

After a long period of contemplation, what flowed from Lenok’s mouth was a pure question.

“Am I your end?”

Lenok’s expressionless eyes turned towards the two transcendents far away.

“Am I…… the one who will bring the end to you two?”

“……”

In the quiet silence, Lenok answered himself.

“Maybe not. Even if that were the case, I wouldn’t have thought so.”

[…….]

“After all, you were not beings bound by origin. Instead of being bound by your own essence, you would have tried to control it.”

Lenok smiled.

“At least, I would have definitely done that.”

Just as the Cult Leader resides in chance and tries to control chance.

Just as the Commander tried to transcend inevitability and control inevitability.

Lenok also did not intend to be bound by what is called fate.

Perhaps, in the beginning when everything started, there might have been roles set for each other.

But clearly, even though they were standing in the same place, now everyone has a different answer and is facing the end.

And that was ultimately possible because Lenok was Lenok himself.

“I could listen to the answers of the two of you in this place and take one side.”

Lenok, who had passed between the Cult Leader and the Commander and gone ahead of them, turned around.

The transcendents of chance and inevitability, looking down at him from both ends of Dapcheon.

“But…… no matter how many answers I see and agonize over.”

Lenok looked up at them and smiled brightly.

“I can’t shake the thought that even that is within the ending I desire.”

“……”

[…….]

“Whether the end of this world truly exists only beyond that dark sea, or whether we must rely on the mercy and death of the outer gods floating in the sea.”

He raised his gaze and looked at the eyes of the outer god flickering in the distance of the sky.

A bizarre sight where tens of thousands of eyes were densely packed again within a huge pupil.

A gaze of the end that seemed to have embedded human eyes in a bubble that seemed to scatter at any moment, rather than life.

It was clearly the appearance of the outer god that only existed in the memories of the Commander and the Cult Leader, but somehow, those eyes seemed to be watching Lenok intently.

However, despite the eerie feeling that ran down his spine, Lenok’s mind was more calm than ever.

“That answer is still within me. Even the possibilities and branching points that you once desired, must have been here before.”

[…….]

The kaleidoscope of possibilities that exists within Lenok.

The reason why only the branching point of taking the hand of the outer sea was empty.

The reason why the Commander’s possibility, unlike the Cult Leader’s, did not even have a trace in the kaleidoscope.

Knowing that, Lenok could not be shaken.

He could believe that the answer he chose first was right.

“I’ve been thinking since I heard the answer from Jintun.”

Lenok smiled.

“If there is no fourth in this world…….”

The beginning was a coincidence, but the end is not a coincidence.

There was no inevitability in this relationship, but it is inevitable to face a catastrophe.

Then, in order for Lenok’s answer to transcend the world, he would have to overcome fate.

He recognized it in his answer with Jintun, he resolved it while watching the annihilation of Cheongyeon, and now, in this place, he finally confirms it.

“I must become that fourth.”