Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 962

Kugugugugu!!! A wall of ice, several times taller than a person, rose along the outer edge of the temple. Ermong frantically moved his feet towards the barrier that was sealing off the underground chamber. “I’ve lived longer than most people, and I’ve realized something…!!” Swish!! A spear blade flew like lightning, piercing his thigh, and Paysha’s foot slammed down on top of it. She kicked Ermong’s back, who was convulsing like a fish on a hook, and with another kick, she twisted the spear, slicing through his back. Waaarrrr!!! Ermong’s body turned into a hard pile of stones, and a new Ermong rolled out from right next to it. Ermong, who had rolled out and met Paysha’s gaze, gave a pathetic smile. “Even rolling on the stone floor while being chased by a crazy woman, it’s good to be alive.” “So what?” “Don’t you get it yet?” Ermong said, grinning at Paysha. “You’re not unbreakable, are you?” “…” “That kind of mindless spear throwing doesn’t hurt much. So, give up quickly and go catch that ice guy over there- Gerk!!” Paysha kicked Ermong’s chin, sending his body flying backward and crashing into the ice barrier. “Then I just won’t kill you, you moron.” Paysha said with a cold smile, reversing her grip on the spear. “Instead, I’ll beat you until you beg to die.” “Guihee. Narrow the direction. If you move too far inside this temple…!!!” Kwaaaang!!! “…!!” Soryu was speeding across the ice barrier, avoiding Lenok’s magic. He turned half of his body into ice, using the ice pillars to create distance. That monster of a magician was deliberately provoking him by using the same ice-type techniques. Realizing this, Soryu had been avoiding direct combat with Lenok from the start. Lenok, with his arms crossed, watched him and shook his head. “I deliberately set up a favorable situation, but he’s still trying to avoid a fight.” Lenok stepped onto an ice pillar, watching Soryu scatter sharp frost and create distance. “Then I’ll have to make sure he can’t even think about running away.” [Active Territory Deficiency] Paahhh!! Lenok’s figure, riding on the ice pillar, accelerated at an incredible speed. He instantly caught up to the fleeing Soryu and grabbed him by the neck with one hand. Crack! Soryu shattered the grabbed part into ice, twisting his body to escape Lenok’s grasp. However, Lenok ignored the ice fragments shooting through the air and raised his magic power. Pa-ba-ba-bat!! He dodged all the ice fragments accelerating faster than bullets, as if he had foreseen their trajectories, and stomped on Soryu’s shoulder. A weak force that could hardly be called a kick. But the moment Soryu’s face turned pale as he felt the immeasurable, powerful will at the end of it. Property Reversal [Thawing] Jjeooooeong!!! Soryu’s ice-transformed body began to forcibly revert to its human form. The power to create and melt ice that exists in ice-type magic. He realized that this was being forcibly applied to him, who wielded innate abilities, and immediately after. Soryu’s body, which had returned to human form, plummeted vertically to the ground from tens of meters in the air. Kwaaaang!!! “Kuk…!!!” The ice barrier created by Lenok shattered like an explosion, and Soryu groaned, unable to withstand the impact. Even though he was only fighting with ice magic, not his own system, the gap was this one-sided. He knew from the start that he wouldn’t be a match, but facing the power directly was even worse. Before even comparing the superiority of abilities and techniques, he was being overwhelmingly outmatched in basic output. “It seems like running away is a habit for those with bloodline abilities.” Taang!! Lenok kicked Soryu’s wrist and then stepped on his forearm, pressing down. The force, unbelievably heavy for Lenok’s weight, pressed down as if to break his wrist. “If you don’t want to die, do it properly.” Soryu was a skilled fighter who had once defeated the level 8 superhuman, Jebyeok Yanikus Barbaria. Lenok had also witnessed Soryu’s battle at that time, so he didn’t underestimate his skills or judgment. However, the fact that he was completely avoiding a fight, instead of confronting Lenok, was not what Lenok wanted right now. “You said it was an artifact with the highest level of mystery in the ice system.” Lenok asked, looking at the ring on Soryu’s hand, the Ice Seal. “Use it. Right now.” “…!!!” He was deliberately cornering Soryu to find out how to use the Ice Seal. But what was truly frightening was that even knowing this, Soryu couldn’t refuse Lenok’s words. At Lenok’s chilling words, Soryu gritted his teeth and deployed ice transformation once more. Paat!! As he poured his magic power into the ring, the gem on the ring expanded into a circle, transforming into a seal. Soryu, holding the Ice Seal that scattered cold air, plunged it into his heart without hesitation. [Cold Territory Armor] Jjeojeojeok!!! A powerful explosion of cold erupted, instantly covering Soryu’s entire body. Lenok, who had stepped back to watch, smiled as he looked at Soryu slowly rising. “A blessing that artificially changes the nature of the body to the ice system…” His skin turned as white as ice, and even the edges of his clothes froze, losing their material form and fluttering. His whole body couldn’t maintain its shape, collapsing and regenerating repeatedly. He had become a figure like an ice spirit, with a cold chill coating his entire body like armor. “It’s not an ability meant for humans in the first place. Don’t you think it’s dangerous?” The moment he saw Soryu’s appearance, Lenok could understand what kind of ability the Ice Seal’s blessing was. A transformation of the body’s nature, activated by deploying ice-type innate abilities to their limit. It was the power to convert the entire body into ice-type magic power, aligning one’s mind and body to the extreme in that system. To put it simply, it was similar in principle to the Thunder God that Lenok had given to Paysha Grisburn during the battle with Anathema. Therefore, Lenok also knew how the side effects of that ability would manifest. “If you don’t properly remember the shape of your body, you won’t be able to return to normal.” [The royal family of Kabahim are born with strong resistance to blessings or curses of the ice system.] Soryu, exhaling a cold sigh, stared at Lenok with frozen eyes. [That’s why the Ice Seal is called the royal seal and national treasure. It’s not something that suits you.] “That’s not for you to decide.” Lenok smiled. “Do you still think you can take that thing and walk away from this place alive?” [The nun who designed this operation is quite capable even within Pandemonium.] Soryu answered obediently. [She would have been monitoring the outside situation right after the operation started, and she would know that you’ve moved.] “…” [All that’s needed is for us to respond at the right time and set the stage.] “Is that so?” The moment Lenok said that and snapped his fingers. Paak!! A fist-sized lightning bolt flashed and fell in front of Soryu’s eyes. A rotating body of lightning formed by countless intertwined thunderbolts. Unique Magic of the Lightning System Star Position Extreme Training Bba-ji-ji-jik…!!!! The moment Soryu realized that the magic that fell without any warning was the high-level lightning spell that Lenok had used for the first time. The thunderbolt that exploded right in front of the ice spirit swept over Soryu’s entire body, completely evaporating the ice particles. [One Awakening: Thunder Collapse] Kwaaaang!!!! A powerful and vicious explosion of lightning that he couldn’t withstand even for a moment head-on. Soryu’s body, transformed into an ice spirit, emitted intense electricity and evaporated in real-time. […!!!!!] His vision blurred and his mind reeled from the brief battle, but losing consciousness would be the end. He knew instinctively that if he fainted here, the great magician would kill him immediately. Biting his lip and desperately regaining his senses, Soryu gathered the scattered ice fragments and reconstructed his body tens of meters away. He gathered the moisture scattered beneath the underground chamber, immediately inflating his body and increasing its size. [Ice Spirit Ancestor] Kuuuung!! Soryu, who had instantly transformed into an ice giant tens of meters tall, looked down at Lenok with a face dripping with frost. “You lowered the density and increased the size.” Lenok asked with a bored expression. “What’s the point of that?” He was only fighting Soryu now to accurately understand how to use the Ice Seal. It was clear that he had stolen Anathema’s item, so he had to retrieve it first. However, even after transforming into an ice giant, Soryu didn’t raise his magic power to attack Lenok. Instead, he raised his huge arm and then slammed it down as if throwing something. Soryu’s arm, made of ice, stretched out and reached Ermong, who was running away far away, in an instant. Kwaaang!! Lenok immediately reacted, scattering lightning and blowing up Soryu’s right upper body, but something had already been shot out through the shattered ice fragments. The moment Lenok frowned as he saw the [Curse Maw] sliding and flying using the ice arm as a stepping stone. “Damn it, I thought I was going to die waiting!!” Ermong, who had been running away breathlessly, jumped up and hugged the toad. As he hugged the croaking toad and rolled on the floor, Paysha’s spear rained down like a hail of needles. Dududududu!!! Of course, rolling around couldn’t dodge all the spear blades, and the spear blades pierced Ermong’s flesh like crazy. “Ata-ta-ta-ta!!!!” Even as his whole body was being mercilessly lacerated, Ermong screamed and protected the toad. Ermong, who had wounds all over his body that should have killed him long ago, quickly shoved his hand into the toad’s mouth. “Come on, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly!!!!! Quickly take any curse and give me magic power!!” “This guy is so disgusting…!!” Paysha was not a naive warrior who would foolishly watch her opponent prepare something. Sensing something ominous, Paysha didn’t hesitate to twist her spear and plunge the blade into Ermong’s neck. “Die!!” “Ugek!!” As she spun the spear shaft, Ermong’s neck muscles were smoothly severed, and his head popped up into the air like a spring. Swish! The moment Ermong’s head, with its eyes and mouth wide open, shot up, Felix’s shoulder, which had slid past Paysha’s back, rotated at an incredible speed. The heavy hammer drew a semi-circular arc and smashed Ermong’s head. Tuh-uh-uhng!! As Felix, leaning back like a baseball player hitting a home run, swung his arm, Paysha, with her head down, was about to mercilessly cut off Ermong’s limbs when. Black magic power flowed out of the mouth of the toad, the Curse Maw, into which Ermong had inserted his hand. Suaaaaaa!! The black magic power, fluttering like acrid smoke, turned into a black ring above Ermong’s corpse. The empty space of the black ring was filled with pitch-black darkness, transforming into a mirror of darkness where one couldn’t see an inch ahead. Wajangchang!! The mirror of darkness shattered, and two figures fell down at high speed. “Hehehe…!!!” With a bizarre laugh, he knocked away Paysha’s spear, which was stabbing Ermong’s corpse, with a sword. The blood-stained sword light adorned the air, and at the same time, a powerful shockwave pushed Paysha’s body away. “What the hell?” “He’s not a swordsman…” An old man in shabby clothes. A blank expression, with a chilling aura scattering red light from his eyes. He looked no different from a vagrant, but the sword he held in his hand was as cold and sharp as ice. While Paysha was cursing at the appearance of the opponent, who looked ominous at first glance. “Blood Old Man. You’ve come just in time!!” Ermong shouted, holding his severed head in his hand. A headless corpse holding a toad in one hand and a dented head under his arm. At that bizarre and ridiculous sight, Ermong stood up from his spot while Felix and even Paysha frowned. “It’s very dangerous right now. Just take care of that spear user!!” As Ermong said that and rushed towards Felix, black mist enveloped the two and soared towards one side of the temple at an incredible speed. “Black magic…!!” Felix also gritted his teeth and shook off the black magic power, kicking the toad and head that Ermong was holding with all his might. “Uweeeek!! I’m dizzy!!” As the toad and severed head rolled on the temple floor, Ermong couldn’t help but vomit. Instead of the head that was only a neck, Ermong’s body vomited its insides and rolled on the floor. “What a mess. It’s a complete mess.” In the confusion that was so overwhelming that it felt like his mind was about to leave, Paysha clicked her tongue and turned her gaze. “Are all the idiots in Pandemonium just a bunch of morons like this?” “You’re not a swordsman…” The Blood Old Man, who had been staring blankly at Paysha, then grinned and slung his sword over his shoulder. “Still, a spear user is good. An easy opponent…” “You piss-smelling old man, are you desperate to die?” Paysha, muttering coldly, adjusted her grip on the spear and moved her feet. “A swordsman dares to challenge a spear user? I’ll teach you some manners.” “Which weapon is the answer…” The Blood Old Man nodded slowly and gripped the sword he had slung over his shoulder with both hands. “It’s a problem with a set answer. Hehehe…” Paysha, who had twisted her foot and slammed it down, and the Blood Old Man, who had leaned his body forward as if about to fall, collided. The chilling reflections of the blades intertwined in the middle of the dark temple, and the moment they slipped, spun, and collided. The shadows of the swordsman and spear user began to move along the temple walls at an incredible speed. Kagagagagang!!! The intrusion of a new superhuman who had suddenly appeared in the temple through the black magic used by Ermong. Paysha and Felix each engaged in battle, and Soryu, who had transformed into an ice giant, scattered a sharp rain of frost from above the temple. The four sides of the temple were mixed with storms of ice and magic power, and Ermong, who had been beheaded, was running around like a madman in the middle of it. And, in the middle of the collapsed corridor intersection, Lenok, who had been watching all the situations, raised his gaze. A new reinforcement from Pandemonium that had appeared using Ermong’s black magic. Another person, not the Blood Old Man, had been kneeling down and blocking Lenok’s path from the beginning. As he stood up from his kneeling position, his short, choppy hair swayed with his head. A sharp impression like a sharp blade. A blank face that seemed to have completely blocked out all emotions. “It’s been a while, Unbreakable.” “…Maiya Renslit.” Lenok, who remembered the face, opened his mouth with a wry smile. A monster who was among the top in combat experience and skill among the superhumans belonging to Pandemonium. The best executor of the Machine City had joined the battle to tie down Lenok’s feet.