Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 997

[Exploding Flame Orb]

Whoosh!!

The walls, draped in luxurious silk, crumbled and collapsed, flames surging through the gaps.

Formless flames spun at an incredible speed, mercilessly battering the walls and ceiling.

Boom!!

The Tower Master, engulfed in flames, accelerated explosively, while Lenok clenched his fist, his hand wrapped in fire.

Lenok and the Tower Master’s figures tangled and rolled, then, in the next instant, they collided after leaping over a dozen meters.

Waves of flame exploded dozens of times, scorching and burning the wide corridor of the Hwacheong Pavilion.

[Small Incendiary Bullets]

Drrrrrrr!!

With a sound like a machine gun firing, hundreds of ultra-small exploding flame orbs detonated.

They pierced the ceiling of the Hwacheong Pavilion’s top floor corridor, leaving it riddled with holes.

“Fast. To miniaturize the exploding flame orb to this extent…!!”

Thud!

Lenok, who had been sprinting to avoid the barrage of ultra-small exploding flame orbs, dove behind a wall and hid. Immediately after, Lenok appeared behind the Tower Master, twisted his hands together, and instantly created a spear of flame, which he then launched.

Bang!!

The ceremonial robe wrapped around the Tower Master’s body cracked open, burning away the flame spear Lenok had thrown. A counter-fire of sorts, burning flame magic with flame magic. Lenok narrowed his eyes.

“A ceremonial robe, is it? I’ve seen Tatiana Chiglet use one.”

“If you had fought that child in Vulcan, you would have.”

The Tower Master smiled and turned his gaze.

“But in the end, you are nothing more than a dog who failed to kill Chiglet or Gyeonroe and was defeated.”

“……”

“I was so impressed by your defeat that you keep dwelling on, that I even gave you the consideration to take the lead in your rematch with Gyeonroe…”

The Tower Master’s eyes gleamed menacingly as he looked at Lenok through the blazing flames.

“Don’t you know your place, daring to ignore my kindness?”

[Radiant Spirit Armory]

Kuwahhh!!

The hem of the ceremonial robe opened wide, and countless weapons made of flames poured out from within.

Flame spears, fire swords, and other blazing blades were launched at Lenok.

At the same time, Lenok stomped the floor roughly with one foot.

[Radiant Flame Step]

[Treading Shift]

Flames erupted like ripples from Lenok’s foot, burning the floor of the Hwacheong Pavilion’s top floor.

The moment the spot where the Tower Master and Lenok were standing collapsed, the wave of weapons lost their direction and missed.

Kwarururung!!

“Consideration? I don’t recall ever wanting such a thing.”

Lenok smiled faintly as he fell to the lower floor, hiding one hand behind his back.

“Shouldn’t you be the one receiving consideration, having been stripped of your position as administrator by Sulju?”

“…You dare…!!”

Did those words touch the Tower Master’s reverse scale [a metaphor for a sensitive spot]?

The Tower Master’s expression twisted as he lowered and spread one hand almost simultaneously with Lenok.

Lenok and the Tower Master’s palms, falling through the air, met head-on.

Clack!!

Unique Flame-Heat Magic

Property Transformation Compression Manifestation

Unique Flame-Heat Magic

Property Transformation Designated Manifestation

“Construct Fire.”

“Construct Fire…!!”

Kuwahhhhh!!!

The two mages’ [Construct Fire], originating from the same source, reversed diagonally.

The flames, unleashing their maximum power at point-blank range, surged in all directions from their clasped hands.

Boom!!!

The top floor corridor of the Hwacheong Pavilion burned and collapsed, and the head of the magnificent golden pagoda was engulfed in flames and exploded.

Streams of flame, stretching tens of meters, sprayed out on both sides, shattering the Hwacheong Pavilion’s ornate golden pagoda.

Amidst the distorted flames, the figures of the Tower Master and Lenok fell down the outer wall of the Hwacheong Pavilion.

Whoosh!!

The Tower Master lay on his back beneath the clouds, his hands behind his head, while Lenok turned around, engulfed in flames.

The Tower Master glared at Lenok with a hardened expression, but then Lenok smiled and flicked his finger.

The moment the Tower Master realized the direction of that gesture and raised his gaze.

[Flame Seal]

[Heavenly Collapse]

A giant fist of flame appeared beside the Hwacheong Pavilion and struck the Tower Master directly.

Boom!!

The impact sent the Tower Master crashing into the middle floor of the Hwacheong Pavilion, sliding across the empty corridor.

“Ugh…!!”

Even though he had reduced the power by using the ceremonial robe, the impact was breathtaking.

It was a magic so heavy that it was hard to believe it was the physical force of materialized flames.

The Tower Master, his face hardened, balanced himself with one hand, and with the other, he created flames in the air as if painting with a brush.

Swoosh!!

Lenok, riding on top of the giant flame fist, accelerated at an incredible speed and rammed into the Tower Master.

“You heretic!!!”

The Tower Master roared, drawing a flame magic circle with one hand, and with the other, he formed hand seals and chanted a spell.

[Moving Fire Scorching Name]

[Closed Gate]

A blazing gate rose up, closing firmly and blocking the path between Lenok and the Tower Master.

The highest level of split chanting, casting different spells with one hand drawing a magic circle and the other forming hand seals.

Kuwang!!

Lenok, with wings of flame, crashed into the burning gate, causing it to shake violently.

Flames that could burst through the gate and engulf the Tower Master at any moment filled the middle floor of the Hwacheong Pavilion.

The Tower Master watched this, quickly completing the flame magic circle, and thrust his hand into it.

[Armed Fire 2nd Form]

The Blaber Magic Tower’s Solar System. [Armed Fire], which summons flames existing in the tower’s consciousness space in the form of weapons.

Among them, the Tower Master was about to bring out the numbered forms from 1 to 10, when.

Lenok’s low voice echoed from beyond the gate.

“Combustion Armament Summon.”

Kuwahhhh!!!

A huge ignition device smashed through the gate and burst in, spewing flames.

Lenok’s left arm protruded through the shattered gate, and the array device attached to his arm activated.

The pipes rotated, sucking in all the flame magic circle the Tower Master was drawing.

Weeeeee!!!

“What trickery is this…!!”

Not magic, but a pure attribute manipulation closer to an innate ability. It was like facing a pyrokinesis user.

The Tower Master, flustered, watched the magic circle dissipate and tried to summon the Armed Fire, but then.

Crack!!

Lenok, who had slammed the ignition device onto the Tower Master’s instep, rotated his body.

[One Fire]

Using the exploding flames as a booster, he propelled his body upward, suppressing the strain on his body with the power of drugs.

[Two Yin]

The ice seal flowing through his blood prevented the necrosis of his body’s cells, firmly connecting his creaking body.

[Three Rings]

The ultra-small barrier magic circles layered dozens of times over his entire body suppressed the collapse of his joints and muscles, preserving their original form.

[Four Flames]

Lenok’s fist, accelerated by the flames engulfing his entire body, slammed into the Tower Master’s side at an incredible speed.

All of these actions were assisted and amplified by flame-heat magic, pushing the power to its limit.

The moment dozens of types of magic, barriers, drugs, and blessings supporting Lenok’s frail body activated simultaneously.

Ninefold Arrival Linked Secret Technique

[Ten Endings]

Lenok’s fist, momentarily forgetting the recoil, struck the Tower Master’s entire body like a barrage.

Thud thud thud thud thud!!!!

His instep bones were crushed and pulverized, while the tendons in his arms and legs were severed and his muscles ruptured.

His solar plexus, jaw, liver, and waist were broken and pierced from top to bottom, and his burning hands tore through them.

A heavy blow that pierced and crushed the vital points of his entire body, catching the Tower Master off guard, who was trying to guard against and react to the activation of the spell.

“…!!!”

The Tower Master’s eyes momentarily blurred as his entire body was ravaged by the barrage of attacks.

His brain shook from the blow to his jaw, and the momentary interruption of his thoughts was unavoidable even for a high-ranking superhuman.

However, the Tower Master quickly regained his senses despite the shock of breaking his bones and muscles and raised his head.

“Grind!! You…!!”

Even after being hit by a killing technique that would turn a human into mincemeat, he not only didn’t lose consciousness but immediately regained it.

The transcendent mental strength of a great mage who is not bound by the pain of the body for long.

It was the skill of a war mage who had considerable resistance to such injuries and impacts in the first place.

It was proof that the Tower Master had also risked his life countless times in the center.

“Alright, if you want to settle this directly, I’ll accept…!!”

The Tower Master, who had burned his own blood and wrapped it around his entire body, walked out with gritted teeth, his appearance a mess.

“I will test myself here to see if I am qualified to reclaim Gyeonroe’s Phoenix Hall!!!”

“No, it’s the opposite.”

However, Lenok took a step back as he looked at the Tower Master, who had walked out covered in blood.

Lenok, with a tired expression, shook his hands and said.

“This itself was the chant. It’s all over.”

“…What?”

The spell usage that Cheonbeon had shown in the battle with Gyeonroe, which had become the most talked about.

The Tower Master, recalling it, quickly regained his senses and tried to draw up his magic power.

At that moment, flames erupted from under his feet, instantly trapping the Tower Master’s body and beginning to spin.

Whoosh!!

[Fire Deep Coffin]

[Spring Heat]

[Eruption Red]

[Red Construct]

……

The martial arts that had struck and battered the Tower Master’s body activated as a delayed substitute chant, realizing flame-heat magic.

Each of the magic spells that exploded belatedly was a starter that preheated the flames and increased their power.

A complex chant that designated a space to confine a person and concentrated and drew out the fire within.

Unique Flame-Heat Magic

Tenfold Chanting Complex Resonance

Mind.

“Dragon Flame Shelter.”

The moment Lenok, who had clasped his hands together, twisted them as if sweeping them down.

The Fire Deep Coffin, where the Tower Master was trapped, split diagonally and exploded brilliantly on the spot.

Kuwahhhhh!!!

The golden pagoda of the Hwacheong Pavilion, which was over dozens of stories high, was split in half along the cut surface.

The Tower Master’s figure fell onto the flames that had spread over the cut surface and the boiling steam.

He crashed onto the collapsing golden pagoda, creating a deafening roar.

Kuwuung!!!

Following behind, Lenok landed on the ground and smiled, looking past the rising smoke.

“You’re disgustingly tenacious. Did you reverse the combination sequence of the Dragon Flame Shelter to halve its power?”

The Mind [a focused mental state for spellcasting] of chanting a ten-layered combination of flame-heat magic, Dragon Flame Shelter.

As the name suggests, it was a supreme flame-heat technique that suppressed the dragon’s flames, concentrating firepower within a specific space.

Although its power was strong, it was a technique that required time to chant. Even though he used substitute chanting to unleash it almost instantly, the Tower Master’s body did not vaporize.

The Tower Master, sensing that evasion was impossible, reversed the sequence of magic combined for the Dragon Flame Shelter’s activation.

Immediately after, he inserted his own flames and forcibly twisted the combination formula, offsetting the power.

The Tower Master was also a flame-heat mage with the same origin, and it was a countermeasure possible because he forcibly amplified the spell instead of suppressing it.

At the same time, it was also proof that the Tower Master’s sense and understanding of spells had clearly reached the level of a Grandmaster.

“His instantaneous sense and judgment are higher than I thought. Is this the level of skill he has without relying on output?”

When he met the Incarnate Body as a Guardian, he thought he was the type to overwhelm with output, but after facing him directly, his skills and judgment were incredibly sharp.

Skilled division chanting. Proficiency in handling magic circles and hand seals. Stacking preheating without relying on high-level magic, and countering by anticipating and receiving the opponent’s spells.

Instead of avoiding the Mind that Lenok unleashed, he even made the judgment to receive it with his bare body and reduce its power.

The Tower Master’s talent for magic, as well as the fact that his fire resistance had reached a level close to immunity, was evident.

“But all of that judgment is ultimately possible because he’s confident that he won’t die from flames… Just how high is his fire resistance?”

“Heh heh… Isn’t that the same for you?”

The Tower Master, leaning against the wreckage of the Hwacheong Pavilion’s first-floor dining hall, smiled with soot on his face.

Fwoosh!!

When he raised a pale green flame to his shoulder, the wound on the Tower Master’s neck slowly healed.

‘A flame with healing abilities, huh?’

One of the flames the Tower Master had shown Lenok.

Among them, it was a flame with a special ability that Lenok had never seen before.

Even Lenok found it difficult to easily guess the purpose and value of that flame just by looking at it.

While Lenok’s eyes gleamed at the healing flame, the Tower Master, who had slowly risen to his feet, spoke.

“To absorb my flames into an array and channel them through your body, a normal mage would have died on the spot.”

“……”

“You. It seems you have more than just equipment for regulating your body temperature.”

The Tower Master, staggering as he stood up, had a strange glint in his eyes.

“What are you hiding… in that blood?”

The Tower Master realized that Lenok had absorbed his flames to cancel the magic circle and endured the backlash with the blessing of the Ice Artisan [a title or a person with mastery over ice magic].

However, the battle was so fast-paced that he didn’t know what the ability was.

“This isn’t the time to be curious about that.”

Lenok sneered at the Tower Master.

“You should understand by now. You can’t beat me with your output limited.”

“……”

“Or are you going to keep going until you’re discovered by the Conjunction Master here?”

Due to the barrier cast over the gateway city, the magical environment inside the city was undergoing a drastic change at midnight.

However, great mages who manipulate magic at the particle level are not bound by such environmental restrictions.

Both Lenok and the Tower Master had reached that level, so they were able to run wild while burning down the black market, but even that had its limits.

At the point where they had exchanged attacks while limiting their output, they would have to clash with fully preheated flames to settle the matter.

But could the former administrator, the Tower Master, really risk being noticed by the Conjunction Master and go all the way?

Lenok was already certain that the Tower Master was not that kind of person.

“If you were someone who would take such a risk, you wouldn’t have stepped down from the administrator position in the first place.”

“……”

“Using the Flame Beads and contacting me in the black market, it was all because you thought it was something you could control, wasn’t it?”

The Blaber Tower Master’s attitude had many contradictions.

He seemed wary of the Conjunction Master, but he didn’t seem that wary of being discovered by him.

He seemed reluctant to join the Order Alliance, but he didn’t seem particularly impressed that the Alliance had taken over the gateway.

There must be a secret hidden in that gap between his incomprehensible attitude and judgment.

If so, it was necessary to provoke him further in this place and forcibly draw out his true colors.

“Just like when you were disgraced by the Guardian, you’re only interested in protecting yourself.”

“……”

“You mocked me, calling me a dog who lost to the Guardian…”

Lenok, moving towards the Tower Master, who had lowered his head, spoke.

Lenok’s gaze, looking down at the Tower Master, shone coldly.

“Who’s the one bowing his head like a dog in this place right now?”

“…Haha.”

At that moment, the Tower Master slowly raised his shoulders and lifted his gaze.

His red eyes gleamed like oil through his disheveled hair.

“What do you know to spout such nonsense?”

“……”

“The incident at Vulcan was not my fault. It was due to the failures of the underlings who couldn’t handle even one task properly.”

The Tower Master, slowly standing up, walked forward, cracking his neck.

“You, Chiglet, and that Guardian… you’re all the same. I gave you opportunities and encouraged you to choose, but you blatantly rejected them.”

“……”

“I gave you chances to reconsider with patience, but you dare mock my goodwill?”

The Tower Master, with a vein throbbing on his forehead, muttered as if spitting out the words, and red blood trickled down from his lips.

Self-harm by biting his tongue to cause bleeding.

The Tower Master, receiving the blood flowing down his lips with one hand and applying it to both hands, spoke.

“It’s all unnecessary. Such consideration was a luxury for low-level mages.”

“…You.”

“Evan Martinez. I acknowledge it. You are worthy to see this.”

The Tower Master, with his blood-soaked hands clasped together, rolled his eyes.

“The head of a prestigious magic tower that has lasted for hundreds of years will teach a mage who walks the path of heresy what history is.”

Solar System Deployment.

[Full Armament No. 2]

Fwoosh!!

A staff that shot up and rotated from the spot, piercing through the blood-soaked palms.

The treasure that the Tower Master had tried to summon once but failed, appeared this time without even a premonition.

“Opening the Scorching Time Tune.”

Kuwung!!

He grabbed the staff, which was shaped like a staff made of flowing flames, and slammed it down roughly.

“Time, ignite…!!”

The moment the Tower Master, glaring at Lenok through the flames, chanted the spell.

Kiiing!!

A strong sense of incongruity began to be felt from the other side of Lenok’s consciousness.

A sense of déjà vu, as if time was slowing down as his consciousness itself was rapidly accelerating.

The Eight Trigrams Formation [a concept from Taoism, often used in magic systems] he had obtained in the battle with Anathema. His innate ability to increase the time within his body was reacting to that staff.

“…Could it be?”

A magical treasure made from the remains of the previous Blaber Tower Master.

Something that stimulates and activates the Eight Trigrams Formation at the same time as it operates.

If it was simultaneously stimulating and forcing the two concepts of flame and time, what would be the basis of its principle?

Lenok, instantly sensing the staff’s ability, hardened his face.

“Is it a type of magical treasure that accelerates time by burning it…!!!”

“If I shouldn’t be noticed by the Master, then I just need to settle this quickly enough that he won’t notice.”

The Tower Master, grinning as he gripped the staff, tilted his head back and whispered.

“Self-Generated Domain Deployment.”

Self-Generated Domain Deployment

Origin-Level Mental Image Manifestation

[Sun’s Reason, Private Fire Burns]

There was no colorless ripple, nor any premonition of changing the scenery by engraving a mental image.

A divine artifact that skipped the deployment process of the Self-Generated Domain and manifested the completed domain directly in this place.

Kwaaaaang!!!

The Tower Master’s domain fell from above Lenok’s head as space-time opened up.

From the other side of the split space-time, a glimpse of the scenery of the domain that had finished its mental image engraving could be seen.

A huge altar of fire burning. On that altar, those who had been burned to death by the Tower Master were dancing madly.

Eerie figures reaching out their burnt hands towards Lenok, as if beckoning him to come.

‘It’s too late.’

The moment when the Self-Generated Domain most greatly expresses its presence is the moment when the domain is deployed.

That’s why the Tower Master chose to complete the domain in advance using the Scorching Time Tune.

The magical treasure, Scorching Time Tune, was a divine artifact that temporarily accelerated time by burning one’s own time, drawing time at the cost of one’s lifespan.

The Tower Master had completed the Self-Generated Domain in the accelerated time and simply covered this place with it.

A judgment that he could overwhelm Lenok within the domain while not being noticed by the Master through the barrier.

Lenok’s mind began to race rapidly in the accelerated time.

‘It’s impossible to deploy the Thousand Flowers, Myriad Miles Fragrance. Even if I start preheating now, it won’t be of much help.’

The Thousand Self-Generated Domains, Thousand Flowers, Myriad Miles Fragrance, was a domain that was powerful but required a very long preheating time.

It exerted its greatest power immediately after all the petals had fully bloomed, but it took time to reach that point.

If he had prepared it as soon as he started the battle with the Tower Master, it might have been possible, but at this point, when he hadn’t anticipated a domain battle, it was practically useless.

‘I don’t know if he’s confident that he won’t be discovered by the Master, or if he has something to rely on…’

The deployment of a Self-Generated Domain is not something that designates one person, but a technique that covers the entire surrounding space-time.

Therefore, even Lenok, who had target designation resistance, could not avoid being included in the domain.

However, it was inevitable that combat would become extremely difficult from the moment he entered the domain.

Should he take out the Red Star System that he had saved even in the battle with Lieutenant General Roberaid now?

But once the Red Star System was activated, it could not be stopped.

After activating the Red Star System, he would either have to go straight into the operating room and continue the battle, or fight the Master without the Red Star System.

He didn’t want to engage the Master, but it was impossible to rule out that possibility.

Crackling!!!

The scenery of the completed Self-Generated Domain unfolded as space split above Lenok’s head.

At the very moment when the Self-Generated Domain, Sun’s Reason, Private Fire Burns, was about to swallow Lenok’s figure and change space-time.

“I’m sure I’ve said this before.”

Someone who had walked out from behind Lenok reached out towards the unfolding domain.

Thump!

The moment he grabbed the splitting space with one hand and lifted his gaze.

“Don’t interrupt during the scheduled surgery time.”

“…!!!!!”

The scenery of the Self-Generated Domain that had been unfolding towards Lenok instantly closed and began to ‘connect’ as it was.

Crackling!!!

The already completed Self-Generated Domain closed in front of Lenok’s eyes, unable to change reality and disappearing.

The unrealistic scene of the altar of fire that had been tearing through the night sky of the black market, folding and disappearing through the cracks in space-time.

The heat that had filled the night streets until just now disappeared like a lie, and a quiet silence replaced it.

While Lenok and the Tower Master were speechless at the bizarre miracle they couldn’t believe even after seeing it, and stopped their hands.

Someone wearing a green surgical gown slowly turned his back.

When he removed the mask with one hand, the face of a young man with an indifferent impression was revealed.

“Blaber Tower Master. Did my words not sound like words to you?”

“……”

A surgeon who had appeared nonchalantly between the Tower Master and Lenok.

Wearing a green surgical gown, with thin gloves on one hand.

On the surface, he was ordinary, with no magic, no thoughts, and no presence felt.

But Lenok knew who this man was as soon as he saw him.

The only person who could connect space with his bare hands to forcibly ‘close’ a domain, and who could intervene and resolve the situation between 8th-level great mages.

The Great Master of the Order Alliance and the administrator of the first gateway. The Apostle Slayer who had killed the Apostle of the Order.

The Tower Master’s prediction was wrong.

The Conjunction Master, Avesta Chapman, had noticed the anomaly that had occurred within the gateway and had intervened.