Drug-Eating Genius Mage

Genius Magician Who Takes Medicine Episode 860:

Handover (28)

“…I think the explanation is insufficient.”

A snake hundreds of meters in size floating above a huge jungle.

An eerie figure that curls itself into a huge circle and fills the space inside with darkness.

The snake’s conscious body slowly wriggles and degenerates as if it had become a door connecting the open sea.

A wave of darkness threatening to collapse and devour this entire space of consciousness at any moment.

Even after listening to Cheon-gyeon’s explanation, Lenno looked at him quietly and then opened his mouth.

“I understood that if an ascendant dies with his mind broken, the door connecting reality and the ocean opens. In that case, the [doors] of this world must be spaces created with the death of the ancient ascendant.”

“yes.”

“But isn’t that something close to a fragment of memories that the handbook left behind in the past, like you?”

Lennok said, glancing back at the handbook.

“Can something like that happen even though it is not a body that exists in reality?”

The conscious space of the manual that exists beneath the unconsciousness of the guardian spirit beast of the tower.

However, that handbook is not the person himself, but a consciousness created through the memories left behind by the handbook.

It was clearly the handbook himself at one time, but he was separated from the timeline of reality by cutting and pasting the memories and time of the handbook.

Even if such a being went crazy and became corrupted, how could this fact affect reality?

As soon as Lennok heard Cheon-gyeon’s explanation, he understood the subtle difference in nuance and fell into doubt.

But Cheongyeon laughed as he listened to Lennok’s words.

“I would have told you. “I’m not going to stop you, I’m going to show you.”

“Then…”

“What is happening here now is the last of Padme’s remaining consciousness. “It’s an ending that hasn’t come to me yet.”

Cheongyeon shrugged his shoulders.

“The only thing that is damaged is this ritual space. It is only the conscious body of Padme, the owner of this space. “The only question I have is… she chose this ending herself.”

“You chose it yourself?”

“okay. I was clearly controlling myself until a while ago, but right before you arrived, I cut off all lingering attachments and became corrupted. “I don’t know why I chose the worst possible death.”

“….”

No, Lennok seemed to know what the reason was.

The curse of metamorphosis that existed between the handbook and the guardian spirit beast.

Only after confirming that the curse of being eaten by spirit beasts of the same lineage had disappeared, did the handbook’s conscious body choose its own death.

If the curse of transformation had not been resolved, the guardian spirit beast connected to this ritual space would also have been swept away by the open sea.

The conscious body of the handbook recognized this and postponed its own death, accepting the ending only after realizing that Lennok had succeeded.

Even though he knew that it was the worst possible death for him, it was only after he was sure that the aftereffects would not leak to anyone else.

While Lennok was silent after realizing this, the large body of the handbook floating in the air began to rotate slowly.

Coo coo coo!!!

The huge snake’s entire body turns black, and even its scales turn black and fall off one by one.

The darkness of the open sea seeping out from inside the circular passage ate away at the snake’s entire body, deforming its form.

Even Lennok, who is watching, sees the corruption and death of the transcendental for the first time in his life.

Even the snake’s head and scaly tail were lost, and the consciousness body of the handbook soon turned into a completely black ring.

Inside the circular door, stained with sticky darkness, a pitch-black substance gushed out like a fountain.

Kuoooooo!!!

“….”

At that moment, Lennok understood why the [gate] connected to the open sea was called a well.

An eerie circular passage that seems to pump infinite darkness from beyond invisible space.

Anyone who saw its birth with their own eyes would not have thought of any other word other than well.

But Lennok’s thoughts were cut off the moment the darkness overflowing from the other side of the well began to surge towards him like a wave.

“No, wait.”

Keyee!!

The moment I raised my intention to block it, Cheongyeon raised one hand and started making a hand sign.

At the same time, a huge pillar of light rose from the center of the sky, creating a dazzling curtain.

Kugwagwagwagwa!!!

A lighthouse of pure white light, tens of meters high, bursts with dazzling light and illuminates the darkness coming from all directions.

The light that flowed from between them illuminated and blocked the pouring darkness, as if driving it away.

“…!!!”

“Keep watching, wizard.”

The darkness of the well, which was created based on the outline of the handbook, was vast, deep, and muddy like the sea.

However, Cheongyeon did not blink an eye even though he was alone in receiving the enormous darkness pouring down from hundreds of meters in diameter.

“How the handbook’s consciousness dies. Check out how the ascendant’s consciousness is damaged.”

“…that.”

“The beast that was born as a spirit beast and became an ascendant pours out everything and dies.”

Cheongyeon said quietly.

“For those who want to take on the challenge, this moment will be the perfect opportunity to achieve something.”

“….”

Are you advising me to get inspiration for ascension by watching the consciousness of the handbook die?

Although he had listened to Cheon Gyeon’s words for a long time, Lennok honestly did not agree with his words.

After countless battles and realizations, we have reached this point. There aren’t many things that Lennoch got his hands on easily.

No matter how strong and transcendental your intuition is, and how stimulating and great your inspiration is, it is meaningless if you cannot reproduce it yourself.

In the realm of transcending hierarchy and pioneering your own path, the important thing is whether you can create it with your own hands.

Just as observation and learning are different, and learning and understanding are different, understanding and creation are also different.

If something could have changed just by facing the Ascendant’s corruption and death, something should have already changed the moment he watched Gyebaek from the open sea.

“…good.”

But Lennok put aside the questions that came to mind and closed his eyes.

There is no reason not to follow Cheon-gyeon’s words when the first plan to meet the handbook and ask questions is ruined.

If Cheongyeon, who has looked into many of Lennok’s inner abilities, says so, there must be a reason.

Keyee!!!

Raise your thoughts to the limit and sharpen them infinitely so that you can contemplate everything around you.

Ignoring all forms and procedures, I focus only on catching up with the consciousness of the handbook that is sinking before my eyes.

“Hoo…”

Ignoring Cheongyeon’s faint exclamation, Lennok slowly turned his consciousness towards the well of darkness.

Faaah!!

I thrust the senses I had left in space toward the other side of the well, where sticky darkness was flowing.

Just like when I first followed Gyebaek to the open sea, the moment I looked into the well created by the transformation of Handabak’s consciousness.

Lennok was able to realize why Handbook was a transcendental person who rose to the rank of ascended as a shaman.

Kagagak!!

The massive body of a snake curled up and sinking in the darkness.

The image of a consciousness slowly dispersing with all its scales falling off.

The entire consciousness of becoming one with the sea of darkness and crumbling is made up of immeasurable forms.

Crunch, crunch,

crunch, click, click, click

[….]

A high-dimensional magic script that even Lennok, who has studied ancient literature, cannot understand at all.

An extremely elaborate shamanic chant made up of millions of such shamanic characters.

What does it mean that such a technique is disintegrated and emerges from the consciousness of a dying handbook that has become a well of its own?

The fact that the ritual body of the handbook existed as an actual spell itself.

The moment Lennok realized this, he raised his gaze at the cool feeling that passed through a corner of his heart.

Pot!

Lennok’s consciousness returned to its original position in an instant.

“Tsk…!!”

“By watching, I didn’t mean throwing your consciousness into the well.”

Cheongyeon asked with quite a bit of surprise as he looked at Lennok, who was sitting there and sighing.

“In that short period of time, did you analyze the structure of the well and calculate the return time to manipulate your thoughts? “It seems like you have a lot of experience like this.”

“….”

Instead of answering Cheongyeon’s words, Lennok held his pounding head and lowered his head.

Cheongyeon chuckled as if it wasn’t surprising.

“It’s a good thing that your head didn’t explode even after looking directly into the well. I think his information processing speed is actually better than mine. Was Jin Dun’s barrier technique also inherited in that way?”

“…The handbook’s consciousness body was absorbed into the open sea and disintegrated.”

Lennok barely answered.

“The entire ritual that was disintegrated like that was made up of witchcraft.”

“If you had watched it all, the story would have been faster. “Were you able to interpret it?”

“no.”

Lennok, who was pondering, shook his head.

“It is the result of reconstructing one’s intelligence and will from the ground up through magic. If the intellect of an ascendant could be brought out through magic, it would no longer be a concept that is not bound by the realm of hierarchy. “It’s difficult for me as I’m not a shaman.”

“That is the core concept that defines the existence of Padmé Chiesa.”

Cheongyeon nodded.

“Padme said that she was born as a spirit beast, learned magic, and experienced confusion about her identity for a long time. “It is said that he was greatly concerned about which side he should stand between: his instinct as an animal and his reason as a magician.”

Kwaang!!

Deep darkness flows from the end of the pure white lighthouse curtain.

Cheongyeon caught the lump of darkness falling on his head with one hand and casually rubbed it with the back of his hand.

A magical character wriggling as if it were alive appeared on her palm.

Cheongyeon said as he showed the spell he was holding to Lennok.

“So, what Padmé chose after much deliberation was to dismantle all of her instincts and intelligence and reconstruct them through magic.”

“….”

Lennok, who had been silent, asked.

“Is that… possible?”

An unrealistic explanation that reflects on all the world’s secrets and taboos and feels absurd even to wizards who transcend hierarchy.

Lennok asked, after quickly reviewing Cheongyeon’s words in his head.

“To achieve such a task, an extremely elaborate design is needed so that the magic can operate autonomously even after the user’s will disappears. “You can do something like that with magic that relies on your senses?”

“….”

“Even if you succeed, from the moment you reorganize your instincts and reason in that way, you will not be able to be sure that it is the real you.”

The method explained by Cheon Gyeon does not end with simply injecting magic into one’s mind.

Deconstructing and reconstructing instinct and intellect is actually an act of touching the user’s ego itself.

To put it bluntly, it’s the same as replacing your brain with a computational processing device that operates solely through magic.

Even though it may function the same as before, no one can be sure that the person who reorganizes the mind will be the same as before.

“Because Padmé is not human, her sense of self is different from ours. “No one knows how she would have accepted that fact.”

Cheongyeon gestured with an indifferent expression.

“What matters is that Padmé succeeded. “She completely dismantled and reestablished her instincts and reason on her own, and immediately after that she rose to level 9 and became an ascendant.”

“….”

“Do you understand why I am explaining this to you?”

“Are you saying that if you want to challenge for ascension, you have to take a gamble that even throws away your ego?”

“no.”

Cheongyeon shook his head resolutely.

“I was saying that Padmé’s method has something in common with all of us.”

“….”

“The spell Padmé Chiesa used to reconstruct her self. “It has already gone far beyond the concept of hierarchy that we recognize.”

Cheongyeon spoke softly to Lennok, who was silent.

“The power to destroy the caster and reconstitute himself without being dependent on the caster. It was already something beyond Padmé Chiesa. Do you understand what this means?”

“That’s…”

At that moment, Lennok, who realized what Cheongyeon was trying to say, became silent.

Because through the death of the conscious body, I realized the reason why the manual was trying to explain through the way of existence.

Qualifying and becoming an ascendant is not a miracle performed only at the end of a grand ritual, a great deity, or an infinite ascendant.

The crucial reason why Hyeon-pyo, who was born as a spirit beast, learned magic, and gained intelligence, was able to become an ascendant.

“A spell in which the handbook reconstructs one’s own consciousness. “It was something of a transcendent concept that went beyond level 9.”

Lennok answered quietly.

“Does one become eligible to become an ascendant the moment one recognizes standards beyond what is allowed for an ascendant?”

A spell that goes beyond the concept of hierarchy that Cheongyeon mentioned earlier.

A decisive moment that reorganized the existence of the handbook from the beginning and made her an ascendant.

Something that symbolizes a transcendent concept.

“There is no exact name. “It’s up to everyone how they call it.”

Cheongyeon looked away with an expressionless face.

“The reason Padmé was able to do it is because it was her lifelong wish as a spirit beast. “It was a feat that was possible because there was a time when I suffered from conflict between instinct and reason.”

Cheongyeon said as he looked at the landscape of the well, which was turning black as the distance went by.

“One answer that penetrates all of life. Padmé used talents and miracles beyond those given to her to make it happen and-”

Kuguaguaguawa!!!

Except for the curtain of the lighthouse guarded by Cheongyeon, all other worlds of consciousness were already being immersed in endless darkness.

“Because of that, I ended up losing my memory and falling into oblivion.”

“If it is the reason for falling into oblivion…”

“Okay. From there-”

Cheongyeon, who said that, slowly turned his gaze back.

“It would be better to hear it from the real person.”

“…what?”

At that moment, the world of consciousness submerged in darkness behind Cheongyeon’s back split in half and twisted.

Ugh!!

As if dividing the real world, the sky and the ground were distorted, and a crack different from the well was struck from the outside.

At the same time, the darkness of the open sea that filled the entire consciousness space began to be sucked through the crack in an instant.

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

As the wind blew fiercely, Lennok opened his eyes and gazed across the newly formed crack.

Something of immeasurable power is looking down at this place from the other side of the crack, sucking up the darkness of the open sea.

The moment Lennok realized it and immediately solidified his consciousness.

Woe!!

All the darkness flowing from the well was sucked in and extinguished, and a quiet silence came.

Cheongyeon, who had been observing the situation, took down the lighthouse he had built and turned around.

On the other side of the infinite horizon of consciousness, an expressionless white-haired girl stood.

A sharp appearance with an unknown and complex incantation carved into its brown skin.

It’s my first time seeing her, but the moment I meet her, I feel like I know who she is.

At that moment, Lennok inadvertently took a breath and his expression hardened at that fact.

“It’s been a while, Padme.”

Cheongyeon looked back at the girl and opened his mouth with a smile.

“How long has it been since we last met like this?”

“Well, Madrea.”

A cold cynicism appeared on the girl’s lips.

“I didn’t really want to meet you.”

Level 9 Ascendant’s Manual Padmé Chiesa.

The Ascendant himself, who is sleeping guarding the well in reality, has descended into this ritual space himself.