Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1127

As Lenox stood up, the gambling chips piled at his feet collapsed.

Whirr!!!

The chips poured out like a wave, scattering across the casino floor.

The eyes of those watching were filled with greed.

“Wow, wow…!!”

“Damn, how much is all of this…!!”

“Me too, I want to do it too!!”

Gamblers cautiously reached for the chips, watching their surroundings.

Customers rushed to take Lenox’s machine, frantically pulling the lever.

“S-Sir!!”

A middle-aged man, presumably the manager, rushed out, hastily buttoning his shirt.

He looked around with a flustered expression, then stared at Lenox with a somewhat displeased look.

“Jackpot? How?”

“……”

“Ah. N-No, that’s not it.”

Quickly regaining his composure, the manager approached Lenox with a smile, rubbing his hands together.

“Congratulations, sir. You are the lucky one who hit the first jackpot in our casino!!”

“……”

“I don’t know if you know, but in Tokerphos, when you hit a jackpot, you can ‘negotiate’ the reward with the casino.”

The manager naturally grabbed Lenox’s arm as he spoke.

“Why don’t we go up to my office and talk? I’m sure it will be a beneficial time for both of us.”

Squeeze-

The veins on the manager’s hand, gripping Lenox’s arm, were bulging.

“Sir?”

Although he felt no pain due to the shield, it was clear what emotions he was putting into his grip.

However, instead of shaking off the manager, Lenox turned his gaze behind him.

The casino’s customers and the manager weren’t the only ones who saw the slot machine hit the jackpot.

Clank, clank!!

Police officers slowly entered the casino, leading several heavy metal giants.

With expressionless faces, they looked at Lenox, pointed at him, and quietly whispered something.

‘Davi.’

[System unregistered. Unknown identity. Detecting unique magic. They are saying this.]

It wasn’t the police who detected Lenox’s magic, but the function of that armored barrel.

However, it’s unlikely that a heavily armed robot could simply detect unique magic.

Could there be something other than a simple engine in the power source of the armored barrel?

Having thought that far, Lenox turned his body, leaving the approaching police behind.

“O-Oh?”

The manager was flustered and waved his hand, but couldn’t catch Lenox, who slipped away like a ghost.

Lenox stepped forward amidst the chaotic chatter of the casino customers.

“He’s running away. Catch him!”

“He’s a magic user with unique traits. Don’t let him get away!”

As soon as they saw Lenox turn around, the police quickened their pace.

The moment the police, gripping their waist pistols, entered the casino littered with gambling chips.

Swoosh-!!

With the sound of a string being pulled, the slot machines on the wall began to fall over.

Thud!!!

“Uwaaaah!!”

“Ugh!! What suddenly…!!”

“Don’t get crushed!! Get out of the way!!”

Customers who had been engrossed in pulling levers fell backward, and police officers ran to avoid the falling slot machines.

Lenox, with his back turned amidst the falling machines, was walking through the chaotic casino hall.

“There he is!”

“Spread out to the sides. Block the path!!”

“Secure the CCTV. Check his personal information immediately!”

“Wait…!!!”

Crash!!

The gambling chips piled up like mountains on the tables collapsed, pouring towards the police.

Without looking back, machines fell like dominoes each time he flicked his fingers.

The wooden tables placed around the casino collided and blocked the path as if drawn by magnets.

A bizarre scene unfolded as the terrain of the casino collapsed and blocked the path each time Lenox moved.

“Uwaaaah!! The casino is killing people!!”

“How badly did these bastards manage the facilities?!”

“My card!! My full house! How are you going to compensate for this!!”

Customers shouted from all around the fallen tables.

Scattered cards and chip fragments flew overhead. The smell of whiskey from broken glasses filled the air.

In the middle of the casino, which had instantly turned into chaos, the police stopped with bewildered expressions.

“What is this…!!”

“Why does this have to happen now?”

“How can someone be this lucky!!”

Meanwhile, Lenox stopped near the entrance to the casino’s back door, lost in thought.

‘What should I do…’

The sudden jackpot had drawn the attention of not only the casino but also the police.

For now, he could get away with the excuse that the casino was in chaos by chance.

However, if he used more manipulation techniques here to suppress the police, it would become irreversible.

From then on, quietly tracking the clown’s movements would become impossible.

Is there a way to resolve this situation and ensure there are no repercussions in the future?

“Haa, haa!”

“Man, it’s so hard to catch one person…!!”

“This is the Tokerphos Police Department. Please cooperate for a moment.”

The police, having climbed over the fallen slot machines and tables, approached right behind Lenox.

The eyes of the uniformed police officers gleamed suspiciously as they looked at Lenox’s robe.

[Master.]

Davi said.

[Let’s just smash them?]

‘……’

Lenox slightly shook his head, turned his body, and stretched out his hand towards the approaching police.

The moment he spread his hand, a black magic thread was tautly pulled from his fingertips.

Someone grabbed Lenox’s wrist and handcuffed him.

Clank!!

“You were here.”

“……?”

Right next to Lenox, a man with a cold expression stood, looking down at him.

He had a pale face, wearing a gray coat, slightly different from the other police officers in blue uniforms.

He was holding the other handcuff, having already cuffed Lenox’s wrist.

“……”

The other police officers stopped in their tracks at the sudden appearance of the man who had handcuffed Lenox.

The man with the cold expression turned towards the other police officers and pulled out a police badge.

“I’m Gordon from the Violent Crimes Investigation Team of the Criminal Affairs Division. This man is a criminal the investigation team has been pursuing, so we’ll escort him.”

“……Unregistered identity. Magic user of special interest.”

The police officers had a mechanical look in their eyes.

“We will take him into custody.”

“This man is under investigation for using a probability manipulation artifact while wandering around the casino.”

Gordon, with a cold expression, said.

“You should know that the most serious crime in this city is probability manipulation.”

“……”

Perhaps Gordon’s words were correct, the police officers, who had been breathing weakly, momentarily shut their mouths.

Gordon quietly looked at the police officers and said as if notifying them.

“My colleagues are currently waiting near the back door. I will escort this man.”

The police officers no longer responded to Gordon’s words. Instead, they only looked up at the metal giants lined up behind them.

The armored barrels, covered in metal armor, stared intently at the man’s face.

At the same time, a stiff mechanical voice flowed from inside the armored barrel.

[Detective Alex Gordon of the Violent Crimes Investigation Team, Criminal Affairs Division.]

[Accessing police department database. Registered identity matches.]

[Recognizing investigation division BR code. Biometric authentication complete.]

“……Understood.”

Only after the armored barrel’s authentication was complete did the police officers reluctantly nod.

“If the probability manipulation charges are true, then it can’t be helped.”

“After the investigation is complete, we will immediately transfer the suspect’s identity to the search team.”

Only then did Gordon pull on the handcuffs on Lenox’s wrist and say.

“Come with me.”

“……”

Lenox silently followed the man who had started walking ahead.

Behind them, the voices of the casino customers and the manager echoed.

“I knew it, he was a con artist.”

“I thought it was strange from the moment the jackpot suddenly hit.”

“I knew from the start that he was up to something.”

“But isn’t the real con artist this casino where the jackpot has never hit even once?”

The manager was seen dragging away a customer who had asked an unnecessarily sharp question.

Lenox left them behind and walked out through the casino’s back door into a deserted alley.

A dirty alley littered with torn posters and trash. A dark street reeking of a mixture of cigarette and drug smoke.

However, the man who had dragged Lenox here stood still, with his back turned, without saying a word.

“Now that we’re here, I think you can stop the act.”

Lenox said, looking at the police officer’s back.

“Isn’t it very difficult to manipulate humans?”

“Uh, ra.”

Gordon slowly turned towards Lenox, creaking like a broken machine.

His eyes rolled in bizarre directions, his nostrils flared, and his mouth was twisted to one side.

His facial muscles twitched, and his ears and eyebrows trembled, distorting his face like a ghost.

Gordon said.

“H-How, did, you, know?”

“Because the person who would appear so conveniently in that situation wouldn’t be a police officer.”

Lenox retorted.

“Besides, there aren’t many ability users who can ‘manipulate’ living humans, even in the Demon Realm.”

“Ah, ha.”

Thud!

The man, letting out a short exclamation, collapsed powerlessly on the spot.

His limbs were twisted at bizarre angles, and he was convulsing, a grotesque sight.

Lenox thought he looked like a puppet with its strings cut, and the moment he lifted his gaze.

A giant spider was standing upside down above his head, looking at Lenox.

“Agneta.”

A descendant of an ancient race with a woman’s upper body on the spider’s body. A manipulator who travels through the false dimension and a messenger of Pandemonium.

It was Agneta who had ‘manipulated’ the police to get Lenox out of there.

“Victor. Long time no see.”

Agneta said blankly, touching her eyelids that were sewn with needles.

“We. We saw each other then. Then.”

“……”

“……When was it?”

Her habitually absent-minded personality hadn’t changed much.

Being closer to an ancient race than a human, her sensitivity itself was very different from others.

Agneta clapped her hands as if she had belatedly remembered.

“Ah, right. It was at the Kabahim Changing Fortress.”

“It was when I met Hylea in Balkan.”

Lenox replied indifferently, lowering his gaze.

“Even if you don’t have a sense of time, your proficiency in manipulation techniques has certainly advanced.”

“Kk, euk…”

The convulsing police officer made a faint groan from below.

The facial muscles were twisted into an impossible expression, and his limbs were convulsing out of control.

“Even if he’s barely alive, manipulating a living human wouldn’t be easy.”

The reason the other police officers had readily backed down was because the man who had handcuffed Lenox was undoubtedly from the Violent Crimes Investigation Team.

If he had manipulated a dead body or brought someone else to impersonate, the armored barrel would have noticed immediately.

However, thanks to Agneta bringing a living detective from the investigation division to act, they were able to get through safely.

“That’s right, it’s difficult.”

Agneta nodded honestly.

“Manipulating facial muscles is too complicated. It’s hard to grasp with magic threads.”

“I guess so. It would be even more difficult to make them talk, not just manipulate them like puppets.”

Lenox said, looking down at the fallen police officer.

“You’d have to manipulate the movements of the lips, tongue, and vocal cords with magic threads one by one. If even a little bit of manipulation or breathing is off, it would quickly become awkward.”

“That’s right, that’s right.”

It was possible for Lenox to grab and manipulate humans with magic threads.

However, it was extremely difficult to manipulate humans with magic threads to ‘act’.

Not only would he have to control even the smallest details with magic threads, but he would also have to pay attention to the consciousness and reactions of the living human.

If anything went wrong in that whole process, the person he was dealing with would inevitably feel a sense of unease.

It would be better to use mental techniques or artifacts to charm or hypnotize them.

It was clearly an inefficient act in many ways, but that was why Lenox was impressed by what Agneta had done.

“Since you’re acting by purely manipulating physical reactions, the police didn’t suspect anything. In a way, it’s amazing.”

“Victor recognizes it.”

Agneta said in an impressed voice.

“The other members don’t know. They always nag me about when I’m going to come through the false dimension.”

“……”

“I like fellow manipulators. I want to work with Victor all the time.”

Agneta, moving her spider legs, slowly descended to the ground and clenched her fists.

“I’ll work hard this time too.”

“……”

Agneta is a manipulator who handles her spiderwebs like magic threads.

However, due to her nature, there were many ways in which her innate talents and sensibilities were misaligned.

Lenox had shown interest in Agneta’s talent as a manipulator several times, and Agneta was surprisingly very pleased with such conversations.

Perhaps it was because she had very few opportunities to talk to others about her techniques.

As a result, Lenox was able to escape without causing unnecessary commotion because Agneta had helped him.

“Where is the clown? The fact that you’re here means he’s already arrived in Tokerphos.”

“Ah.”

Agneta, who had been listening blankly to Lenox’s words, clapped her hands.

“That’s right. I was supposed to guide the clown.”

“……”

“Follow me. I’ll make a path.”

“……Make a path?”

Whirr!!!

The moment Agneta’s spider leg pointed into the air, thin spiderwebs spread out.

Several dozen magic threads, spread out in all directions like spiderwebs, instantly draped over the alley.

Agneta, skillfully climbing up the alley on the magic threads, gestured towards Lenox.

“This. Let’s ride this.”

“……”

“It’s a bit far. This is a shortcut if you want to go fast.”

Swoosh…!!

At that moment, Agneta’s figure, who had climbed onto the magic threads, slowly disappeared.

The skill of a hunter who completely erases their presence the moment they climb onto a spiderweb.

Lenox tilted his head, leaving behind Agneta’s presence, which was fading away with a swish.

Perhaps because they were fellow manipulators, Agneta tended to assume that Lenox could naturally do what she could do.

However, moving on magic threads like a spider, as she was doing now, was completely different from the sensation of manipulating magic threads.

“I have no choice…”

Lenox, grabbing the magic threads that Agneta had spread out first, pulled up his magic power.

At the same time, Agneta’s spiderwebs turned black and transformed into Lenox’s magic threads.

Lenox, having taken control, climbed precariously onto the magic threads.

Swoosh…!!

Pulling and stretching the magic threads, he used tension and elasticity to lift his body.

A technique of sliding his body using pure magic thread manipulation, not Lenox’s inferior physical abilities.

After a few leaps, Lenox, who had soared above the dazzling downtown area, slowly began to move along the spiderwebs.

“……”

Whoosh!!!

He was moving, relying on a few thin magic threads, dozens of meters above the ground.

He wouldn’t die if he fell, but with Lenox’s body, just looking down for a moment was enough to make him dizzy.

Usually, he would have taken all sorts of drugs at times like this, but he didn’t have the luxury to overdo doping when it wasn’t a battle situation.

[Shall I cover your view so you can’t see below?]

“……It’s okay.”

Lenox said, glancing down.

“It looks like we’ll arrive soon anyway.”

Whether the shortcut was a lie or not, the travel route was surprisingly short.

Agneta’s presence, which had been faint, was clearly felt on the opposite side of the spiderwebs.

Passing through the bustling downtown area where commercial districts were concentrated, and into the luxurious casino hotel district located inside.

The hotel itself was a high-end luxury facility that had been converted into a giant casino, where there was no need to go outside to gamble.

Was the clown already infiltrating a hotel located in the deepest part of Tokerphos?

The moment Lenox thought that and looked at the hotel building glowing under the night sky.

“……Huh?”

BOOM!!!!

Red flames erupted from inside the building, blowing up the entire casino hotel.

Thud thud thud!!!!

Scattering hot flames, the remains of the hotel. A huge high-rise building collapsing at an angle.

The heat was so intense that the glass windows and walls melted and quickly fused together.

The impact was so strong that even Agneta’s magic threads that Lenox was riding on shook unstably.

“……”

A sudden explosion in the middle of Tokerphos’s top-class casino hotel.

Lenox, stunned by the unexpected and sudden change, lowered his gaze.

Davi quickly turned on the radio and began to deliver the latest news.

[A large-scale fire has broken out at the Alcantara Casino Hotel located in the center of Tokerphos.]

[The Alcantara Hotel is a high-end accommodation facility owned by the Alcantara Bank of the Western Continent, and-]

[It is currently the hotel where Freya Kalins, who is visiting for her world tour, is staying…]

There was no reason to listen any longer.

Swoosh!!

Lenox, sliding down the magic threads, headed into the burning hotel through a broken window.

Glass windows melting hotly. Concrete inner walls that had exploded and collapsed everywhere.

People were dead in the hallways, walls, and doorways, wearing strange clothes.

Lenox, who was about to pass by, stopped momentarily when he saw the corpses.

“……”

They were not ordinary guests or customers who had come to enjoy the casino.

Corpses wearing strange clothes of a unified design, with wounds on both wrists as if they had self-harmed.

Were there so many of these people staying at the Tokerphos Casino Hotel?

Lenox, who had been lost in thought, immediately followed Agneta’s spiderwebs.

Drop, drop…!!

The deeper he went, the more corpses there were. Blood dripped from the ceiling and all around the hallway.

Numerous human corpses, bleeding all over, were dead. A gruesome sight with their limbs twisted grotesquely.

The deepest part of the casino hall lobby on the first floor of the hotel. A hideous path made of human skin.

At the end of that path, a white bathtub was placed on a wide lobby hall.

Splash!

The bathtub was filled with bright red blood instead of water, and someone was lying powerlessly inside.

Blood dripped from the arm hanging limply outside the bathtub.

The face, tilted back without breathing, was covered in white makeup.

Thud!

Lenox, who had descended on the magic threads, frowned at the corpse in the bathtub.

“This is…”

White makeup on the face. Disheveled hair. Naked, without clothes, but it was unmistakable.

The clown’s corpse, not breathing, lying in a bathtub filled with blood.

The moment Lenox took a step forward, looking at that figure.

“Ah.”

The clown, who had been closing his eyes, suddenly lifted his eyelids.

The moment he opened his mouth, the clown’s cheek split open, and blood flowed out.

His eyelids tore, and blood flowed down his cheeks like tears.

The clown, slowly rolling his eyes, looked at Lenox and grinned.

“Nice to see you, Victor.”

“……”

“It’s been a very long time since we’ve seen each other like this, hasn’t it?”

Instead of answering, Lenox stared intently at the clown.

The clown’s figure, bleeding all over as if he were about to die.

The blood that flowed out was being collected in the bathtub where the clown was lying.

“No, isn’t this reaction too disappointing for seeing each other after so long?”

The clown waved his hand, lying in the bathtub.

“Even though we were born on different days, we promised to turn this city upside down together on the same day.”

“……I don’t remember making such a disgusting promise.”

Lenox asked, looking at the clown with a cold gaze.

“What are you doing here?”

“I’m just kidding. Actually, I thought I should do some cleaning before the concert.”

The clown, slowly turning his eyes, grinned at Lenox.

“So, I tried killing the mayor of Tokerphos first.”

“……What?”