Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 118

“I thought they’d at least pretend to try to negotiate.”

“There’s no need for Leisen to know what we’re really up to.”

Ivelin said, picking at the snacks on her desk. Even those were probably made using vegetables she had grown herself.

“The data analysis is complete, and we’ve confirmed there’s no information about slush funds. What we can infer from the communication logs is the location information of Falcion’s main base and other bases.”

“You handed over the location of the main base all at once?”

“Of course, I’ll remove that.”

“………”

Renok immediately understood what she meant and shook his head.

“You’re planning to completely pass the task of dealing with Falcion’s remnants to them. Isn’t that too bold?”

When Renok heard that Leisen was hiring private forces to get involved in this matter, he had considered the possibility of using him.

Certainly, if the location information was as jumbled as it was now, it would be much easier to deal with Falcion with Leisen’s help.

“The result would be the same even if we didn’t give them the information.”

Ivelin replied calmly.

“The estimated amount of the slush fund exceeds 100 billion cells [currency]. Moreover, that money doesn’t belong entirely to Leisen himself, so he’ll be desperate to find it. If necessary, it wouldn’t be strange for him to conduct a search and seizure on us. It’s better to lie low and look for an opportunity before that happens.”

“An opportunity to do what?”

“Why are you asking the obvious?”

Her green eyes gleamed coldly.

“While they’re busy destroying other temporary bases and wasting their time, we’ll raid the main base.”

“…You think everything will be over by then.”

Considering Leisen’s movements and information-gathering abilities so far, he would eventually realize that she had omitted information, sooner or later.

Ivelin had made the judgment that she could finish everything and achieve her goal in the meantime.

However, upon hearing Renok’s words, she shook her head decisively.

“It’s not that I think so. It’s that I have to do it that way.”

“………”

“Considering the secret of the necromancy formula you heard from Raul, and the details of Craig’s slush fund, we have to move immediately when we get a clue.”

Seeing the firm determination in her eyes, Renok quietly closed his mouth.

Ivelin turned her gaze to Renok and smiled faintly.

“In a way, this is all possible thanks to you, Van. I had set a somewhat unreasonable target, prepared for several failures, but both operations against Falcion have exceeded expectations in one go.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes. Thanks to you, we, who have always been swayed by the city council, now have a choice. If we miss this opportunity, we may never get another chance.”

“………”

‘This is just the result of that choice,’ Ivelin muttered to herself as she stood up from her seat. Renok quietly watched her.

She must have her own reasons for having to confront the city council and for dragging Leisen down from his position.

Even a monstrous archer who shoots black spears that darken the sky is just a fragment of a trivial conflict of interest in this city.

Or is it different?

Because she is such a skilled person, because she has such great power, there are things she has to take responsibility for.

Ivelin Marcia is here because she has not abandoned that duty and has walked this far.

It’s not far.

Her presence, which always felt blurry as if she might disappear at any moment, even though they faced each other, was now shining clearly in front of him today.

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Just as quickly as Ivelin was moving, Leisen’s movements, who had received the information, were also urgent.

As if it were a lie that he had been holding his breath until now, he sent out dozens of private forces out of the city almost every day.

Freelancers, mercenary groups, gangs, and martial artists.

Anyone who could be hired with money and whose trust could be guaranteed with payment was fine.

It was even better because they had the pretext of finding the terrorist organization’s base.

Renok was receiving detailed reports on all of those movements through Hina.

[Actually, observing Leisen’s movements from the side isn’t that difficult.]

“I guess so. You could just recruit a few freelancers and put them in the ranks.”

[………]

Hina, who had nothing to say after he had guessed the answer so quickly, quietly closed her mouth.

“Leisen or his secretariat probably know that. The important thing is that they think they need to find Falcion’s real main base among the jumbled location information.”

Chiiik…!!

Renok lit a cigarette and continued.

“The problem is that once Leisen’s side has cleared out the temporary bases, they’ll start to suspect that we intentionally omitted information about Falcion’s main base.”

[I trust you didn’t secretly eavesdrop on our meeting.]

It seems that she has learned to joke around, perhaps because they have been working together for some time.

Renok chuckled at Hina’s playful words and continued.

“That’s why we have to finish it before that. At the very least, we have to raid and destroy Falcion’s main base at the same time. If we can’t find Craig’s location and secure the details of the slush fund he’s holding, it’s not Leisen who will get his head cut off, but the agent.”

[I know. That’s why we’re taking direct action this time.]

Click…!

With those words, three black suits appeared behind Renok.

Hina O’Neil with a long sword at her waist. A blue-haired girl with pigtails blowing bubble gum. And a thin, middle-aged man with thick glasses.

Even though they were wearing the same outfits, each of them had a unique appearance.

‘Do you have to have this much individuality to become an agent’s enforcer?’

While Renok was taken aback by the unexpected visuals, the pigtail girl walked briskly towards Renok, chewing gum.

“Hey, nice to meet you.”

“……..”

“I heard you’re a mage who’s been making a name for himself in the back alleys lately? I’m Cheisha Arwell. I’m from the enforcement department.”

“Niro Cohen.”

The man who pushed up his glasses said.

“I specialize in stealth. Nice to meet you.”

When Renok looked at Hina, Hina sighed and said.

“I’m Hina O’Neil, temporarily transferred from the planning department. It seems I’ll be participating directly in this operation.”

“When we worked together last time, I heard you say you couldn’t use your abilities or something.”

“It’s not a lie.”

Hina said, rolling up her sleeve and showing her forearm.

On her pale, thin forearm, countless hieroglyphs that even Renok could not read were densely engraved around her wrist.

“I had to make up a strange excuse back then, but I can tell Van-nim, who came as an external advisor, properly.”

“…Wasn’t that a useless title that Ivelin made up on the spur of the moment?”

Ignoring Renok’s words, Hina said.

“I can’t work in harsh environments for long due to a congenital disease. That’s why I use a curse to bind my magic like this, and periodically release it to use it at work. That’s why I often change departments.”

She might think she’s confessing this for the first time here, but from Renok’s point of view, he had already heard it from Ivelin, so he wasn’t very surprised.

It was just that her presence in this operation was unexpected.

“Honestly, I still don’t understand.”

Niro, who had been staring at the two with a sullen expression, said.

“To treat just one mage this well… Could the title of external advisor be so easily abused?”

“………”

“Old man. What the hell are you talking about?”

Niro didn’t care about Cheisha’s words as she picked her nose.

“Anyone who has worked with us once must make their position clear. Either work for the city wholeheartedly, or swear not to interfere with our work… This man has done neither.”

“Niro. That’s for Team Leader Marcia to decide.”

Niro closed his mouth at Hina’s sharp words, but eventually turned his head away as if he didn’t like it.

“Okay. Since you’re the ones who have to carry out the operation together anyway. If you think so, I won’t stop you.”

Ssssk…

With those words, Niro’s body slowly melted into the surrounding environment and disappeared.

“I’m just fulfilling my responsibility as the vanguard.”

“………”

Renok stared blankly at the empty space where Niro had disappeared.

The art of erasing not only his appearance but also his presence from Renok’s eyes, which were constantly activating magic detection.

It was too different to be a simple concealment due to magic manipulation.

Perhaps it was a power that Niro Cohen was born with, or the power of a special technique or artifact he had learned.

Cheisha, who was smacking her lips with a sullen expression, tapped Renok on the shoulder.

“Don’t worry too much about it. He’s been working in the field for a long time, so he’s a bit out of it.”

If you’ve been working as an agent in this city, where you face countless human figures, it wouldn’t be strange to become distrustful of people.

However, Renok didn’t show any such feelings and silently got up from his seat and dusted off his coat.

“Okay.”

Buaaaaaang!!

At the same time, a rough exhaust sound came from below.

Below the hill where Renok was sitting, dozens of freelancers who had gathered on motorcycles were all looking up at them.

The agent had provided each individual with a means of transportation for this operation.

“Van! It’s time to go!”

At Chen’s shout, who had his face wrapped in a muffler, Renok nodded silently and turned his back.

The collaboration between a black mage and the agent against a terrorist organization.

The fourth operation, which he hoped would be the last, had begun.

To the Beginning (1)

It would be nice if he could ride a motorcycle with them, but unfortunately, Renok did not ride a motorcycle himself.

“Please sit behind me.”

Hina, who had already gone down below, was wearing a motorcycle helmet and looking back.

Below the throttle that she was holding with both hands, a motorcycle large enough for two people to ride appeared.

“………”

Although her expression could not be seen through the helmet, it was clear that Hina was smiling, judging by her long, curved eyes.

‘If he had known this would happen, he should have completed the boarding assistance magic a day earlier.’

Renok, feeling a sense of regret for the first time in a long time, silently placed his body on the back of the motorcycle that she had boarded.

Booooooom!!

A monster bike that seemed at least twice as big as the other freelancers’ bikes.

The exhaust sound, the vibration, and the custom-made options attached to both sides were incomparable to other products.

As if noticing Renok’s gaze, Hina turned around and said leisurely.

“It’s cool, right?”

“…It looks useful.”

“It’s something I only use when I go on external business trips, and I modified it with my own money. I spent all my performance bonuses for half a year to make it.”

“I’m not interested.”

She didn’t seem very active, but surprisingly, her hobby was in that area.

Renok replied indifferently, but Hina, not satisfied with that, continued with a smile.

“Well… I understand. It’s not like all freelancers have to know how to ride a motorcycle. Oh, should I have lent you a bicycle?”

“Why don’t you stop teasing me and start?”

Even at Renok’s annoyed retort, Hina didn’t stop.

“I thought there was nothing you couldn’t do, but I never imagined you wouldn’t know how to ride a motorcycle.”

“…So, I clearly asked for a car to be provided.”

Although he said that, Renok understood why they were using motorcycles in this operation.

Unlike the temporary bases located alone in the desert area on the outskirts of the city, Falcion’s main base was located in a dilapidated industrial area completely outside of Vulcan.

It was originally part of a satellite city development plan that was planned and then stopped long before Vulcan’s urban development plan, and then abandoned.

A fallen urban area that could not even be called part of the giant city. It was located in a forced labor camp where those who wandered aimlessly were caught and used.

Considering that there would be street battles around the labor camp during the operation, it was right to choose a means of transportation that allowed individuals to move separately rather than moving in a group.

Hina chuckled at Renok’s words.

“I’m sorry. I’m a little excited because I’m going on an external business trip for the first time in a while. I’ve been stuck in the operating team all this time.”

“………”

“Well, let’s stop chatting and get going… shall we!”