Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 67

[Wait, you said we have to wait?]

“Yeah.”

Lennox replied.

“Once the soldiers arrive, we’ll take our positions. They’ll be exchanging goods, so the deal will take some time. In the meantime, we’ll secure a good vantage point and then move into action.”

[How do you know when they’ll arrive? No, for that matter, you don’t even know which direction they’re coming from.]

“The railway. They’ll be here in three minutes.”

[What? How do you know that…]

Lennox didn’t wait for a reply and cut off the transmission.

Kayne seemed quite cautious, but conversely, he didn’t seem like the type to think quickly.

If they bribed the customs officials and chose the railway station as the meeting place, wouldn’t it be obvious what kind of transportation they would use?

Especially if they had to transport weapons like guns all at once.

Anyway, he would soon confirm it with his magic sense, so there was no need to waste time explaining it now.

While he took a moment to catch his breath, just holding the cigarette in his mouth and tapping it, the other side of the railway station quickly became bustling.

Clunk, clunk…!

Regular noises could be heard piercing through the darkness.

Two headlight beams cut through the night fog.

A huge rectangular iron mass slowly approached the station and gradually slowed down.

A single old train car running on the rusty rails stopped in the middle of the station, and the door swung open.

A group of people walked out, holding their heads high and addressing the gang.

“We’re here on time. Where’s the person in charge?”

Dark, ink-colored military uniforms. Blue armbands on their shoulders.

They were undoubtedly Defense Force uniforms.

Lennox, having confirmed their appearance through his telescope, grinned.

Boldly, the gang was directly operating this abandoned railway station for their dealings with the soldiers.

Come to think of it, it wasn’t that difficult.

The only ones directly monitoring the railway in this area were the customs officials, and if they could be won over, their watchful eyes would become reliable guards.

Even if they were caught, it would be possible to claim that the customs officials were operating the train for their own civil servants.

It was a much more natural method than having several military vehicles moving through the darkness.

Even if they moved with a train car full of firearms, no one would easily suspect them.

Having confirmed the faces of the soldiers, Lennox immediately pressed his earpiece and whispered.

“Let’s begin.”

[……….]

There was no reply.

However, even Lennox could sense five presences moving very discreetly.

They quickly spread out in all directions, suppressing the surrounding gang members in an instant, and at the same time, Agria shot interference waves into the air, cutting off the gang’s communications.

It would be difficult for team members to communicate with each other because they couldn’t identify friend from foe, but from now on, it wouldn’t matter much.

Lennox also immediately stood up and moved forward, planting bullets into the heads of the gang members around him.

Bang! Bang!

As he advanced little by little and reached the vicinity of the railway station, he began to see the soldiers and the gang’s leader facing each other and talking.

A group of about a dozen soldiers, led by an old soldier with a cold demeanor as if a needle wouldn’t even pierce him, and a large man facing them with only three or four aides.

The old soldier looked up at the man with a sharp gaze and asked.

“How long are you planning to use this old train?”

“Calm down.”

The man replied in a slow tone.

“We already agreed that this is the most effective method.”

“That’s only once or twice, I don’t see why we have to go through the trouble every time. After all, we’re the ones supplying you with weapons.”

“………”

The man’s brow twitched at the soldier’s prickly words, but he didn’t say anything.

However, the old soldier recognized the meaning of that expression like a ghost and frowned.

“What is that look?”

“It’s nothing.”

“I’m telling you again, if anything goes wrong, it’s over. The western satellite city is full of friends eagerly waiting for us to return. If you put us in danger even for a moment, there will be no more deals.”

The man shrugged without a word.

Lennox watched their conversation and quietly shook his head.

‘They’re skilled…’

On the surface, it seemed like the man had backed down under the soldier’s pressure, but the old soldier’s unnecessarily sensitive attitude clearly showed his psychological state.

His status as a retired soldier. The guilt of secretly selling military equipment. The risk of being caught.

The stress accumulated in a psychologically weakened situation was being expressed in a negative way towards the trading partner in front of him.

The man knew that, yet he was easily accepting the soldier’s irritation.

Naturally, Lennox’s gaze deepened.

‘If only I could kill him here…’

To succeed in the plan, the Siger Bang must be completely annihilated, and the Dyke Corporation must take its place.

To do that, all the key executives of the gang would eventually have to be dealt with.

If they could eliminate not only the soldiers but also the gang’s forces, it would be ideal.

The old soldier, who had been staring at the man for a long time, reluctantly nodded.

After all, he was here to make a deal, and the soldiers who had been kicked out of the battlefield needed money.

Even if that money was dirty money squeezed from the back alleys.

“Move the goods.”

At the man’s nod, a dozen or so gang members who had been waiting behind quickly entered the train car and began to carry out the firearms.

There were some pistols mixed in, but most of them were automatic rifles, which were quite heavy.

On top of that, they had brought a lot of ammunition, so even with many people helping, it was taking a considerable amount of time to transport them.

The moment they finished moving the rifles stacked outside and started taking out the ammunition.

Lennox immediately raised his magic power and shot it into the sky.

Fwoosh!!

A clear will reacted with precisely assembled magic power along with a concrete image, scattering bright blue flashes in the empty sky.

Some of the mages mixed in with the gang noticed the anomaly and turned their heads.

But it was already too late.

[Thunder Calling]

KWA-A-A-A-A-ANG!!!

A bolt of lightning announcing the start of the battle descended directly to the ground.

The end of the intense firepower that could turn a human into ashes in an instant was aimed at the old train car full of ammunition.

It was obvious what would happen if a fire broke out in the makeshift ammunition depot.

The old train car exploded, and the huge wave of flames that erupted swept away everyone standing nearby.

FWOO-O-O-O-O-O-O-SH!!

“Kkyaaaaak!!”

“H-hot, it’s hot!!”

“B-beeeek!! What is this…!!!”

The gang members and the soldiers gathered there screamed in agony as their bodies melted, and they rolled on the ground.

Along with Lennox’s preemptive strike, the other team members who were scattered around immediately moved.

The hazy purple mist that Allen spread instantly covered the surroundings, weakening the gang members’ strength.

Agria’s laser accurately pierced the heads of the mages who had reacted to Lennox’s magic earlier.

KWA-A-A-ANG!!

Heizer, who appeared pushing up the burning train car, swung his huge hammer at the other gang members, cutting through the flames.

Jod and Kayne, who appeared from behind the railway station, cut down the fleeing gang members without exception.

Amidst the chaos, Lennox remained calm and immediately pulled out his revolver from his waist.

The initial goal of disrupting the weapons deal and ruining the relationship between the gang and the retired soldiers had been achieved.

Once they had a taste of the heat, the soldiers who were already secretly selling weapons would be even more reluctant to deal with the gang.

But he couldn’t stop here.

If he couldn’t kill the Siger Bang’s executive in this place, it would be nothing more than a step back.

Panoha hadn’t directly told him to kill him, but the other team members were also subtly aware of it.

And if someone had to step up, Lennox wouldn’t hesitate.

He quickly put a cigarette in his mouth, inhaled the smoke, and mustered all the courage he could.

From here on, he wouldn’t hold back.

As much effort as Panoha had put in, Lennox had a duty to bring back results.

Staring at the heavy shadow slowly rising through the hazy flames, Lennox immediately stacked up his shooting support magic.

[Aim Correction]

[Firing Enhancement]

[Recoil Control]

[Penetration Amplification]

[Rotation Acceleration]

Keeeeeeng…!!

It was the first time he had stacked five support magic spells after using shooting support magic.

Among the shooting combos that Lennox could currently use, it was the most powerful shot within the limits of what the gun allowed.

The silver revolver trembled, emitting a bright blue light, but Lennox held up his trembling arm and forced the aiming line to align with his gaze.

There was no need to try to aim at an elusive target.

All the results were already contained in the magazine inside the revolver.

Whoosh!

The shadow, which had shrunk back in the flames, rushed towards Lennox in the blink of an eye.

Lennox pulled the trigger.

Ta-a-a-ang!!

A shot that was different from ordinary shooting.

A preemptive strike that pierced the gap in thought. It would be strange if it didn’t work.

As Lennox thought, the shadow twisted its body to avoid the timing of a normal shot, but it was faster for Lennox’s bullet to pierce his shoulder.

He might have ignored the power of the bullet, but it wouldn’t go as he pleased.

The shadow’s steps faltered greatly from the unexpected impact.

Crack…!!

With the sound of flesh being crushed, the approaching shadow changed direction and fell diagonally.

KWA-A-A-ANG!!

The man’s heavy body, which appeared with the scorching heat that warmed his cheek, slid and rolled on the ground.

Seeing that, Lennox immediately pulled up his magic power with all his might.

Lennox didn’t know for sure how strong the man who had fallen in this place was.

But if he was a famous executive of a gang who had made a name for himself in one area, he would be one of the strongest opponents he had ever met.

In the world where only the weak are exploited, fame and skill are generally proportional.

And Lennox had no intention of letting his guard down against such an enemy.

He would bring him down.

The purple whip swept sharply in all directions, grabbing any life signs it caught and slamming them into the ground.

Chwa-a-a-a-a-ak!!

Starting with the ice element.

White cold air emanated from Lennox’s fist gripping the whip, and the cold air flowing along the long magic shape instantly froze the target it had bound.

[Frost Horn]

An applied magic that had been effective even against Kraken Asillas for a moment.

It was an ice-type magic that had a short range and consumed a lot of magic power, but it was very effective against individuals, and when used in combination with Gravity Bind, it boasted excellent results.

The cold air that suppressed the movement of the atmosphere tightened around the man’s entire body, and even the surrounding heat subsided, and the flames that had been burning quickly faded.

Before the frozen man’s figure could be revealed, Agria’s laser, which had finished off all the gang’s mages, turned its head.

Whooo-o-o-o-o-o-o-sh!!

The blue laser swept across the ground, and Allen’s curse formula covered it again.

Allen had used a range formula in the first attack due to the situation, but generally, curse formulas were more powerful when targeting individuals.

Curses that fatally restricted physical reactions such as muscle weakness, reaction dulling, speed reduction, and vision restriction poured down one after another while the man was unable to move.