Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 758

Belber’s explanation was that he had profited from investments using information related to the magic tower.

Everyone glanced at Lenok, speechless. Belber, belatedly realizing the situation, stammered,

“What, what’s wrong? Did I say something wrong?”

Lenok, who had been watching Belber with amusement, asked,

“Jenny, have you ever sent a list of cooperative businesses to the Antares office?”

“No.”

Jenny sighed and shook her head.

“It seems that some of the businesses that received permission to open a branch requested security on their own. I should have been more careful with information control; it was my mistake.”

“So, you’re saying you didn’t directly leak the magic tower’s information to make a profit.”

If they hadn’t passed the list of cooperative businesses to the office, what did it mean that the office had received security requests?

Among the research institutes and towers scheduled to open in the magic tower, some had secretly requested security from the office without Lenok’s knowledge.

They probably did it because they didn’t know the relationship between the Antares Mercenary Corps and Lenok.

“Even so, this is clearly our mistake. As a member of the office, I have no excuse.”

Felix said to Lenok with a heavy expression.

The bird-headed giant’s hand, which was holding Belber’s shoulder, tightened its grip.

“I will apologize myself. I will also make sure Belber takes responsibility for this matter.”

Only then did Belber realize the problem and muttered,

“Oh, uh? Is this something that could be a problem due to internal information leakage…?”

“Did you think it wouldn’t be?”

While Jenny was pulling Belber’s ear in disbelief, Lenok looked around and smiled.

“There are many eyes watching. Shall we move to another place to talk?”

The group immediately moved to a lounge that was not yet open.

While Felix stood blocking the door to cut off sound and movement, Tatiana put up a simple magic barrier.

Lenok, who had been lost in thought, turned his gaze to Jenny.

“Jenny. Get the list of businesses that requested security from the mercenary corps and review it right now.”

“It’s not difficult, but why all of a sudden?”

“Why do you think they would request security separately, even though they promised to open a branch inside the magic tower?”

Jenny, belatedly realizing what Lenok meant, grinned.

“Ah, they have something they want to secretly handle while hiding it from us?”

“Besides doing business inside the magic tower, there’s a possibility that they are eager to do backroom deals with the entire underworld.”

“Okay. I’ll check it right away.”

Jenny opened her laptop on the spot and quickly compared the database, then nodded.

“That’s right. These guys have falsified the quantity of their imports. The transaction schedule they submitted to the office doesn’t match ours.”

What kind of crazy freelancer in District 49 would try to break into the impregnable magic tower to steal something or harm the people involved?

At the point when the magic tower’s territory was declared, that space was no different from Lenok’s backyard.

It was strange in itself to request separate security, worrying about possible dangers in such a place.

Lenok had deduced from Belber’s mistake that some businesses were already trying to line their own pockets.

“I’ll filter them out right away. I’m just going to use this as evidence and kick them all out, is that okay?”

Jenny looked down at Belber, who was kneeling and prostrating himself, with a strange look.

“By the way, I never thought I’d find this out thanks to this idiot. Is there any use for an idiot who doesn’t even know what insider trading is?”

“Oh, did what I did help a little?”

Belber’s expression, which had been downcast as he was reading the room, instantly brightened.

“Ahem, you know… I didn’t mean to rip off the company, right? I’m an idiot, but I’m not crazy.”

“……”

“I hope my sincerity is conveyed. I’m really sorry. If there’s anything you want-”

“Belber. Be quiet.”

While Felix was gripping Belber’s shoulder again with a tired expression, Lenok chuckled.

“If you had the guts to do that, it wouldn’t have ended with just this much fuss. I know.”

“Th, then…”

Just before Felix raised his voice, Lenok pointed at Belber’s chest and asked,

“Instead, we’ll confiscate all the profits you made from this, is that okay?”

“Wh, what?!”

Leaving the flustered Belber behind, Lenok turned his gaze to Jenny.

“You said you needed cash to expand the facilities in the tower, right?”

“Yeah, I understand.”

Jenny, who immediately understood Lenok’s words, grinned.

“You’re saying we should rob this crazy stock trader’s pockets to make up for it?”

“Wh, what… what are you trying to do to me!!”

“What are we going to do? Felix!”

At Jenny’s gesture, Felix grabbed Belber’s arms tightly and tied them up, as if he had been waiting for it.

Thump!!

They turned Belber’s body upside down and shook him, and his cell phone, wallet, and an unknown notebook fell out.

“Uwaaak!!”

Jenny, who had picked up the cell phone and wallet, said curtly to Belber, who was hanging upside down,

“Give me your account password. We’re going to confiscate all the profits you’ve made in the last three days.”

“No way!! It’s been so long since I’ve made this much profit…!!!”

“Give up! You don’t have a talent for that. You might as well go to a gambling house and win by luck, what are you going to do with that terrible eye for investment!”

“Th, that’s…”

Belber’s dejected expression, as if he had been shocked by Jenny’s blunt advice.

It was a surprisingly sensitive reaction for someone who was supposed to be working as a mercenary. Was he that serious about investing?

Jenny, who had been looking at the account details for a while after receiving the password, picked up an old notebook that had fallen next to her.

“This should be enough to cover the immediate expenses. What’s this notebook?”

“Ah, no. That’s…!!”

Jenny turned the pages of the notebook and clicked her tongue as if she was dumbfounded by the contents.

“Wow…”

“What is it that makes you like that?”

Tatiana, unable to contain her curiosity, looked inside and closed her mouth.

Felix also glanced at the contents of the notebook and shook his head.

At their unusual reaction, Lenok also checked the contents of the notebook next to them.

“…A calendar? Is it a record of stock price increases and decreases according to the date?”

“No, that’s not it. Look at this.”

Jenny said, turning to the next page.

“This guy is predicting stock price fluctuations by linking them to the feng shui [geomancy] around the Balkans.”

“……”

He had meticulously written down the weather in the Balkans, the place where he started investing, the direction, and all sorts of mysterious variables.

He was predicting the highs and lows of luck and auspicious and inauspicious days, and drawing graphs as he pleased.

While Lenok was speechless at the sight, Belber was trembling with resentment, hanging upside down.

Jenny tapped Belber’s forehead with the notebook.

“Belber, are you a shaman or something? Or do you have a talent for Onmyodo [a traditional Japanese esoteric cosmology]?”

“How dare you peek at my investment techniques like that!! Give it back!!”

“…This isn’t called an investment technique, Belber. It’s just superstition. It’s no different from a cult.”

“That can’t be! Big data doesn’t lie. Are you saying that and planning to follow my techniques?!”

“No, that… never mind.”

Jenny sighed and put the notebook in Belber’s mouth.

“I’ll give this back. It doesn’t seem to be of any use no matter how I look at it.”

“…!!”

Belber, who was protesting but still holding the notebook tightly in his mouth as if it was precious.

Now, it was starting to be worrisome that he was showing this side of himself in the middle of the tower.

Felix, who sighed and picked up Belber, turned to Lenok and said,

“Just in case, I’ll review the contents of the notebook and report it by today. I’m really sorry.”

“No, Jenny said she needed cash, so I guess that’s enough to take care of it.”

Lenok said, looking at the sports car that Belber had parked outside the tower.

“It looks like he just took it out of the factory, so if he refunds it right away, it should turn into money, right?”

“I hope so.”

Felix smiled bitterly and disappeared from the magic tower with Belber.

Considering the situation, they might not see Belber for a while.

But Lenok wasn’t that angry at Belber.

[Phew, it’s been resolved somehow.]

Because a spirit had been sighing in relief in Lenok’s arms since earlier.

[It would be a problem if there were more investors who were preempting internal information and investing secretly. It’s a relief that a competitor has been eliminated at this point.]

“……”

It turned out that Davi was also secretly inflating Lenok’s account using internal information from the magic tower.

As if noticing Lenok’s displeased gaze, Davi proudly raised his front paw in his arms.

[Ah, Master. Don’t worry. Unlike that dim-witted organism, I’ll never get caught!]

“…Do it moderately. You understand?”

He wanted to pay a little more attention to the management of the magic tower, but he didn’t have much time because he was planning to prepare to leave soon.

There were still a few things to take care of in various identities in order to visit other cities as planned.

The moment Lenok turned around, a message arrived from Dylan.

[Ban. It’s about the guardian spirit beast, can you come down for a moment?]

* * *

“It’s really dangerous now.”

In the underground space of the magic tower, which was now taking a plausible shape.

Dylan, who had called Lenok out, said with a serious expression.

“You can hear me, right?”

“I’m listening.”

“It’s really touch and go. The budget allocated to this side is already at its limit!”

“What’s at its limit?”

“It’s the cost of meals that this glutton is eating!!”

Dylan shouted, pointing at a huge egg that was rolling around in front of him.

(Rolling, rolling)

The egg, with the same cracks in its shell as before, was leisurely rolling around here and there in the space.

“I don’t know if it’s a guardian divine beast or a guardian spirit beast, but that guy needs to wake up and do something productive. You have to do something about it!!”

“It’s pointless to tell me…”

Lenok said, looking at the guardian spirit beast’s egg with a displeased expression.

Certainly, considering the amount of food the egg had eaten so far, the mercenaries in charge of managing it would feel burdened. But-

“Wasn’t the cost of the guardian spirit beast’s meals originally covered by this side?”

“No, it’s not the money that’s the problem, but the money is the problem.”

“What kind of nonsense is that?”

“Because there’s a specific snack that this guy likes, the related ingredients in the vicinity have completely run out.”

“……”

“Thanks to that, the price has skyrocketed, and now even the budget that Jenny gives us can’t cover it. And if we give it anything, it spits it out.”

“Hmm…”

Lenok, who belatedly understood Dylan’s words, nodded.

“So, you want me to make the guardian spirit beast stop being picky?”

“I don’t even expect that much. Just tell me what it wants to eat, okay?”

Dylan sighed and shook his head, and Lenok turned his gaze.

Lenok, who had been lost in thought, said.

“Since the existence of the guardian spirit beast was not originally assumed, if it refuses food on its own, there is no need to find it.”

“Huh?”

(Flint)

Not only Dylan, but also the egg that had been rolling around comfortably over there, trembled at those words.

Lenok, with his arms crossed, looked at it and muttered.

“If it’s a spirit beast derived from me, I can’t rule out the possibility of danger. I’ll watch it for a few days and see if it’s self-reliant.”

At Lenok’s words that he would starve it and observe its progress, the egg hurriedly rolled over and rubbed its body against Lenok’s shoulder.

It was as if it was belatedly trying to act cute, watching Lenok’s reaction.

Dylan also hesitated, as if he was not comfortable with Lenok’s words.

“No, well… I didn’t mean that we couldn’t feed it snacks. Can’t you think about it again…?”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, it’s picky and has a picky palate, but it’s not a bad guy.”

Dylan cleared his throat and said.

“Even when we’re working in the main hall, it helps us clean up with a rag.”

“……”

“I don’t know if it’s because it recognizes it as its own home, but it’s also quite interested in the interior and facilities of the magic tower. So-”

“You’ve grown fond of managing the spirit beast?”

“…Well, something like that.”

At Dylan’s words, the egg trembled slightly as if it was moved, but it didn’t stop rubbing its body against Lenok.

“Hmm…”

Lenok was lost in thought as he looked at the guardian spirit beast’s egg.

It had a high level of intelligence, enough to understand exactly who was feeding it.

Yet, it was acting in an incomprehensible way by not coming out of the egg and lingering.

But at least it had a good nature, enough to get along well with those who were managing it,

And it was doing its best, being aware that it was a guardian spirit beast and paying attention to it.

If the mercenaries had grown fond of it, it must have been acting kindly.

It was absurd to be worrying about an egg like this, but Lenok decided to find a solution as Dylan had said.

“Move the people in the main hall. Don’t let them come near this place.”

“Everyone heard that? From now on, everyone will wait outside the magic tower!!”

Dylan and the other mercenaries readily accepted Lenok’s words and guided the people outside, leaving Lenok and the guardian spirit beast alone in the vast space.

(Trembling)

The guardian spirit beast’s egg was standing upright in front of Lenok, trembling.

It hadn’t even come out of its shell yet, but it was a creature with such rich emotional expressions.

But instead of immediately using his hands on the guardian spirit beast, Lenok silently looked at the scenery of the magic tower.

A calm space with a black and blue light swirling around it.

The warm golden lamps floated and illuminated the ceiling, and countless documents and construction equipment that had not yet been organized were piled up around it.

The golden concentric circles that wrapped around the entire ceiling of the main hall like a ring were spreading out faintly.

Lenok, who had been watching the flow of the ripples in the air, slowly bent down and touched the ground with one hand.

Lenok, who had swept the smooth marble floor, raised his magic power and opened his mouth.

“When I asked Chen to construct the magic tower, I told him to use only the highest-grade building materials that could resonate with magic power.”

Whoooong!!!

A blue light barrier that had risen from Lenok’s center instantly wrapped around the main hall and rotated, slowly melting and disappearing.

It didn’t end with just one, and he raised his magic power in succession, spreading the barrier and melting it into the building materials of the magic tower.

A barrier technique directly inherited from Jin-Doon.

Among them, Lenok chose only the most powerful and heavy barriers that he could use right away, and chanted them, painting them over the magic tower.

“I can’t help it with barrier techniques that require special catalysts, but after spreading several barriers that specify the location-”

Faaaah!!!

A fantasy where a huge golden wave surrounded the magic tower and soared into the sky.

“The specific coordinates themselves can be established as an inviolable territory.”

Lenok lowered his hand and slowly turned around, muttering.

“It’s not difficult. In the tower’s territory, the meaning of the Ouroboros magic system will be the highest priority for all values.”

Lenok turned his gaze to the egg that was still standing upright in the center of the main hall.

“That’s why I still don’t have a sense of how your existence will work in this tower.”

“……”

“It would be different if you were a being purely born from my magic system, but you have a bit of a different lineage mixed in from the beginning.”

The territory declared at the same time as the establishment of the magic tower. The existence of a guardian spirit beast with intelligence born in the center of that territory.

But the basis of that guardian spirit beast was not purely the power derived from Lenok’s thoughts and magic system.

The thoughts of the seven great magic tower masters of Blaver, and the Bonghwangjeon [Phoenix Hall], which had the shape of a phoenix.

It was an undeniable fact that the thoughts that he had used as an engine to build the tower’s system were the basis of the guardian spirit beast.

But Lenok didn’t know how a being born from the Ouroboros magic system mixed with the thoughts of another being would hatch.

That’s why Lenok had been managing the guardian spirit beast by giving it food, instead of taking special measures even though he was aware of its existence.

“To be honest, I don’t care what kind of food you want. Dylan said he was having trouble getting snacks, but if I set out to find a route, it wouldn’t be difficult to get a few snacks that you like.”

(Rolling, rolling)

At Lenok’s surprisingly gentle words, the guardian spirit beast also seemed to be in a good mood and began to shake its body from side to side.

But Lenok shook his head as he looked at the guardian spirit beast.

“But I need to figure out why you’re so gluttonous and yet so picky about your food in this place.”

(Flint)

Lenok said, leaving the egg that was trembling in surprise.

“At first, I thought it was because of the influence of Ouroboros and left it alone, but if it was purely because of that, you wouldn’t be picky about your food.”

The Ouroboros magic system that Lenok uses is the power to forcibly decompose and interpret all existing formulas and laws.

If the guardian spirit beast was a being purely born from there, it wouldn’t be strange if it ate everything given to it without discrimination.

That’s why Lenok was planning to investigate the reaction by feeding the guardian spirit beast various things in this place.

He wanted to see what kind of direction the guardian spirit beast had.

(Rattling, rattling)

The egg, which had understood Lenok’s words, began to tremble all over its body on the spot.

It was as if it was trembling in fear of what Lenok was about to feed it.

[Phew, you should have done that sooner.]

Davi, who had jumped out of Lenok’s arms, climbed onto the eggshell with a smug expression.

(……!!)

The guardian spirit beast, which had belatedly recognized Davi’s existence, jumped up and spun around on the spot.

Davi, who was somehow balancing on the rotating eggshell with his five tails, said triumphantly.

[If you knew how blessed you were to be born under such a master, you should quickly explain what you can do, right?]

(……?!)

[You’re good at fighting, you can be a shield, you can be carried around, you have to show your strengths right away!]

Davi said step by step to the egg, which was confused and didn’t know what was going on.

[Ah, but you can’t manipulate cyberspace. There’s already an expert for that.]

“……”

Davi, who was suddenly grabbing the egg and teaching it one by one.

Looking at the way he was spewing out words, it seemed that he had been preparing for it in his heart.

Lenok, who was looking at Davi with a dumbfounded expression, shook his head and took out several items from his arms.

Various high-grade catalysts used in the production of elixirs.

Herbs and edible mushrooms used in Lenok’s cigarette production.

Potions and elixirs that were sold at high prices on the market.

Snacks exclusively for spirits that were given to undergraduates during the attack on the Monster God Palace.

Disposable consumable artifacts that had recently come in under the name of the magic tower, but under Lenok’s name.

Just by taking out the items that had been shrunk and stored, one side of the main hall was filled.

(……!!!)

The guardian spirit beast, which had been bewildered by the existence of Davi on the shell, belatedly saw all the items that Lenok had spread out and jumped excitedly, while.

Lenok slowly loosened his body and straightened his back.

“If you don’t eat snacks or food, let’s experiment with some special foods from now on. Are you ready?”

In Lenok’s hand, which had turned to face the guardian spirit beast, was a diluted elixir that was shining with a golden light.