Drug-Eating Genius Mage

Chapter 72

A dark basement.

A bleak corner of a room where rusty water drips from the ceiling and blows on it, creaking hinges.

Inside, Lennok and Hina stared blankly at a man who was tied up and moaning.

“What about Eveline?”

“......Are you calling the team leader like a friend? Your liver is too big.”

Hina shook her head as if it was absurd.

“By now you must be busy playing head-to-head tug-of-war with the city council. It’s reducing our authority. Even so, if the budget is cut, there will be no answer.”

“Is that part not agreed upon in advance? I don’t understand that as it is.”

“Because even a mere bastard will go mad after realizing that his position is dangerous.”

To sum up, does it mean that Reisen, who realized that the agent’s movements are suspicious, is struggling to arbitrarily reduce the agent’s budget?

Hina’s remarks were a little more exaggerated than Lennok’s, but it was enough to understand that she had some kind of grudge against Reisen.

Instead of digging into the details of the situation, Lennok immediately turned his attention to the landscape in front of him.

“So what is that friend going to do now?”

The operation that took place at the Trade Center.

Sitting there is a shock-type mage that Lennok himself captured at the time.

Knocked it out and handed it over to the agent, then forgot about it, but didn’t seem to kill it yet.

“All preparations for the operation are complete. All that remains is to assemble the team members hired by us to the operation site.”

Hina calmly replied.

“I just want to get notarized by that wizard one last time.”

“This requires cross-validation.”

“yes. So far, I’ve beaten various interrogations, but my mental barrier is pretty solid, probably because I’m a wizard with some skill. There won’t be a big problem if you kill it right away... but I think it’d be better to relieve the awkwardness as much as possible before going.”

“Hmm...”

It’s not that I can’t understand that way of thinking.

Lennok was also quite accustomed to the way he handled work, wanting to leave no doubts while carrying out a life-threatening task.

It was just that a woman named Hina Oneil seemed to be openly expressing what she thought of Lennok, so I laughed a lot.

He responded by getting up from his chair.

“good. It’s only going to go through this once.”

“........yes?”

The hounds of the city government would have well over a dozen torture technicians under their command, but does it make sense that one level 4 wizard couldn’t open his mouth?

Hina now suspects that Lennok is colluding with a terrorist organization because of the fact that he kept the wizard alive.

In a way to see if he can directly interrogate that mage or not.

He slowly raised his mana and looked down at her.

The deep blue eyes that pierced the dark room and scanned her entire body.

“Ibelin, who hired me directly, wouldn’t do something like this, so this must mean that it’s their own opinion. I can understand.”

“I don’t know what you mean...”

“But if you doubt me one more time, the deal is over.”

Of course, the reason Lennok agreed to collaborate with the agent was to borrow their power to find Craig.

However, on the surface, the reason Lennok cooperated with Ibelin was that he owed her his life in part. Not for the grandiose organization of agents.

If Hina Oneil had been properly aware of Lennok’s superficial circumstances, she would not have done this.

Considering her ignorance, I move once as she intended.

That was all.

Lennok turned his head after confirming that Hina was avoiding her gaze with a clearly withered expression.

Taking out a cigarette, I kick open the door of the alcove and step inside.

Quaang!!

I’m blindfolded and my limbs tied to a chair, but that doesn’t mean I can’t hear the noise.

Hearing the annoying sound, the magician’s movements changed violently, but there was no resistance.

“Hehehehe...!! Kill!!”

“.........”

What we need to see is not the wizard’s cynical reply, but those eyes desperately trying to accept death.

Lennok nodded after confirming that the strong determination in his gaze was not a lie.

This is certain.

These wizards have no idea that the cryptographic keys they stole are fake.

There’s nothing wrong with the operation.

He exchanged glances with Hina and sighed.

“Whoa... yes.”

ineffective persistence.

But Lennok understood his decision.

He doesn’t know what kind of life the wizard in front of him has lived.

The magician’s strong mental strength, cheerfulness, and sincerity in not losing his attitude towards life even in the face of death may be possible because he belonged to a terrorist organization.

Although Lennok could accept that there was such a life and such a value.

I had no intention of being respected.

Woooo!!

He raised his mana to the limit and shoved it into the drooping wizard’s mouth.

As the powerful stems of magical power that had not lost their roots penetrated deeply into the wizard’s body, his blood-stained face trembled.

He seized the source of the magical power flowing through his body and twisted it.

Indeed, it’s been a long time since I’ve used magic interference.

It is also an interference applied when two streams are in contact at the same time.

The powerful mana manipulation ability raised through steady research and the far-high mana sensitivity react at the same time, instantly putting all the mana possessed by the wizard into Lennok’s hands.

If you think about it in theory, it is practically the same as holding a person’s entire existence in your hands.

Apart from the growth of the magic that Lennok handles, his magic manipulation ability gradually expands toward a state that he cannot understand himself.

A vague conviction that you can distinguish what you can and cannot do. And a faint belief that there are more and more things that can be done.

The dominance that was growing based on Cheongo’s talent was now entangled with the roots of wizards of a similar level to him.

“Keugeo Eok...”

The magical power to exist as a wizard was completely taken over.

It’s probably the feeling of being in someone’s hands from head to toe.

The wizard’s face widened his eyes, unable to believe what had happened to him.

Lennok said quietly, looking down at the look on Lennok’s face as he searched for it even as it was out of focus.

“Tell me if you’ve lied to me since you entered this room.”

“.........”

“Now.”

momentary silence.

And the flame of life that burns wide the moment death is on the threshold.

The wizard looked up at Lennok’s face with a clearer gaze than ever before and nodded slowly.

“This was... magic.”

“......”

“Oh Master...”

Lennok closed his eyes.

Kwajik!!

The shadow trembles and another life dies in Lennok’s hands.

After trimming the hem of his coat, Lennok said to Hina as he left the room.

“The next contact will be made after the rendezvous point has been decided.”

“....of course.”