“You lot just came in time.”The old man, Baji lowered his cap after seeing the two unknown figures come to Cian's aid. “Baji Shiranui.”Leonis uttered the old man's name under his breath. He was a recognizable figure in the underworld. A man with a pure skill that was considered the most skilled out of them all.To think that he was here, fighting someone. “Well, my work here is done. You were able to survive for 20 minutes, so I'll let you go for now.”Holding his revolver inside his coat, Baji began to step back as Leonis tried to run after him. However, Cian would yank him back by the arm. “N-Nah, man. Following that guy would be a bad idea.”Looking at Cian, his body was badly wounded. There were a few bullet wounds in his arm and legs with a few cuts on his torso. It seemed like he was able to dodge bullets away from his vital organs as Leonis observed them. “Y-You're badly wounded. Wait, I'll try to see if I have some potion here——”Sabrine rushed to take her digitalizer a
———In the rundown office of the famous and strong detective, Leonis Ren sat in contemplation as he looked at a holographic screen.[You have 1 million CCs in debt to ****]Looking at his credit debt using his digitalizer, Leonis racked back and forth in his chair, expressing his frustration.“Not only I am broke, but I am also in great debt. If I don't catch a big one next week, I'll be damned.”He laughed out of his misery, almost looking like a man who had lost his mind. “I told you to loan for stuff like renovating your office, not hiring mercenaries, and being ripped off in the first meeting!”Sitting across the room was Warren who held a laptop, searching for any bounties that would be worth the risk.In that list, Warren found not only Magi but also Cian, skipping them as they were only worth half a million both. Fighting his mercenaries is a dumb idea when he already paid them.[Bounty List][1. Dokuji Chio: 1,000,000,0002. Sumire: 900,000,0003. Rosa Kuro: 800,000,0004. Tor
——By the next morning, the cure for Teresa was done. It was read to be applied and all, but the method was indeed something that they couldn't wrap around their finger. The patient's heart needed to step for 5 minutes, and like a resurrection potion, it would be drinking and surging around their blood to cure the disease. Simulations and tests have been running by Magi until morning. Everything failed but it was because all of them didn't have the variable of having the disease and only one subject that had it was cured of it.“All of you are cowards. If I die, I die. Deal with it already you brats.”All of them stood before Teresa who just woke up, clearly annoyed cause they were looking at her with completely stern faces.Even Cian seemed to be thinking when in reality, he was trying to understand why. “This potion might stop your heart, Teresa. It's something serious.”Magi explains to her calmly. His eyes switched from the glowing potion to Teresa who looked at him unamused.“
——As the next day came in Newyark, the bustling communities of the borderland city were active after the sudden decrease in criminal activities in the place. Alleyways were cleaned and there came fewer fights and hooligans that had claimed they were from such organizations. It was morning as people claimed peace finally dawned on Newyark, an anarchic city that claimed that there was no need for governments. They claimed that they reached peace on their own. ***“I'm in position. Do you copy, Cian.”“Y-Yes. Are we seriously going to talk like this?”Over the line, Magi spoke to Cian using their earpiece. Magi had stood above a high vantage point atop a building that was several miles away from the compound. Instead of his custom pistol, his Grant, Magi had used a high-velocity magic sniper rifle. It was something he was finally able to buy with the money he got from Leonis.Not only that, but using the money, Magi brought enough food and sent all the children to Bahamut's compoun
***In Areia, different mages are divided into clans and lands that were called Magistrates or Magistry. Out of six of them, only two were dominant in the past years. With the exclusion of Technological Magistry, the Elemental and Unique Magistry were the dominant clans in the land of Areia.With borderlands being mixed in with both remnants of non-mages and mages, Grants had allowed them both to stand on equal power in such anarchic lands. It was where most non-mages would survive and risk their lives than kissing the feet of those who were dominant in magic.However, between the two types of magic, Unique Magic is magic that isn't limited to the sub-elements but is as its name implies. It was unique, and thus, therefore, has no limits in having discoveries of new abilities. But not all Unique Magic was powerful. They would be either useful or useless in combat, and some would be completely trash even with daily use.It was exactly why Unique Mages are seen as people of mystery a
Following the events of hunting Izumi Riku, Leonis was able to at least haggle around with Magi and increase his cut to around 2 million to lift him off of his debts.He provided the information and did help them out a little, but Magi had thought that even without his help, they could both take down Izumi. Yet, Magi only agreed as a way to pay his debt of saving Cian from Baji. As they part ways, for now, Leonis went back to his office to go back at the recording of the bugs they've planted in the twins. It involved acquiring Unique Magic despite having Elemental Magic, and that had caught Leonis' attention. The twins didn't inform Leonis about it and so, it only meant that they didn't trust him with such information or that they plan to acquire it as well.Seeing Izumi Riku wield such powerful Unique Magic was more than enough evidence that it was true and that it could change the balance between all the clans. It was unbelievable knowledge, and the one who created it remained
“Violet. Begin a wide search on the files you copied. Keywords: Unique Magic.”[Processing Search. This will take a while so you should go do something productive while I look everything up.]On the central console in Bahamut's living room, Magi had begun his quest to look for the truth about Izumi's origin of power. He was completely restless as the rest of the group huddled up in a corner, watching Magi begin his work.“I know that it could be dangerous but, why does he feel like he is just burdened with the whole responsibility of it? If push comes to shove, we can just get out of here with the remaining money have left.”Although Bahamut had agreed to help Magi, seeing as how desperate he was made the think that he might not be thinking rationally. “Yeah. He isn't like this. He wouldn't care about anything except for gaining money. He would never do something like that without gaining anything from it.”Even Cian agreed with Bahamut's sentiment, but Sabrine who was supposedly th
***——Locked away in a dark room, Magi was left with nothing but tied hands and feet. He couldn't see anything at this instance, but he could feel that this room had nothing but walls and a bit of breeze that came from somewhere. The bottom of the door had a faint light escape through as Magi quickly crawled to it, breathing in the cold air that came through. This room was closed, and there was no proper ventilation. It was hard to breathe inside and so he decided to breathe in intervals. “Damn it. How did it come to this?”A few moments earlier, after Magi had shown the woman Violet's AI, he had thought that he could convince her but soon enough after that, he was stripped of his weapon and Digitalizer. Sumire, the boss of the Violet Hex, took away the digitalizer where Violet spoke along with Bahamut, all the while leaving Magi in the hands of her men as they told them to bring them. Magi was blindfolded, and as he attempted to use magic, he could feel interference around the