City of Red,

Police Headquarters,

Inside the dark and dreary prison cell, a silhouette sleeps on the ground. This particular prison cell is heavily fortified and dark. Leon Willy, a wanted criminal and level 4 Mucus Wizard, is the prisoner. Suddenly his body begins to tremble. Leon Willy’s current health situation is deteriorating.

As time passes, his body returns to normal. His trembling stopped. Then Leon Willy abruptly opened his eyes. He couldn’t see anything through the pitch blackness. But, thanks to his level-4 mental strength, he is completely aware of his surroundings. Finally, he tried to probe grade-5 rune-inscribed handcuffs with his mental strength.

When his mind touched the metallic handcuff that bound both of his wrists, he felt an immediate backlash. As the time passed, He couldn’t handle the constant backlash. As a result, he eventually abandoned his probe attempt. Then there was

PFFF.

He spit blood out of his mouth. As he felt agonizing pain, his eyes became enraged. He’s not unfamiliar with graded artifacts; he worked on a few himself. Regardless of the grade of the artifact? It will contain flaws. As long as he can exploit those flaws, he can gradually weaken the artifact’s functionality.

At this point, Leon Willy reverted to his former scholarly self. His mind raced to come up with a solution. However, as time passed, his every attempt to explore information was met with a severe backlash.

SIGH

When he realized his current situation, he let out a small sigh. Then, using his mental strength, he began to probe his body. His mind scans his internal organs, bones, tissues, and blood before focusing on the most important part of his body, the heart. Specifically, the level-4 mana core that formed within the heart region. 𝒷𝒹𝓸𝓿𝓁.𝒸ℴ𝓶

He let out a sigh of relief. Then a worried expression appeared in his eyes. He recalled something as he muttered to himself, “Blood Rejuvenating Potion.” After carefully inspecting the mana core, he checks his blood circulation, which is the source of his problem.

Leon Willy is aware that the entire world believes he carried out a successful forbidden experiment. To some extent, this is correct; however, he also experienced a corresponding side effect as a result of this.

His blood was tainted as a result of the forbidden experiment. He made an exclusive blood rejuvenating potion for himself to compensate for the side effect. To ensure proper blood circulation in his body, he must consume the blood rejuvenating potion once a week.

Otherwise, the side effect will eventually affect the functioning of his body parts, including his mana core. He does not have to be killed by the police wizards. If he does not consume the potion, he will die as a result of the side effects. Except for himself, no one knows about this.

But now that he’s been apprehended, he won’t be able to consume the potion. While the symptoms have already begun to manifest, it will only be a matter of time before the side effects worsen. At this point, a thought occurred to him: it is preferable to die of side effects than to die at the hands of police wizards.

He is a dark wizard in his own right. He knows what will happen once he dies here. “Harrumph!” he snorted. He is aware that his body will be dissected and his practices will be investigated.

Surprisingly, a small smile appeared on his lips. The side effects, on the other hand, will completely dissolve his body when it comes into contact with any foreign object. Even if some people try to investigate his body, they will hit a dead end.

Various ideas cross his mind. Leon Willy recalls how he got here.

“That old @rd purposefully avoided engaging in close combat,” Leon Willy reflected.

He is certain that his mucus magic is lethal enough to harm any level-5 wizard. The trick, however, is in close combat. As long as the level-5 wizard engages in close combat with him, he is certain to kill him by inflicting deadly poison on him.

But Wizard Billy was astute enough to recognize this and purposefully distanced himself from him. Wizard Billy avoided his spell-casting range by relying solely on flight ability.

He clenched his teeth in rage. Leon Willy realized at this point that he had underestimated his opponent’s cunning level. He would have devised a different plan if he had known Billy Woods was such a cunning old fox.

But it’s too late to change anything; he fell into his opponent’s trap. He suddenly realizes something. At first, Wizard Billy’s unexpected arrival in Bell-Brook City did not raise any concerns. But now, in this dark prison cell, he has some alone time.

His mind continues to replay the events of the past. Something seems off about it, “Did someone sabotage me?” he grumbled.

Leon realizes that the old fox Billy has come to Bell Brook City to find him. And when he found Tyler Dixon’s team members, he wanted to kill them, but he unwittingly fell into their trap. He shouldn’t have left his hiding place?

However, someone gave that police wizard his information. Leon Willy began to think about it seriously. The location of the poison dagger was only known to one person. “Killian?” he thought to himself.

Leon does not believe Killian will act against him. “At the same time, Killian acknowledges that my mere presence is the most effective deterrent to police wizards,” Leon said to himself.

So Killian wasn’t stupid enough to shoot himself in the foot. “Who could it be then?” Leon Willy muttered to himself. The image of a specific person then flashes before his eyes. “Xavier Harper,” he said. But they are not at odds, and he believes the other person is not in this country.

Then, whenever he recalls recent events, his heart swells with rage.

AAAHHHHH

In frustration, he screamed aloud.

But then a terrible pressure locked onto him from the outside. Leon Willy’s face had turned pale with fear.

BOOM the next second.

His body was smashed up against the prison wall. The devastating blow knocked him out. Before his mind went blank, he heard a snorting sound from outside.

…

(From MC’s Perspective)

“No’s-1-Brown Rabbit’s crystal gem – ordinary quality, 500 alliance points”

“Boars’ crystal gem”-no’s 2-ordinary quality, 400 alliance points each, total-800″

“Four-horned sheep’s crystal gem”-no’s 1-ordinary quality, 500 alliance points”

“Total Value: 1800 alliance points,” the female employee said one at a time.

After saying that she proceeded with the banking process, she added, “Here, I’m going to transfer the amount to your bank account.”

When I heard that, I nodded and turned my gaze to the projection screen. I retracted my gaze and turned towards her after confirming the transfer amount.

“Well, thank you for your assistance. I’ll see you next time,” I said. After that, I walked out of the building. My communication watch lit up with a notification at the same time. Without even looking at it, I knew it was from the bank.

After finally leaving the building, I double-checked my balance. A small smile appeared on my face when I saw the 1800 number in my bank account. This money was earned solely through the sale of crystal gems.

I’m curious what I can gain by selling those corpses. That requires me to find a suitable buyer. I immediately began looking for a suitable restaurant nearby. Some restaurants used to buy monster bodies as a whole.

Then they will handle whatever process is required to create mana meat from it. I didn’t find any good answers after a few minutes of searching. Then, all of a sudden, one post drew my attention.

DELICIOUS BUD RESTAURANT is in desperate need of a first-order monster body of any kind.

Please note: the price is negotiable.

My lips curved into arcs when I saw the notice. Because this restaurant is within walking distance of here.

Mana meat, as expected, is always in high demand. It’s no surprise that the food industry is thriving. I used the map to find the restaurant’s location.

After confirming the destination, I strolled towards it.

I arrived in front of a medieval-style building a few minutes later. My eyes lit up with surprise as I looked at the building. It appeared to be a hotel rather than a restaurant.

Then my gaze was drawn to the customer entering and exiting the shop. I proceed to enter after retracing my thoughts. I went inside and immediately found the manager.

Then I explained the reason for my visit to him. After hearing that, he led me to the kitchen. I knew the chef would examine the corpse’s condition.

After entering the kitchen area, I waited outside. The manager walked into the room to call the chef.

Soon after, I noticed a large man walking out of the kitchen with the manager. I recognized the fat guy as a chef based on his white coat. On his coat, I noticed an exclusive name badge. “Gilbert!” I muttered to myself.

The chef, on the other hand, looked at the young man with surprise. He’d never done business with such young-looking people before. He then turned to face the manager next to him. Then he found the manager was as surprised as he was.