The Cursed Wizard: A Game Made Real

Dylan said that, adjusted his mask, and started walking briskly. 

As he followed him, Leo realized anew how rare a profession being a wizard was.

It is a rare and fatal talent to be able to handle magic well enough to give your contact information to a wizard you just met today, whose background and skills you don't know, without hesitation.

The two men arrived near the manufacturing plant and slowly walked around the factory grounds to check the situation.

There weren't many security guards inside the factory, but they all had the number '888' tattooed on their left chests.

"Triple Eight. They hire the worst guys out of all the security companies. They're known as thugs who only hire guys with criminal records and who will do anything for money…"

Dylan said, gritted his teeth.

"I won't feel guilty even if I accidentally kill one or two of them."

"It's not that the vigilance is that high."

Although they are well-armed with machine guns, bulletproof vests, and various auxiliary weapons, the security posture itself is not very strict.

It was so obvious that they were killing time by keeping a reasonable distance from each other.

"Who would be crazy enough to mess with a company like Charlotte? Since it's a business that even the city government is involved in, they think everyone will know what to do. If it hadn't been arranged by Balitz, I wouldn't have even looked at it."

"Are you saying that it would be different if Balitz got involved?"

"We're just messengers in the fight between corporations. If Charlotte finds out it's Balitz's doing, she won't care who we are."

Leo tried to remember every word Dylan muttered, flowing out of his mouth.

"Then shall we begin? Do you think it's okay if I don't cover my face? No matter what, there's no need to reveal your personal information so openly."

"hmm…"

Now that I look at it, there isn't a single part of Dylan's outfit that shows any skin.

Is he just trying to hide his identity, or is he hiding something more?

Dylan's concerns were valid, but Leo had no fear of his identity being revealed.

From the beginning, this face and the name Ban were artificially created to work here.

Furthermore, ever since his magical pattern was discovered by an unknown woman at the market, Leo has been changing his magical pattern slightly every time he uses magic to eliminate the possibility of being caught.

Even if things go wrong and Ban is tracked down, Leo can simply change the face of his disguise and start working under a new identity.

"No problem. Let's start."

"No, I can't do it. If your face is revealed and you track me down, I won't be able to get caught."

"What do you want me to do?"

"Try this,"

As Dylan spoke, he took out another mask similar to the one he was wearing from a small bag at his side.

Although the colours weren't flashy, it wouldn't have been strange to see them as a group of professional wrestlers because of the various patterns they had on them.

"… … .."

"hurry."

Leo, who had no choice but to accept it, turned his mask over with an uneasy expression.

It was fortunate that the nose and mouth areas were wide open, otherwise I might have had to endure the unpleasant feeling of my face being squeezed all the time.

"Okay! Then I'll start first. Follow me."

As he said that, Dylan kicked off the ground and started running in the direction of the back gate of the factory.

Doo doo doo doo!!

Even at first glance, the footwork is unusual. Rather than maintaining a constant high speed, it is so threatening that it seems as if they are accelerating while running.

Clearly surpassing the strength of an ordinary human being.

A warrior who strengthens his body with magic and wields martial arts. This type of person also existed in the world of WOLRD.

Leo stood a distance away, holding a cigarette in his mouth and lighting the flame between his fingers.

"Use it-"

Inhale every last bit of smoke until your head feels dizzy, catch your breath, and feel a slight surge of energy and a firmer center.

My body and mind woke up with a familiar sensation, the accumulated fatigue slowly fading away.

Feeling keenly the effects of the disposable ointment he had bought for 70,000 cells, Leo began to run very carefully after Dylan.

Meanwhile, Dylan dashed towards the two guards guarding the back door like lightning.

Phew!

He uses the momentum he was accelerating to grab one of the guards' necks with his elbow and falls over.

Before the guard's eyes could even roll back, unable to resist and having to slam his head to the ground, he spun around and hit another guard in the chin with his heel.

Crunch! Crunch!

"First of all, those two."

Dylan got up and ran towards the back gate of the factory between the two security guards who fell like powerless chopsticks.

Intrusion

Leo looked at the sight and turned in a completely different direction from Dylan.

'The plan made at the bar was basically a diversionary operation.'

While Dylan was drawing attention by infiltrating through the relatively weakly defended back gate of the factory, Lennox entered through a warehouse located some distance from the back gate.

The warehouse, which receives products produced throughout the three-story manufacturing plant and loads them onto trucks, is, conversely, directly connected to all floors of the factory.

Because of Dylan's disturbance, all the employees waiting in the warehouse had headed in that direction, and apart from three large trucks, there was no one inside the warehouse.

Leo took the laser cutter out of his arms and pressed both buttons.

Jiiing!

As I thrust the cutter, which was shooting out blue flames, into the locked door handle of the management office inside the warehouse, the door handle melted in an instant.

Leo kicked open the door and stepped inside, extending one hand toward the fierce-looking security guard who was looking at him with a startled expression.

[Nature Sleep]

"Who..!!..Eeeeeee.."

The employee, who was screaming with a terrified face and pulling out a gun from his waistband, suddenly fell to the ground with his head on the chair.

Magic that interferes with the mind or body in this way does not work well on opponents with magical powers, but on the other hand, it is extremely effective in subduing ordinary people who do not have any magical powers.

He moved the five strands of magical power that stretched between his fingers, attaching them to the staff's limbs.

[Marionette]

The unconscious worker's body began to walk out of the factory, limp and limp like a doll with its strings cut off.

If you go with the unique magic system and manual operation series, you can do more complicated things than this, but the [Marionette] used in common magic has its limit in making an unconscious person walk.

But this was enough. It was better than leaving this factory, which might explode at any moment, feeling uneasy.

As you enter the passageway inside the management office, you will see a staircase at the end of a somewhat dirty hallway.

Leo's face became slightly blurred at the somehow familiar scenery.

The image of the shabby factory he first opened his eyes to was still vivid in his memory. If he hadn't made up his mind to escape and started moving as soon as he opened his eyes, he might have died of exhaustion.

In extreme situations, life and death can be separated by a thin line.

Leo's times are much better now than they were then, but he still can't rest on his laurels.

I just have to do my best every moment I breathe to survive in this unknown world.

I shook off my thoughts and moved.

The operations management office, which oversees all of the factory's systems, is on the third floor.

But Lennox didn't hesitate a moment and ran down the stairs.

Doo doo doo doo!!

The sound of gunfire from afar. The security guards began to take action to repel the intruders.

"Eww!!"

You can even vividly hear the production workers in the factory running outside in panic.

It's not a bad thing. Unlike Triple Eight, there was no reason for the workers working here to be caught up in the explosion.

I had to finish the work while Dylan was stalling for time.

As we descend into the factory basement, the stuffy air disappears and a cool breeze passes through our bodies.

A server room stored underground. The power supply room designated to manage the system is air-conditioned to prevent overheating.

And the heating and cooling facilities that manage such cooling are also located right here in the basement.

Dozens of gas pipes snake their way up the walls of the basement.

Open all the valves on each pipe.

Cheeeeek!!

One, two, three… When one or two valves were opened, there was no sign of it, but when dozens of valves were completely opened, the sound of gas leaking could be heard clearly.

Normally, gas leaks would not occur simply by opening all the valves.

It is normal for gas shutoff devices to be installed in double or triple layers to prevent such safety accidents.

However, the manufacturing plant was only recently built and had been put into operation without a proper safety inspection due to the city government's urging. Also, the Charlotte company was not one to spend a lot of money on such on-site safety, so this was possible.

And the one who compiled all this information and passed it on was none other than the Balitz Corporation, not Jenny or Dylan.

'You even specify in detail how to proceed with the work… You're incredibly picky.'

Jenny brought the factory blueprints and gave them the plan because that's what Balitz wanted.

Jenny, who asked about the work that such a company did, is capable,

Now that the gas is out, all that's left is to light the flame.

Leo placed his palms on the cold basement floor and immediately used his magic.

[Ignite]

A very basic ignition spell. This is the spell that Lennox often uses to light a fire at the beginning of a cigarette.

But this time, rather than lighting a fire between my fingers, I had to do it in a different way.

There was a time when Lennox neglected his studies for a while due to his pride in having almost all of the common magic available.

However, after meeting the girl at the greengrocer, he found a new breakthrough and tried to modify and apply the magic he already knew, and recently achieved results.

Swish..!!

The magic imprinted in your mind is released in a formulaic, standardized way.

Through dozens of experiments over the years, Leo was fully aware of how ridiculous his own talents were.

Beyond using and applying magic, you naturally reach out to unknown knowledge and throw yourself into uncharted waters.

Creativity stat 30 that was created when creating a character. Intelligence that has reached a threshold that can be called talent bears fruit.

Phaaaat!!

Leo's right hand glowed brightly, and a small circle was drawn around the magical power he was drawing, and unknown shapes began to fill it up.

Beyond being able to use magic without magic circles or water seals, he began to draw new magic circles that he had never known before, just by chanting.

Inside the circular magic circle, shapes and symbols that even Leo did not fully understand were arranged, and just before the two ends of the fence surrounding that world were about to snap, Leo withdrew his magic power.

He withdrew his hand just before the magic circle was completed.

"… … ."

There's no point in completing Ignite's magic circle right now and creating flames.

To blow up a factory, the basement must be filled with enough gas before ignition is performed.

And Leo already knew how to perfect his magic over time.

Although no one taught him, countless variations and applications were running through Leo's head.

Beyond maintaining and following a systematized order, it opens up new terrain and draws yet another law on top of it.

It is about bending the framework of public magic to its limits to create new tools.

'Of course, even if we do this, it will be difficult to completely catch up with the expertise of unique magic…'

At least you can follow it similarly.

The timer is 5 minutes.

Five minutes later, the completed ignition magic circle activates in the middle of the basement, and the factory is destroyed from the ground up.

If you can get Dylan out of the factory before then, you two will split the 50 million cells in succession bonus.

Leo emerged from the basement with another cigarette in his mouth.

The moment I was about to push myself into the manufacturing room on the first floor of the factory to find Dylan.

BANG!!!

A shock wave swept across the area with a loud roar.

Leo's body fell backwards from the completely unexpected shock.

Even though the back of my head was torn to pieces and I was cold, I quickly rolled my head.

'Explosion? Did the basement explode already?'

Leo suspected the magic circle carved into the basement floor, but quickly dismissed the possibility.

The magic he created was perfect, and if the server room exploded, the entire factory premise should have collapsed. It couldn't end like this.

There was only one possibility left. It was clear that something had happened inside the factory where Dylan was.

The shock does not come all at once, but slowly and with a weak intensity.

Leo slowly opened the door to the first floor, listening to the eerie sounds coming from inside.

BAM! KWAANG!!

The moment you stick your head inside the manufacturing room and look around, the first thing you see is gunfire filling the air.

Bullets flying in with flashes of light from all directions and the acrid smoke rising with them covered the entire first floor of the factory.

And in the midst of that storm of ammo, Dylan was dancing like crazy.

He flies his body, switching between the swords, spears, and daggers hanging from his body without warning, and cuts down the security guards.

The movements of a superhuman whose body was strengthened using magic power were not something that the employees standing around with a gun could counter.

Even to Leo, who had no knowledge of actual combat techniques, Dylan's movements were fluid, and he would often disappear into the hail of gunfire and reappear behind his opponent.

The magical power that was actively moving and circling around his body was often concentrated on the weapon in his hand, causing it to glow blue, and at that moment, along with the strong shock wave that Leo had felt earlier, the staff members were knocked out from all directions.