Chapter 375 - 177: Lemondaff

Before leaving the room, Elise even gave her a wink, as if to say, ’Don’t be afraid, Little Koni. I’ll protect you.’

Koni’s worries vanished in an instant.

Nothing in the world felt safer than being protected by a Grand Mage.

...

「The next morning.」

Sean and his group had a simple breakfast, then met up with Genduo and Konina to head to Ivan Pharmaceutical together.

"You’ll regret this!" Hobbs said with a grim face, escorted by Sopea.

Dragging him along to the "battlefield" as a captive was a profound humiliation. To an outsider, it would look like he was a collaborator guiding the enemy.

"Shut your mouth." Yisha cast a Night Silence Technique, sealing Hobbs’s lips. She snorted in disgust. "You’re at death’s door and still have so much to say."

Hobbs: "MMPH! MMPH!"

Yisha: "Are you trying to say we’re walking to our deaths?"

Hobbs: "MMPH!"

"Then you’re in for a disappointment," Yisha said, smiling like a little demon. "Soon, you’ll see the Kovloki Family—the one you’re so proud of, the one you think will save you—collapse story by story like a skyscraper in a magnitude-ten earthquake. It will bury you and everyone in your family, and you’ll never see the light of day again."

Hobbs: "MMPH!"

Sean listened, wondering for a moment if he had ever actually taught the girl himself.

’This nasty personality of hers...’

’How is it so much like mine?’

Sopea, meanwhile, was staring at the note that warned them to run.

He hadn’t been there last night. By the time Koni told him what happened, Sean and the others were already resting, and he didn’t want to disturb them.

If he were to spoil Lord Blake’s fun, he couldn’t afford the consequences.

So it wasn’t until this morning that he finally saw the note.

Then, just like Koni, he found the handwriting familiar but couldn’t quite place it.

The main issue was, none of them knew anyone in Sonaros State. Who would be "kind" enough to warn them not to go to Ivan Pharmaceutical?

"If you can’t figure it out, don’t dwell on it, Solang," Lante said with a smile, handing him a vial of Magic Potion. "Here, drink this."

Sopea: "..."

"These are for the rest of you," Lante said, pulling vials from a custom-made travel case, one after another.

Elise took one and glanced at the test tube. The label was blank.

"It’s not a Witch Potion?"

"No," Lante said. "It’s for accelerating Magic Power recovery and wound healing."

This isn’t Siracle State; there’s no need to alter our appearances. Giving everyone combat-oriented Magic Potions was the right call.

There are many kinds of Magic Potions. Due to their ingredients, quite a few of them cannot be mixed. For example, Witch Potion and the Holy Healing Potion they were now using were incompatible. Taking them together would lead to extremely dire consequences, like being unable to revert from a transformed body. During the Era of Polymath, this was a form of punishment often used on sex offenders.

"Huh? Mixing these two Magic Potions has that effect?"

Yisha’s smile turned deceptively sweet as she looked at Hobbs, who was still in the expensive suit he’d been wearing for days. "Why don’t we give him a dose?"

Hobbs: "MMPH!"

Yisha: "What was that? You agree?"

Hobbs’s eyes widened: "MMPH! MMPH!"

Yisha: "Oh? You’re saying one dose isn’t enough, you want two?"

Hobbs: "???"

Koni, who was standing nearby, was doubled over in laughter.

Even Elise couldn’t help but chuckle. "Alright, Yisha, stop teasing him. Don’t scare him into passing out. We’ll need his face for the scanner later."

This time they weren’t meeting outside Ivan Pharmaceutical, but inside.

As the largest pharmaceutical production complex in the area, Ivan Pharmaceutical was bound to have a sophisticated security system. To avoid unnecessary complications, they planned to use Hobbs’s face as their access pass.

As for how Lemondaff and the others would get in...

That wasn’t their problem to worry about.

’If they can’t even sneak past the main gate, what kind of Wizards are they?’

’They might as well go get a factory job.’

"Sean, we’re here..."

Genduo, who was driving, whispered, his voice laced with tension.

The car had now reached the main gate, where two security guards blocked their path, motioning for the car to stop.

"Roll down the window. It’s your cue," Sean said to Hobbs.

Yisha raised her hand and snapped her fingers, undoing the seal on Hobbs’s mouth.

’This is my chance!’ Hobbs thought. He decisively lowered the window, intending to shout for help.

Little did he know, Sopea had already anticipated this.

The moment he opened his mouth to speak,

Sopea’s eyes turned pitch-black, and he began to speak as well.

The voice was Hobbs’s own, but the words were Sopea’s.

Their lips moved in perfect sync as they both said:

"It’s me. I’m bringing a few out-of-town friends to tour the pharmaceutical plant."

Seeing a superior, the guard immediately broke into a sycophantic grin. "Oh, Mr. Hobbs! Are you here to discuss business?"

Hobbs’s expression turned cold. "Don’t ask questions you shouldn’t."

"Y-yes, sir." ’Mr. Hobbs seems to be in a bad mood today,’ the guard thought, not daring to press further. He quickly signaled his colleague behind him to raise the barrier. "It’s Mr. Hobbs. Let them through."

Hobbs: "??!"

’Let them through my ass!’

’He’d clearly been shouting that he was kidnapped and to get help!’

’Damn this Mind Magic! How the hell can it even control my actions?!’

"I knew this old geezer wouldn’t behave," Yisha said with an I-told-you-so look.

Sean chuckled. "Not a big deal."

This was also one of the reasons why he chose to kill Midi instead of Hobbs a few days ago.

Compared to the Tier Six Midi, the Tier Five Hobbs was undoubtedly easier to control.

That was the nature of Mind Magic. It wasn’t very effective against a prepared enemy of the same Tier, but it worked wonders on enemies of a lower Tier. Once you fell into the hands of a Wizard who could use Mind Magic, you essentially ceased to be your own master.