The Eternal Bet 3 (Part 1)

Ian raised his hand.

Of course, he wasn't surrendering.

Rather, the power of rules pulsed at his fingertips.

Of course.

The Muggles definitely couldn't sense any of this.

They only saw—

On this street—

Ian stretched his right hand flat before him, fingers spread. The gesture made all the police officers and soldiers even more tense, and the warnings blaring from the loudspeakers grew more urgent.

"Don't move! Put your hand down!"

They looked as though they might open fire at any moment.

They were tense beyond measure.

Those surrounding someone were even more jumpy than the person being surrounded. Honestly, it was rather surreal—though it wasn't hard to understand why things had turned out this way.

To the police officers—

They believed they were facing a superpowered individual. Here in the West, fear of superpowered people was deeply rooted in the film and television culture that had risen to prominence in recent years.

Police officers watched movies and television too.

So when something this absurd appeared in real life, plots from those films and shows naturally surfaced in their minds, making them feel nervous and afraid.

After all, anyone who had watched a movie or two knew that in scenes like this, police officers were always cannon fodder, there to be taken out by superpowered people one after another.

When such a scenario happened to them personally, combined with humanity's innate imagination, it was hard to say anyone wouldn't panic. Even police officers who were usually brave were no exception.

No matter how experienced they were in their profession, they had never encountered a case like this before. As for the military personnel, beyond the psychological pressure caused by the situation—

They knew more than the police did.

They knew the truth: the troublemaker was actually a wizard—though he