Wizard Earl

The blue-black crystal ball exploded, and the shockwave gradually dissipated. The twenty-odd evil spirit spiders that survived the explosion spontaneously gathered around their king, the Blood-Patterned Evil Spirit Spider. The Blood-Patterned Evil Spirit Spider, whose two legs had been destroyed by the explosion, stared intently at the instigator of all this, Connor Ferguson, with its small black eyes.

Sensing the venom and hatred in the eyes of this magical beast, which possessed the strength of a full-fledged wizard, even though Connor had mentally prepared himself before attacking, he couldn't help but feel uneasy now that he was actually facing it...

Connor stared at the Blood-Striped Evil Spider for over ten seconds. Just as Connor's intuition gave him a faint feeling that the Blood-Striped Evil Spider was about to launch a surprise attack, he sighed inwardly and prepared to abandon Dezelby and his group and run away. Suddenly, the sun in the sky broke free from the clouds and displayed its light to the earth.

With the sunlight shining on them, the group of evil spiders, including the Blood-Striped Evil Spiders, who lived underground year-round and never saw the sun, were clearly very uncomfortable. It was visible to the naked eye that they began to become restless and agitated.

Seeing this situation, Connor Ferguson, who was just about to run away, was overjoyed. He knew that once the sun came out, he would be out of trouble today!

Compared to Connor's ecstatic joy, the Blood-Striped Evil Spider, after the sun had fully risen, displayed a rather human-like look of dejection in its small black eyes. It glared fiercely at Connor and then let out another shriek.

"Wipe, rub, rub..."

After the shriek, the Blood-Striped Evil Spider turned and crawled back into the cave it had emerged from. Behind it, the ordinary evil spiders dragged the corpses of their dead companions and followed the Blood-Striped Evil Spider back into their cave.

A minute later, as the last evil spider disappeared into the seemingly ordinary pit, Connor could no longer see any evil spiders. Only the blood and traces of the battle on the ground proved what had just happened.

Despite this, Connor remained vigilant, continuously monitoring the movements of the evil spiders underground with his mental power. After two or three minutes, he realized that the evil spiders had gone deep underground, beyond the reach of his mental power. Only then did Connor breathe a sigh of relief and shift his attention to Dezelby and his group of Storm Church Arbitrators.

With the explosion of the crystal ball, the mental attack of the evil spiders could no longer continue. Therefore, Dezerby, who was already at his limit and about to collapse and faint, was very lucky to have survived. As for the Arbitrators, they were not as lucky as Dezerby and were still lying on the ground, not waking up from their coma.

"There are still two hours until dark, so we have to leave in an hour, otherwise these evil spiders might come back!" Connor said in a deep voice to Dezerby, who was taking a potion and recovering.

After finishing his sentence, Connor glanced at the group of arbitrators who had fainted on the ground, frowned slightly, and continued, "On the list I gave you, there are Thomas's Potion and Blue Essence Fruit. In a moment, you will crush the Blue Essence Fruit into a paste, then dissolve it in Thomas's Potion at a ratio of one to three, and give each of them a little. This will effectively alleviate their psychological trauma!"

"I'll be back in about fifty minutes. Hopefully, by then, you and your men will be ready to leave!"

After giving DeZelby his instructions, Connor didn't waste any more words with him. He turned and headed towards the nearby woods.

Seeing Connor about to leave, De Zelby immediately asked, "Connor Ferguson, where are you going?"

Connor ignored DeZelby's question and continued on his way to his goal. As he watched Connor's figure recede into the distance, a complex look appeared in DeZelby's eyes.

Given the situation just now, there is no doubt that without Connor Ferguson's final outburst, he and his arbitrators would all be dead here. From this perspective, Connor Ferguson was his and his men's savior.

Unfortunately, one's perspective is often dictated by one's position. Although Dezerby felt some gratitude towards Connor, from his perspective as a priest of the Church of Storms, he felt deep apprehension towards Connor, a dark wizard possessing such formidable power, and the terrifying alchemical artifact like the crystal ball that had just been used—powerful enough to severely injure or even kill a legitimate wizard.

Meanwhile, Connor Ferguson, completely unaware of De Zelby's inner thoughts, was searching for something in the woods.

Although the information Connor received from Martina made it clear that the Storm Church and Firo were searching for the ruins that might hold the secret to Reyes' rise, which might be the Anduin Genoa ruins in the Navas Forest, Connor still took De Zelby to the Campania Mountains, 800 kilometers away from the Navas Forest, in order to buy as much time as possible and give Firo more time to prepare.

To conceal his true purpose, Connor also compiled a list of possible locations for the ruins and gave it to De Zelby. Of course, the locations on this list were all fabricated by Connor based on some rumors he heard in Frosinone. As for the Anduin Genoa ruins in the Navas Forest, Connor did not include them on this list at all.

Before encountering the evil spider spirits, Connor, despite knowing this wasn't the place he was looking for and having used a magic array to probe the underground, was somewhat surprised to find that the probe revealed some kind of ancient structure dating back three to five hundred years...

Although he didn't know what the ancient underground building was, in order to prevent De Zelby from making any misjudgments and to avoid any unforeseen circumstances that he couldn't control in his plans, Connor told De Zelby that he hadn't found anything despite discovering the ancient building.