Wizard Earl

After surviving the ordeal, Connor had a good talk with Margaret, easing his longing for her. Then, as if remembering something, Connor asked Margaret curiously, "Margaret, how did you kill that mysterious monster down there?"

Hearing Connor's question, Margaret blinked her beautiful eyes, then asked Connor with some confusion, "Connor, what are you talking about? What mysterious monster?"

"Margaret, after I passed out, didn't you encounter that mysterious monster that crawled out from the bottom of the passage?" Connor, who had already recalled the situation, seemed quite surprised by Margaret's question.

"What mysterious monster? Connor, what are you talking about? When I found you in the secret passage, you were already unconscious. Philo's body was not far from you, and then I brought you back without encountering any obstacles!" Margaret succinctly recounted what she had witnessed that day to Connor:

After saying that, Margaret changed the subject and asked Connor with some curiosity, "Connor, did you and Philo encounter any mysterious monsters in that secret passage?"

Under Margaret's gaze, Connor, having listened to her words, frowned deeply, involuntarily recalling the last moments of his consciousness.

Although Connor was suffering from a splitting headache for some unknown reason, he could clearly sense a strange energy fluctuation he had never encountered before emerging in the underground palace beneath the secret passage. It felt as if some monster was about to crawl out of the passage…

Although Connor was on the verge of unconsciousness at that time, he was certain that he had not misremembered and that he had not hallucinated due to a headache. The feeling was extremely real and could not possibly be a hallucination. As a highly intuitive psychic wizard, Connor could still distinguish between reality and hallucination.

In his final moments, Connor tried to warn Margaret to be careful, but unfortunately, he couldn't hold on and passed out.

But if her feelings weren't just hallucinations, and there really was something trying to crawl out of that underground palace through the secret passage, then Margaret should have encountered it, so why did she say she didn't encounter anything?

Just as Connor was racking his brains trying to find an answer to this problem, perhaps due to overworking his brain, that needle-like pain reappeared in his mind. Although Connor gritted his teeth and did not let the pain show on his face.

However, Margaret, who knew Connor well, noticed something amiss in his subtle expression. She quickly took out an ice-blue jade bottle from her spatial ring, poured out a blue and white pill, and handed it to Connor, saying, "Connor, this is a Cold Spirit Pill made by the Church. It can heal some injuries at the Divine Sea level. You can give it a try!"

Connor, who was suffering from pain and had no good solution, looked at the pill that Margaret handed him, hesitated for a moment, then immediately took it and swallowed it.

And to be honest, the pill called "Cold Spirit Pill" that Margaret handed over was quite effective. As soon as the pill went down, before Connor even started meditating to digest its effects, he felt an extremely comfortable coolness rise from his lower abdomen to his mind, greatly relieving his needle-like headache.

With the help of the Cold Spirit Pill, Connor meditated and rested for a few more minutes. The throbbing pain in his head finally subsided. After another minute, Connor ended his meditation, opened his eyes, looked at Margaret who was looking at him with concern, smiled slightly, and said softly, "Don't worry!"

"Um!"

Margaret nodded gently at Connor's comforting words, then moved closer to him. After a brief moment of tenderness, Connor remembered he hadn't answered Margaret's question. He quickly organized his thoughts and said to Margaret, "Margaret, based on the clues provided by Philo, we found the ruins!"

Margaret, who was leaning lazily in Connor's arms, perked up instantly when Connor mentioned the word "ruins." She immediately looked at Connor, but before she could speak, Connor nodded and said, "You're right, the ruins are beneath that secret passage, a very eerie underground palace..."

As he finished speaking, Connor couldn't help but recall his bizarre experiences in the underground palace, his eyes becoming complicated. However, he quickly recovered and continued, "After discovering the underground palace, conflict between me and Firo became inevitable. I used the palace's formations to trap him in the Ersakun Barrier at the palace gate, using it to weaken him. Then I continued exploring deeper into the palace, preparing to return and kill Firo after some time."

After explaining how he dealt with Philo, Connor said in a deep voice, "The underground palace looks no different from the outside, but there seems to be some kind of formation inside that severely suppresses a wizard's mental power. With my mental power, I could only sense a range of a few meters in front of me when I entered. And the further I went into the underground palace, the greater the suppression of mental power it exerted!"

"What's most bizarre is that, for some unknown reason, just as I entered the underground palace and reached a pavilion, I suddenly vomited blood and became extremely weak. So, for safety reasons, I stopped exploring and retreated immediately. When I returned to the location where I was fighting with Philo, I was surprised to find that Philo had left the Ersakun Barrier at some point. What's even more surprising is that, apart from the energy traces left by the Ersakun Barrier, there was no trace of Philo's whereabouts at the scene."

"Just as I was wondering how Philo managed to leave the Ersakun barrier, a headache started. Like vomiting blood, this needle-like headache came on very suddenly, without any warning, catching me completely off guard. I had no choice but to grit my teeth and endure it, so I had to give up looking for Philo and prepare to leave through the secret passage. As I entered the secret passage, the headache that had been bothering me lessened considerably..."

Under Margaret's gaze, Connor, with a complex expression, recounted his bizarre experiences in the underground palace to the woman in his arms.