Wizard Earl

Connor personally examined Margaret's injuries. They were mostly external wounds or exhaustion caused by excessive mana depletion. Although they looked alarming, they weren't actually serious. After taking the potion Connor provided, she didn't need any additional treatment. As long as she recovered step by step, she would be completely healed. This meant that Margaret's eagerness to obtain this batch of potions wasn't for her own use, but most likely for someone else!

So the question is, what kind of person could make Margaret so eager to find a potion for her before her own injuries had fully healed?

Connor considered himself to know Margaret's personality quite well. Margaret and he, Connor Ferguson, were both rather selfish and it was hard to say that they would open their hearts to others. But now that Margaret had done this, it meant that this person held a very heavy weight in her heart and was very important to her!

Realizing this, Connor's first thought was of himself. If he were seriously injured and needed a potion to heal, Connor was confident that Margaret would find the potion for him.

But who else would Margaret do this for besides herself?

After thinking it over, Connor realized that besides himself, there was only one other person who could make Margaret so willing to make such a sacrifice!

This person is Margaret's "sister" and also Margaret's backer in the Church of Storms—Cardinal Elena!

According to Margaret's account, Elena, the cardinal who had just broken through to become a second-level wizard, was in a very sorry state after encountering Reyes at Mendesa Manor. Not only was she seriously injured, but even the third-tier enchanted artifact, the Froststorm Staff, which she had just inherited from Pope Ilsank, was severely damaged. Therefore, Elena met the conditions for using potions to heal her wounds.

As of now, Connor has no evidence to prove that Margaret sought out these potions to heal Elena's injuries, but since the various pieces of evidence match up, Connor has essentially accepted this possibility...

Connor was disappointed that Margaret chose to keep this from him, but upon reflection, he could understand her thinking. After all, it was foreseeable that Elena's situation was not good, and the fewer people who knew about Elena's situation, the safer Elena would be. Elena was also Margaret's biggest backer in the Storm Church; the two of them were intertwined within the Storm Church, sharing both glory and ruin. Therefore, Margaret's cautious approach was not entirely unacceptable.

After pondering for a while, Connor sighed inwardly and went down into the cellar. What could he say now that things had come to this? He should see what kind of potion Margaret had left for him in the cellar, and whether it could soothe his wounded heart.

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Late at night, in the Frosinone-Compani neighborhood

In Frosinone's neighborhood classification, the Kompany neighborhood is a standard working-class neighborhood, only slightly better than the neighboring Fernandez favela. As a result, many artisans and day laborers live in Kompany, and their lives are not very secure. Therefore, the security situation is not very good, and there are often idle people wandering the streets at night.

"Da da da da!"

Under the cover of darkness, a figure completely concealed in a gray robe was moving swiftly through the narrow alleys of the Kompany community.

After walking through the alley for about ten minutes, the mysterious person hidden in the long robe seemed to have finally arrived at the place she wanted to reach: a dilapidated red brick house.

The mysterious man glanced around and, seeing no one was nearby, decisively knocked on the door of the red brick house. With his rhythmic knocking, the door clicked open a crack on its own.

The mysterious man in the long robe didn't hesitate and flashed into the red brick house. As soon as he entered, the door of the dilapidated red brick house closed automatically.

The mysterious person who entered the red brick house removed the long robe and hood covering her head, revealing her stunning beauty. At this moment, the red brick house was empty except for this mysterious person who had suddenly appeared. There were only some dilapidated furniture, and in the corner of the room, some maggots were writhing around.

Looking at the old, dilapidated furnishings and the stench of decay in the air, Margaret's expression was complicated. If she hadn't received Elena's message, Margaret would never have believed that the Cardinal of the Storm Church, second only to the Pope, would be hiding in such a place where only beggars and vagrants would live.

Although she hadn't seen Elena, Margaret wasn't in a hurry. Instead, she waited patiently. Just one minute after she entered the red brick house, Margaret finally heard Elena's voice.

"Margaret, did you bring the things?"

Although Elena's voice remained calm, Margaret, who knew her very well, could still sense a hint of fatigue and weakness in it. Clearly, although she had narrowly escaped Reyes's clutches, Elena's condition was not good. Margaret was not surprised by this; if Elena's condition were ideal, she wouldn't be in such a hurry for her to find potions.

Margaret nodded upon hearing this, and then took out twelve crystal boxes containing potions from her spatial ring. Despite the appearance of these crystal boxes, Elena still did not show herself, but she used her mental power to examine each of the crystal boxes.

Sensing Elena's actions, Margaret didn't show any expression on her face, but she was also somewhat uncomfortable. It was obvious that after experiencing the fact that the Church of Storms' Punisher Jovich was a traitor within the secret society, and after being seriously injured by Reyes, Elena was somewhat shaken and fearful. Once bitten, twice shy, she no longer trusted anyone, not even her trusted confidante who had followed her for many years.

After a brief inspection lasting a dozen seconds, Elena withdrew her mental energy. At the same time, a small hole, just large enough for the crystal boxes to pass through, slowly opened in the floor of the red brick house. Margaret didn't ask any questions and simply placed the twelve crystal boxes containing the potions into the hole.