Wizard Earl

Faced with Margaret's barrage of questions, the icy Elena was speechless and could only let out a resentful snort.

Seeing Elena like this, Margaret secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Judging from Elena's behavior and her understanding of Elena's personality, although Elena shouted fiercely, she was probably just making a few threats and hadn't actually taken any action. As for the upper echelons of the Storm Church, they hadn't yet made a decision on whether to take action against the Ferguson family.

After all, what Margaret just said was very real. The conflict between the Storm Church and the hereditary noble camp is becoming increasingly acute. If the leaders of both sides hadn't known that once a war broke out, it would be a war in which both sides would be severely damaged and there would be no winner, and therefore both sides had maintained great restraint and kept pouring cold water on the tense atmosphere to cool it down, the two sides would have been fighting for who knows how many rounds.

Therefore, at such a sensitive juncture, if the Church of Storms were to launch a preemptive strike against the Ferguson family, to which Connor Ferguson belongs, then even if the high-ranking members leading the hereditary noble faction did not want to go to war, they would have no choice but to go to war, because if they did not go to war, they would not be able to explain themselves to their internal staff, and the morale of the entire hereditary noble faction would collapse.

Once war breaks out, it will be the beginning of a bloody conflict. No one can control where the wheels of history will roll, or what will happen next...

Therefore, such a responsibility that would directly lead to war was something that not only Elena could not bear, but even Hummels, who held great power, could not bear. In the entire Storm Church, only Pope Ilsank himself had the final say on this matter; everyone else only had the right to offer suggestions.

Seeing that Elena's expression wasn't very good, Margaret wisely refrained from dwelling on the topic and trying to provoke Elena. Instead, she changed the subject and continued chatting with Elena.

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While Margaret and Elena were chatting happily in the red-brick house in the Kompany neighborhood, Connor Ferguson, who had returned to Ferguson Manor, was sitting in the attic of the manor, intently looking at a silver coin in his hand.

At first glance, this silver coin looks no different from an ordinary silver coin, but upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that this silver coin cannot be spent in the Kaman Empire. The reason is simple: this silver coin is not engraved with Emperor Raul, but with the Goddess of Storms!

Without a doubt, this is an internal item of the Church of Storms. The reason this item ended up in the hands of Connor, a dark wizard, is because Connor had just seized it from a high-ranking wizard apprentice of the Church of Storms named Pedro.

After Margaret left with the potions, Connor checked the remaining potions in the cellar. Although there were many different kinds and a considerable number of them, numbering over a hundred, their value was only average to high. They weren't particularly valuable, but they weren't particularly low either. Their market value was between ten thousand and twenty thousand magic stones, which was in line with Connor's expectations.

These potions weren't of much use to Connor, an alchemist. He handed them over to Varga, a professional, to handle, while he himself studied them. Connor was more interested in the silver coin he had seized from Pedro than in the potions.

Based on the memories Connor obtained from Pedro's soul-capturing spell, this silver coin engraved with the image of the Storm Goddess, though seemingly ordinary and merely a commemorative item, is actually more complex than that. This silver coin was a magical item distributed to Pedro by the Storm Church for communication among its members.

The only slight regret for Connor was that although he knew the function of the silver coin, he did not obtain the method of using it from Pedro's memories. However, this was not a difficult matter for Connor, a great alchemist.

Connor took out a bronze mirror-shaped auxiliary enchanted item from his spatial ring and placed the silver coin on its surface. The next second, under Connor's magical activation, the bronze mirror emitted a warm yellow light. The yellow light shone on the silver coin, and a lot of information about the coin was transmitted to Connor's mind.

After inspecting it for about five minutes, Connor nodded confidently, put the bronze mirror back into his spatial ring, and with a light tap of his right index finger, the silver coin engraved with the Storm Goddess immediately emitted a crisp buzzing sound.

As the buzzing sound appeared, Connor's mental power successfully took control of the silver coin in his hand, and a smug smile appeared on Connor's angular face.

After playing with the silver coin in his hand for a while, Connor was quite satisfied and put it back into his spatial ring. Then, after pondering for a moment, he carefully took out a rectangular jade box that was about 1.5 meters long and 30 centimeters wide from the spatial ring.

Although it's a jade box, this one differs significantly from traditional, pristine white jade boxes, immediately apparent from its appearance. This rectangular jade box is not only entirely black, but it also seems to contain a wisp of black mist, flowing and shifting across its surface…

As he stroked the jade box with his large hand, feeling the pure dark energy within, Connor Ferguson, realizing that his idea had become a reality and that he was about to gain a great help, couldn't help but reveal a hint of excitement in his eyes, no matter how cunning and expressionless he was.

It took Connor a full minute to calm down his excitement. He hesitated for a moment, but still made no choice. He opened the jade box right there. The next second, Connor's figure flashed, and he jumped down from the attic of Ferguson Manor, flying towards the depths of the nearby forest.

After flying through the forest for about half an hour, Connor finally found a very secluded grove. After observing the surroundings and confirming that it was hidden and safe, Connor was very cautious and set up a barrier around the grove to ensure that his experiment would not be discovered.

Protected by this barrier, Connor finally felt completely at ease. He sat cross-legged on a boulder, meditated for a while to adjust his state, and after a long while, he used his left index finger as a pen to quickly write runes in the jade box…