Wizard Earl

After doing all this, Connor's expression finally softened. If he remembered correctly, the word "Worns" on the silver coin meant "ready to open" in the Storm Church's secret language, as Pedro remembered it.

At first glance, you might be confused, wondering why the Church of Storms would send Pedro this "Prepare to Activate" message.

However, if you consider Pedro's mission to guard the potions in the cellar, then the meaning of "preparing to open" becomes quite simple: the Church of Storms is clearly going to activate the batch of potions that Pedro was guarding!

Although Margaret didn't explain in detail to Connor, Connor could clearly sense that this batch of potions transported from the Church of St. Antis in the Storm Church to Frosinone was extremely important in Frosinone and couldn't be used just because someone gave the order!

If Connor's guess is correct, Elena secretly sent a message to Margaret, asking her to retrieve the potion to heal her injuries. Then it is clear that the person who gave Pedro the "prepare to activate" order was not Elena, the Cardinal, but someone else entirely.

So, with Christant dead and Elena not giving the order, who would have thought Pedro would give the order to prepare to open the potion in the cellar?

As soon as Connor pondered this question, a name came to mind: Hummels, who was also a cardinal in the Church of Storms!

As someone whose power in the Church of Storms is second only to Pope Ilsanker, Hummels clearly has the authority to prepare to open the potions in the cellar. More importantly, when Margaret received the secret command, she had already warned Connor and guessed that Hummels was coming to Frosinone. This is why Connor immediately thought of Hummels.

This silver coin, engraved with the goddess of storms, not only had the function of receiving commands from the church, but also served a certain positioning purpose.

Although disabling the location function in the silver coin wasn't difficult for Connor, unfortunately, the Storm Church would detect the anomaly if the function were disabled. Therefore, Connor, being an alchemist, made a small modification to the location function so that the silver coin would still transmit the location information of the factory, without completely disabling the location function. While this ensured that Connor could receive messages from the Storm Church, it also brought him certain risks.

Now, assuming Connor is not mistaken, and it really was Hummels who gave the order to open the potion in the cellar, then it means that someone will soon go to that cellar to try to retrieve the potion inside.

This also means that after obtaining an empty cellar devoid of any potions, the Church of Storms will immediately be the first to investigate, using the silver coin with its location tracking function as a clue. Therefore, Connor's minor alterations will be discovered by the Church of Storms' alchemists, and within hours, the Church of Storms will be able to pinpoint Connor's true location. Undoubtedly, at that point, Connor and his Ferguson family will be in grave danger!

This is why Connor immediately crushed the silver coin he had worked so hard to obtain into silver dust and put it into the sealed black box. This black box was a special alchemical tool that Connor had specially crafted to isolate many energy sources and was specifically designed to store sensitive items.

Although the silver coin's location function was completely destroyed when the coin was shattered, if the alchemists of the Storm Church were skilled enough, they might be able to pinpoint the location of the silver fragments. Although the possibility of this happening is extremely slim, the forest and the nearby Ferguson Manor make it easy for people to associate it with them.

Therefore, Connor did not want to take any risks and chose the safe way to put all the silver dust into a black box. No matter how skillful the alchemists of the Storm Church were, they would not be able to find any clues.

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In a room within the Church of Grien in Frosinone, a middle-aged man with a burly build, short silver-white hair, and a serious expression, dressed in a plain red robe, sat quietly with his eyes closed, meditating.

"Enter!"

Without any warning, the middle-aged man who had been resting with his eyes closed suddenly spoke. His voice was very deep and resonant, giving off an air of authority without anger.

Dezerbi, who was standing outside the room door at that moment, ready to knock, immediately pushed open the door very respectfully after hearing the middle-aged man's command and came to the middle-aged man sitting in the chair.

Although he wasn't familiar with the man before him and hadn't had much contact with him in the church, De Zelby clearly hadn't heard anything about his character, so without asking anyone, he simply bowed to the middle-aged man and said, "Informing Lord Hummels that the batch of potions shipped from headquarters has gone missing. Pedro, the wizard apprentice responsible for guarding these potions, hasn't had his body found yet, but it's confirmed he's dead. David Kiria's side has begun investigating this matter!"

Upon hearing Dezerby's report, the middle-aged man sitting in his chair with his eyes closed—Cardinal Hummels, the most powerful cardinal in the Storm Church after the Pope—did not open his eyes to look at Dezerby. He simply spoke calmly to Dezerby, who stood respectfully before him, and asked, "When will the matter be resolved?"

Although Hummels' voice was devoid of any emotion and showed no intention of blaming De Zelbi, De Zelbi broke out in a cold sweat upon hearing the question.

After a moment's hesitation, De Zelby recalled Hummels's aversion to beating around the bush and his loathing of his subordinates' deception. His expression grew even more serious. After another second of internal struggle, he gritted his teeth and decided to speak frankly to Hummels, saying in a deep voice, "Inform me, Lord Hummels, I just went to the scene with David Kiria. The wizard who took this batch of potions is extremely experienced; there were no traces left at the scene, and no valuable clues whatsoever."