Wizard Earl

Seeing that Elena had fled as soon as she sensed something was wrong, Hummels didn't rush to chase after her. He stood there with a faint smile and muttered to himself, "I thought Elena had some kind of backing to dare hide here. So it turns out the old man entrusted you with the Azure Wings!"

"But Elena, if you think you can escape from me with the Azure Wings, you're sorely mistaken..." As soon as he finished speaking, Hummels moved, chasing after Elena like a white lightning bolt. At this moment, his speed was even three points faster than Elena's, who was blessed with the Azure Wings.

Elena, who had just managed to distance herself from Hummels and hadn't even had time to feel happy, sensed Hummels chasing after her and immediately cursed him inwardly:

"Damn it!"

After a few seconds of quick thought, Elena took out three ice-blue glass balls, each the size of a baby's fist, from her spatial ring and threw them at Hummels, who had caught up from behind.

Although he didn't know what the object was, Hummels didn't hesitate. With a wave of his hand, several flashes of cold light appeared, splitting all three glass balls in two.

To Hummels' surprise, after he shattered the glass sphere, it began to release a large amount of grayish-white gas. In just a few breaths, this grayish-white gas completely enveloped him and the area he was in.

Sensing the suppression of his mental power by the grayish-white gas, Hummels, trapped within it, was forced to remain inside the gas temporarily.

"snort!"

Hummels glanced around at the grayish-white gas, let out a cold laugh, and then chanted a spell: 'Kuroenst...Gachitisron...Penstri...'

As soon as the incantation was uttered, the grayish-white gas that had trapped Hummels instantly dissipated and melted away, just like snowflakes exposed to sunlight. Although Hummels was freed from the grayish-white gas, Elena had already disappeared during the time he was trapped, thanks to the azure wings of light.

Hummels didn't seem too angry about this. He looked around, immediately identified the direction, and chased after it to the left.

Half an hour later, Elena, who could no longer continue flying, finally leaned against a large olive tree to rest. However, just a few minutes after she put the potion in her mouth and closed her eyes to meditate and digest it, a white light shot straight over and stopped a hundred meters away from where Elena was, revealing Hummels inside.

Sensing Hummels' arrival, Elena, who was sitting under the olive tree, opened her eyes and quietly watched Hummels approach. At this moment, she seemed to be in a worse condition than before, but Elena's expression was calm and composed, without the slightest panic.

Hummels was about to say something, perhaps a sarcastic remark about Elena, when his expression suddenly changed, his gaze passing through Elena to the large olive tree behind her…

"Hummels, it's been a long time. How have you been?"

Seeing that Hummels had already noticed him, a middle-aged man, also dressed in a white robe and wearing gold-rimmed glasses, with a refined demeanor like a schoolteacher, emerged from behind the olive tree and stood in front of Hummels.

Although shocked by the man's appearance, Hummels, being the most powerful cardinal in the Storm Church after the Pope, quickly recovered. He glanced at Elena sitting under the olive tree, then at the smiling middle-aged man who emerged from behind it, and said with a cold laugh, filled with anger, "No wonder Elena is so confident. It turns out you've already colluded with Reyes."

"Hummels, it's been over ten years since we last met at the Bernabéu in the capital. Why are you speaking so harshly the moment we meet? I don't recall this being your style..." Reyes adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses and said casually.

Hummels ignored Reyes's teasing and focused all his attention on Elena. To be honest, he had considered many possibilities, but he never expected that Elena's last resort would be Professor Reyes of the Secret Society!

If Hummels hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would have found it hard to believe what he was witnessing!

After all, everyone knows that Elena, who had just become a second-level wizard and was full of vigor and ambition, hadn't been happy for long before she suffered a major setback because of Reyes. As a result, the Storm Church also suffered heavy losses, losing several formal wizards, including Christant, the intelligence director of the Black Organization.

Under such circumstances, how could Elena possibly cooperate with Reyes?

Or perhaps... the Storm Church's crushing defeat in Frosinone was part of Reyes and Elena's plan all along?

Under Hummels' gaze, Elena sighed softly and said quietly, "You once said that you admired Emperor Raul the Great's words the most: 'In this world, there are no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, only permanent interests.'"

"If you, Hummels, had been willing to let me go just now, why would I have done this..."

Hearing Elena use the very words he had just spoken to mock him, Hummels' eyes instantly turned cold. Although the situation seemed to be turning against him, Hummels did not regret his decision. Only Elena's death could completely eliminate the threat she posed to him!

"Hummels, for the sake of our decades-long friendship, I'll tell you what really happened!" Reyes said with a smile.

Upon hearing Reyes's words, Hummels shifted his gaze from Elena to Reyes, awaiting Reyes's answer.

"Actually, from the very beginning, my target was you, Hummels. I originally thought that your old man would send you to Frosinone to oversee everything, so I set up this huge scheme for you."

"But the Pope truly is the Pope; his mind is truly unfathomable. He actually sent Miss Elena, so Miss Elena had no choice but to bring Hummels along..." Reyes said with a hint of helplessness, and at the end, he let out a soft sigh.