Wizard Earl

Chapter 116 Intelligence (Please Subscribe!!!)

Soul-capturing allows Connor to see the memories in the minds of people with lower mental strength than him. Even if that person is dead, with Connor's current mastery of soul-capturing, he can access the deceased's memories within an hour of death. However, it is also limited by Connor's current mastery of soul-capturing. The stronger the mental strength of the target of Connor's soul-capturing, the more mental strength Connor will consume. Furthermore, forcibly using it on someone with similar mental strength will not only cause the target's mind to collapse and turn them into an idiot, but it will also cause a mental backlash against Connor himself.

The woman was just an ordinary person, so when her head rolled to Connor's feet, he didn't hesitate to secretly cast a mind-control spell on her...

It was this small act that led Connor to discover the truth of the matter by sheer chance. It was no coincidence that the woman who was close to Enrique met this lecherous man on the Ivanka cruise ship. The woman was an outer member of the Benfica Order, a dark wizarding organization. This young woman herself had no strength; she was just a socialite who used her body to extract information.

It must be said that the Soul-Seizing Technique attached to the Abyss Secret Art that Connor cultivated is quite miraculous. This young woman's divine sea was restricted by someone. If someone were to forcibly invade her divine sea, her head would immediately explode. However, in the face of the Soul-Seizing Technique, these restrictions had no effect.

The young woman was assigned by a senior wizard apprentice of the Benfica Order, codenamed "Snake Eyes," to approach Enrique and confirm whether he knew about the Sassuolo brothers' recent secret gathering in Loen. Unfortunately for Connor and Margaret, before their operation, the young woman had already informed her superior, the senior wizard apprentice codenamed "Snake Eyes," that she had confirmed Enrique knew about this information.

The snake-eyed man gave the young woman a new order: when she was in close contact with Enrique, she was to secretly cast a dark spell that even mortals could use—the Devouring Essence Technique. The young woman wasn't entirely sure of the spell's origins, only that after using it, any man who had close contact with her would experience significant physical exhaustion, slowed reflexes, and depleted energy for a period of time afterward…

Connor had some doubts about how easily Enrique, an intermediate wizard apprentice, was captured, but the Devouring Yuan Technique now provided a reasonable explanation. As for why Mr. Snake Eyes had the young woman use the Devouring Yuan Technique on Enrique, the reason was quite simple.

Mr. Snake Eyes is also on the Ivanka cruise ship, but since he doesn't have a way to get a first-class ticket, he can't easily enter and exit the third floor of the upper deck. Given that the four senior wizard apprentices protecting Miss Audrey are on the third floor, he needs to wait until midnight to make his move, just to be on the safe side.

Therefore, with Mr. Snake Eyes posing a threat, Connor could only swallow his anger for the time being and put aside Margaret's scheming against him. What truly terrified him was the information Enrique revealed under Margaret's cruel interrogation.

At first, Enrique's bones were still very hard, but when Margaret used her blood witchcraft to draw all the blood from half of Enrique's body and then put her blood worms into Enrique's body, letting the blood worms devour Enrique's flesh and bone marrow, the intense fear and pain made Enrique unable to hold on any longer. In order to have a quick death, he opened his tightly closed mouth and answered Connor and Margaret's questions without reservation.

The question Margaret wanted to get an answer from Enrique was whether Enrique's Sassuolo Brotherhood had already secretly gathered in Rune. If they had, who was instructing them and what was their purpose?

Enrique's answer was that the main force of the Sassuolo Brotherhood had already assembled in Ruen three days prior. As for Margaret's second question, Enrique said that due to his limited rank within the Sassuolo Brotherhood, he did not know the specifics, but he did know that this assembly in Ruen was a major operation personally arranged by Godin, the leader of the Sassuolo Brotherhood, and involved the full deployment of the organization's elite personnel.

To prevent Enrique from lying, Connor hesitated for a moment but still decided to forcibly cast a mind-control spell on Enrique. However, the content obtained from Enrique's memories by the mind-control spell was almost identical to what Enrique had said.

Seeing that Enrique had revealed all he knew and was no longer of any value, Connor fulfilled their promise to Enrique, piercing Enrique's heart with a Wind Blade spell and ending Enrique's life swiftly.

After ending Enrique's life, Connor considered the matter and then told Margaret about Snake Eyes. Margaret was equally shocked by Connor's words that the Benfica Order was also targeting Enrique and that a high-ranking wizard apprentice would attack him after midnight. However, she chose to believe Connor. After carefully cleaning up the scene, Margaret and Connor discussed it briefly and decided to proceed according to the plan. After all, there were still four high-ranking wizard apprentices on the ship, and they figured that Mr. Snake Eyes wouldn't dare to act recklessly.

Connor retrieved a bottle of the mental potion Varga had given him from his spatial ring, drank it, and leaned back in the comfortable recliner in his room. His thoughts began to drift, pondering the information about the Sassuolo Brotherhood that he had just received from Enrique. Connor was now convinced that the Sassuolo Brotherhood's secret gathering in Loen must be related to the Secret Society's and Reyes's plans.

Connor had only heard of the Sassuolo Brotherhood before, but didn't know what kind of power they possessed. However, the mind control spell on Enrique had given Connor a clear understanding of this dark wizarding organization active in the New World.

The Sassuolo Brotherhood has about twenty or thirty members, none of whom are formal wizards. Their leader is a high-ranking wizard apprentice named Godin. Although Godin is only a high-ranking wizard apprentice, in Enrique's memory, Godin is extremely powerful. He has killed his opponents in one-on-one battles with high-ranking wizard apprentices of the same rank on several occasions and has also successfully escaped the pursuit of a formal wizard.

Besides their leader Godin, the Sassuolo Brotherhood had two other high-ranking wizard apprentices, but according to Enrique's memories, these two were ordinary people with nothing special about them.

(End of this chapter)