Wizard Earl

Chapter 206 Using non-existent magical mechanisms

Looking at the black robe that appeared in his field of vision, Connor nodded slightly in satisfaction. The Nightingale Cloak he had seen at the Meazza Club had given him new inspiration. In addition, although he had lost a lot of gold pounds in his wallet after returning from the Meazza Club, he had acquired a lot of alchemy materials.

With inspiration and materials at his disposal, Connor turned his inspiration into reality. The black robe on the table is the final result, which Connor named the "Black Magic Robe." Although the Black Magic Robe is not a level two enchanted item like Connor's Castia Staff and Silver Pendant, it is still a level one top-grade enchanted item thanks to Connor's careful crafting.

Connor, imitating the Nightingale Robe, enchanted its lining with runes of lightness. Anyone wearing this black robe could activate lightness without casting spells. In addition, Connor creatively used Savage Iron Essence, which he obtained from an auction, as the main material, and fused it with some special metals to create a metal shield. He then very discreetly forged it into the black robe. With this metal shield, the black robe's defensive power was comparable to a level one enchanted item of the defensive type.

While these two points are good, they pale in comparison to Connor's mastery of crafting the Black Magic Robe. This time, Connor focused his efforts on enhancing the robe's concealment. To this end, he combined all the alchemical texts he possessed with the aid of an auxiliary chip, simulating and refining it dozens of times before successfully breaking through the technical bottleneck and elevating the Black Magic Robe's concealment to the same level as the Nightingale Cloak, enabling it to evade the mental detection of low-level wizard apprentices.

Of course, if that were all, Connor wouldn't consider it his pride. What truly made Connor proud was that the concealment effect of his black magic robe could be enhanced by the silver pendant. With the silver pendant's enhancement, the black magic robe could largely evade the mental probing of ordinary intermediate wizard apprentices.

Imagine using the Black Magic Robe to conceal yourself, delivering a fatal blow to the enemy from a place where they have no idea what to do. What a wonderful experience that would be! Just thinking about it makes Connor excited!

After finishing his crafting, Connor once again embarked on his journey to Tunguska City. However, to his utter surprise, when he returned to his rented room in Tunguska, travel-worn and exhausted, he discovered that while his room appeared perfectly fine—no magical traps had been triggered—some of the small mechanisms he had deliberately set up had been unwittingly touched…

"So someone's already targeting me again?" Connor frowned slightly, looking at the triggered mechanism in front of him, and muttered to himself:

The newcomer was very cautious; he had taken great care not to trigger any of the magical traps Connor had set up. However, perhaps because he was focused entirely on the traps, he failed to notice the "blind spot" Connor had created.

This situation, though unknown to him as to who the other party was or what their intentions were, made Connor, who had originally planned to immediately go to Lake Mercedes in the western suburbs of Tunguska to begin exploring the magic stone mine, wary. He wanted to find out who was secretly spying on him.

Sensing danger, Connor remained inactive in Tunguska City for several days, patiently waiting for the hidden figure to slip up and reveal their true colors. However, to Connor's disappointment, he did not win this test of patience. The hidden figure made no move whatsoever during these days. If it weren't for the tampered mechanisms in Connor's rented apartment as evidence, Connor might have doubted the very existence of this hidden figure.

Therefore, Connor decided not to wait any longer. No matter what the person in the shadows wanted to do, he would take the initiative and find this bastard!

Connor rented a carriage and drove it alone to the southern outskirts of Tunguska. In the past few days, in a test of patience, Connor had been not only searching for traces of the person in the shadows, but also secretly pondering.

There are only two reasons why this person in the shadows is watching him: the magic stone mine and himself! But compared to himself, Connor thinks the magic stone mine is more likely!

His enemies were at most the Celta Cult. Salah and Lindelof's group had only been dead in Rune a few days ago, and Connor didn't think they would reorganize and come back for him in such a short time. More importantly, even if they did reorganize, a team consisting of a senior wizard apprentice and several junior and intermediate wizard apprentices had been wiped out. As long as the Celta Cult had any sense, they wouldn't send apprentices again. The next ones would be full-fledged wizards.

Connor was confident in his abilities. With two level-two enchanted items, he was confident he could face a high-level wizard apprentice. However, even the confident Connor did not believe he had anything that would make a formal wizard wary of him or dare to attack him directly!

As the British mystery master Arthur Conan Doyle once famously said, "When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however absurd or unbelievable, must be the truth."

Therefore, Connor believes that the final truth is that perhaps someone else besides himself knew that Snake Eyes had discovered a magic stone mine in Tunguska! If that's the case, then Connor finds the answer very interesting. From another perspective, this is also good news, further confirming Connor's guess that Snake Eyes discovered a magic stone mine in Tunguska!

Based on this assumption, Connor can also confirm one more thing: the other party has not found the exact location of the magic stone mine either. Otherwise, they would definitely kill him immediately to silence him! But they did not do that, which means they have not found the magic stone mine yet. Perhaps they are still hoping that he will find the magic stone mine so that they can follow the clues.

With his carriage in hand, Connor arrived at the southern outskirts of Tunguska City. Although he still couldn't find any trace of the other party, he was certain that if they were really after the magic stone mine, they would have followed him here.

Using his demon-detecting staff in the southern suburbs, Connor feigned discovery of a remote, uninhabited primeval forest. During this process, Connor believed that anyone hiding in the shadows would eventually discover the staff's purpose. In the forest, Connor meticulously set up various magical traps as if he had truly found a magic stone mine, even though he knew they were utterly useless…

(End of this chapter)