Wizard Earl

Chapter 231 Osasuna

After defeating Scarface, Connor and Margaret, both injured, did not immediately return to Rune. Instead, they chose to rest in Tunguska for a while. To show his trust in Margaret, Connor, unusually, took the initiative to show her the magic stone mine beneath the reeds of Lake Mercedes on the outskirts of Tunguska during their rest.

Seemingly realizing Connor's trust in her, Margaret, who had been giving Connor the cold shoulder ever since killing Scarface, softened her attitude towards him somewhat.

"It will probably take me about a month to break the mental imprint on Scarface's ring. Once I've broken it, I'll let Leonie contact you!" Connor explained to Margaret in the train carriage on the way from Tunguska to Loen.

"Oh!" Margaret replied nonchalantly, seemingly unconcerned about the Scarface space ring belonging to the high-ranking wizard apprentice who had nearly driven her and Connor to the brink of despair. During her time recuperating in Tunguska, she had never mentioned the Scarface space ring to Connor.

Margaret's beautiful eyes flickered, as if she had remembered something. She took out the silver cross sword that Connor had given her, which originally belonged to Scarface, from her spatial ring and handed it to Connor.

"What are you doing?" Connor frowned slightly at Margaret's actions. Although he was also very envious of the powerful silver cross sword, he had given it away himself. Wouldn't it be a slap in his own face to take it back?

Seeing the reluctant expression on Connor's face, Margaret rolled her eyes at him and said, "What are you thinking? If I take this thing out like this, it'll be easy for people to find out that it's related to that scarred man. Connor, you're an alchemist, can you help me change its appearance?"

Understanding Margaret's meaning, Connor chuckled awkwardly, took the silver cross sword, examined it carefully for a moment, and then solemnly said, "If you want to guarantee a different appearance, I can try, but I can't guarantee success!"

"Sure!" Margaret nodded casually, saying somewhat nonchalantly, "Wasn't your staff damaged? In return, I can provide you with alchemical materials to repair it. Give me a list!"

Connor gave Margaret a deep look and said meaningfully, "Margaret, what exactly are you up to? You should know that my staff is a level two enchanted item. It's severely damaged, and repairing it will require a lot of alchemical materials!"

Seeing Connor question her intentions, Margaret bit her red lips and said through gritted teeth, "I took the cross sword and don't want to owe you a favor. Since you're so ungrateful, then forget it!"

Seeing that Margaret's words seemed to make sense, Connor immediately adopted a different attitude, saying with a beaming smile, "Don't bother calculating! I'll write you a list right now!"

After Connor finished writing the list, Margaret said she didn't need it, but her actions betrayed her, and she carefully put the list into her spatial ring.

After a journey of several hours, the steam train carrying Connor and Margaret, along with hundreds of passengers, finally pulled into the North Loen Railway Station.

Seeing that they were about to part again, Connor hesitated for a moment and said, "Margaret, we need so many materials this time, so be careful. It's better to go slowly than to rush!"

Margaret took Connor's reminder to heart. She nodded emphatically to Connor, then put on a black cloak and disappeared into the crowds at the train station!

Connor hailed a horse-drawn carriage and rode to his luxurious apartment in the East District of Loen.

After carefully inspecting the various mechanisms he had set up in the apartment and finding nothing amiss, Connor nodded in satisfaction and went to his alchemy workshop on the second floor. Although Scarface was stronger than Snake Eyes as a senior wizarding apprentice of the Benfica Secret Order, his mental imprint in his spatial ring was similar to Snake Eyes' because he was a body-refining wizard.

The reason Connor opened Snake Eyes' ring so easily last time was largely because Snake Eyes had been dead for more than half a year at that time. The spiritual imprint in his spatial ring had not been nurtured and its energy gradually disappeared over time. But this time it was different. Scarface had only recently died, and the spiritual imprint in his spatial ring would not be much different from when he was alive. However, Connor at this time was not the Connor who had just entered the intermediate wizard apprenticeship. In addition, he now had the Silver Pendant, a magical item that could greatly increase his spiritual power.

According to Connor's estimate, it would take him about a week to remove the mental imprint on the spatial ring. Connor's reason for telling Margaret that it would take a month was also for his own reasons. Connor's goal was to find a place where Scarface stored items that were inconvenient to carry.

Odin's Blood Tiger is a living being, and ordinary spatial equipment like spatial rings cannot house living beings—this is common knowledge in the wizarding world! Connor doesn't believe Scarface's spatial ring is advanced enough to house a living being, so Odin's Blood Tiger is most likely hidden by Scarface in a location where he keeps items he can't easily carry!

The fragments of Scarface's memory captured by Connor's Soul Capture technique revealed that Scarface had placed these inconveniently portable items in a secluded hill in Osasuna, a medium-sized city about 100 kilometers northwest of Loen. There, he had set up a powerful magic circle with considerable concealment and defense, and the key to opening the magic circle was Scarface's own spatial ring!

So Connor told Margaret to allocate the month like this: one week to open the spatial ring, and the remaining three weeks would give Connor plenty of time to go to Osasuna and find out where Scarface had hidden the things!

The thought of where Scarface was hiding in the Odin Blood Tiger fueled Connor's excitement. Robbery and murder were indeed the best ways to amass wealth. Connor had initially thought he and the Odin Blood Tiger were destined to be strangers, but unexpectedly, Scarface had appeared and forcibly linked them together. If he could successfully find the Odin Blood Tiger, Connor believed that given its intelligence, it would most likely sign an equal partnership agreement with him under his coercion and enticement!

(End of this chapter)