Wizard Earl

Chapter 239 The Secrets of Gold Bars

Sensing the admiration in Margaret's eyes, a hint of pride flashed in Connor's eyes. He clapped his hands lightly, and a metal plate used for experimenting with magical artifacts immediately popped out from the floor of the hall.

Margaret glanced at the metal plate, her beautiful eyes flashing. Without the slightest hesitation, she swung the crimson cross sword in her slender hand, and four or five crimson light slashes struck the metal plate.

"Bang! Bang!..."

The crimson light slash collided with the metal plate, producing several muffled thuds. The metal plate, specially refined by Connor, immediately developed four or five deep cracks.

Seeing that she hadn't completely shattered the metal plate, Margaret's eyes widened in surprise. But before she could speak, something even more astonishing happened: right before her eyes, the deep cracks that had been slashed into the metal plate were slowly closing up...

"What is this...?" A minute later, seeing that the surface of the metal plate had returned to its original smoothness, without any trace of the cracks she had made with her cross-shaped sword, Margaret asked Connor meaningfully:

Connor smiled at Margaret and clapped his hands again, and the magical metal plate returned to the floor beneath the hall.

After swirling the "Conti" in his glass and downing it in one gulp, Connor casually said to Margaret, "Just an experiment, only recently mastered it. How's it? Are you satisfied with the Cross Sword?"

Seeing Connor's reluctant attitude towards the metal plate, Margaret rolled her eyes at him but didn't want to make a fool of herself. She brandished the crimson cross sword in her hand and said with delight, "Connor, I didn't expect you to actually surprise me. I only hoped you could change its appearance, but I didn't expect you to change it so much. I can actually unleash its full power."

After Margaret finished speaking, Connor and she exchanged a smile. The original cross sword was a typical enchanted item used by body-refining wizards like Scarface. While ordinary wizards like Margaret who followed the path of magic could use such enchanted items, they would never be able to unleash their full power. However, after Connor's manipulation, the cross sword not only changed color from silver to crimson, but Connor also imbued it with energy attributes, allowing ordinary magic wizards to fully unleash the full power of this enchanted item.

"Oh, right, this is for you!" After dealing with the issue of the cross sword, Connor took out a spatial ring from his pocket, placed it on the table between him and Margaret, and then pushed it in front of Margaret.

"Look at this, Scarface is even richer than I thought! I've already taken half of mine, and your half is all in there!" Connor said earnestly, pointing to the spatial ring he had handed over.

Margaret glanced at Connor, who was looking very serious, and a smile appeared on her beautiful face. She picked up the ring that Connor had pushed in front of her, but did not examine it immediately. Instead, she played with it in her hand for a while before using her mental energy to probe into the spatial ring.

After a moment, having examined the contents of the spatial ring, Margaret came to her senses and murmured, "So Scarface was behind the whole thing at Baron Sari's treasury!"

Although Margaret's voice was soft, Connor heard it clearly because they were so close. He paused, then frowned, somewhat surprised, after having seen what was inside the spatial ring. "You mean those gold bars in the spatial ring are the ones that were stolen from Baron Sari's vault six months ago!"

In response to Connor's exclamation, Margaret gave him a cold glance, then said with a hint of disbelief, "You're only just realizing that?"

Connor's face showed a look of being both amused and exasperated. He hadn't expected that his original intention of keeping his promise would unexpectedly result in sending away a hot potato. Fortunately, he hadn't been tempted by greed and kept the gold bars in his spatial ring, otherwise he would have been in real trouble.

"Are you sure this batch of gold bars is really the same batch that Baron Surrey lost?" Composing himself, Connor asked Margaret seriously.

Seeing that Connor was questioning her, Margaret rolled her eyes at him and said with some dissatisfaction, "After the theft of Baron Sari's treasury six months ago, the wizards from the Metropolitan Police Department and the arbitrators from our Storm Church all went out to find those gold bars. Now, although the gold bar markings in the spatial ring have been erased, the weight and appearance of these gold bars are exactly the same as the gold bars that Baron Sari told the church about the stolen gold bars. Don't you think they're from the same batch?!"

Listening to Margaret's account, Connor fell silent. If what Margaret said was true, then this batch of gold bars was the same batch that went missing from Baron Sari's vault. This was indeed quite troublesome. Baron Sari himself wasn't scary, but his brother, Maurizio Sari, was extremely powerful. He was an admiral in the Imperial Navy, commanding the Storm Ocean Fleet. Over the years, Baron Sari had relied on his brother Maurizio's connections to engage in import and export trade, making a fortune that could be described as raking in money every day. Even in Loen, a city teeming with wealthy people, Baron Sari could easily be considered one of the top five richest people in Loen.

"Wait a minute! I remember it was all over town back then. They say Baron Surrey's treasury was ransacked, with at least 200,000 gold pounds in gold bars lost! Scarface's spatial ring's gold bars are worth no more than 15,000!" Seemingly remembering something, Connor asked Margaret.

"Baron Surrey was essentially a front man for his brother, General Maurizio. The gold in those vaults, nominally Baron Surrey's, actually belonged to General Maurizio. Besides his outstanding military achievements, another major reason General Maurizio was able to maintain his position as Imperial Navy Admiral and Commander of the Storm Ocean Fleet was that he was a second-level wizard. Baron Surrey's vaults were said to have been crafted by a royal alchemist at General Maurizio's request; even a fully-fledged wizard would need a very long time to breach them!"

"Scarface couldn't possibly break through the magic circle and steal the gold inside by himself, so Scarface was just a small fry in the theft of the vault. By the way, what was stolen from Baron Surrey's vault wasn't gold bars worth two hundred thousand pounds, but gold bars worth fifty pounds!" Margaret hesitated for a moment before telling Connor a secret about the gold bars!

(End of this chapter)