Wizard Earl

Chapter 257 Connor's Disguise

The following morning, the Storm Church's large-scale search, as Margaret had predicted, began as scheduled. Some Storm Church arbitrators disguised as priests, along with Imperial military police, started the search under the pretext of cracking down on gangs and eradicating illegal firearms. What surprised the people of Rune City was that these Storm Church priests, who were ostensibly just assisting the military police in the investigation, were extremely meticulous during the search, while the military police who were originally in charge of the search were not very attentive!

"Knock! Knock!" On the morning of the second day after the search began, there was a gentle knock on the door of Connor's apartment. From the sound of the knock, it was clear that the knock was polite to the apartment owner, Connor.

Without needing to use his mental abilities to detect, Connor knew that anyone knocking on the door at this hour was simply there to search his apartment. He shrugged slightly, walked over, and opened the apartment door.

"Hello, Mr. Connor, we are the military police of Luen City. This is my identification. We are here on orders from the city hall to crack down on gangs, seize illegal firearms, and check your apartment. Please don't be nervous!" Connor, upon opening the door, immediately saw a Storm Church pastor and more than ten military police standing outside his door. A young military police officer, holding up his officer's badge, spoke to Connor neither humbly nor arrogantly:

After glancing at the officer's young face, Connor took his identification from him. Seeing Connor's seriousness, the young officer showed a hint of displeasure. Perhaps considering that this was the East District where wealthy merchants and nobles lived, and that this man, who was about his age, must be rich and powerful, he did not show his displeasure.

"Vinicius, squad leader of the 7th platoon, 3rd company, 2nd battalion of the Rune City Military Police, sergeant first class..." After confirming that there was no problem with the officer's ID in his hand, Connor expressionlessly returned the officer's ID to the squad leader Vinicius and opened the door to his apartment.

"Captain Vinicius, as a nobleman of the Kaman Empire, it is my duty to cooperate with your legitimate investigation. You can go anywhere in my apartment, but I must remind you that Article 1 of the Imperial Constitution protects the sanctity of the legitimate private property of Imperial citizens! Do you understand what I mean?" Connor took a bottle of wine from the kitchen cabinet, poured it into a glass, leaned back on the sofa, swirled the wine to let it breathe, and spoke without any emotion. At this moment, his arrogant demeanor was exactly like that of a proud hereditary nobleman.

Hearing Connor's "reminder," the young military police squad leader, Sergeant Vinicius, was practically spitting fire in his eyes, but he could only suppress his rage and say, "Once you enter the apartment, make sure you thoroughly check every corner... but be careful!"

When Vinicius, the sergeant squad leader, finished speaking almost word by word, he waved his hand, and the dozen or so sergeants standing outside his door immediately filed into Kang An's apartment.

On the surface, Connor was sipping his red wine without looking to the side, but in reality, out of the corner of his eye, he was constantly observing the middle-aged man dressed as a priest from the Storm Church who was accompanying the military police and inspecting his apartment. This man hadn't said a word since entering the apartment, but his sharp, hawk-like eyes were scrutinizing every detail of Connor's apartment.

Although he didn't use his mental power to probe, experience told Connor that this guy was not some damn priest from the Storm Church at all. This guy was definitely an experienced arbitrator from the Storm Church, and his cultivation level was the same as Connor's own—that of an intermediate wizard apprentice!

The reason Connor acted so arrogantly and disdainfully in front of the young military police officer Vinicius was because this was how a young hereditary nobleman should behave. He couldn't allow this arbitrator of the Church of Storms to have any doubts. As soon as he opened the door and saw this guy, Connor immediately understood that he was a simple person.

Connor could clearly sense that the arbitrator in front of him was constantly examining the items in his apartment with his divine sense. Connor knew that if there wasn't an unspoken rule between nobles and church wizards that church wizards could not use their spiritual power to probe nobles without trial, then the arbitrator's spiritual power should have been directed at him as well!

Although the arbitrator's mental examination was very thorough, Connor wasn't too worried about the alchemical mechanisms he had found in his apartment. To prepare for such a large-scale search, he had meticulously concealed the alchemical mechanisms in his apartment. Furthermore, after learning from Margaret that another large-scale search was coming, Connor added another layer of concealment to the alchemical mechanisms as a precaution. Connor believed that as long as the alchemy level did not exceed his, even a high-level wizard apprentice would have difficulty detecting the alchemical mechanisms he had set up in his apartment in a short period of time using mental detection.

This is naturally a false proposition for the Storm Church's intermediate wizard apprentice arbitrator, who is currently examining Connor's apartment with his mental power. If he were an alchemist, and his alchemy skills were higher than Connor's, given the scarcity of alchemists in the wizarding world, he would not have been reduced to an arbitrator for the search. Instead, he would have been treasured by the Storm Church and kept in the laboratory to study how to refine enchanted items!

As expected, Connor's confidence was not unfounded. After his mental energy searched through Connor's apartment, the middle-aged arbitrator shook his head at Officer Vinicius, clearly indicating that his mental energy had found nothing in Connor's apartment!

Seeing the signal from the Church of Storms, who had given him orders to follow, Vinicius shouted, "Back to base!" even though his military police were still cautiously searching the luxury apartment in one of Rune's most bustling areas.

Hearing the word "back up," Connor finally felt completely at ease. Although he was confident in his plan, as the saying goes, "better safe than sorry," Connor's cautious nature meant he was always on guard against the worst-case scenario. If the arbitrator or the military police made any unusual moves, Connor would not hesitate to strike first and leave them there.

If you're going to put on an act, you have to go all the way. As the military police left his apartment, Connor continued to sip the decanted red wine in his glass with an air of arrogance, without exchanging a single polite word with them.

(End of this chapter)