Wizard Earl

Chapter 268 The Mysterious Gray-Clad Man

At 9:50 a.m. the next morning, Connor arrived at the newly opened Kepa Building with two large suitcases full of silver dollars. Kepa Building is one of the most famous shopping, leisure and entertainment places in the eastern district of Rune. Tourists from other places will come here to play, so although it has just opened, there are already quite a few people.

At this moment, Connor had disguised himself as the person who went to the Matthias Casino yesterday. Carrying two large suitcases, he looked exactly like a tourist with too much luggage shopping at the Kepa Tower, and no one would notice him.

This wasn't Connor's first time at the Kepa Building. He quickly found the basement, a very large area where the building stored goods. In the empty basement, Connor immediately spotted a man whose figure and face were obscured by a dark blue cloak.

The gray-robed man also noticed Connor. After exchanging a glance, Connor spoke first in a low voice, "One of Guinness's men?"

"Where are the silver dollars?" The gray-robed man asked without any formalities, getting straight to the point. His voice was very hoarse and strange, and his words were very awkward.

After a moment's thought, Connor opened the two large suitcases he was dragging, revealing the Persis silver coins inside, which shimmered brilliantly.

"One box is worth 50,000 silver dollars, and two boxes together are worth 100,000 Persis silver dollars, which is exactly 10,000 gold pounds at market price!" Connor said coldly. For some reason, the gray-robed man in front of him made him feel a dangerous aura.

As soon as the silver dollar appeared, Connor's keen intuition immediately sensed a surge of spiritual energy emanating from the gray-clad man.

"A wizard?" A question arose in Connor's mind.

The gray-clad man he was meeting with was a wizard, which surprised Connor, but it was also reasonable. The Matthias Casino was a business that made a fortune, and it must be backed by a powerful force. It was normal for a wizard to be doing business with him.

Connor remained impassive as he sensed the gray-clad man. He used his mental power to examine the two large suitcases he had taken out, each filled with 100,000 Persis silver dollars, for a full half minute. After confirming that everything was in order, the gray-clad man's hand trembled, and a thick wad of banknotes appeared in his hand, which he then threw to Connor.

Connor raised his hand and immediately caught the stack of banknotes. Each banknote was worth ten gold pounds, and there were sixty banknotes in the stack.

After carefully inspecting them, Connor nodded slightly; there was nothing wrong with any of the banknotes.

Seeing Connor nod, the man in gray picked up the large chest containing 100,000 silver dollars and turned to leave. However, in that instant, Connor's pupils suddenly contracted to their maximum size. In that brief moment, he vaguely saw the man in gray's face, obscured by his gray robes...

The man in gray seemed oblivious to anything amiss, carrying two large suitcases as he headed towards another exit of the basement. Standing there watching the man in gray's departing figure gradually turn into a small gray dot, Connor's expression was complex. He slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, and with a flash, he too disappeared into the basement.

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Leaning back on the sofa, Connor squinted, recalling the face of the gray-clad man he had vaguely seen in the basement.

It was a truly terrifying face. The gray-clad figure was bald, his face covered in eerie green markings, and his blood-red eyes gleamed with a ferocious light, devoid of any emotion that sent chills down one's spine...

However, what made Connor like this was not the terrifying appearance of the gray-clad man, but rather, if Connor remembered correctly, he had seen this gray-clad man before, and had even fought him.

With a thought, Connor's alchemy furnace appeared in his hand. Stroking the strange patterns on the furnace, Connor was lost in memories.

The alchemy furnace that helped him craft the Castiel Staff, the Silver Pendant, the Black Magic Robe, and other alchemical items was stolen from the warehouse of the wealthy Loen merchant Emery. In the warehouse, he discovered that Emery's warehouse contained a concealment array, the Small Shadow Array, created by his mentor Reyes. With this array, he confirmed the connection between Emery and the Secret Society.

After obtaining the alchemy furnace, his whereabouts were not easily exposed, and he was surrounded by the knights kept by Emery. As he was about to leave, a bald great knight with a demonized dagger tried to resist him. Out of respect for the secret society, Connor did not kill the bald great knight, but only took one of his arms. Connor vaguely remembered that after he left, he sensed through his mental power that Mr. Emery's illegitimate son called the bald great knight Uncle Herrera.

And this bald knight named Herrera bore an uncanny resemblance to the gray-clad man who had made the deal with Connor in the basement of the Kepa Building earlier that day... No! If the gray-clad man's face didn't have those eerie green markings and his pupils weren't the cold, blood-red color, the two men's faces would be exactly the same!

Realizing this, Connor couldn't help but gasp. When he snatched the alchemy furnace, he had just become an intermediate wizard apprentice, and his strength was incomparable to what it was now. At that time, this bald great knight named Herrera was no match for him at all, and was forced by him to cut off his own arm as an apology.

Today, when he met this grey-clad man who resembled Herrera, not only were both arms intact, but he could also use his mental power to examine the Persis silver coins being traded. Most importantly, Connor, with his keen intuition, sensed a dangerous aura emanating from him…

If Herrera is indeed the grey-clad man we saw today, his rapid improvement in strength is truly astonishing...

Not only that, Connor also thought of something else: Herrera was Emery's subordinate, and Emery had connections with the Secret Society. The old smoker named Guendouzi, who had made a deal with him at the Matthias Casino, had Herrera make the deal with him at the Kepa Building. With this series of confirmations, did it mean that the Secret Society was the backer behind the Matthias Casino?

If it really is a secret society, then the Matthias Casino has a mysterious background, but it's also very powerful enough to make Constantine, the former bishop of the Church of Rune Storms, look bad. After all, although the secret society is powerful, it can't be brought into the light!

(End of this chapter)