Wizard Earl

Chapter 301 It was you...

"May the Storm Goddess protect us!" The surviving arbitrators immediately copied the mysterious woman and drew the exact same symbol on their chests.

Judging from the power of the explosion, even if the people who broke in were arbitrators of the Storm Church, powerful wizards, they couldn't have survived; their bodies probably wouldn't even be intact...

Following the mysterious woman's orders, the surviving arbitrators, filled with lingering fear, began searching through the ruins for the remains of their companions who had just been alive and well. While they searched, the mysterious woman with the purple veil was also busy. She walked among the rubble, but unlike the arbitrators searching for their companions' remains, her attention wasn't on the faint traces of fresh blood and flesh on the ground. She seemed to be searching for some kind of clue…

The mysterious woman searched meticulously, examining even a small pebble with her mental power. As the saying goes, "hard work pays off," and after searching for about twenty minutes, her eyes, visible through her veil, seemed to have discovered something, flashing with a gleam. With a flick of her fair hand, she discreetly collected a tiny gray crystal fragment from the ground. The arbitrators, their faces etched with sorrow as they searched for their companions' bodies, were completely unaware that their "master" was making such a subtle move behind their backs!

"Connor, it's you..." The mysterious woman toyed with the gray crystal fragments in her palm for a moment, a surprised smile appearing on her stunning face beneath her purple veil. She murmured softly, in a voice only she could hear:

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After finishing a night of intensive training in his bedroom in his apartment early in the morning, Connor stretched his body a little. Yesterday, he sent Varga and the little blood tiger to his safe house in the countryside. Because Varga couldn't take the little blood tiger back to Dr. Gulsi's private hospital for the time being, he had to engage in a difficult negotiation with the little thing. Finally, he reached an agreement to let the little beast stay in the safe house by himself for one hundred magic stones.

"So damn greedy..." Connor couldn't help but laugh and curse as he thought of that little blood tiger's greedy face after he and Varga exchanged feelings, relying on the equal partnership contract, and then making Varga bargain with him.

He originally only had a little over two hundred magic stones in his spatial ring, but that little thing took them all. Two hundred magic stones would be a huge fortune for an ordinary intermediate wizard apprentice, enough to support his magic stone cultivation for more than a year. However, for someone who had discovered a magic stone mine, it was just a drop in the ocean. Once he researched the alchemical golem and the magic stone mine could be mined in large quantities, two hundred magic stones? That would only take a little over a week of mining. It was nothing at all!

Although Connor was already capable of fasting as a mid-level wizard apprentice, he still preferred to pursue a higher quality of life. He enjoyed the excitement that good food brought him, so he went to the kitchen and made himself a fairly substantial breakfast: a juicy Carmen steak cooked to medium-rare, a fried egg, and a Carmen whole wheat bread.

After finishing breakfast, Connor didn't eat immediately. Instead, he went out of his apartment and pulled out the latest issue of the Rune Business Daily from the mailbox. Since reading the articles in the Rune Business Daily last time, Connor felt that the newspaper was quite good. Coincidentally, the Rune Business Daily was having a promotion. A monthly subscription cost one gold pound, but a yearly subscription only cost ten gold pounds, saving two gold pounds. So Connor didn't hesitate to spend the gold pounds in his pocket and subscribed to the Rune Business Daily for a year for ten gold pounds.

Aside from today's issue, there's also the news about rising gold prices in Rune, a slight drop in housing prices, and the Rune General Union's proposal to the city's lower council to raise the minimum daily wage for workers. Just after Connor finished eating all the steak he made, his eyes locked onto a news item in a corner of today's Rune Businessman's Daily.

"An explosion occurred in a residential building in the Parma neighborhood of Ruen late last night. According to information obtained by this newspaper from the Ruen City Hall, the explosion in the Parma neighborhood in the northern district was caused by improper use of a kerosene lamp, which in turn caused the entire building to explode. This newspaper once again urges all citizens of Ruen to be extremely careful when using kerosene lamps. Improper use will bring tears to your loved ones' eyes..."

This news, which was placed in the corner of today's Rune Business Daily, was only a hundred words long, but when Connor saw it, his eyes unconsciously narrowed. If he remembered correctly, the safe house he had just abandoned yesterday was located in the Parma community in the northern part of Rune!

In this world, kerosene lamps, due to technological limitations, are somewhat unstable and can easily explode if used improperly. However, Connor doesn't believe that the entire house was blown up because of improper use of kerosene lamps. That's too exaggerated. Theoretically, at least a hundred lamps would need to explode simultaneously to destroy the entire house. Therefore, Connor basically doesn't believe a single word of the official explanation!

Connor's explanation was that the house that exploded in the Parma neighborhood of the North District was the safe house he had chosen to abandon. The reason it exploded wasn't some ridiculous kerosene lamp misuse, but rather the gray crystals he had placed inside. These gray crystals were some small items Connor had recently invented through alchemy; they could be considered manifestations of energy compressed into a solid form. Under Connor's arrangement, any energy fluctuations in the room would cause these gray crystals to become unbalanced, and the consequence of this imbalance was… boom!

(End of this chapter)