Wizard Earl

Chapter 350 Reasoning Connections

"Isn't this Lenglet you mentioned planning to use the two bombings I did as a starting point to attack Edel's WeChat?" Connor asked, frowning and somewhat confused. He was now completely bewildered by Margaret!

"That's right, those two bombings were the entry point he chose. But Connor, you need to understand, him wanting to arrest you and him personally arresting you are two completely different things, okay?" Looking at the somewhat bewildered Connor, Margaret smiled faintly and spoke slowly and deliberately:

"At the secret meeting, that old woman Lena, who is in charge of the Church's intelligence agency in Rune, deduced from the way you created the explosion and the traces of energy dissipation from the magic circle you left at the explosion site that you are an alchemist with considerable skill in magic circles. Langley, on the other hand, determined through the contracted magical beast that you only have the cultivation level of a mid-level wizard apprentice! Therefore, Langley will not personally handle the search and capture of you this time, but will entrust it to several wizard apprentices he sent from the Church headquarters!"

"Margaret, just tell me straight, what kind of strength are the people I'm facing!" After beating around the bush for so long, Connor finally lost his patience, waved his hand, and asked Margaret very directly and bluntly;

"Langrey brought four wizard apprentices with him from headquarters to Loen this time. One is a senior wizard apprentice, and the other three are intermediate wizard apprentices. I only know that the senior wizard apprentice who is the leader of these four is named Epstein. I don't know what kind of meditation method the other four practice, or whether they have any powerful enchanted items! However, judging from the general situation of wizards who come to the local areas from headquarters in the past, these people usually have some good enchanted items!" When talking about these serious matters, Margaret also put away her smile and seriously introduced them to Connor;

"Epstein, a senior wizard apprentice, three intermediate wizard apprentices..." Connor muttered to himself as he began to plan, his eyes occasionally flashing with shrewdness. Although the situation was still dangerous for him in the face of these four people, as long as he didn't have to face any of the official wizards from the Longleys, there was still room for maneuver!

"Look, this is Epstein!" Seeing the glint in Connor's eyes, Margaret nodded, took out a scroll of oil painting from her spatial ring, and, after unrolling it, pointed with her slender finger to the image of a burly, middle-aged man with a distinctive beard, saying to Connor:

After carefully examining the large beard in the oil painting for a moment, Connor nodded silently without saying a word.

Seeing Connor remain silent, Margaret, unusually, comforted him, saying, "You don't need to worry too much about these four. Knowing Edel as I do, while he might not be able to defeat Lenglet, that old fox will never let Lenglet run rampant in his territory. With his years of meticulous management in Loen and his ruthless nature, plus the help of Lena, the old woman who controls the church's intelligence network in Loen, he might just get rid of these four before they even find you. If that happens, as long as you don't commit any more crimes, Connor, Edel might just give up on you!"

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As dawn broke and the blazing sun slowly rose above the horizon, the first rays of sunlight streamed through the window and fell upon Connor in the quiet room of apartment number 16, Land Street, East Rune. Connor's eyes were bloodshot, and his angular face looked extremely tired, but his eyes shone brightly, making it difficult to look directly at him.

Last night, after explaining the situation Connor would be facing, Margaret left without a word. However, this was enough to make Connor grateful to her. Knowing that he, as her collaborator, would be facing the search and pursuit of a high-level wizard apprentice and three mid-level wizard apprentices, Margaret's continued tip-off was a great risk. Without Margaret's warning, he might still be completely unaware of what he was about to face.

Connor took out the alchemy furnace from his spatial ring and looked at the black pill alchemy bomb inside, which was not yet fully refined. His eyes became serious. After Margaret left, he did nothing but sit in this quiet room and start planning everything!

Before Margaret arrived, he had been curious about the alchemical bombs that old Victor had commissioned him to forge for the gods and demons, and which were so similar in appearance to the gray crystals he had used in the two bombings he had created. What had been puzzling him was suddenly made by Margaret’s unintentional remark about Edel’s matter, which made Connor realize a shocking possibility!

As Reyes's student, Connor believed he understood Reyes's character fairly well. During the last turmoil in Rune, Reyes paid such a high price, even running away himself, yet it seemed he gained nothing. Connor had speculated about this before: his mentor Reyes did this to support his mole within the church to rise to power, and this person was very likely Edel, who took office as the bishop of the Church of Rune after the turmoil of the Secret Society.

If we assume that Connor's conjecture is true, and that Bishop Edel of the Church of Rune Storms is a mole of the Secret Society professor, then old Victor's request for Connor to forge the alchemical bomb seems understandable!

Cardinal Hummels of the Church of Storms appointed his trusted subordinate Langley as the leader of the Arbitrators of the Church of Loen, aiming to eliminate Edel, who had previously humiliated him. Langley chose two bombings he orchestrated as a starting point to undermine Edel's prestige within the Church of Loen, and sent his own men from the church headquarters to arrest him.

Faced with the blatant provocation of the powerful outsider Lenglet, Edel, as the local strongman, was naturally unwilling to simply sit idly by and wait for his doom. He would definitely retaliate. Although Connor did not know exactly how Edel would retaliate against Lenglet, after thinking about this, Connor believed that if Edel was indeed, as he suspected, a mole planted by his mentor Reyes in Rune, then Edel's retaliation was very likely related to the alchemical bomb that Connor Ferguson was currently forging!

(End of this chapter)