Wizard Earl

Chapter 458 The Dangerous Smell in the Waiting Room (1)

Things went smoothly. On the night Connor arrived in Tunguska, he accomplished his first two objectives: taking over 20,000 raw magic stones from the ten alchemical golems he had mined over the past three months, and giving the ten alchemical golems, which he had personally crafted, a maintenance treatment.

Because the alchemical golem was intended for his own use, Connor put a lot of effort into its crafting, resulting in a golem of exceptionally high quality. After a period of mining, the golem's condition improved even further than Connor had anticipated, which greatly pleased him.

After spending the entire night maintaining the ten alchemical golems, Connor took the more than 20,000 magic stone ores and went to the cave where he had last broken through to become an advanced wizard apprentice. After Connor successfully broke through to become an advanced wizard apprentice, he turned the cave into a safe house so that in the event of a possible crisis in the future, Connor would have a place to stay outside after escaping from Rune.

Connor's third objective in coming to Luen was to refine the more than 20,000 raw magic stones mined from the magic stone mine, which he planned to complete within the safe house in this cave. Upon entering the safe house, Connor's first action was to activate the magic array within, concealing any energy fluctuations within the cave. After the energy fluctuations were masked by the array, Connor retrieved some flagpoles from his spatial ring and set up a very precise magic array within the cave. This array would be crucial for this magic stone refining operation.

Connor had to admit that his mentor, Professor Reyes of the Secret Society, was an alchemical genius. Putting aside everything else, his method of refining magic stones using magic arrays was far more efficient than the traditional alchemical furnace.

After setting up the array, Connor took out four thousand magic stone ores from his spatial ring and laid them out in the refining array according to the array. After doing this, Connor had a thought, and his hands flew up and down. After a moment, eight black flames condensed in his palms. These black flames were Connor's spiritual fire. When these eight spiritual fires were lined up in front of him, Connor's eyes flashed with a sharp light. With a wave of his hand, the refining array was activated. At the same time, the eight spiritual fires that had condensed in his palms flew into the array and began to circulate on the four thousand magic stones.

As the refining of the magic stone began, the energy fluctuations throughout the cave suddenly surged. If Connor hadn't set up a concealment array in the cave, and such large energy fluctuations had been exposed, it probably wouldn't have been long before the arbitrators of the Church of Storms came knocking.

Sensing with his spiritual power, he saw that the four thousand magic stone ore stones in the refining array were constantly being decomposed by the array and his own spiritual fire. A proud look appeared on Connor's face. Reyes created the magic stone refining array, which was undoubtedly a genius move, but Connor Ferguson was not bad either!

Based on the magic stone refining array, Connor also created a method of tempering with the flow of spiritual fire. This method is the eight black flames flowing in the array now. With the assistance of the tempering with the flow of spiritual fire, the magic stone refining array, which is already several times more efficient than the traditional alchemy furnace method, will be increased by another fifty percent. In just half an hour, these four thousand magic stone ores will be transformed into finished magic stones for wizards to use and exchange.

Because of the discovery of alchemical golems, it became possible to mine magic stone on a large scale. With ample magic stone in hand, Connor began to use magic stone as an auxiliary material in the alchemy process. This extravagant act made the enchanted items and alchemical items that Connor refined generally 20-30% more powerful than the same items refined by other alchemists.

When Connor first discovered this situation, he was truly grateful to Mr. Snake Eyes, the senior wizard apprentice from the Benfica Secret Order. If it weren't for Mr. Snake Eyes' help, he and Margaret would never have discovered this magic stone mine, and they would never have such abundant magic stone resources as they do today.

The imperial government, the Storm Church, and the Earth God Cult, which control the vast majority of magic stone mines in the Kaman Empire, have countless wizards sharing the magic stones produced from their mines. Even the officially recognized wizards who receive magic stone resources only get a few thousand magic stones per year, which is less than a fraction of what Connor and Margaret receive.

Three days later, after refining all 20,000+ magic stone ores, Connor closed the cave safe house and went directly to the Tunguska train station to prepare to take the train back to Rune.

Entering the train station went very smoothly, and Connor thought the journey back to Rune would be just as smooth. But as he entered the waiting room, he caught a whiff of danger in the stuffy air.

If Connor wasn't mistaken, the man and woman sitting in the first row of chairs about fifteen meters away from him, who appeared to be a middle-aged couple, were both wizards. About thirty meters behind him to the left, the old man with a goatee who seemed to be reading a newspaper was also likely a wizard. In addition to these three, the young man in blue clothes dozing off in the row of seats near the restrooms in the waiting room was also likely a wizard.

On the surface, the four people all seemed normal—some were showing affection, others were reading newspapers, and still others were dozing off. However, Connor noticed that these four were secretly observing the more than one hundred passengers waiting for the train in the waiting room. As soon as Connor entered the waiting room, the old man reading the newspaper and the woman from the couple both used their mental energy to scan him. According to Connor's observation, these two weren't targeting him specifically; everyone entering the train station waiting room was being checked by them with their mental energy.

Fortunately, Connor was well hidden. The old man and the middle-aged woman did not find anything suspicious about Connor. Their mental energy only swept over Connor briefly before shifting to other passengers entering the waiting room.

Realizing this, Connor immediately became alert, sighed inwardly and cursed his bad luck, then calmly sat down on a chair in the waiting room. Connor was certain that these four people were not dark wizards, and judging from their appearance, they were not after him, Connor Ferguson.

(End of this chapter)