Wizard Earl

Chapter 474 Avoiding the Storm

"That old fox, Edel, is incredibly suspicious. Although Mariano isn't officially his student, Edel has always treated him as his own successor. A month ago, he applied to the church headquarters for a potion to help Mariano break through to the advanced wizard apprentice level. In fact, he overruled everyone's objections to make Mariano the captain of the Rune Arbitrators' team precisely to pave the way for Mariano's application for the potion. His plan has been very successful; headquarters has already approved Mariano's application. But unfortunately, Edel's only mistake was sending Mariano to deal with you..." The mysterious "sister" continued calmly.

Margaret nodded, then hesitated before carefully choosing her words, "Sister, I plan to use that old woman Lena to tell Ederkulusevsky about it. I've bribed one of Lena's reliable spies named Milito, and I'll have Milito say that he discovered it. Lena shouldn't doubt it."

"You bribed Lena's spy, Milito? When did this happen?" Margaret's mysterious "sister" seemed very surprised to hear Margaret say this, her tone carrying a hint of disbelief.

With a blink of her beautiful eyes, Margaret recalled, "About half a year ago, Milito's mother had a very serious heart condition and needed Milican medicine with a purity of 70% to treat her. Milito couldn't find it anywhere, so he decided to steal the medicine from the church's treasury. At the time, I was on duty guarding the treasury, so I caught Milito on the spot."

"Because I knew that Milito was one of Lena's people, I didn't make a fuss about it and investigated Milito. Instead, I gave him the Milito potion. As you know, that old woman Lena has very high standards for the people around her. If she finds out that Milito stole the potion, Milito will definitely die a terrible death. So after I got hold of him, at my request, Milito has been passing on the old woman's messages to me. The messages he has passed on to me so far are basically correct."

After Margaret finished telling her about Milito, the mysterious woman wearing a purple veil did not immediately answer Margaret. Instead, she fell into deep thought. After a long while, she raised her head and continued to speak to Margaret: "From my impression of Ms. Lena, her people are very loyal to her. When she was sidelined by the church for more than ten years because of that incident, all of her people remained loyal to her and none of them betrayed her."

"Sister, what do you mean...?" Margaret's eyes flashed with a sharp light, as if she had gleaned something from the mysterious woman's words.

The mysterious woman wearing a purple veil waved her hand and explained, "I've entrusted the matter of Rune to you. I'll be leaving Rune tomorrow and returning to the church headquarters. I'm just telling you what I know now. The final decision is yours, Margaret, and I will support whatever you choose!"

"I understand, I will handle this matter." After the mysterious woman finished speaking, it was Margaret's turn to fall into deep thought. A minute later, Margaret recovered from her reverie and nodded very solemnly, saying:

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Connor, hiding in his apartment, felt increasingly uneasy. He realized that Mariano, the man he had killed, didn't seem to be as ordinary as he appeared. According to his observation, the scene of Mariano's death, Kant Street in the North District, had been closed for three days. Kant Street was the main thoroughfare of the North District of Rune, with thousands of carriages passing by every day. Now, because Kant Street was closed, thousands of carriages passing through there had to take a detour, which directly caused traffic problems in the North District of Rune, as well as in the three other districts adjacent to the North District.

The terrible traffic not only inconveniences pedestrians, but also has a very negative impact on Rune, a commercial city. Both the Upper and Lower Houses of Rune are currently filled with criticism, but this still cannot change the fact that Kant Street is blocked. Moreover, judging from the current situation, it is unlikely that Kant Street will be able to resume traffic in the short term. Obviously, a mid-level wizard apprentice cannot cause such an impact.

As things became increasingly strange, Connor wanted to observe Kant Street up close, but he was afraid of being discovered if he went there in person. So yesterday, Connor used his mental powers to hypnotize and control a detective, and then had the detective secretly take a crystal ball with recording capabilities that Connor had created and walk all over the vicinity of Kant Street, recording a video that was an hour and a half long for him to watch.

After watching the hour-and-a-half-long video, Connor discovered something very valuable: the people guarding the scene of Mariano's death were not the usual police or military police of Rune, but arbitrators from the Church of Storms. Moreover, judging from the powerful aura displayed by the arbitrators in the video, they were very likely the third arbitrator squad of the Church of Storms in Rune that Margaret had told him about.

The Rune Arbitrator Squads are all formed around their captains and do not have a specific order. However, the Third Arbitrator Squad is an exception. The number of members, strength, and captain of the Third Arbitrator Squad are unknown. The only thing that is known is that the Third Arbitrator Squad is directly led and commanded by the Bishop of the Rune Storm Church. The existence of the Third Arbitrator Squad means that the Bishop of the Rune Storm Church, namely Edel, attaches great importance to this matter! If this is the case, it would explain why, despite the heated arguments in the Rune Upper and Lower Houses, Kant Street was still closed.

Although Connor had suspected before killing Mariano that Margaret's reasons for asking him to kill Mariano were not simple, it now seems that Connor underestimated Margaret.

"Hoo..." Connor downed the red wine in his glass in one gulp, leaned back on the sofa, and slowly exhaled a breath of stale air. Then he stood up, tidied up his things in the apartment, put on his carefully crafted mask, and quietly walked out of the back door of the apartment. Although his intuition told Connor that there was nothing wrong, given the current situation, Connor felt it was necessary to activate the safe house to lay low for a while, just in case.

(End of this chapter)