Wizard Earl

Chapter 548 Taking a Long-Term Approach

Stepping out of the back door of Ferguson's apartment and finding himself out of the range of the sensors in the trash cans on the street, Connor waved his hand, and the small stone he had placed in the street corner to interfere with the sensors immediately flew back into his hand. He carefully put the stone back into his spatial ring, glanced regretfully at the trash cans on the street with the sensors, then adjusted the brim of his top hat and turned to leave.

If he were in his prime and uninjured, Connor might have chosen to confront these Celta wizards. However, given his current injuries, a direct confrontation, regardless of victory or defeat, would only worsen his condition and hinder the recovery from the backlash of his magical powers. Therefore, he has no choice but to avoid direct confrontation and plan his next move carefully.

Upon arriving at the safe house on Ramsay Street in the North District, Connor first took a medicinal bath according to the treatment method Varga had given him. Because Connor was in the golden time to treat his magic backlash injury during the first medicinal bath, Varga gave him a strong dose of medicine, which made Connor, who considered himself to be quite resilient, suffer excruciating pain and temporarily lose his ability to move.

However, things are different now. It's time for Connor to recover slowly, so Varga reduced the dosage of some herbs and changed several main and auxiliary herbs based on the previous medicinal bath, making the medicinal bath suitable for Connor's current recovery. Although the current medicinal bath will still cause Connor some pain, the pain is completely within Connor's tolerable range.

Although the current medicinal bath wasn't as effective as the first one, Connor could still feel that, with its help, the injuries from the mana backlash were healing slowly, but were indeed gradually improving. At this rate, Connor should be able to fight again in about half a month, or at most a month.

However, although he can fight, if he gets injured in the fight or his magic power is depleted too much, it will still be quite troublesome. There is a considerable possibility that his magic backlash injury will recur. If possible, it is best not to fight with anyone for six months. In this way, at the latest within six months, Connor's magic backlash injury will be completely healed without leaving any sequelae!

After soaking in the medicinal bath, Connor applied some ointment to his skin to prevent irritation from the bath, and then he officially began to pursue his purpose for coming to the safe house—to activate the cube crystal.

In the basement, although Connor was satisfied with the concealment of the safe house's basement, just in case, he still set up an array on the basement floor tiles. In addition to the main effect of shielding energy fluctuations, Connor also added some energy-gathering runes to the array in case of emergency.

After setting up the array, Connor wiped the fine beads of sweat from his forehead, then took out hundreds of magic stones from his spatial ring and filled them into the array. Only after doing all this was the preparation work for activating the cube crystal truly complete.

After meditating cross-legged on the ground for a while, Connor adjusted his state and replenished the magic power consumed by setting up the array. Only then did he carefully place the cube-shaped crystal into the array he had set up.

Taking a deep breath, Connor cast a spell towards the magic circle, which immediately formed a mini semicircle, enveloping Connor and the cube-shaped crystal within it.

Feeling the power of the magic circle he had set up, Connor nodded in satisfaction, gaining more confidence in successfully activating the cube-shaped crystal.

Connor narrowed his eyes slightly, and with a thought, he stretched out his hand, producing a miniature steel hammer and six small steel balls, each one centimeter in diameter. He placed the steel balls in the center of one side of the cube-shaped crystal, and Connor's eyes shone brightly. He cast a spell on the miniature steel hammer in his hand, and the hammer immediately began to enlarge three or four times, becoming a normal-sized steel hammer with various patterns engraved on its top and bottom.

Connor picked up the steel hammer and smashed it hard against the steel ball placed on the cube crystal. The hammer, the steel ball, and the cube crystal made contact and immediately produced a deafening roar.

"boom!"

Despite the loud impact, the steel ball failed to penetrate the cube crystal. However, Connor seemed unsurprised and continued to wield the hammer, striking the steel ball and the cube crystal. After more than ten blows, Connor finally managed to force the steel ball into the surface of the cube crystal. However, once it was inside the crystal, no matter how hard Connor struck, it could not penetrate any further. It was as if there was a powerful and invisible resistance inside the cube crystal, preventing the steel ball from entering.

Wiping the sweat from his face, Connor gave a wry smile. The current situation was almost exactly the same as what he had encountered in the simulation in the auxiliary chip. His plan to smash the cube crystal with the steel hammer was ruined. It seemed that he could not take any shortcuts to open the cube crystal and could only use the method calculated by the auxiliary chip!

After a short rest, Connor smashed the remaining five steel balls into the surface of the five remaining faces of the cube crystal. After doing this, Connor cast a spell on the steel hammer, which immediately shrank back to its original size and was put back into his spatial ring.

After inspecting the six faces of the cube crystal, each with a small steel ball embedded in it, and confirming there were no problems, Connor's face hardened. He carefully cut a gash on his wrist, and blood immediately gushed out. To avoid wasting his blood, Connor quickly applied his blood to the steel balls on the six faces of the cube crystal.

As the blood fell onto the steel ball, a strange change immediately began. The steel ball, which had withstood more than a dozen blows from Connor's steel hammer and remained indestructible, unexpectedly melted. At the same time, Connor's blood, as if spraying, evenly stained the six faces of the cube crystal with an eerie red color. The cube crystal, which had just been pure white, now looked full of indescribable evil and eeriness.

Seeing this, Connor breathed a long sigh of relief. He then secretly used his magic to stop the bleeding and applied the hemostatic ointment that his spatial ring had prepared to the wound on his wrist. With the combination of external and internal application, the wound quickly healed and scabbed over.

(End of this chapter)