Wizard Earl

Chapter 557 An Encounter

A dozen seconds later, looking at the direction the compass needle had fixed, Connor's eyes widened in surprise. According to his compass, the small bronze mirror was currently located in the Sels factory area of ​​the North District of Rune…

The Cels Factory District is an important industrial area in Rune, an industrial city. According to the "ZF Annual Work Report" disclosed by the Rune City Hall at the beginning of the year, factories in this area account for 17% of Rune's industrial capacity. These include well-known Rune factories such as the Werner Steel Plant, the Lisbon Mold Factory, and the Rune Chemical Plant. The entire Cels Factory District mainly produces steel and other derivative industrial products. Over the past three years, the Cels Factory District has contributed more than 100,000 Imperial Gold Pounds in taxes to Rune on average each year.

Of course, for Connor, what factories the Sels industrial district had, what industrial products they produced, how much economic benefit they brought, and how much tax revenue they contributed to the Kaman Empire were all irrelevant...

The important thing is that the Sels factory area is not far from Ramsay Street, where Connor's safe house is located! Even by public carriage, the waiting and riding time is only half an hour. It was quite unexpected for Connor to be so close to the person who took the small bronze mirror. This made Connor feel an urge to go and see who this person hiding in the shadows was!

After thinking for a while, Connor felt that he might as well go to the Sals factory area to see who this person lurking in the shadows was. Although his injuries were not completely ineffective in fighting, they were almost enough to allow him to observe his opponent.

Thinking of this, Connor acted immediately. He disguised himself as a blond, muscular man, left the safe house, and hailed a taxi on Ramsay Street to head to the Searles factory district.

Because it was a taxi, unlike public carriages which require waiting at various stops, it only took Connor a little over ten minutes to get off the carriage and appear in the Sals factory area.

Feeling the smog drifting in the air, Connor couldn't help but frown slightly. Although there was smog in the city of Rune usually, it was a coastal city after all, with sea breezes and the air quality was somewhat better. But now that he had come to this factory area, the level of smog in the air was truly shocking to Connor.

Connor adjusted his top hat and discreetly took out his compass. The compass needle wobbled twice before settling steadily on the left. Following the direction the needle pointed, Connor saw not the well-known Werner Steel Plant or Lisbon Mold Factory in the Sels factory district, but a little-known cement plant called Valladolid.

Connor's eyes flickered a few times before he stealthily made his way to the Valladolid cement plant. As soon as he quietly jumped over the wall and into the plant, a thick, pungent odor assaulted his nostrils. Looking up, he saw dozens, even hundreds, of men and women working in the factory. Some were wearing masks, but many others weren't, letting the dust fill their mouths and noses…

He shook his head slightly. These workers, with their poor awareness of protective measures, had been in the factory for a long time. Inhaling too much dust would inevitably lead to various diseases. Connor knew that this was an inevitable consequence of development. Only the sacrifice of these people would make people aware of the dangers of dust. Even if someone brought it up now, it would mostly be ignored because people had not yet realized the dangers.

Connor took a deep breath and carefully released his mental energy. The compass could only help him lock onto the target within a general area, but it could not pinpoint the target to a specific location. In other words, Connor knew that his target was in the Valladolid factory, but he did not know which workshop or warehouse it was in.

Based on Connor's observation, this Valladolid factory, while not large compared to the many factories of all sizes in the entire Sail factory area—only a small to medium-sized factory—still has a small two-story office building, seven warehouses, six workshops, and more than two hundred workers. Finding someone in this area is not an easy task.

Most importantly, Connor's purpose in coming here today is not to find and kill the other party, but to secretly observe them and see who is hiding in the shadows watching him. This requires a higher level of mental strength from Connor, since he cannot cover the entire Valladolid factory with his mental strength, because that would alert the other party to his presence. Connor can only use his mental strength to slowly inspect the factory. Although the progress will be slow, the concealment of mental detection will be greatly enhanced. According to Connor's estimation, as long as the other party's mental strength does not reach his level, they should not be able to detect his search.

At this moment, Alex Sandro, who was hiding in Warehouse No. 6 in Valladolid, looked at the small bronze mirror he had obtained from Ferguson's apartment with great frustration.

As a senior wizarding apprentice, Mr. Sandro had certainly experienced hardship and struggles to reach his current level of skill. However, this was the first time he had ever been hiding in a dark cement warehouse like this. Because of the alchemical bomb he had personally thrown, although the Church of Storms had not launched a large-scale citywide manhunt, the Church's arbitrators had taken action and begun a secret search for dark wizards. Moreover, the Metropolitan Police Department's officers, under the pretext of cracking down on the H gang and smuggling rings, also began to strictly investigate the migrant population.

Under such circumstances, renting a house or staying in a hotel would obviously pose a great risk of exposure, so for safety reasons, Mr. Sandro had no choice but to hide in this warehouse.

Alex Sandro was both shocked and furious when he was ambushed in the grove by Wanda and Perrin, who belonged to the same wizarding organization. He was furious that not only had he been ambushed, but his carefully cultivated foothold in Loen had also been destroyed. However, Sandro was somewhat surprised that what Wanda and Perrin wanted from him was this small bronze mirror that he had casually picked up from Ferguson's apartment.

(End of this chapter)