Wizard Earl

Chapter 567 Harvest

Besides telling Connor that the Crystal Sealing Technique has a very detailed lineage within the Celta Cult, Alex Sandro's memories also told Connor that he knew who had learned the Crystal Sealing Technique. Coincidentally, this person who learned the Crystal Sealing Technique is currently in Rune, and this person is none other than Perrin, whom Connor had met briefly in the Cels Factory District!

Connor's earlier speculation was entirely correct. The handsome young man and the beautiful middle-aged woman that he had encountered while monitoring the Cels factory area that day were none other than Perrin and Wanda, high-ranking wizard apprentices of the Celta Cult, just like Alex Sandro!

However, the relationship between Alex Sandro and Perrin and Wanda wasn't what Connor imagined. They weren't from the same wizarding organization and had come together to cause him trouble. What made Connor most amused and exasperated was that he initially thought Alex Sandro took the small mirror from his apartment because he was beginning to doubt his wizarding identity. But to his utter surprise, Alex Sandro actually believed the small mirror was related to the fire-attribute gem.

What Connor found even more unbelievable was that Alex Sandro wasn't the only one with this bizarre idea; his companions Wanda and Perrin shared the same thought. Wanda and Perrin even repeatedly attacked Alex Sandro, a fellow member of the Salta cult, and snatched the small bronze mirror from him. This, however, resolved Connor's earlier question about why the compass needle, which should have been monitoring the mirror's location, hadn't changed when Alex Sandro appeared around Ferguson's apartment.

In Alex Sandro's memory, two pieces of information surprised and pleased Connor greatly. The first was that neither Alex Sandro nor Wanda and Perrin realized that their target, Connor Ferguson, was a wizard, and moreover, a wizard of the same rank who could threaten their lives. In the eyes of the three Celtic high-ranking wizard apprentices, Connor Ferguson was still just a regular knight who did not know magic, and could not possibly pose any threat to them!

This meant that Connor could continue to lurk in the shadows, letting Wanda and Perrin slowly and unexpectedly kill them... This thought undoubtedly excited Connor greatly, but what excited him even more was the fire-attribute gem sealed within the crystal ball in his hand. Alex Sandro's memories confirmed Connor's guess about this fire-attribute gem—to help advanced wizard apprentices break through to become full wizards!

The idea that fire-attribute gems could help advanced wizard apprentices break through to become full-fledged wizards was born in Connor's mind as early as when he discovered the existence of fire-attribute gems after breaking the first layer of the crystal seal.

Who is Stipe Ferguson?

He was a senior wizard apprentice, and for a senior wizard apprentice, what could be more important than breaking through to become a full wizard?

Without a doubt! No! For advanced wizard apprentices, the reason they painstakingly climb from junior wizard apprentice to advanced wizard apprentice is precisely to get closer to becoming a formal wizard, and then take that step to become a formal wizard, so that their strength and life level can be permanently sublimated.

Since Stip Ferguson cared so much about this fire-attribute gem, using two full crystal powder seals to seal it, then perhaps this fire-attribute gem possessed the magical power to help advanced wizard apprentices break through to become full-fledged wizards. The appearance of four consecutive Celtic advanced wizard apprentices—Lindelof, Alex Sandro, Wanda, and Perrin—further solidified Connor's idea, and now his idea has finally been confirmed by Alex Sandro's memories.

In Alex Sandro's memory, although he didn't know exactly how the fire-attribute gem helped the advanced wizard apprentice break through to become a full-fledged wizard, Alex Sandro vividly remembered his mentor, Belotti, saying with great regret after learning that he was severely injured and had no hope of becoming a full-fledged wizard under normal circumstances, "If only the Heart of Celta were still within the Celta Cult, you would still have a chance..."

The Heart of Celta is the name of something Stip Ferguson took from the Celta Cult hundreds of years ago, and it's also the name of the fire-attribute gem sealed within the crystal ball that Connor currently holds.

Bellotti's words were unintentional, but they were taken to heart. The "Heart of Seta" became the final straw for Alex Sandro to break through to become a formal wizard. Sandro had only fully recovered from his serious injuries three months prior. After learning that the Heart of Seta might have been transferred by the Ferguson family to the heir of the Loen family, Connor Ferguson, he traveled thousands of miles across several provinces of the Kaman Empire to Loen, a major economic city on the western coast of the Storm Ocean. And then, what happened next occurred.

Stroking the smooth surface of the crystal ball, Connor took out his compass, a faint smile appearing on his face. Now he only had one goal left: to kill Wanda and then, like he had dealt with Alex Sandro, capture the Celtic genius wizard Perrin alive, and then use his mind-controlling technique to record the crystal sealing spell from Perrin's head.

Having obtained the detailed structure of the Crystal Seal, Connor's auxiliary chip was able to analyze its weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Naturally, Connor was then able to forcibly break through the second layer of the Crystal Seal that sealed the Heart of Seta and retrieve the treasure left to him, the heir of the Ferguson family, by his ancestor Stip Ferguson.

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A few days later, around 6 PM, as the sun had set and the moon had quietly risen into the sky, a young man with blond hair, wearing a linen coat, appeared in front of a very quiet courtyard on the outskirts of the western district of Luen. The blond-haired young man discreetly scanned his surroundings and the street where the courtyard was located. Seeing that no one else was around, he lightly touched the courtyard gate with his finger. Two or three seconds later, the previously immovable gate mysteriously opened by itself. Without hesitation, the blond-haired young man slipped through the gate, and as he entered, the door closed by itself, returning to its original state!

(End of this chapter)