Wizard Earl

Chapter 627 The Chase

A dozen minutes later, Connor appeared in a small grove of trees on the western outskirts of Kevin Town. He shook his head with some regret. Tusam was cautious enough not to follow him here. Otherwise, Connor could have killed him right here in this grove and used his mind control technique to interrogate him and find out Varga's whereabouts!

Even if Tusam hadn't fallen for the trap, Connor didn't care. As long as Tusam left Kevin Town, Connor would definitely find him. When making the plan, Connor had already observed the terrain around Kevin Town. Kevin Town was located at the foot of the mountain, with plains on the other three sides except for the mountain to the west. So as long as Connor stood on the high point of the western mountain, everyone who wanted to leave Kevin Town would be clearly seen by Connor through his binoculars and wouldn't be able to escape!

Meanwhile, Connor, the hunter on the western hilltop, was preparing to begin a cat-and-mouse hunt. His prey, Tusam, however, was hiding in a hotel in Kevin Town with a gloomy expression. Leaning against the cold wall of the hotel room, a look of seriousness appeared in Tusam's black pupils.

Everything that had just happened made him feel a strong sense of crisis. First, his train was half an hour late and nowhere to be seen. Then, there was that strange shooting incident in the waiting hall. Although none of these were directly aimed at him, Tusam felt as if someone was trying to stop him from escaping!

After the shooting, although the scene in the waiting room was extremely chaotic and everyone was desperately trying to run out, Tusam clearly saw that the red-haired boy who was firing a revolver in the waiting room, although he was shouting that he would kill everyone, actually fired all six bullets into the air. No one was hurt by these bullets, and after creating chaos, he immediately left the waiting room without lingering.

This seems extremely bizarre. According to the Kaman Empire's "Constitution," firing a gun in a crowded place like a train station, even if no one is injured or killed, is punishable by death. That red-haired boy, risking so much, opened fire in the waiting room, seemingly just to create chaos. What was his motive?

This question puzzled Tusam for a long time. After thinking for a while, a suspicious glint flashed in his eyes, and a possibility came to mind!

Could it be that the secret society has discovered my plan?

Is this redhead a member of the Secret Society? He discovered that he wanted to escape by train in Kevin Town. He supposedly wanted to cause the Kevin train station to shut down to delay his departure and wait for old Victor to arrive.

Thinking of this possibility, Tusam, who was already being hunted by the secret society and was somewhat paranoid, had a look of fear in his eyes. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the red-haired boy was a member of the secret society and that he was doing this to delay his departure. After all, apart from this possibility, the red-haired boy's actions of causing a shooting incident in the waiting room were completely incomprehensible!

Taking a deep breath, Tusam made his decision. He picked up his briefcase from the chair in the room, put on a dark blue robe, and quietly left the room.

Tusam rented a carriage from the town's carriage shop and drove it out of Kevin Town alone. Although the possibility that the red-haired boy was a member of the secret society was not entirely certain, Tusam believed that given his current severely injured physical condition, he couldn't afford to gamble on whether the red-haired boy was just stalling for time to prevent him from leaving; it was all just a matter of chance.

Even if all of this was accidental, Tusam felt he had to leave Kevin Town. After all, the shooting at the train station, even without deaths, was no small matter. In a few hours at the latest, police from the Rune Metropolitan Police Department would arrive in Kevin Town to search for all witnesses and investigate what had happened. Tusam's identity documents were all fake, so the risk of staying in Kevin Town was simply too great.

Since he had to leave anyway, Tusam felt that there was no time to lose. The nearest train station to Kevin Town was Tunguska, eighty kilometers away. As long as he got there and boarded a train, Tusam felt that he could safely escape the secret society's pursuit.

At midday, when the sun was high in the sky, Connor, who had been waiting in the woods west of Kevin Town for an hour with his binoculars in hand, suddenly saw a blue-roofed carriage drive out of Kevin Town into his field of vision. After staring at the carriage for a while, a bloodthirsty look appeared in Connor's eyes as he saw his prey!

Just as he had imagined, the uneasy Tusam finally chose to leave Kevin Town. In fact, he acted faster than Connor had thought. Donning a black magic robe, Connor rushed down the mountain and began his hunt!

Even while on the run, Tusam remained highly alert. With the help of his Lightness Spell, Connor appeared a kilometer behind the carriage, and Tusam, who was driving the carriage on the road, had already spotted him.

"Connor Ferguson, what is he doing here?" Tusam was taken aback when he saw the black-robed figure chasing him. Although he had only fought Connor once in the swamp, Connor's formidable strength had left a deep impression on him. So, after a brief look, Tusam recognized the black-robed man chasing him as Connor Ferguson, whom Old Victor had ordered him to kill.

As he picked up the whip and lashed the horses' rumps, urging them to gallop forward in an attempt to shake off Connor, Tusam frowned, his mind racing. He wouldn't have been too surprised if it were a wizard from the Secret Society chasing him, but the fact that Connor Ferguson was here to hunt him down was truly astonishing. Tusam couldn't understand why Connor was pursuing him; he had clearly stopped following old Victor's orders to let him go!

While Tusam was still somewhat puzzled, Connor's speed increased, and the distance between Tusam and Connor, who was driving the carriage, gradually decreased. After a few minutes, the distance had shrunk to less than a hundred meters.

(End of this chapter)