Wizard Earl

Chapter 672 Secret Passage

Martina can currently endure the pain of the weakness period and forcibly mobilize some of her magic power. However, the weakness period will truly begin a day later, when the nightmare and pain will start. Martina is keenly aware that if she does not want to faint from the pain a day later, the most sensible thing for her is not to use magic power. However, while doing so will avoid the pain, it will also bring Martina great danger!

Despite her terrible physical condition, Martina was still very grateful, both for taking the De Jong potion early and for the existence of a secret passage beneath the Semedo Mansion.

Just a minute after the effects of the De Rong potion wore off, Martina checked herself to predict the impact of its side effects on her body. The results delighted Martina; while the side effects of the De Rong potion would have a significant impact on her body, they were not severe enough to cause her to fall from a high-level wizard apprentice to a mid-level wizard apprentice.

Martina anticipates that with the help of various recovery methods, it will take at least three years and at most five years for her body to recover from the side effects of the De Jong drug. This is undoubtedly a very important reassurance for Martina, who is very wary of the side effects of the De Jong drug!

As for the secret passage she is now walking through, Martina is very grateful that she made a very wise choice back then!

Semedo Mansion, a property secretly acquired by James Trading Company, was intended to serve as a safe house for Martina to escape danger in critical moments.

Therefore, as a safe house, Semedo Mansion has a secret room that can shield energy fluctuations, as well as a bronze mirror containing alchemical artifacts that can be used to observe the surroundings of the mansion. The highly toxic gray-white smoke hidden in the walls can also be used to defeat enemies who launch sudden attacks. Naturally, there is also a secret passage for escaping!

In fact, James Trading Company's decision to buy Semedo Mansion instead of other villas in the villa district as a safe house for Martina was not random; it was a deliberate choice. Before purchasing Semedo Mansion, James Trading Company had conducted extensive research on the property!

They discovered that ten meters underground in the Semedo Mansion, there was a little-known, extremely hidden section of abandoned sewer in the villa area. This abandoned sewer was about half a kilometer long. In the secret passage of the Semedo Mansion, one only needed to connect to this sewer to escape. It can be said that this abandoned sewer is a natural secret passage, and going out from the sewer leads to the Storm Ocean Beach. It can be said that once you step out, the sea is wide enough for fish to leap and the sky is high enough for birds to fly.

Because it was intended to be a safe house for Martina, James Trading Company gave Martina the power to choose the location. After learning about the situation at Semedo Mansion, Martina chose it without any hesitation. In retrospect, Martina's choice was very wise, saving her life from old Victor!

Although this was the first time Martina had traversed this secret passage, it was a matter of life and death. She had studied the passage extensively on the map beforehand. Martina knew very well that there was a small fishing village called "Alavés" less than three kilometers away from the exit of the secret passage on the other side of the Storm Ocean.

Although the small fishing village of Alavés is not large, with only about a hundred households and three or four hundred people, it must have a lot of fishing boats because people have always relied on the sea for their livelihood. Martina already has a plan: she plans to find a boat in Alavés to go to Belotti Island, which is about 150 nautical miles away from Loen, and then find a cruise ship on Belotti Island to go to the New World to seek refuge and recuperate.

For Martina, her wizarding career in Rune, or rather in the Secret Society, is now over. Although the Duke's reinforcements will arrive in Rune in a few days, Martina is no longer prepared to wait for the two high-ranking wizard apprentices, the Sabitzer brothers, to arrive. Martina knows one thing very well: the reason why the Duke's faction is so generous in providing her with resources to break through to formal wizard training is largely because she is hiding in Rune, hiding beside old Victor, and can provide the Duke's faction with the information they want.

Now that her identity has been exposed, Martina's value to the Royal Faction will be greatly reduced. Furthermore, having taken the De Rong potion, her potential to break through and become a formal wizard will also be significantly diminished. Without these two advantages, Martina will become a burden within the Royal Faction—neither useful nor worth discarding. Over time, she will become like any other high-level wizard apprentice, dispensable, or even, not impossible, left to the Professor's faction for revenge. The Professor has always been vehemently opposed to traitors, relentlessly pursuing them to the death, let alone someone like her who betrayed the Faction. Once caught by the Professor's faction, even a quick death would be a pipe dream!

So Martina made up her mind not to return to the Royal Faction. In any case, she had gained quite a lot of benefits from being an undercover agent for the Royal Faction over the years. She could devote herself to cultivation for ten years and wait out the storm before coming out of seclusion. Anyway, she was still young and could afford to wait. Once she arrived in the chaotic Hoy New World, even if the Secret Society wanted to find her, they would probably be willing but unable to do so.

While refining her escape plan in her mind, Martina took out a recovery potion from her spatial ring and drank it to restore her physical condition. Under the effects of the potion, Martina's physical pain lessened, and for some reason, Connor's angular face appeared in her mind.

Thinking of Connor, Martina's beautiful eyes suddenly became extremely complicated. She was certain that she had been tricked by that damned Connor Ferguson! That day at Caesardo Park outside Loen, Connor's invitation to meet her must have been a trap set specifically for her!

Although Martina didn't know where Connor had found such a high-level wizard apprentice who could use forbidden blood magic to ambush her on the way back after their meeting, it was clear that Old Victor's confusion and doubt in the secret room of the Semedo Mansion were genuine. Moreover, in such a situation where the truth was revealed, Martina couldn't think of any reason why Old Victor would choose to deceive her!

Since the high-level wizard apprentice who used blood magic wasn't an assassin sent by old Victor, there's only one explanation: this person was found by Connor!

(End of this chapter)