Wizard Earl

Chapter 694 Cracking the Crystal Ball

"After the incident at Semedo Mansion last night, I saw old Victor rushing towards Alavés Fishing Village. I felt it must be related to you, Connor, so I secretly followed him. On the beach of Alavés Fishing Village, I found traces of a fight between you and old Victor, and that's how I followed you all the way here!"

Upon hearing Varga's reply, Connor gripped her hand tightly. If it weren't for Varga's vigilance, Connor Ferguson might have really been in trouble today!

Connor and Varga, who had survived the ordeal, huddled together for a while.

"Donner, you should go and heal your injuries first! You've just been injured, and this is the golden time for recovery. If you miss this window, it will be much more difficult to recover later!" Varga, a pharmacist, observed Connor's complexion and, having a general understanding of his current condition, said with concern:

Connor didn't refuse Varga's suggestion, nodding slightly before kissing her on the smooth forehead and saying, "Then I'll go down to the basement to heal my wounds. Let me know if anything happens!"

"Mmm!" Varga replied obediently.

Reassured, Donald walked towards the basement of the safe house. A minute later, he sat down in the basement, which was dozens of meters above the ground. Connor cautiously cast a spell on the walls around the basement, activating the restrictions he had personally set up.

After doing all this, Connor did not begin to heal himself as he had promised Varga. Instead, he took out a crystal ball from his spatial ring, the very same crystal ball that old Victor had just thrown out.

Connor took out the crystal ball and examined it carefully. He discovered that the crystal ball was not as simple as he had initially thought, and it might hold a hidden secret.

When Connor first saw the crystal ball, based on the intense energy fluctuations emanating from it, he believed it to be an alchemical bomb, used by old Victor to cover his retreat in order to prevent him and Varga from pursuing him.

Later, because it didn't explode, Connor discovered during his subsequent inspection that it was a malicious alchemical artifact used to lure people in and then use highly poisonous purple water arrows to ambush them.

However, after Connor triggered the mechanism on the crystal ball, destroying the poisonous water arrow, and observed the crystal ball's original appearance, Connor realized that he seemed to have completely misunderstood its purpose...

The crystal ball is not an alchemical bomb, nor is it some kind of sinister alchemical item. It is a crystal ball that carries and transmits information. As for the highly poisonous purple water arrow hidden inside, its purpose is not to harm anyone, but to protect the information in this crystal ball from being obtained by unrelated people!

Realizing this and understanding the gravity of the matter, Connor refrained from retrieving the information from the crystal ball in public. Upon returning to the safe house, seeing that Varga did not mention the crystal ball again, Connor also refrained from bringing it up.

After carefully examining the crystal ball again, Connor took a deep breath, made up his mind, and tapped various parts of the crystal ball with his fingers. As Connor's fingers moved, the crystal ball immediately became radiant and automatically detached from his hand, floating in mid-air in front of Connor.

The shimmering light on the crystal ball lasted for about a minute, then slowly subsided. Under Connor's gaze, the crystal ball, suspended in mid-air, was covered with fine Byzantine script. At a glance, there were at least several hundred characters. As Connor carefully read the script on the crystal ball, his expression gradually became complicated.

The Byzantine script now displayed in the crystal ball is an early script from the Byzantine era, and it is quite different from the common Byzantine script that people in the wizarding world are familiar with, learn, and use. In a city as large as Loen, with a population of over a million, Connor believes that no more than five people can read this script, and without a doubt, he, Connor Ferguson, is one of them!

Moreover, even if one could decipher the script, the characters were composed according to a specific set of rules. If you didn't understand these rules, then these early Byzantine characters would appear as gibberish to you, carrying no information whatsoever. However, in Connor's eyes, the hundreds of characters appearing on the crystal ball actually contained only three words!

"Who are you?"

After a moment's hesitation, Connor began to write the name Connor Ferguson on the crystal ball with his finger, using the early Byzantine script.

If Connor remembers correctly, Reyes personally taught him how to write the script, and showed him how to write the name Connor Ferguson in early Byzantine script.

This is an alchemical restriction created by Reyes, as recorded in "Reyes Alchemy". If the answer you write on the crystal ball is not the correct answer, the restriction will be triggered, and the alchemical item carrying the restriction will be automatically destroyed!

After Connor finished writing his name, the hundreds of characters on the crystal ball slowly disappeared. Seeing this, Connor took a deep breath, took the silver crown pendant out of his spatial ring, held it tightly in his left hand, and then carefully placed his right hand on the crystal ball!

Although Connor believed that the many restrictions on the crystal ball were only to protect the information it contained and that he had already removed them, he still felt he should be prepared just in case and to avoid any accidents. In case the crystal ball was indeed a trap set by old Victor, with the amplification of his mental power from the silver pendant, he could quickly escape unscathed from the trap!

As it turned out, Connor was overthinking things. After his right hand felt the coldness of the crystal ball's surface, nothing unusual happened. On the contrary, a flood of information poured into Connor's mind from the crystal ball…

Ten minutes later, Connor, who had received the information from the crystal ball, slowly opened his eyes. As Connor opened his eyes, the crystal ball that Old Victor had given him, which carried the information, seemed to have completed its mission. Suddenly, it lost all its luster, turned into liquid, and fell to the ground. Strangely, the liquid that the crystal ball turned into did not leave any trace on the ground. It was as if it had been evaporated!

(End of this chapter)