Wizard Earl

Chapter 765 The Cicada Sheds Its Shell

Although Connor couldn't see the face of the old man who had deliberately released his aura to be perceived by his mental power because of the gray robe, it didn't stop Connor from instantly becoming tense upon sensing the old man's powerful aura!

Before the gray-robed old man actively released his aura, Connor had seen the old man sitting on the bench reading a newspaper, but at the time Connor did not find anything unusual about him and just regarded him as an ordinary old man reading a newspaper.

To his utter surprise, he had been fooled by this old man. Although the aura emanating from the gray-robed old man was not much, it was extremely solid, exuding a powerful feeling from the inside out. Sensing this aura, Connor, even before fighting this person, already understood that the gray-robed old man's strength was definitely above his own!

What truly unsettled Connor was that the bench where the gray-robed old man was sitting was directly opposite the window of the Earl's Suite on the fifth floor of the Grand Hotel Agudro…

Bringing such a powerful first-level wizard along, it's clear that Isabella came prepared. Combined with Isabella's words, although she didn't say it explicitly, Connor could still sense a very strong sense of threat in her words.

Isabella used Varga, who was in the Earl's Suite at the Agudero Hotel and had no idea what was happening, to threaten Connor!

Although it's still unclear how Isabella found the Grand Hotel Agudro, since she was able to locate Connor's hideout in Frosinone, she obviously knew about Varga's presence with Connor.

This is why, during their conversation at the restaurant, Isabella was so convinced that Connor would follow her "advice" to go to Cavani's restaurant and cause trouble for the restaurant's manager, Vidigal Cavani!

Connor had no doubt that if he had refused Isabella's suggestion, the gray-robed old man sitting on the bench, whose face was obscured, would have rushed up to the fifth floor of the Grand Hotel Agudero and grabbed Varga in the room!

When Connor discovered that Isabella was using Varga to threaten him, his first thought wasn't to compromise, but to turn on her immediately, use swift and decisive methods to capture Isabella and take her hostage! Since the Royal Faction dared to threaten him with Varga, he could threaten them with Isabella in return!

At the time, Connor and Isabella were no more than three meters apart. Connor was a first-level wizard and Isabella was a senior wizard apprentice. Under normal circumstances, it would not be too difficult for a first-level wizard to control a senior wizard apprentice at a distance of only three meters, although it was not easy.

However, Connor abandoned the seemingly feasible idea of ​​kidnapping Isabella after only a second of serious consideration. The reason Connor gave up the idea was not because he was worried that he would not be able to control Isabella enough, or that he would not be able to break the threat posed to him by the hidden first-level wizard using Varga.

In fact, when Connor discovered that Isabella was able to mobilize a formal wizard to cooperate with her, his feelings could only be described as "shock." Connor began to re-examine Isabella's status within the royal faction. If Connor only had doubts about Isabella's identity after their last meeting at the Westcoron Bar, then this time Connor was absolutely certain that Isabella was definitely not just the mistress of Vermaelen, a first-level wizard and a powerful assistant to the king.

Since that's the case, Isabella certainly isn't stupid. As a high-level wizard apprentice, she must understand how dangerous it is to be three meters away from a first-level wizard. Since she did it, she obviously has something to rely on and isn't worried or afraid that they would coerce her out of anger after she discovered that she was being threatened.

So the question is, what is Isabella's reliance?

Is that the old man in the gray robe who was sitting on the bench outside the restaurant reading the newspaper?

That's right! Although this gray-robed old man was stronger than Connor, and not just a little stronger, but much stronger, at that time, the old man was more than a hundred meters away from Connor. As a psychic wizard, if Connor had decided to take the risk and attack Isabella, the gray-robed old man would absolutely not have been able to stop Connor from attacking Isabella in the first instance.

Isabella, being a smart person, would never be unaware of this principle. The reason she still chose to sit so close to Connor to threaten him was clearly because her reliance was not on the old man in the gray robe, but on herself!

Combined with Connor's earlier confirmation that Isabella was no ordinary person, Connor was even more certain that Isabella had something to rely on. If he had chosen to force his way in at that time, and failed to subdue Isabella in one strike, Connor was certain that the gray-robed old man on the bench would have taken the opportunity to launch a thunderous attack on him!

So after quickly weighing the pros and cons, Connor chose to give up on attacking Isabella, pay the bill, and leave. Although it seemed like he had backed down under Isabella's threat, Connor had also come up with a plan.

Although Connor didn't know what was going on between the Cavani restaurant and Vidigal Cavani that made the King's party take them so seriously, Isabella's insistence on taking him there made Connor certain that there was something wrong with that place.

Furthermore, given that Isabella was willing to use Varga to threaten her into going to the Cavani restaurant to cause trouble for Vidigal Cavani, it's clear that going to the Cavani restaurant to cause trouble for Vidigal Cavani himself is quite risky. Therefore, to mitigate the risk, they decided to send her alone, while their own people remained hidden behind...

While Isabella's idea was good, Connor reasoned that since Isabella valued the Cavani restaurant so much, she would definitely be hiding in a very secluded corner and observing him when he attacked the restaurant.

Connor, understanding this, decided to use a clever escape tactic on Isabella, which led to the scene at the Cavani restaurant. After drawing Isabella's attention there with a clever maneuver, Connor's next task was to immediately return to the Grand Hotel Agudero and rescue Varga from the coercion of the Royal Faction!

(End of this chapter)