Wizard Earl

Taking a deep breath, under the cover of darkness, Connor stealthily made his way towards the tower. As one of the most important buildings of the Ferguson family, the family library is surrounded by not only family servants patrolling 24 hours a day, but also numerous traps. Even members of the Ferguson family are absolutely not allowed to approach the family library under normal circumstances!

For over 90% of the Ferguson family members, the family library in the center of the manor was an absolute forbidden zone, one that they could never enter in their entire lives. However, Connor Ferguson was the only son of the family head and was regarded as the family heir from birth, the undisputed next Earl of Ferguson. Therefore, since he was six years old and could understand things, the Ferguson family library had been an unobstructed passage for him, and he had memorized the locations of all the mechanisms set up outside the Ferguson family library.

Therefore, Connor's stealth was completely unimpeded, and he entered the tower. Once inside, Connor went directly to the second floor, to a storage room that looked like a place to store cleaning tools. Entering the storage room, Connor, following his childhood memories, began to gently tap on the red bricks of the storage room walls in sequence.

"Click!"

When Connor struck the fifth red brick, a crisp sound came from the wall of the storage room, revealing a hidden door.

"Butler Martinez, what brings you here so late?"

After the hidden door split open, before Connor could react, an elderly man, around seventy years old and remarkably robust, emerged. Without even looking at who the man was, the old man spoke without hesitation.

After the old man finished speaking, he saw a man in black robes standing before him, not the butler Martinez he had mentioned. He immediately exclaimed in surprise and anger, "Who are you? How do you know about the Ferguson family's secret orders?"

Although the old man looked to be over seventy years old and somewhat frail, his reaction to shock and anger was surprisingly swift. He reached out to strike a protrusion on the wall, but before his hand could even touch it, the man in black robes delivered a swift chop to his neck.

Without any struggle, the old man fainted. Seeing that the old man had fainted, Connor helped him up and carried him to the bed in the secret room behind the hidden door.

"I'm sorry, Grandpa Jon!"

Connor whispered something to the old man, then took out a black pill from his spatial ring and fed it to the old man so he could swallow it.

This old man was named Jon Ferguson, Connor's grandfather's younger brother, making him Connor's great-uncle. He was the keeper of the Ferguson family library in this generation.

The Ferguson family library is a highly confidential and important location for the Ferguson family. It is guarded by servants and equipped with traps and mechanisms on the outside, and the inside is naturally not without defenses either. It is heavily guarded with traps and mechanisms. Moreover, a knight from the Ferguson family lives in a secret room inside the tower year-round as the tower guard, protecting the family library. If any outsider breaks in, the alarm mechanism will be triggered immediately.

As the guardian of this generation, Jon Ferguson was a martial arts fanatic and a romantic in his youth. He became a Grand Knight before he was thirty and did many things for his family, both respectable and shady. Although his marriage to his wife was a political alliance and it took less than half a year from meeting to marriage, the two were very much in love and had a very good relationship.

Unfortunately, when Jon Ferguson was thirty-one years old, his wife died in childbirth during their first childbirth. Overwhelmed with grief, Jon Ferguson never remarried and became despondent, his life ending in ruin.

When the previous generation of the Ferguson family library keeper died of old age twenty years ago, Jon Ferguson, who had no children and no ties in the world, decided to make a final contribution to the family and volunteered to become the new library keeper. Since then, he has lived in the secret chamber of the tower, guarding the secrets of the Ferguson family.

As the heir to the family fortune, Connor was also fascinated by the various ancient books and documents recorded by the Ferguson family in the library in Frosinone. He spent a lot of time there and naturally became acquainted with his great-uncle, Jon Ferguson. The two had a very good relationship!

After feeding Jon Ferguson the pill, which provided some protection to his mind, Connor cautiously began searching Ferguson's soul. However, unsurprisingly, Connor discovered a Paredes restriction within Ferguson's mind…

Upon seeing this, Connor couldn't help but smile bitterly. He slowly withdrew his mental energy from Jon Ferguson's mind, and then used some hypnotic techniques to erase his memory of the night before beginning to search the secret room.

If Reyes wanted to set up his own gift and restrictive mechanisms in the Ferguson family library, then Jon Ferguson, as the tower guardian, was someone he could not get past. The Paredes restriction in Jon Ferguson's mind was the best proof that Connor had not come to the wrong place. Reyes's gift and the restrictive mechanisms around it were hidden in this tower!

As for why Connor didn't try to break the Paredes restriction after discovering it in Jon Ferguson's mind, but instead chose to give up, it wasn't because of childhood feelings that Connor was unwilling to let Jon Ferguson risk his life to help him break the restriction.

After all, the current Connor Ferguson and the eldest son of the Ferguson family from back then are not the same person. Any past affections are truly somewhat... [unclear/incomplete]

Moreover, given Jon Ferguson's loyalty and dedication to the Ferguson family, if he knew that a restriction had been placed in his mind, which could pose a significant threat to the Ferguson family, Connor believed that even if he didn't say anything, Jon would be willing to take the risk and let Connor remove the restriction from his mind.

So the risk wasn't the reason Connor gave up on cracking it. Connor had just cracked part of the Paredes restriction in Danilo's brain and had successful experience. Logically, Connor should have been full of confidence when he encountered the Paredes restriction again. So why did Connor choose to give up?

The answer is actually quite simple: Jon Ferguson is too fragile!