Wizard Earl

Despite the eerie basement giving off a creepy feeling, Robelli seemed more relaxed upon arriving there. A smile appeared on his chubby face as he took a somewhat intoxicated breath of the grayish-white gas released by the burning white candle on the skull candlestick. The gas didn't smell nauseating; instead, it was a strangely pleasant fragrance that made one smile.

After a few seconds of blissful contemplation, Robbie adjusted his black-rimmed glasses and turned his gaze to the small package in his hand. He seemed quite patient, not rushing to open the package to see what was inside, but instead carefully examining its outer packaging.

"Sending address: Endok Town Post Office, From: Mr. Cook"

Looking at the information displayed on the package, Robelli sneered. He didn't know the sender, Mr. Cook, and had never even heard of him before. But he knew the sender's address, Ndok, a small town hundreds of kilometers away from Frosinone.

For such a remote area to send him a mysterious package from someone he had never heard of before, there was no doubt that there must be some secret hidden in the package!

Most importantly, just a few minutes ago, when Robbie received the mysterious package from the courier, he used his mental energy to probe the package, which looked small and light. Unfortunately, the person who sent the package seemed to have anticipated Robbie's actions and had placed something in the package that could resist mental energy detection.

This explains why Robbie's mental probe was fruitless and found nothing. This is also why Robbie took the mysterious package so seriously, closing the shop and going to the basement to check it.

As the saying goes, the older one gets in the martial arts world, the more timid one becomes. Although he didn't know what was inside the package, Robelli was still very cautious while opening it. He was on guard the whole time and even prepared a copper ring-like defensive item to hold in his hand at all times.

After about ten seconds, Robbie finally opened the package. Inside was a small wooden box, which seemed to be the thing that had blocked Robbie's mental detection.

Just as Robbie was hesitating, wondering what secret the small wooden box held, it opened automatically without warning under his gaze. Inside, a brass key and a note lay quietly.

Robbie pointed his thick finger at the small wooden box, and the brass key and the note inside seemed to sprout wings and fly out of the box, landing in Robbie's hand.

Robbie's gaze shifted to the note, but to his surprise, it was a blank sheet of paper with nothing written on it. Having traveled the wizarding world for decades, the experienced Robbie wasn't in a hurry. Instead, he carefully examined the note. A minute later, Robbie seemed to have discovered the secret of the note. He snapped his fingers lightly, and a green flame, resembling a will-o'-the-wisp, immediately appeared on his index finger.

Robbie carefully manipulated the green flame and began to burn the note. A surprising scene unfolded: instead of burning to ashes like a blank sheet of paper, a line of Kaman script slowly emerged.

"I've put your things in the usual spot!"

The note was incomplete and unsigned, but considering that today was the thirteenth day of the half-month agreement and the alchemical method of transmitting the message, Robbie immediately figured out who had sent it to him.

"Connor Ferguson, Connor Ferguson, you really are going to try something different with me later!"

Robbie shook his head and said in a deep voice with some emotion, as he squeezed his palm, and the note immediately turned to ashes and fell to the floor of the basement.

After destroying the note, Robbie turned his attention to the brass key that had been delivered along with the note, packed in a small wooden box. Although Connor hadn't specified the purpose of the brass key in his message, it was clear that it was no ordinary item; otherwise, Connor Ferguson wouldn't have sent it.

Robbie meticulously examined the brass key for a full half hour. He even brought out a large, multi-functional metallurgical device from the basement to assist him, but he still couldn't find any secrets in this brass key that seemed no different from an ordinary door key.

Seeing that he had exhausted all his methods but still found nothing, Robbie finally shook his head and gave up. He put the brass key in his pocket, returned to the surface from the basement, and after locking the mechanism leading to the basement, Robbie quietly left his Arshavin Eyeglasses shop and flew silently towards the Baresi Forest on the outskirts of Frosinone.

Although Connor Ferguson's note didn't specify the location of the item, instead using the phrase "the old place," Robbie was still able to immediately guess where that "old place" was.

Robbie's relationship with Connor Ferguson was not close, and the time they spent together was short, only a few months during Connor's stay in Frosinone. In total, they met only three times. Of these three times, two were at Robbie's own Arshavin Opticians shop, and one was in the Baresi Forest where the Sabitzer brothers perished.

Since Connor didn't deliver the items directly to Arshavin's Optical Shop, the location of the "old place" mentioned on the note is self-evident.

It's clear that Robbie values ​​the refined Paye Gold that Connor has made very much. Once he realized the location, he didn't hesitate and immediately rushed out. Moreover, he was quite fast, and it only took him about half an hour to get from Zanetti Street in the city to Baresi Forest.

When Robbie arrived at the Baresi Forest, it was exactly six o'clock in the evening, local time in Frosinone. The sky was already darkening, and in the desolate, deserted Baresi Forest, only the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the trees could be heard…

Upon entering the Baresi Forest, Robbie headed towards the place where he had last met Connor, while simultaneously projecting his mental energy to examine everything around him.