Wizard Earl

"Lead the way!"

Having understood this principle, Butler Martinez commanded Christensen with great authority:

Christensen was somewhat apprehensive about the butler Martinez's order, unsure of what the old butler wanted to see Jack Ferguson for. However, he could only obediently lead the way. A few minutes later, Christensen led the butler to a dilapidated villa in the northeast corner of the estate. The villa's gate was tightly closed, clearly indicating that the owner did not welcome visitors.

"Old butler, the Jack Ferguson family is inside!" Christensen said, wiping the sweat from his face with a handkerchief, looking extremely embarrassed.

Upon hearing Christensen's words, Butler Martinez frowned again. If he remembered correctly, Jack Ferguson had a very beautiful villa in the center of Ferguson Estate, and the fact that he was living there now clearly indicated something.

Although the problem was discovered, Butler Martinez had no intention of resolving it. He was well aware that this was the price of failure in the struggle. He nodded and walked straight toward the villa, with an extremely embarrassed Christensen and his servants following behind him.

"Tap! Tap! Tap!"

Butler Martinez politely knocked on the villa door, but after nearly a minute, the villa remained completely silent. It seemed no one intended to open the door for him, which immediately gave Butler Martinez a bad feeling…

Despite sensing danger, but considering that this was Ferguson Manor and Jack Ferguson was just one of his prisoners, Butler Martinez did not make a sound. His aged face remained unchanged. He adjusted his breathing, gripped his cane tightly in his right hand, and then waved his hand to signal Christensen, who was beside him, to smash the door open!

Having found nothing, Christensen, upon receiving orders from Martinez, the head butler, naturally didn't hesitate. He and his servants immediately began their work, kicking the dilapidated villa door one after another. After a dozen seconds, the poor door finally collapsed under their onslaught, revealing the old and filthy state of the villa. At the same time, a smell, like rotting furniture, wafted from the villa towards them!

Seemingly realizing this, Butler Martinez, gripping his cane tightly, flashed a ruthless glint in his eyes. He immediately pulled a very clean handkerchief from his pocket, covered his mouth and nose, and then, in a low voice, ordered Christensen, "Take your men inside!"

Although breathing in the rotten smell was unpleasant, Christensen didn't seem to feel anything at the moment. Under the orders of the head butler, Martinez, he wrinkled his nose and led his men into the villa.

As Christensen led his men into the villa, the next second, Butler Martinez turned around and, with the help of his cane, ran away at breakneck speed. With the help of his great knight strength, his movements and speed were even faster and more swift than those of a strong young man, not at all like an old man who was nearly a hundred years old.

The moment Martinez turned to run away, Christensen and his men in the villa seemed to have encountered some danger and let out painful screams. Several dozen seconds later, the screams gradually subsided and the massacre ended. A group of men in black with masks covering their faces, holding revolvers and bloodstained cross swords, stood in the villa hall where corpses were strewn everywhere, searching through the bodies as if they were checking something.

"General, Martinez isn't here!" A dozen seconds later, after searching through the bodies of Christensen and the servants, one of the men in black approached Domenech and whispered:

Upon hearing his subordinate's report, Domenech was undoubtedly in a terrible mood. However, his years of experience commanding troops in battle told him that he must remain calm at this moment and not panic, otherwise, he might face utter ruin. So, feigning composure, he ordered in a deep voice, "Martinez cannot have gone far. Immediately, according to the plan, send a signal to seal off all road exits from Ferguson Manor!"

Upon receiving the order, the man in black immediately stepped out of the villa, pulled out a specially made revolver from his pocket, and pulled the trigger towards the sky. With a gunshot, a green firework shot into the sky, and the men in black who were lying in ambush around all the exits of Ferguson Manor saw the green firework and immediately began to move.

The men in black launched a premeditated surprise attack, killing the manor servants guarding the exit and then prohibiting everyone from entering or leaving. Anyone who dared to disobey their orders was rewarded with a bullet or a slash with a cross sword... Within just a few minutes, dozens of horrific killings occurred at Ferguson Manor.

At that moment, in the dense grass near the northwest exit of Ferguson Manor, Butler Martinez, lying on the ground with his cane, watched as a man in black, possessing the strength of a formal knight, shot and killed a woman who was trying to escape the manor, and then closed his eyes in anguish.

Although it is still unclear who these masked men in black are, there is no doubt that what is happening at Ferguson Manor is an organized and premeditated rebellion!

Although the rebellion appears to be a conspiracy orchestrated by Jack Ferguson—who lured himself to Ferguson Estate under the guise of a failed suicide attempt and the need for recuperation, intending to launch an armed uprising to eliminate him—Martinez doesn't believe that Ferguson organized the rebellion alone. While Ferguson might have been a key participant, there was definitely a mastermind behind it. These men in black were powerful, agile, tough, and highly disciplined, clearly possessing military backgrounds. Moreover, their sheer number suggested that Ferguson couldn't possibly have organized such a large-scale operation.

At this thought, Domenech's name immediately came to mind. Only a retired major general from the Imperial Army like Domenech possessed the ability to organize so many well-trained armed men to launch a rebellion at Ferguson Manor. Butler Martinez clearly remembered that Domenech had used this ability to help the Ferguson family resolve many shady troubles, but now he had become the Ferguson family's biggest problem...