Sitting alone on the sofa, Connor squinted his eyes and sipped his whiskey. Marguerite had left the apartment half an hour ago, but the news she told Connor still shocked him.
At first, Connor thought Marguerite was bluffing, but when Marguerite said something, Connor realized that he had once been walking on the edge of danger.
According to Marguerite, before he killed Vidal, the Church of the Storm already had their eyes on Vidal, a member of the Cult of Soul Worship. However, they didn't want to kill Vidal because he was just a small fry. They wanted to see if there were any big fish behind him.
Due to the recent undercurrents in Loen, the Church of the Storm was understaffed. Because they didn't want to alert the enemy, the Church of the Storm didn't send anyone to follow Vidal. They only secretly cast a positioning spell on him. The day after Connor killed Vidal and Rebecca, people from the Church appeared in the castle.
As for how the Church of the Storm suspected Connor, it was because they found the detective that Connor hired to investigate Rebecca the first time. They also used Connor's portrait to find the security guard that Connor bribed that day.
Margret had mentioned so many details, and Connor agreed with her. This also solved a question that had been bothering him for a long time. Why did Margret, who had no interaction with him at all, take the initiative to look for him in Eire Manor that day?
Now it seemed that Marguerite had her eyes on him since then!
Connor knew very well why Marguerite said so much to him. It wasn't as simple as asking Connor to tell Marguerite how he found her.
Marguerite was telling Connor that the Church of the Storm had their eyes on him. However, they couldn't take care of themselves right now, and they didn't have any solid evidence. Plus, Connor's noble background made the Church of the Storm a little wary. All these reasons combined allowed Connor to be so carefree until now.
Thinking of this, Connor couldn't help but feel fortunate that he had signed an oath with Marguerite using the Eye of Arbitration. Otherwise, Marguerite would never have told him these things. Now, in order to prevent Connor from being caught by the Church of the Storm and implicate her, Marguerite could either choose to kill Connor to silence him or help Connor avoid being caught by the Church of the Storm!
And judging from what she told him, Marguerite probably wanted to silence him, but he didn't have the strength to do so. That was why she chose the second method!
Connor had his own considerations about not adding a clause of mutual non-harm in the oath with Marguerite. Judging from the current situation, it would be difficult for him to kill Marguerite alone. Fortunately, he wasn't alone. He had the Secret Society behind him. Using the Secret Society's power to get rid of Marguerite was Connor's real intention.
It was a good idea, but the reality was that the Secret Society was planning something big, and it was at a critical moment. Connor felt that even if he contacted Mentor Reyes using the directed audio paper at this time, Mentor Reyes would only let him deal with it himself.
Therefore, Connor thought that he might need time. He needed to wait for the Secret Society to have the energy to help him get rid of Marguerite, or perhaps he would have the opportunity to kill Marguerite himself.
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For a time, Connor's life returned to normal. Every day, he would go back and forth between his apartment and Greene University. Varga's departure.
Mentor Reyes's long-term sick leave didn't affect Greene University, a century-old institution with thousands of students.
One day, after school, Connor went to the public carriage station as usual and waited for the public carriage to return home. His finances were rather tight at the moment. The few hundred gold pounds he had on hand had been used to renovate his apartment and buy some alchemy materials. Now, he only had a dozen or so gold pounds for his daily expenses.
The process of waiting for the carriage was boring. However, just as Connor was thinking about tonight's alchemy experiment and what method to use to decompose the mithril, a thin and short girl with an extremely ordinary face appeared beside him. This little girl was also carrying a somewhat old school bag. It seemed that this girl was also a student of Greene University and was waiting for the carriage to go home.
Without thinking too much, Connor was still immersed in his own alchemy world. He was now focused on completing the assignment Reyes gave him — the replica of the level two magic artifact Castilla Staff. This assignment was a difficult challenge for Connor with his current alchemy skills, and the mithril decomposition he had to complete tonight was a very important part of this challenge.
"Clack!"
The ordinary-looking girl waiting with Connor had a small wallet fall out of her pocket. However, she seemed to be a little careless and didn't realize it. She stepped onto a public carriage that was driving into the station in a hurry.
"Classmate, your wallet!" Connor picked up the wallet and shouted at the careless girl, trying to return the wallet to the owner. However, the owner didn't seem to hear Connor's shout and didn't realize that she had dropped her wallet. The carriage she was in also quickly drove away from the station.
Frowning as he looked at the back of the departing carriage, Connor helplessly shook his head. Just as he was about to hand the wallet over to the security office of Greene University and let them return it to the owner, Connor's expression became somewhat bewildered. The hand holding the wallet seemed to have touched a bracelet through the leather outside the wallet.
A bracelet appearing in a girl's wallet didn't seem to be enough to make Connor feel bewildered. What really made Connor feel bewildered was that according to the chip's prompt, the bracelet in his hand seemed to be refined by him!
Connor stepped onto another carriage without batting an eyelid. After confirming that no one on the carriage was paying attention to him, he quietly opened the wallet to take a look. The first thing that appeared in front of Connor's eyes was a yellow jade bracelet. He then saw a very neatly folded small piece of paper in the wallet.
Picking up the yellow jade bracelet and stroking it in his palm, Connor's face showed a hint of a smile. He knew that it was finally time for him to come.
He opened the small piece of paper in the wallet and saw a line of beautiful words on it: "Tonight, seven o 'clock, Aunt Irene's dessert house."
Nodding, Connor felt that his mithril decomposition experiment tonight needed to be appropriately postponed to tomorrow. Tonight was going to be an incomparably wonderful night!
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