"But we can't compete with Connor for the position of Earl Ferguson. Butler Martinez supports him, and so do the laws of the empire and the family. Moreover, Catherine's family, the Francis Financial Group, has been developing well these years. Connor has the bloodline of the Francis Financial Group, so it's easy for him to get support from them!"
"Our family has no chance of winning against Connor. Even if you want to kill him, Connor Ferguson's talent as a knight isn't bad. When he left the family years ago, he was already close to becoming an official knight with the family's knight breathing technique. Now that he's been away for ten years, he's at least an official knight, maybe even a Grand Knight!"
"The family's knights are also under the control of my second brother, Warrent. I can't command them alone. Because of what happened back then, my second brother has no desire for anything in the family. He only cares about the manor and doesn't care about anything else. Plus, he's been close to my eldest brother since they were young, so he'll definitely support Connor to become Earl Ferguson. I don't think we have a chance of winning," Jack Ferguson explained to Eugenia, his voice full of helplessness.
"Jack, you idiot. Who said I'm going to use your family's knights? I'll take out all the 2000 gold pounds I've saved up over the years. I'll also borrow 3000 gold pounds from my mother's family. You can gather 5000 gold pounds, and we'll spend 10,000 gold pounds to hire a few assassins. As soon as Connor Ferguson returns to Flosinone, we'll kill him!
"When Connor Ferguson dies, Warrent's reputation will be ruined, and he won't have any other successors. Jack, as long as you give the elders some benefits, they'll definitely support you to become the new Earl Ferguson!" Eugenia confidently told her husband her plan.
Hearing Eugenia's plan, Jack Ferguson was still weighing the pros and cons and didn't say anything. However, Connor, who was hiding outside the manor, shook his head with a smile. Although his third aunt was a bit greedy, she wasn't stupid. Ten thousand gold pounds was enough to hire a powerful assassin.
If he wasn't a Magus and was just a normal Magus, he might have fallen into her trap. However, now that he was a rank 1 Magus and had heard of her wild ambitions, her schemes and ambitions were destined to be an illusion that would never succeed.
After knowing Eugenia's plan, Connor no longer had any interest in the conversation between Eugenia and Jack Ferguson. He waved his hand, and a small stone that looked no different from an ordinary stone flew out from his hand and landed quietly in the flower bed of Jack Ferguson's house.
Connor's first target of investigation was Jack Ferguson's family, so he was naturally very suspicious of them. But now, it seemed that Jack Ferguson and his wife had betrayed the family by embezzling the family's property and becoming parasites of the family. Moreover, Eugenia wanted to get rid of him and make Jack Ferguson the new Earl. But with their intelligence and strength, they shouldn't have anything to do with the spies Reyes had placed in the Ferguson family.
Since that was the case, Connor didn't care much about his third uncle and third aunt. Compared to the undercover agent who made him feel as if a fishbone was stuck in his throat and he still didn't dare to return to Ferguson openly, Jack Ferguson and Eugenia were nothing at all!
After setting up the listening device, Connor left Jack Ferguson's house and headed towards the bungalow where the coachmen, handymen, bodyguards and other service personnel lived. During the prosperous years of the Ferguson Family, the service personnel of the Ferguson Mansion had never been outsiders. They had always been farmers and craftsmen who relied on the Ferguson Family. They were people who knew the ins and outs of the Ferguson Family.
Because the commission that the Ferguson family offered was much higher than the service itself and the average price in the labor market in Flosinone, these people were always scrambling for the service positions in the Ferguson family's mansion.
However, as the financial situation of the Ferguson Family deteriorated over the years, the salary they were able to provide for these positions had become mediocre in the market. It could even be said that there was no advantage at all. Therefore, there were fewer and fewer people who knew the background of these service positions. Therefore, there was no other way. In order to maintain the quality of life, the Ferguson Family Mansion could only recruit outsiders for these positions. Moreover, the people who recruited were all crooks and honest folk, so it was very easy for outsiders to sneak in. Therefore, this place was also the place where Connor suspected that there was an undercover agent hiding.
When he arrived at the bungalow where the service personnel lived, Connor released his spiritual power to its fullest extent. Under the effect of his spiritual power, he found the young servants who sneaked into the kitchen to steal food, the coachman and maid who were having an affair in the stable, and the snoring sound in the bungalow. None of them escaped Connor's spiritual power's detection.
His spiritual power swept through all the men and women living in the bungalow one by one. Hiding in the darkness, Connor didn't find any trace of the spy. A strange light flashed in his eyes. After thinking for a while, Connor took out five surveillance devices disguised as small stones from his space ring and threw them into the hidden corners of the bungalow area. After doing that, Connor quietly left the bungalow area. He turned around and walked forward. This time, his target was the old Ferguson family's mansion.
With Connor's speed, it didn't take long for him to arrive at the center of Ferguson's mansion, the luxuriously decorated villa where the head of the Ferguson family lived. Although there were two well-built, well-trained bodyguards guarding the villa, they were nothing in front of Connor. With just a thought from Connor, the two bodyguards fell into a temporary coma.
After getting rid of the bodyguards, Connor silently went to the old Ferguson's room according to his memory of the mansion. At this moment, the old Ferguson was sleeping on the bed with a pale face. Outside the bedroom, a maid was dozing off while keeping watch for the old Ferguson.
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