Connor wasn't surprised by Firo's question. Ever since he recognized Firo, Connor knew that Firo would ask him this question. Under Firo's gaze, Connor didn't give an answer right away. Instead, he thought for a while and asked, "Firo, can you tell me if you've already joined the Church of the Storm when you first set up this plan?"
"Connor, you're overthinking it. I've only been Blake's informant for less than two months. Besides, it's all thanks to Connor, your mentor, Reyes, that I can have this new identity now!" Firo said with hatred in his eyes.
"If he hadn't sent Bisping to kill me, I wouldn't have been seriously injured. When I was treating my wounds, I was discovered by the Church of the Storm …"
"The Church of the Storm is involved in this plan because of some benefits. They want Reyes dead! As for the extent to which the Church of the Storm is involved in this plan, Connor, I can only tell you after you've confirmed your participation in the plan. As long as you cooperate, I promise to tell you everything I know! "Firo said firmly.
After listening to Firo's explanation, Connor lowered his head and thought for nearly a minute. Then, he raised his head and asked Firo with a faint smile, "So, I was forced to come to this godforsaken place to kill Reyes because you want me to join your plan?"
Connor's sudden question caught Firo off guard, but he soon recovered. He shrugged and said helplessly, "I didn't expect you to find out, Connor."
"Tell me, what's going on? What's the cotton in those wooden boxes?" Connor asked calmly.
"I'll have to start from the beginning. Reyes is a member of the Secret Society just like you, Connor, but he's not a core member like you. He's just a peripheral member who was recruited by the Secret Society because he has some connections to sell stolen goods. The Church of the Storm has already discovered him three years ago, but they didn't do anything to him because they wanted to bait a bigger fish. They only secretly monitored him and the Redstone Pawnshop!"
"A year ago, the wizards from the Church of the Storm who were monitoring Reyes reported to Blake that Reyes has been acting strangely recently. He hasn't been selling stolen goods through his channels for several months. After receiving this information, Blake began to discuss whether Reyes had noticed that he was being monitored and whether they should capture him. Before the discussion came to a conclusion, Reyes began to receive those strange cotton-like things for various reasons and transported them to various places in the Kaman Empire through his channels!"
"This immediately attracted the attention of Blake. They quickly obtained a small portion of those cotton-like things without alerting Reyes. They also discovered the strangeness of those things, so the alchemists from the Church of the Storm examined them and analyzed them."
"However, the analysis report wasn't very optimistic. The alchemists from the Church of the Storm couldn't analyze what those things were or what they could do. They could only conclude that these things were very similar in style to the magic items that Reyes made. They also didn't have any obvious harm to wizards!"
"After learning that these things were related to your mentor's secret society professor, the Church of Storms was even more determined to cast a long line to catch a big fish. On one hand, they were closely monitoring Reus and his channels. On the other hand, they wanted to seize the time to obtain more information about those things. Soon, we discovered that all the external channels of your mentor's faction didn't have those cotton-like things. Those things only existed in Reus and his channels.
"The reason why Reyes stopped his original work of selling the stolen goods was because he was worried that his original work would affect the transportation of these strange things through his channels.
"As for why Reyes, a peripheral member of the secret society, would be willing to make such a huge sacrifice for the secret society, it's entirely because Reyes had personally contacted him through some sort of communication tool. He had promised Reyes that if he succeeded in completing the mission given to him by the secret society, the secret society would provide him with resources to help him break through from an advanced Apprentice Adept to a rank 1 Adept!"
"From this, we can infer that those strange things must be very important to Reyes. That's why he didn't choose his own channels to transport these things, but chose to use Reyes, a peripheral member of the Secret Society's channel. He wanted to fool others and safely transport these things out. But he never thought that Reyes had long been targeted by the Church of the Storm!" At this point, a gloating smile appeared on Firo's face.
Although Firo did not continue, Connor understood everything. Now that Reyes was carrying the responsibility of transporting something important for Reyes, if he killed him, it would definitely alarm Reyes and infuriate him! At that time, even if he wanted to observe and not participate in Firo's plan, he would have to cooperate with Firo and participate in his plan in order to survive and not fight against Reyes alone.
Thinking of this, Connor could not help but narrow his eyes, and a trace of killing intent towards Firo arose in his heart. Most of the information that Firo said was probably given to him by his benefactor, Cristante. However, this vicious scheme was very much in line with Firo's style. What Connor hated the most was people who schemed against him behind his back!
At this moment, Firo also noticed the change in Connor's expression, but he didn't say anything. He just looked at Connor calmly, and the atmosphere between them became tense in an instant. However, it didn't last long, because Van der Beek came back with three cups of Red Mountain coffee and placed them on the table.
Looking at the steaming hot Red Mountain coffee on the table, Firo took the lead and began to drink it. Van der Beek also took the cup after him. Seeing this, Connor didn't say anything. Van der Beek raised his eyebrows and a sarcastic smile appeared on his angular face. Afterwards, he stood up and was about to leave the private room.
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