Chapter 150: Knowing Too Much
Although the Watson Family only came into contact with the Gilded Rose relatively late, they had devoted all their resources to intelligence gathering. The Watsons even knew that Matthew Merlin was likely a lost scion of the Merlin Family, but there was never any information suggesting that Matthew Merlin had any connection to Archmage Hogarth...
It was as if he’d just appeared out of nowhere...
For a moment, Allen Watson genuinely wanted to ask the family’s intelligence chief: What the hell have you been doing? How could you miss something this big?
That’s a Ninth-Tier Archmage—a steel wall that thick sitting right there, and I just stupidly went and kicked it...
Allen Watson’s face grew paler by the second. He understood that if things were as he feared, not only would taking the Nether Iron Vein be impossible—even leaving here safely would be a challenge. At this point, Allen could only cling to a last shred of hope and cautiously asked, "Archmage Hogarth, may I ask—what is your relationship with Grandmaster Merlin?"
"Relationship?" Hogarth echoed, finally catching on. He fixed his eyes on Allen Watson, sizing him up from head to toe.
Standing outside the door earlier, Hogarth had already overheard the argument in the reception room and sensed intense magical fluctuations. Now, with Allen Watson’s question, even the slowest person would understand what was going on...
Instantly, Hogarth’s expression soured.
Allen Watson really had some nerve—he’d actually dared to argue with Grandmaster Merlin, even unleashing such violent magical energy. Was he planning to fight Grandmaster Merlin?