Wizards begin with Occlumency.

Chapter 259 Star Trek

The Palo Sages Legion has truly gone missing this time.

The Blazing and Metal Merchants and the White Tower Alliance, having crossed the line of tolerance set by the Supreme Council, launched this brazen attack as a warning to the Rivosos Academy.

The two families didn't have much of an opinion on the fact that Great Sage Soth wanted to be promoted to the eighth level of Great Sage.

In the wizarding world, from the High Council down to ordinary wizarding organizations, everyone is actively preparing to deal with the unprecedented upheaval mentioned in the last prophecy before the death of the Saint of Nostrodam, and no one dares to have any overly obvious objections.

Their open attitude was criticized for the domineering style and plundering behavior of the Great Sage Rive.

The difference between "scavenging" and "collecting" is as small as one word, yet they are worlds apart.

The total amount of resources in the entire Michel District, including the expansive star regions "allocated" to the Michel District by the Supreme Council, is finite, especially the high-level rare resources.

If Rivoss Academy takes more, other wizarding organizations will have to take less.

Even if you are strong and successful, you can't have your cake and eat it too, and then try to take what's in our bowl.

One shouldn't be too unseemly when it comes to eating!

Even if this matter were brought before the West Coast pillar, Saint Gross, or even to the Supreme Council, the Flame and Metal Merchant Guild and the White Tower Alliance would have something to say and reason with.

Moreover, both organizations held back their strength during this surprise attack.

If they really intended to, they could easily take the opportunity to wipe out the mixed army of the Rukia family stationed in the rear camp of the desolate world.

They wouldn't just fire an annihilation beam, destroy a few portals, and then stop and decisively retreat.

Even if the attack caused some casualties, it was unintentional and not deliberate.

At most, some humanitarian compensation will be provided.

Everything else is disregarded.

After receiving the report of the emergency, Dean Forrest was completely unconcerned about the loss of supplies.

Building two portals requires a considerable amount of resources.

At most, it would only cost about the same amount of resources as the Flame and Metal Merchants and the White Tower Alliance to sneak into the star system where their rear camp is located and fire a half-power Annihilation Beam.

It's not a big loss.

The Palo Sages' Legion's loss of contact with the Wizarding World is only temporary.

Re-establishing contact is very simple.

However, the report mentioned that when Link Grand and Iris Clark were teleported back to the Wizarding World, the teleportation was interrupted, and they were caught in a spacetime turbulence.

Dean Forrest's expression immediately turned serious, showing that he took this matter very seriously.

Link Grand's identity is clear.

A "strange guest" whose soul came from a parallel world with advanced technology in a previous life, has already been marked by the wizarding world.

All the events of his past lives can only be considered as nourishment and obstacles on Link Grand's path to growth.

Iris Clark's identity is more complicated.

Her soul is a pure, original soul from the wizarding world, yet she possesses a myriad of personalities.

He also occasionally experiences fragments of memories from a parallel world's counterpart soul, and is greatly influenced by them, causing his words and actions to become increasingly insane.

To date, the Clark family has not determined the reason for this situation.

Several sages in the academy who were quite interested in this also discussed it, but did not reach a clear conclusion.

They only put forward a few hypotheses and conjectures, without verifying them.

Dean Forrest was well aware that his grandfather, the Great Sage Rivo, was searching far and wide for the special "strange guest" prophesied by the Saint of Nostrodam.

That exchange and learning experience with Shadow City was facilitated behind the scenes by Dean Forrest.

The so-called order from the academy headquarters, designating Link Grand as a team leader, was actually Forrest's doing.

It was just a matter of passing the buck; he wasn't directly appointed as the dean of the advanced academy.

Sitting in the positions of president of the two academies, one must still maintain a semblance of fairness, impartiality, and transparency.

We must not appear too biased.

The results proved that, even if Link Grand was special, it was special in other ways.

He was not the special "stranger" prophesied by the saint Nostrodam.

"Could it be you?"

Dean Forrest tapped his fingers lightly on Iris Clark's name, murmuring to himself.

Yes, after seeing the report that Link and Iris were caught in a time-space turbulence, his first reaction was to guess whether Iris Clark was the special "extraterrestrial" mentioned in the prophecy.

This conjecture is not without basis or based on pure idealism or intuition; rather, it has an underlying logic.

Strictly speaking, Iris Clark can indeed be considered an "outsider".

Moreover, it was an extremely special case.

It was precisely because of this uniqueness that everyone in the academy, including the Great Sage Rivo, subconsciously ruled out the possibility that Iris Clark was the special "extraordinary guest" in the prophecy.

This is the original soul of the wizarding world!

How could it possibly become the key to unlocking the parallel universe passage behind the special ruins world?

Therefore, everyone who knew about and participated in the search for the special "strange guest" in the prophecy subconsciously ruled out Iris Clark.

She wasn't arranged to go to the special ruins world to verify this.

Dean Forrest now realizes how deceptive the concept of native souls in the wizarding world is.

Who stipulated that the special "strange guest" in the prophecy of the Saint of Nostrodam must be the first incarnation after being reincarnated in the wizarding world?

What if it's the second or third incarnation?

Iris Clark's situation, where she is clearly a native soul of the Wizarding World, is entangled with a parallel soul, may be a manifestation of her second or third reincarnation.

"If that's really the case, then everything makes sense."

With this in mind, Dean Forrest did not remain seated in his office.

He instructed the staff in the Dean's office to properly handle the attack on the rear camp of the Paro Sage Legion, to rescue those who needed to be rescued, to repair those who needed to be repaired, and to issue a strongly worded statement.

He then returned directly to the main campus of the academy to report his new discoveries and conjectures to his grandfather in person.

What actions to take after that, and what measures to take, is beyond Forrest's control.

This involves a special "strange guest" mentioned in the prophecy of the Saint Nostrodam.

All participants must start as Level 7 Great Sages.

Amidst the turbulent flow of time and space.

The "Sky Shuttle" interstellar warship is being destroyed.

The protective shield has been breached, and now the ship can only rely on its hull to withstand the impact of the turbulent currents.

Link and Iris hid in the escape pod and controlled the warship through the Tower Spirit.

He cut off the power supply to other systems, concentrating all energy to support the warship's defense systems.

Even the power supply to the Star Destroyer Cannon was cut off.

The speed and agility of the Hummingbird-class starships were rendered useless in the spacetime turbulence.

Like a car caught in a hurricane, there's no effective way to escape a tornado except to accept the destruction and prepare to be torn apart or crash to the ground.

Link and Iris could only consider saving themselves.

The sudden change meant the two didn't communicate, but they tacitly divided the tasks.

Upon entering the "Skysock" and the escape pod, Iris remained calm throughout.

While Link was controlling the warship through the tower spirit, Iris didn't sit idle. She kept activating the various magical artifacts she carried, casting out defensive spells as soon as they were off cooldown.

This was to offset the effects and damage caused to the two by the violent shaking of the warship.

Unfortunately, being caught in a spacetime turbulence, the spatial storage artifacts were unusable.

Otherwise, Iris could use the several top-tier level 3 defensive magical artifacts that her sister Renee had specially crafted for her.

This would increase their chances of survival by a small margin.

As Iris was thinking this, she suddenly saw a claw, the size of two Shandong ships lined up side by side, blocking the spacetime turbulence.

Judging from its appearance, the claws were severed at the root, indicating that they were cut off by some sharp weapon or force.

The massive, yet incredibly sharp claws were aimed directly at the "Skyspin".

It won't be long before the two collide.

This difference in flow rate is caused by the difference in mass.

The claws are heavy, so they move slowly in the spacetime turbulence; the "Sky Shuttle" is light, so it moves quickly in the spacetime turbulence.

Pursuit problems in mathematics/physics are usually solved using linear equations in one variable.

Given the current state of the "Skysock", there is no need for the impact force generated by the speed difference between the two. A light touch on the claw tip would be enough to shatter it.

This only considers the physical collision, without taking into account the extraordinary abilities and effects that inevitably exist on the claws.

If a single claw is this enormous, one can only imagine the size of its "owner."

Throughout the myriad realms, star beasts have always been classified by their size to determine their strength level.

Only the strong can eat more; the more they eat, the stronger they become.

Judging from the size of the claw, its "owner" must be at least a Level 6 transcendent being.

How could a tiny "Hummingbird"-class interstellar warship dare to go head-to-head with the claws of a Level 6 superhuman?

Even if it's a broken claw!

"Get ready, we're abandoning ship."

Link remained calm, offered a word of advice, and then focused on controlling the warship.

As he got closer and closer to the claws, Link's brows furrowed more and more.

The timing of abandoning the ship is crucial; it cannot be too early or too late.

If you go too early, you might get swept away by the spacetime turbulence; if you go too late, you'll just be food for the enemy, getting stabbed to death by their claws.

"Hold on!"

Link shouted and completed the operation at the same time.

Three seconds before the "Skyspin" collided with the claw, the escape pod ejected, tracing an arc as it escaped from above the claw's head.

More than one escape pod ejected.

The "Tissot" has a maximum capacity of 10 people and therefore 10 escape pods.

Link ejected all 10 escape pods at once and took control of their layout.

Four below, two on the left, two on the right, and one above—nine empty escape pods were arranged closely together, tightly enclosing the escape pod where Link and Iris were located.

This is to protect against potential damage.

This preparation is absolutely necessary.

As the array of escape pods swept across the claws.

A faint light flashed, and the four escape pods at the bottom, which were in full-power defense mode, instantly broke in two.

Link had already fully activated his "Brain Closure Technique," entering a "multi-threaded thinking" state, and was able to mobilize... well, he couldn't mobilize the source power of the "small world."

That was also a humanoid supercomputer equipped with top-tier AI, boasting extremely powerful computing and reaction capabilities.

In the blink of an eye, Link manipulated the escape pods on the left and right to fill the empty space below.

In the end, it couldn't even last a second.

But that's enough.

In less than two seconds, the escape pod had already passed three-quarters of the claw, leaving only a little distance between them.

"I did my best."

In his haste, Link uttered these words filled with helplessness.

They then abandoned controlling the escape pod and instead activated the life support mode of the spacesuits they had put on immediately after entering the "Skysock".

Then, it ejected directly from the escape pod, avoiding the claw's almost complete rule-level cutting light, and its "physical body" entered the dangerous spacetime turbulence.

From this moment on, whether the two of them survived truly depended entirely on luck.

Without the favor of the Wizarding World's will, even though Link received two special favors, he could not directly cast spells in the spacetime turbulence.

This is especially true for Iris.

She was able to perform witchcraft inside the Skysock because the Skysock was powered by magic stones.

Even energy-storing magic stones can still release free magic power, creating a relatively suitable environment for casting spells.

The "Tissot" then completely disintegrated and was declared scrapped.

The fate of all 10 escape pods was the same: everything was severed.

Perhaps due to the impact of the collision between the interstellar warship and the claw, a wave of "spacetime tide" suddenly appeared in the spacetime turbulence.

A wave crashed over Link and Iris, who were tightly bound together, and swept them out of the spacetime turbulence.

The two, knocked unconscious by the sudden, powerful impact that was almost comparable to a full-force attack from a level three wizard, had no idea where they would end up.

Ouch! That hurts!

Before losing consciousness, the severely injured Link only had time to utter a curse.

I've been having really bad luck lately.

I've only just recovered from my injury!

After an unknown amount of time, in a daze, Link heard a call from the depths of his heart.

"Master, master, master, wake up..."

Flandre's tearful voice echoed in Link's mind.

It knocks again and again on the sleeping soul.

Struggling to open his heavy eyelids, Link finally woke up from his dazed and confused state.

"Master, you're finally awake."

Flandre's voice suddenly filled with surprise.

Then, with a flick of her hand, she cast another healing spell at Link and Iris, who was still unconscious beside him.

"Where is this?"

After checking on himself and Iris, Link noticed that their starry sky suits were completely undamaged.

It's likely that Flandre switched them while they were unconscious.

So he stopped paying attention to it and instead asked a question.

Flandre blinked and asked in confusion:

"Master, we've arrived near that strange, ruined world."

Flandre wanted to take the master, and the woman the master and mistress hated the most, to that star fortress.

But somehow, I just couldn't break free from the restraints; I'd take a few steps and be pulled back, take a few more steps and be pulled back again.

"A world of ruins?"

Link looked around and found that in front of him was a special ruined world similar to his previous life's Earth, while behind him was the Star Fortress used by the Wizarding World to observe and anchor the special ruined world.

Closer to the former, farther from the latter.

At the same time, a strange fluctuation came.

Link sensed a longing and a call from this fluctuation.

The object of her longing and calling was not Link, nor Flandre, but Iris, who was still unconscious.

Turning my head, I saw that some strange changes were also taking place on Iris.

Her appearance remained the same, but her temperament was completely different.

The sense of conflict that Link had been feeling uncomfortable with vanished.

The madwoman transformed into a serene sleeping beauty.

It was as if this was Iris's true face.

"What's going on?"

Link was puzzled.

Suddenly, a seven-colored halo appeared in the special ruins world.

At the same time, a rainbow-like semi-circular mark appeared on Iris's forehead, flashing as if echoing the colorful halo of the special ruins world.

"Flandre".

Link sensed something was wrong and called out.

Flandre obediently returned to the "small world" without any delay.

Link then firmly grasped Iris's wrist and took out a rope-shaped 1st-ring artifact from the "small world," binding the two together tightly once again.

A seven-colored halo suddenly erupted.

next moment.

In the starry sky, Link and Iris disappeared.

The special ruins world is detached from the observation and anchoring of the wizarding world.

An alarm suddenly sounded in the Star Fortress.

True Chapter 148.

Iris Clark: Jasmine, guess who's the older one and who's the younger one?

(End of this chapter)