Wizards begin with Occlumency.

Chapter 408 Web

Anger is anger.

The important things still need to be done; they can't be neglected.

The fish didn't take the bait, and didn't even enter the prepared feeding area, but it did jump right in front of Lotesno.

So now, all Lottesno needs to do is fish.

Fishing isn't about fighting and killing right from the start; you still need to consider the proper etiquette and social interactions.

Lotesno smiled and waved to the Great Sage Michel, who quickly understood what had happened and his current situation, and greeted him politely, "Hello, Michel."

"Greetings, Saint."

The Great Sage Michel remained calm amidst the chaos, offering a polite greeting before saying, "After our last parting, I thought it would be a long time before I could see the Saint again. I didn't expect to meet him so soon."

"Yes, I was quite surprised too."

Lotesno echoed in agreement.

"What did the saint find surprising?"

Great Sage Michel smiled slightly. "Could it be that all of this is unfolding according to the Sage's plan? Even if the Sage has been reincarnated, he is still the same as before, fond of playing mind games, yet always failing at them."

After a pause, the Great Sage Michelle added insult to injury: "It seems that what the saint always says is true: seeing more does not necessarily mean doing better."

Great Sage Michel survived the fierce battle between the wizard civilization and the god civilization.

Before the final battle, Sage Michael was already an eighth-level sage. Therefore, when the five saints of the Supreme Council reorganized the order of wizarding civilization, he was placed under the command of the elemental wizard saints of the West Coast. In the Tudor region, which was under the jurisdiction of the ninth-level sage of Tudor, he established the Michael District and the Tower of Sage Michael.

On the contrary, the once glorious mystical wizarding school has been completely lost.

The reason, of course, is that the Nostrodam Saint, the originator and pinnacle of the mystical wizarding school, perished after the war.

In this respect, the Great Sage Michael and the Saint of Nostrodam were contemporaries.

The Great Sage Michel's knowledge of the Saint of Nostrodam and the mystical wizarding school is naturally extensive, enough to allow him to plot the revival of the mystical wizarding school and seize the position of the Saint of the mystical wizarding school.

"what!"

Lotesno lightly patted his forehead, saying with annoyance, "I knew something was off about this plan. I overlooked two things: I'm not good at playing mind games and you know me very well. So, Zhenling wasn't just being unreasonable; she genuinely wanted to help me."

"The True Spirit Saint is here too?"

The Great Sage Michel ignored Lotesnow's frustration and accurately grasped the key point.

"Not only did the true spirits come, but the elements also came."

Lottesno told the truth without any intention of deceiving or misleading.

"I see."

The Great Sage Michel nodded, looking thoughtful.

It's unclear what he was thinking or what he understood.

Lotesno didn't care about Michelle's situation and asked curiously, "Both the True Spirit and the Elements have come. The True Spirit even teleported you here. Their attitude is very clear. Do you still want to continue? Michelle, it's not too late to stop now."

"In time what?"

The great sage Michel calmly countered with a question.

"There's still time not to become a sinner against the wizarding civilization."

Lottesnos provides the answer.

Upon hearing this, the great sage Michel fell into deep thought.

Lottesno wasn't in a hurry to hear an answer, so he didn't urge him.

The atmosphere in this void was quite tranquil and harmonious, but it was tough on the advance team of Rivosos Academy who were engaged in a bloody battle, and on Link and Molly who were dodging the encirclement.

The longer the delay, the greater the losses the advance team from Rivosos Academy will suffer, and the greater the chance that Link and Jasmine will be trapped.

If Link and Jasmine were blocked by the small interstellar fleet of the Great Sage Michel's Tower, they would not only fail to attract more attention from the Great Sage Michel and alleviate the pressure on the four allied legions, but they would also have difficulty protecting themselves.

"This can't go on."

Inside the Starship's cockpit, Link, controlling the Starship to once again evade the interstellar fleet's encirclement, suddenly uttered these words.

Jasmine, who was assisting Link in piloting the starship, immediately asked, "What are your thoughts?"

Link paused for a moment, then made a decisive decision: "We're not running away."

"Not running anymore?"

Jasmine was quite surprised and couldn't understand what Link was thinking at that moment.

If you don't run, you only have two paths to take:

One is to fight against a large number of enemies with a small force, and to confront the small interstellar fleet of the Great Sage's Tower of Michel head-on.

The second option is to obediently surrender and submit, then hope that the Great Sage Michel's desire to obtain Link will not harm their personal safety and freedom.

Neither the road in front nor the road behind was a good road in Jasmine's opinion.

No matter which path you take, the outcome won't be good.

Link understood Jasmine's concerns, as they were also his own concerns.

However, times have changed.

While dodging the encirclement of the small interstellar fleet at the Great Sage's Tower of Michel, Link realized something he had previously overlooked.

Having been sidelined for so long by the High Council of the Wizarding Civilization, the Rivosos Academy, and himself, Link had forgotten that, according to Master Xu Jing, the Celestial Civilization valued him far more than it valued Iris Clark.

Master Xujing also said that if Link had arrived in the Celestial Civilization Universe earlier, the funding that Great Sage Michelle is receiving from the Celestial Civilization's Heavenly Court would belong to Link.

Link could even have more.

In this situation, would the Celestial Civilization stand idly by and watch as Sage Michelle seizes control of Link?

In other words, because of the importance that the Celestial Civilization showed to Link, the High Council of the Wizarding Civilization, which had kept Link hidden for several years, was able to sit idly by and watch the Great Sage Michelle, who had already committed substantial acts of betrayal or fence-sitting, succeed.

Link believes it is highly unlikely.

Since it's a high probability event, there's also the risk of unexpected events.

If Link guesses wrong, one can imagine what will happen next.

But Link was willing to take the gamble.

Link's style of doing things has always been to be as stable as possible, but if he really can't stay stable, then he'll go all out.

This remains true today.

There wasn't time to explain much to Jasmine. Link turned his head to look into Jasmine's eyes and said solemnly, "Jasmine, trust me."

"Um."

Despite having many doubts and questions in her heart, Jasmine nodded without hesitation, her attitude resolute.

Having received the response he wanted, Link didn't say anything more, but he quickened the pace of inputting commands.

Under Link's control, the Starship quickly disengaged from its high-speed maneuvering state and came to a stop in a star field without asteroid belts or strong stellar gravity, awaiting the encirclement and closing in by a small interstellar fleet.

"What do you want to do?"

The level eight sage commander of the small interstellar fleet watched the starship go from extreme motion to extreme stillness in a short time and muttered to himself.

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.

The commander did not believe that Link Grand would surrender to the Great Sage's Tower of Michel; there must be a trick involved.

For a moment, the commander hesitated about what action to take next.

Even after the small interstellar fleet had completely surrounded the spaceship, leaving no room for operation or escape, the commander still did not give the order, but instead hesitated.

Often, a person's subconscious behavior is a better reflection of their inner self.

Before taking action, the commander reported to the highest levels of the Great Sage's Tower of Michelle about questioning the authenticity of the intelligence, which was a subconscious act.

Upon discovering signs that the passengers aboard Link Grande's spaceship had ceased resistance and chosen to surrender, the commander's decision not to immediately deploy a capture operation was also a subconscious act.

The two subconscious actions reflected the commander's confusion and even dissatisfaction with the decision of the Great Sage Michelle to snatch Link Grand from the Rivosos Academy.

This also reflects that the commander's sense of belonging to Sage Michel and the Tower of Sage Michel is gradually declining, and even disappearing.

Despite the fact that the Tower of the Great Sage Michelle has developed extremely rapidly and has a very promising future after being forced to leave the wizarding civilization universe and come to a parallel universe.

Although the great sage Michel has once again burst forth with vitality, there are rumors in private that the great sage Michel is about to be promoted to sainthood.

This level eight sage, who served as the commander of the small interstellar fleet tasked with capturing Link Grand, was genuinely pessimistic about the future of the Michelle Sage Tower and the possibility of Michelle Sage's successful ascension.

"Great Sage, your subordinates are asking for instructions: what should we do next? Persuade them to surrender or arrest them outright?"

The adjutant's question interrupted the commander's contemplation.

"wait."

The commander snapped out of his daze and uttered a single word softly.

"What?"

Upon hearing this, the adjutant was extremely shocked, so much so that he asked a question that overstepped his duty and authority: "Great Sage, Link Grand has already stopped resisting, what are we waiting for? And how long are we going to wait?"

The commander gave a deep look at the interstellar fleet adjutant temporarily assigned to him at the top of the Great Sage's Tower by Michel, without offering any explanation, but his gaze grew increasingly sharp.

To become the adjutant of an eighth-level Great Sage Commander, this person is also a seventh-level Great Sage, a confidant of the highest level of the Great Sage Tower of Michel, and a member of the Michel family.

The adjutant met the commander's gaze without flinching, refusing to yield an inch, insisting on getting a response and explanation from the commander.

The disagreement and confrontation between an eighth-level Grand Sage and a seventh-level Grand Sage instantly froze the atmosphere in the cockpit of the small interstellar fleet flagship.

The flagship operator and staff from various departments of the fleet all kept their heads down and were busy, not daring to look in this direction even once.

The commander broke the silence first, a mocking smile playing on his lips, before calmly saying, "If you question my decision, you can report it to your superiors right now, have me dismissed on the spot, and then you'll take command of the fleet. If you can do that, you can do whatever you want. If you can't, then execute the order."

That statement was the decisive blow.

There's a reason why an adjutant is an adjutant.

Yes, he is indeed a member of the Michel family and a confidant of the highest level of the Michel Great Sage Tower.

However, in terms of commanding operations, assessing situations, and making on-the-spot decisions, adjutants are far inferior to commanders.

The highest levels of command, knowing full well that the commander harbored doubts about the operation to capture Link Grand, still granted the appointment, precisely because of this.

There was no need to actually report to superiors; the adjutant knew that the reply he received was absolutely that he was carrying out the commander's orders.

Taking a deep breath, the adjutant suppressed his emotions, bowed his head, and said, "I was wrong. I will carry out the Great Sage's order."

After saying that, the adjutant turned and left, relaying the commander's order to "wait" to every warship in the small interstellar fleet.

The disagreements and standoffs that occurred in the flagship's cockpit were witnessed by the captains of each warship because the commander had to direct each warship in real time, and also through the command and communication system.

Upon receiving the commander's order to "wait," every captain dared not question it further and immediately carried it out.

And then something rather strange happened.

When the spaceship tried to escape, a small interstellar fleet relentlessly pursued it.

The spaceship no longer wanted to escape, and the small interstellar fleet remained inactive, neither trying to persuade it to surrender nor forcibly capturing it.

"What are they doing? Why aren't they moving?"

Jasmine, who had decided to stick with Link no matter what, looked at the scene before her with increasing confusion.

Why are all the things that happened today getting stranger and stranger?

"hehe……"

Link smiled but did not answer Jasmine's question, instead focusing his gaze on the flagship of the small interstellar fleet.

He was also very curious about what the commander was thinking at that moment.

A land of nothingness.

Lotesno, who had been keeping a close eye on the Starship, noticed this somewhat strange change. With a wave of his hand, he created a light screen to share his amusement with the Great Sage Michel.

The Great Sage Michel glanced at it indifferently, without making any comment.

"What? My cheapskate brother has surrendered without a fight, and your men haven't arrested him yet? Don't you have any ideas?"

Seeing this, Lottesno asked with a smile.

"What ideas do I need to have?"

The great sage Michel asked in return.

"Hmm? Wasn't it you who always wanted to have my cheap older brother?"

Lottesno frowned slightly, seemingly genuinely doubting the matter.

The Great Sage Michelle looked at Lotesno as if he were a fool, then asked, "Sage, do you take me for a fool, or do you think you are a fool? When did I ever say anything about wanting to possess the wizard Link Grand?"

"Didn't you say that?"

Lotesno exclaimed in surprise, looking quite astonished.

The great sage Michel said no more on this matter.

These things are not important at all.

Lottesno clicked his tongue, abandoning his desire to press further, and changed the subject, asking, "So, have you thought it over? Do you want to seize the opportunity and turn back?"

"Turn back?"

The Great Sage Michelle spread his arms, his spiritual and magical power surging wildly, shattering the void and reconnecting space and reality, which then merged together.

Under the control of the Great Sage Michel, the surging spiritual and magical power transformed into wisps of light and turbid energy.

The light and pure rise up and return from the very top of the head to the soul of the great sage Michel.

The turbid ones descend, entering the soul of the great sage Michele three inches below the navel.

The two energies converge at the center of the chest, then the five energies converge at the origin, then the three flowers gather at the top of the head, and finally the Dao fruit is condensed.

The position of Heavenly Venerable has been established, and the status of Saint has been fulfilled.

The great sage Michel stood serenely, arms still outstretched, head slightly tilted back, and asked with a smile, "Why should I turn back?"

Lottesno remained silent and slowly closed his eyes.

Everything that needs to be said has already been said, but we still need to put it into practice.

Let's stretch our muscles and get ready, no matter the cost or the trouble that follows.

However, just as Lotesno was about to open his eyes and briefly regain his saintly status and strength, a sudden change occurred.

A beam of light appeared out of nowhere in the shattered void.

The cones of light, like a net, enveloped Michelle.

Solid and solid.

(End of this chapter)