Wizards begin with Occlumency.

Chapter 426 Beginning

One thing is for sure.

If what Iris Clark said is true, her true status should be no different from that of a saint.

However, judging from her behavior after they met, Iris Clark did not show much specialness, at least not like the reincarnation of the saint, Lotesno, whose advancement was as easy as eating and drinking.

Especially before the trials of unlocking the special ruins world, he could only be considered an ordinary genius.

Thinking about the trials of the special ruins world, Link had another question in his mind.

That is the question: which being set up this test?

Is it the "I" that Iris Clark is referring to, the Iris who can traverse the source of many universes' timelines and return to the wizarding civilization universe?

Or is it a set of rules that were formed by the collision and coupling of the will of the wizarding world and the heavenly laws of the immortal civilization?

This question is destined to remain unanswered, and it's not appropriate to ask Iris about it anymore.

Link chose to keep it in his heart, along with other unresolved or newly emerging questions.

After finishing their business, Link didn't leave immediately. Instead, he stayed with Iris Clark and finished a cup of brown sugar deer antler milk tea.

As the saying goes, don't tell the truth when you see it.

Some things, once spoken out, may not necessarily have a positive impact.

After today's frank and honest exchange, the relationship between Link and Iris Clark will inevitably change.

At present, it is unlikely to deteriorate too much or too quickly.

However, they can no longer maintain the same intimate yet principled boundaries as before.

So, it's probably unlikely that we'll be able to sit together and leisurely enjoy milk tea again in the future.

Link put down the crystal-clear glass, said goodbye, and got up to leave.

Watching Link's departing figure without looking back or pausing, Iris sniffed softly, lowered her head to look at the two empty glasses in front of her, and remained silent.

A moment later, a phantom of light and shadow appeared on the chair where Link had been sitting, with the same appearance, temperament, and aura as Iris, only with different clothing.

Ding!Ding!

The illusion of light and shadow is illusory, but when a finger taps on a glass, it produces a real, crisp sound.

Iris looked up at the sound, frowned, and snorted coldly, "What are you doing out here?"

"you?"

The illusory light covered its mouth and chuckled, "So you still don't want to admit it, I am you, and you are me."

As he spoke, the smile on the illusory figure's face grew even wider, and he chuckled, "Indeed, after all that effort you went through to sever Iris, who was born in your dream, to sever the poor beast-taming wizard Iris Messiah, to sever so many fragmented and disordered personalities, how could you possibly be willing to acknowledge my existence?"

"What do you want to say? What do you want to do?"

Iris seemed not to hear the illusion of light and shadow, and simply asked coldly.

"I don't want to say anything, nor do anything. And even if I wanted to, would you allow me to say or do it?"

The illusory figure's smile faded. It lowered its right hand, which had been covering its mouth, and spread its hands, seemingly resigned, saying, "The body is yours, the will is yours, the sea of ​​consciousness is yours, the world of destiny is yours, everything is yours. What can I do?"

Iris frowned even more, her tone growing increasingly impatient: "I don't have that much time to argue with you. If you don't speak within ten seconds, I'll kill you."

"Oh dear! I'm so scared..."

The illusory light gave a affected, coquettish voice, but immediately followed through, clutching its chest and feigning grievance, timidly saying, "I just wanted to try the Brown Sugar Deer Ball Milk Tea. You know, when I was born in the wizarding world, the food was terrible. Unfortunately, I went to another universe and became an 'outsider,' and I've been thinking about returning home, so I haven't paid attention to any good food or enjoyment. I really want to try the Brown Sugar Deer Ball Milk Tea that you've been thinking about."

This affected manner, so over-the-top and tea-like, is far more cloying than brown sugar deer jelly milk tea.

Unfortunately, the illusion of light and shadow bears a face that is exactly the same as Iris Clark's.

When Iris Clark saw it, she couldn't stand it anymore.

With a thought, he smoothly used the "Slay Me" technique, which he had honed through nine trials in the special ruins world.

The illusory image let out a scream, its eyes brimming with tears, staring at Iris Clark with utter grievance and resentment. Its chest heaved violently, its lips trembled, and finally, with a weak breath, it cried out in bitterness, "You...you...you're so...so cruel...you have such a cruel heart!"

Iris Clark saw this and wanted to deliver another blow.

However, the "Slay Me" technique injures oneself before injuring the enemy, a move that kills a thousand enemies but harms eight hundred of oneself, and should not be used too often.

The illusory figures then appeared, trying every means to disgust Iris Clark, using reverse psychology to provoke her and provoke her into using the "Slay Me" technique more often.

With repeated exposure, Iris Clark's "true self" would lose its ability to suppress the illusions of light and shadow due to the repeated damage.

In this way, the illusion of light and shadow can pry open a crack and escape from the heavy suppression and seal.

Taking a deep breath, Iris Clark suppressed her impulse.

This greatly displeased the light and shadow illusion, which then "died" with its displeasure.

Iris glanced at the now empty but stained chair and glass, then got up and went to the window to look at the vehicle Link was driving.

Within seconds, the speeding vehicle disappeared from Iris's sight.

"Ugh!"

With a long sigh, Iris Clark had a thought and closed the curtains.

He took a few steps back, retreating into the shadows.

The vehicle Link was driving then entered the shadows.

Moments later, the vehicle ascended and entered the Starship, whose docking cabin door had been opened.

The starship, with its destination coordinates already set, immediately headed towards the High Council of Middle-earth in the Wizarding Continent.

The matter of returning to the wizarding civilization has been fully completed.

Although there are still some questions that haven't been answered, it's enough to move forward with a light heart.

Link will officially embark on the path of confronting his "predestined fate".

When a spaceship travels within the wizarding world, it cannot be as free as it can be in space. It must follow the routes drawn by the High Council and avoid the no-fly zones set up by various wizarding forces.

Therefore, their speed could not be increased, and it took them quite a while to reach the Central Plains.

After docking at the designated airport port, Link, facing the surprised gazes of the High Council wizards who came to greet him, reached out and shrunk the Starship into his hand.

It's not that the wizards of the Supreme Council are short-sighted and unaware of the miniaturization capabilities that have long been prevalent in wizarding civilization.

Rather, this spaceship is too large, and miniaturizing it would likely cost more than all the warships of a Level 7 Grand Sage-level interstellar fleet.

The information received by the wizards of the Supreme Council working at this airport port indicates that the wizard Colin Delange before them is only a fifth-level sage!

What kind of level 5 sage could be so outrageously wealthy?

It's not just about having a good father, but also a good grandfather or a good family.

In either case, this wizard Colin Delange is someone you can't afford to offend.

Serving in the Supreme Council sounds prestigious, but only the person holding the position truly knows how lowly they feel in reality.

The port wizard of the Supreme Council was lost in thought, but he put on a smile and greeted him warmly.

Link noticed something, glanced at the Starship lying in his right palm, not yet put into its special storage bag, and understood everything.

Remembering his new persona, Link adopted an extremely aloof demeanor and said indifferently, "No need to serve me anymore, you may leave."

After saying that, Link ignored the port wizard whose face instantly fell and looked very ugly, and left.

The port wizard turned halfway around, stared at Link's back for a while, and sighed, "As expected of a wizard from a prestigious family, his aura is truly different."

Link, with his sharp ears, heard the sigh clearly and couldn't help but frown.

When did the Supreme Council become like this?

Wizards admire power but pursue freedom even more.

If there are more wizards like the Port Wizard who succumb to power and forget their pursuit of freedom, can wizard civilization ever return to its peak?

Forget about returning to its peak; it's more likely that a landslide will occur, and the mountain will collapse.

However, one should not concern oneself with matters outside one's official position.

Link was just a minor fifth-level sage. He had neither formally established his own wizarding power nor held any official position in the High Council, so it was not his place to worry about such things.

What he should do now is to use the false identity provided by the Sage Medici to quietly return to the Immortal Civilization.

This false identity would be best used to avoid the sight of the immortal civilization.

Even if they can't, they'll still be discovered by the Heavenly Court or the Celestial Master's Mansion, so it doesn't matter.

It is a two-birds-with-one-stone strategy, and there are different follow-up plans for different situations.

After leaving the airport, Link went directly to the application point for using the two space portals.

According to the cooperation agreement, Medici, a level 6 sage, had already taken care of everything. After Link arrived at the application point, he was treated like a VIP, and everything was done quickly and efficiently.

In less than ten minutes, Link received his permit to use the passage.

Moreover, its ranking is extremely high.

This scene made those wizards who had broken away from their respective wizarding factions and wanted to make a name for themselves in parallel universes extremely envious, but they were helpless.

However, the seeds of anger had already been sown.

Many wizards couldn't understand why, coming from prestigious families and already possessing so much, they would lower themselves to compete with lower-class wizards for resources.

Why can't we use the channels of your prestigious family?

Feeling the many complex gazes behind him, Link's heart was in turmoil.

Actually, Link had always had some questions about the prophecy made by the Saint of Nostrodam before his demise.

Link also harbored doubts about the decision of the High Council of the Wizarding Civilization to do everything possible to explore parallel universes.

The so-called unprecedented changes in thousands of years is just a general statement.

This can be understood as the long-term impact of opening a channel to parallel universes.

It can also be interpreted as the wizard civilization and the god civilization, who are already mortal enemies, deciding a winner or loser, or suffering mutual damage and declining at the same time.

However, whether intentionally or unintentionally, the vast majority of wizards, following the will of the Supreme Council, believed that the unprecedented upheaval was the creation of parallel universes, which would allow wizard civilization to take another step forward and accumulate enough power to crush the civilization of gods in one fell swoop.

But what is the truth?

The truth is, while exploring parallel universes, the wizard civilization also had to endure even more frenzied attacks from the god civilizations, who clearly sensed something was wrong.

The truth is, exploring parallel universes means that the wizard civilization will have to contend with the immortal and divine civilizations, and fight against the demon civilizations.

Fighting on multiple fronts is a major taboo in military strategy.

Now, the Supreme Council has once again exposed a harsh reality from all sides.

That is class solidification, or rather, the trend of class solidification.

What is the Supreme Council trying to do?

What were the five saints thinking locally?

One question after another made Link's mind become chaotic.

Link had no choice but to wield the "Sword of Wisdom" to cut off these distracting thoughts and stop thinking about things he shouldn't be thinking about.

Focus on yourself, focus on your family, focus on your partners, focus on the Grand Sage Legion and "freedom to do anything".

Not long after Link had sorted out his thoughts, it was his turn to use the two cosmic portals to travel to the Celestial Civilization.

After a long period of continuous expansion and construction, no fewer than twenty passages have been built between the two universes.

Different channels have different specifications, different capacity limits, different speeds, and different time consumptions.

There are six lanes available for individuals and small groups.

As a privileged individual, Link naturally used the highest-spec, highest-capacity, fastest, and shortest-time channel among the six.

From receiving the permit to entering the passage, it took less than ten minutes.

From entering the passage to arriving at the universe of the immortal civilization, it seemed like only a moment had passed, but in reality, an hour had gone by.

Time here is measured according to the time flow rate of the wizard civilization.

Medici, a level 6 sage, led his five team members and waited at the other end of the passage to welcome Link.

Just as Link used a false identity and disguised himself, Medici, the sixth-level sage, and his five team members also disguised themselves.

"Long time no see, Wizard Grand."

Medici, a level 6 sage, extended his right hand from afar to warmly welcome Link.

"have not seen you for a long time."

Link shook hands briefly with Medici, a level six sage, then corrected him, "Please call me Wizard Delange, thank you."

"Ha ha……"

Medici, a level six sage, laughed heartily and corrected himself, saying, "Look at my memory, I really should call him Wizard Delan."

As soon as he finished speaking, a team member, also a fourth-level sage wizard, stepped forward to remind them, "Maditch Wizard, Delange Wizard, we have to go. Everything is ready over there, just waiting for us to arrive."

"Shall we go over there?"

Upon hearing this, Sage Medici looked at Link and sought his opinion.

"Um."

Link nodded in agreement.

The group of seven immediately left the two cosmic passageways and headed towards "the other side" mentioned by their team members.

The entire process was conducted in a way that avoided all line of sight as much as possible.

It was done quietly.

(End of this chapter)