Chapter 896: Chapter 45: The Web Chapter 896: Chapter 45: The Web Qi returns to qi.

The real matters must still be addressed, neglect cannot prevail.

The fish hadn’t bitten the hook, it hadn’t even entered the prepared nest, but it certainly jumped in front of Lotson.

Now, what Lotson needed to do, was to fish.

Fishing wasn’t about starting with a fight; the necessary social niceties still had to be observed.

With a slight smile, Lotson waved at Great Sage Mitchell, who quickly grasped what had happened and his current predicament, and politely greeted him, “Hello, Mitchell.”

“Hello, Saint.”

Unperturbed by the disorder, Great Sage Mitchell returned the greeting and then spoke, “I thought it would be a long time before we met again, Saint. I didn’t expect it to happen so soon.”

“Yes, I’m also quite surprised.”

Lotson echoed in agreement.

“What surprises the Saint?”

Great Sage Mitchell smiled slightly, “Could it be that all this isn’t proceeding as per the Saint’s plan? Even reincarnated, you still enjoy manipulating others, yet you never seem to do it well.”

Pausing a moment, Great Sage Mitchell continued to press, “It seems the phrase you often mention is correct, seeing more doesn’t mean doing better.”

Great Sage Mitchell had survived the devastating final battle between the Wizard and the Celestial civilizations.

Before the final battle, Great Sage Mitchell had already become a Level Eight Great Sage; therefore, during the reorganization of the Wizard Civilization under the five Saints of the Supreme Council, he was incorporated under the jurisdiction of the West Coast Element Wizard Saint and established the Mitchell District and Tower of the Great Sage Mitchell within the Tudor region governed by a Level Nine Great Sage.

On the other hand, the once glorious Mysterious Wizard Faction had completely disappeared.

The reason, of course, was that the source and pinnacle of the Mysterious Wizard Faction, the Saint of Nostrodamus, had perished after the war.

In this regard, Great Sage Mitchell and the Saint of Nostrodamus were contemporaries.

Great Sage Mitchell’s extensive knowledge about the Saint of Nostrodamus and the Mysterious Wizard Faction was enough to contemplate reviving the Mysterious Wizard Faction and seizing the position of the Mysterious Sage Wizard.

“Ah!”

Lotson lightly slapped his forehead, annoyed, “I knew something felt off about this setup, I overlooked the fact that I’m not good at scheming and you know me too well. Thus, the True Spirit isn’t causing trouble without a cause but genuinely trying to help me.”

“Is the True Spirit Saint also here?”

Great Sage Mitchell ignored Lotson’s frustration, focusing on the crucial point.

“It’s not just the True Spirit that has come, the Elements have visited as well.”

Lotson reported truthfully, harboring no intention of deceit or manipulation.

“I see.”

Great Sage Mitchell nodded thoughtfully, his mind seemingly grasping something.

What exactly he pondered or understood, Lotson did not care to speculate; instead, he asked curiously, “Both the True Spirit and the Elements have come and the True Spirit even intervened to move you here, making their stance very clear. Are you still determined to continue? Mitchell, there’s still time to stop.”

“Time to stop what?”

Great Sage Mitchell responded calmly.

“Time to avoid becoming a criminal of the Wizard’s Civilization.”

Lotson smoothly provided the answer.

Hearing this, Great Sage Mitchell fell into deep thought.

Lotson was not hurried to hear a response, thus he did not urge an answer aloud.

The atmosphere in this Land of Nothingness was rather quiet and harmonious, except for the burden on the struggling Advance Team of Ravensmouth College and Link and Jasmine, the couple, who were trying to evade encirclement.

The longer the delay, the greater the losses suffered by the Advance Team of Ravensmouth College would become, and the higher the likelihood that Link and Jasmine would be intercepted.

If Link and Jasmine were cornered by the Small Interstellar Fleet of Sage Michel’s Tower, let alone draw more attention from Sage Michel and alleviate the pressure faced by the Four Sects Legions, self-protection would barely be feasible.

“We can’t continue like this.”

Within the cockpit of the Starship, as Link maneuvered the Starship to once again evade encirclement by the interstellar fleet, he abruptly made such a declaration.

Assisting Link in piloting the Starship, Jasmine immediately asked, “Do you have a plan?”

After a brief pause, Link decisively resolved, “We’re not running anymore.”

“Not running?”

Jasmine felt very surprised, momentarily struggling to understand what Link was thinking at the moment.

If they stopped running, only two paths lay before them:
One, to confront the vastly superior forces of the Small Interstellar Fleet of Sage Michel’s Tower head-on;
Two, to surrender meekly and then hope Sage Michel’s intentions for requiring Link would do no harm to their personal safety and freedom.

Whether the first path or the second, Jasmine did not view either as a favorable path.

Regardless of which path they took, the outcome would hardly be good.

Link naturally understood Jasmine’s concerns, as they were also his initial reservations.

However, then was then, and now is now.

In the course of evading the encirclement by the Small Interstellar Fleet of Sage Michel’s Tower, Link realized something he had previously overlooked.

Being hidden for too long by the High Council of Wizard’s Civilization, Ravensmouth College, and even by himself, Link had forgotten, as Mr. Xu Jing mentioned, that the Immortal God Civilization Universe valued him far more than they valued Elise Clark.

Mr. Xu Jing had even said that if Link had arrived earlier in the Immortal God Civilization Universe, the support now provided by the Immortal God Tomorrow Court to Sage Michel would have been Link’s instead.