Becoming a Wizard by Starting From the Mind Closure Technique

Chapter 686: Chapter 195: Heart of Stone_1

“Sir, do you see her?”

Franda’s voice resounded as she shared her vision.

Enriched with the power of Vision Enhancement Magic, Franda could peer through the side window of the shuttle’s cockpit and make out the hazy figure of Christina, bound and held captive.

“I see her.”

Link’s reply was emotionless.

“What should we do, sir? Do we save her?”

Franda immediately asked.

From her bound state, Christina’s predicament could be inferred.

Undoubtedly, she had been used as a hostage, or rather a decoy, by Shadow City and delivered to the Tower of the Great Sage Mitchell.

A bait to induce Link into attacking the Great Sage’s battlefield.

With no significant effort, it couldn’t be easier for an intelligent person to deduce that a trap awaited Link.

Combining the two sensed threats and a looming crisis, it wasn’t hard to ascertain how deadly the trap awaiting Link was.

Thus, from a personal perspective, Franda was reluctant to see her master risk himself for a witch with whom he had no close ties.

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However, if her master was determined to save that witch, Franda would not object.

“Don’t worry, I’m not that foolish.”

Link, sensing Franda’s conflicting feelings, reassured her.

“That’s good!”

Franda breathed a sigh of relief.

It couldn’t have been better that her master retained rationality and refused to take unnecessary risks.

Hesitating a moment, Franda asked, “Sir, do you have any messages for her? Franda can convey them for you.”

“Hmm…”

Link pondered momentarily, then said with slight remorse, “Tell her that I’m very sorry, but I’m powerless to help.”

“Yes, sir.”

Franda acknowledged and immediately cast the “Quantum Encrypted Communication” spell, connecting with Christina.

“My master has a message for you.”

Upon hearing Franda’s voice, Christina’s face betrayed no emotion.

Having learned her lesson, from the previous hostilities’, Christina kept her emotions in check and silently replied through a mental message, “What is it?”

“He says he’s sorry, but he can’t help.”

Imitating Link’s tone, Franda relayed the message verbatim.

“There’s no need for an apology.”

Maintaining her composure, Christina replied after a moment of silence, “My predicament doesn’t have much to do with your master.”

“How so?”

Seizing the moment before the shuttle entered range of the Great Sage tower’s warship, Franda hastily inquired.

“Please tell your master to take care of my daughter, thank you!”

Instead of providing an answer, Christina used her remaining time to deliver this message.

It was as if she had foreseen her ultimate fate and was leaving her last words. It had turned into entrusting her child to their care.

“Understood.”

Franda agreed and terminated the “Quantum Encrypted Communication,” voluntarily distancing herself from the warship of the Great Sage tower team.

From the analysis her master had just made, Franda believed that the sudden retreat of the Outlander Colonization Team from Shadow City and the dispatch of a supply shuttle was undoubtedly related to the level 5 sage trailing them covertly.

Even with Franda’s immense stealth and mobility, it was unwise to act recklessly under the nose of a level 5 sage.

It was better to prepare for the worst, after all.

“Sir, did you hear all that?”

Franda re-established contact with Link and inquired.

“Yes.”

Link responded tersely.

Consequently, he quickly scanned and acknowledged his team members who were coming to terms with the abrupt change in circumstances. With a calm demeanor, he ordered, “Retreat, circumvent them, return to the main campus.”

“Understood.”

The Warship Tower Spirit responded first.

“Yes, Captain.”

Lanny.Taylor was slightly late in her response.

“Yes, Captain.”

The remaining three advanced wizards hailing from the Stormy Sea in the Wizard World Homeland echoed in unison.

“Yes, Captain Grande.”

Voices of affirmation from the remaining seven wizards echoed one after another.

Nevertheless, the whole team had unified their thoughts and determined the next course of action.

The interstellar warship “Lark” swiftly retreated, keeping its distance from the warships of the Great Sage Tower team and Shadow City.

“Dang!”

Inside the Great Sage Tower’s warship.

The twelve wizards who had readied themselves for the attack by Link Grande, especially the captain, were extremely unwilling and cursed in rage.

“That’s way too cold-hearted, isn’t it?”

One of the wizards couldn’t hold back his frustration and muttered under his breath.

The captain and the other members chose to remain silent.

They were all wizards and naturally understood the characteristics and conduct of most wizards: rationality, composure, and even to the extent of cold-bloodedness.

The hot-blooded and friendship-oriented types were not non-existent, but exceedingly scarce.

The Great Sage Tower Team thought that since Link Grande was willing to help Christina Smith, there might have been the slightest possibility that he might have tried to stage a rescue under the current circumstances.

Now that their “Hope” had dashed, it was natural for them to feel the gap.

“Enough!”

The captain thundered, attempting to suppress the dissatisfaction and unwillingness amongst the members who had experienced violent emotional swings due to Link Grande.

“Captain, what should we do now? Are we just going to retreat?”

Despite the captain’s fury, a team member boldly asked.

This team had prepared for a long time, nurturing tacit understanding, training in combined casting techniques. The goal of this trip was not only to obtain the legacy of the saint, but also to severely injure Link Grande at an opportune moment.

“Or what?”

The captain lowered his voice and said sullenly, “He didn’t fall into the trap, why don’t you go and attack him upfront?”

The team member immediately fell silent.

A joke indeed, to directly attack Link Grande?