Three months later...

Just before the next visitation was due, Grandmaster Feylis arrived.

She did not come alone. In addition to Sein’s mentor, Lorianne, two other male mages accompanied them.

The arrival of a peak Rank Six mage prompted Bahrami, the deputy warden of the Atlan Interstellar Prison, to appear in person.

As soon as he arrived, he smiled at Feylis and said, “It’s been nearly a thousand years since we last met. I never imagined you had already reached the peak of Rank Six. Congratulations!”

“Warden Norton is away on business, so I’ll be handling your affairs this time,” the deputy warden explained.

He was a rather lean Rank Six mage with piercingly sharp eyes. The faint elemental aura he gave off revealed that he was an electromancer.

“Heh, I trust you’ve already received the pardon order from Sir Klopp, yes?” Feylis asked.

“The incident between the arrested Rank Four black mage named Leena and this mage, Jerry, was simply a misunderstanding,” she added with a smile, gesturing toward the two mages standing nearby.

Following her gaze, Sein realized that one of them was the reason behind Leena’s arrest.

Beside Feylis stood a yellow-robed Rank Four mage and a Rank Six mage with a more intense aura.

Sein’s attention was mostly on the Rank Four mage.

The guy not only wore a yellow robe but also had a tuft of blond hair falling over his forehead.

According to the information Sein had gathered, this mage named Jerry was a peak Rank Four geomancer who also dabbled in niche fields such as soul magic.

Yet when Sein observed him, the mage’s aura seemed somewhat weak. Perhaps he had not yet fully recovered from the injuries Leena inflicted.

After all, Leena’s body now housed both a Rank Four and a Rank Five soul.

If she and Mikaeli coordinated perfectly, they could take on a Rank Five opponent head-on.

When Sein’s gaze fell on him, the Rank Four geomancer named Jerry lifted his head and met Sein’s stare.

Even in his normal form, Sein stood nearly two meters tall thanks to extensive body tempering.

Jerry, however, was quite short, standing barely 1.5 meters tall. He was shorter than even Lorianne.

As Sein glared at him, the overwhelming pressure of a Rank Five mage—amplified by the power of the Faceless Mask—surged forward like an invisible tidal wave!

Jerry immediately let out a muffled groan, and a faint trace of blood appeared at the corner of his mouth.

It seemed the man truly was severely injured, to be so easily affected by Sein’s mere presence!

The Magus Civilization had arrested Leena directly on the frontlines. In a certain sense, the decision had not been entirely unjust.

Two years of worry, combined with the hostility and murderous intent Sein felt toward anyone who had harmed Leena, made him momentarily forget that Jerry was also a Magus World mage—one of his comrades.

He was not some enemy creature from a foreign civilization that Sein could strike down at will.

Sein’s behavior in the conference hall of the Atlan Interstellar Prison caught everyone present off guard.

The reactions of those in the hall were rather interesting.

Lorianne stepped forward and grasped Sein’s arm. Her gentle gaze gradually calmed the fury that had been burning within him.

Grandmaster Feylis, however, simply stood with her arms crossed, watching Jerry and the other mage across the hall with a cold smile on her face.

Funnily enough, although her grand apprentice had caused trouble, she showed no sign of reprimanding him—if anything, she looked almost ready to help him pick a fight.

Meanwhile, Bahrami, the deputy warden of this interstellar prison, seemed to have suddenly gone blind. He turned his gaze elsewhere, clearly unwilling to get involved.

Finally, the tall mage who had been standing beside Jerry stepped forward, shielding him from the next wave of pressure radiating from Sein’s aura.

“Look, this whole incident really was just a misunderstanding. Jerry has already been badly injured. Why don’t we just move on?” the middle-aged mage in a blue robe said.

He clearly knew Feylis.

Although he lacked her fierce edge, he carried a calmer authority. Even among Rank Six mages, he was undoubtedly a formidable figure.

“Hmph. I’ve already investigated the entire incident. I even asked Master Tohlemy from Eastern Stargazing Heights to reconstruct part of the scene. But I believe you should already have a rough idea of what happened from your beloved apprentice, right?” Feylis said.

“Since Sir Klopp has classified this incident as a misunderstanding, we’ll handle it according to the protocol for such cases. It’d be best if you simply withdraw the charges against Leena now instead of complicating matters further,” she declared haughtily.

The blue-robed Rank Six mage sighed and glanced at his apprentice beside him.

Jerry was filled with frustration, resentment, and anger, yet he could do nothing about it. He pulled a magic contract he had prepared in advance from his robes and stepped forward to hand it to the deputy warden.

Bahrami, as if suddenly snapping back to attention, immediately conjured an elemental quill between his fingers and signed his name.

Not long after, Leena was brought into the hall as well.

Once she left her elemental imprint on the contract as her signature, she would be free to leave this place legitimately.

The process went more smoothly than Sein had expected.

He had not expected his grandmaster’s arrival alone to resolve everything so easily!

But recalling Feylis’ earlier mention of Klopp and the astrologer from Eastern Stargazing Heights, it was clear that while Sein had been waiting during the past two years, Feylis and the others had been busy.

When Leena appeared before him again, the weight in Sein’s chest finally lifted.

This time, Leena looked completely normal, and not the slightest trace of Mikaeli’s presence could be sensed within her.

That old hag clearly knew better than to show herself now. There were simply too many powerful figures present—people she could not afford to provoke.

Bahrami, the deputy warden; Feylis, a peak Rank Six mage; and the tall blue-robed mage—any one of them alone would have been a formidable opponent, even for Mikaeli at her peak.

Feylis in particular was overwhelming. The fierce aura of verdant flame around her seemed almost to seep from her skin.

From the moment she arrived, Feylis had naturally become the center of attention in the hall.

In truth, Bahrami’s strength might not have been inferior to hers.

And yet, ever since Feylis arrived, the deputy warden of this Atlan Interstellar Prison had kept an unusually low profile in her presence.

On top of that, Feylis had just invoked the name of a knight overlord.

Even if Mikaeli had a hundred times the nerve, she would not dare show herself now.