Chapter 569: Chapter 158: Who is the Prey? _1
“The other party is requesting communication.”
Tower Spirit issued a reminder, attracting everyone’s attention.
Sandra thought for a moment, then made a decision: “Connect.”
“Understood.”
Tower Spirit took the order and executed it.
The video communication was quickly connected.
On the large screen, two familiar faces appeared side by side.
They were Wizard Verna of the Flame and Metal Trading Company and the “Scholar” from the White Tower Alliance.
“Sandra, it’s been a long time.”
The “Scholar” held a large book in his left hand, waved his right hand, and politely greeted.
“Sandra, we meet again, and in this way.”
Wizard Verna was not in her usual three-point attire this time, but was dressed in airtight interstellar life support suit.
She made a tight gripping action while speaking, her expression extremely grim.
It seemed that she could easily capture Sandra and her interstellar warship.
Sandra scoffed: “Do you think you’ve outsmarted me?”
The Cloud Rainbow was isolated.
The two fleets attacking from both sides were standard units of the Wizard World’s interstellar fleet: one main force warship, three supplementary warships, and one supply ship.
By number, with one against ten, the difference was huge.
However, the configuration of the “Cloud Rainbow” was of flagship level.
Regarding combat power, it was second only to the Star Destroyer Fortress among the many classes of interstellar warships of the Sage-Level Legion.
Facing two main interstellar warships at the same time, it didn’t feel inferior at all.
Even if the other party had six auxiliary warships coordinating, Sandra was confident she would not be disadvantageous.
However, the other party came unexpectedly. They were unsure if there were other reinforcements behind, and the situation was unclear.
Also, Sandra hadn’t figured out how her whereabouts got leaked, so she chose not to face the battle directly and turned around.
“Cut communication.”
“Proceed at full speed.”
Sandra ordered consecutively.
Tower Spirit executed immediately.
The person on the screen disappeared, restoring the original state, showing real-time images of the surrounding starry sky of the “Cloud Rainbow”.
One of the three engines of the “Cloud Rainbow,” the conventional engine, was fully powered, accelerating the warship to the speed of light.
The fleets of the Flame and Metal Trading Company and the White Tower Alliance, under the command of Wizard Verna and “Scholar” Silvano Latorey, chased tail-to-tail.
There was already a long distance between the two parties.
The “Cloud Rainbow” traveled at the maximum speed of conventional travel – the speed of light.
If the two fleets didn’t activate their jump engines or curvature engines, they would never be able to catch up with the “Cloud Rainbow”.
However, it’s difficult to control the distance precisely in jump mode and adjust flexibly in curvature mode.
Both have their pros and cons and are not necessarily able to block the “Cloud Rainbow”‘s way perfectly when used in pursuit.
To be on the safe side, after consulting with each other, WizardVerna and “Scholar” Silvano decided to chase it like this for a while.
Wear down the conventional power reserves of the “Cloud Rainbow”, then take corresponding actions according to the situation.
“Something’s wrong.”
In the “Cloud Rainbow”‘s cockpit, Sandra muttered to herself, “how did they find out about my whereabouts?”
Soon, a look of annoyance flashed across Sandra’s face. Without letting the members of the mini legion avoid it, she directly told Tower Spirit, “Contact Lady Lisandra.”
“Understood.”
Tower Spirit took the order and immediately sent a communication request to the emergency contact, Lady Lisandra.
At an operating position on the left, Link heard this name, his eyes subtle.
“Oh, my dear daughter, are you in trouble again?”
Lady Lisandra’s figure appeared in the cockpit in the form of a holographic image.
She looked around, her gaze lingering on Link for half a second, then fell on Sandra, opening with a stickily sweet tone.
Sandra kept a straight face and asked coldly, “Did you use me as bait?”
Lady Lisandra mimed a heart-clutching gesture with a pained expression, “Oh, it breaks my heart that my daughter would misinterpret me this way.”
“Be normal!”
Sandra looked at her flamboyant and indifferent mother as if there were three black lines hanging on her forehead.
“Alright then.”
Lisandra responded in a pretentious manner, quickly regained her composure, and calmed down. “I didn’t use you as bait, it was your uncle Frist’s idea.”
“What do you mean?”
Sandra asked coldly, not blaming her right away.
Compared to her own mother, Sandra undoubtedly trusted Uncle Frist more.
Lisandra replied:
“Didn’t he arrange a sneak attack on the Flame and Metal Trading Company and the White Tower Alliance?
Now they want to retaliate in kind to redeem their captured personnel.
Your uncle said it was better to expose a flaw rather than passively defend.
Since you were going to continue that mission, he made some arrangements, allowing the subordinate agencies of the Supreme Council to leak your whereabouts.”
Executing the mission issued by the High Council wasn’t as simple as submitting a task report.
What time to set off, in what way and from what path to head to, when and where to arrive at the mission location, Sandra had to prepare in advance.
After these preparations and subsequent submission of the mission report, the task could be completed.
Sandra knew that with Uncle Frist’s shrewdness, it was not a difficult task to let the subordinate institutions of the Supreme Council leak the information smoothly without raising suspicion.
The difficulty was in how to manipulate the Flame and Metal Trading Company and the White Tower Alliance to send a killing squad that was not the Sage-Level Legion.
There were countless games to this, which were not easily described in a few words.
Sandra didn’t think too much about these aspects, but about what Uncle Frist’s purpose was by doing this.