That day, Saine had just finished a Body Tempering Experiment in the laboratory when he received a report from the Little Fox Girl.
The newly appointed Sea King Arthur had just left Saine's Ash Fortress. As expected, he had hit a wall again and had not even seen Saine Himself.
Saine naturally understood Arthur's purpose in coming.
That was why he had avoided seeing him.
It was not that Saine was stubbornly refusing to join the expedition to the Ancient Desert Wasteland World Group. Rather, Cuilisi, the Level-6 Magician behind him, had no such intention for the time being either.
Ever since the Subspace War ended, Saine had not seen Cuilisi for quite some time.
His grandmaster was probably still seeking a breakthrough to the Level-6 Peak realm.
Unlike Bai Xing, who had a good father, Cuilisi could not cross into Level-6 Peak in the blink of an eye.
The process might take anywhere from over a dozen years to several decades.
Fortunately, the Subspace War and the wars in the Surrounding Starfield had essentially ended. The Wizard Alliance's upper echelon was unlikely to assign Cuilisi any compulsory missions anytime soon.
Besides his grandmaster's advancement leaving her temporarily unable to deal with a new battlefield situation, the bitter war already erupting in the Ancient Desert Wasteland World Group was another reason Saine did not wish to wade into muddy waters.
Saine and the others had indeed been responsible for the Sea Starfield War in recent years and had not intervened in the campaign for the Ancient Desert Wasteland World Group.
However, the Wizard Civilization Legions that had once joined them in crushing the Black Bat Starfield had recently begun dispatching forces to the Ancient Desert Wasteland World Group with increasing frequency.
As for the war over there—well, there had been