Thor's figure vanished in an instant.
The next second, he appeared inside the Star Gate again.
It wasn't the headquarters of the Star Gate Council, but the Spatial Rift in Deep Space that the Council had carefully hidden away.
The reason Thor could appear here was that he had grabbed Murich's Fate Line long ago, back when he'd bound Murich with his tentacles in the Laboratory and swung him around.
From then on, Murich had become a teleportation coordinate for Thor. Only Thor knew about it.
Now, the moment Thor sensed that the coordinate had come near the Spatial Rift, he teleported over.
Before Thor, a plump, fleshy worm was carefully preparing to cross the Spatial Rift, leave the Wizard World, and enter the vast Starry Sky to explore other dangerous, unknown worlds.
The worm was the shell containing Murich's soul.
Without waiting for Thor to tell it what to do, the silver butterfly immediately darted into the fleshy worm before them.
Murich had been shocked and instinctively begun to fight back, but he suddenly froze. He couldn't make the step he'd been about to take through the Star Gate, either.
The next instant, Thor's right hand had turned into several translucent octopus tentacles. They locked around the worm, coiling several times until it looked like a ball of yarn.
As soon as he finished, Thor immediately retreated.
Almost at the same moment, a powerful Mental Power reached toward Thor's former position from beyond the Star Gate. An arc of electricity suddenly flashed and nearly struck him.
"Wizard Thor, what are you doing?"
Speaker Alik's voice traveled through the Mental Power and sounded in Thor's mind.
Thor clasped his hands behind his back, looking like a scoundrel who'd been caught red-handed but refused to admit it.
"Speaker Alik, since the