The Winds of War

"Something happened to Munin?"

Jimmy's words made Richard freeze.

"Wasn't Munin sent to the peripheral battlefield? How could something have happened to him?"

"The peripheral battlefield isn't child's play. You're an exception; you don't represent everyone else. Get over here."

The call ended. Richard's joy over the successful Rule Implant vanished without a trace, and the shadow of war settled over him once more.

"Whew..."

Richard let out a long breath, then opened a gateway to the Wizard Dimension.

Fourth-Ring Tower of Truth.

Wounded soldiers from the front lines were being transferred in batches. Most of them had suffered severe soul injuries or extensive loss of limbs.

Among them, a black coffin sealed by Rune Chains was particularly eye-catching—because the one taking custody of it was actually a Great Wizard.

Richard accepted the coffin, his face expressionless.

As a Great Wizard of the Alchemy School, even if Richard had never seen this coffin before, he could identify it by its structure as a sealing Magic Armor.

Sealing Techniques were generally used by wizards to deal with troublesome enemies. Yet with a few alterations, they could also become an extremely powerful means of preserving one's life.

The coffin before Richard was a Stasis Coffin specially prepared by Wizard Civilization for Great Wizards. Its purpose was to ensure that severely wounded Great Wizards on the front lines could return alive to the rear.

And this was a fifth-ring Stasis Coffin.

Hoisting the coffin onto his shoulder, Richard's figure vanished like a phantom. When he reappeared, he was already inside Ellie's Wizard Tower at the Fourth-Ring Tower of Truth.

"A fifth-ring Stasis Coffin?"

Inside the Wizard Tower, Jimmy cried out in shock at the sight of the Stasis Coffin.

"What on earth did that kid do?"

Richard set down the coffin, his