Inside the Day-Chasing Silver Shuttle's central control room, the liquefaction stage old wizard's eyes widened. Through the massive projection of the Divination School before him, he could see the specific position of the void warship in the 50km high altitude and the information ahead.

Originally, the Day-Chasing Silver Shuttle should have traveled into the web-way in the Second Sky, but at this moment the void warship had actually crashed headfirst into a giant magic painting standing in the sky.

The old wizard immediately realized this was the method of speed painters, a visual illusion magic sub-direction of the Illusion School. They had painted a huge magic painting in the Second Sky and pretended it was the web-way entrance. When their void warship was fighting the Thunder God Palace Remnant Images, the situation was complex, so they hadn't observed carefully and had actually crashed headfirst into this magic painting.

Like prey entering a spider's web, plunging headfirst into a trap.

"This mature technique must be professional airship pirates." The old wizard immediately made a judgment. "No matter, the Day-Chasing Silver Shuttle has sufficient power. We can forcibly break free from this giant magic painting."

"Activate..."

The old wizard looked at a First Circle witch from their school before him with confusion, "Alexandra, your face?"

The witch called Alexandra turned around. She looked at the old wizard with confusion, then suddenly licked her lips with her tongue, "Mm? Is it time already? The makeup magic painting I drew on my face, the time came so quickly."

The spell model of the speed painter's First Circle magic [Makeup Magic Painting] on her face instantly shattered. All the makeup on her face turned into turbid liquid, flowing down from her face, revealing an unfamiliar woman's face beneath.

A card painted with a clown was thrown by her onto the center of the control room floor. On the back of the clown card was written a line of text [Magic Thief Circus].

The old wizard and all the wizards present had their expressions change dramatically.

They hadn't expected that black wizards had actually used speed painter methods to directly infiltrate their midst and enter the control room. But why?

How did these black wizards sneak in?

They had clearly implemented all their security measures.

The old wizard of the Day-Chasing Silver Shuttle said with difficulty, "It's the Ptolemy family. They hired you to intercept and kill Hand of the Jungle's senior expert. That's how you boarded the ship, right? Because it involved a prestigious family from the Land of Six Towers, we deliberately pretended not to notice, not wanting to participate in the internal conflicts between the prestigious families of the Land of Six Towers."

"You seized this opportunity and used the Ptolemy family's name to board the ship."

The speed painter woman from the Magic Thief Circus curled her lips. At this time, the red wizard robe on her body also changed to a wizard robe with black as the main color. She snapped her fingers, "Correct answer. Unfortunately, there's no reward."

"We need to kill that expert, and since our Magic Thief Circus has already boarded this void warship, don't expect us to return empty-handed."

The old wizard at this time had a spell appear in his hands. The powerful magical pressure of the liquefaction stage pressed over. His expression was gloomy, "An ordinary formal wizard dares to be so audacious. To put it nicely, you have confidence. To put it bluntly, you're just seeking death and causing me trouble."

"You black wizards, hijacking a void warship belonging to the White Wizard Association is a serious crime, a capital offense. Die for me..."

The next moment, his expression changed drastically because a magic array appeared beneath his feet. This array covered the entire central control room.

This was actually an exile array.

In an instant, an interdimensional space gate opened behind the old wizard. Then, before the old wizard could react, it directly sucked him in and teleported him out.

At the same time, the other First-rank wizard apprentices and three ordinary formal wizards in the central control room also cried out, because this sealing array was also targeting them.

This was a First Circle Abjuration School sealing sub-direction magic, Forced Exile.

They would be forcibly exiled, able to maintain at least one hour of time before they could return to this area again.

The speed painter witch saw this scene and curled her lips, "Much easier than I thought."

"A liquefaction stage wizard, of course I couldn't beat him. Moreover, with a permanent defensive field, even if we fought, who knows how long it would take."

"But there's completely no need for combat. Just use sealing magic to forcibly exile you all for one hour. That's enough for our circus to steal this void warship clean."

"I wonder if the leader has killed that Hand of the Jungle senior expert. Although compared to robbing this void warship, the Ptolemy family's reward is insignificant, even mosquito meat is still meat. Our circus... won't give up anything we can get our hands on."

...

Inside the void warship's library interior, in an instant, the entire library interior fell into darkness. In this moment, a card with a clown pattern printed on the front was thrown in the middle position of the library.

What caught Locke's attention was that the other party didn't seem to be mainly here to kill the strange old man Wizard Salvador. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

The previous quarrel, it seemed, was just used to utilize them to divert everyone's attention.

The void warship's free library concentrated the most formal wizards. If the other party didn't want to be besieged by the formal wizards on the warship and fall into defeat, they had to find a way to prevent this situation from happening at the very beginning of the ship hijacking.

The other party had come targeting all the wizards in this library that the circus believed would pose a threat to their warship robbery operation.

One after another, liquefaction stage wizards had sealing magic appear on them and were forcibly exiled, directly forcibly exiled into interdimensional space, forcibly exiled for one hour.

In the distance, on the premium seat area side of the library, the Plutarch family's people's expressions changed dramatically. The Plutarch family's old steward almost immediately pulled Alicia to leave.

"Miss, leave quickly. There are black wizards here, and your status is too precious. Let's immediately use a teleportation gate. Just the two of us will return to the ground."

"Although we'll have to ride the wizard airship again, at least we won't be caught up in trouble."

Alicia panicked for a moment. Who knew, she directly shook off the old steward. She said to the old steward, "No, at this moment, I absolutely cannot flee. I am a pureblood wizard of the Plutarch family."

"Right now is the moment to fulfill my responsibility. I usually enjoy so many resources. At this moment, I should demonstrate value, suppress black wizards, eliminate unrest! Otherwise, wouldn't I have wasted so many resources."

"Old steward, we need to subdue those black wizards and protect the order here." A spell radiance lit up in Alicia's eyes. A spell model appeared in her hands, "Moreover, old steward, you're a liquefaction stage wizard. Those black wizards are at most vaporization stage."

"As long as you take action, they're no match for you at all."

"As long as we can suppress these petty thieves, we can not only save an expensive magic gate fee, but also win renown for my Plutarch family in the Land of Six Towers."

The old steward was stunned for a moment. For an instant, he was almost convinced by his young miss. After all, they had teleportation gate scrolls. Even if something was wrong, they could leave at any time. Very safe.

But the next moment, reality told him that the outside world of the Land of Six Towers had never been so easy to deal with.

He looked down and saw a forced exile array appear beneath his feet.

"No!"

The next moment, the runes on the array wrapped around the old wizard's feet. Immediately after, he transformed into a light orb and was forcibly sent into interdimensional space for one hour.

"Miss, flee quickly!"

The old wizard pulled out a teleportation gate scroll from his body, wanting to throw it to Alicia, but it was already too late. Holding the teleportation gate scroll, he was sucked together into the interdimensional gate.

Leaving only Alicia's pale little face.

With the liquefaction wizard bodyguard beside her forcibly sealed, panic finally appeared on Alicia's face. At this moment, the clown leader of the Magic Thief Circus appeared beside Alicia.

The clown leader used magical fluorescence to illuminate the surroundings. He looked at the several ordinary formal wizards beside Alicia and laughed, "I didn't expect you wizards from the Land of Six Towers to be so useless. To be able to proceed so smoothly, all liquefaction stage wizards were all sealed. What can the remaining few of you do?"

The clown leader looked at Alicia like seeing a high-value prey, "Miss of the Plutarch family, you really should have used the teleportation gate scroll to leave just now. That was your last chance to safely leave. Capturing you, how much money should the Land of Six Towers give me?"

Alicia's face was pale, "Commoner wizard, how dare you speak to me like this. I'm from a prestigious family of the Land of Six Towers. You should at least give me due respect..."

The smile on the clown leader's face disappeared, "We black wizards don't engage in that kind of thing. Whoever has stronger power has higher status. I don't care about this or that."

"Capture her for me. This person can be exchanged for quite a bit of money."

On the other side, in the darkness, the puppeteer manipulated a puppet, using an enchanted dark energy dagger to slash toward Wizard Salvador's neck.

Wizard Salvador's permanent defensive field wasn't defensive magic, but rather magic related to ecological restoration that accelerated plant growth.

Therefore, with one slash, Wizard Salvador would inevitably die.

The strange old man Salvador sensed the threat of death and the faint cold light before his eyes. He screamed, "Locke..."

The strange old man Salvador, while shouting, ran in a random direction but seeing this scene, Locke not only didn't pay attention to him, but instead walked with his hands behind his back, as if taking a stroll, toward the opposite direction.

Strangely, the moment the dagger in the puppet's hand touched Wizard Salvador's neck, it became intangible, because it was simply a phantom.

"What kind of joke is this, using such a low-level trick..." Locke walked to an open space. At this time, his eyes operated abyssal energy, so even in darkness, he could see objects as usual, and could even see more things.

He reached out, grabbed at the air, and yanked hard. The puppet hidden in a dark scene magic painting appeared behind, along with the puppeteer operating this puppet. An astonished expression appeared on his face.

"How could you see through it?"

His original plan was to use a phantom to feign attacking Wizard Salvador, but he knew that beside the old man Wizard Salvador was another wizard guarding him, so the real purpose was to use that phantom to draw away Locke's attention.

When that old man Salvador was fleeing everywhere, he would emerge from the dark scene magic painting and harvest that old man Wizard Salvador.

Then, leaving the astonished Locke, he would throw out another Magic Thief Circus card, leaving their black wizard circus's illustrious reputation.

Who knew, Locke saw through it directly.

It was just that how did the other party see at a glance that the phantom was just an illusion created by motion magic painting, and that he himself was hidden behind the dark scene magic painting?

Locke said, "If you want to kill Salvador, I have no objection. He is indeed strange and eccentric. I know there are many people who find him unpleasant. But you can't kill him during this time period. Because right now I'm responsible for protecting him."

"You haven't heard of my name as Eye Demon Wizard? No matter, you should remember it soon."

In Locke's view, the Magic Thief Circus's true strength was actually not that great. The entire troupe surprisingly didn't have a single liquefaction stage wizard.

They were just highly skilled in deception.

That's why they were anxious to eliminate all liquefaction wizards present.

And the reason Locke instantly saw through the other party's magic painting illusion was very simple. He had previously come into contact with speed painters and had stayed with speed painters for a long time.

Secondly, the magic painting illusion created by the other party actually still had flaws. For example, excessively pursuing the geometric structure of the picture instead lost that sense of imperfection of real people.

They just borrowed the cover of darkness to make up for the shortcomings in the magic painting's details, but Locke could see objects as usual in darkness, so naturally he could ignore this point.