In the name of the true god

A dozen minutes later, the mysterious space opened precisely on time.

The pale sky and the floating black fog were as usual.

Jude turned around with practiced ease and saw that Edmund had changed into a thick, light-colored coat, and his right hand was wrapped in several bandages, with bright red blood seeping out slightly.

"you……"

"The Church of Earth is hunting us..." Edmund looked tired and simply explained.

"...Are you alright?" Jude asked dryly.

"Don't worry, I'm just a wizard involved in the affair. It won't be easy to catch me." Edmund smiled in response. "However, the methods of the Church of the Earth should not be underestimated. I plan to take my men and leave Nordonia first."

"That's good." Jude thought that Edmund wouldn't die for another eight years, so his current worries were really unnecessary.

"How are you?" Edmund asked, showing concern for Jude's well-being. "Did our plan succeed?"

He was referring to Jude's request for him to send someone in the future to monitor and ascertain the fat wizard's identity beforehand, and then to inform Jude of this matter at 9 PM on the 15th of October in the Christian calendar year 448.

If this succeeds...

They can then trace the origins of the two rings and find out why Jude is able to possess both the law of contact and the law of similarity.

"It didn't work out, and nobody came looking for me," Jude said.

"It seems that intervening in things 29 years from now is still too difficult," Edmund said with a hint of regret.

"But I know who's been following me. Vincent Monroe told me..." Jude recounted the events of the past week, deliberately omitting the name "Séance of God."

After listening, Edmund said thoughtfully, "Frost and the others want to launch a rescue operation as soon as possible, and you want to protect your brother during the rescue. The problem you both face right now is how to break out of the special prison building?"

Jude sighed, "Yes. There are two difficulties. First, the prison itself is heavily guarded. Trying to defeat multiple priests and hundreds of armed guards with just the number of us will inevitably result in huge casualties. Second, the church's support can arrive in just twenty minutes. If we can't even break out of the prison within twenty minutes, we are destined to be wiped out by the church..."

Edmund, however, was not too troubled by it.

At least Jude is finally willing to rescue his fellow prisoners.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

He first offered words of reassurance: "Don't be impatient. Since Leonard hasn't agreed to transfer the implicated wizards and resonance sorcerers, as long as nothing new happens in the prison, you'll have at least a few months left."

Several months...

Let alone a few months, even a year, Jude wasn't very confident.

The problem is simply there.

The only solution is to confront it head-on; if you can't win, there's no way to resolve it.

Unless he can become a fourth- or even fifth-order entanglement wizard or resonance sorcerer before his kind are transferred.

But this is also impractical...

Jude still looked worried, as if a heavy stone was pressing on his chest: "My biggest worry is that there's no better way. Giving them more time won't make a difference. If Frost and the others insist on going ahead with the rescue, then both those imprisoned and those not imprisoned will suffer a terrible fate..."

Edmund had a different opinion: "This fourth-tier resonance mage you mentioned is no ordinary person, since he was able to raise a team and patiently send people to infiltrate the prison for three whole years. If he really couldn't rescue them, he wouldn't have led the others to their deaths in vain."

"Edmund," Jude looked at Edmund, then suddenly asked, "How did you rescue them?"

"Me? I'm not with you—"

Jude interrupted him: "What I mean is, given the vast difference in strength and the near impossibility of doing it, how did you overcome all difficulties and manage to do it?"

A second-tier entanglement wizard single-handedly rescued more than twenty of his kind from prison.

Although the prison security back then was nothing compared to the heavy prison in the capital today, Edmund still managed to create a miracle all by himself.

Is there really nothing we can learn from this?

Edmund realized that Jude was more confused than anything else, and his expression became more serious: "Don't give up hope, and don't put too much pressure on yourself unnecessarily."

"What do you mean?"

"I never thought I had to rescue them; I just thought I should try. You only know the answer to any problem by trying. Preconceived notions of 'it will definitely succeed' or 'it's impossible' are essentially a burden."

burden……

Jude fell into deep thought.

Edmund went on to emphasize: "The key to some things is never the result, but whether or not to do them. If it didn't succeed, is the problem with you? Obviously not. You did your best to save it, and that's enough. Look ahead, there's still a lot that can be done."

indeed……

If you really can't do it, there's no need to keep blaming yourself.

If you put enormous pressure on yourself from the beginning, it will only hinder the rescue.

Therefore, what we should learn most from Edmund is not how to rescue our fellow human beings, but rather not to presuppose the outcome and not even dare to try.

Jude's confusion and anxiety gradually faded, followed by a bitter laugh: "Ha... but I still don't know how to solve the current problems."

"Let's think about it another way. Your current strength is insufficient, so let's continue to accumulate power. Accumulating power takes time, so let's buy time." Edmund didn't get stuck on the issue. "Buying time is always more promising than fighting to the death with a large number of priests and armed prison guards."

"Buy some time..." Jude muttered to himself.

How can we get the royalists back in control?

How to occupy...

Does this prove that the capital's heavy prison remains impregnable?

"...This is no easier than a rescue." Jude smiled wryly. "After all, the prison break has already happened. Making any further noise at this critical juncture might backfire."

"How about... I try to help you?" Edmund finally suggested, the solution that made them both hesitant to act.

The existing timeline of the two interventions—

The attempt to ascertain the fat wizard's identity in advance failed.

But Vincent Monroe waited for him in prison for twenty years, not only helping him to grasp the basics of the law of similarity, but also allowing him to join the Séance of God.

A success rate of 50%.

Perhaps we could give it another try?

The outcome has not yet occurred; I hold the initiative in the past.

In this dead end, relying on Edmund and the power of the past should be the only chance.

After a brief internal struggle, Jude finally made his decision: "Let's give it a try, let the past rescue the present!"