I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

The court archmage, His Excellency Avice, is currently very troubled.

Yesterday, he was accompanying King Alfonso, along with various ministers and nobles, taking a stroll in Green Lake, discussing the matters of the kingdom's plague, refugees, and the Comb Army.

However, some refugees suddenly barged in.

Recently, there have been many refugees near the Green Lake Manor, and the King has specially set up some relief stations, providing food, lodging, and medical treatment.

But for some reason, this group of refugees insisted on intruding here.

The knights hurriedly led the guards to stop them, lest they disturb the King or spread the plague.

However, they discovered that they were not refugees at all, but bandits, the Comb Army.

Avice hated this group of the Comb Army to death.

Not only him, everyone hated them.

Comb was the name given to them by the common people.

They shouted slogans of justice, but the things they did were heinous.

The Comb Army said that King Amir was the culprit of this natural disaster, that he was a bastard, a monster born from the Queen's promiscuity with a demon.

This matter was indeed often arranged by many people, because the Queen had no husband, yet she had a child!

Therefore, many people believed the words of the Comb Army and followed that crazy 'Comb Lord' from the north, like a comb, leaving no grass growing wherever they combed.

This group of people liked to disguise themselves as refugees.

Once a lord allowed them into their territory and provided for them, they would begin to burn, kill, and loot, committing all kinds of evil.

The reason why the disaster in the north was so severe was that the plague only accounted for one-third, and the greater disaster was man-made.

In addition, this group of people moved around everywhere, spreading the Crystal Princess disease everywhere.

The King's troops were still guarding the royal city in order to control the plague while blocking the Comb Army.

Therefore, the Comb Army should not be able to go south, but today, everyone encountered the Comb Army at this Green Lake Manor.

A great battle was about to break out.

There were not many soldiers here, only a few dozen.

But they were all fully armored soldiers.

Moreover, there was also a middle-ranking knight and seven or eight low-ranking knights.

Among the nobles who came to accompany the King today, there were also many capable people.

Adding this together, there were more than a hundred people.

Not to mention that seven court wizards were here today.

Originally, it was thought that defeating these hundreds of bandits would be easy.

But the King and the others were slaughtered, leaving no armor intact.

There were many strange people in this Comb Army.

Their whole bodies were like crystals and gems, invulnerable to swords and spears, and impervious to magic.

Except for those knights, the other soldiers could not hurt them at all.

The seven court wizards were also helpless against those Comb Army soldiers.

Except for His Excellency Avice, the high-level apprentice, the magic of the others could not take effect against these Comb Army soldiers.

Moreover, it seemed that some wizards 'disguised' as ordinary people had also mixed into this Comb Army.

When His Excellency Avice saw that large pile of spells flying over, he was almost scared out of his wits.

Fortunately, although they were numerous, they only knew one or two spells.

Avice and his colleagues and students barely managed to cope and support for a while.

The Kingdom Knights arrived very quickly, and after these hundreds of people came to support, the situation finally improved.

Although the Amir Kingdom had few people and not much talent, the King was still quite rich.

Therefore, although there were only two middle-ranking knights and thirty-seven low-ranking knights in the Knights, these hundreds of people were all armored cavalry.

Although those Comb Army soldiers were more frightening than elemental creatures, their bodies could still be shattered under the impact of the cavalry spears.

So, His Excellency Avice led the court wizards and cavalry, and exhausted all their skills, and managed to repel this wave of the Comb Army.

But the Comb Army behind them also arrived.

Everyone tried their best and managed to kill their way back to the castle, only to find that the outside of the castle was a mess, and many Comb Army soldiers had already broken into the castle and were fighting with the retreating soldiers for the city.

Avice and the others broke into the castle through a city gate with fewer Comb Army soldiers.

Then, they fought in the castle for a day and a night before driving the Comb Army out of the castle.

The King's side suffered heavy losses, with many wounded unable to fight, fleeing, or scattered.

It was unknown how many there were.

Originally, there were several ballistae in the castle, but they were all burned in the melee.

On the Comb Army's side, many people did die, but the remaining hundred or so people were all those strange Comb Army soldiers.

This battle could no longer be fought.

There were only a dozen knights left in the castle now.

Below the knights, they could not cause any damage to those Comb Army soldiers at all.

Faced with such a group of unkillable enemies, the soldiers had no fighting spirit at all.

Not to mention letting them kill the enemy, their legs were trembling when they saw the Comb Army soldiers.

Those hundred or so people, without any tactics, could not be stopped by rushing in.

It was good enough for these people to defend the castle, letting them go out of the city to fight would cause a mutiny.

Avice only hoped that those arrangements he had made could allow the garrison to survive these few days until reinforcements arrived.

But a troubling thing happened again.

He had just appeased the military's morale when he heard people say that the Queen had been kidnapped when the enemy troops withdrew from the castle.

There was no need to listen to people, everyone could see it now.

She was tied up down there.

This group of lunatics!

So much money had been promised, and they still wanted to burn people!

The archmage, His Excellency Avice, was also bold because of his high skills.

He took the King's money to help the King eliminate disasters.

Now that the situation was already like this, he still dared to go down to save people.

He went several times, but was discovered every time.

He fought with the wizard leader of the Comb Army several times, and barely escaped back.

Avice recognized that person, Avice would not have even glanced at him before, but now he had transformed into a high-level apprentice.

Avice believed that his strength was still good, after all, in this court, he could still bask in the King's glory and enjoy the resources given by the White Chess wizards.

Therefore, although he was not a wizard from the academy, he could barely be considered half a person from the White Chess school.

But he fought with that person several times and was defeated every time, and the only oddity in his hand had been turned into a crystal by the wizard leader of the Comb Army.

Now, Avice really did not dare to go.

Although he was very good at concealment and escape, he felt that if he went down again, he was afraid that he would not be able to escape.

He always felt that this group of people wanted to capture him alive and then burn him.

He strongly suspected that the real leader of this hundred people was not that wizard.

The King was still clamoring to go and save her, save what!

With so few people left, the ones who could go into battle were a dozen knights, plus the seven wizards (apprentices) - no, eight wizards.

It would be good enough if this castle could survive today!

A commotion came from behind, and a group of people flocked to the balcony.

Avice's heart was slightly excited, knowing that the eighth wizard had come.

But after looking at it, he found that it was that little girl.

The little girl stammered and told everyone what her teacher had said.

After Avice heard it, his face turned ashen, and he burst into scolding: "What time is it now? You still want us to go out? Is your teacher crazy or stupid?"

The little girl said carefully: "Teacher's meaning should not be to let you go out to help. He said that you are trash, and told you to cover your ears later."

Amber, this little fool, did not explain the words clearly.

Roland's meaning was to let the court wizards cooperate with him to bluff and save someone.

Scolding people as trash was also a private complaint.

As a result, this girl, like counting beans, said everything out loud.

After the seven court wizards heard it, they were almost breathless with anger.

I knew earlier that the people of the Black Abyss school were even more arrogant and arrogant than the White Chess school.

I didn't expect them to be so arrogant!

Avice cursed in his heart: 'It's good that you don't come over to defend the city properly and insist on going down to die.

It's also good, when he suffers a loss and learns a lesson, he will honestly listen to orders.'

'This group of ghosts can reflect magic, and it's a waste of magic to use magic on them.

It's better to concentrate our magic to meet that Snake Tower wizard later.

Such a combat power cannot die in vain.

When he suffers a loss later, we will take action to save him, and he will be convinced.'

Avice carefully observed the outside, intending to take this opportunity to find out how many wizards there were below, and how many hidden means there were.

He believed that although that kid did not know the immensity of heaven and earth, as a famous Black Abyss wizard, he must still have some means.

He should be able to lure out those hidden people.

As a result, as soon as he saw it, Avice was stunned in place.

The clear sky was rapidly turning cloudy, and in just two or three minutes, it was dark.

The rainbow that was originally hanging high in the sky gradually disappeared.

Avice was also considered knowledgeable and had seen wizards affect the weather.

This was not something that could be done with a few spells.

He released his divine power and searched around for the Black Abyss wizard, but he did not feel the existence of that person.

He muttered a spell again and carefully investigated, and then his face became more and more solemn.

Although Avice did not dare to compare with the elite wizards in the school in terms of magical comprehension, Avice was much stronger than ordinary high-level apprentices in terms of mental strength and magic power.

Moreover, he was also very good at concealment.

If it was just relying on his mind to find a hidden peer, Avice would not dare to say that he could definitely feel his existence.

But knowing that there was someone, but using magic and tools, he did not find a trace.

Could it be that the person who came was actually a formal wizard?

A formal wizard would not be able to do it either!

That was more than a hundred people!

I don't know how many of them know magic, this is a wizard group!

At this moment, a commotion suddenly came from the surrounding crowd, and some timid maids were even scared pale.

Avice raised his head and took a closer look, and his face suddenly changed.

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The dead around the manor slowly began to move. These corpses rose in grotesque shapes and crawled around.

A necromancer?!

King Alfonso grabbed Avis, sweating profusely, and asked, "Lord Avis, are they with us or with them?"

King Alfonso actually had magical talent, but he was an illegitimate child, a mudblood. His father, the White Chess Tower Master, always hid this blemish on his life, not even allowing him to enter the school's gates.

Therefore, Court Wizard Avis knew more about wizarding matters.

Avis said, "The Snake Tower of the Black Abyss School is permitted by the council to use dark magic... the banshee. Quick, Your Majesty, spread the word! Everyone, block your ears with cotton soaked in saltwater and stay away from the windows!"

Although this Avis wasn't from a major school, he was quite knowledgeable, worthy of being a high-level apprentice. He even knew that this unorthodox method could counter a banshee's wail.

Avis also discerned some clues about the undead.

That Snake Tower wizard probably used the power of the Book of the Dead to revive these people. He also released many ghosts and evil spirits.

However, those evil spirits were disobedient, so they probably weren't raised by the Snake Tower wizard. The major schools just returned from the forbidden area; he likely obtained them from the Twilight Wizards.

However, although he couldn't control these evil spirits, he could barely communicate with them using the Book of the Dead.

Moreover, the dead revived by the artifact were very attractive to these evil spirits, so as soon as the evil spirits appeared, they burrowed into them.

The evil spirits hated everything, not needing a wizard to control them to fight. After possessing the corpses, they twisted their bodies into grotesque poses and quickly crawled towards the Comb Army.

A great battle was imminent.

The people throughout the castle were excited to see the evil spirits fighting the Comb Army. Some even mustered the courage to shoot arrows at the Comb Army.

But after watching for a while, everyone's mood plummeted.

Those evil spirits looked terrifying and even had some strange tricks, but they were no match for the Comb Army.

After fighting for a long time, not a single member of the Comb Army died!

Even more terrifying was that the Comb Army treated those evil spirits as living people, even though they clearly weren't!

"Burn! Burn! You will be blessed if we burn you!"

Faced with the attacks of the evil spirits, they excitedly walked over as if preaching, holding torches and muttering to the dead, allowing the evil spirits to tear at their bodies.

The Comb Army didn't defend at all, just letting the evil spirits rush into their ranks. Several evil spirits even ran past the Queen. If it weren't for the few Comb Army soldiers around her, the evil spirits would have torn her apart.

Soon after, many of the possessed evil spirits were tied up by the Comb Army. Then, a group of Comb Army soldiers started chopping down trees.

The scene immediately descended into chaos.

Avis, sweating coldly, couldn't help but take half a step back: "Madmen, a bunch of madmen!"

Sure enough, it wouldn't work! How could a necromancer fight such a group of people?

Just then, Avis suddenly noticed that something was wrong with the shadows of many evil spirits, hiding some insidious curses. There weren't many, only a dozen or so in total, but that was still a significant number.

— Shadow-type curses?

What was that wizard wasting so much mana for? Even though the mana consumption of this kind of curse was very low, it would still cost a high-level apprentice half of their mana.

Moreover, the Comb Army didn't respond to magic at all.

Yesterday, during the battle, Avis didn't know how many weakening spells he had tried to help the soldiers kill the Comb Army. Two out of ten spells working was considered good.

Later, he simply stopped wasting his mana.

Suddenly, Avis realized that those dozen evil spirits seemed to be heading for the Comb Army's wizard leader.

A dozen or so... almost!

So, the necromancer wanted to decapitate the leader!

The leader couldn't see through the trick, but he was very cautious, having his guards block them all.

Avis looked closely and saw that after those dozen Comb Army soldiers came into contact with those special evil spirits, some imperceptible black gas appeared on their bodies.

They had all worked!

All dozen curses had worked!

Avis secretly felt pained. If only one of the evil spirits had pounced on that leader, he could have cooperated with the Snake Tower wizard to kill that almost magic-immune guy!

Just then, Avis suddenly noticed something was wrong—the Queen seemed to be gone!

Avis was stunned and whispered, "Damn it!"

It turned out that the Snake Tower wizard had no intention of killing the leader; it was to distract him. It was to save someone!

Avis immediately rolled up his sleeves, preparing to assist the Snake Tower wizard—he sensed the Snake Tower wizard the moment the Queen disappeared.

At the same time, the sneering voice of the Comb Army leader came from downstairs.

— "Hmph, so it was just a petty trick. Let's see where you can run!"

A colorful light flew from the leader's hand and struck the air. Immediately, a bizarre witch wearing red clothing made of human skin was trapped in mid-air by a rainbow-colored rope.

The leader was slightly stunned to see that it was actually a red-clothed witch.

But Avis was shocked.

That leader had a lot of skill but was an amateur. He had no experience and mistook that strange thing for a witch.

But Avis recognized that thing—it wasn't a normal banshee; that thing's magic was almost at the fourth rank!

Avis waved his magic wand, flicked his sleeve, and immediately cast a silencing barrier. Then, the entire balcony and the hall inside became silent. People's ears rang.

Immediately afterward, all the glass throughout the castle shattered!

Those in other rooms who didn't have a silencing barrier and only had cotton soaked in saltwater covering their ears showed extremely painful expressions as they clutched their heads. Those who didn't listen to Avis's orders and stood on the balcony bled from their mouths and noses and fainted directly.

That wail almost called out the souls of many people on the balcony.

The Comb Army below was at the very center of the wail, and their situation was even more tragic. Those dozen Comb Army soldiers who were cursed all fell down directly, and their entire bodies shattered into pieces!

A series of cracking sounds rang out in the crowd, and seven or eight people fell down. The rest, although not dead, had cracks appearing on their bodies!

The Comb Army leader was also dizzy. In that moment of distraction, a spell flew from Avis's hand on the castle and struck the banshee, trying to use the magic array in the castle to teleport it out and save it.

But a treasure orb flew over first and attached itself to the rainbow lock. Then, a strange luster flowed from the orb, and then the orb and the rainbow lock both annihilated.

Avis cursed loudly: "What a wasteful academic wizard! That was at least a low-level artifact! How could you use it as a disposable item to break a single spell!"