I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

The Countess seemed to be late.

Seeing that Catherine had no intention of entering the hall, the maids assumed she was waiting for the Countess, so they remained silent.

When they saw many nobles squeezing into the hall from the side hall, the maids' expressions turned ugly—this was too rude!

It seemed that Madam Maria hadn't arrived yet, and who knew what the etiquette officers here were doing.

Some maids hurriedly apologized and walked into the hall, acting as etiquette officers, asking the nobles and ladies who had entered the hall to leave. Then, they began checking their tickets.

The nobles obediently waited in the side hall outside another entrance of the main hall. The crowd was dense and disorderly, like tourists queuing to visit the zoo during a festival!

At this moment, Roland saw that there were quite a few reporters standing near the performance area in the hall!

These reporters looked strange, which was why Roland didn't recognize their identities at first. Now that there were fewer people in the hall, their equipment was exposed, and Roland recognized them.

Heavy stand-type magic cameras, backdrops, flashlights, and professional crystal video arrays—each group of reporters had many cameramen, assistants, and so on, adding up to more than thirty people.

Roland gave his senior a wooden look—why are there so many people? Aren't we secretly here to trade for captive seeds?

Logically speaking, in the eyes of the Twilight Council, Catherine's visit this time was for talks about treason.

Very few people in the Twilight Council knew about this matter, so this was a top-secret meeting.

But the Blood-deprived Family had invited so many nobles, and even so many reporters!

This was very unreasonable.

Catherine gave Roland a look—they just want to announce to the world that as long as I show my face in public, it will tell the entire Eastern Territory that I am going to betray the White Chess Council and join the Twilight.

Catherine's face was a little ugly. She had anticipated this possibility, but she didn't expect them to do it so decisively.

Roland gave her a strange look—is it okay for this matter to be spread? The White Chess Council knows about this, and the White Queen also knows about this mission, right?

Catherine gave Roland a faint look—what do you think?

Roland was stunned, and then his face became a little ugly.

He realized that he had a cognitive bias.

Before, Catherine had always been showing her face as 'Katarina,' so Roland regarded this mission as a 'public affair' of the White Chess Council.

But thinking about it carefully, there were many problems here.

This was a private job!

The bodyguard was hired in Katarina's name. And nominally, Roland was still following Katarina.

Including Catherine, she also came secretly under Katarina's cover!

Everyone had done so many things, obviously not to conceal Catherine's whereabouts from the Twilight Council, but to conceal Catherine's whereabouts from the White Chess Council!

This was not a public affair at all.

This was a private job.

Or rather, it was colluding with foreign enemies, biting the hand that feeds you, betrayal!

For Roland and his senior sister's group, they had two options regarding the Blood-deprived Fortress.

In the first option, they would put on a show. After returning from the Blood-deprived Fortress, they would hand over some of the benefits to the White Chess Council, but not all of them.

From then on, this matter would no longer be betrayal, but an extraordinary mission carried out for the future of the entire council.

The upper echelons of the council would not blame them, because although they acted first and reported later, it was for the sake of secrecy, wasn't it?

After all, there were also Twilight spies in the White Chess Council. The fewer people who knew about this matter, the better.

As for why Catherine didn't tell the White Queen about this matter, naturally she had some selfish motives. But the White Queen wouldn't blame her, because Catherine handled the matter flawlessly, and she came back, without betraying.

But the key was that his senior and them had a second option, and they were considering whether to 'put on a show' or 'do it for real'.

As long as the entire plan was carried out in secret, everyone would have two options, but if today's situation occurred, there would be no option A, and they could only play it for real!

For this plan, Catherine had already splashed a lot of dirty water on herself, pretending to be a traitor to enter Alaca Prison.

She was already not clean.

Therefore, the news didn't need to write too much, just write that she escaped from prison and hid in the Twilight. And confirm those things with her blemishes, then she would become a real traitor.

After that, no matter how she explained, the Black Abyss and White Chess would be suspicious of each other.

The White Queen and Catherine would no longer be able to trust each other as before.

The news would not publicize the plan of 'summoning the Yellow-Brown Lord in Alaca,' because only the King of a Thousand Eyes and a few contacts knew about this plan.

Even on the senior's side, not many people knew about this matter.

Everyone thought that the senior was here to steal the captive seeds and the Path of Truth.

Since no one knew that the senior's real purpose was to summon the Yellow-Brown Lord.

So, in this case, once the senior went back, then whether it was out of protecting a suspect, or out of punishing a traitor, she would be caught back to Alaca and placed under house arrest.

Wasn't she already under house arrest in Alaca?

As long as the Twilight spies pushed the boat along the river a little in the council, she would be imprisoned back in Alaca Prison.

She would be caught back again, but this time, the people of Twilight would not help her out, and the senior's people would not be able to help her out either. Because the senior's people would be closely watched!

She would not be able to prove her innocence and would not be able to get out of prison.

Even if the White Queen remembered the old days and showed extra grace. Then it would be many years later.

At that time, the senior's power would no longer exist, it would have been uprooted. By then, I don't know how many people would die, how many people would be sealed, and how many people would be placed under house arrest.

And I don't know how many people, under the pressure of the situation, would betray the senior and submit their certificates of allegiance to the White Chess Council.

In any case, the senior who walked out of prison would become a loner.

And this problem princess with the label of betrayal, even if she walked out of prison, would not be able to obtain true freedom. She would be closely watched and thrown into the cold palace!

On the matter of the Blood-deprived Fortress, the senior used a conspiracy—the father-in-law had to swallow his daughter's bait.

And the father-in-law also used a conspiracy—the daughter only had one path left.

This path was to truly return to Alaca Prison, and then help her father summon the Yellow Fern Lord, and properly fall into the demonic path, and be the crown prince for her father.

Roland thought to himself: 'Father-in-law, you really didn't leave a way out for your daughter, forcing her to rebel.

No, the King of a Thousand Eyes has always known that his good daughter would hesitate on this matter, so he slightly pushed her hand and helped her make a decision.

The senior understood her father, and her father also understood her. So he was guarding against his daughter.

But the ginger is still old and spicy, the senior now has no way out.

So, am I going to change bosses again?'

To be honest, Roland didn't have a good impression of the White Queen. The fellow disciples and teachers of the Black Abyss were also very uncomfortable on the White Chess side.

And if the senior defected to the White Chess, the people who knew Roland were now the senior's people.

Everyone was going to defect together.

Therefore, everyone would not meet on the battlefield in the future.

Moreover, once this group of people from the Black Abyss came over, they would also have their own territory, and the people on the territory would be freed from suffering—many of the Black Abyss wizards came from the bottom, they didn't pay attention to bloodlines, they would treat mortals as human beings.

But if there was a choice, Roland didn't want to be a traitor.

The Black Abyss did things harshly, but their hearts were not completely black, and the relationship between fellow disciples and between teachers and disciples was good. Moreover, everyone usually mixed in the White Chess, without so much internal strife, and there was a way out in this environment.

They, this group of Black Abyss thugs, were having a good time in the White Chess Council, to put it bluntly, it was that they could bully honest people in the White Chess Council.

But the Twilight was a thorough demonic sect.

A great evil sect!

Everyone here was completely mad!

The Blood-deprived wizards seemed quite normal, but their bodies and minds were deeply polluted into this appearance!

Mixing here, with a little carelessness, would lead to eternal doom.

Roland gave Catherine a look—damn it, senior, you really screwed me over! You really dragged me into the water this time!

Catherine's face turned slightly red, she glared at Roland—stop talking nonsense, are there any leeches in the hall? It's too far away, I can't see clearly.

Roland looked inside, and his face became a little ugly.

Leeches? There were many!

Look, this Blood-deprived Fortress was already in this state, eating a meal surrounded by all kinds of monsters. Their best choice was to turn around and leave, but now they had to go in!

Because this banquet today was a must-attend. Not attending meant that Catherine didn't want to show her face!

It meant that Catherine had a ghost in her heart!

It meant that the great filial daughter planned to trick her father!

Roland rubbed his face and said in a low voice: "If you tell everyone that there are leeches here, and they are all leeches, can you?"

The senior gave Roland a look—what do you think?

Obviously, it wouldn't work!

If Roland announced his madness here, there would only be two results.

One was that they believed it—all of them would be polluted by Roland's madness, their SAN would return to zero, completely integrated with the mysterious, and completely become leeches.

One was that they didn't believe it—they thought they were making excuses not to attend the banquet, or simply tied them up as lunatics for treatment.

At this time, the two saw Anna take out a small bucket of salt and sprinkle it on the ground.

The two gave Anna a look—what are you doing? Are there any leeches around you?

Anna gave them a look back—who knows if there will be any later!

As she spoke, she stood to the side, just like the surrounding palace knights. She clearly had no intention of going in to eat!

Too cunning!

Roland thought to himself, 'If I had known, I would have worn my knight's uniform today and not gone in to eat either!'

Sighing, Roland grabbed his senior's hand and whispered, "There's still some good news. The large carpet under the long table repels insects. As long as we dance over there, we can eat in peace."

As soon as he finished speaking, Roland and his senior suddenly noticed the flashes of light from the hall were going off in their direction in a chaotic burst.

The reporters saw Princess Catherine holding hands with Baron Roland, so they excitedly started taking pictures.

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Looking at the reporters, Roland puffed out his chest, preparing to pull Catherine into a dance.

Roland said, "I have an idea—we dance, taking the opportunity to shock everyone, and then have Anna spread salt behind us!"

Catherine's face turned pale, and tears almost welled up in her eyes.

"No! Absolutely not! I don't want to be in the news like this. I'll become the most famous princess in the world!"

Regarding tomorrow's news... the world can think of this traitor as a big villain—that's right, I'm the worst female demon!

Hate me, hmph, hmph, hmph.

But she didn't want people to think she was crazy!

Just then, a series of footsteps came from behind them.

The two turned around and saw Countess Wendysha leading a large group of people over!

To their surprise, not only were these people normal, but they also didn't have any leeches on them!

Rumor had it that Countess Wendysha was over a hundred years old, but she looked very beautiful and young.

Countess Wendysha held a gorgeous fan, which she used to cover her face, revealing only her eyes.

Although only half of her face was visible, one could still tell that she was exceptionally young, like a beautiful young woman in her late twenties.

She had a small beauty mark under the corner of her eye, which made her charming eyes appear particularly enchanting.

Her face was very delicate, but her attire was a bit too extravagant.

It was so extravagant that it felt unnatural, so flamboyant, yet also magnificent.

If Catherine's attire today was like a noble black swan, then Countess Wendysha was a magnificent peacock!

The huge skirt support looked like a giant snail!

The clothing was embroidered with more than a dozen patterns: flowers, wreaths, palm trees, magic herbs, mythical creatures, and even bats.

Masses of ruffles and lace, countless floral ornaments.

To show off her status, Countess Wendysha had specially created a tall hairstyle.

The sides of her hair were short, and the top was very high. From a distance, it looked like a white bird with gorgeous feathers was standing on her head.

This headdress seemed to be called a Fontange.

On this luxurious Fontange were also gems, pearls, and other ornaments, making it look beautiful and exaggerated.

The flamboyant and magnificent attire, combined with the enchanting and beautiful eyes, was surprisingly alluring.

Roland and Catherine sized up this beautiful peacock, then nervously focused their attention on the fan in the Countess's hand.

Her mouth had not been revealed the entire time.

Seemingly sensing their nervous gazes, Countess Wendysha's charming eyes curved into crescents, as if she was smiling.

With a swish, the Countess closed her fan. She addressed Catherine by her title as Countess and greeted her very politely.

Seeing the Countess's full face, Catherine breathed a sigh of relief, then returned the greeting to the Countess very politely.

Generally speaking, when a person wears a mask or covers the lower half of their face, their attractiveness is higher. This is because observers tend to imagine them as the most perfect version in their minds.

This rule applied to Countess Wendysha... Roland didn't know if this rule applied to the Countess, because this charming lady had a very distinctive feature: she was a big-mouthed beauty!

When she covered her mouth with a fan, she looked very enchanting, like a seductive fox!

But after putting down the fan, she looked dignified, and even had some of the majesty of a great lord.

A Countess who always looks at you with seductive eyes, but has a very dignified and majestic face?

No wonder Earl Durand was balding!

However, it seemed that Countess Wendysha's group was the only one who hadn't turned into monsters. What if they stepped into the banquet hall and stepped on leeches?

Catherine seemed to be thinking about this issue as well. She exchanged pleasantries with the Countess, delaying their entry, while giving Roland a look—he could proceed with their previous plan!

Roland was slightly stunned.

They had just discussed two plans, one was to tell the truth, and the other was to dance and spread salt.

Which one was she referring to?

After thinking for a moment, Roland immediately realized.

He gave Anna a look, and Anna understood, taking out the bag of salt.

At this moment, Roland saw that Countess Catherine had finished chatting with Countess Wendysha and signaled him to come forward. Then, Catherine stepped aside with a smile and stood next to the Countess.

Roland immediately stepped forward, then, amidst the Countess's bewildered expression, he put one arm around her waist and the other around the equally bewildered Catherine.

At this moment, the two most noble ladies in all of Bloodwood Fort were held in Roland's arms.

Like a giant vulture, he grabbed the magnificent Peacock Countess and the noble Black Swan Miss, and danced into the banquet hall.

The two ladies, in complete bewilderment, followed his rhythm and started dancing clumsily.

Behind them was an elegant elven knight, constantly spreading salt.

Instantly, the entire venue fell silent, and the clumsy footsteps and the rustling sound of salt echoed in people's ears.

Everyone widened their eyes and stretched their necks, looking like a bunch of dumb geese standing there.

Buzz ~ ~ ~

An astute conductor waved his hands, and the performers passionately began to play music!

Click, click, click!

The lights in the hall flashed continuously, and excited reporters frantically recorded this scene.

'Catherine is simply a genius!'

Roland shouted in his heart, 'Everyone is now staring at us in shock, and they won't enter the hall to disturb us before we finish the dance.

So, Anna has time to spread salt!

As long as a wide path is sprinkled with salt between the outside of the hall and the carpet, then no matter who walks from this path onto the magic carpet, they will not be infected by leeches!

No, that's not enough. Salt must be sprinkled around the long table!'

In order to give Anna more time, Roland danced with the two noble ladies for a long time.

And in order to avoid the leeches and guide Anna, Roland danced around the venue in a large circle.

Click, click, click!

In that frenzy of flashing lights, the two ladies' faces were ashen, and their eyes were very dull.

Clearly, Catherine's previous words did not mean this.

But it was useless to say anything now—the Countess had already seen them acting crazy.

Now, the only three normal people in the entire Bloodwood Fort had become lunatics in the eyes of the Bloodwood madmen.

When everyone is crazy, the sane become the crazy.

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