I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

(PS: Don't worry, let Roland and the Senior have one last vacation, then the big stuff is coming soon.)

Catherine bought a bunch of fun things, but they only added up to a dozen silver shillings.

Everyone ate a meal at a very famous high-end restaurant—this time the consumption was high, costing a total of 3 pounds, 8 shillings, and 6 pence for eight people.

The average consumption per person was 8 silver shillings, so this restaurant was quite expensive.

But the taste was indeed very good.

During the meal, one of the Bloodless Lords said that there was a very famous sea-view bathhouse in the harbor, located near the castle, built on a sea cliff, and was the family property of the Bridges.

Catherine was very curious after hearing this, so she decided to go and take a look.

Roland had seen many tricks in White Tooth Town when it came to bathhouses, but when he came in here, he gained even more knowledge.

The so-called sea view of this sea-view bathhouse was not an ordinary sea view.

After entering, the group followed the waiters through gorgeous halls and corridors, and then actually came to an 'elevator room'!

This elevator room was not the kind of elevator that Roland had in mind. It had no doors, only fences.

The elevator room used wrought iron as its main structure.

The iron railings were very artistic and looked very beautiful.

After entering, the space inside was not very large, about the size of a freight elevator, but there were two small sofas.

After the iron gate was closed, the person in charge of the elevator outside blew a whistle, and then the elevator rattled and fell downwards, going directly underground.

After reaching the bottom floor, Roland entered the corridor, looked at the scenery outside the window, and finally understood what the 'sea view' in the words 'sea-view bathhouse' meant.

Roland stretched his hand out of the window and caught a sea fish—this window was a normal window, but outside was the seabed!

Roland sighed in his heart: 'Baron Bridge is truly generous.'

The location here was not too deep, but the light was still a bit dim.

But for wizards, this little bit of light was enough to see the scenery outside the window.

There were magic lamps on the corridor side, and this light source attracted many fish, making the fish schools outside the window very numerous.

Beautiful schools of fish swam and played near the colorful coral reefs, attracting many sharks and dolphins.

Roland also saw a notice board in the corridor, which read: [It is strictly forbidden to harass mermaids, violators will be fined 50 gold pounds!]

According to the attendants, mermaids sometimes secretly fish nearby at night, so this was a very good viewing spot.

In order to make the mermaids come often, they had come up with many ways.

For example, a complaint area was specially set up for mermaids in the sea outside. If someone was harassed or a family member was lost, they could leave a message in the magic mailbox in the underwater complaint area—Baron Bridge had specially formed a team of wizards to handle such incidents.

For another example, the windows were set up with many layers of restrictions to prevent people from catching mermaids.

But there were always wizards who could find ways to break through the restrictions, and even bring mermaids into the room.

There were only two kinds of wizards who dared to mess around on Bridge's property, had the ability to break through the restrictions he personally designed, and had a moral bottom line low enough to harass mermaids.

One kind was Twilight Wizards, but they generally would not have such curiosity about mermaids, because they had no shortage of specimens in their hands, so Twilight Wizards were often not interested in mermaids.

Therefore, those who did this kind of immoral thing were basically Black Abyss Wizards.

Moreover, it was very difficult for people to discover them after they did this kind of immoral thing, because after they brought the mermaids into the room, it was not for experimentation, nor was it to harm them, but to conduct some very disgusting transactions!

As for the mermaid ladies, they did not have human morals, so they were often very happy afterwards and would not complain.

A Bloodless female lord gossiped in a low voice: "I heard from a friend that many outrageous things happened here when it first opened."

"At that time, many mermaid tribes had not had deep contact with wizard society, so they didn't know about things like money."

"My friend said that there were very shameless Black Abyss Wizards who took a few pieces of flavored dried fish and tricked people into bed."

"The mermaids had never eaten this kind of spice-marinated food before and were very happy!"

"But later, they gradually understood, and now they basically want all kinds of goods that are not available in the sea."

Another Bloodless female lord gossiped: "I have also heard something. I heard that the various behaviors of the Black Abyss Wizards have spawned a certain industry in some mermaid tribes."

The waiter couldn't listen anymore. He waited for everyone to finish chatting and said: "Ahem, please be careful tonight, everyone. Recently, there have often been Nagas disguising themselves as mermaids to deceive guests. The moral quality of these robbers is very low."

After hearing this, everyone looked at Roland.

Roland cursed in his heart: 'I'm the only man here, are you telling me this on purpose?'

But speaking of which, Roland was really interested in mermaids—mainly to learn music.

Mermaids are a terrifying and very dangerous large carnivore for Muggles. Some larger ones often reach more than four meters in length—the upper body looks very small, but if you look underwater, you will find that it is a behemoth!

They are large animals that even killer whales dare not provoke.

But for wizards, this is just a group of wizard apprentices who have not systematically studied magic—in Roland's words, this is just a group of little demons.

Unlike Nagas, they are both large creatures and very brutal and cunning. In Roland's words, this is demon cultivation! Definite demon cultivation!

So, if you want to learn music, you must choose a mermaid!

Of course, Roland definitely didn't have this idea in this sea-view bathhouse.

The Senior loves to be jealous. If I call some mermaid into the room in the middle of the night and say I'm just learning to sing, she'll only believe me if she's a ghost!

So I can ask after getting on the ship how to summon a mermaid.

Roland was thinking too much, he didn't have a chance in this store at all, because the underwater viewing rooms here were all double rooms, and the area was not very large, making them feel cozy.

Basically, it was just a bedroom of medium size, a separate toilet, and a large hot water pool with a light shield enchantment opened on the seabed.

The group followed Catherine to her room, put all the things Catherine had bought during the day here, and then the Bloodless female lords carefully checked the security work from the inside out. Then the six ladies left one after another with excuses.

They obviously wouldn't be so clueless as to ask the owner if she wanted to live with them.

After everyone left, Roland and Catherine actually felt a little awkward.

Roland stood by the window pretending to look at the scenery, and Catherine sat on the chair pretending to read a book. The two of them didn't say a word for a long time.

How should I put it? This engaged couple who have known each other for almost nine years are actually not familiar!

Nine years seems like a long time, but in these nine years, if you don't count the fake three months in Valeria, the time the two people have 'known' each other is actually no more than two months, most of which has been during this trip.

Moreover, Roland has been treating the Senior as someone else for 90% of the time during this period—similar to chatting online with a mask on.

So, the two of them are actually not much different from people who have just met on a blind date. The number of 'real-person offline dates' where they went shopping together adds up to only twice.

The first time was this morning. The second time was this afternoon after walking out of the castle.

So, it's almost like netizens who have chatted for many years suddenly met, went shopping, and then directly came to book a room!

Now that they are suddenly alone together, they both have that unfamiliar awkward feeling.

"Ahem." Catherine coughed and found a very awkward topic: "There seems to be something in the conch that is very suitable for you."

I'm so worried! It's not easy to be alone, so we can chat about topics between normal couples. As a result, the topic she chose was related to business.

It's no wonder, she has lived for so long and has never been in a relationship. On the 'third day' of 'knowing' Roland, she hadn't even said a few words before Roland took her in the hut in the Black Forest.

Usually, they are either talking about business, with a lot of worrying things in their hearts, or they are scheming against each other, thinking about how to take the opportunity to suppress the other.

They can be considered to be falling in love after getting married.

Sure enough, the topic Catherine raised was very bad. Roland felt a slight tension in his heart after hearing it—did the female boss discover my little tricks before? What does she mean by suddenly mentioning this now, is she looking for trouble?

Roland turned his head back, pretending to be indifferent, and smiled: "Oh, what is it?"

Catherine looked at Roland's slightly nervous eyes and suddenly realized—this bastard, he seemed to be secretly doing something in front of me just now, trying to steal my things!

It was clearly put down by me, but now he is pretending to be 'What is it, I don't know'!

—Since then, the two of them began to scheme against each other again, and all the ambiguous feelings between the little couple were gone.

Catherine sneered secretly in her heart, but pretended to be very curious on her face, and took out a set of armor-wearing dolls from the conch, with a battle robe draped over it.

Seeing this battle robe, Roland's whole heart was lifted up. He couldn't help but step forward to take it and took a closer look.

This is a 'pseudo-holy garment'!

Roland was overjoyed in his heart.

Pseudo-holy sword + pseudo-holy garment. Two pieces of the set are now together!

This pseudo-holy garment was obviously not as good as Roland's 'Dirge of the Death Angel'. Compared with 'Dirge', it was much, much worse, with only two small holy patterns, but two small holy patterns were also holy patterns!

This is a real pseudo-holy garment.

A normal person obviously couldn't see these holy runes. At least, the Nagas and the previous owner of the pseudo-holy robe hadn't, making it seem like an ordinary battle robe, put on a suit of armor model.

That armor was worth 800 magic stones, a high-end sea trade commodity from the south.

This classic battle robe was clearly an add-on to the armor.

Catherine pretended to be curious and asked, "What's wrong? Is there anything special about it?"

Roland didn't hide his joy and said, "It's not just different, it's extraordinary!"

Hearing that Roland actually intended to be honest, Catherine's unhappiness instantly disappeared. Roland was actually quite honest; he didn't hide anything from me when he encountered something.

Roland continued, "Catherine, you don't study armor, so you don't know, this armor is a typical 'Greenwich'. Look at the exquisite patterns and grooves..."

Roland began to tell Catherine about this 800 magic stone armor—he didn't say a single word about the holy robe!

Although Catherine didn't know what was different about that battle robe, she was certain that Roland wasn't interested in the armor.

Because some areas of that battle robe clearly had nothing, yet Roland's gaze swept over them for a long time—there must be something on the battle robe that ordinary people couldn't see!

As a result, Roland was talking about the armor, not the battle robe.

Catherine could guess this guy's tricks with her eyes closed—he was afraid she would extort him and ask him for his private money!

At the little sea monster's auction, Catherine asked Roland to take out money, but he didn't. Afterwards, he wanted benefits... Catherine was naturally furious.

Now, this guy was pretending and deceiving Catherine again, and she was even more furious.

Roland didn't know that his little thoughts had long been seen through by his soon-to-be wife.

He was still enthusiastically talking about the armor... He really liked this armor. This armor was really good; with a few modifications, he could wear it himself.

After talking about the armor, Roland finally made a summary: "I once saw a piece of armor in a museum that was looted from San Juan by a Muggle kingdom. It was a collection of Queen Elizabeth I.

This armor is no worse than it.

Comparatively speaking, that armor was a bit too flashy and belonged to ceremonial armor.

And although this armor is also dark, the patterns on it are not the bright gold type, but dark gold dark patterns, which cannot be seen without careful observation, so wearing it on weekdays will not be too eye-catching."

The 'museum', 'San Juan', 'Queen Elizabeth I', etc. that Roland mentioned were obviously not things from this world.

But Catherine didn't understand much about the history of the Muggle kingdom, so Roland just said it casually.

She really didn't understand much, and she wasn't paying attention to the armor either.

Roland finally said, "Give me this armor, Catherine. This armor is not too eye-catching, just right for me to use as a decent armor to wear.

Well, I don't know the cost price of this armor on the trade list, but it's no worse than what the Bloodless Knights wear. I'll give you two thousand magic stones. Just consider it as me buying it."

"Lord Roland, you're too polite. It's just a piece of armor, why talk about money."

Catherine smiled very purely. Then, she smiled and stretched out her finger, drawing a circle on the armor. Then, the battle robe on the armor was taken into the conch, leaving the armor alone.

Roland was slightly stunned.

He said, "Give me the battle robe too. Look at these runes, they are too exquisite. That battle robe can be used to cover these things. It's also good to have the battle robe alone when you're not wearing the armor."

Catherine suddenly said "Oh" and took out a battle robe.

Roland hurriedly took the battle robe and looked at it, and then he was slightly stunned—this wasn't the battle robe he had just seen.

Roland said, "Catherine, this battle robe is not a set with this armor. It will look a little uncoordinated after putting it on. Where's the one from just now?"

Catherine blinked her eyes very诧异 and said, "What's the difference? Aren't they exactly the same battle robe?"

Roland smiled and said, "Of course not, the patterns on it are different."

"Oh?"

Catherine took out the 'pseudo-holy robe'. She said with a smile, "Lord Roland, today, as long as you can tell me where the patterns are different on these two battle robes, I will give it to you—otherwise, you will give me money!"

The senior's words were obviously a bit angry.

Roland's heart skipped a beat, knowing that the senior had seen through him.

He coughed awkwardly and said, "Is this true? If I say where it's different, you'll give it to me for free?"

Catherine nodded deeply and said, "Give it to you for free."

After a pause, she crossed her legs and said happily, "However, if you say one place wrong..."

She smiled and stretched out a finger, saying very, very happily, "You have to say every mistake, and every time you point out one place wrong, ten thousand magic stones... Do you dare to bet?"

Roland's face stiffened slightly.

The stakes in this bet were very high. And it was quite difficult. Because those places with subtle differences were very difficult to identify.

However, as a master of painting and sculpture, this matter was not difficult for him. So it was still a free point question.

Roland couldn't help but laugh.

He stretched out his hand and pointed to the first place where the pattern was wrong: "Look here on the shoulder, the pattern in this area of the battle robe in your hand is more delicate and very artistic. And the pattern in my hand is very ordinary..."

Roland found all the differences between the two robes, a total of seven places.

Actually, there were nine places, because there were also two holy runes. But Roland didn't say those two places.

Catherine listened with a smile, and couldn't help but raise the shallow women's shoes happily.

Roland smiled and said, "How is it, is it all?"

Catherine nodded with a smile and said, "It's all, a total of seventy thousand magic stones."

Roland: "?"

Catherine smiled and said, "Lord Roland, I didn't lie to you. The patterns on these two clothes are exactly the same."

Roland: "? ? ?"

Suddenly, Roland realized something.

There were not only two holy runes!

But he had always regarded the holy runes as patterns!

So he pointed out all the locations in three minutes, which meant that he had just used three minutes to incur a huge debt of seventy thousand magic stones.

The sweat on Roland's face suddenly flowed down.