I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

The lady entering was indeed Mary. Roland's heart skipped a beat upon seeing her.

This Miss Mary was, in fact, the terrifying second-tier Naga Sea Witch that Roland had seen outside the window earlier.

Just now, while chatting with Billy, Roland had made a conjecture—if Billy and Mary were in cahoots, they would definitely send someone to test him.

Billy's offer of mermaid service was likely a test. That's why Roland readily agreed.

Now that Mary had come in person...

Roland knew that no matter how he disguised himself, he couldn't be absolutely certain of surviving this ordeal. He could only rely on luck.

Once the things he possessed were exposed, even if Mary originally only intended to modify his memory, she would immediately change her mind.

He would be doomed!

Roland asked with a surprised expression, "Miss Mary, you, you're a mermaid?"

From Miss Mary's perspective, Roland was stunned for two seconds after she entered, and then asked such a question.

Mary smiled and said, "Otherwise?"

Saying that, Miss Mary narrowed her eyes: "So, Sir Lance, do you think I am a three-headed serpent Naga pirate?"

Roland's heart skipped a beat, and he shouted in his heart: 'No, no, how could she say that directly? Damn it, damn it! Billy might not be a Three-Headed Serpent spy, at least Mary wasn't sent by him!'

'The mermaid he arranged hasn't arrived yet!'

'I messed up. My first sentence gave me away!'

'She knows I saw through her identity!'

How could Roland know if Billy was a spy? He was so familiar and affectionate with Mary just now!

Plus, Billy had just said he was going to send a mermaid, and Mary came to test him. Roland thought about it and felt that these two must be in cahoots!

He thought Billy had Mary come to test him in the guise of a mermaid!

Therefore, he deliberately pretended to be surprised, as if saying, 'Ah, aren't you a singer? I didn't expect you to be a mermaid.' He said the surprised words, 'Miss Mary, you, you're a mermaid.'

If Mary and Billy were in cahoots and knew Billy was going to arrange a mermaid service for Roland, then Roland's words were equivalent to 'I didn't recognize you. I always thought you were a singer. Besides, you don't look like that sea siren, so I would be surprised to see you come.'

But Mary and Billy were not in cahoots!

She didn't know about the mermaid service!

So Roland's words became 'Ah, you really are that mermaid from the sea before!'

Therefore, Roland's original words were meant to disguise himself. But Mary misunderstood—the key was that she didn't misunderstand!

She thought Roland had confessed without being forced.

Roland's mind raced, wanting to say something. At this moment, he suddenly realized that the mirror in the room was gone.

Roland couldn't help but be stunned in place—he remembered looking in the mirror when he entered the room.

Suddenly, Roland understood everything.

Before Roland could say anything more, he was suddenly knocked out by Mary. His last thought in his consciousness was: 'How could I not have any ability to resist... Oh, right, that's right.'

Without saying a word, Mary knocked Roland down and came to his side.

She searched Roland's body and quickly found a storage bag of decent quality—containing one hundred magic stones, plus some magic potions. The various magic potions added up to more than three hundred magic stones.

Mary frowned, stripped Roland naked, and searched carefully again, and sure enough, she found a small storage bag made into the shape of a button on this guy.

After searching, she found a high-grade wondrous item, a mid-grade wondrous item, and two low-grade wondrous items inside. As well as three hundred magic stones.

Indeed, Roland only had these garbage things on him.

As a formal wizard, it was reasonable to have only four hundred magic stones on him, after all, this businessman used most of his funds to purchase goods.

As for the wondrous items on his body... they were really trash.

But Mary showed a look of surprise: "The wizards of the East Territory are really rich! A wizard who has just entered the mid-stage of the first tier has such good stuff!"

Mary looked at the high-grade wondrous item with joy. Looking like a poor sea pirate who had never seen the world.

It's no wonder she was so surprised.

One is that the alchemy level of the southerners is far inferior to that of the Eastern Territory, and the wizards are suppressed more severely under the management of the gods. Therefore, wondrous items are indeed not as rampant as in the Eastern Territory.

At least, it's not like casually a formal wizard can find four wondrous items in his hands.

But in the Eastern Territory, which formal wizard doesn't have a high-grade wondrous item... Impossible, how could you survive until now if you can't even get a high-grade wondrous item?

Therefore, in the Eastern Territory, Roland's things are considered standard equipment for formal wizards—standard equipment for ordinary wizards who are not from the Black Abyss, White Chess, or Twilight School.

But in the South, ordinary wizards from the East Territory are considered elites.

Of course, the main reason is that Miss Mary herself is a Naga sea monster—in Roland's words, that is, this monster cultivator is not as rich as human cultivators. Purely relying on physical body and talent to PK with humans.

Sea monsters are far less wealthy than wizards, and Naga sea monsters live even more like slaves. So each one is so poor that they are a bit pitiful. Basically, they are almost like slaves.

Many elite Naga sea monsters who have reached the formal wizard level may not even have wondrous items in their hands!

As for Miss Mary's property as a second-tier sea monster leader... or rather, the things in the hands of this second-tier slave, are not as many as a level 3 good spirit servant of Roland!

After hesitating for a while, Mary showed a bit of greed in her eyes, she hardened her heart and blacklisted all these things.

After that, she took out a crystal ball, and then searched Roland's memory with a magic spell.

Mary was surprised to find that Roland's memory before boarding the ship was blurred, as if someone had done something to this kid before... Maybe it was done by his master.

It seems to be a 'memory lock' or 'soul lock' similar to a thought steel seal.

With this lock in place, even if you kill this guy and search his soul, it will be difficult to search all of his memory.

This master's methods are very clever, it may be the legendary Twilight Wizard or Black Abyss Wizard. And it is the kind of person who specializes in necromancy.

Although that person's level in magic is not as good as her master in the Three-Headed Serpent, the methods of the Twilight and Black Abyss wizards are a bit tricky for her.

She can't unlock these memory locks for a while.

However, although Mary is curious about this guy's past, her purpose this time is not this.

This kid's memory when he boarded the ship was complete—Mary found that this kid had not told Billy about Naga. He didn't contact anyone after returning to the room either.

To be precise, this kid took a bath after returning to the room, and slept in the big bathtub for twenty minutes. Then he was woken up by the alarm clock.

There is no problem with the memory in this. So Mary modified Roland's memory. Let Roland forget about the mermaid.

At the same time, in order not to expose that she robbed his things, she twisted this kid's cognition.

Vaguely, Mary vaguely felt something was wrong.

She took out a straw from Roland's head with some doubt.

At this moment, a ring on Mary's hand lit up, she hurriedly put Roland's things back, put him on the bed, then woke him up slightly, and then hurriedly opened the window and dived into the sea.

After entering the sea, this beautiful lady slowly turned into another appearance, and the aura of the whole person became much stronger! Far from being comparable to a normal second-tier early-stage wizard.

She didn't leave immediately, but hid her breath and hid outside the window.

Not long after, the door was suddenly knocked.

Knock knock knock. Billy's voice came from outside: "Lance, are you in the room?"

Roland on the bed rubbed his forehead and slowly stood up. He looked around with some doubt, and then responded to Billy.

After opening the door, the two chatted idly, these two men hit it off and talked about things that were not serious.

Mary outside the window secretly spat, she wanted to eavesdrop for a while, but at this time Billy came to the window. Mary didn't dare to stay any longer, so she quietly left.

After a while, Billy's eyes at the window moved slightly, but he showed some hesitant look—intuition told him that the person had already left, but with his realm he couldn't sense the lurking Naga, so he couldn't be sure if she had really left.

He continued to pretend to chat with Roland, until someone knocked on the door.

Knock knock knock.

Billy's voice came from outside: "Let's go, Lance, don't you like mermaids? I'll take you to see the sea prison on the ship."

Roland in the room heard that another Billy had come outside the door, and couldn't help showing a very strange expression.

He looked at the 'Billy' in front of him, and then looked at the door, and suddenly found something—the voices of the two people were completely different!

But he had always regarded the person in front of him as Billy... and others, the height of the person in front of him was also wrong, and the appearance was also wrong!

'Billy' made a shushing gesture. Then he took out a magic mirror and silently recited a few words to it. Then he opened his mouth and replied: "Soon, I'll put on some clothes."

'Roland' suddenly understood everything. He suddenly looked at the position in the room where the mirror should have been hanging—that was the code he left for himself!

After chatting with Billy in the restaurant, he was not sure which group Billy belonged to, so he did not dare to say more to him.

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He worried that Billy might send a mermaid, or even Mary, to test him, so he played a trick.

While taking a bath, he quietly performed a 'golden cicada shedding its shell,' leaving a small Roland in the large bathtub. Then, he used a hypnotic spell to put the small Roland to sleep.

Afterward, he left some trash for the small Roland and placed a 'thought maze lock' on him, locking away his key memories. Then, using a magic mirror, he put Billy's name on the small Roland and had the small Roland wear the name of the person he originally disguised himself as (some Muggle), before stealthily leaving the room.

The small Roland had no idea about any of this; he thought he was himself!

At this moment, a mental force easily penetrated the restrictions within the cabin and scanned the situation inside the room.

— "Who's in the room?!"

With a whoosh, a figure ignored the restrictions and directly appeared in the room.

It was Billy. His face was filled with shock and anger, seemingly ready to kill the small Roland. But when he clearly saw the situation inside, he revealed an extremely strange expression.

There were actually two identical Rolands in the room! Subconsciously, he felt that something was wrong with the small Roland, thinking it was someone disguised as Roland.

But after coming in and taking a closer look, it was indeed Roland himself.

Billy hadn't even noticed the difference in the straw Roland, which shows that although he and Instructor Ursack had the same realm, there was still a significant gap in their strength.

On the other hand, when Mary deeply inspected the straw Roland, she faintly felt that something was amiss. The magical civilization of the siren race was far inferior to that of wizards, but their own strength far exceeded humans of the same rank. In addition, she was accustomed to perceiving others through sound, so she faintly sensed a clue.

Roland gave Billy a slight bow and said, "Brother Billy, as you can see, I am actually a wizard, and this is my puppet. I sincerely apologize for concealing this from you all along."

Billy had already regained his senses at this point. After discovering that there were two Rolands in the room, he could tell which was the real Roland and which was the small Roland.

He shook his head and said with some emotion, "I've long heard that the methods of Black Abyss wizards are extraordinary; today, I've truly broadened my horizons."

There are not a few wizarding schools that are so proficient in mysterious magic, but only the Twilight Council and the Black Abyss can play to this extent, allowing himself, a second-tier wizard, to be tricked by a small, first-tier mid-stage wizard.

As for Billy just saying 'I've long heard that the methods of Black Abyss wizards are extraordinary,' logically speaking, he shouldn't know which school Roland is from.

So, he might be deliberately playing a trick with Roland.

Roland remained noncommittal to Billy's words. He chose to ignore Billy's words and directly got to the point: "Lord Billy, this ship is probably being targeted by the Three-Headed Serpent. I saw that person's true identity during the day. Just now, someone came over and tried to tamper with my memories."

Billy nodded deeply. His next words were full of profound meaning: "Sir Lance, you are indeed very interesting. You're making me like you a little, you little rascal! So, you discovered Mary's identity?"

Roland was shocked.

He thought to himself, 'How is that possible? Billy can't be in cahoots with Mary. Where did things go wrong?! This logic is wrong!'

Roland's logic wasn't wrong.

First of all, Billy is the second-in-command of Black Sails and a vested interest in the Black Sails interest group—he has no reason to betray his team.

Secondly, Black Sails is a team that the Twilight Council has heavily supported for thirty years to cross the ocean. And Billy is an important disciple of Baron Sea Fort and a person who serves the King of a Thousand Eyes.

Everyone is tightly bound together. If he betrays Black Sails, betrays Baron Sea Fort and the King of a Thousand Eyes, and jumps ship to the Three-Headed Serpent, the Three-Headed Serpent can't give him more benefits, and he won't have a good ending with the Three-Headed Serpent after becoming a traitor.

Finally, in the matter of Mary entering the room just now, Billy has completely cleared himself of suspicion.

Based on the above situation, Roland directly got to the point.

As a result, Billy said that.

"We finally got those Three-Headed Serpents to believe they were about to succeed, but those idiots made such a mistake. Didn't she discover the problem? You didn't alert the enemy, did you?"

Roland was stunned and said, "She thought she had successfully tampered with my memories. Just now, I deliberately played you and acted out a scene. She has left reassured."

Billy breathed a sigh of relief. He patted Roland on the shoulder and said in a solemn tone, "Sorry, Lance, I was a little excited just now. Don't tell anyone about this. We've already set the bait, waiting for them to walk right into it. Don't get involved in this matter; we have our own arrangements."

Roland nodded, finally understanding Billy's meaning.

It turned out that Billy's previous sentence meant, 'It's all in our plan; don't alert the enemy, or it'll all be over!'

It sounded like Billy was going to do a counter-espionage scheme.

But Roland vaguely felt that something was strange.

Instinct told him that Billy was a bit strange, or rather, Billy's initial reaction was a bit strange.

But according to his previous 123 logic deductions, Billy is definitely a man of the King of a Thousand Eyes and cannot be a spy.

Roland secretly shook his head, feeling that he should be too sensitive.

Billy comforted Roland and told him that no matter how many spies had infiltrated the ship, it was useless because they couldn't measure the true coordinates. Therefore, the coordinates sent out would all be bait coordinates.

Therefore, the Three-Headed Serpent's sharpshooter would definitely fire first, definitely miss, and definitely expose themselves first.

The true coordinates needed to be obtained by casting a secret spell on the star map inside the ship. This spell would change every so often, and only Billy and the captain knew the rules of the change.

Therefore, even when the navigator was navigating, the captain or Billy had to accompany him, otherwise the navigator would get fake coordinates.

Of course, everyone didn't know about this; only the captain, Billy, and the navigator knew the truth.

"Wait a minute!" Roland interrupted, "Brother Billy, why are you telling me such a secret?! I don't want to know!"

Billy laughed and patted Roland, "Even if I'm a spy, you won't be a spy."

Roland looked at Billy with a strange look.

However, Billy's words were indeed correct. Everything of Baron Sea Fort was in the hands of the King of a Thousand Eyes, so both Billy and Roland could be regarded as absolute Twilight Council loyalists.

Billy continued, "You can be a good passenger. You are the person sent by Baron Sea Fort. Don't worry, no matter what happens, I will let you arrive safely in the South."

Billy finally said, "Let's go; Mary knows what I'm going to take you to do. I'm here to take you to see the mermaids.

Don't you want to see them? What kind of mermaids are those rumored in the secular world? The mermaids under my command are the real mermaids."

This guy Billy really has a big heart. He actually took Roland to see the mermaids.

On the way, he also told Roland a story.

The content of this story was about how Billy fed his good son-in-law to the mermaids. Yes, he also had a son-in-law.