I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

After Roland summoned seven Benevolent Spirits, everyone looked at him with wary and unfamiliar eyes.

Stunned for a moment, Roland suddenly remembered something.

He had been using a different identity all this way. Because the Benevolent Spirits hadn't recognized him, Roland had even retracted them into the book to avoid any trouble, rather than letting them roam freely in the church.

Now that he had arrived at the sea and boarded the slave ship, it no longer mattered whether he concealed his identity.

Even if someone divined that he was at sea, so what?

He even hoped someone would come looking for trouble, but that was impossible.

Roland used the magic mirror to recall his true name, 'Roland Aleia.' Then, the expressions of the Benevolent Spirits were first puzzled for a moment, then revealed a look of realization, and then became even more wary.

Just as Roland was surprised, a nun blushed slightly and turned her head away, lifting her skirt.

Roland's face immediately turned very ugly.

Clearly, the other him had been bored and used the magic mirror and 'Heraca's Necromantic Bible' while staying in the church these past few days.

If Roland were to recall the straw Roland now, he would immediately enjoy an experience of teasing the maids in another timeline.

'Damn it! I have to think of a way to deal with little Roland's problem!'

Although little Roland was himself from another timeline, the things they often did always made Roland very unhappy and always left him with a pile of trouble.

However, when Roland needed to save his life, or when he needed a substitute to escape, like now, the straw little Roland could help him win unexpectedly.

Therefore, he had to find a perfect solution that would make others believe that these clones were him and not recognize them, while also allowing them to be controlled like normal 'puppets' rather than having self-awareness.

Or, he could have an option to create completely obedient puppets, or 'true clones' with a certain degree of consciousness but still within a controllable range.

Roland now had many treasures in his hand—the Shepherdess's Path of Black Holy Blood, the magic mirror, the Twilight Wizard's Collection from Dried Blood and Fatty Duncan, and the small hammer and chisel.

Roland had some ideas on how to solve the problem of little Roland, but now was not the time.

He now needed to settle the Red Saintess as soon as possible, and this required the help of the Benevolent Spirits.

Roland sorted out his thoughts and then created several straw little Rolands. Then, Roland sat aside and began to study the handcuffs.

After the many straw little Rolands came out, they didn't communicate with Roland and busied themselves, understanding each other's intentions.

Some people flipped through and studied various magic books, and some searched for Roland's various items.

Some people studied musical instruments and rhythms. Some people took broken wine glasses to water the magic herbs planted in the church with wine.

There was also a straw little Roland who found the magic carpet 'Shepherdess and the Demon' and explained the path of the 'Shepherdess of Black Holy Blood' to the seven Benevolent Spirit ladies.

Little Roland was worth one Roland when it came to getting things done!

Especially the little Roland who was lecturing. His understanding of the Black Holy Blood Path was the same as Roland's. He explained it very well.

It was just that a few words in the class occasionally made people angry: "Gaining knowledge comes at a price. If any of you have questions, I can answer them, but likewise, you need to pay the price.

As for what the price is, you know.

No, no, no, don't show it to me. 'I' will be angry. So, do you see the 'me' on the altar making handcuffs? Show it to that me."

Roland couldn't hold back. He looked at the straw little Roland and said angrily, "Roland!"

The straw little Roland smiled and bowed slightly to Roland, saying, "Respected me, what does it feel like when you call your own name?"

[You have gained a small understanding! Musical understanding +3]

Roland rubbed his forehead.

Seven days later

Hundreds of figures were busy in the church, and everyone was basically serving the seven nuns.

Some people were discussing the new magic carpet.

—"It's already possible. The new magic carpet is more complete than before and can help people step into the first gate of truth of Black Holy Blood."

—"That's right. Although the 'Shepherdess and the Demon' picture on it is still in the category of 'glimpsing the doorway,' the content on it has a direction for advancement."

—"However, following this path can step into the first gate of truth, but it will stay in the early stage of the first level and cannot advance an inch. But that's enough."

—"The magic potion group has also made breakthroughs. Although the herbs are not complete, they have also produced seven barely usable magic potions."

—"It doesn't matter. Sister Heracas have a great advantage on this path, and they have accumulated for so long in the bottleneck, so there shouldn't be any problems."

At this time, some straw men came to the vicinity of the altar and brought up 14 bottles of magic potion.

Roland picked up a bottle and looked at it, and couldn't help but nodded slightly.

Although Roland was not a master in alchemy, he was a rare advanced magic potion alchemist. He knew the characteristics of various magic potions very well, and he also had various 'Holy Blood of Heraca' recipes from the Dried Blood family, so it was not a problem to develop or adapt a new magic potion.

Many people have great power. In order to increase efficiency, everyone was divided into several groups to do magic potion experiments.

Today, they finally developed various advanced magic potions specifically for the Black Holy Blood Path. Finally, they blended a decent magic potion.

In the research, everyone was surprised to find that using 'Heraca's Holy Blood' wine as the main ingredient had a miraculous effect.

This magic potion does not have a great effect on advancement, about 10%. It is mainly used to increase the 'Black Holy Blood characteristics' of the nuns after they advance.

The other seven bottles of magic potion were blended according to the classics of the Dried Blood Wizard family, a special advanced magic potion for the dead.

There are many necromancer masters in this group of vampires who know a lot about the undead. There are many good recipes.

With the help of Aleia's magic book, Roland could very intuitively understand the advancement rate of each recipe, as well as the related attributes and characteristics.

As long as the herbs are ripened with the 'Aleia Forbidden Holy Grail' and then alchemized with the 'Bitter Sleep Cauldron,' the lucky cauldron, it is easy to get seven top-quality advanced magic potions for advanced apprentices.

Logically speaking, this type of magic potion can be completed in just one day.

After all, this type of magic potion is mainly used for advancement, so just pick the best one.

But everyone also did a new research—at first, Roland did randomly pick an 'Shadow' type undead advanced recipe.

As a result, the little Rolands carefully checked the seven Benevolent Spirits and found that they were all Holy/Shadow bi-affinity!

If you just want the Benevolent Spirits to advance, then any magic potion will do, even if it is not Shadow or Holy, the advanced magic potion is to help break through the bottleneck.

But if you want the Benevolent Spirits to advance perfectly, or even evolve into another kind of undead creature during the advancement process, then you have to use the perfect magic potion.

The Dried Blood family simply did not have a magic potion recipe with 'Holy attribute.'

Everyone did not have the ability to develop magic potions from scratch, so the Rolands worried for a long time—they even suspected whether there was a 'Holy attribute' magic potion recipe for the undead.

But a straw little Roland accidentally found a 'Holy' attribute recipe that could be used by the undead from a bag.

This bag came from a Heraca wizard—Fatty Duncan.

It was a 'primitive recipe.' It came from the South. Fatty Duncan had used this as a basis to develop many types of magic potions.

It seems that there really are undead with 'Holy attributes' in this world.

And it is very common in the South.

Roland didn't know what kind of ghost the Benevolent Spirits would evolve into, but they used various recipes from the Dried Blood family and Fatty Duncan's recipe to develop a 'Holy/Shadow' dual-attribute magic potion.

For these seven bottles of magic potion, Roland and the others put a lot of effort. They made many bottles of magic potion and kept the best seven.

The best bottle of top-quality magic potion in the seven bottles can increase the advancement rate by 43%.

The worst bottle can also increase the advancement rate by 38%.

At the same time, these magic potions can also help the servants to imprint Shadow or Holy crests. Even if they are not born during the advancement, they can be slowly imprinted with long-term use.

Roland flipped through Aleia's notes and estimated the current advancement probability of the Benevolent Spirits.

[Name: % $ ? (Name forgotten)]

[Type: Benevolent Spirit]

[Identity: Shepherdess of the Styx/Nun of the Styx/Heraca Priest]

[Mastery: (Various magics)]

[Path of kindling (Path of faith)/Path of truth Advancement rate: 60%/20%]

[Explanation: Obviously, Ms. % $ ?'s chief priest is very irresponsible. He has never taught her any prayers or hymns, but has taught her a lot of black magic. This is simply a blasphemy against the gods.

Fortunately, their god was originally a magician, otherwise a certain chief priest would probably incur divine punishment.]

Roland rubbed his eyes and said: "Don't worry, when I recruit Heraca's Saintess, I will form a choir and teach them to sing squeaks."

Speaking, Roland looked at the advancement rate.

These nuns are obviously not the same kind of people as Roland!

They don't eat anything to advance, and it's not much worse than Roland, a waste, who eats all kinds of magic potions!

Roland couldn't help but sigh secretly: "Comparing people is maddening."

Roland belongs to the 'doomed by heaven', a person with 7 elements affinity that goes against the sky. It is difficult for him to advance, but others are not the same.

The Good Spirits were all followers of Helaika, true and devoted followers, blessed with divine grace.

If they weren't undead, but humans, breaking through bottlenecks would be even easier than for 'Wizard Seeds'!

A nun as devout as this, and recognized by the Goddess Helaika, would have a 100% or higher success rate of advancement if she weren't undead!

Because they are undead, advancement is more difficult, but they still have a 60% chance!

Logically speaking, this probability is already quite good.

But Roland and the others were desperately researching magic potions.

Because, when a certain little Roland was reading the Book of Aleiya, he noticed the words 'Path of Kindling (Path of Faith)'!

Clearly, the Good Spirits are not essentially walking the 'Path of Truth,' but the 'Path of Kindling (Path of Faith)'!

Because of this, everyone is working so hard to research magic potions, hoping that the advancement rate of the Path of Truth can reach above 60%, surpassing the 'Path of Kindling'.

If the Good Spirits are given nothing, they have a 50% chance of touching the 'Gate of Faith'.

And the probability of touching the 'Gate of Truth of the Black Saint Blood Shepherdess' is 20%!

Of course, even though they are undead, their probability of advancing to a formal wizard is higher than Roland's! If he hadn't had the Butterfly Calamity back then, his probability of advancing to Tier 1 would probably have been negative!

Now, after drinking the two kinds of magic potions, the probability of touching the Gate of Truth has been raised from 0% to over 60%—already higher than the probability of touching the Gate of Faith.

Indeed, 60% is greater than 60%.

Roland looked at a passage in the book about 'The Shepherdess and the Demon':

【Path of Truth: Black Saint Blood Shepherdess I】

【Current: Just Entered the Threshold (Highest Early Stage of Tier 1)】

【Attributes: Holy / Shadow】

【Characteristics:

1. Purification +2, All-System Magic Resistance +2, Soul Soothing +2

2. Deterioration +2, Magic Effectiveness +2, Mutation +2

3. Profanity +1】

【Effects:

1. Probability of advancing to Tier 2 Wizard +2.5%, Probability of advancing to Tier 1 Wizard +5%;

2. Probability of advancing to Tier 2 Wizard +7.5%; Probability of advancing to Tier 1 Wizard +15%;

3. Probability of advancing to Tier 2 Wizard +2%; Probability of advancing to Tier 1 Wizard +4%;】

Roland nodded and said, "An 84% or higher advancement rate on the Path of Truth is still a bit low.

When the seven Good Spirits break through their bottlenecks for the first time, at least five of them will be able to advance smoothly. As for the remaining two unlucky ones, although they can try to break through again after a while, we'll have two fewer people to help with the Red Saintess's matter."

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After studying it for a while, many little Rolands spread magic carpets on the ground and invited the seven maidens to sit on them, serving them as if they were seven grandmothers, attending to their advancement.

These days, the Roland bigwigs have been like male servants, almost fulfilling every request of the seven young ladies.

Pouring tea and water and massaging shoulders are standard operations, and they even made Roland massage their feet—not the little Rolands, but Roland himself.

Hai Zhen is indeed a disciple taught by Roland, and he's just like him! Grabbing the opportunity, he started threatening his mentor!

In order to let them study properly, Roland could only suppress his anger and serve the seven little grandmothers—you little bastards, just wait until you've advanced!

Now, the time for this 'college entrance exam' has finally arrived.

Everyone didn't let them take the magic potions immediately; they haven't entered the state yet. If it takes them half a day to enter the state, or even if they can't find the feeling for the whole day, the magic potion will be wasted.

Watching the seven ladies gradually enter meditation, many Rolands nervously paced in the distance—what if neither 'school' is passed with an 84% Truth advancement rate and a 60% Faith advancement rate?

Roland under the altar waved his hand, telling everyone not to walk around randomly.

He irritably put away the Book of Aleiya, and then, as usual, lit three incense sticks in front of the Helaika Goddess, intending to increase his luck a little.

He muttered, "Goddess, your servants are about to advance; please let them become proper wizards."

At this moment, a little Roland suddenly held Roland's hand: "Isn't this wave a reverse operation? Shouldn't we not offer incense? After all, they should be walking the path of faith to become gods; what if the Goddess notices us and discovers that we're secretly making them walk the path of wizards?"

Before he could finish speaking, everyone suddenly felt a gaze. Many Rolands suddenly raised their heads and found a dim light shining through the dome of the church and the surrounding stained glass windows.

Instantly, beams of dim Tyndall light appeared in the church, and many strange, faceless angels with many bones on their wings leaped out in the light and shadow, chanting a hymn.

They sang: "Sha sha sha sha sha!"

They had no mouths; that was the friction sound made when their wings were flying!

But it had a beautiful and eerie rhythm!

This was a hymn!

The Rolands listened with black question marks all over their faces, and they didn't know what they were singing! Moreover, there was no madness or anything like that. It seemed that this kind of song was ineffective against living beings, and it was also ineffective against the little Rolands who were neither living nor dead. It wouldn't cause people to go mad and lose SAN.

Therefore, Roland and the many little Rolands were fine.

But when they looked back, the seven nuns were enlightened! They looked like they were about to break through immediately!

Many straw little Rolands gave Roland a fierce look—what the hell did you do again! Quickly see how it's analyzed in the magic book!

Roland hurriedly flipped through the Aleiya Notes, and his eyes went dark: "The advancement rate of the Path of Faith has been pulled to 100%! Goddess Helaika is going to promote my little brothers! Don't wait, quickly pour the magic potion on them!"

The little Rolands swarmed up and directly splashed the magic potion on the seven Good Spirits.

Upon closer inspection, this magic potion was different from the potions normally taken by wizards; it was a mercury-like substance. After contacting the spiritual bodies of the seven Good Spirits, it slowly merged into them.

After these magic potions merged into their bodies, the seven Good Spirits seemed to wake up a bit. They stopped chanting hymns and hurriedly closed their eyes to meditate.

Roland breathed a sigh of relief. As long as they entered meditation instead of chanting hymns and praying, they wouldn't communicate with the gods.

Logically speaking, under this situation, they should break through the bottleneck by walking the Path of Truth, not communicate with the gods and walk the Path of Faith.

Thinking of this, Roland flipped through the Aleiya Notes, but found that the breakthrough rate of the Path of Faith for the Good Spirits was still 100%.

Roland couldn't help but curse a few times in his heart.

'The Goddess is forcibly promoting them!'

'This is forcing people to my side!'

Looking at the seven Good Spirits who were trying hard to break through after taking the magic potion, Roland was anxious to death.

They had been busy for a week, and if the Good Spirits went on the Path of Kindling Faith, then all their hard work would be in vain.

To be honest, the Path of Kindling Faith is actually not bad. It's more suitable for performing various divine arts, and it will be easier to become a god in the future, and these seven were once my little brothers, raised by me little by little—thinking about it this way, it's quite cool!

If the Good Spirits go faster and farther than me in the future, then I will have 'gods covering me' in the future! And not just one god, but several!

So...this is actually pretty good.

But Roland felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

After all, they are Roland's personal maids, and they even know what color his underwear is! If even his personal servants are loyal to a certain god and often give small reports through prayers, it's simply planting a bunch of spies around him!

This is absolutely not allowed; Roland can't accept it, even if it's the Goddess Helaika, he feels uncomfortable in his heart!

Therefore, if the seven Good Spirits can walk the Path of Truth, Roland hopes that they can walk the Path of Truth.

Roland thought to himself: 'Think about it, if my servants all become loyal to Goddess Helaika, then one day in the future, if I have a falling out with the Goddess, who will my servants stand on?'

Look, look at this guy!

To put it bluntly, Roland is a traitor!

He is not loyal or obedient to Goddess Helaika! He is always thinking about contradicting her in the future!

Therefore, he spent so much effort to let his servants walk the Path of Truth.

Similarly, the path of cultivation that was found on Taobao from Goddess Helaika, walking the Path of Faith Kindling, and walking the Path of Truth are different.

Walking the Path of Faith is a priest.

Walking the Path of Truth is a wizard.

For a priest, whatever the god says is what it is. And all their strength comes from the god.

But wizards are different. All their magic comes from themselves.

Moreover, as a wizard, questioning and curiosity are natural, and they have a spirit of resistance, which is almost naturally opposed to gods.

Even if a god treats them well, they may not always be in the same boat.

In fact, the Good Spirits have what they have today, half of which was given by Roland, and the other half was all given by the Goddess Helaika.

If they were to turn against the Goddess one day in the future...it would be a bit like biting the hand that feeds them.

But Roland doesn't ask them to turn against the Goddess in the future; he only hopes that in the future, if he has different opinions from Goddess Helaika, or even has conflicts, his people won't listen to the Goddess in everything.

He doesn't want his servants to have to stand on his side. He only asks that they not be so blindly loyal to the Goddess, and not let him raise a bunch of ingrates.

But if the seven Good Spirits really go on the Path of Faith, Roland really has no way to deal with them.

First of all, he needs these seven assistants.

Secondly, as people of the Helaika Goddess, I couldn't hit or scold them. So, if they really became priestesses of the Helaika Goddess, I would have to treat them like honored ancestors!

At this moment, Roland saw many little Rolands in the hall slapping themselves.

Roland also slapped himself hard twice—Why the hell did you have to offer incense!

Just then, a little Roland walked over with a few keys and said, "Don't blame yourself. Even if you didn't offer incense, the Helaika Goddess would still sense their breakthrough. It's like our Butterfly Tribulation. The Seven Good Spirits are bound to encounter this event this time."

Indeed, the person who can best comfort you is always yourself!

Hearing 'himself' say this, Roland felt much better. He said in Chinese, "Well, cross the bridge when you come to it."

The little Roland tossed the keys in his hand and also spoke in Chinese, "Let's take care of other things first. They need some time. Let's unlock the shackles and do the final experiment."

Roland's shackles hadn't been unlocked yet.

In fact, he could unlock the shackles at any time, but during the research, he discovered an interesting phenomenon. So he didn't unlock them immediately.

Therefore, he had been wearing them for the past few days to facilitate everyone's experiments.

As for the keys in the little Roland's hand, Roland's alkahestry wasn't good enough, not as good as the wizard who forged the shackles. Nor did he have the special materials. So he couldn't create a perfect key.

So this key could only temporarily unlock the shackles.

But that was already enough.

In fact, this shackle was simpler and more complex than Roland imagined—it was bound to the soul.

According to the research, once the shackles were locked, then theoretically, no matter what method was used to remove the shackles, the shackles would eventually relock in strange ways.

This was a southern technique, a kind of 'divination'. It created a 'necessary cause and effect' between the shackles and the prisoner.

Unless one was stronger than the person who cast the divination, there was no way to break the shackles in any other way.

And the one who cast the divination was not essentially the 'three-headed snake wizards' who forged these shackles, but the god worshipped by the three-headed snake wizards.

From these shackles, Roland discovered something: the magic in the hands of the southern wizards did not come from themselves, but from God.

They did have their own magic power, but this magic power, which was clearly cultivated bit by bit, did not belong to them, but to the gods.

Strictly speaking, the rank of the magic in their hands was higher. Because it was the magic of God.

But the wizards were ultimately better—if you want to unlock the shackles, it is actually very simple. At least for Roland, a true Black Abyss wizard, he could easily unlock them with the help of some tools.

He not only planned to unlock the shackles, but also planned to have the shackles automatically lock onto the Red Saintess!

Roland asked, "Have you all drawn the 'Magic Annihilation' runes on your bodies?"

The straw little Roland pointed to his chest and said, "It's drawn. As long as the magic power is absorbed by the shackles, the person will suffer about 2 units of damage. The straw Rolands are very fragile, 2 units of damage is definitely enough."

Roland nodded, got up, and said, "Let's go see the Red Saintess."

The two came to the side hall, which was full of cobwebs. In the center was a huge and heavy cocoon.

There was a large circle of little Rolands around it. Some were studying the cocoon with crystal balls and compasses, some were discussing the 'containment of the Red Saintess' plan, and some were wrapping the cocoon with spider silk.

This cocoon was the Red Saintess's cocoon.

Compared to before, the cocoon was a bit thicker and bigger.

It was shaking, as if the thing inside had been awake for some days and had been trying to break free. To prevent her from running out, the little Rolands had reinforced it several times with spider silk in the past few days.

Near the cocoon, there was also a magic mirror.