I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

Roland looked at Anna beside him, thinking to himself, 'The team must have gone deep into the ruins. The path has narrowed, so the mentor put Anna into the wallet.'

Anna's appearance completely dispelled Roland's sleepiness. He didn't dare to wake this tigress and got up from his makeshift bed. He went to the table and started eating.

Roland was starving; he had only eaten some dry rations on the carriage yesterday. This was his first meal today.

The eight bottles of magic potion on the table were gone, and the noise outside the wallet had increased. The team seemed to be resting somewhere within the ruins.

After finishing his meal, Roland took a bucket outside to relieve himself. He also listened to the sounds above, and after determining that the team hadn't encountered anything noteworthy, he sat on the bed and began reading "The Aleya Handbook."

[Roland]

[Realm: Low-level Wizard Apprentice (56/1000)]

[Abilities: Advanced Valerian Swordsmanship (5/1000), Apprentice-level Alchemy. Beginner (16/1000)]

[Cantrips: Telepathy III (6/1000), Luminescence II (89/100), Electric Arc II (26/1000)]

[Magic: Modified Chain Lightning II (26/1000), Mind Blast (2/100)]

[Holy Seal (Passive): Dawnfire (1/100)]

[Forbidden Art: Forbidden. Beginner Transformation Art (1/100)]

Roland thought to himself, 'So many zeros, it's easy to get confused. It would be more intuitive if it were displayed as a percentage.'

The magic book seemed to sense Roland's thoughts and displayed the progress as a percentage.

'It really is a good book!'

Roland was secretly delighted, and he checked his alchemy.

After using the last half of the materials to make potions yesterday (succeeding once, producing a small eight bottles), the proficiency of Apprentice-level Alchemy. Beginner, only increased by 8 points.

It seemed that as the rank of his abilities increased, both the upper limit of proficiency and the standard for increasing proficiency became higher.

Roland thought to himself, 'Two bottles of Serpent Beauty should be enough for me. I wonder when the team will reach its destination. I should seize the time to improve my magic.'

After the mentor asked Roland to concoct a hundred bottles of magic potion, Roland developed a very profound sense of crisis.

Intuition told him that this sense of crisis didn't seem to come from the mentor, but from these ruins.

Roland thought to himself, 'The monsters in the ruins all come from the Abyss. If there is any magic that is particularly effective against them... it's only Dawnfire. If there's any move that can save my life, it's only Mind Blast.'

The mentor wasn't resting yet, so Roland didn't plan to practice Dawnfire. He found "A Brief Discussion on Mind Magic" and studied it.

Roland deconstructed the 'Mind Blast' spell and constantly reconstructed its model in his mental world.

Strictly speaking, this process belonged to constantly casting a 'weakened version of Mind Blast' on himself.

Therefore, with the constant deconstruction and reconstruction of mind-related magic, Roland's spirit and mental defenses would be improved.

Although these attributes were not temporarily displayed in the book, Roland could feel that his mind was being honed.

Several hours later, Roland's spirit fell into fatigue. And Mind Blast only increased to 12 points.

'I can't practice anymore, I've reached my limit.'

Roland still imagined the Mind Blast spell too simply.

Logically speaking, it was easiest to improve from level 1 to level 2. But the Mind Blast spell came from the lower world and was too special.

Every time he deconstructed and reconstructed the model (casting it on himself), Roland consumed a lot of mental power. Therefore, he couldn't practice Mind Blast too many times each day. As a result, this spell couldn't be upgraded to the next stage in less than ten days or half a month.

Roland listened to the movements outside and found that the mentor seemed to be asleep.

He couldn't help but look at 'Dawnfire' once again.

He thought to himself, 'It's best to have a target to practice Dawnfire... I'll use level 1 Electric Arc to train with the power of Dawnfire.'

With a crackling sound, a small arc of electricity flashed in Roland's hand, flying towards a small mosquito fluttering above Anna's head.

At this time, if one carefully observed the electricity released by Roland, they would find that this arc was not a normal color, but a faint gold.

When the electric arc hit the mosquito, the mosquito instantly turned into a spark. The spark flashed and disappeared. If one didn't observe carefully, they wouldn't notice that the color of the flame was slightly different from the color of a normal flame.

After trying a few times, Roland released a completely different electric arc.

This electric arc was light blue at the moment it was released, but it suddenly turned light gold after hitting the target.

If the mosquito being hit was an enemy, then when the electric arc was first released, it would probably think it was just an ordinary magic spell and wouldn't bother to avoid it. But when the magic hit the enemy, Dawnfire would be attached to the magic—by the time the enemy reacted, it would already be ignited by Dawnfire.

After practicing for a while, Roland flipped through "The Aleya Handbook." He found that practicing in this way of 'Electric Arc first, then Dawnfire' would improve proficiency more effectively.

He glanced at the clock and calculated the time: 'I have half a night to practice before the mentor wakes up.'

Roland seized the time and practiced Electric Arc + Dawnfire.

After dozens of practices, Roland's magic power was exhausted. He took a 'Mermaid Fruit' and entered a meditative state.

When he finished meditating, Roland continued to practice.

At this time, there were almost no mosquitoes around.

When Roland killed the last very arrogant mosquito (it was clearly visible flying), he had a clear feeling about Dawnfire in his heart.

Roland looked at "The Aleya Handbook."

[Seal (Passive): Dawnfire II (0/1000)]

[Seal Description: (Omitted)]

[Effect: +2 units of Holy Damage (True Damage)]

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Looking at the 2 points of true damage, Roland inexplicably felt that his sense of crisis had suddenly decreased a lot.

But there was still a strange palpitation lingering in Roland's heart.

'A wizard's intuition is very keen.' Roland thought to himself, 'I always feel like I will face that incredible thing... There are so many strong people in the team, I'm just a small apprentice, it shouldn't be my turn to go on stage... But why do I feel palpitations?'

Roland's intuition told him that there was a fierce battle waiting for him.

He didn't know what he was going to face, but in the end, he had to rely on himself. One more point of strength meant one more chance to survive.

Roland looked at the time and estimated that the people outside were about to wake up. So he stopped practicing Dawnfire.

'It's been 4 days since entering Fern Forest.'

The team spent a day in Fern Forest, and Roland spent two days making potions after entering the wallet.

Now, sleeping and practicing has taken another day. It's been four days since entering Fern Forest. The time spent walking in the ruins is three days.

Even if the ruins are large, we should be entering the core area now.

Roland listened carefully to the sounds outside and was surprised to find that the mentor, Baron, Nal, Anna, Wallace, the two newcomers, and Leonard were all there. The team had not suffered any casualties.

These three days seemed to have passed unusually smoothly. The team hadn't even encountered any monsters, which was very strange. It was as if a group of invisible people had helped the team solve all the monsters.

Roland remembered that the Aleya Handbook could record some things related to him. He decided to check the handbook to understand what had happened in the team in the past few days.

After carefully flipping through "The Aleya Handbook," Roland found that it not only recorded all of his sights and sounds, but also recorded some things that happened while he was unconscious.

Soon, from the conversation between the mentor and the baron, he learned about the game rules of 'Suffering'. He also understood why the mentor had put a few apprentices into the team.

But since the goal was to avoid the suffering of the main team members by increasing the number of people in the team, shouldn't more people be brought in?

Why were only a few apprentices brought into the team as logistics?

'Every once in a while, someone will suffer.'

Roland couldn't help but frown. He thought to himself, 'How long is the interval between suffering? It's been four days, and no one is missing?'

He repeatedly flipped through the front content of the book and repeatedly thought about the team's membership structure.

Gradually, his face became more and more ugly.

He discovered two things.

The first thing was that the members of the team were not just these people, it was just that these people had suffered, so everyone didn't remember.

Catherine had already guessed this before.

However, Roland guessed something that no one had guessed.

He closed the book and said with a pale face: "The evil god is in our team. He only joined the team after we entered the ruins! But everyone thinks that he entered the team at the entrance of Fern Forest!"

'He created an identity for himself and created a past!'

'Even I was once confused by him, treating him as our teammate!'

Roland was right.

The werewolf (evil god) was in the team, and Roland was the first prophet the werewolf wanted to eliminate.

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