I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

Charlie saw three angels in the mirror.

The first angel was clad in divine armor, the inside of his hood a patch of darkness, making it impossible to see his face.

Behind him were two pairs of wings—Charlie was wearing casual clothes, but in the mirror, he appeared like this.

But he was clearly humanoid.

His divine armor was stained with some filthy blood, and his wings were also tainted, yet he remained pure.

The second angel wore divine robes, her entire body enveloped in light, obscuring her face.

Behind her was a single pair of wings—judging from the curves rising from her chest, the angel clearly had a gender.

Faintly, one could see some strange 'tattoos' on her face, and small tattoos on her wings as well.

But these tattoos were already sparse and gradually disappearing.

These tattoos were clearly marks left on her by someone.

The third angel wore a pseudo-holy robe, a Sword of Death at his waist, his entire body entwined with burning thorns.

These thorns bound him like a seal.

His face was covered with many wriggling 'manic little man tattoos,' and the scaled angel wings were also full of tattoos, but these tattoos formed two women's faces.

Suddenly, Charlie rubbed his eyes and realized that the pseudo-holy robe angel was just a normal angel.

Where were the binding thorns and tattoos?

Charlie thought to himself, 'Damn it, it must be because of the Abyss's contamination; has my perception not fully recovered yet?'

At this moment, Roland's words suddenly shifted his attention.

Roland said, "Brother Charlie, did you guys go to Valeria again?

Is that old codger Baron Hall still alive?

How is Aunt Julie doing?"

Roland threw out a barrage of questions, and Charlie's attention was immediately diverted.

Mentioning Baron Hall, Charlie revealed a smile.

Charlie said, "Are you talking about Lord Victor?

I didn't go to Valeria, but Lord Victor took the 'Valeria Mercenary Group' to 'Alaca Prison.'

They participated in the Yellow Fern Battle; those guys are really amazing."

The knight beside him interjected, "That group of mercenaries were clearly just ordinary people, yet they blocked an Abyss rift.

Alas, but many people died.

This time, it wasn't falling into the illusory realm of the Abyss; it was real death."

Everyone mourned, and Florence prayed for a moment, "May the heroes rest in the embrace of the goddess Helaaca."

Charlie said, "Victor is still alive; the Lord is tough.

The Lady is also doing very well.

She has independently supported things for so many years; the Hidden Society takes care of her like a treasure."

The knights beside him couldn't help but complain:

— "We are getting older and older, still the same as back then, but this couple is the same as back then, without any change."

— "This is the difference between the path of faith and the path of belief."

Florence coughed beside him, reminding everyone not to say such rebellious words.

Roland was stunned for a long time before asking in realization, "Baron Victor Hall is called Victor?"

Charlie said, "That's right; there's even a statue of him over in the corridor.

Three hundred years ago, he saw through the Church and gave up his faith to start over.

He created a path of knighthood himself."

Many knights discussed:

— "As expected of a senior; his realm was about the same as ours back then, but in Alaca, the strength he displayed was already close to his original level."

— "Speaking of which, the old man is really slippery enough.

If it wasn't for the fact that the Yellow Fern King targeted him at the end of the battle, and he burst out with all his strength to escape, no one would have noticed that he had re-entered the demigod realm!"

— "However, it's been almost thirty years since the Yellow Fern Relic incident.

It's normal that he used a period of time with the Holy Grail to break through the bottleneck."

— "After all, he is someone who came out of the Yellow Fern Relic; we have made progress, and the Lord must have made even faster progress."

Roland chatted with everyone for a while, and then suddenly understood.

Baron Hall took the path of the Eastern Territory, unlike the Southerners, whose power does not belong to themselves, so he did not age at all.

As for Lady Julie, she was originally a witch of the Hidden Society.

She originally had the strength of the early First Order, and now, after more than thirty years, she is already in the mid-First Order, so she has not aged either.

Roland couldn't help but recall some conversations between Baron Hall and Senior Sister back then.

Baron Hall's real name seemed to be Victor indeed.

This guy told Aunt Julie that he was only two or three years older than her, but in reality, this old immortal was more than three hundred years older than his wife!

By the way, when Catherine addressed Baron Hall, she seemed to have used the term 'old immortal'!

So, who exactly did Baron Hall know, Catherine or Alexandra?

In fact, the two of them did know each other more than two hundred years ago.

When Wallace helped Catherine crawl back from hell, he also asked Baron Hall for help, and he used his channels to get some things from the South for Catherine.

It was because of this old friendship that Catherine went to Valeria for a look.

But she found that the problem was so serious.

At that time, Baron Hall told Catherine that if she found it troublesome, then just take Roland away.

But Catherine still called a large group of people to help.

It can be said that whether Catherine entered the Yellow Fern Forest or not, she was bound to meet Roland—Baron Hall was the great matchmaker for Roland and Catherine.

Charlie told Roland that the Hall couple had originally planned to travel long ago, but because their daughter, Alice, entered White Chess Academy through Catherine's connections, they wanted to wait until their daughter was a little older before leaving.

As a result, because of the Alaca incident, Catherine wrote a letter to Baron Hall, so the couple brought people back to repay the favor.

Charlie said, "The Light of Dawn favors them.

When they parted, the couple said they wanted to go to the Arctic to see, and also said they wanted to go to the Western desert to see; this time, they should really start traveling, right?"

Everyone was very envious of this couple.

Everyone chatted for a long time and decided to get together for a drink when they had time.

The knights didn't know about the rumors between Roland and Catherine because they had only crawled out of there a dozen years ago.

They had been on duty here all this time, not asking about external affairs.

Therefore, they didn't know the relationship between Roland and Catherine, let alone the relationship between Roland and 'Isabella.'

They just asked Roland if he had a girlfriend, and after receiving an affirmative answer, they teased Roland, asking him to bring his girlfriend over for a stroll when he had time.

This made Roland feel a little stiff.

If he brought 'Isabella' over, Florence and the old Black Abyss members would definitely kill him.

Naturally, he wouldn't bring her.

However, he asked such a question out of the blue: "Alice entered White Chess Academy?

Is she in this exchange?"

This question stumped the knights.

They had only seen Alice as a child, knowing that Baron Hall had such a daughter who entered White Chess Academy, but they didn't know much more.

And although they came with the Eastern Territory people this time, they didn't know who was in the Eastern Territory's delegation.

After all, there were too many people in the delegation; even Ambassador El would probably have to check the list to know who was there.

At this time, Florence suddenly took out a long scroll, and after looking at it, she said, "There are two people named Alice.

They are both in the church."

Roland's eyes lit up, and he asked again, "Then what about Helena and Joan?

Are those two there?"

Florence said, "There are also three people named Helena.

There are too many people named Joan in the South.

You know, Joan is another name for the female version of 'John.'

There are many variants in the Southern dialect, including 'Jeanne,' which is also a variant of Joan."

Roland suddenly felt a headache.

However, many people are in the church over there, so you'll know if you go ask!

Saying goodbye to Charlie and the others, Roland and Florence pushed open the door to the room where the Holy Church was housed.

Inside the door was actually a small prayer room!

A red-robed nun was kneeling here, praying devoutly.

Roland once suspected that he had entered the wrong room because this was just an ordinary prayer room.

He looked at the red-clothed nun in the room, strangely approached her directly in front, and looked down at her face.

"Diana?"

Diana raised her head and reached out to push Roland aside.

Immediately, Roland felt a familiar suction force.

He complied with this force, and then the scene in front of him changed.

Immediately afterward, a magnificent cathedral appeared before Roland's eyes.

This was inside the Snake Ring; Diana was quietly staying in the prayer room every day with the Snake Ring.

Aside from praying, she was meditating in a seated position.

Florence and the people inside the Snake Ring took care of her food, clothing, shelter, and transportation.

Diana seemed very impatient with Roland just now.

It seemed that Senior Sister had been harassing her a lot these days.

While distracted, Florence also appeared beside Roland.

The two went up the steps and pushed open the door of the church.

A rush of noisy heat came towards them, and Roland felt as if he had been splashed with a basin of water.

There were probably thousands of people in this cathedral; there were several hundred just in the chapel of the main hall.

There were many Dawn Priests, many White Chess Wizards, and some wizards dressed very flamboyantly.

Those flamboyantly dressed wizards should be the wizards of the 'Grell Gregorian Chant Assembly.'

Florence said, "Let me take you to see the project负责人吧."

The word 'project' is actually very popular in the Eastern Territory, but in the Eastern Territory, 'project' often refers to 'non-physical anomalies' or 'physical anomalies.'

Little Leona is a project.

In the South, the word 'project' obviously doesn't refer to these strange things, but to engineering.

The project here is presided over by a high-ranking member of the Holy Hymn Order.

Florence praised that lady to the skies, saying that even the proud Teacher Johnson had a very high opinion of her.

This made Roland very curious.

The old Black Abyss people call the South 'primitive society'!

They have been searching for the Seven-Mansus Table for more than ten years, and the magic stones they found are not as many as Roland's private money.

The wizards here don't even have many magic stones, what kind of attainments can they have in magic?

Roland followed Florence into the chapel like a sightseer. His eyes were basically on those Holy Hymn wizards.

Their clothes are very valuable for archaeological research. Roland had seen illustrations of wizards in the early days when he was taking 'Wizard History' as an apprentice.

At that time, they were still called mages.

What they hold in their hands are large staffs, not wands.

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In fact, wands existed in ancient times. In ancient times, staffs and wands had their own advantages and disadvantages. However, with the development of magic and alchemy, the wands in the East Realm can completely replace the large staffs.

However, the wands of the East Realm have never become popular in the South.

Roland has a certain understanding of oil painting and the history of theology. He believes that this is because of the church.

Wands, in fact, were originally tools used by gods. This is reflected in many oil paintings. In some classic myths, there are stories of goddesses using wands to turn kings into pigs. And there are also oil paintings.

So, the wand is a tool of God.

As for the wizards of the Holy Hymn Order, Roland doesn't know how to evaluate them.

Their magic is not weak, but it is too simple. These people seem to only know some simple elemental magic. The types are very simple, basically 'Ice Arrow', 'Fireball' and other moves.

But the stats are maxed out.

This is very difficult to evaluate.

Moreover, Roland found that these Southern wizards are very powerful in space magic. Especially the lady in front of him.

This person's realm is similar to Roland's, and should have just entered the mid-stage of the second tier. Roland felt a sense of threat from her, similar to that of 'Three-Headed Snake Leader. Dagmar'.

Moreover, this lady seems to be very knowledgeable, especially in various sacred magics, she has extremely unique insights.

She is explaining to a group of Holy Hymn Order wizards and White Chess elite wizards how to use the theory of space magic and sacred magic, as if to solve a current problem in the project.

She also used 'Klein Bottle', 'Möbius Strip' and so on for examples many times.

It seems that everyone intends to alchemize this church into a powerful sacred object with sealing power.

Roland thought to himself: 'They are really helping me with alchemy. Didn't Florence say before that the most important thing is to study the mystery of madness through the church? How did Senior Sister persuade them to let the Holy Hymn Order and the Dawn Order work for me for nothing!'

The feeling of being a kept man is really too good.

It sounds like everyone is working overtime to pass the project acceptance.

Soon, some wizards left. That lady looked at the reports of the remaining few wizards and gave some advice. Then she looked this way.

Florence immediately respectfully introduced Roland: "Roland, this is 'Ms. Belinda', she is my enlightenment in magic."

This Ms. Belinda looks very dignified and noble, but there is a beauty spot under her eyes. This gives this noble lady a bit of charm.

Roland's mind couldn't help but replay some scenes of this lady twisting her waist.

He hurriedly restrained his mind and introduced himself very politely.

Ms. Belinda seemed to have heard a lot about Roland, knowing that this church was related to him.

She gave Roland some introductions very reservedly, and said that she would personally take Roland to see it.

Florence walked with the two for a while. Seeing that the two were a little familiar, she said: "Madam Belinda, Mr. Roland, I still have some things to do. You guys go ahead, call me if you need anything."

She didn't come out today specifically to pick up Roland.

She originally had a lot of things to do.

Roland has already delayed a lot of her time, Florence will have to attend a meeting later.

She told Roland that she would come back when she was done with her work. Then she asked Belinda to help connect with Roland first.

Although Roland and Ms. Belinda just met, both of them are pragmatists, so they told Florence to rest assured.

After Florence left, Ms. Belinda looked at Roland and said: "Didn't you f**king say that you would sail the boat over soon? I waited for you on that broken island for a year and a half!

Do you know how much trouble we ran into when we just landed!"

Roland secretly sweated. The pigeon he released was not just for a year and a half, but for twenty-four years!

This Ms. Belinda is Countess 'Wendy Shaw'.

Before, on the slave ship, Roland had an affair with her — of course, it was Little Roland who forced her with both coercion and inducement.

However, no matter how you look at it, Roland has to take the blame.

Because Little Roland is just a 'coral polyp tattoo' on his face, and he was the one who enjoyed it.

In addition, Roland promised her to help her contact Catherine. Help her arrange an identity in the South. But he released her pigeon.

Therefore, Roland felt very guilty in front of Countess Belinda.

Roland said: "Aren't you doing pretty well."

Countess Belinda said in a low voice: "Bullshit! I want to leave this damn church every day. Do you know how these lunatics deal with vampires in Malrode?"

Roland's eyes moved slightly, and he asked: "How do they deal with them?"

Countess Belinda said with gritted teeth: "Plant them into trees!"

Roland's expression was a little strange. The sacrificial rites of the Malrode ruins seem to be even stranger than imagined.

Countess Belinda complained bitterly. As a vampire, she had to stay in the church.

Moreover, she has gradually become a big shot in a certain sect.

Now she can't run even if she wants to. She can only secretly cry in the quilt.

After complaining for a while, she made a conclusion: "I have nightmares every day. This time you go to the ruins of Malrode, you must bring me back some 'sap of the Blood Sacred Tree'. They have done so many sacrifices, this thing will definitely grow in the ruins!"

Roland was slightly stunned.

So this guy said so much just for money! It's too realistic!

Roland said: "Didn't Catherine promise you benefits?"

Countess Belinda said: "What she promised is what she promised, what you promised is what you promised. How about it, handsome guy? The sap of the Blood Sacred Tree is the main material of many precious magic potions.

It is of great use to both the Holy Blood Clan and the Heraca Clan.

As long as you collect enough, your servants will have enough magic potions to supply.

Then their cultivation speed will be even faster than your cultivation speed."

In Countess Belinda's opinion, twenty-four years ago, Roland was a first-tier early-stage wizard.

Twenty-four years later, Roland is a second-tier early-stage wizard.

Normal wizards have to walk for a hundred years!

Countess Belinda obviously doesn't know the real situation.

Roland only used two months to go from the middle stage of the first tier to the current realm!

This is because he deliberately dragged it out. If he didn't drag it out, three days would be enough!

Moreover, Roland is not in the early stage of the second tier now.

It's the middle stage of the second tier!

Countess Belinda didn't see his realm.

That is to say, Roland can now hang her up and beat her.

Countess Belinda continued to smile: "Although your current realm is not as good as mine, it is not a problem to take some sap from the Blood Sacred Tree along the way.

If you take enough, it can also be alchemized into 'Nectar of Hell' to summon powerful demons from hell for you to drive. Even let angels fall into your slaves.

You provide the materials, I provide the recipe, and we share it together."