I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

Countless fire darts pierced Roland's body, but he remained unscathed, like a ball of light.

The magic insects had seen Roland use this trick before, and they knew that the blasphemous power of the fire darts' radiation still had some effect on the ball of light, so this prey was merely struggling before its death!

They went all out and continued firing.

The magic insects fired round after round of fire darts clockwise. Roland dodged frantically amidst his crazed shouts, repeatedly attempting to break through the encirclement, but failing every time.

He ultimately only managed to hold out until the entrance of the narrow area within the mountain abyss.

Upon reaching this point, Roland suddenly revealed a hint of realization, and then disappeared.

The next second, Roland reappeared in the same spot.

Roland looked bewildered after appearing, muttering something to himself, and remained stunned for a long time.

The magic insects were also stunned for a long time.

They didn't understand why this wizard, who had clearly dissipated like a shattered ball of light, had suddenly come back to life.

The next second, countless fire darts shot over again.

At the same time, Roland suddenly reacted and shouted loudly at the crystal on his chest: "Quick, get out of the ring and attack the pillar of light!"

After shouting, Roland hurriedly switched positions with a magic insect in the distance, dodging a wave of fire darts.

The magic insects had seen this dodging tactic too many times. Their reaction was very swift, and they locked onto Roland almost instantly.

Wave after wave of fire darts came one after another, and Roland had nowhere to escape.

— "Hurry up and attack!"

Just then, Roland and the magic insects suddenly felt an extremely terrifying magic fluctuation gradually appearing in the distance.

Some of the magic insects looked in that direction—in the far distance, ten kilometers away, a magic array with a radius of several hundred meters suddenly appeared!

This magic array was dozens of times larger than the ten-meter magic array that Oraleia had gathered before!

The power it gathered was so great that even here, ten kilometers away, they could feel that terrifying aura.

At this moment, a thought flashed through Roland's mind: "This time, I've gone too far."

The next second, a shocking beam of light parted the sky in the middle.

It turned out that Roland had disappeared long ago when the first wave of fire darts was fired.

What remained in place was a 'Mind-Snatching Holy Spirit' that Roland had dragged out of the Holy Hall.

He put Oraleia into the spatial ring she had given him, and then let the Mind-Snatching Holy Spirit seize his shadow.

So, the one who remained in place and fought passionately with the insects was the Mind-Snatching Holy Spirit—but it thought it was Roland.

Roland also thought he was it.

As mystical beings, they cannot be sealed, cannot be banished, and cannot be killed.

For the Ballet Ghosts, as long as there are witnesses, no matter how many times they are destroyed, they will reappear in the witnesses' sight.

And the Mind-Snatching Holy Spirits are shadows of the heart. They will not disappear as long as the heart's obsession does not disappear.

The two Mind-Snatching Holy Spirits just now firmly believed that they were Roland and Oraleia, and they also firmly believed that they could not reach their destination in the siege.

But their heart's obsession was to reach their destination, so they 'miraculously' endured to their destination.

Therefore, these two mentally ill Holy Spirits looked like they were about to die all the way, but they 'miraculously' endured to their destination—after reaching their destination, they completed their obsession and disappeared in a daze.

Roland and his group of Black Abyss Wizards, who deal with mystical beings every day, are driven to baldness by the Mind-Snatching Holy Spirits. How could these insects possibly distinguish them?

Not to mention that Roland and his Mind-Snatching Holy Spirit are 'All Selves are Me'.

The magic insects had actually felt that something was wrong all along, because that human had endured for too long.

However, the insects were absolutely certain that it was Roland.

Even the Mind-Snatching Holy Spirit and Roland himself thought it was Roland!

Before Roland was mind-snatched, he had instructed Leona to do one thing. Then he threw away the spatial ring and the snake ring.

But Leona picked up the ring and, according to Roland's earlier instructions, ran to the distance and waited for Roland's notification.

Because Roland's shadow was snatched by the Mind-Snatching Holy Spirit, his main body had disappeared.

And after the Mind-Snatching Holy Spirit disappeared, he should have appeared at the location where he was first mind-snatched—that was the location where the first wave of fire darts was fired, more than ten kilometers away from the entrance of the narrow mountain abyss.

Oraleia would not be able to hit this location.

But he appeared in the same spot!

Not only that, but he also had the complete memory from before! So he was stunned for a moment when he appeared.

Normally speaking, a person whose mind has been snatched by the Mind-Snatching Holy Spirit cannot know what the Mind-Snatching Holy Spirit has done.

But Roland remembered everything clearly.

The situation at the time was very urgent. Roland knew that the Mind-Snatching Holy Spirit could withstand for so long because the magic insects were attacking it as if they were attacking a projection, hitting air.

If it were Roland, he wouldn't be able to withstand even one wave of fire darts.

Therefore, after seeing the magic insects launch another attack on him, he knew that whether the fire darts hit him or Oraleia hit him, he would definitely die.

Therefore, he decisively told Oraleia to attack.

So Oraleia ran out of the snake ring—she saw that the pillar of light was constantly moving its position in the black hurricane.

She thought Roland wanted to use the 'King's Gambit' to leave the swarm of magic insects, but found that Roland could not get rid of the magic insects at all.

In this short period of time, it felt extremely long for both Roland and Oraleia.

Roland felt that time passed extremely slowly in the entanglement with the magic insects, and Oraleia also felt that time passed extremely slowly in her repeated struggles in her heart.

But in reality, less than half a second had passed.

This shocking beam of light almost instantly hit the swarm of magic insects in the distance.

Most of the insects, like hurricanes, were compressed in this 'narrow' mountain abyss, hundreds of meters high and wide. They were completely covered by the beam of light.

The beam of light was far more terrifying than expected. After coming into contact with the swarm of magic insects, the insects' tough bodies were scattered like mist blown away by a gale. They could not resist for a moment and instantly vanished into thin air.

Countless organic substances turned into tiny inorganic substances, and a heavy rain began to fall in the sky.

The beam of light did not stop after hitting the swarm of magic insects. Its subsequent part continued to pass through this narrow mountain abyss, shooting towards the sky like water flowing through a water cannon tube.

The distance from the ground to the sky was far less than ten kilometers, so the beam of light easily broke through the clouds and hit the River of Flame flowing on the distant sky.

The River of Flame, like a rough liquid metal mirror, caused the huge light that hit it to undergo a strange scattering. The scattered light made the entire sky colorful.

Since the clouds had already been broken up by the beam of light, these scattered rays shone unhindered on the ground.

Instantly, countless auroras appeared between the heavens and the earth in the entire world.

The creatures living in the sky died completely in a short period of time.

The creatures living on the ground were not illuminated by such strong light, so they did not die immediately and temporarily survived.

However, in the next few months, this world will usher in a great extinction. More than 90% of the creatures in the entire world will gradually become extinct.

This time, Roland had indeed gone too far.

Roland had always been very worried about whether Oraleia's move could eliminate enough insects.

So he had been letting Oraleia accumulate power, letting her do her best to hold it in, and come up with a big one.

Oraleia also didn't have a B number about her own situation, so she really came up with a big one.

It started to rain in the sky, which was the solid particles left behind after the death of countless flying creatures.

In the power of that powerful aurora, nothing was left in the sky above 500 meters.

The situation on the mountain abyss was even cleaner. Not to mention the magic insects and Roland, even the mosquitoes were gone.

There were only two things that could move in the entire mountain abyss.

One was Oraleia herself, who was gradually turning back into a little girl, and the other was another little girl dancing around her.

An extremely lonely and uncomfortable emotion welled up in Oraleia's heart. She looked at this quiet and deserted valley and burst into tears.

At this time, the snake head of the snake ring in Leona's hand made a spitting motion, and then a figure appeared out of thin air next to Leona.

It was Roland himself.

As wizards, they are very different from the priests, and there are too many methods and tricks.

Especially wizards like Roland who understand 'All Selves are Me' and have a lot of puppets in the snake ring that can 'eat butterflies'.

Therefore, when he saw the magic array light up over there in the distance, he immediately ate a straw puppet in the snake ring like eating a butterfly, and then appeared in the snake ring.

Looking at the little girl in front of him, who was facing away from him, rubbing her eyes and sobbing, Roland smiled and eavesdropped on what she was muttering.

— "Wuwuwu, my garden, the little animals I raised are all gone..."

Roland's eyes went dark, and he almost died of anger.

I sacrificed myself in front, and you're crying about your little animals!

Just then, Roland saw Oraleia tearfully take out a lantern from her arms.

This lantern emitted a faint netherfire, and divine runes and 'holy runes' constantly jumped out of the netherfire.

Those holy runes were all patterns of Death Angels.

It seemed that this lantern was a kind of death artifact.

I don't know what it's for, but Aurelie recited the divine script that appeared on the lantern, and then the lantern slowly floated up and began to burn.

In the blink of an eye, the lantern was burned to ashes—this death artifact seemed to have been sacrificed!

Suddenly, Roland felt an irresistible force pulling at his soul and body!

Immediately afterward, Roland felt weightless, as if he had fallen into water.

The water surface was like a mirror. After Roland fell into it, he emerged from a riverbank.

Roland looked around in a daze and discovered a very familiar woman sitting by the river.

The woman seemed to be looking at her reflection in the river, combing her hair, while playing with an even more familiar lantern in her hand.

She had probably been reading a book a few minutes ago, and then, feeling bored, sat by the river to comb her hair.

Suddenly, Roland remembered where this was. He had been here before in a fever dream on the slave ship.

At that time, he also dreamed of a spider woman sucking and chewing on a large leech.

Now, this spider woman was not wearing a red hijab or a red wedding dress, but a large red cloak.

From the gaps in the cloak, one could vaguely see a white uniform.

It was the uniform of the 'Inspectors' of the Wilmik Mystery Department.

The two stared at each other for a long time, and Roland blurted out, "Diana? How did we both end up here?"

Diana was stunned for a moment, as if she was just realizing it now. She showed a very hideous and strange smile, and then suddenly grabbed at him.

Roland's expression changed drastically.

But strangely, even though she was clearly grabbing at Roland, after she caught him, she pushed him hard into the water.

Roland disappeared into the water.

Diana was stunned for a moment, and, facing her reflection in the river, she gritted her teeth and said the following:

"Squeak squeak, gack gack, squeak squeak, gack gack."

Fortunately, Roland didn't hear it.

After Roland splashed into the water, he found that he didn't fall out on the other side, but instead fell directly into the river.

He choked on a mouthful of water and found that the river wasn't deep, only about half a meter.

Roland pushed himself up with his hands and climbed out of the river.

Then, Roland was stunned in place.

Directly in front of him was a cathedral—the Holy Church.

And beneath his feet was the large fountain pool in the square in front of the Papal See.

He had just climbed out of this large fountain pool.

Near the pool was a tulip garden, with many thorny flowers—this garden was brought back by Roland from a parallel world along with the Holy Church.

Diana had just finished combing her hair by the pool and was playing with a lantern.

Seeing Roland, Diana was slightly stunned and asked, "Master, how did you suddenly come in?"

Roland looked at Diana with a strange expression and then asked, "Where did you send me just now?"

Diana asked in astonishment, "Where did I send you?"

Roland said, "Stop pretending! Did you just pull me into the River Styx?"

Diana said very诧异, "What are you talking about, Master?"

Without saying a word, Roland reached out and snatched the lantern from Diana's hand.

After examining it, Roland's expression became very interesting.

He asked, "Is this really that lantern? Where did you get this lantern?!"

Roland's tone was very fierce, scaring Diana. She rubbed her eyes and said, crying, "Isn't this your thing? Why are you asking me? Wuu wuu wuu..."

After a pause, she pointed at the pool and said, "I was just combing my hair here, and I saw a lantern in the water and picked it up. Leona is throwing your curiosities around everywhere. I just wanted to help you tidy up, and you're blaming me? Wuu wuu wuu..."

Seeing that Diana was still talking nonsense, Roland inexplicably felt a surge of anger: "Just go crazy then."

This lantern was the one that Aurelie had sacrificed before!

The purpose of her sacrificing this lantern was to resurrect Roland.

Therefore, this lantern was sacrificed to the goddess Helaaka.

But the lantern had ended up in Diana's hands!