I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

Roland's intention in attacking was to kill the red-haired initiate and prevent him from being eaten by the demon. He didn't plan to fight the demon head-on, so he fled immediately after attacking.

Wallace had mentioned before that the demon was very weak and unable to cast effective spells. The real problem was the strange objects in its possession. What he said was indeed correct. But the crucial point was that the demon had too many strange objects!

The good news was that the demon would devour some of the strange objects, so it wouldn't keep too many on hand.

But the bad news was that the demon would regain its strength after eating the strange objects.

Roland headed straight for the West Hall after getting away from the blonde initiate. Along the way, he used telepathy to constantly scan his surroundings, and soon found a large number of relics in the West Hall. It seemed that the demon hadn't deceived the blonde initiate; there were indeed many things here.

With a thought from Roland, various items on the ground flew over under the influence of his telepathy. He glanced at them briefly, then reached out and opened the dimensional pouch at his waist, letting the miscellaneous items fall into the pouch.

Roland thought to himself, "I must collect all the items in the hall as quickly as possible, faster than the demon. Hmm? There seem to be a few usable strange objects, but they're all corrupted. Although the Evil-Charm-Immunity I consumed can resist corruption and curses, it's best to temper them with Dawnfire before using them... I'll take care of it after I've searched the entire hall."

Roland controlled the surrounding items to continuously fall into the dimensional pouch. At this moment, a cracked jewel-like strange object flew over. This jewel contained violent fire elemental power.

Roland's heart tightened, and he hurriedly and carefully stopped the jewel in mid-air. He wrapped it in soft items before putting it into the dimensional pouch.

"This jewel is already very unstable; it seems like it could be used to make a trap."

While pondering, Roland had already taken away all the items here. Without stopping, he continued to search for relics in other directions of the hall.

He searched every corner of the entire hall, and after collecting all the items, he came to a place, opened the 'Aleyah's Handbook,' and began to examine one of his skills.

【Apprentice-level Magic Array. Entry (6/100)】

He used all 100 points of insight he had previously obtained on magic arrays. Then, he took out the damaged jewel from the dimensional pouch.

The jewel contained terrifying fire elemental power.

He thought to himself, "As long as I leave such a magic array behind, I can activate the violent fire elemental power on the jewel."

About a few minutes after Roland left the West Hall, the demon and the blonde initiate also drifted to the West Hall.

"Old thing, aren't we going to look for that little mouse? I wonder where that coward has run off to..."

"Master, don't worry, he can't escape. I'm too hungry; let's collect the strange objects here first."

The two of them flew unhurriedly to the west side of the hall. After searching around, they found that there was nothing around. The expression on the demon's face couldn't help but stiffen slightly.

"I remember it should be here. Let's look around again."

The two searched around for a while, but they couldn't even find a piece of torn clothing.

The blonde initiate began to cry out, "Old geezer! You lied to me! There's nothing here!"

"Shut up!" the demon roared. "Go to the northeast corner of the hall!"

When the blonde initiate went to the first location before, he was one step behind Roland. The speed of this low-level apprentice was far inferior to that of Roland, this high-level swordsman. Being one step slower meant being slower in every step.

Next, the blonde initiate went to several places according to the demon's instructions, but found nothing. Once, the demon saw the little mouse stealing things and was about to try to keep him, but the little mouse's figure inexplicably teleported to a place more than ten meters away, and he scurried away without a trace.

"Old thing! That guy got a strange object!" the blonde initiate shouted.

"Go south! Go south!" The demon trembled with anger.

"Old thing, are you stupid? The south is where we came from at the beginning. We've already taken the things there!" The south was where Roland initially fought them.

"Go quickly! There are still two corpses there!"

The demon now seemed like a starving refugee. It could have had a sumptuous magical feast (strange objects), but the feast was snatched away by a robber. Thus, it remembered the swill it had previously ignored—the two corpses.

Soon, the two returned to the side of the red-haired initiate's corpse, but this charred corpse was completely carbonized.

The demon hesitated for a long time, but ultimately chose not to eat the corpse.

"Old thing, that guy must have obtained some strange object, otherwise he wouldn't have run so fast!"

The blonde initiate was still brooding over the previous events: "However, only I can use your things. He actually dared to use corrupted strange objects; he's not far from death!"

The demon ignored the blonde initiate. It didn't think that the kid would be corrupted in a short period of time, because the kid had consumed 'Evil-Charm-Immunity.' If he wasn't afraid of death and fought desperately with strange objects, it would indeed be somewhat troublesome.

The demon's expression became somewhat unsightly.

From the blonde initiate's memories, the kid named Roland was just a kid from the countryside who hadn't even grown all his hair. He hadn't been in contact with magic for long and was just a beginner apprentice.

Normally, someone like this, after encountering today's events, even if he didn't wet his pants on the spot, would only have the thought of escaping left in his mind.

But the reality was completely the opposite.

That cunning little mouse couldn't help but remind the demon of those sinister and cunning Black Abyss Wizards, and Baron Hol, who repeatedly brought people to disgust it.

It was the same back then. They were clearly just tiny ants, but they had brought it to such a state.

It didn't know when the main body would be able to deal with those guys outside, but it was afraid that it would have to waste some time here.

"Black Abyss Wizards, huh..."

The demon's gaze gradually became cautious.

The demon knew all the strange objects in the entire hall. It knew that even if Roland had a way to deal with the corruption, he could only find two undamaged strange objects at most. But it also understood that it was very weak now, and like that kid, both were just ants.

It no longer acted carelessly and planned to seriously deal with the small trouble in front of it.

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After thinking for a moment, the demon looked at Wallace's corpse in the distance and ordered, "Go over there."

The blonde initiate's eyesight wasn't as good as the demon's. When flying over, he realized that Wallace's corpse was still in place.

"Great, old thing! This corpse is very fresh!" The blonde initiate said with joy, "Old thing, you have something to eat!"

"Mm." The demon looked at the corpse, a look of extreme disgust in its eyes, but it signaled the blonde initiate to lift the corpse.

The blonde initiate waved the magic wand in his hand, lifting the corpse into the air.

Ding-dong, dong-dong!

A jewel fell from the corpse.

After seeing the jewel, the demon's eyes revealed a look of disdain.

The jewel seemed to contain a powerful fire elemental force. At the moment it shattered, the blonde initiate felt a terrifying magical fluctuation.

The blonde initiate's face changed drastically: "Not good!"

Whirr, la-la-la!

A violent firestorm erupted from the jewel under the corpse, instantly turning the surrounding area of more than ten meters into a sea of fire. At the same time, a bolt of lightning struck from behind a distant stone pillar, pointing directly at the center of the sea of fire.

Tzz, la-la-la!

Unlike previous lightning attacks, this lightning did not disappear like a circuit breaker being switched off after hitting the target, but continued to flicker in mid-air as if it were stuck to the target. This meant that the demon had not opened the barrier just now.

'It hit the target. It doesn't seem to have used the lantern for protection... Has the lantern been eaten by the demon?' Roland frowned, vaguely feeling that something was wrong.

Just then, he suddenly heard three faint sounds. In the dimness, he saw three black lights flickering in the sea of fire.

Roland's pupils dilated drastically. He hurriedly shrank behind the cover.

Fortunately, he had found cover before attacking, otherwise he wouldn't have had time to dodge.

After the three black lights flew over, one black light hit the cover, and the other two black lights brushed past the cover. But halfway through their flight, these two black lights actually made a turn and flew towards Roland again!

Who would pay attention to stray bullets on the battlefield? If Wallace hadn't mentioned the Gray Staff before, Roland would have been killed by the demon's trick.

But even though he already knew the characteristics of the Gray Staff, he was still flustered.

The black light was too fast, like maggots on a bone, and it was difficult to shake off. He narrowly dodged the second black light, but when the third black light flew over, he could no longer dodge.

In a flash, Roland activated a 'Silver Pocket Watch' (strange object) in his arms.

Immediately afterwards, everything around him slowed down.