I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

The surrounding scenery began to spin, and in an instant, everything before Roland's eyes seemed like spilled dyes.

When the scene before him gradually stopped spinning, Roland found himself in a small, plant-covered secret chamber.

Before him were steps leading to the outside, which appeared very bright.

Roland slowly walked up, discovering that the outside of the small secret chamber was a very strange 'grand hall'.

The grand hall was desolate and dilapidated, overgrown with vines, weeds, and small trees.

It should have once been very clean and tidy, with jade stones originally embedded in the ground and walls, but most of the jade had been damaged by plants.

The grand hall had a very high ceiling, and there should have been many stepped seats in all four directions, but now they were covered in plants.

The only intact thing in the entire grand hall was a huge high platform at one end.

This high platform was carved from a complete piece of jade, so it had not been eroded by time.

It was divided into three levels, five meters, seven and a half meters, and ten meters each. Each level of the high platform extended outward like a pier.

The 'pier' extending from the bottom was the shortest, and the 'pier' extending from the top was the longest.

Below the high platform was a strange large pit, square in shape, filled with weeds.

The Nagas who arrived here first did not notice Roland's appearance. Everyone was gathered there, pointing and gesturing at the grand hall, discussing animatedly.

One Naga said, "No, impossible. It should be an opera house."

The very charming Naga said, "It's definitely a place for holding sacrificial rituals! The cultists drag the sacrificial offerings onto the high platform, then tie a rope around their necks, and push them into the pit below... Kaboom! And the person is gone!"

"Southerners used to deal with witches like this."

The surrounding Nagas nodded in agreement. One Naga said, "Hmm, makes sense... There should also be water in the pit, so even if they don't die from hanging, they can drown."

The first Naga argued, "Impossible~~ Only ten meters, how could someone die from falling? And you witches are like us, not afraid of water, right?"

The charming Naga said, "Oh, you don't understand. If they can't be hanged or drowned, then they must be witches~~ So, there used to be a stake for burning at the stake here!

"Once the sacred fire burns, the person is gone~~"

Many Nagas nodded, saying, "Hmm, makes sense... But it feels strange."

The charming Naga said, "Oh, just repair this place and you'll know. Anyway, we're just idle."

Saying that, the charming Naga picked up the conch shell from her waist, intending to blow it. When the Nagas saw that she was planning to use the conch shell for magic, their expressions turned a little unsightly.

The charming Naga suddenly remembered something. She coughed awkwardly and hurriedly took out a magic wand, saying, "I can't blow it well. Let's use a magic wand."

A Naga coughed and pointed her chin at Roland in the distance, who was secretly playing with the snake ring, saying, "Your people have already arrived."

The charming Naga hurriedly put away the magic wand and picked up the trident floating beside her, using it to cast a barrier around everyone that shielded mental perception and sound.

A Naga suddenly sighed, "I never thought that after imprisoning Catherine and the avatar of the King of Thousand Eyes, His Majesty and Her Highness would be persuaded by them to choose to cooperate with the witches... They used to be the most devout believers."

Another Naga said with a strange expression, "Although I can understand His Majesty and Her Highness's new policies, the changes in His Majesty and Her Highness in the past few months have been a bit too great.

"If their habits and behaviors were not the same as before, I would have suspected that they were not the same people."

The charming Naga coughed and hurriedly changed the subject, saying, "His Majesty Andra is ultimately a witch by origin. He was previously loyal to the Sea God because he had no choice. But now, the Realm of Faith can completely free the Sea Clan from the shackles of God, so the situation is naturally very different.

"Plus, he saw the future in the parallel world, saw what would happen after the Sea God was summoned. Naturally, he won't follow that god who has already gone mad."

The 'Black Tide' in the parallel world looked very much like the sea, so the Nagas regarded the Great Butterfly as the Sea God.

The Nagas' expressions became solemn. They discussed:

— "Who would have thought that once the Sea God is summoned, he would be immediately swallowed by the Evil God! Summoning the Sea God to descend is summoning the Mad God to descend!"

— "Alas, it's no wonder His Majesty and Her Highness dare not reveal the truth, after all, even we, the most loyal people, still find it hard to believe such a fact..."

— "Yes, the Nine-Headed Serpent has long become a cult. It used to be difficult for His Majesty to do some small things, let alone do such a big thing as betraying the Sea God now?"

— "Alas, speaking of which, we only have two hundred people here in total, of which more than one hundred and fifty are from the Old Sect!

"There are more people on the New Sect's side. Even if you add your people and the three Elders, we will have to fight five against one this time.

"Can we do it this time?"

At this time, the charming Naga saw that a half-snake Lamia was swimming out of the 'hole' in the distance.

After she came out, she secretly stood behind Roland, peeking at him playing with the snake ring.

The two were only half a step away, but Roland didn't notice. He was still trying to decipher the spell on the snake ring.

The charming Naga smiled and said, "What's the use of having more people in the church? A hundred bandits are not as good as one hero. Whether it's the Old Sect or the New Sect, none of them can fight!"

A Naga said with a strange expression, "I know you should be confident in your people. But, why do I always feel that you seem to be particularly confident in His Majesty Andra too?"

Another Naga said, "Yes, and you seem to get along particularly well with our master. She trusts you very much."

The charming Naga's smile was slightly stiff. She said, "Cough, that's just my good point. I'm a charming person that everyone loves.

"Don't you all like me very much too?"

The Nagas said, "That's true."

The charming Naga said again, "Moreover, I'm not confident in His Majesty Andra, I'm confident in our people!

"We have more than just three Elders.

"Aren't the avatars of the King of Thousand Eyes and our two Misses sealed in Lord Andra's staff?

"When the real fight starts, His Majesty Andra will release them to join the battle.

"Catherine and Anna, plus me and that stinky brat Roland. The four of us joining forces are not something ordinary Elders can deal with.

"Not to mention 'Saladin'. You have seen the strength of this avatar. If Lord Andra didn't have the Sea God Stone, he might not be able to beat him."

Many Nagas shook their heads secretly.

One Naga said, "You're probably too optimistic. So many bishops, saints, holy kings. And so many terrifying cultists, not to mention the goddess Aulerie...

"Not to mention that the main body of the King of Thousand Eyes is still digesting the power of that abyssal god... Even if his main body comes, he probably wouldn't be as confident as you... Alas."

The charming Naga smiled and said, "Main body? Hehe, you know nothing about the power of the King of Thousand Eyes... An avatar plus the Sea God Stone, even if a true god descends, they will bleed here!

"This time, we may not win, but we will definitely not lose."

A Naga said, "You're right, we still have the trump card of the Sea God Stone.

"However, I want to remind you that His Majesty will never lend the Sea God Stone to you. Even if it is lent to the avatar of the King of Thousand Eyes, he won't use it as well as His Majesty Andra."

The charming Naga smiled and said, "Of course, of course."

Speaking of this, a Naga looked at the two cultist sisters sitting and resting not far behind her. She said, "By the way, how are you so sure that those two people are fake, and the two sisters in Lord Andra's staff are real?"

The charming Naga laughed and said, "If Lord Andra can't even tell the real and fake bodies of Catherine and Anna apart. He is not qualified to cooperate with us."

She changed the subject: "Your master is looking this way, let's not discuss it secretly here. Let's tidy up this place, we will be staying here for a few days."

When the Nagas heard that their leader had seen them gossiping secretly here, they dared not slack off any longer and hurriedly started working.

On the other side, Roland studied the snake ring for a long time, but he couldn't unlock the spell on the snake ring.

He scratched his head and muttered, "How can that stinky woman's spell be so powerful? It doesn't make sense! I can handle Aulerie's restrictions!"

At this time, he suddenly heard a faint voice behind him: "Which stinky woman?"

Roland was startled. He turned around and saw that Farchie was standing behind him.

Roland didn't dare to answer. He said, "Cough, where is this? Aren't we going to join the main force?"

Farchie said, "Don't worry, the Great Prophet and the others will not be teleported here later. This place is very safe, let's rest here for a while."

Roland asked, "You seem to know the ruins very well? Do you have spies in the church?"

Farchie said, "It's your spy. We share intelligence information with you."

Roland said with a strange expression, "This time, our people joined as members of the 'Saint Song Society'. Only Old Crook joined the archaeological team as a cardinal half a year ago, right?"

Farchie looked at Roland with a smile: "That's right, it's Lord Halrand."

Roland's expression immediately became very ugly: "This guy is a cultist! He is the real Great Prophet, you must not listen to him anymore!"

Faki said, "Didn't you just say to have my father contact him?"

Roland couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

He said, "In the answer from the answering machine, we can indeed achieve our goal by explaining the situation to the old priest. But the answering machine only gave the result, not the process!

He will cooperate, certainly because this matter aligns with his interests, not because he's on our side!

We can't trust him because of this!"

Faki said, "Stop being so suspicious. He's just pretending to be the Great Prophet, not the real Great Prophet."

Roland said, "I can't explain it to you, woman!"

Faki said, "Then don't bother. Slaves don't have the right to speak anyway."

Saying that, Faki wandered over to the Nagas.

Roland cursed inwardly. He felt that this matter was going to go wrong, but he was already on the thief's ship and could only follow it all the way to the end.

After Roland followed Faki to the Nagas' side, the entire hall had been almost cleaned up.

The plants were mostly gone, and the ground had been repaired.

That charming Naga was floating in mid-air, using a small conch to collect trash.

First, she collected all the plant debris around her into the conch, and then she used the conch to pour warm water into the big pit.

When the water first poured out of the conch, it was just a trickle. But the further it fell, the larger the stream became.

By the time the water landed at the bottom of the pit, it was like a waterfall.

The surrounding Nagas clicked their tongues in amazement at this scene.

One Naga said sarcastically, "Livina, your water magic is getting better and better. It's even better than ours."

The charming Naga 'Livina' smiled and changed the subject. While speaking, she glanced furtively at Roland not far away, and quickly breathed a sigh of relief after finding that he hadn't noticed.

Livina cursed in her heart, 'Damn it, I need to be more careful next time. These stupid sea demons put in whatever water they pretend to have. If there's no water inside, no water can come out.'

Originally, the Nagas thought that 'Livina' had previously used the conch to fill it with cold water, and then released hot water.

From the perspective of thermal energy conversion, she had heated so much water in an instant, which was very surprising.

But in fact, there wasn't even a drop of water in that conch!

She turned all the trash she collected into warm water!

Therefore, these Nagas who studied water elements simply didn't understand Livina's water magic—Livina knew they definitely wouldn't understand and would assume it was an 'ordinary' magic to turn cold water into hot water, so she boldly used it.

But who knew that even such an ordinary magic would break their defenses.

Roland didn't even notice this. After the Nagas cleaned up this 'temple used for sacrifices,' he stood there in a daze.

Faki asked curiously, "What's wrong? Have you seen a place like this before?"

Roland asked seriously, "Are you sure the place we've come to is a real place, and not some kind of strange forbidden area? I mean, a place that makes people have strange hallucinations."

Faki said, "Stop being so suspicious. This isn't some forbidden area.

The reason I said it's safe and hidden here isn't because it's a forbidden area, but because it's an area that hasn't completely connected with the ruins yet.

This is just an ordinary area in the ruins. There are many areas like this in Aolei's palace."

Roland seemed very defensive after hearing this, and he shouted, "Impossible! There can't be a place like this in Aolei's palace!"

Faki frowned and said, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong here?"

Roland pointed excitedly at the steps and seats in the temple, pointing at the big water pit and the high platform, and said, "Do you know what this place is?"

Faki said, "What place?"

Roland said, "This is an Olympic stadium! Do you understand what a stadium is? A swimming pool for competitions! There, look there—that's a diving platform! And there, there's a big screen! A big screen for announcing the results!

And that! That's the Olympic five rings!

Do you understand the five rings!"

Saying that, Roland reached out his hand towards the shattered big screen in the distance in a very defensive manner, and then some broken small things flew over.

He grabbed his hair and said, "There's even a circuit board!

Faki nodded thoughtfully. She looked at Roland deeply and said, "As expected of someone with the eyes of a god, you even recognize 'circuit boards.'"

Roland's eyes darkened, and he said, "Of course I recognize them! This is This is something written in my father's diary!

This isn't something that should exist in our world!

They shouldn't be here!"