I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

After exiting, Roland discovered the duty room was located in a tall tower within the castle.

Although called a tower, its area was no smaller than Valerian Castle.

The purpose of building the tower was to defend against invasions. Therefore, its internal terrain was extremely complex, with several spiral staircases, some real and some fake.

Nading had previously told Roland to find the instructor at the corner of the second floor, but the second floor was divided into two areas, and these two areas were separated.

Roland first ran to the east side of the 2nd floor, only to find that there were only a few halls for teaching and no laboratory at all. He had no choice but to go back upstairs and then detour from upstairs to the west side of the 2nd floor.

There was indeed a laboratory here, but it was locked.

Helpless, Roland had to run back to the professors' duty room.

While going upstairs, he heard someone cursing loudly inside the staircase.

"Daring to slander me as a Black Wizard? Sooner or later, I will 'flay you alive and extract your tendons,' 'extract your soul and seize your spirit,' and then 'pulverize your bones and scatter the ashes' into the sewer to feed the rats!"

These three phrases were all names of black magic spells.

Professor Bernard, holding a book, slowly walked down the stairs. His face was very unsightly, as if he had just been frustrated by Nading and was holding a bellyful of fire.

Judging from his speech and the 'priority suspect list' in the hands of the White Chess Wizards, if this guy wasn't a Black Wizard, then the entire Black Abyss Academy would have no Black Wizards.

Bernard was in a fit of anger, and Roland didn't want to provoke him, so he stepped aside and stood respectfully to the side with his head lowered.

Fortunately, Professor Bernard ignored him as he passed by, and Roland couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Boy, are you lost?" Professor Bernard downstairs suddenly turned to look at Roland, and he said with a smile: "Heh heh heh, you're really lucky, come with me. Hmph hmph hmph."

Looking at the sinister smile on Bernard's face, Roland's expression became a little stiff.

Bernard had just had an argument with Nading, how could Roland dare to say 'No, thank you, I want Professor Nading to take me'?

He could only follow Bernard.

The two quickly walked out of the castle and headed towards a woodland.

On the way, Bernard sized up Roland's attire and inquired about Roland's family background and experience. Roland followed Wallace's instructions and told Bernard his story.

After listening, Bernard revealed a look of realization. He stopped in front of the forest and said: "Oh~~ So you really are Alexandra's new blood, not bad, not bad—we've gone the wrong way, I just forgot, this is the place to bury the dead, the temporary dormitory is over there."

With that, Bernard walked towards a road with streetlights.

Roland stood there in a daze for a moment. He looked at the dark and secluded forest that Bernard had just intended to take him into, and then looked at Professor Bernard walking towards the road. His expression suddenly became extremely unsightly.

"What are you standing there for? Do you want to go to the cemetery?"

Roland hurriedly followed.

Bernard said to Roland very seriously: "There are Black Wizards hidden in our academy. You must be careful at all times and don't easily trust others."

Roland looked at Professor Bernard in front of him and remained silent.

Bernard continued: "Especially at night, if you encounter professors or the like asking you to go to the laboratory to help with something, don't foolishly follow them. You're just a low-level apprentice who just entered the school, you can't even wash test tubes properly, what can a formal wizard need your help with besides using you for experiments?"

Roland secretly sighed: 'Clearly there are so many White Wizards like Professor Nading, but it's still impossible to prevent these lunatics from the old Black Abyss from running amok. Alas, it's really too difficult.'

Bernard changed the subject and said: "However, the fact that you were able to escape from that girl Lilith's hands means that you should be able to live in the academy for a few more years."

Roland's heart tightened slightly. His attention was on the words 'you escaped from Lilith's hands'.

Bernard was obviously not as easily fooled as Professor Nading. He didn't think Roland was a coward or a weakling. Instead, he believed that he had escaped from Lilith by some means.

Bernard didn't discuss this topic any further. In casual conversation, he said this: "Remember, the Alexandra Arcane Academy is an Arcane Academy. Our wizard society is also an orderly wizard society. Black magic and Black Wizards are not allowed to exist in society. The only place they should go is Alarka Prison."

Roland's heart trembled slightly, and he hurriedly asked: "Sir, is using black magic a one-way ticket to prison?"

Bernard blew his beard and glared, saying: "Of course! What did you think? This isn't the Twilight Council's territory, it's an orderly world! Besides, we ourselves aren't clean, there are eyes everywhere here!"

Roland hurriedly asked again: "Then what kind of magic counts as black magic?"

Bernard told Roland: "All lethal magic is black magic!"

Roland: "Ah?!"

He hurriedly asked: "Then how can we protect ourselves if we encounter danger?"

Bernard sneered: "Who knows."

"Now is a time of peace, and the White Wizards believe that there is no need to use lethal magic. However, it's not that absolute."

Bernard said: "In fact, there isn't a strict standard for black magic to this day. For example, elemental magic can also kill people, but most elemental magic doesn't count as black magic. Arcane magic is even more efficient at killing, but everyone is studying it.

Many curses can kill people, but if you don't study them, you won't know how to save people, but if you study them, you will definitely understand them, so it's difficult to judge.

Generally speaking, as long as you don't use curses directly against 'people', you won't be investigated. And in many cases, the use of curses is excusable if it is necessary for the purpose of protection. After all, to deal with black magic, you must understand it."

Roland asked cautiously: "Then, is Professor Nading's black magic better than yours?"

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Bernard hurriedly interrupted: "Of course they use it better than me! I'm not a Black Wizard! I only understand arcane magic!"

Roland: "."

"Boy, the reason I'm telling you so much is to tell you to be careful. The White Chess Wizards are watching closely now. Old immortals like Nading still know how to act according to the rules. But those guys who are trying to get ahead are hard to say... A storm is brewing."

Roland's expression changed, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

At this time, a large wooden house appeared in the distance, and it seemed that it was the temporary dormitory.

Bernard looked at Roland and said: "I heard that you killed a mutated giant today? Let me see it."

Roland secretly sighed in his heart: 'It's probably going to be a forced sale.'

He shook the dimensional bag hidden inside his sleeve, and then a small giant wood carving flew out of his sleeve. It grew in the wind, and in a blink of an eye, it was as big as a normal giant.

Bernard examined the wood carving with great interest, then stroked his chin and said: "Not bad. This kind of mutated giant is still rare. However, although the thing is good, it has become a puppet. I still have to do some work to get it. How about selling it to me for ten magic stones?"

Roland was secretly helpless.

Helena had said before that the market price should be 15-20 magic stones. If the giant was given to Professor Fox (a White Chess Wizard), Professor Fox might give 20 or even 25 magic stones.

But here with the Black Abyss Wizard... there are only 10 magic stones.

To be honest, Bernard didn't really lack this little bit of money, but he wouldn't give more money to disrupt the market.

Roland didn't dare to refuse Professor Bernard's transaction request, so he had to nod and agree. He sold it to him for 10 magic stones.

Bernard smiled with satisfaction. He said: "To tell you the truth, I specialize in necromancy... cough, in order to allow students to better deal with monsters, I have recently been studying monsters. Therefore, I am very interested in all kinds of strange corpses."

As he said that, Bernard looked at Roland meaningfully: "Including human corpses... living ones are also fine."

Roland's expression was a little unsightly.

Bernard smiled and said: "In the future, you can come to me if you get interesting specimens. You can trade with magic stones, or you can exchange magic."

Bernard patted Roland on the shoulder and took away the mutated troll's wood carving.