I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

Seven or eight beautiful mermaid girls danced on the huge branches of the Manhatos grass, singing songs from the deep sea.

As they sang, they leaped into the wine lake in the flowerpot soil.

The mermaids constantly flew up and down, dancing gracefully between the branches of the Manhatos grass and the wine lake in the flowerpot soil.

Several mermaids saw Roland's dazed expression and playfully waved at him.

— "Silly Roland, we are the fruits that grow on the Manhatos grass~~"

— "Come on, come on, don't you want to eat us?"

— "Hehe...haha."

— "(Singing and playing)"

These mermaids are actually elemental fairies summoned by the magic contained in the Manhatos grass!

They love to play pranks, so they teased Roland.

Roland didn't know this. He just felt that mermaids couldn't possibly grow out of herbs. So he stared with his mouth open for a long time, wondering if he was hallucinating.

After a moment, he seemed to figure something out, and his gaze gradually became firm again.

"What does it matter if it's real or fake?" he muttered to himself, "What I should do now is eat the mermaid fruit. Even if I'm hallucinating, I should still do it!"

He reached out and grabbed a mermaid, saying fiercely, "Once I eat you, I'll know if you're a fruit or a mermaid!"

The mermaid smiled and dodged: "Silly! Of course, we are mermaids. Even if you eat me, I'm still a mermaid—it's common sense that mermaids grow from grass!"

The mermaid dodged a few times and was caught in Roland's palm. But she wasn't flustered at all. Instead, she began to comb her long hair, looking at Roland with her big, watery eyes, fluttering them as she said, "Don't eat me, Roland. Your Thumbelina can cook~"

Roland looked at the living mermaid in his palm, a hint of reluctance in his eyes, but he still opened his mouth.

The mermaid said, "Okay, okay, stop it. Don't eat me, Roland—look, I've prepared a gift for you."

Roland was stunned: "A gift?"

"Yes, look at this!" The mermaid magically took out a huge clam from behind her, "Ta-da—look."

This clam was as big as her tail, or rather, the clam was about the size of a fingernail.

After carefully examining the clam, Roland was shocked to discover that it was very similar to the 'seed-shaped mermaid fruit' described in the book!

"This...this is the mermaid fruit?!"

Roland widened his eyes and said to the mermaid, "If this is the real mermaid fruit, then who are you? Why did you grow out of the grass?"

"I won't tell you~~ Silly!" The mermaid put the clam in his palm and then disappeared with a smile.

At this moment, Roland really suspected that he was hallucinating.

Laughter came from the flowerpot, and the mermaids jumped into the wine lake, swimming to the shore.

They placed the clams on the shore (edge of the flowerpot), and then turned into balls of light and disappeared.

"Goodbye, Roland~~"

"Goodbye, silly~~~"

After the mermaids disappeared, there was a pile of clams on the edge of the flowerpot.

Roland carefully examined the clams, his heart pounding.

"Could it be that these clams are all mermaid fruits?"

He hurriedly flipped through the literature on potionology and quickly found a relevant description.

The page read:

【. The outer shell emits a slightly sweet taste. After opening, the inside is an irregular round fruit, slightly smaller than the tip of a little finger, like a low-quality pearl. 】

"This is indeed the real mermaid fruit!" Roland was overjoyed. He smelled the clam in his hand and then showed a very wonderful expression.

"Why does it smell fishy??"

"Mermaid fruit doesn't smell fishy! Only clams smell fishy?!"

Roland grabbed his hair, feeling terrible.

Little did he know that this was another prank by the little spirits. To amuse Roland, they deliberately made the mermaid fruit look and smell like clams.

Even more amazing, when Roland pried open a clam with his fingernail, inside was actually a pearl!

A genuine pearl!

—This was, of course, another prank by the elemental fairies. And an apprentice could not see through the pranks of the elemental fairies.

Roland stood there stunned for a long time.

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"Am I...am I crazy?!"

"Or is there an error in the contents recorded in the potion book?"

"After the Manhatos grass matures, it doesn't grow fruit. But mermaids and pearls?!"

At this point, Roland couldn't help but cover his forehead fiercely.

This speculation was too outrageous.

"Whatever!" Roland threw the pearl into his mouth.

He has two advantages: First, he always knows what he should do;

Second, once he makes a decision, he will not waver even if he encounters strange things.

Therefore, even though he was almost driven crazy by the little fairies, he still maintained his sanity and made the most correct choice.

The pearl melted in his mouth, and after swallowing it, Roland felt streams of abundant magic emanating from his abdomen. The surging magic made his eyes light up slightly.

"Now is the time to meditate." Roland opened the 'Aleyah Handbook' and turned to the page on visualization. After reading it, a strange look appeared on his face.

He suddenly realized a very serious problem:

'With my current mental state, if I meditate according to the content in the Fool's Handbook, I might go crazy!'

'My predecessor went crazy like this...'

'Forget it!'

'Either become a troll's dung, or go crazy... If you don't go crazy, you can't become an immortal. Being a crazy immortal is better than putting your life in the hands of others, better than being a mentor's slave!'

Roland no longer hesitated and began to meditate according to the visualization method in his memory. He had no distracting thoughts and quickly entered the world of meditation.

If Roland opened his eyes and looked at the 'Aleyah Handbook' at this moment, he would find that some new text had suddenly appeared on it:

【Roland's magical talent is far inferior to that of his predecessor, but his comprehension is unmatched. The realm that his predecessor never glimpsed, he touched in an instant...】

【In the meditation world, he felt that the whole world became clearer and more real, as if observing everything from a higher perspective.】

【From the Valeria territory, the vast surrounding forests, to the myriad beings in the town at night, everything is different from what he usually sees.】

【The perspective rises, seeing the entire province, and even the entire kingdom, continent, and galaxy, everything is in sight...】