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After everyone left, Roland began to peruse the ravens' medical logs.

This mumbo-jumbo, from the perspective of the White Tower wizards, was utterly devoid of logic. Not magical at all.

But in the eyes of commoners, and even many Muggle nobles, the more bizarre and illogical something was, the more magical and wizardly it seemed.

Therefore, Roland's revised handbook also largely adopted this mystical writing style.

Roland felt that these wild wizards were quite formidable.

Tomorrow, when he went to see the king, he would have to get the king to release these people.

Without the interference of the White Chess Council, the wild wizards, even if they couldn't solve the 'Rainbow Disease' at its root, wouldn't have allowed the disease to spread to its current extent.

As for how to end this so-called plague, or rather, how to deal with the 'Rainbow' hanging over the Kingdom of Amir...

Grandpa Augustus had written a passage like this:

【There will be an Amber Princess who will ring the Rainbow Bell on the Gemstone Basin. At that time, the plague will end. And the illness of those who are locked in the little black room and suffering will also disappear.】

【Amber, my little princess, Grandpa is dying, unable to verify your unparalleled magic, and unable to walk anymore.】

【Go and verify your truth.】

Putting down the book, Roland was silent for a long time.

If the Crystal Princess Disease was a plague, then the White Chess School's treatment plan would certainly be more scientific.

But what if it wasn't a plague at all?

What if the White Chess School had gone in the wrong direction? And what if a great scholar in the secular world, who could understand Byronian, Elvish, runes, spells, formulas, and papers, and was proficient in medical theory, had discovered a new breakthrough based on the theoretical foundation of the White Chess wizards, and found the right direction?

If he had been researching in this correct direction for decades, could his little granddaughter solve this mysterious event according to the final plan he had given?

A cautious voice came from beside him: "Lo-, Teacher, are we staying here tonight?"

Roland suddenly came back to his senses and said, "Go take a good bath, then find a room for yourself. Be careful with the doors and windows... Oh, I forgot, you know what to do."

Roland wasn't in the mood to take a bath. He used the crystal ball to contact the liaison at the White Chess Academy.

Previously, when Roland was helping Baron Bach deliver the letter, he had embellished the situation of the epidemic in the Kingdom of Amir in the letter.

He stated in the letter that he suspected that an abnormal mysterious situation had occurred here, and did not rule out that the incident was related to the Twilight Wizards hiding spies in the council.

If he followed what the king had written before, it would be useless to cry in the letter. He had to relate it to the mysterious, and to the Twilight Wizards!

Now, the White Chess Academy had received the letter and, as expected, attached great importance to it.

The liaison told Roland, "You first pay attention to the situation there. Tell me as soon as you have definite investigation results... There are many things in the queue now. Although the school attaches great importance to it, it is still under discussion."

Roland thought for a while, didn't mention the Rainbow, but told the liaison about the Crystal Village.

Roland made some requests, demanding that a formal wizard team arrive on the scene, and gave sufficient and reasonable reasons.

He finally said, "According to my compass's detection, the highest degree of pollution has reached 376, and this is just a small village. It has been determined that this is a mysterious event.

You have been dealing with the situation here as a plague, and now no one can control the deterioration of the situation.

The anomaly may spread at any time, and problems will occur throughout the Eastern Territory. The magic potion in my hand is about to run out. If I don't see anyone tomorrow, I will not be responsible for any consequences. I will also withdraw immediately."

The liaison was furious when she heard this. You were sent here to work, and you're going to quit? If something goes wrong, you will be fully responsible!

Roland ignored her and directly cut off the communication and covered the crystal ball.

He thought to himself: "I've already made the situation so serious, and also made it clear that a formal wizard team must be present... Should at least one formal wizard come, right?"

He put away the crystal ball, went to the stable to take a look, then took some high-quality fodder and put it in the space ring for Foxfire to eat.

After that, he found the baron and others in the town chief's house and checked the situation of their rooms.

Although the baron and others were constantly complaining about Roland in their hearts, they strictly followed Roland's requirements.

Under the leadership of the baron, they were setting up two small black rooms. These ten people would live in this small black room next.

They also ate the sour sacrificial cakes and prepared eye masks to wear when they went to bed at night.

"You have already taken the diluted magic potion, so just stay locked up for one night. Go out to work tomorrow."

The room doesn't actually need to be too dark; it's enough not to see rainbows, or even not to see fire.

In fact, nights without a moon would meet the requirements.

After inspecting the baron and others' rooms, Roland also inspected Amber's room. Then he released the ghost mist outside.

Instantly, the entire small village was pitch black.

Afterwards, Roland also found a small room for himself, arranged it, and the room was dimly lit.

It was pitch black in the room, but Roland's vision was not greatly affected.

Taking off his clothes and lying on the bed, Roland used his mental power to observe the Foxfire in the ring.

The ring was filled with thick fog, and there was vaguely a hunter's hut.

In front of the hut was a meadow, and the Foxfire was rummaging through Amber's package there, eating her sacrificial cakes.

It would eat the sour sacrificial cake for a while, and then eat the fodder for a while, having a great time.

On a whim, Roland also took out a sacrificial cake and took a bite.

It tasted like lemon.

"So disgusting... Who said that patients with Crystal Princess Disease like to eat sour things?"

"Could it be that my symptoms are not serious enough?"

Roland had already taken a bite of this cake, and he didn't want to waste food, so he ate the cake with honey.

Although it was still very difficult to eat, the sour and sweet taste was not bad.

After eating the dry food and drinking some water, Roland looked at his pocket watch and meditated for two hours.

After opening his eyes, he looked at his pocket watch again. His face couldn't help but become serious.

He had just counted the numbers while meditating, and the number was exactly two hours. But looking at the pocket watch, it was two hours and ten minutes.

This should have been the case in Crystal Village before. It's just that the difference between the time that had passed in reality and the time he felt in his mind was not significant. So he didn't feel it and thought he hadn't encountered the mysterious.

Taking off his clothes, Roland slept until he woke up naturally.

After getting up, Roland took a look at his situation and found that, in the prophecy, the Crystal Princess Disease on his body would still break out in the future, but it would not be contagious for the time being.

Looking at the crystal ball in his hand, Roland found that someone seemed to have contacted him many times in the morning, but he was still sleeping.

He waved his magic wand on the crystal ball. After a while, the image of that mission liaison from White Chess appeared inside the crystal ball.

The mission liaison was almost dying of anxiety, afraid that Roland would really quit.

Although it was said that quitting would result in a great mission penalty, what couldn't the Black Abyss wizards do? If someone really intended to quit, it would be running away, defecting to the enemy, and treason all in one go. By the time they found him again, he would have run to the Twilight Council. Where would they go to punish him?

He quit, and he was relaxed. But the affairs of the Kingdom of Amir would be a mess.

If this Crystal Princess Disease really broke out and spread to the various territories of the school, or even to the various territories of the entire council, everyone would be finished.

War was about to break out, and logistics could not go wrong.

The liaison didn't dare to hold such a big matter in her own hands; she couldn't handle it. She didn't sleep all night last night and found all the leaders she could find.

By this morning, the school had new results.

The 'Crab Eye Elephant Tower' would send one person, and the remaining people would be drawn from other large and small schools. They would try to put together a wizard team.

But as for the arrival time of the personnel... the liaison hesitated. She only said that the school was now treating the Kingdom of Amir as a 'war' and attaching great importance to it.

Therefore, the White Chess School would discuss with the Black Abyss School to postpone Roland's conscription order—but the Black Abyss was also short of people now and had important things to use people for. Especially apprentices with abilities like Roland were key conscription targets, so the two schools would have to argue about this.

As for the batch of people who came to support, although it had been decided which tower and which school's quota it would be, the specific personnel had not yet been decided—there were no people! They would have to argue.

Therefore, they had to draw people from other 'projects'... The people in charge all said their things were like the sky was falling. There would inevitably be another round of arguing.

So it was definitely not certain within a few days.

She tentatively asked Roland if he could wait until a week later, when a batch of people could return from the conscription order.

Roland directly told her to get lost. Then he covered the crystal ball.

"I am really convinced... It seems that the amount of embellishment I added was not big enough."

Roland thought to himself: 'The situation between the Twilight and White Chess Councils is becoming increasingly tense.'

Roland could only wait for this matter. He definitely couldn't leave. If he left here, he would have to be transferred to the other side—most likely to those places that were preparing for war.

When the fiefdom is granted, Roland won't be able to escape anyway.

Therefore, he has to stay in the Kingdom of Amil obediently.

'Speaking of which, the master of this Crab Eye Elephant Tower is the father of King Amil. However, not many people know about this illegitimate child. The Tower Master is ashamed of this, so few people in the kingdom know about it, and King Alfonso doesn't dare to talk nonsense either.'

Not only are there few people in the kingdom who know about it, but there are also not many people in the academy who know about it.

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But in the upper levels of the academy, there is still some gossip.

'Senior sister is really a big mouth, telling me other people's secrets.'

Roland felt that the senior sister wasn't gossiping, but that she had collected a lot of people's secrets and was trying hard to find leverage over various people.

Shaking his head, Roland got up.

'The baron and the others have more severe infection symptoms than me, but they are also mildly infected. I didn't drink the potion yesterday, but they all drank a bowl of diluted potion. Another night's sleep should be enough.'

Roland went out.

It was already broad daylight, but the house was dim. Ghostly fog filled the outside of the window, making it impossible to tell whether it was day or night.

The house was very quiet, with only Amber walking around blindly with her eyes covered.

The others didn't dare to leave the house without Roland's order.

Roland pulled the restless little girl to his side and checked her body.

After confirming that she was fine, he took off her blindfold. Then he went to the baron's and the others' rooms to check on them.

He checked them one by one, letting them out of the house if they were okay. Basically, everyone was fine, except for one scholar who still had a small amount of crystals in his body. His recovery was worse than the others.

Roland carefully inquired and found that the only difference between this scholar and the others was that he hadn't eaten the sour sacrificial cake last night.

The scholar was very stubborn. He insisted that the idea that 'the Crystal Princess doesn't like sour things' was a crazy theory. So he stuck to his truth and didn't eat the sacrificial cake.

In fact, the baron and the others thought the same way, but they were forced by Roland's authority to obey.

And Roland, he actually thought the same way as everyone else.

But now he was confused.

He showed the scholar the situation of these ten or so people on the crystal ball. The scholar was also dumbfounded after seeing it.

The baron and the others were also stunned after seeing it.

The scholar completely broke down. His worldview shattered, and he kept muttering while clutching his hair: "How is it possible? How is it possible? Could it be that the Crystal Princess doesn't like sour things?"

Another scholar interrupted, "No, Daniel. It has nothing to do with the Crystal Princess. In fact, there is no Crystal Princess at all—according to Archmage Roland's theory, it's the rainbow, so the rainbow doesn't like sour things."

Everyone nodded in agreement, looking at Roland with admiration and saying, "Master, why doesn't the rainbow like sour things?"

"Stop! Don't ask, don't say anymore!"

Roland was not feeling well at all. The shock in his heart was even stronger than that of the scholar Daniel.

Because he had drunk real potions—which were terribly sour!

The potion is sour, and it has miraculous effects!

The sacrificial cake is also sour, and it has effects!

So, the rainbow doesn't like sour things?

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Roland suddenly shook his head, shaking off the messy thoughts in his mind.

You can't think about these things randomly, it's too sanity-draining and easily leads to mental illness!

He told everyone to shut up and asked, "Do you know Mr. Augustus?"

Mentioning this name, everyone showed strange expressions. They looked at each other, and one scholar said, "He was once the most remarkable scholar in our country. He was also once our court wizard."

The king at that time was not Alfonso, but his mother. That is, the mistress of the White Chess Tower Master.

Augustus was then a university scholar in the court and was highly valued by the Queen of the Kingdom of Amil.

He had been studying the Crystal Princess Disease plague. At that time, the White Chess Wizards would also send a wizard to specifically treat the plague here, and the two were very familiar.

Although Augustus didn't understand magic and wasn't a court wizard, but a university scholar, the White Chess Wizards liked this kind of person instead. Because they wouldn't talk nonsense about magic, and they got along quite well when discussing knowledge alone.

Therefore, Augustus and that wizard could be considered good friends. They both had the ideal of completely eradicating the Crystal Princess Disease.

Although the two sides often had some disagreements, the overall cooperation was very pleasant. In those years, although the Crystal Princess Disease did not erupt, it could always be controlled within a very small range.

Later, that wizard died of the Crystal Princess Disease, and the White Chess Academy sent a new wizard. The differences between the two sides became greater and greater.

But one day, Augustus suddenly ran away, and the White Chess Academy suddenly ordered the arrest of Augustus.

It is said that it was because Augustus stole the things of the deceased White Chess Wizard and secretly studied black magic without permission.

The truth is unknown, but Amber doesn't believe that her grandfather would steal things.

Roland didn't believe it either. Because in Augustus's notes, there would often be such a paragraph—Gale, my old friend, you are wrong.

Augustus's magic books did come from that White Chess Wizard, but they should have been given to him by that White Chess Wizard before he died.

As for why the White Chess Academy arrested him, Roland found it very strange.

He evilly speculated: 'Grandpa Augustus, wouldn't he be having an affair with that queen? Wouldn't he be wearing a green hat for that White Chess Tower Master?'

'That White Chess Tower Master doesn't come even once in many years, only occasionally calling the queen to the academy. The queen is all alone, lonely to death, it is possible that he is wearing a green hat.'

Roland was very dissatisfied with the White Chess Academy. If they hadn't messed around, and let Grandpa Augustus handle this matter properly, how would he be trapped here, waiting to become a Crystal Princess?

He was about to run out of potions, and he didn't dare to leave, fearing that he would bring the Rainbow Disease out. He could only study the sacrificial cake, eat it and see. Regardless of whether the rainbow likes sour things, from the results, this thing is useful for mildly infected patients.

He said to everyone: "That sacrificial cake is a low-profile version of the treatment drug improved by your great scholar with reference to the potion formula of the White Chess Academy. Although the effect is very weak, it is simple to make and cheap, so study it well and promote it... It can play a role in controlling the spread of Rainbow Disease to some extent."

After hearing this, everyone's faces were very wonderful. Could it be that those wild ways of the Raven Society have really come up with a treatment plan?

How is this possible? They are clearly all crooked tricks.

However, what happened yesterday repeatedly appeared in everyone's minds.

Roland said solemnly: "Everyone, what we are facing now is not a disease at all, but mystery. Our existing magic theory cannot explain Rainbow Disease. We can only explore its mysteries step by step through practice. Augustus has been practicing for decades, and he has already explored a path."

Next, everyone discussed new decisions. When the baron and the scholars followed Roland out of the gate, the baron and others felt mixed emotions in their hearts.

Scholar Augustus and his Raven Magic Enthusiasts Association should be rehabilitated. But can they be rehabilitated?

This Raven Society was actually secretly supported by King Alfonso's mother. His Majesty King Alfonso can't wait to secretly cultivate them. Why would he be willing to arrest them?

Therefore, it is not the king who wants to arrest them, nor is it these nobles and scholars. It's the wizard masters. Who can control the wizard masters?

What is that White Chess Council to their small kingdom? That is a holy land, and that White Queen is a god in the holy land!

In some remote areas, they even build churches for the White Queen, offering statues.

The baron said to Roland: "Master, do you really not need us to go with you to see King Alfonso?"