I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

“The Comber Army is now all in this crystalline state. Doesn't that mean everyone in the Royal City is a crystal person?!”

Alfonso lamented, “Yes! I'm worried to death. It's wonderful that you can stay and work with the scholars of the White Tower to deal with this matter. To be honest, I don't trust anyone now except you!”

This time, Alfonso was adamant that his big brother Roland could not leave.

This big brother just reached out and took out a pile of curiosities and a pile of secret manuals from various schools. No matter who White Chess sends next, he feels that no one will be as powerful as Roland!

Moreover, this brother Roland is a wizard of the Black Abyss Snake Tower and understands mysteries.

Now there is really hope!

Alfonso had hope, but Roland was dumbfounded.

He thought this matter was just about going to the 'Royal City' to ring a bell and help Amber solve a mystery. It wasn't difficult.

But it turned out to be going to 'play cards'!

In Roland's words, the 'jewel basin' of the Royal City was already likely to have problems, and now the Holy Spirits of the Rainbow Goddess have occupied this 'jewel basin'.

Now. The Royal City has really become a jewel basin!

It can't be called 'Royal City' anymore.

It should be renamed.

It should be called 'Rainbow City'!

Or 'Amir's Card Room'.

Roland thought to himself, 'I always feel like someone is going to become an immortal there!'

This matter needs to be discussed at length. I'm afraid I can't handle the affairs there. Let's wait for the official wizards to come over.

At this time, a knight came to report that the battle outside had ended. They had captured some Comber Army prisoners.

In addition, Miss Amber requested the release of all ravens.

King Alfonso immediately stated that he would follow Miss Amber's advice and treat the ravens as scholars.

After the knight left, Alfonso sighed and said to Roland, "Sir, you don't know. Many years ago, there was a great scholar named Augustus in the kingdom. He founded the Raven Society. My mother had been secretly supporting the Raven Society, and after I ascended the throne, I gave it all the resources I could give.

So, this Raven Society is actually the magic guild of our Amir Kingdom. It brings together the most outstanding talents in the entire kingdom!"

The monarchs of the Amir Kingdom for generations have been striving towards the direction of 'Great Wizard Lord'. They hope to obtain sovereignty in the future and gain a small seat in the White Chess Council with a truly dignified status.

The White Chess School has never paid attention to the Raven Society of this small kingdom. The White Chess wizards who came to support in the past often worked well with these local scholars to control the plague.

Therefore, in recent decades, the Crystal Princess disease in the kingdom has been well controlled.

But this time, the Crystal Princess disease has broken out somewhat severely. And the wizard sent by the White Chess School has also been replaced.

After inspecting it, he went back and wrote a report. He stated that a cult had appeared in the Amir Kingdom. He believed that the Raven Society was the mastermind behind the Crystal Princess disease.

That White Chess wizard and the head of the admissions office 'Benjamin' of the Black Abyss were of the same kind. He was an extreme bloodline theorist wizard and a hypocrite who would do anything to get to the top.

Regarding his report, there was a long debate within the school. The bloodline theorist wizards insisted on exterminating the Raven Society.

They also wanted to suppress this small country that wanted to emerge.

Of course, the school did not adopt this extreme strategy, but it still conservatively ordered the kingdom to arrest and investigate the Raven Society. After the evidence was conclusive, they would discuss it further.

Wizards are authority. Whoever they say is wrong has a problem.

As soon as this order came out, the Raven Society became a cult organized by wild wizards from the countryside. Its original good reputation immediately plummeted among the nobles.

In order to protect himself, Alfonso had to sever ties with the Raven Society and arrest all the Raven Society members he had secretly supported.

When he fled from the Royal City, how could he be willing to leave the ravens in the Royal City? Naturally, he brought them all out under the name of 'criminals wanted by the White Chess School'.

Now, the White Chess School still believes that the Raven Society is an evil organization among wild wizards. If Alfonso releases them, he will be dealt with by the school.

But the Amir Kingdom has reached a critical moment of life and death, and he can't care so much now.

Roland got up and said, "It's a small matter. You can push this matter to me. Let's go and see the prisoners. I need to understand the 'jewel basin'. By the way, see if I can do some experiments to cure the rainbow on my body."

Alfonso was overjoyed. He thanked his big brother Roland again excitedly.

Whether the Raven Society is evil is not important. What is important is whether the Amir Kingdom is obedient. So, if the king orders his subordinates to expose the ravens, then even if the Raven Society is rehabilitated later, he will be punished.

But Roland is different. He is from the Black Abyss!

He doesn't need to pay attention to the rules of the White Chess School at all.

Black Abyss wizards have always been domineering. Now, this Black Abyss wizard, in the name of a special envoy of the White Chess School, orders the king to release the Raven Society. Then the king's release of the Raven Society is not a decision made without authorization, but is acting in the name of the special envoy.

The White Chess School can't find fault with Roland about this matter. If this lawsuit is taken to the Black Abyss, the Black Abyss wizards will not pay attention to them—serves you right, who told you to borrow people from us? Our people do things like this.

Soon, Roland and the king and his party arrived at the dungeon.

There were many Comber Army prisoners in the dungeon. Palace wizards were helping the knights interrogate six of the Comber Army prisoners. Some nobles and scholars were also joining in the fun.

The nobles all had official positions and were also the kingdom's staff and think tanks. They needed to ask some important information from the Comber Army.

The scholars wanted to take this opportunity to understand the crystal disease.

The wizards had just given a prisoner truth serum, but it had no effect. Instead, it made the prisoners even more arrogant.

They felt that they were the Holy Spirits of the Crystal again. Each of them was very tough-mouthed, repeatedly saying 'Crystal King' and narrating doomsday rhetoric. Frightening everyone's faces pale.

After listening, Roland rolled his eyes.

Still Crystal King... That's the Rainbow Goddess!

Fairies, you're all worshiping the wrong person, still bragging here.

He pushed away the few obstructive nobles in front of him, took out his magic wand, and came to the prisoners of the Comber Army.

The prisoners had all seen this great evil god who drove the red-skinned little evil god on the battlefield. As soon as they saw him, their faces immediately turned pale.

One prisoner was stubborn and opened his mouth to say something, but before he could utter a few words, he saw Roland point at him with his finger, and then the prisoner turned into a pile of mud.

Roland flicked his magic wand, and the soul in the mud was hooked out by him.

A sweet honey scent immediately permeated the large prison.

What kind of dark magic is this? How can it turn people into honeycombs?

After looking at the honeycomb on the ground that was constantly flying out of bees, one of the palace wizards in charge of studying the prisoners immediately dropped his pen and grabbed his hair, feeling that his whole person was not well.

The prisoners' reactions were even worse, shaking all over. They still believed that they were holy spirits, but this person was an evil god!

They scrambled to confess the truth, but the black wizard used a 'gagging spell' to sew up all their mouths.

Roland said, "You are blessed."

After speaking, he began to experiment with various necromancer tricks, extracting souls and refining spirits from these so-called 'holy spirits' one by one.

The prison was immediately filled with ghosts, and miserable souls flew around trying to escape, but there were invisible chains that pulled them to Roland's side.

The living prisoners and the dead souls wailed miserably, begging bitterly. Soon, they discovered one thing.

The black wizard coldly waved his magic wand, not wanting to listen to any of their confessions at all. His idea was very pure, which was to torture them. Torture them to death.

He worked mechanically, as if the people in front of him were not people, but screws that he was tightening.

Now, not only the Comber Army prisoners, but even the nobles in the prison could not stand it anymore.

Everyone now completely understood who was the real evil demon.

Roland was not torturing people for pleasure, but necromancy was like this. He needed to turn these people into more obedient ghosts, so he had to kill them.

Besides, these people deserved it. They don't know how many people they killed along the way.

As the shepherd of Heraka, these sinful souls will suffer less in the Styx if they suffer more in his hands. So it is their blessing that they can meet him today.

This is the logic in Roland's heart—you are all blessed!

When Roland slowly came to the last prisoner, the Comber Army's buttocks were already covered with strange crystals. The whole person was paralyzed there.

Roland nodded with interest and said, "After turning into crystals, they can still be incontinent. What an interesting creature.

You guys collect these liquids and take this living sample for experiments.

It's a pity that these things are not easy to carry, otherwise, if I send some to Mentor Usak, he will definitely like it."

The palace wizards understood that this guy didn't treat the Comber Army as human beings at all, but as 'living samples'.

The wizards and scholars who were named greeted a few knights and took the people away. A group of people fled the dark prison as if they were escaping.

King Alfonso hurriedly had the knights clean up a room and followed Roland to ask the ghosts about the situation.

For a necromancer, it was too easy to make people, whether living or dead, tell the truth.

If they were alive, he could simply kill them first, then use necromantic magic to make them explain everything in detail.

If they were dead, he could just skip to the second step.

The ghosts were all very honest. Roland didn't even need to use any necromantic spells; they just spilled everything they knew like pouring beans.

King Alfonso and the nobles also added a lot of information from the side.

The Kingdom of Amir might not even be as large as a prefecture in ancient China.

To put it bluntly, the wars here were just village-to-village brawls. Alfonso's fully armored cavalry was simply a god-like force engaging in asymmetric warfare in this kingdom.

Normally, King Alfonso's armored cavalry, plus the lords' private armies, could easily deal with rebellious forces like the Comb Army.

But this year, the Crystal Princess Disease was spreading everywhere, causing severe problems. Forget about drawing men from the lords in various regions; many lords had even died from the disease. So, the king couldn't muster many troops at all.

Conversely, the situation was completely opposite for the Comb Army. The more severe the plague, the more people there were.

With this ebb and flow, there was naturally no way to fight.

Although Alfonso's cavalry was powerful, they couldn't even make a ripple against the tide-like Comb Army.

So, before the battle even started, Alfonso knew he was doomed to lose. He simply didn't send any troops north.

The Comb Army in the north simply couldn't be suppressed.

They brought the plague all the way south, like a snowball, growing larger and larger, unstoppable.

In addition, the Crystal Princess Disease in the royal city was already showing signs of being uncontrollable. Therefore, after the Comb Army gathered and moved south, King Alfonso packed his valuables early and fled with his men.

Many of the kingdom's main forces were originally stationed in the royal city. But in the past two days, they had also fled back.

After learning of the fall of the royal city, Alfonso was shocked. He was studying how to gather his troops and organize the southern defenses when the Comb Army infiltrated Green Lake Manor among the refugees.

Green Lake Manor was a manor built by a wizard, as secretive as the Wizard Market. Moreover, it wasn't on any map in the kingdom.

Without a court wizard to lead the way, even the king couldn't find it. So, it was a very secret and excellent shelter.

Logically speaking, the Comb Army shouldn't have been able to find it—the problem lay with those 'refugee relief stations'.

There were some informants from the Comb Army among the refugees. After discovering that there were many relief stations nearby, they determined that there were wealthy people here. And very wealthy people.

The Comb Army was searching for the king everywhere, knowing that he had brought a lot of treasure. After the leaders learned of this news, two of them personally led a thousand elites to search for it.

It's a bit embarrassing to say, but after these two wizard leaders arrived nearby with their men, they couldn't find Green Lake Manor.

After wandering around for a long time without results, the Comb Army was very unwilling. Based on the principle of 'a thief doesn't leave empty-handed', they burned to death the people in several nearby villages while looking for the road. A few of them were 'burned into their own people'.

As a result, after some new people joined the team, they unexpectedly learned the way to enter the manor from these newcomers.

Relying on these locals, they bypassed the defenses and entered the manor.

Hearing this, the faces of King Alfonso and the others immediately turned very ugly. This Green Lake Manor was built by White Chess Wizards with the help of Alfonso's father. If you didn't understand the key, you couldn't get in.

In the past, although some villagers who secretly collected herbs were occasionally found in the forest near the manor, they were all thought to have stumbled in by mistake.

Who knew that these idle villagers who had lived nearby for a long time had already figured out the maze set up by the wizards after continuous exploration.

Roland stroked his chin and muttered to himself: "People turn into crystal people after being burned? So, the Rainbow Lady hates sour things and likes burning glass?"

The crowd on the side: "..."

It seemed that people suffering from the Crystal Princess Disease had a chance to be resurrected as crystal people after being cremated.

These prisoners didn't know how many Comb Army soldiers were in the gem basin now. It wasn't that they didn't want to say, but they couldn't count clearly once the number exceeded 10.

The wizards in the Comb Army could count, but they couldn't count how many people they had. The Comb Army was now spreading everywhere like a plague. Whoever they came into contact with became a member of the Comb Army.

In addition, their internal management was very chaotic, so no one knew where anyone was or how many people there were.

However, the leaders of the Comb Army had recently issued a new order: all members of the Comb Army must return to 'Crystal City'. That was the royal city they had recently captured.

They were going to welcome the 'Crystal King, Old John' in 'Crystal City'.

Hearing this, Roland showed a look of confusion: "Crystal King? Old John?"