I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

The Dawn Society believed that if Coleridge advanced to become a Son of Purity or something like that, they could still deal with him.

Because the 'Pure Spore Angel', although the most terrifying of the Three Mad Gods, was the eldest.

But She wasn't the maddest; She reasoned. As long as you gave Her a mirror to clean or got Her a carpet, She would clean there.

Maybe after finishing the work, She would be happy and just leave.

But the 'Merciful Foolish Saintess' was different. Things of this divine lineage were the maddest and most unpredictable.

So, if Coleridge evolved into a 'Son of Foolishness', they could only pray.

However, Catherine, in the name of the 'Mystery Department', offered a 'choir' plan.

She even found a hymn that seemed like a fairy tale, and believed it should be effective.

As long as Coleridge could be quiet for a while after descending, and didn't immediately turn all the weak in the city into strange things like coral or seaweed, and then instantly eat them to increase his power, then everything would be easy.

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted.

— "An anchoring fluctuation from another dimension has been detected! Landing time is three minutes later, the number is six!"

— "Our interference matrix is in effect, and the 'Otherworld Envoy' is expected to land at the predetermined location in fifteen minutes!"

— "Logistics personnel evacuate immediately!"

The people on the seventh floor immediately left or stayed as needed.

The expressions of Catherine and others became extremely serious.

Catherine said, "How many city personnel have been evacuated?"

Williams shook his head and said, "The situation is not optimistic. The people here have not encountered any disasters. So far, the people in the city have just started to move. Many people are still packing their money. It's very chaotic."

Catherine sighed.

It's been several hours? The first batch of people hasn't even left yet!

If it were the Eastern Territory, after issuing the notice, the people in the city would have almost run away in half an hour!

Johnson coldly said, "Hmph, I'm curious what that guy Coleridge wants to turn himself into after painstakingly eating my good student."

Everyone's expressions varied.

On this path of wizards, everyone was used to seeing people come and go.

But this time, it was a little difficult to accept.

After so many years, it was not easy to have such a good student, but he was eaten by a traitor from another dimension.

That kid's strength, placed in the entire Black Abyss, could also rank in the top twenty. He had some resemblance to 'Usak's little brat'.

In comparison, Roland, this kid, although he hasn't been immersed as long as Usak, he has more potential.

In less than thirty years, he might surpass Usak.

And in three hundred years, he might step into the stars.

Unfortunately, such a rising star encountered Coleridge.

Although Coleridge, in the eyes of Johnson and other old guys, was only a student, his true strength was probably no less than that of the old stick. It was close to Catherine, who had not yet recovered her strength.

Placed in the old Black Abyss on Vermick's side, he could definitely rank in the top five.

Although he, like everyone else, had destroyed the treasures in his hands, he had the Soul-Stealing Holy Spirit.

Although those six Soul-Stealing Holy Spirits were almost drained, together, they were no less than a 'Mysterious Treasure' of the mysterious side.

It was just a matter of moving his fingers to deal with a newcomer who had just entered the second stage.

The eldest lady said before that Roland had two secret treasures in his hand. But that little hammer chisel of 'Duncan' was just a broken thing used to repair god statues. It was very useful for dealing with low-level wizards. It was useless against old Black Abyss like Coleridge.

And that 'Dirge' had not yet been truly cast, and it was entirely relying on Heraka's mysterious power to function.

Although in terms of ability, it could be compared to a small top-quality product. But it was a tender embryo.

If you really pointed to this sword, both people and treasures would be shattered.

The only hope everyone had now was Anna and Diana.

Little Anna's strength was still good. Wearing the pseudo-holy armor that Williams gave to Roland, she could barely support it.

Diana's strength was also good in the early stage of the second stage. She was at the same level as that little girl Wendy Shaw.

But relying on the three of them alone was not enough.

Even if Isabella was added, it would be in vain—her strength was far inferior to Anna. If Anna was fully armed, even Brian would have a headache.

So, the only breakthrough point was on Brian and Florence!

If Brian found a way to prevent everyone from being controlled by the Soul-Stealing Holy Spirit, then with Florence's strength, even if Coleridge had the power of the Soul-Stealing Holy Spirit, he would not be able to do anything to them in a short time.

In this way, Roland and the others might still have a glimmer of hope.

At this moment, the old stick in the crowd suddenly had an epileptic seizure.

He pointed at the compass in his hand, constantly signaling everyone to look quickly.

That compass was used to detect the power fluctuations of the 'Otherworld Envoy'.

With a simple deduction, it was possible to assess the strength of each person.

The people nearby hurriedly gathered around to take a look.

From the display above, the fluctuations of the two strongest people among the six were extremely similar to the power fluctuations of Florence and Brian.

This showed that Coleridge was not inside!

Johnson said in surprise, "I knew that kid was lucky! He's not a short-lived ghost!"

Williams looked at the compass and said with a solemn expression, "Johnson, you're rejoicing too early. The situation is a bit wrong."

Everyone found that the display of the compass was indeed a bit abnormal.

Sometimes it showed the power fluctuations of six people, sometimes it showed the power fluctuations of one person. Sometimes it showed the power fluctuations of tens of thousands of people.

When displaying the power fluctuations of six people, the situation was very consistent with the power fluctuations of Roland and the other six.

When displaying the power fluctuations of one person, it was at the level of a demigod.

When displaying the power fluctuations of tens of thousands of people, it was the same as the Soul-Stealing Holy Spirit.

Everyone's expressions couldn't help but become strange.

Were these six Soul-Stealing Holy Spirits?

Williams said with a strange expression, "From the situation, Coleridge should not have ignited the divine fire. He used the Soul-Stealing Holy Spirit to steal the shadows of Roland and the others, and then brought six Soul-Stealing Holy Spirits back.

So sometimes it shows the power fluctuations of a demigod, sometimes it's six people, sometimes it's tens of thousands of people.

Therefore, it should be Coleridge who brought six Soul-Stealing Holy Spirits back.

But where is Coleridge? Where is he?"

Johnson looked at the array in the distance and said with a solemn expression, "Stop studying it for now, it's coming soon. We'll know when it comes."

Everyone immediately steadied their minds and prepared for battle.

Half a minute later, an abstract non-Euclidean geometric object suddenly appeared on the seventh floor. It expanded to a range of more than three meters high and more than three meters wide, revealing a strange thing.

Seeing that strange phantom, everyone's expressions suddenly changed slightly.

Afterwards, everyone showed extremely strange expressions again.

After looking closer, everyone felt a darkness in front of their eyes.

It was Roland and the other six.

They were arranged in two rows, one above the other.

The bottom row, from left to right, consisted of Anna, Roland, and Isabella, the three strongest people, holding hands.

And on their necks, from left to right, rode Diana, Florence, and Brian, also holding hands.

The six people simply hugged together in a strange way.

From the display of the compass, it was six people.

Looking at everyone's extremely strange expressions, Roland squeezed out a stiff smile.

He should have successfully spat out the others.

But from the feeling, he had six arms, six legs, and six heads.

Roland didn't know how strange he looked in everyone's eyes now, but he felt that he could somewhat 'guess right'—probably like a centipede.

Anna suddenly coughed, breaking the silence. She said, "We, we just have our arms stuck and can't let go, we haven't turned into anything strange."

Roland hurriedly pinched her butt hard and said, "Catherine, we seem to be contaminated by Coleridge."

Hearing this, everyone's expressions became very interesting.

Everyone thought that these six guys should have been in a decisive battle, because of some very outrageous reason, they had to hug together like this to perform some strange mysterious magic ritual.

Well... mysterious magic rituals are all strange.

Although they had never seen such an outrageous way of performing it, it couldn't be said that there wasn't, right?

So, everyone thought that these six people were just hugging normally.

But now Roland said that they were contaminated and couldn't separate.

Everyone's expressions couldn't help but become serious.

Catherine asked, "What exactly is going on?"

Roland coughed and said, "Let's find a place to sit first."

He looked at the surrounding mirrors and said, "It's creepy here with all the shadows, it's uncomfortable to look at."

Everyone made arrangements and then brought Roland and the others into room 707.

Upon entering, Roland and the six of them were dumbfounded.

Room 707 and the several rooms next door had been opened up and transformed into a strange small library.

There were no mirrors here.

From the area, probably only this one room and a toilet were left on the entire seventh floor.

It was inconvenient for Roland and the others to sit now, so someone went to get a large sofa.

So, Roland didn't immediately answer Catherine's question, and deliberately brought up other topics, asking about what had happened here.

On the surface, he was inquiring about the situation here, but in reality, he was communicating with Brianna and the others in his mind.

Some things were not suitable for too many people to know, and had to be discussed in private.

— In the secret communication, Brianna initially felt that there was nothing that couldn't be said, but after listening to Roland's words, she felt that Roland had a point.

The matter of Kohler successfully igniting the divine fire was not suitable for too many people to know.

After all, this was a shortcut to becoming a god. If someone knew that this method could really succeed, some people would have ideas.

In addition, the future of that twisted evil holy son in the parallel world did indeed have a bit of a doomsday feel to it, and if it spread, it would cause panic.

If it were in the Eastern Territory, it wouldn't matter.

Because in the eyes of the people in the Eastern Territory, the laws of this world were already collapsing, cultivation itself was problematic, and 'divine disasters' like this had occurred more than once or twice.

Therefore, after everyone knew about the 'twisted evil holy son,' it was like being bitten by too many lice—one doesn't feel itchy anymore.

After all, the essence of the matter was that some warlocks advanced too quickly and took too many shortcuts, leading to this.

By taking relevant preventive measures, this problem could be largely resolved.

But the Southern Territory, with its churches, was different. The people of the church were flowers grown in a greenhouse, and they acted particularly extreme. They would overreact after learning about this kind of news.

Therefore, the matter of Kohler taking a shortcut to successfully ignite the divine fire could not be spread around.

The existence of a twisted evil holy son in a parallel world, who reached out and destroyed Kohler, could not be spread around either.

In addition, Roland solemnly reminded everyone—to call him Lawrence, not Roland.

There were many outsiders present.

Upon hearing this reminder, the others thought, 'I almost forgot about that.'

But Isabella's thought was, 'Does the matter of Lawrence being reincarnated as Roland still need to be kept secret?'

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She still regarded Roland as her husband!

While everyone was communicating in secret, the large sofa was brought in.

Catherine even personally made tea, coffee, and alcoholic beverages for everyone.

When everyone saw the drinks, they immediately felt thirsty. After drinking some water, Brianna took the lead and briefly explained the situation, avoiding the important points.

Brianna did not publicly say that Kohler had successfully ignited the divine fire. Instead, she said that Kohler had tried to ignite the divine fire but failed.

Because Kohler had failed to ignite the divine fire, Roland took the opportunity to extract everyone from the Mind-Stealing Holy Spirit's body, and then the six of them worked together to contain the Mind-Stealing Holy Spirit and defeat Kohler.

According to Brianna's explanation, Roland had a mystical magical method that could gather the power of six people together.

It was like the 'Crab Eye Array.'

Therefore, they were now forming a proper magic array.

The others nodded in agreement, emphasizing the magic array and stating that it was a proper magic array.

But Catherine and the others didn't seem to care about this matter.

Many old Dark Abyss members, upon hearing that Roland and Kohler had fought in the church for so long and ultimately forced him to try igniting the divine fire, gave Roland a deep look.

Especially Catherine. She believed that if it were her, she would probably be the same—Roland could gather everyone's power and forcibly elevate them to the demigod level, just like how she and Anna could merge.

How many years had it been?!

Her former apprentice was already about to surpass her!

In another two years, wouldn't he be firmly pressing down on her?

Shaking her head, Catherine sighed and said, "It's good that you're back."

To be honest, Catherine was quite worried, but as the leader, she couldn't consider things from the perspective of a fiancée when faced with major events.

But now that things had settled down, she began to feel scared.

Despite the fear, it didn't delay her work—she picked up her teacup and took a sip, quietly winking at the people around her.

At this moment, Roland and the others were still narrating the events. Suddenly, more than a dozen tall and strong guys rushed over, and forcibly pulled apart Roland and the others, who were holding each other.

It turned out that while Roland and the others were talking, the old Dark Abyss members had arranged for their students to stand behind Roland and the others, pretending to talk to the old Dark Abyss members.

After Catherine gave the signal, everyone rushed up, pressed Roland and the others down, and put on the 'God-Binding Clothes.'

Immediately afterward, the large sofa also turned into a V-shaped frame.

Seeing this scene, Roland and the others were filled with black question marks.

Catherine sneered, "Kohler, are you still going to pretend?"

As soon as these words came out, Roland and the others were shocked.

Brianna and the others clamored and loudly explained.

Roland was even so angry that he cursed, "Isabella (Catherine), you crazy woman! How heavy is your paranoia! Do you not know whether or not I am Lawrence?!"

Catherine smiled without saying a word.

Amidst the noise, the attention of the six people was diverted. The six people did not notice that they had been separated.

Seeing that the six people had been successfully separated, Catherine couldn't help but smile.

She ignored Roland and looked at Williams.

Catherine said, "Dean Williams, you are still experienced. I thought it was some twisted evil contamination. I didn't expect it to be purely a mental problem, just like you said."

If that's the case, do Lawrence and the others still need to be restrained like this?

You know, the hostage exchange is about to happen. If the Eastern Territory's delegation sees Catherine being treated like this by us, it won't be good."

Williams stroked his beard and said, "Let them go and see, Your Excellency Isabella."

Roland and the others finally understood what was going on.

It turned out that before Roland and the others, after Roland and the others landed, they secretly used various methods to confirm that they were themselves.

And Catherine didn't even bother to confirm it. She directly asked the little spy and knew everything.

She wouldn't mistake Roland.

Therefore, the previous operation was to separate everyone.

Seeing Catherine and the others release the V-shaped frame and the God-Binding Clothes, Roland and the others wiped their cold sweat and breathed a sigh of relief.

Roland and the others chattered, saying that they thought everyone had mistaken them.

As they spoke, they walked together.

Then, Brianna, Florence, and Diana climbed onto the backs of Anna, Roland, and Isabella, riding on their necks.

Roland and the six others: "???"

Catherine and the others in the room: "???"

In the brief silence, a tear slid down from the corner of Florence's eye. She prayed, "Lord, I am guilty. I repent. Do not punish me like this."

Brianna said, "How could this be? Could we really be contaminated by Kohler?"

Roland said in a deep voice, "Contaminated my ass. It's just that my magic is not working properly, but saying it's contamination is also right. Contamination, plus my magic ritual. We've become strange."

After a pause, Roland's face was extremely ugly. He continued, "I knew it. We weren't simply hugging each other—you are all my wings!"

Brianna and the others had an epiphany.

No wonder they couldn't separate!

Instantly, the five of them leaned closer to Roland.

Hearing this, Catherine's face was extremely ugly. She cursed, "Enough, Lawrence! Stop fooling around! The Eastern Territory warlocks' delegation is about to arrive to exchange hostages. You guys are so embarrassing!

At least put Catherine down for me!

The delegation will arrive tomorrow!"

Previously, Roland had been clamoring for Catherine to call her father-in-law to help them clean up the mess.

Catherine said that she couldn't call her father over, but she did tell her mother about the matter.

It just so happened that they needed to hand over the hostages, so the Eastern Territory used this as an excuse to send a delegation.

This delegation was escorting many, many people, so the team was very large.

Not only were there warlocks from the Dark Abyss and Twilight, but also people from White Chess and the Hidden Society—White Chess and the Hidden Society warlocks had a better relationship with the South, so they were the main force of the team.

In addition, there were many Angels of Dawn and people from the church.

The Eastern Territory warlocks had already told these church friends that Wilmik had encountered an 'invasion from another dimension,' which led to the mystical phenomenon of the Mind-Stealing Holy Spirit.

When the big shots of the Dawn Society heard that their old home was on fire, they cooperated very well.

Because it was a hostage exchange, everyone directly used the teleportation array.

The first batch of people would arrive tomorrow.

Although this delegation was actually here to support everyone, the official reason was to exchange hostages. Moreover, there were many, many people in the team who didn't know about the Mind-Stealing Holy Spirit.

It was also inconvenient to let them know.

Those who knew about the Mind-Stealing Holy Spirit were fine. When they saw Roland and the others in this state, they would think that they were the aftereffects of being contaminated by the twisted evil, so it wouldn't be very embarrassing. On the contrary, it was an honor.

But this kind of thing couldn't be explained to others.

Therefore, everyone would suffer a great negative public opinion impact.

To put it bluntly, everyone would have to suffer social death with Roland and the others!

If Roland and the others had really become like this because of contamination, Catherine and the others wouldn't say, 'You guys are so embarrassing.'

But now, they obviously didn't have any problems. They were purely acting crazy.

What was even more infuriating was that the six of them were about to get better, but Roland was talking nonsense, lowering everyone's SAN value again.

Catherine was about to explode with anger.

With a wave of her hand, a throng of strong knights, clerics, and nuns surged forward, attempting to forcibly separate the six individuals.

Instantly, the room descended into chaos.

— "No, no! Don't pull so hard!"

— "Stop it, Isabella! They are my wings!"

No matter how strong the knights, clerics, and nuns were, they couldn't match the combined strength of Roland and the others.

They would barely manage to pull the six apart, only for them to cling to each other again.

Seeing this, they dared not use brute force and cautiously looked towards Catherine and Williams.

Catherine massaged her forehead.

Williams shook his head and said, "Let's stick with conservative treatment."

Catherine looked up and asked, "How long? Williams, you know that. We can delay the envoy, but you also know that something happened in Marode. I plan to go there soon."

Williams replied, "They've just experienced a tsunami. Even if you take people there now, you won't be able to investigate anything. Besides, the situation there hasn't just arisen in the last day or two. It wouldn't matter if it was delayed by a few more years."

Catherine's expression stiffened slightly. "Will Lawrence's illness take years to cure?"

Williams said, "Hard to say, depends on when you think he can go back to work. If we're talking about a complete cure, it would be good if he was healed within a few years."

Upon hearing this, not only Catherine, but also Roland and the others' expressions turned extremely grim.

Williams smiled reassuringly, "Don't worry, it's just some after-effects. I'll prepare some medicine, and you can take it for a few years."

Florence and the others felt a sense of despair. If they had to hug Roland like this every day, what would they do when they needed to bathe or relieve themselves?

Roland cursed inwardly, 'I told them it's not a mental problem, but they don't believe me! I don't need your useless medicine. I'll use the Quiz Machine later to study it carefully and see how to solve this.'

As for tonight, Roland looked at the wailing beauties beside him and thought to himself, 'I guess we'll just have to sleep together tonight.'