I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

Here was the deepest level of the ruins. In the main hall where Roland was, there were many corpses of magic insects killed by lightning, holy blood magic, and Hecate necromancy.

Theresa and the others in the distance were manipulating many magic insect wraiths, collecting the thick flesh from the walls of the hall, while Diana was cleaning some of the stone tablets in the hall.

Diana seemed very afraid of this flesh. However, with her courage, she was afraid of everything.

She cleaned the flesh while crying, and occasionally vomited.

Even more speechless was that this guy was using apprentice magic to clean the stone tablets. Because she didn't clean them thoroughly, she occasionally used a small iron ruler to scrape the flesh off the stone tablets.

Roland ignored this lunatic.

He looked at the flesh everywhere in the hall, and thought to himself: 'Aurelia has clearly been here before. It is impossible for her not to clean this place up. And her magic leaves no organic matter behind.

But not only are there many magic insects here, but the hall is also covered in flesh. What's even stranger is that in some large meat tumors that seem to be beating like hearts, 'small' worms are constantly drilling out.'

Compared to adult magic insects, these larvae were very small. But they were still more than half a person tall.

Although this place was located in the center of the pyramid, there was still a significant amount of radiation. Many larvae withered shortly after being born and clearly wouldn't live long.

However, a small portion of the larvae were vigorous and unaffected by the radiation.

Roland used 'Wizard's Hand' to pick up a larva and found that they were much smaller than ordinary larvae, but they had an extra layer of metal crystalline shell.

Moreover, their bodies were denser, and their vitality and magic resistance were also higher.

Roland looked at the surrounding corpses and thought to himself: 'These magic insects all flew in after the aurora appeared. They came to this shelter for only one purpose: to reproduce.'

Roland then looked at the small larva struggling in mid-air in front of him, his expression becoming somewhat solemn.

'This is only the first few batches, and they are already adapting to the radiation? If they are given a few months, then Aurelia's next judgment will probably not be able to completely kill them.'

Theresa walked over at this time and said, "Master, that flesh has all just grown out. We found some unseen magic insects and deformed magic insect corpses inside."

As she spoke, Theresa pointed to a wall in the distance.

Roland followed her over to observe.

On that wall, there were several huge magic insects. Their bodies were twice as large as second-tier magic insects, and their magic power was also very high. However, the offensive organs on their bodies had all degenerated.

Moreover, they looked very clumsy and were not suitable for combat.

But their glands and digestive organs were unusually developed.

These giant magic insects were connected to each other with tentacles, and their bodies gradually merged together, forming a pattern somewhat similar to a hexagram.

The flesh on the wall was all things that spread out from their bodies.

Some of the flesh had already been cut off the wall by the servants. From the cross-section, there were many things similar to hyphae growing in the flesh. These hyphae-like things were as dense as blood vessels, and all connected to the several large magic insects.

Roland said, "Interesting autonomous mutation, a remarkable magic."

Roland reached out and tore off a piece of flesh, observed it for a while, and then rubbed it with his hand. Then the piece of flesh slowly grew larger and gradually turned into a large bread.

Roland's expression became very interesting.

This flesh was actually like 'magic powder' and could be used to cast spells. They seemed to be an extremely primordial substance.

Theresa said from the side, "Not only is this flesh very strange, but these 'hyphae' are also very strange.

They can transport nutrients like blood vessels, and are extremely magical conductive, a kind of superconducting material. At the same time, they also have the characteristics of neurons, and the signal transmission speed is very fast.

We lack samples of other abyssal creatures, but this hyphae is somewhat similar to some ferns in the Brown Yellow Fern Forest. And these blood threads are also somewhat similar to those 'blood vessels' that spread everywhere in Blood Rot Fortress.

Master, according to some abyssal materials written by the Black Abyss mentors, almost all abyssal species were initially born from the hands of many abyssal evil gods.

We have reason to suspect that this bloodline is hidden in the bodies of many abyssal species.

A certain creature in the garden should have activated them and deeply transformed them."

Roland nodded with a solemn expression and said, "Tukala also has inheritance... In the abyss, there exists a civilization far more advanced than us."

At this time, Diana suddenly spoke, "The abyss was once a paradise. Now, although that so-called Heavenly Lord dominates everything, the abyss is no weaker than heaven.

However, you don't have to belittle yourselves.

The civilization you inherited is no worse than theirs.

Because your inheritance comes from us."

After saying that, Diana suddenly waved her hand. Instantly, the flesh in the entire room flew out like silk being drawn from a cocoon, condensing into strands of bloody silk in Diana's hand.

Those silk threads were like spider silk and like blood-stained hair. They were constantly sent into Roland's snake ring through her hand.

"If this were the real 'Holy Tree', I would never let you touch it, nor would I ever take it. However, these blood holy trees are just right to use. Much better than the blood holy tree described by Wendisa."

In her words, Diana saw Roland looking at herself with a strange gaze.

Diana said, "I am the Holy Son of Hecate, so I naturally know this knowledge and naturally understand his magic."

Roland: "."

Diana said towards the corpses of the several huge magic insects lying on the wall in the distance, "These few must be carefully handled. They are the Mother's 'Divine Feast'. Look carefully near them, and you can probably find a good Philosopher's Stone."

Roland frowned and said, "What are the 'Holy Tree' and 'Blood Holy Tree' you just mentioned?"

Diana said very speechlessly, "You wouldn't have forgotten our previous transaction, would you? Don't you want to make 'Blood Holy Medicine' for Diana and Theresa?"

Roland suddenly remembered this matter.

So, these things are related to the Blood Holy Tree?

Wait, let's not talk about this matter for now. Wait a moment.

Roland suddenly looked at Diana and said, "What did you just say? When did I have a transaction with you?"

Diana rolled her eyes and said, "On the first day you followed Florence into the Holy Hall!

When we were discussing this matter, the Diana outside heard it through the snake ring. Later, she secretly looked for me, hoping to become stronger and help you... That girl is very talented and very strong. It's just that her personality is too cowardly.

What she lacks is not strength, but confidence."

Roland looked Diana up and down for a long time before finally understanding what was going on.

He said, "That was something I discussed with Lady Belinda. You only heard us discussing things in the snake ring from the outside. You are not Lady Belinda."

Diana was stunned and asked, "Then who am I?"

Roland said, "You are Diana."

Diana: "?"

Roland rolled his eyes fiercely. He reached out and took Diana's diary out of the snake ring and stuffed it into Diana's arms.

Diana suspiciously flipped through it, and then suddenly realized. Then she cried and sobbed again, taking the small iron ruler to clean the other stone tablets.

Roland cursed fiercely in his heart. Then he took out his Grimoire of Herbalism.

Roland had never seen the Blood Holy Tree, but Belinda knew a lot about these things. She had already given Roland the information about the Blood Holy Tree, which Roland had recorded in the Grimoire of Herbalism.

According to the content above, Roland compared the Blood Holy Tree in the information with the flesh in the hall. Then Roland was surprised to find that they were not the same thing at all... But they had many things in common.

"Why does Diana think this is the Blood Holy Tree?"

In doubt, Roland came to Diana's side and took out his magic wand to cast a spell near her ear.

Seeing that the master was doing strange things to herself, Diana was very scared.

Roland said fiercely, "Don't move!"

Soon, Roland used the magic wand to pick out some viscous water mist from Diana's ear - this was Diana's memory.

Roland put these water mists into a small bottle and threw them into the snake ring.

Then, Roland controlled the puppet to find a magic basin for observing memories, and threw Diana's memories into the magic basin to spy on them.

As a result, the things in Diana's memory were all trivial matters. There was no useful content at all.

Roland rubbed his eyes speechlessly.

After thinking for a moment, Roland planned to bring Diana into the snake ring to cheat. Considering the safety issue, Roland gave the snake ring to Leona, so that if they encountered a magic insect attack, she could put Theresa and the others away and run away instantly.

After arranging everything, Roland took Diana into the snake ring.

He came to the study and started the 'Question Machine' here, and then used Leona, 'the blood specimen suspected to be the Blood Holy Tree', and the Grimoire of Herbalism that recorded the Blood Holy Tree as a medium to find the answer.

More than ten minutes later, the Question Machine gave the answer.

The so-called Blood Holy Tree is actually a Tree of Life that has been blessed by the Moon God and then desecrated.

As the Tree of Life, it is the source of all things.

People believe that the first life in the world was born in the Holy Tree.

According to the wizards' theories, its sap is a kind of 'super magic powder' that can create creatures with divinity.

Legend has it that the ancient elves were immortal because of the power of the Sacred Tree—these immortal elves were the earliest gods of this world.

The Tree of Life is incomparably sacred. A great demon like the King of Thousand Eyes might be able to consume it directly. However, a small vampire like Belinda would not dare to use its sap to make magic potions indiscriminately.

But a Tree of Life that has already been desecrated is different.

If a vampire were to absorb its sap, it would be like absorbing divine blood!

Belinda was not actually sure if there was a Blood Sacred Tree in this ruin.

However, based on the information sold by the Holy Chant Wizards who participated in the ruin's restoration, Belinda strongly suspected that the god in the ruin was somewhat related to the Moon God.

Moreover, the Church performed so many heaven-defying sacrifices when opening the ruin, coupled with the activities of the cultists, if the god in the ruin had collected any Tree of Life, it would probably have been desecrated.

Therefore, Belinda suggested that Roland look for clues about the Blood Sacred Tree when exploring the ruin.

Belinda guessed correctly, the god in the ruin was indeed related to the Moon God—because His name was Oleria.

However, this Moon God related to her was not a normal heavenly Moon God, but the ancient Moon God, the 'Generous Swollen Fairy'.

In the Dawn Society, He also has a new name—the 'Generous Angel of Dawn'.

So, there really is a Tree of Life here. To be precise, it is a 'Generous Sacred Tree'.

However, this was not bestowed upon Oleria by the ancient Moon God, but stolen from His own mother.

After all, this kind of 'Tree of Life' is the Sacred Tree of world destruction and creation in the 'Garden of Eden' in the Old Testament.

It is the true source of all things!

If the sap of the Tree of Life is a super magic powder, then the sap of the 'Generous Sacred Tree' is a super super magic powder.

In theory, it can create any substance.

Many things in this small world were created by Oleria using the sap of the Sacred Tree.

Including this kingdom.

And the residents here.

She often used this Sacred Tree to cheat for herself. If she couldn't find something, she would just use it.

This world is very large, but the Sacred Tree branches she stole were limited. So she basically used them all up.

The remaining small branches have always been guarded by Tukala.

After Oleria returned this time, Tukala complained to its master, saying that it was bullied every day and failed to protect the branches of the Sacred Tree, which had all been eaten by the magic insects.

The real situation was obviously not like that.

Tukala used up the last Sacred Tree branches to transform the magic insects.

Therefore, the twisted flesh and blood that the great magic insects turned into was the Sacred Tree.

Theresa had said before that the flesh and blood were related to the Evil God.

Now, Roland understood the cause and effect through the quiz machine, and he understood who the Evil God was—it was the Generous Holy Mother who bestowed blood and flesh upon the Holy Son.

Roland's face was very ugly.

The more he understood these things, the more he realized that he might be a monster.

What made Roland even more unable to hold back was that he didn't have much memory of his mother.

In his impression, his father liked to fool around with women. But Roland only had one mother.

His mother was a little foreigner who liked to play with kitchen utensils, liked to clean, and occasionally liked to drink a little wine.

However, in the memories he later obtained when exploring the underworld, he had three mothers.

One liked to play with kitchen utensils, one liked to clean, and one liked to drink a little wine.

Moreover, the eras in the two sets of memories were different! One was modern, and one was the Victorian era!

Roland felt like he was going crazy.

Shaking his head hard, Roland stopped thinking about these things.

He came to the desk in the study and looked for parchment, wanting to see if his senior had any new replies.

At this moment, Roland suddenly noticed that a crystal ball placed on the desk was flickering.

Roland hadn't used this crystal ball for a while, because it was 'Roland's' crystal ball.

Only the old Black Abyss people knew Roland's magic mark.

Judging from the magic mark on the other side, the person contacting him was the old cleric.

Roland thought to himself, 'It seems that the old cleric came with my senior.'

After thinking about it, Roland activated the crystal, but he only projected his body over.

After the crystal ball was activated, Roland saw the scene on the other side.

It seemed to be a secret room in the ruins. The temperature in the secret room was very high, and there were many melted gold and silver. Some charred bones could also be seen vaguely, some human and some monster.

Besides the old cleric, there was also a person dressed as a knight and a person dressed as a priest in the secret room.

These two people were very unfamiliar, not people from Joshua's previous team. Moreover, Roland saw that they were using magic to cool down the secret room.

Probably cultists.

The two men were very respectful to the old cleric, calling him 'Great Prophet'.

Tomorrow's chapter will be released in advance. I will take a day off tomorrow.