I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

Roland hurriedly released his hand in fright.

Mentor Catherine took a few deep breaths, warning herself not to bother with this madman.

Afterward, she explained a few things and then ran to the back mountain to secretly conduct experiments.

If the laws are chaotic, how can one verify it?

If a group of people already live in a chaotic world, treating all strange and illogical things as common sense, how can they discover that the reasonable common sense they believe in is actually unreasonable?

These matters involved many things in the underlying world, and Catherine feared she would go mad if she studied them deeply.

After Catherine left, Roland sat alone in a chair and read a book, beginning to meditate according to the 'previous self's' memories.

The Book of Aleph connects to the underlying world, recording many 'pasts that should not exist'—including the sixteen years Roland lived in Valeria.

And very irrationally, these 'non-existent pasts' were all memories of the future Roland.

Therefore, this was a memory with no source at all!

Normal memories are a line, with a beginning and an end, a source, and actual events that have occurred.

But Roland's memory was not like this; it was a Möbius strip! It had no source; the source was himself!

After reading for a while, Roland felt his memories gradually merging with those of his previous self—in fact, he was recalling memories of the future from the underlying world by reading the book!

He thought these memories were the real past, but in reality, these memories were of Roland decades in the future.

He thought these were all the memories of his previous self... which was also correct, because his previous self was his future self.

After reading for a while, Roland blankly raised his head.

"One day, you wake up from a familiar bed and see a familiar room, but you feel like this isn't your home."

"This isn't even the modern era, but ancient times."

"But you are very, very familiar with this place."

"You repeatedly recall the events of yesterday, only to find that you have two different sets of memories."

"In both sets of memories, you died."

"You are sure you have transmigrated. Because your memories have merged with those of this body, you are very familiar with this place."

"But... why does this body's name have the same pronunciation as yours?!"

"Even the appearance is almost identical..."

"He is called Roland, and you are also called Roland. Only, he has just turned sixteen this year."

"Did I transmigrate into a parallel world's version of myself, or was everything I once experienced just a dream?"

"Zhuang Zhou dreamed of a butterfly; who knows if they are truly a butterfly?"

Suddenly, Roland felt something staring at him. He abruptly raised his head and looked at the sky.

—Pulling the perspective back, Roland in the distance was like entering the event horizon of a black hole, quietly standing still in front of the 'painting'.

At the moment he saw himself, Roland was shocked.

In the moment of eye contact, many thoughts appeared in Roland's mind.

He muttered, "Damn, so I went back to the past?!

This time, I'm awesome!

Although I am only at the level of a trainee apprentice now, I have all the knowledge and rich combat experience!

I know many magic spells, secret techniques, and top-level formulas! I know how to contain various mysteries! I know how to攻略 various BOSSes!

Even if I forget something, I can find the answer by opening a question-answering machine!

Anna will come over tonight, but I know her too well; this time, she is no match for me at all!

My teacher Catherine is even forcing me to advance to a low-level apprentice today, hehe. Before entering the Brown Fern Forest, I can hang her and Anna up and beat them!

By the way, there are many magic potions and secret treasures in the Brown Fern Forest... William's alchemy notes record many of these things. My teachers have truly explored the Brown Fern Forest.

It's just that after their ordeal, all this work was in vain.

I can explore for treasures on their behalf.

And that Blood-Flesh Sacred Tree... That is an ancient elven tree watered with divine blood!

I used to think, can this thing also alchemize sacred fruits? This time, I can try it. This thing can definitely do more than just alchemize sacred fruits!

Last time, I alchemized a Snake Scorpion Beauty in Catherine's bag; this time, I'll alchemize a divine medicine!

Before dueling with Reynold, I can advance to a formal wizard and a first-tier great swordsman!

Hehe, what kind of damn evil god avatar? How many blows can he withstand from the Mad Evil Lightning Halberd?

By the way, my good father-in-law has already completed the closed loop, so this Reynold is actually my father-in-law, but he doesn't know it, so he's going crazy!

Hahaha, when the time comes, I'll make my father-in-law into a specimen and then go to visit my good father-in-law... it will be very interesting.

Also, there is a solution to the ordeal! I heard those old guys discuss it before... After dealing with Reynold, calculate it with the question-answering machine, and it may be possible to directly rescue those old guys in the Brown Fern Forest!

After dealing with the matters of the Brown Fern Forest, I will also take care of the matters of Human-Skin Town, the Land of Ending, the Crystal Kingdom, and the Withered Blood Fortress.

But this time, what I want to take is not just the 'guaranteed rewards' of Godskin, Heraca Coral Shepherd Tree, Amber Crystal, and Leona.

The person you meet will no longer be human Roland, but Divine Roland!

Hahaha, I'm invincible now!

Damn woman, let you act tough with me just now... When you come back in a while, I'll strip you naked and take you to bed!

In the past, you were stronger than me, so you were so arrogant. This time, watch me hang you up and beat you!

And Helena, Junior, Joan, and Florence, Brianna... I was young and ignorant in the past and didn't give you a home.

This time, I will train you and Senior well... Hahaha, I will give you a home; you are all my wings!"

The more Roland thought about it, the more excited he became. He reached out to grab the mermaid grass on the table, but he touched something soft and warm.

In astonishment, Roland opened his eyes and raised his head, finding Catherine standing beside the table, looking at him with a dark expression.

She seemed to be examining Roland's eyelids just now. Roland's thoughts were a bit chaotic just now and didn't notice her at all.

Roland's heart suddenly skipped a beat—bad! When did Catherine come back? I'm still a trainee apprentice now; it seems I can't beat her!

Just then, Roland heard the voices of several people behind him.

—"Tsk tsk tsk, no need to wait until later; I'm standing right here now. Boy, how do you plan to train us?"

—"Holy Mother, forgive this poor lamb."

—"How could Senior Roland do this..."

— "Ahem, it must be that the magic potion I brought from the academy clashed in affinity with Vermick's formula, causing problems with the potion Master Utred concocted. So, Roland is still talking nonsense."

— "Hmph, what nonsense? You old fool, your son-in-law doesn't respect you at all. Witches should have many ways to punish people, right? Give this big liar a good lesson!"

Roland turned his head blankly and found a large group of people standing in the cottage.

Brianna, Florence, Helena, Joan, and Aurelie were all there. Besides them, there were also a few unfamiliar old men—among them, a fat old man standing next to Aurelie looked a bit familiar.

Anna was sitting on the bed eating fruit, and Narl and several high-level members of the Dawn Society were discussing something by the bedside.

Outside the window, many Black Abyss, Twilight, and Secret Society wizards whom Roland didn't recognize were busy with something. There were also some Nagas and people wearing Old Church attire guarding some locked-up New Church believers.

Two cardinals in red robes were conspicuously present. Judging from their dejected expressions, these guys should have been taken as prisoners.

At this moment, the crowd outside the window parted to make way as they spoke—only then did Roland suddenly realize that two meters outside the cottage window, there was another huge window!

That window was very large, more than ten meters wide and four meters high. The wizards and prisoners Roland had just seen outside the window were actually busy inside that large window.

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And inside the big window was the Hall of Holiness!

It seemed that Catherine had projected the space-time of the hunter's cottage onto a magical tapestry on the wall of the Hall of Holiness—like opening a portal, entering the tapestry would enter the space of Catherine's ring, and going out would enter the Hall of Holiness.

Roland said in astonishment: "So, I didn't travel to the past?"

An old man with scars all over his face said in a hoarse voice: "Judging from the situation in our world, it is impossible for anyone to travel through time and space. The result of opening a space-time door can only lead people to a parallel world, or witness history."

This person was wearing a strange Eastern Territory wizard robe—this robe had embroideries of the Black Abyss, Twilight, White Chess, and Secret Society. There were also some emblems of the White Queen on it.

This seemed to be the uniform of the 'Pure White Magic Secret Society.' The White Queen is now the leader of this society, and this person's uniform is of a very high standard, possibly an elder of the Pure White Secret Society.

Roland was very sure that there was no such person in the Church's archaeological team. He must have come later.

Because this person had a very strong, unmissable abyss aura.

Roland couldn't see through this person's realm, but he felt as if he were a god.

He continued to say to Roland: "Roland, you are very lucky. You are lucky to have brought Miss and them back from the vortex of the lower world, instead of encountering big trouble like that idiot Johnson."

"But your spirit has still been affected to some extent, causing you to have some hallucinations."

Catherine interjected: "Master Utred, could it be that Roland saw some fragments of past time from the vortex of the lower world?

"These fragments were what he saw in the lower world, but his willpower was still very strong at the time, so he was not affected. But after coming out, he studied this book again, so his willpower was weakened, and then the side effects all emerged together?"

The old man nodded: "That's possible."

Book?

Roland subconsciously looked down at the table and found that his Book of Aleyah was placed in front of him.

Roland's expression couldn't help but become strange.

This book should be in Halrend's hands. Logically speaking, it should have jumped into the well with Halrend, but now it has run here.

Suddenly, Roland remembered a sentence Halrend had said—"In fact, there is only one book, but you did see two, because one comes from the future and one comes from the past. Now the past and future of this book have met together, completing the closed loop, so the past and future of the book have unified in the collapse, and the two books have become one book."

At this moment, a thought flashed through Roland's mind.

The Book of Aleyah was originally created by the Old Church, and later it was lost. Today, Joshua salvaged it from the lower world, and then the book fell into the vortex of the lower world when Halrend jumped into the well, returning to the past.

After that, the book came to Valeria after many twists and turns, and was finally given to himself by Senior Sister fifty years ago.

This book has always been in his own hands, and it has always been in his own hands when Halrend jumped into the well.

Halrend did bring a Book of Aleyah into the well, but that book was the 'Past Book'! It was the book salvaged from the lower world!

After the book was thrown into the well, it returned to the past and fell into the hands of the past self. Fifty years later, it came to the Well of Faith with itself and saw the process of a 'Past Book of Aleyah' being thrown into the well and returning to the past.

The whole process is like an ant walking in a Möbius strip—the ant starts walking from the past, and after walking around, it returns to the past.

The book is this ant, and Roland is also this ant.

However, this Möbius strip is not a closed loop in a higher dimension, but a straight line with a past line and a future line.

Roland can see a higher perspective, he can bring Catherine and the others out of the maze of the lower world, and naturally has the ability to jump out of the ring of time.

But he only has the ability to jump out. If he can't distinguish between the past and the future, he will be lost in the ring of time.

Roland couldn't help grabbing his hair, he muttered: "Fortunately, I didn't stay in the past, otherwise I would have become an ant in the Möbius strip, and I would never be able to get out!"

When everyone heard Roland talking nonsense again, they couldn't help but look at each other worriedly.

Utred gave his good student 'Joan' a look, and Joan hurriedly went to make magic potions.

Everyone thought that Roland's condition had not yet recovered, and they were all looking at Roland with worried or strange eyes.

But a fat, bearded old king had been looking at Roland with a smile—he didn't seem to think that Roland was sick.

He pinched his beard, looked at Roland with a smile and said: "Not bad, not bad."

Roland always felt that this fat old man looked a bit familiar.

Before he could think, Aurelie cursed in a low voice: "Not bad my ass!"

Aurelie was about to die of anger now. If it weren't for that guy, she would have broken through to the God Realm!

Now, she and that guy seem to be tied together, and have to stay with the wizards. The Church said that these guys are very bad, but Aurelie feels that they seem to be quite good.

They invited themselves to 'be a guest' here, to visit their territory and so on.

Well, anyway, I'm here for tourism, and I can take the time to take a look. (End of this chapter)