I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

Chapter 112: Mushu's Treasure
After driving away the group of little guys, Roland looked in the direction of the shepherd tree and hesitated for a while.

"That thing can remove pollution. Should I take a branch back?"

After thinking it over, Roland decided not to take any more risks. He fled the place at a very fast speed without even looking at the spoils.

But halfway through, the ballet ghost always blocked his way for unknown reasons.

Roland ignored it, so it kept rushing towards him, making him shiver.

He put the ballet ghost into the Book of Demons many times, but the ballet ghost seemed to be at odds with him.

Roland was terribly anxious. Feeling guilty, he wanted to leave as soon as possible. But the ballet ghost seemed to refuse him.

Soon, Roland discovered that the ballet ghost seemed to be asking him to go somewhere.

In desperation, Roland followed the ballet ghost, and soon he returned to where the 'Shepherd's Tree' was.

Looking at the pollen mist in the distant forest, Roland felt as if he were about to die.

"Leona, what are you doing?"

——Pour out the fire.

Roland: “?”

——Pour on the fire!
"Pour out the fire?" Roland suddenly remembered a passage in the school rules.

He picked up the school rules and flipped through them.

[Number: 0073]

Nickname: Shepherd's Tree

That town, home to 7000 people, was seemingly covered in forest overnight. We sent three investigative teams, all without success. Finally, Professor Correa personally led a team there. Three weeks later, they returned with this enchanting little treasure. We've already figured it must be a perfect potion garden, a pollution-free potion garden!

[Note 1: Shepherd trees are periodically transplanted into the Black Forest to purify the area. During this time, they will be monitored by forest rangers. If anyone discovers a shepherd tree grazing, they are obliged to notify the rangers and put out the fire.]

"Did someone transplant the shepherd tree to the Black Forest recently?" Roland was very confused.

The pollution level in this area is indeed very high. If someone transplants the shepherd tree here for the good of the college, it is reasonable.

But if the White Wizards had transplanted it to purify the pollution, they would have definitely sent people to guard the area to prevent anyone from straying in. At the very least, they would have put up a few signs or issued a notice.

So it definitely wasn't done by the White Wizards.

It couldn't have been done secretly by the Black Abyss wizards. They've been under close scrutiny lately, and they've all been keeping a low profile. Why would they do something so high-profile and thankless without the academy's knowledge?

So, who did this?
Shaking his head, Roland continued to read the school rules.

There were a bunch of rules below. They only described how the apprentices could put out the fire to save themselves after turning into saplings, but they didn't explain how the rangers should douse the fire.

Roland hurriedly took out the forest patrol manual, forest patrol maintenance manual and other reference books. After flipping through them, Roland's face looked a little ugly.

"My manuals are all new versions, and they don't have specific operating procedures. This is impossible."

Roland put away several manuals and looked at the ballet ghost.

——Pour on the fire!
Roland sighed.

He thought for a moment and took out the fire vine from Alina's storage bag.

This vast expanse of fire vines had been meticulously treated, covered with a large sheet of magical foam and containing a protective amulet. This amulet contained a fire elemental gem and a magic stone. This maintained the magical environment, preventing the fire within the vines from extinguishing and keeping it active.

Roland cut the huge pile of fire into two large sections.

A large section of it was wrapped around Roland. When he channeled his own magic power into the fire vine, the flames on the fire vine would burn fiercely.

Roland wore two layers of fireproof gear (fire lizard hide, fire demon hunter leather armor) and two layers of magic resistance gear (mooncloth robe, elf hooded cloak). He could survive the ignition spell for a while, so the fire from the fire vines could not hurt him.

"It's so warm." Roland had just been washed several times by the ballet ghost, and now he felt much cleaner and more comfortable.

Roland used a spell to wrap the remaining fire vines into a small ball cage. The amulet was inside the small ball cage, and the fire vines burned vigorously.

"Since high temperatures are not conducive to the growth of saplings, should we place them in fire cages?"

Roland planned to cut off a willow branch and take it away.

When he was done, Roland cut another piece of cloth and covered his face, leaving only his eyes exposed. "The silver pocket watch has ten seconds left. That's about enough."

Roland checked the lantern on his waist, used a spell to make the small fire ball float around him, and then walked forward with his wand.

Soon, Roland arrived at the clearing where the shepherd tree was.

Roland sweated coldly as he watched the elves dancing in the distant shepherd's tree. He cast a few auxiliary spells on himself, such as "Swift as the Wind" and "Hard as a Rock," and then walked towards the clearing.

After taking just two steps, Roland ran back and hid behind a tree.

He came up with a bad idea!

'My ghost seems to be in Selina's shrine.'

Roland rummaged through Sally's bag and found her soul shrine. He chanted a spell to break the seal on the lid, opened it, took a look, and then quickly closed it in fear.

'How many ghosts has this madman caught!'

Picking up the soul shrine, Roland aimed at the shepherd tree in the distance, took a dozen steps back, and rushed towards the shepherd tree and threw it hard.

With a whoosh, the soul shrine drew a parabola in the air like a football, flew hundreds of meters away, and smashed heavily under the shepherd tree.

Woo woo woo woo~~
For a moment, ghosts filled the area around the Shepherd's Tree. The elves were so frightened and angry that they almost fainted in mid-air.

It's like stirring up a hornet's nest!

Dozens of elves flew up with a chirping sound, and cast magic in groups to deal with the ghosts.

After the first wave of magic fell, a large number of ghosts disappeared in an instant.

Roland was horrified and quickly chanted a spell, sending his ghost flying away. Led by these leaders, the larger ghosts followed suit, and the remaining ones also ran around in panic.

The entire forest had zero pollution, so the elves couldn't let these disgusting creatures dirty their clean garden. They angrily chased after them.

After a while, there were only seven or eight lazy little guys who were unwilling to move near the shepherd tree.

Roland was overjoyed and rushed to the shepherd's tree, laughing and setting fire to it.

The seven or eight elves were just about to take a nap when they saw a masked man suddenly rushing over and setting fire to their house, laughing. They almost went crazy with rage.

They babbled and released elemental magic towards Roland. Roland dodged here and there with his silver pocket watch, setting fire to the east, west, south and north sides of the shepherd tree.

The flowers on the shepherd's tree were very flammable and caught fire very quickly. In a short while, the whole tree turned into a huge torch.

Seeing their hometown burned like this, the elves cried angrily, wiped their tears and started to put out the fire.

"Don't cry, it will grow back in a few days," Roland thought to himself.

--happy!
The ballet ghost appeared near Roland and started dancing.

Roland thought to himself, "Leona, Leona, you are such a bad guy! People are crying so sadly, and you are dancing here."

Roland now understood that pouring fire meant burning the flowers. The branches would grow back in a few days, but they wouldn't bloom. So the elves could continue to make their home here.

At this moment, he saw a little elf flying back from a distance. He quickly stretched out his hand and released several black lights, which cut off a large number of unlit branches and threw them into the fire ball cage.

Insert, insert, insert~~
Several ice arrows hit the shield around Roland, and the lantern flashed twice and went out!

Roland didn't dare to stay, activated the silver pocket watch and disappeared on the spot.

The elves were furious when they saw the masked villain running away, but they didn't have time to look for the villain and just kept crying while putting out the fire.

At this time, an elf discovered that there was a sneaky person picking herbs near the shepherd's tree. Upon closer inspection, it was the masked villain!
It babbled for a long time, trying to tell everyone that the bad guy had not left, but now he was making a mess everywhere and no one cared about him.

It angrily threw a weak ice needle, which pierced the bad guy's butt.

The big bad guy staggered in pain and turned around to look at it fiercely.

The elf suddenly felt something was wrong and tried to run away, but a spell knocked it unconscious to the ground. Then it was caught by the bad guy and put into his pocket.

The big bad guy disappeared on the spot and appeared sixty meters away two seconds later. Then he dodged twice and disappeared into the forest with loud laughter.

(End of this chapter)