I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

Chapter 167 Sure enough, he is the evil demon!
"The Comb Army is all crystal-like now. Then wouldn't the entire Royal City be filled with crystal people?!"

Alfonso cried, "Yes! I'm so worried. It's really great that you can stay and deal with this matter together with the wizards of the school. To be honest, I can't trust anyone now, except you!"

This time, Alfonso was saying that even if he died, it was impossible for his elder brother Roland to leave.

This big brother stretched out his hand and took out a bunch of rare items and a bunch of secret manuals from various major schools. No matter who Baiqi sent next, he felt that no one would be as powerful as Roland!
Moreover, this brother Roland is also a wizard of the Black Abyss Snake Tower and understands the mysteries.

Now we are really saved!

Alfonso was saved, but Roland was dumbfounded.

I thought it was just a matter of ringing a bell in the Royal City and helping Amber solve a mystery. It wasn't that difficult.

The result is to go 'play cards'!
In Roland's words, there was always a possibility of problems with the "gem basin" in the royal city, and now the holy spirits of the Rainbow Goddess have occupied this "gem basin".

This time, the royal city really turned into a jewel basin!

It can no longer be called the 'Royal City'.

It should be renamed.

It should be called 'Rainbow City'!
Or 'Amir's Chess Room'.

Roland thought to himself, "I always feel like someone is going to become an immortal there!"
This matter requires long-term consideration. I am afraid I can't handle the situation over there. Let's wait for the official wizards to come.

At this time, a knight came to report that the battle outside was over and they had captured some Comb Army prisoners.

Additionally, Miss Amber demands that all ravens be released.

King Alfonso immediately expressed his willingness to follow Miss Amber's advice and to treat the ravens as scholars.

After the knight left, Alfonso sighed and said to Roland, "My lord, you don't know. Many years ago, there was a great scholar in the kingdom named Augustus. He founded the Raven Society. My mother has been secretly supporting the Raven Society ever since then, and after I ascended the throne, she has provided it with all the resources I could."

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

Generations of Amir Kingdom monarchs have worked hard to become the "Great Wizard Lord," hoping to gain sovereignty and, with a truly respectable status, a small seat in the White Council.

The White School of Thought had never paid much attention to the Raven Society of this small kingdom. The White wizards who had come to support them often worked with the local scholars to control the plague.

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

But this time, the Crystal Princess's illness had become quite severe, and the wizard sent by the White School of Qi had also been replaced.

After inspecting the area, he returned to file a report, stating that a cult had emerged in the Amir Kingdom. He believed the Raven Society was the mastermind behind the Crystal Princess's illness.

That White Wizard was of the same ilk as Black Abyss's Admissions Director, Benjamin. He was an extreme bloodline-themed wizard and a hypocrite who would do anything to rise to power.

There was a long debate within the school regarding his report, with those who supported the Bloodline Theory insisting on wiping out the Raven Order.

By the way, we can also suppress this small country that wants to emerge.

The school of thought certainly didn't adopt such an extreme strategy, but it still conservatively ordered the kingdom to capture and investigate the Raven Society. They would discuss the matter further once the evidence was solid.

Wizards are the authority, and whoever they say is wrong has problems.

As soon as this order was issued, the Raven Society became a cult organized by wild wizards from the countryside, and its once good reputation immediately plummeted among the nobles.

In order to protect himself, Alfonso had to cut off ties with the Raven Society and arrested all the members of the Raven Society whom he secretly supported.

When escaping from the royal city, he was reluctant to leave the ravens behind, so he naturally brought them all out together under the pretext of "criminals specifically wanted by the White Chess School."

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

But the Amir Kingdom is at a critical moment of life and death, and he can't care about so many things now.

Roland stood up and said, "It's a small matter. You can just put the blame on me. Let's go and check on the prisoners. I need to learn more about the 'Gem Basin'. And while we're at it, let's see if we can do some experiments to cure my rainbow."

Alfonso was overjoyed and excitedly thanked Brother Roland.

Whether the Raven Society was evil or not was not important; what was important was whether the Amir Kingdom was obedient. So if the king ordered his subordinates to expose the Raven Society, then even if the Raven Society was later exonerated, he would still be punished.

But Roland is different, he is from the Black Abyss!

He doesn't need to care about the rules of the White Chess School at all.

The Black Abyss Wizard had always acted with dominance. Now, in his capacity as a special envoy of the White School, he had ordered the king to release the Raven Society. The king's decision to release the Raven Society wasn't arbitrary, but rather an act in the name of the special envoy.

The White Chess School couldn't find fault with Roland on this matter. Even if this case were brought to the Black Abyss, the wizards of the Black Abyss wouldn't pay any attention to them—served them right. Who asked you to lend us your men? That's how we do things.

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

There were many Comb Army prisoners in the dungeon, and the court wizard was helping the knights interrogate six of them. Some nobles and scholars were also there to join in the fun.

The nobles all hold official positions and are also the kingdom's advisers and think tanks. They need to obtain some important information from the Comb Army.

Scholars want to take this opportunity to understand crystal disease.

The wizards had just given a captive a truth serum, but it had no effect and instead made the captives even more arrogant.

They felt like they were the Holy Spirit of Crystal again, and each of them spoke with great pride, repeatedly calling him "Crystal King" and spouting doomsday rhetoric, scaring everyone so much that their faces turned pale.

After listening to this, Roland rolled his eyes.

Also the Crystal King. That’s the Rainbow Queen!

Xian'er, you all worshipped the wrong people, and you are still bragging here.

He pushed aside several troublesome nobles, took out his wand, and came to the front of the Comb Army prisoners.

The captives had all seen the Great Evil God commanding the Little Red Evil God on the battlefield. Their faces immediately turned pale upon seeing him.

One of the prisoners was stubborn and was about to say something, but before he could utter a few words, Roland pointed at him, and then the prisoner collapsed into a pile.

Roland flicked his magic wand and drew the soul out of the mud.

The huge cell was suddenly filled with the sweet smell of honey.

What kind of black magic is this? How can it turn people into beehives?
Looking at the hive on the ground where bees were constantly flying out, a court wizard in charge of studying the captives immediately dropped his pen, grabbed his hair and felt unwell.

The captives' reaction was even more unbearable, their bodies shaking. They still believed that they were holy spirits, but the man before them was an evil god!

They rushed to confess the truth, but the dark wizard used a 'sealing spell' to sew up their mouths.

Roland said, "You are blessed." After that, he began to experiment with various tricks of the necromancer, extracting the souls and refining the spirits of these so-called "holy spirits" one by one.

The dungeon was suddenly filled with ghosts, and miserable souls flew around trying to escape, but invisible chains held them to Roland.

The living captives and the dead souls wailed and begged desperately. Soon, they discovered something.

The dark wizard waved his wand coldly, not wanting to hear any of their confessions. His only thought 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 turning.

This time, not only the Comb Army prisoners, but even the nobles in the cells could not bear it anymore.

Everyone now completely understands who the real evil demon is.

Roland wasn't torturing people for fun, but that was the nature of necromancy. He needed to turn these people into more obedient ghosts, so he had to kill them.

Besides, this group of people deserved it. They had killed countless people along the way.

As Heracles's shepherd, the more these sinful souls suffer at his hands, the less they will suffer on the other side of the Styx. Therefore, it is their blessing to meet him today.

This is the logic in Roland's mind - you are all blessed!
By the time Roland slowly reached the last captive, the comb soldier's buttocks were covered in strange crystals, and he was completely limp.

Roland nodded with interest and said, "Even after turning into crystal, it can still be incontinent. What an interesting creature.

You guys collect these fluids and take this living sample to do experiments.
It’s a pity that these things are hard to carry. Otherwise, I could send some to Instructor Usak. He would definitely like them very much.”

The court wizards finally understood that this guy didn't treat the Comb Army as human beings at all, but as "living specimens".

The wizards and scholars who were named called out to a few knights and took the person away. The group fled from the dim cell.

King Alfonso hurriedly asked the knights to clean up a room and followed Roland there to question the ghosts.

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

If they were living people, they could be killed first, and then the magic of the dead could be used to make them tell everything clearly, in every detail.

If the person is dead, just go through the second process.

Those ghosts were more honest than each other. Roland didn't even use any undeath spells. They just spat out everything they knew like beans.

King Alfonso and the nobles also added a lot of things.

The Amir Kingdom may not be as big as a county in ancient China.

To put it bluntly, the wars here are just fights between villages. Alfonso's fully armored cavalry is like a dimensional strike by heavenly soldiers in this kingdom.

In the past, King Alfonso's fully armored cavalry, coupled with the lords' private armies, could easily deal with the rebellious Comb Army and the like.

But this year, the Crystal Princess disease was spreading everywhere, and it was extremely serious. Not only could he not recruit people from the lords of various places, but many lords had died from the disease. So the king couldn't mobilize many people at all.

On the other hand, the situation on the Comb Army's side was completely the opposite. The more serious the plague was, the more people died.

As one side gains strength while the other loses strength, there is naturally no chance of fighting.

Although Alfonso's cavalry was powerful, it could not make even a single wave in the face of the surging Comb Army.

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

The Comb Army in the north could not be suppressed at all.

They brought the plague all the way south, like a snowball, with more and more people and an unstoppable momentum.

In addition, the Crystal Princess disease in the royal city was already showing signs of being out of control, so after the Comb Army gathered and headed south, King Alfonso packed up his belongings and fled with his men early.

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

Upon learning of the fall of the Royal City, Alfonso was horrified. He was just concentrating on gathering his troops and organizing the defense of the south when the Comb Army, mingling among the refugees, reached Green Lake Manor.

Green Lake Manor is a manor built by a wizard, as secretive as the Wizard City. It is not on the map of the kingdom.

Without the guidance of the court wizard, even the king would not be able to find this place. Therefore, this is a very secret and excellent shelter.

Logically speaking, the Comb Army couldn't find them - the problem lay with those 'refugee relief stations'.

There were some spies of the Comb Army among the refugees. After they noticed that there were many relief stations nearby, they concluded that there were wealthy people here. And they were very wealthy people.

The Comb Army was searching for the King, knowing that he had brought a great deal of treasure. When the leaders heard the news, two of them personally led a thousand elite soldiers to look for him.

It’s a bit embarrassing to say that after the two wizard leaders brought their people to the vicinity, they couldn’t find Green Lake Manor.

After wandering around for a long time without any results, the Comb Army was very unwilling to give up. In line with the principle of "a thief never leaves empty-handed", they burned the people in several nearby villages while looking for a way out. Among them, a few people were "burned to death by their own people".

As a result, after a few newcomers joined the team, they unexpectedly learned the method of entering the manor from these newcomers. Relying on these locals, they bypassed the manor.

Upon hearing this, King Alfonso and the others' expressions suddenly turned grim. This Green Lake Manor was built by Alfonso's father, with the help of the White Wizards. If you don't understand the key points, you won't be able to get in.

In the past, although some villagers were found secretly picking herbs in the forest near the manor, they were all thought to have stumbled in by accident.

Who would have known that these idle villagers who had lived nearby for a long time had already figured out the maze created by the wizard through their constant exploration.

Roland stroked his chin and muttered to himself, "People who are burned will turn into crystal people? In other words, the Rainbow Queen hates acid and likes to burn glass?"

The people around: “.”

It seems that once a person suffering from Crystal Princess disease is cremated, there is a chance that they will be resurrected and turned into a crystal person.

The prisoners had no idea how many Comb Troops were currently in the Gem Basin. It wasn't that they didn't want to tell, but once the number exceeded ten, they couldn't count.

The wizards in the Comb Army could count, but they couldn't count how many of them there were. The Comb Army was now spreading like a plague, and whoever they came into contact with became a Comb Army member.

In addition, their internal management is very chaotic, so no one knows where the people are and how many people there are.

However, the leaders of the Comb Army recently issued a new order, requiring all Comb Army soldiers to return to the Crystal City, the royal city they recently captured.

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

Hearing this, Roland looked confused: "Crystal King? Old John?"

(End of this chapter)