I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

Chapter 20 Abyssal Blood Moth

After Leonard communicated with Catherine, he came to the two freshmen and gave them some instructions.

Leonard said very seriously: "My Lord has been recruiting apprentices for the past two years. As long as you perform well, you will have a chance."

The two freshmen were ecstatic. If they could perform well enough in this trial and be accepted as her apprentices, wouldn't they also be able to become vassals of the Alexandra family?
This is a vassal retainer of a wizard noble family!

My entire family will rise to prosper because of me.

A burning fighting spirit ignited in the eyes of the two freshmen.

Roland stood aside and watched his teammates' performance without saying a word, observing coldly.

Soon everyone was ready to set off.

Many knights were leading the way in the front. Instructor Reynard and Baron Hall were standing on Catherine's left and right, in the center of the team.

At the back of the team were Wallace, Roland, and two freshmen, and at the very end was the tall Silver Knight Nar.

On the way, the two freshmen started talking quietly.

"What a coincidence," the blond freshman whispered. "A few days ago, when I was reading the history of Black Abyss Academy, I saw a portrait of the mentor of the first generation of founders—the 'Witch of the Black Abyss' from hundreds of years ago. She looked a bit like Lady Catherine."

"Don't talk nonsense." Wallace interrupted him: "Instructor Catherine is a member of the Alexandra family. It's normal for her to look like her ancestor."

As he spoke, he looked at Roland, who had been following the three people with an expressionless face, with a smile on his face.

"Is this the new student that Counselor Catherine recruited this year? What's your name?"

Roland glanced at the three people, then turned his attention to the shadows of the surrounding woods.

The apprentices were very unhappy, and even Wallace, the usually slick old man, couldn't help but twitch his eyelids twice.

The three of them ignored Roland and started chatting among themselves.

The blond freshman said, "I didn't expect there would be such a deep forest here."

"Hmm." Wallace stroked his beard and nodded. "The magical aura is quite strong. There should be quite a few exotic creatures and potions. Compared to the dense forests used by the academy for apprentice trials, it's not much different."

"Are there trees like this in the academy's dense forest? That's really nice."

The red-haired freshman casually patted a passing tree and said with an expectant look, "This tree has a very special appearance. I was thinking of collecting some specimens to study, but it seems that's not necessary."

Listening to everyone's discussion, Roland's expression was very strange.

He looked at the tree that the apprentice had just photographed and thought to himself, "There's something strange moving in the shadow of that tree. The shadows around us are filled with unknown things, yet everyone is so calm and composed?"
Roland couldn't help but look up at the sky again.

Is there really nothing wrong with that god in heaven? His blood is constantly dripping from the sky into the fern forest. Could it be that the pollution caused by his blood is actually no big deal?
"So, in Black Abyss Academy, a place like this is just an ordinary trial ground?"
Roland knew he couldn't escape, so he desperately tried to find a reason for his teammates' actions: "There's only one possibility. That's that the evil god has been dead for many, many years. That's why the academy used the Fern Forest as a trial ground."
At this moment, the Baron's voice came from the front. He seemed to be talking to a knight beside him.

"Charlie, you don't have to follow me around all the time."

The baron smiled and said, "With the protection of my lords, this trip will surely go smoothly."

The Knight Commander was very skeptical about the strength of these so-called "wizards", but he still led his men away and stood with Nar.

After the knights left, Baron Hall humbly said to Reynard and the others, "I'm afraid I'm going to cause you some trouble this time."

Many wizard apprentices regarded the Baron as a Muggle, so they were a little indifferent to him, and only said a few polite words to him on the surface.

But Catherine smiled and said to the baron, "You're welcome, Lord Baron Hall. From now on, we still have to take care of each other." Hearing this, Roland's eyes moved slightly.

Catherine never offered polite words, nor did she pretend to be polite when socializing with others. Her arrogance was always consistent. It was as if everyone in the world was an ant, unworthy of her even smiling.

But when she was with Baron Hall, she was very respectful.

Roland thought to himself, "I almost forgot, there's a hidden monster in our team. Baron Hall is definitely not a simple person!"
He looked deeply at the Baron in front of him, thinking to himself, "He has come to the Fern Forest so many times, and he always comes out alive. His strength must be terrifying."

"Besides the Baron, there are also Nar and Anna. As for Catherine, although she only has the magic power of a high-level apprentice, she has a lot of treasures and extremely strange methods. Her strength is not inferior to Nar's."
He thought to himself, "If we're not here to fight some evil god, then this team structure is absolutely fine."

"Even if there are any problems, as long as you follow Baron Hall closely, you will be able to get out alive."

Roland's original mindset was to treat himself like a dead person. That's why he'd been constantly referring to his instructor, Catherine, as "senior." When the school worker, Wallace, spoke to him, he ignored her, showing no desire to live.

But now, he saw the hope of getting out alive and began to have a desire to survive.

After thinking for a moment, Roland Zheng looked at Wallace.

"Lord Wallace, I'm very sorry for what happened just now. On the way here, I suffered some mental trauma from practicing magic, and I was unable to leave the spiritual world for a while. Therefore, when you asked me the question just now, I was unable to speak and respond."

Wallace suddenly realized what was going on and felt relieved. He thought to himself, "So that's how it is... As expected of an adult student, he has the capital to be arrogant, yet he is so diligent and humble."
Wallace didn't want to expose his relationship with Catherine in front of the new students, nor did he want to flatter her students in front of the young lady. So, he praised Roland like a teacher.

After exchanging a few words with Wallace, Roland bowed slightly to the two freshmen and introduced himself: "Seniors, my name is Roland, and I'm a native of Valeria..."

Roland was very humble, even calling the two seniors and praising them highly. But surprisingly, the two freshmen were very cold.

The blond freshman muttered quietly, "Hmph, a bastard who came from a Muggle family. Is he worthy of being a vassal of the Alexandra family?"

The blond freshman's words sounded very unreasonable to normal people. After all, no matter what Roland's background was, he was Catherine's student.

Besides, although Catherine was interested in taking them both as apprentices, nothing had been finalized yet. I didn't know why they felt so superior.

But the fact is that there is a huge gap between pure-blood wizards and non-pure-blood wizards. In their eyes, people like Roland are inferior. Even if he has entered the Alexandra family, even if he is a beggar, a beggar, he is still nobler than him.

Roland didn't know about these things in the wizarding world. When he found it difficult to communicate with the two people, he frowned and stopped talking.

After the team had marched through the fern forest for half an hour, they suddenly stopped. The instructor gave Reynard some instructions, and then Reynard left the team.

Then the mentor called Wallace over and gave him some instructions.

After listening to this, Wallace called Roland and the two freshmen together and said, "There are some Abyss Blood Moths nearby. Lady Catherine asked us to capture a few specimens."

Roland frowned and thought to himself, "Abyssal Blood Moth? So, the dead evil god in the sky is the evil god of the abyss?"
He looked at the strange shadows deep in the woods and thought to himself, "So, this place has been contaminated by the abyss? Are those things wriggling out of the shadows the monsters from the abyss that are about to crawl out?"

At this time, the blond freshman asked Wallace curiously, "Are there Abyss Blood Moths in this ordinary woodland?"

Wallace stroked his beard, seeming a bit puzzled. He said, "The Fern Forest is indeed a demonic forest, so it's normal for abyssal creatures to enter it... Let's go. The Lord has only given us half an hour."

After saying this, Wallace and the two freshmen entered the woods. They didn't care about the shadows in the woods.

Roland hesitated for a moment, thinking to himself, "I feel like something's not right."
He glanced at his senior sister and found that she nodded slightly to him, indicating that he could go without worry.

Roland felt strange in his heart, but he followed Wallace into the forest.

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