I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

Chapter 216: Fuck! Leeches. Why are there leeches everywhere?!
Roland said, "Well, Miss Delia, the Countess does have some unique appreciation of art."

Delia shook her head and said, "No, no, no, Your Excellency Roland, art is universal. I believe that everyone with normal aesthetic ability will express such emotion after viewing your work at those stunning things."

Roland covered his face and said, "Stop talking, Miss Delia, please change the subject."

Delia was slightly stunned, and suddenly she realized something. She said with a strange expression, "Sir Roland, you don't even realize how amazing the works in the studios, carving rooms, and parchment in those pictures are, do you?
Although they are all hidden in the corners of the video and difficult to detect, they are like a sudden flash of lightning in the darkness, bringing light to the dark art world!

Roland raised his head with a question mark on his face: "Is this true?"

As if she could see Roland's disbelief, Delia smiled and said, "My mother often copied your works. In her studio, there are many of your paintings and sculptures. You have a unique understanding of the goddess Heraclea, which is unmatched in this world!"

Hold the grass!

Hold the grass!

I really have fans?!
The Countess is truly a talent scout!

At this moment, Roland and the others heard a light cough from the side.

Roderick smiled and said, "Delia, Mother really likes Lord Roland's work. You can take Lord Roland to Mother's studio to observe him later. Be quiet for a while."

It seemed that the two of them had just spoken a little too loudly. They sat up straight in embarrassment.

Roderick continued to say to Catherine, "My Lord, I thought you were still stuck in Arak Prison. Now that I see it, I believe what you said before."

After a pause, Roderick nodded deeply and said, "I told you, Lord Usak, how could you possibly betray Twilight? Only he can contain the 'Beautiful Snake Man' and subdue Lilith.

Only with the help of Lilith can you escape from the devil's prison without being noticed.

Only with the help of the beautiful snake people can people turn a blind eye to you."

Catherine said, "We also tricked the Crab-Eyed Elephant Tower. Amos and the others helped me conceal my whereabouts from the White Queen. The Amos sisters and Usak both helped me temporarily escape from Arak Prison."

Roderick suddenly realized and said, "Then, when you return this time, just bring the prisoners back to Arak Prison, and it will be done.

But according to our previous assessment, although Arracca Prison is an excellent location, if we want the Tawny Lord to bring those 169 Black Abyss wizards to Arracca, we will need at least 30 prisoner types."

As he spoke, Roderick looked at Catherine, then at Roland, his eyes as if to say, "Can you take thirty prisoners?"
Catherine said, "Ten are enough. I have the flesh and blood of the Tawny Lord in my hands."

Roderick's eyes twitched slightly. "After all, your trip to the Fern Forest wasn't in vain. This time, there's no 'Secret Order' to stop us."

The Tawny Lord had been severely weakened during his last descent. This flesh and blood could aid in summoning him, but it wasn't enough for the Thousand-Eyed King to feast upon.

This has caused our Black Abyss lineage to be nearly destroyed. However, as long as the Abyss is reconnected to this world, our people (Black Abyss wizards) will all be able to come back!"

At this point, Roderick's smile became more attentive.

He seemed to be trying his best to appear neither humble nor arrogant, but his tone sounded a bit flattering.

"Your Highness, the people who have been waiting for you have returned. Please take good care of the withered bloodline."

Catherine sneered, "You are a bunch of traitors. I know what the Earl is thinking about. You have no right to test me here."

After a pause, Catherine asked, "How's my father doing? After we killed his clone ten years ago and presented it to my mentor as a token of our loyalty, I haven't dared to contact him since."

Roderick smiled and said, "The noble Thousand-Eyed King fell asleep again a while ago. But before he fell asleep, he had already prepared everything.
The 'fern forest samples' you sent last time contained the true blood of the Tawny Lord. Based on them, the Thousand-Eyed King specially made three small gifts for the Tawny Lord. Hehehe.

As long as the Tawny Lord projects his shadow, we will surely be able to dig out a few of his eyes!"

Catherine said sadly, "That's good! I hope father can break free of his shackles soon and truly enter the fifth level."

Roderick smiled cautiously and said, "Your Highness, His Majesty will eventually reach the fifth level. You are even more talented than your sister, the Witch Alexandra. The Withered Bloodline will fully support your plans."

Then the two talked about other things.

From a few words, we can analyze the following things:
When the Thousand-Eyed King was still in human form, he had many children. His eldest daughter was the Witch Alexandra, and his second son was Yig.

The eldest daughter betrayed him first and stabbed him in the back.

Soon after, his youngest son also betrayed him and pulled out a large group of brothers and sisters from Twilight - the current Alexandra.

Now, the Thousand-Eyed King has become a strange appearance, but he has created many human-shaped clones.

These clones hid themselves in various schools under various identities. The previous head of Alexandra was actually an incarnation of the Thousand-Eyed King, but no one knew about it. Not even the Black Abyss wizards knew about it.

Decades ago, he led the Black Abyss lineage to betray the Twilight Council and defect to the White Council.

More than ten years ago, his good daughter awakened her memories of her past life, and then slowly discovered that her biological father in this life was actually the Thousand-Eyed King.

She secretly gathered people and planned for the Black Abyss wizards to kill this clone.

Later, the Black Abyss wizards revealed the identity of this clone to the White Queen, and from then on, the Black Abyss lineage completely defected.

Now, Catherine claimed that her patricide was planned by her father, and offered the big piece of meat, the "Tawny Lord."

So, Catherine, the filial daughter, became a good daughter in her father's heart again.

It sounds like the Thousand-Eyed King is using the power of the abyss to connect with those who fell into the abyss during their suffering.

As long as Catherine opens the gate to the abyss in Arakka Prison, there will be a way to bring these people back.

The Tawny Lord will surely follow suit.

At that time, the Thousand-Eyed King will work together with everyone to dig out one of His eyes.

From then on, the Thousand-Eyed King could see the fifth gate of truth and explore this path of truth.

After Roland digested this information, he was stunned for a long time.

Seven years ago, I suddenly couldn't contact my senior. Maybe she really went to Alakha Prison.

As to whether she had sent herself to Arracca specifically for the Twilight Council, or whether she had gone to Arracca for seclusion according to the White Council's plan, it was unknown.

So, which group is the senior sister from?

Which group are we in Heiyuan on?

The senior likes to be a riddle teller and has a lot of bad tastes in her mind. You won’t get the truth from her.

Roland believes that the answers are nothing more than the following:
A: It's all acting. Everything is a script written by the 'White Chess Scam Group'!

And Catherine is the heroine who performs on stage in the script!

Baron Hall had dragged Catherine into the Yellow Fern Forest incident, and it wasn't the Thousand-Eyed King's plan.

The Black Abyss wizards went to the Yellow-Brown Fern Forest to study the evil god, not to be loyal to the Thousand-Eyed King.

Therefore, the death of the Thousand-Eyed King's clone was not due to any plan of the Thousand-Eyed King, but because Catherine was too filial.

Catherine, a filial son, joined forces with her loyal followers to kill the Thousand-Eyed King in order to completely break free from her father's control.

And from the incident of the 'Funeral at Heracca Church', it can be seen how much she hates Twilight.

Therefore, there is no way she will ever jump back to Twilight.

Therefore, this drama queen is acting!
She can act very well!
And it seemed that she had used the Tawny Lord as bait to deceive her father again.

This is an open conspiracy, and the Thousand-Eyed King has to take this bait.

In answer A, the 'White Chess Fraud Group' wants to achieve only one goal - to obtain the Bloody Path of Truth and the Helaka's Path of Truth and weaken the Twilight Council.

Nothing can compare to the value of the path of truth!
Of course, in addition to option A, Catherine also has option B.

And in option B, Catherine is considering turning the fake into reality. As long as she betrays the White Council, all the suffering Black Abyss wizards will come back!
The Thousand-Eyed King will also put aside past grudges. After all, this gift from his good daughter is truly wonderful.

It’s just a clone, how can it be more important than the real path leading to the fifth gate?
What could be more important than Catherine's renewed allegiance to the entire Black Abyss lineage?

His daughter and the Black Abyss wizards will help him explore a new path and help him ascend!

As a deal, everything the Thousand-Eyed King has after his ascension will be left to his 'crown prince' - Catherine.

The continent will fall into chaos with the awakening of the Thousand-Eyed King, and chaos is the ladder!
Catherine will rise to prominence just as she did in her previous life.

The rewards are simply too great.

Roland sent a thought: ["Whose group are we on?"]
Catherine responded: "Haha, Roland, you didn't use the right words - you should have asked which group I was from, not which group we were from.

I advised you not to follow me.

But if you insist on coming, don't blame me.

Now you know too much.

Hehehehe (gritting his teeth), once I've taken you and packed you into the prison, I'll take you back to Arakkar Prison and sacrifice you to the Tawny Lord!"]
Roland rolled his eyes.

really.

You won't get any real answers from this stinky woman.

The senior was obviously trying to scare Roland for fun; she hated him to death.

So what she said was naturally not true.

As for which one she wants to choose between A and B, she is probably struggling with it herself.

Choosing A means being true to your heart.

And as long as you choose B and betray your conscience, you will get huge rewards!

Of course, she might also choose option C - conscience and return.

Roland could see that the senior was very reluctant to cooperate with her father, the Thousand-Eyed King.

He couldn't guess the reason, but the reason was definitely not as simple as interests and life and death.

No matter whether the senior student chooses A, B or C, it will not affect Roland's affairs.

For him, no matter what the answer was, he had only one purpose for coming here - to cut down trees.

The tree-cutting incident had some impact on the senior sister's plan. If Roland dragged the senior sister into the trouble while cutting the tree, she would be in great trouble.

The senior knew Roland too well. She knew that no matter what she said to him, he would still be thinking about chopping down trees! He was just thinking about killing himself!
So she simply didn't give an answer and threatened Roland.

Roland would not be scared away, he was determined to cut down the tree.

A moment later, the senior student sent another thought: "Just be quiet this time. Even though nothing you do will affect my overall situation, I don't want to be dragged down by you!"
Roland responded: ["How could that be? I'm just taking in a few prisoners."]
Catherine didn't believe his nonsense.

Sure enough, not long after, she heard Roland's devilish temptation again: "Senior, will you really not consider helping me contain the mystery here?
The Twilight Council is too powerful, and if we seize both the Helaka and Blighted Blood paths into the Black Abyss, then as one grows stronger, the other loses strength. Within a hundred years, this Eastern Territory will be a three-way battleground.
The senior student did not give any response and seemed to be in deep confusion.

After a moment, she gave a piece of information: "Countess Wendishah is connected to the mystery here. She has a big secret. If she invites you, you can go and see her. Once you get the secret, we can talk again."
Roland's eyes moved slightly.

It seems that Countess Wendisha is the breakthrough point for whether he can "dig away the fruit trees".

Soon, Roland heard the sound of heavy rain on the roof and outside the window.

After a while, the carriage stopped.

Everyone got out of the car holding black umbrellas.

There was a stone bridge in front of us, and a huge and gloomy ancient castle stood behind the stone bridge.

The castle was covered with red vines, giving it a somewhat dilapidated and decayed feel.

rumble rumble
A flash of thunder flashed, illuminating the surroundings.

Faintly, Roland saw a strange shadow climbing over the wall of the castle and entering a window.

Roland: “?”

Catherine pointed to the window and said, "That's Countess Vendissa's room. Go ahead if you have the guts."

Roland: “???”

The driver turned around and left. Roland wanted to hold an umbrella for Catherine, but the senior ignored him and got under Elena's big umbrella.

The five people walked onto the bridge, which was a two-kilometer distance from the bridge to the castle.

Roland felt a little strange and asked Delia, "Why doesn't the carriage drive directly to the castle?"

The rain was a bit heavy, and it made a lot of noise when it hit the stone bridge. Perhaps to make it easier to talk, Delia ran out from under her brother's umbrella and got into Roland's big umbrella.

She brushed off the rain, looked up at the tall gentleman with a smile, and said, "I don't know either. This is an ancestral precept. After entering the stone bridge, you must walk, otherwise you will cough. Go a little to the right and try to walk to the middle. We have a lot of strange ancestral precepts here."

rumble rumble
A flash of thunder flashed, illuminating the surroundings.

In this light, Roland's pupils suddenly shrank.

He suddenly discovered that three meters to the left and three meters to the right were all red tree roots. No, those were not tree branches, they were wriggling blood vessels!
From the stone bridge to the ancient castle, it is covered with red blood vessels!
Only the middle path is clean.

The light disappeared, and Roland opened his eyes wide, and then he could see the blood vessels clearly.

They had always been there, but it was too dark before, so Roland didn't see them clearly and mistook them for red vines.

They crawled on the grass and on the edge of the stone bridge.

The entire castle in the distance is covered with not vines but dense blood vessels!
"Why are there so many blood vessels? Is this some kind of spell?"

Roland looked at Delia beside him in surprise.

Delia blinked and said, "What blood vessels?"

Roland: “?”

At this moment, he suddenly saw a tiny blood vessel spreading to Roland's feet not far away.

Wherever he sets foot, he will step on it.

Roland quickly retracted his foot and tried to move to the other side, but the blood vessel started moving with him, insisting he step on it.

With a snap, Delia stepped on the blood vessel, crushing it. Then, numerous small blood vessels sprouted from her body.

Those small blood vessels were attached to her skin, swaying like little branches, etc., but they weren't blood vessels at all!

That's a leech!

It was a leech that had sucked up so much blood that it turned bright red!

"Cough, cough, cough." Delia covered her chest and coughed a few times, coughing out a lot of leeches.

As if noticing Roland looking at her with a dull gaze, Delia smiled and said, "It's okay, just a minor problem. Maybe I got too much sun today."

Roland: “???”

(End of this chapter)