I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

Chapter 264 Escape Plan, there is no sharpshooter at all!
After Roland opened his eyes, he hurriedly looked towards a dark corner in the cell.

Then, a strange big penguin followed Roland's gaze and inexplicably appeared in that corner.

She jumped up and down in place and did an elegant ballet pose, but because the puppet costume was too fat, she looked funny.

——This is Leona.

She had been sober for some time.

A few days ago, she suddenly appeared in the prison, giving Roland a big surprise. Roland excitedly hugged her and spun around several times!

These past few days, Roland had been quietly arranging for her to help him find things.

It doesn't matter if the Dimensional Bag is lost, but the Snake Ring cannot be lost! Especially the 'Heraka Dead Bible' and the Red Saint in the Snake Ring!
The Red Saint is a powerful demon with the strength of the second level! She also devoured the female demon!
She is the booked lead singer for the Roland Choir.

The Bible mentions seven good spirits, who are the key to helping Roland conquer the Red Saint again. These seven good spirits are simply the perfect candidates to cultivate the 'Shepherdess of Holy Blood'!
Once he helps them complete the promotion, Roland will have seven more Heracles wizards!
That's right, it's a wizard! The Holy Blood Helaka wizard who has entered the Path of Truth!
As for race, who knows what they'll evolve into in the next stage? At worst, they'll be mutant banshees.

In any case, the Red Saint + the Seven Good Spirits will be able to form an amazing choir!

As long as they start singing the Squeaky Chorus, even the second-level wizards can't stand it!
Therefore, anything can be lost, but this snake ring must not be lost!
Seeing Leona looking over curiously, Roland quickly made a shushing gesture. Then he gave her a look—did you find it?
Leona blinked, reached into the amber puppet costume, and took out a ring and a dimensional bag.

I found both things!

Roland was overjoyed and hugged Leona and kissed her hard.

He took the thing, looked through it carefully, and found that everything inside was complete - including the magic carpet.

'The contents were not taken away?'

Roland couldn't help but reveal a strange look: "Since that guy doesn't like my things, how could he be an ordinary second-level wizard?"
Even a second-level wizard would be greedy for Roland's things.

Not to mention 'The Hammer and the Chisel' and 'Elegy of the Angel of Death', nor the magic carpet of 'The Shepherdess and the Devil' and 'The Church of Heraclea'.

Even the fake holy garment is a rare treasure - even if Saladin doesn't like it, he can still give it to his disciple, right?
Well, even if he has no disciples and feels that his disciples and confidants are not worthy, it is always okay for him to take out things and use them to win people's hearts, right?

At worst, isn't he always worried about his son-in-law? Find someone who is very good at playing other people, let him play his son-in-law, and then use these things as benefits!
It seems that Old Biden is planning to let me be his son-in-law!

So he didn't touch his things!
But since he was planning to let me play the role of his son-in-law, why did he have to send me to a slave ship?
What does that mean? Doesn't being a cow on the Faun's farm conflict with being his son-in-law?

Get lost! Old Biden, I'm going to kill you sooner or later!
Roland was filled with hatred. If he couldn't escape, he would really have to become Old Bidden's son-in-law. I'll turn around and let you hold my grandson!
No, I still have to escape!
Roland had heard quite a few rumors about the Shepherd's Farm over the past few days. Entering that place would leave you ruined!

As a mysterious place, the Shepherd's Farm is indeed a good place for adventure, but you must not go there as a slave. Otherwise, you will surely die!
I don’t know what Saladin is thinking, nor do I know what he is going to do with these things. Roland is a little confused about his actions.

Roland thought to himself, "Maybe that guy never intended to make me his son-in-law, and it's not that he doesn't like these things. He just hasn't had the time to deal with them these days, or maybe he wants to give them to someone more valuable, so he hasn't touched them yet."

No matter what, I'm about to board the slave ship, and these things can save my life.

Roland really wanted Leona to steal the things right now, but if Leona didn't return the things today, Gawain might find out.

But if Leona returns the things, Gawain might move them to another place at any time, and it would be difficult to get them back then.

Everything else is easy to deal with, but the Red Saint must not be given to anyone else. This is my trump card to save my life!

After much thought, Roland decided to take a gamble. He rummaged through his things and took out two thumb-sized 'gems'.

This is an interesting little treasure in the hands of the Third Saint Lady. I don’t know if I can use it now.

Roland swallowed one himself and then gave one to Leona.

Then, Roland closed his eyes, frowned, and mobilized his mental strength.

His mental power could not extend too far outside his body, but it could successfully extend to the orb in his stomach.

When he touched the orb with his mind, he actually gained Leona's perspective!
At the same time, Leona tilted her head, and she felt that she "heard" Brother Roland whispering to her in her body.

She listened to Roland's whispers, skipped around in the cell, and then disappeared. A moment later, Leona reappeared in the cell, but with a deck of cards in her hand.

That was the jailers' usual entertainment.

Roland was overjoyed and praised Leona.

Roland thought to himself, "Now I can start a video call and remotely guide Leona's work!"
Leona, this little fool, had the intelligence of a child. Roland often gave her a hard time when he told her to handle something. He'd ask her to bring back an apple, but she'd often bring back a banana.

But now it's different - when Roland needs the Snake Ring and the Dimension Bag, he no longer has to worry about Leona making a mistake.

Roland asked Leona to return his Snake Ring and Dimension Bag to their original places, and then asked Leona to hide in the Church of the Snake Ring.

The straw church is made of a mysterious substance called "straw". Even a second-level wizard would find it difficult to explore all the areas inside using only mental power.

Leona often hides in the church these days, and no one has discovered her so far.

With Leona among his belongings, Roland could take things away at any time. At least he could take the ring away at any time.

As for the dimensional bag, if it is always placed near the ring, Roland can command Leona to steal the dimensional bag as well.

If the dimensional bag is taken away, whether Leona can find it will probably depend on a bit of luck.

We were about to enter the slave ship. There wouldn't be any dedicated second-level wizards guarding the slave ship. Even if there were, there wouldn't be more than one.

Roland planned to conduct a maneuver on the slave ship. He would subdue the Red Saint on the slave ship and then make a big move.

For a long time, when facing enemies that he could not defeat, the mysterious illusion often helped Roland defeat the strong with the weak.

The Nagas were very familiar with the sea, and slave ships would not pass through the mysterious zone. So Roland probably wouldn't be able to wait for mysterious help this time.

So, this time he plans to transform himself into a mysterious person!

He bet that the people on the slave ship could not take him in.

Roland asked Leona to return the things and then find a place to hide them again.

Early the next morning, a group of people arrived.

It turned out to be some of the original traitor passengers!
But by this time, they had changed their attire. Their robes were embroidered with a three-headed snake. It looked like they held high positions.

They brought with them a group of Naga followers, who were like servants, completely obedient to the passengers' orders. The Naga jailers who guarded the prisoners were also fawning, calling them "sirs" one by one.

Suddenly, Roland knew that many Black Sails and their passengers had joined Triskel and became Billy's men.

This group of people came to interrogate the prisoners.

Except for Roland, almost everyone was interrogated.

The interrogation room was not far away, and Roland vaguely heard some of the content.

It seemed that among the imprisoned people, except Roland, all of them knew secrets that must not be known to the southerners.

Triceratops is a southern organization, and the prisoners boarded the ship to join the southern forces.

Now that I see that some people have already joined Triceratops and received good treatment, there is no reason for Triceratops not to accept me!
The opportunity was right in front of them, so everyone naturally revealed some of their secrets.

These secrets were revealed just enough to convince people that they did possess the information. However, they only revealed part of it—if they were killed, no one would know the secrets.

After they came back, many of them looked happy, thinking that it would not be long before they would join Triskel and receive better treatment.

The other two bosses were also called out by the group for questioning, but surprisingly, the two bosses did not reveal any secrets.

Not only did they keep their mouths shut, they also sneered at the interrogators, saying that even if they knew something, they would not tell anyone.

They seemed to know Gawain, or 'Saladin the Three-Headed Snake.' There was a saying they had.

——"Tell that traitor Saladin that everything he has gained in the South is due to the South's fear of the East and its dread of the Thousand-Eyed King! His only value is that he is a thorn in Your Majesty's side. The day the South no longer fears Your Majesty, Saladin will be abandoned like a dog! Hahahaha, he will not have a good end. Like us, he will either die at the hands of Your Majesty or at the hands of the southerners!"

It sounds like Saladin, the Three-Headed Hydra leader who wanted Roland to be his son-in-law, was originally a traitor to the Twilight Council. He ruined many of the Thousand-Eyed King's deeds, and then turned traitor and ran to the south to join Hydra.

Like Saladin, these two leaders were the Thousand-Eyed King's most despotic enemies. Their mentors were Star Elders of the Twilight Council, trusted aides of the Thousand-Eyed King. While publicly obedient to the Thousand-Eyed King, they secretly colluded with the White Council.

The rule of the Twilight Council is too dark. Although there are many good places like Sea Fort, there are also many places that are "seeding people".

In many places, not only many civilians have no way to survive, but wizards have no way to survive either!
Like the Blood-Dried Wizard, many wizards live in fear all day long, fearing that one day they will become the next batch of seeds and the next batch of experimental subjects of the Path of Truth.

Therefore, many wizards are loyal to the Twilight Council and the Thousand-Eyed King on the surface, but secretly dream of becoming a white wizard under the rule of the White Council.

The veteran mentor of the two big guys has a greater ideal - to overthrow the Thousand-Eyed King and usher in the era of the White Queen in the East.

But as Catherine said, no one can defeat the Thousand-Eyed King. The only way to defeat him is to be stronger than him, but this is impossible.

Therefore, unless the Thousand-Eyed King ascends, his time will eventually come.

The elder mentor of the two bosses was eventually exposed and died a very miserable death - he was transformed into a 'star seed' through alchemy.

The veteran mentor of these two big guys was betrayed to death by the people of the White Chess Council - during that negotiation, the top leaders of the White Chess Council not only ceded a lot of land, but also betrayed their allies in the Twilight Council!

The forces that resist the Thousand-Eyed King have no chance of survival in the East, and the only way out for many people is in the South.

Therefore, these two second-level bosses hid their identities and found ways to sneak onto the ship.

Now, the ship was taken over by the "Saladin Three-Headed Snake" under the southern Hydra forces. As long as the two of them nodded, they would be treated as honored guests. They could even set up their own Three-Headed Snake like Saladin!

But they rejected the olive branch.

They hated the Thousand-Eyed King immensely, yet they also feared him immensely.

The ideologies of both sides are as diametrically opposed as water and fire, but they are both people working towards one goal - to prevent the East from becoming a farm of God and the people of the East from becoming sheep to be slaughtered.

They went south because they were completely disillusioned with the East. They were afraid of the twilight and very disappointed with the white chess.

They went to the South, perhaps to retire, or perhaps to wait for the situation in the East to change before returning. But they were unwilling to join the Southern forces.

It is not easy to get them to join Hydra.

That day, the interrogators took the two men away and they never returned. They seemed to have been summoned by Saladin himself, and Saladin seemed confident that he could persuade them to join.

In addition to these two people, a large number of people were taken away one after another.

The cell was much quieter, with only about two hundred people left. But it was still very crowded.

Some of those who were taken away were carrying top secrets from the East. Once they joined the Three-Headed Snake, they would leak the secrets even if Saladin kept strict watch.

Because Saladin can guarantee that there are no people from the church in his three-headed hydra, but he cannot guarantee that there are no people sent by the upper-level Hydra in his team.

In other words, he knew that Hydra had planted a nail next to him, but he couldn't pull it out.

Therefore, the secrets and technologies possessed by these people will be leaked to Hydra!

Hydra is an obstacle to the Eastern Territory's counterattack against the Southern Church. Once Hydra obtains the Eastern Territory's technology and secrets, they will become even more powerful and more difficult to deal with, and will be even less likely to join the Eastern Territory's forces.

This would be a huge blow to the East Territory, and also to the Thousand-Eyed King and Catherine's future plans for the South.

This incident seemed to prove once again that Saladin was not the incarnation of the Thousand-Eyed King. Roland's expression became more and more strange.

The remaining people in the cell were all traitors with little value. Although they held a lot of key intelligence, their own qualities were somewhat average.

Some of them have some ability, but they have no moral integrity - some of them not only have no moral integrity, but are also stupid and bad.

Saladin was a man of great ambition, but he looked down on these people.

These people have been sentenced to death and will be sent to the "bull farm". Once there, the succubi will have plenty of ways to pry things out of their mouths.

It seems like I will be sent to the cattle farm to be a dairy cow.
A few days later, a large group of three-headed snake wizards and Nagas came to the prison and took away the prisoners in batches.

Many people initially thought that Lord Saladin was trying to recruit them into his gang. But after all the people in the cell were escorted away, everyone suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Roland was among the last group, and he followed the Nagas out of the cell.

The team seemed to be heading for the deck.

On the way, Roland paid attention to the three-headed snakes that were responsible for escorting the prisoners, and found that there were many traitorous passengers among them - all of them were taken away that day!

As we continued to go upstairs, more and more people appeared in the hall and corridor.

Roland found the Titania as orderly as ever. The crew was still the Black Sails, but the Black Sails embroidered on their uniforms had been transformed into three-headed snakes.

Apparently, the Black Sails have all joined Triceratops. This is normal.

However, Roland didn't see many of the original Three-Headed Snake's men. It seemed that among his future father-in-law's original men, there weren't many Three-Headed Snake wizards. Most of them were Nagas. It looked like a newly formed small Three-Headed Snake faction.

Because they are short of manpower, they have to rely on the new Black Sails to ensure the normal operation of the ship.

Roland couldn't help but have a question in his mind - Saladin (Billy) had said before that there were not many ships (sharpshooters) in the three-headed snake that could compete with the Titania.

As a little three-headed snake, does Saladin (Billy) have such a ship?

Soon, Roland saw many wizards who refused to join the three-headed snake. They were put in slave shackles and served as slaves of the three-headed snake. Under the supervision of the crew, the slaves carried things or used magic to repair some damaged parts of the ship.

These shackles seem to allow people to retain a little bit of magic power and use some low-level magic.

As Roland passed through some halls, he saw a few shivering passengers. They were real passengers, real southerners.

Judging from what some crew members said, the Three-Headed Snake seemed to be planning to send these normal passengers to the south as agreed.

There were several three-headed snake wizards in front who were counting the number of prisoners one by one. Roland heard some of their conversation.

The whole "Titania". Oh no, it seems to have been renamed "Black Coral" now.

The Black Coral originally carried a total of 2207 people, including 1316 passengers of all types and 891 crew members of all types.

Now, there were only about 300 passengers left, and the crew, including the Nagas and three-headed snake wizards, numbered over 1,500.

There were also six hundred slaves—crew and passengers.

If you count, there are more than 2,400 people on the ship now. Excluding the more than 200 prisoners including Roland, there are 2,200 people in total.

In other words, Saladin only brought more than 200 Nagas and wizards with him on this attack.

The level of these Naga and Three-Headed Snake wizards is similar to that of the Black Sails, but far inferior to that of the passengers on the ship.

The Titania's men far outnumbered Saladin's men in both numbers and quality, yet he managed to capture this ship of over 2,000 wizards without a single drop of blood.

The work of recruiting people to surrender went very smoothly, and few people died during the period.
No wonder, the sharpshooter was aiming at you from a distance, so why would you resist?

Soon, Roland came onto the deck.

There was plenty of sunlight on the deck, and a large merchant ship with a tattered sail was approaching the Black Coral.

Batches of prisoners were being escorted onto the dilapidated large sailing merchant ship, on which was hoisted a tattered three-headed snake flag.

Many Nagas were sailing on the sea near the ship - that tattered sailing pirate ship was Saladin's only ship.

There's no sharpshooter at all.
(End of this chapter)