I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

Chapter 31 Eight People

After a while, when everyone had finished recording, the instructor gathered everyone around and asked two questions.

The first question is how many statues there are here.

The second question is what kind of statues they are.

"167." The blond freshman said, "There are 167 in total, including wizards and apprentices."

Wallace laughed and said, "I haven't studied the statues, but these 167 statues all look like heroes. Judging by the statues' movements, many of them appear to be fighting something."

The red-haired freshman was not to be outdone. He said, "I've studied statues. These statues use the concept of Verrocco's sculpture, which makes their images very popular - so it looks like everyone has been together for a long time."

Roland's pupils suddenly shrank.

Suddenly, Roland realized something was wrong: "No, that's not right. They're not hallucinating! They weren't just studying the air! They were also studying the statue!"
"I see the statue of the Twelve Knights on the Cross, and they see the statue of another martyr!"

It turns out that the number and image of the statues in the passage are different in the eyes of different people.

Roland just felt that Leonard and the others were studying the air.

But in the eyes of Leonard and others, Roland was also studying the air!
Reynard nodded and said, "Come to think of it, these statues do look very familiar. It's as if I've seen these people before. What about Roland? What do you see in these statues? Don't be shy."

Roland hesitated for a moment, then chose to tell the truth: "I only saw 12 statues—12 angels wearing knight armor."

Everyone was stunned.

"It seems Roland has a mental problem." The blond freshman laughed, "There is no such statue here at all."

"Yes," Catherine said. "There are statues of knights, twelve in total. Of course, there are also statues of wizards, apprentices, and priests, a total of 12."

罗兰心中暗道：‘12加上167再加上8在这次黄褐蕨林之行中，我们一共来了187个人！其中，179个人受难了！'
'Their images are recorded in the passage!'

At this time, Wallace frowned and asked, "Lady Catherine, are you saying that there are actually 179 statues here? And we only saw 167 of them, and Roland only saw 12 of them. Why is that?"

Catherine said: "You can only see 169 statues because your fate intersects with those 169 people - these 169 people should all be wizards from our academy.

Roland could only see 12 statues because his fate only intersected with those 12 people.

I can see all the statues because I am the organizer of the team. Before entering the fern forest, I had an intersection with the fate of these 179 people.

Everyone was confused by what they heard - Leonard and the others no longer remembered those 167 people. They didn't know about the suffering, so they were still confused.

Catherine ignored them. She thought it didn't matter whether they understood or not, what mattered was that Roland understood.

So, she stopped dwelling on this issue and instead looked at Baron Hall and asked a question: "Hall, how many statues of martyrs are there here? I mean, how many people have been here?"

The baron shook his head and said, "There are 37,576 statues in total. They are densely packed together, and they all glare at the Garden of Suffering at the end of the passage. And I don't recognize any of them."

The Baron had come here countless times over the years.

He thought that every time he came, there was only himself, Julie or Anthony in the team.

But in reality, every time a group came through, there were always many, many people. The Baron said, "When I first came here, Julie told me that she used her compass to count the statues here, and there were over 700,000 of them—each one the size of a fingernail, glaring angrily at the sealed place at the end of the passage."

"But I took my compass and counted the entire passage, and I only saw 3287."

"When I came here the second time, there were 1936 more statues in the passage."

"Later, every time I came here, the number of statues in the passage would increase. At first, it increased by hundreds, then by a few hundred or dozens. Today, the number of statues has only increased by 179."

"Including these 179, there are a total of 37576 people. No, . They are all heroes who once fought against the Lord of the Abyss. They have been completely forgotten by this world."

The Baron shook his head and said, "I have forgotten who they are, but I think all my friends, all those I could find, have died here."

Baron was not the original organizer of the team, he was just an unlucky guy who joined the team because of Julie.

But gradually, he was the only one left in the team.

He took over the burden of the pioneers and became the organizer of the team.

In fact, when the Baron explored the fern forest three months ago, he and Anthony were not the only ones who survived. There were more than 300 people who came that time, and 14 survived.

These 14 people are Baron Hall, Anthony, and the Holy Knights (the angels descended into the knights' bodies).
After entering the ruins, Baron Hall said to Catherine: My life has been a complete failure, and you are my only friend who is willing to die with me.

Is Catherine more than his friend?
There are thousands and thousands of friends who are willing to die with him!
Those 37576 people are all warriors who are willing to follow the Baron and come here!
But people have completely forgotten everything about them.

Roland thought to himself, "No wonder, even though the situation in the Fern Forest is so serious, the Baron, Anthony, and the Baroness are the only three people in the world who know about it!"

'Because everyone who knew the fern forest, besides them, suffered!'

"These heroes have completely vanished and have nothing to do with this world anymore."

'There are tens of thousands of them, and they have come here one after another, and then fell into the abyss forgotten by the world in their suffering!'

At this moment, Roland finally understood how the devil's hand in the sky withered - there were once 780,000 heroes who came here one after another to prevent the Lord of the Abyss from coming.

Today, most of the Abyss Lord's will has been expelled back into the abyss along with the sacrifices of countless heroes, leaving only a sealed remnant.

However, there still needs to be a final group of heroes who are willing to come and die to completely drive away the regrets.

Today, 187 heroes came here.

179 of them sacrificed their lives on the way, building a road to the sealed land.

There are only 8 people left in the team.

In the future, some of these eight people might be killed by the devil, or some by their companions, but none of them would suffer anymore.

These eight people are Roland, Catherine, Nar, Anna, Baron Hall, the blond freshman, the red-haired freshman, Wallace, and Leonard.

They are the last eight people, and some of them will complete the final mission for those heroes.

(End of this chapter)