I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

Chapter 38 Insidious
Roland's purpose in attacking the red-haired freshman was to kill him and prevent him from being eaten by the demon. He had no intention of fighting the demon head-on, so he immediately fled after attacking.

Wallace had mentioned before that the demon was too weak to perform any effective moves, and that the real challenge lay in the magical artifacts it held. He was right. But the key point was that the demon possessed simply too many magical artifacts!
The good news is that the demon will devour some rare items, so it won't have too many left in its hands.

But the bad news is that the demon will regain its strength after eating the magic item.

After leaving the blond freshman, Roland headed straight for the West Hall. Using his telepathy, he explored the surroundings along the way and soon found a large number of relics in the West Hall. It seemed the demon hadn't deceived the blond freshman; there were indeed many treasures here.

Roland's mind moved, and various objects on the ground flew towards him under the influence of telepathy. He took a quick look and reached out to open the dimensional bag at his waist, letting the debris in the air fall into the dimensional bag.

Roland thought to himself, "I must collect everything in the hall as quickly as possible, faster than the demons. Hmm? There seem to be a few useful artifacts, but they're all contaminated. Although my Demonic Invulnerability can resist contamination and curses, it's best to forge them with the Dawn Fire before using them. I'll wait until I've searched the entire hall before doing so."

Roland controlled the surrounding debris to continuously fall into the dimensional bag. At this time, a cracked gem flew over. This gem contained the violent power of the fire element.

Roland's heart skipped a beat, and he carefully and hurriedly stopped the orb in mid-air. He wrapped it up with something soft and put it into his dimensional bag.

"This orb is already very unstable. It seems it could be used as a trap."

While thinking, Roland had already collected everything here. He did not stop and continued to search for relics in other directions of the hall.

He checked every place in the hall, and after collecting everything, he came to a place, opened the "Alayeh Notebook", and checked one of his skills.

[Apprentice-level magic circle. Getting started (6/100)]

He used all the 100 enlightenment points he had gained earlier on the magic circle. Then, he took out the damaged orb from his dimensional bag.

The orb contains the terrifying power of fire element.

He thought to himself, "As long as I leave behind a magic circle like this, I can activate the violent fire elemental power of the orb."

About a few minutes after Roland left the west hall, the demon and the blond freshman also drifted to the west hall.

"Old man, shouldn't we go look for that little mouse? I don't know where that coward has escaped to."

"Master, don't worry, he can't run away. I'm so hungry, let's collect the rare items here first."

The two of them flew calmly to the west side of the hall, but after searching around, they found nothing. The demon's expression froze slightly.

"I remember it should be here. Let's look around here."

The two searched the area for a while, but they didn't see even a piece of torn clothing.

The blond freshman began to cry out, "Old man! You lied to me! There's nothing here!"

"Shut up!" the demon shouted angrily, "Go to the northeast corner of the hall!"

When the blond freshman arrived at the first location, he was already one step behind Roland. As a low-level apprentice, his speed was far inferior to that of a high-level swordsman. If he was one step slower, every step would be slower.

Next, the blond freshman followed the demon's instructions and went to several places, but found nothing. During the journey, the demon spotted the stealing mouse and was about to stop it, but the mouse inexplicably teleported more than ten meters away and disappeared without a trace.

"Old man! That guy picked up a rare item!" shouted the blond freshman.

"Go to the south side, go to the south side!" The devil was so angry that his whole body was shaking.

"Old man, are you stupid? The south is where we first came to, and we have already got the things there!" The south is where Roland first fought with them.

"Go! There are two more bodies there!"

The demon was now like a starving refugee. It could have had a hearty magical feast (a magical item), but it had been stolen by bandits. Then, it remembered the slop it had previously ignored—the two corpses.

Soon, the two returned to the body of the red-haired newborn, but the charred corpse was completely carbonized.

The devil hesitated for a long time, but ultimately did not choose to eat the corpse.

"Old man, that guy must have got some rare item, otherwise he wouldn't run so fast!"

The blond freshman was still brooding over what had happened before: "However, I am the only one who can use your things. He actually dared to use a contaminated artifact. He is not far from death!"

The demon ignored the blond newborn. It didn't think he would be contaminated anytime soon, given his Demon Invulnerability. If he wasn't afraid of death and used his magical artifact to fight it, it would be a real challenge. The demon's expression darkened.

From the blond's memory, the boy named Roland was just a young, barely-grown kid living in the countryside. He had only recently been exposed to magic and was a lowly apprentice.

Normally, after encountering what happened today, people like this would only have the thought of running away, even if they didn't pee their pants out of fear.

But in fact it's quite the opposite.

That cunning little mouse reminded the devil of those insidious and cunning Black Abyss wizards, as well as Baron Hall who repeatedly brought people to disgust him.

It was the same back then. We were just a group of small ants, but we ended up in such a situation.

I don’t know when I can deal with those guys outside, but I’m afraid I’ll have to waste some time here.

"A wizard from the Black Abyss?"

The devil's eyes gradually became cautious.

The demon knew all the artifacts in the hall. It knew that even if Roland could deal with the pollution, he could only find two undamaged artifacts at most. But it also understood that it was extremely weak and just like that boy, it was an ant.

It no longer acted arrogantly and decided to deal with the small trouble in front of it seriously.

After thinking for a moment, the demon looked at Wallace's body in the distance and ordered, "Go over there."

The blond freshman's eyesight wasn't as good as the demon's, and when he flew over, he discovered that Wallace's body was still there.

"Great, old man! This corpse is very fresh!" The blond said with joy, "Old man, you have something to eat!"

"Well." The demon looked at the corpse with an expression of extreme disgust in his eyes, but he signaled the blond freshman to lift the corpse.

The blond freshman waved the wand in his hand and lifted the corpse into the air.

Ding Dong Dong Dong
An orb fell from the corpse.

When the devil saw the orb, he showed a look of disdain in his eyes.

The orb seemed to contain a powerful fire elemental force. The moment it shattered, the blond freshman felt a terrifying magical fluctuation.

The blond freshman's face changed drastically: "Not good!"

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A fierce firestorm erupted from the orb beneath the corpse, instantly transforming the surrounding area of ​​more than ten meters into a sea of ​​fire. At the same time, a bolt of lightning struck from behind a distant stone pillar, striking directly at the center of the sea of ​​fire.

Sizzle
Unlike previous lightning attacks, this lightning bolt didn't vanish instantly after striking its target, but instead remained glued to the target, flickering continuously in mid-air. This indicated that the demon hadn't yet opened the barrier.

"It hit the target, but it doesn't seem to be using the lantern for protection. Has the lantern been eaten by the demon?" Roland frowned, vaguely sensing something was amiss.

At this moment, he suddenly heard three faint voices, and vaguely saw three black lights flashing in succession in the sea of ​​fire.

Roland's pupils changed drastically, and he quickly retreated behind the cover.

Fortunately, he found a cover before attacking, otherwise he would have no time to dodge.

After the three black lights flew over, one of them hit the bunker, and the other two brushed past it. But halfway through, the two black lights turned around and flew towards Roland again!

Who would pay attention to stray bullets on the battlefield? If Wallace hadn't mentioned the Gray Wand earlier, Roland would have been killed by the demon.

But even if he already knew the characteristics of the gray wand, he was still in a panic.

The black light was too fast, like a maggot attached to the bone, difficult to shake off. He narrowly dodged the second black light, but when the third black light flew over, he could no longer dodge it.

In a flash, Roland activated a 'silver pocket watch' (a rare item) in his arms.

Then, everything around me slowed down.

(End of this chapter)