I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

Roland, sweat dripping from his face, kept a distance from the sea of ​​sky above him. As he slowly descended, he looked up at the sky with red eyes and shouted, "Old man, what on earth do you want to do?"

Catherine angrily said to Roland, "What are you talking about! What can father do? He just didn't see us!"

Roland gritted his teeth and said, "I don't think so!"

A harsh noise rumbled and echoed around, like God whispering in the deep sea.

God seemed to be responding to the crowd. His words were very brief, but no one could hear them clearly.

Everyone could only vaguely feel that the Thousand-Eyed King seemed to be saying one word - but he was saying thousands of words.

If these thousands and thousands of words are combined according to certain rules and order, they will form complete sentences.

But they were spoken at the same time, in no particular order!
Therefore, no one could understand the meaning—except Roland.

After hearing this, Roland's face changed drastically. He pointed at the sky and shouted, "Don't be ridiculous! What do you mean you weren't proficient the first time? Didn't expect the weight to be too heavy for you to handle?!"

Roland's words left everyone confused and they didn't react for a long time.

What do you mean?
Did the Thousand-Eyed King cause trouble because it was his first time using the Seagod Stone to do this?

how can that be!

He's not O'Reilly!
At this time, another voice came from the sky, and this time everyone actually understood it.

"Stop talking nonsense, you little bastard! Just try it and you'll know! I told you I'd give you an hour at most, and you kept dawdling and waiting for the last few minutes!"
Suddenly everyone understood why they didn't understand what the Thousand-Eyed King said just now - before, the Thousand-Eyed King was too anxious and a little out of control, and all his body parts were talking at the same time, so no one could hear a word.

He has calmed down a little now and his speech is not so chaotic, so everyone can understand him.

Everyone's eyes went dark!
They never expected that the Thousand-Eyed King could sometimes be as unreliable as O'Reilly!

Roland cursed, "Think of a solution! Now, let alone saving them, we can't even escape!"
Catherine suddenly remembered the accident that happened when they and O'Reilly were teleporting at the Well of Faith.

At that time, O'Reilly was teleporting, but because the Well of Faith was too close, everyone was sucked in.

Now, the Well of Faith is mapped into the Sky Sea, and the situation is the same as before!

However, if we were to say run, we could actually still run. As long as everyone could break free of this divine state and enter the stable transmission channel within the Holy Hall, they could still leave here.

But if that's the case, there's definitely no way to save people.

Therefore, the reason why Roland said this was because he wanted to save people.

Tianhai's descent slowed down a little bit, and everyone heard the Thousand-Eyed King say.

——["Don't even think about turning into a mad god, brat. In the old scriptures..."]
The Thousand-Eyed King's voice became more and more urgent, and his thousands of bodies spoke the rest of the words in one word, and suddenly the sky roared like thunder.

But there were also people who understood a little bit.

It seemed that the Thousand-Eyed King spoke thousands of words in just a few seconds, recounting the old scriptures to Roland.

Roland heard it clearly.

"Roland, you've read the Holy Old Testament, and you know the stories of The Ant Empire and the Drought and The Crazy Rabbit. You also know that God can be reshaped by human faith."

So, you have always been afraid that the old church would create an evil god of the end.

Indeed, many people have longed for such a God.

In the earliest times, people's beliefs were very extreme and pure.

At that time, wizards had not yet risen, and people had no hope in this world that belonged to God.

They are constantly searching for the way to light in this dark world, but because they have never seen the sun and have no concept of light, they find themselves on the wrong path.

But times have changed.

This is the age of wizards!
The great prophets of ancient times drove away the real evil gods!
And now we have found paths leading to the future for this world!

Although these paths have yet to be explored, we have proven that light exists in this world!
Those members of the Alayeh royal family who had fled to the East saw these roads, as did both the New and Old Churches.

Some were terrified, others excited. Some desperately wanted to reach the divine realm and sever our future. Others, at all costs, protected this future.

Madmen like Marquez who still look forward to the end of the world have been eliminated by the times!
There are more people like 'Caitlin and Rona'.

It doesn't matter who the god is, as long as he can bring a future to this world, he is Alayeh Roland. What people are looking forward to is a patron saint!

How could such a prayer turn a person into the God of the End?

If someone accepts their beliefs and fulfills their wishes, how can they be considered an evil god?]
The Thousand-Eyed King's words washed over Roland's mind like a flood. A thought flashed through his mind at that moment: If I accept this belief, won't I become a working god in the future? A working god with no self, who can only do what people believe?

The Thousand-Eyed King seemed to sense Roland's thoughts and said.

——[“Aren’t we just like that?
What we think and do is for the collective interest, not the individual interest.

Rather than saying that we are gods, it is better to say that we are leaders pushed to the front by countless people.

The gods are afraid of such beliefs because they are unwilling to lead the flock, unwilling to descend from the high sky into the flock and become the leader of the flock!

So they try their best to "purify" such beliefs in order to preserve their "self".

But we are different. We have stepped out of the flock, and we will eventually stand among the flock and lead the way!
Carrying people's beliefs and leading everyone towards the truth, we are indeed bound by the wishes of countless people behind us.

Rather than getting lost in people’s expectations and losing yourself, it’s better to let go of selfishness!

Roland, in my understanding, this is the meaning of the foolish old scriptures saying 'all are one' - standing with the people, with one heart and one mind!
Roland had an epiphany.

If people can lose themselves in faith, then I was already lost the moment I stepped into the 'Heroes' Tomb' of the yellow-brown fern forest.

When he first came through, he was only thinking about himself and no one else.

At that time, the senior and Baron Hall forced Roland to save Valeria, but Roland was extremely unwilling. In the end, he did not become a hero.

He simply chose the path that would allow him to survive between the choice of 'everyone dies together' and 'everyone lives together' - at that time, he was not a hero.

Later, in Human Skin Town and the Land of the End, he chose the common interests - he was not a hero at that time.

In the Kingdom of Amir (Crystal Princess Syndrome), Roland did a truly good deed. But at the time, he only vaguely felt that people like Amber and her grandfather shouldn't be let down. At that time, Roland was still not a hero, but he gradually understood the concept of a hero.

Slowly, Roland began to pay attention to the world and the flock he lived with.

During his trip to Bleeding Castle, he still didn't act like a hero, but he did start talking with his senior about the future of the world.

They hope to change the Twilight Council and the White Council so that the dark wizards who spread magic will no longer "race people", and the white wizards will put aside the theory of bloodline and spread magic to accept Muggles.

After discovering that Catherine didn't understand the lives of the lower class, he asked her to learn more about the lives of people in various places and told Catherine that many people couldn't even afford clothes.

He even told the Thousand-Eyed King to his face that he was a tyrant and that he should leave government affairs to his wife and daughter so that he could focus on dealing with the enemies who threatened the kingdom.

Now, it has been more than 20 years.

A lot of things happened in the East. History is completely different from before (parallel world), and many things have changed.

Unknowingly, Roland had already participated in the journey of changing the world as a sheep.

Now, he has also changed from being passive to being active - when he learned about the 'end of the world', he began to conceive of the 'submarine'.

After learning about the church's great judgment, he came to the ruins and personally disrupted their plans.

Roland is still not a hero now, because he has not completely let go of himself and has not completely lost himself in the flock.

Because it was in his interest to thwart the Protestant plan, if he didn't participate he would be dead. So he was still thinking about the world from his own perspective, not from the perspective of the flock.

Now, Roland had come to this point, and he was faced with another decision.

Saving Malrod's flocks was of no benefit to Roland himself.

He could just run away into the Holy Church right now.

But if he goes to rescue him, he will face the risk of becoming a mad god - just like Collard, turning into a strange thing.

Even if he hadn't turned into a mad god, after saving people, he might not have had time to escape.

So, he should run away.

But if I leave, who can take care of this matter?

Many people will die, many people who place all their hopes on themselves will die!
Roland suddenly realized that he had unknowingly become "lost." He was bound by the expectations of countless people behind him. He couldn't bear to see these people who trusted him die!

Even if I might die.

Just as the Thousand-Eyed King said, Roland had already become a leader without realizing it!

Many of his decisions determine the future of many people!

At this moment, an idea popped into Roland's mind - even if I became something like Collard, I would fall into the Sky Sea and be sealed together with Darak!

When Roland relaxed his body and mind and listened to people's calls, he heard the firm belief in people's hearts.

This belief contains very, very complex emotions.

It seems that everyone knows that Roland is the great wizard who takes people out of suffering and saves everyone!
But they think Roland is a god.

It turned out that after the core members of the church entered the ruins, the Eastern Territory wizards and the Old Church believers of Harland's faction among the refugees began to take action.

Everyone has been preparing for today's escape for more than half a month.

Although most people failed to arrive at the agreed teleportation location on time, everyone knew that the wizards would rescue them today.

The wizards have long since given everyone scientific information, explaining the process and precautions of using the Holy Hall to save people.

So everyone knows that the holy scene in heaven was caused by the Holy Church, a "man-made holy object," and not some miracle.

People knew that the strange giant of light in the sky was a sacred place created by wizards using sacred objects, but they were full of beautiful longing for the giant.

No matter whether he is a wizard or something else, at this moment, he is God!
He is his Lord, the God he has fantasized about countless times, the one who will lead him out of suffering and to a beautiful new home!
This God has absolutely nothing to do with destroying the world, because He represents the deepest hopes in people's hearts.

He has absolutely nothing to do with evil gods!
Tens of millions of unwavering beliefs continuously surged into Roland's body and mind. They were like an incomparably strong anchor in the ocean, tying Roland firmly to this plane.

In such a powerful force, Roland's inner demons could not take him away from here and ascend to the Kingdom of Madness.

The inner demon is like a small stone thrown into the sea. Before it can make any waves, it is covered by the huge waves.

The experience that had troubled Roland countless times and dragged him into the lower world did not reappear. Instead, another strange experience occurred.

He felt like he was observing everyone from a God's perspective, but at the same time he felt like he was standing among the crowd on the ground.

Suddenly Roland discovered the reason - he could feel everyone's thoughts and emotions, as well as what everyone saw and heard. This made him feel as if he was standing on the ground himself.

At this moment, Roland was alone, yet he was everyone.

He was like an immense, combined will, which gave Roland the spiritual power of tens of millions of people.

At this moment, Roland felt like he had upgraded from a single computer to a super server cluster, and it was effortless for him to think about thousands of things at the same time.

At this moment, Roland felt like he was God!
Unlike the feeling he had during his ascension, Roland felt that the power within him was controllable. He could use it at will, and he could also sever his connection with everyone at any time, leaving the group and returning to his own body.

As the power of countless people continued to gather here, Roland saw himself growing into a giant in the spiritual world.

The giant's torso is not very big, but its wings cover the sky.

Looking closely, the wings seemed to be made up of countless people crowded together. The people who formed the wings were so small that they looked like individual scales on the wings.

This giant is a huge butterfly.

There was a huge rumbling sound above his head, as if Tianhai's landing had completely lost control.

Roland fluttered his butterfly wings, and the scales on them moved with him. With a powerful swing, he flung the wings toward the predetermined anchor point in the Holy Hall.

At this moment, Roland separated a section of his consciousness and had many conversations with the Thousand-Eyed King. Then he took out the wishing machine and flew into the vortex leading to the lower world. (End of this chapter)