I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

Chapter 65 Dancing with Mystery

After he gave the warning, everyone responded immediately.

Although Adam and others are not strong, they are well-trained and often challenge powerful monsters above their level.

Years of experience and cooperation have given them excellent battlefield intuition.

Moreover, they knew exactly where they were—this was the Black Forest. Although it was at the edge of the Black Forest, there were always some strange things.

So when Roland spoke, everyone immediately realized that Roland might have seen some dark magic creature.

None of these four people did anything stupid. They all closed their eyes and stood there motionless.

At this moment, Roland was the only one with his eyes open. He didn't dare to take his eyes off the puppet.

Helena was frightened. She was so nervous that her words were unclear. "What, what happened, Senior Roland? What did you see?"

Roland replied with sweat dripping down his face, "Listen carefully, now, we are going to play a game."

Roland explained the story of the ballet ghost to everyone. He spoke briefly, not explaining the cause and effect. He just explained the rules.

Everyone's heart skipped a beat after hearing this.

Everyone had seen the news three months ago and had heard about this kind of thing. So although everyone was confused, they knew this was no time to joke.

The Black Abyss Academy was founded by the Alexandra family. They believed that Roland, as an Alexandra, should know a lot about this.

Helena asked nervously, "No magic whatsoever will work? Will a magical object work?"

Roland said, "It's useless! Magic will turn it into a wooden sculpture if it's hit! You can try using rare items. The Black Abyss wizards are testing, so they're reluctant to use rare items. We just hope one of us survives, and then we can take the others' wooden sculptures back to the academy. Maybe the academy can find a solution."

Everyone's face turned pale.

Roland said, "Everyone, I might have been too nervous and recognized the wrong thing, but you must remember what I just said. Now, use your perception and slowly approach me. Stand in a row with me, facing the same direction."

There were two people with poor perception, so Roland controlled the Wind Prince and used the power of the wind to guide them.

His perspective never left the puppet, but his perception didn't need visual error to guide everyone to his side and make them stand in a row.

Later, to prevent the Wind Prince from turning into a wooden sculpture, Roland freed him.

"Now, we can start the game. It's very simple."

Roland said with a cold sweat on his face, "I'll count to one, two, three. Open your eyes with me. Then, a wooden figure will dance. You must stare at it intently and keep it in the center of your vision."

Everyone asked nervously: "R-and then?"

Roland said, "Wait for a professor or instructor to pass by."

Everyone's face was ashen.

Roland asked, "Do you remember? The game is about to begin."

Everyone nodded in agreement, their voices trembling as they spoke.

"one two three."

When Roland finished counting, everyone opened their eyes at the same time and saw a dilapidated puppet among the debris in the garbage pile.

Helena asked with a cold sweat on her face: "That monster, is it that puppet?"

Roland said, "Yes."

Everyone held the puppet tightly, not even daring to blink, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

After two minutes, someone couldn't help but ask, "When will it dance?"

Roland shook his head with a strange expression. A moment later, a magic spell flew out from his hand and hit the puppet, which then hung in mid-air.

Roland looked closely and saw that it seemed to be a puppet model that had been crushed by the giant monster.

Looking at the puppet model, Roland's expression became more and more strange.

The troll has touched it. If it was a ballet ghost, the troll would have turned into wood.

A flash of black light flew past, and the puppet shattered into pieces. Nothing happened.

Roland stretched out his hand again, and the music box in the distance flew over and landed in his hand.

He took a look and found that it was not a music box, but a broken box.

Helena asked, "Senior, is the puppet dead?"

Roland's face was extremely embarrassed, and he suddenly remembered something.

In all cases, the ballet ghost appears as a dancer and has never been seen lying on the ground like this.

As Wallace said, once bitten by a snake, he was afraid of the rope for ten years. Now he was on the tiger's back, so he coughed and said, "Dead."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads, and their legs went weak.

At this moment, Lawrence accidentally looked at the troll's corpse, and then he was so scared that he collapsed on the ground and wet his pants.

“Over there! Over there!!”

Everyone looked over. Under the setting sun, there was a beautiful ballet doll, seemingly having just finished a dance, lying motionless. It stood quietly in front of the troll's corpse, its fingertips lightly touching the troll's forehead.

Just like the beautiful oil painting "The Creation of Adam", God's finger pointed at Adam.

The giant monster's corpse had wide-open eyes and had turned into a lifelike wooden statue.

A woman's laughter was heard in the woods: "Sorry, I was just passing by here, but your game is so fun. So, I brought 'Leona' here. Goodbye, your happiness~~La La La (a distant song)~" Ding Ding Ding. The sound of a music box was heard in the woods.

Roland: "Fuck!!!"

After hearing what the woman said, everyone's faces turned very ugly.

Adam said, "Brother Roland, that demon must have been following us for a long time. Don't believe her. The Black Forest is so big, how could so many of them just happen to pass by!"

There were no fools among the people present, and they immediately understood what was going on. They guessed that the man was deliberately causing trouble.

Roland said with a grim expression, "Of course I know. I cursed because she put a music box in the woods and we can't turn it off!"

Everyone hurriedly asked, "What will happen if we don't turn off the music box?"

At this moment, everyone suddenly discovered that the puppet next to the wooden carving of the troll's corpse had turned into a beautiful ballerina at some point.

Her clothes were no longer tattered like before, but now bright and beautiful.

Her skin is as white as jade and full of elasticity. Her face is beautiful and delicate, and her dancing posture is very graceful.

At dusk, a beautiful dancer dances alone in the forest. The golden sunlight shines through the woodland, forming Tyndall pillars of light. The light pillars are like spotlights, falling on the white swan.

Helena and the others knew that their time was up, but they couldn't help but be amazed by her dancing.

Because she is so beautiful.

At this moment, the dancer disappeared in mid-air with a jump. The next moment, she appeared in front of Adam and touched his forehead with her fingers. Immediately, Adam and the dancer turned into puppets.

Everyone cried out: "Adam!!!"

Helena touched the three rare objects in her pocket, but after hesitating for a moment, she decided to follow Roland's advice and not use them.

Roland: "Don't blink, stare at it, don't move!"

Everyone: "How could you not blink, Senior Roland!"

Helena was closest to Roland, and she felt that Roland seemed to be drawing something on the ground behind her.

"Senior, what are you doing?"

Roland: "I didn't do anything. Just stay here quietly and don't look back at me! I'll get you out alive!"

Roland is preparing to seal the magic circle.

The ballet ghost is not a demon. It cannot be expelled, restrained, or sealed in the Book of Demons.

But Roland thought he could give it a try.

At this time, the music of the music box came to the next variation, and the puppet turned into a dancer.

Everyone stared at the ballet dancer, not daring to look away, but Roland's eyes were on Lawrence.

The next second, the ballet ghost suddenly disappeared, came to Lawrence and turned him into a puppet.

Helena and the others burst into tears, but Roland breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his head hastily, and hurriedly continued to draw the magic circle.

The Ballet Ghost will always be in the center of the viewer's sight. If there are multiple people observing the dance, it will randomly appear in the center of someone's sight.

However, this randomness has a priority. If everyone is staring at the Ballerina, it won't teleport. But if one person is not looking at it, but looking somewhere else, then the Ballerina will appear there.

[Rule 6: If the Ballet Ghost accidentally touches an audience member during a performance, it will feel embarrassed because of the failure of the performance and will temporarily stop dancing.]

When the Ballet Ghost danced for the first time, Roland set his eyes on Adam, and Adam turned into a puppet. Then, the Ballet Ghost stopped dancing for a short time.

During the second dance, Roland looked at Lawrence, and Lawrence turned into a puppet. The ballet ghost stopped dancing briefly again.

This guy tells others not to look around, but he himself is looking at others.

But Roland was not doing this to let his teammates down. On the contrary, this was the only way to bring everyone back alive.

He needed someone to buy him some time, otherwise they would all die here.

Roland concluded that the person who had spoken in the forest earlier must be the Succubus Lilith.

Lilith must not have left yet. If they turned into puppets, who knew what that guy would do to them?
Therefore, he must survive. Only if he survives can he bring his teammates' puppets back to the academy and feed them the antidote.

A few minutes later, the last teammate also became a puppet.

Roland's magic circle was only two-thirds complete.

[A Reward: Foreign Debt +2000 Magic Stones, B Reward: Forbidden Comprehension Points +100]

Roland looked at the ballet ghost beside Helena's puppet. He knew that from now on, he could only move and find an opportunity to complete the remaining sealing magic circle.

Roland took a deep breath and bowed slightly to the ballet puppet.

"My dear lady, I will dance with you next!"

[Rule 7: If there is music nearby, the ballet ghost will not stop dancing unless it touches someone.]

[Rule 8: Ballet Ghost is good at all dances.]

[Rule 9: If you are good at ballroom dancing, you can ask it to dance with you - but don't let it touch you!]

[C Reward: ???]

(End of this chapter)