I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

Chapter 68 Black Abyss Academy
Roland wasn't sure if the Demon Book could command the Ballet Ghost. He didn't even dare to try.

What was worse was that he was now exhausted. He had been so absorbed in that dance that he had almost lost all his energy.

He had just drunk a bottle of expensive magic recovery potion, which restored a small portion of his magic power, but he was extremely weak mentally and had difficulty concentrating.

Lilith was not weak and had many tricks up her sleeve. Given Roland's current state, it would be irrational to engage in a fight with Lilith.

"Wait, where's Leona? H-How is this possible?! You, you just sealed Leona?!"

Lilith looked at the apprentice not far away, her face full of disbelief.

Roland calmly flipped through the Demon Book in his hand. He replied, "I don't know what it is, but my magic works on it. Hmm~ (turns the pages) So that's how it is? Interesting, interesting."

After a pause, Roland looked at Lilith meaningfully and asked, "Do you like dancing?"

Lilith's pupils suddenly shrank, and then her body disappeared from the spot with a buzzing sound.

At this moment, Roland's whole body tensed up. He used his telepathy to search around frantically, but he couldn't sense anything.

A moment later, Lilith's unwilling roar came from the sky in the distance: "Stinky boy~~I will remember you!~~~Don't let me catch you again!~~"

Roland suddenly turned around and looked at the air behind him, sneering, "Huh, so, you really don't want to leave?"

The air behind him didn't respond for a long time.

After confronting the air for a long time, Roland collapsed to the ground and it took him a long time to recover.

"That guy is definitely no weaker than Wallace. Fortunately, they are both timid and cowardly."

Roland collected everything around him, including his companions' puppets, the troll statues, and some valuable-looking rubbish, and then rushed into the forest.

He ran for a long way until he was about to faint, and then he hid in a bush.

After swallowing a mermaid fruit, Roland sat there and meditated. He didn't know when Lilith would react and attack again, nor did he know if he would encounter any monsters.

In his current state, a level 1 monster could kill him.

After a few minutes, a strange noise was heard from the distant grass. Roland opened his eyes and released an arc of electricity, shocking a deer to the ground.

Looking up, Roland discovered that the sun in the sky had disappeared, replaced by bright stars and the moon.

He looked at his pocket watch in astonishment and found that six hours had passed.

In the meditation just now, Roland once again experienced the feeling he had during the meditation in the ruins.

After flipping through the Ayelai Notebook, Roland was shocked to discover that his realm had risen from 45% to 58%, and his magic power had also increased significantly.

Roland had a very strange expression on his face.

Standing up, Roland carefully took out the Book of Demons and looked through it for a while.

The book was filled with distorted runes, and it was wriggling like worms.

"It won't just pop out, will it?"

Roland broke out in a cold sweat. If the Demon Book didn't have any restrictive power on the Ballet Ghost, it would theoretically be able to escape.

'This isn't a demonic book, it's a ticking time bomb!'

Picking up a wooden stick, Roland started digging in the ground. After a moment, he stopped.

"No, there's no point burying it here! If it wants to find me, it won't matter where I run to!"
Roland suddenly realized that he couldn't get rid of this problem.

He closed his eyes and thought for a long time, then finally shook his head.

"I can only go to the library and look through some books. If that doesn't work, I'll have to find Wallace and the senior."

"I have to make up a story. I don't know if they can handle this."

Roland sighed, calmed himself down, and carefully took out the statues of Helena and the other three.

After checking it, Roland breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, it's not damaged."

The wizards of the Black Abyss have been studying various mysterious creatures for a very long time.

Lilith seems to have a way to break the puppet state. The academy might have a solution, too. But it would definitely come at a price. "Hopefully, using magic stones can solve this problem. Adam and his friends are already broke, and now I'm afraid it's even worse."
"I heard that Black Abyss wizards like to use their apprentices for experiments. I hope this matter can be solved with the magic stone."

All Roland could do was give up some of the spoils. He was now deeply in debt and couldn't offer any assistance.

He examined the collected garbage.

What Helena said before was right. There were indeed some merchants' belongings in the garbage dump in the abandoned camp.

To Roland's surprise, there were some magic cloths and some broken magic items in the garbage. Although most of them were rotten and broken, these rags could be sold for thirty or forty magic stones.

If everyone hadn't been turned into puppets, seeing these rags, they would probably jump for joy. But now I don't know if this money is enough for treatment.

Roland sighed and said, "It's really too difficult."

"Let's go back to the academy first."

Standing up, Roland took out something that looked like a compass. He checked the spell engraved on the back of the compass, then recited a section of it. Then, the needle pointed in a certain direction.

This is a magic tool that Roland just bought today. It is called the 'Wishing Needle'. It can follow the wizard's wishes and tell the wizard where to go.

In principle, if a wizard's wish is to find the fountain of youth, the compass will point in a certain direction. As for whether it is accurate or not, it is hard to say.

Its accuracy follows three principles.

One is whether the wizard's magic power is strong enough. The more powerful the wizard, the stronger his sixth sense and the more accurate his wish needle.

Secondly, it's the connection between the wizard's fate and the Fountain of Youth, or in other words, whether the wizard has good luck. The deeper the connection between his fate and the Fountain of Youth, the more accurate the needle.

The third factor is the quality of the needle. The better the quality, the more accurate it is.

Theoretically, Roland and his companions could have used this thing when they were looking for the troll. However, since he had never used it before and didn't know if it was accurate, he was worried about making a mistake and getting embarrassed. So Roland used the safest tracking technique.
Roland did not leave any magic mark in the academy and could not locate the academy using tracking magic, so he tried this little gadget.

The Alexandra Arcane Academy was a well-known landmark building, so Roland would have no problem finding the way to the academy using a compass.

On the way, the compass needle didn't always point in the same direction, which made Roland think that this thing didn't work.

But after walking for a while, Roland found that he had hardly encountered any monsters along the way, and he also encountered a lot of herbs on the road!
It seemed that the wish needle not only helped Roland avoid many monsters, but also pointed to some herbs that Roland needed on the way. This made Roland very excited.

"Is the price-performance ratio so high for something worth 30 magic stones?"

"Maybe I'm lucky."

Although these unexpectedly obtained herbs such as Manhattan's fish grass were not worth much, they made Roland feel much better.

After walking for another half an hour, Roland came to a main road. After a while, he saw the towering castle in front of him.

There were many torches on both sides of the road at the back door of the college castle, and some night watchmen with lanterns were carrying something.

The lantern watchmen are also the school workers.

Most apprentices are unable to become formal wizards after graduation.

Some of them, finding themselves unable to make further progress on the path of wizardry, would choose to stay in the academy. The advanced apprentices would become instructors, while the mid-level apprentices would become school workers.

Although they were all mid-level apprentices, they were all senior graduates. Not only were they extremely knowledgeable about various spells and creatures, they also had extensive combat experience.

For example, those school workers who do odd jobs in logistics and the library are fine. They focus on clerical work and are better at scheming than fighting.

But the lantern watchmen are extremely strong and are all veterans who have experienced many battles.

Especially in a hellhole like Black Abyss Academy, those who are willing to stay here as school workers are those who have experienced too much killing and cannot live in peace.

To put it bluntly, this group of people stayed in Black Abyss Academy not to make a living, but to seek excitement.

When Roland passed by the group of night watchmen, several of them looked at him with cold eyes.

Roland quickly lowered his head to avoid eye contact with the group of people.

"Stop! Why do you smell like a demon?"

Roland's heart skipped a beat.

(End of this chapter)