I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

The area around the magic array had been cleared meticulously. Roland took out the Ranger's Maintenance Guide and studied the array.

“Wait, you, how can you not even understand how to maintain a barrier? Are you just learning as you go? Is this your first time as a Ranger?” Elina was quite annoyed.

Roland, without looking up, said, “I’m a freshman.”

He pointed to the lower-level apprentices who were helping: “These people are all my seniors.”

Elina was stunned. Roland’s words left her speechless.

This kid was indeed a freshman; she had overestimated him before.

“Study it yourself then.”

Elina left with her people. She had no intention of leaving anyone to watch over Roland. They had something of Roland's, allowing them to track and curse him at any time.

Besides, with so many of them, it would be a laughingstock if a mere lower-level apprentice escaped.

Roland dawdled around the array, going through the motions without putting in any real effort.

Half an hour later, it was already dark. Two groups of people came to check on the situation, one after the other.

After a while, Elina, her face ashen, led another group down.

“Get out of the way! Useless!”

She impatiently pushed Roland aside, snatched the Ranger's Handbook, and began repairing the magic array with her people.

Elina was highly skilled in magic arrays, and with plenty of manpower, they worked efficiently.

Several dozen minutes later, everyone, drenched in sweat, completed the work.

“Go back and learn something; you’re simply tarnishing the reputation of a great family!”

Elina, looking displeased, threw the handbook to Roland and led her people back to camp for dinner.

Looking at the repaired magic array before him, Roland grinned.

“Another 15 points, making it 35. I’ve already passed this Ranger mission.”

“It’s a pity there’s no time to repair the cabin. If I were willing to spend a day on repairs, I could get another 5 points.”

Roland gathered the things left behind by Elina and the others in the basement.

After a moment, Roland had collected the hair and other items of many people.

These things would allow Roland to track each person, making it easier for him to hunt them down later.

After dinner, Roland sat by the fire pit, writing his Ranger report. The large fatty, Barbie, sat on a tree stump near Roland, dealing with magical creatures.

Barbie was responsible for watching over Roland, although she wasn't very diligent. But whenever she was free, she would stay with Roland.

After finishing the report, Roland glanced back and found that Barbie had killed and skinned all the fire lizards.

“These fire lizards were alive! What did you kill them for?” Roland was quite annoyed. He had planned to keep one as a pet!

Barbie, as if she hadn't heard Roland's words, licked the blood off the fire lizards.

After stuffing two into her mouth, she glanced at Roland indifferently, then tossed a pile of fire lizard skins at Roland's feet: “Your pets.”

Roland sneered inwardly: ‘Looks like she’s treating my storage bag as her own.’

Barbie kept three live fire lizards and ate the rest.

Seeing the three living fire lizards, Roland breathed a sigh of relief. He thought to himself: ‘This big fatty has some sense, leaving the best three. You can keep them safe for me for now.’

Roland carefully processed the fire lizard skins and then began meditating by the fire pit.

Barbie looked at Roland's posture, her face showing a very strange expression.

It turned out that Roland always meditated with his legs crossed!

It could be said to be unique.

However, some body refiners occasionally sat like this—similar to yoga.

She muttered to herself, ‘A country bumpkin wizard, so weird,’ and then ignored him.

In Roland's meditation, a rag doll kept floating into his arms.

He opened his eyes and looked at the small girl, Selly, not far away.

Selly shyly smiled at Roland and threw another rag doll, then the rag doll disappeared inexplicably, appearing in Roland's arms the next moment.

Roland thought to himself: “So it’s you, no wonder you can track my location.”

Roland thought carefully: “Selly is easy to kill, but to kill her cleanly, I still need to plan carefully.”

‘The Nightcolor Family is also a great noble family, they must also have powerful oddities in their hands.’

‘I have to choose a more secure time to strike.’

The sky grew darker, and everyone began to rest, with the lower-level apprentices taking turns to keep watch.

In the middle of the night, two lower-level apprentices went to relieve themselves outside the camp together, and didn't return after more than an hour.

Someone planned to go look for them, but Barbie, who was meditating, opened her eyes and said: “Don’t go, they’re dead.”

Elina also opened her eyes, her gaze deep as she looked into the forest, saying: “Don’t go outside the barrier at night.”

Selly tugged at Elina and said: “That, that big sister in red, has been following us all along.”

A hint of fierceness appeared in Elina's eyes. Many things had followed the team along the way, but most had left halfway. But this ghostly thing was persistent.

She looked at the outside of the forest and smiled coldly, then ignored it.

The next day, after dawn, there were 12 people left in the team.

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Selly did a divination and then watched through a crystal ball.

After watching the crystal ball for a while, Elina understood.

The two people who said they were going to relieve themselves last night had actually gone to eat alone. After collecting magical herbs, they inexplicably got lost and ran to a very far place.

Seeing Selly's operation, Roland thought to himself: ‘So you’re the one who can track me.’

He put Selly at the top of his blacklist.

If only one person could be killed, Selly would be the priority.

“Let’s go take a look together.” Elina gathered everyone and went to the eastern woodland to find the two missing lower-level apprentices.

Soon, everyone found two corpses one after another.

The two corpses were standing, their heads were torn off alive, then turned around and reattached to their necks.

They were bleeding from all seven orifices, their eyes had been gouged out, and their internal organs had been emptied. Their souls were also gone.

Some timid lower-level apprentices were so frightened that their legs went weak after seeing the death of the two.

Roland had chatted with these two when they set up camp in the evening. However, everyone had talked to Roland along the way because he was the guide, and he had a map of the distribution of magical herbs. He knew where the good stuff was.

No one suspected the guide.

They chose the destination and route, and they chose the location for the camp. Roland was also the first to stand up and suggest repairing the barrier.

He really had no suspicion at all.

“Everyone, stop arguing for now.” Elina was annoyed, she glared at the small Selly and asked: “What are you doing?”

Everyone looked back and saw that the meek upperclassman was putting flower wreaths on the heads of the corpses.

She looked at everyone, showing a morbid smile, and said: “Don’t you think it’s very beautiful? Elina, I, I have always liked James and Jeffrey, I know they have already signed agreements with the club, can, can you give them to me!!!”

Elina showed a look of disgust: “Take them away! Don’t disgust people here.”

Selly was overjoyed, she pointed her finger, and the two corpses picked up their heads and crawled to Selly's side like dogs.

“My good babies, Mommy is here to love you.”

Selly trembled and put the two corpses into a bag, then carefully looked at the surrounding lower-level apprentices.

Everyone's faces were extremely ugly. They avoided her gaze one after another.

Selly's gaze finally fell on Roland, her lips moved slightly, and she said a line of lip language: I like you the most.

Roland glanced at her indifferently and replied with a line of lip language: You are not worthy.

“We have to force that thing out.” Elina looked at the forest and said: “Selly, do you have a way?”

“Yes, but it needs bait.” Selly stretched out her trembling hand and excitedly pointed to Roland.