I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

After Leonard communicated with Catherine, he came to the two new students and gave them some instructions.

Leonard said very seriously: "The Lady has been recruiting apprentices for the past two years. As long as you perform well, you will have a chance."

The two new students looked ecstatic. If they could perform well enough in this trial to be taken as her apprentices, wouldn't they also become vassals of the Alexandra family?

These are vassals of a great wizarding aristocratic family!

Their entire family would ascend to prominence because of them.

A burning fighting spirit ignited in the eyes of the two new students.

Roland stood aside, watching his teammates' performance in silence, observing coldly.

Soon, the group was ready to depart.

Numerous knights cleared the way at the front, while Instructor Leonard and Baron Hall accompanied Catherine on the left and right, positioned in the center of the group.

At the rear of the group were Wallace, Roland, and the two new students, with the tall Silver Knight Nall at the very back.

On the way, the two new students began to discuss things quietly.

"It's quite a coincidence," the blond new student whispered. "A few days ago, when I was browsing the history of the Black Abyss Academy, I saw a portrait of the first founder's mentor—the 'Witch of the Black Abyss' from hundreds of years ago—and she looked a bit like Lady Catherine..."

"Don't talk nonsense," Wallace interrupted him. "Instructor Catherine is a member of the Alexandra family. It's perfectly normal for her to resemble her ancestors."

As he spoke, he looked with a smile at Roland, who had been following behind them with a blank expression.

"This is a new student recruited by Instructor Catherine this year, right? What's your name?"

Roland glanced at the three of them and then focused his gaze back on the shadows of the surrounding woodland.

The disciples were very unhappy, and even Wallace, the always slippery old fox, couldn't help but twitch his eyelids a couple of times.

The three of them ignored Roland and chatted amongst themselves.

The blond new student said, "I didn't expect there to be such a deep forest here."

"Hmm," Wallace stroked his beard and nodded. "The magical aura is indeed very dense. There should be many strange creatures and magical herbs. Compared to the secret forests used by the academy for the disciples' trials, it's not much inferior."

"Does the academy's secret forest have trees like this too? That's great."

The red-haired new student casually patted a large tree they passed, saying with anticipation, "These trees grow very uniquely. I was even thinking of collecting some specimens to take back for research, but it seems unnecessary now."

Listening to the others' discussion, Roland's expression was very strange.

He looked at the large tree that had just been patted by the disciple and thought to himself, 'There's clearly something strange wriggling in the shadows of that large tree... The shadows around us are full of unknown things, yet everyone seems so calm and collected?'

Roland couldn't help but look up at the sky once more.

'Is there really nothing wrong with the deity in the sky? His blood is constantly dripping from the sky into the fern forest. Could it be that the pollution caused by His blood is actually not a big deal?'

'So, places like this in the Black Abyss Academy are just ordinary trial grounds?'

Knowing that he couldn't escape, Roland desperately tried to find reasons for his teammates' behavior in his heart: 'The only possibility is that the evil god has been dead for many, many years. That's why the academy has made the Russet Fern Forest a trial ground.'

At this moment, the baron's voice came from the front. He seemed to be talking to a knight beside him.

"Charlie, there's no need to keep following me."

The baron said with a smile, "With all of you protecting me, this trip will surely be smooth."

The captain of the knights was very skeptical of the strength of these so-called 'wizards,' but he still led his men away and stood with Nall.

After the knights left, Baron Hall said humbly to Leonard and the others, "I'm afraid I'll be causing you some trouble this time."

Most of the wizard apprentices regarded the baron as a Muggle, so they were somewhat indifferent to him, only offering a few polite words on the surface.

But Catherine smiled and said to the baron, "You're too kind, Baron Hall. Next, we'll still need to look after each other."

Hearing these words, Roland's eyes moved slightly.

Catherine never said polite words, nor did she ever feign sincerity in her interactions with others. Her arrogance was always consistent. It was as if everyone in the world was an ant, unworthy of her showing them a smile.

But when she was with Baron Hall, she was very respectful.

Roland thought to himself, 'I almost forgot, there's a hidden monster in our team... Baron Hall is definitely not simple!'

He looked deeply at the baron in front of him, thinking to himself, "He's come to the fern forest so many times, yet he's always managed to come out alive. His strength is definitely terrifying."

"Besides the baron, there's also Nall, Anna... As for Catherine, although she only has the magic power of a high-level apprentice, she has a lot of treasures and her methods are extremely strange, so her strength won't be weaker than Nall's."

He thought to himself, 'If we weren't here to deal with some evil god, then this kind of team structure would indeed be fine.'

'Even if there is a problem, as long as I stick close to Baron Hall, I'll be able to walk out alive.'

Roland's original mentality was to regard himself as a dead man. That's why he had been calling Instructor Catherine "Senior Sister" one after another. When the school worker Wallace spoke to him, he was indifferent and had no desire to survive.

But now, he saw hope of walking out alive, so he began to have a desire to survive.

After thinking for a moment, Roland looked solemnly at Wallace.

"Master Wallace, I am very sorry just now. On the way here, I suffered some mental trauma from practicing magic and was unable to leave the mental world for a while. So, when you asked me a question just now, I was unable to speak in response."

Wallace suddenly understood, and he felt a lot more comfortable in his heart. He thought to himself, 'So that's how it is... As expected of the Lady's student, he clearly has the capital to be arrogant, yet he is so diligent and so humble.'

Wallace didn't want to expose his relationship with Catherine in front of the new students, nor did he want to flatter her student in front of the Lady. Therefore, he praised Roland as if he were a senior.

After exchanging a few words with Wallace, Roland bowed slightly to the two new students and introduced himself: "Senior brothers, my name is Roland, and I am a local of Valeria..."

Roland's attitude was very humble, and he even called the two of them "senior brothers," holding them up high. But unexpectedly, the two new students' attitudes were very cold.

The blond new student muttered in a low voice, "Hmph, a mongrel who came out of the Muggles... Does he deserve to be a vassal of the Alexandra family?"

The blond new student's words would sound very unreasonable to a normal person. After all, no matter what Roland's background, he was Catherine's student.

Moreover, although Catherine had the intention of taking the two of them as apprentices, the matter had not yet been settled. It was unknown why they felt so superior.

But the truth was that there was a very large gap between pure-blood wizards and non-pure-blood wizards. In their eyes, Roland was an inferior person, and even if he entered the Alexandra family, even if they were beggars, they would be nobler than him.

Roland didn't know about these things in the wizarding world. After realizing that it was difficult to communicate with these two people, he frowned and stopped speaking.

After the team had been traveling in the Russet Fern Forest for half an hour, they suddenly stopped. The instructor instructed Leonard to do something, and then Leonard left the team.

Then, the instructor called Wallace over and instructed him to do something.

After Wallace listened, he called Roland and the two new students together and said, "There are some Abyss Blood Moths nearby. Lady Catherine wants us to catch a few specimens."

Roland frowned and thought to himself, 'Abyss Blood Moths? So, the dead evil god in the sky is an evil god of the Abyss?'

He looked at the strange shadows in the depths of the woodland and thought to himself, "So, this place has been polluted by the Abyss? Are the things wriggling out of those shadows all Abyss demons about to crawl out?"

At this time, the blond new student asked Wallace curiously, "Are there Abyss Blood Moths in this ordinary woodland?"

Wallace stroked his beard, seemingly feeling a little puzzled as well. He said, "The Russet Fern Forest can indeed be considered a demon forest, so it's normal for Abyss species to enter it... Let's go, the Lady only gave us half an hour."

After speaking, Wallace and the two new students entered the woodland, not paying any attention to the shadows in the forest.

Roland hesitated in place for a moment, thinking to himself, 'I always feel like something is not quite right.'

He glanced at Senior Sister and found that Senior Sister was nodding at him slightly, signaling him to go with confidence.

Roland felt a burst of strangeness in his heart and followed Wallace into the forest with a stiff scalp.

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