I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

So-called 'Suffering' is a mysterious phenomenon in the Yellow-Brown Ruins.

Through years of observation by the 'Suffering Secret Society,' they discovered that after entering the ruins, one person would inexplicably disappear after a certain period.

This disappearance is a complete conceptual erasure.

Everything about the disappeared person will be forgotten by the world.

At the moment of their disappearance, their past, future, and present cease to exist.

People will forget this person, as if they never existed in the team.

When someone disappears from the team, no one else will disappear for a while.

Therefore, the Suffering Secret Society calls this phenomenon 'Suffering'.

No one knows the exact time interval of Suffering.

However, it is a long distance from here to the destination in the underground ruins.

No one knows how far these eight people can go.

"Catherine, I've always had a question: Why is it that for such a big thing, only we... why were so few people called?

With my personality, I should have many, many friends, but why, in my memory, do I only know you?"

Baron Hall's words made Catherine silent for a long time.

After a moment, she looked at the surrounding air and said with a complex expression, "Hall, perhaps we have already called many, many people.

All your friends, as well as my family's wizards and many professors from the academy, have come."

Baron Hall's face turned pale. "Impossible, Catherine! That's impossible!

We've only been walking for seven hours.

If we've lost hundreds of people in seven hours, wouldn't the interval between Sufferings be just a few minutes?"

The Baron's logic was correct.

If Suffering occurred every few minutes, then all eight of them would have disappeared in the time it took for them to speak!

Catherine gave a very sanity-draining explanation for this.

"Hall, their past, present, and future no longer exist!

We don't remember them because these people are all..."

Catherine was interrupted by the Baron before she could finish speaking: "Don't give me complicated theories, I don't understand.

I only know how to chop people—explain it simply!

Don't give me logic!"

Catherine felt a headache coming on.

She made an analogy: "You can think of these hundreds of people as still being around us, just turned into invisible, intangible 'ghosts'."

The Baron frowned and said, "Are you saying that there are a bunch of ghosts around us?"

Catherine said, "Okay... let's just say they're ghosts—Hall, entering the Yellow-Brown Fernwood requires a 'ticket,' it requires a price.

Our companions have already paid the price of the ticket for us.

The remaining eight of us are all lucky.

The price has been paid, and in the future, none of us eight will disappear."

The Baron's face became somewhat unsightly: "A price?"

This price was incredibly heavy.

They didn't know how many relatives and friends had disappeared—they were completely forgotten.

The Baron didn't know who he had brought, but they had already been forgotten.

Catherine said, "Don't be sad, Hall.

I'm sure I brought a lot of people too... My people have all disappeared."

Baron Hall shook his head in regret: "Catherine, I shouldn't have dragged you into this.

The wizards who were willing to follow you must have been your best friends... They have all suffered."

Catherine smiled: "Friends? Heh, I don't have any friends in the wizarding world.

However, I must have lost a lot of dogs.

The people loyal to me in the Alexandra family and the academy should have all come.

Now, I really have to start over."

Baron Hall said, "Sorry... This time, you suffered too much loss for our sake."

Catherine shook her head and said, "Hall, I didn't come for you.

The several provinces near Valeria are all lands ruled by the Alexandra Black Abyss wizards, and all the Muggles are our property!

This matter is of great importance.

Once He descends again, wizards from all over the world will come.

At that time, will this land still belong to Alexandra?

We are already ostracized in the wizarding world.

How can we allow such a thing to happen when we finally have a place to settle down?

Whether it's for profit, survival, or reputation, we won't let that bastard crawl out!

If 'Ibu' were still alive, he would have decided the same way."

Ibu was Catherine's younger brother—a hundred years younger than Catherine.

Her brother was Catherine's student.

At the same time, he was also the founder of the Black Abyss Academy.

After a pause, Catherine looked at the entrance to the ruins (the dry well) next to the Flesh Holy Tree and said, "Hall, it's not just you and my friends who have suffered.

I often wonder why such a big thing is only known to you, Madam, and Anthony in the whole world?

The Suffering Secret Society can seal an avatar of a god-level demon.

It should definitely be a very powerful organization.

But why is it that in this generation of the Secret Society, there is only Julie?

Is it really just Julie in this generation of the Secret Society, or have others suffered because they entered Fernwood to maintain the seal?

Then, were they forgotten by all of us?"

"Don't think about it, Catherine, don't think about it!"

Baron Hall shook his head and said, "Don't try to solve all this, Catherine.

You'll go crazy like Anthony!"

Catherine stopped talking about the topic and said, "Hall, this time my academy has suffered such a great loss, I must take the Holy Grail!

Of course, whether you come back alive or not, I will use the Holy Grail to cure your wife's illness."

Baron Hall said, "If we can really solve the problem here, I will have fulfilled the wishes that Julie, Anthony, and all the people who may have come here failed to fulfill."

Thinking of Anthony, the Baron felt a little emotional.

After meeting Anthony, Anthony gradually became the Baron's best friend.

Anthony treated Julie like a younger sister and Baron Hall like an older brother.

And the Baron also treated Anthony like a younger brother, and his child Roland as his nephew.

But this time, he had to trick his nephew.

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The Baron knew that it was despicable for him and Catherine to collude to deceive Roland, but if the evil god's remnant thoughts were not completely resolved, the remnant thoughts would attract the true god before long, and then the whole world would usher in a huge catastrophe.

I hope Roland won't hate me in the future..."

After a pause, the Baron said, "That remnant thought of the Abyss Lord has been sealed for many, many years.

Over the years, so many people have come to continuously consume it.

He is already exhausted.

I am now only worried about one thing—if He is weakened to a certain extent, He can drill out of the seal.

Although His remnant thoughts cannot leave the seal too far, He can hide.

Catherine, I'm old.

I'm so old that I can only burn once more.

And you, after that terrible thing, have become too young... If He hides, we won't be able to find Him."

Catherine said, "You don't have to worry about the evil god's affairs.

Anthony can see Him, and Roland certainly can too.

Also, as a witch who is over two hundred... cough, as a twenty-year-old witch, I am indeed very young."

The Baron took out a book and said, "Catherine, I believe I won't suffer, but I always have a premonition.

I always feel that the God of the Underworld is watching me... Catherine, this time, we are going to face the evil god directly.

No matter how weak He is, this will be a difficult battle.

This book contains my..."

Catherine frowned and interrupted the Baron, saying, "Hall, your own things should be given to your own heir by yourself.

As for who you pass your swordsmanship to, I don't think Roland is suitable for learning swordsmanship!

I will help you find a student in the academy who is more suitable than Roland."

After a pause, Catherine said, "You promised Ibu back then that you would join the Black Abyss and help him guard his academy.

But you later broke your promise.

Now that I've taken over this mess of the Black Abyss Academy, you should fulfill your promise back then."

"You two siblings really know how to cause me trouble.

I was just being polite back then... After solving the mess in Yellow-Brown Fernwood, I was planning to travel the world with Julie."

The Baron said, "However, we can stay for a few years then.

Julie has been nagging for three months.

She hopes that Alice can go to school with you and Roland."

Catherine: "."

The Baron looked at Catherine: "I originally planned to send Alice to a normal white wizard academy.

The wizards of the Black Abyss Academy... Sigh, you have to find her a normal wizard as a mentor."

Catherine: "I will personally teach your daughter."

The Baron sighed and said, "I should still send my daughter to another academy.

I'll go to the Black Abyss Academy with you."

Catherine frowned: "What do you mean?

Do you think I can't teach your daughter well?"

The Baron said wistfully, "Catherine, I didn't want to mention this matter again—the people in the academy who are loyal to you may have already come.

Would you let Wallace find those unreliable academy wizards to help you with things?"

Catherine: "Of course not!"

The Baron continued, "That's right, you must be more low-key after you go back, and you can't casually ask people to help you open the back door.

You have to be like a normal Alexandra heir, honestly write papers, honestly take exams for certificates, and strive for good evaluations from the academy wizards.

And before you work hard to become a professor, you have to sit in the same classroom as Roland and take classes!"

Catherine: “.”