I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

Sea of Mist, unknown region.

A dilapidated ship covered in spiderwebs floats silently on the sea surface, drifting with the waves.

The waves in this area are noticeably smaller, like a pool of stagnant water.

Beautiful fluorescent lights flicker on the sea surface, and many scattered fluorescent lights in the distance slowly gather here.

Those seem to be ribbon jellyfish; they gather near the big ship, holding hands and entwining together.

Their numbers are so great that they cover a large area of the sea like a giant net, so there are hardly any waves nearby.

The dilapidated ship is like a drowsing spider, quietly趴伏 at the center of the web, waiting for its prey to approach.

Just like that eerie ghost ship, its interior is filled with many strange sounds.

It is a beautiful and pleasant melody, but it is faintly mixed with hoarse wails and maniacal laughter.

It has been a full three days since the three-headed snakes' war council.

During these three days, the ship has not been quiet.

The number of three-headed snakes clearly holds an absolute advantage, but they did not choose to fight the prisoners head-on. Instead, they activated the restrictions on each cabin, locking down every cabin door that could lead to the deck.

Behind each cabin door, there is a group of three-headed snakes and Nagas. Their numbers are often only twenty or thirty, but in this small cabin, they can hold the line.

And often, the battle begins before the prisoners break into the cabin.

Those Nagas are using songs to influence the cabins outside the door, and what they are chanting is called 'The Labyrinth of the Sea God'.

This kind of song cannot affect that group of strange things, but it is affecting this ship.

This Sea of Mist is already a mysterious labyrinth area.

Ships get lost at sea, and people staying in the cabins often get lost on the ship!

The Labyrinth of the Sea God, coupled with this mysterious area, has a miraculous effect.

As long as the singing continues, the cabins outside the door will be like labyrinths, and people in the labyrinth cannot find the right way.

There are many sea demons singing in each cabin, and these songs penetrate each cabin, running through the entire ship!

So, people in the labyrinth will find that what is in front of them after opening a door is not a small cabin, but a vast labyrinth connected to another!

But this labyrinth is collapsing.

The people guarding each cabin soon discovered that this guarding job was a death sentence!

This was originally a very morale-damaging thing, but those Nagas who were slaves often had a more tenacious fighting will than the three-headed snake sailors.

Rather than calling them Nagas, it is better to call them 'Sinners'. Because in the teachings that the Nagas believe in, they are guilty from the moment they are born.

Therefore, they are born to be slaves and must use their lives to atone for their sins.

Most Nagas accept this doctrine.

In this battle, many Nagas have a desire to die because the shepherd of the Lord, High Priest Karl, told them that they are facing the Lord's enemies, the wolves that harm the flock.

The believers know that they will be blessed!

They will defend the Lord's honor in this battle, redeem themselves in death, and go to the Sea God's kingdom after death, returning to His warm embrace.

Wash away sins and become the Lord's sheep again—this is the lifelong pursuit of all Sinners.

As a priest, Karl adheres to the canon and does not do what the devil does to manipulate the world. He has always been open-minded to the Lord's believers, even to the Sinners, he treats them sincerely.

So he really didn't lie.

This is an opportunity for the believers to atone for their sins. Karl, as a substitute for God, saw the figure of every loyal believer.

The actions of the Sinners redeemed their sins. After their death, the Sea God will be especially gracious and embrace the souls of the Sinners, just like when leading normal believers.

But these believers did not wait for such an opportunity.

Often, the battle begins before the cabin is breached.

The Nagas are using their voices to create the Sea God's Labyrinth, and their songs echo in the labyrinth, but there is another kind of song in the labyrinth, and this song is also affecting people outside the labyrinth.

Everyone on the ship can hear that eerie song!

Often, when the cabin door is opened, there are no normal people outside. The cabins are covered with spiderwebs, and strange things are crawling everywhere. From the scales on their bodies, it can be seen that they once seemed to be sea demons.

They no longer have the opportunity to go to the Sea God's embrace, or rather, they have already been embraced by another Sea God.

Because they have been constantly diving deep into that eerie underworld, embraced in the arms of the indescribable things in the deep sea.

Just as Karl said, they dived too deep and have synchronized with the underworld, becoming things of the underworld. No one knows their location unless they get the anchor point from the hand of the black magic ritual host; otherwise, no one can find them and pull them back.

Unless the Sea God comes in person, no one can redeem these poor people.

The black wizards did not attack the cabins one by one. They were just wandering aimlessly in the Sea God's Labyrinth, happily crawling, weaving webs, and singing.

All the cabins on the ship were not breached one by one either.

They collapsed on their own.

So, the sea demons and wizards who presided over the Sea God's Labyrinth could hear the song!

This is very strange because the Sea God's Labyrinth is a completely isolated and independent otherworld. It is absolutely impossible for the three-headed snakes outside to hear the people in the labyrinth singing!

But they could hear the song!

So, on the second day, some people had already started to go crazy.

On the third day, which is today, madness could no longer be contained, and with the disappearance of the song, the Sea God's Labyrinth no longer existed.

Therefore, all the cabins on the ship were not breached one by one but were opened at the same time on the last day!

The people responsible for blocking the way did not all perish.

Because Karl, in his grief, summoned back those who bravely resisted the evil demons, letting everyone leave there and return to the open-air deck. This allowed the three-headed snakes to preserve some of their strength.

There is also singing here! But it is very small. There seems to be a force on the deck suppressing that sound.

The deck is now in a state of panic. Originally, the crew and escorting Nagas on the entire ship totaled more than eight hundred people, four times more than the prisoners.

Karl had previously sent more than six hundred people down, but only a little over a hundred returned.

Now, they only have three hundred people left, but they will join the next battle. What's even stranger is that this group of three-headed snake wizards actually received all kinds of cold weapons—studded hammers, scepters, longswords, muskets... rather than magic wands.

It seems that they plan to fight hand-to-hand next.

But among these three hundred people, more than half are crazy!

They seem to have seen something in that underworld.

No one can hear clearly what they are muttering. But when the captain's assistants checked these people's belongings, they found a blood-stained diary from a dead crew member.

When Karl entered the lower deck and brought the crew members back, a crew member who had committed seppuku was clutching Karl's clothes tightly, handing him this diary.

It recorded what this crew member had encountered in these three days.

【. It is impossible for a sound to come from inside the labyrinth. There is only one possibility: the singer is next to us, our companion is singing!】

【. Spiders, they are all spiders! We eat and sleep together】

From the second day, the handwriting gradually began to be scribbled. By the following paragraph, the handwriting was like spiders crawling out!

【. It's not my fault, it's all James's fault! I must kill them. I have warned him, but he still secretly sings when I'm sleeping!

They are all in cahoots, they are all deceiving me!

They say what, everyone is taking shifts to rest, saying that when I am resting, more than half of the people are awake, saying that James did not sing.

They are colluding to deceive me!

They deserve to die, they all deserve to die!】

【. I was wrong... I deserve to die, I killed the brothers and sisters of the Cult!

It's not them because there are no spiders in their stomachs.

It's not me either because there are no spiders in my stomach either.

It's the ship!

Because only the ship has spiders in its stomach!

Hehehe, that's right, give my discovery to the acting captain. It's the ship, it's the ship that's singing!

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It's the ship that's singing, it's been singing all along!

There are small spiders in people's stomachs, so people become big spiders.

There are small spiders in the ship's stomach, so it is also a big spider!

It's a spider!

It's the biggest spider!!!】

After reading these diaries, the first mate's face was extremely ugly.

Just as he said before, it is impossible for anyone to break through the three-headed snakes' Sea God's Labyrinth on this Sea of Mist.

Under normal circumstances, the prisoners would never get out in their lifetime!

What's more, those lunatics didn't even unlock their Original Sin Shackles!

But the labyrinth only lasted for three days before collapsing!

I don't know what methods those black wizards used. Their voices penetrated the labyrinth, and the labyrinth collapsed from the inside!

The three-headed snakes had even done experiments before, or rather, they had observed the situation inside the labyrinth with mirrors. Those black wizards in different labyrinths could not hear each other's songs!

This verified the three-headed snakes' previous judgment—that black hymn did not penetrate the labyrinth and reach the sailors' ears.

Moreover, from observation, those black wizards weren't doing anything either.

They were just wandering around the maze, as if chanting a black hymn to the maze, rather than targeting anyone outside of it.

But the people outside were gradually going mad!

Even those who spent most of their time on deck were starting to hear the singing!

This was very illogical; the phenomena within the ship were contradictory!

The first mate was even beginning to think that the sailor's log was correct.

Indeed, discarding all the unreasonable contradictions, only such an answer remained.

One was that there was a traitor among them, secretly singing that strange black hymn in a way that no one had noticed!

The other was that the person secretly singing was actually himself.

Of course, it was also possible that it was the ship.

"God damn it."

The first mate looked at the entries in the log, his face pale, and said to his companions, "Could it be that I... have I gone mad? Karl, did I secretly sing in the middle of the night?"

Karl was wiping the blood off his body, and without looking up, he said, "Why don't you cut open your own stomach and take a look too?"

The first mate shook his head violently and said, "I was wrong, Karl. You're right, I shouldn't think about it anymore. To guess at the logic of black magic, like Jem did, is a very insane thing to do in itself."

Karl wiped the blood from his body, then raised his head, his expression full of grief and indignation.

He said, "My good friend, all black magic in the Eastern Territory has logic, because its core is built on the 'Path of Truth'.

Perhaps there is a traitor among us, or perhaps someone among us has already gone mad. There must be an explanation for this."

At this moment, a captain's assistant walked over, his eyes red, and said, "The goods that were supposed to be sent to the 'Medical Knights Hospitaller' have all been unpacked and distributed to everyone. We've lost a lot this time."

"Okay." Karl nodded and looked towards the distant deck.

There, strange figures had already begun to crawl out sporadically.

Flames of anger and revenge flashed in Karl's eyes, and he said, "I will find this explanation for everyone, very soon... Once we have driven these demons back to the abyss of the lower world, I will personally ask that black wizard for the answer!"

A great battle was about to break out.

The Three-Headed Serpents fought with their backs to the wall, unleashing unparalleled combat power.

Karl, the Southern 'Wizard', did not use any offensive magic, but instead, wielding a warhammer in one hand and the heavy Nine-Headed Serpent Bible in the other, charged to the front line like a knight.

He waved his warhammer and Bible while chanting poems loudly.

The mutated black wizards who were struck by the warhammer or Bible would burst into sacred flames. The flames burned directly to the source, and those black wizards who had already deeply submerged into the lower levels would gradually die under the burning of the sacred fire after being hit!

Some mutated black wizards even regained their sanity at the last moment of burning. They shouted words like 'sacred magic'.

The word 'magic' enraged Karl. These damned black wizards, even at the last moment, had to blaspheme his god!

The Three-Headed Serpents (pirates and nagas) fighting alongside Karl also abandoned magic and used the weapons in their hands.

Spiked hammers, scepters, longswords, flintlocks... these seemingly ordinary weapons actually lit up with divine纹纹in the hymns of the people, carrying sacred damage.

Although the damage from this flame was very low, with 1-3 units of damage depending on the sincerity of faith, it could still harm these mutated black wizards.

These weapons didn't seem ordinary; they were all goods to be sent to a certain sanctuary of the church.

Looking around, all the crew members could use these weapons to unleash sacred fire, which meant that everyone had faith. This meant that there were no traitors among them.

Karl's war song strengthened people's willpower, and at the same time, the sacred song also gave everyone a strange deep blue light.

This light seemed like a blessing from the sea, greatly increasing their resistance, making it difficult for them to be contaminated and mutated.

Under Karl's leadership, the Three-Headed Serpents actually repelled the mutated black wizards back below the deck several times.

But as the battle spread, more and more mutated black wizards came up.

The Three-Headed Serpents had to retreat from one deck to another.

The battle became more and more intense, and there were more and more mutated black wizards on the deck. Many black wizards could be seen who had completely turned into spiders.

Swish, swish, swish...

Countless spider webs suddenly flew from overhead, entangling the first mate and a group of main forces at the front line.

They hurriedly used their sacred fire weapons to cut off a batch of spider silk, but more and more spider silk flew from the sky!

The first mate looked up in horror and saw that the 72 large sails were already covered with people!

"Karl! Don't wait any longer!" the first mate shouted.