I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

Outside the pyramid-shaped ruins' entrance, numerous sea demons were going in and out. They held coral forks in their hands, with many bubbles of varying sizes floating around them.

Inside the bubbles were many antiques, stone tablets, and minerals, even the corpses of magic insects and living larvae.

The sea demons piled these bubbles in the forest at the entrance of the ruins. There were so many bubbles that they had enveloped several large trees nearby, resembling a hemispherical foam pile covering an area of about thirty meters in diameter.

The range of this foam was still slowly expanding.

Not far from the foam, under a towering giant tree, floated several large stone tablets that had been removed, with many stone slabs of varying sizes floating nearby.

A group of priests were recording and translating the contents of these stone tablets. Faki, the Great Prophet, and Roland stood in front of those large stone tablets, reading the contents on them.

The Nine-Headed Serpent, the Old Church, and Roland were all curious about the contents of these stone tablets.

Everyone hoped to discover more secrets about Aurelie's Palace (the Great Ruins), but the contents of the stone tablets were mostly unrelated to Aurelie's Palace, mainly concerning the kingdom's history, divination records, and so on.

After listening to the Great Prophet's translation for a while, Faki said with some emotion, "Incredible. The people living in this garden do not know the outside world, nor do they even know that this is not a complete world.

They are like goldfish living in a small pond."

The Great Prophet also sighed, "Indeed. According to some earlier records, the ancestors of this kingdom were a group of Old Church believers who managed the garden for the goddess Aurelie, built this 'Tower' for research and maintenance of the garden, and also for managing the 'God-made people' here.

This group of ancient Old Church believers initially pursued both faith and truth.

They even extensively researched forbidden magic, and their achievements in magic were astonishing, so much so that the perfect god-people created by Aurelie regarded them as mentors.

But the goddess took too good care of them. They only needed to voice their wishes, and everything would be fulfilled. The descendants of the believers gradually abandoned their pursuit of truth and completely devoted themselves to faith.

The desire for power prompted them to adopt a policy of keeping the people ignorant. The magic and origins they once possessed became forbidden knowledge that people could not touch.

Gradually, the rulers also forgot all of this.

They were even unable to interpret the past history, regarding the former research institute as a divine miracle for worshiping gods.

The grace of God allowed them to create a glorious civilization.

But gradually, the war of the gods in the outside world began. The goddess Aurelie was often not in the palace and rarely paid attention to this place anymore.

She told these things to the people here, but the people here had completely lost their common sense of the outside world and could not understand this 'divine decree'.

They regarded this as a test, so they built one spectacle after another, calling out to the gods.

Occasionally, the goddess would give some response when she returned, and people believed that their sacrificial rituals were correct, even summarizing these things into an absurd rule—every time a spectacle was built, the god would respond once.

Later, the goddess followed the gods and completely left this world. No matter how people called out, no god responded to them."

After a moment of pause, the Great Prophet looked at Faki and Roland and said, "This kingdom did not die at the hands of the magic insects. In an internal conflict, they reverted to the Stone Age and perished in tribal warfare.

Before their demise, this 'holy city' had already become an 'ancient ruin'."

Faki said in astonishment, "How is this possible? Why did they abandon the city and live in the forest?"

The Great Prophet said, "This city needs magic to maintain it. Their ancestors forgot these technologies, but the goddess was maintaining it.

After the gods left, these people gradually did not even know how to use 'running water'.

The city's population was too dense, and the geographical location was not suitable for farming, so the population gradually left the city.

They needed to cultivate fields and hunt. They needed to find sacrifices to offer to the gods.

Later, they did not even know how to farm, and then later, these 'giant infants' of God became extinct in the cruel competition of nature."

The surrounding people were translating and listening to these stories. After Roland confirmed several stone slabs and found that the Great Prophet's summary was correct, he could not help but sigh, "Too absurd.

God created a perfect paradise with infinite resources. But the people in paradise starved to death."

The surrounding priests hummed and discussed:

—"Not absurd, the conservative believers are just like this stupid."

—"Holy shit! This is simply a microcosm of the New Church now!"

—"The wizards of the Eastern Territory don't need to do anything at all, as long as they cut off the connection between the God Realm and the pasture, the sheep will starve to death."

—"Our path is right, the church must be reformed!"

—"Judging from some records, it is not difficult to speculate. The goddess Aurelie also used magic. She even had a teacher, a forbidden wizard teacher!

This is a subversive discovery!

The Old Church cannot abandon magic!"

—"This is not a subversive discovery. Many records show that gods such as Helaika are forbidden magic masters.

The Great Prophet is right! It is meaningless to have only faith and to only pray, just like a bird that can only sing!"

After listening, Roland couldn't hold back a bit. He asked, "If you specialize in magic, does your sect and belief still have any meaning?"

Many priests looked at Roland with a 'you are ignorant' gaze. One priest said, "What do you know, all of us are"

Halfway through speaking, the priest closed his mouth. But Roland guessed what this madman was going to say—we are all one person, God is us, we are God. So our research into truth is God's research into truth.

These lunatics!

Many priests were discussing there, and Faki asked again, "Is there no valuable literature here?"

The Great Prophet said, "If you are talking about magic, then I am afraid there is no valuable literature. However, many of the items here have extremely high research value.

Judging from some of the things that have been preserved, they all applied ancient magic. If we conduct reverse deduction, there is great research value.

But for us, the magic development of the Old Church is very poor, far inferior to the Eastern Territory.

If we really want to explore the magical value of these things, we may need to cooperate with the Eastern Territory wizards to jointly develop them."

Roland's eyes moved slightly.

These ancient technologies can be applied to submarines!

This great garden is an independent world, and it and the entire Aurelie's Palace are hidden in the cracks between the underlying world and the surface world. It can float up and dive deep.

There will be many, many technologies needed for submarines!

There are many items in the pyramid used to maintain the garden, and many technical knowledge are also recorded. So they do have extremely high value.

Moreover, ancient magic is of great help to the research of the Path of Faith.

Even the ancient spells that are not as advanced as modern ones can allow wizards to observe the truth from another angle.

Faki said, "I don't know if we will succeed in this ruins' matter. If the things in the ruins cannot allow us to open up the God Realm, we really have to consider cooperating with the Eastern Territory wizards. If we can understand the things here, it will be of great help to opening up the God Realm."

Roland's eyes moved slightly.

The Nine-Headed Serpent and the Old Church also seem to be considering a plan similar to a 'submarine'. However, their purpose is not to go to another world, but to go to the God Realm and then open up the God Realm.

This will lead to a great extinction.

But, on the bright side, this means that the Old Church and the Nine-Headed Serpent do not intend to break face with the Eastern Territory so quickly.

In this case, the lives of Senior Sister and Anna should be guaranteed.

As for himself, when he reaches the last door, he will probably ascend in the old swindler's plan!

The Great Prophet continued, "As for historical literature... it's a bit complicated. There are many records about the gods here. If these things are released, the gods will no longer be mysterious.

This will shake the foundation of the New Church.

It will also have a certain impact on the Old Church and the Nine-Headed Serpent, which believe in the Old Church's doctrines."

Faki said with some headache, "I thought there would be some treasures here, but they are all stinging jellyfish. It hurts and itches to hold them in your hand, but it's a pity to put them down."

Roland had seen Miss Faki eat jellyfish before. The sea demons seemed to like this snack very much.

The Great Prophet said, "I will discuss this matter with His Majesty Andra."

Roland thought to himself, 'It seems that a large number of people in the Nine-Headed Serpent are believers of the Old Church. So the Great Prophet is equivalent to half a church patriarch.

However, Andra originally exercised the rights of the patriarch.

Therefore, those evil cult fanatics of the Nine-Headed Serpent respect the Great Prophet very much, but the upper echelons of the Nine-Headed Serpent hate the Great Prophet and these people.

These two groups of people are harmonious on the surface, but in reality, they are full of contradictions. If they have problems with the distribution of benefits in the ruins, they will definitely fight each other.'

At this time, a group of sea demons walked over and reported some things to Faki. They seemed to have been looking for something in the ruins before, but they didn't find it.

Faki frowned and said, "Great Prophet, the 'Blessed Holy Grail' you mentioned may not be here, or it may have been taken away by Aurelie's Holy Son."

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The Great Prophet was stunned for a moment, then asked Faqi, "Isn't it in that kid's space ring or dimensional belt?"

Faqi said, "No, I've already checked."

The Great Prophet said, "Impossible! I just prophesied that it's in this garden and hasn't been taken away!"

The two couldn't help but look coldly at Roland.

Roland, sweating profusely, spread his hands and said, "I've never even seen that Holy Grail thing! I gave you all the stuff! Search me if you don't believe me! I have nothing left on me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Roland floated in the air by a force and came before Faqi.

"Your mouth is really as hard as a conch shell. Humph."

The sea demon lady stretched out her four arms and frowned as she groped Roland all over.

After a moment, Faqi tightly grasped something, sneering, "You actually secretly hid such a big magic wand in such a place! You thought I wouldn't find it?"

Roland hurriedly grabbed her hand and shouted, "Don't pull! That's not a magic wand!"

Faqi frowned and squeezed it a few times, then sized Roland up with an incredulous gaze. She didn't seem to expect that this 'dwarf' had such a big thing.

She pushed Roland away with disgust. Roland grimaced and rubbed himself, cursing incessantly in his heart.

Faqi said to the Great Prophet, "This kid has nothing left on him. Could there be a problem with your prophecy?"

Roland said, "I really haven't seen any Holy Grail. Maybe you can tell me what it is, and I might have seen it in the ruins before."

The Great Prophet's face darkened.

He sized Roland up for a long time and realized that he probably wasn't lying. So, he put on a kind face again.

He smiled very hypocritically at Roland and said, "Child, think carefully. Maybe you really have seen it before.

It's a sacred object recorded in the stele, which can be used to communicate with the gods, allowing the gods to bestow blessings and baptisms, and create holy sons.

The inscription doesn't describe its appearance in detail, but the Goddess Olyria has been using this holy stele to create 'Dragon Slayers'."

To help Roland remember better, the Great Prophet told Roland some of the contents of the stele.

Olyria had a great sense of humor.

Back then, after she discovered that the people here couldn't do anything, she should have tried to re-teach them knowledge. But these spoiled little pets had already been ruined.

On the one hand, they couldn't learn or understand, and on the other hand, they hoped that their people would be foolish. So, they were insincere in their learning.

Olyria had no patience for doing things, so after teaching a few times, she found that even if these people learned, they would soon forget, so she stopped teaching.

Therefore, in order to ensure that these people could still live better in this dangerous Abyss Garden when she left, she found a golden Holy Grail.

This was something made by the ancient forbidden wizards. It could gather people's faith and then transform the faith into 'divinity'.

In theory, this thing could create gods.

There weren't many people in the garden, so they couldn't create a god. But this divinity could be used to do many, many things.

For example, fostering the strong, alchemy, and spellcasting.

Usually, this golden Holy Grail looks unremarkable, just like an ordinary mortal object purely made of gold, silver, and gems.

But when it gathers faith, it will reveal magical power.

Because some strange lights and shadows often appear when using the golden Holy Grail, the believers in the garden regard those lights and shadows as angels.

Therefore, the people of the ancient kingdom believed that the angels had come to bless the 'warriors'.

Or rather, the holy sons.

The power of the golden Holy Grail is not only able to foster the strong and create holy sons. However, the people of the Garden Kingdom constantly lost their knowledge in the inheritance. So, they had long forgotten how to perform alchemy and how to cast spells.

Therefore, they remembered the simplest function and also believed that the gods had bestowed power on the 'chosen ones'.

What's even more ridiculous is that the original mission of these people was to breed 'mealworms' and take care of 'Tukala's' daily life.

But they regarded Tukala as an evil dragon that harmed the kingdom.

Tukala had complained to Olyria many times. But Olyria joined the game of the dragon slayer with great humor.

She once played the princess captured by the evil dragon and then let the warriors of the garden save her.

This story brought Olyria many good memories. So, she simply re-carved the golden Holy Grail in the Garden Kingdom, carving her favorite part of the story on it.

Hearing this, Roland was stunned for a long time.

He couldn't help but glance at little Leona not far away—she was holding a small wooden dragon in her arms.

It seemed that he had gotten the biggest treasure in the garden!

He and Leona had turned it into a wooden dragon. These guys probably couldn't tell that it was a golden Holy Grail, right?!

Just then, Roland saw that Faqi was also looking at the little wooden dragon.

Roland's heart skipped a beat.

Damn it, that woman was paying attention to him all the time. She saw him looking at the little wooden dragon, so she started paying attention to the dragon!