I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

This silver pocket watch was originally a wondrous item capable of freezing time. When intact, it allowed a wizard to calmly accomplish a great many things in 3 seconds.

Now that it's damaged, and after Roland further tempered it with Dawnfire and lightning, its effectiveness has been greatly reduced.

Now, it can only slow down the flow of time, and the duration is less than half a second. But for Roland, this half-second is enough.

Relying on the power of the silver pocket watch, Roland leaped into the air, avoiding the third shadow.

— "Nowhere to run!"

Suddenly, Roland saw the bluestone floor beneath his feet suddenly crack open like a mouth, and then a tongue stretched out from the crack, coiling towards Roland.

It turned out that the demon had already planned everything. It was very familiar with the wondrous items in the hall and knew what means Roland would have.

It released three beams of black light only to force Roland to use the silver pocket watch. The three beams of black light each had a purpose, luring Roland to hide near the trap—and the large mouth on the ground was the trap it prepared for Roland.

Seeing the tongue already reaching his face, Roland's sword-like eyebrows rose. At this moment, holding the long sword at his waist, he felt an unparalleled sense of tranquility.

Drawing the sword, striking, and sheathing it were all done in one smooth motion. In an instant, the tongue was severed into two sections.

This simple drawing sword technique seemed as if Roland had practiced it countless times, and it had long since become muscle memory!

—"Great Vermirk... Dawn Sword Technique??"

Upon seeing this sword, the demon couldn't help but roar, "What's the point of a sixteen-year-old low-level wizard apprentice cultivating swordsmanship to this extent?! Did you start practicing swordsmanship from the womb?!"

Roland didn't answer. He frowned and looked at the golden-haired freshman in the distance and the demon in his belly, secretly shocked.

The golden-haired freshman had already been burned into charred bones by the raging fire and lightning, dead beyond dead. But the demon in his belly was unscathed in the previous disaster.

Magic immunity!

This old thing is actually immune to magic!

It clearly didn't need to dodge any of his attacks, yet it repeatedly used wondrous items to resist his magic!

"This is not something a low-level apprentice can deal with at all!"

Roland's expression became even more serious. He looked at the demon in front of him, reached out and touched the hilt of the sword at his waist, and made a starting stance of 'Valeria Flash Sword (Dawn Sword Technique)'.

"Stop, Roland."

The demon said with a serious expression, "There's no need for us to waste time here. You want to live, and I just want to live. You don't want to be eaten by that thing outside, and I don't want to be eaten by Him... Since that's the case, why should we fight to the death here?"

Roland frowned and said, "Do you know how to leave here?"

The demon laughed and said, "The seal is gone. The exit here is just hidden. What's so difficult about leaving here? Those who came to deal with Him thought about how to leave before entering here. So, even after their deaths, many plane escape scrolls were left behind."

Roland's expression changed, and he said, "Is that true?"

The demon sneered. It reached into its chest cavity, took out a magic scroll, and threw it to Roland.

When the scroll was thrown into the air, Roland reached out his hand, but instead of reaching out to catch it, he released a chain lightning towards the scroll!

The moment the lightning struck the scroll, the scroll turned into a strange wizard hat—it turned out that the demon threw out a wondrous item!

This wizard hat was also a masterpiece of a Black Abyss wizard. Not only could it disguise itself as various things, but it could also capture people. Ordinary people simply didn't have enough insight to see through its disguise, so it was very insidious.

At this moment, the demon's expression was very ugly.

If it were someone who wanted to escape, they would have definitely fallen for it just now. Because anyone who wants to leave would not attack the magic scroll with chain lightning, lest they destroy it.

And as long as they didn't attack this scroll, they would definitely be stuffed into this wondrous item.

After the lightning struck the hat, it immediately chained towards the demon.

The demon impatiently pinched the lightning in its hand. At this moment, Roland, the wizard hat, and the demon were connected by blue light, constantly flickering.

In the light and shadow, the demon said in a deep voice, "Since you don't want to leave, then—"

Before it could finish speaking, the demon saw the blue lightning in its hand suddenly turn golden!

The demon's expression changed drastically. Before it could say anything, it burst into flames like straw. It and the golden-haired freshman's bones turned into ashes in an instant, without even having time to let out a scream.

Looking at the ashes on the ground, Roland stood there stunned for a long time. It wasn't until the wizard hat in mid-air 'popped' and fell to the ground that he came back to his senses.

The wizard hat didn't suck Roland in because the demon was truly dead this time.

The two had been testing each other for so long, but when it came to the real showdown, it was only a matter of a short move.

The demon may have had many, many more methods and tricks. But it was only because of a slight carelessness that it no longer had the opportunity to use them.

Roland picked up the wizard hat and stood beside its ashes, sighing for a long time.

An invincible demon was burned to ashes by a novice due to a moment of carelessness.

Wallace was the same.

This old fox must have been hiding many unknown methods, but it was only because of a moment of carelessness that he was headshot by a rookie like the golden-haired freshman!

"Brother Wallace, you died to save me. You didn't save me in vain. I completed the mission."

After regaining his senses, Roland took out a broken stick from the dimensional bag and began searching in the ashes. He found a small lantern, a strange gray gemstone, an inconspicuous gray-earth-colored little magic wand, and three charred small bags.

In addition, there were also some fragments of wondrous items that were severely corroded. These fragments were remnants that the demon had swallowed before but had not completely digested.

Roland picked up the three small bags and found that each bag had the Black Abyss insignia and name on it.

The first bag was written 'Claire' (golden-haired freshman).

The second bag was written 'Karl' (red-haired freshman).

The third bag was Wallace's.