I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

As Roland recovered, he felt the wounds to his soul being rapidly healed, and his strength had returned to above the second tier, and was still rapidly increasing.

Roland's eyes flickered slightly. He thought, 'If I could fully recover my strength, I could at least protect myself. I wonder what kind of strength Olivia possesses?'

Roland could vaguely sense that Olivia's divine power was unfathomable, but he was in too poor a state to clearly perceive her level of power.

When he first met Olivia, he guessed that Olivia was no less powerful than Helena—both of their powers gave Roland a feeling that he couldn't quite see through them.

Now that he has personally experienced Olivia's divine power, Roland realizes that he may have made some misjudgments.
He thought to himself, 'No matter what, I need to recover my strength first. If I can fully recover, at least I'll have some means to protect myself.'

Olivia's hands were very gentle, and her strength was exceptionally mild.

After soaking for a while, Roland couldn't help but let out a few comfortable moans.

He found himself seemingly asleep, yet his mind felt even clearer.

Roland had a strange feeling—before, when he was awake, it was like having a bad cold and taking medicine. His mind was foggy, and he felt deaf and blind.

Now everything around us is gradually becoming clearer.

He tried to sense Olivia's power but found that she remained unfathomable in his perception. In fact, due to the restoration of his senses, he could feel that Olivia was even more unfathomable.

Just as Roland was getting closer to Olivia, he suddenly 'saw' something.

He 'saw' himself transformed into an eagle!
He soared beneath the vast, boundless golden sky.

When he looked up at the 'sky', he saw an enormous 'sun'.

The rising sun occupied half the sky, slowly ascending, its rays casting a golden veil over the clouds below. The clouds, dreamlike and ethereal, floated gently like soft, radiant light.

In the blink of an eye, the sun rose completely above the horizon, and then Roland discovered that below the sun, there were two vast, unbroken mountain ranges.

The mountain range stretched from the easternmost edge of the horizon to the westernmost edge. The sun did not appear to rise from the east.

Instead, it's in the south.

Suddenly, Roland realized that it wasn't the sun at all!
That was a vast and majestic god!

She wore a crown of radiant sunlight on her head, the light of which was so dazzling that it seemed as if the rising sun was illuminating the sky.

The endless mountain ranges are her shoulders. The sky-covering clouds are her divine wings.

He spread his divine wings and enveloped the eagle soaring beneath them.

His divine light continually healed the eagle, and gradually, the eagle grew stronger and stronger.

Before long, the eagle grew larger and larger. Although it was still far from being comparable to the colossal angels, this eagle could be considered to have reached the heavens and stood tall.

If we were to describe it, the angel would be the southern continent, and the eagle would be the small island of Malrod next to the continent.

At this moment, Roland realized that he no longer looked like an eagle. No, he never looked like an eagle to begin with.

I just didn't realize it because my mind wasn't clear.

I am not an eagle, but a giant goldfish with a person on its back and thousands upon thousands of wings.

Roland unconsciously touched his own face and found that the face was different from his own, or rather, only seven or eight parts similar, and much softer.

Compared to a man's face, this one looks more like a woman's.

Who is this? Whose name am I wearing?

Just then, Roland suddenly heard someone speaking behind him—he heard two voices.

"Senior! We've found the Book of Heaven, but it's sealed. Can you stall for a little longer?"

"Darling! We've found the Book of Heaven, but it's sealed. Hold on a little longer."

As this person muttered to themselves, Roland suddenly remembered who it was—it was Helena!

—I've forgotten about Helena again!
After suddenly realizing that Helena was also in the hot springs, he contacted her and asked her to find the Book of Heaven.

The Book of Heaven wasn't inside, so Helena decided to go outside—but as she opened the door, Olivia looked towards the entrance!

I never expected Olivia to notice Helena!

Helena and I were terrified.

In the heat of the moment, Olivia's gaze was about to focus on Helena.

So he quickly put on a show to distract Olivia.

I think I only said two sentences at the time. The content of those two sentences was very brief, and the gist of it was something like, "I don't want to be with you anymore, I don't want to see you again."

It's unclear whether Olivia had already noticed Helena at that time, but the 'male god' seemed to hold a very high place in her heart.

After hearing Roland's words, she broke down on the spot, and disregarding everything else, she covered her face and rushed out the door.

Helena had just stepped out, and he dared not let Olivia go any further, so he hurriedly chased after her and grabbed her arm. Then, the door suddenly slammed shut. The connection between him and Helena was severed by the sacred pool's unique environment.

He lost contact with Helena, and since she didn't have his name with her, he suffered 'amnesia'.

It is unknown where Olivia placed the Book of Heaven, or what kind of restrictions were placed upon it.

But Helena needs time.

Regardless of whether Helena can handle it or not, I must buy her some time.

How can we delay this?!

The emotional turmoil gradually brought Roland back to reality, and his consciousness returned to the present moment.

He realized that, without him noticing, Olivia, who had been massaging him from behind, had suddenly hugged him from behind.

Olivia rested her head on Roland's shoulder. It seemed that she had quietly leaned against him after discovering that Roland had fallen asleep.

Roland's face stiffened slightly. Not wanting Olivia to know he was awake, he closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep to buy time.

Roland couldn't help but recall the angel from his dream, realizing that he had seriously misjudged the woman's strength.

Why is my memory of the angel in my dream so blurry?

Roland vaguely felt that he heard a voice in his dream. It seemed to be Isabella.

She called herself "darling," as if she were imagining herself as Edward, trying to buy herself some time.

Roland's expression turned strange.

He thought to himself, 'So, it's because Isabella has always treated me like Edward that she's been helping me?'
It is indeed reasonable for her to help Edward find the Book of Paradise.

But why are my memories in my dreams so blurry?
Thinking back carefully, it seems that all my memories of spending time with Isabella are very blurry. It's as if she wasn't a complete person? Roland had no idea that he had forgotten Helena again.

All he remembers now is Isabella.

Therefore, Roland is not currently relating his amnesia to the Magic Mirror.

But then he thought of another possibility—blood loss amnesia.

Back in the days of Bloodstained Fortress, whenever a leech left the surface world and entered the underworld, people would forget everything about the leech.

When I was dreaming, I was actually in the lower realm. After waking up, I left the lower realm.

Therefore, everything I just experienced was similar to the mysterious phenomenon of leeches. As a result, I have forgotten a lot of my memories.

Roland frowned. A question arose in his mind—if there were any mysterious phenomena at Greyhawk Keep, they must be related to the River Styx.

So, is it possible that I'm not the only one experiencing amnesia?
Is it possible that everyone experiences amnesia at some point?
Roland had a vague feeling that something was wrong, and he felt inexplicably uneasy.

Roland shook his head inwardly, thinking, 'Let's deal with Olivia first.'

Olivia is actually easy to deal with. As long as Roland gets up and leaves now, and then finds a place to hide, the matter will be settled.

The key issue is that he can't leave now.

He had to buy Isabella some time.

Anxious, Roland checked the progress of his injury recovery.

To be honest, Miss Olivia really helped me a lot today. Roland not only feels full of energy, but his mind is also much clearer than before.

But after examining his body, Roland revealed a very strange expression.

When Roland was still an apprentice, whenever he entered the spiritual world to observe his own magic, he would see himself turn into a cloud of mist—a mist bound by walls of the seven elements.

Later, this mist turned into water droplets and, as he advanced to the second level, became a lake.

Now, his magic is a raging inferno. That flame subtly reveals the image of a strange angel. There are no walls around him to obstruct him; he seems utterly free.

This is somewhat similar to igniting the divine fire and advancing to the fourth tier. However, when Roland went to check his Path of Faith, he found only three doors behind him!
But there was no door in front of him!

Judging from the state of magic, the fact that I'm no longer bound by the elemental wall means I've reached a bottleneck. Logically, I should be like my senior, able to improve my strength even while sleeping, and able to step through the gates of faith simply by cultivating with my eyes closed.

However, judging from the path, there is no road ahead of me!

Roland discovered that he seemed to be stuck in a very strange state!
From the perspective of wizards (the path of truth), they have barely managed to create a 'divine image' in their spiritual world, but the divine image has not yet been fully revealed and cannot trigger celestial phenomena. Therefore, they are at the demigod level.

Judging from the solidity of his divine form, Roland estimated that he was probably in the early stage of demigodhood.

But Roland could no longer sense the gate ahead on the path.

It was as if he had reached the end of the road and there was no way forward.

After some thought, Roland felt that this matter might be related to his 'Divine Shadow'.

Roland thought to himself, 'There may be a paradox about me now.'

After I jumped into the well, I retrieved my divine image. That was my future self.

My future self walks the path of madness, the path of the mad god. The mad god has no concept of 'realm'.

But in my present state, I am walking the right path, and I have a concept of spiritual境界 (realm/level).

Now, the two of me have merged into one, and I have become a person who has both a realm and no concept of a realm!

Or rather, I became a god before I became a god! I reached the end of the path before I reached the end!

As Roland pondered this, he suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

He realized that if his logic was correct, then under normal circumstances, he would immediately become insane after jumping into the well.

Even if he hadn't failed to retrieve his divine shadow in the lower world, he probably would have ascended to madness, because he had encountered too many things during his journey in the Malrod Ruins. Back in the 'Gymnasium', he felt like he was about to ascend.

Therefore, according to the normal course of history, everything that happened in the parallel world should have already happened in this world.

However, history took two important turns—Olélie and the King of a Thousand Eyes.

Aurelia came into this world and merged with herself to become 'Rocanao'. It was Rocanao, not Roland, who obtained the Divine Shadow at that time.

Roland knew very well that he was a powder keg that could be ignited at any moment, while O'Reilly was a large, unyielding bucket.

He had previously made a deduction—O'Reilly was probably not some legitimate god in the past, but she 'recovered' and became immune.

The power of the God of Sincerity inherently restrains madness and evil. The sincere Virgin Mary even redeemed the foolish Virgin Mary with her own blood and flesh, freeing her from madness and evil.

Aurelia is the goddess of sincerity and is immune to illness. Therefore, she would never go 'crazy'.

Therefore, Roland, who was destined to ascend to madness and evil in 'history', did not ascend to madness and evil because of his fusion with O'Reilly.

Therefore, Aurelia helped Roland suppress the madness, allowing this madness to lie dormant and not erupt.

This gave the King of a Thousand Eyes time to 'cure' Roland—the Great Tsunami!

Catherine had previously complained that her father could have used the Sanctuary to get rid of the people of Malrod all by himself, yet he chose to entrust the task to them.

Roland even had a rather dark suspicion at the time: was his father-in-law deliberately using the Maldock incident to dig a hole for him? Was he trying to make him ascend to madness and then collect him as a specimen or something?

Looking back now, it's clear that the King of a Thousand Eyes did have a purpose in doing this, but it wasn't to set a trap for Roland; it was to heal him.

Or perhaps, Roland was enlightened by the power of the faith of millions of Malod people.

In the Old Scriptures, when the great evil god 'Holy Spore Angel' descended, a 'Great Prophet' 'enlightened' Him using the combined power of the faith of all the gods of a certain heaven.

After that, the holy spore angel became the 'holy Valkyrie'.

Now, the Thousand-Eyed King, a friend of the great prophet, did the same thing, following the method his friend had used.

In contrast, the holy angel of that time was originally an evil god who came to destroy the world. He was only able to accept the new self because he was fooled into madness by the 'Great Prophet'.

Roland, however, did not want to become an evil god and hoped to save the world, so he voluntarily transformed himself.

Then, Alaye transformed from the mad god of the end into the 'savior'.

Roland suspected that his current situation was related to the 'savior'.

Roland thought to himself, 'I am now their savior! Count Barr and his cult are absolutely right. I am their master.' (End of Chapter)