I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

Chapter 459 The Earl's Divine Assistance! Even God Can't Save You!
During the communication, Roland left a mental message in the puppet's crystal. He then placed the small puppet in the pocket of his sleeve.

By this time, Helena had already tidied Roland's clothes. She said, "Darling, aren't we getting up too early? The delegation won't enter the city until noon. We can go to Father's at ten."

Roland said, "It's getting late, it's almost nine o'clock. If we tidy up a bit more, it'll be almost ten o'clock."

As he spoke, Roland glanced at a unique wooden chair placed alone in the corner of the room. He asked, "Darling, did you put all the papers in there last night?"

Helena blushed slightly and said, "Well, it's a little full. Are you feeling unwell? I'll go empty it."

Roland said, "No need, you go comb your hair, I'm going to the bathroom."

As he spoke, Roland walked toward the 'wooden chair'.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

The two of them felt a slight tightening in their hearts.

The servants who clean the fireplace wouldn't get up this early. The butler on night duty, if he needs to see the master, won't knock; instead, he'll tap the floor of the master's room with a stick. This rhythmic tapping signals whether a guest is visiting or if there's some other urgent matter.

Helena gave Roland a look: 'Senior, that woman isn't going to show up at the door first thing in the morning, is she?'

Roland didn't answer; he went straight to open the door.

The person outside the door turned out to be the butler.

The butler said, "Young master, young mistress, the delegation has entered the city ahead of schedule."

Roland and the other man's expressions immediately turned somewhat grim. Roland asked, "Are we already inside the castle?"

The steward said, "Not yet. The scouts outside the city just sent word that they saw the flags of the delegation outside the city."

The lord is discussing matters with the leaders of the Holy Order and the nobles from all along the river. He wants you to hurry up and prepare to go out of the city to welcome the delegation on his behalf.

Roland's eyes flickered slightly as he asked, "Is Olivia with my father? Does she know that he sent me out of the city to meet the delegation?"

The butler said arrogantly, "Young master, this is Grey Falcon City, the home of the Dracula family. The Dracula family doesn't need anyone's approval for everything, big or small."

Therefore, the master did not believe that such a trivial matter should trouble His Highness the Throne of Olivia.

Roland then asked, "Is Miss Olivia not in this area?"

"They're in the second courtyard." The butler glanced at the heavy snow outside the window and said, "The snow is falling heavily outside, young master. You're dressed too lightly."

After a pause, the butler straightened Roland's cuffs.

He said, “Young master, although the snow outside the city has stopped, the weather is still very cold. I will no longer be able to accompany you on this journey, so please wear more clothes.”

I'll be waiting for you at the door.

After the butler finished speaking, he left the room and closed the door.

Roland touched the note in his sleeve and remained silent for a long time.

It turned out that when the butler was adjusting Roland's cuffs, he secretly slipped Roland a note.

The words on this note were written with special ink, so even if the owner doesn't open it to look at it, they can tell what's written on it just by touching it.

Roland touched the words on the note and found that it contained two routes, as well as the approximate distribution of the revolutionary army troops.

Helena asked, "Edward, is it Father?"

Roland looked at Helena: ["Was it before the Earl mentioned the aftermath of the defeat to you?"]
Helena blinked and responded with her eyes: "Yes, senior. It's strange, but the Crusaders who fled into the city have already told the Earl that the wizards have arrived."

But the Earl insisted on leading his troops out of the city. Even stranger, despite his confident demeanor, he talked to me before the battle about leading us out of the city to welcome the delegation if we were defeated.
Roland nodded, understanding everything.

He gave Helena a look: ["He knows he can't win; he's taken his troops out to find an escape route."]
Helena was taken aback for a moment, then immediately understood what Roland meant.

She said to Roland in her heart, "[You mean, the Earl planned for us to escape all along? Everything he did was to make us run away? So, he won't run away with us?]"
Roland told Helena in his heart: "The Count will indeed stay, because he must stay to hold off the Crusaders, facilitate the negotiations between the wizard and Olivia, and buy us time to escape."

I don't know what Olivia and the Count talked about yesterday, but they probably didn't reveal much.

Therefore, the Earl seems to believe that the master within Edward has not yet fully awakened and is unable to resolve the current predicament.

Therefore, he chose his original plan—to send a team of the most elite knights to escort his still-awakened lord to a safer place.
Helena thought to herself, "I thought this guy was a traitor, but I didn't expect him to be so loyal."
Roland thought to himself, 'Helena wasn't wrong; the Dracula family are indeed traitors. But these guys have fallen into this cult's fraudulent trap and can't get out.'

Even more absurdly, the person who defrauded the count was none other than the count himself.

Helena thought to Roland, "Senior, since the Earl is so loyal, if you asked him to surrender to us, wouldn't he definitely surrender?"
Roland replied, "No, that won't happen."
Helena asked, "Why? He's so loyal to you! He'll listen to whatever you say, right?"
Roland said: "[Because he is loyal to the Lord he imagined. This Lord is all-knowing and all-powerful, and He does not require believers to bow down to wizards.]"

Their Lord is clearly not omniscient or omnipotent, but they do not believe it.

Therefore, if the Lord makes him surrender to the wizards, then this Lord is definitely not the Lord, but Edward.
After listening, Helena said, "I'm speechless. Senior, the Earl has been very good to us. I feel a little reluctant to kill him."
Roland replied, "[Let's think about how we'll survive first. But who says the Earl won't surrender? He'll surrender to the wizards, because he'll discover I'm all-knowing and all-powerful.]"
Helena, her face contorted with rage, asked, "Why?"
Roland said, "Because after the wizard drives away Olivia today, he will find that the wizard's technology is beyond his comprehension. Therefore, the wizard must be omniscient and omnipotent."

Therefore, the wizards of the East must be a collection of Alayes, and the wizards are the omniscient and omnipotent masters.

And I am the representative of the wizards.

Therefore, I am an all-knowing and all-powerful being.
Helena rolled her eyes and said, "I'm really fed up. If the Earl went to the Wilmick Asylum, Teacher Williams would definitely have a headache again."
Roland said, "All cultists who believe in Alaye suffer from serious illnesses. And they're incurable. You'll understand as you encounter more of them."
The two had been worried about how to get the message out of the city, but now the count had given them a helping hand.

The two were overjoyed and quickly changed their clothes.

If we could leave the city directly and meet up with our own people, that would be ideal.

Helena thought to herself, 'When the time comes, I'll have Aurelie transform into my senior's appearance, and then my senior will transform into someone else's appearance. That will solve the problem perfectly.'

Senior student definitely can't go to the Holy See, but it's perfect that O'Reilly goes back to the Holy See with Olivia!

Although she seemed to get along well with us, she would eventually have to go back.

She went back, and we can stay here to help her cover up the fact that she joined the revolutionary army and fought against the Holy Army!

In the Black Abyss and Twilight, there are many who know how to steal the faith of gods and impersonate them!
As long as the church believes that the revolutionary army was supported by a wizard in Aurelia's name, Aurelia won't be punished when she returns. Perfect!

Roland shared the same thought. After all, there was already the precedent of 'Andra,' so with proper planning, it was quite feasible to make the church believe that the 'Goddess of Revolution' on the banks of the River Angels was actually a sorceress.

Given O'Reilly's favor in Heaven, even if the Church had some doubts, it wouldn't investigate further.

After all, the murderer has already been found, so why bother investigating your own leader? If the investigation fails, then the person who advocated for it is doomed.

And if the investigation reveals the truth, then those who advocated for the investigation will be doomed.

Fearing being discovered by Olivia, the two dared not pack their belongings. So they each put on some warmer clothes and went out.

The butler had intentionally given the two some time to pack their luggage. But when Roland and Helena came out, he discovered that they hadn't brought any luggage at all.

He was somewhat taken aback, but said nothing.

Like a loyal steward, he silently followed his two masters, always keeping a distance of two steps from them to avoid stepping on their shadows—stepping on one's master's shadow was considered unlucky.

Along the way, the gates ahead were opened one after another by the gatekeepers. Roland and his two companions kept walking, passing through the corridors and stepping into one gate after another.

Soon, Roland and his two companions arrived at the gate of the third district.

When they were about ten meters from the gate, the gatekeeper suddenly opened it ahead of time. Immediately afterwards, several people entered.

Upon seeing the people who entered, Roland, Helena, and the butler's expressions immediately turned extremely ugly.

Two of the leaders among these people were Olivia and Count Bar.

Olivia remained expressionless, letting the priest beside her brush the snow off her fur cloak, her gaze fixed quietly on Roland.

Count Barr, standing to the side, had a very unpleasant expression on his face.

Roland, without changing his expression, went to meet him and asked with a puzzled look, "Father, what's wrong?"

Count Barr smiled and said, "Her Highness Olivia wishes for you to attend the negotiations with Isabella."

Before he could finish speaking, Olivia interrupted, "I said, Baal. He's not your son, he's Olivia."

After a pause, Olivia said to Roland, "Darling, it seems you have a memory problem; you should take your medication."

As she spoke, she took out a small medicine bottle from her bosom and gently placed it in Roland's hand.

"Sweetie, take your medicine."

Looking at the small crystal medicine bottle in his hand, Roland felt utterly hopeless.

He was very familiar with this kind of drug. Back when they were at Holy Spirit Hospital, Old Johnson and other Black Abyss elders racked their brains and came up with all sorts of ways to avoid the drug, but they dared not take this kind of drug.

Because once they eat it, even they will feel weak and helpless, at the mercy of the caregivers.

Roland was absolutely certain that this was Wilmick's medicine, because it was written on the label!
The label not only bore the name of the 'Vilmyk Holy Spirit Hospital' prescription drug, but also the date and the patient's name—Diana.

This is the same bottle of medicine that the doctors prescribed for Diana.

Roland closed his eyes tightly, thinking to himself: 'No need to say more. Olivia is not some kind of Archangel of the Sun at all. I don't know why the Crusaders are so determined to treat her as an angel, but the cardinal insignia is definitely recognizable.'
This madman insists on dragging me to the Vatican, even to Heaven. I'm doomed this time.

“Olivia?” The gentle smile on Olivia’s face gradually turned cold.

Roland uncorked the bottle and drank it all in one gulp.

Olivia gently stroked Roland's face, and then, to everyone's astonishment, kissed Roland deeply.

A moment later, Olivia parted ways with Roland, a hint of satisfaction in her eyes.

She was certain that Roland had taken the medicine.

Olivia said, "Olivia, I'm doing this for your own good. Your condition is getting worse, and you must take your medication on time. But don't worry, once we get back, the Vatican will provide you with effective treatment."

Roland remained silent.

Count Bart, who was standing to the side, coughed and said, "Your Highnesses, it's getting late. Let's leave the city together."

Olivia didn't reply, turned and left, with Roland and Helena following behind, their hearts filled with trepidation.

However, Roland discovered that Olivia was heading in the direction not out of the city, but towards the First Courtyard.

At that moment, Roland vaguely heard the voices of the Crusader leader and the Earl talking inside the gate behind him. It seemed the Crusaders didn't see the need to go out of the city to welcome the delegation. They thought the Earl was being overly attentive to the wizards.

The Earl believed that, as the host, he should fulfill his duties as a host. Both the papal delegation and the wizarding delegation were guests; the papal representatives could wait in the meeting hall, but Grey Falcon City had to go out to greet them.

Upon hearing this, the sound was drowned out by the wind and snow.

Roland thought to himself, 'The Earl says he is the host and the two delegations are guests. This shows that he wants to maintain a neutral position in this negotiation, and even between the church and the wizards.'

The Crusaders were dissatisfied because of the Count's neutral stance.
In the eyes of the church, the count's actions, while not exactly apostasy, were certainly traitorous.

From the Earl's perspective, although he wanted to remain neutral, it was not because he had any affinity for wizards and revolutionaries, nor because he wanted to stay out of it.

Rather, it's because he was originally an apostate and a heretic.

He is a servant of Lord Alayer, not a servant of the gods of light and shadow. Therefore, he naturally requires the wizards to remain neutral between the Church of Light and Shadow.

Olivia seemed to be in a very good mood. She chatted with Roland the whole way, but Roland didn't speak. Instead, he communicated with Olivia mentally.

Only after they entered the conference hall and took their seats did Helena, like a servant, prepare tea for Roland. Roland only thanked Helena after taking a sip of tea.

(End of this chapter)