I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

"So, what happened to you dressed like this? I almost didn't recognize you," Roland said, looking at Joan's attire. The clothes were similar to those of the Dawn Templar Knights, but with a slight difference. The style appeared more ancient.

"It's all because of you two siblings. The divine power you gathered completely suppressed my magic. If we had followed the path of faith, we could have indeed fused the two powers, but the situation in the rebel army was very urgent at the time, and Aurelia needed a substitute to occasionally impersonate her to handle some things."

You know, we share the same strength and are connected by soul. Here on the riverbank, I am the perfect actress to portray her.

And so, I became Aurelia's angel.

Joan covered her eyes, feeling a pang of unbearable pain.

Seeing Joan's appearance, Roland and Helena suddenly realized who the 'Olélie' Olivia had met in the rebel army was.

O'Reilly is such a liar! She was afraid of being kidnapped by Olivia, so she tricked Joan into dealing with Olivia.

Qiong had no idea such a thing existed, so she jumped into the pit.

However, she was indeed suited for this kind of work. Roland could imagine what Joan, that heartthrob, would look like when she was trying to seduce Olivia.

Joan continued, "I'm really not suited to be an angel or anything like that. And I really can't bring myself to believe in any god. But after becoming her angel, all the magic in my body disappeared, leaving only divine power."

So, O'Reilly gave me a copy of ancient forbidden knowledge.

Its name is 'Dawn'. It is said that hundreds of years ago, a great swordsman embarked on this path through his own research.

However, his version was incomplete, containing only the profound essence of martial arts.

"The path O'Reilly gave me is more complete, so..."

As she spoke, a magic circle slowly appeared in Joan's palm.

This magic circle is very similar to the one Aurellie used when casting her spell. Upon seeing it, Roland understood everything.

Many of Aurelia's teachers were forbidden wizards, so Joan and Aurelia could be considered to be fellow disciples.

Joan continued, “After embarking on this path, I discovered that the divine power within me was gradually changing. It became purer. Later, the angels of dawn told me that this power originated from the ‘Light of Dawn’.”

It is considered a conceptual collective consciousness born with the astral plane, representing the will of the greater astral plane.

Therefore, I became the purest 'angel of dawn'.

Upon hearing this, Roland and Helena were completely bewildered.

Roland asked, "Isn't it a forbidden subject?"

Helena asked, "That magic circle is clearly something from ancient forbidden arts, isn't it?"

Joan looked at the two of them and said, "Because the Dawn of Light are the earliest members of the Forbidden Sanctuary, the Gods of Dawn, and they are all Forbidden Wizards."

Helena clutched her hair, utterly bewildered, and bombarded Joan with questions. She simply couldn't understand why a god would be a wizard.

But Roland, standing to the side, suddenly understood many things after a thunderbolt from the blue.

The gods of the Dawn faction don't need faith at all. But they know how to utilize the power of faith.

Ancient forbidden sorcerers did not need faith, but they knew how to use material energy and spiritual willpower.

Despite being a goddess of the underworld and the abyss, Heracles is classified as a deity of the dawn. She calls herself a forbidden sorceress.

The Dawn Order's old scriptures are clearly filled with myths, so one should only be able to learn divine arts from them. Yet, I'm able to learn magic from them!

All the techniques Roland learned from the Holy Mother of Dawn were magic!
It's just a form of demonic magic.

Another point of contention is that the Dawn Order clearly worships the Three Holy Mothers of Dawn, yet in the old Bible mythology, they are portrayed as major villains!
Conversely, the 'forbidden wizard' who subdued the three mad goddesses was called a 'prophet' by the Dawn Cult.

The reason for this is that this forbidden wizard was the leader of the ancient Dawn Order!
Therefore, the earliest Dawn Order was a wizarding order!
It originally had no gods.

Because the Mad and Evil Three Holy Mothers only joined the Dawn Order's 'Three Guardian Vajras' after they were defeated!
Or perhaps, after being deceived by that forbidden wizard, they became his colleagues and thus became forbidden wizards themselves!

The gods altered this history, using the title 'Dawn Gods' to erase the traces of the 'Forbidden Wizards'.

Thus, the original 'Forbidden Magic Lovers Association' became the 'Dawn Cult'.

The monks no longer studied forbidden magic, but instead studied divine arts.

Thus, forbidden knowledge was gradually extinguished, and the flame of truth was slowly put out by the gods.

Roland thought to himself, 'No wonder, no wonder the Church of Light and Shadow has always centered its reforms around the Order of Dawn! Because this is the birthplace of forbidden magic!'

Roland suddenly understood why the 'Doctrine of Faith' he had studied from the old scriptures of the Dawn Order was so much closer to the essence of truth.

Because the Dawn Order was one of the earliest wizarding societies to study the truth!
The earliest founders of the monastic order were the original group of natives who followed forbidden wizards to learn magic!

Today, the forbidden arts that the Dawn Order once collected have all been lost, and it is difficult to find complete copies even in the old scriptures.

Logically, it should be impossible to discover forbidden magic from the Dawn Scriptures.

However, Roland supplemented the content using a low-end version of the 'wishing machine'—that is, a 'question machine'. Thus, he developed a seemingly plausible 'doctrine of faith'.

Once this path is fully completed, people will be able to truly grasp the truth, and the forbidden knowledge of ancient times will be gradually studied based on this path.

In the eyes of forbidden wizards, divine power and magic are unified, or rather, the will of the mind and material ability are unified.

At that time, wizards will truly become the creators of the world. And those gods of heaven who can only follow the path of faith will become incomplete gods.

Roland unconsciously clenched his fists slightly. Looking at his hands, he thought, 'Perhaps once this path to unification is discovered, my cultivation level will also be able to continue to rise.'

Roland had a vague feeling that this was a completely new system.

It is absolutely superior to the existing pantheon of gods, and it is also purer than the existing wizarding cultivation system.

And I will be the first test subject.

This research will surely solve many problems. It can not only solve its own cultivation problems, but also bring new inspiration to wizards in the field of technology.

The current schemes by which the gods corrupt the world and stifle the truth will be easily thwarted.

Roland thought to himself, "We need to find more old scriptures. The reformers in the church have been secretly trying to reform, which means that there must be many documents in the church that have not been destroyed by the gods."

The reformers must have secretly possessed many valuable documents. These must exist within the Holy See's inner circle.

Soon, the three arrived at the door of Catherine's study. Inside the room were two middle-aged women from the "Dawn New Society." Both women had very distinctive features.

One has squinty eyes, which look like a naturally smiling face, very festive, but also a bit eerie.

The other one always kept his eyes closed, looking as if he were mourning.

They were dressed like old women from the Liming New Society, but they exuded a deep and powerful aura.

Roland had a vague feeling that these two were quite powerful, but he didn't know what secret treasures they possessed. They looked like ordinary middle-aged nannies.

Helena whispered to Roland, "Those are Countess Delphine and Marquis Celeste. They are not only elders of the White Council, but also Alexandra's mentors and ladies-in-waiting. When you speak to them, you must show them some respect."

Roland's eyes twitched slightly as he asked, "Elders of the White Chess Council? Did they come specifically for this negotiation? I didn't see them during the day?"

Helena hesitated slightly before saying, "They are new female officials sent by Her Majesty the White Queen. Like the high elves and ancient elves, they just arrived at the riverbank this afternoon."

Roland felt a strange unease, sensing that Helena was hiding something from him.

Seemingly sensing Roland's gaze, the two middle-aged women scrutinized him. Their intense scrutiny made Roland feel uneasy; he wondered what he had done to offend them.

The two men let Helena and Joan into the study, but kept Roland outside.

Helena stuck out her tongue at Roland, then took Joan's arm and went into the study.

Roland was completely bewildered. He said to the two White Elders, "Your Excellency Delphine and Celeste, I have important matters to report to His Highness."

The lady-in-waiting on the left with slightly squinty eyes must be Countess Delphine. She said with a smile, "No rush. Her Highness knows you need to see her, she'll let you in in a moment."

The lady-in-waiting on the right with the mournful face must be the Marquis of Celeste. She didn't seem to like talking much; she simply reached out and pulled out a gold compass adorned with many crystals, and began to examine Roland from head to toe.

Roland felt a surge of displeasure, but remembering that this was an elder statesman specially sent by his mother-in-law, he didn't say much and quietly cooperated with the inspection.

Roland initially thought they were checking his level of contamination or something similar, but judging from the runes flashing on the compass, it seemed they were checking more than just the level of contamination.

The two seemed to be thoroughly examining Roland's physical condition, which made Roland feel a little uneasy.

Roland thought to himself, 'My father-in-law knows my situation, so he told the White Queen? Could it be that there's something wrong with my current condition, which is why the two elders gave me a special check-up?'

Roland thought this speculation was quite reasonable.

Soon, the Marquis of Celeste had thoroughly examined Roland. She looked at the compass in her hand, shook her head, and handed it to Earl Delphine.

Countess Delphine took the compass and looked at it for a while, then frowned as well.

Roland asked somewhat nervously, "Is there something wrong with my body?"

Countess Delphine remained silent, but she smiled and sized up Roland, a gaze that sent chills down Roland's spine.

After a moment, she said, "You are in very good health, but you've been a bit restless lately."

Roland: “?”

The crying-faced Marquis uttered a few words: "Dynasty, prosperity. Two members of the White Chess family, good news."

The smiling countess standing to the side nodded with a displeased expression.

Roland: “???”

Next, to Roland's utter bewilderment, the smiling countess began to ask him a lot of questions. The crying marquis would occasionally chime in with a few words.

There are also some special and private questions, such as how many women Roland had, and whether he had any women before Catherine.

Roland, sweating profusely, answered their questions—naturally, he didn't tell them a single truth.

But he suspected that the whole truth might be revealed in the golden compass in the hands of the weeping marquis.

In any case, the two ladies-in-waiting seemed fairly satisfied with the answer to the question.

The smiling countess finally asked a puzzling question: "Do you know anything about the siren's wedding ceremony?"

Roland shook his head, looking completely bewildered.

Suddenly, the smile on the Count of Smiles' face became even more sinister.

"What a good child, he's grown up and can lie now."

The Smiling Earl muttered a few words under her breath as she looked at the study door. Then, staring at Roland, she said, "Remember, you, Catherine, and Anna have already married in the ruins of Malrod. They used the most primitive wedding ceremony of the sirens."

Queen Ariadru has expressed her serious dissatisfaction to His Majesty Leonard regarding this matter, but the die is cast.

The Marquis with the Crying Face added, "During wartime, when life is uncertain, it's a good thing that we can 'make up for it' in the future."

When the Marquis with the crying face said the word 'reissue', he emphasized it a few more times.

Roland asked, his face full of confusion, "My lords, are you sure you haven't made a mistake? The three of us haven't..."

Roland hadn't finished speaking when he swallowed his words, caught in the cold glint in the eyes of the smiling lady and the crying lady.

The smiling woman said in a sinister tone, "I'll ask you one more time, how long have you been married to Catherine and Anna?"

Roland's lips twitched. He wisely decided not to argue with the two ladies any longer. So he honestly said, "Six months. We've been married for over six months."

The smiling woman then asked, "Where is the location? Who's there?"

Roland said, "Many sirens attended our wedding at the Crimson Ruins of Malrod."

The smiling lady frowned and questioned, "Your Highness Roland, you are a prince of Alaye. Did your wedding not receive the blessing of the bishops?"

Under the compelling gazes of the two goddesses, Roland coughed and said, "Of course, the Old Church Patriarch blessed us."

The smiling woman added, "Not the patriarchs of the Old Church, but 'two bishops of the Dawn Church'."

In addition, His Majesty Leonard and Bishop Harland were also present at the wedding. His Majesty Leonard represented Catherine and Anna's parents, and Bishop Harland represented your parents.

Seeing Roland nodding repeatedly like a chick pecking at rice, the two ladies finally nodded in satisfaction.

The smiling lady concluded, "Remember, if you don't want all four families to be shamed because of your affair, keep your wedding anniversary firmly in mind!" (End of Chapter)