I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

In truth, it's somewhat understandable that Roland didn't recognize Count Barr at first glance.

If Count Bart were standing alone, Roland would definitely recognize him.

But he had been standing with Belinda the whole time, so Roland didn't recognize him.

Because Count Barr looked too much like Belinda—Lady Wendy had considered that if 'Belinda' were used, she would flee to the south. So she used the image of her 'great-grandfather' as a template to create the current Belinda's body.

As a direct descendant of the elder of the two Dracula brothers, and given that his family practiced consanguineous marriage, Count Bal looked very much like his ancestor.

Therefore, Count Barr and Belinda look like siblings cut from the same mold.

Furthermore, Roland and Count Barr had only exchanged a few words, and he was now dressed in the attire of a noble family of the Holy Blood, a style completely different from that of the Dracula family.

Therefore, Roland subconsciously regarded Count Bal as one of Belinda's younger brothers in the East, and as a Holy Blood Wizard.

Roland gave his senior a look—So, Belinda, I mean, Wendy's actually Earl Barr's sister? Oh no, her aunt?
Catherine glared at Roland—leaving aside the 'blank histories' concealed by the gods, according to the wizards' records, Earl Durand and Lady Wendysa were fourth-generation Draculas (the couple were cousins), and Earl Bal was her thirty-second-generation great-grandson!

Roland opened his mouth wide, understanding what Senior Catherine meant.

Belinda is the Earl of Bal's living maternal grandmother.

Not only her, but anyone randomly picked from among the Holy Blood Wizards—even a newborn baby—is an ancestor of the Draculas.

Wizards live much longer than southerners, and the first fallen Dracula has become a demon, living for who knows how many years.

Belinda's great-grandfather, Durand, was the offspring of the demon Dracula and a human witch. He was a half-demon with an extremely long lifespan.

In addition, due to the difficulty of reproduction among high-level wizards, the earliest ancestors of the Bloodthirsty Wizards only reproduced for four or five generations over a thousand years.

In contrast, Dracula's heroic brother was a mortal who experienced the normal cycle of birth, aging, sickness, and death.

His descendants also failed to embark on the path of truth. Although many powerful individuals emerged, they all relied on external forces like divine grace to enhance their power. Therefore, despite their own strength, they all returned to the embrace of the goddess Heracles in their old age.

By the time it was passed down to Count Barr, more than thirty generations had passed.

Therefore, setting aside the 'blank history' of this world, Belinda is thirty-two generations older than Earl Barr.

If we don't remove the number of 'blank history' figures, we probably have to add one more.

Therefore, Belinda is the Earl of Bal's living great-grandmother.

Even a random Holy Blood Wizard, or even a newborn baby, is an ancient ancestor who crawled out of the coffin of the Dracula family.

At this moment, Count Barr noticed Roland's gaze and smiled, "Your Highness, how have you been?"

The count smiled reservedly, but there was an almost imperceptible fervor in his eyes as he looked at Roland.

As soon as Roland saw the Earl's expression, he knew he was imagining something again. He responded with an awkward but polite smile, a reserved reply.

After a pause, Roland looked at Catherine: "Didn't Earl Barr attend yesterday's negotiations?"

Catherine gave Roland a speechless look—I'm truly impressed by you. The Dracula family only sent one nobody, didn't you notice?
Roland: "."

Count Barr was unaware that the two were exchanging glances; he thought Catherine was ignoring Roland.

He couldn't help but think to himself: 'An unpopular, henpecked son-in-law and puppet emperor.'
Even I once doubted that he was merely a wizard subservient to others, rather than a master.
The Lord's disguise was simply too perfect.

Seeing that Catherine ignored Roland and only glared at him, Count Barr picked up the conversation, easing the awkward atmosphere.

"Your Highness, it's like this. Yesterday, we originally planned to send you out of the city to meet up with Princess Catherine and the others. However, this plan was disrupted by the church's messengers."

Originally, I was supposed to attend the meeting with the Dawn New Society delegation after welcoming them.

However, the cultists in the city, aware of today's talks, are preparing a secret ceremony to capture all the envoys from both sides and disrupt this peace talks between the North and the South.

The Draculas had known about the cult's plans for a long time and had shared the information with the Church of Light and Shadow many days ago.

Therefore, after we learned that the cult had made a move today, Dracula and his men immediately went to deal with it together with the knights of the Church of Light and Shadow and the Dawn New Mission.

"We have successfully completed our mission and seized this opportunity to completely eradicate the cult."

After a pause, Count Bal said meaningfully, "Fortunately, the peace talks went smoothly, otherwise all the warriors of the Church of Light and Shadow would have been sacrificed without exception."

Roland nodded without saying anything.

Catherine's glare at him just now made everything clear.

On the surface, the Draculas, who would never have sided with the wizards, conspired with the wizards to set up a trap.

If the negotiations go smoothly, the cult will be eradicated, and Dracula will use this opportunity to whitewash his image.

If the negotiations don't go smoothly, Dracula and the wizards will take action against the Church of Light and Shadow. Those outside the negotiation hall will be dealt with by Count Bal and his men. Those inside the negotiation hall will be handled by those inside in cooperation with the Forbidden Angels.

Catherine said, "Roland, the Revolutionary Army has always had contact with Count Bal, so a few months ago, after I joined the Revolutionary Army with the Holy Blood Wizards, Belinda made contact with Count Bal."

During these days, Dracula has been cooperating with our work.

Count Barr stood to the side, smiling but saying nothing.

Roland thought to himself, 'Belinda's been tricked. But it doesn't matter.'

After Roland began to bathe, Count Barr and Belinda did indeed become acquainted. However, he did not truly pledge allegiance to his mistress, but rather feigned cooperation with her.

Therefore, when Belinda asked Barr to secretly send Roland to the wizard, Count Barr did not follow the plan. Instead, he arranged for another group of people to take Roland to the safer riverbank.

But this plan was disrupted by Olivia.

Seeing that his boss couldn't escape, Count Bart had no choice but to inform Belinda. The two then began implementing their second plan: using the cult affair to divide the Church of Light and Shadow into two groups, ready to act at any moment.

The peace talks went very smoothly, and the boss was completely safe—but in Count Barr's eyes, the boss was probably still in danger.

The reason the Count is personally waiting for Roland here is probably to save him.

Thinking of this, Roland's expression turned somewhat unpleasant.

"The cultists probably have a presence in the East District. They are indeed outnumbered and outmatched, but if they can leverage the power of the riverbank to instigate a massive, mysterious event, then through this unrest... wait, something feels off."

Thinking of this, Roland suddenly frowned.

He changed his approach, incorporating the mindset of cult fanatics and considering what they might do.

Lost in thought, Roland glanced at Count Barr. Just then, Roland's eyes flickered slightly, and a strange expression appeared on his face.

'This lunatic is actually using coded language to communicate with me like this?'

Roland looked at Count Barr's holy blood wizard robes and thought, 'Damn! Who could have guessed such a secretive method? Do you really think I'm an omniscient and omnipotent god?!'

While pondering, Roland had already reached a somewhat uncertain conclusion.

To verify his conjecture, he looked at Count Bal and said, "Baal, remember three months ago, my class played Edward and personally came to find you, hoping you could join us."

But you misunderstood me; we didn't reach an agreement.

After a pause, Roland looked at the Holy Blood Wizard Robe on Count Bal's body—the Holy Blood Wizard Robe of the Dracula family, which seemed to have been specially designed overnight.

To distinguish it from the original Bloodstained Wizard Robes, some small patterns symbolizing the Dracula family were added. If you look closely, you'll notice that these patterns, when combined with the original designs, slightly resemble angel wings.

Wizards have been operating in the south under the name of the 'Alaye Angels' for a long time.

Therefore, the design of wizard robes is somewhat similar to that of priest robes.

Therefore, there is absolutely nothing wrong with designing Dracula's new outfit in this way.

Normal people wouldn't think there's any hidden meaning in this.

Roland continued, "Now that I see you wearing the robes of the Holy Blood Angel, I can finally relax."

Otherwise, if the Draculas misunderstand something and cause any trouble, I'll be in serious trouble.

Roland's words were cryptic and many people didn't quite understand them, but Count Bart understood them perfectly.

He looked ashamed and said, "My lord, I have always considered myself a loyal retainer of the Alaye royal family, but I have never been able to truly understand what you are saying to me."

Now I understand completely.

He paused, then said, "After learning that you were going to the Holy See to be ordained, I understood completely."

Roland's eyes lit up with satisfaction.

Under his gratified gaze, Count Barr trembled with excitement as if he had been blessed by God—I had indeed understood the divine oracle!
Hearing this, someone nearby couldn't help but give Roland a curious look—what does this cultist of yours know now?

Roland gave his senior a disgruntled look—who the hell knows what these lunatics know? Never mind, it should be alright now, senior. Have the Draculas been behaving themselves these past few days?

Catherine's eyes told Roland—they're behaving themselves. Don't worry, the forbidden angels haven't closed their eyes yet; we've been keeping a close eye on these cultists. What exactly is going on?

Roland told Catherine about how Count Barr had deceived Belinda.

After listening, the senior student sighed to Roland in her heart, "What a bunch of stubborn, incompetent lunatics who are like a mantis trying to stop a chariot."

Catherine no longer paid attention to whether the Draculas would make any moves. Because the moment the angels in the distant void cast a sliver of their gaze upon Greyfalcon City, any action by any force became meaningless.

Therefore, the wizards didn't care whether the Draculas were genuinely cooperating or not.

If they genuinely want to cooperate, that's fine; if they resort to underhanded tactics, then we'll wipe them out along with the church members.

Therefore, along the entire riverbank, there was only one threat to the wizards—the mad god Heracles, whom even the gods feared.

Everything else is just a small fry that can be easily wiped out by an AOE attack.

Catherine thought to Roland, "The Alaya Dynasty and the Alaya evil god are completely opposed, so I've always believed that these cultists could never stand with us—unless the wizards worship that evil god named Roland."

Roland coughed, indicating his displeasure.

Catherine continued, "Earl Bal apparently did not believe that the wizards and the Dawn Order worshipped that evil god."

But now, he probably thinks that you have mistakenly identified him as a descendant of the Alaye dynasty's royal family.

This is supposed to be a dynasty fighting against an evil god, yet the emperor about to be crowned is none other than you, the evil god.
Therefore, the Alaya Dynasty was actually a tool for you to whitewash your identity as an evil god, and my father, the Thousand-Eyed King, was naturally a pitiful wretch who was deceived and manipulated by you.

Roland broke out in a cold sweat upon hearing what Senior Catherine said.

Because from a certain perspective, what Senior Catherine said is the truth.

After a pause, Senior Catherine said to Roland in her mind, "This Earl of Bal is absolutely loyal to you, much more so than others, and he is also quite good at interpreting oracles."

Not bad, very good.

Roland replied, "Just spit it out."

Roland's defiance didn't bother Catherine too much.

Because she knew that Roland must have guessed what she meant.

Senior Catherine came up with a terrible idea, and the two of them communicated in their minds.

Soon, the group left the castle and entered the city.

The knights who cleared the way had been waiting for a long time, and many guards could be seen on both sides of the main road.

Roland didn't see many residents along the way. It was clear that the city's garrison had been busy all morning, and the residents had all stayed at home and hadn't gone out.

In the words of Count Barr, it was to prevent remnants of cults from infiltrating the population and causing trouble, so he issued a curfew.

Count Bar said, "Therefore, anyone still active in the city at this time is a cultist."

Roland and Catherine looked at the guards on both sides of the road and nodded deeply.

That's true, but Roland thinks he should add one more thing—besides the guards, knights, and Dracula nobles who are still active in the city, most of the residents who stay at home are probably cultists too.

Roland could very well understand Count Barr's confinement order.

Count Barr wasn't afraid of the cultists causing trouble, but rather that they might become too enthusiastic, prostrating themselves before the crowd and shouting "Holy Lord."

Roland telepathically told Catherine, "After I leave, you all need to do some serious work on the Grey Falconers' mindset."

Catherine replied, "I'll have to clean up your messes a lot. Don't worry, we've discussed these things. Edward, Isabella, and many others will be involved in the Dracula family's affairs from now on."

Roland added, 'And the doctor from Wilmick!'

Catherine said, "Well, okay, I'll bring over some experts from Holy Spirit Hospital and the Abyss who are knowledgeable in both theology and medicine."

Hearing this, Roland was relieved.

In fact, Roland doesn't mind having a group of die-hard fans.

After all, even though they're a bit idiotic, they can be quite cute sometimes.

The key issue is that all of these people have mental illnesses!

Their faith wasn't in Roland himself, but in the omniscient and omnipotent God they imagined.

It will probably be difficult to get the Draculas to stop being fans of Roland.

After all, judging from the condition of the count and his men, they seemed to have some kind of terminal illness.

But the experts at Holy Spirit Hospital can at least make them a little more normal and cause less trouble.

Don't one day secretly kidnap Roland and then grant him wishes he can't possibly fulfill, forcing him to do things that no one else can do.

Roland felt that, given the current state of the Draculas, the most suitable person for their faith was not him, but his own mother Elizabeth, or rather, 'the Foolish Virgin Mary, Jesusthemis'.

Because this rice cooker goddess has a perfect solution to people's wishes.

Logically speaking, if you turn all the people and things in the world into a rice cooker, or some other strange and wonderful thing, then all your wishes will be fulfilled.

Because everyone is unified and collapsed into one thing, all desires are also unified and collapsed.

This is God's understanding of the insects' desires. (End of Chapter)