I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

That evening, Roland and Joan reminisced about the past.

The goddess of love shot the two of them with her arrow many years ago, but fate played a cruel trick on them, and it took them so many years to complete what they should have done in the Land of the End.

Joan should have been very happy. But when she got up the next day to make the bed, she was worried and even secretly shed tears.

The perceptive Roland noticed that Joan was secretly crying, but Joan remained silent for a long time after asking her. Roland was completely baffled.

It wasn't until a day later, when Joan found Roland through gritted teeth, that Roland finally understood what had happened.

It turned out that Joan found that her "embracing" with Roland that night went very smoothly, without any pain. And there was no blood on the sheets. This was different from what her sister Catherine had taught her.

Joan had heard that some witches skilled in swordsmanship could prevent her from bleeding during her first time. But it shouldn't have been this smooth during the 'embrace' either.

So she secretly sought out Theresa, who was an expert in medicine.

Theresa knew exactly what had happened. After all, Roland had been caught red-handed by Theresa and Maria when he was secretly doing something naughty on the train that day.

Joan gave Roland a thorough dressing-down.

After that, Roland lived a very quiet life, going back and forth between two places. Helena and Joan kept a close eye on him, forbidding him from running around or seeing anyone. So every day, Roland either went to the library or stayed in the monastery.

Roland felt as if he had returned to his college days, spending every day in the library.

According to the list left by Olivia, Roland was to live a life of asceticism. In particular, he was forbidden from having any contact with women—this was purely Olivia's moral requirement of Roland.

Olivia was very annoyed by Catherine's pregnancy because she knew that Roland and Catherine were not actually married.

Fortunately, Roland's future in-laws didn't dwell on the matter too much and cleaned up his mess instead; otherwise, things would have been much worse.

Olivia believed that if Roland had fathered a bunch of illegitimate children without getting married, she would not be able to face Roland's parents, and she and the Kingdom of Heaven would also lose face.

On the day of baptism and blessing, are brides supposed to stand before the whole world with huge bellies?!
So she arranged for Joan and Helena to take turns keeping a close watch on Roland and required Roland to observe the precepts as a true convert.

The two young ladies did indeed strictly adhere to the precepts at first. But it wasn't long before Roland led them astray.

Joan was completely tricked by Roland. Every now and then, Roland would act melancholy like that day (it was all an act). Joan felt sorry for Roland and couldn't stand Roland's sweet talk.

Even more shameless, Roland would always find various reasons to sleep with Joan.

At first, Roland slept on the sofa, but later he started sleeping on the bed.

Once there's a first time, there's a second. After a while, Joan would also hug Roland from behind.

Later on, even the safety measures were removed.

Helena was far more astute and vigilant than Joan. All of Roland's tactics failed her; she wouldn't even go to Roland's room.

It wasn't until one day, when Roland tricked Helena into coming to his study under the pretext of 'translating the old scriptures of the Holy See into anchor points,' that she worked overtime with him to organize documents.

When Roland mentioned working overtime, Helena sensed something was off. But lately, the study was such a mess that it was almost impossible to walk; you could only stand—if she hadn't known this, Helena wouldn't have gone there at all.

But Helena was still too naive; in her mind, doing bad things required money.

To her utter surprise, the moment she entered the room, the wicked senior picked up the poor junior—just like the dream Helena had once had, Senior Roland was utterly wicked. Unlike Joan, Helena wouldn't fall for it again after being fooled once.

Roland doesn't need any tricks; he just needs to be around when no one is around.
In Helena's words, "The big bad wolf is too evil, what can the little kitten do?"—As time went on, Helena's kitten was also corrupted by Roland.

Roland turned this once peaceful monastery into a complete mess. It wasn't until Olivia returned with a dejected Olelie that Roland calmed down.

And before we knew it, more than four months had passed.

Judging from some of Olivia's words, she seemed to have caught that little brat O'Reilly on the third day. But for some reason, it took Olivia about four months to clean up O'Reilly's mess.

Moreover, I heard that even the King of a Thousand Eyes seemed to have to wake up and lend a hand.
Roland did not expect things to escalate to such an extent that the Thousand Eyes faction, which was outwardly obligated to oppose Olivia, was forced to join forces with Olivia.

He asked Olivia what was going on, but Olivia was unwilling to say more, and Olivia dared not tell her brother the truth, saying that she had only summoned a group of angels of sincerity, and had not even succeeded in summoning them.

It wasn't until later that Roland learned from Catherine that O'Reilly had used the connection between the River Styx and the Sea of ​​Chaos on the banks of the River Angels to open a gate to the old, mad paradise.

Fortunately, there were no gods left in that mad paradise, only angels.

So, O'Reilly did indeed 'summon' a 'tiny' number of angels, but these angels weren't real angels.

According to various investigations by wizards, the number of angels that have escaped is roughly the same as the total population of the human world—more than three billion.

But what's really strange is that, despite all the evidence pointing to the fact that such a terrifying number of angels had escaped, all the phenomena and results showed that not a single evil angel had appeared.

The research findings produced completely opposite results to the actual phenomena, and there seemed to be a huge contradiction between the two.

This was a complete paradox, which aroused the wizards' intense curiosity.

The wizards originally intended to allocate some resources for the people on the banks of Angel River to conduct in-depth research.

But the Thousand-Eyed King stopped this plan.

Later, the wizards not only erased the memories of everyone who knew about it, but the Vatican also secretly cooperated. Ultimately, the matter was suppressed.

It seems the Pope and the King of a Thousand Eyes discussed this matter. Roland didn't know exactly what they talked about, but he later heard Mario say a few words about it.

History has been completely changed.

"Since the original trajectory of fate was already as bad as it could get, then having the fate line completely disrupted might not necessarily be a bad thing."

"You don't need to worry about this; focus on your own affairs. Since the search for the final fragment of the Holy Throne has reached a bottleneck, then 'describe' the Holy Throne as soon as possible."

After O'Reilly returned, the search for the last fragment of the pedestal had already reached a bottleneck.

Because the master of the Akasei Shrine was very certain that she herself had not stolen the base fragments.

Mario and Roland believed this.

Mario believed her because he knew this girl very well. If O'Reilly had made a huge blunder, she would definitely have boasted about it.

Roland believed her because Olivia had already severely punished the girl several times. Olivia was terrified of her sister-in-law, so she couldn't possibly lie and refuse to confess. (End of Chapter)