I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

“Yes.” Roland nodded deeply: “It doesn’t matter whether the gods will be freed from madness because of this.”

The important thing is that if we win, we will destroy the gods and destroy madness.

If they win, they will utterly annihilate us. Even if the world continues its cycle in the future, they will retain the memory that 'wizards must never exist,' instead of taming these dangerous little bees as in previous cycles.

“Damn Roland, I think you shouldn’t be considering whether to persuade me about this—you should ask the wizards.”

Olivia seemed to have made a decision, saying, "If they are willing to make such a sacrifice, I will help you."

The Mad God cannot be destroyed, and sealing the Mad God will not yield good results—the Mad Gods themselves have tried countless times.

Therefore, what the wizards destroyed was not their existence, but divine authority.

The new world will no longer be dominated by the gods, and it will no longer fall into the cycle of depravity.

The wizards will also discover a way to truly control madness, thus freeing the immortal gods from it and preventing them from interfering in the world. They might join the wizards like Heracles once did, or they might be banished; in any case, the future world will undergo a true 'renewal'.

In short, the world will no longer cycle, and neither humans nor gods will suffer anymore.

Therefore, for Olivia, the goddess, whatever the future outcome may be, she can accept it. Perhaps those gods who crave power will be very unwilling, because the master of the world has changed.

They have held divine power long enough, and the world they rule is truly terrible. It's time for some new masters.

Among these masters, there is definitely a place for Olivia. Therefore, Olivia fully accepts this result!
Therefore, she was willing to work with Roland.

Therefore, the decision on this matter no longer rests with Olivia; it must be asked of the wizards.

Ask them if they are willing to sacrifice themselves for a real future.

“Let’s go, Diana,” Roland said. “Let’s go talk to Father Leonard and the others. Hmm, I just checked, he’s in his study right now.”

Everyone knew weeks ago that Roland and Olivia were going to heaven.

So the Thousand-Eyed King and the elders were all waiting for Roland and his companion to return.

The fact that Roland and Olivia returned later than expected made everyone a little anxious.

When Roland entered the study, the small room was already packed with more than twenty people. If this study weren't the private study of the Thousand-Eyed King, where only core elders dared to disturb him, the entire council of elders would probably be crammed in here.

Catherine paced back and forth in the study, while Brianna and the other elders whispered among themselves, all with anxious expressions on their faces.

Unlike everyone else, the King of a Thousand Eyes was exceptionally calm.

He had witnessed far too many things in his cycle of reincarnation. He knew very well what the worst possible outcome would be for the wizards, and he was always conceiving of the best possible ending. Whatever the outcome, he could face it with equanimity.

The White Queen was also there, sitting to the side drinking tea and watching O'Reilly play with her little grandson.

Originally, only the Thousand-Eyed King and the White Queen were in the study. They stayed there to coax their grandson, enjoying a moment of family bliss amidst their busy lives.

The children of Roland and his two sisters seemed to be growing up exceptionally long. Catherine was getting a little tired of taking care of the children lately, but didn't want the ladies-in-waiting to look after them. Anna, on the other hand, wasn't suited to childcare. Therefore, the elderly couple often helped out with the children.

Therefore, the study was originally quite peaceful.

The house only became noisy when O'Reilly burst in—she was carefree; she was just there to tease her little nephew.

When O'Reilly entered the study, the atmosphere inside was quite harmonious.

But then Catherine and the elders came one by one. And so the room began to fill with an atmosphere of anxiety.

Everyone strongly suspected that Roland and Olivia's late return meant something had happened to them in Heaven. They then asked the Thousand-Eyed King whether they should activate the backup plan.

Things hadn't escalated to that point yet, so the Thousand-Eyed King asked everyone to wait quietly a little longer.

The elders were fine; they had simply gone into a state of readiness and were waiting for orders. Therefore, they were relatively quiet. But Catherine was an 'insider'; her children were young, and she didn't know if her husband would return, so she was constantly anxious.

Catherine only breathed a sigh of relief after Roland led Olivia into the study.

The elders' furrowed brows relaxed.

"Judging from your expressions, did you bring back good news or bad news?" Brianna asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, I guess that's good news." Roland thought it was good news because Olivia had been completely convinced, which meant that they were now united.

Although Roland originally intended to only talk to the King of a Thousand Eyes today, everyone present was no stranger to him.

Considering that these people would be involved in the discussion sooner or later, Roland asked O'Reilly to close the door.

Roland didn't bring up his and O'Reilly's plans first; instead, he recounted everything he had seen and heard in Heaven that day.

The surrender was an outcome the wizards had long anticipated, and since the Thousand-Eyed King descended upon the Holy Throne, the elders had all seen the contents of the Forbidden Library.

The elders were the most outstanding wizards, and after reading those books, they foresaw what would happen when the Book of Madness fell into the ocean of the lower world.

Therefore, although Roland and the King of a Thousand Eyes never told anyone about the world's cycle of reincarnation, the elders had already guessed that the gods might have been using reincarnation to prevent the repeat of the Age of Madness.

Now that the gods themselves have confirmed this, it has completely verified the elders' suspicions. This has also provoked a torrent of curses from the crowd.

“If that’s the case, what’s the point of becoming a god? You’re still living in a cage.” Old Johnson snorted and said, “Let me state my point of view first—the conditions offered by Heaven are indeed good, but I don’t believe that those gods can end the cycle of reincarnation after they have achieved the unification of chaos and order.”

“Indeed,” said Grand Elder Utrecht. “The essence of the contradiction does not lie here, nor even in the matter of reincarnation. For we are not imprisoned in a cage forced to reincarnate by the existence of madness, but rather in a cycle of ‘the civilization of the gods stagnating and gradually degenerating.’”

If the Kingdom of Heaven remains closed off from the world, then perhaps before we all die of old age, we will witness another apocalypse.

"From the perspective of those scholars in academia, the civilization of Heaven had already entered the stage of collapse at the end of the dynasty long ago," Elder Williams said. "The reason it did not completely collapse is only because of the existence of 'small cycles' and 'great cycles'."

Through this process of constantly tearing down and starting over, the Kingdom of Heaven has been able to continue to this day.

Therefore, the so-called cycle of reincarnation is both the root of suffering in the divine realm and the human realm, and a poison that prolongs the lifespan of the world.

We should certainly not use this short-sighted approach to look to the future.

However, cutting off the poison without addressing the root cause will only cause the patient's condition to deteriorate rapidly.

To put it bluntly, the cycle of reincarnation is about to be broken; both the major and minor cycles will cease to exist. Heaven will then have no more poisons to prolong life.

Therefore, I agree with Johnson and Utrecht's views.

But I think it will take even less time.

It may not be long before heaven falls from the clouds.

If, by then, we had abandoned our original magic and joined the Heavenly Kingdom's faith, then we, like the other 'pastures,' would become a snowflake in this great avalanche, falling into the abyss with the gods.

Everyone chimed in with their own opinions, while Olivia remained silent. She had expected the wizards to argue amongst themselves, but to her surprise, they were all so united.

The reason this group of wizards was able to get this far is because they saw this matter very clearly—the so-called cycle of reincarnation and the so-called madness are secondary contradictions. Only by breaking the divine authority can the world be rebuilt.

Therefore, they have always seen things very clearly.

Conversely, the gods who have always been trapped in their cages have never been able to see this. As a result, they are trapped in their cages and cannot extricate themselves. They have even set up the cycle of reincarnation as a constraint for themselves, keeping them trapped in the cages in an endless cycle.

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(End of this chapter)