I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

Roland had a long dream.

He dreamt that he was driven mad by Diana's influence, and then, together with all the wizards, ignited a mad fire that devoured the light of dawn, transforming into red spider silk.

They rushed towards the sky, like a scarlet plague, infecting the gods one by one.

Heaven, the last line of defense still striving to protect the world, is gradually collapsing due to this sudden plague. The enormous black hole in the sky begins to approach once more, eventually enveloping the world like a curtain.

Roland felt as if he were a river flowing into the sea, completely merging into the ocean of Zero Boundary.

He became part of the ocean of the underworld, wandering around like a storm, constantly sweeping away and devouring everything he could touch.

What he devoured were stars shining in the deepest part of the sea—the gods. They were like stars that had fallen into the sea, their divine light still shining. Whenever they united, their light could even illuminate the entire seabed.

Roland was like a storm in the deep sea, sweeping towards these stars time and time again, only to be repelled by them time and time again.

But Roland always manages to come back stronger each time.

Roland could clearly sense that the gods did not seem to have gone mad despite falling into the lower realms. They were striving to maintain their sanity under the radiance of the Supreme God and the twelve chief gods.

The power belonging to the true gods within them did not disappear when they were submerged in the sea, but they regained their memories in the deepest part of the sea and, as time went by, gradually learned how to draw power from the deepest part of the sea and transform it into their own power.

As long as the gods can maintain their rationality, they are difficult to be infected and assimilated by Roland. And as they gradually learn to use the power of the lower world while maintaining their rationality, they become even more difficult to deal with.

This gradually slowed Roland's devouring process. But even the strongest group has its weaknesses. In each battle against the gods, Roland managed to consume the weakest stars, and each time he returned, he was stronger than before.

There is no concept of time here, nor is there a true past, present, or future. So once something becomes certain, the future events will happen immediately.

It seemed the gods were destined to fail, but that predetermined future had not yet arrived. This puzzled Roland greatly.

It wasn't until Roland devoured a certain god that he learned the reason from His memories.

It turns out that the gods deliberately maintained their rationality because they wanted to recreate a new world within this lower realm. And this new world introduced a twist to the inevitable future where the gods were destined to be devoured.

Creating a world in the lower realms—this idea sounds somewhat ridiculous. Even if the gods retained their divine power and normal understanding, and could create a normal world, that world would be forever imprisoned in the lower realms, unable to take the gods away.

But the events of the new world are indeed affecting the destiny of the gods.

Roland was forced to delve deeper into the new world that the gods were creating.

As his research progressed, Roland gradually stopped smiling.

Roland was shocked to discover that the gods were not creating a world that could exist in the deep sea; they were recreating the 'world of the past'!
Or perhaps, they are changing the past, reversing cause and effect!

Hidden within the vast ocean of the underworld lies the underlying 'code' of the surface world. All of the past is written within it.

If they successfully modify these 'codes', they can reverse cause and effect and completely eliminate certain people from the root!

Alaya, the Foolish God, is a god of madness, existing in all dimensions and all time. The gods cannot erase him from the lower realms.

But they can erase the person 'Roland' from the underworld!

The foolish god Alaye can be anyone, so even without Roland, it can be George, Louis, or anyone else.

However, the gods were very clear about one thing: in the countless cycles of Alaya's awakening, He had never grown to this extent!
The wizards of the East have never developed to this extent in such a short period of time in all these countless cycles of reincarnation.

The wheels of history roll ever onward, and they will continue to turn even without the presence of any one person. But Roland propelled this mighty wheel, enabling the Eastern Lands to unravel the truth of the world, restore the light of dawn, and learn how to ignite madness while remaining sane in just a few decades.

Without Roland, Heraca would not have betrayed them.

Without Roland, Alaye could not have become so powerful after awakening, able to devour all the wizards in the world who had ignited their madness in an instant.

Without Roland, no one using the 'account' of Alaye could have achieved the progress this game has made in just a few decades!
Therefore, they would be unable to defeat the gods. Thus, if Roland had never existed, none of this would have happened.

Therefore, as long as the gods successfully reversed cause and effect, the world would not fall into the bottom sea today, and the gods would be able to escape this cage called Zero Realm.

However, changing the past requires a prerequisite: the absence of 'observers' interfering.

Both sides are observers, but Roland, as an observer, is weaker than the gods. However, the gods' alteration of the past is a vast and complex task, so Roland only needs to modify a certain link in the process when the gods are altering the past, creating a paradox in that new link. This paradoxical past will then collapse and disappear because it cannot maintain its existence.

The gods' work would be rendered useless, and they would have to start all over again.

Thus, the gods continually recreated the world of the past, while Roland continually collapsed and destroyed it.

Although Roland's work was far simpler than that of the gods, it was still no easy task. Because some things that seem paradoxical often become reasonable due to certain events that occur in the future.

Roland's work efficiency was not as high as that of the gods. While the gods were creating new worlds, Roland often only had one chance to create paradoxes.

What's more dangerous is that Roland doesn't have time to examine every point in the future to verify whether this paradox is a true paradox. So every time he creates a paradox, it's like he's playing dice with the gods.

This die has almost countless faces, and each time the gods roll it, the number is the median of all the numbers on the die.

Roland must throw out a number greater than the middle value, or he will fail.

The gods may fail many times, but Roland only has one chance!
Therefore, Roland simply cannot afford to lose.

The gods, however, could not afford to waste time, because although they could fail many times, Roland would grow stronger with the passage of time. And when Roland's power exceeded the total power of the gods, he became the final observer.

At that time, Roland would decide the number of points after the dice were rolled.

There is no concept of time here, but Roland and the gods are vying for it.

The gods are constantly creating new worlds, while Roland is constantly destroying and devouring the gods.

Roland didn't know how much time had passed; he only knew that he had grown stronger and stronger, but his memories and thoughts had become increasingly confused. He often couldn't tell who he really was.

Sometimes Roland is creating paradoxes or devouring a god one moment, but the next he finds himself creating a new world and fighting against Alaye.

It seems that Roland devoured an extremely powerful being that he shouldn't have devoured.

This deity disguised itself as a weak god and tricked Roland into devouring it. Then, when Roland used the "All I am I" technique, it used its own memories and perceptions to influence Roland in return!

This god was not foolish; He could not devour Roland with the "all-I" principle, but He could influence Roland, even leading Roland to help the gods create the world and cause many great troubles.

Fortunately, Roland's own anchor was very strong, so he always remembered who he was in time and spat out the god he should not have devoured.

But because this god was always hidden among the gods, he was always mistakenly eaten by Roland.

Each time Roland ate Him, it wasted a great deal of time. This made Roland's situation increasingly worse.

On one occasion, Roland made the wrong choice again, mistakenly swallowing the god. This time, Roland's thoughts and perception became more chaotic than ever before, and then he and the god fell into a deep sleep.

When Roland awoke again, he found himself standing in a shattered world.

The earth was shattered and floated silently in the void. The dark sky was almost covered by writhing red things, and the stars that had once shone with holy light were now emitting a dim, scarlet glow.

Behind Roland was the shattered Pantheon, and in front of him was a cliff.

Beside Roland, a twelve-winged archangel who looked both familiar and unfamiliar to him knelt on the ground, weeping with his face covered.

Roland glanced at his robes, then at the very familiar archangel beside him, and his expression became quite strange. (End of Chapter)