I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

Chapter 8 Thumbelina
Seven or eight beautiful mermaids danced on the huge branches of the Manhattan grass, singing songs from the deep sea.

While singing, they jumped into the wine lake in the soil of the flowerpot.

The mermaids danced gracefully in the branches of Manhattan grass and the wine lake in the soil of the flowerpot.

Seeing Roland's dazed look, several mermaids playfully waved at him.

——"Fool Roland, we are the fruits grown on Manhattan grass~~"

——"Come on, come on, don't you want to eat me?"

——"Hehe. Haha"

——"(Singing and playing)"

These mermaids are actually elemental fairies summoned by the magic contained in the Manhattan grass!

They loved playing pranks, so they played a trick on Roland.

Roland didn't know about this; he just thought it was impossible for a mermaid to grow from herbs. So he stared at it for a long time, even wondering if he was hallucinating.

After a moment, he seemed to have figured something out, and his gaze gradually became firm again.

"What does it matter whether it's true or not?" he muttered to himself, "What I should do now is eat the mermaid fruit. Even if I'm hallucinating now, I should still do this!"

He reached out and grabbed a mermaid, saying fiercely, "Wait until I eat you, then I'll know whether you are a fruit or a mermaid!"

The mermaid dodged with a smile: "Fool! Of course we are mermaids. Even if you eat me, you are still a mermaid. It's common sense that mermaids grow from grass!"

The mermaid dodged a few times before being caught by Roland. But she wasn't panicked at all. Instead, she combed her hair, looked at Roland with her big, watery eyes, and said, "Don't eat me, Roland. Your Thumbelina can cook!"

Roland looked at the living mermaid in his palm, his eyes showing some reluctance, but he still opened his mouth.

The mermaid said, "Okay, okay, stop making trouble and stop eating me, Roland. Look, I have a gift for you."

Roland was stunned: "Gift?"

"Well, look at this!" Miss Mermaid took out a huge sea clam from her back as if performing magic. "Dingdingdingding—look."

The clam is as big as her tail, or about the same size as a fingernail.

After taking a closer look at the clam, Roland was shocked to find that it was very similar to the 'melon seed-shaped mermaid fruit' described in the book!
"T-This is the Mermaid Fruit?!"

Roland's eyes widened. He said to the mermaid, "If this is the mermaid fruit, then who are you? Why did you grow out of the grass?"

“I won’t tell you, idiot!” The mermaid put the clam in his palm, then disappeared with a smile.

At this moment, Roland really suspected that he was hallucinating.

There came the sound of playfulness from the flowerpot, and the mermaids jumped into the wine lake and swam to the shore.

They placed the clams on the shore (the edge of the flower pot), and then one by one they turned into balls of light and disappeared.

"Goodbye, Roland~~"

"Goodbye, idiot~~~"

After the mermaids disappeared, a pile of clams appeared on the edge of the flower pot.

Roland looked at the clams carefully, his heart pounding.

"Could it be that these clams are all mermaid fruits?" He hurriedly flipped through the literature on potions and quickly found the relevant description.

The page reads:

The shell exudes a slightly sweet aroma. Once opened, the inside reveals an irregularly shaped fruit, slightly smaller than the tip of a pinky finger, like a low-quality pearl.

"This is indeed the real mermaid fruit!" Roland was overjoyed. He sniffed the clam in his hand and then showed a very wonderful expression.

“Why does it smell fishy?”

"Mermaid fruit doesn't have a fishy smell! Only clams have a fishy smell?!"

Roland grabbed his hair and felt terrible.

Little did he know that this was another prank by the elves. To amuse Roland, they deliberately made the mermaid fruit look like and taste like a clam.

What’s even more exciting is that when Roland pried open a sea clam with his fingernails, there was a pearl inside!
Real pearls!
——This was of course another prank by the elemental goblins. And an apprentice apprentice couldn't see through the elemental goblins' pranks.

Roland stood there in a daze for a long time.

"I-I'm crazy?!"

"Or is it that there is something wrong with the contents of the potion book?"

"When Manhattan grass matures, it doesn't produce fruit. Instead, it produces mermaids and pearls?!"

Having said this, Roland couldn't help but cover his forehead fiercely.

This speculation is really outrageous.

"Who cares!" Roland threw the pearl into his mouth.

He has two advantages: first, he always knows what he should do;
Second, once he makes a decision, even if he encounters strange things, his determination will not be shaken.

So, even though he was almost driven crazy by the goblins, he still remained rational and made the most correct choice.

The pearl melted in his mouth, and after swallowing it, Roland felt a surge of magical power emanating from his stomach. The surging magic power made his eyes light up slightly.

"This is the time to meditate." Roland opened the Alayeh Notebook and turned to the page on visualization. After reading it, a strange look appeared on his face.

He suddenly discovered a very serious problem:

"Given my current mental state, if I were to meditate according to the contents of the Fool's Notebook, I might go astray!"
"My predecessor went crazy in this way."

'do not care! '

"Either become a troll's shit, or go crazy. If you don't go crazy, you can't become an immortal. Being a crazy immortal is better than putting your life in the hands of others, and it's better than being a slave to your mentor!"
Roland no longer hesitated and began to meditate according to the visualization method he remembered. His mind was free of distractions and he quickly entered the world of meditation.

If Roland opened his eyes and looked at the Alayeh Notebook at this moment, he would find that some new words suddenly appeared on it:
Roland's magical talent was far inferior to his predecessor's, but his comprehension was unmatched. He instantly touched upon realms his predecessor had never explored...

[In the meditation world, he felt that the whole world became clearer and more real, and he seemed to observe everything from a higher perspective.]

From the Valeria territory and the surrounding vast forests to the various creatures in the small town at night, everything is different from what you see every day.

[The perspective rises, and I can see the entire province, even the entire kingdom, the continent, and the galaxy. Everything is in sight...]

(End of this chapter)