Finally, after successfully receiving a new mission, Benjamin left Andre's home with Augustine who brought him here.
It was almost evening, and it was time for Benjamin to organize his place. Originally, he planned to book a room in a hotel in the town, but Augustine enthusiastically invited him to stay at their house temporarily. Benjamin didn't want to bother him, but he couldn't refuse the kindness, so he had no choice but to follow Augustine to the west side of the town again.
"Don't worry, I'm going to have a lot of fun. I'll let you go and you won't want to leave!"
Benjamin could only smile bitterly and shake his head.
Before Augustine came here, he had been a housekeeper in a wealthy family. That family also had a mage, but they claimed that the mage was the lady's personal maid. Augustine didn't know it at first, but he kept flirting with the maid, but when it came to the end, he was restrained by the maid using a restraint technique and "played" all night long.
He was so frightened that he wanted to sneak to the church in the town to complain the next morning, but the wizard trapped him in the room and forcibly taught him a magic trick. From then on, he became a mage. Later, he found an opportunity to escape from the mage, went around in circles, and finally came to Crewe Town. He wanted to escape from the kingdom, but was stuck here by the gate. So, he used his savings over the years to open a tavern in the town.
In fact, when he first heard this story, Benjamin was a little caught off guard.
Is this really good
Although he traveled through time, the Benjamin after he traveled through time was still just a boy of sixteen or seventeen. Telling this kind of story to a child, who is responsible for failing to keep up with nutrition
After Benjamin expressed his shock at this story, Augustine shook his head in confusion.
"Really? I thought you were good at this." He showed a somewhat regretful expression and said seriously, "The experience of the bondage technique was really bad. I suggested her several times to buy a rope. It feels more real. , she refused to buy it. And she couldn’t speak even after being hit by the restraint spell, so what use was the agreed safe word? Later, I couldn’t bear it anymore, so I ran away while she wasn’t paying attention.”
“…”
Benjamin felt that there were so many flaws that he simply didn’t know where to start.
He somewhat regretted agreeing to stay with Augustine temporarily.
Fortunately, when he arrived at the tavern, Augustine started busy greeting the guests and doing various trivial matters in the tavern. Because of this, he was unable to communicate more details with Benjamin, and Benjamin was able to take a breather.
He sat by the window of the tavern, enjoying the ale and barbecue that Augustine, the boss, invited him to have.
But in his heart, he was carefully thinking about the mission he received from Andre.
…get a cross from the guard.
It is indeed a relatively difficult matter. It's not that those guards are so powerful, but that after getting the cross, they can't be discovered by the people at the Crusad gate. If they find out that a cross is missing, they will definitely be on guard, and the chance of getting through will be even smaller.
At the very least, he had to prepare a counterfeit.
Not only that, he also had to inquire about the situation inside the gate. How many people are stationed inside the gate? What is the daily routine of the guards? Where would they put the cross when they rested
He still has a lot of preparation work to do.
—He just wants to steal something without knowing anything. Even thieves on the streets of the royal capital will think he is unprofessional.
With this in mind, he glanced at the table next door.
Sitting at the table next to him were two guards taking a break after their shift. When Augustine saw them, he exchanged glances with Benjamin, and then pretended to casually arrange Benjamin to this position.
They seemed to be half or six drunk, and they should have been able to overhear a lot of things.
The two guards were eating happily at the moment and chatting enthusiastically, completely unaware that someone was secretly observing them from the side.
"... Damn it, captain, you show your face every day to no one."
"It's not because of the Bishop. What's wrong with him these days? Why is it that he acts like an enemy and won't give up until he torments us several times every day."
"Who knows? But I heard that not long after His Majesty the Pope appeared, he began to retreat to communicate with God. Is it because of this?"
"No way, why would the bishop be angry about this..."
Benjamin listened thoughtfully.
He had learned from other mages before that there was also a bishop inside the Crusad Gate. Unlike the bishop of the royal capital, this bishop lives in seclusion, and basically no one outside has seen this bishop. However, there is no doubt that the priest who was alerted when Benjamin observed the inside of the door with the water element induction method was the bishop.
Judging from the words of these two people, the bishop’s behavior is somewhat abnormal
Although Benjamin was a little surprised when he heard that the Pope was in retreat again, he didn't think that the bishop at Crusad Gate would behave abnormally because of such a thing.
—Unless there is another secret behind this "retreat".
Thinking of this, Benjamin shook his head.
Things in the capital are a mess, with forces from all sides criss-crossing each other. Today we are good friends, but tomorrow I will stab you again. He finally broke out of the quagmire, and he really had no interest in paying attention anymore.
The only thing he might care about is what happened to the Reese family after he left.
I don’t know if the church blamed the Reese family for the 30,000 deaths from the “plague”; I don’t know what Grant thought after that happened; I don’t know whether Claude, Jeremy, And the old lady, what are you doing now...
Although he didn't live with them for long, they were... after all, they were his family since he came to this world.
Although the word "family" made him a little embarrassed.
Benjamin took a deep breath, calmed down, put his thoughts back on running far away, and returned to the two guards who were drinking and chatting.
Although the two chatted endlessly, from scolding the leader to drinking to women. However, from their words, Benjamin gradually figured out the rules of the guards' shift changes.
Twenty-four hours a day, they worked three shifts. Six o'clock in the morning, two o'clock in the afternoon, and ten o'clock in the evening are the times when they change shifts. Except for the shift from 10 pm to 6 am, on other shifts, there will be ten people at the gate responsible for checking entry and exit pedestrians, 200 people standing on top of the gate to guard, and others resting inside the gate.
Most of the time, the guards were not allowed to leave the gate. However, every two years, they can take a complete break for a month and move around freely. They can go back to their hometowns if they want, and eat, drink and have fun if they want. Just like these two people in the tavern, their one-month vacation is coming to an end, so they have just returned from their hometown and are ready to resume their duties.
Benjamin couldn't help but sigh that the management system of these guards was actually quite scientific and humane.
Unfortunately, the two never discussed the most critical information, regarding the cross used to check the identity of the Dharmakaya. Therefore, Benjamin had no way of judging from it where exactly those crosses would be placed - would they be distributed and collected by people from the church, or would the guards themselves carry them
Therefore, he could only find a way to investigate on his own.
Just like that, after eating and drinking, the two guards left. Seeing that he could not get any more information, Benjamin simply left the tavern and walked towards the door.
Know yourself and your enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles without danger. After much deliberation, Benjamin decided to use the water element perception method to observe the Crusad Gate more. It would be best if he could draw the structural diagram of the entire gate, so that it would be much easier for him to start.
Thinking like this, he soon came to the handmade textile shop closest to the gate again.