Hawke opened the door and welcomed Benjamin and others into the room.
He said with some surprise: "Your Excellency Benjamin, have you finally changed your mind? In fact, our president is not what you imagined. He is a very humble person and will never embarrass you... "
Benjamin waved his hand and interrupted him: "Thank you for your kindness, but our itinerary has been confirmed. We will leave for Carites tomorrow. We really don't have time to pass by the capital."
Hearing this, Hawke looked helpless.
"Sir Benjamin, you are leaving the country illegally. Tell me this now. Aren't you afraid that I will report it to the guild and send people to arrest you all?" He said with a wry smile.
Benjamin shrugged and replied: "I just said it casually, but I didn't really do it. Is it illegal to say it?"
“…”
Several mages behind Benjamin were covering their mouths and snickering. As for Hawke, he didn't look like he wanted to talk.
However, after all, as a lobbyist of the Mages Guild, he took a deep breath, regained his calm and friendly attitude, faced Benjamin, and spoke again: "In that case, Sir Benjamin, why do you come to me?"
Benjamin shook his head and said: "It's not a big deal, it's just... Didn't Master Richard faint during the competition yesterday? After all, he was knocked unconscious by me. I was a little worried, so I came over to visit."
As he said that, he pointed to a few mages behind him and continued: "They are my friends. They were doctors before. After becoming mages, they were also interested in healing magic, so I brought them here to see if they can Can’t help.”
After hearing this, Hawke glanced at the sturdy mages behind Benjamin, seeming a little suspicious. However, he probably felt that these were all trivial matters. After thinking about it, he turned around, opened the partition of the room, and showed the bed to Benjamin and others.
"Richard hasn't woken up since yesterday, and the water of life doesn't seem to be working." Hawke said with some worry, "He just keeps lying like this, and I don't know why."
Hearing this, Benjamin was a little startled.
No, is the power of his big water ball so terrifying? It can actually knock people unconscious for a whole day and a night, and you don't know when you will wake up
He couldn't help but wonder if there was something wrong with Richard's health.
but…
It's really a good opportunity, and it feels like God has blessed me.
One of the two mages from the Mages Guild has lost consciousness and is lying on the bed unconscious. In this case, it would be easier for them to deal with another mage.
Just when Hawke turned to look at Richard, Benjamin winked at the people behind him. Immediately, the mage behind him also showed an understanding expression.
So, Benjamin walked up and patted Hawke on the shoulder.
"I'm so sorry. Let's do this. I'll let them see if Master Richard is sick. Maybe they can do something about it." He seemed to comfort him kindly.
Just when Hawke's attention was attracted by Benjamin, the strongest mage, the old blacksmith, also walked towards them. He first pretended to treat Richard, and then, taking advantage of Hawke's unpreparedness, he grabbed his head and slammed it against the wall next to him.
Boom!
Benjamin couldn't help but frowned.
I saw that the originally white wall was now stained with a trace of blood. Hawke's face still maintained an unresponsive expression, his limbs twitched slightly, like a frog being stepped on, but he couldn't make any sound.
"He won't be hit to death by you, right?" Therefore, Benjamin asked.
Hearing this, the old blacksmith wiped away the blood from Hawke's knock, then put his hand under the opponent's nose to check for breath, shook his head and said, "Don't worry, he's not dead, he's still alive."
Benjamin walked over and confirmed that Hawke's life was not in danger. He was just knocked unconscious by this blow. At most, he suffered a concussion, but his life was not in danger. So, he was relieved.
The whole process of knocking out Hawke went very smoothly. However, Benjamin and his team were all mages. No matter how vigilant the opponent was, they would never have thought of guarding against such a simple and crude attack.
Besides, Benjamin did a good job of being pleasant and diverting attention at the beginning.
"Okay, let's tie him up." Thinking of this, he came back to his senses and said.
Several other mages stepped forward in response, took out the ropes and strips of cloth they had prepared long ago, and tied up Hawke firmly, even gagging his mouth to prevent him from having the chance to recite the spell after waking up.
—Yes, this is how Benjamin handles it.
He planned to knock out the two mages, tie them up, and lock them in this room. By the time the hotel owner felt something was wrong and came to check and released the two of them, Benjamin and his party had already run far away, and it was difficult for the other party to find any trace of them. Therefore, it is impossible for Ikol officials to know where on the border they will break through, and there is no way to prepare for it.
"W-what are you doing?"
However, while the mages were busy tying up Hawke, Richard, who had been lying on his bed unconscious just now, suddenly sat up and looked at Benjamin and his party in horror.
At that moment, Benjamin also felt quite terrified.
"Haven't you been fainting all the time?" He said with some confusion. However, soon, he seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly said, "No, I understand, so you have been pretending to be faint all this time?"
Hearing this, Richard's expression suddenly became embarrassed.
"Who, who is pretending to be fainted? Why should I pretend to be faint? I, I am..." He hesitated, as if he wanted to explain why he suddenly woke up, but at that moment, he seemed to have turned into a stammer, After trying for a long time, I couldn't say anything.
When Benjamin saw this, he sighed and winked at the old blacksmith again.
The old blacksmith understood, walked over, and repeated his old trick, grabbing Richard's head and banging it hard against the wall. Richard was probably still busy explaining why he was pretending to be faint, so he didn't resist at all and allowed the old blacksmith to attack him.
Then, with another muffled sound, the whole room suddenly became quiet, and Richard, who was stammering and chattering, could no longer explain why he was pretending to be faint.
"These guys from the Mage Guild are really weird." Another mage sighed.
Benjamin couldn't help but nod in agreement.
What the hell is faking it
How old are you, just because you lost a competition? Just like the kind of elementary school student who lies in bed pretending to be sick and refuses to get up because he doesn't want to go to school.
Benjamin was so happy that he thought his water polo technique had evolved some special function.
In this way, they dealt with the two guys sent by the Mages Guild in an extremely violent and simple way. Although the smoothness of the process was mainly due to the other party's lack of defense, Benjamin still felt like a gangster boss inexplicably as he commanded several strong mages to kidnap people.
It's a pity that there are no sunglasses in this world, otherwise he would definitely get a pair.
For humanitarian reasons, after the search, Benjamin did not take away everything from the two mages—in fact, he only took away a wrinkled-looking piece of paper with one line written on it. note.
Afterwards, they left the room.
Time entered the night, and the small team of mage was also ready. In this way, they took their luggage, left the rent money on the pillow in the room, and quietly left the hotel and Hank Town in the dark night.
They once again traveled through the night, heading east, preparing to bypass Regina and find a way to reach the border between Ikol and Freeden and fly over quietly.
It took about four hours of walking.
At this moment, they were far away from Hank Town and were at the foot of a deserted mountain. Because of the tiring journey, and the fact that the journey ahead was a well-known Warcraft activity area in Ikol, they decided to set up camp here, rest for one night, and continue their journey tomorrow.
In the small and dark tent, Benjamin lowered his head and took out the note again.
—The note that was found from Hawke's pocket before leaving Hank Town, and was held in Benjamin's hand countless times, turned over, and read again and again.
On the crumpled paper, there was a line of unusually clear words written:
"Scare away the water polo devil and don't let him get close to the capital."