It just so happened that the soldier, probably to blackmail Benjamin, came to a place with no one around. Therefore, there were no witnesses to the murder process of Benjamin.
After disposing of the soldier's body, Benjamin hid in a crack in the nearby wall and washed away the stains on his body with water balloons. Then, he took off his beggar's clothes and put on the military uniform he had just snatched.
Soon, after confirming that there were no flaws in his disguise, he took it out again.
Dressing up as a soldier was an idea that suddenly popped into his head. Of course, he didn't expect to sneak into the group of soldiers through this - he was not a real soldier, and he didn't know the passwords, so it would only take a minute for someone to see through him.
However, the beggar disguise no longer worked, so he had to pretend to be a soldier patrolling alone. If he just passed by without special attention, he believed that he could still get by in the sight of other soldiers.
"How far is this from the Demonic Prison?" he asked in his mind.
"It's very close. Walk forward for five minutes, turn a corner, and you'll be there." The system replied.
After confirming the direction and route, Benjamin followed the example of other soldiers, held his head high and took steps calmly, walking towards the front.
At the same time, he also activated the water element perception method and tried to avoid the sight of others. After all, it was a central area with many soldiers. Benjamin still met several groups of soldiers on the way. However, Benjamin adhered to the principle of not speaking. When he met the soldiers, he nodded to them and passed by them as a matter of course.
Probably because he looked so natural, no one really thought there was anything wrong with him. Not long after, he successfully approached the entrance of the Forbidden Demon Prison.
At the entrance of the prison was a small, low house, with many soldiers guarding the door, as if they would not let anyone get away with it.
If the blonde woman was not lying, those locked up underground in this house should be the mages who were captured.
No need to ask, Benjamin will definitely not be able to get in - unless he surrenders as a mage and is imprisoned. In addition, he would definitely not be able to get in just by pretending to be a half-assed soldier.
Therefore, he could only rely on the water element induction method to observe.
The area near the entrance is not particularly empty, and there are still some trees and other obstructions. So, while observing the movements of the soldiers around him, Benjamin bent down and stepped on his feet, carefully hiding behind the tree closest to the entrance.
Then, he closed his eyes and used the feedback from the water element to begin to sense the mage prison under his feet.
In this world, there is more than one way to restrict a mage's spellcasting. Just like the purification center in the royal capital, there are iron railings made of special materials that interfere with nearby elements and cause spellcasting to fail. In principle, this method is actually the same as Benjamin's Forbidden Magic Water Polo is somewhat similar.
As for the prison in Regina, after some observation, Benjamin discovered that another method was used here.
Presumably that special material is not produced here, so each of the locked up mages is wearing a strange kind of handcuffs. The handcuffs seemed to be made of the bones of some kind of magical beast. They were extremely strong and could also restrict the wizard's mental power, making them unable to even cast spells, let alone break free from them.
Benjamin could feel that the elements around the mages in the prison were no different from those of ordinary mages, but the keen mental power seemed to have disappeared, and he could no longer feel it.
It's true...different places have different methods.
Through the water element's perception method, the picture that appeared in Benjamin's mind was quite spectacular. Men, women, old and young, and all kinds of mages, almost filled the entire prison. They were crowded in the cells in twos and threes, with expressions of worry or anger on their faces. Some of them opened their mouths wide and shouted outside at the top of their lungs. Unfortunately, the guarding soldiers completely ignored them.
As for Benjamin…
He crouched in the dark and searched from cell to cell.
The prison was quite large, and in order to search them all, he even had to move his hiding place several times along the way. In this way, after about half an hour, he finally checked all the cells in the prison.
There were no faces he was familiar with in these cells.
Benjamin breathed a sigh of relief.
It seemed that the reactions of the mages who had followed him to escape from the kingdom were not slow. When the army began to hunt for mages, they realized something was wrong and hid without being caught and sent to prison.
but…
Where will they hide
While thinking about what to do next, Benjamin carefully avoided other soldiers and gradually moved away from the more dangerous central area of the city.
After thinking about it, he first moved toward the square in the west of the city.
From what the soldiers said, they seemed to have gathered some homeless people into the square. If the mage in the team happened to be outside inquiring about information at that time, it was very likely that he would be rushed over.
In short, he had to find other people first before he could make his next plan. Otherwise, how could he, a mere commander, make waves in this city under martial law
Therefore, it is necessary to go to the square to have a look.
Along the way to the square, Benjamin didn't encounter any accidents. The soldiers on the road were all discovered by him in advance using the water element induction method, and then they escaped. Looking at the desolate streets around him, he even felt that the city had just experienced a natural disaster.
However, as he gradually approached the square, his silent ears finally became lively.
Hiding at the corner of the street, he peeked his head secretly, and what appeared in his sight was no longer a square, but a vegetable market. The place that should be spacious no longer feels spacious at all. It is crowded and dark, making people anxious. All kinds of noisy sounds came from there, even more chaotic than the sounds of bargaining in the vegetable market.
When Benjamin saw this, he couldn't help but frown.
How come there are so many people
Although they could not be counted in a short period of time, it was roughly estimated that there were thousands of people locked up in the entire square.
What kind of trouble is this? Are there so many homeless people in all of Regina
After thinking about it, Benjamin continued to hide behind the shelter of the building, using the water element sensing method to carefully observe the situation in the square. However, what he didn't expect was that as soon as he started searching, he found a few familiar figures among the dense crowd.
Joanna, Frank, the old blacksmith... there were about five mages squatting in the corner of the square, looking around, with puzzled expressions on their faces, as at a loss as the people around them.
Suddenly, Benjamin felt a headache.
They were actually brought here.
After hesitating for a moment, he then searched the crowd, but at the end of the search, except for these five people, he couldn't find any other mages at all. He didn't know where the other ten mages had gone.
Got separated
A little troublesome…
After thinking for a while, Benjamin made a decision.
Let’s ask five of them first.
So, he put on his beggar's clothes, showed a confused expression, and walked out from the corner openly. The soldiers guarding the square naturally quickly discovered him, and just like that, after a round of questioning, he was thrown into the crowd in the square.
With the hot wind blowing in his face and the endless crowd of people as far as the eye could see, Benjamin entered it like going to Badaling during the National Day. He could even sneeze into other people's mouths. However, relying on the guidance of the water element induction method, he still moved slowly among the crowd, and finally squeezed in beside the five mages.
Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he stretched out his hand, patted Frank's shoulder, and said softly: "Hey, where are you guys? Why are you the only ones here?"