After passing through the corridor and the front desk, Benjamin opened the door of the room where they were without hesitation.
Neither of them showed any surprise at Benjamin's sudden appearance. You probably noticed it when you entered the door. At this moment, the blond woman had stood up, stood in front of Sydney, and looked at Benjamin coldly.
"I have brought your companion, it's in this sack." She didn't waste any words and got straight to the point, "As long as you lift the curse, I will return him to you."
After hearing this, Benjamin suddenly showed a subtle smile, paused, and said, "Don't worry, I have to see the person first, right?"
Hearing this, the two women looked at each other, and the blonde showed a somewhat unkind look, but still had no objection. Then, she picked up the large sack that fell at their feet.
She opened the bag and grabbed Augustine out of it. At this moment, Augustine's eyes were closed tightly, as if he was in a coma, and he had no ability to resist the blond woman's rough movements.
Seeing this, Benjamin nodded and said, "Okay, I'll lift the curse for her."
With that said, he walked towards the two girls.
"What are you going to do?" Suddenly, the blonde woman said with a vigilant expression.
"Remove the curse." Benjamin spread his hands, showing a harmless look, and said matter-of-factly, "The medium of the curse is my blood, so I have to use blood to cast spells to remove the curse. You don't know ?"
The blond woman snorted dubiously and said, "Curse is something that is forbidden in the first place, and the relevant information has long been lost."
Benjamin replied: "Sorry, it is not lost in the Kingdom of Hori."
Then, he condensed an ice blade and cut his finger. He held his bleeding finger and motioned to the two women. The two women hesitated for a while, but after exchanging glances, they nodded.
So, Benjamin came to the bedside, with a seemingly friendly smile, and stretched out his finger to Sydney, who looked uneasy.
The blond woman stood aside, staring at Benjamin with a cautious look on her face, as if she was still wary of whether Benjamin would suddenly turn against him.
Unfortunately, whether she was careful or not, Benjamin still fell out.
Just when the blood on Benjamin's fingertips was about to drip, suddenly, without even a half-spell being heard, a hot and humid wind appeared, centered on Benjamin, and exploded without warning.
"I knew it!" Suddenly, the blonde woman roared. However, she was not blown away by the strong wind like last time. Instead, she faced the wind and punched Benjamin.
With this kind of power, it was obvious that she had drank the relevant potion before Benjamin entered the door.
But Benjamin had already taken precautions against this.
Before the opponent punched, he used the ice cubes prepared in advance in his consciousness space to condense a small shield in front of him. The enhanced strength of the blonde woman was so great that she shattered the ice shield with one punch, but Benjamin also got a chance to breathe and retreated quickly to distance himself from the blonde woman.
Seeing this, the blonde did not pursue her, but turned around to protect Sydney, who was blown over by the wind, and prevented her from hitting the wall directly.
"What do you want..." She said angrily, turning her head and looking at Benjamin again.
However, when her eyes fell back on Benjamin again, she was stunned and stopped mid-sentence.
At the other end of the room, Benjamin moved Augustine behind him and summoned a large sheet of ice fog to protect the two of them from 360 degrees without blind spots.
"I'm so sorry." He looked at the blonde and smiled, "You may have expected that I would fall out, but you misguessed the purpose of my falling out."
In fact, from the beginning, he had no intention of trading obediently.
It's important to get Augustine back, but it's also important to figure out this woman's true intentions. With a group of bandits, they bumped into Benjamin's mage team halfway, and then disappeared with Augustine. He couldn't understand this kind of thing no matter how much he thought about it.
If the blonde really didn't want to get into trouble like she was now, then why did she get into trouble with Benjamin in the first place
Benjamin has to figure this out. But it was obvious that the other party was unwilling to let him figure it out, so he had to resort to some extraordinary means.
When he was approaching Sydney just now, he was actually approaching the unconscious Augustine. At the moment when he suddenly attacked, the other party was eager to counterattack and rescue Sydney, so they had no time to pay attention to their hostages.
In this way, while blocking the attack, Benjamin used the strong wind stirred up by the water vapor to easily rescue the person.
But once the person is rescued, the whole situation will be different.
Just like a transaction, both parties have their own chips. Benjamin's bargaining chip is the cursed Sydney, and the opponent's bargaining chip is Augustine. But now, he used this opportunity to rescue Augustin. The other party lost his bargaining chip and could only exchange other things with Benjamin.
"Who are you?" Therefore, with the momentum of winning, Benjamin asked, "Why did you command a group of robbers to deliberately walk the same road as us and bring people to this place?"
Hearing this, the blonde woman also showed a look of gnashing her teeth, as if she wanted to rush over now and chop Benjamin into pieces of bread.
Unfortunately, the ice mist reflecting the faint light made it impossible for her to get close to Benjamin.
"Shameless guy!" Therefore, she could only curse.
"Thank you." Benjamin admitted shamelessly of course.
“…”
Judging from the look in the blonde's eyes, for a moment, she was planning to rush forward regardless of life and death and fight Benjamin to the death.
but…
Who made her careless
"You have lost the bargaining chip that you can exchange with me." After enough taunting, Benjamin put away his smile and said calmly, "Now, if you don't want your friend to die from the curse, explain clearly what you need to explain, don't It’s very secretive here.”
The blonde immediately replied: "You're dreaming!"
"Really?" Benjamin snorted emotionlessly and clapped his hands. Immediately, Sydney, who was squatting in the corner, held her head in pain, fell to the ground, and let out a horrifying scream.
Upon seeing this, the blonde woman immediately walked over and helped Sydney up anxiously. However, no matter how anxious she was, she could not relieve the pain of the curse by wiping the beads of sweat from his forehead.
Benjamin watched all this quietly and yawned, showing a somewhat bored expression.
"You...enough." Finally, the wailing echoed in the room for half a minute. The blonde showed a helpless expression, looked at Benjamin, and said, "Stop, I will tell you everything."
Hearing this, Benjamin nodded expressionlessly. He released subtle mental fluctuations, and then Sydney, who kept screaming, stopped.
The blonde woman helped Sydney to her chest, then stood up and said, "You are overthinking this matter. From the beginning, I was not going for you. I was just looking for someone."
"Who are you looking for? Augustine?" Obviously, Benjamin did not accept this answer.
However, just when he thought the blonde would continue to speak, suddenly, a somewhat familiar voice came from behind him.
"She came to find me."
Benjamin turned around in shock. I saw that "Augustine" who was originally unconscious stood up from the ground at some point. His body shape and face suddenly changed, and suddenly he turned into the appearance of that strange young man.
—The strange young man who left the "Benjamin Reese, welcome to Icol" banner before.
At this moment, the young man held a dagger in his hand. The blade touched the back of Benjamin's neck, and there was a bone-chilling cold touch.