After actually getting started, Benjamin discovered that torture is actually a very test of imagination.
Like him, he may be more merciful, and at most he can come up with some more humane methods, such as using a less lethal ice needle to penetrate through the fingertips of the river pirate boss, along the cortex, and out through the soles of the feet. , then use therapeutic water balloons to cure it, and then wear it a dozen or twenty times.
There are other particularly cruel methods that a kind person like him would really not be able to do.
The system was extremely excited. During the process, it kept shouting things like, "Explode his a** with water steam! Carve out his liver and feed it back to him! Fill his lungs with water and then take it out..." and the like. Benjamin was a little ashamed, shouting these words with a funny face, it was really weird.
The entire torture process lasted for more than ten minutes. During this period, the river pirate boss fainted from pain more than ten times and was beaten awake more than ten times. His heart-rending screams spread throughout the ship. Even other mages couldn't help coming over to watch several times.
In the end, his will was not strong enough, and unlike the priests and wizards, who had the means to commit suicide by self-destructing their magical power, he chose to surrender.
"That, that is not... an ordinary magical beast."
Seeing this, Benjamin frowned.
The river pirate boss feels a little unconscious and stutters when speaking. Can you still explain to him the method of taming monsters
"Where did you know about this method? Did you get a book by chance or something?" So he asked.
"There is... a book." The old river pirate replied with a gossamer voice.
really.
Benjamin nodded with satisfaction, and then asked: "Where is that book?"
The river pirate boss replied: "In... in my room... under a piece of wood... under the bed."
After hearing this, Benjamin finally got a satisfactory answer. He found a mage to look at the river pirate boss, then left the room and found the best-looking bed on the entire ship. He moved the bed with the force of water vapor, and then gently tapped the floor with his hands.
After a while, through the sound of knocking, he found the hidden compartment in the floor, opened the wooden board, and found an old and yellowed book.
He picked up the book and held it in his hands. The book is very thin and the cover is blank with no name. However, when he opened the book, the whole book got straight to the point, and what he saw was the detailed method on how to raise the tiger-shaped monster.
And it was only then that Benjamin realized that it was indeed not an ordinary monster.
-The method of the river pirate boss is not so much to tame the monsters, but to create them.
The whole process does not seem complicated, and the book is very clear: first, catch an ordinary tiger cub and starve it until it is half dead; then, mix the owner's own blood with various strange monster materials and feed it to the tiger cub. Young tigers eat it; finally, after feeding it for two months, this special tiger-shaped "magic beast" will mature, lose its self-awareness, and be driven by the owner, and it will be absolutely loyal.
Seeing this, Benjamin had to sigh, who could come up with such a method
Although it is not a real domesticated monster, this specially created tiger-shaped monster is not powerful. It has no other special abilities except flying and strong physical fitness. But if you want to develop this method, you have to conduct at least thousands of experiments.
Probably, this is some heresy that was unintentionally created long ago when humans were still keen on how to tame monsters.
Looking further down, he also discovered that this method had quite a few side effects.
After the tiger-shaped monster matures, its food intake is very large. At first, it will eat once every five days, then once every three days, once a day, several times a day... In short, as long as a period of time passes, its food intake will reach a level that is basically not enough. to the point where it is possible to be satisfied. A monster whose appetite cannot be satisfied will fall into a violent state, unable to be commanded, attacking people everywhere, and in the end, it will even explode and turn into a pool of foul-smelling blood.
Knowing this, Benjamin also understood why this kind of magical beast did not replace the horse, became popular, and exerted extensive and significant strategic significance.
This thing is indeed difficult to raise. It is basically bound. The process of raising it is also bloody and evil, and it is easy to be discredited. Coupled with the ugly appearance of the tiger-shaped monster, if you use it to build an army, people will probably think it is an apostle of the devil.
—The reason why the river pirates rob Serra Town so frequently is probably due to the increase in the appetite of the monsters.
With this in mind, Benjamin put the book away. This thing is a bit crooked and he doesn't intend to keep it. However, he still had a hunch that he might need it one day in the future.
Besides, since methods can be researched, there is the possibility of improvement, right
After getting what he wanted, Benjamin stood up, returned to the room where he had finished the investigation, and gave the river pirate boss a happy surprise. Later, under the reports of the mages, he also had a certain understanding of the wealth stored by the river pirates on the boat.
Plenty of food, more than 500 gold coins, and various sophisticated weapons... Unfortunately, except for food and gold coins, nothing else was of much use to Benjamin and the others, and it was not convenient to carry, so they had to reluctantly throw it on this ship.
In fact, regarding this ship, Benjamin could only abandon it in the end.
After driving with the wind for several hours, their position was far away from the town of Serra. After dinner, and after confirming the direction with the system, Benjamin once again summoned the wizards, used various magics, and worked hard to park the ship on a particularly desolate shore.
After thinking about it, they worked harder, and after a lot of effort, they almost blew the boat onto the shore, and got stuck in the stone crevices of the shore to prevent it from drifting away with the waves. Then, they got off the boat, took their luggage, and continued walking forward.
—Where they are now is only a few hours away from the border with Ikol.
This area is full of low mountains, and few people set foot there. Even on the map, there are no special markings in this area. Therefore, Benjamin and his party took advantage of the darkness and kept on traveling, trying to fly across the border and leave Ikol tonight.
Some monsters were encountered on the road, and the mages sent them away without too much effort. Soon, they approached the border between the two countries.
At night, the border line is lit with firelight. From a distance, it looks a bit like two intermittent but extremely long light lines on the hills - one side is Ikol's garrison, the other is Frieden's garrison, and the two sides are separated. With a distance of a hundred meters, we look at each other from afar and do not infringe on each other.
As the most wanted gang in Ikol, Benjamin and his group naturally couldn't just walk over.
Looking at the mage behind him, the one who knew how to fly used the flying spell. Benjamin also used the pillar of steam, allowing himself and the remaining mages to slowly rise into the sky in the dark night, rising higher and higher.
Speaking of which, the weather tonight is pretty good for them. The clouds were so thick that not even the shadows of the stars could be seen, let alone the moonlight. Therefore, they don't need to fly to particularly high places.
About a hundred meters into the sky, the mage group was like rows of swan geese, propelled by the air flow summoned by magic, and slowly flew towards Freden.