Although he had thought about what to do, Benjamin was not in a hurry to take action.
There were a lot of things before him, including punching small sects with ulterior motives and kicking local tycoons, making it seem as if there was a world outside waiting for him to save. In order to prevent any flaws from being revealed, he did not dare to act too hastily.
Let’s take it one step at a time.
The matter of Master Finch can be put aside for now. After all, so far, he has only said bad things about Benjamin behind his back. As for the affair with Ikol, it would have little impact on Benjamin himself - Ikol's people would not cross the border to arrest them.
Accordingly, Knight Commander Lance will definitely start an investigation, and he has to keep up with this incident.
Therefore, on this day, Benjamin did not go out again, but wrote a letter and wrote down the plan he had prepared long ago.
After he finished writing, he closed the envelope and used the wind stirred by the water vapor to quietly blow the letter to the street outside their house. It was stuck in an inconspicuous stone crevice and was very discreetly stuck inside.
—This is the contact method he and Jessica agreed on.
Benjamin is now becoming more and more famous. In order to avoid falling into the fate of the "Eagle", they decided to meet as little as possible and use this method to complete communication.
Afterwards, he stayed in the room as if nothing had happened, meditating intently, and accumulated another rain of water elements in his conscious space.
the next morning.
Before Benjamin could do anything, to his surprise, someone from the Mercenary Association suddenly came to visit and brought them benefits for a mage to join the association.
"I'm sorry, one of your mercenary groups has already been promoted to one level, so we sent the things here." The leader was a middle-aged mercenary, who explained to Benjamin very politely, "It's just that there are many mages in your group. According to regulations, every mage can receive a benefit. So we spent more time preparing everything."
Benjamin stood outside the door and glanced at the stone crack on the street without leaving any trace.
Yes, the letter has been taken away by the "Crow" people.
Thinking of this, Benjamin also smiled and said to the people of the Mercenary Association: "It's okay, we can understand."
The middle-aged mercenary nodded, turned around, and directed his men to move four large boxes in. He said, "These are the things. They are a bit heavy. Do you want to call a few people to help move them?"
Hearing this, Benjamin shook his head and recited a spell. The water vapor lifted the box up, flew steadily into the door, and landed on the corridor.
"Awesome." The middle-aged mercenary praised and said, "You can check it. It contains the standard twenty-three materials and twenty-three meditation rules. In addition, because your team has more than twenty mages, People, so we also give you a small fire element crystal as a gift."
… oh
Benjamin felt a little surprised.
The benefits of the Mercenary Association were a bit beyond his imagination.
Originally, what he wanted was actually those Warcraft materials, which were worth a lot of money. As for the rules of meditation, they have their own rules. At most, they can only learn from them and absorb them, which is not very helpful. But what he didn't expect was that there was such a thing as elemental crystals in the welfare.
This is not something you can buy with just a few bucks.
Using the water element induction method, Benjamin glanced inside the four boxes. That's right, a crimson crystal was lying quietly in a box at the moment, with a faint smell of heat lingering around it.
Although this thing is of little help to him personally, it can be useful to others!
"I've confirmed it, there's nothing wrong with it. Thank you for your hard work." Benjamin replied.
The middle-aged mercenary nodded and said, "Then let's leave first."
Soon, the group of people sent by the Mercenary Association turned and left. Benjamin also closed the door, turned around, and looked at the four boxes placed in the corridor.
In the living room, the mages all heard the conversation between Benjamin and the mercenary. At this moment, many people gathered around with expressions of anticipation.
If you look carefully, except for the potion mage who has no intention of practicing and a few others who are not interested in fire magic, the other mages look like puppies around the dining table eagerly watching their master eat.
Seeing this, Benjamin could only smile helplessly.
"Don't worry, I don't use fire magic. The fire element crystal must belong to you."
After hearing this, everyone was very happy. But soon, the question was raised.
"Then...who should it belong to?"
Everyone fell silent for a moment, looking at each other, not knowing what to say.
Suddenly, Benjamin also felt a little headache.
Elemental crystallization is really troublesome. There is no way to use it separately or in turns. In the end, it can only fall into the hands of one person. Now more than ten mages are watching here, who should he give it to
"Can this thing really only be used by one person?" Joanna asked, looking very hesitant, as if she was planning to give up, but she was a little reluctant to give up.
Benjamin nodded and said: "After all, it is a pure collection of fire elements. After being activated by spiritual power, it will run towards that person. Whoever's mental power is activated will run towards that person."
Suddenly, many people hesitated, took a step back, and gave up the fight.
"They do tasks there every day, but I don't do anything. I'm embarrassed to ask for this thing, so I'd better leave it to them." Someone said.
The remaining people who wanted to win over suddenly lost their expectant expressions when they heard this. They looked at everyone's humble glances and became a little embarrassed.
"Everyone... why are you giving in?"
Unknowingly, everyone moved away from those boxes, as if the once hot fire element crystals had now become a hot potato, and whoever took it would be unlucky.
"Forget it, that... I don't want it either." Even the person who originally wanted to fight for her looked embarrassed and took a few steps back in embarrassment.
What's even more strange is that, for some reason, no one suddenly stopped talking. Everyone had strange expressions on their faces, some looked at the box, some looked at others, and the whole atmosphere became a little stiff.
When Benjamin saw this, he suddenly felt something bad.
this…
He had to say something.
"There's no need for you to be like this. It's just a piece of fire element crystal."
After thinking about it, he stepped forward, opened the box, and took out the crystal while talking.
Under everyone's astonished gaze, he held the very precious fire element crystal in his hand, but he threw it away casually and said, "Who are we? We don't even take the church seriously. What's so rare about such a small crystal? Today we can get the first one, and tomorrow we can get the second one, right?"
After hearing this, everyone looked at Benjamin in a daze.
"T-Teacher...are you serious?"
However, the awkward atmosphere of endless humility suddenly eased a lot.
"No matter whose hands this little crystal falls into today, there is no need to feel burdened." Seeing this, Benjamin smiled, looked at everyone one by one, and continued, "After all, you took it this time, and you will get more next time." The big one won't be yours. So, no matter who gets the crystal later, please sympathize with that person and don't laugh at him. He is really pitiful, okay?"
"Puff..."
Suddenly, someone couldn't help laughing.
The disturbing atmosphere disappeared at this moment.
Benjamin spread his hands in a somewhat grandiose manner and said, "What happened? Why didn't anyone respond to me? Please be compassionate and don't laugh at the person who got the element crystal, okay?"
Probably because he was too exaggerated, many people laughed and shook their heads helplessly. The voices of discussion finally rose again, and the entire stagnant atmosphere became lively again.
Benjamin was relieved when he saw this.
Finally solved.
Maintaining a good team atmosphere is really not that easy. Although the situation just now was done with good intentions, if it is not handled well, it may leave hidden dangers.
What else could he say
Fortunately, I am shameless enough to be so good at pretending to be crazy.
"As for who this thing is for..." After thinking about it, he picked up the elemental crystal that caused a little commotion and continued, "Well, let's do an activity. The backyard is quite spacious, let's do it. In the arena competition, let’s compare our magic skills, and the one who wins in the end can get the elemental crystal.”
The sparring activities at the mage gathering gave him some inspiration. He felt that he could also do some such activities to improve the team's actual combat level, and also solve the problem of the distribution of element crystals, killing two birds with one stone.
Hearing this, the militants cheered and agreed, and everyone else nodded, thinking this was a good idea.
After all, other than doing this, there seems to be no better way.
So, under Benjamin's organization, everyone came to the backyard one after another. Although the backyard is not spacious, it can still accommodate such a number of people. George's screams can be heard from time to time:
"Be careful! Don't step on the stone fence flowers planted in the backyard! Don't lean over there! Be careful! I've been taking care of them for a long time, they are about to mature... Be careful! Don't lean over there! Ah!"
The whole scene was a bit chaotic, but there was nothing we could do about it. Benjamin had never been a sports committee member. However, under his auspices, this strange competition officially started in the special planning office in their backyard.