In this way, after traveling around Freden for more than half a month, Benjamin finally returned to Riley City.
The black flags in every household have not yet been taken down. According to custom, when a king dies, the whole country must mourn him for a whole year. However, the streets of the city have gradually returned to their former lively appearance. The queen is in power and the church is secretly controlling, but it seems that none of this has affected Riley City.
Only those priests who suddenly appeared from the crowd, grabbed people and said, "God has a will to convey to you," looked extremely eye-catching.
Although many people can't stand it, they can't do anything about it for a while. Many mages have already had conflicts with these people, and there have even been several street fights. However, they couldn't really kill them, so in the end, these priests still stayed here and couldn't be driven away no matter how hard they tried.
"Sir, God has a will to convey to you."
Even Benjamin himself, who had just arrived in Riley City and wanted to go back to the hotel to put down his luggage, was entangled by an oncoming priest.
"Please get out of the way." Benjamin said coldly without any intention of paying attention to him, while avoiding the priest.
However, he somewhat underestimated the other party's perseverance.
Each priest has his own style of preaching, some are like Monk Tang chattering endlessly, some are like changing people immediately when the situation is not right, or are just starting to stalk and beat them. The person Benjamin met was obviously a standard stalker type.
"Sir, you are disrespecting God and will bring you great disaster." The priest grabbed Benjamin's arm and said slowly, "I have a Bible here. You can take it home and study it. God is everywhere, and as long as He senses your devotion, your sins can be cleansed.”
At that moment, Benjamin couldn't help but have a trace of boredom flashing in his eyes.
How annoying.
After thinking about it, while the other party was talking long, he suddenly turned on the water element induction method and scanned the other party from beginning to end.
Hmm... His strength is not very good, and he is not like those priests trained by the church. He has a life-saving cross all over his body. He only relies on some political protection, so he dares to preach everywhere so unscrupulously.
He had inquired before and found that there were about a hundred priests in Riley City. They were all like this and not very powerful. They should all be relatively low-level priests, and the church didn't put much effort into them. Each of them was given a cross, and then they were asked to go out and work. The work they did was not much different from sales.
Thinking of this, while the other person was still telling him the greatness of God, Benjamin suddenly exerted his strength. He used the skills he had learned in military training to throw the priest away, and also took advantage of the situation to quietly pull away the life-saving cross hanging from his opponent's neck.
Using a little bit of water vapor to accelerate, his movements were very fast and dazzling.
Several people passing by were frightened by this and looked sideways, but they didn't see anything clearly. They thought Benjamin was some kind of secretive mercenary master.
The priest staggered, took a few steps back, and almost fell to the ground. He did not notice that his cross was torn away by Benjamin.
However, these days, he was probably used to such small-scale physical conflicts and didn't pay much attention to them.
"Sir, everything we have is given by God. You don't have to believe what I say, but you shouldn't be disrespectful to God..." As he said this, he walked up again, trying to hold Benjamin.
As a result, just in the middle of speaking, he seemed to be tripped by something. Before his hand could touch anyone, he fell flat on the ground. His whole body fell at Benjamin's feet, and his face was almost distorted.
"this… "
He struggled to get up and looked at his feet, but saw nothing. The road under his feet was very smooth, and there was nothing that could trip him up.
Benjamin glanced at him condescendingly, shook his head, and turned to leave.
"This is just an accident, sir, don't question God's authority because of this..." Upon seeing this, the priest immediately stood up and continued walking towards Benjamin.
However, there was another pop.
"I, I... what's going on?"
The priest looked a little confused. He spit out the mud and stones that he had eaten, endured the pain, and got up with a bruised nose and face, but he still didn't find anything under his feet that could trip someone up.
Benjamin turned around and shrugged innocently.
He said: "Maybe... all of this is God's will."
“…”
The priest was at a loss for words and could not speak for a long time. When several passers-by watching the excitement saw this, they couldn't help covering their mouths and snickering. They shook their heads and left the place.
Seeing this, Benjamin was too lazy to continue entangled with the other party. He looked at the priest with a look that looked like an idiot, then turned around and walked away swaggeringly.
And in his heart, he couldn't help but sigh.
He is really a cheap labor force among priests. Even after being trained by the church, his mental power is only slightly stronger than that of ordinary people. Benjamin tripped him several times with water vapor, but he didn't notice at all.
However, no matter how powerful the church is, it cannot produce so many powerful priests. This kind of thing still depends on talent, and the priest used to forcefully preach... a piece of brown sugar doesn't need any talent.
Thinking of this, Benjamin shook his head and did not show any happy expression.
Of course, what he just did can be regarded as reducing the church's prestige in Riley City by 1. However, this is just a small episode among the countless towns in Frieden, and it cannot change any status quo. If the church continues to grind on such a large scale, it will always grind out some believers. With believers, they also have their own foundation in Freeden.
It was impossible for Benjamin to kill all these priests.
I have to think of something...
Just like this, Benjamin thought as he returned to his hotel room.
After traveling for half a month, he was also a little tired. Therefore, after returning to the room, he put down his things, lay down on his bed, closed his eyes and rested, just wanting to simply be in a daze for a while.
However, for him at this moment, even being in a daze seemed to be a luxury.
"What's going on? Are you out of your mind? You didn't even see what was under the door when you entered?" The system suddenly spoke and asked in Benjamin's mind.
"What's under the door?" Benjamin opened his eyes and looked towards the door.
I saw a few dark feathers stuffed in the crack of the door of the room.
Benjamin raised his eyebrows.
"Crow...what happened again?" He scratched his head and muttered to himself while sitting up from his bed, "Forget it, let's go over and have a look. It won't take much time."
The church is making no progress in Riley City these days, and they have a share of the credit. Whether it's stealing stones in the middle of the night, pouring swill on an unfinished church, or picking on priests on the street. Although just like what Benjamin did just now, it has no big impact, but accumulated bit by bit, it can still produce quite significant effects.
Like another city in the west of Freeden, Lant City, where more than a dozen mercenaries captured in the "Seven Days of Hell" operate. Benjamin also ordered them to cause trouble for the church, but according to their reports, the church developed much better there than in Riley City.
At least, the foundation of the church over there has been dug, and here... the foundation was just filled in last night.
Just like that, as soon as Benjamin came back and before the quilt was warm, he disguised himself again and hurriedly walked out of the hotel door.
"What happened?"
Fifteen minutes later, he arrived at the "Crow" stronghold, saw Jessica in a secret room, and asked.
"It's a very serious problem." Jessica stared at him, her tone had never been more serious than now, "I think the people in the church may have been angered by us. The latest news I heard is that an order was issued from the royal capital. , we need to deal with street gangs like ours. Riley City has also been specially named as a city that will be focused on."