"My lord, are you... a mage?"
Hearing this, Benjamin also turned his head, looked at the stupid gang member, and smiled.
"Go to Jessica and tell her that no information has been exposed. She will arrange your affairs." He switched from the murderous state and comforted her in a relaxed tone.
Before taking action, he lurked by the entrance stairs of the basement for a while, so he also heard part of the conversation between the two parties. Judging from the priest's words, extracting memory requires a "thing", and that thing hasn't arrived yet, so he locked the two people here and did not move.
But now that the priest has been killed by him, Jessica no longer has to worry about "Crow" being exposed.
— Her gang is even safe at the moment.
"Jessica, are you talking about our boss?" Hans was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly said, "Well... I'm not qualified to see our boss."
When Benjamin heard this, he smiled slightly: "You are qualified now."
Hans was stunned for a while, then suddenly slapped his thigh, and then he came to his senses.
He looked surprised. He walked up hurriedly, bowed and thanked Benjamin in various ways, and almost lifted him up to worship him.
Benjamin shook his head, turned around, summoned several healing water balloons, and rescued the member who was half-dead from the holy light bomb. After he woke up, Hans went over to explain the situation to him. He almost cried on the spot when he knew that the priest was dead and he was saved.
"Okay, you guys leave quickly, I'm going to the next place too." Benjamin said again, "You also need to be careful. From today on, you are Freeden's fugitives."
After hearing this, the two of them took a deep breath and gradually recovered from the joy of surviving the disaster. They thanked Benjamin again and left in a hurry.
As for Benjamin, he glanced at the priest's body again, turned around, and quickly left the house.
"What time is it now?" he asked in his mind.
The system answered: "It's past two o'clock in the morning."
"How many more people do I want to kill tonight?"
"Four."
Benjamin took a deep breath and deeply felt the pressure of work he had taken on.
He had to move faster.
Just like that, flying in the air at the fastest speed, he compared the previously prepared killing table with the system. He still has four towns to cover, a total of about three to four hundred kilometers. In each city, the people he sent had already investigated the location of the leading priest and stayed up all night waiting for him to arrive. He wasn't old enough to relax yet.
—This will be an uneasy night for him and for the church.
When the news spreads and reaches the ears of the bishop who controls the palace, I wonder what kind of expression the bishop will have
It’s really exciting.
Thinking of this, Benjamin smiled and his figure flashed, like a fleeting bat shadow, disappearing into the dark night sky of Freden.
Under the silent night sky, most people are still sleeping, not knowing what kind of changes are taking place in this country.
"Teacher, you're finally here! I almost fell asleep. The target is here, the house on the west side of the city. He lives there alone, so it's easy to start."
"Who? Ah! You... God will... punish, punish you..."
"Mission accomplished, next one."
In this way, Benjamin left bloody footprints in all places around Riley City that could be called towns. As the night passed, he used the water vortex prison to grind off the crosses of the nine leaders of the missionary priests, and then cut their throats with the ice blade, killing them with one blow.
Their bodies fell in their respective corners, and the blood that had not been cleaned attracted flies.
At each crime scene, Benjamin carved the shape of a triangular character. He claims his territory like a wild beast—he wants to terrify the church.
After killing nine people, the sky gradually turned white, and he found an opening and camped in the wilderness to rest for a while. However, he knew in his heart that it was still not the time for him to truly rest.
He only dealt with nine towns, but the entire Frieden, where the church sent missionary priests, was far more than nine towns.
While continuing to kill people, the mage mercenaries under him were also mobilized by the orders he left, and took action to go to more towns in Frieden. They are like a new type of virus that is expanding crazily, constantly entering new towns, finding the foothold of the leading priest, and then waiting for Benjamin's harvest.
According to a rough estimate, Benjamin will have to clean up nearly thirty towns in the past few days.
As for the rest, he really wasn't that fast and could finish it in a few days. A few days later, the news slowly spread. The church was shocked and would definitely be on guard. Assassinations would become dangerous once the opponents had access, so Benjamin simply gave up on these targets.
The nearly thirty leading priests are already a very terrifying shock to the church.
They certainly don't have time to deal with eradicating street gangs.
Of course, Benjamin would do this not just to save the "Crow".
—He is declaring war on the church.
The church has too much going on these days. In essence, preaching is an insult to magic itself, but the mage is still silent, has not responded, and cannot respond.
Therefore, Benjamin will replace the entire Freden mages and make the strongest response to the church.
After this incident, the conflict between the two may further intensify, and the church may even be angered and start a crazy counterattack. There may also be weak elements among the mages who are unwilling to get involved in this fight and therefore complain about Benjamin's actions. But Benjamin knew very well that this was their responsibility as mages.
If they don't take action, the church will.
So they want to seize the opportunity.
After two hours of sleep, the system alarm sounds and a new task begins.
The night passed and day came, and the smell of blood began to spread in the peaceful continent.
"Father John? Are you awake? It's getting late."
In Riley City, outside a house belonging to the leading priest, priests and church builders came one after another, knocking on the door with puzzled expressions.
"Father John, are you there? Father John!"
They stood for more than half an hour and shouted for more than half an hour. But even though their voices were almost hoarse from shouting, there was still no answer from inside the gate.
"It's strange... why there's no response at all." The priest who knocked on the door turned around, rubbed his sore right hand, and said.
"Get out of the way! Something is wrong. Something may have happened to Father John."
Finally, another priest from the crowd came out, squeezed to the door, and suddenly started singing.
Along with the condensed holy light bullets, the door was directly blasted open. The priests gathered outside the door looked at each other, nodded, and one by one got in through the opening and walked carefully into the house.
Soon, they smelled blood.
"Oops, ouch..."
The expression of the priest walking in front changed and he immediately ran towards the source of the smell.
Behind him, other priests and construction craftsmen also followed with different expressions. After a while, they followed the stairs in the corridor and descended into the basement of the house.
Then, there was a burst of exclamations.
"How, how could this happen?"
"Father John! Wake up! Wake up!"
"Sovereign God, why did this happen?"
I saw that in the basement, the blood had almost dried up and turned into a pool of strange, sticky-looking stuff. Father John was lying there with a bruised face and huge eyes, as if he had seen something unbelievable before he died.
Looking at this scene, the priests were stunned for five minutes.
Maybe... In their hearts, the church is so great, how could anyone dare to attack them.
After recovering from the shock, the priest walking in front couldn't bear it. He stretched out his hand and closed the eyes of the corpse. Other priests also clasped their hands and began to pray.
The entire basement fell into a heavy and solemn atmosphere at this moment. Except for the low prayers of the priests, it was as quiet as a deserted forest.
Suddenly, a voice broke the silence.
"That... Father." The construction worker followed behind, covering his nose, and said unbearably, "Father John passed away, and we are also very sad. But... who will pay our wages now?"