Soon, Benjamin left the warehouse where they were hiding.
Before leaving, he learned some information about the "Silent Academy" from the two young mages.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Kingdom of Hori, the church established its position and began to hunt for mages. The activities of mages were forced to go underground. The surviving mages gathered together, exchanged spells and experiences with each other, and helped each other escape the pursuit of the church. This was the prototype of the Silent Academy.
Later, as the church's status gradually became more stable and it was superior to the royal power, it also intensified its efforts to hunt down mages. In order to survive, several of the strongest mages at that time established the Academy of Silence together, aiming to pass down magic and dream of establishing a brand new country belonging to mages.
The headquarters of the Silent Academy is in the mountains to the west of the kingdom. The terrain there is complex, sparsely populated, and there are many monsters, making it difficult for the church to send people to search. The mages relied on their own magic to carve out homes and seek development there.
In this way, many years have passed, and the church also knows that there is a mage organization in the kingdom, but they have never been able to wipe out these mages. Instead, they have caused several turmoils by the mages. At the same time, threats from abroad consumed most of the church's energy, and the Academy of Silence was able to take root and develop like this.
When he learned about this, Benjamin suddenly thought of what the older mage said: "We can't let them hinder us!" This time, these three people sneaked into the capital, and they may have other plans. Could it be that they are planning another plot? A riot
He asked the two of them this question, and they responded to him:
"The teacher said that this is a secret and no one can tell it. Even if the teacher can't remember clearly, we can't tell him!"
Benjamin thought for a while and said, "You forgot, right?"
The two nodded honestly at first, and then shook their heads guiltily.
“…”
So Benjamin left without hesitation.
Of course, before leaving, he did not forget to charge some "medical expenses" from these two people. These two were easy to trick, and Benjamin barely had to say anything before they took out everything they had on them. However, Benjamin did not want to leave everything. Instead, from a practical point of view, he only took two things:
A book called "Introduction to Magic" and a stone they called "Water Element Crystal".
The other things were either of no use, or Benjamin couldn't use them for the time being, and seeing as these two were so stupid and the older mage had led them into such misery, they were left to them.
Benjamin was already very satisfied with this.
They say good people are rewarded. He should get something after enduring these two idiots here for so long.
Because he was still in the lower town of Havenright, Benjamin didn't have time to take a closer look at these two things. After putting away his things, he said goodbye to the two of them, followed the system's guidance, and set off towards the alley where the incident occurred.
Thinking about it carefully, it seems that he has been letting the system give him directions, and the system started to complain about being used as a navigation system. However, Benjamin also accumulated a lot of experience in this and dealt with the system in a few words.
Soon, he was back to the "original starting point."
According to the time provided by the system, it is already the forty-fifth minute since the use of the giant wave magic. The entire alley looked like it had just experienced a storm. There were several puddles on the ground, the road was muddy, and the walls on both sides of the road seemed to have been hit by something, with many cracks appearing.
This scene is amazing enough. You know, if Benjamin summons a water ball, if you ignore it, it will dissipate on its own in less than a minute. But it's been almost an hour now, and the air here is still so humid that it's almost moldy, which shows how powerful this magic is.
However, despite such a battle taking place in the alley, people were still coming and going on the main road in the outer city a few streets away, and no one noticed it. After all this time, no one from the church came to support him.
On the ground full of mud and water, the two knights were lying upside down, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.
Benjamin had no time to lament the chaos in the outer city and the powerlessness of the church. Instead, he ran over and checked their breathing.
Still alive.
After confirming this, Benjamin began to feel strange again. The paladin's physical fitness is so strong, and he is so embarrassed under the impact of the huge waves, and he still hasn't woken up yet. Why did he regain consciousness in more than ten minutes and nothing happened
Is it because of the defensive water ball he released
No, are you that powerful? Or is it that his strength has grown unknowingly
Before Benjamin could be happy about this for a moment, he realized the real answer.
He took out the cross hanging on his chest, put it in front of his eyes, and looked at it carefully. The holy light that was originally faintly emitted by the cross was much dimmer than before, which made Benjamin feel a pain in his heart.
He was not injured in the huge waves, not because of the protection of the water polo, but because the thing was automatically activated.
According to the bishop, it can withstand three magic attacks.
In other words, even the cross's resistance and the defense of the water polo failed to completely withstand the impact of the huge wave, and instead knocked him unconscious.
If he didn't have these shields and shot him directly, his life would be dead.
Thinking of this, Benjamin was still frightened, and no longer felt that this was a waste and a little painful.
He glanced again at the place where the naughty kid fell. According to what he thought, facing such powerful magic as an injured child, this kid would definitely not survive.
However, there was no one there.
Benjamin was stunned.
Damn it, where are the people
Even if he was beaten to death by the water, there would at least be a body there, and it was impossible to lose the body altogether—this was not fire magic. Did this kid run away? How can it be
He asked the system this question, and the system answered simply: "I don't know."
… All right.
If he didn't die, it was his good luck, and Benjamin didn't bother to care about him. After all, there were still two big living people waiting for him to deal with - he couldn't just leave them here and run away.
After thinking for a while, Benjamin squatted down next to the paladin and began to shake their shoulders, trying to wake them up.
He set up his plot as follows: Benjamin had just woken up from a coma, and subconsciously went to wake up others. He didn't know what happened. During this time, he had been in a coma.
There was nothing he could do. If the people in the church knew that he had gone to perform an operation on that mage, he would be dead.
He absolutely, absolutely cannot let people in the church become suspicious of him.
"Wake up, are you okay? Wake up!"
After five minutes of persistence, Benjamin's hands began to feel sore, and the two paladins finally woke up one after another.
"I...how...what happened to those fallen ones?"
"I don't know either." Benjamin's acting skills continued to come online, and he said with a confused look, "I saw a huge wave coming towards me, and then... I don't know what happened after that. When I woke up, here It’s just the three of us.”
His performance was quite realistic and the plot made sense, so the other party had no doubts.
The knight and Benjamin supported each other and stood up. For a moment, the three of them were silent, and the two knights were silent, seeming to be thinking about the current situation. When Benjamin saw this, he could only pretend to be confused and shut his mouth.
Finally, after a while, the knight dressed as a woman spoke first:
"I didn't expect that there is such a powerful fallen person hiding in the royal capital. We must report this news to the bishop. Mr. Riese, let me send you home first. Please don't tell others about this matter. We don't want to cause any trouble." The nobles of the royal capital are panicking.”