Hearing this, Benjamin's heart moved, and he looked at the Prime Minister's smiling face calmly.
"You mean, everything you do by using me is to fight for power for yourself, and there is no shadow of other forces behind it?" He asked calmly.
"If your Excellency wants to understand it this way, then so be it." The Prime Minister replied matter-of-factly, "Generals are ambitious people. When the crown is at your fingertips, even if you have been ordered by someone, you will change your mind under such pressure. You can rest assured about this.”
"Should I believe you? Or is this another lie just to take advantage of me?"
The Prime Minister still smiled and said: "Believe it or not, you have eyes yourself, so why not come with me to the palace. The general has always wanted to see you, and you can use your own eyes to judge."
Benjamin was silent.
Another false invitation.
"... What you mean is that the general doesn't know about our current meeting." Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something and said.
"That's right." The Prime Minister nodded and said, "Just think of it as my apology to you. I will keep this meeting a secret. If you don't want to see the general, I won't reveal anything to the public."
Benjamin couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
… This old fox.
After thinking for a while, he asked: "Then what do you think, Prime Minister? Do you want me to see the general, or do you want me to leave?"
"Of course I'm going to see the general." The Prime Minister replied without hesitation, "The situation in Freden is chaotic now. In just a few days, riots broke out in more than a dozen places, but they were suppressed by force. Even There have been several bloody incidents in Xuedi City. In order to keep everything in hand, the general needs the support of the mage."
Hearing this, Benjamin was a little surprised.
Is this trying to win over him
"Then... what if I don't want to support the general?" he asked tentatively.
"In that case, I suggest you leave Freden as soon as possible." The Prime Minister replied, "The general is suspicious and will not allow an organization with considerable combat effectiveness to exist in Freden. And you will not be willing to hide in the dark all the time. One day, he will stand against the general. When the time comes, the church will definitely take the opportunity to make a comeback."
After hearing this, Benjamin finally felt that something was wrong.
"Prime Minister, you are already on the general's side, why are you still talking to me?"
The Prime Minister smiled and said: "Because I am optimistic about your Excellency."
Benjamin was unmoved: "But when we last met, you chose to use me to help the general."
"That's because...no offense, but I'm more optimistic about the general."
“…”
Benjamin was speechless.
This prime minister is also a wallflower to the extreme, leaving escape routes everywhere and not offending anyone.
"What do you mean?" Seeing Benjamin didn't answer, the Prime Minister asked again.
Benjamin smiled emotionlessly and replied: "Okay... I'll go see the general."
It's not that he plans to join the other party. However, the general is in so many troubles right now, and he has not won the support of the mage. In Xuedi City now, as long as Benjamin wants to leave, the general may not have the ability to keep him.
In this case, why not meet him
The Prime Minister probably thought that Benjamin was willing to support them, so he suddenly smiled and said: "Smart choice, the general will not treat you badly."
Benjamin nodded in disbelief.
In this way, he and the Prime Minister left the room together, got on a carriage that the other party had prepared long ago, and drove towards the palace. Ten minutes later, he successfully entered the palace.
The palace looked heavily guarded at the moment. Group after group of soldiers were patrolling back and forth. It looked like they had experienced many attacks. The soldiers were particularly vigilant and only let them pass when they saw the Prime Minister in the car.
Benjamin let go of the water element induction method and explored here unscrupulously - no mage, no priest, basically safe, servants came and went in a hurry, Stuart stood in the royal study, flipping through a book titled "Royal Origins" Book…
No one could detect his actions, so he asked the system to organize all the detected files, store them in the database, and slowly analyze them.
After the Prime Minister took him into the palace, he waited in the palace hall. After a while, General Stewart walked in from the gate, looked at Benjamin calmly, and then slowly sat down under the throne. His whole temperament was completely different from the last time he met.
Benjamin didn't think it was acting, but... a complete change as a person.
"Master Benjamin." No longer the stubborn old man before, Stewart showed a superior smile and said, "We meet again, and you really did not disappoint us."
Benjamin nodded and said, "General, you really surprised me."
His attitude was neither humble nor arrogant, but it seemed to make Stewart a little unhappy.
"Master Benjamin, everything is part of the plan. In order to drive the church out, we have to use some small means." Stewart said slowly, "Besides, you are not the only one who has the credit. I was the one who successfully deceived Only by knowing Bishop Zhokto can you have the chance to ambush him."
"Is that so?" Benjamin smiled, "General Stewart, you are really amazing."
Although he was talking in the hall, at this moment, his mind was still focused on sensing the entire palace.
If you want to judge the other party's purpose, it's not enough to just observe the other party's words and demeanor. You still have to look at what the other party hides. The system also slowly sorted out the files—the ones related to the church were very clean, and the ones related to other countries were also very clean. From all the documents, it seems like Stewart was really just out for himself.
However, at the same time, the system also discovered some information related to mages.
In Frieden, almost all mages with certain abilities are listed in the data. Their combat effectiveness, personality, recruitment potential... and Benjamin's own information was listed first.
"Good at water magic, good at camouflage, unknown combat effectiveness, extremely dangerous, possibly related to Havenlight's giant water polo, and enjoys wide popularity and influence in Frieden. If it cannot be used for its own use, it must be destroyed. !”
Seeing this, Benjamin smiled in his heart.
The Prime Minister really didn't lie to him. Stewart really wanted to use his influence to win over the Master as a solid backing for the coronation plan. To this end, the investigation they conducted was relatively detailed.
Unfortunately, the general didn't know that while the prime minister was helping him, he was also betraying him behind his back.
"...Master Benjamin, is Bishop Victor dead or alive now?"
While Benjamin was thinking about it, Stewart also raised this question with a very serious tone. Benjamin had no choice but to come to his senses and replied casually: "The bishop has been killed by me."
"real?"
Benjamin spread his hands and said: "I have destroyed the body. If the general doesn't believe it, there is nothing I can do."
Finally, Stewart looked really happy. He stood up from the throne, nodded excitedly, and muttered: "Okay... okay... finally dead..."
It seemed that he also had some entanglements with the bishop.
However, at this moment, Stewart suddenly turned his head, looked at Benjamin, and smiled.
"Since the split of the empire, there has been no mage guild in Freden for a long time. Master Benjamin, you are now the most prestigious person in the mage circle. I wonder if you are interested in building a mages guild belonging to Freden. Are you going to be the president?"