When Benjamin heard this, he spoke directly: "Yes, now the church has secretly infiltrated Carites, and the royal family has also turned to them. The situation in the country is very bad. I hope you can join us and deal with the church together. "
Luke replied without thinking: "Church? What does this have to do with us?"
"The purpose of the church is to kill all the mages in the world. How can it be okay?"
Luke smiled nonchalantly and said, "You are too worried. It's just a talk. How could they kill all the mages in the world? After so many years, have all the mages in the Horli Kingdom died? No, right? We can still get by as usual. You don’t care what decrees he makes, our lives are still going on the same way, so why bother to spend so much effort against them?"
“…”
Hearing this, Benjamin sighed in his heart.
This kind of insensitive attitude that it has nothing to do with oneself is indeed a bit tricky...
At this moment, he did not continue to argue with the other party, but shrugged and changed the topic: "Don't mention this... By the way, you just mentioned that there are elders in your village?"
Luke nodded and said, "Yes, there are three highly respected mages in our village. This place was also built under their command. Therefore, we call them elders, and they can also be regarded as our leaders."
"Then can I meet that elder?"
Luke agreed: "Of course, I will go and tell the elder tonight. With your strength, the elder will be very happy to see you."
In this way, Benjamin and his party, led by Luke, set up camp in an open space on the edge of the village. Luke, on the other hand, went to find their elders, and he would probably have to wait a while before he could come back.
The mages under his command were busy packing their luggage, and Benjamin finally got a chance to think about how to change it.
Although there are hundreds of mages living here, the atmosphere here is very quiet. Compared with the residents of Peach Blossom Land, the people here are indeed a little too indifferent. Facing the appearance of Benjamin and his group, the local mage didn't react at all. He didn't even look at them, as if he had already become accustomed to them.
Benjamin felt a huge resistance.
The overall atmosphere was like this, and he didn't know if he could really convince the mages here to let them enter the world again and deal with the church together.
To be honest, this group of people is hiding here. The environment is good and the place is hidden. Even if the church really dominates the world, there is a high probability that this place will not be found and it will have no impact on their lives. In that case, what is the outside world like, and what does it have to do with them
With this mentality, although this group of mages only started to live in seclusion a few months ago, they quickly developed the attitude of those who have lived in seclusion for hundreds of years. They have no way to get started.
What to do...
"Teacher, this is the bottle of giant bear's blood. We really don't know how to use this thing, why don't we ask the people here?" Suddenly, Wallis said while holding a glass bottle filled with sticky blood.
Hearing this, Benjamin took the bottle of bear blood and nodded.
"Give it to me, I just want to go to the village for a walk."
So, Wallis went back to continue packing things, while Benjamin took the bottle and walked into the settlement, intending to use the bear's blood as an excuse to contact the mages living here.
After thinking for a while, he came to a house and knocked on the door.
There was a sound of footsteps in the house, and a few seconds later, the door opened a crack, revealing a pair of somewhat wary eyes, staring at Benjamin coldly.
"What's up?"
Benjamin raised the bear blood in his hand, waved it in front of the other person's eyes, and said, "I killed a silver giant bear in the mountain a few days ago and took some blood. I don't know what its blood is used for. Do you know? ?”
"Silver giant bear? Is it from the outer mountains? Did you kill it?" The other party seemed to recognize the bear, and there was finally a hint of surprise in his indifferent tone.
"Yes, I killed it with my own hands. Because the body was too huge, I only took some blood, and the rest of the bear carcass was still left on the outer mountain trail."
Finally, the mage in the house couldn't sit still, opened the door and walked out: "Which mountain road is it? Tell me."
Benjamin asked calmly: "You have to tell me what this thing is for first."
When the other party heard this, he stared at Benjamin with a somewhat scary look. His cheeks were as pale and thin as Luke's, like a vampire, and he looked very untouchable.
After a moment of silence, the mage suddenly spoke and said, "You... must be a mage from outside, right?"
"Yeah, what's wrong? Didn't you come in from outside too... "
However, as soon as Benjamin finished speaking, the other party turned back to the house, closed the door, and shut out the rest of Benjamin's words with a bang.
Benjamin was stunned at the time.
… What's wrong
When he came to his senses, he knocked on the door again. But no matter how hard he knocked, the other party didn't open the door again. There was just a cold "get out", which made Benjamin even more confused.
What is going on
In desperation, he moved to several houses and knocked on the door very politely to ask. But in the end, the mages who came out of the room had the same reaction as the first person - without saying a few words, they hid back in the room and stayed behind closed doors, looking like they didn't want to pay attention to anyone at all.
Benjamin felt something was wrong.
It would be understandable if he had an indifferent attitude, but now, the logic of this moody behavior is really hard to understand. We are all mages. If you have something to say, who can you show your shame to
After being turned away many times, Benjamin couldn't help but use the water element sensing method to peek into these houses. I saw those mages sitting on the bed, as if nothing happened, meditating with their eyes closed, ignoring Benjamin outside the door, which made Benjamin a little angry.
These people... are so weird.
At this moment, he had no hope of convincing these mages. It is really impossible to expect these people to deal with the church. The common people in Carites are much easier to communicate with than them.
Shaking his head, Benjamin turned and left, returning to the camp they had set up. Most of his enthusiasm has been extinguished. He is just waiting to meet the elders here and ask what the situation is.
And Luke also showed up an hour later.
"Sir, three elders are waiting for you, come with me."
Benjamin had no objection and followed Luke into the village. Soon, they walked through the winding streets and arrived at the center of the village - a wooden house that seemed to be the tallest and largest.
The living room of the house has an original and simple decoration style. Here, Benjamin met three old mages.
"Nice to meet you. You are that very powerful mage, right? We have heard about it from Luke. To be able to reach this level at such an age, your talent is really amazing."
Different from the ordinary mages in the settlement, these three elders were extremely friendly. They came up to hold Benjamin's hand and shook it vigorously. The calluses on their hands rubbed Benjamin's skin enthusiastically.
However, Benjamin's mood did not get much better.
"Be careful, there is something weird in this place." Because, at the moment he entered the door, the system suddenly made a sound, reminding him very seriously in his heart.