Damn...
Hearing this, Benjamin couldn't help but take a deep breath and try to digest this shocking news.
I thought I had found the Peach Blossom Spring, but... ended up at the Dragon Gate Inn
After recovering from the initial shock, he thought of the pale and thin cheeks of the people in the village, as well as the bone fragments found at the beginning, and gradually began to feel that it was a bit like that. There seemed to be rumors of cannibals in the Kandela Mountains, but he didn't expect that the cannibals here turned out to be a group of mages!
And the dozen mages locked in the dungeon are probably not prisoners, but rations saved by this group of people.
So fucking magical…
A group of mages from thousands of years ago hid in this hidden mountain, and continued their most terrifying tradition of magic - cannibalism. No one knows why there is such a tradition, but people here regard it as a creed.
Is this village... really still a human village
In this way, the questions in his heart were answered, but Benjamin was not happy at all.
These guys want to eat him.
The intentions of those elders were simply too obvious. They said some inconsistent words and forcibly kept Benjamin for one more day just to make it easier for them to take action. And with this numerical advantage, they don't even bother to make up the lies and just perfunctory them - after all, who cares what they think about the food
Benjamin estimated that these people would take action tonight.
I have to do something myself.
His first thought was that walking was the best option. But think about it again, a group of man-eating mages stay here and go out to "forage" from time to time. It's simply endless troubles!
If a lone mage bumps into them, it will be a dead end. If the church discovers them, they will become the public opinion weapon of the church and used to smear the image of the mage among the people. It is simply a time bomb.
Otherwise... find a way to get rid of them
Benjamin was lost in thought.
There are hundreds of mages in this village, and it is really not that easy to kill them all. Those three elders should be the strongest here, and their strength is not particularly outstanding, but this weird cannibalistic sacrifice... there is no guarantee that they will not come up with any weird methods.
"What moves and weaknesses do they have? It should be written in those books, right?" Therefore, he asked the system again.
The system was surprised: "What? You still want to fight against them?"
"Of course." Benjamin replied, "Now they are also paying attention to us. If we try to run away, it will be easier to be discovered. They are more familiar with the terrain than us, and we can't take any advantage in chasing them all the way. It's better to attack first, and we can still Get a head start.”
If it was really easy to escape, he might choose to escape, but the key is that it is difficult to escape!
Fighting and running in this mountain range filled with monsters is definitely not a wise choice.
"Well, in fact, their magic system is quite similar to yours. At most, the dark magic here is particularly developed, and there are many unscrupulous methods. You have to be careful..."
The system talked about some of the magical features here, and Benjamin had an idea in mind, and the prototype of the plan slowly emerged. Soon, he walked out of the tent and quietly informed other mages in the camp.
It was already night, and he didn't know when the cannibal mage would take action, so he could only prepare as soon as possible.
After the notification, he ran to find Luke and asked him to accompany him for a walk in the middle of the mountain on the pretext of going for a walk. Of course Luke's attitude was very enthusiastic, and he took Benjamin and started wandering around here.
"Sir, why do you suddenly have such leisure and want to take a walk?"
"I've had enough dinner, so I'll take a walk to digest it."
“…”
In this way, while walking back and forth in this area, Benjamin turned on the water element induction method and scanned the terrain here. In the entire deep valley, the only entrance and exit were the cave they entered and the large mouth above their heads. Benjamin wanted to get rid of all these people, so he naturally had to block the entrances and exits.
It would be troublesome if one or two escaped.
And during this walk, Benjamin could also feel that Luke was trying to take him to the edge as much as possible, as if he didn't want him to get close to the center of the village at the moment.
In other words... have they already begun preparations
Benjamin sensed the houses in the surrounding villages. Although the lights were on, the people inside were gone.
Their movements are also fast enough.
With this in mind, when he came to a relatively remote location, he suddenly stopped and asked Luke: "By the way... I have always had a very curious question. How do you find such a rare hiding place?" How did you find out?"
Luke replied casually: "Nothing, just good luck. Our ancestors once left us a map recording this place, so we came here."
"I see... But why didn't your ancestors tell you, don't eat human flesh? It's very unpalatable."
Luke was stunned.
Benjamin took a few steps back, and a faint ice mist suddenly emerged from around him, spreading outward little by little.
"As expected, you still discovered it..."
However, after a brief moment of daze, Luke grinned and revealed a strange smile. He didn't chant any spells, but the dark elements around him started to move. The originally light-less night became a little darker again.
Benjamin was shocked.
"Didn't you say they don't have any special means? Why are they all starting to cast spells without spells now?" He asked the system speechlessly.
"It's not written in their books, so I don't know..."
While Benjamin was talking to the system, strange magic fluctuations also came from the front. Then, a strange black shadow suddenly condensed in front of Luke.
Seeing this, Benjamin quickly came to his senses and no longer hesitated.
...Forget it, it doesn't matter if the method is weird, he can't even defeat a mediocre mage.
Under his command, the ice mist swarmed up and surrounded Luke.
Benjamin's strength has been growing, and the ice mist he summoned is no longer something that ordinary mages can resist. Trapped inside, Luke had no power to resist. He didn't even have time to complete the silent dark magic he just cast, before he was frozen into an ice sculpture, his life flowing away, and he became a complete corpse.
Benjamin kills Luke easily.
However, Benjamin suddenly felt a creepy feeling.
After Luke died, I don't know why, but the black shadow still didn't dissipate. It was still floating there quietly, making Luke's smiling face look particularly eerie.
how so
Frightened, Benjamin quickly summoned another bubble and wrapped himself in it, just in case. And he was hiding in the bubble, observing everything in front of him.
After losing control, all magic will dissolve on its own and turn into elements to return to heaven and earth. This is the law of magic, and there shouldn't be any surprises.
He also recognized this black shadow. It was a basic magic called "Dark Hand", which had a certain degree of control and aggression. His mages had used it before him, and it wasn't a particularly difficult trick.
But precisely because of this, Benjamin felt even weirder.
-In this case, the black shadow should have dissipated long ago.
Unless Luke is still alive.