"Phew... you're finally here."
Seeing the other party's appearance clearly, it was Miles, and Benjamin breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Hal did not break his promise and finally delivered the letter to the restaurant secretly run by the royal family.
—While waiting, he was actually very nervous.
To be honest, if Hal betrayed him and handed the letter to the church, the church might come with a large number of people to surround him. It can only be said that this businessman was smart enough and did not make the wrong choice.
"The situation is not very optimistic." Miles said as he walked over, "The thousands of corpses north of Glory must be your work, right? You should deal with them cleanly. With those corpses , Bishop Cameron finally found an excuse and forced the king to issue a wanted order, which is why all the cities were closed down like this."
Hearing this, Benjamin shrugged.
The church is ready to take action against them whether they leave their bodies behind or not. The difference between overt and covert matters doesn't matter. He couldn't stay in that place long enough to clean up all the corpses.
In short, it is most important to ask for clues about those five people.
"Five mages under me disappeared while walking around Amber City. I suspect it was the church. Do you know any news?"
Miles was a little surprised: "Five mages?"
When Benjamin saw this, he had a bad premonition in his heart: "...The church will kill them?"
"No, no, no, probably not yet." Miles said quickly, "But I don't know if this news will inspire you... This afternoon, a group of paladins entered the palace from outside, carrying five huge sacks. No one Know what’s in it.”
Five sacks
Benjamin was startled.
Were they really caught
"By the way... where is the bishop? What did the bishop do after the sacks were transported in?" he asked again.
"Bishop Cameron is missing. He said he had some matters to deal with." Miles thought for a while and replied, "But... I really haven't seen him show up since the sacks were brought into the palace."
Hearing this, Benjamin took a deep breath.
If nothing else, those five people should be in the sack. As for the bishop's disappearance... most likely to interrogate the five mages.
However, after confirming the whereabouts of the mages, he didn't know whether he should be happy or sad.
These five people were alive and were not killed on the spot by people from the church. This was indeed something to be thankful for. But... he was arrested into the palace and interrogated by the bishop. Thinking of what might happen, Benjamin's mood instantly sank to the bottom.
Are they... still alive
Thinking of this, Benjamin spoke again: "Do you know which room those sacks were transported to?"
"I don't know, but they must be somewhere in the palace." Miles narrowed his eyes and said with some confusion, "Are you... planning to rescue them?"
Benjamin nodded.
"If you are really determined to do this, I can't advise you." Miles seemed to disagree with his approach and said hesitantly, "But regarding the guards in the palace, you'd better understand that at this moment There are three bishop-level figures sitting in Glory. At each level, the guards are as strict as in a prison. They may not all be members of the church, but they want to secretly release you based on some king's secret order. In the past, it was basically impossible.”
However, Benjamin has always had a strong head and will not be intimidated by such things.
"In this case, it may be difficult for me to sneak in." He did not fall into recklessness, and was still thinking about the rescue method, "But... aren't you very powerful? You are familiar with the terrain of the palace, and you almost assassinated the bishop. Can’t you help me get them out?”
“…”
Miles' expression was a little hard to explain.
"You want me to help you rescue people from the church?"
"yes."
Miles held his forehead and said speechlessly: "I am also willing to help you. But... I'm sorry, I don't want to die yet."
"Isn't that true?" Benjamin frowned and asked.
"Of course!" Miles looked helpless, "Find those five people, rescue them, and take Glory out smoothly... Do you know how difficult this is? The bishop is probably still interrogating Those five people, I can’t do magic, so I can’t change them away from the bishop’s nose.”
Hearing this, Benjamin also realized the difficulty of doing so, nodded, and thought deeply.
Indeed... it is difficult to bring people out smoothly when the bishop is watching with his own eyes.
what to do
All kinds of thoughts flashed through Benjamin's mind, but he never gave up. Those who followed him up through the mountain of swords and through the sea of fire, no matter what, he had to bring these five people out!
"Then... if the bishop walks away, can you rescue the person?" Benjamin asked after thinking for a moment.
Miles curled his lips and said, "The bishop is fine, why do you want to walk away?"
Benjamin showed a smile: "Because... Tonight, Glory's city gate may be blown up, and he has to take his men out to see the situation."
"you… "
Miles froze again.
Benjamin pointed in the direction of the city gate in the distance, nodded, and a small water ball appeared in his hand.
"You... you are cruel!" Miles came back to his senses, shook his head, looked at Benjamin with a ridiculous look, and said, "You are really a madman."
Benjamin was very puzzled: "Why? I think this idea is still feasible?"
After a moment of silence, Miles finally sighed helplessly and nodded: "Okay... If you can really lead the church people out of the palace, even if you only lead a quarter of them away, I can rescue them! "
"Then it's settled!"
"… Um."
In this way, the plan was finalized, and Benjamin finally found his direction and revived his somewhat depressed mood. It is difficult to rescue people from the palace, but it depends on people. As long as they dare to do it, they will see hope.
— Even if the plan seems crazy and unreasonable.
Soon, Miles turned away and returned to Glory to prepare for his rescue operation. As for Benjamin, after Miles enters the city, he will also start preparing to "blow up the city gate".
Well... blowing up the city gate is just a metaphor, he doesn't intend to actually blow up the city gate. The city gate was innocent, it should not have been blown down.
All Benjamin needed to do was to make some big noise and attract people from the church.
He had better options for this.
He kept accumulating ice cubes in his conscious space.
If you want to draw someone out, the best way is to expose yourself. Obviously, Benjamin has appeared near Glory. The church will not interrogate any of its mages. They must have rushed over directly with someone.
And Benjamin himself must be prepared for what he may face next.
After waiting for about ten minutes, Miles should have returned to the palace, so Benjamin also started to take action. He came to the main road outside the city gate, looked at the sky, and suddenly recited the ice-breaking spell.
At that moment, dark clouds were gathering above Glory's city gate.
Then, under the stunned gazes of the surrounding pedestrians and city gate guards, small ice particles suddenly fell one after another from the sky. It was relatively sparse at first, but then it became more and more dense, so much so that people hid under the city gate, not daring to look up to the sky.
"Is this... hail?" A soldier said with an expression of disbelief, looking at the ice particles crackling on the ground.