When the soldiers guarding the city gate saw this, they had the idea of stopping the mages for inspection, but the scene was too chaotic. On the burning streets, people in the city kept running out, and the chaotic flow of people rushed back and forth, making these soldiers dizzy.
To put it bluntly, they don't have enough manpower, and they can no longer control the situation under this situation.
"Hey! You...you wait..."
The captain of the defenders tried to hold back the mage who was rushing in.
"What are you waiting for? The fire is so big, why don't you hurry up and put out the fire!" Wallis put a wooden barrel directly into the opponent's hand and scolded him.
The soldier captain was a little confused.
In the city, the fire does tend to get bigger and bigger, and the soldiers guarding the city do have the responsibility to put out the fire. So in the end, unable to bear the pressure, they rushed into the city to put out the fire, holding the barrels handed to them by the mage.
As for the mages, they carried wooden barrels in their hands and pretended to be putting out the fire, and successfully entered Amber City.
After entering the city, there was black smoke and fire everywhere... the scene was very chaotic.
"Quick! Where is the well? Go get water and put out the fire!"
Wallis shouted loudly and gestured with his eyes to the mages around him. There were several wells near the street. Among the chaotic crowd, they dispersed and ran towards the wells.
In the process of running to fetch water, gradually, no one noticed that the group of people carrying wooden buckets suddenly disappeared among the crowd.
And in another remote street in Amber City.
"You guys came really slowly."
Miles looked at the mages gradually gathering here, shrugged and said casually.
"You set the fire a little too much." Frank looked back and saw wisps of black rocks still floating in the sky. The fire had obviously not been extinguished yet.
"The fire is not big enough, how can you get in?" Miles shook his head and replied helplessly.
"Let's not talk about it anymore." Wallis said, "Have you investigated the abandoned hospital that Teacher Benjamin mentioned? Is there really a mage locked up in it?"
Hearing this, Miles nodded.
"I'm quite surprised about this." He touched his chin and said, "The church has hidden that place very well, and it has now been rebuilt into a strange school. It seems that there is some magical power to protect the place. I didn’t even know such a place existed!”
Wallis said: "It doesn't matter, we will go there when everyone is here."
-The legendary place where the mage is imprisoned is the real purpose of their efforts to sneak into the city.
In fact, when Benjamin first told Wallis the news, he was actually surprised.
The church captured some of the mages of Carites, locked them up in a building in Amber City, and brainwashed them, eventually turning them into undercover mages who could serve the church. Isn't this kind of thing too incredible
However, this was the instruction Benjamin gave them, so they could only choose to believe it.
What Wallis knows so far is that Benjamin and his party are trapped by the church and cannot leave. Therefore, while the church sent a large force to surround Benjamin, he could only take the remaining mages to cause trouble elsewhere.
—They have to draw the church’s attention to themselves.
"By the way, how are you preparing for the disguise?" Miles asked again.
"Already ready." Wallis nodded.
They also came up with a little trick on how to attract the church's attention.
They found a mage who was good at water magic, and his height and appearance were similar to Benjamin's. Therefore, they planned to disguise him again and look like Benjamin to mislead the church.
—The church can get a fake king, why can’t they get a fake Benjamin
As long as this fake Benjamin leads a team to attack the place where the mage is imprisoned, the church will definitely think that it has been tricked again. They would feel that Benjamin had already slipped out of the encirclement, and that there was no point in continuing the encirclement.
Thus, the people in the encirclement can be saved!
This is a relatively simple plan, and it is not easy to go wrong when executed. This detention center where mages are imprisoned must be of great significance to the church. After being attacked, it was impossible for the church to turn a blind eye and would more or less send someone over.
And if there is a group of people here, there will be fewer encirclement and suppression manpower there.
So, essentially, it's still pulling. Let the left-behind mage drag the church to another place, and Benjamin and his team's chances of breaking out will be greatly increased.
"I hope this is really useful..."
After everyone arrived, they walked towards the detention center.
After all, it is a place used to imprison mages. Although it is close to the center of the city, the area is still very quiet and there are no pedestrians. After arriving near the place, Wallis looked back at the team and pulled the mage who had disguised himself as Benjamin to the front.
"Merck, it's up to you."
Merck nodded and walked forward.
From the outside, it looks like an ordinary school. It's quiet inside, with a little noise coming from time to time. But as mages, they can feel a faint fluctuation of magic power from this place.
This...should be the magical power that protects this place, right
Benjamin also told them what keys they needed to get in and out of this place. They don't have the key, so they have to force their way through.
Merck recited a spell.
He couldn't be like Benjamin, who could turn into ice arrows all over the sky with just one ice-breaking spell. Therefore, he chose an intermediate magic - Ice Storm, and suddenly summoned a large sharp ice cone above the school.
Following Benjamin's example, he clapped his hands with an indifferent expression and rained down ice picks towards the school.
boom! boom! boom!
Along with a series of noises, just before the ice picks landed on the school, suddenly, a golden barrier appeared above the school, blocking the ice picks out.
But... the originally quiet school also became violent at this moment.
"How is it possible? A mage is attacking here?"
"Where are the guards? Where are the guards?"
Soon, several shadows appeared from the door of the building. They were a group of teachers dressed in black, but judging from their keen mental power, they were all priests.
At the same time, a group of paladins wearing ordinary knight clothes also rushed over from the side of the building, looking at the hundreds of mages surrounding the door of the building in surprise.
"How is it? Are you satisfied with this surprise?" Looking at the priest and paladin who rushed out, Merck imitated Benjamin's shameless look, raised his chin, and showed a sarcastic smile.
When Wallis saw this, he couldn't help but whisper to Frank next to him: "Isn't this... a bit too much?"
Frank replied in a low voice: "It's okay. In fact, Teacher Benjamin is usually very exaggerated and won't go too far."
"All right… "
And these priests seemed to have been deceived by Merck's performance.
"Is it... is it you?" They were all startled and stepped back several steps, staring at Merk. "You... why are you here?"
"Why not? If you can imagine it, this wouldn't be a surprise." Merck raised his eyebrows again, shrugged and looked innocent, and then said with a cold tone, "But... you don't want to see anyone today. Want to leave."
When the priests heard this, their faces darkened, showing extremely serious looks. It seems that Benjamin's reputation has cast a big shadow on them.
The mages behind Merck were a little helpless.
"This staged look... really looks like something I've learned." Wallis was silent for a moment and couldn't help but whisper.
"What should I do? I kind of want to beat him." Frank took a deep breath and maintained his stoic appearance when confronting the priest, but such a sentence popped out of his mouth in a low voice.