"this… "
Benjamin's sarcastic words made Ax unable to speak for a while.
"What? Aren't you going to explain the reason why you kidnapped the students?" Seeing this, Benjamin shook his head and said, "Your mages are now locked up in the academy. If you don't explain things clearly, I will never do it." Let people go.”
"It can't be said to be a kidnapping. I just want them to come over and do me a favor..."
"What do you mean?"
Ax sighed and said in a low voice: "I don't know what happened in the kingdom recently, you don't understand. However, after destroying the Silent Academy, the church stepped up its efforts to hunt down mages hidden among the people, and many nobles were implicated. Among them, he was tied to the stake. Life in the kingdom now... is not easy."
When Benjamin heard this, he shrugged: "What does this have to do with kidnapping my students?"
Ax showed a troubled expression and said: "Well... please forgive me, I was just confused for a moment. After all, I have so many mages under my command, and the church will not be able to hear any news. If I don't sacrifice something... you I understand."
Benjamin frowned. However, he immediately thought of what happened in the theater and was shocked.
This guy... wants to use his students as scapegoats for those mages!
Realizing this, Benjamin took a deep breath and said: "Ax Foer, you should understand that this is my territory. Even if you are the most powerful person in the Kingdom of Hori, I can let you die here. In a small room, no one outside will know.”
"I see… "
Ax closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Suddenly, he took out a fist-sized package from his pocket and placed it on the table in the dean's room.
Benjamin snorted.
"Master Dean, this is the elemental crystal privately collected by our Foer family." Seeing this, Ax quickly opened the package, revealing two shining stones, and said, "I only brought two pieces today, but We have collected hundreds of crystals of this size."
When Benjamin heard this, he glanced at the crystals lukewarmly, but still said nothing.
Aix had no choice but to continue: "Master Dean, as long as you are willing to help us, all the elemental crystals we have collected over the years will be yours!"
Having said this, he hesitated for a moment, as if he was not afraid that it was not enough, and then added: "In addition, in order to apologize to you, we are also willing to compensate you five thousand gold coins!"
When Benjamin heard this, he touched his chin expressionlessly.
"Twenty thousand gold coins." After a moment of silence, he suddenly spoke.
"This..." Aix said with a look of embarrassment, "Even if we have a lot of industries, the number of 20,000 pieces is a bit too big..."
Benjamin interrupted him and said, "Twenty-five thousand gold coins."
"This... let's do this. I'll give you six thousand gold coins."
"Thirty thousand gold coins."
"You can't do this. After all, you are the dean of a college. Don't you want to set a selfless example for your students? This..."
"Thirty-five thousand gold coins."
"you… "
After probably a series of haggling, Aix finally gritted his teeth, the fat on his face shaking like jelly on the ground, and said: "That's the price at the beginning, 20,000 gold coins, I can't get any more." Got it!"
A smile finally appeared on Benjamin's face.
"make a deal."
Although he was a little angry that the other party wanted to use the student as a scapegoat, Benjamin still decided to let him go because the other party came to plead so humbly and was willing to provide these compensations.
After all...he paid so much ransom!
Although Benjamin's face was lukewarm, he almost laughed out loud in his heart.
"In that case, can we release those mages first?" Aix asked cautiously after hearing this.
Benjamin nodded.
"In addition... the current situation in Horli Kingdom, we also hope that the dean can help us." Aix continued, "In fact, many of our nobles are secretly dissatisfied with the rule of the church. Didn't the church also send people to the opening ceremony some time ago? Did they attack your academy? We should unite, otherwise we will only be defeated one by one by the church!"
Benjamin thought for a while and said, "What do you want?"
In fact, although there were many gaps in the past, after all, they have the same interests, so they may not be unable to stand on the same side. One day, they will counterattack the Kingdom of Hori, and if the nobles of the kingdom are involved, it will be of great help to them.
He didn't think Akers was playing Infernal Affairs either. The conflict between the nobility and the church has always existed, and the Foer family secretly raised so many mages. It is impossible for Aix to join the church, and Benjamin is the only choice for these nobles at the moment.
Therefore, he believed that what Akers said was credible.
"Actually, I want to ask your students to come. I don't want to use them as scapegoats. I just hope that they can help us divert the attention of the church so that the priests have no time to deal with us for the time being." Aix replied, "Previous paragraph At some time, a strange person sneaked into the church, which involved a lot of energy in the church. But not long after, that person disappeared, and the church could not find anyone, and turned around and started to deal with us."
Hearing this, Benjamin nodded thoughtfully.
That strange person... is Miles, right
Unexpectedly, he made such a big noise in the Kingdom of Hori, which indirectly affected the game between the nobles and the church. However, it’s been so long and he still hasn’t come back
Mysterious guy.
"The church's attention is not so easy to divert." Looking back at his eyes, Benjamin slowly said, "What can we do? We also have a lot of things to do. Unless we wait until one day, our mage can do something big. Let’s attack the Kingdom of Hori, otherwise we won’t be able to attract the church’s attention for a long time.”
Ax smiled awkwardly and said immediately: "Of course we won't expect you to do this. In fact, we only need four months. In four months, you helped us attract the church's attention to other people." In this place, we can free up our hands and avoid being suppressed so severely by the church as we are now.”
Four months?…
Benjamin was lost in thought.
To be honest, he doesn't have anything going on right now. In one month's time, it will be the Queen's birthday. They want to liberate the mages in Icol, so how can they have so much time to do this and that. Of course he wanted to gain the support of the nobles and lay the groundwork for future attacks on the Hori Kingdom, but it was a bit difficult to do so.
unless…
As if he thought of something, Benjamin's heart moved.
He could put two things together.