Finally, the two Benjamins came to the edge of the Valley of God's Abandonment. They put ginkgo leaves on the towering mountain wall in front of them, turned around suddenly, and returned to their original world.
It was still night in the original world. Although I had experienced several hours in the Valley of God's Abandonment, here, it seemed that only ten minutes had passed. The location they came out of was no longer the ruins of a prison, but near a deserted mountain peak north of the royal capital.
Just after confirming the time and place, Benjamin breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, it didn't happen that one hour in the Valley of God's Abandonment and one month passed in reality, otherwise their plan in Ikol would have been ruined.
It was getting late, so they camped at the foot of the mountain to rest, preparing to use the next time to continue causing turmoil in the Hori Kingdom. Miles agreed with all this, except that when Benjamin woke up again the next morning, he had already left without saying goodbye.
"He didn't sleep at all and left in the middle of the night." The system said.
When Benjamin heard this, he shook his head helplessly.
Forget it... let Miles calm down for a while, he still has business to do.
In addition to completing the transaction with the Foer family, after some thought, Benjamin felt that this might also be a good opportunity for the mage. The people in the church are busy fighting among themselves, so he can try to spread the idea of magic innocence in the Kingdom of Hori.
After all, unlike other countries, most people here have been brainwashed by the church and believe that mages are the devil's spokesperson. And if Benjamin wants to eradicate the church so that mages can walk in the sunshine with their heads held high, they must also change the people's mindset.
This will definitely be a long process, and now... his conditions may not be good, but he is free.
In this way, Benjamin unfolded the map of Horli Kingdom, his eyes wandered to various remote towns, and he mentally calculated the remaining time. Soon, he customized a rough route.
Then, Benjamin set off without hesitation.
That afternoon.
"God, Father, please save our children! The plague is spreading more and more fiercely. If this continues, I don't know how many people will die in the village."
In a remote mountain village, countless people gathered outside the church, knelt on the ground and begged a priest at the door of the church.
Dozens of straw mats were spread out in the open space behind them. Lying on each straw mat was a dying patient, men, women, old and young, with painful groans coming from their mouths. With dozens of patients lined up densely, the scene can be called spectacular.
However, looking at all this, the priest still had his hands clasped together, with a look of neither sadness nor joy.
"Don't worry, God has plans for them."
This kind of line, which has been repeated countless times, naturally cannot satisfy the villagers kneeling on the steps of the church. A middle-aged woman stepped forward and tugged at the priest's trouser leg. Her tears kept falling like a July rainstorm.
"Father, don't you, you know magic? Isn't that... isn't that the power given to you by God? Just... just use your magic to save them, okay?"
The priest looked at the middle-aged woman with compassion, then glanced at the patients outside, and finally shook his head.
"I will try to report all this to the royal capital, and they will send a doctor." He said in a gentle voice, "But divine magic is a weapon used to resist evil. We cannot abuse it."
The expressions of the people who were kneeling did not change much when they heard this.
"Doctor... Will the doctor from the royal capital really come? Our small village has nothing... During the famine in the past, relief food was never sent to us... "
The priest's face turned cold and he said solemnly: "What are you thinking? Everything is God's will. Even if there is even the slightest bit of impiety in your hearts, it will bring greater disaster to this village!"
When the villagers heard this, they were all shocked and lowered their heads. For a while, no one dared to say anything.
Therefore, the voice coming from above their heads seemed particularly clear in the silence.
"Just tell me that your level of magic is too poor to save these people. Why bother talking about so much nonsense? It's both divine will and disaster. Are you tired?"
Everyone was stunned.
They raised their heads and looked towards the source of the sound.
I saw a man wearing a black robe and dressed in the most typical mage attire descending from the sky. With a smile, before anyone could react, he landed gently behind the priest.
At that moment, almost all the villagers were dumbfounded.
"God... God, it's a mage!"
The priest who reacted fastest was the priest. Without even looking at Benjamin, he crushed the cross in his pocket, turned around and ran away under the protection of the shield. However, he had just taken two steps when a huge bubble suddenly condensed in the air, trapping him directly inside.
Suddenly, the poker-faced priest was stunned and frantically attacked the blisters, but he couldn't get out no matter what. His angry roar echoed throughout the village.
"You see, it's not that he doesn't want to save, but that he simply doesn't have the ability." Benjamin turned his head and said to the villagers kneeling outside the church.
These villagers were stunned.
"you you… "
They didn't know whether it was because a mage suddenly appeared in front of them, or because the usually aloof priest's demeanor changed drastically at this moment. They couldn't even speak, they just stared at Benjamin standing at the door of the church and the priest trapped in the water bubble. , some people even started to tremble.
From their eyes, Benjamin could read shock, but more of it was fear.
-These villagers are afraid of magic.
There was no way, the church's long-term propaganda had caused such an impact. If Benjamin hadn't appeared in this posture, he even suspected that these villagers would throw rotten eggs at him.
"Run! Go and inform the priest in the next village! This is the evil mage who has been doing evil recently. Run!"
The priest is probably the quickest to calm down. Seeing that he could not get out of the bubble, he immediately opened his mouth and yelled at the villagers, trying to hinder Benjamin's actions.
However, in fact, the villagers did not hear what he was shouting.
As soon as the first word came out of his mouth, Benjamin used the bubbles to completely block the sound coming from inside. Therefore, these villagers could only see the priest with his mouth wide open and a ferocious face, but could not hear a sound.
For most of them, this was definitely a huge collapse in the image of the church.
But Benjamin wasn't just out to make the priest look bad.
"These people are very sick. Not to mention this priest, even if the king sends you a bishop, they may not be able to save you." He looked at the patients piled on the floor outside and said slowly, "However, I had to use magic, but I was able to cure them all easily."
When the villagers heard what he said, they all trembled for some reason.
But still no one said anything.
Benjamin frowned when he saw this.
"What? You don't want to save them? Is your sadness just a show, and you don't actually care about these relatives who are infected with the plague?"
Finally, the middle-aged woman who was crying so much couldn't bear it anymore and cried miserably: "No! I... I want to save my child!"
When Benjamin heard this, his face showed some joy, but other villagers below showed eager expressions.
"No... don't believe what he says. This is the devil making a deal with you! Have you forgotten the teachings of the priest? The devil always talks kindly at the beginning and doesn't say any harm, but after you nod your head and agree, your Your soul will no longer belong to you!" An old man pulled a middle-aged woman and urged her in a panic.