If someone runs away, is Benjamin still worthy of being the dean
At that moment, he blew away the poisonous smoke with water vapor, and then chased it as fast as he could - after mastering the water element field, his flying speed was no slower than before.
"You can't escape."
With a whisper, the fleeing mage turned his head, only to see Benjamin's face getting closer and closer to him. Then, fear and despair appeared in his eyes.
"I… "
He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to argue again, but Benjamin was no longer prepared to listen to his nonsense. As soon as the target entered the attack range, he summoned a large water ball and swallowed the old mage directly, drowning all the opponent's possible quibbles in the water.
Then, the water ball started spinning crazily. In less than two seconds, the old mage lost consciousness. When Benjamin saw this, he turned the water polo into bubbles and flew back into the building with the people.
Everything happened within a few dozen seconds. Their location was far away from the teaching building, so no one should have noticed anything strange here.
However, the people inside the building must have noticed it.
"What happened?" Several mages ran out of the laboratory, looking at Benjamin and the old mage in the water with surprise and suspicion, and asked quickly, "Dean? Master Randall? You..."
Benjamin sighed and threw the note taken off the bird's leg to the mages.
In fact, the content on the note is very simple. Although Master Randall tried to escape while Benjamin was reading the note, Benjamin had almost seen it at that moment.
The mages also read the above content: "The dean will be back soon. I will pass on more runes to you when I have the opportunity."
Then, they were stunned and immediately showed "No way" expressions on their faces.
The knowledge of runes is something that everyone agrees to keep secret. Benjamin provided them with research materials and venues, and they were also obliged to keep all the content in this school, and Benjamin decided how to use the knowledge.
Leaking secrets can be said to be a very fatal thing.
"We actually didn't notice anything before..." A mage took a deep breath and couldn't help but said, "Why on earth would he do this?"
Benjamin shook his head and said nothing.
He couldn't blame these mages. Only with his water element perception method, no one else can monitor a person from all directions without blind spots. Therefore, if someone wants to spread the news, as long as that person is careful enough, he can definitely do it.
"Then... what are you going to do with him?" Another mage asked.
"I have to ask who he passed the message to first." Benjamin glanced at the person in the bubble and said, "He must have passed a lot of information to a certain force while I was away."
The mages also nodded after hearing this.
"What happened after the interrogation?" Someone interceded for Master Randall. "He was probably just confused for a moment. The dean may be able to treat him leniently because he has made a lot of contributions to our research."
Benjamin snorted coldly and said, "This is the rule we made before. Now that he has violated the rule, I will not kill him, but I will not let him go either."
"That… "
"Lock him in the basement and use him as a test subject for any dangerous rune experiments." Benjamin said coldly, "How many days he can survive depends on his own luck."
Although he said so, using him as a guinea pig is actually no different from killing him directly.
This can be regarded as a warning to the monkey. The members of the rune research team are all veteran mages gathered from the outside world. In terms of loyalty, they are much worse than other mages in the academy. Of course Benjamin hopes that everyone will be harmonious and not cause any unpleasantness. But once something happens, he must put his attitude here, so that even if someone starts to be cautious in the future, they will have to weigh it.
Just like that, the mages looked at each other in shock when they heard the words, and no one said anything.
This matter became a secret and was sealed in this experimental building. Benjamin also took Master Randall into the basement, tied him to a chair with a magic-forbidden iron chain, and began to interrogate him.
"Who were those notes passed to?"
After waking the person up, Benjamin stared at the old mage coldly and asked.
"...I can't tell you." The mage was silent for a while and said, "If I tell you, you will kill them all. And you will not let me go."
"Them?" Benjamin's face darkened, "So, your accomplices are a large group of people?"
"Dean Benjamin, you can kill me, but I won't tell you anything more." The mage said in a trembling voice, "Now that you have caught me, I am ready... Just kill me!" "
When Benjamin heard this, he smiled.
That's what everyone who hasn't experienced torture says.
"Want to die? That's a very simple thing. But before that, you will tell me everything."
As he spoke, he threw a water balloon, interrupting the other person's intention to commit suicide. The whole process was extremely skillful, and there were no warning signs at all. The old mage was confused at the time.
Then, when he looked at Benjamin's "harmless" smile, his face trembled involuntarily.
"You... what are you going to do..."
About half an hour later.
Benjamin walked out of the basement, closed the door, and left all the wailing and screaming in that room.
However, his face was not very pretty.
"You are going to have competitors, are you happy? Do you feel excited about becoming an industry leader?" the system said gloatingly.
"… Shut up."
Benjamin shook his head helplessly.
What he got from the old mage was quite unexpected news.
The confidential knowledge about runes was sent to a certain mage organization in Freeden. And that mage organization... They are planning to build a new mage college, almost to get a foothold in this field that only Benjamin has set foot in.
To be honest, Benjamin had no problem with other people running a college. This will definitely become a trend. If he himself becomes the first person to set up a school, there will inevitably be second and third people... Generally speaking, he should be happy for this phenomenon.
However, it is not a good thing for others to steal their research results as a gimmick in order to build a college.
Master Randall seemed to be one of the founders of that mage organization. His companion was preparing to start an academy, so he took advantage of this opportunity to steal the knowledge of runes. And now, if nothing else, at least the entire content of the rune meditation method has been sent to the hands of the mage organization.
Benjamin had an unusual headache.
In a place like the Mage Organization, where there are so many people talking, and so much time has passed, this secret... I'm afraid it's a bit hard to keep.