After breakfast, Benjamin consciously followed the maid to the military camp.
After so many days of military training, this has become a habit, not to mention that Benjamin has other tasks today - he is going to get some inside information about "monitoring the cross" from the recruits in the same camp. So of course he wouldn't shirk it.
In this way, he came to Gunfire Camp.
After several hours of training, Dean announced a break, the queue dispersed, everyone found a place to sit, and Benjamin finally had a chance to speak.
He sat down next to a recruit he was familiar with, rubbed his sore shoulders, and then said casually:
"Mark, did you hear? His Majesty the Pope finally showed up last night."
Recruit Mark's face suddenly showed a somewhat unnatural look. He glanced at Benjamin, suddenly turned his head silently, stood up, walked to another place and sat down, completely ignoring Benjamin's intentions.
“…”
Benjamin was confused.
what's the situation
We had a good conversation yesterday, why did we suddenly become mute today
After thinking about it, he sat next to another recruit who had been chatting with him: "Ian, what happened? Why does Mark look so bad today?"
Recruit Ian took one look at him and ran away like the plague.
“…”
Benjamin couldn't help but take a breath into his hand and smell it carefully. He doesn't have bad breath, and he has brushed his teeth. Why do these people look so disgusted
What are you doing
If it’s because he doesn’t dare to talk about church-related topics, then there’s no need for recruit Ian to run away, right? Benjamin just asked him why Mark had such a bad face.
I don't know what these people are thinking.
Just as Benjamin was sitting alone, confused by the attitude of the recruits and worried about how to inquire about the news, suddenly, a voice sounded behind him.
"They don't dare to talk to you because they think you are wearing a cross specially made by the church. They are afraid that the Pope will see you while you are lazy and resting, so they have to stay away."
Benjamin turned his head and looked up. Instructor Dean stood behind him, folding his arms and saying this.
This instructor really likes to kill people from behind.
However, facing Instructor Dean's sudden attack, Benjamin did not feel surprised or nervous. Instead, he felt relieved.
Finally someone could answer his doubts.
"Then you're not afraid?"
After thinking for a while, Benjamin suddenly spoke and asked.
Dean shrugged and said, "Why should you be afraid? You don't have a cross on you that can listen. If I yell here, it won't reach the Pope's ears. What can he do to me?"
When Benjamin heard this, he couldn't help but laugh a few times and said, "It seems that you are very aware of what happened last night."
The Royal Army belongs to the royal family and takes orders from the church. As an instructor of the Royal Army, Dean must know a lot.
"It's more than clear." Sure enough, Dean snorted disdainfully, and then said, "I heard the instructor from the knight camp next door say that a noble boy left the field before the Pope showed up last night. He wanted to stop the boy, In the end, he was scolded. After he came back so angry, he woke up the people from the knight camp in the middle of the night and ran away all night. I guess that kid is you."
After hearing this, Benjamin glanced at the knight camp next door in surprise.
Such a coincidence
No wonder I feel weak today when I hear the shouting from next door.
However, among the royal knights who stopped him last night, some of them were training new recruits in the royal army, and they were right next door to him? This fate is also amazing enough.
If the knight knew that Benjamin was here, he would probably rush over and teach him a lesson.
There was no way, on the streets of the royal capital, Benjamin was a nobleman, while the royal knights were just knights. But in the military camp, the knight is the commander with a mountain of military orders, and Benjamin is just a little recruit.
Environment can determine a person's status to a great extent.
Thinking of this, Benjamin quickly flattered Dean: "Instructor, you are so damn handsome!"
Dean burst into laughter.
After laughing, he shook his head helplessly and said, "Come on, I won't tell him that your kid is here. What are you afraid of? You are my soldier, and he has no right to come and teach you a lesson."
"Yes, yes, that's what the instructor said."
Dean smiled again and shook his head.
"By the way..." After enough joking and the atmosphere became more lively, Benjamin thought for a while and finally asked what he wanted to ask, "How did you see that I wasn't wearing that kind of cross?"
Hearing this, Dean snorted and said, "That's not easy. The cross has to be burned into the flesh of the palm using magic. It can't be removed or hidden. I looked at it carefully during training. What's on your hand?" There’s nothing there, he must have escaped.”
Benjamin raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Branded into the flesh... So bloody
Just listening to it made Benjamin feel a little pain in his hands.
He never expected that the "cross-wearing" that Jeremy heard about would actually be "worn" in this way. How could those noble children endure such suffering? They didn't resist on the spot
There may have been more twists and turns last night than he imagined.
Benjamin also quickly thought of Grant.
What about Grant? He was not blind. If Grant really had a cross embedded in the palm of his hand, he would definitely not have noticed nothing during breakfast.
There is no doubt that Grant was not "worn" on the surveillance cross.
Why
The answer of hiding in a warehouse and having sex is too fantasy. This is a fantasy world, and Benjamin refuses to believe it.
There must be other reasons.
"But my brother was also at the reception, and he didn't have a cross in his hand." Thinking of this, Benjamin didn't hesitate and asked directly.
He wasn't afraid of Dean being careless either. The situation in the royal capital is so complicated now, people are panicking, and everyone is trying to find out the news. If he pretended not to care about anything, it would make him look even more suspicious.
"That's nonsense. Do you think I don't know who your biological brother is?" Dean snorted disdainfully and said, "The cross has no effect on priests who have learned magic, let alone your brother. He is hailed as the successor of the Pope. Does the church need to monitor him?"
Hearing this, Benjamin nodded thoughtfully.
"That's it, no wonder..."
The listening cross can only work on ordinary people.
This information is quite crucial.
Of course, regarding Dean's question "Does the church need to monitor him?", Benjamin felt that it was still necessary. The church really should take a closer look at what Grant was doing in his spare time.
but…
Closer to home, Benjamin was still frightened when he thought that if he did not leave the reception in time, the cross would be ineffective on him and he would be exposed as a mage under the Pope's nose.
Really, it's a good thing he's fast.
"You nobles should have blown up the pot. All the dirty secrets have been heard by the church." Just when Benjamin was secretly rejoicing, Dean suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Tell me, are you ready?" When will you protest at the church door?”
Hearing this, Benjamin laughed a few times.
He asked a lot of information from Dean, and now, Dean wanted to ask something from him.
fair enough.
Unfortunately, he had no information to provide Dean.
"I don't know." He shook his head and said, "As you know, I didn't wear that kind of cross, and my brother didn't wear that kind of cross either. We are the only two aristocratic children in our family. This matter is very important to us." It didn't affect our family, so we just pretended it didn't happen at home. Even if someone wanted to go to the church to protest, they wouldn't call our family."
In this incident, the Reese family did appear to be quite lucky.
When Dean heard this, he had no choice but to smile helplessly and pat Benjamin's shoulder hard several times.
"You cunning little bastard, you took all the benefits."
After saying that, he shook his head, turned and walked away, as if he had no more questions to ask. However, even if he had more questions, he probably wouldn't be able to ask them any more.
It's time for a break from training.
I saw him walking to the center of the camp and shouting at the top of his lungs: "It's rest time, stand up! What about you, Mark? Why are you laughing? I'll punish you with two hundred push-ups. You won't be able to eat until you finish."
Under Dean's scolding, everyone quickly gathered together and lined up. Everyone pursed their lips vigorously, not daring to laugh, and could only look at Mark, who was crying, with gloating eyes.