"You seem to have been talking for a long time. Doesn't the old lady plan to stay?" Elizabeth walked in, looked around the room, and asked casually.
"She hates the Magic Academy so much, so of course she doesn't want to stay here." Benjamin looked helpless, shrugged, and then said, "Okay, the matter of the Mage Heritage Association has come to an end, and it's time to talk about the Horli Kingdom. Yes. You made a special trip to visit the academy, surely it’s not just to show me the way?”
"of course."
Elizabeth nodded. Then, she took out a map from her pocket, placed it on the table, and slowly spread it out. Benjamin looked over suspiciously, only to find that the building above seemed a bit familiar.
"This is… "
"The complete internal structure of St. Peter's Cathedral." Elizabeth said slowly, "Maybe you have other channels and think this thing is not unusual, but for the nobles in the country, this thing requires a lot of effort to get. Got it."
Benjamin's eyes flashed with surprise.
St. Peter's Basilica…
That was the home of the church. Although he had used the omniscient perspective of the elemental plane to spy on it once before, he never thought about what he was going to do. But now the Wood family is throwing the map in his face, which is quite interesting.
What happened in the Horli Kingdom
He glanced at the map a few more times. Suddenly, he pointed at one of the rooms with a red cross on it, frowned and asked, "What does this cross mean?"
"That's where the church used to keep the king under house arrest," Elizabeth said.
Benjamin was slightly startled.
A conjecture that, in his opinion, was even a little ridiculous suddenly came into his mind.
"You...are not planning to sneak into St. Peter's Cathedral and rescue the king who has been cast on telekinesis, are you?"
"This is the wish of the vast majority of the nobles in the country at this moment." Elizabeth lowered her head and looked at the map and said, "You should also know that since the overseas cult attacked the royal capital, the church has announced that His Majesty the King has been possessed by a witchcraft and must recuperate. , everything is handled by Her Royal Highness the Queen. And just in the past few days, the knights of our family accidentally discovered that the church is quietly searching for civilians who look similar to the king. "
Hearing this, Benjamin snorted in surprise and said, "The church wants to get a substitute?"
"That's it." Elizabeth nodded and continued, "This news has spread among the noble circles. No one can accept this approach of the church. Even within the church, there are signs of discord again."
"Then it's impossible to rush into St. Peter's Cathedral and rescue the king, right?" Benjamin spread his hands and said helplessly.
There is a huge holy light barrier in Havenright alone, not to mention inside the church. What was previously detected was that there were traces of the Holy Light hidden everywhere inside. Since ancient times, those who sneaked into it had no good end, and only Miles was able to escape unscathed.
As for Miles now, Benjamin certainly can't count on him to help.
Not to mention Grant who sits in it.
At this moment, with the help of the water elemental elves, Benjamin was confident that he could fight Grant head-on and even suppress him, but he was not arrogant enough to think that they could rush to each other's home.
What are these nobles thinking? Your heart is too big!
"Perhaps it was really difficult to do it in the past." Elizabeth explained, "But just a week ago, the Pope suddenly announced that he would retreat to comprehend God's will. He never showed up again after that, and the church affairs were temporarily handed over to a few bishops. Process it. The family found out that he seemed to have gone to the depths of the Warcraft Mountains to the west alone."
"Warcraft Mountains? What is he doing there?"
"No one knows." Elizabeth shook her head, "But... at least he won't show up for this month. This is our only chance."
Hearing this, Benjamin touched his chin and fell into deep thought.
The whole thing seemed weird to him.
It's not that he doesn't trust the Wood family and Elizabeth. After all, they have cooperated once before, and they also gave accurate information about the church's overseas sects. However, thinking about what happened to the Foer family, he really didn't think these nobles had the ability to directly oppose the church.
—They are going to break into St. Peter's Basilica to save the king. This is no different from confronting each other, right
Moreover, why did Grant leave the royal capital and suddenly run to the Warcraft Mountains alone? Apart from the ruins of the Silent Academy, there should be nothing there.
Benjamin suddenly smelled something not quite right.
Here...either there is a secret or a conspiracy.
"What's in the Warcraft Mountains? You should be familiar with it, right?" he suddenly asked.
"I... my teacher once said that if you go deeper into the Warcraft Mountains, there is a vast low valley plain, which is where magic was first born." Elizabeth hesitated for a moment and said slowly, "Many years ago, he said that humans They migrated from there to here, but these are just legends, no one knows whether they are true or false.”
"So... you think Grant went to explore the secret of the origin?"
"I didn't say that." Elizabeth immediately shook her head and said, "I understand what you are suspecting. It's just that after the failure of the expedition to Icol and the overseas cults, the church no longer has the strength to deal with the nobles in the country. The story of the Foer family It cannot happen again, the church needs the support of the nobles, even if it is false support, they must take advantage of it to stabilize the situation."
Benjamin frowned: “You really don’t think this is a trap by the church?”
"They no longer have the capital to do this. The prestige of the church is not as good as before. Continuing to clean up the internal affairs will only bring down the Kingdom of Hori, and the church will also collapse with it."
"… All right."
Benjamin couldn't find any loopholes for a while, but in the end, he nodded.
In fact, after careful consideration, he discovered that if the church continued to fight among themselves, it would not be without benefit to them. Even if this was a trap, Grant didn't really leave the capital. He turned back and killed everyone who opposed him, but... then what
Most of the power he can mobilize will be killed by himself.
Having reached this point, Benjamin believed that the nobles were determined to burn the boat. They may not have an army, but they have money, land, and popular prestige. If the church did not want to see a large-scale flight of merchants, skyrocketing prices, widespread famine, and people struggling to survive, they could not take action against the remaining nobles.
"Give me the map, I need to plan this matter." Finally, Benjamin picked up the map on the table and said.
Elizabeth nodded too.
"I will wait in the town of Akademi. After you decide, I may need to go to the Kingdom of Hori. My father wants to see you." After saying that, she opened the door and walked out.