The meeting between Duke Colin and the king lasted about twenty minutes. Out of politeness, Benjamin did not eavesdrop, but waited quietly outside the door with the two siblings.
Twenty minutes later, the Duke came out with a disappointed look on his face. He turned and looked at Benjamin, his eyes a little complicated, but he didn't say anything, nodded and left from here.
"...What did they talk about?"
Watching Duke Colin leave, Benjamin suddenly spoke and asked the system in his heart.
The system was helpless: "Didn't you say you wouldn't eavesdrop on their conversations?"
"I didn't eavesdrop, but the room was within your detection range, so you must have eavesdropped." Benjamin said confidently, "Okay, tell me everything you heard, and I won't condemn you."
“…”
The system was speechless for a moment, but under Benjamin's repeated urging, it quickly summarized the content of the conversation between the two and said it. During the meeting, Duke Colin had been persuading the king to leave with him.
He mentioned the word "substitute" many times. Apparently after the king disappeared, the church also accelerated the preparation of backup plans. Duke Colin said that if the king does not return to the royal capital as soon as possible and return to the throne with the support of the nobles, he may not be able to return as soon as the substitute is found.
In this regard, the king was actually shaken. However, the actions of lobbying the whole country these days also had a considerable impact on his ideas. Regardless of his mental skills, he still rejected the nobles' proposal in the end.
—He said he had more hope staying with Benjamin.
Therefore, Duke Colin, who had been persuading him for a long time, could only leave as disappointed as before.
After learning the content of the conversation between the two, Benjamin nodded secretly. He turned around, looked at the king walking out of the room, and smiled: "Your Majesty, it's time for us to set off."
The king was stunned when he heard this.
"Let's go... What are we going to do?"
"To respond to His Majesty's supporters in this country."
The king was stunned for a moment, came to his senses, and nodded in understanding.
In this way, Benjamin and his two siblings also set off from the village on the shores of Pearl Lake and flew towards the south of the kingdom. The southern part of the kingdom is the area where the poster has the greatest influence. At the same time, the further away from the royal capital, the less control the church has. It is a good starting point for them.
He was preparing to build a native organization of the Hori Kingdom.
The local people and the mages who hide their identities... gather the forces that oppose the church to form an underground organization. With the influence brought by the posters, they can further change the mainstream thinking of the Horli Kingdom and truly pull the church away from the altar. Come down!
After summarizing the news from various places in the dark department of the academy and considering it carefully, Benjamin finally chose a city near the sea - Coster.
Koster is known as the city of merchants and is one of the top trading cities in the Kingdom of Hori. The profit-seeking nature of businessmen is inconsistent with religious doctrine, and therefore, there is not a strong religious atmosphere here.
In order to put up posters, they had already been here once and reached an agreement with the local city lord. However, after the poster incident, the city lord was afraid of the church's retaliation and fled with his family. Now Coster's administrative system is in chaos, and is only temporarily managed by some lower-level officials.
At night, after disguising themselves, a few people walked in directly from the city gate.
The wide streets are full of people, passers-by, vendors, hurried caravans... Various changes in the kingdom have not affected the prosperity here. Even at night, the sound of hawking is still heard, and it is lively and even noisy.
"How...how do we know who is willing to support me?" The king asked softly as he followed Benjamin and looked around for a while.
Benjamin smiled and said, "A secretive person must have a secret code."
He had made preparations before coming. Some anti-church wall slogans appeared in Coster's warehouse district yesterday, but they were only cleared away by guards this morning, which is quite telling.
Therefore, they did not wander around the streets, but came directly to the warehouse district in the south of the city.
Compared with the central streets, this place looks much deserted. Countless warehouses are like tall hills arranged on the ground, stretching towards the front. Some are abandoned, and some are filled with goods. Under the dark night, there were only a few lights coming from the security room.
"Hmm... those people should have been painted here before." Benjamin came to the back of an empty warehouse, looked at the wall that was obviously just painted black today, and said to himself.
"here?"
"Well, just yesterday, there was a line of big words written in red paint on this wall - Church Get Out of Coster, followed by paintings of the corpses of several priests." Benjamin nodded and explained, "Although I don't Do you know who painted it, but if you want to get in touch with them, you have to follow their method?”
"You mean..."
"We also draw - of course, we have to play better than them." As he spoke, Benjamin thought, and several ice skates emerged from the air and were aimed at the wall.
- This area is far away from the church, and almost no one passes by here. Even if it emits magic fluctuations, there is no need to worry about being discovered.
As the skates flew, a string of sentences and quite eye-catching pictures quickly appeared on the walls of the warehouse. Benjamin didn't plan to create any street art. He just imitated the form of folk graffiti, casually added a few anti-church slogans and a few funny little figures of priests, and quickly completed the project.
"Is this... okay?" The king looked at the words on the wall and couldn't help but frown.
"That's enough. Anyone who can leave graffiti here must have the main activity area nearby. They will see it." Benjamin waved away the skates and said slowly, "What's more, I have already left graffiti on it. Contact information."
The king was puzzled: "Contact information? Where is it?"
Benjamin smiled slightly and pointed to the initial letters of each slogan. The king and the two siblings quickly realized that together, each letter formed a very simple word - tavern.
He chose the local pub as a connection point.
"This... didn't specify which tavern it was. How could they know?" The young man couldn't help but scratch his head and said, "And if the church people look at it for a long time, they should be able to tell it, right?"
"You can tell if you see it, they can't close down all the taverns in this city." Benjamin shrugged and said, "And what we have to do is distribute some different things in the taverns. …”
As he spoke, he opened his backpack and took out a booklet. The booklet looked a bit old, as if it had been printed for a while, and the title above seemed familiar.
— is the "Declaration of Free Magic."