When he received the letter, Benjamin was busy expanding the staff of the Black Nightmare Club.
While the Indulgence Incident continued to ferment, the name of the Black Nightmare Society slowly spread in the Hori Kingdom. Legend has it that it was this organization that instigated the original strike by bringing the truth to light. Therefore, some people began to quietly inquire about its origin.
Soon, the original invitation letter issued by the Black Nightmare Society at Coster's Tavern was investigated. More and more people flocked to Coster. Among them... there were those who were also resentful of the church, but there were also those who wanted to Inquiring about information.
Benjamin was determined to further expand the Black Nightmare Club, so he naturally sneaked into the tavern quietly and began to screen all kinds of people. The church's spies may have come over, so he must be very careful. When someone asks for relevant information, he will scan it at least ten times, and then find out the details of the other person's life experience before contacting him.
It is indeed inefficient to expand the membership in this way, but at least it can ensure absolute safety.
"So far, the number of members of the Black Nightmare Society has reached 275, and most of them are young people under the age of 35, including 87 mages... With this momentum, it should not be difficult to break through a thousand ." The system reported this.
Benjamin also nodded.
At this time, he had just left another round of Black Nightmare Society mobilization meeting and returned to the stronghold of the Academy's ANBU. Then, he received a letter from Havenright.
It only took about half a minute from opening the envelope to the moment his face changed slightly. And when he finished reading the entire letter, he suddenly became serious, touched his chin, and fell into deep thought.
The letter was also crumpled into a ball and stuffed into his pocket to prevent it from being seen by the king.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk... Something interesting happened again." The system was very interested and spoke in his mind, "What are you going to do? Act like you don't know anything, and then carry out the plan at your own pace? Really? interesting… "
Benjamin shook his head impatiently and said in his mind: "Don't be so nagging."
The bad news in the whole letter had already put him in a bad mood, so he didn't bother to pay attention to the system's schadenfreude. Things were going well, but he never expected that the church would actually force the queen to death at this time.
Yes, forced to death... Although Duke Colin said in the letter that the queen committed suicide out of despair, in Benjamin's view, if the church did not want the queen to die, even if the queen really wanted to die, she would not be able to successfully commit suicide.
And this entire letter from Duke Colin actually only talks about two things-the substitute and the death of the queen. Benjamin was mentally prepared for the substitute, so it was nothing. But once the news of the queen's death... reached the king's ears, Benjamin couldn't imagine what kind of reaction the king would have.
He even felt that the church did this on purpose.
Push the queen to death, or just spread false news to disrupt the pace on Benjamin's side. Although they can use the spiritual mark to forcibly control the king, it will definitely affect the next actions. Once those officials found anything unnatural when talking to the king, they might think of the term "witchcraft" and become suspicious.
And taking a step back, Duke Colin's words may not be true. Those nobles probably just wanted to deceive the king to their side, so they made up some lies, just like the previous mutiny.
Therefore, after much thought, Benjamin decided to press the news.
However... that's about it.
"No!" The person in charge of the secret department of the college hurriedly walked in from outside, nodded to Benjamin, and then said, "Dean, the latest news from outside is that the queen was assassinated in the palace. It has been a few days. Died before!"
“…”
Benjamin was speechless and choked.
this…
He even thought he heard wrongly.
What are you doing
How could it be such a coincidence? On purpose
"...Are you not mistaken?" Taking a deep breath, he quickly calmed down and asked, "What is the source? We have opened up so many joints in the Horli Kingdom. Even if the church issues an announcement, it cannot be issued so quickly. of."
"There are rumors on the street, and the Paladins who suddenly appeared in various cities are shouting this out of condolences." The person in charge lowered his head and replied, "They... seemed to have been secretly brewing for a long time, and suddenly the news broke. Come out and make it known to almost everyone now.”
After hearing this, Benjamin quickly walked out of the room, walked to the window, and looked towards the street. The streets of Coster had been filled with anti-church demonstrations in the past few days, and church people did not even dare to raise their heads. But at this moment, the number of people marching suddenly became sparse.
Half a minute later, at the corner of the street, a group of Paladins slowly turned around.
There was a team of about a few hundred people, holding high a portrait of the queen and shouting words such as "In memory of Your Highness." Black gauze hung on everyone's shoulders, looking extremely solemn. Passers-by looked at them in astonishment, shocked and confused for a moment, which overshadowed the disdain they should have shown.
"Her Royal Highness the Queen... passed away?"
"what happened?"
Similar scenes also occurred across the country at the same time. Soon, the priests who had been invisible for a long time appeared again. Each of them personally posted the obituary notice on the notice board in each city.
—Her Royal Highness the Queen was assassinated by an evil mage and died yesterday.
Faced with such a statement, people looked at each other, wondering what was going on. The church said that the priest kidnapped the king and killed the queen, but on the other side, there were also voices saying that the church put the king under house arrest and also created a scam of indulgences to make money. Shocking news came one after another, and people began to feel a little overwhelmed.
And in Coster's attic...
"They...why did they do this?"
The king walked in with a dazed look on his face, as if he hadn't fully reacted yet. He was immersed in an emotion that he didn't want to believe, but his face was extremely pale.
"Your Majesty, please stay calm. This is all a trick of the church." Benjamin quickly stepped forward to comfort him. "They just want to divert the public's attention and make them forget about the indulgences. They also want you to lose Be sensible. You must not fall into their trap!"
"But... but... they..." The king began to speak incoherently, his expression became excited, and he couldn't formulate what he wanted to say.
Seeing this, Benjamin took a deep breath and could only wink at the two siblings who were following him. Seeing this, the two siblings nodded, stood behind the king and raised their hands.
The fluctuations in mental power slowly spread.
The next second, the king closed his eyes and fainted instantly, as if he had been turned off. The two siblings supported him, then raised their heads and looked at Benjamin with helpless eyes.
"Can you make him forget all this?" Benjamin rubbed his temples and asked.
"Okay... but there are all the shouting paladins outside. If he sees these again, he will still think of it."
Benjamin turned his head and looked at the scene outside the window, feeling a headache.
"... Let him fall asleep first." Finally, he shook his head, closed the window, and said to the two siblings.