It's not too late, the handmade textile shop is still open. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After Benjamin roughly explained the situation, the proprietress naturally had no objection and asked Benjamin to stand in the corner of the store and secretly sense the situation inside the door like last time.

Since the crack in the consciousness space was repaired, although Benjamin's magic power has decreased slightly, the water elemental perception method has not been affected much, but it is still a little farther away than it was at the beginning. With the feedback of the water element, Benjamin could also see the gate, and indeed as he overheard, ten people checked the pedestrians, and two hundred people guarded the gate.

The structure of the Crusade gate also came to his mind little by little.

The whole gate is actually more like some kind of fortress, and there are not many parts that allow people to pass through. In the middle of the gate are two huge iron door panels, on which you can feel the aura of powerful magic, it should be said, there is almost no other way to pass through it except to open the door from the inside of the fortress.

As for the two doors, there is a 100-meter-long passageway, which is a necessary place to enter and exit. There are a number of side doors on both sides of the aisle, and through those side doors, you can see long corridors and rooms. The rooms have different functions, some are soldiers' quarters similar to dormitories, some are prayer rooms specially set up for the church, and there seem to be command rooms, canteens, and storerooms...... and a series of rooms.

The Cruzard Gate is thousands of meters wide and hundreds of meters thick, so naturally there will be no shortage of rooms inside.

Benjamin's attention has been wandering through the rooms, trying to find the cross that examines the mage.

By ten o'clock, the guards at the gate had changed shifts. The ten soldiers at the door gave the cross directly to the person who came to take over, and the person who took the cross, lit the lamp, and continued to check the pedestrians who were on the night road.

Observing this scene, Benjamin suddenly felt a little headache.

Isn't it, ten crosses, just 24 hours a day, 365 days a year? How can Benjamin steal it?

Wrong...... There should be a backup, and the magic item also has durability, and if you use it for too long, it will still break.

Where the hell did you put it?

Perhaps Benjamin's perception range was not far enough, and the room inside the door, he could only perceive the closer. As for the rooms that were close to that side, and the rooms that had always been deeper, he couldn't reach them.

Headache.

Thinking so, Benjamin gradually retracted his senses, leaned against the wall of the handmade textile store, and fell into deep thought.

"How's it going?, have you finished reading?" Suddenly, the voice of the proprietress came, calling him back to the real world, "It's not too early, I'm closing, you should rest." ”

Benjamin came back to his senses and shrugged his shoulders a little helplessly.

"It's a bit tricky, it's very well defended at the gate. ”

Although the textile shop is not closed yet, there are no other customers. The shop was full of mages, so he didn't have to pretend to be a guest, and he didn't have to shy away from talking.

"yes, otherwise we wouldn't have said we couldn't help it. The proprietress did not look too disappointed, and said, "In recent years, the harvest has been mediocre, and the people in the gate sometimes buy grain from the town. Wallis was doing business here, and had taken the opportunity to sneak in several times, but he hadn't found anything. ”

...... Mixed in?

Hearing this, a thought suddenly flashed through Benjamin's mind.

"Do we have a chance to get inside the gate?" he quickly asked.

"Of course there is, I've been in it once. The proprietress nodded and said, "Last winter was particularly cold, and the people at the gate ordered a large number of cotton clothes in the town, and the owners of several textile shops went in. However, we can only walk to the door, and we will not be allowed to enter the deeper position. ”

Hearing this, Benjamin thought for a while, but still shook his head.

The idea that came to him just now was whether he could pretend to be a soldier and actually infiltrate the Crusade gate. But listening to the proprietress meaning, their so-called blending in is actually staying at the door of the aisle, putting things and leaving, and they can't really blend in.

In this way, the more Benjamin thought about it, the more he felt that the task of stealing the cross was a bit hanging.

Could it be ...... He had to give up?

After thinking for a moment, he suddenly raised his head, changed his words, and asked, "At that time, they ordered cotton clothes in the town, do you know how many sets they ordered in total?"

The proprietress looked a little surprised, and didn't seem to quite understand why Benjamin was asking the question.

However, frowning and thinking for a while, she still opened her mouth and said, "What were you saying at that time...... Together, there should have been about a thousand pieces from several stores, but they also bought more than a thousand from Wallis. ”

Benjamin nodded thoughtfully.

Judging from the relatively perfect shift change and holiday system, the treatment of the gate guards is still good. If they are going to buy clothes, they will definitely buy more, not less. Coupled with the dormitory that Benjamin had just observed with the water elemental sensing method, he estimated that the soldiers at the entire gate should be around two thousand.

2,000 people......

Benjamin has also observed, basically ordinary armor, has not been blessed, and the level of training is definitely not comparable to that of paladins and kingdom troops, and the combat effectiveness is average, but it is only by relying on the strong gate that it shows an invincible temperament.

"What's the matter? Why are you asking all this?" asked the proprietress when she saw that Benjamin was slow to speak, and seemed to be a little hung up by her appetite.

"Judging by the number of cotton clothes they ordered, it can be judged that the garrison in the gate should be about two thousand people. Benjamin clasped his arms and leaned against the wall, "I'm wondering how strong these two thousand people really are. ”

The proprietress suddenly showed a surprised expression, hurriedly shook her head, and said, "You don't want to break in, do you?" No, there are still the bishop and six priests in the door, and we can't deal with the bishop alone, let alone the other priests. ”

Hearing this, Benjamin was also a little surprised.

There are still so many spellcasters guarding the Crusade Gate?

To be honest, just now, he had already started to have some commotion in his head. He also thought that there were still more than twenty mages in the town now. And soldiers without enchanted equipment are unusually vulnerable in front of mages. If they can sneak into the aisle of the gate together, and then make a sudden move, they may be able to break through the defense line of the gate and flee directly abroad.

But...... Now it seems that this is not going to work.

Those church people are a problem they can't solve at all.

"Do you know how much magic you have, how many spells you use?" asked Benjamin after thinking about it.

"I guess I know. The proprietress shook her head as she spoke, "However, I don't think you should expect too much......

"It's okay, isn't it still a short time for everyone to learn magic?" Benjamin, however, said with some eagerness and expectation, "People, there will always be progress." ”