The group of people exchanged pleasantries for about fifteen minutes, and during those fifteen minutes, Benjamin was neither incomprehensible nor completely incapacitated. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Therefore, he could only hold his forehead and stand silently to the side.

But......

The sudden appearance of more than twenty mages in a small town was obviously not an accident. Not to mention, the secret passage that leads from the blacksmith to here, and this underground warehouse that looks like a secret base.

Therefore, even if Benjamin was still in a state of confusion, he still made a judgment.

The gang is organized.

Of course, judging by the way these people get along and the content of their chats, this is a loose organization. Their current state is like meeting a neighbor in a vegetable market, and they start chatting about everything, and the content of the conversation has nothing to do with magic, such as "how are you doing lately", "the price of wheat has risen again", "who is fighting with whom", and the down-to-earth atmosphere is a little scary.

Is this really a bunch of mages?

Shouldn't the mages gather together in mysterious robes, with everyone keeping their distance, carefully talking about the inscrutable questions of magic?

Benjamin resisted the urge to complain and sighed silently.

"That...... Let me introduce you to a new friend. Finally, as if everyone had almost exchanged pleasantries, the proprietress clapped her hands, looked at Benjamin again, and asked casually, "By the way, you should be a mage, right?"

“......”

Benjamin wiped his sweat and replied, "Yes, I'm a mage." ”

Suddenly, more than 20 people burst into warm applause, as if welcoming his arrival.

...... I don't know why, but there is a sense of déjà vu for team building activities. Isn't it time to start playing some weird icebreakers?

Thinking like this, before the plot developed in a more bizarre place, Benjamin hurriedly opened his mouth and asked, "I have a question, how did you find out that I am a mage?"

Hearing this, the proprietress shook her head.

"We didn't know you were a mage. At first, we thought you were from the church. "You first came to my shop, strange, looking around and not buying, as if you were investigating something." I thought it was suspicious, and after a while, you ran back to the old blacksmith's shop. There were several shops down the street, and only me and the old blacksmith were mages, and you just happened to be looking around in my shop and his shop. In this way, when I told the old blacksmith secretly, he assumed that you were from the church. ”

“......”

So, that's why that blacksmith sneaked up on him for some reason?

Benjamin can't complain anymore.

Unexpectedly, he just hid in the shop of these two people to observe the movement inside the gate, and as a result, he was mistaken for a member of the church.

All right...... He also had to admit that his behavior in the store was indeed too weird. Probably in the eyes of ordinary people, Benjamin is just a little strange. But in order to avoid the church, the mage will be more sensitive, and it is not impossible to think about things crookedly.

"Don't be angry, the old blacksmith is here to protect us. In the crowd, another young girl spoke, "He's a brain-dead man who wants to knock you out and tie you up, but you dodge him, so he goes on the head." After all, if you're really a member of the church, we're all doomed. ”

Benjamin shook his head helplessly.

He's not really a blacksmith. After all, he also hindered other people's business in other people's stores, and they were evened out when they came and went.

"Then why did you change your mind and think that I wasn't from the church, and brought me here?" he asked again, thinking about it.

"It's not easy, you've been chased out into the street, and the people on the other side of the gate have seen it. If you are really from the church, how can the bishop in the gate ignore it?" explained the proprietress with a few laughs.

Immediately afterwards, another middle-aged uncle spoke up again, adding later: "As for why I brought you here. It's a remote place, so we can find out where you're coming from. If you're not a mage, it's easier for us to kill you. ”

As he spoke, everyone laughed heartily, as if he wasn't talking about "killing you" but rather "peeing in your wine" or something like that.

Benjamin was speechless.

From their natural attitude and the uncle's calm and breezy tone, he had a faint feeling that these people had probably killed many people's mouths.

How did this simple and cruel team atmosphere develop?

Obviously, the gang wasn't joking. After laughing, they looked at Benjamin's eyes and began to look a little murderous, indicating that they were not sure of Benjamin's mage identity. Therefore, Benjamin had no choice but to use an ice breaking technique to prove that he was really a mage.

And after Benjamin used the spell, their eyes returned to kindness again, and it seemed that until this moment, they really accepted Benjamin, and the greeting just now was just doing tai chi.

Then, they began to introduce Benjamin to the strange team.

In fact, it is not a team or an organization, according to them, this gathering has only existed for less than a year. A year ago, they were living in the kingdom of the world, living their own ordinary lives, some working as blacksmiths, some as weavers, some as cooks, and as circus clowns...... They have not been mages for a long time, only three years at most, and the shortest is only a few months, and they are new members.

Most of them learned magic by accident: some stumbled upon a magic book and thought it was some strange novel, and they became mages when they looked at it, some met an incognito mage and were pointed out by a passerby, and then learned magic, and there are also the self-realized ones who discovered that one day they could emit flames, and their talents should be very good......

In a way, they weren't strictly "mages", but more like apprentices, or half-spellcasters. They don't have much of a clear understanding of magic, except that one day they suddenly discover that they have what the church calls "demonic powers." They felt scared, but they still had to live, so they managed to survive.

After becoming mages, they left their homeland to escape the pursuit of the church, and came here to escape to a foreign country, but they were blocked by this moat-like gate.

Some of them tried to break through and died. Some people were afraid, but they were not reconciled, so they stayed in the town of Crewe and waited for the opportunity. In this way, they gradually connected together, forming such a strange assembly, everyone supported each other, and together they tried to break through the blockade of the gate.

"That'...... Has anyone ever managed to escape?" and thought about it, Benjamin asked.

Knowing that these more than 20 people were stopped at the door, and it seemed that they had been stopped for more than a year, he had a bad premonition in his heart.

Is this door so powerful?

Hearing this, the young girl shook her head.

"There was once a mage who was proficient in wind magic and tried to fly through it with flying magic, but as a result, he was purified by a holy light in mid-air. She said with some regret, "Before, there were people who tried to climb over the mountain without going through the gate, but there are many magical beasts on the mountain, and there are even griffons entrenched on the top of the mountain. At that time, only the one who knew how to fly barely escaped, and everyone else died there, becoming food for the monsters. ”

...... Griffins?

Hearing this, Benjamin was a little surprised.

On the nearby mountain, there is still such a thing?

Headache......

The border of the Kingdom of Hori is even more difficult to cross than he imagined.

If you fly from the mountains, you will be pecked by griffins, if you fly near the gate, you will be shot down by the church, and if you dig tunnels, you will not be able to dig them in three years and five years. Could it be ...... He really wants to stay in Crewe Town, open a shop and do business like this group of mages, and live a life where he discusses whether cabbage is expensive or cheaper every day?

Despair.

"That'...... You can't get out of the gate, why do you want to stay in this place?" he asked helplessly.

"Who says we can't get through. However, the proprietress slapped her knee and replied with some excitement, "Andre has been researching ways to deceive the crosses, as long as those crosses don't recognize us as mages, we can walk through the main gate openly!"