"I'm not a man, just a normal bad old man. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The old man walked in front of him, without looking back, and replied casually.

This answer obviously did not satisfy Benjamin.

"An ordinary bad old man?" he snorted, and immediately retorted, "The leader of the bandits of Mount Norse will turn to an ordinary bad old man for help after being surrounded by the church? ”

The old man immediately replied with a smile: "Young man, you can't talk nonsense. You were the one who killed those four people, and I didn't openly oppose the church. ”

Hearing this, Benjamin shook his head.

He also began to get impatient with the old man's feigned deafness and dumbness. As soon as those four people died, he and the old man were grasshoppers on a rope, and it was right to talk about it. Isn't it interesting to play this kind of word game?

Thinking like this, he stopped and pretended to be casual and said, "Even the assassins of the enemy countries who assassinated the Pope dare to shield it, and they are not openly against the Church, what is it?"

As soon as these words came out, the old man's back stiffened, and his steps finally stopped.

He turned his back to Benjamin, was silent for a moment, and then suddenly sighed. Then, he turned around and had an unusually serious expression.

"You are not simple, the news of the Pope's assassination has not been spread, but you even know this. ”

Benjamin shrugged his shoulders and said confidently, "Thank you, I'm just not a simple person." ”

“......”

Probably he had never seen such a brazen person, and the old man was speechless for a while before swallowing Benjamin's words. He looked at Benjamin, then at the assassin he was carrying, and sighed several times.

He finally spoke.

"Who the hell am I...... It's a long story. He glanced at the oil lamp in his hand, and said without knowing what was in mind.

Benjamin said: "It's okay, it's boring to walk in the secret passage anyway, you can talk while walking, I'll listen slowly." ”

Hearing this, the old man laughed without hearing emotion, turned around, and walked down the secret passage. Seeing this, Benjamin had no choice but to follow.

The old man's voice came slowly.

"Actually, there's nothing to talk about, it's all old things, many of which I can't even remember. Seriously, I forgot my name, and everyone called me the 'Silver Fox' boss, so I became the 'Silver Fox' boss. With a somewhat self-deprecating tone, he said slowly, "I don't really want to help that robber from North Mountain, but his father was my comrade-in-arms who saved his life when he was a mercenary. Therefore, even if he becomes a bandit leader, I will have to take care of him. ”

Hearing this, Benjamin raised an eyebrow.

Mercenary?

He knew what a mercenary was all about, but he also knew that the mercenary profession had long been extinct in the Kingdom of Hori.

This is the result of the hard work of the church.

The Church believes that the priests and paladins of the kingdom are enough to protect the people from demonic beasts. At the same time, they felt that mercenaries were free by nature, difficult to manage, and easy to collude with mages. Therefore, a long time ago, they found an excuse to uproot the mercenary strongholds in the kingdom. Now, if you ask any ordinary people in the kingdom, they don't even know what a mercenary is.

This old man actually worked as a mercenary when he was young?

Mercenaries, those are people who tie their heads to their belts every day.

No wonder, he didn't panic at all in the face of the people in the church, and he didn't hesitate to make a deal with Benjamin.

"Don't look at the mercenaries in the kingdom now, when I was young, the church had not yet begun to sweep. Especially near the western mountains, if you meet five people, one of them will be a mercenary. There seemed to be a hint of nostalgia in the old man's voice, "But...... But now it's gone. Everyone said that I would live a long time, but no one expected me to live so long. The brothers of that year had long since died and fled, and I was the only one who was still here to survive. ”

Benjamin could hear the loneliness in his words.

Seriously, if he looks at it now, he can't see that the old man used to live a life of licking blood from the knife edge. But from the old man's current special status, it is speculated that when he was young, he should have been a pretty good mercenary.

That's why he can become the "silver fox" boss who is not a gang boss, but a gang boss.

Speaking of this, the old man also paused slightly, laughed a few times in a low voice, and then said: "You also know that if you have been a mercenary for more than ten years and still don't die, you will know a lot of all kinds of friends. Once you have more friends, you will be pushed into a special position, and more strange people will come to you for help. I didn't mean to be talking nonsense when I said I was just a normal bad old man. Decades ago, without the help of these friends, I would have died at the hands of the church. Now you think I'm so special, but I'm just paying off the debt I owe, and I can't help myself. ”

Hearing this, Benjamin nodded, thoughtful, but his thoughts had drifted to other places.

The church's suppression of mercenaries, Benjamin can only guess from a little rumor he hears by chance. But now listening to what the old man said, I'm afraid there is still a bloody past here.

He couldn't help but think of what the Church was doing to the nobility right now.

The two things are inexplicably similar.

So...... First a mage, then a mercenary, now a nobleman.

Over the years, the church has really been doing things little by little, but the people they deal with have been changing. The restless forces within the kingdom were indeed suppressed by them one after another.

Benjamin couldn't help but wonder, if the church was allowed to continue like this, and no one hindered them, in a few decades, would there be no concept of "nobility" in the kingdom?

However, if the Church really wants to completely eradicate the power of the aristocracy and establish a purely religious state, it will probably take a lot of effort in the middle.

Someone will definitely stop the church.

At least, these magnates within the kingdom would certainly not let this happen so easily. Although they seem to have surrendered, doing things behind the scenes is the strength of the nobles.

Perhaps, at this moment, those big nobles are holding a small meeting somewhere!

Benjamin thought so at the same time.

Another part of the kingdom.

In order to prevent the church from eradicating the power of the nobility, a secret meeting belonging to the nobles of the kingdom is indeed going on.

To the north of the royal capital, in a small village near the Pearl Valley, there is a small house in the middle of nowhere. From the outside, the house looks abandoned and dilapidated, but inside the house, there are already many people gathered.

If Benjamin were here, he would even recognize a few familiar faces, such as Ax Fur.

There were about a dozen people in the room. Except for the Reeser family, almost all of the representatives of the most prominent noble families in the kingdom are here.

They gathered around a round table, seemingly discussing something.

"Count Aix, are you sure the church hasn't found out about our assembly, and if today's matter leaks a little bit, tomorrow the church will take a knife on us!" said a nobleman, a little worried.

Hearing this, Aix Fur squeezed out a smile and said, "Don't worry, the reason why we let those thirty or so noble families make trouble this morning is to distract the church and make them not notice us. As long as you don't accidentally say it in front of the child who 'wears' the cross, the church will know nothing. ”

Hearing this, the other people around the round table also showed slightly relieved expressions.

"No way, the church and the royal family are just too much. If this continues, there will be no place for us in the kingdom. A middle-aged nobleman with a full beard said with an angry expression.

"Yes, Earl Evans. Aix immediately nodded in agreement, "The church thinks that we can do whatever we want without an army and raise a lackey like the Rieser family." But we have to make them understand that they have their swords and their light, but we also have our doorways. ”

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present nodded yes.

It seems that what the church has done has also brought them considerable dissatisfaction.

"By the way, speaking of the Reeser family. Suddenly, another gray-haired nobleman at the round table spoke, "Count Faure, do you remember the incident of the theater half a month ago?"

Suddenly, Ax shook his head, snorted angrily, and said, "How can I forget? It took me so many years, countless money, and manpower to raise so many mages. As a result, because of the informants, I had to gather them in that small theater and serve them to the church with my own hands. How could I forget what I could dream about every night?"

The white-haired nobleman nodded, and said, "At noon today, I just got the news. The man who told you about you, I already know. ”

"Who is it?" Hearing this, Aix immediately showed an eager expression and asked.

The white-haired nobleman paused and said slowly, "It's that old woman from the Rieser family." ”