Chapter 179: A Welcome from Ikor
Although he has no experience in torturing others, Benjamin is doing it now, but he unexpectedly feels like he is familiar with the road. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info seems to have been tortured a lot, and if you learn the same, you can also learn that cold-blooded and cruel look.
And the whole process of torture was also a little unbelievably simple - before he could say more threatening words, the other party's face changed, and under the threat of the ice needle, he was intimidated.
"Okay, okay, as long as you get that thing out of the way, I'll tell you everything. ”
Benjamin didn't remove the ice needle, but continued: "First explain your intentions. ”
"Hiss......" It seemed that his hands were frozen a little painfully, and the young man couldn't help but struggle for a while, but the ice needle was on his neck, and he didn't dare to move too much, so he had to move his body, and quickly spoke, saying, "Her Majesty just asked me to follow you and figure out what you are going to do next, as for what she wants to do, I don't know." ”
Hearing this, Benjamin fell into deep thought. However, he dispersed the ice needle as promised, and did not threaten the other party with it.
The queen is still stalking them......
If you're just trying to recruit mages, there's no need to do that. Although they have captured the gate of Crusade, it does not mean that their strength is so strong that they can win the world or something. There are so many mages under the Queen's command, there should be no worse than a few of them, why do you bother to send people to follow them?
After thinking about it, he then spoke and asked, "Since the queen sent you to follow us, why did you deliberately disguise yourself to want to sneak in?"
He always felt that there was something strange about this man.
"Don't, don't kill me, I'm really not lying. However, the young man seemed to be a little frightened of the little ice needle, and immediately spoke, "I don't know why Her Majesty is tracking you, but I know a lot of other things. I know what her intentions are, and I know a lot of the secrets of the Mage Guild. As long as you don't kill me, I'll tell you all!"
...... Mage's Guild?
Benjamin couldn't help but feel a stir in his heart.
"Tell me about the Mage's Guild. After thinking about it, he asked.
The young man was quick to speak, and said one after the other, "They have recently been secretly developing a potion that is said to be able to make people immune to any magic and magic for a short period of time when they drink it. Because many mages were against this research, they had to do it in secret. What's more, they have actually been secretly raising demonic beasts, and they are still raised in the capital, and Her Majesty may not know about it. And ......"
Listening to this, Benjamin couldn't help frowning deeply.
What is this?
He originally wanted to know the general situation of this "Mage Guild", but the young man directly threw a mess of secrets to him. Until now, he didn't even know what the Mage Guild was coming from, so he went directly to the secret level, and naturally heard it in a fog.
But...... From this passage, he can guess something from the side.
The Mage Guild is supposed to be a mage organization that exists in Ikor or even several countries. Judging from the description of the young man, this mage guild should be very large, with a lot of influence, and a complete organizational system, which is estimated to be much more powerful than the Silent Academy in the Hori Kingdom.
Come to think of it, there is a crazy hunt by the church in the kingdom, and it is difficult for the mage organization to develop. But it's different when you go abroad, no one deliberately suppresses it, and it's normal for mages to naturally gain a high social status and form a large and influential organization by virtue of their own abilities.
Moreover, research potions and raise magical beasts...... This mage guild seems to have some interesting skills on the technology tree, and magic cognition has gone beyond that primitive form and developed its own unique theory.
If he had a chance, he had to get a good look.
"Your Excellency, ...... Don't know about the existence of the Mage Guild?" the young man also seemed to see something in Benjamin's expression, and asked cautiously.
Hearing this, Benjamin nodded.
"We are mages who escaped from the Kingdom of Hori, and we have never been to other countries, so we don't know that there is such a thing as a mage guild. As he said this, he suddenly glanced at the young man's frozen hands, and continued, "But if that's all there is to you, you think that I didn't notice that your freeze was all faked, and that a dagger had slipped into your sleeve, then you underestimated me." ”
“......”
The expression of "fear" on the young man's face froze again.
Seeing this, Benjamin could only sigh secretly in his heart.
Speaking of which, if he hadn't paid more attention and used the water element sensing method again, I'm afraid he really wouldn't have been able to find the disguise of the young man, in that case, it would probably have capsized in the gutter.
It's not that simple.
In this way, Benjamin looked at the other party expressionlessly, quietly waiting for when the second mask of the youth would be torn off.
The atmosphere is stagnant.
After a long while, the young man lowered his eyes, sighed, showed a somewhat helpless expression, and said, "If I tell you now that I really have no malice at all, and I pretend to be frozen just because I am too lazy to move because I am lying down, will you believe it?"
Benjamin smiled in return and shook his head.
Half a minute later.
Looking at the young man who was frozen in ice except for his head and neck, Benjamin finally nodded in satisfaction.
"No matter how many tricks you have, you won't be able to make it out now. He tapped his fingers on the ice that froze the other party and said, "Who are you?"
The young man, whose whole person was frozen in ice, could only twist his neck, revealing a bitter expression.
"I'm just a mercenary, and I've been tasked by Her Majesty to track you down, and that's it. ”
Benjamin shook his head and said, "You didn't say you were a mercenary, and if you're really a mercenary, why are you in Ikor's camp?"
If you really want to say it, there are too many doubts about this young man who suddenly appeared. Many of Benjamin's questions just now were also mixed up by him by answering half sentences and forgetting half sentences. Therefore, although it feels as if he has said a lot of things, he has not leaked any key information.
It is impossible for Benjamin not to be wary.
"Her Majesty issued a mercenary recruitment order before the expedition, and recruited many mercenaries to accompany the army. I saw that the reward was huge, so I signed up. However, the young man explained in a tone of helplessness, "After you left, Her Majesty sent me to track you because I am the best at tracking and hiding. That's the whole thing, if I lie to you, then let all my family die in agony, okay?"
"Really?" said Benjamin, sneering, "but now that your mission has failed, how can you not seem disappointed at all?"
Hearing this, the young man showed a surprised expression and said, "Why be disappointed? I didn't fail." I know where you are, and I haven't lost it, so how can I be disappointed if I report it to Her Majesty the Queen anyway?"
Still pretending to be stupid......
Seeing this, Benjamin also smiled and said, "Then how do you know that you can go back alive and report our movements to the queen?"
However, after hearing this, the young man's expression changed abruptly again. The contrived surprise vanished, revealing a smile similar to that of Benjamin.
"Because you can't kill me. ”
Just when Benjamin felt that something was wrong and where did the young man's confidence come from, suddenly, a tooth-aching sound, as if something was breaking a little bit, came from the young man in front of him.
Suddenly, Benjamin's face changed drastically.
He didn't care about casting spells in his mind, he directly recited the spell, summoned the ice arrow and was about to shoot forward. However, a breeze swept across his face. After a brief pause, he looked at it again, and in the whole tent, except for the broken ice all over the ground, he was the only one left, and there was no shadow of the young man just now.
Benjamin was stunned.
How can it be?
This guy ...... Who the hell is this guy, and how did he break the ice in the blink of an eye, and then disappear right in front of his eyes?
What's going on here?
The more Benjamin thought about it, the more strange it became. The night breeze blew in through the opening of the tent, and he felt chills all over.
Suddenly, he found a strip of rag on the ground where the young man had been before he disappeared. Confused, he stepped forward, picked up the strip of rag, and held it in his hand. I saw a line of words clearly written on the cloth strip:
"Hmm...... Benjamin Reese, welcome to Ikor. ”