The inner city at night, outside of the drinking party, is mostly quiet. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

And on some secluded street.

Elizabeth, the girl who had just left the drinking party. She got out of a nondescript carriage, trotted a few steps, and boarded another carriage.

"Teacher, I'm here. ”

She walked into the carriage, closed the door, looked at the other person in the carriage, and said so.

I saw an old man sitting in the carriage.

And this old man, whom Elizabeth called "teacher", was wearing a dark cyan mage robe, with a cautious expression, and a circle of bandages wrapped around his chest, as if he had only been injured some time ago.

It was the old mage from the "School of Silence" that Benjamin had met in the outer city before.

The old mage looked at Elizabeth and said in a solemn tone, "Are you ready? ”

Elizabeth was silent for a moment, did not speak, but nodded calmly.

When the old mage saw this, he did not say anything, but turned his head and told the coachman to start driving.

The coachman waved his whip, and the carriage began to move to the sound of horses' hooves echoing through the silent streets. And the other carriage that had brought Elizabeth here also turned around and left.

On the way.

"Don't be emotional, it's not like I'm going to force you to leave your hometown. Recently, there has been no peace in the royal capital, not only the church, but all forces are secretly mobilizing manpower, and there must be something big about happening. On the carriage, the old mage suddenly turned his head again, looked at Elizabeth, and said earnestly, "For your safety, we must bring you back, and we can't continue to teach you magic in the royal capital." ”

Elizabeth tugged at the corners of her mouth and smiled calmly, "I understand. ”

However, the old mage still seemed to be a little uneasy. He patted Elizabeth on the shoulder again and said, "You don't have to be too nervous. You were chosen by the oracle twenty years ago, and everyone in the academy is looking forward to your arrival, and everyone will welcome you. ”

When Elizabeth heard this, she smiled and shook her head, but her eyes did not blink, and she did not know where her gaze fell in front of her.

"Teacher, I understand, I'm not nervous. ”

The old mage seemed to want to say something, but seeing this, he had no choice but to take it back, nodded silently, and said no more.

In this way, passing through one remote street after another, the carriage soon left the inner city and entered the outer city. However, judging by the route and the speed at which the carriage traveled, it was clear that the outer city was not their destination.

In the moonlight, the blurred shadows went forward. The wheels rolled, leaving their own traces on the gravel road of the royal capital, and ran towards the unknown ahead.

And in another part of the royal capital, there was also a carriage.

The luck of this carriage was not so good.

It was stopped on the main road in the inner city.

"What happened?"

Benjamin stepped out of the carriage, looked at the knights who stopped the carriage, and asked with some confusion.

Before, frightened by Grant's tricky, he left the drinking party and just wanted to go home quietly. However, the reality seems to not even give him this opportunity.

His carriage home was stopped halfway through.

"Excuse me, who is this in the car?" asked one of the knights.

"I'm Benjamin Reese. He replied with a frown.

What's the matter, isn't the curfew time yet yet? Why is it that at this point, the knights have already begun to interrogate people everywhere in the streets?

"It turned out to be the Lord of the Rieser family, and we were rude. The knight nodded, but from his tone, there was no trace of guilt in the faux pas, "You just came out of the reception for Her Royal Highness the Princess's birthday, didn't you?"

Benjamin nodded and said, "I've drunk a little too much, I'm not feeling well, and I want to go home and rest." ”

As he said this, he also made a small calculation in his heart.

Is the church going to do something again?

However, after taking a closer look at the knights who stopped him, Benjamin changed his mind again.

Look at the badges on the chests of these knights, not crosses, but crossed swords and shields - they are knights of the royal family. Knights belonging to the royal family are scurrying around the inner city at night, and this is something that the royal family wants to do.

What does the royal family want to do?

Think of the rumors I heard at the reception......

In order to prove their loyalty to the Church, the Fur family staged a bloody slaughter in the theater. What will the royal family do to be faithful to the Church?

Benjamin couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

Is the royal capital about to enter an eventful season now?

"Lord Benjamin, if you may, could you please come back to the reception, which is not over yet, and in a short time His Majesty will appear with Her Royal Highness the Princess. However, the knight of the royal family said something that surprised Benjamin a little.

What the heck?

Drinking parties have always been voluntary, but now why are they still forcing people? Even the church has not been so domineering in doing things.

What does the royal family want? Wouldn't it be afraid of causing displeasure among other nobles?

"I have great respect for His Majesty the King and Her Royal Highness, but I am really not feeling well, and I can't continue to attend the reception. It is also my great regret that I would like to ask the knights to convey my best wishes to Her Royal Highness the Princess. After thinking about it, Benjamin replied.

No matter what the royal family wanted to do, he felt that it was better for him to stay away.

At the moment, he just wants to learn magic in peace. Bloody wind and rain or something, it is better to leave it until he retreats out of the mountain and then slowly lifts it. Flaunting around when it's time to be in obscurity, that's what a fool would do.

In short, these knights can't help but let people go home.

"This ...... I'm afraid it's not good. However, the knights really didn't seem to be planning to let him go home.

"Why isn't it good, the laws of the kingdom have never stipulated which drinking party must be attended. Is the personal freedom of the nobles limited by the power of a few of you knights?" Hearing this, Benjamin immediately became aggressive and said.

The more these knights refused to let him go, the more it meant that the wine party could not wait.

The royal family held this reception, and now it seems that I am afraid that it has ulterior motives.

Therefore, he was even more determined to go home. He even began to feel lucky, fortunately he left the party first, otherwise at this time, he wouldn't know where to cry.

"This ......" The knights, though still in the way, didn't know how to refute it.

Obviously, the knights of the royal family are not even as good as paladins, so naturally they can't talk about Benjamin.

What do they compare to paladins? They don't have a church as a backstage. Benjamin relied on his status as a nobleman, as long as he took out a few big hats and buckled them on their heads, they would definitely not be able to parry.

Benjamin is also very skilled in this.

"How could the royal family do such a thing and force unwell nobles to attend a drinking party? I don't believe it, are you really knights of the royal family? I suspect that you have been bewitched by the devil and are discrediting the reputation of the royal family!"

"No, no...... several knights broke out in a cold sweat in an instant.

They scramble to explain, only to be interrupted again by Benjamin.

"If not, then get out of the way! Don't stand here and damage the reputation of the royal family. Benjamin snorted coldly, and gave an ultimatum to summarize the whole hat buttoning behavior.

Several knights looked at each other, and in the end, they were defeated.

“...... All right. "They can only obediently get out of the way.

Seeing this, Benjamin secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. With a look of disdain on his face, he took out the swaggering appearance of a nobleman, glared at the knights, and then returned to the carriage, urging the coachman to continue on his way.

The coachman waved his whip, and soon the carriage left the place.

In the streets at night, only a few helpless knights remained.