The change occurred on the seventeenth day after the siege of the gates. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

That morning, the mages hiding inside the gate had just finished breakfast and got together to discuss a more direct way to gather the elements - the "double cultivation" made them a little distressed in terms of training the affinity of the fire element, after all, they could throw water balls at the heads of the meditators, but they couldn't throw fireballs, right?

As a result, they are having a heated discussion on this issue.

As for Benjamin, he came to the door of the aisle, and as usual, let go of the perception of the water element, observe the movement outside, and see what new tricks the encircling army has come up with today.

Through the feedback of the water element, the picture outside the gate gradually emerged in his eyes. However, when he sensed the scene outside the gate, he was suddenly stunned.

"It's ......"

I saw that on the outside of the gate, groups of soldiers were busy coming and going, sorting out armaments, dismantling tents, and moving things...... They put ladders and pulleys on the gate again, and carried things up from this side, and then turned back from the top of the gate, and then carried them back to the kingdom side.

The soldiers were also constantly moving towards the side of Crewe, as if they were ready to abandon the siege on the side of the gate and move back to the kingdom.

Seeing this, Benjamin couldn't help but retract his perception and raised his eyebrows in some surprise.

Don't...... Isn't the kingdom ready to besiege the Crussard Gate?

After a brief moment of astonishment, Benjamin quickly realized what had caused this to happen.

It must have been Ikor's side that sent troops.

The Crussad Gate was originally on the border between the kingdom and Ikor. Beyond the gate, there is a wasteland - a disputed area between two countries. In general, the kingdom does not send people over the gates, and Ikor does not send people near the gates. However, because the gate is now occupied by Benjamin and his men, the kingdom sent people to fence the gate, which is tantamount to breaking the tacit understanding between the two countries.

Once Ikor sent his troops, the kingdom had no choice but to withdraw the troops outside the gates. Otherwise, Ikor could go to war directly, blocking the army on the outside by the gate, and the thousands of people in the kingdom would become turtles in the urn.

Therefore, the kingdom could only withdraw its troops.

Thinking of this, Benjamin is still in a good mood. As soon as Ikor appeared, their chance came. Now that the Crusade Gate is lost, the Kingdom of Horry wants to regain its lost territory, and Ikor wants to take advantage of it. Even if the two sides don't really fight in the end, it will at least cause a lot of disputes.

As for their group of mages hiding inside the gate, even if they can't make a profit, they will definitely be able to escape from the encirclement safely and stay away from this place of right and wrong.

So, after observing this, Benjamin quickly returned to their renovated discussion room and announced the news to the mages present.

"Ah...... So, can't we stay here forever?"

After listening to Benjamin's words, the mage Frank asked with a regretful expression.

"Of course not, what does it look like to hide in this place all day?" Joanna immediately patted Frank on the shoulder and said loudly, "My great magician Joanna is not a turtle with a shrunken head, one day, I will let those people outside taste the power of my forbidden curse flame!"

“......”

The other mages laughed and shook their heads a little helplessly.

"Actually, I don't want to live here anymore, and people outside bombard me with cannons from time to time, which is a bit noisy and will disturb my meditation. ”

"It doesn't matter where you go, I think as long as everyone is together, you can stay anywhere except for the Hori Kingdom. ”

"I've never been out of the kingdom, so I don't know what other countries are like......

In this way, after Benjamin announced the news, everyone did not feel much reluctant to leave the door, but showed an expectant expression and discussed the possibility of the future.

Seeing this, Benjamin smiled and quietly left the discussion room.

He still had a lot to prepare for the whole idea of leaving the gate. Just because the kingdom withdrew the troops from the outside doesn't mean they can leave here with a pat on their butts.

They still need a careful plan.

In this way, time flew by, and the transfer of the kingdom's troops continued into the afternoon of the same day. At about three or four o'clock in the afternoon, they had almost completed their transfer, and all the soldiers had climbed through the gates and returned to the kingdom, where they were re-encamped in the town of Crewe.

On the other side of the gate, only the bishop remained.

- The Bishop who had been there at first, blocking the gates and not letting Benjamin and them leave.

After the soldiers had left, he still stood quietly at the exit of the gate, as if he had been transformed into a statue, and even after a thousand years, he would remain here, waiting to "greet" the mage who left the gate.

At the same time, a rather loud voice echoed through the gate.

"Listen, mage in the gate, we have removed the siege on you, please open the gate as soon as possible and leave the kingdom. We promise that you will not be held accountable and will never harm you. As long as you open the gate and return it, you will be free to leave the kingdom, and we will not back......"

The voice seemed to have been blessed by some magic or magic prop, and it sounded very loud, falling on the ears of every mage in the gate, and it was extremely clear.

The mage in the gate was busy packing his belongings and preparing for his departure, and when they heard the voice, they couldn't help but let out a mocking laugh.

"The bishop is still barricading at the door, and when he says such things, do you think we don't know anything about the outside?" said Wallis, putting away a large bag of gold coins hidden under the general's bed, and stepping on the bed by the way.

Next to him, Augustine nodded as well. He sorted out the seized theological books into a bag and said, "If you want to come here, at least let all the church personnel in the vicinity retreat a few kilometers, so that it can be considered sincere." ”

Clearly, no one really believed in this insincere truce.

As for Benjamin, he also stuck to the door, and while listening to this passage, he couldn't help but shake his head while sensing the dense soldiers in Crewe Town with the water elemental sensing method.

What else could he say?

All I can say is...... The church is so greedy.

In fact, if the church is sincere and lets them go, the doors will open when they leave. At that time, the church will be able to regain control of the gate, and at most it will be difficult to get over the face, and if other countries send troops, it is not known who will end up with the gate.

And now, the armies of other countries are coming, and the kingdom is afraid. They were afraid that if something really happened, and this door that had been their door for many years fell into the hands of someone else, then the joke would really be big.

That's why at this time, they said something that seemed to be "soft" to the people in the gate.

It's a pity that even at this point, they still refuse to show sincerity, as if they are not willing to let go of the mage, but also want to take back the gate. In that case, Benjamin naturally doesn't need to give them a good look.

Truth be told, Benjamin doesn't know who the door will end up with. Although they now occupy the gate, they really don't have the ability to decide on things of this magnitude.

Therefore, the only thing they can do is to slowly leave the protagonist of this storm and quietly exit before the water becomes more and more muddy.

In this way, the sound of peace outside the gate lasted for about an hour, probably because the throat was unbearable, and several people were returned in the middle. In the end, they saw that there was no reaction from inside the gate, and understood that their intentions might be discovered, so they simply stopped shouting.

Then, an unusual silence enveloped the inside and outside of the gate, and no one made any more big moves. Whether it is the mage inside the door or the soldiers outside the door, everyone is waiting patiently, as if it is a hot and humid summer, waiting for the cloudy sky to sound the first thunder.

Until late afternoon.

The bishop, who had been guarding the exit of the gate, suddenly seemed to have noticed something, and instead of staring at the door, he turned around, narrowed his eyes, and looked into the distance behind him.

I saw that on the other side of the gate, outside the kingdom, on the vast horizon where the sky and the wasteland meet, at some point in time, a dense crowd of figures suddenly appeared.