Benjamin followed the man in the suit to the backstage of the theater. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The backstage is large, but it doesn't look spacious at all in the comparison of people coming and going. Strange costumes of all kinds pass by: young men in evening dresses and high hats, girls in short skirts with big curly hair, clowns who are as fat as balls...... There was also a man with a wig on his head that had been pierced by a knife, and a blood-stained violin in his hand.

It's also an unusually noisy place. People who look like stewards, people who look like actors, people who do props, people who do makeup, people who do music...... Countless people have gathered in piles and piles, and they don't know what they are talking about. In short, on the eve of the show, the atmosphere in the whole backstage was as hot as a war.

Benjamin is quite happy about this.

In such a noisy place, once he feels that something is wrong, he can sneak away at any time, but there is nothing to worry about.

However, once there are more people, it may not be so easy for Benjamin to find the owner of the robe fragment.

He roughly estimated that there were hundreds of people in the background. It's not easy to find one person out of hundreds of people.

"Come, it's this Mr. Henry, all you have to do is cooperate with him. Soon, the man in the suit brought Benjamin to a young man with a tall hat and said so.

Mr. Henry, who looked like a haughty magician, nodded and did not speak.

Benjamin didn't react either. He was too busy observing the people around him to react.

Seeing this, Magician Henry frowned.

"Is that okay? It's very real to find a beggar to play the beggar, but wouldn't it be too real? I think this kid doesn't have the ability to do magic tricks with me, so a professional actor would be a better choice. ”

The man in the suit replied with a wry smile: "Mr. Henry, there is no way to do it." Only your performance needs a beggar, but these actors in the royal capital are all big names, who wants to play a little beggar. Don't you know, these actors are very temperamental, and they really can't be compared to a random person from the outside circus. Mr. Henry, you'd better just do it. ”

Hearing this, Henry snorted dissatisfiedly, muttered a few words like "It's better to pull a random person from the circus", but didn't ask for anything more.

However, at the same time, Benjamin, who was not here in his mind, suddenly felt a trace of abnormal movement from the elements.

Oh?

He couldn't help but feel a stir in his heart.

Unexpectedly, he found the clue so easily.

Elemental anomalies, this must be the mage's sake.

But how can he determine if a person is a mage?

With a flash of inspiration in his mind, Benjamin suddenly let go of his elemental sense. With no one noticing, he began to use the water elemental perception method to feel everything around him.

The essence of magic is the element of communication, and there must be something unusual about the element around the mage. Benjamin thought so.

I saw that in the blue water element world, the entire backstage was also extremely lively. Most of the water elements are normal, aimlessly floating in the air. But around some people, the water element surrounds them, operating in an unnatural way - including the magician Henry in front of them.

...... Henry the Magician?

This result made Benjamin stunned for a moment, and he couldn't react a little.

Are these people mages?

Count, there are nearly forty such people in the background.

Groove ......

Benjamin could barely believe his eyes.

Did he read it wrong?

In order to confirm that it was not his own way of opening it that was wrong, he even withdrew the water elemental sensing method, and then released it again, feeling the movement of the water element in the background again.

The result is still the same.

Realizing this, Benjamin couldn't help but gasp.

...... Hit the jackpot.

He had expected that the mage would be hidden in this theater. But what he never expected was that this theater would actually be a mage's den!

The Fol Family...... It's awesome.

Benjamin also knew that some nobles would secretly keep a few mages in their domains. However, raising them in the royal capital, raising them together for thirty or forty years, and taking them out for performances, this is bold!

Benjamin was deeply shocked and couldn't help himself.

And during the time when he lost his mind, the man in the suit and Henry had also completed the handover. The man in the suit left, and Henry took Benjamin and walked to the other end of the backstage.

They came to a large box.

"You just have to hide in this box, and somebody will come and put it on the stage. Wait until I knock three times on the box, and then you push it open and walk out. Remember, the look on your face has to be dazed, you know?"

Benjamin barely came to his senses and nodded.

Knowing that these people are mages, he doesn't know how to face this "magician" Henry.

Magician...... It's a good disguise, and even if the public uses a magic, the ignorant onlookers will only think it's a wonderful magic trick, and maybe applaud.

Benjamin complained a few words in his heart. However, he found that even complaining could not remove the sense of absurdity in his heart. The disbelief still haunts me and lingers.

More than thirty mages!

All the mages in the royal capital are here, right?

In this way, while sighing, under Henry's command, he also hid in the box.

When the box closed, it was pitch black, and Benjamin subconsciously used the water elemental sensing method again. Maybe he still couldn't believe all this, and he turned his attention to the others again and confirmed it again. That's right, these thirty or so people, the water elements around them are all abnormal, not only that, Benjamin can also vaguely feel that the spiritual power of these people is sharper than ordinary people.

So...... They are really all mages.

This time, however, he made a new attempt.

In the state of water elemental sensing, he turned his gaze back to himself. Unexpectedly, through the sensing of the elements, Benjamin found that there was nothing abnormal about the water element around him.

This......

Interesting.

Is it because of the space of consciousness? He took a completely different path from the other mages, so this difference occurred.

After thinking about it carefully, Benjamin quickly understood the truth.

Ordinary mages practice magic by constantly tempering their spiritual power and elemental affinity. And when the elemental affinity is strengthened, the elements around them will naturally undergo some changes.

Not only that, but when they cast magic, they also use the elements around them, so this phenomenon is also a preparation for them to perform magic.

Benjamin is different. His elemental affinity is not good, and he relies on magical characters, so the surrounding elements will not be affected. And he relied on the water element stored in the consciousness space to cast his magic, which had nothing to do with reality.

Truly...... are very interesting differences.

Thinking about it this way, using the consciousness space to learn magic can infinitely amplify the power of a magic, and I am afraid that it is also because of this.

No matter how dense the elements in reality are, they cannot exceed a certain level. Therefore, relying on the real-life elemental casting, the magic power of the general mage has a limit. In the consciousness space, as long as the magic characters are strong enough, it doesn't matter how dense the elements are, so there is no limit to the power of casting spells with the consciousness space.

I see.

With this in mind, Benjamin felt that his perception of magic had become a little clearer.

Therefore, despite hiding in the box where he couldn't see his fingers, he was in a happy mood.

Eh......

Wait a minute.

Something doesn't seem right.