Chapter 212: The Crowd Trapped in the Square
It just so happened that the soldier probably came to a place where there were no people around, probably to blackmail Benjamin. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć As a result, there were no witnesses to Benjamin's killing.
After disposing of the soldier's body, Benjamin ducked into a crack in a nearby wall and washed away the stains from his body with a balloon. Then, he took off his beggar's costume and changed into the military uniform he had just snatched.
Soon, confirming that there was nothing flawed in his disguise, he felt it out again.
Pretending to be a soldier, it was an idea that popped into his head. Of course, he didn't expect to get into the group of soldiers - he wasn't really a soldier, he didn't know anything about passwords, and it was a matter of minutes for someone to be recognized.
It's just that the beggar costume is no longer good, so he has to pretend to be the kind of soldier who patrols alone. If he just passed by and didn't pay special attention, he believed that he would still be able to fool the eyes of the other soldiers.
"How far is it from that Forbidden Prison?" he asked in his mind.
"It's close, walk five minutes further, turn a corner, and you're there. The system replied.
Having confirmed the direction and route, Benjamin followed the example of the other soldiers, held his head high, and walked forward with a calm demeanor.
At the same time, he also turned on the water elemental perception method to avoid the eyes of others as much as possible. After all, it was a central area, and there were more soldiers, and Benjamin still met several groups of soldiers on the way. However, Benjamin adhered to the principle of not opening his mouth, and when he met the soldiers, he nodded to them, and then passed by as a matter of course.
Probably because he looks too much for granted, so no one really thinks there's anything wrong with him. It didn't take long for him to approach the entrance of the Forbidden Prison.
At the entrance of the prison, there was a small low house, and many soldiers stood guard at the door, looking like they would not let anyone get by.
If the blonde hadn't lied, the mages who had been arrested would have been locked up underneath the house.
Needless to say, Benjamin wouldn't be able to get in - unless he turned himself in as a mage and was imprisoned. In addition, just trying to rely on the disguise of this half-soldier, he will definitely not be able to blend in.
Therefore, he could only rely on the water elemental induction method to observe.
The entrance is not particularly empty, but there are still some trees and other shades. So, while observing the movements of the soldiers around him, Benjamin bent over his feet and carefully hid behind a tree closest to the entrance.
Then, he closed his eyes and began to perceive the mage prison beneath his feet, using the feedback of the water element.
In this world, there is more than one way to restrict mages from casting spells, just like the purification of the royal capital, which is an iron bar made of some special materials to interfere with nearby elements and cause spell casting to fail - in principle, this method is actually somewhat similar to Benjamin's forbidden magic water ball.
As for the prison in Regina, after a general observation, Benjamin found that a different method was used here.
Probably no special material is produced here, so the mages who were locked up, everyone was put in a strange kind of handcuffs. The handcuffs seemed to be made of the bones of some kind of magical beast, and they were extremely strong, and they could also limit the mental power of the mages, so that they could not even cast spells, let alone break free from them.
Benjamin could feel that the mages in the prison, the elements around them were no different from ordinary mages, but that keen mental power seemed to have disappeared, and he couldn't feel it anymore.
Really...... Different places have different approaches.
Through the perception of the water element, the picture presented in Benjamin's mind is quite spectacular. Men and women, young and old, mages of all kinds, almost filled the entire prison. They were huddled in their cells in groups with worried or angry expressions on their faces, and some of them opened their mouths wide and shouted outside at the top of their voices, but the guards ignored them completely.
As for Benjamin......
He crouched in the dark, cell by cell, and searched for it.
The area of the prison is not small, and in order to be able to search for them all, he even had to move his hiding place several times in the middle of the way. In this way, after about half an hour, he finally checked all the cells in the prison.
There were no familiar faces in these cells.
Benjamin breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that these mages who escaped from the kingdom with him are not slow to react. When the army began to hunt for the mages, they also realized that something was wrong and hid without being caught in prison.
But......
Where will they hide?
Thinking about what to do next, Benjamin carefully avoided the other soldiers and gradually moved away from the more dangerous city center.
After thinking about it, he first felt towards the square in the west of the city.
Listening to the soldiers, it seemed that they had gathered some homeless people in the square. If the mage in the team happened to be outside to inquire about the news at the time, it was very likely that someone would rush over.
Anyway, he had to find someone else before he could make the next move. Otherwise, just he, a bare-rod commander, what kind of storm can he set off in this martial law city?
Therefore, it is also necessary to go to the other side of the square to have a look.
On the way to the square, Benjamin did not encounter any accidents. The soldiers on the road were all discovered by him in advance by the water elemental induction method, and then hidden. Looking at the bleak streets around him, he even wondered if the city had just experienced a natural disaster.
However, as he got closer to the square, his silent ears finally became lively.
Hiding at the corner of the street, sneaking in, what appeared in his sight was no longer a square, but a vegetable market. The place that should be spacious no longer has the slightest feeling of spaciousness, and the crowds are crowded, and the black pressure is overwhelming, and people are anxious for a while. All sorts of noisy sounds came from there, more chaotic than the sounds of bargaining in the wet market.
Seeing this, Benjamin couldn't help frowning.
How can there be so many people?
Although it is impossible to count in a short period of time, it is roughly estimated that the entire square was closed by thousands of people.
What kind of fuss is this, is there so many homeless people in the whole of Regina?
After thinking about it, Benjamin continued to hide behind the building's cover, using the water elemental sensing method to carefully observe the situation in the square. However, what he didn't expect was that he had just started to search, and in the dense crowd, he found several figures that he was very familiar with.
Joanna, Frank, the old blacksmith...... There were about five mages, crouched in the corners of the square, looking around, with puzzled expressions on their faces, as bewildered as the people around them.
Suddenly, Benjamin felt a little headache.
They were brought here.
After hesitating for a moment, he continued to search through the crowd, but in the end of the search, except for these five people, he couldn't find any other mages at all, and he didn't know where the other ten or so mages had gone.
Actually separated?
It's a bit of a hassle......
After thinking about it, Benjamin made a decision.
Let's ask the five of them first.
So, he changed back into his beggar attire, showed an ignorant expression, and walked out of the corner in a bright light. Naturally, the soldiers guarding the square quickly spotted him, and just like that, after a cross-examination, he was thrown into the crowd of people in the square.
With the hot wind blowing in his face and the endless crowd in sight, Benjamin entered it, just like Badaling on the National Day, and he could spray it into other people's mouths with a sneeze. However, relying on the guidance of the Water Elemental Induction Method, he still moved slowly in the crowd, and finally, squeezed to the side of the five mages.
Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he reached out and patted Frank on the shoulder, and said softly, "Hey, what about the big guys? Why are you the only ones here?"