For the outer city of Haven Lite, for the royal capital, and even for the entire kingdom of Hori, this day is an extraordinary day. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Hey, have you heard? There's an accident in the theater! A lot of mages are making trouble there, a lot of people have died, and a lot of people have been arrested. ”

"Why didn't I hear about it, my boy and his father went to the blacksmith shop across the street from the theater to buy a hammer, but he was also arrested, and I don't know when he will be released. You said he'd buy a hammer!"

"That's right, you said that this good royal capital, where did so many mages come from?"

"Shhh......hh

All kinds of gossip spread from the streets to the alleys. Some say that the priest attacked the city, some say that the nobles of the kingdom have rebelled, some say that the king was assassinated, and some say that the pope has lost his mind...... For a time, the whole royal capital was panicked, and even the price of wheat doubled.

The people of the royal capital may not know what is happening, but there are thousands of paladins surrounding the theater, and there are blood stains all over the ground, and they can see it as onlookers.

This provides a lot of material for the brewing of rumors.

And the thousands of spectators sitting in the theater, who were witnesses to the whole event, were also taken by the paladins to unknown places. They are said to be being interrogated and have not yet been released. Therefore, there are no witnesses who can pass on the truth.

At the same time, the church, as the leader of the whole incident, has been silent.

It wasn't until the afternoon of the next day, close to the evening, that the church issued a proclamation explaining the whole thing and sending home the thousands of spectators who were present.

Here's how the church described the event:

The activities of the mages in the royal capital became more and more frequent. In order to combat the growing forces of evil, the Church, together with Count Aix Fowl, set this trap.

First, Count Aix approached a mage organization to trick them into trust. Then, in the name of the Fowl family and the mage organization, he recruited the mages hidden in the royal capital step by step.

Eventually, on this night, the Fur family brought the mages together in the name of a show. So, the church sent a team of paladins to wipe out all the mages!

Because mages have always been good at strange spells and hiding themselves, the church, in line with the principle of preferring to kill mistakes rather than let them go, characterized the entire theater staff as mages and exterminated them all on the spot. Of course, the church does not write this in the proclamation.

What else is written in the proclamation? Of course, it is the "crimes" of the mage: colluding with demons, harming the people, and inciting evil...... Then, at the end of the proclamation, there was a justified addition - kidnapping of nobles.

It reads:

"Duke Claude Reese's son, Benjamin Reese, was found in a box backstage in the theater, suffering a head injury, unconscious, ragged and bruised, and was rescued by the Paladin back to the Church. It was confirmed by the Church that Benjamin Reeser had been kidnapped by the group of mages, tortured, knocked unconscious, locked in a box, and taken to the backstage of the theater, where he was found by the Church and was able to return home. ”

Ordinary people, either they won't see this at all, or when they see this, they sigh that mages are so terrible that even nobles dare to kidnap them. These are far from their lives, and not many people care about the content of this paragraph.

As for those nobles, when they saw this paragraph, they would only feel that the waste wood of the Riese family had another laughing stock, and they had more to talk about after dinner. Of course, some people believe that this is the revenge of the Fur family against the Reeser family, and they make up for conspiracy theories.

However, in the inner city......

As the protagonist of a description, Benjamin, he stared at this paragraph and read it over and over again.

At this moment, he was lying on the large bed in his bedroom, leisurely looking at the copy of the notice that Jeremy had brought him, thoughtful.

That's right, he returned to the House of Reese.

Not only him, but Jeremy was also rescued by the church, and although he was deducted a lot of wages, he was still alive and well - at least for now.

Benjamin felt a little lucky, but also a little embarrassed.

He was glad that it was a narrow escape.

At the time, he was crawling out of a backstage box before the show began. However, moments after he came out, he suddenly woke up and realized that something was wrong with the whole thing.

A group of mages, completely unaware, were brought together.

Isn't this just catching a turtle in an urn!

In addition, this is the theater of the Fur family, and the owner of the Fur family, Aix, happened to be invited to tea by the church at that time. Thinking on your toes, you know what's going to happen next.

The people of the church are about to be killed!

Needless to say, the church must have been annoyed by the purges. Therefore, they have to fight back against the mage.

In that short period of time, Benjamin made a decision on the spot. He ducked back in the box and instructed the system to prepare the memories for the church to read. Then, with a twist of his heart, he slammed his head into the box board!

That's right, after realizing the church's conspiracy, he did not choose to run away, but chose to use this opportunity to wash his suspicions away and return to the Reeser family with a clean slate.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He only needs to act like a kidnapped person, and with a fake memory, he can throw the death of the cleaner on the backstage mage, and the church will not suspect it at all.

Of course, in order to match the forged memories, he had to be in a state of fainting when he was found by the church.

So, he hit his head on the box and knocked himself unconscious.

And after that, it was logical.

The paladin appeared and killed everyone, mage or not, no one was spared. Benjamin escaped this by hiding in the box. Soon, after the people were killed, the paladin began to search the entire theater and found the unconscious Benjamin.

They brought Benjamin back to the church, and the bishop recognized Benjamin's identity. Because the people who had seen Benjamin in the theater were dead, and the church was not allowed to interrogate Dick because of an agreement. In this way, the bishop extracted the memories forged by the system, and the whitewashing scheme was successfully completed, and Benjamin was considered innocent and returned to the Reeser family unharmed.

The whole process is indeed dangerous.

Thankfully, Benjamin recognized the church's trap in time and took effective action. If he hadn't thought so much at the time and fled directly backstage, he would definitely be intercepted by the paladins who were ambushed outside the theater. If that were the case, he would have been dead at this moment, and he would not be able to die anymore.

So Benjamin was very happy.

He's really walking a tightrope!

After rejoicing, he couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

At that time, there were hundreds of people in the entire backstage, more than 30 mages, but in the end, he was the only one who survived.

Although he didn't know them, as fellow mages, he couldn't help but sigh.

Michelle insisted on overthrowing the church and establishing a kingdom belonging to the mage, and she did have a reason.

At this moment, the mage in the royal capital suffered a fatal blow. Benjamin estimated that there were no more than three surviving mages in the entire royal capital, except for him and Michelle.

Moreover, looking at the "certain mage organization" mentioned in the notice, there is no need to ask, it must be the Silent Academy.

Thinking about it, to be able to gather more than thirty mages together, Aix alone is definitely not enough. There must be the help of the Silent Academy.

To be honest, Benjamin was skeptical that the Church had planned this bureau a long time ago.

If the church had really planned all of this, why did they call Ax over for tea that day? Moreover, their move to summon the paladins had obviously started after the destruction of the Purges.

There are all kinds of indications that the church is more like a sudden attack in a short period of time, rather than a long line to catch a big fish - to be honest, if the church were to put a long line, the final fish would definitely not be more than the 30 or so mages in the royal capital now.

Since it's not the church that takes the long term, it can only be Aix.

Thinking of this, Benjamin couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

Fear...... Ax is really hiding a mage.

In a scene in the theater, nine times out of ten, he realized that something was going to happen, so he had to surrender to the church first. He was wise enough to protect himself and betray all the mages he had raised in exchange for the church's forgiveness.

If this is the case, the matter of the Nafur family's collusion with the mage is probably also the news that the church only got that afternoon.

Something must have happened in between.

The church wouldn't find Ax for no reason, and it was likely that someone had told the church that Ax had taken in the mage. And before the church verified, Aix quickly realized this, so he cut off his arm in order to protect himself.

That...... Who could this whistleblower be?

Benjamin sighed.

He got up from his bed, walked to the bedroom window, and watched the sunset outside the window. The direction of the window is St. Peter's Basilica, and the spire of the church is like a sharp blade, passing through the setting sun, and the continuous sunset is like a pool of blood sprinkled in the sky.

Rows of unknown birds fly by in the "pool of blood" of the setting sun.

Compared to the outer city, the inner city of Haven is always so quiet. Even the carriages and pedestrians on the streets in the distance seemed to be shrouded in a layer of divine light, looking calm and peaceful.

Benjamin could only vaguely feel how many undercurrents were surging under this layer of noble divine light.