Chapter 17: Accidents
After Benjamin and the three entered the city, they were already exhausted and hurried to the professional man's home to rest. There was no word all night, and the next morning, before Benjamin was awake, there was a hurried knock at the door......
"Who?" muttered Benjamin, rubbing his sleepy eyes, "What happened so early?" reluctantly opened the door, only to be dumbfounded as soon as it opened, and the original sleepiness disappeared in an instant, replaced by shock.
"I'm Richard, the leader of the first squad of the Royal City Guard, and I've been ordered to search the homes of the professionals, so please go to the hall and assemble. A man dressed as a court swordsman appeared outside the door and said to Benjamin, without any expression on his face, and behind him were four men in the same attire, only with a purple crescent-shaped embroidery missing from his chest. Without waiting for Benjamin to react, only one person was left to guard the door, and the rest of the group walked to the next room, knocked on the door, and said the same thing......
"What's going on?" Benjamin wondered, but he could guess that it shouldn't be a trivial matter when he saw this situation, and at this time, he also happened to see Ruoqing and Isabella walking out of the room together, so he stepped forward and beckoned them to walk down the hall together. When the three of them arrived at the hall, they found that the entire hall was surrounded by swordsmen from the royal city guards, and in the middle stood a traveler who should be in the home of the professional, all of whose faces were full of doubts, and they were all muttering and discussing with people they knew.
"What's going on?" asked Isabella.
"I don't know, I woke them up while I was sleeping. "Ben Jie really doesn't know, he has never seen this kind of formation, he is basically a person who has almost never seen any world, he has hardly been anywhere except for hunting monsters in the mountains and forests over the years, if he doesn't do this task because he can't receive other tasks this time, I am afraid that he will not come here in his life. But it doesn't mean that he doesn't understand anything, if that's the case, I'm afraid I'm afraid I'll die long ago I don't know how many times, beckoning Ruoqing and Isabella to try to find an inconspicuous place, and whispered:
"Let's take a look first, no matter what happens, as long as we don't threaten ourselves, don't say anything yet. β
"Hmm. Ruoqing gave Isabella a color, and then moved back, hiding the two of them behind Benjamin as much as possible.
At this time, the swordsmen of the guards stationed in those halls suddenly became serious, and the entire hall was instantly filled with a solemn atmosphere, and everyone also felt the change in the atmosphere and stopped talking, and the discussions that could be heard everywhere immediately disappeared, and a powerful momentum came from outside, and then I saw two people in knight's armor walking in, followed by a light man in aristocratic clothes, with golden hair, crescent-like eyebrows and double water-blue eyes, a high nose bridge, fair skin with a seemingly trimmed face, and thin and moderate lips, the whole is a jealous appearance that even a woman wants, and the tall and muscular figure is full of a sense of strength, and the logo embroidered on his chest tells everyone the strength of his Sword Saint Beginner Rank, the appearance of this man instantly attracted everyone's attention, but Benjamin was interested in an old man behind him, because he saw that the old man was holding a staff and wearing a ring on his hand, which was exactly the same as the badge pattern that Spinson gave him, indicating that this old man was the person he was looking for.
"I am the son of Grand Duke Purple Moon, Lufascist. Due to some things happening in the royal city, the royal city will be temporarily closed, and after the situation calms down, everyone can leave, and all losses during the period will be borne by the Grand Duke of Ziyue, and I hope you will cooperate with the inspection of the royal city guards, thank you. β
The young and handsome man turned around and left the professional home, and just as the old man was passing by Benjamin, he stopped and whispered a few words to the fascist, and only after the rest of the people had left did he turn to look at Benjamin and ask in a deep voice:
"Who are you, and how do you get the imprint of the spirit of Spinson?"
"Ah, do you mean that?" said Benjamin, taking out the badge that Spinson had given him, and handing it to the old man, "it was given to me by Master Spinson, that when I pass by here, I should find a man named Aiming." β
"Well, I see, you come with me. The old man nodded, and without waiting for Benjamin's reaction, he turned around and walked out first.
"Huh?" Benjamin was stunned for a moment, then turned to Ruoqing and said, "You wait in the room for me to come back." After saying that, he chased after the old man.
Benjamin followed the old man to an inconspicuous house in the north of the royal city, as soon as he entered the room, Benjamin saw the old man throw out a golden light from his hand, and read a language he didn't understand, for a moment Benjamin could feel that the whole room was wrapped in a strange power, I don't know what kind of power it was, it was very similar to the magic he knew, but he could be sure that the old man was not using magic, and before Benjamin could figure it out, the old man spoke first:
"Don't be nervous, Spinson is my student, and since he can give you this badge, it means that he trusts you."
"Actually, I don't know Master Spinson. Benjamin saw the old man's slightly frowning eyebrows, and hurriedly explained: "I received a bounty task from the Professionals' Guild, and then Master Spinson found me, told me that he was the publisher of the task, and then gave me this badge and asked me to come to find someone, and I don't know anything about the rest." Are you the Emin that Master Spinson said he was?"
"I see," the old man frowned and relaxed when he heard Benjamin's explanation, "I'm not Aiming, but even if I find him, I will come to see me in the end." After speaking, he suddenly got up and appeared in front of Benjamin's eyes in a blink of an eye, reached out and grabbed one of Benjamin's hands, Benjamin suddenly felt a mountain of overwhelming power gushing out from the place where he was caught by the old man, rushing to his body, so that he had no power to fight back, the force pressed himself to even the simplest breath can not be completed, and in an instant his face became pale without a trace of blood, and a trace of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and when he was about to feel that he was about to suffocate, the power suddenly disappeared, and when Benjamin eased up, the old man had returned to the place where he was sitting before, and he didn't look at Benjamin, as if nothing had happened beforeγ
"What are you doing!" Benjamin still felt a burning burn in his body, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and shouted angrily at the old man.
"I see. The old man suddenly laughed, "Hahaha......"
"What are you laughing at!" Benjamin didn't understand why the old man was laughing, but he also knew that he would not be the old man's opponent, just by that moment just now, Benjamin knew that the old man's strength was something he couldn't even touch.
"You don't have to be afraid," the old man smiled at Benjamin kindly, "Since Spinson let you come, I won't hurt you, just to see if there is any prohibition left in your body." β
"Then if nothing else, I'll leave. Benjamin said angrily, thinking of the unexpected gain that Spinson said, who would have thought that it was such an "unexpected gain".
"What profession are you?" the old man saw Benjamin's appearance, and the smile in his eyes became even stronger.
"This ...... ......Benjamin also had a headache when he heard the old man ask this question, and said that he didn't know and seemed even more stupid, and that his own bars seemed strange, as if he were in his hometown, and those people didn't see themselves as monsters because they were all occupations?
"Don't you know this yourself?" the old man also felt a little strange when he saw Benjamin's appearance.
"Actually, I don't know what kind of profession I have. β
"Oh, why is that?"
"Because when I was in the professional guild in my hometown, I found that I was everything, and I had completed the preliminary assessment of archers, assassins, swordsmen, and magicians. Benjamin looked calm after saying that, it's a big deal to be seen as a monster again, and it's not the first time anyway.
"Ah, what about your teacher, is it the same way?" the old man couldn't help but be startled when he heard Benjamin finish speaking, all professions, after all, if it is only physical attack, it is easy to say, at most it is two categories of melee and range, but after all, it also belongs to the category of physical attack;
"I don't have a teacher. Benjamin didn't say anything about the astrologer's inheritance, after all, this profession has long been gone, Benjamin can't be sure what the consequences will be if he says it, and he hasn't broken the seal yet, and he doesn't know if he can break it in his lifetime, of course, he can't say that he has such a teacher.
"Oh, then would you like to go to the Imperial Royal Academy?" the old man looked surprised when he heard that Benjamin did not have a teacher, but he did not say anything more, but asked Benjamin.
"What?" Benjamin was stunned, of course the Imperial Royal Academy himself knew, it was the best academy in the entire Panmills Empire, and it was also one of the best academies among the three major empires in the Pamela Mesjar continent, where can all professionals quickly improve their strength, and even where many legendary stunts can be learned, it is where no one is not fascinated, how can he not want to?
"You don't have to be afraid of anything, it's because you helped Spinson, so even if I help him, thank you. The old man seemed to see Benjamin's hesitation.
"Oh, then I can't accept it even more, because if I complete this task, I will be rewarded with a thousand gold coins. Benjamin declined the old man's kindness, after all, there is no such thing as pie in the sky, and he is undoubtedly not relying on his own efforts to survive until now, so Benjamin is very careful about everything in the outside world.
"You can think about it carefully, if you figure it out, you take this to the library of the imperial capital to find Xiao, he will understand, and you can also calculate the reward for helping me deliver the goods to the imperial capital. When the old man saw that Benjamin refused, he did not persuade him more, but took out a sealed box and put it on the table.
Benjamin still wanted to go in his heart, and after thinking about it, he put away the box on the table and said, "Then I'll help you send this thing to the imperial capital." β
Seeing this, the old man didn't say much, waved his hand to remove the prohibition that had been laid in the room before, smiled at Benjamin, and said no more, Benjamin also understood what the old man meant, and left to go back to the professional man's home after saluting the old man, and after seeing Benjamin leave, the old man showed a sly smile and said to himself:
"Spinson, this is the man, I hope he can grow to that point. β