Chapter 226: Chapter 226 - Guild Master
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
"Brother, you can’t do things this way." Benjamin said as he wore a helpless expression after being deceived by them.
"I’m sorry. This is the rule. We can’t do anything about it." The soldier replied coldly.
"Then give back my money." Benjamin imdiately said with a straight face.
"What money? How co I don’t know about it?" Probably because their faces were covered by their helts, the soldiers were starting to talk in a shaless way.
Benjamin was so pissed off that he almost hit them.
To tell the truth, if he was not afraid of revealing his identity, destroying these three soldiers would be a piece of cake for Benjamin. He even had magic oscillations. But if the three soldiers were to disappear for no reason, surely the officials would start to look into it. Thus, Benjamin had no choice but to hold back the impulse.
The bribe money of a few gold coins, to be honest, was quite a lot. Even so, these soldiers still had to cheat after taking his money. Benjamin had no idea what these three soldiers ant to do.
"Fine. I don’t mind walking for a bit. Let talk to your commanding officer." So, he squinted his eyes and acted like an experienced person, as if he was not afraid of the Sky or the Earth. He said, "It’s not like I don’t know anyone here. If your higher ups knew that you took my bribe, let’s just see if you can still live here in Icor."
He knew clearly that he should not et with any officials to protect his identity. But at this mont, he can lose anything but the montum. They would just have to compare which of them had more bargaining strength.
If he acted as if he had friends in high places, they would not dare to do anything to him.
The reaction of the soldiers were the sa as he had expected. After hearing this, the three of them fell silent, as if they were considering sothing.
At that ti, no one spoke in the whole room.
Upon seeing this, Benjamin stared coldly at the three soldiers with his arms crossed, trying to pressure them further.
"... This Mister." Finally, one of the soldiers spoke. He said, "Okay then. If you want to et our commanding officer, we can bring you to him. He will talk to you."
"..."
What is this attitude?
Benjamin suddenly felt like sothing was wrong.
Could a normal soldier speak of this without any misgivings?
Thinking about this, Benjamin could not help but to turn on his Water Particle Detection and feel the three persons hiding inside the armor. However, what shocked him a little was that he actually felt Elental Change and Spiritual Energy Disturbances on these three people.
These three were not just any soldiers who was searching the area. They were mages.
This was shocking enough. However, the stranger thing was that Benjamin thought one of the guys’ faces was really familiar to him for so reason.
Where... Where did he see that guy before?
"At the Town of Hank." System suddenly ca out and reminded him. "Do you still rember that ti? That person from the Mage Guild who was told to invite you. That person who called Hawk. The one that you knocked out unconscious, you tied him up and kept him locked up in the hotel room."
Upon hearing this, Benjamin’s heart thumped.
The Mage Guild...
After being reminded by the System, he imdiately recalled all the details of that ti. During that ti, it was this guy who said he wanted Benjamin to go to Regina. But, the note in his pocket wrote not to let Benjamin co to Regina instead. It made Benjamin really confused then.
And now, this guy actually pretended to be a soldier and ca to him!
What did he want to achieve?
"No, I’m not going." Thus, Benjamin suddenly went back a few steps and pulled away from these three. He said, "I doubt your identities. You’re not soldiers at all. Please leave my room imdiately, or else do not bla for what I do."
Three mages ca to him sneakily. Ninety-percent of this was related to the Mage Guild. If they were under the order of the Mage Guild, that ant they had found out Benjamin’s now-hidden identity.
This was trouble...
At this ti, Benjamin could not think of any good idea. The Mage Guild would not stop hunting him. Who knew what their motives was? Should he just kill the three of them and leave Regina imdiately?
But could he escape?
"Sir, it seems like you have recognized ." Just at this mont, Hawk suddenly removed his helt and showed his true face. He smiled as he said, "Before you left the Town of Hank, you really left with a great gift."
Upon seeing this, Benjamin could only take a deep breath and remain calm.
When the soldiers ca, I shall stop them; when the water ca, the earth buried. In this situation, he could only see what they wanted to do and act accordingly.
"I’m sorry. I am not used to accepting weird invitations, especially during the ti when the other party’s aims is not clear to ." Benjamin carried out Non-Verbal Spell Casting as he spoke, summoning a small Waterball.
He took the compressed Waterball in his hands and looked at them with cold eyes that was filled with a faint killing intent.
"If that is the case, we are extrely sorry. But in the end, Sir, you still ca to Regina, didn’t you?" To this, Hawk still had no intent to fight at all. He replied calmly.
"I have my purposes of coming to Regina. It’s none of your business." Benjamin replied.
"Maybe..." Hawk shook his head and said, "Sir, please understand that we did not co to you with ill intent. Pretending to be soldiers is just a thod to avoid the attention of so people. If you’ll just follow us to the Mage Guild, you will understand everything. This includes your companion whom you left in Town of Hank. He is also now in our Guild as a guest. Nobody else knows yet."
Upon hearing this, Benjamin raised his eyebrows.
Augustine was truly in their hands now?
To be honest, Benjamin was more willing to do a trade with Miles and had him bring Augustin over here. Then, their bunch of mages would figure a way out by themselves and leave Regina behind as far as possible.
But, the Mage Guild ca to him with this timing. Thus, the situation now had beco rather troubleso.
Could he get involved with an organization that was so large and mysterious?
"Following you guys..." As he thought of this, Benjamin shook his head and said, "After going there, can I still return to this place? Let’s get straight to the point. I saw the note in your pocket, too. What is your true motive? I may not have any clue how to fight the whole Mage Guild, but taking you three on won’t take much of my energy."
As he said this, he shook the compressed Waterball in his hands.
Upon seeing this, Hawk imdiately spread out his hands to indicate that he had no plan to fight. He said, "Please believe in us. Our motive was only just hoping that you can leave Icor as soon as possible."
... Leave Icor?
Benjamin was thinking about it.
It seed that what was written in the note was true. The Mage Guild did not want to enter Regina at all. The talk at the beginning was just to scare Benjamin off.
"Don’t worry about it. We won’t stay too long here." So, he replied calmly. "Just give Augustine back to . We will leave once the alert in this area had been lifted."
However, Hawk shook his head and said in a hurried tone. "No, you don’t understand. Tomorrow Her Majesty the Queen will return to the palace. You must leave Regina before tonight. If not, the news may be reported to the higher ups by the other mages in the Guild. Then, you won’t be able to leave even if you wanted to."
Benjamin frowned. "What do you an?"
As Hawk was prepared to answer his question, all of a sudden, an old voice sounded from behind of Benjamin.
"It’s okay. Let talk to him."
Benjamin turned around, stunned, only to see that the figure of an old man suddenly appeared in the previously empty corner of the room.
The old man wore a black mage robe. His hair was white without a spot of dust and his beard was flowing like a waterfall, reaching almost to the floor. He had both of his hands in his back and wore a faint smile on his face as he stared at Benjamin, his eyes squinted.
Benjamin almost broke out to a cold sweat.
Scary...
When did he co into the room? Why didn’t I feel anything at all?
When Benjamin was shocked by this, the three mages who were disguised as the soldiers ca forward. The other two took of their helts as well. Together with Hawk, they looked at the man and bowed respectfully.
"Guild Master." They said in unison.
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