When A Mage Revolts is a Webnovel created by Yin Si.
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Chapter 127: This is a Road Movie
In the carriage sat Mich.e.l.le and Benjamin.
Seeing this, Benjamin panicked a little.
Mich.e.l.le did not say anything, but made a gesture for him to keep quiet, signaling him not to make any noise. After that, she stuck closely to the floor and frowned, as if she was concentrating to try to hear something that came from far away.
Benjamin knew what Mich.e.l.le was doing. Thus, he did not bother Mich.e.l.le, and instead stood aside, silently waiting for her results.
“The holy knights are on to us, they are huge in numbers, I can hear their galloping.” Mich.e.l.le stood up to dust off the dirt, and said,” But, their movements were scattered, I can’t really tell which direction they are headed……plus, many of them are headed towards the capital instead.”
The skill of listening from the surface of the ground- he has read it somewhere before. Right now, Mich.e.l.le could hear the galloping of the holy knights’ horses. This meant that their distance from the Church’s men was not far.
The place they were at now was rather secluded, but the north side of the capital was not that big. If their opponents rode on horses – in addition to the size of their numbers- they would eventually search the whole area.
They had to escape the area before the holy knights found them. If not, the Church would eventually catch up. The problem now was time.
Mich.e.l.le looked at Benjamin and raised an eyebrow. After some consideration, she nodded in agreement.
What they intended to do was to steal two fast horses. If riding them, they could go far, far away. But, two fast horses were hard to find – they could not just go steal the horses from the holy knights.
With this method, and much effort, they eventually managed to b.u.mp into a horse drawn carriage.
At the time, Mich.e.l.le carefully walked toward the carriage. After making sure that there was nothing wrong with it, she looked around to double check her surroundings, knelt, stuck her ear to the ground and listened to the sound of the holy knights’ movements.
Hearing this, Benjamin sensed that something was awfully wrong.
For no reason at all, there was an empty horse carriage by the roadside, the holy knights had returned to the city, the travelers were nowhere to be seen…. if he had not already made sure the nature of this world, he wou
ld have thought himself in a supernatural scenario.
Thinking of this, he looked down at ground around the carriage.
Making patterns on horseshoes was such an unnecessary act, only the Church would do such a thing.
“From the looks of it, the owner of this carriage was brought back by the holy knights.” After some thought, Benjamin came up with this conclusion.
But even after realizing of the origins of the carriage, it did not help them to guess what the Church’s motive was. The Church came to capture all these people? Why? If they did not want anyone to leave, why would they open the gates to let them out?
Plus, he was the one the Church wanted. The holy knights capturing innocent people, and making no efforts to conduct a search, what could this mean?
“No matter what the Church plans to do, the horse carriage is already here, there is no point rejecting it.” She looked inside and turned around” Come aboard, this horse carriage is safe. We have to get away from the capital as quickly as possible.”
On the carriage, the two did not head directly to Perseus Lake. Instead, they took the long route to prevent being spotted by the Church.
About ten kilometers west of the Capital, plains slowly led to a mountainous area. The mountains there were not tall, most of them were just small hills, but there were two taller ones. Between them, the better known one was Mount North, it was once the base of operations of the most infamous gang in the land: The Bandits of Mount North.
Of course, they did not plan to hide there. If they went there, they had to stray further off course, and that could lead to more unpleasant possibilities. They just wanted to borrow the geographical advantage it provided to escape from the Church. After that they could slowly make their way to Pearl Valley.
Time pa.s.sed slowly, and the capital was left further and further behind. On the way, everything was peaceful. They did not have any encounters and eventually sense of impending danger slowly faded. Benjamin even entered his dimension of consciousness to continue working on repairs of the rift.
After spending some time doing the repairs, Benjamin felt mentally exhausted and left his dimension of consciousness, ready to rest.
Luckily, sitting in the carriage, there was nothing for them to do. It was time for the questions in his heart to be answered.
“Initially, you acted mysteriously, like you had an ulterior motive. But now, why do I feel like you honestly want to help me?” He frowned and asked.