ur leave."

Very quickly, the people from the mercenary a.s.sociation turned and left. Benjamin shut the door, and turned to look at the four boxes in the corridor.

From the living room, the mages overheard Benjamin's conversation with the mercenaries. Many of them came out, eager to see what was in the boxes.

Other than a few potion mages who were not in the mood and some mages who were not interested in the fire magic, the rest of the group stared at the fire element crystal like dogs watching their master eat.

Seeing this, Benjamin smiled helplessly.

"Don’t worry, I don’t use fire magic. The crystal is for all of you."

They were understandably happy to hear this but quickly discovered a problem. "Then… … who does it belongs to?"

Everyone went silent and looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

Now, Benjamin had a new headache.

The thing with fire element crystal was that there was no way to use it separately or to take turns - it could only have one owner. Now that a dozen mages were looking at it, who should he give it to?

"This thing, can it really only be used by one person?" Joanna said hesitantly, as though thinking of giving up.

Benjamin nodded, "After all, this is a pure fire element crystal. After it is activated by spiritual energy, it will only follow the one who activated it, so, the one who activates it will become the owner of the element."

Many people members decided to step back and give up on trying to claim it.

"There are people who go on daily missions, however, I’m not doing anything so I’m too embarra.s.sed to take this. I’ll leave it to them to take it." One mage suddenly said.

After hearing this, the rest of the people who wanted to fight for it, suddenly lost interest. They saw how everyone gave up out of modesty, so they too were too embarra.s.sed to take it.

"Everyone… why are all of you giving up?"

Unconsciously, everyone shone away from the few boxes, as though the burning fire element crystal had become haunted, and would bring bad luck to anyone who owned it.

"Well then … I don’t want it either." Even those who would in truth like it were now too embarra.s.sed and awkwardly took a few steps back.

Suddenly, the room was silent. Everyone had a strange look on their face, some were looking at the boxes and others were looking at the floor. The atmosphere was stiff.

Benjamin felt horrible. He had to say something.

"We don’t have to be like this, it’s just a piece of fire element crystal."

He got up, opened the box and took the crystal out.

The crowd was stunned, he was holding a precious fire element crystal in the hands but handled it as though it was nothing. He casually threw it around, "Who are we? We are not afraid of the church, yet this small crystal got us all worked up about it? If we can get one today, we can get a second one tomorrow, isn’t that right?

After hearing this, everyone looked Benjamin, with mouths gaping.

"Te, teacher… ... are you serious?"

However, that awkward atmosphere had now cleared.

"No matter who this small crystal ends up with, none of you need to feel guilty." Benjamin saw how they reacted, and smiled, "After all, if any of you took it this time, you most won’t get it the next time. Therefore, no matter who gets the crystal now, all of you should sympathize with him/her, do not laugh at them, they’re really pitiful, okay?

"Pftt..."

The group couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

Benjamin opened his hands and said, "What’s going on? Why is no one answering me? Please be sympathetic, do not make fun of the one who gets the fire elements crystal, okay?"

Most probably due to his eccentric performance, but most of the mages were laughing and helpless shook their head. The sound of discussion finally started again, and the whole awkward atmosphere from before was replaced with an excited, cheery one.

Benjamin was relieved. He was glad he had resolved the issue.

To maintain a good team atmosphere, was not an easy thing to do. The situation just now, although out of goodwill, if not handled properly, might have caused some hidden trouble.

Fortunately, he was shameless enough and solved the problem by being silly and playing a fool.

"As for the one will get this crystal... ..." After thinking about it, he picked up the piece of crystal that was the cause of all the small chaos and continued, "Well then, we will host an activity. The backyard is relatively s.p.a.cious; we can hold a compet.i.tion, and everyone can compete using magic, the person to win the compet.i.tion will get the fire element crystal.

The gathering of mages gave him some inspiration. He felt that he could host an activity to boost the team's combat skill, whilst at the same time solve the problem of the distribution of the fire element crystal, killing two birds with one stone.

A few compet.i.tive mages cheeringly agreed to it and everyone else nodded, showing their support of the idea.

After all, there seemed to be no better way to do it.

So, under Benjamin's organization, everyone went to the backyard. Although the backyard was not huge, but it could still occupy all the mages. Only George screamed from time to time:

"Be careful! Do not step on the stone flower in the backyard! Do not get too close! Be careful! I’ve taken care of those a long time, they will soon be matured... ... Be careful! Do not lean on it! Ah ah ah!

The whole scene was slightly chaotic, but there was no way around it. However, under Benjamin’s guidance, the compet.i.tion proceeded in the specialized area used for sparing in their back yard.