Chapter 574: Something Shouldn't Be
In a normal day, Benjamin might have speculated about the church's plans and guessed what they would do next. But at this moment, how can he have time to think so much!
One by one, the healing water balloons were summoned by him and slapped on the fallen crowd. Benjamin tried to save the suffering in this way, but he found that it seemed to be to no avail.
Healing the water balloon seems to ease their pain a little, but it can't stop them from being cooked in their brains.
But Benjamin was well aware that these people must not die.
So, as he kept releasing the healing balloon to buy time, he turned his head and looked at the fellow bathed in light again.
"Why, you, it's okay. The guy was repeating the phrase like a repeater, as if the strange ritual had robbed him of his consciousness.
Benjamin took a deep breath and walked over to him.
It seems that apart from this golden halo, this guy has no other way to attack for the time being. Although I don't know why I am completely unaffected, I ...... As long as this exhibitionist is solved, it should be able to save the others, right?
Therefore, under the pressure of that spiritual power, he gradually approached the priest in the Holy Light.
"You, sinner, are separated. ā
The priest's glowing eyes stared at him, and with it, a golden halo of light gathered towards Benjamin like a wave of water. At that moment, Benjamin felt a sudden increase in pressure, and a faint pain began to feel in his head.
But...... Listening to the wails coming from behind him, he couldn't retreat.
When he got to the priest within a few steps, the pressure increased to the point where he could not bear it. He tried to keep walking, but his joints even made a tooth-aching sound, and his whole body hurt.
Therefore, he took a deep breath and said in his heart, "Nothingness, turn it on." ā
The system also lazily agreed.
At that moment, Benjamin pulled out a dagger, ready to charge. However, just as he entered the state of nothingness, he felt that the pressure around him seemed to have become a substantial existence, so crowded that he couldn't even move.
Benjamin was horrified.
How so?
It was as if he was sealed in some kind of cement, unable to breathe, unable to even blink his eyes. Fortunately, the system saw that the situation was not good, and quickly ended the state of nothingness, otherwise Benjamin would probably suffocate directly in it.
"......"
As soon as he was freed from that absolute confinement, Benjamin took a few heavy breaths and took a few steps back before he gradually recovered.
...... What was going on just now?
Benjamin didn't understand why, as soon as he entered the state of nothingness, it was like being built into a concrete wall, and he couldn't even move? Isn't the state of nothingness entering some inner world? How can it still be disturbed?
He looked at the priest again. And the priest looked at him with a look in his eyes, which seemed to be a little ...... Doubt?
It was as if he was also puzzled by what had just happened.
"What are you doing? Are you really activating a state of nothingness?" asked Benjamin in his mind.
"Whatever I do, I'm just carrying out your orders. The system replied confidently, "These golden halos are rooted in that void world, where they are formless and insubstantial, where they become entities, and it is not normal to be blocked." ā
Hearing this, Benjamin was even angrier.
"Then why didn't you just say it?"
"I also realized this point when you entered the state of nothingness, and I didn't know it just now, how can I say it?"
ā......ā
Benjamin shook his head, and in reality he could only slowly retreat. The pressure around the priest was so great that it even formed a wall, and now that the void was just restrained, it was impossible for him to reach that guy.
...... Has it been solved?
"Ben, Benjamin...... Mage...... Help me......"
The people all over the ground were still wailing, but the voice was much weaker than it had been at the beginning. Benjamin was also anxious to see it, so he could only keep summoning the healing water balloon to make them hold on for a while longer in pain.
But what about all the time he has earned?
Benjamin looked at the figure in the holy light and couldn't help but clench his fists.
Where did the church come up with this trick?
Until now, he still can't figure out how to solve this situation. He couldn't hurt the priest, he couldn't save the people who had fallen, and celebrities from all walks of life died at the opening ceremony along with more than 2,000 students, leaving him alone...... What will the world think of him?
As long as the church orchestrates it a little, he will become a street rat that everyone shouts and beats, falling directly from the clouds to the abyss.
"Teacher Benjamin...... Help me......"
"IāI don't want to die yet......"
Those familiar faces were painfully twisted on the floor of the auditorium at this moment. The King, the Mage Finch, Wallis, the students who entered the Academy with their dreams...... Benjamin felt a sense of despair that he had never felt before.
He couldn't let these people die in front of him!
Benjamin closed his eyes hard, trying to calm himself down, thinking about how to solve the situation in front of him.
What hurt them was the golden halo, and as the system said, the entity of the golden halo existed in the "inner world" of nothingness, so could he keep these halos out?
Thinking of this, Benjamin immediately summoned a curtain of water and enveloped everyone in it, seemingly cutting off the connection between the inside and the outside world like activating a forbidden magic water ball.
Alas, nothing happened.
"What are you thinking, the forbidden water ball can only cut off the elements, but these things are not elements. The system said in Benjamin's mind.
"And what are they? tell me!" Benjamin cried out in reality, running out of patience.
"You calm down. I still think ...... These things are spiritual powers, but they have been condensed into substance, so they are difficult to identify. The system continued, "Using high-pressure mental power to directly cook people's brains, this is probably its attack. I think you should think about why only you can survive. ā
Benjamin was stunned for a moment, but also came back to his senses.
That's right, he wasn't affected by these golden halos, and even the priest was a little surprised, which showed that the other party expected that he should also be put down.
Why wasn't he put down?
For a while, Benjamin's mind was very chaotic, and all kinds of thoughts were chaotic, like tangled headphone cables, the more he dissolved, the more anxious it became, not to mention that he had to maintain a large release of therapeutic water balloons at the same time.
Damn it......
"Do you know anything? tell me all!" he shouted inwardly.
The system replied, "I can only rely on this body from another world to find some clues from my intuition." I don't know what to do with these things. ā
Damn it...... It's a bunch of nonsense, it's useless.
Benjamin was going crazy.
Why, on earth, is he the only one who can survive?
"There is something in you, in you, that you shouldn't have. Suddenly, the priest in the light spoke again, and the mechanical words reached Benjamin's ears.
Benjamin looked up in confusion.
He ...... What's not to have?
Is it the system? The system makes him unaffected by the golden halo?
Can...... What should he do? He couldn't bring the system to reality and stuff it into the minds of thousands of people present. If it's really a system effect, it won't help the situation at all.
He could only look for another answer.
...... Wait a minute.
Suddenly, a thought crossed his mind.
In addition to the system, there seems to be another thing in him that he shouldn't have.