Benjamin finally figured the whole thing out.
He wasn't just Grant's scapegoat. He was also an innocent pawn implicated in the battle between the church and the nobility, and between the nobility and the nobility.
The nobles were unwilling to be softened and controlled by the church, so they fought back against the church. The church is targeting the descendants of the nobles, so the nobles are not going to let go of the descendants of the church. Therefore, their way of fighting back was to destroy the most important genius of the church and the most likely successor to the future pope.
-Of course, Ax’s desire to take revenge on the Riese family should also be one of the reasons.
In this way, Aix sent the young man to seduce Grant. Although the church didn't care who Grant slept with, homosexuality was still doctrinally forbidden. Therefore, once this kind of thing is revealed, the church will have to cut off one of its own arms and burn Grant to death.
In this way, it would not only attack the church, but also alienate the Riser family, which had always been loyal to the church, create a rift between the two, and in disguise weaken the church's influence in the aristocratic circle. In short, this is indeed a very tricky move, which can make the nobles feel very bad.
However, the church seems to have been prepared for this whole thing.
They found Mary before the incident. Mary originally had the idea of letting Benjamin die in Grant's place. In this way, the two parties hit it off immediately, and the entire "civet cat for prince" plan was born.
It's really a... beautiful plan.
No need to ask, they implemented it very successfully. Ax was deceived by Mary's wonderful performance and mistook Benjamin for Grant. Maybe, Aix is sitting in his home at this moment, thinking that he has ruined the hope of the church and got revenge on the Riser family, and is looking up to the sky laughing with pride!
How could Aix have imagined that the bishop had already colluded with Mary before he took the bishop and the paladin to arrest people
Thinking this way, Benjamin felt even more ironic.
It was like the gods in the sky were fighting, fighting fiercely. Suddenly, the noble aimed at the weak point of the church and threw hidden arrows, hoping to hit the opponent hard. But the church didn't panic, and casually grabbed a mortal from the ground, stood in front of him, and blocked the blow with a snap.
Benjamin is that "mortal".
What's even more ironic is that this is just a small back and forth between the church and the nobility. After this move, there will be the next move, and countless moves... In this move, Benjamin, who was picked up by the teacher to block the knife, will soon be forgotten and no one will remember it.
Yeah, no one will remember...
After he is burned to death, Grant will inherit his identity, bear the name Benjamin, and live quietly and carefully until he grows up enough to stand up. And by that time, everyone will sigh again under the instructions of the church that "Benjamin" is such a genius. As for the noble, it would be impossible to react at that time and try to hit him as a weak point.
What a perfect plan.
Who will remember themselves
—This unknown person who was burned on the cross in place of the future pope.
After Benjamin saw through the boy in the cell next door, he looked anxious and stayed there for a while. But he didn't stay quiet for long, and soon he started yelling again, yelling for someone to catch the real Grant.
Obviously, this young man sacrificed himself, but what he got in exchange was just a scapegoat. He will definitely not be willing to give in.
But unfortunately, no one paid attention to him. Even if he shouted until his voice became hoarse and the nine words were broken ten times, this deathly silent purification place was still as silent as death.
In fact, there are many paladins guarding every entrance on every floor of the purification center. But there is no need to ask, these paladins will not care about this boy. They were members of the church, and the church was originally supposed to let Benjamin block Grant's knife.
This boy, like Benjamin, is just an insignificant pawn in the struggle between the two sides.
piece…
Benjamin suddenly sighed, trying to relieve the anger and unwillingness in his heart in this way.
He sat on the cold, hard ground and suddenly remembered the night long ago when Michelle asked him to give the letter to the church. At that time, he was also a pawn in the game between Michelle and the church. But at that time, he was already thinking silently in his heart that he wanted to accumulate the capital to become a chess player.
After so many days, he is still just a pawn.
Just like a multi-threaded role-playing game, the protagonist makes various decisions and makes actions with their own possibilities, changing the direction of the entire plot, and finally reaches a certain ending and obtains achievements.
Is that all
Will his life be a scrawled CG picture titled "A Chess Piece" with a zero-achievement ending that doesn't even contain more than fifty words of accompanying text
Not willing to give in.
How could you be willing to do so? Even the system was popping up in his mind at this moment, shouting at the heavens and the earth, crying that it was a waste of its talents to die in such a place with no name.
But...if you don't give in, what can you do
He can't escape from this small cage, let alone the burning rack in front of everyone tomorrow.
Initially, when he was kidnapped by Michelle, he was always shrouded in the shadow of death, but he could always see a glimmer of hope for life. He clung to that glimmer of hope, like following a gust of wind in a closed cave, and forcibly dug out a way out.
But now
He had lost all hope.
"Hey! I don't want to be burned to death with a little faggot tomorrow, which will disgrace the reputation of my artificial intelligence." The system urged loudly in his mind, "Think of a way quickly, I know you will definitely have a way! "
"What can I do?" Benjamin clenched his fists, feeling unwilling to vent his frustration. "Yes, my spell casting process is different from that of ordinary mages. These iron bars cannot hinder my spell casting. But so what? What? Can I escape with magic?"
He can mobilize the water element in his consciousness space, and can cast spells with his mind. He can first use magic in his consciousness space and then bring the magic out. He can even destroy these iron railings without even sending out any magic wave...
But... so what
The purification center was guarded one floor after another. When he killed all the guarding paladins, the bishop also came over. Trying to sneak out without alerting the guards was tantamount to fantasy.
After listening to Benjamin's words, the noisy system also fell silent. It seemed that it had accepted this fact and lost the motivation to urge. However, this rare silence sounded so desperate in Benjamin's ears.
despair…
Is there anything more desperate than waiting every minute for death
Sometimes, while counting down to death, my mind is filled with reluctance, but I don’t know what to do.
Benjamin’s fists clenched tighter.
He thought he was an open-minded and open-minded person, but now he realized that he was wrong, he couldn't be open-minded at all. His mind is filled with emotions and desires, and countless unfinished ideals. He wants to explore the mysteries of the pure blue world. He wants to fly in the real sky. He wants to visit every corner of the continent. He wants to make a difference. He wants to meet more interesting people and listen to their strange stories. …
Life is so wonderful, why should he look away
It was as if a sudden surge of emotion gripped his heart tightly. The feeling of coldness and heat alternated in his blood vessels, causing his hands and feet to suddenly feel numb and he couldn't help but tremble.
He... doesn't want to die.
Because of unfounded charges, he was treated as someone else and died in a world that didn't even belong to him... Who would want to die in such a useless way
At that moment, he made a decision.
Fuck it.
He closed his eyes and quickly entered the space of consciousness.
The three magic characters are still flashing blue light in the darkness, and the disturbances from the outside world have never affected them. They are like stars in the night sky, they only move according to their own orbits and never care about how people under the night sky look up at them or what kind of emotions they place on them.
Benjamin looked around at the three characters, took a deep breath, and clenched his fists tightly.
It was like a fire was igniting in his heart.
Anger, unwillingness... or excitement, agitation... complex and unspeakable emotions boiled in his body, and even the air he exhaled seemed to be filled with anxious heat.
Everyone only regards him as a small chess piece. He will be shattered to pieces after tomorrow and will be forgotten soon, right? In this case, let them see what kind of energy a chess piece that they consider insignificant can unleash!
Success or failure. Even if he dies, he will die in a glorious and shocking way!
He recited the initial incantation.
With the surge of water elements, a huge water ball condensed and formed in front of him in an instant.
However, he did not stop, but continued to chant the spell. One, two, three... big water balls, enough to drown a cow, were summoned one after another, and kept piling up in this boundless darkness.
Benjamin had no intention of stopping.
He did not compress those water balls and turn them into water bombs; nor did he change their shape and let them roll up countless whirlpools. He just condenses them, maintains them in the space of consciousness, and then immediately condenses the next one, over and over again, endlessly.
Ten, a hundred, a thousand... He seemed to be a robot, tirelessly summoning the water polo. Even though his mental power had grown significantly before, under such crazy consumption, it soon became overdrawn.
But Benjamin didn't care.
Fuck it, keep doing it!
He forced himself to hold back his splitting headache, and he also forcefully regained his composure, which was a bit sluggish. He seemed to have entered the state in the pure blue space again. The unimaginable pain tortured his soul, but he turned a deaf ear to it. He kept an obsession in his heart and desperately summoned new water balls to maintain them all. live.
Soon, it wasn't just his mental strength that was depleted.
The formation of the big water ball requires the water element, and the water element in the consciousness space is obviously not enough for Benjamin who has entered the crazy state.
But... now that he has fallen into this state, how can this problem be a problem for him
The water element in the consciousness space has been consumed? It doesn't matter, just suck it from the outside! The iron bars that forbid the magic can only hinder the gathering of elements, but they cannot prevent the elements from being forcibly sucked into the consciousness space.
In the blink of an eye, the originally humid purification center suddenly became dry. The young man in the next cell stopped shouting at some point and started coughing uncontrollably, swallowing weakly with his dry throat.
However, this is just the beginning.
The condensation of the water sphere is endless, and the demand for the water element is also endless. During this process, Benjamin gradually lost consciousness and fell into a semi-coma state. However, he was still driven by a strong emotion and instinctively continued his actions.
Water elements are extracted from the outside world, and water balls accumulate in the consciousness space...
Even Benjamin himself didn't know what he was doing.
Soon, even the paladins guarding the purification center began to feel their mouths dry, and they subconsciously licked their swollen lips, unable to help but want to drink water.
The green lawn outside the purification center turned yellow at some point. The nobles nearby, even if they were just passing by, couldn't help but ask their attendants to get them water.
As time passed bit by bit, from afternoon to late night, from late night to early morning of the next day, with the purification center as the center, this strange dryness continued to spread in the royal capital. Without anyone noticing, the thick clouds in the sky seemed to become extremely thin.
And deep in the purification place.
In a certain cell, Benjamin sat there quietly, eyes closed. He seemed to be transformed into an ancient statue, motionless, as if no matter how many years passed, he would not change at all.
And in his mind.
"I... Oh my God, you, what are you going to do?" Even the system rarely took on a frightened tone, "Wake up, stop reading, you are not doing anything important... I will do everything important to you. died!"