Hearing this, Michelle laughed a few times with disdain. She did not continue to prevaricate Benjamin with nonsense, but opened her mouth and replied in a casual tone: "You have your selfishness, I have mine, it's normal."
A palpable sense of closure.
Even though so much time had passed, Michelle still didn't plan to say anything more to him. Benjamin didn’t know Michelle’s purpose of saving him, or who she was or what her background was.
He only knew that Michelle was once a paladin and later became a mage. Paladins do not accept women, but she did it. Paladins are not allowed to resign from the team, but she did it.
There must be many stories about Michelle, but she doesn’t want to tell them, and there’s nothing Benjamin can do about it.
For some reason, when he saw Michelle this time, he felt that Michelle was a little different from before. It wasn't just the sudden increase in mental power. He could feel that the gloomy energy in Michelle's body was gone, and the whole person became much more approachable.
However, this change did not make Benjamin feel at ease. Instead, it gave him a strange feeling.
I don’t know what happened in that “soul-burning” relic.
"Stop for a while. The horse is tired from running. Let me get something to feed it." Suddenly, Michelle said.
Benjamin was stunned for a moment, then also pulled up the reins and stopped the carriage.
He didn't have the skills to drive a carriage. But Benjamin seemed to have learned to ride a horse in the past, and the system recalled that part of the memory. Under the guidance of the system, although he didn't know how to turn the carriage around, he could still stop it.
After parking the car, Michelle took out some dry food and water, got out of the car, and fed it to the horse pulling the cart.
Benjamin turned back and glanced in the direction of the royal capital.
The road we came from was completely empty, showing a feeling of loneliness in the afternoon light. The royal capital also turned into a small white square in his sight. Unfortunately, it was too far away to see if there were any pursuers from the church.
So far, Michelle's plan to spread the "plague" and escape from the royal capital has been quite successful. Except for the strange paladin, everything developed as they planned. He blended into the crowd, left the royal capital, grabbed the carriage, and rushed on his way... without any accidents.
This made Benjamin feel relieved, but also a little uneasy at the same time.
Could it be that...the church gave up tracking
If that was the case, then there was no need for him to be uneasy. I'm afraid that the church will come up with some unexpected means again, and everything at the moment is just the calm before the storm.
Is this really the case
He also didn't expect that his crow's mouth, which had been silent for a long time, would flare up again at this time.
After Michelle finished feeding the horse, she lay down on the ground again and listened with her ears for the sound of horse hooves in the distance. However, the moment her ears touched the ground, her calm expression disappeared without a trace.
She seemed to have discovered something extremely astonishing. Within ten seconds of hearing it, she immediately stood up, jumped back on the carriage, swung the whip and hit the horse on the buttocks.
The horse, which was still eating, had no choice but to start running wildly again, leading the carriage towards the front. Benjamin also quickly grabbed the handle on the side of the carriage to prevent himself from losing his balance in this sudden acceleration.
The change happened extremely suddenly. The wheels of the carriage spun quickly and collided with the uneven ground, making a rumbling sound and raising dust all over the sky.
"What's wrong?" Benjamin came to his senses and shouted loudly.
"They're catching up!" Michelle looked straight ahead, lashing her whip, staring straight at the road ahead. "Although they didn't get closer, that sound was the horses of the Cleaners, and there was more than one team. That sound , I won’t hear it wrong!”
Damn...
Benjamin couldn't help but gasped.
Cleaner.
How long had it been since he'd heard that word
Although he had cooperated with Michelle before and killed a team of Cleaners; although now Michelle's mental power has greatly increased and his strength has also increased... But now, the Cleaners are not easy for them to deal with. enemies, not to mention Benjamin's mental trauma.
And, didn’t Michelle say, there’s more than one team!
At least the two teams of cleaners, plus there was no sudden attack environment like that at that time, once they were really caught up, the two of them had almost no chance of survival.
Thinking of this, Benjamin spoke again and shouted loudly: "How far are they from us?"
"A few kilometers away." Michelle's face looked more serious than ever before, "Listen to the sound of their horses' hooves, they are heading in the right direction - they are coming towards us!"
Hearing this, Benjamin’s heart sank again.
Trouble...
However, they were very careful along the way. How did the church discover their traces? How would they know that Benjamin and Michelle were walking in this direction from the North City Gate
However, now that the matter has come to this, there is no point in thinking about it anymore.
Whether the crack expands or not, his life is almost gone. How can he have time to think about it
At that moment, Benjamin made a decision.
We can only fight with them!
Just when he was about to enter the consciousness space, start to gather water elements, and prepare to accumulate magic again, Michelle suddenly spoke and shouted loudly, interrupting Benjamin's actions.
"Benjamin Reese!" Her face, which had always been calm and paralyzed, actually looked a little ferocious at the moment, "Do you want to live?"
"Nonsense! Of course I want to live." Benjamin replied loudly without thinking.
However, Michelle turned her head and stared at him fiercely, like an evil ghost crawling out of hell: "Just give up on this! You can't survive!"
Benjamin was stunned.
The howling wind blew past his ears.
"As long as you are a mage and as long as the church exists, they will haunt you forever!" Michelle said through gritted teeth. "They will smell your scent, tire you out, and then pounce on you and use sharp Their teeth bite your throat. They will watch you struggle to bleed out the last bit of blood, let the rats suck your brains, and grind your flesh into a foul-smelling mud. In the end, even if your soul wants to let out a painful cry Even if you howl, they will strangle you tightly in your throat until your soul rots and twists in the abyss of hatred."
Michelle's crazy face was so close that Benjamin could clearly see every tiny bloodshot in her eyeballs.
He opened his mouth wide, wanting to answer something, but his throat seemed to be suddenly stuck by a hot stone. He couldn't say anything.
"Benjamin Reese! Do you want to live?" Michelle repeated again, her voice becoming hysterical.
"I..." Benjamin spoke, his voice couldn't help but tremble, and then he immediately shouted at the top of his voice, "I haven't had enough fucking life!"
Michelle stared at him. Suddenly, she took a deep breath, and her face, which was mixed with excitement and hatred, returned to calmness.
The change in her expression was so sudden and stiff that her calmness after recovery became extremely strange. No matter how bumpy the carriage was, it could not make her "calm" waver at all.
As calm as a corpse.
She spoke with an even colder tone than when Benjamin first saw her. An understatement, as if it were just a voice simulated by a robot:
"If you don't want to die, then find a way by yourself and try your best to survive."
Benjamin was filled with astonishment.
He didn't react, and he didn't have time to think in a short period of time. However, before he knew what was going on when Michelle said these words, Michelle turned her head back again and spoke coldly.
"If you survive, go to Freden and find a man named Maurice. He is my teacher."
W-what do you mean
Benjamin suddenly felt something was wrong.
The carriage ran very fast, and the scenery on both sides flew back. Benjamin, who was in it, felt like he was in some kind of time and space tunnel, experiencing a sudden change that he could not predict at all.
Michelle...what's going on
Before he could ask anything else, Michelle, who was sitting next to him, suddenly glanced at him coldly. Then, she used her strange strength to reach out and push Benjamin off the carriage.