Benjamin was lying on the bed, feeling the pain all over his body, and had the urge to use a therapeutic water balloon.
But it was still too close to the church, and he didn't dare to take the risk.
Recalling the morning's training, he felt lingering fear. As an instructor demonstrating fighting skills, Dean didn't really use much strength. For Benjamin, this was already quite a torture.
Not to mention the next recruits.
Although he was not a target that could only be hit, throughout the training process, he could also fight back and practice the various techniques Dean taught them. But his weakness is still there, and even if it's just a group of new recruits, it's not something he can beat.
The bruises on this body may not go away in less than ten days and a half.
However, looking on the bright side, he also got the most training.
Don’t we all say that if you want to learn to hit others, you must first learn to be hit? Benjamin had no choice but to comfort himself with these words.
People always grow up slowly in this process.
Thinking like this, he walked to the mirror and looked at himself in the mirror. Although the person in the mirror was bruised and swollen, he was completely different from the Benjamin he saw for the first time. The face is still the same, the facial features are still the same, but the temperament is completely different.
He is no longer the teenager with a weak-looking face. There is more firmness and confidence between his eyebrows, and if you look closely, he is a bit cunning. These days' experiences still brought him a lot of changes.
From this point of view, his face is quite handsome! He couldn't help but think narcissistically.
But... Benjamin looked at it, but felt something was wrong.
He looks too much like Grant.
You couldn't tell the weak look on his face before, but now you look at it again, if you remove the bruises on this face, and make your hair similar to Grant's, and the two of them go out together, others will probably think that they are twin brothers. .
It feels a bit weird.
However, after thinking about it more carefully, Benjamin suddenly felt that this was a point that could be exploited.
With a little dressing up, he could disguise himself as Grant, making it difficult for anyone to recognize him. With Grant's reputation and status in the aristocratic circle of the royal capital, he could actually do a lot of things - after all, he was a genius who shone brightly from birth, and was hailed as the most promising successor to the Pope.
Really, why hadn't he noticed before that Grant and he actually looked like this.
No wonder Michelle kidnapped the wrong person in the first place.
Unintentionally discovering another advantage that could be used, Benjamin felt much better. Although I can't think of how to use it at the moment, it will always come in handy if I encounter something in the future.
After calming down and getting used to the pain all over his body, Benjamin closed the curtains and prepared to start today's magic lesson.
He took out the "Introduction to Magic" he had hidden yesterday.
He had wanted to read this book for a long time, but unfortunately he had never found the opportunity. But now, it happened to be the time he used to learn magic. He could finally take a closer look at how far the people at Silent Academy had studied magic.
However, as he turned over the pages, Benjamin quickly felt disappointed.
"This book is... not very good."
Compared with "Introduction to Divine Magic", "Introduction to Magic" is really far behind. This book does not have an essential explanation of magic, and it is unclear in many places. Although various magical elements were also mentioned, they were defined as "the power that dispersed between heaven and earth after Cain's death", and it was believed that the wizard's use of magic was borrowing Cain's power.
As a good young man who had been raised atheistically, he thought this was ridiculous.
How awesome is Cain that he can leave so much power after his death for mages to use for thousands of years
What's more, he and the system have confirmed that magic and divine magic are actually the same thing. So are those priests and priests who use divine magic also borrowing the power of Cain? It's just nonsense.
Under the suppression of the church, the development level of magic is really slow compared to divine magic.
Needless to say, the following content is just an introduction to the spells one by one. The spells basically appear in the Bible, and they are meaningless to Benjamin.
Finally, after reading the entire book, Benjamin found that there were only three parts in the book that were useful to him:
The basics of enchantment, the basics of curses, and the production and use of magic props.
Fortunately, if you weren't so greedy, it would be an acceptable gain.
So, after roughly flipping through the book, Benjamin turned to the curse part without hesitation and began to read it attentively, word for word.
Are you kidding me, if he could learn how to lift the curse, would he even have to worry about Michelle? Without the curse, Michelle would have to think carefully next time she dared to appear in front of him.
According to the book, a curse is a special magic technique in which a mage uses special means to plant magic into other people's bodies to weaken or control them. There are many types of curses, and the ways to cast them are also strange, but no matter what kind of curse it is, there is one most important thing that cannot be avoided:
The medium of the curse.
The mage must use a specific object and use special techniques to condense magic into it to form a curse. This thing can be food, a weapon, water, or even air. However, the book says that if you want to use air or water as a medium, you must have a very high curse level, and as a medium, they are much weaker than the magic that ordinary solid media can carry.
As for how to lift the curse...
There are two ways to remove the curse: one is to use forcible mental power to remove the curse at a level much higher than that of the caster; the other is to use the same medium and magic with opposite attributes as the curse, to cast it on oneself. Plant a new curse, fight fire with fire, and make the two curses disappear when they collide with each other.
Benjamin estimated that it would be difficult for him to reach the level of using the first method, so he could only choose the second method.
"Do you remember what happened when Michelle planted the curse on me? Tell me again." He asked the system.
He had to find out what medium and magic Michelle used.
Please, it must be fire magic, otherwise he wouldn't be able to use magic with the opposite properties.
"Remember, she recited a very complicated spell, and a dark red light suddenly flew into your heart." The system replied.
"You have already said this. I want more details." Benjamin asked, "What kind of magic did she use? Have you detected the gathering of fire elements? How did that light fly into my heart?" Yes, did she use anything as a medium?"
"That's it, wait a minute, I'll analyze it first." The system replied, and then it became silent. Benjamin didn't respond no matter how he called.
That's it again.
Benjamin had no choice but to wait anxiously.
One minute, two minutes... He felt like he was watching the download progress bar stuck at 99.9%. He was in no mood to do anything else, and just wanted to wait for it to download successfully, but it was stuck at the last point and refused to end.
The only thing he is thankful for is probably that the system will not crash.
… It shouldn’t crash, right
Finally, after waiting for who knows how long, the system’s voice finally came out again:
"According to system analysis, fire elements gathered when Michelle cast the curse, and the probability of using fire magic was 98%. In addition, she pinched a leaf with her fingers, which was most likely the medium of the curse. With Benjamin After comparing all the trees in my memory, I couldn’t find what kind of leaf this was.”
Along with the sound, a screen looks like a picture preview on the computer. Suddenly it appeared in front of Benjamin.
In the picture is an enlarged picture of the leaf held by Michelle:
It was a dark green leaf, with some parts yellowish and slightly curled. The leaves are completely fan-shaped, and the shape is quite beautiful, like a delicate and small natural cattail fan.
When Benjamin saw this leaf, he was stunned.
"What the hell... isn't this a ginkgo leaf?"