Benjamin, who seemed to have fallen into the water from a high altitude, with only a little consciousness left, suddenly woke up at that moment.
His eyes shot open.
In the dark space of consciousness, he saw countless flying runes, like stars streaking across the dark sky. At the same time, the golden halo surrounding him receded like a tide, as if commanded by something, disappearing into the unknown void together with Benjamin's pain.
Benjamin looked stunned.
What the hell happened
The transition between consciousness and confusion was too sudden, so his judgment was still a little lost. He didn't know whether this was the real world or some kind of hallucination... or even that he was dead and this was the so-called hell.
However, when he gradually came back to his senses, he could clearly feel the familiar feeling of flesh and blood—this was still his consciousness space.
… He survived.
He didn't understand what was going on at all, but it seemed that he really got through the desperate situation just now.
And... what's that on top of his head
He raised his head and saw that the sky in the conscious space was still full of runes - yes, this was not an illusion he had just lost consciousness, these were all real.
The sky above at this moment is like a nebula picture that can be seen by looking up in a planetarium, with blue light spots flashing in it, which is dazzling. Benjamin had no idea where these things came from, but looking at these runes, he suddenly felt familiar.
These... aren't they the runes in the pure blue world
How come they are here
Benjamin looked carefully again and even reached out to reach for it. However, he discovered that these runes were not entities, but some kind of shadow or picture, which for some reason appeared in the sky above his consciousness. Those dotted runes are really just like a nebula diagram, just a "picture".
At this time, Benjamin's attention slowly returned.
He immediately realized that it was not just the rune patterns in the sky that had changed. The three triangular characters that were originally very close to each other were now closely together, forming a pyramid-like cone, emitting a faint blue light and slowly rotating in the darkness of the consciousness space.
Benjamin was startled by this change.
Originally, the three characters were slowly approaching as he meditated. But recently, as time goes by, their approach speed has become slower and slower. Therefore, he even believed that three characters could be infinitely close to each other, but would never touch each other.
However, just now, when his life and death were uncertain, the three characters merged together without any gaps.
Not only that, the blue spiritual power that originally dispersed like water waves condensed into two irregular small particles, flying around the new characters like planets.
-Their appearance is really different. Benjamin only relied on the mutual induction of spiritual power to confirm that they were really the rippled spiritual power he had stolen from the pure blue world.
what happened
Benjamin took a deep breath, almost drowning in questions one after another.
Was... was it the character who saved him? At the critical moment, the characters merged together, commanding the ripples of mental power to drive those golden halos out of his conscious space
But... why did he vaguely remember what he seemed to have done before the golden halo receded
"What did I do?"
The feeling that he should remember but couldn't remember for a while made him suddenly anxious. He tried hard to remember and even said it out loud.
At this time, the unpleasant mechanical sound also reached his ears.
"You followed my guidance, recalled the incantation you heard on the elemental plane, recited the incantation, and activated the spiritual power that did not belong to you, so that you have everything you see now."
Benjamin turned his head and saw three funny people jumping up and down in front of him.
“…”
He didn't know what to say for a moment.
"What's wrong? Are you thinking about thanking me for my step-by-step guidance that finally brought you to where you are today?" The system stopped in front of Benjamin, and the voice had a subtle triple echo feeling, "If so, you can Think about it slowly, no matter how exaggerated it is, it’s never too much.”
When Benjamin heard this, he was speechless again, and then said: "... No, I was just thinking that it would be better for me to die in those golden halos."
When Halo invaded just now, the system disappeared, but now it appears again and split into three. The changes between these are really unimaginable.
What did the system... do
"Okay, I know you are telling the truth, but I am still very grateful to me in my heart." The system said shamelessly, "If I hadn't kept reminding you, you wouldn't have thought that the spell you heard in the elemental plane was at the most critical moment. Read it out all the time.”
Benjamin simply ignored the first half of the system's sentence.
"Spell..." He thought for a while and asked hesitantly, "You mean, I just pronounced the syllable that I couldn't remember?"
"Yeah? Have you forgotten it again now?"
"I... don't know. My memory is a little fuzzy about what happened before the halo faded. Please describe it to me."
"What's easy to describe, it's that the mental power from the light elemental plane has been torturing you, and when it's about to kill you, your brain suddenly opens up and you recite the spell. Immediately afterwards, the three characters match together , the spiritual power of the water elemental plane is activated by you, and you drive out those hostile spiritual powers."
Hearing this, Benjamin also fell into deep thought.
This matter... is really mysterious.
He tried to recall the syllable that came from the pure blue world and represented "water" countless times, but never really succeeded. It wasn't until just now that the oppressive feeling brought to him by the golden halo reminded him of the syllable. Perhaps some kind of stress response in his body was activated and his subconscious mind was stimulated, so he pronounced the syllable.
He also didn't expect that the energy contained in that syllable was so great
Integrating the triangular characters, driving away the golden halo, and making the consciousness space look like this... Intuition told Benjamin that that syllable may be the origin of "water" and is closely related to the essential laws of the world.
However... he found that he still couldn't remember it.
When he realized this, Benjamin felt a sense of cheating in his heart.
What the hell is this syllable? It was okay if I couldn't remember it before. Now, I have read it once and used it to completely transform the entire consciousness space. How come I can't remember anything when I turn around
Don't tell him that with his biological level, he is not qualified to remember such original syllables.
"What? Did you forget that syllable again?" The system next to him seemed to notice something was wrong from Benjamin's face and asked.
"...Hmm." Benjamin replied reluctantly.
"Really? Your memory is really bad, why don't you eat more walnuts?" The system snorted in disgust, and then said, "But it doesn't matter, don't be too depressed, I have recorded it. Do you want me to play it to you again?"