In the night sky of Horli Kingdom, Benjamin and Dick were crossing the vast territory in front of them at a fast speed, heading straight for the towering mountains on the border.
Halfway through the flight, Benjamin suddenly turned around and glanced in the air behind him.
“…annoying flies.”
He waved, and Dick suddenly began to descend rapidly. Below was a dense jungle. They hid in the bushes and quickly hid their figures. A few minutes later, a group of priests flew through the sky. They stayed above the jungle, looked around for a while, and then flew away towards the east.
Benjamin observed all this secretly, showing a solemn expression.
"Is this the first batch of priests we have met in three hours?" He turned his head and looked at Dick, who looked fearful. "What other secrets do you have? Why are they chasing you so closely? "
The process of escaping from the kingdom with Dick was much more difficult than he imagined.
Less than half an hour into the flight, they encountered the church's pursuers. At that time, Benjamin planned to get rid of this group of people quickly, but before he could take action, the pursuers began to flee, using various methods to delay time... and within a few minutes of their delay, the shadows of waves of pursuers began to appear from behind. Appeared in the sky.
At that moment, Benjamin realized something was wrong.
Therefore, he gave up the idea of killing all these people, and instead took Dick, changed direction, found a gap, quickly shook off these pursuers, and moved in a more careful manner.
He knew very well that as a result of this continuous delay, these people would eventually drag Grant back.
Benjamin knew that there would inevitably be a fight between them, but it was definitely not in this situation - the priests swarmed over him like mosquitoes, trying their best to consume Benjamin's mental energy. How could Benjamin deal with Grant wholeheartedly
He could only keep a low profile to avoid the eyes and ears of these people and hide out quietly.
However, he also began to feel doubts.
The church definitely wants the lives of everyone in the Foer family, but do they need to go to such great lengths? Dick is just a playboy and has no ability. He is unlikely to cause any trouble to the church like Ax. There is absolutely no need for the church people to spend so much effort chasing him.
Of course, these people might also be coming for Benjamin. So many priests and purifiers fell instantly, and the church must have guessed who came. But... Benjamin still felt that there was something else hidden.
This whole set of Tuogu and Aix tried their best to send Dick out... Benjamin felt that this might not only be to preserve the bloodline, but also for other reasons.
Hence, the question he was now asking Dick.
"Wha, what secret? I don't know." Dick was stunned at the time.
"Don't lie to me here." There was no smile on Benjamin's face. "If you dare to lie to me, I will throw you out directly and see what the priests outside will do to you."
"do not… "
Dick kept sweating on his forehead. He didn't know whether he was frightened by the priests or Benjamin.
"Are you going to tell me or not?" Benjamin's eyes became even colder. "In order to hunt you down, the church sent out thousands of priests. Don't think you can fool me."
Upon hearing this, Dick lowered his head, his hands trembling. Under the pressure of murderous intent, he finally gave an answer that Benjamin did not expect.
"It's... the key."
"What key?"
"There is a key to a secret door in St. Peter's Cathedral." Dick took a deep breath and said, "Before everything was exposed, my father secretly stole it from the church. He did not tell anyone about it and planned to The allies who were plotting against the Pope didn’t know either. If the incident hadn’t happened so suddenly, maybe even I wouldn’t have known about it.”
Benjamin still felt very confused.
"Secret door? What secret door?"
Dick shook his head: "I don't know either... Father, he just told me that that door hides the biggest secret of the church, the source of all power, and the stairs leading to the divine world."
Benjamin listened in confusion, still not understanding what the secret door represented, and why Aix had to go to all the trouble to steal the key from the church.
But that doesn't stop who the key belongs to now.
"Give me the key," he said coldly.
"No... I can't give it to you."
"If you don't give it to me, I will throw you out of here, let the priests whip your tendons and peel off your skin, and then trap your soul in the flames forever."
Dick's face was filled with despair.
"Oh well."
Finally, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a strange broken piece of porcelain.
Benjamin frowned.
The porcelain pieces looked ordinary and dusty, like someone had broken a plate and picked it up from the broken pieces on the floor, let alone anything similar to a "key". .
He took the broken porcelain piece and sensed it. Unexpectedly, he found a strange leaf inside the porcelain piece.
So he just broke the porcelain pieces. Then, a bright green fan-shaped leaf emerged from it. Benjamin pinched its petiole, raised it to his eyes, and realized that it was a ginkgo leaf.
In other words, this is a leaf from the tree of time and space.
"Wait..." The system suddenly spoke up at this moment, saying with great interest, "This thing should be almost a thousand years old, but it still maintains the activity and vitality of cells. This thing is very interesting."
Benjamin was a little surprised.
A thousand years
To be honest, he was quite surprised that the key to the secret door was a ginkgo leaf. However, even after the specimen processing, the leaf on his body had long since withered away, but this leaf was still as new as a thousand years ago.
Benjamin suddenly realized that this might not be a simple ginkgo leaf.
Looking carefully, something red seems to be flowing in the tender green leaf veins, as if the back of the leaf is covered with blood vessels, and its blood is flowing slowly.
Moreover, there... is a faint fluctuation of magic power.
"Do you understand this thing?" After observing for a moment, Benjamin asked lovingly.
"It's unclear." The system said, "Its prototype should be an ordinary ginkgo leaf, but after some special processing, it... seems to have incredible power."
Benjamin couldn't help but take a deep breath.
In this world, ginkgo leaves are endowed with the power to travel through space, which he has personally experienced. However, does it require the use of the power of ginkgo leaves, or the specially processed ginkgo leaves? What is the situation of the so-called secret door
Could it be that there is another time and space behind the door
Suddenly, Benjamin seemed to have thought of something.
He remembered that in the elemental plane, the system used its omniscient perspective to spy on the secrets of the church, but it said that there was a room that it could not peek into no matter what. At that time, Benjamin guessed that the room might have something to do with the elemental plane.
And now... could it be the so-called secret door
Benjamin couldn't believe that there might be a door built in St. Peter's Cathedral that could directly lead to the elemental plane. Every time he entered the pure blue world before, he entered in spiritual form, and walked directly in physically... This would cause repulsion in the dimension, right
Moreover, connecting the elemental plane with the real world is something beyond imagination.
"Master Dean, are you satisfied? Are you... still planning to throw me to those priests?"
Benjamin was still thinking, but Dick hesitated to speak, calling him back to reality. He came back to his senses, glanced at Dick who was shivering, and sensed some of the situation outside.
In the sky, these priests have left.
Forget it... He can't figure these things out now, so he'd better think about it later.
"Your life is saved." Therefore, Benjamin put away the fresh and ancient leaves, walked out of the bushes, and turned around and said, "Let's go, we have to escape to a safe place as soon as possible."
Dick was stunned, nodded vigorously, and followed hurriedly.