Chapter 223 Benjamin and Evelyn
Remember in a second【】
Annan still remembers that nightmare.
The one called "Reflection" belonged to Benjamin's girlfriend's "Evelyn Miller" nightmare.
He also remembered... Evelyn was the opportunity that made Benjamin want to become a superhuman and a wizard of the Black Tower.
When Evelyn was a child, she used to have long drifting hair, a beautiful and delicate appearance, and an extremely soft body. She could be called a natural dancer, destined to become Javon's favourite.
Already at that time, she fell in love with Benjamin.
And one day after that... because of an accidental fire, Evelyn was suddenly disfigured.
Her face was covered with burn scars, and her fair, silky skin turned pink with atrophic scars. She even lost all her hair.
As a girl who loves beauty and a talented dancer whose only future life plan is dancing, this sudden despair almost ruined her entire life.
If Benjamin was not still by her side, Evelyn would have committed suicide long ago.
At the same time, it was precisely because of Benjamin's true love from the heart that disregarded appearance, that Evelyn couldn't bear to leave.
At that time, she was obsessed with watching the dance of "Dancer under the Moon" Pale Princess - it was an ominous spiritual dance that ordinary people would get seriously ill just by taking a look at it.
But it was precisely because of the love in Evelyn's heart that she was favored by Princess Pale and gained the privilege of becoming the half-dead daughter.
However, Evelyn does not know the price of being a half-dead daughter for mortals.
The essence of this transfer ceremony is to use beautiful life and love as sacrifices, dedicating them to Princess Pale in exchange for corresponding mysterious knowledge and power. For Evelyn, Benjamin is the whole of her life; her whole life is just for Benjamin.
She immediately received the gift of extraordinary power of the highest standard.
And until this time, Evelyn realized one thing.
That is, if she continues this ceremony, dedicates her life to Pale Princess, and becomes a half-dead daughter in the form of an undead, she will give up her love for Benjamin forever.
Evelyn believes that this is undoubtedly a betrayal of Benjamin.
When I was disfigured and lost my future,
Even when her family members were no longer close to her, and even began to fear and loathe her... only Benjamin did not abandon her.
Then, she couldn't abandon Benjamin no matter what.
But if she directly refuses the ceremony, she will die after watching the pale princess dance.
——Take a step forward, lose love, and leave Benjamin spiritually forever; step back, lose life, and leave Benjamin physically forever.
This is a dilemma.
And Evelyn with her outstanding talent and wisdom.
In this dilemma of choosing one or the other, Evelyn insisted on bumping into a third way——
She doesn't want to choose anything.
She killed herself from the future—and when she was about to die, relying on her undead characteristics of being a half-dead daughter, she persisted until she finished her nightmare.
And in the end, she used the time paradox she wove to seal her soul into her nightmare. Keep replaying this "future me killed myself" story.
Because time keeps passing, the future will eventually become the present. And there will be a newer Evelyn in the far future.
In this way... As long as this nightmare is not purified, she will not die completely. Like the absolutist in the gallery nightmare.
In contrast, every time someone purifies this nightmare, she will die once, and feel the pain of her soul being purified and torn apart.
Evelyn believes that the future Benjamin will come back to save her.
Because the puzzle she set must be someone with the ability of time to completely purify this nightmare.
The way to purify this nightmare is to sort out this infinitely overlapping time loop, find the original thread, and figure out "how did she kill herself from the future". As a result, this nightmare can hardly be fully deciphered.
Even Annan didn't know how Evelyn did it.
Also because she was trapped to death in the time paradox, the Pale Princess whose ability completely involves time cannot affect her in any way. Neither her soul nor her newly acquired abilities will be taken away by Princess Pale.
Only by acquiring time-related ritual abilities, divine spells, or elements can one find the girl hidden at the bottom of the timeline by numerous paradoxes...and rescue her again.
And according to the news given by Salvatore.
Annan gradually recovered the whole incident.
"You in the future... will find me."
In the church of the Pale Princess back then, Evelyn, whose body had become so transparent as a ghost, said this to Benjamin.
But Benjamin, who was not yet a Transcendent at the time, couldn't understand the meaning of Evelyn's words at all.
Afterwards, she turned into light spots and scattered in all directions... not even leaving a corpse behind.
This is a sign that she is about to be transformed into a half-dead daughter.
It is also evidence that Benjamin believes she is not actually dead.
But Benjamin waited there for three days and three nights.
He was so hungry that he was dizzy and almost unable to walk, but he still didn't see Evelyn come back.
He could only think that Evelyn's ceremony had failed - the Pale Princess was unwilling to accept her soul. Or her soul has long dwelt on pale tides, no
^0^ Remember in a second【】
Back to the world again.
So Benjamin was heartbroken and left here.
After that, Benjamin will light the green fire lamp and come back here every year. See if you can wait for Evelyn.
He studied the skill of green fire and spread it to thousands of households... It is precisely because the green fire lit by the two of them in that gloomy church is the last memory of the two in Benjamin's heart.
Benjamin in his youth can be said to be an outstanding talent.
Before he was thirty, he had reached the Silver Step.
He has several convenient inventions and has a considerable reputation among the masses. Hugo, the owner of the tower, regards him as a candidate for the son of the tower, and he has a handsome face and a good family background.
If normal development had followed, he would probably have married and had children long ago.
But it may be due to a coincidence, or... because the fate between the two is not yet complete. When Benjamin worshiped Evelyn one year, he was accidentally drawn into Evelyn's nightmare.
When he woke up, tears were streaming down his face.
He clearly realized—Evelyn was still waiting for his rescue.
He finally recalled that sentence, and with the extraordinary knowledge he had accumulated over the years, he guessed the meaning:
Her ritual did not fail.
Evelyn was just as sung in that prayer.
Became a "wandering dancer who pursues beauty and freedom in pursuit of unfavorable love, in the shell of imprisonment and life".
To become a half-dead daughter, one must abandon one's "lover"—a half-dead daughter is only allowed to fall in love with Princess Pale. In other words, all the followers, apostles, and followers of Pale Princess are her lovers.
The price they paid to be Pale Princess's lover, Pale Princess will pay back three times.
The heaviness of the value of this "love" is enough to make one step up to the sky.
But Evelyn resisted the temptation.
She didn't abandon herself... She was wandering like a ghost in this place of eternal calamity where the dying are still alive just to keep that love!
In order to rescue Evelyn, Benjamin contacted Michelangelo who was still the "eye of time lag".
He is the wizard who has studied the way of time the most in this world, and he is also the only known golden-rank transcendent whose element is "time".
After listening to Benjamin's story, Michelangelo suddenly had an idea.
Since Evelyn can continuously superimpose her future self into this era through the time paradox, so as to achieve the effect of "refusing to die"...
So, can he manipulate the time paradox...to achieve "death once, resurrection twice" to achieve the effect of "double life"?
Dear, this chapter is over, I wish you a happy reading! ^0^