No matter whether Evelin gives up the ritual or completes it.
The only difference is that the body leaves Benjamin, or the mind leaves Benjamin...
Benjamin will enter the Black Tower of the Zeland, choose to become a transformation wizard, recruit a large number of apprentices, and sell transformation products - is it because of Evelin's death that year that he thinks it is because he did not get the ointment back then?
?
...seems to make sense.
According to Salvatore, the Kingdom of Noah has only begun to produce a large number of civilian conversion products in the past ten years.
The "meat thread" that can suture trauma, the "witch's ointment" that heals burns, the "panacea" that eases injuries caused by unknown reasons... all have become dozens of times cheaper due to improvements in synthesis methods. There are also applications
Glasses, artificial gemstones, high-quality gauze and sails made by transformation technology.
The most famous and representative one is the "green fire" that has now entered thousands of households in the Kingdom of Noah and has almost completely replaced candles.
——The improvement methods of panacea, witch ointment and green fire were all from Benjamin's hands. He was also known as "Master Benjamin" for this reason.
The ideas for improving these transformation products are also completely consistent.
Instead of continuing to enhance their effectiveness against extraordinary beings, we chose to significantly reduce the cost and choose a method that could be synthesized without using expensive materials to create a low-cost, easy-to-convert civilian version.
...This is very likely to be the obsession that Evelin brought to Benjamin.
The direct reason why Evelyn will die is because she traveled during the Pale Tide and watched the Dance of the Pale Princess;
She is fascinated by the dance of the Pale Princess because of her obsession with dance;
She develops obsession because she was disfigured by the fire;
She is disfigured because she cannot buy the "witch's ointment" that can heal burns.
Evelin's background was not considered poor.
There is no need to work, no need to farm, no calluses on her hands, and she can still meet Benjamin - this all shows that she is not unable to receive treatment because of poverty.
Just because of the arrogance of wizards.
Salvatore told Annan that the technological monopoly of wizards in that era was very serious.
Not to mention ordinary people, even other types of extraordinary beings find it difficult to buy things from wizards. It's useless even if you have money - because wizards strictly prohibit selling transformation products to people outside the Black Tower in the Zeland.
It can be used by them, but not sold.
The purpose is to prevent transformation wizards from other towers from cracking their transformation ideas and imitating transformation products with better effects.
And more than twenty years later...
I don’t know if it is because of Benjamin’s efforts that the situation has completely changed:
He has improved many civilian versions of "transformation products" to occupy a large number of low-end markets, helping Zedi Black Tower obtain huge funds. At the same time, it also caused competition from wizards from other countries, forcing them to put aside their status and study "for ordinary people".
Transformation products for human use”.
It has promoted wizards all over the world to share their technology with ordinary people.
This was an era that alchemists could never imagine before the Wizards' Unification War——
Benjamin is a transformation wizard who truly wants to use the transformation products that only transformation wizards can produce to benefit and help the public.
...But who could have known that the beginning of an era was almost changed just because of a dancing girl who was disfigured by a fire?
Annan was thinking silently.
He was a little worried...Benjamin would not be willing to host the ceremony for him.
But when Annan and Benjamin came out of the zigzag room, Annan vaguely heard something.
The sound is very small and far away...
It's like...a very ethereal singing voice.
"...Did you hear anything?"
Annan's heart moved and he asked Benjamin in a low voice.
Benjamin was stunned for a moment, frowned and listened for a long time, then slowly shook his head: "No, not at all. I'll listen more carefully -"
"No, don't worry...I heard wrong."
Annan comforted softly.
But the singing in his ears became clearer and clearer:
“Life is bright and beautiful, but it is a prisoner’s cage;
“Love is fierce and brilliant, but it is a fire that dazzles the eyes;
"The wandering dancer pursuing beauty and freedom——
"Pan Bai already knows your purpose of coming,
“Dedicate your remaining soul and love to the pale;
"Dedicate your head and blood to the pale..."
That was almost exactly the same as the words Annan saw on the note in his dream.
...That was the sound coming from directly above me.
It's those ghosts in the hall!
Annan immediately realized that this was the first time he had floated out of the "reflection of the church in the lake", an inverted praise!
The moment he heard the praises clearly, Annan lost consciousness again.
When he woke up again, he was still at the prison door - still in the same position.
"……Huh?"
Annan was startled.
Behind him, the prison door was wide open...but there was no one inside.
The chain that was originally removed by myself is still hanging on it.
He twisted the door lock and found that it could still open and close normally without being damaged by the lock.
…This was at an earlier time?
Annan was thoughtful and walked directly to the left.
But this time, Annan did not see the light of the candle.
He walked until he was in the middle of the corridor and saw the table blocking the place leading to the "beheading room".
Annan struck the match and lit the candle.
But the candlelight was too dim.
At this distance, the light is simply not enough to reach the beginning of the corridor... it's very difficult to reach halfway.
The table must be pulled halfway.
"...Well, there's no rush."
Annan muttered: "Let's see if there is any difference in the letter first..."
As he spoke, he skillfully opened the letter paper.
Annan's movements paused slightly.
The length of this note... was much longer than what he first saw!
“To those who are loved by the pale:
"The pursuit of love without destiny,
"Imprisoned in the body of life,
"The wandering dancer pursuing beauty and freedom——
"Pan Bai already knows your purpose of coming,
"Through this door,
"Dedicate your remaining soul to the pale,
“Dedicate your lover to freedom,
"Offer your head to the earth,
“You will get a condensed soul, a pure spirit;
"Or leave here,
"Follow the ordinary rules and send the remaining souls back to the earth——
"You will be remembered by your loved ones.
"The choice is yours,
"——But I already know your answer."
This is a very narrow strip of paper, only about four fingers wide.
After reading the new content on the note, Annan understood something.
He had preconceived the idea before.
Because "Citalopram" was only at level five when she created the character... so Annan thought that the profession of the Half-Dead Daughter should start at level five.
But it may be because the profession the player gets is a castrated version - or because Evelin really has an extremely pure heart.
If she is willing to become a half-dead daughter, she can even start directly at the silver level!
The upper limit of the priesthood is basically Silver level!
In other words, Evelin even has the talents of a pope...
In this case, there is no doubt who the master of the nightmare is.
——It is the half-dead daughter of the future who has completed the transformation, Evelin!
But Evelin has completed the transformation and turned into an immortal body that is half human and half undead... Why did she die?
If she really dies, shouldn't she become a wandering spirit following the pale princess?
——Could turning into a wandering spirit also cause nightmares?
Or……
Another doubt arose in Annan's mind:
Benjamin obviously has the ability to advance to gold.
But he has been stuck at the silver level for more than 20 years... Is it really because he can't find a way to advance to the gold level?
Or is it that Benjamin’s original goal was to become the Pope of the “man in the mirror”?
Annan suddenly remembered something.
He told Benjamin in "The White Tower" that the cause of Gerald's death was that Annan and Salvatore jointly killed him.
At that time, Benjamin probably didn't know that Gerald would survive in the end and compete with him for Michelangelo's resurrection ceremony.
But at that time Benjamin muttered:
"——It's pretty much what I guessed."
This shows that Benjamin knew from the very beginning that his future self would have murderous intentions towards Gerald sooner or later.
Then the answer is very clear.
Benjamin and Michelangelo had known each other for a long time.
The "pairing" back then was not Benjamin and Gerald, Michelangelo and Melvin at all - Annan was still misled by Michelangelo in the end!
Michelangelo's symmetry is really Benjamin, not Melvin!
The Melvin he killed was actually Gerald's match!
And Benjamin, who had seen through everything from the very beginning, was not too lazy to take care of it...but because Benjamin did not interfere with Michelangelo's ceremony in order to preside over his resurrection ceremony in the future and help Michelangelo achieve the status of god!
As for his reasons——
"……Yes."
Annan murmured.
He folded the upper and lower ends of the note in his hand, and then slowly tore it open. In order not to mislead his past self... in order to achieve a perfect cycle.
Benjamin may enter this nightmare at some point in the future and learn the true whereabouts of Evelin.
Evelyn has not become a half-dead daughter, so she has not forgotten Benjamin;
But she didn't really die, because the person who killed her was her future self!
The true half-alive, half-dead, half-dead daughter is forever trapped in the time gap where no one loves her...
She gained the supernatural power of the half-dead daughter, but successfully escaped the fate of forgetting her loved ones - at the cost of being trapped in the cycle of the "past".
Since then, Benjamin’s purpose has not changed:
He wants to become the Pope of the man in the mirror and obtain the elements of mirror and time.
——Rescue Evelin who consciously trapped herself in an infinite loop to escape the fate of giving her soul to the Pale Princess!
In front of Annan, the real main mission slowly emerged:
[Main mission: forming a loop]
Under this line of tasks, three lines of side tasks slowly emerged:
[Witness the completion of the sacrificial ceremony]