Benjamin sat up with a grimace, one hand braced against the floor, the other pressing his newly healed but still faintly throbbing forehead. The pain of his head exploding had actually been secondary.
The Body Tempering Method was already well practiced when it came to this kind of flesh-and-blood injury.
What truly made him suck in a cold breath was the throbbing pain in his soul.
That blow had caused the "head" of his soul to explode in tandem.
Soul injuries were different from bodily injuries. Even though the Body Tempering Method offered a certain degree of protection to the soul, the pain of having his soul burst from an overload of information still made his scalp tingle.
If he had not once experienced a complete "death," thereby gaining some resistance to death through the Body Tempering Method, that blow would have cost him a Substitute Doll.
Benjamin held his forehead and rapidly retraced everything that had happened in less than a nanosecond within his Spirit Sea.
The instant the Fate Law activated, his field of perception had been completely flooded with information.
Nearly infinite information from throughout the Search Corner range of the entire Noren Workshop had poured into his consciousness at the same instant.
Merely recalling it made Benjamin's brain ache faintly.
He now understood that he had done something foolish.
It was indeed difficult to find planes within the Endless Chaotic Void, but those planes truly existed.
Every plane possessed its own complete system of laws, elemental structure, spatial parameters, and causal trajectories—not to mention that some planes contained vast numbers of living beings.
Using the Fate Law to "see" which direction would lead him to a plane was equivalent to seeing all the information of every existing plane within the Search Corner's range in a single