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CH793

“Let’s see, I guess Sonya might be out, she has her work and this would be a little last minute to spring it on her but what about your parents?” Ben suggested. “That way Lux and Funa will both be around too, they’ll probably be able to look after him pretty well, all things considered.”

“I’d rather not use them as our first choice. He’s never met them before and I have no clue how they’re going to react to the birth of a whole new type of spirit and I know they need...

CH792

<SOUL AFFINITY LEVEL INCREASED>

<SOUL SOURCE LEVEL INCREASED>

<SOUL RESILIENCE LEVEL INCREASED>

<MAX LEVEL OF THE JUDGE JOB ACHIEVED>

Despite the notification, no smile was brought to Ben’s face. He’d been keeping track well enough to know that he’d be finishing things that day, getting it was expected. No, the issue was that, despite it having been three days since he or Jake had last slept, there was still no notification in the other’...

CH791

To his two students’ misfortune, Ben’s impatience only grew the next day as their circlets were modified, not only splitting their thoughts like they’d been originally designed to but now speeding up their thoughts as well, letting them cast all forms of magic they were training in even faster to squeeze even more out of the day.

Of course, his favouritism was still clear in how he did it, Thera’s time only doubling while Jake’s quadrupled, with the other man acting like his d...

CH790

With the new day came new lessons, as Jake and Thera’s split minds were put to work. Both of them were materializing and both of them were enchanting, with learning both the enchanting modifier he’d found within the archive as well as a few of the mana modifiers discovered within the two great spells he’d been studying being the priority for that day, but on top of it from there, he was now also getting them to learn to bestow, with one in particular feeling free with their complaints.<...

December Poll!!!!!

Hey all, new month, new poll. Also, Merry christmas for those who celebrate! And happy holidays for those who don’t or celebrate any other winter holiday I don’t know the date of! Either way, hope you’re all having a grand time. 

With this year coming to a close, now's the time to reflect on it a bit and my god, it’s been a productive one! Posting four chapters a week, in the span of a year I’d expect to post about 208 but with multiple patreon goals being reached and som...

Side Story: Helori

Wars were never small, simple things. A fact that was true no matter the scale but only became more challenging as it rose, with the one their planet was trapped in all the more so.

Really, calling it a war was generous of both the gods and the mortals of the world. They were one planet against a galaxy, the only reason they could call it anything more than a last stand was because of the pure inefficiency in how their enemies chose to act, attacking sub-optimally to such a point that i...

CH789

“Jake, I’m taking over part of your body for a bit, try not to panic.”

“Wait, what is that supposed to mean?”

“It means everything’s going to be fine, I just need to try something for a bit so keep practicing your enchanting until I’m done and try not to get distracted by this.”

He was already using his hive mind on the other, not taking him over entirely but instead conquering a single one of his split minds, making it his own while taking over his left ar...

C788

<CONDEMNATION LEVEL INCREASED>

“Alright, you guys are officially adequate enough that we can move on to the next stage of enchanting,” Ben told the two as their lessons progressed the following day. “You can place your spells as well as anyone and now you can both kind of sort of use the three systems I’ve shown you, now you just need to combine them.”

“Why does it sound like he doesn’t really think we learned it,” Jake asked, leaning over to Thera to whisper...

CH787 The Gods and Mortal Potential

“Well, what was the real point of that then, Helori?” Nare asked her. “You’ve never felt the need for us to examine him as well.”

“I meant what I said, it’s good to get a different set of eyes and opinions, especially for what I’d like to present now that you’ve both gotten the chance.”

“Present?”

“A question and a hypothesis. Is Ben still mortal?”

“I’ll admit, with all my apostle can do that's within our sphere it may not seem like it b...

CH786

“Okay, so I’ve got something to tell you guys but let's do our best to not make this talk worse than it has to be.”

“Empty skies Ben, what is it now?” His god asked, knowing well from experience that whatever his apostle was about to say was sure to be an absolute pain.

“Er, before that, let's all just also agree to keep this between the four of us. No need to let any other gods know about it.”

“So it’s worse than usual then?” Helori asked as she looked d...

CH785

Walking through the gate yielded a pleasant surprise, no matter how small it might have been. Ogilt, who was still standing guard, appeared to have at least looked through the bits of entertainment he’d been left with since Thera had gone to check on her newest uncle, showing that perhaps some of her talk had been good for him.

I’ll have to tell her later. He thought before going over to the spirit, giving a happy smile as he did. “Ogilt, I’ve come to check up on h...

CH784

“And are the circlets absolutely necessary?” Thera asked him, looking like she was willing to do anything else if it meant avoiding putting one on while leaving Ben to think over how he intended to teach them.

“Hmm, I suppose I have something in my back pocket that might help you get a level immediately so I guess you can hold off on using yours until the harder bits of enchanting start. Jake however has no choice.”

“What? You’re letting her off the hook but not me? Th...

CH783

Opening the door showed it wasn’t just one or the other but both Thera and Delair arriving at once, letting them both in to start the day, even as he slipped a thought into his girlfriend’s mind.

Make sure you compliment breakfast out loud.

Hmm? You know I always love what you cook. She thought back, catching on to the fact that there was something more to it given he’d decided to keep the thought between them.

Yeah, but Mora gave me a hand t...