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CH688

Oh, this day can’t get any fucking worse!

It wasn’t hard to pick up on what happened, there was only one space mage currently gunning for him and the idea that Rook had found him and teleported behind to attack wasn’t unbelievable, even if it was still outrageous. With his thoughts moving at their maximum he processed what had happened, using all the information available to him. 

It was obvious he had been teleported underground and based on what he could tell...

CH687

“What the heck is weeping?” Ben muttered to himself in curiosity, with Abel holding out her hand.

“Food first, questions after.”

“Okay, okay, fine.”

A deal was a deal and the fact that she seemed willing to answer his questions made him a lot more motivated to get on with it so he materialized both a cup and a knife, dragging the latter across his palm to fill up the first while the girl beamed, downing it the second it was handed over and immediately looking lik...

CH686

With the decision made, the room began to clear with Rook thankfully being among the first to leave while Yuzu walked over to join them.

“I wasn’t expecting to see you guys.”

“And we weren’t expecting you’d be alone. No chaperones? No Jake and Amy?”

“They’re all busy enough that they couldn’t justify it for what was supposed to be a pretty standard meeting until things went wrong and Jake can’t exactly keep his attention up for it either.”

“We...

CH685

The room was once more divided with that statement between those who were aware and those who weren’t, with the majority who seemed to know coming from the aquatic side since that was where the murders took place.

Of the terrestrial, it seemed there was a lot more shock. Falk at the very least had been unaware as to the reason for the delay and Ben was getting the impression that it was news to most others around him too, many looking surprised with only one among them coming across a...

CH684

“Hold on,” Rook spoke, still smirking while he eyed Ben. “There’s something that needs to be addressed here. This isn’t a daycare, you can’t just bring any random kid along to it.”

“...Do you have an issue you’d like to present then?” Killi asked, her tone speaking of her opinion on the other more than anything else and shouting to the world that she was unimpressed.

“I do. Get the brat out of here,” He said, dismissively trying to wave off Ben and drawing ...

CH683

There wasn’t much rest to be had that night. After finding Falk and filling him in on exactly what happened and spending what felt like far too many hours going over it with some embassy employees who didn’t wake up that day expecting to have to deal with an incident involving the daughter of their nation’s queen, the three of them were only able to get a couple of hours of sleep before getting up and heading out.

There’d been a serious conversation on if they should go at all b...

CH682

Like seemingly everywhere else in the world that had an invasion point within sight, the city had been largely deserted after the coming of the second wave. There were subtle signs of damage all around to match those empty streets too, with the occasional collapsed building or sign of violent magic marking the fact that demons had made it within to cause some havoc before being eliminated.

Of the few others around, it seemed like it was largely handfuls of returning civilians who couldn...

CH681

“Sold, let’s go.”

Falk didn’t need to say any more, Ben was already grabbing his arms to pull him and Thera along, eager to get there.

How could he not be? To his knowledge, the world had eleven awakened skill holders and he knew five of them, he wasn’t going to turn down a chance to complete the set. Especially not when that meant getting to see what sort of power some of them wielded.

The two soul mages and the soul smith, the knowledge holder and the record hold...

CH680

“So this is fucking impossible.”

It hurt to admit but even after working through that day and night and on into the next from there, he still couldn’t figure out how to build an enchantment that would be able to materialize mana once power was poured into it, the blow being all the greater since he knew a god he hated had pulled that very thing off.

There was no real way for Ben to know how Galwax had achieved it, both thanks to that god’s death along with his trial being ...

CH679

“So, things went smoothly then?” Myriad asked him, with Ben shrugging in return.

“Enough at least. We got both the terrestrial and aquatic groups done and despite contributing to Jake’s future suffering I’ve got no complaints. So when do I get to have my fun?”

“You’ll just have to wait a bit, this first month is still going to be a major clearing stage for anyone who uses a mythic item while we try to cull more of the numbers that got through. After that, the wield...

CH678

“Man, work really never ends, does it?”

“If you want it to, you really need to stop making such crazy things,” Thera told him. “At least it will be some good practice for me too.”

It seemed that arrangements had been quick for one of his inventions, with plans to have more of the tool he’d made for his teacher produced and given to the awakened warriors of the world set up so soon after their first production and leading them through one of the gates to the untamed l...

CH677 Thera's Perspective

No Ben this morning.

Ever since he got back he’d been constantly busy, driven in a way that seemed more frantic than it had in the past that couldn’t help make her worried, with the worst part being that he wasn't telling her everything.

She was sure that something he’d seen on the demon’s world was the cause, driving those feelings in him and pushing him to do more than he already had, it just felt like there was more beyond that he wasn’t letting on which only...

CH676

“So, you one hundred percent just awakened your evil inclination,” Thera said as they flew off, leaving the ruins of Eneth’s church along with the broken and bleeding priests as they went. “I honestly thought I was going to get a level of sacrilege just watching that.”

“Ugh, you’re right but that’s all I got,” Ben groaned now that they were far enough away. “I really thought that would do the job of getting me my sacrilege awakening. Man, the fact it didn’t sucks s...

CH675

Felth stared at the necklaces on the ground, conflicted. He was being offered a chance. A chance to finally break that cursed connection between the two of them, a chance to stop dancing in the palm of Ben’s hand, maybe even a chance to kill him if he was lucky enough. All chances he didn’t want to give up, only holding himself back out of fear.

He’d seen what Ben had done in the duel with his son and he knew at least of some of his accomplishments, enough to doubt how much of a c...

CH674

Flying through the sky, Thera by his side while he sat firmly in the cart she was carrying, Ben was doing his best to block out the world around him, instead losing himself in his focus.

Now that his attributes, and most importantly, his intelligence, had all leveled up by so much from the potion he’d drank he had something he wanted to test once more, just to see if it was possible. Out in the normal world, the area of reality that he lived in and could affect with his own power, he ...

CH673

Ben was practically skipping off to Anailia as the day started, his joy unable to be contained.

Seventy percent. His attributes had all grown by seventy percent by the time he’d woken up. It was a result far better than he’d been hoping for given all he’d already put his pieces of bone through to extract anything useful from them and it left the results twenty percent better than the ones he’d fed Sonya in the past. It was an increase in strength beyond even his first time awake...

CH672

He felt himself growing a bit faster with each step as his potion coursed through him, still improving his attributes while he went and continuing on until he stood outside of the library for his next target, taking a calming breath and letting himself in.

Just as empty as his last visit, there were still workers on staff for the few mages around to take advantage of the place, letting him hope at least that the one he’d be looking for would be there as well, with him heading to Killi...

July Poll

You all have chosen mercy and I could not be more grateful. Not to come on too strong but I love you. Look forward to august when I post every day for the month and then I’ll be back in october to give you guys the rest of the chapters owed. I've been burning the midnight oil making sure I'm ready for this with all of the chapters and editing I could pull of and I feel confident this is going to be great.

Other than that, not really anything to update you all about so hope...

Side Story: Tenth on a new world

The sky is so vast.

That was the thought that filled Tenth’s head more than anything else as he was led down the streets from where he’d been awakened.

More than the strange, giant buildings and unfamiliar red trees that towered around them, more than the alien people of the world he’d be making his home, and more than the knowledge that the succubi were just one group among many on that shared planet. He would need time to properly digest that and he’d get it eve...

CH671

Chapter 671

He was instantly running, not caring about how he looked while he beelined to the guild, with Myriad talking to him the entire time.

<Ben, explain what’s going through your head to me already. You know how hard it is to read your mind when you’re thinking thousands of things at once. What did you figure out?>

Myriad, the adventurer job has a few key features. Obviously, the main aspect is merging experience pools but there's more beyond that too. No...