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CH660 Thera's Perspective

I have no clue how he handles that so well.

Being faced with the totality of the world’s gods at once had been enough to make it feel like she was going to have a heart attack. It still felt like she was on the verge of one as her chest pounded all the way to the gate, with Ben’s own goals echoing through her mind too.

Thera had no clue where the desire to try and push her to the third tier had come from. It wasn’t like she didn’t understand the sentiment behind i...

CH659

“Okay, first things first, gotta see what the damage is,” He sighed as he got up, reaching for both his pants and the card that sat waiting in his pocket to tell him exactly how far he was from his goal.

He was already fearing the worst too, the gods had made it clear that they expected third-tier jobs to be significantly easier for them to level compared to how much they’d invested in him, if he looked at his card and saw that he’d only received a couple of levels for it then h...

CH658

When Nare and Helori returned, they brought along six others, all gods Ben recognized as those who’d been selected in the past to help deal with him, all of them looking equally tired and annoyed to be called there as one spoke up.

“Is this really the time for you to be concerned about getting a payout?”

“We’ve been over this. I do work, I get paid, that’s how I operate.”

“You’re asking us to waste our strength on-”

“Someone who managed to already...

CH657

Seeing the gods that night, the first thing Ben noticed was how obviously different they all looked in his eyes after one of his many awakenings. Not just seeing them like a normal mortal or witnessing them under his sacrilege, he could now see the core of their beings, their souls amongst everything else.

Okay, this might take a bit to get used to till I figure out how to suppress the effect.

There was a clear difference to be observed between what any of them held when ...

CH656

He could feel Yuzu’s eyes boring into him but all he could do was give an awkward smile as he processed everything himself while she eventually just shook her head.

“I’m not going to comment.”

“Appreciate that.”

‘Cause all of that was… Damn. God damn.

Ignoring all of the levels he’d just gotten and what that implied for how easy those skills and more would be to raise in the future, ignoring the inclination skills he’d just gained and ignor...

The mercy poll

Hey all, if you all already looked at yesterday's poll then you know what this is about but if not I'm here to say it again.

So we've passed 1000 patrons and from the bottom of my heart, thank you all. The fact that you all like this story enough to support it is more than I ever could have dreamed and I appreciate it every day.

Now, depending on your memories or whenever you first signed up for this, you may be aware that I had a bunch of goals listed for certain milestones and w...

CH655

Once the two returned and a new party was made, that meant he’d finally, genuinely be able to finish up their mass awakening as he touched his job crystal, taking the last job he was sure he’d be able to speed through for them all, one he’d been curious about ever since he’d first gained it but never had any reason to take until them, with any normal ways of gaining experience sure to be far too long to make it worthwhile compared to what he was now able to pull off.

“Give me ...

June poll June poll

Hey all, end of the month so you know what that means, some rambling before getting to the poll!

First off, let's start with the news that's going to break me in ways I can't begin to properly convey. That thanks to all of you wonderful patrons, I've passed one of the goals I created back when I first started this page. To be specific, I've passed the final goal.

Now, patreon may have actually gotten rid of the goal section of pages by this point but that doesn't mean what I promi...

Side Story: The grey watch the second wave

“Don’t look so smug,” Valax sighed as they walked, Quilith looking at him from the side.

“Is that any way to talk to your boss?”

“Until you get used to your new promotion, yes. Just because the council finally decided to put their full weight behind your proposal, doesn’t mean nothing is going to go wrong.”

“Something always goes wrong but this was a hard-won victory, the fact it took so much work to get their full support despite massive public approval is...

CH654

It was after the first half hour that both Thera and Yuzu had to admit that whatever was wrong with him, they couldn’t solve it. Thera could find no issue in his body and while Yuzu claimed there seemed to be something going on in his soul, it wasn’t enough for a proper answer, nor for her to know how they could possibly fix it. All they knew was that whatever the matter was, Ben had chosen to pull out the archive to use, they could only trust that it would somehow help as time went on. 2024-06-27 17:58:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Update

Hey all, just wanted to let you guys know that the side story and poll both might not be up until thursday this week since that is a couple days later than I usually try to have it out by. I am hoping to have it up by tomorrow but a few unexpected things have popped up this week that put me behind and despite my best efforts I didn't actually succeed in sleeping last night which doesn't exactly lend itself to peak editing potential. Anyway, sorry about that and otherwise I hope you all have a...

CH653

Steph and Will both arrived before Sachel’s party did but that didn’t matter to him at the end of it all, he only needed them for his attempt at awakening the one skill, there was no rush for that, so after sparing a few words for each other and explaining why he’d pulled them away from their fighting he had Jake bring them all into their party before turning to both Yuzu and Elvat.

“Man, I feel like I’ve been asking everyone a lot of favours today but seeing as how we’re ho...

CH652

“Er, Ben? My guy, what exactly are you doing to my wife?” Jake asked as his eyes glanced between him and the fabric Yuzu was already untying.

“Trying to keep all of my little secrets from being shouted to the world is all, which I personally don’t think is too unreasonable. Even if there’s not many people around, there’s enough that things might become a pain for me if she just screams it out like that, willy-nilly.”

“Mmh, sorry,” Yuzu told him once freed. “I g...

CH651

In the morning, Ben found the spatial bag he’d brought to the wave beside him, with Thera having grabbed it from the hospital she’d been working at after it had been left there upon his kidnapping, sending a small jolt of fear through him as he rushed through is, pushing aside food and potions he’d prepared for the month to find what he’d been worried about.

Still there. He sighed in relief as he moved the archive to his ring instead. It had been something he’d b...

CH650

<KNOWLEDGE LEVEL INCREASED>

“You are officially looking at a triple contender baby!” Ben cheered as he finished the book he’d been reading on the system’s design and function. “God, this is kind of bittersweet, isn’t it? Let’s be real, If I had gotten that level before the wave then making a soul is the exact sort of application of knowledge that would have gotten me to my third tier of the skill, right?”

“Possibly, but there’s nothing you can do a...

CH649 The gods discuss a mortal

“-Thus ends the main topic of discussion,” Spoke the stone god Phixth in exhaustion at the end of the meeting among the divine. It had actually gone exceptionally well, with the outcome of the second wave being excellent compared against any time a planet had gotten to that point in the past, to the point that the proper feeling should have been elation if anything from seeing the fruits of their labour blossom.

No, it was nothing from the first part of the meeting that had exhauste...

CH648

Immediately the spells he requested were cast, even if it led the spirits to stare at him as he shoved the collar on it for the extra insurance.

“Ben, this is-”

“A prisoner of war and a source of information,” He clarified. “A valuable one too. This thing is a double contender so I’m hopeful it knows something useful, it just has the minor problem that if it wakes up it will use its mana canceling to escape. Hence the moribusial. If we keep it in a constant state of ma...

CH647

“Thanks for letting me borrow you guys for a bit,” He told them as he walked over, even as he was already eyeing the great space spirit and the changes in the other that had occurred in the last day.

Originally looking like nothing more than a dense mass of mana, visible to even those like himself without the proper mana sense for its affinity, it looked like he’d chosen a shape for himself like the other great spirits had for dealing with the mortals across the world. Specificall...

CH646

With their goodbyes said, Tenth was led to the church where he could relax with the others, letting Ben move on to work through the ones that Lux had healed before he was done with those as well, leaving him only a few more to approach, with the handful of people left being the most complicated ones of all.

So let’s see, how do I want to handle this? There’s only six left but I’m probably going to need help for three of them so for now I’ll ask Lux if she can grab me Abrus a...