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CH636

<EXTRACTION ENHANCEMENT LEVEL INCREASED>

<SOUL INCLINATION LEVEL INCREASED>

<BITE ENHANCEMENT LEVEL INCREASED>

This is going to give me depression

A week. Ben had spent an entire week keeping his eyes on the demons, hoping to see some sign that things might get better, that there might be some variance in their schedule he could take advantage of, not thinking that there’d be a time when nothing was around but at least a moment when ...

CH635 Thera's Perspective

The sounds of pain and death surrounded Thera as she did her best to focus on her work, moving from one patient to the next, doing her all she could to get each one healed and out to free up space for the next body that was going to want to fill it as she tried to do her part in emptying the area and easing the burden on the other healers around her.

Flesh, scale, carapace, she bent her power to assemble each example she saw and more, trying to bring each victim back to fighting shape a...

CH634

<MATERIAL SENSE LEVEL INCREASED>

<BALANCE ENHANCEMENT LEVEL INCREASED>

“You don’t seem to rest much. Is that a trait of your species as a whole or is it just you?”

“Hey now, I’ve kind of got a lot to do here.”

“Just you then. It seems exhausting.”

“What can I say, working yourself to the point of collapse is classy. Maybe even just a little sexy. It gives me this broad, tired appeal that everyone loves.”

In the nine da...

CH633 Thera's Perspective

Thera woke up to the sound of screams.

That had become her normal though. The hospital was filled with people bleeding and dying and she was resting only a few rooms away from it, the other bunks around just as filled with equally exhausted healers who’d each been doing their best to save who they could amidst the constant swarm of bodies pressing in, with it never being enough. There was always more coming and even after just a week of it she could see it affecting those around her, ...

Will be missing sunday the 19th of may

Hey all, I mentioned it in the last couple polls but this is me giving the fixed date. Just want to have a stretch of days to make sure I have all of my planning sorted so getting myself the saturday to monday gives me a good span to work on all of that. Thanks for your understanding and I hope you all have a good one!

CH632

Day six of his imprisonment and Ben was once more looking for something different to do to pass the time. He’d been exercising consistently and seen that his attributes were in fact growing, even if a little slow, and he continued on with producing souls to get the last level of his skill but all of that still left him looking through his status, trying to see if there was anything on it that would be easy and worthwhile to train a bit.

In his time there he’d come up with an idea to...

CH631

<SOUL PRODUCTION LEVEL INCREASED>

<SOUL INCLINATION LEVEL INCREASED>

Another day of practice and another day of progress as Ben passed the time the best he could, adjusting to his situation even as he did his best to escape it. When he’d finished with his handstand pushups he’d moved to a different exercise, even if it was one he dreaded.

Given the area of the cell he was trapped in, there was barely enough space for one particular activity, something ...

CH630

On his third day there, Ben had realized something important. Doing nothing but creating souls for hours on end was boring. Incredibly so.

He could easily imagine the people he cared about yelling at him for thinking that. It seemed like the sort of mad, impossible task that one should have worn as a badge of pride, an accomplishment that nobody else could hope to achieve, but it was still the truth.

As he got better at it it took significantly less mental power, needing only half...

CH629

He’d taken the job and he had the skill, now all that there was left was to raise it and to do that he first stripped the enchantments off of what had been his job crystal before turning to the few other bits of rainbow mana crystal he had.

The batteries he kept in his shoes, the ones he kept within his mythril bracelets for enchanting practice too, in the end it wasn’t much but it would do for the time being until he could make more as he carried out his various tests.

With t...

CH628

Flashing through his enchantments as fast as he could, trying to give the impression he was practicing and nothing more, he discreetly passed through them all in the hopes he wouldn’t draw any wandering eyes until he finally changed to the one he’d wanted, fully intending on taking multiversal material mage even if it wasn’t going to be the easiest option for him to finish because of what seemed to be its intended way of gaining experience. It would at least give him bonuses to his mana...

CH627

Once all of those notifications finished, Ben sat in silence for a moment, taking them all in and muttering the first thought that passed through his head once it was all done.

“Isn’t lesser inspiration supposed to just awaken to inspiration?”

Compared to everything else it was completely inconsequential, even if it felt like a taunt at that point as his mind skills kept up their naming scheme with each awakening but he pushed that to the side. It was nothing compared to eve...

CH626

“FAIL! FUCKING DAMN IT!”

Another disastrous test since his conversation with the galwaxian only the day before and Ben couldn’t help but feel it weighing on him as he mentally went over each one, hoping that his memories would reveal to him something that he hadn’t seen before, only to continue coming up blank. There was nothing, no sign he missed or hint waiting for him to be found, all there was was more testing.

“But who cares, here we are at test number two thousand,...

CH625

Test one thousand and ninety-seven… failed.

Over the course of the day, not stopping for sleep or rest, Ben had carried out his tests, looking for any sort of weakness in the barrier that trapped him that he might be able to exploit, coming up empty each time.

He hadn’t been expecting to succeed immediately, he knew that was too much to hope for, but he had thought he’d get more than that. A small scratch lasting fractions of a second, a dent or small hole that woul...

CH624 Thera's Perspective

A blink and the scene had changed. One moment, Thera had been at one of the invasion points, fighting against a demon far more powerful than she should have been encountering in only the second wave and the next her eyes were shooting open, her body darting up with them to find herself in the busy hospital she’d been serving, swarmed by spirits as she tried to make sense of her jumbled memories.

Last she’d remembered she’d been hit, and hard too, but the sheer quantity of light an...

CH623

A squidlike head atop a nearly human body, Ben would have recognized it anywhere, not just from what he’d seen in the dead god’s trial but from his eternity decoding languages within the archive too, making their appearance all too familiar to him as he took a breath.

I hate Galwax, I don’t hate his people. One of them even improved my enchanting by a mile. Be cool.

“Oh, not insane yet neighbour, just indulging in a touch of despair first. I think I’m done for n...

CH622

In that instant he had his answer to the question of what had been crushing down on him and every demon on the planet, something he’d barely ever felt before gaining his first levels of sacrilege and that he’d thought he’d lost the ability to experience at all by that point, a feeling of the overwhelming force of pure divinity, nearly knocking him down with its existence alone.

That was enough to tell him how in over his head he was. He’d been around descended gods before, ones ...

CH621

Unlike the gates he was used to, either taking one to another plane of reality to act as a shortcut or else connecting two separate locations by making a hole in space itself, the interstellar one he’d been dragged into acted more like a tunnel filled with branching paths, letting Ben catch glimpses of what he suspected were separate worlds, even if the views beyond gave him few clues to verify that fact.

Different times of day, slightly different colours of sky hinting at different a...

CH620

The following morning brought them to their next location, with those around them who hadn't yet been able to trade out for whatever brief bits of rest they’d be allowed looking the worst for it by the time they took their positions.

In the span of a day, everyone had been exposed to more violence and death than anyone should see in a lifetime and as the two took their positions to contribute to it, Ben once more provided what relief he could, pulling those it was safe to into him min...

CH619

The day was long, as was the night with it. By the time they needed to go to the hospital, there were already people being carried through the mini-gate to receive treatment, having been brought into the relative safety of the fortress as others kept the demons from slipping through and once they got in, Thera was immediately swarmed with tasks.

She was the awakened healer of that location, something that most hospitals across the planet weren’t going to be lucky enough to have, but t...

CH618

In the same way as the first wave, demons flooded out the open portal, their mad rush for blood hiding any of the supposed sapience they’d be coming with as they poured out from all angles to inflict death and destruction upon the world, setting off the various traps that had been placed and overwhelming them with sheer mass, with the ones at the front having no choice but to accept it when the only alternative was to be crushed by the horde behind them.

And as they rushed outwards, g...

CH617

“Dang, they cut it pretty close getting these to us,” Ben said as he looked over and sniffed the same bar of food they’d gotten during the first wave, made by the divine chef and imparting incredible buffs even to someone like him who didn’t have the sort of constitution to let him enjoy them to the same extent as so many others.

“At least we got them at all,” Thera said with a shrug, about to eat hers but watching as Ben slipped his into his ring. “Not going to have it ri...

CH616

<EXTRACTION ENHANCEMENT LEVEL INCREASED>

Early the next day, all of them went out, with Ben and Thera heading to their point while Sonya went to hers, wishing each other the best as they parted.

The two weren’t going to be beginning at the hospital that made up the center of that miniature gate network given the fact that there were not yet victims that needed to be healed, instead going to the first of the gates, standing along the wall where they’d been told to ...

CH615

<AIM LEVEL INCREASED>

“Well, at least I managed to get one more level,” Ben sighed as he let himself collapse to the ground. “Sure freaking cut it close though.”

“What matters is that you got it,” Myriad told him, trying to be positive despite only having a day until the invasion points opened. “So what now?”

“Now? Now I spend the rest of my time pretending I’m not going to die in the next few weeks. That’s not a completely unrealistic expe...

April Poll!

Hello all! A bit later in the day than I intended to post this but it's still saturday in my timezone so it counts!

I don't really have much to say this month, like I'd mentioned in the last poll I'm going to take a day off in may to make sure I've got my planning right so that will either be on the 19th or 21st, I'll make a note on it a couple days in advanced.

Other than that, hope you all have a good one as always and enjoy the rest of the weekend!

The God Phixth

Waiting for the meeting to start, the stone god Phixth already wanted to sigh.

Up until recently, who led the various meetings the gods would have amongst themselves was constantly switched on a rotating pool to give anyone who wasn’t expressly disinterested a turn. No matter how well they worked together, they were all beings who had ruled their respective worlds either alone or in small groups after all, there had been a level of pride that hadn’t allowed it to look as though one ...

CH614

Inside the library, reading through the first floor of the main building in a flash thanks to having so many more clones to use, his main body was focused elsewhere beyond just providing the mana for lifting the swath of books and turning pages, instead focusing on the crystal sheet he held in his hands, making and breaking dense enchantments across it at high speeds.

Not just simple constructs, these enchantments were chosen specifically to give him as much experience as he could get f...

CH613

“You two all ready to head off then?” Falk asked as he stood with them at the mini-gate, preparing to leave town as well for a bit.

“Yep,” Thera told her uncle brightly, trying to be optimistic about things in complete contrast to Ben who was groaning beside her.

“No. I’m already envisioning things going horribly wrong.”

There were still a couple weeks before the invasion points opened up but given that he and Thera would be going to a number of them, they were...

CH612 Thera's Perspective

Thera woke up to the sounds of chatter around her and the smell of cooking, two things that would normally pull her from her slumber with both the spirits around her enjoying her ambient mana and Ben out making breakfast, even if there was a difference about the sounds she was hearing that day as she opened her eyes to find something unusual amongst the mass of mana that was floating around her. Not just the dense points of mana she was used to seeing from her paternal race, but also some tha...

CH611

Ben completed the second gate he was to enchant far faster than the first to let Delair see everything he was capable of and gave her a sense of what was possible as one’s skill improved, enjoying as he watched just how excited it made her before it was finally time to drop the two off back home, leading to the inevitable goodbye as Ben started to both pull things out of his ring as well as materialize what he could for her, stealing Thera’s mana to make more.

“Okay, books, tools,...

CH610

Delair was looking sad that day, standing with her mother given what was to come. The two were going to join him to watch as he enchanted a couple of gates but from there they’d be dropped off back at their home village, left to deal with their own preparations for the coming war.

Now that Fontesh had an awakened skill it was doubtless that Hentath and the village as a whole would have some work for her to help with, even with the sheer number of awakened skill holders that village wa...