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CH554 Evil Gods and Eldritch Horrors Part Five

When the gods are searching for you, hiding isn’t some simple thing, even less so when you still have work to do. This thought was clear on the high elf Naloth’s mind as he surveyed his surroundings, looking at the group he had gathered.

Really, when it came to trying to escape the eyes of a force that constantly looked down on the world, was there ever really going to be a perfect place to do it? Being in a big city where churches would abound left the risk of being seen by any god...

CH553 Evil Gods and Eldritch Horrors Part Four

Author's Note

I forgot to mention it at the beginning of the month but we once again have a couple of anonymous turnip connoisseurs sponsoring four extra chapters for everyone so show them some application in the comments and enjoy!

By the time it made it to the next wall, or was at least close enough to it that it filled all it could see, the creature was faced with new encounters to go along with it.

One was the difference in the current wall compared to the las...

CH552

After some lunch with his friends, he and Thera first stopped by the magic library before going home so he might talk to Verbum to find out about the two mysterious skills he’d gained, only to get the worst news he could.

The other summoned and Killi were both going to be away for an unknown length of time, meaning Ben had no easy means of figuring out what the skills would do, which made up most of his musings when he got back to work in Stonewall, using what little of the day he had...

CH551

A trip back through the gate got them to where they’d need to be for the next part of Ben’s plan as they arrived in Allfaith, Abrus still carrying the two before depositing them at the foot of a home they were well familiar with, belonging to Amy, Jake, and Yuzu, all of whom were already waiting outside with their two teachers by their side, giving Ben a curious look as he did his best to keep from vomiting after the rapid trip.

“So what exactly did you do that had the gods asking...

CH550

In an instant, Abrus and Thera were beside him and the armour he’d been wearing was stripped away to let her begin healing his shattered bones, all while Myriad screamed in his head.

<Ben, are you okay? What the hell just happened?>

I’m pretty sure I’ll live and it looks like this universe rejects my old one on a pretty significant level. Wow, everything hurts right now.

<It would be more shocking if it didn’t after that!> Myriad yelled before un...

Poll time

Hey all, here's the poll for the month, sorry it's later than usual, things have been a tad hectic but it's sorta kinda over now and I'm sure nothing will ever go wrong ever again.

Same situation as last time where we've got a couple lovely folks who are at the highest tier so lets see if they'll have the power to overcome the will of the many. Last poll they voted with the popular option so let's see if that luck keeps up.

Let's see, there's probably more but I'm a bit...

Side Story: A continuation of Nare's reaction

Author's note

Sorry for the delay, you guys can look at this chapter as taking place just after ch522. Hope you all enjoy!

“There’s more I want to say, but it seems he’s waiting to begin teaching you all in earnest so we’ll end here for now. Make no mistake though, this is not the last we’ll be talking about how you all acted, punishments are simply pending till your lessons are over. Now go do your best and try not to bring more shame to my name.”

Wit...

CH549

After spending the rest of the night talking with Quilith while figuring out what most of the known magic materials were initially made of, Ben’s typical schedule for the coming day was changed completely by the implication of what he’d found.

He knew that the universe he was in had ninety naturally occurring elements with a few hypothetical more that could have briefly existed in the hearts of stars or formed during their deaths, meaning there were potentially that many possible ma...

Update Update

Hey all, just wanted to let you guys know I'll be posting the bonus chapter and next poll monday this week which is a little later than usual, along with the turnip connoisseur rewards.

It will still be out before the end of the month but I want to apologize for the delay, a friend had a bit of an emergency so I've been helping with their kid and good golly gosh am I bad at it. Combined with the earlier busyness of moving I fell a little behind so I'll be spending the weekend to catch u...

CH548

“Another job well done,” Ben sighed contently as he laid down in bed, everything he needed to do finished as Thera moved to lay beside him.

“I think you enjoyed that a little too much. What are you going to do if anyone from that church comes to try and assassinate you again? Because I’d be willing to bet money on that happening.”

“I’ll be fine, and even if I’m not, I’ll just beg my lovely girlfriend to protect me.”

“Mmh, this lovely girlfriend would mu...

CH547

After finishing his regular work for the day, Ben was once again left wondering what he should do.

If he was being true to himself, the answer was sleep. Staying up all night to renovate the church after a full day of making weapons, only to move into an entire new day at the forge was taking its toll. He was tired, and just as importantly, still feeling in a weird mood. He wanted to rest.

The issue with that though was entirely himself. He still wanted to train his skills to keep...

CH546

“Just right here then?”

“Yeah, that’s fantastic, thanks Abrus.”

After he’d finished his work for the day, Ben popped through the gate to Anailia, immediately hunting down the great spirit for the wide range of materials he was going to need for that day’s project and getting his help to move it all through another gate to the city where Helori kept her main church, placing a few heavy crates of materials outside before Abrus parted to get back to his own work.

...

CH545

“Ben, you really can be such a sweet boy sometimes, you know that?” Myriad sighed. “It’s a shame you use so much of the rest of your time to be a bastard.”

“Excuse you, bastardry doesn’t even take up an hour of my time a day. I have brief bursts of it every few months or weeks at most.”

“Sure, but when you do I’m left remembering them for weeks after.”

“Sounds like a you problem, I basically forget the second I’m done.”

“That really was a ...

CH544

“Heeeey Verbum,” Ben said as he snuck behind the other summoned, making the man jump.

“Uh, damn it, why are you here this time?” He sighed. “No, I get it, you’re here to find out about your newest title, right?”

“You got it, bestie, do you mind?”

“We aren’t besties! We aren’t even friends!”

“Verbum, that hurts so much to hear. Aren’t we fellow otherworlders? Didn’t we bond on our little adventure together? Come on, I’m a sweet guy, giv...

CH543

It was only a week later, after continuing his regular work while training Valaria on the side that he had her at the ninth level and was excited to see if she’d be able to pass the boundary that day, even if that meant dragging her along for a different task and he pulled her through the gate to Allfaith to meet a few very important people, some of them for the second time.

The goal was to awaken her, but obviously that meant they’d want to get the most out of the experience, thus ...

CH542

I can’t think of what to make. Why can’t I think of anything to make?

Ben felt like banging his head against a wall as he kept drawing a blank. He was still in the process of making things, pumping out weapons for the war to be spread across the world, but he was supposed to have finished his quota for the day, letting him focus on creating whatever he desired in an effort to help grow his skills. That was the time he was meant to be pushing towards making legendary items, ...

CH541 Evil Gods and Eldritch Horrors Part Three

When the walls of its reality fell to dust, the creature that had been trapped within it was instantly faced with so much more than its previous existence could have prepared it for.

There was shock. After spending the whole of its existence filling all available space, the fact that it didn’t instantly expand to the new endless volume around it came as a surprise, even if there was no reason to assume it would. It was just what it was used to, the idea that it wasn’t going to get t...

CH540

<UNNATURAL THOUGHT SPEED LEVEL INCREASED>

<PUPPETRY LEVEL INCREASED>

<FINE MOTOR CONTROL LEVEL INCREASED>

<INTELLIGENCE ENHANCEMENT LEVEL INCREASED>

“That was a lot all at once,” Ben muttered as he rested his head against the final mini-gate the gods had requested of him, finally complete with that task.

It felt good to be done with it, but he had a headache once again and decided to give himself the mercy of a one-minute break to thin...

CH539 Thera's Perspective

“Still struggling with it?” Vasta asked her as the older woman watched Thera try and fail a spell again as the hours of her practice wore on, with scrying seeming completely out of her grasp.

“I just can’t get the knack of it,” She admitted, feeling every bit of her failure as she reflected back on her last month and a half of practicing.

Since she’d started her lessons, it had become pretty obvious where her strengths and weaknesses lied when it came to using her non-...

CH538 Evil Gods and Eldritch Horrors Part Two

As the world burned around him, Yotu ran.

It was an act so beneath him that he couldn’t escape the shame of it, each time his feet pounded against the dirt beneath him was a reminder of how close he’d come, only to fail in the end and be trapped in such a pathetic state. A god, bound to the body of a mortal, spending the last little bit of life he had being hunted down by his brethren, all for the crime of wanting just a little more.

How could he help it though? The other gods...

CH537

<INTELLIGENCE ENHANCEMENT LEVEL INCREASED>

Waking up in the morning, Ben was happy to prepare a quick breakfast for himself and Thera before he rushed off to work, already imagining what was going to lay ahead.

Sure, he was going to be spending weeks being worked to the bone, both making mini gates and weapons, but his teacher would be there to enjoy to his full potential, letting him see what a third-tier skill could do in full.

And maybe that means I’ll finally...