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CH151

His mind immediately flashed to when he’d heard about it in Anailia. He hadn’t known what races had been hunted, but things suddenly made a fair bit more sense around the village. “Okay, I can see why that would give you some stranger-danger.”

“Well, there were around a dozen races that suffered from that sort of thing but we probably suffered the most for it. The world is large after all, and we mostly keep to ourselves. Even if a village of us was left alone, if our forests ...

CH150

Oh my god, I miss the shop so much. Having all the resources I need at my fingertips is a blessing that I’m a fool for taking for granted

<You’re exaggerating.>

Am I? I’m going to be at this for hours!

When they got back while carrying the pot for collecting tar as well as the press and the spacial bag filled with seeds, Ben quickly sent Skoe back to get the rest of the sticks he’d gathered while Fontesh went to ask her friends and neighbours ...

CH149

After the girls had left to work on figuring out how they would get rid of the frost bats, Ben began his own goal, earning Myriad faith amongst the town.

It started out easy enough, Fontesh showed him all of the enchanted items she possessed, which wasn’t too many. The cold box for storing food, a water jug for collecting water from the air, a stove for cooking, and a few simple lights. None of the enchantments on the ones she owned were overly complicated, and Ben was able to improve...

CH148 Thera's Perspective

Thera woke up alone, not surprised to see that Ben must have gone the entire night without rest working on whatever plan he had to complete his current quest and followed her bind skill to find him.

It was early in the morning still, which meant he was in the first place she’d look, even without it. He was in the kitchen cooking breakfast, and for whatever reason, the small dryad child was sitting on his shoulders and hounding him with questions.

“What’s that?”

“Pa...

CH147

There were still a few hours of sunlight left in the day so Ben instructed Sachel and her party to collect a variety of large stones for him, not for her quest, but as a way of completing his own while he focused on preparing the room they would be staying in.

It was significantly smaller than the living room he’d first tried this enchantment on, to the point it felt more like a storage room that just happened to have a bed, but that meant he’d be able to get it done in a couple hou...

Poll vote

Hello everyone, hope the week's treated you all well cause it's time for the next side chapter vote! As mentioned at the end of the last side chapter, I was going to be offering a bit of a different option for this one, which would be a Valaria mini arc. My aim would be to have it be around ten chapters in length (thought there may be slightly more or less since I'm not great at estimating these things) so it might take a bit to put out and there wouldn't be another side story vote until it w...

CH146

They walked on in silence for a while, the three they’d come to save not knowing what to make of Ben's declaration, and Thera wanting to give him a few moments to calm down. Still, it didn’t take long until they were well away from Sachel’s grandmother's home when he turned around to speak to them.

“Alright, first off, Thera sorry but it looks like I might be here for a while. If you need to head off I understand.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll help you out,” She said while...

CH145

Thera and Ben looked at each other, trying to silently communicate whether or not they should walk down into the earth, but the village elder went down and without much other choice they both followed.

It didn’t go down far and there was a source of light, although faint, and despite the seriousness of the situation and just how uncomfortable it seemed, the moment they reached the bottom and saw Sachel, Skoe, and Ralia, Thera burst into laughter.

The village head gave her a surp...

CH144

Days of travel passed but they’d finally made it to their destination. After making it through the gate, the cost for the next carriage to their destination of syro village was significantly more expensive. Unlike their initial ride from Stonewall, which would stop at other villages along the way so they could expect a constant stream of passengers and end with a more reasonable price overall, the one to syro had none of that.

Apparently, the small village was in the opposite directio...

Side Story- A different believer, part 3

“Myriad, I wasn’t expecting to see you again so soon,” Valaria said as she awoke in her god’s realm and kneeled before the cube floating above her.

“Please, stand already. I just thought I would check how your first day with the skill treated you. What were your thoughts on it?”

“It seems interesting. When I tried practicing with a friend I thought I might barely be able to feel their ambient mana, so hopefully if I get it to the first level I’ll be able to begin m...

CH143

Falk was understanding enough, even if he was going to take a few weeks off it gave him time to focus on some of his own tasks he couldn’t complete with Ben around, and to the residents of the world it made sense for an apostle to fulfill the requests of their gods.

What mattered was telling Thera. He wasn’t sure how she’d react given that her relationship with them all was rocky, especially Skoe, but hoped that things would be fine overall as he explained what had been asked of h...

CH142

The effects of altering the enchantment were minor, but that was to be expected. As a fifth-level enchanter, he’d been able to get the effect of Thera’s charm at a distance down to only needing a resistance of 19, while her effect on contact needed a resistance of 29. Both values were far too high for an average person to deal with, though it was still a significant improvement overall.

After tying in the effects of the other skills, he’d only managed to bring both down to 18 and ...

Side Story- A different believer, part 2

Authors note

So just a heads up, this side story ended up being longer than expected and I want to fiddle with the ending a bit longer, so there may be one or two more parts depending on what I change with the second half. It will be up in the following week so hope you all enjoy.

Things had gone slightly different for Valaria than she’d expected after gaining the skill and informing the queen. Her plan had been to only take a few days off to start experimenting with ...

CH141

More days passed as Ben continued his work in the shop making a variety of items, some to be sold in there, and others handed off to traveling merchants Falk knew as a way to empty out the storage room without cluttering the sales floor or workshop in the back. All the while he was trying to learn as much about the various skills he had access to enchant with as he could, from reading up as much as he was able in the few books on skills present in the adventurers guild archives to having Myri...

CH140

Eventually, Falk kicked him out for the day and Ben went back home to prep dinner for everyone, as well as work on his personal project. He was almost done with it and knew he’d be up all night if it meant having it finished even a bit faster, but he needed something to eat first.

He pulled out some ingredients and started preparing them when Thera got home and looked over his shoulder.

“Smells good, what’s for dinner?”

“Just a simple stew. Since we had leftover ro...

CH139

He ran out to the front and waited for Falk to finish up with a customer before showing off his final product. His teacher took both from him and gave them a good look over, carefully inspecting the quality of his enchantment and commenting on what worked well and what areas he could probably improve on with a bit more practice, before telling Ben what he really wanted to know.

“Unfortunately, the spear’s only upper-uncommon,” He said. But Ben wasn’t worried. Since he didn’t s...

CH138

It had been about one and a half months since Thera’s birthday and Ben was laying in bed, wide-eyed despite the time of night and struggling with a question. How to train the areas he was falling behind the most in.

Ignoring agility since he had no bonuses to it, he wanted to train his mana and vitality attributes more. Both could be improved by spending either mana or life force, but any way he could think to go about it wasn’t desirable. Mana didn’t seem like it should be too ba...

Side story poll

That's right everyone, it's time for the side story poll, come one come all and cast your votes. We've got a few different options for your reading pleasure so hopefully I've got one on here that will leave you entertained.

As a side note, as of yesterday it's officially been over a year since I've started writing Chaotic craftsman! Just want to thank you all for reading and the support, you guys are the best!

CH137 Thera's Perspective

It turned out the entertainment Ben had in mind was board games, and lots of them. While their house had lowmage to play for whenever they got bored, it seemed he’d decided to take the time to recreate a few from his own world and made sure to carefully explain the rules of each before cracking them open and giving them a go, the result of which being Ben's total defeat.

“Hey Thera, how is this possible,” He asked, voice full of exhaustion. “It’s not like I thought you didn’...

CH136 Thera's Perspective

Thera sat down in her living room, focusing intensely on the mana within herself. As annoying as it was to have dealt with her aunt a week ago, she couldn’t deny that for once Vividus had been useful to her.

Neither she nor Funa had considered that she’d never experienced dark mana in its natural state, but now that she had, she was aware of the subtle differences between it and the charmed dark mana within her. Funa had told her that she would either need to stop her mana from bein...

Side Story- A different believer

What would drive a person to abandon a god they’d served faithfully for years? Money was a part of it. As an enchanter of Anailia, Valaria had been promised by the queen of the nation herself that she would want for nothing when it came to resources if she showed her dedication to achieving results, that was how desperately Pelenia wanted to have people capable of producing resistance braces, and it seemed the various heads of each lower branch of the government agreed. They wanted enchante...

CH135

<She didn’t seem thrilled to be used like that.> Myriad said as he was waiting in the evening.

“I know, I wouldn’t have chosen to do things that way either, but since they wouldn’t just trust my work I had to do something. Hopefully, the surprise is better than any unpleasantness she had to deal with.”

<And if they act out during your little surprise?>

“Are you kidding? If they do I’m raising hell. With the amount I’m paying I refuse to let them b...

CH134 Thera's Perspective

Thera sat in the training grounds, staff outstretched as she focused on using the skill placed on her. Telekinesis felt similar enough to how she used her earth magic, to the point that she worried she was using it by mistake, especially since she had no choice but to use it with raw earth. It may have been a skill that would let her move anything through mana, but the training ground near town didn’t have anything in the way or trees or water, so she had no choice but to practice with dirt...

CH133

Ben got home, exhausted after a long day and knowing there was still more to do. He hadn’t managed to gain the skill on the first day, and neither had Thera. Zandale at least had managed to get both connect and hidden mind, though they would still try to use their skills as a way to try and level up connect faster while still in town, and they had yet to acquire complex mind.

Of everyone, Sonya had been the luckiest, gaining mana examination after only her second time getting Zandales...

Update and poll

Hey everyone, Turnip here with an update on things and also a poll for the future. First off, tomorrow will be the last day of my mass release having posted seven additional chapters on top of the regularly scheduled ones. It's been hectic getting them all out but I think it was also a rewarding experience to see just how much effort is needed to release so much. 

Other than that the poll is complete with a POV chapter of one of Myriads new believers being the winner. I'm pretty ex...

CH132

They discussed the details a bit longer before Falk got to work and Ben was able to direct his focus to Zandale.

“Sorry about that, didn’t mean to keep you waiting.”

“Not at all, as someone who only has the third level in blacksmithing, that was all incredibly impressive. But with that done, have you found a skill that has grabbed your attention?”

When Ben had been going through the book of skills, it had Zandales level in each too and Ben was sure his smithing had...

CH131

Ben woke up early and immediately read through the list of skills before heading off to Falk’s shop. He was a little discouraged having gone through it. When Myriad had said he might have access to a quarter of skills it looked like he was being optimistic. Ben did the math after reading through it all, he could only take advantage of one in six. Interestingly, while it seemed like he could learn Zandale’s four main skills, they and a variety of others would take upwards of half a year to...

CH130

“Ben, it's so good to have you back!” Myriad yelled as he woke up in his god’s realm.

“Good to be back, I escape death yet again.”

“Well stop walking into situations where you have to! Thera literally just gave you an out and you turned it away!”

“Hey now, do you really want to spend our first meeting in weeks complaining about something you know I won’t change my mind on?”

Myriad sighed, the sparkle he had when Ben first got there dulling with his ...

CH129

“Ben!” Onk yelled out as he got into the adventurers guild and quickly ran over to him. “Are you alright to be up? The rumour was going around you were barely hanging onto life.”

“I’m all good,” he told her reassuringly. “But what rumours, I don’t think one injured guy is that important?”

“There were dozens of healers rushing into town to treat you, of course there would be rumours about it!” She yelled, before asking in a far quieter voice. “Speaking of,...

CH128

Leaving the clinic took longer than expected, as soon as Sonya found out he was up she insisted on giving him a thorough look over, despite his insistence that he felt fantastic. He understood where she was coming from at least. He’d been unconscious and in bed for weeks on top of having a xenotransplant done with mystery organs in the middle of the woods. When he thought about it in those terms he became a little worried too, but once it was all done he made his way back to his favourite s...