Chapter 590
After a night of talking with Myriad, passing the time the best he could while further refining his idea to put into practice later, Ben got up for the day, heading to the living room first instead of the kitchen like he normally would and finding Thera awake and hard at work, even if she looked like she wanted to be anything but.
With the living room swarmed with spirits, it was obvious shed spent a long night both giving them her mana as well as working on her spirit comprehension, even if that wasnt the original goal that had her out there.n0ve(l)bi(n.)co/m
Morning, howd it go? He asked her, watching as she yawned out an answer.
I finally, finally got a level to my sleep resistance, She told him, even if just how exhausted she sounded made the statement a little less than believable. And I officially never want to try to get another.
They both knew she was going to be worked hard during the next wave, to the point that the gods had even gone out of their way to give her the skill despite how cheap they could be, but in the months since shed gotten it, she hadnt managed to raise its level even once until then, leaving her to make a concentrated effort that past week to pull it off, just so she wouldnt completely fail at the expectations she had placed on her, no matter how much she may have hated it.
Thera liked her sleep. Training to avoid it felt more like a punishment than anything else, no matter how handy it was going to be.
Ugh, and I have stuff to do today too, She groaned.
Then have a nap, Ben laughed. Ill wake you in an hour when breakfast is ready.
No sooner than the words had left his mouth was it that she took him up on his offer, passing out without another sound and leaving Ben to grin, gently rubbing her head before heading to the kitchen to prepare a nice meal to start the day.
If this is how shes looking after her first level then someone should definitely recommend that she try to get second before the next wave if she can, just not sure if I want to be the one to do it.
After breakfast was done and Ben had managed to both lure Sonya out with the smell and wake up his very tired girlfriend, his first stop for the day wasnt to the shop like it normally would be, instead going to his empty house on the street, specifically around back where his greenhouse sat.
Within stood a single fruit tree, even if one wouldnt think that at first glance.
The structure was filled with stems and branches, all interconnected through the root network down below to ensure that every bit of it was still one singular plant for it to show its proper effects.
Still possessed by the soul of one of the forbidden gods as well as a demon, the plant was still going strong, all the more so thanks to the powerful plant enchantments Ben had built into the enclosure and continuously improved, leading to the days chores as he both clipped branches and harvested a mountain of fruits, throwing them all into boxes he had around that were bound with both space and time enchantments to let them hold more and keep their contents from rotting as he looked at his ever-grown horde.
At this point, even with the potions Im sharing with Thera, Sonya, Falk, Sachels party, and the stuff Im mailing out to the dryads, I think I have enough here that I could last for a few years if this stopped producing for some reason. He happily mused. I really should try and see if theres ever anything else I could do with these beyond just purely strengthening potions. If I could somehow configure them to focus on a singular attribute then that would be ideal but I dont really know where Id start with trying to figure that out. Hey Myriad, are the gods doing any experimenting with their plants at least? Show me some notes.
Yeah, but I dont care about my agility.
Once that chore was done, Ben went to his true second home. Not the house he bought but would never use, but instead the shop, where Falk had already begun the day.
Morning Falk.
Mornin boy, looks like youll be having a busy one again.
Pfff, when dont I?
Taking a small break, you always say I should try to do that a bit more, right?
Hmm, yes, of course. Im just surprised youre doing it willingly. But why did you come up here for it then?
To satisfy my curiosity a bit I suppose. Finished my current job and decided to take actualizer for fun so I popped up here to finish it.
...Theres something deeply troubling about the fact you took a job on a whim for a bit of fun and plan on finishing it immediately.
Ben just shrugged. What can I say, I was curious and seeing as how Im already at the ninth level of the skill, its not like I should even take that long. Plus, now that Ive taken it Ive gotten to see that its giving me vitality bonuses so this will be a good way to make sure its not killing me.
Bizzare, but I suppose I approve of testing to make sure youre not about to accidentally end your own existence. In that case, make me something tasty while I work.
You got it.
With nothing left but to finish his current job, Ben began actualizing in his gods realm, creating a variety of dishes for Myriad to enjoy as he went through his tasks before eventually moving on to bigger things, recreating various buildings hed been to in the most complete detail he could.
From his home on Earth to his current one, the church hed first stayed in when hed arrived on that new world and the mansion-palace that Pelenia and Abrus enjoyed, it kept him busy enough that Ben didnt notice his god growing awfully still when he created Falks shop, weapons and all, but after a bit of time passed and he got the notification he needed telling him hed completed that job too he destroyed each building to keep from cluttering the realm before he headed back down to take something harder.
Not seeing any change in his vitality, Ben instead looked at what to take next.
If hed wanted to, Ben could have kept going. While he still planned on keeping most of his mind jobs for the eventual goal of helping to carry his friends through a few of their harder options, he could have taken mathematician since he had no plans of putting himself through the nightmare that would be doing math enough to cover for six peoples worth of experience. That was a recipe for misery.
In the same way, he could have easily finished each of the path jobs that had been sitting at the top of his list for ages and even some of the advanced paths that would come after. It would certainly get him closer to any sort of hypothetical title, but given how uncertain it was that something like that would even exist and how little he cared about them as options when he still had so many more interesting ones around, he resolved himself to put it off as a later thing, something he could chip away at in between some grander jobs.
After all, despite his hope about any potential rewards that might end up existing if he completed enough jobs, he had other hopes too. Hope that taking something bigger might give him something interesting when none of those smaller options hed just sped through had granted him either skills or levels, all it came down to was which of the two he was thinking of to go with.
Either connect master or another enchanter job. The first would be aimed at a skill he certainly wanted to develop more than he was currently managing, that much was certain, but at the same time, it was keeping up with his other core skills even without that and was likely to take longer than he really wanted, probably even stretching into the second wave where using it on the invading demons would leave him with the risk of getting his soul injured again.
And sure, Id be able to get experience from killing demons instead but I'm not certain about how it would compare to the experience I would get from using my skill normally. Better to just take another enchanter job.
Ill take summoned enchanter.
Hmm, not terrible but not ideal.
Taking all of those jobs had only resulted in a single new one in the form of high actualizer which was a bit of a shame, and while getting those two levels wasnt bad, it did feel a little underwhelming. Ideally, hed been hoping for another level to his enchanting but even without that he thought he might get another new skill or two no matter how insignificant they might have ended up being.
Oh well, at least I got the job bonuses from finishing all that and the new ones so Ill count that as a small win and just aim to get the most out of them I can with the time I still have. Besides, summoned enchanter is going to be getting some immediate work.
After all, there were still a few hours of work in the day that would be filled with enchanting goodness before he moved on to his much grander project, one he felt certain would be earning him both a legendary item and a swath of new experience to go with it.
