CH1024 Thera’s Perspective

Even in the days since her awakening, walking through town was a surreal experience for Thera. Everyone’s soul was in sight, and through that, everyone’s system information was visible. Ben may have been able to see soul structures and a person’s skills, but now she could see everything. Affinities and resistances, the jobs people had taken, the few of them with a title and the many with blessings, even if basically all of them had come from Myriad. It just felt like people were so exposed to her now in a way she hadn’t been prepared for, and while it was possible to suppress the sight that came with her new level of power, she didn’t. She had the knowledge she needed, but she still required practice, with the town around her becoming her training grounds.

Life spells flowed from her naturally, curing the minor aches and pains anyone in town held, Thera now able to perceive them on a deeper level than ever before, while treatment became as natural as breathing. She would see or sense something that needed correction and like that, it was done, but adjusting to acting on souls required a bit more.

Even with Ben transmitting not only all of the spells of past soul gods directly into her head, but also all of the information he’d learned and discovered about soul structure and function, bringing her newest knowledge skill to its ninth level immediately, and even with the new passive nature of her power, it still required practice, with the same people she healed becoming test subjects for those same spells.

Bonuses were applied to attributes and skills alike, the latter occasionally setting off levels in the people around her as she did it, and while each time she’d cast, those newly practiced spells would then be applied passively from there, though they’d start off in the crude state of any newly learned spell, meaning she still had to act with intent. She had to master each one to ensure that when she was blessing people with her power as she drifted by, they were getting the best she could give, making practice a necessity as she examined one other person benefitting from her spells; herself.

For good or ill, Ben had bent the gods to his whims once more, and in that, created a new goal for her as well. She needed to become more powerful, and she needed to work towards awakening her earth magic, a goal that threatened her with a new headache after what she’d done to awaken her life. And yet, she’d been paid well for efforts that would be spent directly on herself; she couldn’t just not devote herself to the task.

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Yeah, that’s about right, she sighed to herself, the application of soul magic at least contributing to a skill that would help lower her blood pressure. Doesn’t matter in the end. Ben’s right… well, right enough. I don’t know about other contenders, but when it comes to the prospects of awakening my earth magic, there can’t be any around that are currently better than me.

Much the same way he could roughly judge how close a skill was to growing through his authorities, she became more and more aware of it herself as she slowly mastered her new power. Her earth magic wanted to grow. It was basically begging for it, with her affinity practically trying to drag it to a higher realm of power. If she had a decade then it was guaranteed it would be done, easy, but she had months. Her odds were surely better than they had been for her rise to soul magic, but without a proper stimulus, that could mean nothing.

Even as it is though, my earth magic will be useful in the next wave, she told herself, materializing a simple stone ball in her hand and lightly tossed it in the air as she walked around, morphing its shape each time it went up to land back in her hand as plates or rings or small figures too, whatever she could think of without taking up so much effort that it distracted from her soul magic. If I could safely see what’s currently possible with all of my mana without terrifying anyone near enough to see it. Mmh, I might have to try and make a trip to the heart of the untamed lands at some point, and even then, see if Anailia would be willing to make sure there isn’t an army around for me to accidentally hurt.

Endless chores and things to do, she was going to need to extend her practice to some tours of other cities in the future as well, once she got the hang of things slightly more, but for the time, she could exert herself plenty with things in Stonewall, with more goals still to go.

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Like eventually, I’m going to have to try and give someone a blessing, Thera sighed, the thought of cutting off a part of her soul to do such a thing fairly unappealing after all the pain she’d seen during her hospital work of patients who’d not only had their bodies but also souls damaged from demonic attacks. But even that feels more possible than some other spells too.