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 Zandale’s help. Ben couldn’t help but be a little jealous of her after a long day of getting beaten up, but it looked like she’d gone all out preparing dinner since she was home before them and the chance to dig in went a long way to ease his mood, especially knowing he was going to be up for a while.

“Hey Sonya, mind if I move everything out of the living room for the night? There’s something I want to try,” He asked as the meal ended, confusing the other two at the table.

“…I guess it’s not an issue if you put everything back after, but what are you doing?” Hesitation and curiosity were plain in her voice, but he did have a good reason.

“I was hoping it would be cool if I put a large-scale enchantment on the room.”

“Wait, you want to enchant an entire room? Who does that?” Thera asked, surprised. Enchantments were something that were put on items, the idea of putting one on an entire room was ridiculous. Aside from the level of patience it would take to do, there was also the whole issue of powering it, it just wasn’t reasonable to supply mana to something that size.

Sonya seemed mildly worried but held enough trust in Ben that she accepted it. “I suppose that would be alright, but what were you hoping to accomplish doing something like that?”

“One part is to get a couple levels on my new job. As for the other, well It’s a bit of a surprise, but trust me, if it works then the payoff’s going to be great.”

The answer filled neither of the women with confidence but considering how much he’d done for them today they gave him their trust as he emptied the living room of all of its furniture and got to work.

The idea had come to him when he’d quickly thrown together a resistance amulet for Zandale so he could touch Thera to transfer the skill over. It started as a question really, what would happen if the enchantment for it was placed on an entire room.

The answer to which was nothing really. Anyone within would be safe from the passive effects from any charm leaking in from the outside, but sufficiently thick and sturdy walls were able to block it to an extent anyway. Thera’s was powerful enough to create issues despite that, but Falk had apparently reinforced the outer walls of the house when she’d moved in, just to be safe.

Still, that meant an enchantment of that size wouldn’t actually help anyone in the room if the charm user was there as well, but what if it could? The enchantments on the amulets were set up in a way that they covered the user, but what if they were made to fill a given space instead? Would it have any effect? It was worth a try at least, and he wanted to see how far he could take the idea, so he got to work.

Having three minds at his disposal capable of enchanting in tandem had the potential to make the entire task significantly quicker than it otherwise would, but as per usual when he tried something big, he was limited by his low mana. At least he could finally train it a bit more efficiently thanks to having a job that gave it a bonus but it would still be a while before he made it into the lower end of what was considered average.

All he could do for now was construct the enchantment slowly and let the hours pass. He let himself get lost in the work, planning the most optimal locations to lay his enchantment and weaving them to reduce the overall mana cost as much as he could to ensure he could get the most out of how he intended to power it.

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It was still more efficient than when he’d created the one for Theras arm brace at least. By having two minds dedicated to enchantment construction and one focused on regulating the mana cost he was able to increase the speed by quite a bit. That didn’t change that it was going to take all night to finish, but it did mean he wouldn’t be late to the shop at least.

He worked away patiently, in hindsight regretting that he started with the largest of rooms in the house, but eventually it was done.

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