CH213

<So when are you telling her?>

How many times do I have to tell you, not happening.

<Boo. Fortune favours the bold. Hell, this isn’t even about being particularly bold. It’s asking out a girl you’re pretty sure already likes you. Do you have any idea how many lonely souls would love to be in your position?>

Ben could only groan. When he’d made the mistake of admitting to both his god and himself that he was interested in Thera those few months prior it had been in a moment of weakness when he was unsure about what to do about it and because of that Myriad hadn’t shut up since.

Look, maybe she does like me, I’ll admit that’s kind of the impression I get when I practice connecting with her anyway, but that’s meaningless if she doesn’t want to get romantically involved with anyone regardless. Now are we going to keep talking about this or can I focus on the church?

It was finally complete in all of its glory. Two stories with two basements as well, he had a lot of space to fill up for his own uses, but the main area left for visitors of all sorts was what he was currently dedicated to, filling the walls with small metal plates.

It had been his idea and he thought it was quite the good one, filling the walls with tiles, each of which had a skill enchanted to it with its name and level written down. It created an environment where Myriad’s believers would want to come to make copies of them and was a place where the effects of connect could be fully felt. With that goal clear the day had been spent copying the effects of his numerous skill rings, but despite that, his god wasn’t budging.

<With the number of minds in your head you can easily do that while we talk, now come on, this is an order from your wonderful god, confess your attraction to her so you can get to work on creating me some new believers.>

Make it a quest and I’ll think about it.

<Bah, I would if I could with how stubborn you’re being. In that case, get me some new believers instead so I can grow my faith enough to have more flexibility in just what quests I can grant.>

I’m sure Sachel can handle that, for now let me just finish up in peace.

With only a little more nagging from his god he was able to finish up with the enchantments before moving on to the next part of setting up the church, the private areas. He fully intended to use almost all of the extra space for his own purposes, and given the hundreds of books he now had, he needed to put together shelves before arranging everything.

As far as things went it was a surprisingly quick task. He already had his wood cut and ready, it just came down to assembly, only taking a bit over an hour to do. From there he arranged the shelves before looking them all over in the end.

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Yep, it’s perfect. What do you think Myriad?

<I think there’s a ridiculous amount of space left considering how much you’re saving for personal use. You didn’t even fill up an entire floor.>

Yeah, but now I can start moving things I don’t need in here as well. Trust me, it’ll fill up before you know it.

<Still can’t believe you finally made me a real church only for most of it to end up as a storage room.>

Hey now, I did it because it was convenient. If you were against it I would have just made the entire place smaller.