CH217

“I seriously can’t believe you’re both going off to fight a herd of leviathans. Can’t you just, I don’t know, pretend to be ill or something?” Myriad said with a sigh, not even having the energy needed to keep his cubic form floating in the air, instead sitting on the ground as Ben leaned against him.

“I live with two life mages, that would never fly. Besides, if Falk can’t get out of it then there’s no way I could.”

“And I’m a life mage too,” Sachel said, being brought to Myriad’s realm as an equally important member of the faith at risk of dying. “But this could be a good chance to earn some recognition for you, we should do everything we can to make the most of it!”

While she was enthusiastic about it, Ben was not. He’d read through the booklet provided and it was more than enough to put him on edge. They were expecting around a dozen juvenile leviathans, each the size of a house and capable of untold destruction. Maybe the others would be able to do something, but he would basically just be going to get in the way and steal some of the experience. Frankly, the insistence he participate was nothing but a pain considering the risk, he could only hope he’d be able to hang to the back as everything happened to keep himself safe, maybe focus on maintaining the other’s weapons at most.

“Mmh, it’s just not worth the risk is the issue,” Myriad went on. “The prophecy came from the banshee but they can’t predict anything specific, just coming deaths. That already puts this at a bad sign. At the very least promise me you’ll both keep yourselves safe.”

“Promise.”

“Obviously, I’m not getting eaten by a sea dragon if I can help it.”

“The bigger concern is how it would cook you first, but as long as you keep yourselves safe that’s all that matters, though there’s another thing I need you both to be aware of. It didn’t make it into your booklet, but the town you’re heading to is home of one of the demigods so be on your best behaviour.”

Despite the fact that he said it as if addressing them both, Myriad and Ben both knew who he was specifically talking about, even if Sachel viewed him positively enough to not even consider that he might cause any problems.

Not like I intend to anyway. Honestly Myriad, just what do you think of your sweet apostle over here?

Despite hearing the thought the god didn’t answer, instead focusing on Sachel as she spoke up.

“Wait, why wouldn’t that have been in the briefing? That seems pretty important to know.”

“I can’t say for sure but you’ll all become aware when you get to town anyway so it doesn’t matter too much. Either way, I’d recommend avoiding them if you can, it would save a lot of hassle.”

“What?” Ben couldn’t help but question. “Demigod implies a fair bit of power, right? I think that’s exactly who I want to stick to.”

He knew next to nothing about beings like that on the world, but if the child of a god wasn’t even strong then what was the point? In a situation like this that seemed like the exact sort of person to rely on.

“Mmh, it’s complicated. While he should have a decent level of strength to him, the mortal children of gods can be difficult. It’s one of the reasons there’s so few of them. While I can’t say anything for sure since I haven’t looked into him too much, keeping a distance is the easiest way to avoid issues. More importantly though, it’s to keep anyone from causing trouble,” He explained, again directing his tone to Ben.

“What the hell man, this is starting to feel like slander.”

“Just trying to make things clear. Anyway, that was the main thing for the day so try to rest on the way there and be safe.”

With that Sachel vanished, leaving Ben alone with his god.

“Something you wanted to keep private?”

“It’s more out of consideration to you. I just thought I’d let you know that another of the otherworlders was sent to be with him. It’s no one from your group, but in the event you want to chat with them just keep in mind what I said about being on good behaviour, though at the same time they’d caused plenty of problems of their own when they arrived so don’t force yourself if you’re not interested.”

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“I mean, hearing that actually makes me more interested. What did they do that was so bad?”

“It’s not so much what they did but what they are. A species called orions, she’s a member of a reptilian race.”