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Eventually, Abrus forced the crowd to disperse, and while Ben got the great spirit to agree to host Greed, with the two of them still having things they needed to discuss, they both decided that was for a later day as he and Thera made their way back to the embassy.

When he looked at her he had so much he wanted to say. He’d just been through a living nightmare, but seeing her was like a dream. He thought his feelings were going to spill out, but what he said ended up being completely different.

“I need to redo the enchantment on your brace.”

“Oh, uh sure, I guess it’s getting late anyway,” She said as she watched the sun sink off in the distance and took his arm in her own, holding it tight as if he might escape otherwise. “Let’s go.”

On the way there and as they made it back they talked while Ben took a seat on her bed, her brace in one hand and her hand in his other as they told each other just what they’d missed. Ben tried to give a simpler explanation on the more extreme parts of his ordeal while at the same time he thought Thera was skimming over plenty herself, with her time alone being chalked up to training in the woods as she waited for him, but he didn’t intend to push. He couldn’t have been happier for her growth while she seemed almost amused by his.

“So not only did you awaken a second skill and get both of them to the first level, but in less than three months you took two non-affinitied magics from the zeroth to the fourth? You really are ridiculous.”

“I mean, when you look at all the job bonuses going to both of them it’s not that shocking, not to mention having a proper blessing mage with me. Being able to practice continually helps a lot.”

“That’s a higher level than some people would get after years of practice, but whatever, I’m not even surprised. I’m just happy mine are all still higher. Well, except my charm but that’s for the best too. Honestly, how embarrassing would it be to have any lower magic levels than you?” She said with a laugh.

“Ha, well you better keep practicing or I’m going to catch up. It might take some time to finish the tank job now that I’m not on the constant verge of dying, but the moment I do I’m taking master craftsman and I can only imagine how good those bonuses are going to be for me.”

“Well, I’ll have to do my best. Any other crazy things happen to your status I should know about?”

“Man, there’s been so many changes I don’t even know.”

He listed everything he could remember, stopping to answer any of her questions as he did while the hours passed by through the night and the morning rays of the sun began to make their way through the window.

Despite how much more mana he had and how fast he now regenerated it, it was still taking him just as long to make the enchantment as any of the past time’s he’d done it.

The reason for that was simple. Despite how much more mana he had access to, given the immense increase to his enchanting as a whole since it awakened, he was now able to make it with an overwhelming level of skill compared to the past, but that meant it was still going to take time. If he would have been content to have it as good as what existed before he was sure he could have finished in at most an hour, but he knew he could do so much better and wanted to see just how that would pay off in the end.

<And when you finish you’re going to tell her?>

Yes, obviously yes. I just want to get this out of the way before I immediately do something that might ruin our friendship.

<You really shouldn’t be such a downer about this, we both know you have a good shot.>

We’ll see.

He finished it up as his god spoke into his mind, and even he had to admit that he’d created a thing of beauty with it. Anyone with the mana sense to see the structure of what he’d created would be blown away at the delicate weaves of mana, all but forming a silken tapestry to wrap around what Thera constantly gave off. If he was right, then combining all of the level eight skill rings he’d gotten from her mother, along with dark resistance enhancement and his own resistance enhancement, should have put her effect at a distance to around six and her effect on contact to sixteen after considering how his new skill should interact with it, accounting for how her charm had leveled up since he’d last updated the enchantment. It just came down to actually testing it.

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He got a passometer from one of his bags Thera had in her room and set it up to measure what she gave off, feeling his eyes widen as he double and triple-checked, doing everything he could to make sure he was right before he spoke up.

“Something wrong?” She asked as she watched him react, only for him to quickly shake his head.

“No, just hold it and we’ll see your effect on contact,” He told her as he handed it over, watching three of the ten standing pegs fall.

“So what am I currently at?” She asked, taking her eyes away from the passometer to see the wide grin stretching across Ben’s face.

“On contact, seven. At a distance though, zero. Congrats Thera.”

She felt her own eyes widen at his words, not able to believe what she had heard at first.