CH348 Thera’s Perspective

Deep in the woods, Thera fired her spells with gusto to practice her magics. Random trees that were taking the brute of her need for distraction were dropping stone leaves one after another while the ones lucky enough not to be petrified got the benefit of the massive earth healing spell she’d put in place, stimulating their recovery in any case they might need it as dirt and dust swirled in the air, smaller stones under her control that she’d ever have managed if it wasn’t for the fact that she’d awakened her skill as Aso eventually came up beside her.

“Um, Thera? Listen, I’ve been trying to give you some time, but it’s been days and do you maybe want to talk about whatever’s bothering you?”

“Hmm? What makes you think something’s bothering me?”

“How much you’re throwing yourself into your magic for one. Your expression for another.”

Hearing that she stopped controlling her mana, letting dirt fall to the ground around them as she stopped to touch her face, feeling a deep frown as she briefly missed the privacy of her cloak. She’d never needed to get used to hiding her emotions in the past and it was clearly a skill she needed to pick up at some point as she tried to begin to put into words just what was bothering her.

It wasn’t how she ended up with a new blessing. After what she’d had to deal with in that god’s land, she wasn’t exactly a fan and it had pushed both her cooking and speed reading up a level each so getting it was completely a benefit.

To say it was really any one single thing causing her stress might be too much too, though there was certainly a case to be made for saying it was a single person as she looked to the girl with her and instead asked a question.

“Aso, what would you do if someone you loved was absolutely insane?”

“Why’s Ben insane?”

“I mean, this isn’t necessarily about Ben,” She muttered as her friend laughed.

“Well Sonya’s sane and your uncle seems normal enough. Is there anyone else in town who would be stressing you out like this?”

“Fine. Ben’s insane because he’s far too prone to getting in trouble and it’s stressing me out.”

After a week he was finally at the point that light wasn’t making his headache worse, but what was going on in his head was still a source of stress as she couldn’t help but worry about any long-term effects his brain would have to deal with for going through all of that for so long, and that wasn’t even considering what she’d learned had happened between him and a large fraction of the world’s gods. She couldn’t imagine anybody acting like that, the fact he had without even considering the consequences left her with a headache of her own as she kept worrying she’d wake up to learn he’d faced some sort of divine retribution.

At her concern though, Aso couldn’t help but laugh. “Come on, I mean yeah, getting hospitalized by a system effect was downright bizarre, but how much trouble could he get in?”

Oh, you have no idea.

She wasn’t going to spread around half of the madness he’d made her and her family aware of when it came to his life and she pinched the bridge of her nose while she thought about it.

“I think I need a vacation. A nice long one where nobody tries to kill anyone and I get nothing but peace of mind.”

“Well, let’s worry about that when we get back in town ‘cause someone destroyed the area I was looking for my quests herb,” Aso told her, casting her eyes around the space that had been devastated in Thera’s own personal practice.

“Ah, right.”

Getting back to the guild with Aso, Thera went to the job crystal in the back, feeling a bit more relaxed after enjoying her company and having their talk, right up until she saw the options that filled her mind.

AVAILABLE JOBS

Queen of mana
Musician
Professional dancer
Bard
Darkness mage -charm specialized
Healer
Dark mage
Staff user
Master life mage
Master adventurer
Earth princess

“You have to be kidding me.”

She knew that any jobs a person could get after the master branch was supposed to be more personalized than what typical jobs would offer, but that was a little too personalized for her taste.

In theory, she understood it. The spirits had decided she was their princess for whatever reason and that was significant enough that it was reflected in her status. As the first child of a great spirit as well, it made sense that she would get a job that reflected her heritage.

But seriously, earth princess? And that’s my only option? The system didn’t see anything else worth giving me as I kept advancing the earth path?

She couldn’t help but be a little annoyed about it, with the biggest issue being that after she completed it her bonuses for earth magic might end all together if she didn’t get another job for it, but she decided to add that to her growing list of worries for later as she decided on what to take.

A part of her wanted to take master life mage because of her worries about Ben, but while it seemed like her magic was helping a little, she didn’t think it would make a difference even if she gained a whole level to her life magic, and more importantly, she didn’t know how long it would take to complete. By virtue of awakening the skill she was already one of the best healers on the planet, and with a time she’d need to fight with all of her might only a few months away, she knew she wanted to take something that might help with that.

Surprisingly enough, that left queen of mana as a genuine option despite how she’d been ignoring it all of her life. Her control had grown more than enough that she no longer had any issue with the idea of taking a job meant to help her mana develop even further and could see other areas it could help, such as letting her help larger groups of the spirits who kept seeking her out.

…But that won’t help my magics, and I’m going to be getting excellent bonuses if I take the last option… Damn it, I don’t think I’m going to be able to hide this from Ben for long. I choose earth princess.

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