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“What has you so cheerful?” Thera asked as they met in the morning, Ben taking her in his arms and spinning around out of joy.

“Being an apostle has finally paid off ‘cause my glorious, wonderful, majestic god pulled some favours and now my headache isn’t as bad. Apparently, I’ll be all healed up a month sooner than expected so just around three more to deal with. Oh man, it’s so nice to be alive.”

Despite still being far from one hundred percent, it was the best he’d felt in weeks and he was happy to take it since it was a weight from his mind as Thera smiled back, just as happy to be hearing that bit of good news.

“That’s great! Just don’t let that get you in the mind frame to be pushing your mind skills though, okay?”

“Yes ma’am, don’t worry, I already promised Myriad I was going to get to the third tier of meditation before I let myself go through this again. Forget being a zen master, I’m going to become some sort of zen god. I’ll reach nirvana and be free of all of my worldly suffering.”

She had no idea what he was going on about but laughed anyway, his good mood rubbing off on her as she felt better for knowing he was getting better before they went off to breakfast, followed by another day in the library.

Well, I guess that’s something. Ben thought with a sigh as he put the book down.

He’d spent the last bit of the day going through some of the books in the library that were considered earth and death magic adjacent, their contents easier to learn for him thanks to the fact that they were related to his knowledge skill which ended with his getting a level up, but all of that had only happened after many long hours reading up on enchanting.

Even if slightly underwhelming, he’d consider the time he’d spent on the topic to have been worthwhile. He’d gotten to learn some more enchanting spells, even if they seemed obscure and less valuable than what he could manage by just using his skill rings, and just as interestingly, he’d gotten to read up on the many subtle differences between different awakened enchanting skills.

There were many known and recorded paths to the skill, from the more typical high enchanting that was a more linear growth to the skill, to options where it would combine with a magic, granting the user the ability to enchant with it at a higher level than it could normally be cast, along with options where it combined with different crafting disciplines, getting skills like magic crafting or enchanted smithing, the name depending on specifically what combined with it and how, along with some influence from the past experience of the skill holder.

Of those, his divine enchanting seemed most comparable to the standard high variant, with the main difference that even when it was at the zeroth level it was significantly farther along. He wasn’t certain, in fact he felt a lot of doubt in it, but it seemed like when he’d first gained the skill it would have been the equivalent of the fifth level in high enchanting, potentially even beyond that, with every level since being worth multiple levels of the high skill.

I mean, I’d really want to see what someone with high enchanting could do to properly compare, but I have been told that it was pretty much unheard of to get the prefix divine added to a second-tier skill so maybe there’s some truth in it. What else could be making that difference though? The fact that it’s my blessed skill must be doing something, but the only skill it combined with when it awakened was enchanting knowledge. How much difference could that have made for things?

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It had been proving to be an unusually handy skill, and it wasn’t like its effects vanished when it combined. If anything they’d grown greater. For whatever reason the skill had let him learn not just information on enchanting with greater ease, but knowledge on magic and skills in general.

On that note, Myriad did you ever end up finding out why my enchanting knowledge was so versatile?

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