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Pages were fluttering through his fingers as Ben went from one book to the next, learning all he could in the time he had. With only two weeks left, he wanted to make the most of it while he could before all of the books were moved away.

Information was valuable after all, and with so much of it existing near one of the invasion points, it couldn’t simply be left there. Boxes were already being packed away as Ben stood among the librarians, picking out books before they could be stowed, flipping through them to gain all he could, and handing them off as they could only watch in awe at the speed he’d read at.

He felt himself pushing his mind skills but couldn’t help it. They were safely at the ninth level and there was no way reading would awaken them if all he’d done to try and push both connect and meditation hadn’t tipped either over the edge, so he ignored his headache and kept going, picking up a book and finishing it only minutes later before moving on to the next.

It helped that he didn’t have much else to do. Thera had been spending almost all of her time going through different gates to help Lux while Falk was busy practicing his magic in the event that things got bad enough that he’d have to use it. Sonya meanwhile was spending time with Pelenia, leaving him as the only one without any way to use his time, at least in that week.

Even Myriad had been too busy to chat. He knew the other gods he was acquainted with were going to be, but he really hadn’t been expecting his own to have much to deal with. It had been keeping the inside of his head unusually silent, minus the unending sounds of his own thoughts filling the space as they endlessly turned over ideas, examined the things he was learning and trying to fit them together in different ways to see what fun potential existed with what he’d read.

It would have been nice if Naloth had been able to stick around a bit too. I feel like there may be a way to create an item to reduce the difficulty of using ritual magic with larger groups, I wouldn’t mind someone to bounce the idea off of.

He’d liked the guy enough when they’d talked, finding a bright mind that was good for brainstorming with, but it seemed he only had the one day free when they’d met and had to leave for his own war preparations.

And the only other person I remotely know here is Iberu and I can’t bother him either. Okay, this is fine, I’ll stick to the books.

Even if he’d already spent days reading, he could do it for days more. He did still have monumental challenges to take on after all. He needed to refine his idea for making a body for Inux and the summoning spell was constantly on his mind as well, even if being in the craftsman’s guild was probably far less valuable for that line of thinking that it would be compared to going through the gate to the magic towers.

But all knowledge is valuable and I am going to actually test out the bits I can for summoning later. Who knows, maybe I’ll find a gem in all of these rocks. Just gotta keep digging.

“Woah, are you okay?” Ben asked as Thera made her way to the room he was using, flopping onto his bed as he was busy cooking dinner for the two of them. “Bad day at the hospitals?”

“The system is stupid and its naming sense sucks.”

“Well, come have some stew and tell me about it. A new skill?”

“I wish. I finished my job,” She admitted as she got up, taking a bowl and beginning to eat as she did. “I had three new options this time Ben. I’m literally half earth spirit! How did I get more options for completing my life magic branch!”

“Ha, well you are a fantastic healer, aren’t you? Obviously, the system is just acknowledging that. So what are they?”

“Mmh, I got homunculus creator and chimera maker. Both things I only practiced with Vividus and both I was exceptionally bad at. The chimeras she had me try to put together were lucky if they survived the process and the homunculus was basically a puddle of goop. I absolutely should have gotten more earth magic jobs before I got something like that.”

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Ben couldn’t help but laugh as he moved beside her, rubbing her back as he did. “Well, when you consider the purpose of a job is to give you an easier time raising your skills and that your earth magic affinity is over a hundred, maybe the system just decided you’d be better off getting bonuses elsewhere. That is if it does any deciding I guess, not really clear on that and Myriad won’t tell me. More importantly, since you very subtly didn’t mention what the third one was, do you mind if I take a guess?”

“I’d rather you didn’t.”

The request only made his smile stretch out even wider as he leaned over and whispered in her ear, confident he was going to be correct. “My beautiful life princess.”

“Ugh, I don’t want to think about it,” She complained, his guess being spot on. “Anailia doesn’t pass on succession through blood and my father isn’t a king of spirits, why did they all have to decide that I’m their princess? To this day, not one will give me a straight answer no matter how nicely I ask. If they’ve gone and decided they’re my subjects then shouldn’t they be telling me these things?”

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