CH404 Thera’s Perspective

I really don’t want to go deal with this. Thera thought with a sigh as the sun rose.

Even if she hadn’t gotten any sleep that night, she was just so comfortable compared to the last few days, her head resting on Ben’s chest, drawing circles with her fingers was so much more pleasant compared to dealing with the state of the world. She would have been happy to just lounge around like that for days.

Unfortunately, that day was too important, so with one final look at his sleeping face, she got up and dressed, scribbling a quick note for him when he woke up before quietly leaving their room to make her way through the ruined city.

The spirits had been thorough in their rage, with everything that they could destroy being left as nothing more than piles of rubble at her feet, with only a few other buildings still standing.

Given the condition of the place, it was surprising that there was still anyone other than them there to see it, but plenty of patients had been moved there since it was a relatively safe area, all things considered, and there were still some members of each army along with various adventurers going out to hunt the many demons that had come through the now vanished gate that survived.

As she went, she pushed rubble out of the way, clearing the road to the planet’s own gate network before stepping through to see just how crowded it was. While nobody was rushing to get through the one she’d just come from baring the occasional group of patients, for all of the others it was like the entire world was trying to move at once, everyone having somewhere to go as the dense crowd of people were still moving even three days after all of the invasion points closed.

She couldn’t exactly blame anyone for it either, everyone on the planet was dealing with the emotional fallout. There were plenty of people who were elated, celebrating the fact that the gates had been forced shut early without word of the cause spreading to them yet, while for others their fears were only made worse. With the exception of the mana-based life of the world, nobody living had seen with their own eyes what the battle would entail. Being told about it simply hadn’t done any justice to the experience, and as lucky as they felt that the first wave had ended early, it made them all the more aware of how much worse the next ones would get.

And that’s not even thinking about the fallout of what Iberu pulled.

She could feel her jaw clench as she carefully made her way through the crowd. She didn’t know which watching god had been the first to figure out what had happened, that the head of the craftsman’s guild as a whole had not only managed to trap so many spirits, but forcefully extract their power to run his weapon, but she knew it was Anailia who’d let it slip to her father as he and six of the other great spirits arrived almost instantly, smashing the trap to save those it contained before hunting those who were involved, her aunt Funa forcing them to spill who among them had been aware of what they were doing and who had been clueless before dragging off the guilty parties for tortures she couldn’t imagine.

And they deserve whatever they’re getting.

The trap had contained a thousand spirits and they had intended to make one for every gate after proving the viability of the weapon, treating her people like a disposable resource to be sacrificed for the world as a whole. The thought left her sick, and the consequences were going to be far-reaching if nothing was done.

It was with that sense of purpose that she made her way to Allfaith, where a meeting about just what had happened was to be held as she got to their crowded streets, ignoring the signs of damage and walking to where she knew it was going to take place, only coming to a stop as she passed a certain building on the way.

It was a temporary hospital, like so many others that had been set up to take care of the wounded, and from where she was she could see it was overflowing, the city’s main hospital likely regulated to looking after less severe cases since it was farther from the gate.

Even in just one day, so many people had been hurt, enough that healers were going to be busy for potentially weeks trying to treat everyone they could, having to keep everyone in a poor state longer to split their mana between patients rather than focus on getting one done quickly but leaving the potential for others to die in the time it took any healer to get to them.

“…I have some time,” She muttered to herself. “I’m here, what? An hour early, maybe closer to two? I have time.”

She couldn’t just walk by, but that meant she needed to be quick, so without wasting a moment she rushed to the door and pushed in, pulling out her card to prove her skill as she offered just a bit of help.

As the notification went off in her head, Thera rushed off, her detour taking longer than she’d planned by sheer virtue of how many people that were hurt, with plenty still to go even after she’d left. She had wanted to stay longer, but she needed to know what the spirits would do as they aired their grievances so she let her feet carry her, touching her necklace as she did to let the jobs fill her mind.

AVAILABLE JOBS

Queen of mana
Musician
Professional dancer
Bard
Darkness mage -charm specialized
Healer
Dark mage
Staff user
Master adventurer
Homunculus creator
Chimera maker
War mage
Saintess

“I’ll take saintess.”

It didn’t need any thought to know what to go for, she’d known she’d be getting the job ever since she’d gained the title, and with how many people there were to treat in the world as things stood, she couldn’t justify any other choice when she fully expected to be busy acting as a healer for a while so she listened as the notifications filled her mind.

Name: Thera Oress

Race: Succubus/Spirit Hybrid

Titles: Spirit Child, Madman’s lover, Spirit princess, Saintess

Jobs: Saintess (lv4)

Previous Jobs: Beginner Dancer, Dancer, Apprentice mage, Earth mage, True mage, High earth mage, Spirit mage, Life mage, High life mage, Telekinetic mage, Adventurer, High telekinetic mage, High spirit mage, Master earth mage, Earth princess, Master life mage, Life princess

Attributes:

Vitality: 2070
Vitality recovery rate: 33/hr
Mana: 499,902
Mana recovery rate: 174/min
Strength: 285
Agility: 756
Stamina: 635
Intelligence: 699

Affinities:

Light: 4
Life: 22
Fire: 11
Water: 14
Air: 12
Earth: 103
Death: 3
Dark: 43
Space: 2
Time: 1

Resistances:

Light: 5
Life: 9
Fire: 11
Water: 16
Air: 12
Earth: 35
Death: 13
Dark: 42
Space: 7
Time: 8

Blessed skills:

Spiritual earth magic lv3*
Charm magic lv5

Passive skills:

World speak+
Coordination lv5
Bind
Mana recovery rate enhancement lv7
Earth sense lv3

Active skills:

Calculate lv2
Dance lv5
String instrument lv3
Woodwind instrument lv3
Cleaning lv2
Staff wielder lv1
Meditation lv2
Speed reading lv4
Spiritual life magic lv2*
Telekinesis lv7
Dark magic lv8
Spirit empowering lv9
Cooking lv1
Mana examination lv6

Blessings:

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Anailia’s Blessing
Elvat’s life magic Blessing
Quox’s Blessing
Eneth’s Blessing
Earth Pantheon’s Blessing

Trials:

Trial of Anailia and Tolona
Earth tower

She didn’t let herself stop to appreciate the notifications going off in her head, there’d be time for that later. Instead, she rushed to a government building on the edge of town, not the one Ben had forced his way into after being free of the trial, but instead another, more seldomly used but also more important for one key reason. It had been built in the coast, with the central hub of it creating a private meeting ground for both land and water-based races to talk.

She made her way to the front door of it, feeling her stomach in knots. She hadn’t actually been invited, but she filled an unusual role as one of the two people to fall between the categories of spirit and more typical mortal, and since she understood what was going to happen she just needed to do her best to try and leave the outcome as good as it could be for everyone as she moved to go past the guards stationed at the front.

“Hold up there miss, I’ll need to see some identification if you’re heading in.”

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