CH405

Slowly waking up, later than he normally would from the long night, he halfheartedly fumbled around the bed, finding himself alone as he finally opened his eyes and saw the note on the drawer beside him.

She’ll be back when she finishes something up? Okay cool, I guess there’s a lot of stuff for me to do in the meantime anyway.

The first of which being to look at his card. He knew there were going to be changes and he wanted to know exactly what he was dealing with, so after reaching to the floor to pull it from his pants, he let his eyes run over it, then again, and again after, not quite able to process everything he was seeing.

Just what the hell did I do?

Name: Ben Heph

Race: Human

Titles: Apostle of Myriad, The Forgotten One, Miracle Maker, Skill learner, Enemy of Eneth, Trial Defier, Trial Breaker, Godslayer, Monster, Madman, God killer, Threat, The mad apostle, Destined holder of Connect, God of Destruction

Jobs: Profane enchanter (lv 99)

Previous Jobs: Apprentice craftsman, Craftsman, Priest, Enchanter, Mind user, Magic item maker, Magic weapon maker, High enchanter, Fractured mind user, Tree tamer, High craftsman, Apprentice mage, True mage, Tank, Heretic, Adventurer, Divine heretic, Kin, Master craftsman, Master enchanter, Scholar, Connected enchanter, Infernal craftsman, Marksman, Destruction mage, Material mage, High material mage

Attributes:

Vitality: 949
Vitality recovery rate: 25/hr
Mana: 844
Mana recovery rate: 60/min
Strength: 785
Agility: 258
Stamina: 2108
Intelligence: 3369

Affinities:

Light: 3
Life: 2
Fire: 4
Water: 3
Air: 4
Earth: 2
Death: 3
Dark: 1
Space: 4
Time: 5

Resistances:

Light: 68
Life: 72
Fire: 75
Water: 69
Air: 66
Earth: 81
Death: 78
Dark: 85
Space: 63
Time: 61

Blessed skills:

Unending crafting lv3*
Divine enchanting lv3*
Unnatural mind lv1*

Passive skills:

King of sacrilege lv9*
Bind
Integrated demonic body lv6
Defense enhancement lv6
Absorption resistance lv6
Plant knowledge lv7
All affinity resistance enhancement lv4
Biology knowledge lv4
Trap knowledge lv4
Physics knowledge lv5

Active skills:

Stealth lv1
Deep connection lv1*
Cycling lv1
Marksmanship lv3
Material manipulation lv2*
Swimming lv1
Dance lv0
Rapid thought speed lv2

Blessings:

Myriad’s Blessing
Anailia’s Blessing
Helori’s Blessing
Galwax’s Blessing
Elvat’s mana regeneration Blessing
Eneth’s Blessing
Earth Pantheon’s Blessing

Trials:

Trial of Anailia and Tolona
Trial of the Dead God
Earth tower

“Jesus, okay, where do I even start looking at this? Two new titles, basically finished six jobs and need to change to a new one, a slightly offensive name for how focus awakened and not only connect, but my magics awakened too? I mean, I guess that tracks if I was freaking materializing things, but still. Plus I think my intelligence rose a bit over a thousand points more than it should have with each awakening bonus, but I’ve seen a bump each time my minds split too so I guess it’s just attached to the massive change in my head.”

There was more too. Aside from the fact that none of his awakened skills were at the zeroth level like they should have been, he also leveled up almost all of his defensive skills along with marksmanship and unending crafting, as well as gained a new one on top of it in the form of rapid thought speed, which also wasn’t at the zeroth level like it should have been, not to mention that it didn’t match either of the two thought speed skills he was already aware of, thought speed enhancement and thought speed acceleration, with the latter being locked away from him by virtue of being time affinitied.

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“Okay, Myriad, are you around? I have a lot I want to talk about here.”

“Very astute of you.”

“Really not liking how badly you wanted to see me have sex.”

<Don’t be a prude about it, you’d get invested in the lives of people too if you watched enough. Anyway, what did you need?>

“I was hoping you’d go over everything I did in the battle after blacking out. There’s so many changes to my status and I want to understand what caused them since a bunch is still just blank for me.”

<…If you want I can show you, but are you sure you’ll be okay with this?>

“Even better and don’t worry. I’m not going to break down so I’m coming up.”

With that he closed his eyes, forcing his mind to his god’s realm where Myriad was waiting, and after only a few words were exchanged his god did as he said, creating a top-down view of the fight that occurred as Ben watched it all, muttering as he did.

“So I guess firing off stones like that must have counted towards my marksmanship skill, explaining why I raised it and took the job, and from the look of it, I must have tried enchanting too. Damn it, my backups of those rings are in Stonewall. Breaking everything down like that, was I trying to forcefully level my destruction before trying to awaken material user? Not to mention that from the look of it, the skill absorbed my material knowledge too, I wonder if that leveled up before I made antimatter? Wait, and was that ice? I guess it is technically a material so that kind of makes sense, but what’s all of that after? Bone, maybe some wood too? Probably not properly either since I have no clue how this universe’s version of DNA works, but I must have tried to mimic it with the information I did know to force the level up farther…”

He couldn’t help but flop back once he’d seen everything, once again seeing the madness of just what he’d done when his conscious mind hadn’t been in charge.

“Myriad, give it to me straight, what are the odds my subconscious takes over again if I ever pass out and accidentally destroy the world?”

“Thankfully slim since you would have so much less power to you than you did during the battle and I’d actually be a little surprised if you’re even capable of passing out like that again as your mind currently is. I believe the strain it went through to put you in that sort of state was mostly due to being linked to a thousand different minds that were so alien compared to a standard mortal’s.”

He couldn’t help but sigh when he heard that. “Yeah, it only took hundreds of lives to push my minds and connect to awakening. Super cool.”

He’d pushed himself so hard in the past year to get connect beyond its limits, only for the experience to be so tainted when it actually happened. Just letting himself think about it made his gut twist and kept him from the sort of joy the experience should have been for him.

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