CH421

<PLANT KNOWLEDGE LEVEL INCREASED>

<BIOLOGY KNOWLEDGE LEVEL INCREASED>

His head was pounding as he got up, the feeling of his minds being pushed to their limits sticking with him despite how powerful they now were as he took a moment to try and let the feeling pass. Even if that intense bit of study had been good for his knowledge skills, it still felt like too much.

And only weeks more to go.

He tried to shake that depressing thought from his head as he went to make breakfast, his god whispering in his ear the entire time.

<How is it that you’ve just gone and made yourself another massive project? Maybe scratch off a couple of the ones you already have on the go?>

As sad as it is, this is already the most viable project I’ve got going. Making Inux a body is going to be hard enough when I still can’t make legendary items, the summoning spell is just waiting for my new employees-to-be, and as much as I want to plunge the secrets of the archive, that one is so low on the list I basically don’t care about it right now.

<Hmm, well, the one Nare found you to run your little research facility will actually be there in the evening so I’ll let you know when they arrive. Make sure you get all of your other nonsense out of the way by then.>

Sounds good. Things will probably be fine.

<Yeah, keep telling yourself that.>

“Morning,” Thera yawned out as she came up behind him, resting a head on his shoulder as he finished cooking. “How’d your talk with your god go?”

“Good, I’ll tell you and Sonya about it tonight if that sounds good?”

“Mmh, you know I don’t like waiting.”

It’s for my own safety. I still need to work out how I’m going to tell you both about the finer details of what I’m thinking.

“Ha, I just need to work a bit more out is all. Are you going to the clinic today or flying around?”

“Flying. Aunty should have things well enough in hand here with the other staff to help. If I just do everything then the others won’t get their practice so it’s better for me to check out the surrounding towns.”

“Okay cool, there’s actually something related to that that I want your help with if you don’t mind?”

“Sure, what’s up?”

“I kind of have this new thing I want to try, but first I need to raise someone’s level.”

After giving Thera a small bit of an explanation and eating, the two of them left, driving through town under Myriad’s directions to get to the home of his fellow believer and banging on the door until a very tired Sachel answered.

“Huh, uh, morning. What are you two doing here?” She asked, clearly only up because of Ben’s persistent knocking and rubbing the sleep from her eyes.

“Rise and shine, what level is your life magic right now?”

“Six, why?”

“And how long has it been at six?” He asked, ignoring her question.

“I don’t know, a couple years at this point.”

“Cool, you’re coming with us today. And tomorrow. And every day till you raise it.”

“Wait, what are you talking about? Why?”

“To make a long story short, because I’m a wonderful apostle who’s going to do his absolute best to help you achieve your dream of awakening to plant magic, but to do what I’m thinking I need you to get to level seven from practicing, hence this.”

That was enough to make every trace of sleepiness vanish from her eyes, only to be replaced with sheer excitement. “You have an idea to help me awaken my skills?”

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“I do, and no I’m not telling you anymore until you’ve shown that you have the drive to get to the seventh level of your life magic.”

Mostly because I’m hoping by then you’ll be too invested to say no to the admittedly insane thing we’re going to need to do to get you to the eighth level.

He didn’t need to say anything else. In a flash she was saying goodbye to Ralia, giving a quick explanation to her that she might not be able to hunt for a while and to pass that along to Skoe before running out to face whatever the day was going to hold.