CH427

Once again he declined to allow the trial to place a covenant on him as they all passed the boundary, seeing what it contained as they each took in the vast space. Like so many he’d done in the past it looked like an area without end, even if it had to be some trick of magic making it seem that way as he wondered on it.

Maybe it’s done by warping space? Make it big enough and I won’t accidentally see the back of my head but that would still be mana intense. Of course, this entire thing has to be disgustingly mana intense, it wouldn’t be shocking if they’re empowering it with faith too. Of course, if they are, that leads to the question of how Galwax’s trial kept going at full power, but that’s something to think on later. Looks like it’s starting.

While the area at first seemed barren, it wasn’t some empty expanse like he’d dealt with in the past. There was proper ground beneath him and a few tall trees near and far helping to soak in some of the coming buff as the first few creatures made their appearance, all of them looking like monsters that actually lived in the world as beasts began to fill the land and sky, all rushing towards them.

“Steph, could you open a portal to them?” Thera asked as she prepared her magics, not the earth or life that she typically relied on but her new non-affinitied branches she needed to practice as crystals of solid mana began to float around them. “I want to start chipping them off while we still have some distance.”

“You got it.”

No more than a second later did a hole in reality open between them as beasts were reduced to blood and meat, leaving three of them nothing to do while the carnage took place. Though Ben and Sachel both had some long-range attacks, neither of them could add anything that Thera couldn’t manage herself, while Sonya had nothing she could do at a distance, everything she’d trained for being too hands-on to help, at least until things drew closer.

So that’s the first fifty-four down with no problems at all. Sure hope any watching gods are embarrassed about how this is going right now after only the first few minutes of work, that just leaves what’s coming next.

“Pretty sure we’ll be seeing some coming from below us soon,” He chimed in as Thera was moving.

“Already working on it.”

Beneath their feet a barrier appeared, willed into existence under Thera’s power to separate the lot of them from anything that might come from below, just in time for them to feel the first strike as whatever tunnelled through the ground smashed against it. The force was enough to raise them all though and her new magic was still weak; it only took a couple more hits for it to shatter, not that that raised the danger. The moment it did, she simply switched to a power she was far more familiar with, her earth magic moving to crush the dirt the hidden creatures were crawling through, killing them all before any could have a chance to reveal themselves.

“Going back to practicing things with a poor magic control really sucks.”

Her control with her awakened magics had grown to be as good as what anyone else could expect, and both dark and telekinesis were high enough in level that she wasn’t having major problems with either, but her new ones she was staring from the bottom again, with things only a bit easier thanks to her practice and levels with the rest she wielded. She wasn’t doing bad, but it was obvious to her that she still had a ways to go.

Not that anyone was going to complain when she’d ended the problem as soon as it started while Ben continued his quiet countdown of what was left with only sixty remaining.

Of course, we should be feeling everything that appears getting more powerful, but if Thera can keep things up at this pace then we’ll be fine. Hell, better than fine even. We’re absolutely speeding through this floor.

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It was hard to not feel good about it. After all he’d been through in other trials, he couldn’t help but feel he was really going to get a win as he got to watch Thera continue her slaughter, the number of incoming creatures going down as the rest would get the benefits of her work.

Which I’ll absolutely need to show some proper appreciation for after. I have money to abuse, maybe I should rent out an art gallery or museum for a day to get us a private tour, that could be fun.

He let some minds keep up with those small plans in the back of his head as he eventually called out to get her attention.