CH509

While Ben was cooking dinner for the two of them, the door opened, signaling Thera’s return for the day as he greeted her with a smile on his face.

“Welcome back. A little notification in my head told me that you must have had a pretty exciting day.”

“That’s maybe putting it mildly. Bet you can’t guess how I finished my job so fast.”

“You’re right, I can’t. I was sure there was still going to be another couple weeks unless you’ve secretly been doing some hardcore training when I haven’t been around?”

“Ha, as much as I enjoy practicing, I’m not you. I awakened spirit empowering.”

She was looking exceptionally proud as she’d said it and he had no issue in sharing her joy as he lifted her up and spun her around, smiling brightly at her good fortune.

“Oh, man, that’s great! Congrats, how did you manage it?”

“Okay, well that’s a bit of a long story, you see…”

She explained what had happened over the course of the day, from going up the volcano to finding the fairy and the injured elemental, along with just what she’d had to do to heal it and how that had worked out for her in the end.

“So I leveled my earth and life magic on top of awakening spirit empowering and even got a bonus skill with it! Oh, and I got my last level I needed for barrier magic too.”

“Okay, not going to comment on the whole wandering into a volcano crack thing and focus on the rest. So that’s great! We can handle your non-affinitied magic tonight and- wait, you got a bonus skill for awakening spirit empowering?”

“I did.”

“And you also got one when you awakened your life magic. Okay, I’m officially jealous,” He sighed. “What’s the secret Thera, how’d you pull that off?”

“I’m pretty sure it just comes down to luck Ben, which sadly means you’ll never manage it.”

While awakening a blessed skill guaranteed one would gain a bonus skill for their efforts, there should have been a one in ten chance for any other skill to give one as well upon awakening. The fact that he hadn’t managed it at all despite having awakened five beyond crafting, enchanting, and focus really did just speak of his terrible luck.

“Still, it’s a one in ten chance, maybe share a little of that luck with your poor poor boyfriend, huh?” He joked, materializing a small ten-sided die for effect and gave it a role, only for it to land on one.

“Having me as your girlfriend is already the best luck you could get,” She teased back. “And a weighted dice doesn’t really get the point across.”

She gave it a role herself, clearing her throat and looking away when it landed on ten, rushing to change the subject as Ben just watched it sadly.

“Ahem, anyway, do you think you could help me with my non-affinitied magics now or do you want to wait till after dinner?”

“We have time now so let’s do it. I’m curious about what bonus skill you’ll get this time anyway.”

“Please, even if I’ve been a little lucky with that sort of thing, I’m not that lucky.”

“Whatever you say.”

Having already forcefully awakened two other non-affinitied mages, he knew how it was done and wasn’t expecting any issues given how simple it was. All she’d need to do was use those collective magics to do something outside of any of their specializations, making materialization a perfect fit. Without him, any normal mage who wanted to achieve such a thing was bound to face years of practice and struggle, but by carrying the mental load of the act, he was making it a breeze in comparison and he connected with her to get the task done, disassembling his minds to help Thera create something she had no way to with her affinitied options. He was going to help her make water.

“…You know what? Why don’t we do this outside the window to keep from making a mess.”

“Yeah, probably a good idea.”

There was no doubt she’d create a lot and they didn’t want to flood the room they were using so they moved to make sure anything created would land outside, making sure there was nobody below to get drenched as they finally started, Thera’s thoughts being filled with everything that made water what it was and she put her mana into action, leaving notifications to ring out in her thoughts and an embarrassed look to come to her face while Ben could only shake his head.

“Okay, this actually has to be the system teasing me. Me and Myriad were literally just talking about this.”

Aside from hearing that she’d completed her new job, mana embodiment, immediately, along with hearing her non-affinitied options combine into a unique variant of the skill instead of the common one, leaving her with overwhelming non-affinity magic, what really stood out was the bonus skill she’d managed to get despite her earlier protests. Magic inclination, a rare skill of the same class that he and Myriad had spoken about only a few hours prior. Even if it could only be a coincidence based on everything he knew about souls and the system, he still couldn’t help but feel like it was actively having fun with him at that point.

“Alright, maybe I’m a little lucky when it comes to awakening skills,” She admitted. “Uh, that makes two I know nothing about though.”

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“I can at least tell you about your new one,” Ben said, giving her the rundown on how it would help her. He couldn’t deny that it was the perfect skill for her too, something that would help her raise all of her magics, practically acting as a second affinity to them and he got to enjoy seeing her eyes practically glow by the end of it. “But whatever spirit comprehension is sounds like it’s probably another that didn’t exist before you got it, you’ll probably need to figure that out yourself.”

“Ugh, probably, I just don’t know where to start,” She sighed while subtly touching the job crystal around her neck to replace the one she’d just finished. “I can already understand spirits so that’s not much to go off of and… no new ones, okay, I guess I’ll take dark mage.”

This time no surprises came with the notifications ringing in her mind, only telling her that she’d taken the job and gotten the expected bonuses for such a thing, even if it drew a surprised eye from Ben.