CH512

“And once again I’m considering burning this book so if you don’t do something interesting quick then it’s going to happen.”

He knew the statement would do nothing, if only because his sacrilege was telling him something he could have easily guessed at. That wasn’t Galwax, the god still just as dead as when Ben had suffered through his trial. No, instead it was another prerecorded message designed to wait for anyone who managed to get so far, with his entry into the room activating it.

“A mind craves knowledge and challenge to grow, the fact that you’ve gained access to the archive shows that’s something you’re well aware of, but by learning all it has to offer you’ve taken a step further,” The recording began. “What you’ve shown is an appetite for knowledge incomparable to merely being focused on your chosen field, something that needs to be rewarded.”

“Well, it was an interesting challenge at least, and… Wait, I’m hearing you in worldspeak. I don’t care how powerful you are, there’s no way you were able to modify the archive when you basically dropped your tower off and dipped. You son of a whore! You’re getting the language from my mind and translating it! Why couldn’t you do it for the rest of the books? Appetite for knowledge my ass, you just wanted to be difficult, didn’t you!”

He didn’t get an answer, the recording incapable of providing him such a thing. Instead, it gave him his reward, or at least what he expected was supposed to be the reward despite a level of pain that brought him to the ground, clutching his head as notifications screamed out at whatever had just been done to him by the god’s lingering power bound to the book.

<UNNATURAL MIND LEVEL INCREASED>

<UNNATURAL THOUGHT SPEED LEVEL INCREASED>

<ACQUIRED SKILL INTELLIGENCE ENHANCEMENT LV0>

<ACQUIRED SKILL ALIEN THOUGHT STRUCTURE>

“Oh my god, what the fuck was that!”

From his last encounter with the god, he knew Galwax wasn’t able to give him skills through the recording, meaning whatever he’d just tried to do had caused the levels and new skills Ben had just gained and was still reeling from, even if he had no idea what had just been done to him.

He was pretty certain that on top of the nearly five hundred new minds he’d just gained he was also going to be seeing a substantial boost to his intelligence, but that didn’t explain the extreme pain, nor the new feeling in his head as every single mind he had just changed, numerous strands of consciousness that made up each of his minds altering on a fundamental level. If all of those individual strands had twisted and clumped together to create powerful ropes that were each of his minds, then the change had just left them barbed, altering his thoughts in a way he didn’t know how to react to.

What the fuck is alien thought structure?

With the recording still going, ignorant of the effects just inflicted on him, it wasn’t long till he got his answer.