CH558 Gods and Godhood

When morning came and Ben left, the three gods dropped their more casual atmosphere, all of them forced to reflect on what they’d just witnessed.

“This should go without saying, but if you would both do me a favour and not spread this around, I would appreciate it,” Myriad groaned. “I don’t want to imagine how anyone else would react.”

Nare gave his friend a light pat, trying his best to be reassuring. “Even if word does eventually get out, this isn’t as bad as some of the rest the boy can do, I wouldn’t be too worried.”

“I would,” Helori said, in no way helping Myriad but trying to be realistic. “Despite what we may have told him, we all know that’s not something a mortal should be capable of. In the few short years he’s been in this universe he’s already adapted to it in ways we never could have predicted. The fact that he now has outsider as a job option continues to make more and more sense.”

Myriad crashed to the ground with her words. “Don’t remind me. I don’t want to imagine what sorts of skills that might help him acquire.”

“He’d need the proper disposition for them first so it’s unlikely he’d gain any actual outsider abilities,” Nare told them, again trying to be positive, even in the face of the logic Helori kept trying to force on them.

“Not one of us would have guessed he’d ever gain actualization either. If it came down to a bet, I wouldn’t be willing to lose any faith that it wouldn’t give him another strange skill or make it easier for him to get some more bizarre ones in the future, especially when combined with his skill learner title.”

“That particular title does seem to be putting in a fair bit of work,” Nare muttered in thought. “With this new one added to the mix, Ben has quite the unusual status. He’s lucky more people can’t see everything he has.”

“If he was really lucky, he wouldn’t keep running into the few people on the planet who can see it for themselves,” Myriad sighed again, feeling that was going to be a common thing with the new stress his apostle had placed on him as Helori broached what for them was the obvious implication of his new skill.

“Let’s stop beating around the bush. He may have only created foods and utensils so far, but we all know there’s no reason Ben couldn’t make himself weapons if he wanted to. It’s more surprising he didn’t during any of his practice given his line of work. If the other gods were to hear about that, you know there would be a reaction. Maybe even a justifiable one.”

“Ben isn’t going to attack any of us just to try and raise his sacrilege,” Myriad said in his apostle’s defense.

“Us? No, of course not. For any judgment I may have about some of his actions, he treats those he considers his friends rather well. But the ones he dislikes? What about if he appears before Eneth or Olensia again? Or even just any of the gods who previously voted to steal from him or toss him into hell? Do you think he’d be willing to extend the same courtesy?”

“As long as nobody tries to kill him again, there’s no reason for him to cross paths with any of them. It will be fine.”

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“Ah, that’s not exactly true,” Nare said, his tone sounding guilty. “When he was training my granddaughter, he discovered something he’d asked me to keep in confidence. He can follow faith to learn the paths to different gods. He went to my realm after only visiting my church.”