CH587

The walk back felt long compared to his mad rush there, all the more so for the new wounds he carried with him as he forced his body on while he slowly made his way back to the group looking after Thera, finding them to be in the same place he left them.

“Is it done?” The leader of the lot asked Ben as he arrived. “Is it over?”

“As over as it’s going to be,” He shrugged, trying to ignore the pain the small act caused in him. “We’re going to be having a ghost problem for a while but not much we can do about that.”

And it will only get worse with time.

Even without anything controlling them, as hints of sanity and understanding came back to the disembodied souls they would once more gain control over some of the powers they held in life. Sure, there would be those who would simply pass on once free from the hells and there were going to be plenty who didn’t have a skill set that would translate well to their new astral forms, but there were sure to be great mages among them who would be able to cause unheard-of levels of devastation.

But that’s officially not my problem. The world is saved and the gods can ask the light and death spirits to help handle everything that escaped. For the time being, I have other things to worry about.

<We all do.> Myriad said in his head, sounding so very tired. <It looks like you had quite the adventure while I wasn’t watching you.>

This entire day has been quite the adventure but hold that thought for one second.

Thera was still unconscious but he was going to try and speed up her recovery just a little if he could as he connected to both her and the group around them, transferring over the mana within his own soul as he stole it from the surrounding people and kept passing it over in the hopes of waking her up, keeping the process going as he did his best to estimate everyone’s regeneration rates to keep any of them from being knocked out by the process.

In the end, it had to be nothing but a drop in the bucket when compared to what her soul could hold and the speed it would regenerate by itself, with no more than ten thousand points of it being passed over to her, but after twenty minutes it seemed to have some effect as she began to stir and eventually opened her eyes.

“Everything hurts,” She was the first thing she groaned out, letting a small smile slip onto Ben’s face given how big of an understatement that felt like in the face of all they’d dealt with. They’d walked away with worse injuries from lesser threats in the past, as unpleasant as it was he’d happily take the current pain as he joked with her.

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“It looks like you really are capable of getting mana exhausted. How’s it feel to be as mortal as the rest of us?”