CH594 Gods and Chaos

When Ben finally left for the day, the three were left to themselves in Myriad’s realm where they were free to talk without prying ears, each of them having things to say and feeling about what just happened, with Myriad making his own clear by finally letting himself crash down before he started to complain.

“You know, obviously I was worried when he got that stupid thing, but when days and weeks passed without anything happening I thought we were in the clear… No, that’s not right, I just stopped thinking about it and hoped for the best which I’m now very much regretting. I feel like months of worry have finally caught up with me all at once.”

“Have we seen any other effects?” Helori asked. “It didn’t give him any skills when he got it, right? What about his attributes? If it’s really a blessing then you’d expect it to help them grow.”

“Impossible to say,” Myriad complained. “Look at everything within my apostle’s status Helori, it would be easy to not even notice a standard blessing’s effects amongst all of the jobs, titles, and even other blessings. Maybe it’s giving them some sort of small boost, but it could just as easily only be targeting his subconscious mind.”

“And has there been any change in his personality since he’s gained it?” Nare asked. “Acting out of sorts, doing different things, responding in strange ways?”

Myriad’s mind immediately flashed to the very thing his apostle had built in his church’s sub-basement before dismissing the idea out of hand. As unfortunate as it was, making a potential portal to hell felt all too in character for the boy, not leaving anything else to come to mind.

“…Is it too much to ask that this stupid thing make him a little more reasonable?” He wondered aloud, feeling Helori placing a comforting hand on his side. She may not have been aware of what Ben had secretly done, but she certainly understood the sentiment behind it.

“The real issue is what this has come to,” The goddess sighed. “As unfortunate as it is, Ben seeing Verbum was probably the correct call, but that does open up the potential for another god to see this new blessing bound to him.”

Seeing the record holder was an obvious option right when Ben had gained the blessing but they’d chosen to wait and see to avoid just such a thing. While there was no guarantee anyone would be watching either Ben or Verbum to see the skills bound to his soul through that summoned’s eyes, it was a possibility they’d hoped to avoid.

So what if Ben completed jobs quickly and was prone to titles in a way none before him had been? Those were known facts by that point, same with his skill in raising his levels. But now, on top of everything else, he somehow also had something worrying in his blessings to go along with the rest, something that was sure to draw eyes and questions.

And if they could convince the rest that it had somehow just formed from the chaos then maybe things wouldn’t be so bad, but there was another option, incorrect though it may be, that some might turn to. There were going to be those who’d believe he was given it by the outsider.

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