CH596

“Hey hey, how was the day?” Thera greeted him brightly when he returned, seeming to be positively vibrating with excitement on her own part.

“From the looks of it, nowhere near as good as yours. What’s the good news?”

“I made some progress on the little project Uliel and Vasta gave me.”

With her having gone to sleep early the other day and Ben having left early that morning, she’d never gotten the chance to tell him about the progress she’d made for her magic, nor the discoveries that had led to.

She could equip spells to passively cast with her soul, with all of the potential of such a thing to follow. Not just the charm and fear she’d tried at first, when it came to her dark magic she could also cast debuffs and other options in the same way.

Of course, that wasn’t going to be the most helpful thing out during the next wave. The issue with passive magics was that they spread out uncontrollably after all, meaning she’d be affecting friend and foe alike, but it did lead to a few other discoveries to go with it.

She could operate beyond just the dark affinity, binding general healing spells to herself that she’d be able to make use of in any clinic setting, both letting those who happened to be around her passively heal their smaller injuries while at the same time making it easier for the other healers around to do more while spending less mana, with other applications from there.

While casting buffs that way would have the same problem as dark effects and the uses of earth and non-affinity both seemed a lot more limited, at least under the scope of what she could find out in the span of two days of practice, there was something else she’d use her mana for that she’d found immediate success with. Mana empowering.

“Oh sweet, so you can let them just take your ambient mana now without needing to consciously think about it?”

“Yeah, after I figured it out I spread the word that I’ll be equipping it while I’m asleep so we might end up slightly more swarmed than usual, but the benefits for the spirits are going to be huge!”

Her excitement was palpable and Ben didn’t blame her. She’d just figured something huge out for herself, and from the sounds of it, her paternal race as a whole. If the spirits weren’t going to need to wait for her to transfer over her mana but could now take advantage of her effects by simply being around her then their numbers were sure to explode even more than they already had been doing which was going to be a healthy plus for the planet on top of everything else.

And they already love her, I wonder if Thera’s sheer presence is getting to the point for them that they won’t just immediately turn tail and leave if things get too rough here for us? At the very least, it might mean they stay longer than they otherwise would to help.

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“But anyway, what’s going on with you?” She asked him. Once her own excitement was out of the way, it was a lot easier to notice that something seemed to be on his many minds, that while not obviously negative, was enough to weigh on him in a way that lightly touched his expression.

“Ah, it’s this whole thing. The gods are worried about my weird blessing and after looking into it a bit, so am I if I’m being honest.”

“Okay, anything that’s enough to worry you worries me. What’s happening?”

“It looks like witness of chaos is having some sort of effect on my mind.”