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With the morning came the new day, one that Ben decided wouldn’t be spent on things outside of his control, instead devoting it to chores he knew he needed to get out of the way for the upcoming wave.

Really, there was a pile of them, but he let Thera talk him into one in particular before moving on to the rest. Practicing.

Ben was going to be going between various invasion points with her and he didn’t intend to just be a tag-along, that meant he needed to be prepared to fight to whatever extent he could in the ways that suited him most, but the few ways he could weren’t something he devoted much time to when his hours were much better spent on acts of creation.

Being on the front lines though, that needed to change so he resolved himself to use at least a bit of the time left they had on practicing the more combative applications of his skills, leading himself and Thera to heading out to the town’s public training grounds.

As she pulled out and shaped multiple lumps of dirt from the ground below, practicing her multitasking by carrying them through the air with her power, Ben was treating them as targets, using both one of his guns as well as his magic to try and hit them while she did all she could to avoid his shots, leaving the sky above a mess of movements and collisions as they both put to use some of the finer bits of their skills.

And as time went on, both largely ended up treating it like a game as much as they were viewing it as a chance to improve their skills, with Ben in particular reminded about the carnivals of Earth he’d enjoyed as he took his shots, watching many of them hit, even if he knew that when it came time he’d be able to do better then he currently was for the difference in what he was shooting at.

Ben’s power was never going to beat out a piece of stone Thera had strengthened, he knew that much for sure, but that wasn’t true of the more fleshy bodies he’d be aiming at in the near future.

Not only would the demons be pouring out in a volume that would make it hard to actually miss, but when shooting at flesh, there was practically no way that his attacks wouldn’t tear through them, able to take out multiple ones at once so long as he paid the slightest bit of attention to where he was making his shots.

Which means I should maybe consider taking high tank instead of what I was originally planning. He mused to himself. I’d definitely be able to get enough experience doing that compared to what I want to go with. But nah, as nice as the bonuses to my defensive skills would be, I have my goals.

Still, it didn’t hurt to consider how he might make the most of his strengths, so for the next attack he materialized a thin film around the bullet he was firing off, barely spending any of his mana compared to the power behind the attack as he watched it hit and judged the viability of doing that in the war.

Let’s see, creating a poisonous layer on the things I shoot out with my magic won’t necessarily be useless, but I’m confident that the first things I hit will be killed easily enough and probably the second too, which just means it would be to damage the third demon my shots either pass through or land in. Except if I’m assuming I’ll be able to successfully shoot through two demons with one bullet first, the effect of passing through their bodies feels like it would have a decent chance of wiping away most of the poison before it can show its effect where it would be most needed. Which means it’s probably a less useful way of spending mana than just saving that bit to shoot more. A shame.

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It had felt like a decent idea right until he’d tested it too, leading to just a bit of disappointment before he moved on, accepting the results and thinking on what to try next as he materialized a small cube on a whim and shot it out, observing the effect as it completely missed its target.

Sacrificing power, wind resistance, and accuracy was obviously never going to work. A shame though. I am the apostle of Myriad, mowing down demons with cubic bullets would be a hell of a calling card.

It had just been an idle whim though, one he hadn’t had any real expectations for yet left him with an idea as he materialized a different shape and let it hang in the air as he pointed straight forward, not aiming at any of Thera’s targets as he shot it off but hitting one nonetheless.

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But even if I can’t make the cube idea work, I can affect the trajectory by altering the initial bullet’s shape. Interesting. Not necessarily useful but I’m not so confident it won’t be that it looks like I’m going to practice that a bit more.