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Unlike his last time awakening people, that time only took him a day as he breezed through the crowd, helping Delair as he did.

Thanks to having two soul mages around to help lower her leveling difficulty, he was able to get her higher in both her enchanting and her plant magic as the hours wore on, aiding the process himself by merging just a single strand of his thoughts into her head to boost her thought speed by a bit while at the same time helping to replenish her mana as gently as he could, not overfilling her soul for any great purpose but instead just topping her up to let her work a bit longer without having to worry about her regeneration rates holding her back.

The fact that it had all paid off was what he felt best about by the end, with the girl positively glowing about her success, right until that meant it was time to go.

“Come on, Delair,” Her mother said, trying to pull her away and not having much luck as she hung onto Ben. “We really can’t keep bothering him.”

“We can bother him a little bit longer.”

That got a sigh from Fontesh while Ben laughed, instead putting out a different offer.

“Unless you guys have anything to do, how would you feel about staying with Sachel for a few days in Stonewall? I could train Delair for a bit and we have a space mage coming for me in about a week, we could get you home then?”

Given how far the dryad village was from their nearest gate, it wouldn’t actually be that much difference in time if they went with them first and would be a lot more entertaining overall compared to traveling by cart for days, but Fontesh still seemed unsure.

“Are you sure that would be okay? I’m sure you have things to be doing and we really shouldn’t be distracting you.”

“Mom, he wouldn’t offer if he wasn’t sure.”

“She’s right. My workload has actually decreased recently too so I have plenty of time to teach her a bit if you wouldn’t mind and I’m sure Sachel would love to see you.”

“Well… alright then, if you’re willing then I won’t turn you down.”

Delair cheered at that as Ben continued to reassure Fontesh it would be fine, all while getting Myriad’s attention in his head.

Myriad Myriad Myriad, tell your oracle that she and Ralia are going to be having guests for a few days.

<You really shouldn’t volunteer others to help you like that, you know that, right?>

They’re family and it’s the end of the world, they should absolutely use this last bit of time to see each other. If she’s unhappy about it then I’ll make it up to her later.

<Fine, but I’m making it abundantly clear that I’m just passing on a message about what you arranged.>

Yeah, that’s fair.

If Sachel was unhappy about it then he’d just deal with it later, but for the time being that was a future problem. With the time they had left, Ben dragged the two along for a dinner with his friends before making them each an amulet to take them both through the gate network and then mini-gate, arriving back in Stonewall.

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