CH650

<KNOWLEDGE LEVEL INCREASED>

“You are officially looking at a triple contender baby!” Ben cheered as he finished the book he’d been reading on the system’s design and function. “God, this is kind of bittersweet, isn’t it? Let’s be real, If I had gotten that level before the wave then making a soul is the exact sort of application of knowledge that would have gotten me to my third tier of the skill, right?”

“Possibly, but there’s nothing you can do about that now.”

“Ugh, I know, it just kind of hurts. Myriad, why can’t things ever just work out in whatever way would be most beneficial to me?”

“Reality doesn’t function like that and any pain you’re feeling is your overburdened soul. Are you going to see the soul mages soon?”

“Tomorrow if I can, do you know if they’ll be free?”

“Lucky for you, your friends are taking three days to regroup so you have the perfect chance to see them. There, sometimes things work out for you, right?”

“Mmh, I guess. Actually, maybe this works out pretty dang well. I should be finishing my current job tomorrow too and if things go well I can pick Yuzu and Elvat’s brains on how to awaken my soul production. From there, I can use my skill in it to rush through soul defiling gardener and hopefully any sort of advanced soul mage job I might get if I’m really lucky. All of that should give me some good bonuses for connect on top of the ones I’m already getting and then from there…”

“Just how many jobs are you planning on completing tomorrow?”

“As many as I can. As much as it annoys me I doubt I’ll be able to complete master connecter in one day but anything else that might help I’m going for. Oh, and I feel like I have a pretty decent idea for trying to awaken actualization and considering proper soul mages are supposedly able to lower the awakening threshold I’m going to borrow Yuzu to see if I can make that happen, that should let me finish high actualizer too for a few more vitality bonuses.”

“Seeing how you interact with the job system is actually horrific.”

“Excuse you, you mean efficient. Not my fault if other people don’t have skills that yield high experience.”

It seemed that Myriad had a comment to that but never got to say it, before he could both Nare and Helori appeared in the realm, each looking tired from whatever discussions had occupied them.

“Oh good, the gang’s all here, perfect timing ‘cause we were just about to get started.”

“On what?” Helori asked, looking like she wanted nothing more than to just ignore him and lie down.

“Figuring out how to get my connect and sacrilege to the third tier. Now come on, it’s theorizing time!”

“May I ask why?” Nare questioned, seeming just as tired as the goddess he’d arrived with. “If you want to awaken any skills so badly, I’d personally suggest you aim for your mind ones. Your compatibility with them is high enough that the prospect of you managing such a thing before the third wave is somehow not entirely impossible. All things considered, I’d say it’s actually horrifically good.”

“Ah, well, long story short since this world is completely and irrevocably doomed no matter what all of you insane optimists think, I’m going to unfortunately try and change that. Probably going to die in the process, really don’t want to, really not happy about it either but unfortunately that makes more sense than letting every other asshole on the planet die.”

“…Would you care to explain how you came to that conclusion Ben?”

“Sure, I guess we have time.”

He told the two what he hadn’t brought up the day prior, how hopeless any chance of victory felt, how impossible he viewed the idea that the demon god would simply allow them to continue to exist even if they did win in the end and how by virtue of his sacrilege, he was probably going to be the only person who could deal with the weight of the divinity it gave off, all leading to that ultimate conclusion.

“Someone has to kill Oaun if this place is ever going to be safe and nobody else has the one key skill needed to get the job done. I’m very obviously not ideal for the role either but that’s why I want to raise up connect to the third tier as well. Assuming things go right for once in my life and it properly merges with enchanting at the third tier then I should be able to enchant with any third-tier skill including my sacrilege, that would let me make… Well, a lot but the specifics still need to be worked out. I’ll devote a couple minds to it while I focus on getting the third tier of those two skills in the next year so for now, focus folks.”

“Or,” Myriad began. “You could try and think of a solution that isn’t suicidal.”

For just a split second, Ben looked at his god like he was an idiot but hid it away as fast as he could before speaking up. “Fine then, in that case, let’s start the meeting formally known as ‘how to get off this doomed garbage world’. I’ll just shoot out a couple ideas here. Since it would be pointless unless around ninety percent of the people on this planet survive, If I get all of the space spirits to work together, spending days and weeks overfilling their souls with mana to whatever their maximum capacity would be, is there any chance they could safely teleport this planet to some distant galaxy that isn’t a complete hellhole?”

“I think you already know the answer to that.”

“I do. With how much mana it took to transfer thousands of people within the same galaxy, a planet’s worth would be impossible, even with the gods’ helping, at least as they are. That brings me to a far more possible idea. Enchant a giant container, probably something in the scale of a kilometer or two in size and have it so both the interior is expanded along with the best time enchantments I could manage to freeze the time within and shove everyone on the planet inside. From there we get the earth spirits, fairies, and elementals to lift it into space and help push it as far away from this world as possible and get the space spirits to warp space around it, again with the goal of getting us to another galaxy.”