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Steph and Will both arrived before Sachel’s party did but that didn’t matter to him at the end of it all, he only needed them for his attempt at awakening the one skill, there was no rush for that, so after sparing a few words for each other and explaining why he’d pulled them away from their fighting he had Jake bring them all into their party before turning to both Yuzu and Elvat.

“Man, I feel like I’ve been asking everyone a lot of favours today but seeing as how we’re hopefully about to go through a bunch of jobs and you guys are able to lower both leveling and awakening difficulties on top of increasing awakening bonuses and seeing as how some of us have more than a few ninth leveled skills, well, you see where I’m going with this.”

“Yes, we can cast on you,” Elvat nodded. “Although the effects are going to be a lot weaker on one than the rest.”

“Yeah yeah, me and my stupid soul,” Ben sighed. “Doesn’t matter. Every little bit helps, so without further ado…”

He touched the job crystal hanging around his neck, watching as all of the options filled his mind.

AVAILABLE JOBS

Trap user
Craftsman- alchemy path
Craftsman- artistic path
Craftsman- blacksmith path
Craftsman- cooking path
Craftsman- stonecrafts path
Craftsman- sewing path
Mathematician
High tank
Soul defiling gardener
Divine enchanter
High marksman
High destruction mage
World killer
Beginner puppeteer
Freak mind user
Unholy thinker
Connect master
Polymath
Holy adversary
Title master
Alien mind
Multiversal material mage
Outsider
Body user
Slayer
Judge
High actualizer
Assassin
Cycler
Beginner dancer
Entrée
Hive brain
King of intelligence
Soul user

Seven new options but only one in particular left Ben pursing his lips before focusing up on the heavens above, speaking with both his voice and all of his thoughts to get the attention he wanted.

“Nare, answer me ‘cause I want to have words with you. Angry words. Namely ‘fuck’ and ‘you’.”

<And what exactly has you in such a poor mood, Ben?> The god asked him, unaware of just what Ben was seeing.

“The stupid system you created is broken and terrible. I hate it.”

<Okay, and what exactly prompted this little outburst?>

“Aside from the fact that it gave me a stupid skill called flavour enhancement which I’ve been doing my absolute best to be in denial of, it has now also given me a stupid job that I have no choice but to assume is related to it which has managed to thoroughly squash any plausible deniability it might have had. Why in god’s name do I have a job option called entrée? I have been told over and over again the system shouldn’t do anything to harm me, getting a skill that makes me tastier sounds pretty damn harmful!”

<…You have let a vampire feed on you in the past, haven’t you? Your friend Greed too while you were both in the trial.>

“Yes, because the other option in both of those cases was starvation for them!”

Sounding equal parts guilty and as if he were trying to run away, Nare left his thoughts, leaving Ben to grumble and ignore the looks of the rest in the room who’d gotten to hear that one half of the conversation as he instead quickly went over the rest of the new options he’d gained, trying his best to ignore that single one.

On the one hand, seven jobs was a lot to get at once, but on the other, all of the levels he’d gotten, both thanks to taking soul mage and getting modifier compatibility, meant there had been plenty of room for him to grow.

If he had to guess, assassin had come from finally leveling up stealth again after years, along with his broad knowledge of poisons thanks to his alchemy and his preference for ranged attacks but that wasn’t one he saw much value in so he ignored it, same with cycler and beginner dancer with the levels that had made both of those available to him feeling obvious, leaving only three more interesting ones.

Hive brain was obviously related to his newest awakened skill but since he was still working out the finer aspects of that one it wouldn’t be something he was going to consider for a while but as a job that technically required connect to function it had potential to be looked at further in the future considering his desire to raise that skill beyond its limits.

King of intelligence was good to get as well, though not one he intended to take any time soon either. In the same vein as Thera’s queen of mana job, all king and queen jobs required an attribute value above ten thousand and needed to grow by a few thousand points to finish. They had potential if one cared about growing it but with how quickly he already raised his given the rest of the bonuses he had to it along with the shape of his mind, it wasn’t a priority.

That left him looking at his last new job, one he’d never heard of before but could infer some information from based on other jobs of a similar name. Mind user came from getting enough mind skills, body user came from getting enough body skills, soul user almost certainly came from getting enough soul skills, with his newest, soul expansion, having to be the one that had pushed him over to getting it as an option.

Not only that, it was one that he couldn’t help viewing as something that had potential for him as he once more was forced to re-evaluate how he wanted to do things that day. After he finished helping the rest of them acquire all of the jobs they could in the shortest possible time frame, he was still going to try and rush through a few more himself so having a new option like that would be a boon for him.

Really, his only disappointment was that it appeared he hadn’t gotten any sort of advanced soul mage variant to enjoy after having finished it, even if it shouldn’t have been the most surprising thing in the world. From what he understood in his reading, the few times people had finished third-tier jobs had already shown that they weren’t guaranteed advanced variants for them the way one was for finishing a master job, even if it was still disappointing in the end.

But oh well, I’ve got a lot of other options, so without anything else to distract me, I’m taking freak mind user.

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Okay, that finished just as quickly as I’d hoped which is nice. I guess the job system really wasn’t prepared for just how freaky my mind would grow to be. Still going to do my best to not be offended by the name but anyway, onto the next one.

He waited for the rest to take their new jobs before selecting his next one, expecting just as easy of a job and getting it as he spoke.

“Unholy thinker.”

“God, sacrilege bonuses always feel so good. And I guess that means ill will counts as a sacrilegious skill? Gonna have to look a bit deeper into that. And just as importantly…”

Ben trailed off as he pulled out his card, searching for where his new skill fell on it and found it to be an active skill like he’d hoped, meaning one very important thing.

Guess who never has to face any of their trauma again!

The fact that Myriad didn’t respond to that told him that the god was well and truly too deep in his work to pay attention but Ben didn’t care. Lucid dreaming was the act of controlling one’s dreams, if that was the case then that meant in the event he was ever blocked from Myriad’s realm again then he could simply retreat into his mind rather than face whatever his subconscious was going to throw at him.

An emotionally healthy solution to handling all of the things he’d been through since ending up on that world? Absolutely not, but it was a solution nonetheless that he’d be happy to use for all it was worth.

Sharing none of that though, he instead focused on the rest with him as they all processed their own notifications.

“Okay, Amy’s turn to take the adventurer job, I’ve got a couple more that I should be able to use too so let’s take advantage before I’m all out of mind options.”

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