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He could feel Yuzu’s eyes boring into him but all he could do was give an awkward smile as he processed everything himself while she eventually just shook her head.

“I’m not going to comment.”

“Appreciate that.”

‘Cause all of that was… Damn. God damn.

Ignoring all of the levels he’d just gotten and what that implied for how easy those skills and more would be to raise in the future, ignoring the inclination skills he’d just gained and ignoring the names of them in particular, none of that mattered in comparison to something far more significant nestled in amongst those notifications, the bonuses he’d just received.

Jobs for tier three skills gave massive bonuses instead of the major ones a person would receive for stepping onto their master path and beyond but what he’d just gotten was past even that.

Divine bonuses. He’d at least heard of them after his reading on the top floor of the magic towers’ library. In fact, Killi was enjoying their benefits herself, though not in the same way Ben had been granted them. As the holder of a third-tier knowledge skill, she had access to the same line of jobs he’d gone through, with the attribute bonus being a rank higher than the skill bonus by virtue of the fact that it was all going entirely to intelligence and nothing else. If Ben ever got a third-tier mind job then he could expect the same, but what he’d just acquired was significantly different.

Not getting those unparalleled bonuses to one attribute alone, he was getting them to not only all of them, but to some of his skills too, something he’d never heard of before in any of his reading. Just thinking about it was making his heart pound as his thoughts ramped up to their maximum potential to let him process everything he’d just heard.

But where do I even start? Okay, apocalyptic skills, another category of skill I’d never heard of before and probably for a good reason, definitely not going to advertise that I get bonuses to those myself but I think the skills that grew from it make sense. I literally got the job from destroying entire planets using my material manipulation and one of the skills that grew from was destruction which also makes sense for my new inclination skill.

Even if I’m still not sure about its effect, ill will seems like it makes sense from the name too and I can buy into extraction enhancement, aim, and hive mind all being related. I admittedly wanna question bite enhancement leveling a bit; what does it want me to do, eat a world?

Hell, maybe it does. Doesn’t matter, I’ll still take it. I wonder if there’s any more it applies to too? With bonuses like that, it would be a little surprising if there is anything that just didn’t level immediately from it but at the same time after all of the levels I got from taking soul mage I might just not have enough practice in some of them since then for that to have pushed them over the edge, I’ll have to try and pay some extra attention to what goes up in the next couple weeks. Since aim went up I wouldn’t be surprised if it would be giving bonuses to marksmanship too and it’s just a matter of doing something to awaken it, but I’ll figure that out later.

Actually, I need to see Verbum anyway, I’ll just add that to the list of things I need his help checking out so okay, what else? The fact that it awakened intelligence enhancement is fantastic too, awakening four skills in a day has to be some sort of record that I very much deserve some sort of cool title for but since I didn’t get one I can deal with it. A little annoying it followed the naming trend of my mind skills but hopefully that just means the growth bonuses to it are going to be all the more incredible.

And then there’s probably the only real issue with having taken this job. I’m never going to be able to get the experience to finish it.

Ignoring how fast he’d managed to finish soul mage, he had no choice but to imagine that it would be on another scale entirely when he’d already seen firsthand how much more experience it took to get compared to a second-tier one. Meanwhile, what he currently had was the sort of thing that could only be described as fourth-tier. As things stood, it would be practically impossible for him to finish, even as his various minds raced to try and come up with solutions to that particular problem.

Solutions he’d examine later. As much of a pain as it would be, he knew he couldn’t ditch it for something else when it was that good. No matter how impossible the task, he would find a way. First, he just needed to handle the rest of the day.

Slowing down a few of his minds to make it easier to interact with the world around him, Ben focused back on his friends, feeling their eyes on him as he tried to act normal.

“Sooo,” Jake began. “Don’t leave us waiting, what did you take?”

“Sorry, this one is going to be a secret until it’s done. Yuzu, you mind keeping it to yourself for now?”

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“Mmh, I’ll respect your privacy but the fact that you had that as an option makes me so incredibly worried about whatever else is sitting on your job list.”

“Trust me, this one is the worst sounding but what matters is it paid off big time. By the next wave, I’m going to be the most horrific monster anyone on this planet has ever seen.”

“You already are,” Will chimed in.

“Quiet you. Anyway, that’s it from me, show’s over, go home and don’t die somewhere off in the world while I’m not watching.”