CH664

Ten points to my mana baby! Freaking double what I was expecting!

Oh, hush you, it’s fine. It’s not like I’ll get the chance to try it from any other god anyway. Sadly, not many of them seem to bear fruit.

Your distrust really does hurt so much but fine. Now, important question for you, what’s Sachel up to?

And then when does she start returning to Stonewall?

<Tomorrow, why?>

Gonna get her help with something, tell her to meet me at the Allfaith gate instead.

Relax, it won’t be anything bad. Now, since my plans for tomorrow and maybe a few days after too are all sorted out, it’s time for me to focus on some work in the shop. I’ve still got a lot of things to test and make.

They were still staying in Anailia out of convenience for Thera at the time, letting her have somewhere relatively close to where she was working to sleep without having to give in to more nights in the hospital’s staff bedding, but with the shop only a step away he was able to get to work making one of many ideas into reality.

Slipping on his jacket after having left it there because of his promise to himself, he immediately began filling his soul for everything he intended to try and make while practicing some of his other abilities at the same time, with the core skills he intended to enchant with all being held within his own status as he sought to correct two issues.

The first was out of a desire to decrease his potential workload. He already knew that enough gods didn’t really want to rely on him if they could help it given his greed and for once he intended to satisfy their desires, even if it meant sacrificing his teacher in the process.

While Ben had many strengths but when it came to the war effort, the greatest one was the sheer volume he was able to create compared to other people. His was a level of production that could only be matched by entire teams of workers and no group on the planet could consistently pull off his quality.

Of course, it had gotten easier recently thanks to Falk creating an entire factory able to enchant weapons to increase the raw power they could put out but now that they’d passed the second wave with a third sure to come, he was expecting a lot more to be thrown his way. With what had already been done, it was nearly certain that anyone across the world could get their hands on a weapon of a previously incomparable quality but with the masses covered, the chances of the divine wanting something even better for those they viewed as having the most potential was a practical certainty.

He was sure that the third-tier skill holders and various contenders were likely getting their hands on some of the world’s few mythic items and whatever legendary ones various nations had been hoarding over the centuries but they were always going to want more, and with the number of awakened skill holders having exploded thanks to his own efforts it was practically a certainty that they’d be coming to him to make all of the legendary weapons he could produce.

Normally that would have been something he’d welcome too. He’d been focused on quantity for too long, having a year to devote himself to seeing what sort of quality he’d be able to pull off was a dream, but it would take far too much of his time. Better to outsource where he could and with that goal in mind began enchanting on a handful of circlets, blending together aspects of unnatural mind, hive mind, knowledge, unnatural inspiration, and most important of all, deep connection, weaving them together into a thick tapestry of power that threatened to break the delicate rings of metal it was all placed on but holding in the end, leaving only the issue of testing which would have to come later. With that done about as much as he could hope he moved on to another project, something that he alone in the world would be able to produce in an effort to deal with another problem, the limitations of mages across the world.

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