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Walking into the hospital Thera had been slaving away at that evening, getting strange looks from the receptionist along with a few of the less critical patients waiting at the front from the large sack he was carrying over his shoulder, Ben went to the front with a smile, ignoring the rest around him as he did.

“Hello there, I’m looking for Thera as well as your director please.”

“We aren’t currently setting up appointments. As you can see, things are busy here so if it isn’t an emergency please head to one of the local clinics.”

“Okay, fair, I should have expected that response, just one second.”

He pulled out his card and hid nearly all of the information on it save his status as an apostle and slid it over to be looked at before he went on.

“It’s kind of important, Thera knows who I am so if you tell her Ben’s looking for her she’ll come out and I need the person in charge if I’m going to help this hospital at all so if you’d please?”

That got his desired outcome with the receptionist running off to grab them both, leaving Ben to wait for only a few minutes before everyone he was looking for came rushing out, the concerned look on Thera’s face dropping when she saw the positive one he was wearing.

“Not an emergency then?” She asked with a sigh as he shook his head.

“Nope, good news actually, along with the fact that you’re going to need a few days off.”

“Ben, you know I can’t do that right now.”

“We’d be drowning without her,” The director spoke up, not wanting to lose their best healer for any length of time for all of the extra work it would create as well as the lives that would be lost in the process.

“And I come with a solution to that. How many healers do you have working here?”

“Fifty-two currently, why?”

“Less than I’d thought. Okay, one second.”

From his ring he pulled fifty-two of his new bracelets before handing them over to the woman in charge who looked at them blankly, not understanding what they were supposed to solve for her until Ben explained.

“Put one on and activate an enchantment on one of the crystals and it will refill your mana,” He told her. “It won’t be the most comfortable and it will kill your growth rates for the attribute but it will let you use more powerful spells without taking breaks, brought to you by the church of Myriad itself. Give one to everyone you work with and just let them know that once one crystal empties it will take about ten minutes to refill, will that be good enough to make up for losing Thera?”

“…Honestly no,” The director told him after a second’s thought, even if she desperately wanted to have such a tool for everyone anyway. “A mage of her power, no matter how useful this will be, it won’t stack up to how much she can manage. The workload is still only going to go up.”

“In that case, what if we distributed more around then?”

“How many do you have?”

“About ten thousand.”

“…I can’t help but feel like something like this should have been distributed earlier.”

“There’s no helping it,” Ben shrugged. “I only invented them today.”

“What?”

“Moving on. You’ll all have to overwork yourselves a bit today but if I make sure these are distributed to every major hospital then that should immediately ease your burdens, right?”

“I suppose if you can manage that then yes, things will become considerably easier.”

“Sweet, then I’m going to take Thera and I’ll have her back to you in a couple days. We’ll make sure the rest of these are distributed by tonight so just do your best.”

He was already dragging Thera off as he said it, not sparing a glance back while she was left to process that back and forth before ultimately giving in to whatever he needed her for.

“So what’s the plan?”

“It looks like it starts with me dropping the rest of these off with Valaria in Anailia to let her handle distribution to keep me from being a liar and then from there we’re finding your dear uncle so I can experiment on him. It’s going to be great.”

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“…Yeah, sure, that might as well happen.”

Too tired to argue, Thera ultimately accepted that she’d just have to wait and see wherever Ben’s mind was going as they ran around to get their first tasks done.