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He was instantly running, not caring about how he looked while he beelined to the guild, with Myriad talking to him the entire time.

<Ben, explain what’s going through your head to me already. You know how hard it is to read your mind when you’re thinking thousands of things at once. What did you figure out?>

Myriad, the adventurer job has a few key features. Obviously, the main aspect is merging experience pools but there’s more beyond that too. Now, the aspect I’ve been taking advantage of until this point is the fact that by having experience pools merged I can take advantage of the jobs I’m already unnaturally suited for to help everyone I’m joined with but there’s another part I’ve been ignoring until now. It’s a job that lets the user gain experience through combat, magic, and killing monsters, but more important than that is all party members can gain experience the way the others can too after linking up! Give me an adventurer, a mind user, and an apprentice mage and I’ll be able to finish anything! Completing this one job is still going to take a while but after I’ll be able to finish everything I have so long as I can meet those qualifications! Oh my god, it’s actually hard to express how fucking smart I feel right now!

<…Oh empty skies, you’re right.>

There was a touch of horror in the god’s voice as Myriad processed what he’d just heard. In hindsight it was obvious but it was so easy to miss simply because that wasn’t a way anyone used it. The way Ben would take advantage of the adventurer job already was beyond what anyone would expect, the thought of exploiting it further hadn’t occurred to either of them but now that he’d realized, it felt so clearly a way for him to do exactly what he’d said. Finding an adventurer was a path to Ben running out of jobs, as simple as that. Even if any of his others happened to be third tier-jobs, it would still be at most a month to get through them using that method, possibly far shorter given how his skills had grown.

He didn’t know how others would react to that, he didn’t care. As soon as he reached the guild he threw open the door, getting eyes on him from everyone which he ignored, instead seeing Onk on staff and making a beeline for them.

“Is Ceselee in?”

“Hmm? She is, though she’s probably about to leave-”

“Cool, thanks Onk!”

He was already moving past them as he said it, making a beeline to her office and opening the door.

“You know, knocking is preferred,” The guild master called out while looking through her last bit of paperwork as her eyes moved to him, with Ben speaking up before she could go on.

“Ceselee, I need whatever bit of authority I have as a first-ranked adventurer to get someone with the adventurer job and three free spots in their party as soon as humanly possible pretty please and thank you!”

“…Okay, how fast do you need it? I could probably manage something in the next week or two, but-”

“Too long, is there no faster way? I will put down literally any amount of money to get this done.”

“I’m not sure how much that would help, we only have so many people with access to that job that even if you put a fortune down, right now everyone understands the value of attribute bonuses enough that you’re going to have trouble finding anyone who would give up what they’ve already earned part way through. Those bonuses could be the difference between life and death. If you give me time though I could search out and find someone for you, even send a request through the main guild to see who we could get.”

“Thanks but I don’t have the time. That does give me an idea though! Oh, but if you could spread the word around the guild that I’ll pay anyone who takes it and leaves spots open for me and three others to join then I’d appreciate it, with extra going out for anyone who keeps their full party empty for me!”

He was running away before she could respond with his next destination already decided as he rushed out, running back to the shop and through his mini gate to get to his next destination of Anailia.

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It was late in that nation, the difference in time meaning it was already dark but he didn’t care. By that point, the staff and residents all knew him well which helped him with his main goal as he ambushed the closest one.

“Where can I find Pelenia?”

“The queen? I believe she’s enjoying a late dinner right now-”

“Great, thanks!”

Down to the dining room he went, again pushing through doors to find Thera’s very tired mother eating with her husband at her side, with the two summoned her nation had taken in there too.

There was no sign of Lux or her family but he was sure it was too late for Seren, not that it mattered. Before anyone there could react to his unexpected arrival he was already shamelessly making his request.

“Hey, great to see you all, I’ve come to beg for a favour!”

“Nice to see you too, Ben,” The queen said as a bit more energy returned to her eyes. “You seem unusually manic.”