CH673

Ben was practically skipping off to Anailia as the day started, his joy unable to be contained.

Seventy percent. His attributes had all grown by seventy percent by the time he’d woken up. It was a result far better than he’d been hoping for given all he’d already put his pieces of bone through to extract anything useful from them and it left the results twenty percent better than the ones he’d fed Sonya in the past. It was an increase in strength beyond even his first time awakening a skill and it felt like it. Of course, the potion had to technically be weaker than the one he’d given her all that time ago given he was also getting the benefits of his ambrosia skill but there was still a whole new level of power coursing through him that left him feeling on top of the world.

It was a fact further reflected just by trying to get to Anailia. Even without trying he was moving faster and if he wasn’t careful, his few times skipping would send him high up in the air far beyond the height an athlete from Earth would have been able to jump, not that any of that should have been unexpected.

He still knew that on average, a person’s untrained attributes would typically hover between one hundred and one hundred and fifty depending on a few different factors, but using those numbers as a guide, he was obviously far beyond them for anything he had.

His strength was now over ten times greater than what any normal person could expect and his intelligence over a hundred. Even his agility was beyond what any average person could hope for unless they dedicated years of focus on training it. He felt power that reached beyond any normal limit.

Oh yeah, definitely letting this go to my head.

He carried on like that until he left Pelenia’s home and slipped through to the front gate, finding three people standing with the guards in wait.

“Hello there,” He greeted brightly. “I’m Ben, the one who put in the request. Can I assume you’re a party of three?”

“You can,” A succubus nodded. “We were told this was going to be a decent way to earn money but we weren’t given any more information than that so we were hoping to get more of an explanation before we agreed.”

“Yeah, fair, no worries. The long and short of it is that I currently have a job I’m not super compatible with that I want to get through so I was looking for adventurers who would be able to help merge my job pool with a few folks with jobs I actually am great at getting experience in. I don’t believe we’ll be slowing you down by doing this but it’s admittedly a possibility which is why I’m willing to pay well for the work. The key thing is that I only need five levels though so even if it’s not quick, I shouldn’t need to use you guys until the next wave.”

“I see, would you give us a minute to talk?”

“Of course, take your time.”

He moved off to the side while the three discussed it amongst themselves before ultimately agreeing, with the key motivator being money. Even if he did end up needing them for a while, he was offering enough that they wouldn’t have any concerns even if their work was impacted by him joining them, it made it worth the risk and it was soon after that he was brought into the party, officially sharing his burden with others.

“Fantastic, it’s wonderful to have you all. Now the only thing left is to go grab the other two, we’ll make this quick and then you can all go on with your day.”

Only taking the succubus who actually had the job with him, he led her through the gate to the other two waiting for him outside, one looking far more positive than the other.

“Verbum, Vasta, great to see you both!” He called out. “Ready for a couple weeks of helping me finish my job?”

“Looking forward to it,” Vasta nodded. “And this is our adventurer I take it?”

“That she is, now if you’d both just accept her invite and Verbum could stop staring at me like that we can all go on with our days.”

“How am I supposed to look at you when you’ve already changed so much?” He asked, seeing the awakened inclination on his soul, along with all of his attributes that had ballooned in the few days they’d last spoken. “Why are you like this?”

“Grit and determination I guess. Anyway though, just accept and I’ll get out of your hair.”

Ben could still feel the other’s eyes on him but ignored it until they accepted, finishing that task and hopefully letting him get everything he’d wanted to from the experience, with time being the only way to tell how well that would work out for him in the end.

With that done though he gave them all his thanks before running off, eager to make the most of his time.

He was already materializing souls the second Vasta had joined, an application of non-affinitied magic no matter how bizarre it may have looked, but he’d be able to speed it up all the more once he got to the shop, both for having his jacket to pull mana from along with all of the enchanting he’d be doing.

“Oh yeah, that’s the stuff,” He muttered as he put it on, dealing with the feeling of overfilling his soul in exchange for the power it granted him, with Myriad picking that point to make his presence known.

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<You sound like a drug addict.>

“I don’t think there’s any drug more potent than power and while I’m wearing this I have it in spades. This is objectively the greatest tool I’ve ever made.”

<Most people that have tried your stuff tend to say it’s the air conditioners.>

“It is not even remotely the air conditioners. At least say my resistance bands or divine potions.”

<I don’t know, people really seem to like the air conditioners.>

“Okay, whatever, they can like what they like. For now though, I’ve got lots of work to go.”