CH705

Flying through the sky on a slab of earth beneath them, Ben paid no mind to the speed Thera was moving them as he instead was lost in his thoughts, with that only being broken as Thera spoke up.

“Ben, you’re basically vibrating. What’s going on?”

“Just got something I want to test really really badly when we get home. If I’m right I might be able to make something cool.”

“We’re still trying to see Yuzu or Elvat first to get your soul fixed, Ben. You seriously can’t just be living like this.”

“Okay, true, the sooner I get it fixed the sooner I can comfortably overfill it again. I’m patient, I can wait.”

“No, the point of getting healed isn’t to immediately start doing the exact thing that injured you again. Gods above Ben, you’re being a healer’s worst nightmare.”

“Hopefully it’s only going to be another week and then never again, I… Okay, I don’t promise, but I’m real hopeful about my prospects of that being true.”

“Consider me not reassured but okay. And we’re almost there.”

They could see the final destination in the form of a walled city in the distance. Similar to Stonewall in that sense, the size seemed comparable enough from the distance too that it may not have been correct to call it a city but if that was what its people referred to it as then that was all that mattered. It was the only place they were visiting that wasn’t on the gate network, necessitating the trip out.

Different from Stonewall though was the look of it. He didn’t think the wall he was approaching was any less practical than the one of his home but a far greater effort had gone towards the aesthetic of it, ensuring it all was made of a brilliant white stone with the few buildings he could see within being the same.

It wasn’t long until they landed, walking the rest of the way as some guards at the gate gave them both a quick look over before waving them through, letting them make their way over to the larger building sitting at the city’s heart and passing its people along the way.

The two of them certainly stood out as they went, it didn’t seem like the sort of land where outsiders not belonging to its main species would appear but the species itself was familiar, with the people looking largely human except for elephant-like ears, all of them being the same race as Vasta.

They ignored the stares they got through, focusing on getting through that final destination as they arrived at the main church and let themselves inside, finding a few priests already waiting, even if they looked none too pleased compared to the rest they’d dealt with that day as Ben greeted them.

“Hello there, apostle Ben, here to look at your mythic item. I believe you’ve been expecting me?”

“Mmh, come so we can get things over with.”

No warm welcome, they were led through the church while Thera gave him a questioning glance, not that he had anything helpful to add. He was already reading their minds to try and see what the issue was but it seemed they and their god viewed some of his actions, including the one that had gained him his mad apostle title, in a rather negative light and painted their attitudes as they went.

But if they were just going to be grumpy instead of outright hostile then he didn’t particularly care. He didn’t need to get along with them, he just needed to see what they had and got exactly that as they were led through a back door, getting to watch another priest practicing with the most interesting of staves he’d gotten to lay his eyes on by that point.