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“Nati, Xilly, hey!” Ben called out as he arrived, ignoring the blatant discomfort of the two while he smiled at them both broadly. “It’s been a while.”

“It has, Ben,” Nati told him charitably, not making direct eye contact while Xilly kept her silence. “My grandfather said you wanted us so we could have another lesson?”

“Well, I was in the area and figured it would be good to get out of the way, but I see you both haven’t been slacking. Both of you got to the eighth level of connect since I’d last seen you, huh? Good work.”

“Ah, we only managed it recently.”

“Well, today I’m making sure you both get to the ninth so make this easy for me and try not to struggle, it will be over before you know it.”

Not giving either a chance to say more, he reached out and pulled both into his minds while taking over their bodies, making it so they’d walk with him as he carried out his main purpose of getting there instead of letting the two collapse to the ground. They still needed to be in his range after all so he didn’t want the connection breaking and doing that was easier than dragging them along.

With how fast I can think now though combined with the way my minds have grown since I’d last seen them I’ll probably get them their ninth level before I’m done here. Oh, what the heck, if they get it before I leave the city I’ll keep going to try and bring them closer to awakening it. Having a couple of other awakened enchanters on the planet get access to all of the other awakened skills in the world would only be a good thing.

Their fate sealed by the casual thought, he began practicing with them and dealt with the unfortunately strong reactions from them seeing the change in his own skills since they’d last met, while in the real world he let himself inside of the building the two women had been waiting in front of, going back to the research institute that had been set up to study the various magic materials he’d both created and discovered.

Rench, Nare’s oracle, was already waiting for him as he walked in, eyeing Nati for only a moment until Nare presumably filled her in on what was happening, letting her focus her attention back on him.

“Welcome back, apostle of Myriad. Have you been well?”

“For the most part. It’s nice to see you again too, Rench, I hope you guys have something good for me.”

“Perhaps less than you’re hoping. We’re doing our best but please bear in mind how recent these materials still all are, not like the natural ones that were discovered and studied by the gods and people on a hundred worlds beforehand.”

“Okay, I’ll keep my expectations in check so for now just lead me to your books, I’ll take whatever progress I can get.”

“Of course, this way.”

He was brought to an area he’d been once before, with a few new shelves with it compared to the last time for him to pull out the records with his magic, letting pages and pages of documents flutter past his eyes to read all there was and finding that Rench had been honest, there was little new of note. Some details that would let him lower the materialization cost for a few of the non-affinitied ones and the affinities ones too if he was working through people with the right attributes for it but by and large, what there mostly was ended up being further areas to try and test to gleam whatever hidden effects a few of those substances still held.

“Hmm, a bit disappointing,” He muttered while the oracle with him nodded.

“We’re doing our best but the more obscure the effect the harder it will be to find, combined with the inherent difficulty that sample size might be posing for us as well.”

In most cases they essentially only had a grain of each material to work with, valuable beyond measure by their nature but harder to study for the fact, especially since it was possible that some of their effects just might not have been able to present themselves at such a small scale, at least not in a way that would be noticeable for the people researching it all.

It made him wonder if he should try to create bigger volumes to work with as well but there were safety concerns tied into that idea. More of any of those new substances may have meant a bigger magical effect to observe but that could also have meant a more dangerous one for any researcher to be exposed to. As things stood, the volume that existed might have kept things slow but it would also contribute a bit of safety as well.

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Mmh, it’s not like there’s a rush to learn beyond my own curiosity but my curiosity matters a lot to me. Maybe I’ll make slightly bigger volumes to test for some of them. It’s something to work with at least.

Not the result he’d hoped for when he went out there, with that done and notifications ringing out in his two student’s heads telling him they gained their levels, he once more left that city, going for his next task of the day at the magic towers.