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“Thank you for joining us today, Ben,” Spoke Speni, the herring-like head of the mages’ guild once he arrived and told the front desk what he was there for, being led to the guild master himself.

As promised, back when he’d completed all of the available books at the magic towers’ library, he’d come to give a talk. An event that wasn’t the best use of his time that he’d nonetheless agreed to, if only for a change of pace as much as anything else. It was just one day but it was also a unique opportunity and even if he wasn’t going to get anything significant for it, it was also a good way to spread Myriad’s name and fame just a bit more.

Of course, along with that, it never hurt to have one of the people in charge of one of the world’s major guilds viewing him positively.

Especially when I just got the head of the adventurers’ guild fired and the old head of the craftsmans’ guild is in the middle of being tortured… Huh, that means I don’t currently know who’s running either of those two guilds. Oh well, not important.

He pushed those thoughts to the side to instead focus on Speni, giving the man a smile.

“It’s my pleasure to be here, can I ask how many I’ll be talking to today?”

“About a hundred, I reached out to some the guild considers our more promising and passionate mages and while some were unreachable while many others too busy hunting down the demons, either by themselves or with different armies, I’d say we got a decent turnout.”

“Interesting, interesting. Then just out of curiosity, how promising does the guild rank me?”

The other man laughed at that. “Well, while you haven’t involved yourself with us too deeply I can at least tell you that from what we know we’ve been forced to give you a rather high evaluation. The holder of what? Two awakened magics and likely at a high level as well? Not to mention how things turned out at the library and Killi’s evaluation of you, which holds plenty of weight in these walls, you can consider yourself near the top when it comes to our registered second-tier mages.”

“Love hearing that. In that case, shall we go?”

“Of course, they should all be seated by now, I hope you’ve prepared something interesting for them.”

“Ha, I’ve done my best.”

He was led to a small auditorium from there, up to a stage that stared out to the small crowd before him while Speni stood at the front.

“Hello everyone, thank you for making some time for the guest speaker we’ve brought in. More than a few of you likely recognize him yourselves if you’d been lucky enough to have gotten some of his time at the library. I hope you all give a warm welcome to the apostle of Myriad, Ben.”

The introduction was met with polite applause while he looked out into the crowd with their focus firmly on him. He could recognize a few, both from the help he’d given at the library as well from his mass awakening event and it was clear that even the ones who hadn’t seen him before were aware of him to one extent or another and were all interested to hear whatever he had to talk about.

“Hello everyone, thank you for having me today, I wanted to start things off with a show of hands. How many of you are enchanters?” Not a single hand went up and left Ben to chuckle, having expected as much as he went on. “In that case, bestowers then?”

Still no one raised their hands, not that he was shocked. “Ah, too bad, I’m not a bestower myself but I’ve only met one and I’m always hoping to come across more. In that case, let’s go even broader. How many of you have a non-affinitied magic?”

This time three hands went up and he pointed to the first. “Perfect. You there, would you be willing to share what magics you hold? Affinitied and otherwise?”

“Sure, I use mainly space and clairvoyance.”

“Wonderful, both awakened?”

“Just the space.”

“Okay, and I’d assume the clairvoyance is used to aid your space magic? Helping you get the lay of the land before teleporting perhaps?”

“That’s correct.”