CH767

“Good job,” Ben told his official apprentice, patting Delair’s back while she caught her breath from the work he’d just put her through before the two took in the sight of the newest mini-gate they’d made together.

Most of it had been Ben of course, Delair was nowhere near having the skill in enchanting she’d need to make it possible and plenty of the construction itself still stood beyond her grasp, but anything Ben felt confident she could manage he had her cover, ending with a new portal to take advantage of to shrink the distance between Stonewall and the dryad’s village.

“And with that done, you guys come with me, we’ll need to work on the most important part.”

Politely asking Thera to help us fly it out there.

He didn’t think she’d say no but he also doubted this was going to be something she’d want to be surprised with after what was sure to be a long day of work and worst to worst, he was going to make sure Sachel was there to squarely blame for not giving him any more notice as they first lugged one end of the gate to the oracle’s home before bringing the two with him to see his girlfriend, letting them inside and getting a surprise of his own with what he saw.

Sitting with Thera, quietly playing cards, was by all appearances the ghost of a child. A sight that almost instantly made him pull back in surprise before his calmer minds more deeply appraised the situation.

Despite the appearance, it was only a fraction of a second for him to understand he wasn’t looking at a ghost, or if he was it certainly wasn’t a normal one. Despite its ethereal form, it was far denser than any others he’d seen in the world and the way his soul sight presented it was different as well. He didn’t know what he was looking at.

A sentiment that was shared by Sachel whose eyes were instantly turned to him with questions he couldn’t answer while Delair’s were filled with pure curiosity, looking like she was about to speak up but losing the chance once Thera noticed them.

“Ben! And both of… Hello? What… No, doesn’t matter. Sachel, Delair, this is Mora, do me a favour and talk with him for a bit while I borrow Ben. Mora, I’ll be back in just a moment, alright sweetheart?”

The ghost-like being gave a small nod and Thera shot up, grabbing Ben by the arm while not-so-subtly shoving the other two into the room before pulling him out of the house, looking in his eyes before speaking again.

“We kind of need to have a private conversation here if you don’t mind,” She told him, tapping her head and getting the point across as he created a mindscape within his own and pulled her into it, with her mental construct falling into his arms while she groaned.

“So, it looks like you’ve had an interesting day,” He said, with dozens of questions filling his thoughts that she answered without any further prompting.

“Vividus finally succeeded in having a kid.”

“Wait, what? So is that-”

“A great soul spirit, yeah.”

Ben had gotten to relive the conversation Thera had overheard all the way back when they’d taken on Anailia’s trial and he understood the significance of what that meant, at least to an extent. Not just a new type of spirit had been born into the world, but a new type of great spirit with all the might such a thing implied. To have something that powerful join the world could only be a boon, all the more so for the type of magic it held.

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While roughly equivalent to the ninth level of a second-tier magic, Ben didn’t actually know if a great spirit’s magic would really be less valuable than a third-tier soul mage’s on a purely technical level. The soul mages were those who had elevated their magics to the realm of godhood but from what little he understood of it, a great spirit’s magic was more akin to the culmination of the skills within an affinity tied into the magic it would wield. Add in just how ridiculously high that affinity was along with a mana pool that could potentially reshape the world itself and the potential that came from the birth of such a being couldn’t be understated.