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“Come in,” Ben yelled out at the knock on the door, with it opening to Sachel and Delair, the latter looking like a ball of energy while the first spoke up.

“Thanks again for this Ben.”

“Don’t worry about it, but Delair, remember I can be a tough teacher. You wanted to learn from me during a busy time which means I’m going to make you learn as much as physically possible. You ready?”

“I am!”

“Perfect. In that case, put this on.”

He tossed her a circlet and Sachel immediately knew its point, with Ben’s unsold stock of them still infamous in town even with everything else going on while his student did as he said, placing it on her head and feeling as her mind split.

She didn’t immediately heave like Sachel had been expecting though. Ben had plenty of experience with experimenting on the minds of others by that point and even if splitting one was never going to be comfortable, he’d long learned how to keep it manageable, at least to a point. The more he tried to split the worse it would be but there’d be no harm leaving the girl with three.

A flash of discomfort passed her face but she quickly got used to it, even if it didn’t go uncommented on. “This feels weird.”

“Ha, you’re going to get used to it, you’ll be wearing that a lot while you work. Now it’s just going to get a little weirder.”

He pulled two of her newly formed minds into his own, creating a mental space where he could give her two separate lessons at once while leaving her last mind in control of her body for some hands-on practice, focusing back on Sachel before they began.

“I think I’ve got her well in hand if you have things you need to do.”

“Would it be okay for me to stick around for the first day? Just to see how it goes?”

“Suit yourself,” He shrugged. “In that case, both of you, this way.”

He led the two to the back of the shop where his mini-gates were waiting before pausing to materialize, spending some of his power to make amulets appear around their necks.

“Don’t take those off while we’re through, my warehouse is big enough that you shouldn’t feel much of it but we’ll technically be in Anailia and the whole land is going to be subtly filled with charm. Don’t want any accidents while you’re both under my watch.”

“Why am I under your watch too?”

“Because if I let anything happen to his oracle while I’m around to stop it, I’m never hearing the end from Myriad. Anyway, this way.”

He went through the gate as they followed behind, not able to see him stretch out his soul but able to witness the effects of it as his clones left their cases, all of them getting to work on various projects.

Some gathered the materials his materializers had been producing and others got to work forging it all into shape, largely creating bracelets for both his mana and buff enhancements he’d created that he’d need to later finish by adding the necessary soul but there were also new materializers being constructed as well, all with tools and weapons of all sorts in a constant cacophony of movement, with every Ben having his role to fill.

He could tell Sachel had no clue how to feel about what she was seeing but Delair’s eyes just gleamed.

“Will I be able to do this one day?”

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“I’m going to have to give that a maybe. Technically, there are tools I can make you that would let you imitate how I do things and if you get used to having your mind split in three then we can slowly add more minds for you to work with but if you really want to be able to do the same thing through your own power then there’s a few skills I’ll have to help you get. We would be talking about pretty radically changing your mental structure though so that’s not a talk we’re having until you’re a couple years older, okay?”