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“So, how did taking your new jobs go?” Myriad asked, with Ben shrugging in return.

“Complicated. I mean, good probably, but I got some weird results.”

“Pff, not surprising,” Helori said, shaking her head. “Did you end up taking outsider then?”

It was a question that she, Myriad, and Nare were all curious about. At that point, none of them were going to try to stop him but whatever results it was going to yield were expected to be outright bizarre, with the three of them all still feeling a bit relieved as he shook his head.

“Not this time, I don’t think next time either. We’ll see how I feel after that.”

“I admire the restraint,” The goddess told him. “But it probably won’t be too bad no matter what tier of job it is. A result similar to when you took alien mind is beyond slim and it’s not like taking it can turn you into a monster.”

“Yeah, well, the system always finds some way to surprise me, and on that note, taking slayer gave me two new titles.”

“Titles?” Nare asked, perking up while Ben nodded. “An unexpected harvest but considering the system is designed to grow, I suppose it doesn’t seem like an impossible one. What are they?”

“Demon slayer and world slayer, both of which make sense I suppose. I’m probably the only guy that’s killed a few planets around and considering the number of demons that had to have been on each one, well, the one I was trapped on before seemed pretty packed. Considering they can live on land and sea, I wouldn’t be surprised if my death count was above a hundred billion, leaving the only question being why I got those titles now instead of when I did it originally.”

The crafting god thought for a moment, looking at what he knew of the system he’d designed and the situation at hand before giving anything of an answer.

“If I had to make an educated guess, I can only assume the job you took somehow forced the system to reassess you for it.”

“Meaning?”

“You unlocked it after you got a few different slayer titles, right? If I’m correct then taking it led the system to re-exam your life for any places where similar titles might apply and it ended up finding two. Given that, I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if you’d have an easier time getting that class of title in the future as well.”

“Okay, and I don’t suppose any of you know offhand what titles like that actually do for me, do you?”

It was a clear no which was largely what he’d been expecting, leaving it as something to bother Verbum about if he ever had time and cared to remember. The few he’d gained in the past he hadn’t cared enough to use the record holder to check when they seemed like a straightforward way of saying that he’d managed to kill something significant enough to warrant a title but now the result of that job had stroked his curiosity.

Of course, with how hard it can be to get him to pull information from the system it might not be worth the time, but… Mmh, if I ever have a free day again I guess I’ll look.

“So what else did you get?” Helori asked, more than curious on the results that would come from taking some unknown jobs while Ben himself still wasn’t sure how pleased with them he actually was.

“Well, I took inclination master which gave no attribute bonuses but massive skill bonuses which is nice I guess, but the skill it ended up helping me gain was defense inclination.”

He heard his god laugh and shot the cube a dirty look.

“Not funny. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to get something like that. Hell, I was more prepared to get nothing! And like, okay, getting this new skill is better than getting no new skill, but come on, I was so sure that if nothing else I’d have ended up with something like mind inclination. How does getting one for defense even make sense?”

“Ha, there’s no sense to be made,” The cube continued to chuckle. “All it means was that the talent was forming in your soul and considering that you do in fact have quite a few defensive skills, I’m not exactly as surprised as you seem to be. Besides, it’s a good thing. Considering how many of those skills you have stuck at the ninth level, maybe this will finally be enough to help you break a few of those barriers.”

“Man, I can at least hope I guess. Anyway, that just leaves my last one. I took judge. It was second tier like the rest of them and it gave me a new skill I haven’t heard of called condemnation. Don’t suppose any of you have heard about it?”

All signaled no in one way or another while Ben sighed.

“Yeah, that’s what I was expecting, which means I might have another new one.”

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