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“Jake, I’m taking over part of your body for a bit, try not to panic.”

“Wait, what is that supposed to mean?”

“It means everything’s going to be fine, I just need to try something for a bit so keep practicing your enchanting until I’m done and try not to get distracted by this.”

He was already using his hive mind on the other, not taking him over entirely but instead conquering a single one of his split minds, making it his own while taking over his left arm as well to begin some tests as he used Jake’s soul to materialize a knife, taking control of the other’s magic just as he’d done when he’d been forced to improvise on his rank one quest.

He could feel a small part of Jake panic as he picked up on what was happening but did his best to forcefully soothe his friend’s minds with his own as he got to work, using all of what he knew about the magic he wanted to use and began trying to apply it, trying to bestow a spell to the thing he’d made.

Bestowal was rare, unreasonably so, and the worst part of it was that it didn’t seem to be a skill one could really train to gain. It would come as a bonus skill with an awakening or else something that might be acquired when one got lucky after taking a job but there was no evidence it was something a person could properly work towards, a fact that made it all the more valuable in his eyes, with that application of magic able to do things that something like enchanting couldn’t.

While less complex than enchanting, it was a power that saturated an item with a given spell or skill instead of placing it on it, meaning any item that was bestowed on could be enchanted on after without adding any additional magical weight, increasing the amount of power that could be placed into it without causing the base material to break, and in addition to that, didn’t suffer the sort of decay that normal enchantments might go through over the decades so long as a bit of mana was run through it from time to time to maintain it, making them essentially permanent if just a bit of mythril or white mana crystal was baked into any design that had been bestowed upon.

Of course, the second point was a bit less meaningful to Ben since he’d learned of the ring system and applied it to his work, with stability being one of the core features of that particular system and allowed items that were enchanted with it to hold their effects for upwards of thousands of years based on the few examples of it he’d seen, but that didn’t make the first point any less valuable. If he just practiced with Jake’s skill a bit until he got the hang of it himself, he’d then be able to teach them and even use them after they learned it to help with some of his work.

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