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“I did it!” Delair cheered as the notification rang out in her thoughts, telling them both that she’d gained her fourth level of enchanting and officially reached the point in both it and her crafting that Ben had hoped to get her to by the start of the next wave with months still to go.

“Excellent work, kiddo,” Ben laughed as he reached out to ruffle her hair. “I’m proud of you. Hmm, in that case, why don’t we change things up a bit here now that you’ve got that done. After all, you’ve got two new magics to go with it too, improving their levels will improve the power you get when enchanting with them.”

“Sounds great!” she said, her eyes gleaming in excitement. “What are you thinking?”

“Depends, how hard did you want to work?”

“Till I can beat all of your other students into the dirt!”

“Ha, a little extreme there but you got it. In that case, we’ll see what levels we can squeeze out of you. It’s going to be a little uncomfortable so just tell me when you want to stop and we will, okay?”

“Okay!”

“Perfect.”

He got her to take a seat at a desk, materializing a variety of stones and metals for her to work on and watched her look at each one while he adjusted her circlet, adding another mind to the three he already had it set up for and significantly increasing the speeds she’d perceive the world too as he instructed her by speaking directly into her head.

“I’ll give you different ways I want you shaping each substance as you go and I’ll let you know what magic you’ll be using each time but you’ll be balancing the both of them. It’s not more than I think you can handle but with your perception of time changed, you’ll find your mana being spent faster than you expect too but I’ll be making sure to keep your pool full so feel free to go wild. This is about you improving your skill, don’t worry about anything else. The only issue is that it’s going to feel uncomfortable so if it gets to be too much, just let me know and we’ll take a break, okay?”

“Okay!” she tried to tell him so fast that the word came out all at once, threatening to make him laugh as she dealt with the degree her thoughts were being sped as she started using her newer magics while Ben carefully poured the power she spent back into her, creating a small discomfort of having her regeneration rates exceeded but not the sort one would get for overfilling a soul, making sure he kept well below that point for his own experience with the pain such a thing could cause, all while he let himself watch her work, seeing as she excelled.

Like any person he’d pass in the streets, his student had benefited from his awakenings for the knowledge he could give, incorporating the feeling of how skills should be used within the depth of her psych and witnessing as she put it all into practice, all while he subtly gave her more.

While harmless, he’d seen in Foast that a big enough volume could leave one with a headache, though that particular example was after transmitting the information he held on hundreds of skills, but he still wanted to treat doing the same to Delair with care as he subtly gave her more, slipping all he knew about material science into her head to be used as if it had always been there and drastically changing the nature of the lessons he’d give for it.

Until then, he’d pull her into his head to teach her theory while getting her body to practice in the real world, but that was clearly no longer necessary. He could teach her things in a way that would leave her feeling like she’d already learned it long ago, both faster and more efficiently than any other way of helping her grow in those fronts. Doing anything else was basically pointless.

And since she’s benefiting from the effects of my knowledge skill there really shouldn’t be a need to reinforce it but… mmh, I’ll still give her a more traditional lesson once or twice a week, just to be on the safe side and to properly confirm that she’s both digested the information properly and that it really does stick. And then from there…

All there would be left was getting her to grow as much under his tutelage as possible in the time they had left and since the fourth level mark was already met, he was placing the new goal post at the sixth level for both her crafting and enchanting and when it came to her other magics, he’d just see what they could get. He didn’t view her plant magic as his concern, even if he had given her some help with it, and it was already at the fourth level anyway but as for the last two, the zeroth level they were currently at would doubtless be a few levels higher by then, even if it brought another thought to his head.

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