CH934

Levels coming to Delair for both material user as well as destruction by the time the day ended, while Thera and Mora walked her home, Ben instead turned to one of his many gates, a long-awaited conclusion finally within his reach.

Everything set up for me?

<Yes, they’re ready and waiting.>

Any other folks around who might catch a look at my soul?

<No, just Verbum and your teacher, as expected. Nare already told Falk to suppress his soul sight, which just leaves the first. You think you’ll be able to get through this without him eyeing the changes in you?>

Soft maybe, I’ll be getting you to be on lookout for me. This really is too soon for the gods to catch how I’ve changed. I need another couple of days at least.

Gonna make one last attempt to score some extra benefits when I get to soul modifying soon, which I’m sure plenty of jerks might try to get in the way of despite how good it would be for the planet. I don’t want the extra scrutiny before that.

<Fine, whatever, get going then. They’ll all be on the dock.>

Got it.

With nothing else to do, he started making his way through the magic towers’ guild and down the streets, heading to the coast where a crowd was already surely gathered.

Yet, not quite in the area everyone else was meeting. He could see them there, all slightly off in the distance as he made his way to the water’s edge but simply joining them all there would create too much leeway for Verbum to spot him beyond his range to do anything about it, forcing him to get creative as he slipped his shoes and a few of his other goods into his rings before diving into the ocean’s depths, swimming beneath the water’s surface from there and getting to see the crowd down below.

With the aquatic half of the planet also getting to enjoy his services, it seemed what he was going to do had drawn plenty in on that front as well, all of them gathered around the dock in preparation with the parties he would be joining among them looking forward to receiving the benefits he could give, the focus of the aquatic races firmly on the surface above and barely acknowledging as he swam through them, boosting his speed with his magic and creating new pockets of air for himself to breathe as he went until he was finally close enough to connect to Verbum and, having received no warnings from Myriad to dissuade him, forced the man to fall asleep in a way that would akin to any of his fainting fits at the same time Ben shot himself out of the water and into the air above, making a spectacle of himself as he yelled out.

“Welcome, one and all, to the last great awakening event of the Church of Myriad! Many of you know the drill by now so sit tight as I get to you all, and other than that, someone look after Verbum because it looks like my grand entrance was a bit too much for the guy!”

And take my heartfelt apology for doing that to you, Verbum. I’ll make it up to you in the future.

There was already a few going to look after the other summoned before he said anything and a few other disappointed looks beyond that for the childish display but he’d take whatever opinions anyone else wanted to give if it meant he wasn’t going to be caught for the things going on within his soul and he landed by the guildmaster Toner’s side, ready to be guided through the biggest crowd yet.

And hope there’s no more surprise results akin to what happened with Abel. Seeing as how that seemed like an outlier, I should be able to finish everyone but if I can’t, I’m going to be plenty disappointed myself.

With the rest of the third tiers waiting to benefit from his power all already gathered, he searched their minds and souls for everything he could find to try and transmit all of the relevant skill information he held for whatever extra benefits it might give them, as well as ensure the rest there got it too as he was invited to the first party, touching his crystal and looking at his options once he’d joined.

AVAILABLE JOBS

Trap user
Craftsman- alchemy path
Craftsman- artistic path
Craftsman- blacksmith path
Craftsman- cooking path
Craftsman- stonecrafts path
Craftsman- sewing path
Mathematician
High destruction mage
Beginner puppeteer
Assassin
Cycler
Beginner dancer
Entrée
Soul creator
Eldritch mind user
King of mana
King of stamina
Mind breaker
Intelligence embodiment
King of vitality
Therapist
Total self
Degenerate body user
Divine body user
Demonic body user
Foul tank
Resistant tank
Mortal realm actualizer

Twenty-nine options left, with the majority of them about to be cleared away like they were nothing. It barely mattered which ones he would pick first amidst all of the groups he was going to be able to go through that day, for no reason in particular he decided to get his king jobs finished first, beginning with the highest of that option sitting in his list.

Give me king of mana.

Nice and easy. He grinned; the volume of souls he could now make even without his jacket, thanks to how high his mana volume had already gotten to, made finishing that particular job simple. Next then, let’s go with king of stamina.

Another satisfying result that he was already looking forward to taking advantage of, he moved to his next party, a prior discussion meaning that he wouldn’t need to immediately help a party holding a third tier. After all, he’d helped Foast finish the option he’d held without taking any other ones before it, the timing and situation demanding as much yet was still something that needed to be made up, leaving him to enjoy his final king job.

King of vitality.

And there’s my king jobs complete for now.

<Can’t wait for all of the power you’re going to get for this to go to your head.>

Oh, it’s already going to my head, I’m just compartmentalizing it away to a secret back corner of my mind. With that done though, I think I’ll take my last option that sits in a similar vein. Let’s find out what intelligence embodiment is going to do for me.

And now I’m officially a contender for an attribute enhancement. Wonder just how good it would turn out for me if I managed to get it to the third tier?

Ugh, yeah, I know. I really do need to see if I can figure out a way to get another fourth-tier job. World killer was so good and I now have all of these fun and exciting ways of powering through any option I get, I could do to take on a few more. What are some equivalents of killing multiple planets, power-wise? You think blowing up a star would get me any exciting options?

I’d make sure it wasn’t inhabited first. I’m not a monster.

No, the assholes who keep giving me stupid titles disagree, my poor status is innocent.

<Yeah, yeah, for now, just think about what you’re taking next because you’ve got a third-tier up.>

Yeah, I’ll take a peek first then.

While he’d be sure to finish them with no difficulty so long as he took a sacrilege job, he only had a few of those left and wanted to be sure they’d be used appropriately on anything that might have been too hard for either his soul source or eldritch mind to finish alone, leaving him to search the mind of the one he’d be helping next but finding it wouldn’t require a deep dive to find the nature of their job and skill when that third-tier was the divine chef.

Okay, she won’t need a sacrilege job for sure, so in that case, since there’s a mind user in this party to gain most of the experience, let’s go with soul creator.

A job he’d originally been putting off for fear that the nature of it was too aligned with making souls and as a result, would eliminate the benefits of making them that he was using to cheat the job system, with the power of his mind and just as importantly, now being a contender for that unique magic as well, whatever bite it might have taken out of the total experience he would produce for that group became negligible for the rest he had, leaving the expected notification only a few minutes later.

Do you think there’s going to be any fucked-up consequences if I become this universe’s god of soul production?

<Probably, but I think it’s better for everyone, by which I mean me, if we don’t think about it too hard until it actually happens. If you want to talk consequences though, consider the fact that, despite having a skill that reduces the level of harm done to your soul, you’ve somehow managed to claim one that would make your soul better at healing itself as well.>

That’s a good consequence, though. Gonna need to get some soul damage when I get home to start working on leveling it.

Hey, a bit of pain now means less pain later and besides, I’ve said before I want to awaken soul resilience one day if I can, right? This is definitely the sort of skill that would merge into it, and then from there I could actually start trying to awaken my soul expansion too!

I’m carefulish, it’ll be fine. Anyway, next job. Let’s say mind breaker this time.

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Oh neat, wasn’t expecting bonuses to my destructive skills or my mana. This was better than I’d hoped.

Are you just here for the colour commentary or is there a real reason you’re sticking around?

…Fair.

He couldn’t exactly promise nothing would happen considering how much he was going to have to go through but at the very least, he could say that so far things had seemed normal, perhaps even a little dull. While he hadn’t been expecting to gain any new skills from his embodiment or king jobs, the fact that he’d gone through six options already and only gained a single new one couldn’t help but be disheartening.

Ugh, I know, but I like getting them. It’s exciting to see what I end up with each time.

Mmh, I’m thinking we’ll see what total self has to offer.

<Well, that was unexpected.>

Yeah, in the best possible way. Oh god, I get it. Total self may have appeared after I’d taken body master but that was also long after I’d finished mind and soul master too. Mind, body, and soul, I’d bet completing the master jobs for all three unlocks that, a job that covers everything. Sweet, then on to the next third tier. Looks like our next lucky godling is going to be another one of the summoned. The zone of empowering holder? A mass buffing skill then? Mmh, I don’t think it should be anything too crazy but to be on the safe side, we’ll take a sacrilege job. Let’s see what degenerate body user has in store for me.

Alright, marginally less murderable now, big fan of that and with two more jobs in the same vein, might as well keep going. Let’s take demonic body user.

<…So like, did you consider the fact that taking that job might have awakened your integrated demon body skill? And even if it didn’t, it’s definitely going to make it easier to awaken in the future.>

Of course, I considered it. You know what else I considered, though? How good a second-tier body job would be, and would you look at that? I was right. Now just one more to go.

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