CH941

“Mmh,” Thera yawned as she made her way to the kitchen, finding breakfast ready with Mora and Sonya both already there, the soul spirit being obvious in the way he stared at the cook. “Morning.”

“Morning,” Ben called back, sliding her a plate before joining the rest of them at the table. “Sleep well?”

“No, can you guess why?”

“The stress of wondering how things are going to end up for Bloom?”

“Huh, what’s happening to Bloom?” Mora perked up, feeling concerned as his creator but relaxed as Thera rubbed his back.

“He’s fine, sweetheart. He just, well, a few people seem to have some crushes on him, but it’s nothing to worry about.”

“You seem worried.”

“More about him not understanding what he might be getting into than from any actual problem, it’s fine,” she told him. “My actual point of stress is Ben and whatever’s going on in his soul to have you stare at him like that, but don’t tell me, I’m waiting till he’s ready.”

“Actually, the gods should currently be having a meeting about me right now so I can let you guys know,” Ben spoke up, making Thera roll her eyes.

“Do you not feel at all concerned about the sheer number of meetings the gods have about you specifically?”

“Not really, that’s kind of just life.”

“It isn’t for literally anyone else but okay, hit me with it.”

“Okay, I’m just going to show you.”

He slid his card over, hiding nothing and letting both Thera and Sonya look at it, seeing the wall of text it had become to react to.

“I think it would actually be easier for you to just tell us rather than have us try and read through all of that,” Sonya muttered, leaving Thera with her own reaction.

“Psychopath?”

“I feel like that’s not the change you should be narrowing in on.”

“It’s the easiest one to find. How’d you earn this one?”

“Well, my very rude god decided to call me that and it stuck, but considering he called me that a couple days ago too and it didn’t then, I have to assume one of my new skills increased the probability of getting the title. But also fine, if it’s too much to read then give me a second.”

He took his card back and hid all but the relevant bits of information that he wanted to reveal, turning it back to them and getting the expected disbelief in return.

“How?” Sonya asked, the only thing she could in the face of the levels and skills he’d revealed.

“Well, I’ve been using a god soul to train my sacrilege, and long story short, I was able to do the same thing to awaken my affinities too.”

“And you just had to do it for your two worst ones,” Thera said, looking like she’d formed a headache in those past few seconds. “No wonder you wanted to keep this a secret because this looks so bad and… my stress resistance just leveled up.”

“Um, tee-hee?”

“Don’t act cute right now, Ben. Not when I’m going to be wondering for the next week if the gods are going to decide to kill or imprison you. Why did you awaken these?”

“Well, the good news is that thanks to my sacrilege they really probably can’t, so I should be fine and as for why, it was actually more of a side effect of training my sacrilege instead of intent.”