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“Okay, first things first, who’s in charge of managing things here?” he asked, getting a pointed look from everyone when he did, with Amy being the one to answer.

“You.”

“Please tell me that I’m not planning things out with zero notice.”

“You aren’t,” Steph told him. “I and a few others have your flight path. I’ll join you for the first stretch if Thera can carry the rest of us around for it.”

“I’m sorry, flight path?”

“What do you think is going to be faster, everyone walking by you or directly going over everyone’s heads?”

“Okay, fair.”

“The other space mages are going to work to help evacuate the people you finish with as best they can while all of this is happening, with different ones here to switch out with me and others to try and handle any emergencies that might pop up given the sheer number of bodies here.”

“Okay, and Yuzu?”

“Currently trying to keep my extreme reaction to your soul private,” she told him, unable to take her eyes away from what she was seeing.

“I more meant your reason to be here, but the fact that you didn’t suppress your soul sight as promised is being noted.”

“I’m going to be taken around with you to try and reduce the effects so many millions of people are going to be feeling for your work, and you caught me off guard, it just happened!”

“Okay, and Amy?”

“Everyone else here is focused on you and what you’re doing, my job is to make sure our soul mage is safe.”

“Alright, and everyone knows how they’re swapping out and schedules for it happening?”

“Yes.”

The rest around him nodded too, all of them getting in their last moments of rest while they could before days of work began, leaving him with one more question.

“So why did you say I was in charge?”

“Because if we see anything go wrong, we’re turning to you to decide what to do. Anything else?”

“Nope, think that’s everything. In that case, let’s get started.”

They forced open the door, feeling it push against people already pressed against its other side but didn’t have much choice as Ben instantly got to work on them, doing everything he could for whatever benefits it would bring.

He modified their souls, looked at their skills to fill their heads with any relevant bits of knowledge, and put his newest abilities to work by giving them all the benefits of his evil and destruction authorities, hearing levels go off in a few of their heads already as their thresholds were lowered to a point under the weight of those third tier skills to let them instantly go beyond where they’d been, all while the other space mages got sorted, opening portals and yelling out as they did.

“If you need to get back to the gate, go through here!”

“For anyone going north out of the city, you’re this way!”

“West is this one, make it snappy!”

A few more space mages called out their directions but for what convenience it held, most of them took the shortcut to the gate, filtering out to that broader space until there was finally enough room for Thera to raise Ben and the other four up above the crowd, letting them really get to work.

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Seeing the scale of what they’d need to do, he instantly materialized circlets on their head, getting groans for it even if he only split their minds thrice, two of them getting their perception of time significantly boosted while the third stayed at what was normal for baseline reality for the convenience of conversation, all to speed the process up the best he could for everyone. He’d been expecting a few days of work, but if every city was going to be like that, odds seemed better it would be a month if he didn’t empower the people around him and left him to speak out as he did.

“You all have buff or mana bracelets on, right?”