CH960

<DEEP DESTRUCTIVE THOUGHT LEVEL INCREASED>

<DEEP EVIL THOUGHT LEVEL INCREASED>

“So, this is what these skills look like at their ninth level,” Ben mused before the mad god he had imprisoned, Haro screaming and doing everything he could to attack him yet failing as he always did, the destruction and evil infecting his mind trumping the damage Ben had already caused it. “And better yet, I’ve reached a point that these skills can actively make a target self-destructive. All sense of self-preservation and fear are gone, very cool, I’m sure I’ll find a place where this comes in handy one day. Also makes me wonder about deep calming. Even if the name’s a bit different, it seems to be in the same vein as those other skills so if I get it to its ninth level, will I be able to make something so calm that it wouldn’t be able to react to any damage I’d do to it? Hmm, going to have to put a bit more effort into raising it here then. Even if it’ll take a bit of a bite out of my more important training, it could be useful.”

With Haro’s current state making him an excellent target for training that very skill. In the single-minded madness Ben’s power had left him in, the god would be trapped that way unless Ben either cancelled the effects or deleted portions of his memories but having him so full of fire and murderous desire made him just as perfect of a target to try and calm down, letting him put a weaker skill against the effects of two of his stronger ones as his practice went on within the depths of his mind, the use he would extract from that deity far from over, meaning there’d be time yet to spend before replacing it with a different one.

<DEEP CALMING LEVEL INCREASED>

“Phew, gonna be honest here, I almost didn’t think I’d manage to reach the ninth level for my thought skills before the day turned over. That was almost embarrassing.”

“Stop trying to be cute, you’re not good at it,” Myriad told him.

“Hey, I’ll have you know I’m good at lots of things. Evil, destruction, corrupting people down the path of evil and destruction, erasing their memories so I can do it all over again if I need to, probably some other things I’m not immediately remembering right now either.”

“Yeah, I’m sure all of that would be very funny if it weren’t objectively horrific. So, instead of being like that, tell me how things went with the demidemons.”

“Oh, great, as expected. Every one of them I didn’t awaken before who came to me I either awakened now or else got to the ninth level to awaken later after they’ve recovered a bit, so keep sending them my way before I head off for this wedding. Other than that though, we have your devoted priestess to talk about.”

“I heard about her awakening. What did you put her through?”

“Nothing she didn’t want.”

“And anything to say about the fact that it was named as unnatural?”

“Just that she’s unlocked a powerful variant of the skill, how lucky for her. We’re certainly not going to read too deeply into the fact that when it comes to skills trained by interacting with my mind, they constantly get results related to me.”

“You really are going to have to add that to your list of things to study one day. It’s unusual, to say the least.”

“Alright, yeah, I know, and I was probably going to look into that a bit deeper in the future anyway, but this isn’t really what I wanted to talk to you about when it came to her.”

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“Mmh, I’m concerned, but let’s hear it.”

“So, I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to get Valaria a third-tier mind skill. Oh, but if trying to do that awakens her connect instead then I’m throwing myself off a cliff.”