CH965

“Got it. Hey, Myriad, Helori, what do you think the odds are that if I awaken my two thought skills or calming that the three’ll merge together? It feels likely, but honestly, since it seems like it should be possible for me to awaken them all individually, I kind of hope they don’t.”

“Focus on your connect, I don’t need you to get any more obviously objectionable skills to the third tier when you already have so many.”

“Objectionable isn’t a skill class… probably.”

“Neither was apocalyptic until you got it.”

“Sure, but these are all clearly mind skills, and you’re talking to potentially the best mind god in the universe,” Ben said, seeing the knowledge goddess with them frown.

“A little rude.”

“A little accurate, unless you can find a god with a more powerful mind than me, a person who by all accounts is still a mortal. Raising those three up to the third tier isn’t outside of the realm of possibility since I can use all three while training my sacrilege. They’re falling under my authorities too. Combined with my brainpower, it could happen.”

“Again, focus on your connect,” Myriad groaned. “Seeing as how that’s your big goal and all, you can consider anything else after you accomplish that.”

The cube was pushing for that skill so hard, of course, because he knew Ben was struggling with it, something that was easy for Ben to see, and left his shoulders to sag.

“Well, right now my options for that are to either hope for some new information to present itself in the hopes of succeeding, keep doing what I’m doing and hope it will be enough, or move on to some truly fringe, dangerous, and unethical options.”

“I don’t like the sound of that.”

“Connect to an outsider, torture a living god instead of just one’s soul, maybe some other options too. It’s not like I don’t have choices if I get really desperate.”

“Really don’t like that, absolutely not.”

“Fine, fine, I can wait just a bit longer until I do anything so extreme. Continuing to smack my face against a mountain and hope it breaks it is then.”

“Or, instead of being a crazy person, you could try and spend your remaining time doing something nice,” his god tried instead.

“Like?”

“You had fun playing dress-up with Thera, just break down and marry her for real.”

“… Myriad, where the hell did that come from?”

“It came from watching you work yourself to death constantly and seeing you almost die on multiple occasions. Don’t think I didn’t see her leaving you speechless, why not tie the knot in the time you have left? It’s not like you don’t love her enough to do it, and regardless of any hang-ups she might still have about different lifespans, she undeniably loves you too, no matter how crazy some of your actions drive her. I personally still consider that one of her best parts.”

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