CH978

“Good news, I got some more levels,” Ben told his god that night.

“Which ones?”

“Which do you think?”

“Ugh, Ben, please stop being so good at this before someone gets it into their head that you’re too dangerous to be allowed to exist.”

“I think some gods up here already believe that.”

“Sure, but I more meant when they start thinking it to the point that anyone is going to be tempted to act on it.”

“And if they do, then what? They kill me, shoot me straight to godhood, and then I use the soul crystals I’ve already been making to pray to myself to use all of the faith I’ll have waiting and the power I should be ascending with to immediately kill them. I’m now at the fifth level of evil god of sacrilege, I think it’s in everyone’s best interest that I don’t get up there anytime soon.”

“No, technically it’s in everyone’s best interest to kill you immediately so that you can’t accumulate anymore skill and power before you die in the future. At this rate, it will be what? Another month before you level it again?”

“Eh, hard to say. My authorities went up too and they drop sacrilege’s level threshold so I’d give an estimate of between three and four weeks, though if I get more levels to my authorities in the meantime then that might drop even lower, those skills do seem to like to level together.”

“And I hate hearing that. You promise that whenever you die you’re just going to keep to the gods you like and whatever church you end up building, right? You’re not going to go and conquer the universe, are you?”

“I mean, I think I’d be better than the guy currently doing it.”

“Beeeeen.”

“Don’t worry,” he laughed. “I don’t want to rule over the gods, even if there’s a couple I might make sure to keep in their place if I can, so you don’t need to worry about me playing conqueror. I’ll hang with you and whatever other gods I can get along with and hopefully spend some nice, quality time also bumming around the mortal plane at the same time if my skills let me manage it. Thera’s going to be down there for a long while and Mora’s going to be there forever, I’ll have plenty enough to keep me busy.”

“Alright, good.”

“And besides, why would I conquer the gods with threats and violence when I’m going to have a far easier job taking over the planet with the financial power I’ll leave behind and the political power that having control of so many of my inventions will give me? I can only do so much to earn you any believers with the lifetime I’ve got, but when I’m my own god, I think I can devote a few thousand years to converting believers away from any god I dislike to build my faith base. We already talked about the fact that I’ll be able to offer demigod surgeries to anyone who wants to convert to me and seeing as how I’m the only person able to create souls, I’m the only one able to grant powerful soul modification in godhood too. Let’s be real; any mortal who wants power is going to flock to me. It’s going to be great.”

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