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CH609

“Looks good,” Ben said as he examined the set of carefully forged carving knives, patting Delair’s head as he did. “Do you think you’ll be able to use them comfortably?”

“I will, I made them for me after all.”

“Ha, good answer. In that case, put them to use and let's see how you handle them.” 2024-04-18 16:45:53 +0000 UTC View Post

CH608

After letting Delair see his clones the following day and continuing her training while watching her through them, his main body sat a little to the side, focusing instead on the new material he had to work with, the voidstone he had created with Jake.

It had already developed the condensate around it, the fabric of rea...

CH607

After a far too depressing night with the gods, spent trying to ignore the constant feeling of impending doom that every piece of information about the oncoming invasion filled him with, Ben got up for the day, preparing not only his regular meals for Thera and Sonya, but packing some to bring for Delair, Fontesh, Sachel, and...

CH606

Unlike his last time awakening people, that time only took him a day as he breezed through the crowd, helping Delair as he did.

Thanks to having two soul mages around to help lower her leveling difficulty, he was able to get her higher in both her enchanting and her plant magic as the hours wore on, aiding the process h...

CH605

“Ben!” A young voice called out as a child ran in, jumping at him in her excitement while he caught her in surprise.

“Delair? What are you doing here?”

It was a question he knew the answer to as soon as he asked it. His previous deal with Jagal still stood, he’d be awakening the dryads who reached the ei...

CH604

<Alright, are you ready to head out then?>

“Yep, don’t worry about it.”

<And you’ll be on your best behaviour?>

“Why wouldn’t I be?”

<I don’t know but you make me worry.>

“Well, as long as nobody pulls any crap then you shouldn’t expect any problems. I have a...

CH603

Once that plan was made, Ben first used the beginning of the day to focus on his more regular tasks. Just because the gods were going to be reducing his load in the next couple days didn’t mean he could slack on his orders and he devoted as much effort as he ever would to getting each weapon produced to the best of his abil...

CH602

With his jacket finished and beyond his expectations, along with a couple new levels to go with it, Ben took some time to look at the rest of his equipment as well.

Of the things he would regularly wear, he had all of his rings which there was no real way to improve on given that they were just there for the convenience...

CH601

As Ben sat in the living room late at night, staring at his jacket with intense eyes, Myriad spoke up in his head.

<Bad news for you, unfortunately.>

“Oh yeah?”

<The amount of work you’re going to be sent is going to drop significantly after next week. Given the quality and speed that your tea...

CH600

“So, what did you need me for today?” Thera asked as Ben and his clones were swarming her, moving her arms and legs and eyeing measurements as they did.

“Getting you outfitted. Now that the rest of the day’s work is done, you’re my main project for the time being.”

“Okay, why though?”

“Bett...

CH599

The long night of cuts and blood had paid off, leaving Ben with even more clones than he’d hoped for, with Thera making him ten new ones that were just about equal to the four he’d gotten from the great life spirit, all ready to be used and making the matter of how he’d do so into nothing more than a question of space a...

CH598

“Why are we trying this again Ben?” Thera sighed. “You do remember how well this turned out last time, right?”

“I mean, yeah, but practice makes perfect. It will be good for your training and just as importantly, handy to me if you succeed.”

“And what exactly am I doing here?” Ceselee asked, the gu...

CH597

With the morning came the new day, one that Ben decided wouldn’t be spent on things outside of his control, instead devoting it to chores he knew he needed to get out of the way for the upcoming wave.

Really, there was a pile of them, but he let Thera talk him into one in particular before moving on to the rest. Pract...

CH596

“Hey hey, how was the day?” Thera greeted him brightly when he returned, seeming to be positively vibrating with excitement on her own part.

“From the looks of it, nowhere near as good as yours. What’s the good news?”

“I made some progress on the little project Uliel and Vasta gave me.”

With he...

CH595

Slipping off early the next day, Ben’s first stop was to his research center, expecting to be alone when he got there but getting the surprise of seeing someone else so early in the morning.

“Kufno, what the heck are you doing here this hour?”

“Ah Ben,” His employee greeted. “I’ve just been organizin...

CH594 Gods and Chaos

When Ben finally left for the day, the three were left to themselves in Myriad’s realm where they were free to talk without prying ears, each of them having things to say and feeling about what just happened, with Myriad making his own clear by finally letting himself crash down before he started to complain.

“You k...

CH593

Even though it wasn’t too late by the time Ben got home, he still found Thera asleep when he arrived, no doubt still tired from trying to raise that one skill, along with her more personal practice she’d done throughout the day.

It didn’t seem like she had any intention of waking up either so he did his best not t...

CH592 Thera's Perspective

Thera was still exhausted after breakfast, an hour of sleep simply didn’t cut it, but she did her best to put her new level of sleep resistance to use as she fought through it, telling herself it was just more training for the skill as a whole and with a flood of spirits still around her, she gave them as much of her mana a...

CH591

When the day ended, Ben shoved crates and crates of weapons through his personal gate to Anailia to let them handle their transport and distribution while at the same time making room for all that was sure to be sent over the next day before he gathered everything he needed to and went off to his god’s church, ready to make...

March Poll March Poll

Hey all, and god, what a year it's been, huh?

Writing that was originally meant to allude to what a hectic month it's been but I realized as I typed it that it's officially only a couple days till I've been writing chaotic craftsman for three years! God, that's wild, time moves way too quickly when you aren't watching ...

Side Story: The soulsmith Falk

Falk’s work was never finished.

Back before he’d transcended the level of a mortal, back when he’d only worried about completing his goal and hadn’t given much thought to just what rising to the third tier would even mean for him, he'd thought that would be it. That if he ever achieved what he wanted he could en...

CH590

After a night of talking with Myriad, passing the time the best he could while further refining his idea to put into practice later, Ben got up for the day, heading to the living room first instead of the kitchen like he normally would and finding Thera awake and hard at work, even if she looked like she wanted to be anything...

CH589

In Myriad’s realm, books of all sorts were swarming around Ben, flying under the power of his actualization as he took them all in, reading the history and records of his god’s race to pass the time while his minds focused on different problems, with a solution finally snapping into place after months of thinking.

CH588

After his outburst at the gods which had at least helped with some of his building stress, Ben and Thera spent another hour with the group around them, healing their wounds and slowly siphoning off their mana to top up Thera even a little faster so they could do one of the last things they’d need to before finally going hom...

CH587

The walk back felt long compared to his mad rush there, all the more so for the new wounds he carried with him as he forced his body on while he slowly made his way back to the group looking after Thera, finding them to be in the same place he left them.

“Is it done?” The leader of the lot asked Ben as he arrived. �...

CH586

<Ben, is everything alright?> Helori hesitantly asked. She could tell his mind had changed again, and by a significant extent too, but even with the absolute jumbled mess going on in his head she could still make out a barrage of swearing taking place in over three-quarters of his available thoughts, even if he was tryi...

CH585

“Ather, you absolute bitch! What the hell are you doing?”

“Reclaiming my honour!” He yelled, throwing another spear and making it scream through the air as Ben did his best to dodge, but not well enough. He felt the bite of the blade slice through the side of his arm as it sailed past, just adding to the injurie...

CH584

Already able to tell this was going to take a while, Ben picked up Thera before giving an accusatory order to the heavens.

“Explain. And I guess point me in whatever stupid direction I need to go.”

<Head north, it will take a while but you’ll be able to drop Thera off with a group that’s working to help...

CH583

When Ben had created the matter of his home reality, it had reacted explosively upon meeting the universe, bursting outward and warping space itself in a way that had even damaged the orichalcum armour he’d been wearing to protect himself, but the beast they’d just slain wasn’t made of the sort of stuff that would natur...

CH582

In both his current universe and his last, Ben had heard space described in a few similar ways. An endless expanse, a deep void, eternity itself, but all of those were wrong. When the monster opened a hole in the universe itself, Ben got front-row seats to the true meaning of forever in the form of the primordial chaos searin...