Alright, of it all, test twelve showed the best results, now to just redo it to its full potential to get the maximum effect.
“Mmh, Ben?” Thera asked as she woke up, still groggy and trying to rub the sleep from her eyes. “Is it morning already?”
“Ah, no. Well, I mean, yeah but you can sleep a b...
2023-10-19 14:53:54 +0000 UTC View Post<Meeting’s about to start. Do whatever you need to and don’t make me regret this.>
“Relax, I’ll give you the finer details in a few days so for now go fulfill your godly duties.”
With his god giving him the heads up, Ben put down what he’d been working on in the shop and stepped through his new g...
2023-10-18 16:09:03 +0000 UTC View PostThera woke up alone, the answer to where Ben had gone off to coming with the smell of breakfast that filled their home while she couldn’t help but acknowledge that she was feeling a bit better. She still felt the nagging worry about the future of her charm and where it would grow as time went on, but she was running out of ...
2023-10-17 16:20:05 +0000 UTC View PostDays passed while Ben worked and planned, neither making any more legendary items after his first major success nor coming closer to thinking of how to help Thera with her charm. It wasn’t like he had zero ideas, it was just that they all felt terrible given what would have to go to making them happen.
Still, that...
2023-10-16 15:11:43 +0000 UTC View PostBen went to open the door as it was knocked on, thinking he had known who it was going to be but getting the surprise of everyone who came with her.
“Big crowd, huh?”
“The day ended up a bit busier than expected,” Thera told him as she and the others came in. She seemed worn out but in better spirits than ...
2023-10-15 14:06:51 +0000 UTC View Post“Do I just inherently draw in crazy people? Dealing with Roan before and now this, what the hell.”
“Don’t forget Ben,” Aso chimed in.
“Ben’s not… Well, even if he is crazy, it’s a different sort of crazy. Gods above, I’m really not in the mood to put up with this.”
“Um, so if it wasn...
2023-10-14 15:07:45 +0000 UTC View PostGods above, I’m pathetic.
Thera never did end up getting more rest beyond a couple minutes of sleep here and there, instead she spent the day laying in bed, staring at the ceiling as she suffered with her thoughts.
Just as much as she hated that she couldn’t control her charm, she hated herself for ho...
2023-10-13 14:02:11 +0000 UTC View PostHe finished the smaller projects he was working on through his clones and gathered them all together. While what he was thinking of making could have been accomplished through his true body alone, leaving the four to carry out different projects for the experience, the moment the idea popped into his head he knew he wanted it...
2023-10-12 15:02:45 +0000 UTC View PostHe woke up early as per usual, ready to start the day, only to get the surprise of finding Thera up ahead of him.
“Mmh, hey,” She muttered, eyes still closed while she pressed up next to him.
“Hey, you’re up early.”
“Couldn’t sleep. Mind telling aunty I won’t be at the clinic today? I really ...
2023-10-11 16:47:58 +0000 UTC View Post“Ah Ben, how did the rest of your investigation with Verbum go?” Myriad asked when he arrived as the god dealt with his work while a particular goddess was perched atop him doing the same.
“Well, me and Thera were both involved in the next two sections after the first and on the last we had to deal with a herd of ...
2023-10-10 13:42:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe trip back felt as long as it was silent, nobody talking on the way, though not for lack of trying. After managing to get Thera to tell him what was wrong she’d gone quiet and by the time Verbum was up, Ben filled him in the best he could, even with the other’s ongoing fears making it hard. He was clearly picking up on...
2023-10-09 16:18:12 +0000 UTC View PostIn that second, Thera registered shock in the demon’s eyes, an inability to understand just what it had experienced that left it unable to grasp that it should even be feeling pain at first before it screamed and reached back, pulling the offending object out and crushing it in its hand.
“Hey, not cool,” She heard...
2023-10-08 18:53:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Ben, watch Verbum!”
It was the only thing she could yell before the ground burst, dirt that had been turned to rock under the pressure she’d exerted shooting out as shards with the demon that had come with it hanging in the air while Thera took it in.
Tall and thin, the one before her had two sets of arms a...
2023-10-07 13:41:50 +0000 UTC View PostAs Ben laid out the simple plan in detail, it couldn't help but excite Thera. She was the star of it and it would be an act of pushing herself in a way she normally couldn't. It couldn't help but bring stars to her eyes as she anticipated challenging herself as an earth mage.
"Or we could do something that wouldn't end ...
2023-10-06 12:53:27 +0000 UTC View PostThere was nothing pleasant about reaching into the mind of a dying beast, feeling the pain of its crushed body or its desperate struggle for life, but Ben pushed that away as well as he could to focus on what really mattered, touching the monster’s memories to learn its history, wanting to find whatever he could with whatev...
2023-10-05 07:26:31 +0000 UTC View PostAll of his minds moved to bring the world to a standstill the moment the demons burst forth from the ground below, letting him take them all in for what they were.
They shared matching body plans, looking like giant millipedes, the portions of them stretching above the ground already bigger than he was and hinting at pl...
2023-10-04 18:11:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe flight to the final destination was quiet and uncomfortable, with Verbum tucked away in the back as far from the both of them as it was possible for him to get, eyeing the two with suspicion and concern the entire time until Ben forced himself to break the silence.
“So Verbum, I get you weren’t awake for most of...
2023-10-03 07:20:42 +0000 UTC View Post“Ahem, good seeing you too Taltho,” Ben said, trying to be light and friendly, even as he kept the unconscious Verbum from falling on his face. “And it’s really more of an accident that we ended up here. It’s complicated.”
“And your friend?”
“Also complicated. Um, since we’re here, why don’t ...
2023-10-02 11:42:35 +0000 UTC View PostNeither of them paid much mind to Verbum on the ground and as concerning as whatever had happened out there was, it at least eased Ben’s worries. Not knowing what had caused such an intense level of death and destruction had been worrying but finding out it was just something his girlfriend did made the entire area a lot mo...
2023-10-01 16:12:46 +0000 UTC View PostVerbum did not laugh once during the explanation. If anything, it only made him look more horrified, all the more so after he consulted his skill and found he was being told the truth, but it did put a quick end to the first of the investigation sites, leaving them to trudge back to the cart and move onto the next one in an a...
2023-09-29 07:27:54 +0000 UTC View PostYou know, between skill learner letting me learn uncommon skills easier and awakener helping me get to the next tier, all I really need is a title that would help me level my skills easier. Know anything that would fit Myriad?
<Not off the top of my head. If there was something like that that was easy to gai...
2023-09-28 14:52:43 +0000 UTC View Post“Um, is this going to be okay?” Thera asked, the confidence she was feeling for the quest waning now that the day had properly come and she was seeing just who she was supposed to be looking after. “We’re protecting him, right? Not delivering him for an execution?”
It was easy to see why anyone might think suc...
2023-09-26 06:20:33 +0000 UTC View PostHello all, hope everyone is well as we come upon another poll time! I'm managing to survive my family's month long visit but to make things slightly easier on myself this month's poll will have be options that never got picked in their last ones that I think I have some decent ideas for.
Also, as I said in the las...
2023-09-25 20:28:47 +0000 UTC View PostThera’s agreement was swift. How could she decline? Even if she didn’t care too much about advancing farther into the library, this was a request to them as rank-one adventurers, off to protect one of the most important figures in the world. It was the sort of thing she dreamed of when she’d first started, now waiting t...
2023-09-24 07:19:00 +0000 UTC View PostImmediately, Ben wanted to confirm he was right about what he was feeling and reached out with connect, linking with the man and letting him see the skills on his soul, finding exactly what he’d been expecting. A tier three skill, albeit one that didn’t have a level so it couldn’t grow, meaning he was sitting beside one...
2023-09-22 20:46:13 +0000 UTC View Post“So, what were you looking to chat about?” He asked, acting as if the last few minutes had never happened. “I’m a fairly open book.”
“So you’ve shown. I had been planning to inquire about your skills a bit anyway, just not in a situation like that,” She sighed, looking apologetic as she did. “So you re...
2023-09-21 14:26:07 +0000 UTC View PostUnlike the other invasion points in the world, the one by the city of Jacaar was nearly empty. The armies that had been stationed there during the first wave had all left, leaving no one in preparation unlike the many other locations, nor were there logistics crews or builders. Even those who’d chosen to return to the city ...
2023-09-20 18:23:28 +0000 UTC View Post“Uh, so is this a common occurrence?” Ben asked, trying to be polite despite the numerous questions the reaction had filled his head with, all while Killi was busy rubbing her own.
“Well, he startles easily and is a bit of a worrier, but this was definitely more extreme than usual. Gods above, just what could have...
2023-09-19 14:24:59 +0000 UTC View Post“You pass.”
“I’m sorry?”
“You were looking to get access to the last two floors, right? You’ve passed. Come along, I’ll update your card.”
Being told that, he finally had the confirmation he’d been waiting for when she first came to question him like so many others had, yet picking at his...
2023-09-17 18:01:38 +0000 UTC View PostSitting alone in her office, Killi had no idea how much time had passed while she’d been reading, each of her four arms holding a different document, her eyes scanning pages at a rapid pace to get through them as she absorbed it all, even if only one in particular was taking up the majority of her attention.
As the he...
2023-09-15 19:30:23 +0000 UTC View Post
