probablyaturnip

CH446

Author's note

It's probably thursday somewhere in the world so try not to mind how early this is going up and enjoy!

Waking up the next day, he was tight in Thera’s grasp as he let himself enjoy the feeling of a lazy morning for the first time in a week. He still had a couple of days until ...

CH445

“Don’t gloat,” Uliel warned back in Amy’s home while Vasta was beaming.

“And you don’t be jealous. You’re getting levels from the towers at least, meanwhile, I’m stuck practicing the best I can for all of mine while trying to teach someone who doesn’t even want to learn. Let me enjoy this,” The non-a...

CH444

<FINE MOTOR CONTROL LEVEL INCREASED>

<PUPPETRY LEVEL INCREASED>

<ABSOLUTE THOUGHT SPEED LEVEL INCREASED>

Another done.

Each day the line got shorter as he and the two soul mages worked on the task they’d taken, artificially pushing people beyond the limits of their skills t...

CH443

“I am still so insanely jealous,” Jake sighed as he watched Ben work as they all waited for the day to begin. There was a line of hundreds waiting out the door of Elvat’s terrestrial residence to be let in, all to grasp the unbelievable opportunity that had been spread around the world so urgently. The fact that there w...

CH442

“Um, so aunt Lux, aunt Funa, what was all of that about back at the beginning?” Thera asked, bringing up the question that Ben found himself deeply curious about as well, only to get shakes of their heads as Lux ran her fingers through Thera’s hair.

“Don’t worry about it sweetheart, it will only stress you out...

Update

So with this we come to an end for the extra monday chapters with five of them getting squeezed out. Not too bad if I do say so myself and hopefully enough to make up for anything I might miss in the coming month with my family officially coming down in a couple days. Just a reminder, there is one day I’m guaranteed to be m...

CH441

“Did we take the wrong gate?” Thera muttered as they passed through, seeing the strange view beyond.

It was a question Ben was asking himself as well, even though he knew it couldn’t be the case. It was clearly marked before they went in, something he couldn’t have missed, but still he couldn’t help but wonder...

CH440

“So, is Ben okay?” Pelenia asked over dinner, watching as he shakily shovelled greens into his mouth, all while Thera kept healing him from the side.

“Just a little anemic is all,” He told her, giving an unsteady thumbs up as Thera blushed and apologized again.

“I’m sorry, I guess I just kind of lost m...

CH439

“So, did you find anything good in the library?” He asked as they ate, enjoying what a nearby cafe had to offer just outside the gigantic library.

“An interesting book on combining my dark magic with my earth. A lot of the suggestions involved using it the same way I would my earth healing spell, making it so a gi...

CH438

“I’m afraid you’ll have to wait about a week and a half,” The librarian told him apologetically. “The head librarian is out right now but I can schedule a time for when they’re back if that works for you?”

“Uh, sure, sounds good.”

He felt himself deflate with the news but there was nothing he cou...

CH437

Ben was all but humming during dinner, still feeling the change in himself and just how worthwhile it had been going back.

The meeting when he’d returned had drastically shrunk in size as the gods had decided that having everyone there was doing nothing but creating an unproductive atmosphere. Instead, they grouped up...

CH436

The notification asking to bring him up went off in his head and Ben let it take him after getting comfortable, closing his eyes and opening them again to find himself around what seemed like a large round table, hundreds of figures there taking a range of forms, all of them looking right at him, various levels of judgment cl...

CH435

So how are things looking up there? Ben asked as he continued to pat Sachel’s head, waiting for her to calm down.

<Chaotic. The majority didn’t even bother paying attention because they expected a failure. Now that you’ve succeeded they’re all watching and the implication of what else your success he...

Poll + Update time

Hey all, happy polling.

So first things first, we passed 500 patrons! Woo, thank you all for the support! It looks like patreon removed the goal section but unfortunately I try to be a turnip of my word so I'll still be giving the reward of an extra 14 chapters no matter how much my little fingers might regret it. Unfor...

CH434

As the rest of them recovered from the mental strain, Ben went to his clothing that was left in a pile off to the side and got dressed as he tried to keep the memories of what he just experienced from flooding him, with thoughts of what sort of sacrilegious acts he’d do to make up for any of what just happened. He may have ...

CH433

“Wait there!” He yelled back as he ran, trying to keep anyone from following him as they were all still busy with taking in the empty space around them before reading the sign.

It gave him a few seconds at least, all he needed to put himself at the edge of a small boundary before spinning around, just in time for it...

Side Story: The watching Grey

“Really, thank you for stopping by but try not to worry,” Wulo, the king of the mole people told Quilith. “We’ve done all we can at this point, now we just need to hope for the best. Besides, I believe you have your own worries, don’t you?”

“Yes, but that can’t put too much of a stop to my work, can it?�...

CH432

His minds had already been moving at top speeds so he was the first to react, even if there was little in the way of what he could do. Of the few things he had in his pocket, he’d prepared some poisons, but there were a dozen monsters standing around them, quadrupedal and looking like solid lumps of skin other than the teet...

CH431

Uuughh. Myriad, break the rules and talk to me damn it. I need to complain. Or at least bounce suggestions off someone.

Despite his plea though, no words were whispered in his head, no matter how badly he wanted them.

The four with him were all feeling confident. They really had every right to be confiden...

CH430 The third floor

Stepping onto the third floor with the others, Sachel couldn’t help but feel confident despite herself. The first two floors had just gone too smoothly. She couldn’t deny just how much of that was thanks to Thera, but it did wonders to wipe away plenty of the worry she’d felt going into it all and couldn’t keep hersel...

CH429

After getting out of the floor, each life mage worked to heal themselves one final time, just in case any poisonous effects hadn’t ended with the section, before they all looked to each other, wondering what to do from there. Things had just gone about as far from expected as they could, so they needed to know what they’d...

CH428

Wow, this is exceptionally not good.

What he should have been seeing was a grassy plain when he got through the door, the beast standing at its center and ready to fight the second they were all through, but what he got instead was nothing like what had appeared in Jake’s memories. Instead, he found himself i...

CH427

Once again he declined to allow the trial to place a covenant on him as they all passed the boundary, seeing what it contained as they each took in the vast space. Like so many he’d done in the past it looked like an area without end, even if it had to be some trick of magic making it seem that way as he wondered on it.

CH426

When the two of them got to the magic towers, they found the other three exactly where they’d agreed to meet, waiting by the one representing the life affinity, each of them coming to terms with their own feelings on what they’d be stepping into as their internal thoughts were hidden away with determined expressions.

CH425

After a nauseating trip of rushing through the skies to get to the gate, they finally landed, rolling through the streets on solid ground, letting both Ben and Sachel recover while Sonya for her part managed to enjoy traveling like that as much as Thera always did, wearing a bright grin as the experience only lightened her mo...

CH424

I’ve done it Myriad. I’ve opened my third eye and can see the truth. Biology is chemistry, chemistry is physics, and physics is fucking awful. I hate this. Who’s terrible idea was this to begin with?

<Yours.>

Then I’m a fool.

The worst part of trying to memorize the structure ...

CH423

<MENTAL SYMBIOSIS LEVEL INCREASED>

And I’ll absolutely take that.

In the days since he’d first gained the skill, he hadn’t found himself with nearly as much potential to train it as he had on that first day. As easy as it was for him to go and throw his money around to practice, his time was f...

CH422

After a long day of working Sachel to the bone, they finally returned to Stonewall, dropping off the oracle of his faith before he split from Thera to do his next major task, going to speak to the would-be manager of the facility he had set up.

The man was waiting outside of the building, in the new, empty area of town ...

CH421

<PLANT KNOWLEDGE LEVEL INCREASED>

<BIOLOGY KNOWLEDGE LEVEL INCREASED>

His head was pounding as he got up, the feeling of his minds being pushed to their limits sticking with him despite how powerful they now were as he took a moment to try and let the feeling pass. Even if that intense bit of study had...

CH420

In the guild, Thera alone was looking good as the only person who hadn’t taken Ben’s offer. Everyone else couldn’t hide their mildly nauseous looks as he built up their minds with his own, while he had sweat dripping down his brow from trying to maintain it.

Taking apart a single one of his minds was one thing, wi...