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CH151

His mind immediately flashed to when he’d heard about it in Anailia. He hadn’t known what races had been hunted, but things suddenly made a fair bit more sense around the village. “Okay, I can see why that would give you some stranger-danger.”

“Well, there were around a dozen race...

CH150

Oh my god, I miss the shop so much. Having all the resources I need at my fingertips is a blessing that I’m a fool for taking for granted

<You’re exaggerating.>

Am I? I’m going to be at this for hours!

When they got back while carrying the pot for c...

CH149

After the girls had left to work on figuring out how they would get rid of the frost bats, Ben began his own goal, earning Myriad faith amongst the town.

It started out easy enough, Fontesh showed him all of the enchanted items she possessed, which wasn’t too many. The cold box for storin...

CH148 Thera's Perspective

Thera woke up alone, not surprised to see that Ben must have gone the entire night without rest working on whatever plan he had to complete his current quest and followed her bind skill to find him.

It was early in the morning still, which meant he was in the first place she’d look, even ...

CH147

There were still a few hours of sunlight left in the day so Ben instructed Sachel and her party to collect a variety of large stones for him, not for her quest, but as a way of completing his own while he focused on preparing the room they would be staying in.

It was significantly smaller t...

Poll vote

Hello everyone, hope the week's treated you all well cause it's time for the next side chapter vote! As mentioned at the end of the last side chapter, I was going to be offering a bit of a different option for this one, which would be a Valaria mini arc. My aim would be to have it be around ten c...

CH146

They walked on in silence for a while, the three they’d come to save not knowing what to make of Ben's declaration, and Thera wanting to give him a few moments to calm down. Still, it didn’t take long until they were well away from Sachel’s grandmother's home when he turned around to speak ...

CH145

Thera and Ben looked at each other, trying to silently communicate whether or not they should walk down into the earth, but the village elder went down and without much other choice they both followed.

It didn’t go down far and there was a source of light, although faint, and despite the ...

CH144

Days of travel passed but they’d finally made it to their destination. After making it through the gate, the cost for the next carriage to their destination of syro village was significantly more expensive. Unlike their initial ride from Stonewall, which would stop at other villages along the w...

Side Story- A different believer, part 3

“Myriad, I wasn’t expecting to see you again so soon,” Valaria said as she awoke in her god’s realm and kneeled before the cube floating above her.

“Please, stand already. I just thought I would check how your first day with the skill treated you. What were your thoughts on it?”...

CH143

Falk was understanding enough, even if he was going to take a few weeks off it gave him time to focus on some of his own tasks he couldn’t complete with Ben around, and to the residents of the world it made sense for an apostle to fulfill the requests of their gods.

What mattered was tell...

CH142

The effects of altering the enchantment were minor, but that was to be expected. As a fifth-level enchanter, he’d been able to get the effect of Thera’s charm at a distance down to only needing a resistance of 19, while her effect on contact needed a resistance of 29. Both values were far too...

Side Story- A different believer, part 2

Authors note

So just a heads up, this side story ended up being longer than expected and I want to fiddle with the ending a bit longer, so there may be one or two more parts depending on what I change with the second half. It will be up in the following week so hope you all enjoy.

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CH141

More days passed as Ben continued his work in the shop making a variety of items, some to be sold in there, and others handed off to traveling merchants Falk knew as a way to empty out the storage room without cluttering the sales floor or workshop in the back. All the while he was trying to lear...

CH140

Eventually, Falk kicked him out for the day and Ben went back home to prep dinner for everyone, as well as work on his personal project. He was almost done with it and knew he’d be up all night if it meant having it finished even a bit faster, but he needed something to eat first.

He pull...

CH139

He ran out to the front and waited for Falk to finish up with a customer before showing off his final product. His teacher took both from him and gave them a good look over, carefully inspecting the quality of his enchantment and commenting on what worked well and what areas he could probably imp...

CH138

It had been about one and a half months since Thera’s birthday and Ben was laying in bed, wide-eyed despite the time of night and struggling with a question. How to train the areas he was falling behind the most in.

Ignoring agility since he had no bonuses to it, he wanted to train his ma...

Side story poll

That's right everyone, it's time for the side story poll, come one come all and cast your votes. We've got a few different options for your reading pleasure so hopefully I've got one on here that will leave you entertained.

As a side note, as of yesterday it's officially been over a year si...

CH137 Thera's Perspective

It turned out the entertainment Ben had in mind was board games, and lots of them. While their house had lowmage to play for whenever they got bored, it seemed he’d decided to take the time to recreate a few from his own world and made sure to carefully explain the rules of each before cracking...

CH136 Thera's Perspective

Thera sat down in her living room, focusing intensely on the mana within herself. As annoying as it was to have dealt with her aunt a week ago, she couldn’t deny that for once Vividus had been useful to her.

Neither she nor Funa had considered that she’d never experienced dark mana in i...

Side Story- A different believer

What would drive a person to abandon a god they’d served faithfully for years? Money was a part of it. As an enchanter of Anailia, Valaria had been promised by the queen of the nation herself that she would want for nothing when it came to resources if she showed her dedication to achieving res...

CH135

<She didn’t seem thrilled to be used like that.> Myriad said as he was waiting in the evening.

“I know, I wouldn’t have chosen to do things that way either, but since they wouldn’t just trust my work I had to do something. Hopefully, the surprise is better than any unpleasantn...

CH134 Thera's Perspective

Thera sat in the training grounds, staff outstretched as she focused on using the skill placed on her. Telekinesis felt similar enough to how she used her earth magic, to the point that she worried she was using it by mistake, especially since she had no choice but to use it with raw earth. It ma...

CH133

Ben got home, exhausted after a long day and knowing there was still more to do. He hadn’t managed to gain the skill on the first day, and neither had Thera. Zandale at least had managed to get both connect and hidden mind, though they would still try to use their skills as a way to try and lev...

Update and poll

Hey everyone, Turnip here with an update on things and also a poll for the future. First off, tomorrow will be the last day of my mass release having posted seven additional chapters on top of the regularly scheduled ones. It's been hectic getting them all out but I think it was also a rewarding ...

CH132

They discussed the details a bit longer before Falk got to work and Ben was able to direct his focus to Zandale.

“Sorry about that, didn’t mean to keep you waiting.”

“Not at all, as someone who only has the third level in blacksmithing, that was all incredibly impressive. But ...

CH131

Ben woke up early and immediately read through the list of skills before heading off to Falk’s shop. He was a little discouraged having gone through it. When Myriad had said he might have access to a quarter of skills it looked like he was being optimistic. Ben did the math after reading throug...

CH130

“Ben, it's so good to have you back!” Myriad yelled as he woke up in his god’s realm.

“Good to be back, I escape death yet again.”

“Well stop walking into situations where you have to! Thera literally just gave you an out and you turned it away!”

“Hey now, do you...

CH129

“Ben!” Onk yelled out as he got into the adventurers guild and quickly ran over to him. “Are you alright to be up? The rumour was going around you were barely hanging onto life.”

“I’m all good,” he told her reassuringly. “But what rumours, I don’t think one injured guy is ...

CH128

Leaving the clinic took longer than expected, as soon as Sonya found out he was up she insisted on giving him a thorough look over, despite his insistence that he felt fantastic. He understood where she was coming from at least. He’d been unconscious and in bed for weeks on top of having a xeno...