Chapter 356
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āWhat has you so cheerful?ā Thera asked as they met in the morning, Ben taking her in his arms and spinning around out of joy.āBeing an apostle has finally paid off ācause my glorious, wonderful, majestic god pulled some favours and now my headache isnāt as bad. Apparently, Iāll be all healed up a month sooner than expected so just around three more to deal with. Oh man, it's so nice to be alive.ā
Despite still being far from one hundred percent, it was the best heād felt in weeks and he was happy to take it since it was a weight from his mind as Thera smiled back, just as happy to be hearing that bit of good news.
āThatās great! Just donāt let that get you in the mind frame to be pushing your mind skills though, okay?ā
āYes maāam, donāt worry, I already promised Myriad I was going to get to the third tier of meditation before I let myself go through this again. Forget being a zen master, Iām going to become some sort of zen god. Iāll reach nirvana and be free of all of my worldly suffering.ā
She had no idea what he was going on about but laughed anyway, his good mood rubbing off on her as she felt better for knowing he was getting better before they went off to breakfast, followed by another day in the library.
Ben thought with a sigh as he put the book down.
Heād spent the last bit of the day going through some of the books in the library that were considered earth and death magic adjacent, their contents easier to learn for him thanks to the fact that they were related to his knowledge skill which ended with his getting a level up, but all of that had only happened after many long hours reading up on enchanting.
Even if slightly underwhelming, heād consider the time heād spent on the topic to have been worthwhile. Heād gotten to learn some more enchanting spells, even if they seemed obscure and less valuable than what he could manage by just using his skill rings, and just as interestingly, heād gotten to read up on the many subtle differences between different awakened enchanting skills.
There were many known and recorded paths to the skill, from the more typical high enchanting that was a more linear growth to the skill, to options where it would combine with a magic, granting the user the ability to enchant with it at a higher level than it could normally be cast, along with options where it combined with different crafting disciplines, getting skills like magic crafting or enchanted smithing, the name depending on specifically what combined with it and how, along with some influence from the past experience of the skill holder.
Of those, his divine enchanting seemed most comparable to the standard high variant, with the main difference that even when it was at the zeroth level it was significantly farther along. He wasnāt certain, in fact he felt a lot of doubt in it, but it seemed like when heād first gained the skill it would have been the equivalent of the fifth level in high enchanting, potentially even beyond that, with every level since being worth multiple levels of the high skill.
It had been proving to be an unusually handy skill, and it wasnāt like its effects vanished when it combined. If anything theyād grown greater. For whatever reason the skill had let him learn not just information on enchanting with greater ease, but knowledge on magic and skills in general.
Helori cut in, the answer being clear to her at least.
His god told him.
Myriad grumbled.
Annoyingly, the best perk of being an apostle, having quests he could complete for his god to earn a reward, was starting to seem like a well that was running dry. The last three heād finished, being to write a holy text, earn one hundred believers, and establish a holy land hadnāt resulted in any further ones since they were completed, meaning he was stuck with only two. Complete an achievement in Myriadās name for five job levels or to lead at least three of his believers in accomplishing a greater goal, getting him a level to a lower skill and getting the believers whoād helped him three job levels each for their trouble.
His god had told him before that he could potentially complete that one by doing things like slaying a powerful monster, helping his believers as a whole, and achieving great acts that could have been directed at Myriad or doing something as a craftsman, such a presenting an ultra-rare item to a great warrior, and heād done a few of those things already without even meaning to, meaning that heād missed out on free levels that could have potentially saved him weeks of work.
Ben thought back, grinning in the empty shelves he was sitting in for nobody else to see.