Chapter 424
Chapter 425 of "Chaotic Craftsman Worships The Cube" unveils: The worst part of trying to memorize the structure of a seed was the sheer... Continue the story!
The worst part of trying to memorize the structure of a seed was the sheer level of detail it needed for a chance to be viable. A lump of iron was just one type of atom again and again and again. Anyone who was materializing it didnāt need to worry about its precise structure, it ultimately didnāt matter.Even for normal materials someone wanted to materialize, this was infinitely worse. If a water mage wanted to create water or ice, theyād only need to know a ridiculously simpler structure, and it would even be possible for them to achieve it without knowing that, though much harder. For him, he couldnāt have an atom out of place.
He, Thera, and Sonya were all waiting by the cart for her to arrive, but given the stakes, he needed to have some sort of assurance that he wasnāt insane for thinking such a thing. Regardless of how possible it would be for someone else to do it with his help, if he couldnāt personally manage then heād drastically knock down the odds of success in his head.
As Sonya and Thera chatted, he instead looked at his hand, concentrating with all he had as he did.
It was Thera who noticed he was doing something first, the air thickening with a bit of mana under his intense focus, but she didnāt speak up. She might not have known what heād decided to do on such a whim, but she could see he was invested in it. Instead, she pointed her aunt to him as well, assuming that whatever happened, it might at least be interesting.
He took no notice of it. Almost a thousand minds were all intensely devoted to his singular goal as mana flowed out of him, bending to his will.
At first, he felt himself fail. Stray atoms were created but didnāt link to a greater whole, being so insignificant it was more like heād done nothing at all, but from there he kept pushing, letting mana seep out of him as it changed from elements to compounds, compounds to genes, genes to cells, and final showed its end goal, becoming a proper seed and proving that even if he might not have been able to help someone else manage the same thing, it was possible.
With the success came the feeling of his mind reeling as it underwent another extreme change in such a short time as everything in his head suddenly became more clear, topics heād read in the past standing out in his minds, unfaded by time as books he poured over were recalled perfectly, word for word in his head as he quickly put together what happened.
He had no clue how the two events were connected. He understood it was plant knowledge specifically that had awakened, but he hadnāt just learned anything as far as he was concerned, at least nothing that should have been enough to push the skill over the edge like that.
His god said, almost sounding in awe.
As his god left his head, Ben couldnāt help but give a parting grumble.
It wasnāt like it would have made a huge difference for his attributes considering all of the skills heād already awakened, along with his resistance, but it was still annoying that heād just missed out on a few points of easy growth in what had been nothing more than a simple experiment to see if there really was a point in them risking their lives.
As he was mentally dealing with that though, Sonya and Thera were staring at him, not sure if theyād just seen correctly. When a person awakened a skill, their body would light up from mana pouring into them, but it would weaken each time. The last time it had been incredibly faint, but now the bonus to his attributes was less than a one percent increase overall. Neither of them could be sure theyād seen correctly.
It was Thera who asked, shaking off the feeling of how unlikely it was with the knowledge of all of the insanity her boyfriend normally pulled.
āBen, did you really just awaken another skill?ā
āUh, accidentally, yeah.ā
āHow do you accidentally awaken something?ā Sonya asked, feeling blown away by having seen such a thing again after having just seen it on the battlefield.
āI was just seeing if the way Iām planning on awakening Sachel even has a chance since weāre about to head out, and I guess it pushed my knowledge skills over the edge,ā He told them with an awkward laugh, the fact that part of facing the trial was to help Sonya with her own insecurities on such things clear in his mind.
Feeling the weight of their shocked gazes, he instead pulled out his card, looking it over briefly to see how it had worked out for him.
He was already raising that job shockingly fast given that he was able to materialize his mana for practice and it seemed heād just gained a new way to go about it. They had hours until theyād get to the life tower after all and now that heād gotten the feel for materializing something like that, it would only be easier to do again.
Every new success was a step closer to him achieving his goals, he would happily take all the growth he could get.
āSo doesnāt that make this his seventh?ā Sonya asked quietly, as Thera rubbed her head.
āYes, because heās absolutely ridiculous.ā
āBut when you compare that to how he was when he arrived, wouldnāt that mean-ā
She never got to complete the thought, whatever she was going to say was lost as Sachel finally appeared, running up to the lot of them and deeply out of breath.
āSorry Iām late,ā She panted. āRalia was having trouble saying goodbye so I got held up a bit andā¦ is something wrong?ā
She was able to pick up on the atmosphere that came from him awakening yet another skill, the feeling of shock, happiness, exasperation, and disbelief all rolled together as Ben just shook his head.
āDonāt worry about it, itās nothing important so let's get going already.ā
The sooner they were done, the sooner that Sonya would for sure have an awakened skill, Sachel would potentially have one, and Ben would find himself busy again with the implications that helping her awaken would carry, but before any of that, he needed to deal with the trial.