When the gods are searching for you, hiding isn’t some simple thing, even less so when you still have work to do. This thought was clear on the high elf Naloth’s mind as he surveyed his surroundings, looking at the group he had gathered.
Really, when it came to trying to escape the eyes...
2024-02-04 10:13:15 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note
I forgot to mention it at the beginning of the month but we once again have a couple of anonymous turnip connoisseurs sponsoring four extra chapters for everyone so show them some application in the comments and enjoy!
By the time it made it to the next wall, ...
2024-02-03 10:38:21 +0000 UTC View PostAfter some lunch with his friends, he and Thera first stopped by the magic library before going home so he might talk to Verbum to find out about the two mysterious skills he’d gained, only to get the worst news he could.
The other summoned and Killi were both going to be away for an unkn...
2024-02-02 08:31:04 +0000 UTC View PostA trip back through the gate got them to where they’d need to be for the next part of Ben’s plan as they arrived in Allfaith, Abrus still carrying the two before depositing them at the foot of a home they were well familiar with, belonging to Amy, Jake, and Yuzu, all of whom were already wait...
2024-02-01 16:22:37 +0000 UTC View PostIn an instant, Abrus and Thera were beside him and the armour he’d been wearing was stripped away to let her begin healing his shattered bones, all while Myriad screamed in his head.
<Ben, are you okay? What the hell just happened?>
I’m pretty sure I’ll live and it loo...
2024-01-30 18:59:53 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, here's the poll for the month, sorry it's later than usual, things have been a tad hectic but it's sorta kinda over now and I'm sure nothing will ever go wrong ever again.
Same situation as last time where we've got a couple lovely folks who are at the highest tier so le...
2024-01-29 23:22:32 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's note
Sorry for the delay, you guys can look at this chapter as taking place just after ch522. Hope you all enjoy!
“There’s more I want to say, but it seems he’s waiting to begin teaching you all in earnest so we’ll end here for now. Make no mistake though, ...
2024-01-29 23:10:07 +0000 UTC View PostAfter spending the rest of the night talking with Quilith while figuring out what most of the known magic materials were initially made of, Ben’s typical schedule for the coming day was changed completely by the implication of what he’d found.
He knew that the universe he was in had nin...
2024-01-28 18:25:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, just wanted to let you guys know I'll be posting the bonus chapter and next poll monday this week which is a little later than usual, along with the turnip connoisseur rewards.
It will still be out before the end of the month but I want to apologize for the delay, a friend had a bi...
2024-01-26 18:10:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Another job well done,” Ben sighed contently as he laid down in bed, everything he needed to do finished as Thera moved to lay beside him.
“I think you enjoyed that a little too much. What are you going to do if anyone from that church comes to try and assassinate you again? Because ...
2024-01-26 18:02:54 +0000 UTC View PostAfter finishing his regular work for the day, Ben was once again left wondering what he should do.
If he was being true to himself, the answer was sleep. Staying up all night to renovate the church after a full day of making weapons, only to move into an entire new day at the forge was taki...
2024-01-25 17:11:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Just right here then?”
“Yeah, that’s fantastic, thanks Abrus.”
After he’d finished his work for the day, Ben popped through the gate to Anailia, immediately hunting down the great spirit for the wide range of materials he was going to need for that day’s project and get...
2024-01-23 17:39:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Ben, you really can be such a sweet boy sometimes, you know that?” Myriad sighed. “It’s a shame you use so much of the rest of your time to be a bastard.”
“Excuse you, bastardry doesn’t even take up an hour of my time a day. I have brief bursts of it every few months or weeks...
2024-01-21 16:29:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Heeeey Verbum,” Ben said as he snuck behind the other summoned, making the man jump.
“Uh, damn it, why are you here this time?” He sighed. “No, I get it, you’re here to find out about your newest title, right?”
“You got it, bestie, do you mind?”
“We aren’t...
2024-01-19 16:07:48 +0000 UTC View PostIt was only a week later, after continuing his regular work while training Valaria on the side that he had her at the ninth level and was excited to see if she’d be able to pass the boundary that day, even if that meant dragging her along for a different task and he pulled her through the gate ...
2024-01-18 16:16:36 +0000 UTC View PostI can’t think of what to make. Why can’t I think of anything to make?
Ben felt like banging his head against a wall as he kept drawing a blank. He was still in the process of making things, pumping out weapons for the war to be spread across the world, but he was supposed to ha...
2024-01-16 15:28:46 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the walls of its reality fell to dust, the creature that had been trapped within it was instantly faced with so much more than its previous existence could have prepared it for.
There was shock. After spending the whole of its existence filling all available space, the fact that it did...
2024-01-15 14:00:56 +0000 UTC View Post<UNNATURAL THOUGHT SPEED LEVEL INCREASED>
<PUPPETRY LEVEL INCREASED>
<FINE MOTOR CONTROL LEVEL INCREASED>
<INTELLIGENCE ENHANCEMENT LEVEL INCREASED>
“That was a lot all at once,” Ben muttered as he rested his head against the final mini-gate the...
2024-01-14 17:21:35 +0000 UTC View Post“Still struggling with it?” Vasta asked her as the older woman watched Thera try and fail a spell again as the hours of her practice wore on, with scrying seeming completely out of her grasp.
“I just can’t get the knack of it,” She admitted, feeling every bit of her failure as she...
2024-01-13 18:58:05 +0000 UTC View PostAs the world burned around him, Yotu ran.
It was an act so beneath him that he couldn’t escape the shame of it, each time his feet pounded against the dirt beneath him was a reminder of how close he’d come, only to fail in the end and be trapped in such a pathetic state. A god, bound to...
2024-01-11 16:43:14 +0000 UTC View Post<INTELLIGENCE ENHANCEMENT LEVEL INCREASED>
Waking up in the morning, Ben was happy to prepare a quick breakfast for himself and Thera before he rushed off to work, already imagining what was going to lay ahead.
Sure, he was going to be spending weeks being worked to the bone, bo...
2024-01-10 17:12:35 +0000 UTC View PostEvening had fallen in Stonewall by the time Ben and Thera passed through the small gate back to Falk’s shop, but for both, it felt good to be home. As happy as she’d been with it, some of the reveals Thera had dealt with had proven surprising enough that having a bit of time where she could p...
2024-01-09 15:59:36 +0000 UTC View PostIt was never aware of the walls around it till they started to crumble, nor the existence of walls at all. In all it had known, there was itself and no more, any sort of other was a shocking change to its perception of reality as a whole.
Experiencing any sort of shock was a change as well,...
2024-01-08 17:28:41 +0000 UTC View PostOn the final day of teaching his students, Ben couldn’t keep from clicking his tongue in disappointment as he finally freed them from his mind for the last time.
“So you guys only managed to get to the seventh level of connect in the end, huh? A shame, but nothing we can do there. When ...
2024-01-07 17:36:30 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Ben arrived to see his students for the day he decided to start off strong, if only to make them all more agreeable for when he planned on forcing them to befriend Insia. All it was going to take was beating them down a little first.
“Guys, I’m honestly so proud of all of you,” H...
2024-01-06 17:13:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe great spirit didn’t get the chance to argue, Insia’s mother Ember dragged him along while she and Thera chatted, enjoying the sort of small talk that Thera had originally expected upon meeting her friend’s parents while the girl looked around not only the city, but the gate and then Ana...
2024-01-05 16:37:51 +0000 UTC View PostShe didn’t answer his question, leaving the two standing in silence as she struggled to take everything in. Why was her uncle there? It had been years since she’d seen him and she’d preferred it that way, but why was he pretending to be a fairy? Why was he Insia’s father?
Insia...
2024-01-04 16:35:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe morning of the next day, Thera went to the same place she’d been going to meet Insia that she had for the rest of her time there, with one single change taking place that set the day apart from that norm. Instead of the fairy she intended to see, it was the earth fairies who found her.
<... 2024-01-03 17:46:58 +0000 UTC View Post“Come on Ben, I don’t want to make them wait.”
“I’m coming, I’m coming.”
“You’re dragging your feet a bit,” Thera laughed at him. “Do you really object to even getting this close to it?”
“No… Maybe. I’m just going to do my best to not look at the vo...
2024-01-02 15:50:33 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, I wasn’t expecting to have to deal with anything like this in my last couple days here.
Dinner with everyone had ended smoother than he’d been expecting. It had been nice enough to see his friends and in the end, Yuzu had managed the conversation with his students enough ...
2024-01-01 18:36:55 +0000 UTC View Post