Chapter 568

Chapter 568

After Ben was done and the two left the very flustered priest as he and the ones under him dealt with handing the small mountain of statues that now flooded his church, they finally started making their way to the citys coliseum, passing through the busy streets till they reached their destination and made their way within.

It was a big place, but not so big that it ruined the view, even with them in the middle of things, but Ben still made use of his magic to create binoculars for the both of them once things started.

You know, I didnt say it before but this is supposed to be a break from work for you, Thera pointed out.

Huh? I am on a break though.

You just materialized nearly a thousand things.

Materializing is easy, it barely counts.

Those are fighting words against every mage on the planet.

Ha, sorry, but you know what I mean. Besides, even if Im having fun and am happy to be doing this with you, two weeks was way more than I was ever going to need for a break. I already feel like Im back in top condition. Maybe even beyond top condition, I dont know the last time Ive felt so good.

You probably just dont know what top condition is even supposed to feel like for you with the way youre usually working yourself, She sighed. But fine, Ill trust your judgment but if I find out youre lying then youll never hear the end of it from me.

Yes maam, no worries on that front.

He really was feeling good, surprisingly so even. If not for the fact that he felt a need to do his little part for the world he lived on while he could, their vacation would have been enough to convince him to take the occasional day off in the future and plan some more small vacations too.

But as things stand, every day Im not working is a thousand people who arent getting my weapons which makes this a lot harder to justify.

He shook the thought from his head as the contest below started, not wanting to let it bother him. The gods he knew had been firm. He was a resource, they couldnt risk having him break under the strain he was putting himself under. If that meant he had to take more time off than he needed to then so be it.

She took his hand and led him down the coliseum steps, down towards the front where the other healers were waiting.

I guess they wanted to make sure I stick around, She told him happily as she enjoyed the much closer view of the stage. I got the offer immediately.

Id do the same if I were them. The fact that any fighter could lose a limb is pretty messed up when you consider that in only a couple months were going to want as many as we can have.

They are supposed to stop before it comes to that but accidents happen, Thera shrugged. And a lot of the contestants probably look at this as a good way to improve their skill a bit when they desperately need it. Everyone on the planet wants whatever levels they can get, this is just the way some of them are aiming for it.

Okay, but I feel like those same levels could be achieved with something that wouldnt sever limbs.

Plenty would disagree with you.

Then plenty are wrong. Levels are a measure of skill as much as they are a boost to it, you should be able to display the same technique whether its from a wooden or metal sword.

There was no point in suggesting that to any of the contestants though, he knew it would fall on deaf ears. People believed what they wanted to, if they didnt want to accept that safer practice could still yield them good results then they wouldnt do it, no matter how dumb that might have seemed to him.

Luckily though, as the next matches went on, there were no major accidents, bringing things close to an end with only one more fight for the first round of matches as the last two contestants went up to the stage, seeing them bringing Ben to his feet as well.

Ben? Thera asked him, but he barely heard her. He didnt even realize he was standing.

It was a fight of spear vs sword, but he barely even noticed the first of the two, his eyes were locked onto the blade.

By all reasonable accounts and standards, it was a beat-up, ugly thing, something that offended all of his sensibilities as a craftsman. It was covered in small scratches and nicks, but worse than any of that, the entire blade was slightly warped. Add in that it lacked a guard and that the handle seemed like it needed to be rewrapped as well and he could have only taken it to be a piece of trash if not for one small thing, the limited bits of analysis that had come to him after getting to the ninth levels of crafting and enchanting.

Those sang a far different song, revealing not only was the weapon ranked as lower legendary, but also what was on it. No simple enchantment, not even something Ben was capable of doing himself. As far as he understood things, it should have been impossible.

What Ben was seeing was a blade bound with magic nullification and in that second knew he needed to get his hands on it.