When he opened his eyes the next morning, he found Thera already awake beside him, staring at what had been his sleeping face.
“Hey.”
She didn’t say anything at first, watching longer until a small sigh broke free from her lips.
“The gods changed your mind.”
“They did.”
“Really got my hopes up that you might have given up on throwing yourself into danger.”
“Sorry about that, I’m now back to working as hard as I can for the sake of this doomed planet.”
“Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if you didn’t keep calling it doomed.”
“I don’t know any other good descriptors for it.”
“Mmh, so what now then?”
“Now? I technically wait a bit to see if the gods are going to agree to the deal me and Phixth discussed, if they don’t then I’m back to giving up.”
“Don’t give a girl hope like that. When Anailia spoke to me before it was clear that enough gods managed to see in a day of you doing nothing how valuable you are as a resource. If you already got one to agree with you then I’m sure it will go through.”
“A guy can hope. Now though-”
“...It looks like they agreed faster than I was expecting. What was that? A few hours?”
Myriad told him.
A few hours? Yeah, I can manage, just going to need to make something first.
“So, it looks like I’m off to help some people finish their jobs.”
“Yeah, I got that.”
“Any chance I could get a hand on the way there before you go off to work?”
“I was supposed to show up in the afternoon a bit later today anyway. What are you doing now then?”
“This is going to be a frequent trip for me from the sounds of it, might as well make it a little shorter.”
“Um, what exactly is this?” The guild master of the magic tower’s branch asked when he saw Ben and Thera come into his unusually crowded guild hall holding what by all accounts appeared to be a doorframe.
“Mini gate. I don’t suppose you have a closet or something I can shove this in?”
Trap userCraftsman- alchemy pathCraftsman- artistic pathCraftsman- blacksmith pathCraftsman- cooking pathCraftsman- stonecrafts pathCraftsman- sewing pathMathematicianHigh tankDivine enchanterHigh marksmanHigh destruction mageBeginner puppeteerHoly adversaryTitle masterMultiversal material mageOutsider Body userSlayerJudgeAssassinCyclerBeginner dancerEntréeHive brainKing of intelligenceMaster of destinySoul creatorBeneficiaryGod defiling gardenerExpertMaster actualizerInclination masterAbysmal connecter
It seemed par for what he’d expected, a job that gave him bonuses to all skills he had a destined holder title for which should have meant it would be giving him connect bonuses as well. What he hadn’t been expecting was the new skill, which would seem to imply that the job was not only giving him bonuses to unawakened skills he was the first to claim but that he might have been the first person to get that new one as well.
If you tie it into the effects of my skill learner title then that may not be surprising but if finishing this is going to give me permanent bonuses to gaining skills that nobody’s gotten before then that in itself is pretty cool. Even cooler to get a skill that sounds like might keep my soul from getting damaged or make it better at repairing itself after. I wonder if having soul affinity helped with that too? It’s not like I’ve actually gained more evil or destructive skills despite those affinities supposedly making it easier but at the same time I’ve only had those skills for around a month and I don’t know if I really want more evil or destructive skills either... Unless they seem useful. Okay, doesn’t matter right now, back to work.
He had two more to take and one more that would obviously help him with his goals so without a second thought, as soon as he was done working through the parties around him he touched his job crystal to make his choice.
Hive brain.
The job before had left him with no advanced variants to pull from, unlike what he’d normally expect from a master job, and with nothing else of interest he finished that last one so he could join his final party, taking the last job on his list that would obviously grant him any connect bonuses.
Divine enchanter.
Name: Ben Heph
Race: Human
Titles: Apostle of Myriad, The Forgotten One, Miracle Maker, Skill learner, Enemy of Eneth, Trial Defier, Trial Breaker, Godslayer, Monster, Madman, God killer, Threat, The mad apostle, Destined holder of Connect, God of Destruction, Creator of Life, Awakener, Maniac, Brutal Blacksmith, Defier of Gods, Title Holder, Enemy of Olensia, Great Teacher, Student of Helori, Myriad’s Monster, Outsider slayer, Demigod slayer, Transgressor, Destined holder of Mental symbiosis, Destined holder of Alien thought structure, Destined holder of Soul production, Job Holder, Destined holder of Actualization, Enemy of Duna
Jobs: Divine enchanter (lv 0)
Previous Jobs: Apprentice craftsman, Craftsman, Priest, Enchanter, Mind user, Magic item maker, Magic weapon maker, High enchanter, Fractured mind user, Tree tamer, High craftsman, Apprentice mage, True mage, Tank, Heretic, Adventurer, Divine heretic, Kin, Master craftsman, Master enchanter, Scholar, Connected enchanter, Infernal craftsman, Marksman, Destruction mage, Material mage, High material mage, Profane enchanter, Master material mage, Impious creator, Mind master, Master adventurer, Otherworldly craftsman, Material creator, Master of all, Ritual enchanter, Holy craftsman, Cursed item maker, Actualizer, Summoned enchanter, Destructive craftsman, Soul mage, Freak mind user, Unholy thinker, Polymath, Alien mind, Soul user, Soul master, Evil soul user, Soul defiling gardener, High actualizer, World killer, Connect master, Abysmal connecter, Master of destiny, Hive brain
Attributes:
Vitality: 2827Vitality recovery rate: 67/hrMana: 5282Mana recovery rate: 437/minStrength: 2293Agility: 621Stamina: 4985Intelligence: 19710
Affinities:
Light: 3Life: 2Fire: 4Water: 3Air: 4Earth: 2Death: 3Dark: 1Space: 4Time: 5
Resistances:
Light: 68Life: 72Fire: 75Water: 69Air: 66Earth: 81Death: 78Dark: 85Space: 63Time: 61
Blessed skills:
Unending crafting lv8*Divine enchanting lv8*Unnatural mind lv9*
Passive skills:
King of sacrilege lv9*BindIntegrated demonic body lv9Defense enhancement lv9Absorption resistance lv9Knowledge lv9*All affinity resistance enhancement lv9Unnatural inspiration lv6*Bite enhancement lv7Piercing resistance lv9Artisan’s touchUnnatural intelligence enhancement lv3*Reconstructed alien thought structure*Blood regeneration lv4 Extraction enhancement lv9Soul affinity lv0*Modifier compatibilityMaterial sense lv9Flavour enhancement lv2Ill intent lv3*Balance enhancement lv4Soul expansion lv5Defiler of ambrosiaDestruction affinity lv4*Evil affinity lv4*Soul resilience lv0
Active skills:
Stealth lv2Deep connection lv8*Cycling lv2Marksmanship lv9Material manipulation lv8*Swimming lv2Dance lv1Unnatural thought speed lv9*Hive mind lv5*Rule bender lv1Aim lv8Esoteric actualization lv4*Soul source lv3*Lucid dreaming
Blessings:
Myriad’s BlessingAnailia’s BlessingHelori’s BlessingGalwax’s BlessingElvat’s mana regeneration BlessingEneth’s BlessingEarth Pantheon’s BlessingLife Pantheon’s BlessingDark Pantheon’s BlessingOlensia’s BlessingNare’s BlessingYuzu’s mana regeneration BlessingWitness of ChaosOaun’s BlessingPhixth’s BlessingPassive Pantheon’s BlessingDuna’s BlessingJagal’s Blessing
Trials:
Trial of Anailia and TolonaTrial of the Dead GodEarth TowerLife TowerDark Tower
Not the most immediately useful level in the world but whatever, I’ll take it.
Since connect was at least partially classified as an enchanting skill, that meant it would be getting bonuses but from there he was done. No more second-tier crafting or mind jobs, no more enchanting jobs in general, and no more connect jobs. Almost everything else he had was either first-tier or a mystery to him, making whatever he’d have left to pick the next time significantly harder.
But that’s a future problem I guess. Now that I’ve got this last job, all that’s left is to raise it.