“Hmm, you know, while I’m out here I suppose I could visit those three,” Ben muttered as he walked through the hot city, trying his best to ignore the nearby volcano as he went through the streets of Nare’s lands. “I could get them one more level of connect while I’m here, maybe even easily so long as they’ve been practicing.”
Nare told him, gently trying to give a bit of mercy to his granddaughter and the summoned of his nation.
“Yeah, but seeing as how the world is ending we want them getting all of the growth they can, don’t we? Come on, send them over to the research center so I don’t need to find them. I’ll help them both get a quick level and then be on my way.”
“That’s the spirit, and is everyone else I asked for already at your church?”
“Cool.”
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So with all of them consenting he got started, moving through them one by one as he looked at their souls before materializing on them, each person getting one of the three potential options that would give them five percent of his attributes in order to see if there’d be any difference in how any of those configurations acted, with the only thing left being to wait.
He could feel the pain in them all, not overwhelming but undoubtedly there and he tried to sound at least a bit sympathetic while telling them what to do.
“Alright, you’re all done for now but even though it hurts you can’t take any breaks. The point is to see how this affects your growth rates so live how you always do and Nare will be in touch with all of you in around a week to see how your attributes have changed.”
They gave their agreement, many through grimaces, before they began filtering out of the church and back to their lives, Ben appraising them as they went. Even with the change he’d just caused, with how high his intelligence was especially, he could tell that some were already thinking clearer as he subtly connected to them, an already worthwhile result for anyone in the world even beyond the growth to any of their others.
And so long as that works I can then begin doing that on a much, much bigger scale. I’d need to make sure I get at least a couple more levels of soul expansion and I’d need to get paid if the gods want me doing this on a big enough scale, which let’s be real, they will and in that case, I should try to get them to raise my attributes even more since that will get paid forward to the people I help too but all of that is a future problem. For now, let’s see if Nare’s people and the researchers looking at all of the new magic materials in the world have found anything interesting for me. ŗ�