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CH609

“Looks good,” Ben said as he examined the set of carefully forged carving knives, patting Delair’s head as he did. “Do you think you’ll be able to use them comfortably?”

“I will, I made them for me after all.”

“Ha, go...

CH608

After letting Delair see his clones the following day and continuing her training while watching her through them, his main body sat a little to the side, focusing instead on the new material he had to work with, the voidstone he had created with ...

CH607

After a far too depressing night with the gods, spent trying to ignore the constant feeling of impending doom that every piece of information about the oncoming invasion filled him with, Ben got up for the day, preparing not only his regular meals...

CH606

Unlike his last time awakening people, that time only took him a day as he breezed through the crowd, helping Delair as he did.

Thanks to having two soul mages around to help lower her leveling difficulty, he was able to get her higher in bo...

CH605

“Ben!” A young voice called out as a child ran in, jumping at him in her excitement while he caught her in surprise.

“Delair? What are you doing here?”

It was a question he knew the answer to as soon as he asked it. His previou...

CH604

<Alright, are you ready to head out then?>

“Yep, don’t worry about it.”

<And you’ll be on your best behaviour?>

“Why wouldn’t I be?”

<I don’t know but you make me worry.>

“Well, as ...

CH603

Once that plan was made, Ben first used the beginning of the day to focus on his more regular tasks. Just because the gods were going to be reducing his load in the next couple days didn’t mean he could slack on his orders and he devoted as much...

CH602

With his jacket finished and beyond his expectations, along with a couple new levels to go with it, Ben took some time to look at the rest of his equipment as well.

Of the things he would regularly wear, he had all of his rings which there w...

CH601

As Ben sat in the living room late at night, staring at his jacket with intense eyes, Myriad spoke up in his head.

<Bad news for you, unfortunately.>

“Oh yeah?”

<The amount of work you’re going to be sent is going ...

CH600

“So, what did you need me for today?” Thera asked as Ben and his clones were swarming her, moving her arms and legs and eyeing measurements as they did.

“Getting you outfitted. Now that the rest of the day’s work is done, you’re my...

CH599

The long night of cuts and blood had paid off, leaving Ben with even more clones than he’d hoped for, with Thera making him ten new ones that were just about equal to the four he’d gotten from the great life spirit, all ready to be used and ma...

CH598

“Why are we trying this again Ben?” Thera sighed. “You do remember how well this turned out last time, right?”

“I mean, yeah, but practice makes perfect. It will be good for your training and just as importantly, handy to me if you...

CH597

With the morning came the new day, one that Ben decided wouldn’t be spent on things outside of his control, instead devoting it to chores he knew he needed to get out of the way for the upcoming wave.

Really, there was a pile of them, but ...

CH596

“Hey hey, how was the day?” Thera greeted him brightly when he returned, seeming to be positively vibrating with excitement on her own part.

“From the looks of it, nowhere near as good as yours. What’s the good news?”

“I ma...

CH595

Slipping off early the next day, Ben’s first stop was to his research center, expecting to be alone when he got there but getting the surprise of seeing someone else so early in the morning.

“Kufno, what the heck are you doing here this ...

CH594 Gods and Chaos

When Ben finally left for the day, the three were left to themselves in Myriad’s realm where they were free to talk without prying ears, each of them having things to say and feeling about what just happened, with Myriad making his own clear by ...

CH593

Even though it wasn’t too late by the time Ben got home, he still found Thera asleep when he arrived, no doubt still tired from trying to raise that one skill, along with her more personal practice she’d done throughout the day.

It didn�...

CH592 Thera's Perspective

Thera was still exhausted after breakfast, an hour of sleep simply didn’t cut it, but she did her best to put her new level of sleep resistance to use as she fought through it, telling herself it was just more training for the skill as a whole a...

CH591

When the day ended, Ben shoved crates and crates of weapons through his personal gate to Anailia to let them handle their transport and distribution while at the same time making room for all that was sure to be sent over the next day before he ga...

March Poll March Poll

Hey all, and god, what a year it's been, huh?

Writing that was originally meant to allude to what a hectic month it's been but I realized as I typed it that it's officially only a couple days till I've been writing chaotic craftsman for thr...

Side Story: The soulsmith Falk

Falk’s work was never finished.

Back before he’d transcended the level of a mortal, back when he’d only worried about completing his goal and hadn’t given much thought to just what rising to the third tier would even mean for him, he...

CH590

After a night of talking with Myriad, passing the time the best he could while further refining his idea to put into practice later, Ben got up for the day, heading to the living room first instead of the kitchen like he normally would and finding...

CH589

In Myriad’s realm, books of all sorts were swarming around Ben, flying under the power of his actualization as he took them all in, reading the history and records of his god’s race to pass the time while his minds focused on different problem...

CH588

After his outburst at the gods which had at least helped with some of his building stress, Ben and Thera spent another hour with the group around them, healing their wounds and slowly siphoning off their mana to top up Thera even a little faster s...

CH587

The walk back felt long compared to his mad rush there, all the more so for the new wounds he carried with him as he forced his body on while he slowly made his way back to the group looking after Thera, finding them to be in the same place he lef...

CH586

<Ben, is everything alright?> Helori hesitantly asked. She could tell his mind had changed again, and by a significant extent too, but even with the absolute jumbled mess going on in his head she could still make out a barrage of swearing ta...

CH585

“Ather, you absolute bitch! What the hell are you doing?”

“Reclaiming my honour!” He yelled, throwing another spear and making it scream through the air as Ben did his best to dodge, but not well enough. He felt the bite of the blade...

CH584

Already able to tell this was going to take a while, Ben picked up Thera before giving an accusatory order to the heavens.

“Explain. And I guess point me in whatever stupid direction I need to go.”

<Head north, it will take a wh...

CH583

When Ben had created the matter of his home reality, it had reacted explosively upon meeting the universe, bursting outward and warping space itself in a way that had even damaged the orichalcum armour he’d been wearing to protect himself, but t...

CH582

In both his current universe and his last, Ben had heard space described in a few similar ways. An endless expanse, a deep void, eternity itself, but all of those were wrong. When the monster opened a hole in the universe itself, Ben got front-row...