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Poll time

Hey 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 lets see if they'll have the power to overcome the will of the many. Last poll they voted with the pop...

Side Story: A continuation of Nare's reaction

Author'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, this is not the last we’ll be talking about how you all acted, punishments are simply pending till...

CH549

After 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 ninety naturally occurring elements with a few hypothetical more that could have briefly existed in the...

Update Update

Hey 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 bit of an emergency so I've been helping with their kid and good golly gosh am I bad at it. Combined w...

CH548

“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 I’d be willing to bet money on that happening.”

“I’ll be fine, and even if I’m not, ...

CH547

After 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 taking its toll. He was tired, and just as importantly, still feeling in a weird mood. He wanted to rest...

CH546

“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 getting his help to move it all through another gate to the city where Helori kept her main church, pla...

CH545

“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 at most.”

“Sure, but when you do I’m left remembering them for weeks after.”

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CH544

“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 besties! We aren’t even friends!”

“Verbum, that hurts so much to hear. Aren’t we fell...

CH543

It 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 to Allfaith to meet a few very important people, some of them for the second time.

The goal wa...

CH542

I 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 have finished his quota for the day, letting him focus on creating whatever he desired in an effort to...

CH541 Evil Gods and Eldritch Horrors Part Three

When 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 didn’t instantly expand to the new endless volume around it came as a surprise, even if there was no ...

CH540

<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 gods had requested of him, finally complete with that task.

It felt good to be done with it, ...

CH539 Thera's Perspective

“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 reflected back on her last month and a half of practicing.

Since she’d started her lessons,...

CH538 Evil Gods and Eldritch Horrors Part Two

As 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 the body of a mortal, spending the last little bit of life he had being hunted down by his brethren...

CH537

<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, both making mini gates and weapons, but his teacher would be there to enjoy to his full potential, let...

CH536

Evening 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 process it all was going to be a healthy positive, while Ben was just tired. It was easy to try and p...

CH535 Evil Gods and Eldritch Horrors Part One

It 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, only increasing the new sensation. In all of its time, it had been aware, but it had been so long s...

CH534

On 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 I’m gone, make sure you all keep practicing, alright?”

He got nods from the two girls, but...

CH533

When 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,” He told them, really putting his heart into it. “Nati and Xilly, we may have gotten off on the wron...

CH532 Thera's Perspective

The 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 Anailia too as they walked through it all, taking in the new sights with Rocky before they finally arri...

CH531 Thera's Perspective

She 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’s father.

The thought made her blood run cold and filled her with a single desire. To k...

CH530 Thera's Perspective

The 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.

She knew there were supposed to be some living there, just like with the fire fairies, but in all ...

CH529

“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 volcano while we’re eating. I’ll probably manage.”

“How are you still not used to it yet...

CH528

Okay, 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 that he didn’t really have to talk to them and make nice outside of one or two questions, but in t...