CH915

<SOUL SOURCE LEVEL INCREASED>

<REALM ACCESS LEVEL INCREASED>

<MAX LEVEL OF THE OUTSIDER JOB ACHIEVED>

“Oh thank god,” he muttered, reaching his goal just before the sun began to rise. “Just made it. Myriad, I need you.”

<Hmm? What?>

“Finished my job and don’t know if you heard but I’m being set off to help find Foast. Tell Phixth that I’m taking a new one early since I don’t know how long I’ll be gone for so you guys are going to have to work around that a bit when it comes to my next job run because I don’t want to spend potentially days out in the woods not getting any experience I can.”

<So that’s why you didn’t come up tonight, I take it? Fine, I’ll let him know.>

“Thank you.”

With that bit done he let himself take a seat, no longer creating new souls to reduce the strain on his own while taking only a single moment to bask in the joy that was having finished outsider after the insane level of experience it had cost him before touching his job crystal once more, letting him look over all of the new options available to him as he did.

AVAILABLE JOBS

• Trap user

• Craftsman- alchemy path

• Craftsman- artistic path

• Craftsman- blacksmith path

• Craftsman- cooking path

• Craftsman- stonecrafts path

• Craftsman- sewing path

• Mathematician

• High marksman

• High destruction mage

• Beginner puppeteer

• Assassin

• Cycler

• Beginner dancer

• Entrée

• Soul creator

• Eldritch mind user

• King of mana

• King of stamina

• Mind breaker

• Intelligence embodiment

• King of vitality

• Therapist

• Total self

• Degenerate body user

• Divine body user

• Demonic body user

• Foul tank

• Resistant tank

• Fallen actualizer

• Mortal realm actualizer

A few he’d seen during his last job run, his list had grown considerably thanks to all of the master jobs he’d taken with only one a mystery to him. While it had been unlocked after taking body master, whatever total self was for hadn’t been made explicitly obvious but that didn’t matter. Counting them all, there were four jobs there he was confident he could use to rush through a third tier, with all of his new sacrilege-aligned options as well as his actualization ones.

The fact that skill in particular is linked to how fast I can think is extra convenient but for now, what to actually take?

He hadn’t given it much thought because before the quest, it hadn’t felt like it would matter. If he hadn’t spent the night overstraining his soul to try and get it done then he would have instead gotten it finished the morning the next day instead, with arrangements to have at least three different groups of third tiers ready for him to work through. Considering that itself meant nine jobs for him, whatever to go through next hadn’t been of the highest priority.

And I guess it still technically isn’t considering that so long as I’m not killed, I doubt I’ll be out there for more than a week but… Yeah, it really does feel different knowing I’m just taking one right now. Makes the choice feel like it has more weight. Okay, screw it, I’ll make things easier on Phixth when it comes to arranging things for when I get back, by which I mean make things better for me.

“Myriad, sorry, you haven’t reached out to Phixth yet, have you?”

<No but I was about to, why?>

“Okay, well I changed my mind, so don’t. I decided I’m going to take something that I should be able to finish by myself by the time the quest ends, even if it means I might need to spend a couple extra hours on it.”

<So trying to sneak an extra job in regardless of your deal? Classy.>

“Forgive me for not caring about keeping to the letter of a deal I was basically cornered into. Besides, I have so many options currently that there’s no conceivable way I run out before I run out of third tiers to help. If you think you guys can arrange a new job run for me within the next hour then I’ll hold off.”

<No, just do it. What’s the option this time?>

“High marksman.”

<ACQUIRED JOB- HIGH MARKSMAN LV0>

<BONUSES GRANTED TO IMPROVING AGILITY AND INTELLIGENCE>

<ALL MARKSMAN SKILLS WILL RECEIVE A MAJOR GROWTH BONUS>

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 God of Alien Thought Structure, Destined Holder of Soul Production, Job Holder, Destined Holder of Actualization, Enemy of Duna, Demon Slayer, World Slayer, Demigod of Growth and Gain, First Human God, First of the Faith

Jobs: High marksman (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, Divine enchanter, Inclination master, Slayer, Judge, Holy adversary, Title master, Beneficiary, Divine kin, Multiversal material mage, Expert, Body user, High tank, King of intelligence, Body master, Master tank, Primordial heretic, God defiling gardener, Master actualizer, Outsider

Attributes:

• Vitality: 10939

• Vitality recovery rate:603/hr

• Mana: 29991

• Mana recovery rate: 3257/min

• Strength: 8772

• Agility: 3337

• Stamina: 18653

• Intelligence: 158,446

Affinities:

• Light: 3

• Life: 2

• Fire: 4

• Water: 3

• Air: 4

• Earth: 2

• Death: 3

• Dark: 1

• Space: 4

• Time: 5

Resistances:

• Light: 68

• Life: 72

• Fire: 75

• Water: 69

• Air: 66

• Earth: 81

• Death: 78

• Dark: 85

• Space: 63

• Time: 61
  

Blessed skills:

• Unending crafting lv9*

• Divine enchanting lv9*

• Eldritch mind lv0**
  

Passive skills: 

• Evil god of sacrilege lv2**

• Bind

• Integrated demonic body lv9

• Divine defense enhancement lv0*

• Perfect absorption resistance lv0*

• All affinity resistance enhancement lv9

• Bite enhancement lv9

• Piercing resistance lv9

• Artisan’s soul*

• Unnatural intelligence enhancement lv8*

• Blood regeneration lv9 

• Unending extraction enhancement lv1*

• Soul affinity lv8*

• Tier two modifier compatibility*

• Deep material sense lv1*

• Flavour enhancement lv6

• Balance enhancement lv7

• Soul expansion lv9

• Defiler of ambrosia

• Destruction affinity lv9*

• Evil affinity lv9*

• Soul resilience lv9

• Defense inclination lv5

• Vitality enhancement lv4

• Vitality recovery rate enhancement lv4

• False Ben

• Integrated divine body lv6

• Mythril blood

• Mana enhancement lv4

• Mana recovery rate enhancement lv4

• Strength enhancement lv3

• Stamina enhancement lv3

• Bludgeoning resistance lv2

• Agility enhancement lv1

• Flesh regeneration lv1

• Fracture resistance lv1

• Mortal realm actualization enhancement lv9

• Multiversal inclination lv1

• Alien sense lv1

Active skills: 

• Stealth lv2

• Deep connection lv9*

• Cycling lv3

• Marksmanship lv9

• Material manipulation lv9*

• Swimming lv3

• Dance lv3

• Hive mind lv9*

• Rule bender lv1

• Aim lv9

• Esoteric actualization lv9*

• Soul source lv8*

• Condemnation lv9

• Mind break lv6*

• Realm access lv7

Blessings:

• Myriad’s Blessing

• Anailia’s Blessing

• Helori’s Blessing

• Galwax’s Blessing

• Elvat’s mana regeneration Blessing

• Eneth’s Blessing

• Earth Pantheon’s Blessing

• Life Pantheon’s Blessing

• Dark Pantheon’s Blessing

• Olensia’s Blessing

• Nare’s Blessing

• Yuzu’s mana regeneration Blessing

• Child of Chaos

• Oaun’s Blessing

• Phixth’s Blessing

• Passive Pantheon’s Blessing

• Duna’s Blessing

• Jagal’s Blessing

• Non-Affinitied Pantheon’s Blessing

• Crafting Pantheon’s Blessing

Trials:

• Trial of Anailia and Tolona

• Trial of the Dead God

• Earth Tower

• Life Tower

• Dark Tower

• Non-Affinitied Tower

• Craftsmans’ Tower

“Wait, that’s what attributes it raises? Okay, kind of lame.”

Considering that when he’d taken the marksman job originally, he hadn’t had access to his conscious mind, what it had grown was left as a surprise to him but benefits to agility were an unexpected disappointment compared to everything else it could have been, even if he tried to look on the bright side.

“Considering that both my aim and my marksmanship are at their ninth levels, this will get me a bit closer to awakening them, even if the bonuses aren’t great. This is fine, just a nice, easy little job to fill my time while I’m on this quest.”

<What a warped and bizarre way of looking at the jobs you’ve gotten. How do you treat them like such disposable things?>

“By being the best at finishing them on the entire planet. Genuinely, when I die, I should become a god of jobs on top of everything else too. I think I deserve it.”

<If you can figure out a way then I won’t stop you.>

“Hmm, I wonder if something like job inclination would be possible as a skill? I know ‘job’ isn’t a skill class but surely there’s something I could get and work up to at least the second tier, right? Then maybe I could find one for titles too.”

<Why not try to become a god of skills in general while you’re at it and have the totality of any person's status under your domain?> His god asked sarcastically, even if it led to Ben giving the question some serious thought.

“Could I? The two main ways I see for that would be to either become a god of just everything or else to somehow unlock an inclination that would cover everything and admittedly, that would be pretty darn cool. You know what, I’ll think on it a bit. If the third wave doesn’t kill me then I think I deserve to become a god of everything, don’t you?”

<I’d really rather you didn’t.>

“Too late, already added it to my list of goals for if the war ends. Now that that’s done though, time to head back. I’ve got breakfast to make, Mora to drop off, and a quest to go suffer through.”

Food, camping gear, materials of all sorts. Okay, I should be good.

He couldn’t help but mentally go over his inventory as they walked through Anailia to its gate network considering they’d possibly be gone for quite a few days, even if none of that mattered too much. Materials he could materialize, camping supplies of all sorts could be materialized, and even food could be materialized, though the options on that last front would be disappointing enough to leave hunting as a far better choice if it came down to it.

Still, he was as ready as could be, even if that still left the bit of dread that any quest carried as he mentally contended with both whether he was wasting his time on it and if whatever risk it carried was worth facing in the end, with both answers coming to a disappointing yes.

As much as he didn’t enjoy quests and believed there were better ways of spending his time, he couldn’t deny that Foast was worth working to save for the value he could offer the world alone, nor could he deny his need to occasionally challenge himself against greater enemies. Sparing with Abel had been a decent experience but putting one’s life on the line was always going to be different in a way that could be far more valuable when it came to judging his true level of skill and potential as he continued to grapple with whether he had any chance at living through what was to come.

I’m still not in the complete state I’d want to be. I still want a couple more levels out of my sacrilege and to get my connect to the third tier at the very least but this here isn’t fighting Oaun, this is fighting whatever managed to be powerful enough to handle a third tier. That’s probably manageable, right?

<It had better be.> His god spoke up as they stepped through to the network, looking for the particular gate they’d be heading through beyond it. <Still, whatever he’s dealing with has handled a third tier already and one far more combat oriented than you. Stay on your toes.>

Yeah, will do.

<Good.> Myriad told him before going on, sounding like he’d just remembered something in the fakest way he could pull off. <Oh, and I suppose there’s one more thing you should probably know about too.>

…I don’t like where this is going.

<Oh, it’s nothing too bad.> His god laughed as they crossed through, seeing the gathered crowd of other adventurers waiting. <I just figured I should give you a small warning before you get there.>

Then out with it.

<Since the search party is mainly composed of adventurers, in cases like this the person leading is usually going to be the one who’s either got the most experience or the most authority. Good luck.>

Good luck… wait, authority? He asked back in growing horror. You don’t mean-

<I’m sure you’ll make me proud.>