Chapter 141

Chapter 141

More days passed as Ben continued his work in the shop making a variety of items, some to be sold in there, and others handed off to traveling merchants Falk knew as a way to empty out the storage room without cluttering the sales floor or workshop in the back. All the while he was trying to learn as much about the various skills he had access to enchant with as he could, from reading up as much as he was able in the few books on skills present in the adventurers guild archives to having Myriad gather information for him that he could record later. He had a goal in mind after all, and he needed every bit of information he could get to achieve it.

When he got home for the day it was slightly later than usual, with both Thera and Sonya already there, dinner ready and waiting. They ate their meals as they always did before going to the living room and getting to work.

He had prepared a variety of braces ahead of time and he got Sonya to wear the first one as he carefully applied the resistance enchantment to it to cover up her charm, but at only up to a resistance of twelve so that there would still be plenty leaking off of her when they measured it. That brace would serve as the baseline while he experimented with the others.

To each one after he attached a variety of skills and partial skill effects to try and enhance the charm suppression of the initial magic. He was doing this with Sonya instead of Thera for a few reasons, the biggest being time. While he would still take almost a full night to apply the enchantment Thera needed, with the amount his enchanting had improved, Sonya’s could be completed in around fifteen minutes, meaning he could easily complete them one after the other to measure and compare its effects.

He spent hours making them all, Thera and Sonya playing board games in the background as he worked, but by the end he had a dozen different braces made, each with a different enchantment added to the original one to try and enhance it.

“Alright, time to test it out,” He muttered, getting Thera to throw on her cloak so her magic wouldn’t interfere with the tests and got Sonya to wear them all one at a time, with Ben setting up the passometer to measure any variance in the charm she released again and again, recording the results each time.This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.

Kind of crazy that it took three hours of setup to make all the enchantments, but I finished testing them all in ten minutes.

Myriad wasn’t the only one to notice he’d had some success, the other two could see the smile stretched across his face that hadn’t been there the first few times he’d attempted to improve the resistance enchantment with them.

“Oh, it won’t be me,” She said with a small laugh. “My sister has more than enough reasons to be invested in the results of you researching this. Give me a list and I’ll send it to her, anything you discover could help my people as a whole, and Pelenia won’t spare any expense if it means helping her daughter.”

That... is an excellent point. Gotta take advantage of the absurdly wealthy in my life.

“You’re absolutely right. For now, I just need the highest level of those armor, shield, and defense enhancement that she could get on rings for me so if you could ask her for those that would be great. Let’s see, I really should get around to finding a few books on skills I could reference to see if any of them stand out as having potential, so if you could order some of those too I’d be grateful.”

“I’ll let her know, I’m sure she’ll have them here in no time.”

“Great, in that case, I think that’s all I need from you guys tonight. Thera, if you’re cool with it I’ll update your enchantment tonight with what I have to see if it improves the overall effect for you.”

“So another night of you hovering over me while I sleep then?” She joked. Even if she wasn’t crazy about it she’d also long grown used to it, and it especially helped that he’d gained hidden mind so his thoughts weren’t too distracting.

“I mean, if you’d prefer we could do it during the day when I’m off instead of going out to hunt.”

“As fun as the thought of doing nothing all day without being able to move is, tonight works fine. Give me a bit to change.”