Chapter 229

Chapter 229

Oh thank god. I don’t care what mind job is available next, I’m never going to get a level to calculate again. He thought as they got back to Stonewall, feeling relieved as he did. In the four days of travel he decided to chip away at a few skills now that he had ten minds at his disposal, but even getting Myriad, Thera, and Falk to all ask him questions at the same time as he read through a few books, it simply hadn’t been worth the effort for that one in the end.

They parked behind the shop and Ben was ready to go right in and get to work. He wanted to put his ideas into practice and he’d had plenty of time to figure them out, but Falk could see the look in his eyes and stopped him.

“I know you’re itching to get your god’s business over with, but we all need to report to the guild now that we’re back if it can wait. Rewards to be collected and Ceselee probably wants to talk too.”

“Alright sure, I guess I can wait,” He hadn’t gone into much detail about exactly what happened before, when he came back he said that Myriad wanted him to talk with Eneth’s apostle and that they had behaved so inappropriately that they would be displaying a statue of Myriad to make up for it. He didn’t want to lie to them, but he also didn’t know how to explain that he’d challenged Ather to a duel and nearly killed the man.

Wait, just to be clear I didn’t kill him, did I? It’s not like I stuck around to find out if they were able to heal him after I left.

Hey man, do you think he was planning anything other than beating me into the dirt when he first challenged me? I’m not exactly going to feel too bad for the guy after what he did and what I saw of his personality.

As they got in they were ushered to Ceselee’s office, the last of the adventurers from Stonewall to get their quest reward.

“Well, aside from the unpleasantness at the end I just want to say you all did excellent work. Falk, thanks for helping keep the idiot alive. I want you all to know that I’ve sent out a report of exactly how they acted to the heads of the guild. We are going to be treating this as an attack on one of our adventurers and there will be consequences through a variety of forms so don’t worry about that. If you want the finer details we can go over them later, but for now I’ll take your cards.”

They handed them over, Falk receiving his funds and card back first while Ceselee stared harder at the other two, an amused smile forming on her face.

“Uh, is there an issue? Ben asked, breaking the silence and pulling her eyes to him.

“None, actually it's quite the good news for the Stonewall branch I’d say. Based on what happened the system views both of you as having around forty percent of the total achievements each. I honestly assumed as much when I say what the rewards were for the others, independent of the base quest reward of course. Either way, congratulations are in order, you’re both promoted to rank three adventurers.”

As Thera cheered, her depression from the days prior all but forgotten with the good news, Ben couldn’t help but deflate. To him, that sounded like nothing but added responsibility.

“This has to be some sort of mistake.”Ñøv€l--ß1n hosted the premiere release of this chapter.

“You’re the best.”

“I’m taking it out of the money you gave me so it’s fine. Get to work now, I want to see this monstrosity unfold.”

He would never dream of spending so much on something like jewelry normally, but the shop didn’t carry large amounts of precious metals like gold, silver, and platinum, not to mention the regular jewels within, so he put his dismantling to work, removing any gems from the first two metals and leaving them to melt down in multiple crucibles while the platinum was tossed with the gems.

As he waited for that he went back to what he had so far, adding iron along sections of the sides to strengthen some areas, while leaving other spots free of any to help create crumple zones, followed by a smaller metal rim at the center of the base and stretching all the way up it for where the rainbow mana crystal would eventually reside. There was an enchantment that needed to be placed there first, but that would be for the end.

It was then that he began pouring the molten metal, gems, and leftover magic materials in, letting it fill up the space while taking care to not let it affect his designs, though he couldn’t help but find it lacking. He’d dreamed of completely filling it, but a town like this wouldn’t have so much available at one time and his teacher only had so much in his private stash, so instead he had to make due and went to the storage, picking out the more expensive materials they did have and getting Falk's permission to use them before incorporating them into the design.

By the end when all the metals had cooled and he had it completely filled up he added a barrier enchantment to the interior of the statue, one that didn’t have an activation condition, but a cancelation condition instead. It was one of the less frequently used enchanter spells from what he could see, but it was perfect for his needs, its only job being to keep the mana crystal from flooding the pondus until it was ready, namely when a different enchantment broke. For the time being he had to create a dummy enchantment to tie it to, the real one not being possible until they were on-site, but with that he added the top to it, sealing it and he was done.

“That just leaves me with building a good ladder,” He said, mostly to himself as he finished, only for a notification he’d longed for to explode across his mind.

He’d finally made it to level nine crafting, and with it came the limited analysis ability of being able to see the ranking of different items, with the statue immediately taking up his sight as he did.

Statue of the god Myriad

Item GradeLower rare

Oh freaking sweet! I honestly wasn’t expecting to get it so high considering that at the end I was just fitting stuff in there, but looks like this means I can add a healthy boost to its final price on top of the material cost! Hell yes!

It was only as he turned to tell Falk his fantastic news that he caught sight of the rest of the shop, his mind exploding with items on the sales floor being marked as upper rare without a single enchantment on them, with the handful his teacher had added simple ones to making it into ultra-rare. The shock of it numbed him from his own achievement as he looked where his teacher kept the works he sent out to his clients, the words above the most recently finished project shining out to him like a beacon

Unnamed sword from the smith Falk

Item GradeLower legendary

“Hey Falk, quick question here, what the fuck?”