Chapter 395

Chapter 395

Seven days.

He’d squeezed in as much time at the library as he could, but he’d reached the point where their packing up was done, leaving his time there finished. It had been plenty valuable, but he couldn’t help but wish he’d gotten more as he made his way through the crowded streets.

They’d finally reached the day that various foreign armies were pouring in, each getting ready to set up at the section of the invasion points they were meant to cover, while many of the remaining citizens began their departure, going through the gate to safer areas in cities that had spent the last year rapidly expanding to host the refugees if they had no other place they could join up with.The debut release of this chapter happened at Ñòv€l-B1n.

Of course, not all of them were leaving, at least not immediately. With war came opportunity, and there were more than a few merchants and businesses that were staying set up for as long as they could, hoping to make whatever bit of cash was available from the soldiers and other groups that had come to fight in the last bit of downtime they’d have.

Ben for his part had something different in mind as he and his teacher carried planks to the edge of the city's limits, the area everyone would need to pass as they made their way to the invasion point or else where they’d be resting.

“Here okay boy?”

“Yeah, it should be good. Sure you don’t want to stick around?”

“Ah, I respect the bit of charity you’re looking to do, and maybe it would be better if I helped, but I’ve got a selfish streak to me. Gonna meet up with some old friends before it’s too late. Of course, I can help you finish setting up if you want?”

“No, I’ve got this, go have your fun. Make sure you tell them about your precious apprentice who you absolutely adore.”

“Yeah yeah, don’t be surprised if a bit more work ends up your way since you’re doing this.”

“It’s basically what I’m here for, so whatever. Later Falk.”

As his teacher left, he got to work, pulling out a hammer, saw, and some nails to quickly throw together a simple stand for him to work at, before pulling out some black paint to make two signs to display exactly what he was doing there.

FREE ENCHANTMENTS FOR ARMOUR AND WEAPONS FROM THE CHURCH OF MYRIAD

THE APOSTLE IS IN

Oh yeah, that’s looking good.

He chugged it back, finding the flavour was at best medical but put up with it. If his mana could regenerate faster for a few hours after drinking it then he could work faster, meaning he could get even more done.

“Ha, and since it seems like this might keep up if nobody puts an end to it I’ve sent someone to the far back of the line to keep more from joining today. Do you think you’ll be doing more tomorrow or has all of this scared you off?”

“I’ll be doing it for another five or six days, don’t worry. I’m going to get everything I can done.”

“Falk really does have an excellent apprentice. Alright, in that case, I’ll make sure to send somebody a couple hours earlier than this each day to put an end to the line though. As things stand, I don’t think you’ll be finishing till the middle of the night.”

“Yeah, that’s what I get for not actually planning things through. It’s fine, it will be fine.”

“Ha, I’ll have more potions sent as well. Having said that, do you mind if I ask one more favour of you when you’re already doing so much?”

“Uh, well you can at least ask.”

“I’m not going to pretend it’s not a lot, but I was hoping that when you finish up these enchantments you might make some job crystals. Given the amount of experience we can expect to be going around in the next month we’re going to want people to be able to change theirs as fast as possible, but there was never going to be enough considering they need to be made by people with connections to gods. And since you’re conveniently here...”

“I got you, I’ll do it. How many are you thinking?”

“I have a hundred crystals ready to be enchanted.”

Woo boy, okay, that combined with all of my enchanting combined with summoning spell research combined with still making time for Thera when she’s done helping Lux each day and also going into the archive for an hour each night to see if meditating for days in my exhausted state will push me over the edge. Definitely going to be burning the candle at both ends.

I’m pretty sure I can manage about three hours a night. I will need some wake-up calls though.

As his god droned on about how he needed to take care of himself he focused back on Iberu.

“Alright, I’m your enchanter. If you keep me supplied with potions then I can multitask and work on the crystals while I’m doing all of these enchantments too so if you can get your hands on even more I’ll make as many as I can. Worst to worst you can send any extras off to other invasion points, right?”

Hearing that, the troll couldn’t keep the warm look from his face. “If you’re willing to do so much then I won’t decline. Thank you Ben, it’s nice to see someone working so hard for the world.”

“Eh, I’m just doing the bit I can. Don’t worry about it.”