Chapter 674
Flying through the sky, Thera by his side while he sat firmly in the cart she was carrying, Ben was doing his best to block out the world around him, instead losing himself in his focus.
Now that his attributes, and most importantly, his intelligence, had all leveled up by so much from the potion he’d drank he had something he wanted to test once more, just to see if it was possible. Out in the normal world, the area of reality that he lived in and could affect with his own power, he once more wanted to attempt to see if he'd be able to actualize there.
It was something he’d already failed at once but at the same time wasn’t willing to give up on yet. Even if he hadn’t succeeded at it the last time, it felt like it should have worked, with the only thing missing being either more levels or the mental strength to do it, with the latter being something he’d just gained in spades.
Sitting at over seventeen thousand at the moment, he had to have had one of the highest values of the attribute on the planet, likely only losing to Killi if anyone at that point. Ben didn’t actually know how high the knowledge holder stood but he did know that the amount he had had long reached a point he would consider largely useless. As good as it felt to see his values rise, he didn’t know if he’d actually be able to feel the difference in his mind at that point even if it would help him with raising mind skills.
Actualization changed that though. It made intelligence something he’d spend in Myriad’s realm to use and now that he was trying it out in the world, he needed every point he had if he wanted it to work, leaving it only a question of what to try, pulling a vision to his head to see if he could make it happen.
Unlike previous attempts, that time his aim was simplicity. He didn’t need to try and create something that would capture all of his senses, he just needed to push beyond his current limits, meaning he was ignoring things like smell and taste to exclusively focus on the look and feel of what he wanted, ending with the idea of a small sphere, no bigger than a golf ball and a pure white in colour, making it as simple as could be.
All that left was trying to force that vision into reality, feeling the same strain on his minds and soul from the unfamiliarity of the attempt that he’d gotten when first awakening the skill by trying to use it in a lower layer of the universe while existence itself fought against him.
He had nothing but time thought and kept pressing, feeling the strain slowly get worse while he kept pushing, wanting to be able to say he’d at least given it his best effort until that ceased to be an issue. He felt reality bend to his will as his mind forced itself onto that plane, shaping it as he saw fit.
Just as soon as he got it, the sphere vanished, his concentration broken in a way that stopped the will he’d been applying, even if it was an unexpected result. Both in his god’s realm and within the gate network, once he made something it existed no matter how strange a state that might have been, but the same didn’t seem to be true there.