Chapter 690
“So, how was meeting the third tiers for the first time?” Myriad asked, not sparing Ben a glance while he focused on his work.
“Well, it turns out the guy who attacked me yesterday was the immortal and he tried to kill me again today after he raised a stink trying to get me kicked out of the meeting, plus I lost a fight to Abel and given the fact you haven’t mentioned her before I feel compelled to bring up that she’s the descendant of an outsider, but otherwise it was pretty good.”
Myriad crashed down as Ben was talking, creaking out a weak word by the time he was done. “Why?”
“Why’s she a descendant of an outsider? It’s actually really interesting. I was able to pick up the context while I was reading her thoughts but I really had to read between the lines a bit because it has to do with the sort of ancient history that basically became mythology by the point she heard it, but-”
“No, I mean why do these things keep happening to you. Start with Rook and whatever caused that… No, you already told me what happened yesterday and he has a… Well, history of getting in trouble so I guess it shouldn’t be surprising he’d be interested in a woman who both suits his preferences and is part of a long-lived race but the fact that he’s now done it twice is worrying. By virtue of his skills, he’s not an easy person to punish Ben, he’s basically out of reach of gods and mortals alike because there’s nothing any of us can really do to him.”
“Don’t worry, even if I can’t read his mind, he made his weakness overly obvious. I’m sure plenty of others have figured it out too, even if they’re less equipped to take advantage of it than me.”
“Which is?”
“Watch and see tomorrow. I may not be able to kill the guy but if you’re creative enough there’s fates worse than death, I’ll just have to leave a bit early tonight to get started on it.”
“...You know what? Fine, I don’t care and more than a few gods would be happy to see him put in his place since he’s hard to deal with. And what was that about Abel then?”