Chapter 701
“Oh Myriad, you precious apostle is about to destroy his little soul.”
“How can I resist when I just got another job level? I’m so close I can taste it Myriad. I want this so bad.”
“To finish this as fast as humanly possible, obviously. Don’t get me wrong, I love being a big old world killer and all but being on a single job for too long is bad for my mental health. I need to expand out and take more until I’ve used up every option I have and at the low, low cost of some intense pain, I can make that soon.”
“That’s what knowing the soul mages is for. If I wind up a little bit hurt then so be it. For now, I’m happy to push it to the limits.”
Happy may have been a strong word, as he increased the volume he took in, the pain only exploded compared to what he had been going through but it was worth it to get that progress. Once he finished his current one he’d be able to cheat his way through every other job he held in a single day so long as he didn’t have any more third-tier ones hidden in his list and even those would only increase the time it would take by a couple weeks at most given he’d awakened soul production and raised his total mana by so much. He was practically on the edge of clearing his list and being free of putting himself through that sort of pain forever.
Even when he’d gain new options in the future after, he’d likely be able to finish them without touching his coat for it, meaning if he could put up with just a bit of pain now then he’d be free of it all the sooner, trading it in for massive amounts of power.
Just the thought made him want to drool as he imagined all he was going to get, making any pain he was currently dealing with worth it for the long-term growth and potential while his imagination went wild, no matter how much his god may have disapproved.
“Hmm? What’s up man?”
The cube’s train of thought had shifted away from his apostle’s nonsense as he muttered to himself, seeming like he’d accidentally let Ben hear his thoughts more than anything else in a way that gave him no choice but to ask, ending up completely taken off guard by the answer.