Chapter 731
Despite what he may have had to say about it, Ben’s mind was no longer human. Existing at a scope great enough to shock the gods who’d seen it and growing only more alien with every living being his soul touched, potential existed within it that rarely needed to be used unless he was trying to solve a particularly complex problem. Certainly not the sort of potential that would normally go towards running away but with the current issue at hand he stopped a few of the background tasks some were on to take half of his minds, forcing each one to think of how to escape.
With a total of four thousand nine hundred and ninety in his head, that didn’t mean he was only coming up with half that many ideas though. Even a single mind he held had grown in strength beyond what a normal person could ever hope to expect, awakening the skill not only boosting his total number of minds but also the strands that made them up, bringing it from the normal three or four individual thoughts a person might be able to carry at a time to well over a hundred now that he’d reached the final wall of the skill and all of them were directed to looking at different ways he might escape the current situation, willing to accept any option no matter how ludicrous and that in itself helped create easier paths for him as every one of those ideas created a possible future he could go down, exploding the total number of options that whatever prophets the demons held would have to choose from.
his god said in his head.
Then all that’s left is picking a future. Myriad, give me a number between one and two hundred and fifty thousand.
One. I ask you for something in the range of hundreds of thousands of options and you pick the very first?
Fine, whatever. I just want you to know you’re a terrible random number generator.
I know how probability works Myriad, I just also know that you didn’t do a whole lot of soul-searching when you gave me that answer. Next time take it slightly more seriously since my… Huh, is my life on the line or are they just trying to capture me to make another attempt at taking me over? The attacks so far haven’t been anywhere near as lethal as they could have been if the aim was to kill us.
I already am.
Even during that back and forth he’d begun his first potential plan, one that was admittedly among the most straightforward with how low it was on the list as he actualized bullets and tried to fire them off in directions Myriad said there were demons in hiding, Feeling the strain as each hit something while he changed his directions by taking a sharp angle right.