Chapter 732
Continuing to run but trying to keep it as quiet as he could, Ben used the time to think about what he knew and what it implied.
There were demons who could take over others and those same demons were time magic users, both of those facts seemed true with the only matter being how many there were who held those skills, especially considering that Helori believed awakened skills were at use in the mix.
Given what he knew of how the invasion took place there shouldn’t have been any awakened skill holders who’d come through the last gate but given there were at least a hundred demons experiencing the benefits of prophecy then that meant it couldn’t just be one or two of them, so what did that imply happened?
Did a group of awakened break their self-imposed rules and come through or did more than a few just so happen to awaken the same skills in the weeks they’d been there?
Or maybe it’s just the particular skills that have been awakened? I’ve been assuming that soul magic is the bit that's being used to take it over but it is in essence something acting the same way as hive mind.
…Okay, better than hive mind since it doesn’t have the same limitations of only being available within the range I can connect to others. Ugh stupid demons and their decent affinities for life and death, they could absolutely have some other soul-based skill helping them that awakened instead.
And who’s to say it has to be a group of awakened pulling this off? If whichever one managed to awaken whatever weird soul skill this is and found another that awakened their time magic then maybe the first got control of the latter and has been able to apply their effects to everything in the group of demons it gathered? It’s a working theory at least but I’m going to need to try and confirm it somehow. But later. First thing first, let’s get a little farther away.
Distance was the most important thing to get and he wanted it in spades, running as fast as he could while also observing the chimeras’ performance on a deeper level now that he was using their bodies as his own.
With his awakened attributes, the only thing they beat him on was speed but overall their performance was excellent, the exact sort of thing that would be powerful in a fight, even if his curiosity was pulling him away from that and in a different direction.