Chapter 743
After all that they’d been through, Thera just wanted to rest when they got back to Stonewall but for Ben, that was a far greater challenge. He was practically vibrating in excitement, already imagining what the future held for him now that he’d finished his ridiculous job and was free to take the rest of what he had that even the idea of spending a few hours with the gods was too much and eventually, once he heard the sound of Thera’s soft breathing beside him, he decided to give up on the prospect and instead start his day.
Really, he wanted to race off to the guild then and there but he forced himself to hold back on that front, at least briefly. It wasn’t like the parties he’d called for would be there after all, they were still a few days away from the big event but it would at least tell him how many to expect and then he could gather others to help his friends take advantage of what he was about to do as well.
And I asked for seventy but even if I don’t get all of them, I’ve gotta be snagging twenty at the very least, right? And then even if that slows me down by a day or two, once word spreads about what I’ve done I’ll be able to gather the rest a lot easier and then… Focus, I’m not going off to do this yet. Just get one teeny tiny chore done first.
That chore led him to the shop and through the newest of the mini-gates it held, bringing him to a building out in the untamed lands where the great space spirit still sat waiting as Ben arrived, a bright grin on his face.
“Well hey there, Ogilt, no problems while I was away?”
“None, they’re still all contained with no obvious issues.”
“Love hearing it. In that case, just gotta see what the results are like.”
With that done he went around the rooms, looking at the cards of all of his test subjects for any further changes and finding none, not that such a result was unexpected when every demon there was trapped in a closet-sized room while being kept docile by one of Ben’s enchanted circlets. There had been no opportunity for them to train and grow and as far as he was concerned they’d never get it, with what progress that front would provide being reserved for once he moved on to testing the peoples of the world while his current test subjects would be receiving nothing but more of the same until it was time to put them down.
Before he began the next round of experiments on them though he took a thorough look at all of their minds to judge how much pain they were each still under, finding that those who’d only had their soul modified once were freed of it, with varying degrees lingering on those who’d gone through a second modification and only the slightest of improvements for those who’d gone through a third, with no signs that the minds that had collapsed under the suffering he’d created had healed at all. All valuable information as he began the process of incorporating new soul structures into the ones who seemed to have returned to a normal condition, letting him gather even more data.