Chapter 747
He felt a line of thoughts he hadn’t previously let himself touch on burrow into his mind and whisper in his ear, a truth to it all he couldn’t escape. Saving the world was probably impossible. Saving himself and a handful of people who mattered to him though? Would that even be a challenge?
He even already had ideas that could work. When he’d discussed the prospect of some alternative other than killing Oaun when he’d gotten back with the gods he’d suggested a few he knew would be doomed to fail but that was only when working on the scale of trying to save the planet. On a significantly smaller scale though, would there even be any real problems?
Construct a vessel with time enchantments on it to keep the occupants frozen within while getting Ogilt to transport them to another galaxy and it might have actually been feasible. Ben would have to constantly move mana from the souls he created into the great spirit but there was no reason it couldn’t be done, and regardless of how wrong it would be, if Ogilt was against it, Ben was confident he could take him over with hive mind to force the other to his will.
There were other issues with it too, how long it might take to get somewhere safe from the demon’s god and gathering the people he cared about, with both being affected by just how many he’d be willing to bring with him and what he’d need to do to make it happen.
Thera and her entire family were obvious and without much thought, he knew he’d want to bring every human on the planet too regardless of how close or not he was with some of them, and if he was bringing one entire group of summoned then he might as well take another. It would do no harm for the grey to feel in his debt if he took every member of their kind he could off of that doomed world.
And who else? He liked Sachel and Ralia enough that he’d want to save them, really he’d choose to take her entire village, adding a few hundred dryads to the list and why stop at just one village? He’d obviously need to bring the demidemons too, with that thought growing to all of Myriad’s believers since there were still less than a thousand in total.
Yuzu too, though since she was Jake’s wife that should have been obvious but it did raise the point that he’d need to try and bring at least a few of the people everyone else he would take was close to as well, and when he thought about the list of people he liked well enough on the planet that he didn’t want to die, that meant the number was only going to grow.
But no matter how many mortals he decided he wanted to grab in the end, he believed he could make it manageable. There was no way their numbers would be above ten thousand and if he did make a vessel to help hold them all, he could manipulate not only the flow of time but space as well, keeping the size reasonably small. The bigger issue was that some of the gods of the world might stop him but so long as he built it, he could get the space spirits of the world to bring him everyone else he would want to take along the day he was ready to go and escape before any deity would notice.
That did bring another obvious point though; the gods. He was comfortable saying there were four he’d want to save, maybe five if he included Jagal since she’d always been good to him but that would be harder to deal with, with the best idea he had at the moment being to trick them into descending upon their believers before trapping them to bring along. Myriad would be extra difficult but Ben would find a way, although all of them would need to have at least a couple hundred of their believers brought along too, with the last question being what he’d even do after.