Chapter 755
“Hmm, you know, while I’m out here I suppose I could visit those three,” Ben muttered as he walked through the hot city, trying his best to ignore the nearby volcano as he went through the streets of Nare’s lands. “I could get them one more level of connect while I’m here, maybe even easily so long as they’ve been practicing.”
Nare told him, gently trying to give a bit of mercy to his granddaughter and the summoned of his nation.
“Yeah, but seeing as how the world is ending we want them getting all of the growth they can, don’t we? Come on, send them over to the research center so I don’t need to find them. I’ll help them both get a quick level and then be on my way.”
“That’s the spirit, and is everyone else I asked for already at your church?”
“Cool.”
He picked up his pace as he heard that, making his way to the first church of Nare before letting himself in and finding fifty people waiting for him, all at his and their god’s request. People who either wanted strength or felt enough loyalty to the world to be willing to participate in what many would call a mad experiment to let Ben carry on the testing he couldn’t just do with the demons to see the further results of altering their base souls.
“Hello there, I’m the apostle of Myriad,” He greeted them brightly. “Sorry to keep you waiting, I believe Nare already gave you all the details of what’s happening but if you could all take out your cards so I could see them I’ll go over the details with you again before we start, okay?”
He got some nods and some rummaging as the people who were waiting for him pulled their cards from their pockets while he went around, not only looking at them but also secretly ruffling through their minds and memories to see the various other times they’d checked their cards in the past and how much time had passed between each one in order to create a rough evaluation of each of their natural growth rates to compare against for his tests, leaving him to smile in the end.
“Perfect. Now, as for why you’re all here, to put it simply you’re about to have your souls modified. The process has already gone through preliminary testing and while I’m confident it’s safe, there’s always the potential for some risk. What I can say is you’re going to be sore for a few days after this and there’s no escaping that fact. I feel pretty safe assuming most of you have never experienced soul pain before but all you can do is wait it out. Now, what I can tell you is the purpose of this all. All of your attributes are going to grow after this and rather significantly too. Your mana alone will grow by a few hundred points and your intelligence by almost a thousand which may feel a little weird to you but while gaining that growth so easily may seem more than worth it, what we don’t know for sure are the long-term effects. Namely, if that's going to affect your personal growth rates at all. As you already are undoubtedly aware, being buffed can pretty severely stunt how your attributes grow while under them so there’s a chance that this could do the same thing on a permanent level. I think that result is unlikely but it is a possibility all of you have to be aware of before we start. Now, having said all of that, if any of you want to leave, neither Nare nor I will hold it against you.”