Chapter 779
“Hmm, you know, it’s kind of a waste to leave Jake’s body there doing nothing. Alright, I’m feeling generous. Is there any attribute you guys think he needs to train more?”
“Agility,” Amy told him without needing to think. “He’s terrible at it since he just teleports everywhere. Why, don’t tell me you have some easy way to raise attributes now too?”
“Well, technically yes, but modifying souls is still in the testing phase. Nearing its end though so I might be able to start it on a larger scale soon-”
“I’m sorry, modifying what?” Yuzu asked, broken from her conflict over the spell she’d been given by the new ridiculous thing Ben was saying in front of her.
“Souls, it's a whole thing but not what I’m doing. Jake should be under plenty of bonuses thanks to his buffs, I’m just going to keep this from being a complete waste of a day.”
He was already casting with Jake's mana to make a growing pile of void and deathstone and teaching in a way that was sure to give more than a few points of intelligence but training agility would need something else, with Ben spending some of his infinite mana to materialize what was in essence a treadmill.
It was powered through the enchantments and magic materials that made up its structure but it would do what it needed to and given he was already inhabiting Jake’s body, he was just going to need to do something Ben personally hated. Running.
It was made all of the worse for knowing that it would be Jake who got the benefits from that bit of exertion but having Jake’s body work for those hours he was learning meant there was no time being wasted for the man, something Ben knew he himself would have appreciated, even if Amy and Yuzu seemed less sure.
“Ben, is Jake going to be okay after any of this?” Amy asked him, feeling less and less sure her lover’s mind and body were going to hold up as the day went on.