“Do I really need to do this?” Mora asked as he sat at the table, staring down the plate of food in front of him as his face twisted. “It just looks so weird.”
“Mora, if you’re going to be using a body, that means keeping it alive,” Ben told him. “It’s a big responsibility, if you’re going to do this then you need to ta...
2025-05-27 15:02:48 +0000 UTC
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Man, what a month may was. By which I mean what a busy month, that felt hectic and just built on top of april too. It won't be june but july I might take another tuesday off to try and get as much of a re-read done as possible in that little three day span, I suppose I'll let you guys know for sure during the next poll if I feel like I might nee...
2025-05-26 08:29:13 +0000 UTC
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“Jake, you are still my boyfriend, right?” Amy asked through narrowed eyes, her arms comfortably wrapped around Yuzu while she addressed the other with them.
“I mean, unless I’ve been demoted and nobody mentioned it to me, yeah.”
“Yeah, of course,” Amy went on. “We’re intimate, we go on dates when we have time, and ...
2025-05-26 01:11:09 +0000 UTC
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“So, I guess I should probably ask now before it matters. How many people already know I’m a third tier? Has some announcement been made about it?” Ben asked the gods as the night wore on, all of them still looking exhausted from the conversations before and leaving Myriad to answer.
“I personally haven’t made the rest of my beli...
2025-05-25 14:09:51 +0000 UTC
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Laying down in his bed, Mora stared at the ceiling above, not spending the night enjoying any of the books or games he’d been given but instead lost in his thoughts now that he was finally home, being back in Stonewall reminding him of the disaster he’d left it in.
There were no signs of Bloom’s carnage left, Ben having fixed it all ...
2025-05-23 09:38:25 +0000 UTC
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“Ben, why are you a god now?” Mora asked in naked confusion when he arrived, perking up Delair, Fontesh, and Sachel who were all in the room with them in shock and surprise as he scooped the boy up.
“Because I managed to have a very, very productive day yesterday,” He laughed. “More importantly, did you have a good time? You beha...
2025-05-22 08:10:12 +0000 UTC
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“You know, now that I can see what you’re about to do, it’s somehow an even worse idea than I was expecting,” Thera sighed. “I wonder why I can’t fix whatever’s wrong in your head to make you like this.”
“Alright, kind of hurtful.”
“Yeah? And if things go as wrong as you’re expecting but I’m not able to cut ...
2025-05-20 14:04:54 +0000 UTC
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With images flashing so fast that to others they’d look blurry and indistinct, Ben sat and watched with all of the bodies he had, taking in information with interest as the known multiverse was laid out before him.
Even as powerful as the grey were, there were limits to what they could perceive if the laws a reality contained were too di...
2025-05-18 07:58:11 +0000 UTC
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Moving from town to town after such a span working at the larger hospitals in bigger cities, nothing was more inescapable than just how under control everything was.
In the past, whenever she went anywhere around Stonewall, things had felt frantic. The healers would be overworked and in short supply too but the presence of the small gate n...
2025-05-16 18:08:09 +0000 UTC
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Once work was done at his factory he returned to the shop, making use of his warehouse and all of the clones he kept within as they started to move and make, leaving his true body to sit at the heart of it all and think.
Every second of the day he could feel a million different ideas forming in his head as different bits of knowledge were ...
2025-05-15 18:14:23 +0000 UTC
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By the end, Ben was resting his head against the pod that held the man he’d just done his best to save, conflict running deep in his as he did while Nare spoke up at the display.
<Ben, you did you’re best, I don’t->
“I succeeded,” Ben cut him off. “Mostly, I succeeded. It’s not to the point I would have liked but...
2025-05-13 18:10:22 +0000 UTC
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He was back at Pelenia’s residence by the time the god he wanted answered, Ben left sitting outside to stare at the buildings as he waited, only perking up to the sound of Nare’s voice in his head.
<Myriad said you were looking for me for something? What can I do for you, Ben?>
Alright, so this is kind of a tough ask an...
2025-05-11 04:35:52 +0000 UTC
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Author's note
Edited to fix the chapter number I'd typed in wrong :(
“So Asher, you been adjusting well to the world?” Ben asked. “And Taya, you adjusting to existing?”
“I don’t think existing requires much adjustment,” The lightning spirit laughed while the wraith tilted his head in thought.
“It’...
2025-05-09 16:42:33 +0000 UTC
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As the night ended and the levels went off in his head he was immediately aware of his realm expanding and it left the part of him that was still up there to start redesigning the layout he had while his physical body got up to start the day, making way first to the kitchen to prepare breakfast and feeling a change in how he’d even do that, wi...
2025-05-08 15:33:05 +0000 UTC
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While part of himself stayed with his gods, the rest below focused on different tasks. Discovering that he could access two different levels of reality at once was a boon that he knew he’d be exploiting, even if Myriad was already trying to limit it, and with Thera asleep beside him and a few hours of the night still to go he finally had some ...
2025-05-05 17:13:46 +0000 UTC
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Hey all, something came up tuesday that I expect will have me busy from the moment I wake up until I get to fall asleep so I'll be posting it tomorrow on monday instead. Just wanted to let you all know
2025-05-04 16:22:55 +0000 UTC
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“You give blessings with your soul?”
“Among other things,” Myriad admitted. “They go towards giving skills too, as well as placing covenants and, in our histories when we’d have the power for such things, some of us would place more powerful restrictions, curses on mortals we’d want to teach a lesson rather than sending them ...
2025-05-04 11:48:39 +0000 UTC
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The scolding was long, everyone who’d healed him had their piece to say but the walk home was worse. At least among everyone else, he could enjoy the more positive reactions a bit among the more expected words about valuing his safety more and not putting himself at risk but going back through the empty streets of Stonewall was just himself an...
2025-05-02 17:05:46 +0000 UTC
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He didn’t open his eyes when he went down, at least not immediately, with his focus directed to something beyond the world around him, his attention placed entirely on feeling the changes within himself.
With there being plenty on that front alone to sort out. Beyond the basic pain from what remained of his wounds, injuries still far wor...
2025-05-01 16:40:21 +0000 UTC
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“Alright, so how’s my body doing down there right now?” Ben asked his god, the cube’s exasperation coming off of him in waves.
“I’d say you’re ninety percent healed which, to be clear, means you’re still a complete mess.”
“Eh, ninety percent rounds up, I should finally be good enough.”
“To go down and fa...
2025-04-29 16:27:56 +0000 UTC
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“So I suppose I’d first like to ask if the mystery skill you had us awaken contributed to all of this somehow,” Nare asked him, wondering if there could have been a connection with Helori laughing as she answered on his behalf.
“It strengthens the effects of inclinations, jobs, titles, and blessings. Take a guess.”
“That...
2025-04-27 16:57:22 +0000 UTC
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Taking a moment to think and freezing the world around him as he did, Ben took in the situation he’d found himself in, feeling out his options.
It was obvious why they’d come, with some wanting to put some sort of stop to him now that he was the holder of a very unfortunately named third-tier sacrilege while others were there to his de...
2025-04-25 15:05:34 +0000 UTC
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Okay, new poll for april and what a month it’s been! I was sick for a solid three weeks during it so that sucked but it didn’t affect my posting which is what really mattered and other than that… Yeah, no, being sick and trying to keep on top of things besides that took up all of my time. Oh well, these things happen so for now, let’s gi...
2025-04-24 23:35:58 +0000 UTC
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Just gotta finish this show. Greed told himself. Get it done and then ask the biggest question of your life.
The ruby crab barely noticed the hustle and bustle around him by that point, he was long used to it. The song that had made him the biggest star on the planet was well memorized and he trusted his crew to perform w...
2025-04-24 23:33:51 +0000 UTC
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The instant the connection formed, Myriad felt it and shot away with all of the power he held, throwing himself from his apostle as the boy hung there in the air before he righted himself, giving an awkward smile as he did.
“Well,” He said lightly. “That didn’t go quite as expected.”
“Ben?” Myriad asked, caution thick i...
2025-04-24 17:15:47 +0000 UTC
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With food and drinks out of the highest calibre for all to enjoy and decorations to raise the atmosphere even higher, the atmosphere of the party had been good from the start but it was only as one guest joined, forcing Ben to his knees in penance, that couldn’t help but raise the moods of every person who’d wanted to see as much for the cha...
2025-04-22 18:36:07 +0000 UTC
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“So, that went well for you guys too I hope,” He asked, not that he’d need to. He’d listened in their heads when blessings were handed out and skills acquired, with Will getting levels to all of his blessed skills and more while he already knew Amy had been able to level her weapon skill, with Jake managing to see some growth in his tier...
2025-04-20 12:24:45 +0000 UTC
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“Alright,” Nare said when he arrived. “Before anything else, I’m going to politely ask you to stop pointing your little god-killing knife at me.”
“Excuse you, I didn’t just create this for it to instantly get misidentified. This is specifically my god-torturing knife, the fact that it will kill you eventually is really just a...
2025-04-18 16:11:56 +0000 UTC
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“Is that a problem?” Thera asked him. “I mean, I know that would be hard for other people but you’ve succeeded in that before.”
She wasn’t seeing the issue that was making his knuckles crack from how hard he was squeezing his fists, none of them were. He’d made high-legendary items before, even if only a few, but a task like ...
2025-04-17 13:16:08 +0000 UTC
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When he’d felt four hours pass he opened his eyes, happy enough with the break he’d gotten. In the years he’d been on that world he’d grown used to functioning on less and less sleep, his high stamina making it easier too but while he’d been expecting to prepare some more food while the others rested for a little longer he found a pair...
2025-04-15 13:05:46 +0000 UTC
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