In an instant, Abrus and Thera were beside him and the armour he’d been wearing was stripped away to let her begin healing his shattered bones, all while Myriad screamed in his head.

I’m pretty sure I’ll live and it looks like this universe rejects my old one on a pretty significant level. Wow, everything hurts right now.

Myriad yelled before understanding what Ben had said.

Briefly, until it exploded a lot more violently than me or the grey predicted. Sure hope they were at least watching that for any useful data. Now if you wouldn’t mind quieting down a little, I’m going to take just a second to be in pain.

He felt his broken bones popping and sliding back into place as Thera healed him, her own worry evident as she tried to understand just what happened, with Ben answering what he could.

The conversation he’d had with Quilth the last night couldn’t help but pop into his head. The models the grey had made about the universe were clearly wrong in some ways already given the existence of magic materials and it looked like Ben had just been unfortunate enough to find another in a way he couldn’t help but beat himself up over it.

He should have guessed that it would at least be possible that they’d made some sort of mistake given what he knew, he just hadn’t been thinking deeply enough, and given how bad it could have potentially been, he was going to count his injuries as lucky. If he hadn’t gotten some bizarre reaction from the universe and instead created something that would act akin to strange matter then he wouldn’t have had time to regret it, he could have destroyed the world. The fact that the products of his old reality didn’t act that way was a positive at least, but that things had gone so wrong at all made him horrifyingly aware of the fact that it could have been much, much worse.

Still, he’d gotten the outcome he’d hoped for at least, a job beyond the master path finished in a single day so he grabbed his necklace with his less injured arm to see all of the options he now had and decided he could worry about the rest once that was done.

AVAILABLE JOBS

Trap user Craftsman- alchemy path Craftsman- artistic path Craftsman- blacksmith path Craftsman- cooking path Craftsman- stonecrafts path Craftsman- sewing path Holy craftsman Mathematician Cursed item maker High tank Destructive craftsman Soul defiling gardener Summoned enchanter Ritual enchanter Divine enchanter High marksman High destruction mage World killer Beginner puppeteer Freak mind user Unholy thinker Connect master Polymath Holy adversary Title master Master of all Alien mind Multiversal material mage Outsider

Well, some of those are a little unusual to say the least.

Thera was clearly under a similar impression just from seeing the look on his face.

“What did you end up with this time?”

“At least one I need some proper divine guidance on. Myriad, you still around?”

“Okay, cool. So two new jobs this time. Multiversal material mage which I guess I understand. An advanced material mage job popped up after I made something from another universe, it’s weird but I get it. What I less get is the second one, outsider.”

Ben had only heard of outsiders a couple times, both from the gods and the grey, but to have it applied to him felt unreasonable, even if Myriad seemed to feel it less so.

“I’m not some sort of eldritch monster.”

“Okay, and that’s cool and all but can you even begin to guess anything about it? What bonuses it would give to what and how powerful they’d be?”

“Okay, so not grabbing it when I have plenty of decent options, gotcha, which just leaves what to pick.”

“Weren’t you going for master of all?” Thera chimed in as she neared the end of his healing.

“Ugh, I was going to but with multiversal material mage as an option, I might be able to cheat it the way I just did. Even if using the full Earth periodic table doesn’t get me to the end, the grey could teach me about the matter structure of a hundred different universes, if I materialize it all then I might be able to finish that in a day too.”

It was an option he didn’t actually want to take, only feeling like he might have to. Time was ticking down till the next invasion, didn’t he need to do whatever he could to get as powerful as he could in that time? Doing easy jobs that were sure to give high returns made the most sense.

While he found himself struggling with that choice though, Thera made it for him, grabbing his face and forcing him to look her in the eyes.

“Ben, if your big plan to get through a job involves blowing yourself up a hundred times then you are not doing it. End of story, no discussion, ask your god if you really want to fight me on it.”

Myriad sighed.

Stolen novel; please report.

“Okay, okay, you guys are right. I’ll go for master of all.”

Name: Ben Heph

Race: Human

Titles: Apostle of Myriad, The Forgotten One, Miracle Maker, Skill learner, Enemy of Eneth, Trial Defier, Trial Breaker, Godslayer, Monster, Madman, God killer, Threat, The mad apostle, Destined holder of Connect, God of Destruction, Creator of Life, Awakener, Maniac, Brutal Blacksmith, Defier of Gods, Title Holder, Enemy of Olensia, Great Teacher, Student of Helori, Myriad’s Monster

Jobs: Master of all (lv 1)

Previous Jobs: Apprentice craftsman, Craftsman, Priest, Enchanter, Mind user, Magic item maker, Magic weapon maker, High enchanter, Fractured mind user, Tree tamer, High craftsman, Apprentice mage, True mage, Tank, Heretic, Adventurer, Divine heretic, Kin, Master craftsman, Master enchanter, Scholar, Connected enchanter, Infernal craftsman, Marksman, Destruction mage, Material mage, High material mage, Profane enchanter, Master material mage, Impious creator, Mind master, Master adventurer, Otherworldly craftsman, Material creator

Attributes:

Vitality: 1286 Vitality recovery rate: 34/hr Mana: 1499 Mana recovery rate: 109/min Strength: 1039 Agility: 300 Stamina: 2489 Intelligence: 7391

Affinities:

Light: 3 Life: 2 Fire: 4 Water: 3 Air: 4 Earth: 2 Death: 3 Dark: 1 Space: 4 Time: 5

Resistances:

Light: 68 Life: 72 Fire: 75 Water: 69 Air: 66 Earth: 81 Death: 78 Dark: 85 Space: 63 Time: 61

Blessed skills:

Unending crafting lv5* Divine enchanting lv5* Unnatural mind lv5*

Passive skills:

King of sacrilege lv9* Bind Integrated demonic body lv6 Defense enhancement lv9 Absorption resistance lv8 Knowledge lv7* All affinity resistance enhancement lv6 Lesser inspiration lv9 Fine motor control lv9 Bite enhancement lv1 Piercing resistance lv5 Artisan’s touch Intelligence enhancement lv8 Alien thought structure Blood regeneration lv0

Active skills:

Stealth lv1 Deep connection lv4* Cycling lv1 Marksmanship lv6 Material manipulation lv6* Swimming lv1 Dance lv0 Unnatural thought speed lv4* Mental symbiosis lv9 Puppetry lv8 Rule bender lv0 Aim lv0 Actualization lv0

Blessings:

Myriad’s Blessing Anailia’s Blessing Helori’s Blessing Galwax’s Blessing Elvat’s mana regeneration Blessing Eneth’s Blessing Earth Pantheon’s Blessing Life Pantheon’s Blessing Dark Pantheon’s Blessing Olensia’s Blessing Nare’s Blessing Yuzu’s mana regeneration Blessing

Trials:

Trial of Anailia and Tolona Trial of the Dead God Earth Tower Life Tower Dark Tower

“Something good I take it?” Thera could tell from his face.

A lot of good actually. Thera was right, glad I took this one.

Two levels and three new skills, not including what he’d gained when he’d just blown himself up. That was an excellent day, especially when one looked at what it had all gone towards. The earlier level to his magic would help him out immediately with his work and gaining aim was going to pair incredibly with his marksmanship given that the skill already helped in that regard. None of that was what he chose to say first though.

“Guess who just got blood regeneration!”

She shook her head at his cheer about it, muttering to herself about how someone who was supposedly a craftsman ended up with so many skills aimed at keeping one alive while Ben went on to tell her and her father the rest of the changes to his status as his treatment was being finished.

There were of course questions that came with some of what he’d acquired too, he couldn’t begin to guess at two of his new skills. Both rule bender and actualization were mysteries to him, skills he’d never heard of nor seen before despite all of his time studying the topic and peeking into the statuses of others, but that was something he could bother Verbum about in the future. With that complete, there were other things to worry about.

“Okay, so now for the next bit-”

Nare spoke in open excitement, filled with the same feeling that was taking over every crafting and knowledge god.

“...Okay, that makes things a lot easier but wasn’t actually what I was going to say. Thanks though, how fast can you be set up?”

“Yeah, I’d say my work is only half done here. I still have fifty-one options that I suspect will just need an affinitied branch to change and since I can’t do that myself, that just means I’m going to need to grab some help. Tell the others up there to enjoy the show because I’m not intending to leave this half-finished.”