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.

<Ben, are you okay? What the hell just happened?>

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.

<It would be more shocking if it didn’t after that!> Myriad yelled before understanding what Ben had said. <Wait, did you actually manage to create foreign matter?>

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?”

<I’m not running off right after you almost blew yourself up.>

“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.

<Outsider huh? It’s odd, but if we consider what you are, perhaps it’s actually odder that you and the other summoned didn’t get it as an option as soon as you arrived.>

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

<No, what you are is a soul from a foreign universe, as in, something from outside of this one. Technically, every one of the summoned fits that description though so it does leave me to wonder what fulfilled the conditions for it. Would anyone who creates matter from another reality get access to it or is it locked to summoned individuals who pull it off? I’d personally bet on the second, but it’s entirely possible that there’s additional conditions that aren’t immediately apparent either.>

“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?”

<Ben, there’s literally no way to know without taking it. It could be anything, it could be everything, or it could be something so dreadfully specific that you’d have no choice but to take the loss and switch to a different job.>

“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.”

<I really am just so constantly grateful you have her around.> Myriad sighed. <She’s right. What you’re talking about goes well beyond your normal extremes Ben, it’s too much. Take literally any other job.>The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.

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

<ACQUIRED JOB- MASTER OF ALL LV0>

<MAJOR BONUSES GRANTED TO IMPROVING ALL ATTRIBUTES>

<ALL SKILLS WILL RECEIVE A MAJOR GROWTH BONUS>

<INTELLIGENCE ENHANCEMENT LEVEL INCREASED>

<PIERCING RESISTANCE LEVEL INCREASED>

<ACQUIRED SKILL BLOOD REGENERATION LEVEL 0>

<ACQUIRED SKILL AIM LEVEL 0>

<ACQUIRED SKILL ACTUALIZATION LEVEL 0>

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-”

<If you don’t mind, I’d be happy to help with that.> Nare spoke in open excitement, filled with the same feeling that was taking over every crafting and knowledge god. <You said you wanted to set up an area to have them studied to learn their effects? Leave it to me. I’m already talking to my people to have an area set up and a swath of gods are interested in sending some of their believers over to help. You’ll of course be given full access to all of the findings that are made.>

“...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?”

<Assuming you can get Abrus to help a little bit, as soon as you can get here. Why, did you have something else in mind first?>

“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.”