There's an appointment ceremony for letting the little fox spirit manage the Wish Pool: in the heavenly center, open permissions for the little fox spirit.
If it weren't for the little fox spirit's reminder, they wouldn't have known that the wish heart they obtained is actually the heavenly center with the highest management permissions.
Anyone who inputs magic power into the heavenly center can activate the management system of the Heavenly Kingdom of Thousand Wishes:
「Heavenly Kingdom of Thousand Wishes」
「Space Domain: 6.6」/「Time Domain: 1.2」/「Void Domain: 1.1」
「Governor: None」
「Secret Realm List: Wish Pool」
「Wish Pool (Awake God): Produces 4.1 wish hearts/month, 26.5 technique spirits/month, 0.003 divine beings/month.
Effect after the Awake God enters: Produces 5 wish hearts/month, 31.8 technique spirits/month, 0.003 divine beings/month, and possibly new materials/technique spirits will be generated.」
「Curse List: Sea of Corpses Blood Flies/Doomsday Particles/Dead Lake」
「Heavenly Kingdom Overall Wonder List: Thousand Wishes Longevity」
「Thousand Wishes Longevity: A wish wonder, marks time anchors on all affected within the range. When any malignant influence occurs, Thousand Wishes Longevity will suppress and expel the malignant influence and restore the area to the status marked by the time anchor. When any benevolent influence occurs, Thousand Wishes Longevity will record and monitor, and every 15 days, it will compile a log to remind the governor whether to update the time anchors (reminder interval can be modified). Currently, maintaining Thousand Wishes Longevity requires monthly consumption of 4 wish hearts and 25 technique spirits.」
「Please set a governor as soon as possible, the governor can be a half-god/divine being.」
「You are currently in an agent status and cannot obtain the management permissions for Thousand Wishes Longevity.」
「You are currently in an agent status and cannot obtain the management permissions for curses.」
「You are currently...」
At first glance, this heavenly center seems quite comprehensive, but actually, the total information is just this much, and many terms don't have further explanations. This thing is most likely written by the Thousand Wishes Illusory Master themself, they of course can understand it, but Ash and the others have to guess.
First is the "Space Domain: 6.6", Ash and the others can guess that this is describing the space information of the heavenly kingdom, but they don't know whether it's the size of the space or the land area, nor do they know what the basic unit is, they only know that the space of the Heavenly Kingdom of Thousand Wishes has 6.6 units.
"Time Domain: 1.2" and "Void Domain: 1.1" are much simpler, because the little fox spirit is very sensitive to laws, it can feel that the time here is 1.2 times that of the outside world, and the resonance rate with the void realm is 1.1 times. That is to say, 12 days here equate to 10 days outside, and the recovery speed of magic power here is 1.2 times that of the void realm, and the technique spirit power will be amplified accordingly.
And the governor is undoubtedly the most important position in the heavenly kingdom, unfortunately, they all can't occupy it—only a demigod mage or divine being can assume the powers of the governor!
As for why they are limited in agent permissions, it's likely because they used mortal magic power to activate the heavenly center instead of demigod magic power. Even the role of governor requires a demigod mage, how can a mortal possibly be the true master of the heavenly kingdom?
Perhaps this also includes the considerations of the Thousand Wishes Illusory Master, after all, even mages who are not demigods don't have the vision or strength, and they would just be messing with heaven's arrangements for no reason.
However, as long as they grasp the heart of the heavenly center, it's only a matter of time before they inherit the complete Heavenly Kingdom of Thousand Wishes, so there's no rush.
Besides this, the assets of the Heavenly Kingdom of Thousand Wishes only include the Wish Pool, and the three cursed liabilities of Sea of Corpses Blood Flies/Doomsday Particles/Dead Lake, yet the resources produced by the Wish Pool are almost entirely used to maintain the wonder of Thousand Wishes Longevity, barely able to suppress the three major curses.
To say this place is impoverished seems too mild, if you have to comment on it, it's like selling the house to speculate in funds and getting trapped.
But the most shocking thing to Ash and the others is that there's actually no divine being in the heavenly kingdom.
Note that even the Nightmare Angel was almost able to create a divine being, how can the Thousand Wishes Illusory Master owning the heavenly kingdom be poorer than the Nightmare Angel?
When they finally granted the governor's permission to the little fox spirit, the little fox spirit uttered a sound and fell into the Wish Pool, frightening Ash and the other four, thinking the Thousand Wishes Illusory Master was resurrected.
However, the little fox spirit nervously covered its little head, saying that it had a headache and needed to eat a wish heart to feel better, as it spoke it secretly watched Ash and the others. Ash, finding it funny, authorized it to consume wish hearts from the Wish Pool.
But the little fox spirit wasn't gluttonous; after eating the wish heart, it appeared much more spirited, explaining that it had obtained the record logs of the Heavenly Kingdom of Thousand Wishes. Since Ash and the others couldn't directly view the record logs, they could only learn what happened in the Heavenly Kingdom of Thousand Wishes through the little fox spirit's narration.
Initially, after the fall of the Thousand Wishes Illusory Master, the Heavenly Kingdom of Thousand Wishes was jointly managed by four divine beings, supported by two World Secret Domains, with precious resources spread across the land; however, there were also 9 curses looming over the Heavenly Kingdom of Thousand Wishes.
After exhausting all the heavenly kingdom's reserves of Source Crystals, the divine beings couldn't continue suppressing the curse's spread, first affecting all precious resources. These resources were also the divine beings' food, and losing the food significantly weakened the divine beings' power, making it harder to resist the curses.
Upholding the will of the Thousand Wishes Illusory Master, the divine beings steadfastly safeguarded the heavenly kingdom, but fell one after another in warfare against the curses. However, their deaths weren't entirely meaningless, as each divine being's extinction at least completely obliterated a specific curse.
Eventually, another World Secret Domain couldn't be defended, thoroughly destroyed and corroded by curses. Yet, the demise of the World Secret Domain greatly weakened the curse's powers—because these curses were precisely targeted at the World Secret Domain.
When everything settled, the situation as Ash and the others received the Heavenly Kingdom of Thousand Wishes reached a stable state: relying on the Wish Pool to barely maintain the divine miracle of Thousand Wishes Long-lasting, which happened to suppress the spread of three major curses, but the land was already fragmented in the war before, all Divine Beings were completely annihilated, and as for the Source Crystals left by Thousand Wishes Illusion Master before their death, not even one remained.
"Just like that."
After becoming the Governor, the little Foxling seemed to empathize with the long-time suffering of the kingdom. Looking at the Desolate Land in the distance, its fox ears twitched, and it asked with deep emotion, "Can the Masters hear the wails of the land? Can the Masters feel the pain of the land?"
Pain, it's too painful... The thought that they could originally receive four Divine Beings and a World Secret Domain made Ash and the other three feel their hearts ache.
So they turned their gaze towards the Wish Pool to see if there were any Technique Spirits they could use.
Although the majority of the Technique Spirits were used to maintain Thousand Wishes Long-lasting, over time, a considerable amount of Technique Spirits accumulated in the Wish Pool, most being One-winged and Two-winged, with Three-winged and Four-winged being rare, mainly as Spirit Faction Technique Spirits like 'Willing,' 'Freely,' 'Gladly,' 'Voluntarily,' and the like.
The 'Willing' Technique Spirit can generate the will, suitable for aiding in contemplating one's desires, like thinking about how to spend lottery winnings, how many children to have with a loved one, how to show off while gaming tonight, etc. The will helps make your imagination more detailed and vivid, basically making daydreams more beautiful.
If the opponent is hesitating during negotiations, the 'Gladly' Technique Spirit can expedite their submission; if you want to implant specific thoughts into others, the 'Voluntarily' Technique Spirit can disguise false thoughts as one's own ideas.
Honestly, though these Technique Spirits are useful, they aren't particularly powerful, as Ash knows that Igula has several Technique Spirits that can achieve similar effects.
But their uniqueness lies in involving the Law of Fate!
Like Thousand Wishes Long-lasting, it is constructed with these Technique Spirits to create a destiny miracle, which forcibly resists the cursed fate. Obviously, like how the Nightmare Angel hid its Dream Faction, the Thousand Wishes Illusion Master also kept their Wish Faction secret, never widely circulating it. Other mages, even if they obtained wish Technique Spirits from the Void Realm, would just use them as spirit Technique Spirits.
Even though all four of them are proficient in the Spirit Faction, none of them specialize in it, so these Technique Spirits aren't of much significance to them except for Ash.
He tentatively exchanged the Four-winged Technique Spirits for points, delighted to find an astonishing exchange ratio of 1:50!
Logically, since he is already a Four-winged Mage, the exchange ratio for Four-winged Technique Spirits should be 1:10. Perhaps because Ash hasn't yet condensed a drop of Four-winged Magic Power, "Aurora's Mage Manual" considers him still as a Three-winged novice, thus continuing to offer him the Three-winged Mage's recharge discount.
Yes, a discount.
After experiencing the series of adventures in Dream Heaven, Ash realized he misunderstood this mobile game system. Source Crystals are undoubtedly high-grade resources coveted even by demigods, and yet he can recharge by selling some Technique Spirits and continuously purchase them, if this isn't a discount, what is?
Hence, Ash took all Four-winged Technique Spirits from the Wish Pool to recharge, and the accumulated points finally exceeded 600!
At this moment, Sonia suddenly realized something and summoned a Four-winged Technique Spirit.
"Huh?" Ash was startled: "Isn't this..."
"Four-winged Heart Sword Technique Spirit." Sonia said: "When collecting spirits with Dreams Come True, I specifically stole one. Since this is no longer the Void Realm..."
She lightly tapped, severing the soul link with the Heart Sword Technique Spirit.
The Heart Sword Technique Spirit seemed somewhat confused, yawned, and fell asleep on the ground.
"Indeed!" Sonia's ruby eyes lit up: "Even after severing, the Technique Spirit won't disappear! We can exchange Technique Spirits here!"
Sonia had long wanted to exchange Technique Spirits with the Observer and others. Her original plan was to collect enough Unmemorable Wood and then commission an Alchemist to create a box for exchanging materials in the Void Realm. Unfortunately, no one on the market sold Unmemorable Wood, and what she collected wasn't enough, so the plan was shelved.
In fact, Felix also had a container made from Unmemorable Wood. Sonia initially knew materials could be stored in the Void Realm from Felix. But knowing she couldn't offer a price that would pique Felix's interest, she never asked; eventually, suspecting Felix of ulterior motives, she wouldn't willingly expose her vulnerabilities.
Unexpectedly, this need was easily resolved in the Heavenly Kingdom of Thousand Wishes!
Diya also took out a Four-winged Sword Trace Technique Spirit, wide-eyed, and handed it to Ash with a look of "hurry up and praise me".
Ash opened his mouth, but feeling that a simple 'thank you' was too formal, he silently accepted the Sword Trace Technique Spirit, though he shook his head towards Sonia: "Sword Maiden, you should take it back—your Sword Technique Faction Realm is higher than mine, the Heart Sword Technique Spirit helps you more. Don't you want the Heart Sword Technique Spirit?"
"The Peerless Secret Sword and the Five Spirits, which Sword Master wouldn't want it?" The Village Girl replied: "Of course, I want the Heart Sword Technique Spirit—so why don't you quickly sever your Heart Sword Technique Spirit?"
"Huh?" Ash was stunned: "But my Heart Sword Technique Spirit is only Two-winged..."
Seeing the Sword Maiden with a sly smile, Ash's voice gradually decreased, and he had no choice but to sever the soul link with the Heart Sword Technique Spirit that had accompanied him for several months, signalling it to fly to the Sword Maiden.
Sonia caught the Two-winged Heart Sword, her lips slightly curled up, drawing it into her soul.
Ash gently held the Four-winged Heart Sword, and upon completing the soul link, the Four-winged Heart Sword immediately burrowed into his soul, flaunting its might—aside from the Four-winged Sword Trace Technique Spirit, all other Technique Spirits were at least a level lower, though even the Sword Trace Technique Spirit subdued its aura, obediently acknowledging the Heart Sword Technique Spirit's absolute status.
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