Sorcerer’s Handbook

“In the event of the following circumstances, I am willing to transfer the Divine Sovereign’s Wish to Annan Dolan.”

In the hotel room, Igor spent nearly half an hour reading through the new Pact, which spanned over a thousand clauses. He looked deeply at Annan, then pressed his fingerprint on the contract and said, “In the event of the following circumstances, I am willing to transfer the Divine Sovereign’s Wish to Annan Dolan.”

Annan looked at Harvey. “Say, in the event of the following circumstances, I am willing to transfer the Divine Sovereign’s Wish to Annan Dolan.”

Harvey seemed completely indifferent. Without even glancing at the contents on the paper, he pressed his fingerprint and repeated the same vow.

The Purple Moth breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at the Cult Leader nearby.

Ashe seemed a bit surprised. “Do I have to as well?”

“Since everyone else has done it, if you don’t sign, I fear they might exclude you.”

“Now you care about my relationships with colleagues? Just now, when feeding…”

“It’s just a formality, can you give me some peace of mind?” Annan tugged at his sleeve as if she were acting coquettishly. “I don’t have any more contract paper left, so just follow along with me: Regardless of the circumstances…”

Annan: “I am willing to dedicate the Divine Sovereign’s Wish to Annan Dolan…”

Ashe: “I am willing to dedicate the Divine Sovereign’s Wish to Annan Dolan…”

Annan: “And forever adore, respect, and cherish her.”

Ashe: “And forever adore—”

“There’s a problem here, a problem!” Lise immediately interrupted the spell, angrily saying, “Aunt Annan, you’re inserting your own terms!”

Igor’s face darkened as well. “Interfering with free will and extending the contract period, both of these severely violate our original Pact, don’t they?”

“Ugh.” Annan touched her earring. “I was just joking. Even if Ashe agrees, it won’t be effective.”

After returning from reading the Culprits Ranking, the first thing Annan did was to further strengthen her Pact with her employees.

Now, Annan is no longer the highest-ranking Echoer in the Weaving Festival—in theory, she should still be the highest-ranking, but her top spot on the Culprits Ranking was nullified by ‘Gospel Ashe.’ If the mission to Assassinate the Princess is successful, both Igor and Harvey would be more qualified than her to obtain the Divine Sovereign’s Wish.

In order to ensure that Igor and Harvey would transfer the Wish to her after obtaining it, she needed to deepen the pact terms. Although under normal circumstances, as long as Annan gave the command, the two would obediently hand over the Wish, the Divine Sovereign’s Wish was clearly not a normal circumstance.

No one knows exactly how the ‘granting of a wish’ process works—whether the Omniscient Weaver directly extracts the deepest desires from your heart, drags the wisher into a special space for consultation, or presents a paper for the wisher to write down their wish… there are just too many possibilities.

Not to mention, Igor and Harvey could wish to nullify their pacts. Annan’s greater concern was that the Omniscient Weaver might shield them from the pact’s influence, giving them full autonomy in their wishing process—this would hardly be an effort for a Divine Sovereign, possibly just a thought could bring about this Miracle, but for Annan, it would be a disaster, negating all of her efforts.

Annan had no intention of relying on Igor and Harvey to wish on her behalf; it never even crossed her mind. This was no longer a ‘test of human nature,’ but a ‘test of intelligence’—her intelligence.

Honestly, not even during her most intimate moment with Ashe last night did Annan contemplate trusting him with this matter for even a second.

The final step of the Blasphemy Gospel had to be handled by her personally; no one else could be entrusted with it.

For this, she needed Igor and Harvey to sign an additional agreement.

However, ‘multiple contracts’ were a serious taboo. As a Con Artist, Igor had naturally anticipated this. Even when signing the original Pact, he noticed many pitfalls Annan had set. If Annan was in a good mood, she might play the role of a benevolent boss; if she was in a bad mood, she could at any moment force Ashe to lick her toes.

Despite Igor’s efforts to argue and remove many clauses, Annan still retained considerable power, such as the current ‘deepening of the pact terms.’

Simply put, within the framework allowed by the original pact, Annan can sign additional agreements with them to provide more detailed explanations for certain behaviors, such as “under certain conditions, I must do a specific thing.”

There are also limitations to the “deepening the pact terms.” For instance, the validity period of this new version of the contract cannot exceed the original pact; otherwise, Annan could perpetually renew the slave contract every three months, which would be no better than them all changing their last names to Dolan.

Moreover, it cannot affect personal will; otherwise, if Annan ordered them to “wholeheartedly be Dolan’s dogs,” even after the contract ended, they might still be willing to work for Annan for free.

Of course, a contract is not universal. Even someone like Igor, a mental sorcerer, or Ashe can somewhat resist Annan’s enslavement. Annan cannot force them to do things they adamantly refuse to do.

But now that Igor and Harvey have signed a more detailed secondary contract, no matter how unwilling they might be at heart, once they trigger any of the nearly thousand “prerequisite conditions” in the secondary contract, they will immediately speak their vow.

If this still doesn’t help Annan seize the Divine Sovereign’s Wish from their hands, then Annan would have to accept defeat.

“What would happen if my vow from earlier really took effect?” Ashe curiously asked, “Would it directly influence my will?”n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

“A contract is not a mental Miracle; it doesn’t have such an immediate effect,” Annan replied. “It would probably constantly imply to your mind to focus more on me, to only look at me, care about me; even if you don’t see me, your mind would keep circling back to thoughts of me…”

“It sounds somewhat similar to seeking a partner through the Gospel,” Ashe remarked, “Giving you no other choices, so you can only love one person for life.”

Annan was taken aback and, after a moment of silence, said, “I’m sorry, that joke was a bit much.”

“It’s okay,” Ashe turned to Harvey and Igor, “Speaking of which, what is the effect of your ranking rewards this time? The Cursed Rainbow Tail Feather, is it…”

“Yes, it’s the feather from the Celestial Bull,” Igor’s expression grew complicated as he spoke. “But rather than a reward, it feels more like a trap. It’s like…”

“It’s like the Gospel is paying us protection money, but hiding counterfeit bills in it,” the necromancer’s voice was full of irony.

“Cursed Ghost King/Rust Crow’s Rainbow Tail Feather: Can only be used on the Time Continent, and only by the user themselves. After usage, it fully forms the Golden Wings and directly advances the user to the Third Layer of the Virtual Realm. Simultaneously, it permanently closes the spellforce channel between the sorcerer and the Fourth Layer of the Virtual Realm.”

How powerful!

Ashe thought that the “Rust Crow’s Golden Feather” was already quite ridiculous—it could enable ordinary people to directly possess a Golden level Sect Realm, allowing them to ascend through the Virtual Realm step-by-step thereafter. However, the Rainbow Tail Feather was even more absurd—it directly feeds the golden spellforce into your mouth and takes you to the Third Layer of the Virtual Realm! Not even kindergarten services are this considerate!

If the Golden Feather lets you win at the starting line, the Rainbow Tail Feather puts the finish line right at the start; with just one step (using this item), you become a Sanctuary sorcerer!

“But what does it mean by ‘permanently closing the spellforce channel between the sorcerer and the Fourth Layer of the Virtual Realm’?” Ashe was puzzled.

“Exactly what it says,” Banjeet explained. “In our daily lives, when we consume spellforce, it naturally replenishes over time. But where does that spellforce come from? There’s no spellforce in the air, and us sorcerers can only use knowledge as raw materials for spellforce, we can’t directly generate it.”

“Though we don’t directly log into the Virtual Realm, we are constantly connected to it. Normally, when we consume spellforce, the virtual wings automatically draw spellforce from the Virtual Realm to replenish it—this is the spellforce channel.”

“Then what’s the use of closing the spellforce channel to the Fourth Layer of the Virtual Realm?” Ashe was still confused. “Even if they used the Rainbow Tail Feather, they’d only be Sanctuary sorcerers in the Third Layer; they wouldn’t be able to absorb the spellforce from the Fourth Layer.”

“If you want to break through the Sect Realm and summon a higher-level spirit by entering the upper layers of the Virtual Realm, you must connect to the spellforce of a higher layer,” Igor calmly explained. “Simply put, when I want to ascend to the Fourth Layer of the Virtual Realm in the future, I must connect to the spellforce of the Fourth Layer to summon a Four-winged Spirit—because the fourth wing of a Four-winged Spirit is composed of the colorless spellforce of the Fourth Layer.”

Ashe immediately understood. “So, if you use this reward, it would completely cut off any hope of becoming a legendary sorcerer?”

“That’s why it’s called the Cursed Rainbow Tail Feather,” Igor sneered. “It shows just how highly the Gospel thinks of us, willing to use such a precious bait as the ‘Sanctuary’ just to sever our potential to become legendary in the future. Now even I’m curious about how much trouble I will cause the Gospel in the future that it feels such a strong need to be wary of me.”

Ashe spoke earnestly, “Which means you shouldn’t use it even more. If the Gospel is this certain and fearful of your potential, achieving Sanctuary is just a matter of time for you—there’s no need to rush—”

“I’ve already used it.”