Chapter 441 - 227: "Divine Level·My Heart’s Desire
He considered it carefully, running multiple simulations.
After his promotion to Level 2 Prophet, Lu Cang tried making several different wishes across three separate simulations.
Divine Level·My Heart’s Desire
The first thing Lu Cang tested was how this wish-granting ability was evaluated.
The first wish: "I will stop the Secret Sea’s destruction."
Lu Cang’s simulation ran until April 1st.
At this time, he found himself in the Moon Sea, still on the Ruelun Continent.
However, the Ruelun Continent was now in the Moon Sea.
On this day,
Lu Cang just wandered around the Moon Sea, looking for other continents nearby, to see if there was any knowledge he could plunder.
He did find several islands.
But on these islands, let alone a Kingdom, there weren’t even any people—they were all filled with Demons...
’Makes sense.’
’Who’s to say every island in the sea would be inhabited and have a kingdom?’
In reality, desolate islands are the norm in any given stretch of ocean.
It’s just that the sea is too vast.
Those lonely islands wouldn’t be marked on a map.
It’s like traveling through space—star charts only mark planets of value,
and not some random meteorite floating in some obscure corner of space.
After that, Lu Cang tried to perform a Sacrifice to the Moon Sea.
It turned out that performing a Sacrifice to the Moon Sea was completely useless. His soul flew directly into the Moon Sea, as if suspended in mid-air.
There was no real difference.
It flew out, made a loop, returned to his hand, and that was the end of it.
’The Moon Sea is normal.’
’Then again... In this world, I don’t know if the Moon Sea is the normal one, or the Secret Sea.’
But from Lu Cang’s own understanding of the word "sea"...
’This kind of ordinary seawater is what’s normal...’
’A sea that leads to some mysterious, bizarre place—that’s what’s abnormal.’
He dove deep into the seawater.
The sea was full of schools of fish, and there were Sea Demons too, but not nearly as frequent or numerous as in the Secret Sea.
The more he explored the Moon Sea, the more he felt it. ’Is there something wrong with the Secret Sea? This must be what a real sea is like, right?’
In this simulation, he journeyed about halfway around the Moon Sea.
He returned to the Ruelun Continent and visited some familiar friends...
Yuna, Lu Luwei, Leng Qingying, and even Luo Si were still there.
Of course, that lucky King was also around.
An Zheng, however, was truly gone.
That entire room had been left vacant, so that part of the palace was now empty.
A space exactly the size of a room was just missing from the building.
’An Zheng was probably chopped up six days ago, right?’
’I wonder what that Roya and Samo are thinking?’
’A wasted trip.’
After that, Lu Cang stopped running around aimlessly. After all, he still had so much knowledge to learn.
So he stayed in the White Tower to study.
Yuna could only watch him study from the side, green with envy.
Because today was April 1st.
The month of chaos and madness. Studying during a leap year was certain to bring about corruption and Curses.
Yuna couldn’t ignore the corruption, so of course she couldn’t study. She could only watch helplessly as he studied to his heart’s content.
Lu Cang could see the look in her eyes, brimming with a thirst for knowledge.
’With the boost from Level 3 Scholar, my reading speed is truly fast...’
Time gradually passed. Lu Cang finished reading several dozen books on Oceanography.
But this was Lorren’s White Tower, after all. Most of the books were about the Secret Sea, so this Oceanography was also based on the Secret Sea.
Although some of the knowledge was universal, the differences between the two seas were ultimately too great.
’It seems I’ll have to find some Oceanography knowledge specific to the Moon Sea.’
After dying twice in the Secret Sea,
Lu Cang now knew he had to hold a healthy dose of fear and respect for this world’s oceans.
While reading, Lu Cang was also using his second wish to test other applications of Divine Level·My Heart’s Desire.
Time moved on. Twenty-four hours wasn’t a long time.
Now, it was almost April 2nd.
The prophesied Doomsday was April 1st, but his "wish" hadn’t been fulfilled or triggered.
Lu Cang had been waiting to see just how he would save the Secret Sea.
But now it seemed the fulfillment of the wish wouldn’t forcibly violate the laws of reality.
Instead, it carried a sense of—’Even if it can’t be completed this time, it will be completed sooner or later.’
’In other words...’
’Could it be that the Secret Sea is going to be destroyed more than once? And I’ll just happen to save it during the next destruction?’
’No, it could also be the time after that, or the time after the time after that.’
Lu Cang had truly realized how strange this Talent was.
The wish not coming true didn’t mean it wasn’t in effect. It only proved that it hadn’t happened today.
Some day in the future, there might truly be a day when he saves the Secret Sea.
’How ridiculous.’
During this time, Lu Cang also tried making a second wish.
"I will not read the *Maritime Strategy Theory*."
The moment the wish was made, it was fulfilled.
’It seems that wishing *not* to do something is pretty meaningless.’
"I will not drink water." "I will not look at Yuna." "I will not sleep."
This type of wish was tantamount to being completed the moment it was made.
Unless he was doing that very thing at that exact moment.
For example, if he was staring at Yuna, and his gaze suddenly shifted away, that would also count as fulfilling the wish.
If you weren’t doing something in the first place, that constituted "not doing something."
Because wishes couldn’t be restricted by time, it would count no matter when it happened.
"I will roll a 6 on the die."
After making this wish, it was actually completed on the first try.