Chapter 442 - 227: Divine Level·My Heart’s Desire (Part 2)
Afterward, he made the same wish several times in a row, and the probability of rolling a 6 was, astoundingly, over 95%.
And even if he didn’t roll a 6 on the first try, he would on the second.
Lu Cang didn’t try too many times.
Instead, he changed the wish: ’I will roll five consecutive 6s.’
This also succeeded on the first try.
Afterward, he made this extremely low-probability wish twenty times.
Fifteen of those times, it succeeded on the first try.
And all twenty attempts succeeded within two tries.
This test more or less proved that once a wish is made, it is indeed influenced by Destiny and becomes extremely likely to occur.
However, a good deal of uncertainty remained.
’In that case, if there’s something with only one fated opportunity, and I make a wish... does that guarantee my wish will be fulfilled?’
Actually, the kind of wish Lu Cang wanted to make was along the lines of, ’I will achieve a perfect advancement to a Level 100 Mage.’
After all, advancement is an event, too.
But he was still in the testing phase. Besides, if he really made that wish, who knows how many hundreds of millions of years it would take to be fulfilled.
Still, he had to admit, it was a pretty good idea for a fallback wish.
The only problem was that the highest Level in this world seemed to be 9.
Reaching Level 100 would be far too reality-bending. He had no idea in what sort of twisted, bizarre way it might be fulfilled—like a wish granted by an Evil Divine Being. That would be far too tragic.
’Maybe Level 9 would be better, then.’
He also had to be wary of dreams and Illusion Realms. If the wish was fulfilled in a dream or an Illusion Realm and that still counted, that would be incredibly foolish.
’Oh, I could also use this method to determine if I’m in an Illusion Realm.’
For example, by making a wish like, ’I am not in an Illusion Realm.’
If it wasn’t fulfilled, that would mean he was inside an Illusion Realm.
’No... if it really was an Illusion Realm, would the manifestation of my Talent necessarily be real?’
Lu Cang conducted many experiments with wishes.
Ultimately, his second wish—’My dick is 21cm long’—stalled after he made it.
But soon, Lu Cang had an idea: he could use Flesh Reshaping Magic to extend his own dick.
After a bit of miraculous magical work...
This wish was fulfilled.
’It seems... fulfilling a wish isn’t just about passively waiting for it to come true. My own initiative is also very important.’
Take the wish to roll a 6, for example.
If he never rolled the die, the wish would remain indefinitely postponed, unable to be fulfilled.
It didn’t change the world in some exaggerated, twisted manner, yet it influenced Destiny in an incredibly real way.
Lu Cang came to a rough understanding of the Talent’s more fundamental principle: combining something he wanted to do with a corresponding wish would facilitate the wish’s fulfillment.
The Talent’s effect was, for the most part, facilitation.
If he didn’t take action... this supposedly inevitable event would just be postponed indefinitely.
It might happen eventually, but who knows if that would be hundreds of millions of years from now?
...
Afterward, Lu Cang conducted more tests in his subsequent simulations.
’I am not being watched by others.’
The moment he made this wish, it was instantly fulfilled...
This wish could be used to determine if he had been discovered.
Lu Cang also realized that although his wishes couldn’t include specific people other than himself, he could substitute a vague group.
Others, living beings, Demons...
Those were acceptable.
But he couldn’t directly target specific individuals like Izparut, Aertemi, or Leng Qingying.
’The only person I can specify is myself.’
’Figuring out the Rules of this Talent is really complicated.’
’But if I use it well, it really will be just My Heart’s Desire, letting me do whatever I want.’
’I will be teleported to the Moon Sea by the Continent Teleportation Magic.’
After he made this wish, the random teleportation on March 24th would send him to the Moon Sea.
And since the teleportation of the entire continent was bound to his own, the entire continent was teleported to the Moon Sea as well.
And so, Lu Cang unlocked another use for his wishes: causal linkage.
The occurrence of one event would inevitably lead to the occurrence of another.
This also meant he could make a single wish to guide a series of interconnected outcomes.
If he had previously wished, ’I will obtain the Reincarnation Mark,’ it would have meant he would defeat Saint One.
If he wished, ’I will obtain the War God’s inheritance,’ it would also mean he was guaranteed to defeat the War God. ’Everything really is interconnected.’
The simulations for yesterday and today were now complete.
In total, there were three simulations, each one exploring a different scenario.
He had already made a few hundred wishes in total.
Most were small wishes that could be fulfilled with little effort.
Only a very small number were wishes that were difficult to fulfill.
For example—’I will defeat Izparut using only Magic.’
He then immediately launched a Magic attack on Iz.
In the end, he still lost. The wish remained unfulfilled by the time the simulation ended.
There were some other strange wishes, too.
He couldn’t achieve the wish ’I can piss 100 meters high’ with his physical body alone, but he eventually fulfilled it by using Water Control from his Water Magic.
’I have two heads’ was fulfilled using Flesh Magic.
’I can create a Spiral Ball with my bare hands.’
Lu Cang didn’t manage to fulfill this one.
Even when he used Magic to simulate a Spiral Ball, the wish wasn’t fulfilled.
This wish seemed strange on the surface, but it was actually a test of cognitive boundaries...
’What exactly *is* a Spiral Ball? And what would count as fulfilling the wish?’
In Lu Cang’s mind, the thing in Naruto’s hands was a Spiral Ball.
The Root Magic in his own hands could simulate the feeling, but that was just copying its appearance.
It wasn’t a real Spiral Ball.
After more experiments in this area, Lu Cang came to a rough understanding: wishes were primarily based on his own cognition.
More specifically, his cognition at the exact moment the wish was made.
No matter how he tried to misconstrue concepts or twist definitions afterward, what didn’t conform, didn’t conform.
Even if he defined chopsticks as bamboo, biting down on them wouldn’t fulfill the wish, ’I am biting bamboo.’
「His thoughts returned to reality.」
Lu Cang sat on the bed in his manor, quietly contemplating his first wish.
A wish that would account for the Future, but without wasting a wish slot.
’I’ve already been to the Moon Sea many times.’
’Not in my real body, of course, but I’ve been there more than once in the simulations.’
’And I’ve been to Boundaryless Mountain a few times, too.’
’The atmosphere over at Boundaryless Mountain seems much worse than in the Moon Sea. A massive war seems to be breaking out over there.’
’The Life Forbidden Zone seems to be expanding outward still.’
’Ancient beings are walking the world, causing carnage in Boundaryless Mountain.’
’And they seem to be very hostile to outsiders over there.’
’All in all... it doesn’t seem like a friendly place.’
’The Moon Sea, on the other hand, has a pretty nice atmosphere. There might be a few too many Divine Beings, but I’ve been to several of its kingdoms.’
’They were all reasonably peaceful.’
’And I’ve heard the whole Moon Sea is relatively peaceful, without any major turmoil.’
’There are quite a few Cults, but they haven’t caused any major incidents.’
’And it seems there’s no shortage of those Cults anywhere in the world.’
’Even though I’m extremely reluctant to go to the Moon Sea... ’
’...I still have a feeling that it’s ultimately a better choice than Boundaryless Mountain. This is the feedback I’m getting from my Spirituality, from my premonitions.’
’It’s a Prophet’s instinct for Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Misfortune.’
’This feeling grows stronger the closer I get to the day of the teleportation.’
’But do I really have to choose one or the other?’
’Of all the times to finally figure out how these wishes work... If the Continent Teleportation Array were still completely random... ’
’...I could have wished to go to a safer place.’
’But now, if I make a wish like that, it’ll probably take ages to be fulfilled.’
Lu Cang thought for a moment.
In the end, he made the wish, ’I will be teleported to the Moon Sea by the Continent Teleportation Magic.’