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There is a common saying among the people of the Gloria Empire.
"Even a starving earth rhinoceros is bigger than the strongest wild horse—"
Although the Olivendi Family was nearly extinguished, the remaining foundation was still enough to support young Anvis in accomplishing many things.
It was a crystal shaped like a sphere, about the size of an apple, with both ends slightly flattened.
Similar to the model of Earth that Anvis had seen before.
It possessed a very strange property, appearing semi-translucent, with a color that constantly shifted, and a core that glowed intermittently.
Magic Spectrum detection indicated that it did not belong to any known material.
Its name was a singular Guzman phonetic syllable: [yīn].
Every thousand years, the radiance within the crystal would reach its peak. At that time, it would become an unparalleled medium for wish magic.
Using it required no ritual, and had no restrictions. Even a common person could hold it and speak a wish, and it would directly be fulfilled.
Crucially, the degree of wish distortion when using [yīn] was nearly negligible!
For instance, suppose a spellcaster wished to elevate their rank.
Typical wish magic had an eighty percent chance to fail, and a twenty percent chance to fulfill a distorted wish.
The outcome was usually catastrophic, possibly connecting them to a massive energy source, like the Magic Energy Pool of a Mage Tower.
At this point, the fate of the caster would be obvious.
But if this wish magic was activated through [yīn], the energy within the crystal would instantly transform them, providing all the power needed in the process.
Of course, if the wisher was too greedy and wished to ascend several great realms at once, resulting in being obliterated by uncontrollable enormous magic power, that would not be [yīn]'s responsibility.
The family used it twice, each time leaving detailed records.
Its first owner was Audric, a Magician at the Ninth Rank Peak. After acquiring [yīn], he spent a year studying it, roughly determining the properties of the crystal.
It was a wish-power conglomerate he had never seen before!
Although one could directly wish, the best way to maximize the crystal's power was to use it in conjunction with a proper wish magic ritual.
Thus, Audric set up the highest-standard wish magic ritual with [yīn] as the core.
His wish was simple:
To ascend to Legendary—
After making the wish, the entire ritual array emitted a dazzling radiance, and enormously mysterious power enveloped him.
Observers could clearly feel the pressure emanating from him, which had been stuck at the Ninth Rank Limit for years, begin to rise again, becoming immensely profound and terrifying.
When this power reached its peak, Audric's body suddenly exploded with endless light, transforming instantly into a sun!
In the next instant, the light vanished, leaving observers, the array, and [yīn] intact, but Audric himself disappeared without a trace.
No one could perceive where he went; there were no spatial fluctuations, and the Bloodline Crystal Ball left in the family turned an unusual gray.
The family could only vaguely sense through deep bloodline perceptions that he was still alive.
A thousand years after Audric's disappearance, the radiance of the crystal once again overflowed.
This time, the user was Lois, the current head of the Olivendi Family, and in terms of lineage, he was Audric's grandson.
Considering Audric's previous fate, he did not directly wish for an elevation in his own or others' realms but instead attempted to wish for Audric's return.
However, this wish failed to activate, as both the ritual array and the crystal remained unresponsive.
From the results above, Lois concluded two points:
First: [yīn] is a mysterious object capable of fulfilling Legendary Rank wishes.
Second: [yīn] is not truly omnipotent, as at least bringing Audric back was beyond its capabilities.
With some secret information the family gathered over the millennium, Lois formed a vague hypothesis.
He began to wish again, and this time, his wish was:
To reach the Ninth Rank Limit!
The crystal emitted the same light as when Audric made his wish, wrapping around Lois like ribbons.
When his power reached the Ninth Rank Limit level, the light dissipated once more.
Lois struggled to control the sudden surge of power— the wish was fulfilled, and he did not vanish.
Half a month later, after gaining full control of his power, Lois left behind the usage rules for [yīn]:
1. Do not wish beyond ranks much higher than your own.
2. Do not wish for more than a Legendary wish.
3. Refer to Boerziman's "Wish Rules".
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In fact, the reason the family left [yīn] to young Anvis was precisely in the hopes that when he reached the Ninth Rank, he could use wish magic to elevate his power to the Ninth Rank Limit, thereby leading the family to rise again.
During his time hiding his identity, the radiance of [yīn] had once again recharged.
He originally planned to increase his power as planned, but Fiona's reappearance changed his decision.
Not to mention that he could not reach the Ninth Rank in the short term; even if he became the Ninth Rank Limit, it would make no difference to the current situation.
The enemy had already proven that they could not be countered by merely one or two Ninth Rank Limits.
Rather than using it himself, it would be better to use [yīn] in a more critical area.
After much deliberation, he made a decision so bold it could be called madness: to use ambiguous wishing.
In the book "Wish Rules" by Boerziman Fenirz, the Ninth Rank Mysterious Sorcerer "Star's Wish", ambiguous wishing was ranked as the number one wrong way to wish.
Over ninety percent of wishing magic accidents were due to the caster not articulating their wishes clearly enough.
But Boerziman also admitted that the more precise the wish, the more power it required, and the higher the probability of failure.
Precise wishing required more power to maintain this precision.
Each specific limitation added would double the cost of the wish.
Young Anvis had studied this book meticulously, well aware of the pitfalls of ambiguous wishing.
But unable to change any circumstances, he placed all hope in wish magic and the slim chance of destiny in his desperate state.
His final wish was simple: to restore the glory of the Olivendi Family.
A textbook example of the wrong way to wish, but also the method to maximally harness the power of wish magic.
He succeeded, but the price was everything, including his soul...
The wish magic created a true miracle, as a soul from a distant otherworld traversed time and space, arriving at the critical moment before the downfall of the Olivendi Family, inheriting all the memories of young Anvis from his past life.
As an integral part of this miracle, Anvis, inexplicably brought over, now had to focus all his attention on carefully thinking of a solution.
Otherwise, the fate of young Anvis in his past life would be the outcome he was destined to face.
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