Mage Manual-Chapter 587 - 476: The Cursed Seven-colored Tail Feather

"Say, when the following conditions are met, I am willing to transfer the Divine Lord’s wish to Hanna Doran."

In the hotel room, Igula had spent nearly half an hour reading through the new Contract, which was a thousand clauses long. He looked deeply at Hanna, pressed his finger to the Contract, and said, "When the following conditions are met, I am willing to transfer the Divine Lord’s wish to Hanna Doran."

Hanna turned to Harvey, "Say, when the following conditions are met, I am willing to transfer the Divine Lord’s wish to Hanna Doran."

Harvey seemed to not care at all, he didn’t even glance at the content on the paper, and directly pressed his finger onto it, uttering the same vow.

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

Ash was somewhat surprised, "I have to do it too?"

"It’s just along the way, and since they’ve signed, I’m afraid they’ll ostracize you if you don’t," she replied.

"You care about my relationship with my colleagues now? When you were feeding me just earlier..."

"It’s all formalities anyway, can you just give me some sense of security?" Hanna tugged at his sleeve as if she was coquettish, "But I don’t have any more Contract papers, so just repeat after me: No matter what the circumstance..."

Ash: "No matter what the circumstance..."

Hanna: "I am willing to offer the Divine Lord’s wish to Hanna Doran..."

Ash: "I am willing to offer the Divine Lord’s wish to Hanna Doran..."

Hanna: "And to always adore her, respect her, and cherish her."

Ash: "And to always adore her—"

"There’s a problem here, a problem!" Liss immediately interrupted the casting and said angrily, "Aunt Hanna, you’re actually smuggling in private goods!"

Igula also had a deadpan expression: "Interfering with free will and extending the Contract time, both of these severely violate our original Contract, don’t they?"

"Tch," Hanna touched her earring, "It was just a joke, it wouldn’t take effect even if Ash agreed."

After returning from reading the "Villain List," the first thing Hanna did was to further strengthen her Contract with her employees.

Hanna was no longer the Resonator with the highest authority in the Weaving Festival—in fact, she should still have been the highest authority, but her first place on the Villain List was invalidated by "Gospel Ash." If the assassination of the Princess was successful, Igula and Harvey would be more entitled than her to claim the Divine Lord’s wish.

To ensure that Igula and Harvey would transfer their wish to her after attaining it, she had to deepen the clauses of the Contract. Although in normal circumstances, as long as Hanna gave the order in advance, both would obediently give up their wishes, the Divine Lord’s wish was obviously not a normal circumstance.

No one knows exactly how the action of ’making a wish’ is performed, whether the All-knowing Weaver directly looks into the deepest desires of your heart, or if the wish-maker is pulled into a special space to be asked, or perhaps a piece of paper appears before the wish-maker, allowing them to write their wish... There were too many possibilities.

Not to mention the possibility of Igula and Harvey wishing away their Contract, Hanna was more worried that the All-knowing Weaver would shield them from the influence of the Contract, granting them full autonomy in making a wish—this would be a trivial matter for the Divine Lord, perhaps just a thought away from being a Miracle, but for Hanna, it would be a disaster negating all her efforts.

Hanna would never expect Igula or Harvey to make the wish on her behalf, not even crossing her mind. It wouldn’t even be ’testing humanity’ anymore, but ’testing IQ’—hers, in particular.

Frankly, even when she and Ash were exchanging bodily fluids in the heat of last night, Hanna had not for one second considered trusting Ash in this matter.

The final step of the blasphemous gospel had to be undertaken by her, and could not be entrusted to anyone else.

For this, she needed Igula and others to sign an additional Contract.

However, ’multiple Contracts’ is a big taboo, and Igula, being a Swindler, naturally thought of this early on. When signing the "original Contract," he had spotted many pitfalls left by Hanna in the Contract, and if Hanna was in a good mood, she might play the role of the family boss with them, but if she was not, she could force Ash to lick her toes at any time.

Even though Igula passionately argued and got a number of clauses eliminated, Hanna still retained many powers, such as the current "Deepening of Contract Terms."

Simply put, within the framework allowed by the original Contract, Hanna could sign additional contracts with them to define certain behaviors in more detail, like "Under such and such conditions, I must do a certain thing."

The "Deepening of Contract Terms" also had its limitations. For example, the new version of the Contract couldn’t extend beyond the original Contract; otherwise, if Hanna renewed their slave Contract every three months indefinitely, they might as well all change their surname to Doran.

Moreover, it couldn’t affect personal will. Otherwise, if Hanna ordered them to "serve Doran wholeheartedly," even after the Contract ended, they would probably still be willing to work for Hanna for free.

Of course, contracts aren’t omnipotent. It’s not just that someone like Igula, a Spirit Mage, might slightly resist Hanna’s enslavement; Ash could do the same. Hanna couldn’t force them to do something they absolutely didn’t want to do.

But now that Igula and Harvey had signed a more detailed Level 2 Contract, even if they were reluctant at heart, the moment any one of the nearly thousand "preconditions" in the Level 2 Contract was triggered, they would immediately speak their oath.

If even this couldn’t wrest the Divine Lord’s wish from their hands, then Hanna would have to admit defeat.

"What would happen if my oath just now really took effect?" Ash was now curious. "Would it directly affect my will?"

"The Contract isn’t a Spirit Miracle; it doesn’t have such an immediate effect," Hanna replied. "It would constantly give you Mind Suggestions, causing you to focus your attention more on me. Just looking at me, paying attention to me, even if you don’t see me, you’ll find ways to think of me in your mind..."

"That sounds somewhat similar to listening to the Gospel to find a companion," Ash said. "It doesn’t give you any other choice, so you can only love one person for life."

Hanna paused, then after a moment of silence, said, "I’m sorry, that joke was a bit too much."

"It’s fine." Ash looked towards Harvey and Igula. "Speaking of which, what’s the effect of the reward on your list this time? The cursed Seven-colored Tail Feather, is it really..."

"Yes, it’s the Heavenly Carriage Bull’s Seven-colored Tail."

At this, Igula’s expression became complicated. "But rather than calling it a reward, it’s more like a trap. It feels like..."

"It feels like the Gospel is asking us to pay protection money, but among the money there’s counterfeit currency," the Necromancer said, his voice full of sarcasm.

’Cursed Ghost King/Rusted Crow’s Seven-colored Tail Feather: Can only be used within the Time Continent, only by the one person, upon use the Golden Wings are fully formed, and one ascends directly to the third layer of the Void Realm. At the same time, the magic power channel between the Mage and the fourth layer of the Void Realm is permanently closed.’

So powerful!

Ash thought that the "Rusted Crow’s Golden Feathers" were outrageous enough to grant ordinary people a Golden Level faction realm, and then all one had to do was methodically travel the Void Realm to ascend. However, the Seven-colored Tail Feather was even more preposterous—it directly fed you Golden Technique Power and took you up to the third layer of the Void Realm! Kindergarten service wasn’t this considerate!

If the Golden Feather meant winning at the starting line, the Seven-colored Tail Feather was like placing the finish line right at the starting line; you just had to take one step (use this item) to become a Holy Sanctuary Mage!

"But what does ’permanently closing the magic power channel between the Mage and the fourth layer of the Void Realm’ mean?" Ash was still puzzled.

"Literal meaning," Banjee said. "When we consume magic power in our daily lives, it soon recovers on its own. Where does this magic power come from? The air doesn’t contain magic power, and Mages can only provide knowledge as a raw material for magic power; they cannot generate it directly."

"Even though we have not directly entered the Void Realm, we have always been connected to it. Normally, when we use up magic power, the Void Wings will automatically draw magic power from the Void Realm to replenish it. That’s the magic power channel."

"What’s the use of closing the channel to the fourth layer of the Void Realm?" Ash was still confused. "Even if they use the Seven-colored Tail Feather, they would only be Holy Sanctuary Mages at the third layer of the Void Realm; they couldn’t absorb power from the fourth layer anyway."

"If you want to break through to a higher faction realm and summon higher-level Technique Spirits in the higher layers of the Void Realm, you have to communicate with magic power from an even higher layer of the Void Realm," Igula said calmly. "In simple terms, when I wish to ascend to the fourth layer of the Void Realm in the future, I need to connect with the magic power of the fourth layer to summon a Four-winged Technique Spirit—because the fourth wing of the Four-winged Technique Spirit is made of the Colorless Magic Power of the fourth layer."

Ash immediately understood. "So, if you use this reward, wouldn’t you completely cut off your hopes of becoming a Legendary Mage?"

"That’s why it’s the cursed Seven-colored Tail Feather," Igula said with a cold laugh. "It’s just that the Gospel really overestimates us, deeming the ’Holy Domain’ bait precious enough only to cut off our potential to achieve legend... Now even I’m very curious about how much trouble I will cause the Gospel in the future that it is so vigilant against me."

Ash spoke earnestly, "But if that’s the case, you really shouldn’t use it. Even the Gospel is sure and even fears your potential; becoming a Holy Sanctuary Mage is just a matter of time for you—there’s no need to rush."

"I’ve already used it."

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