Mage Manual

Chapter 1735: Chapter 1283: Dispute (Part 2)

"In the past, your style, Sword Maiden, was to cut through sun, moon, mountains, and seas alone, a thousand troops in one person, like a domineering and powerful general, preferring to crush enemies head-on," Weiser suddenly asked, "Why have you started studying these Assassin Techniques?"

Sonia was taken aback, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Actually, there’s another approach, which is to use pre-produced battle intent to launch a fierce bombardment at the start of the battle, constantly pressuring enemies to quickly enter a positive cycle of battle intent. This way, in just a few minutes, the Ancient Battlefield would generate overwhelming battle intent to crush enemies...but I still think that unexpected ambushes can yield greater results."

Weiser nodded, seemingly having asked just out of casual interest.

Today was divided into two phases: the first half spent solely on refining and developing techniques, the latter half for mutual discussion and questioning. This has always been their cultivation method. At the Demigod Rank, they all understood how fortunate it was to have teammates at the same level to communicate with, naturally seizing every opportunity to brainstorm and eagerly absorb each other’s knowledge.

During the exchange phase, Vishi suddenly brought up a matter:

"We need more Divine Beings."

Sonia and Diya blinked, nodding in agreement.

Although they possessed the World Secret Domain, Eternal Wonder, and several Wonders, few Demigods in history could compare to them, only those preparing to ascend to Divine Lord like Dazzling Star and others could rival them, yet each additional Divine Being significantly enhanced their strength—provided the Divine Being was suitable.

According to their estimates, each Divine Lord should have no fewer than ten Divine Beings. The All-knowing Weaver even released the ’Gospel Divine Beings’ on earth, indicating she had more comprehensive and advanced means than the Gospel Divine Beings, not minding the loss of one or two.

And to date, each of them has only summoned one Divine Being.

Even if other accumulations are not considered, just in terms of Divine Being numbers, the Divine Lords can crush them with overwhelming dominance.

"Summoning Divine Beings using Virtual Godhood Flow shouldn’t be too difficult; Silver Lamp can also help us construct Divine Status." Sonia had previously considered this issue: "But the problem is, where can we find Concepts? Without Concepts injecting into Divine Status, Divine Beings simply cannot emerge."

"Do you know why the Divine Lords want to rule over the earth?" Vishi leisurely asked.

"Does the earth produce Concepts?" Weiser immediately understood.

"Long ago, even before my era, there were Divine Beings walking on the earth, natural gods evolved from Concepts," the maid said with crossed legs, "Now, there are no more Concepts because they’ve been collected into the Heavenly Kingdom. Actually, not just earth, but the Void Realm should also produce Concepts, as Concepts emerge wherever there are many people, but who knows how the Divine Lords ensure stable Concept emergence within their domains..."

"The Time Continent!" Sonia and Diya exchanged glances and spoke in unison: "The Heroic Soul Army!"

"It seems you’ve got some leads, but the Time Continent is beyond our reach; we still have some ways to go on the earth," Vishi said, "We don’t know when or where Concepts will emerge, but we don’t need to. We can force people to produce the Concepts we desire directly."

"How do we do that?" Sonia asked, though she already had an idea.

"Soul Refining." Vishi uttered the words calmly, "For example, if we want a swordsmanship Concept, we create a Soul Refining arena, throw people in, give them swords, and tell them only one can leave alive...the souls of those who died in sword fights will convert into swordsmanship Concepts. If willing to be a bit more troublesome, we can even narrow the Concept range further, like for Heart Sword Concept, give everyone Heart Sword Technique Spirits, let them resonate for an hour, and under the threat of death combined with my soul Wonder, at least 80% will resonate with Technique Spirits, then put them into a deathmatch, likely converting into Heart Sword Concept."

"I came across this kind of Soul Refining in the Mage’s Handbook; only Demigod Mages can conduct large-scale population Soul Refining, but there can’t be Demigod Mages on earth," Vishi turned to gaze at the faintly visible highway on the horizon, "We’re both Demigod Mages, and there’s no shortage of people on the earth."

"No way!"

Diya suddenly stood up, her beautiful eyes wide, staring intensely at Vishi, shaking her head with determination, "I won’t agree to such cruel acts!"

"Oh, so that’s your character settings?" Vishi said calmly, "I thought you were more of the free-willed type. It doesn’t involve anyone you know; why do you care?"

"Because, because," the Witch blushed, "because Liss is a good child!"

Everyone was stunned, Diya bit her lower lip lightly, firmly declaring, "Liss is a good child, so her sisters must not be slaughtering fiends!"

"Such touching sisterly affection, then we can only give up such cruel means," the Elf maid sighed, "It’s not like going to die unprepared at Heaven could make you a bad sister, right?"

"Anyway, I won’t agree!" Diya got angry, her face flushed red, "We got this far without harming others!"

"Then propose a plan that doesn’t hurt others, I’m listening," Vishi tapped her temple, "Surely your ability matches your morality—or else it’s matched by your intelligence."

"I, I—"

Facing Vishi’s mocking gaze, the Witch’s face turned red, trembling with anger and clenching her fists.

At this point, Weiser suddenly asked, "Is that the only method, Vishi?"

Sonia also realized, "Transforming a Concept doesn’t have to involve death, does it? The Divine Lords gather Concepts without brutalizing the earth like that."

Vishi chuckled softly, "Do they really not? The bloodline prohibition law of Blood Moon, Gospel Book system of the Gospel, noble system of Dazzling Star...do you think these are merely social experiments by the Divine Lords? They’re just employing more advanced, hidden, and prolonged Soul Refining methods."

"However, there are indeed non-lethal ways. For instance, in an arena I proposed earlier, just require them to fight without deaths, and you can still convert the corresponding Concept."

Before Sonia and Diya could breathe a sigh of relief, Vishi added, "But this method takes an extremely long time, at least not one or two years...do we truly have such leisurely time for growth?"

Silence fell, Weiser glanced at Sonia, who took a deep breath and asked, "What if we use death row prisoners?"

"No restrictions on candidates, any race, gender, age is fine," Vishi replied, "Soul Faction is a highly equal Magic."

"We could request death row prisoners from the five countries; they wouldn’t refuse, as these people are doomed anyway, better to use them as stepping stones for us," Sonia looked at Diya, "What do you think, Witch?"

"Yeah," Felix, who hadn’t dared to speak so far, also said, "Blood Moonians themselves conduct Blood Moon Judgement with death row prisoners, turning the execution process into a rather entertaining variety show..."

Diya looked at everyone, reluctantly sat back down, and lowered her head, saying:

"...I have no objections."

"We should have done this earlier," Vishi examined her nails, speaking softly, "It’s strange we haven’t been Soul Refining all along."