Ch 3
The Power of the Wish
How it works
The entire sapient population of this world may make whatever Wish they desire, however you may pick and choose whichever Wish you want to grant. You may only grant (1) Wish per level in your Race.
[Wish: Legend] - The wish shall only be granted upon the Wisher completing a Legendary act. The Wish Dragon too benefits from this. Once the Wish is completed, you shall gain an achievement related to the Wish you have granted.
(ex- Wish: Fire immunity = Achievement: Advanced fire resistance)
Ah, this answers quite a few of my questions on how this works. Granting infinite Wishes did sound quite a bit broken. And now I also have an actual reason to grant Wishes beyond my own desire for adventure.
Replacing the explanation appeared a new screen, listing off people and their Wishes. I can even make notes on them or mark some to look at later.
Wisher
Status
Wish
Notes
Alistair Broadwing
Under review
A tomb of lost spells
Maybe later
Sandra Baldog
Under review
1000 cats
Environmentally unfriendly
Hylda Sciff
Under review
Limitless wealth
Lol no
Dusktin Drinn
Under review
A cool hat
Maybe
Yeriss Thread
Under review
For my husband to love me again
Oof, get out of there girl
Damia Scoll
Under review
For the Broadwing family to come to ruin
Oooo, a plotline
Lanester Verik
Under review
Armor, made of pure gold and shining as bright as the sun
Just a shit idea
Gertrude Dolling
Under review
A bag of infinite nicely shaped cucumbers
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
After looking through the initial Wishes I scrolled for a bit… I haven’t even been alive for a day, why are there so fuckin many already? Just how many people are willing to risk it all to become a Legend? Like, that’s not exactly a small thing, I doubt whatever the system declares a Legendary act is going to be easy.
I sigh, knowing exactly why I have so many requests. People are not good at thinking about consequences. Even if I grant their Wish chances are it’ll never come to fruition because they simply aren’t willing to go through with their end of the bargain.
I end up scrolling mindlessly for a bit, making the occasional comment, looking at many straight up baffling ideas. I do laugh occasionally, some of these people are exceptionally delusional, and others don’t have any actual intent on making a Wish and just make jokes, which I can appreciate.
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But I do eventually come across a Wish that I like. And it confuses me. It’s not a Wish that comes from a want of adventure or some perilous situation. It’s… I don’t know. But I feel something when I look at it. It’s just a simple Wish, and maybe that’s why. It’s not a desire for wealth or power or to look cool. It’s just something innocent. So Lillani Frivi…
Wisher
Status
Wish
Notes
Juan Scandi
Under review
A mansion filled with hot maids
I am not doing that to the maids
Lillani Frivi
Approved
A warm bath
Thyrik Loandor
Under review
The biggest deadliest sword ever
Boring
Horris Gentry
Under review
For me to inherit my family business
Ew, family politics
Your Wish is granted.
How Will This Wish be Granted?
Oh shit I actually have to come up with how it’s gonna happen. Figured the system would do that for me. I’m not complaining though, this gives me much more assurance that the wishes I grant won’t end badly.
I have to make sure they get the reward they asked for, but if I find loopholes? Hehe, beware! This law school dropout shall do unspeakable things! Not to Lillani tho, I like her. I do eventually come up with what I think is a pretty good reward worthy for any trials she goes through.
How Will This Wish be Granted?
The recipient may enter a small pocket dimension, which hosts a small well furnished shack and a hot spring. Resting in this hot spring rapidly heals whoever is in it and has purifying capabilities. These abilities do not extend outside of the pocket dimension. The recipient may bring whoever they wish into this pocket dimension with them, up to a maximum of 5 people. Anyone in the pocket dimension can leave as they please. Anything left in the pocket dimension will still be there when the recipient returns. The pocket dimension cannot be entered while in combat.
There. Took a bit more effort laying it out than I thought. Wanted to make sure she gets the best she can, but not something that’s completely broken. She gets a nice hideaway and the best damn warm bath ever. I think anyway, I have no idea what this world’s standard is for those. Still, a personal space that you can use as storage is great even barring the hot spring.
I hit enter and I can feel something pull from my chest, that little ball of adventure I made, and it goes just as quickly.
… And that’s it. No resounding trumpets or even a notification. A tad anticlimactic, but it’s probably for the best. I imagine any celebration would get stale after the 20th time. It’s probably a tad more exciting for her though. Imagining the look on her face makes me smile.
But I’ve goofed off too much. It’s time to learn how to use magic… and how to walk. I’m starting to feel vulnerable being this helpless. Which is probably something I should have started feeling sooner.
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Lillani shivered. The cave provided some shelter from the snowy storm outside, but nowhere near enough. Not if she didn’t want to freeze to death in her sleep. The scraps of clothes on her person provided no comfort, neither did the shackles around her arms and legs.
Lillani Frevi the Forest Nymph, taken from her home by raiders. Enslaved and dragged into their frozen hellscape of a home. As she was led to her new unfree life, a dragon attacked. Nothing like the majestic species of her home, with gleaming scales and majestic flight. Wise protectors, unlike the brute that had ‘freed’ her. It looked more like an oversized moose, rough patchy fur and antlers that smashed her captors and sent all of the caravan scattered to the wind.
So now instead of living a life of servitude, she will die free. She did not know whether to thank the beast or curse it. In the end, she decided that both in the same breath would be most fitting.
As she lay in that damp cave, knowing her end was coming, she could only fantasize of the hotsprings she and her sisters would sit in, carefree and joyous for all their lives. She only wished to go back to that spring, and take a nice warm bath.
Achievement: Wish
The Wish Dragon has answered you! You must perform a Legendary act in order bring this wish into fruition!
For having your Wish be answered, you gain 5 SP!
For being the first to have their Wish answered, you gain 10 SP!
Pending Reward
The recipient may enter a small pocket dimension, which hosts a small well furnished shack and a hot spring. Resting in this hotspring rapidly heals whoever is in it and has purifying capabilities. These abilities do not extend outside of the pocket dimension. The recipient may bring whoever they wish into this pocket dimension with them, up to a maximum of 5 people. Anyone in the pocket dimension can leave as they please. Anything left in the pocket dimension will still be there when the recipient returns. The pocket dimension cannot be entered while in combat.
Her shivering, her self pity, her pain, they all paused for a split second when she read that notification.
Of all the people, in all the countries, in all the continents… her wish was granted. One dumb dying wish for a bath, was granted.
Tears rolled down her face as she laughed. It was unhinged and full of sorrow and joy. That Wish means something now.
It means someone is rooting for her, that she’s no longer alone. Lillani doesn’t know if her wish was granted because of the dragon’s pity for her or if it’s just a whim, but she’ll take it all the same. It believes she’ll live, and that she’ll do even more.
It believes she won’t die here. And It’s right, she won’t.
Lillani felt something within her. It was hot, and it flowed through her. She felt it flow through her chest before stopping. She wouldn’t let it stop though. So she pushed, she pushed with everything she had left to give. And the dam broke.
She didn’t feel cold anymore. That hot liquid energy running through her body didn’t just keep her from freezing, but it made her more warm than she could ever remember feeling.
Essence Unlocked
Resolve
Resolve
Resolve Essence rewards the unbreakable. Actions that involve resisting reduce the stress on you and make defensive skills more potent.
Lillani would survive. And she would make damn sure to take that bath.