2 Chapter 02: The Lady of the Wishes

When I open my eyes, I see a sky, a starry sky. It's just like those pictures of a clear night sky you find in documentaries, but this is much grander. It is not just ten thousand, but a hundred of thousands of stars that spread beyond the infinite horizon.

The ground I'm standing on is also something. Like a perfect mirror, it reflects me and the sky above flawlessly, making me feel like I'm floating in space though I'm standing. And every step I take creates ripples similar to when you throw a pebble into the water. Then I see ripples. However, they move toward me.

"My my, what do we have here~."

Following the ripples is a woman's voice, speaking in a playful manner.

"Wh-who are you!?" I panicked as the voice suddenly came out of nowhere and look toward the source of it.

What I see is a tall woman with long, straight, black hime cut hair that reaches her knees with a thick incline bang like a guillotine's blade. She is wearing a fancy dark violet dress that matches her starry violet eyes. Yes, starry just like the sky above.

I step back as she approaches me. The woman then answers me with a bright smile.

"Fear not, boy. I'm Veliestla, the origin of the wishes. You can just call me Vela though, hehe."

The origin of the wished? What does that even supposed to mean? Am I seeing a hallucination?

"You seem to have a lot of questions in your mind hmm? But don't be worried as I, the Great Vela, will answer them all." She spoke while acting like she was performing in a stage show.

"Then I shall first explain about my alias as you are curious earlier, but it would be more comfortable if we sit, would it not?" As if she could read my mind Vela said as she waved her hand. After that two bean bag chairs appear: one behind her and the other behind me. Both of them are violet.

Vela then drop her body onto the chair. While I'm slowly descending she says, "Our kin is an existence created from abstract concepts."

"Love, hate, curiosity...name it, and I came from the desire though I prefer the word wish."

"So there are more of your kind?"

"Correct, and now I even sense some of them nearby. Three, in fact, but I don't know who is who. I wouldn't waste the time explaining as it is just a technical issue that won't do you any good."

Could it be that the other three people before are experiencing this too? I will have to take that into my account.

"Moving to the second and third questions, the answer of them will be: no, you are not hallucinating and yes, I can read your mind to a certain extend." She answered with a straight face.

"Now we are inside your dream and I already have a peek at your memory. It seems like you are not an original resident of this world."

What? Does that mean I got transported to another world just like the overly used tropes in fantasy stories from a couple of years ago?

"So, to make sure you won't die so easily; it's my duty to help you." After she finished the sentence, a rod with sharp ends just like a javelin appears in her hand.

"Now, imagine that you are holding this thing."

I picture myself holding that rod that is emitting a radiant violet light. After a few seconds, the rod then translocated from Vela's hand to my hand."

"Yep, just like that. You can do this in the real world with absolutely no limitation. Whether you throw it away in a bottomless pit or you somehow break it, just do what you did and that thing will come back to you in its perfect condition. And if you don't need it at the moment, you can just banish it."

No shit! This seems like an absurd skill to have. A weapon that can use anytime I desire will definitely help me a lot.

Looking at my astonished face, Vela grins and says, "Glad you like it, but that one is just an appetizer. I shall now bring out the main course." A tablet computer appears in front of me after she finished speaking.

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🌸All You Can Wish!🌸

Only by following these simple steps!

1. Think of the wish you want to make.

2. Clearly state your target individual.

3. State the time you demand the wish to last.

4. Don't forget to add 'please'. 😊

Example: May the great and beautiful Veliestla grant me an unfathomable strength for 5 minutes, please.

This one may also work: Unfathomable strength. Me. 5 minutes. Please.

This is a list of all the wishes you can make when you go back to reality.

1. Unfathomable strength- increase ones' strength by two-fold (Resulting in a sudden increase of muscle mass and muscle quality causing an immense pain throughout the receivers' body)

2. Unmatched speed- increase ones' speed by two-fold.

3. Healing factors- significantly increase ones' regeneration ability (Mana included)

4. Limitless stamina- completely negates tiredness. (Strain will still accumulate in receivers' organs.)

5. Perfect pain killer- completely negates pain.

6. Laser focus- significantly increases receivers' thought process, and nerve and neuron's impulses. Making him think a lot faster and a lot more sensitive to stimuli.

7. Effective magic- receivers' magical output will increase two-fold.

Overall time limit- 3,600 seconds

*Time limit reset when entering a new day. (00:00)

Available target- 1

*Wishes with a different name stacks with each other.

*User has to repeat the process when they want to stack their wishes.

*If the user was to wish for a time that exceeds the overall time limit, the remaining time will be granted for that wish.

The more you use these wishes, the greater our bond increases.💖

More features will be unlocked as the user reaches a certain milestone.

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I blink after I scrolled and read the whole thing. Dumbfounded.

"Does this fit your liking?" Said Vela with a proud smile.

Just like in video games and system genre novels, this appears to be my own kind of system. Though there are a lot of conditions, it should have high potential if used correctly.

While I'm thinking about how to use these abilities, a sudden thought comes to my mind.

"...Does the ability to communicate also your doing?" I asked.

"Uhuh, though any individual that happens to synchronize with our kin is granted with the same skill."

"Because we were born from abstract concepts rooted from the origin of the universe that we are able to express and receive the will of any message directly."

Even I don't understand the reason behind it but at least knowing of whose responsibility it satisfies me.

Without any more questions at the moment, I lean back and look up at the starry sky. Not so long after letting my mind free from thought, Vela says, "If there is nothing else, do you want to go back to sleep now?"

I quietly nod.

"Well then, lets us end this dream right here." She said as she stands up. And then the bean bag chairs disappear resulting in the fall of my body, though I don't feel any pain from that.

"Try not to die so soon~."

Vela speaks playfully while my eyes are shutting down.

Not knowing how long I started dreaming, I woke up. Because the windows are all closed, I don't know what time it is. The time from my watch shouldn't be accurate either as I don't know if the time from Earth and this world is the same or not.

I think about the dream last night to kill the time. Even the dream felt very surreal, it felt so real at the same time.

Realizing something, I stretch my right arm out, imagine the image of the violet rod that was vividly engraved in my brain.

As I just start imagining, the rod appears in my hand. The violet light from the rod bright up a small area.

"So the dream was real." I muttered while looking at the 1 meter-long rod. After that, I try to imagine that it is gone and half a second later, it vanished -- leaving a speck of glowing violet dust that soon disappears too.

After a short while, I hear chirping sounds. It must be morning now, so I decide to get up, carry my bag, and go outside.

The darkness has yet to be gone completely, but I can see sun rays shining from the left. On the left side, there is a stone well and I see a small wooden structure on the right. I go out of the cottage to check it and, as I expected, it appears to be some kind of toilet.

It is the first time I get to see the whole cottage. It's is a single-floor cottage built with light brown wood with a hay roof.

While I'm enjoying the morning view...

CRASH!!!

There is a series of crashing sounds from the direction of the cottage with a quake occurring simultaneously. After a short while, Mr. Wyatt and Mr. Denis, Denis McCallen, panicky run out of the cottage.

"An earthquake!?" Said Mr. Denis. Though I don't remember that the weather last night was hot by any means, Mr. Denis's shirt is soaked in sweat. Maybe because he had some kind of nightmare. However, what I'm seeing right now is something more important and horrifying.

"H-holy shit!" Mr.Denis exclaimed.

A sight we are seeing now is a spiky wall of ice twice as high as the cottage. And it seems that it was originated from the room in the cottage where the high school girl, whose name is Yukari Fujiwara, was last night.

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