Nothing is given out for free.
This was a statement that Corey and a lot of experienced people knew to be the truth, and was also like a Universal law.
Corey knew this.
A lot of people knew this.
However, despite knowing this supposed law, very few were suspicious about the appearance of the Universal System and the wishes they were granted for 'free'.
If one thought about it, since nothing was given out for free. How could actual powers, powers that had the potential to destroy a city, a world, and who knows, an entire universe.
How could such powers be given out for free?
How could billions of people in a world…
No!
Trillions of beings in a world be given the opportunity to make any wish they wanted without any cost?
Corey had to consider the possibility that even animals could have been given given the opprotunity to make a wish. Although, he had no idea how that was going to be possible.