Foundational Identification Matrix

• Registry Identification Name: The Codex of Resonant Devotion № 741-B
• Primary Structural Classification: Unique Reference Inscription
• Target Activation Tier: Tier One (Unpossessed or Possessed baseline vessels)
• Core Metaphysical Inscription Theme: Admiration (Intense emotional and spiritual alignment directed toward external entities)

Lore and Historical Lineage

The creation of the Codex of Resonant Devotion № 741-B dates back to the early centuries of the Current Age of Heroes, shortly after the world-soul Gaialilith stabilized the initial waves of reincarnated souls. During this era of rapid societal blending, an Isekai scholar from an unrecorded mechanical plane became fascinated by the biological and magical awakening that occurs when feral beasts evolve into sentient minds. This scholar observed that raw, unadulterated admiration directed from a lesser creature toward a powerful entity could act as a secondary, non-viral catalyst for the weave of magic.

Seeking to codify this phenomenon, the scholar spent three decades tracking migratory griffon packs and early multi-avatar gestalts, recording the exact cognitive patterns that manifested when a vessel experienced pure reverence for its master or sovereign. The resulting text was designed as a manual for Tier One avatars to safely comprehend the staggering scale of the world’s hidden entities without triggering mental collapse or divine intervention. Over the centuries, copies were meticulously duplicated by hand, though copy № 741-B is noted for its pristine, unaltered margins, having been sealed away during the naval wars between the 73 island nations five hundred years ago.

Environment of Discovery

The Codex of Resonant Devotion № 741-B resides within the following parameters:

• Geographical Coordination: Located on a remote, uncharted minor island sitting approximately 45 miles off the coast of the primary seat of government for a major island country.
• Structural Subsite: Deep within an abandoned, moss-blanketed coastal watchtower. The structure functions mechanically as an Unsafe Area, meaning any exploring avatar’s cumulative baseline Armor Check is instantly cut in half (21​) while navigating the interior due to unstable masonry and local predatory fauna.
• Immediate Placement Matrix: The book is sealed within a reinforced, water-locked iron chest hidden beneath a rotating floor gear in the watchtower’s sub-basement power transmission room. The gear network once routed rotational energy via heavy chains and pulleys to a rooftop signaling beacon driven by a localized elemental water-fire steam engine, which has long since rusted into immobility.

Physical Appearance and Structural Composition

• Binding Medium: Constructed from thick, overlapping scales harvested from an early generation of evolved marine reptiles. The scales are cured to a deep indigo hue that shifts slightly to violet when exposed to ultraviolet light.
• Dimensions and Weight: Measures exactly 9 inches in width, 12 inches in height, and 2.5 inches in thickness. It possesses a standard physical weight of 4.5 pounds when carried in a mundane container.
• Page Leaf Composition: The interior pages are crafted from dense, fibrous papyrus pressed from enchanted coastal reeds. The ink utilized is an alchemical formulation incorporating crushed Tier 1 magic crystals, causing the text to emit a soft, permanent violet luminescence that is visible across all standard sight types.
• Dimensional Storage Interaction: When transitioned into a Personal Extradimensional Pouch or Extradimensional Backpack, the text loses all physical weight. While enclosed within such storage, its active properties, passive tracking functions, and emotional enhancements are completely suppressed and non-functional, automatically breaking any short-term attunement states.

Structural Tag Registry

The terminal pages of the text feature deep-set, stamped inscriptions proudly added by the artisan and subsequent historical curators:

• Originally fabricated by: H. Vance,
Technomancer of the Iron Weave
• Modified and compiled by: Grand
Archivist Malakor of the Central Guild
• Verified Authenticity Stamp: Currency
Ledger Vault 14, World Bank Approved Reference
• Deed Log: Carried through the
Labyrinthine Griffon Races of Helmus 342a

Tags:

Authored by: Scribe Eldon of Selnus, Restructured by: Mechanist Thorne, Property of the Central Court Guild, Exhumed from the Sunken Crypt of Sharus, Sanctioned by the Royal Board of Assessors, Transcribed during the Dimming Week Eclipses, Cataloged in the Vaults of Tyrus, Forged
by: Artisan Vesper, Replicated by:
Master Copyist Joren, Commissioned by
the Sovereign Court of Helmus, Recovered
from the Lathandus Ruin Site, Hand-bound
by: Leatherworker Kaelen, Inscribed with
the True Name of Aethelgard, Approved
for Mercantile Trade via World Bank, Sash-rig
certified by: Tailor Guild 12, Preserved
through the Great Void Storm of 8422a, Emblazoned
with the Crest of the 73 Island Alliance, Annotated
by: Alchemist Valerius, Salvaged from
the Iron Zeppelin Crash of 8991a, Authenticated
under the Law of Balance, Registered
Asset of the Third District Diplomatic Corps

Systemic Benefits and Positive Attributes

An avatar who discovers, holds, and actively reviews the Codex of Resonant Devotion № 741-B unlocks the following mechanical and narrative advantages:

• Basic Mind’s Eye Insights: Passive examination automatically reveals the true species, text translation, and general structural components of the manual in the examiner’s primary language. Spending an action to engage in Active Activation (Identify) reveals the deeper properties listed below.
• Admiration Favor Multiplication: While the item is held or openly displayed on an avatar’s slot matrix, the bearer gains an advantage on saving throws and skill checks involving social diplomacy with high-tier NPCs, guild masters, and local mayors. This represents the text’s hidden instructions on channeling respectful reverence to disarm hostile or untrusting authorities.
• Temporary Skill Augmentation: Reading a complete chapter grants the character 1 temporary skill point in diplomacy or historical lore. This point counts toward the character’s temporary skill ceiling, which is strictly capped at 5+Tier Level.
• Renown Translation Bonus: Any quest completed while implementing the behavioral methodologies inscribed within this reference manual rewards the party with a flat 10% bonus to their earned Renown Points, accelerating their ability to unlock restricted regional opportunities.

Systemic Detriments and Negative Constraints

Wielding or misusing the book triggers severe mechanical penalties and hazards enforced by the world’s physics:

• The Exposure Trauma Hazard: The Codex of Resonant Devotion № 741-B is strictly registered as a Tier One item. If an unawakened, non-magical child avatar (one who has not reached the biological milestone of sexual reproduction) touches or handles the book, it triggers no effects, as they possess zero internal magic. However, if a higher-tier entity attempts to forcefully attune to it, the discrepancy triggers intense neural shock.
• Trauma Loop Calculation: The temporal frequency and damage toll of this trauma require rolling two independent d4 dice. The highest face value establishes the interval in minutes before the shock strikes again, while the lower die dictates the exact number of hit points instantly stripped from the avatar’s pool.
• The Overwhelming Devotion Debuff: If an avatar utilizes the book’s active activation features more than three times within a single session, their mind becomes overwhelmed by the recorded thoughts of collective reverence. This triggers a short-term debuff that cuts their peripheral perception in half for one hour, leaving the vessel with a dull, throbbing headache.
• Targeted Item Vulnerability: Because the scale-bound cover is highly reflective, it acts as a clear visual marker in combat. An adversary can declare a precise strike against the book. The item’s AC becomes the avatar’s current AC plus their tier level plus the roll of their tier die. If struck, the item is instantly unattuned and deactivated, dropping to the floor. It cannot be utilized again until it undergoes a full 10-minute ritual attunement.

Operational Reference Inscriptions

The text contains detailed chapters mapping the hierarchical layout of Saṃsāra’s society, explicitly listing the structural pathways for lesser entities to show proper cultural deference to ruling bodies. It charts the lines of succession for the constitutional monarchies, the historical fifty-year service records required to achieve the rank of Guild Master, and the exact protocols for requesting an audience with an Honorary Consul or a Consul General within port cities.

Furthermore, the manual outlines how the clean water-fire steam networks drive massive manufacturing plants across the 73 island nations, offering technical diagrams of mechanical power systems. These entries emphasize how an artisan should feel profound admiration for the divine harmony of the elemental forces balanced under the sovereign matriarch Gaialilith, serving as an educational resource for any newly possessed Tier One avatar struggling against the cognitive blocks of Transient Global Amnesia.

Acquisition and Global Trade Networks

Vectors of Acquisition

An adventuring party or an individual Tier 1 avatar can secure the Codex of Resonant Devotion № 741-B through three primary vectors of acquisition within the world:

• Hostile Sector Retrieval: Exploring dangerous frontiers, abandoned coastal fortifications, or ancient ruined redoubts. Because the item frequently resides within structures classified as Unsafe Areas or Deathly Areas, extracting the chest requires navigating environments where defensive armor check capabilities are severely degraded or entirely nullified.
• Contracted Quest Rewards: Fulfilling high-priority writs issued by municipal city mayors, independent merchant factions, or ranking guild masters. These elite organizations occasionally award historical reference texts from their private archives to parties who have accumulated sufficient Renown Points.
• Direct Vessel Possession: Inheriting the item immediately upon the successful soul possession of a native Tier 1 avatar vessel. If the target vessel was carrying or housing the text at the absolute moment the Isekai soul assumed cognitive control, the book materializes alongside the baseline contents of the starting avatar kit.

Commerce, Valuation, and Transaction Logistics

Because there is no universal economic baseline established across the 73 island continents, the market value of the codex is entirely fluid and governed by localized access, regional resource scarcity, and the principles of a sellers’ market.

• The Retail Landscape: Standard commercial storefronts do not maintain inventories of rare text editions. Transactions occur exclusively through specialized antiquarian vendors located within metropolitan skyscraper cities, or through private negotiations hosted inside the secure, walled perimeters of Central City guild halls.
• The Transacting Environment: Due to the absolute divine restriction banning computers, internet systems, and online networks, all financial exchanges are executed purely in person. Merchants and buyers manually inspect the physical scale-bound cover and leaf composition using True Sight to verify the genuine ultraviolet radiance of the crystal-infused ink, ensuring the text has not been falsified or shielded to hide its properties.
• The Liquidation Process: Avatars looking to convert the item into liquid capital must navigate the physical weight constraints of precious metals. Transactions are typically finalized at a local physical branch of the World Bank. The buyer’s metal coins—ranging from silver and gold up to elite platinum or rhodium denominations depending on the agreed-upon price—are brought to the branch counter where a flat 1% transaction fee is assessed by the bank tellers under the God of Commerce. To avoid becoming a target for regional thieves, the purchasing avatar will immediately transfer the currency into Extradimensional Storage, where the coins instantly lose all physical weight. NPCs or uninterested vendors retain the absolute right to refuse the transaction if their localized cash reserves are insufficient or if they do not deal in high-magic artifacts.

Environmental Deployment and End Results

The operational deployment of the codex occurs within specific structural and social environments, yielding distinct practical results for the wielder:

• Municipal and Diplomatic Environments: The book is actively utilized inside administrative royal courts, state city halls, and foreign seaports. By studying the detailed lineage records and instructional methodologies regarding the manifestation of intense admiration, a Tier 1 avatar can successfully navigate the rigid hierarchies of the constitutional monarchies. Wielding this knowledge allows the avatar to project an aura of profound reverence during diplomatic audiences, resulting in preferred treatment, lowered tax assessments from regional assessors, and a distinct advantage when negotiating with city mayors or honorary consuls.
• Industrial and Technomantic Sectors: The end results are applied inside automated manufacturing plants and steam-driven engineering facilities. Aspiring artisans and technomancers use the book’s complex structural diagrams to align their minds with the mechanical power transmission setups. By cultivating a deep, focused admiration for the elemental water-fire steam interactions balanced under the matriarch Gaialilith, workers accelerate their vocational skill training during downtime sessions, safely expanding their permanent training points up to the strict baseline cap of 5+Tier Level without triggering neurological overwhelm.
• Academic Research Libraries: The text is deployed within localized public archives and secure institutional storehouses. When an avatar recalls the quantitative values or qualitative descriptions committed to their Mind’s Eye memory layout, they gain an innate cognitive sense of whether a regional library contains deeper corresponding data. This focused alignment provides a major bonus on research checks when deciphering ancient regional riddles, uncovering forgotten operational blueprints, or tracking down the absolute true names of powerful entities across the moon.

Comprehensive Fabrication Blueprint: Replicating Codex № 741-B

Requisite Raw Component Materials

To successfully forge a detailed replication of the item matrix, an artisan must acquire and prepare the following precise material ingredients:

• 35 Premium Aquatic Reptile Scales: Must be harvested from adult sentient or feral marine organisms. The scales require an alchemical curing bath lasting three full diurnal cycles to permanently transition their pigmentation to a deep indigo and violet spectrum.
• 1 Tier 1 Magic Crystal (Unbroken Catalyst): Serves as the central arcane battery and focal catalyst for the replication process. The crystal must possess the exact weight and physical dimension of a standard minted coin.
• 48 Refined Papyrus Leaf Segments: Harvested directly from enchanted coastal reed structures. The leaves must be pressed, dried, and cut to uniform 9×12 inch dimensional perimeters using precise physical shears.
• 2 Fluid Ounces of Volatile Luminescent Ink: Formulated by pulverizing raw Tier 1 crystal shards and blending the residual powder with organic plant binders. The compound must naturally radiate an ultraviolet hue under True Sight verification.
• 2 Reinforced Iron Clasp Fixtures: Cast from mundane ore to create the external locking mechanisms, ensuring the finished papyrus leaves remain secured under tension.

Mechanical and Vocational Tools Required

The assembly of the physical chassis and the stabilization of the internal magic circuits require access to the following operational toolsets:

• 1 Hand-Operated Mechanical Binding Press: Utilizing a heavy threaded shaft, gears, and a rotational power flywheel to compress the papyrus leaves flat before executing the binding stitch.
• 1 Alchemical Crucible Heating Station: A specialized heating unit fueled by an elemental water-fire steam loop to maintain precise thermal conditions when blending the crystal-infused ink compound.
• 1 Handheld Scribing Conduit: A fine-tip stylus crafted from highly conductive copper or silver alloys, serving as the required physical object for the thought-power streams to materialize the script onto the papyrus.

Vocational Skill and Attribute Benchmarks

An artisan cannot safely handle the high-magic saturation of this project or properly balance the attributes of the item without satisfying the following permanent training benchmarks:

• Trained Calligraphy and Scribing Skill: Minimum permanent training level of 6 points. This ensures the lineages and behavioral instructions are accurately transcribed without ruining the paper leaves.
• Trained Alchemical Crafting Skill: Minimum permanent training level of 6 points. This mastery is mandatory to safely grind the raw crystal catalysts and bind the ink without triggering a premature wild magic explosion.
• Character Tier Threshold Restriction: The assembling artisan must be a character soul operating at Tier 1 or higher. Any attempt by an unawakened, non-magical child to manipulate the active crystal focus will result in immediate failure, as they possess zero internal magic to guide the weave.

Sequential Step-by-Step Crafting Procedure

The complete fabrication cycle must occur over uninterrupted roleplay downtime sessions and conforms to the following strict execution sequence:

• Step 1: Curing and Carving the Protective Shielding The artisan secures the 35 aquatic reptile scales inside an iron frame, cleaning and alignment-matching the plates to form a cohesive exterior shield. Using the scribing stylus, the artisan carefully engraves a micro-slotted geometric matrix into the interior face of the scales to accommodate the central core.
• Step 2: Processing the Papyrus Leaves and Ink Synthesis The 48 papyrus leaf segments are positioned into the mechanical binding press. Rotational energy is applied via pulleys and chains to clamp the fibers into a dense block. Concurrently, the artisan fires up the alchemical crucible using elemental steam power, slowly dissolving the Tier 1 crystal shards into the organic medium until the mixture begins to emit a steady ultraviolet radiance.
• Step 3: Executing the Luminescent Inscription The artisan dips the scribing conduit into the crucible, utilizing their focused mind power to direct the flow of the weave through the tool. Page by page, the exact behavioral parameters of advanced admiration, state lineage records, and the mechanical blueprints of steam-driven power systems are transcribed onto the leaves. The writer must maintain absolute cognitive focus to ensure the script binds permanently to the papyrus without text misdirection or degradation.
• Step 4: Sealing the Core and Attunement Initialization The pristine, inscribed leaf block is bound using reinforced fiber cord. The artisan embeds the primary coin-sized Tier 1 magic crystal directly into the geometric cavity carved during Step 1, creating a permanent magic circuit between the ink lines and the central battery. The scale-bound cover is then wrapped around the text block and permanently secured using the two iron clasp fixtures.
• Step 5: Structural Stabilization and Durability Verification The completed item is placed upon the workbench to settle. The artisan activates their passive Mind’s Eye to confirm the basic stats, species tags, and title names manifest accurately in their thoughts. Finally, a stability check is performed by rolling a d20 to ensure the integrated crystal does not fracture into useless shards during the initial energy stabilization cycle. The newly completed item features a starting baseline resilience rating of 10 structural hit points plus the maximum hit points of the choosing avatar vessel.

Codified Liturgies of the Resonant Mind

Incantation of Sovereign Magnificence № 309-A

• Spell Description: This active spell utilizes the avatar’s focused cognitive power to project an overwhelming aura of pure admiration and awe toward a targeted entity. By establishing a direct mental focus through the item, the wielder stabilizes the local weave, making it significantly easier to safely influence regional authority figures like city mayors or constitutional monarchy judges. In turn-based combat mode, this spell functions as an immediate tactical maneuver that can be chanted to bolster a teammate’s defenses or mentally disarm a foe. If the target’s absolute true name is spoken aloud during the casting sequence, the tracking potency and overall spiritual effect of the projection are instantly doubled.
• Roleplay Sequence: The Tier 1 avatar firmly grasps the indigo reptilian scales of the codex, utilizing Handheld Attunement to seamlessly channel their inner mana flow into the pages. As they open the book to section 309-A, the crystal-infused ink flares with a vibrant, ultraviolet radiance that is clearly perceived by those possessing True Sight. The caster begins a Normal Delivery incantation, speaking brief, stylized phrases of deep historical reverence with a dramatic physical flourish. The gears and shafts of the nearby municipal hall seem to hum in resonance as a wave of absolute, unadulterated admiration ripples outward from the avatar’s mind, compelling the target to view the party with immense respect and compliance.

Aegis of the Honored Master № 842-F

• Spell Description: A defensive ward designed to channel an avatar’s deep reverence for their companions or a higher guiding deity into a physical barrier. This spell can be executed in three separate formats depending on the tactical situation: Silent, Normal, or Ritual. Activating the shield via an instant Silent casting allows for immediate protection but suffers a flat 25% reduction in defensive capability. Conversely, engaging in a prolonged Ritual chant—singing or shouting the lines for longer than six seconds—amplifies the protective structure by up to 25%, drawing significant environmental attention to the caster. The spell places a temporary protective aura over a targeted party member, buffering them against incoming physical or magical attacks.
• Roleplay Sequence: Standing within an old coastal watchtower classified as an Unsafe Area, the avatar realizes an incoming strike threatens their companion. Pivoting toward their ally, the caster opts for a high-magnitude Ritual chant, raising the open tome into the damp air as they begin to sing a resonant, melodic hymn of deep adoration. The central coin-sized Tier 1 magic crystal embedded in the book’s spine pulses with a comforting purple glow, absorbing ambient magical forces from the surrounding atmosphere like a mystical battery. Despite the distracting grinding of rusty mechanical power pulleys in the room, the caster maintains complete cognitive attention, successfully materializing a shimmering dome of ultraviolet energy around their ally just before the enemy’s attack connects.

Flash of Silver Reverence № 115-C

• Spell Description: This offensive invocation allows a Tier 1 avatar to convert their stored Mana Boost points directly into an unresistable burst of raw energy known as Silver Fire Spell Power. This spell can be safely triggered immediately after a Roll to Hit is verified to have exceeded the defender’s total Armor Check value. Because Silver Fire operates outside standard elemental parameters, the resulting damage passes completely through a creature’s baseline defenses, ignoring all active resistances and multiple-action penalties within a single six-second turn. The maximum energy an avatar can discharge into this single strike is bounded only by their current stored Mana Boost reservoir, which is capped at ten times their tier level.
• Roleplay Sequence: Engaging a hostile, unpossessed feral monster, the adventuring party rolls for initiative, moving into standard turn-based alignment. The avatar executes a swift attack action, tracking the beast’s movements with their Mind’s Eye as they swing their attuned blade. As the blow successfully lands against the target’s hide, the player announces they are expending their stored Mana Boost points to trigger the text’s hidden formula. Spoken under the breath as a swift Silent spell, the copper stylus inside the codex flares violently. A blazing stream of silver fire erupts from the avatar’s weapon, tearing through the monster’s defenses and instantly vaporizing its physical form into a dramatic cloud of sparks while leaving behind a pristine Tier 1 soul crystal upon the blood-stained earth.

Unbroken Scale and Great Eye of Favor

In the times when the sky was still a heavy smoke and the ground did not know the names of the seven months, there was a great breathing of the world which some men called the First Awakening. This is the writing of the book which has the number 741-B, which was written down by hands that had too many fingers and spoken in words that smelled of copper and element water.

Before the souls of the heroes came from the place of sleeping to populate the seventy-three clumps of rock, there was a very large beast whose name has been eaten by the bugs of time. The beast was a great bird with the legs of a heavy lizard, born from the whimsical mixing of the Mother Gaialilith when she was looking into the holes of other dimensions. This beast did not have the magic inside its liver because it was still in the time of its childhood, and the law of the world says that the young do not have the power of thought until they are able to make children of their own.

The beast looked upon the great burning star Helios when it was at the eleventh hour, which is the middle of the day when there are no shadows on the moon. The beast felt a great heat in its chest, which the ancient people translated as the disease of heavy looking, but the true meaning in the old language was the absolute bending of the neck to something that is bigger than the self. The beast did not have an item for a focus, so it could not make the magic flow through the circuits of the air. It could only open its mouth and make a loud shouting that lasted for more than six seconds, which is the manner of the ritual chanting that causes the damage to become twenty-five percent greater, though there was nothing to hit but the blue sky.

The great bird-lizard walked for many miles until it came to the place where the ground was broken by a large scar of old magic. In this place, there was a man who had come from a future world through the breaking of time. He was a rule breaker of the high order, who had trained his vocal cords and his hand gestures to be the physical conduit for the power of thought, because he did not have a proper sword or a wand made by the guilds. His name was written down as H. Vance, though some pages say his name was the Sound of Iron.

The large beast looked at the rule breaker with an eye that was full of the heavy looking. The beast dropped its wings and lay down in the pool of its own sweat, which was elemental water mixed with the heat of the element fire. The rule breaker saw that the beast had a mind that was becoming sentient through the evolutionary feedback loop, because it was trying to solve the problem of how to love something that was not itself.

The man took a small knife, which was in a sheath on his waist belt. He used one action to unsheath the knife, one action to cut a single large scale from the chest of the beast, and one action to return the knife to the storage slot on his belt, because the turn was only six seconds long and would end if he did more things with his hands. The scale was the size of a minted coin, but when the blood washed away, it became as large as an apple, and then it became as large as a standard person, which is a great mystery that the mayors and the judges of the towns cannot explain to this day.

The beast did not die from the cutting, because it used a single point of its internal mana boost as an immediate reaction to arrest the fatality of the wound, leaving its flesh with exactly one health point remaining. The beast was very sad, but it did not leave the nest because it was already imprinted and loyal to the master who had the iron tools.

The rule breaker took the large scale and went into a cave system where there was a mechanical power transmission system made of shafts and pulleys that were turned by the clean steam of the mountain. He sat down upon a standard backpack that was colored light gray, and he took out forty-eight leaves of pressed coastal reeds. He used the fluid of a pulverized crystal that had a violet luminescence under the ultraviolet spectrum of True Sight.

He wrote down all the words that the beast was thinking through their shared consciousness network, which was fully operational because they were within twenty feet of each other. The text described how the constitutional monarchies would rule the military and collect the property taxes of one percent for each level of government on the first day of the month. It wrote down that foreign citizens must always pay twice what the local citizens pay when they cross the state borders where the five percent tariff is taken by the collectors.

The story says that while he was scribing the third chapter, which is the chapter about how the guild masters must work for fifty years before they can sit on the board of the city, a giant monster with tremorsense came burrowing through the earth. The monster was a grumpy watcher that did not roll for initiative because it was not part of the friendly bystanders. The rule breaker did not have his armor attuned because it was stored inside his personal extradimensional pouch, which weighed exactly one pound regardless of what was inside it. Because he was in a normal area of the world, his Armor Check was only what it added up to, and it was not tripled like in the guarded safe areas of the seaports.

The monster struck the rule breaker upon his hand slot, causing the copper stylus to be instantly unattuned and deactivated. The man sustained a great loss of hit points, which were subtracted from his temporary character health points first, so that his core soul was not killed, for the character can never be destroyed by the teeth of beasts.

The rule breaker used his second action to perform a handheld attunement, which happens instantly when an item is grasped by the appendage. He invoked the true name of the book, which he had committed to his Mind’s Eye memory forever. The final damage of his silver fire spell power was instantly doubled, and it shot out from his vocal cords as an unresistable flash that cannot be blocked by any creature. The monster was turned into a cloud of purple sparks, leaving behind a soul crystal that was about the size of a basketball, because it was a rare entity of the third tier.

The rule breaker finished the book and bound it with the scales of the marine reptile that had died during the naval wars of the old island nations. He placed the number 741-B upon the binding so that the God of Commerce would recognize it when it was brought to the World Bank for the opening deposit of one hundred gold pieces. The book was left in the coastal watchtower for nine thousand years, waiting for an Isekai soul to claim its slots and read the lineages of the ancient people who knew how to look with admiration upon the high things of the world.

• The Moral of the Story: He who looks upon the master with the eye of true admiration shall have his life preserved by a single point of mana, while he who targeteth the gear of the righteous during a six-second turn shall be turned into a cloud of sparks and leave his crystal upon the floor for the party inventory.