Chapter 88: Understanding Universal Spells

"Your Majesty, those demons might not share your vision, but I do!" Hiro's voice was firm and resounding, resonating with the emotions in Asmir's heart.

However, she wasn't the type of person to let emotions control their actions.

As Hiro said, she had a far-sighted vision, but that didn't mean others on her level had short-sighted visions.

Asmir's opponents weren't her disloyal subjects but instead, her opponents were the other lords.

The Giant was just one of their lackeys, but he was already a Stronghold Lord, even if he was just a foolish muscle head.

Nonetheless, she was intelligent enough to understand how her actions had affected the lives of those under her.

"It's impossible to please everyone," Asmir spoke concisely. "A rebellion was coming sooner or later, regardless of how this seat does things."

Hiro silently mused that goading someone of this level with flattery was a waste of time, and his expression turned serious.

"Your Majesty, since my mission to identify the disloyal subjects is finished, why don't I infiltrate the enemy's stronghold to gather intelligence and indulge in sabotage warfare?"

Hiro thought that this would be a great idea, as he could establish a foundation for himself in the enemy territory for the inevitable hostile takeover.

"You have your own thoughts regarding this matter, right?" Asmir saw through Hiro's thoughts at a glance. "Maybe it is the will of the person behind you?"

Hiro coughed, feeling exposed. However, he didn't lose his calm and said, "This is indeed related to my mission here. Your Majesty, you can also join my organization, I'm sure you can fit right in!"

At the moment, the Unfathomables didn't have many members — at least not many quality members.

Hiro was waiting for when Juvia and Arabella achieved Tier-5 or Tier-4 standards, which shouldn't take long thanks to their special circumstances.

As for Rosaline, that woman was useless unless she grasped full control over the Rosch family. Thinking about it, they shouldn't be having it easy at the moment.

This brought his thoughts back to Bella, that bubbly pink-haired brat. Hopefully, Theo wouldn't endanger her and her mother, Sheba.

Sigh, so many things must be happening back there, I didn't even realize that I'm already feeling somewhat attached to these people.

"Is this an invitation from your backer?" Asmir asked curiously. "If they wish to speak to this seat, they should do so directly."

I'm talking with you right now, Hiro mused in his heart, but cut the conversation short otherwise.

System! Hiro suddenly got an idea and asked impatiently. Since the simulation space can be upgraded into a training space, does that mean other features can also be upgraded? For example, the synchronization feature?

[Notice: Yes, it can be upgraded when the conditions are met.]

Hiro hurriedly asked in his mind, what are the conditions, and what will happen then?

[Notice: You've already started clearing the conditions, and you'll find out when you're done.]

Hiro clicked his tongue. At the moment, he was doing far too many things concurrently, especially since the activities of his servants were calculated as an extension of his abilities.

When Hiro's train of thought reached this point, he was stunned for a moment.

Hold on, Hiro quickly checked his achievement points balance after so many days of accumulation.

With the daily injection of faith energy, achievement points were no longer an urgent worry, allowing Hiro to focus on bigger plans.

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Seeing that he had over one hundred thousand achievement points, Hiro's mind spun as his eyes inadvertently looked toward the staircase of light.

Thinking for a moment, he activated his interpersonal missions interface.

As expected, a mission indicator appeared in the seat of light.

[Target: Nine-Tailed Fox, Asmir

Mission Difficulty: ???

Mission Briefing: ???]

…

[Notice: You're not qualified to take missions on the level of this target.]

…

Hiro clicked his tongue, but he wasn't disappointed.

The system would measure the difficulty of missions without accounting for his cheat codes, so it wouldn't allow missions that couldn't be completed with the main body's efforts.

While Hiro was lost in thought, the space shook a little and the light disappeared, revealing an empty staircase.

Then, Asmir's voice drifted over, resounding from all corners.

"This is a list of Stronghold Lords who are in hostile relationships with me, and you can choose where you wish to go after you thought it through."

Ah, Hiro blinked his eyes and smacked his lips in annoyance. I was zoning out again, wasn't I? This is such a bad habit!

A parchment scroll fell in front of Hiro, and he grabbed it. Then, he opened the system shop and went for the servants section.

He keyed in the filters for the Nine-Tailed Fox bloodline in the demon race section.

I don't believe she won't be interested if I could find a suitable heir for her, Hiro thought to himself as he checked the prices.

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Hiro didn't explore the full options back then because he was short on points, but he quickly found many interesting things.

He could filter out the bloodline purity and inheritance of specific servants, and the greater the servant's potential, the higher their price.

Arabella's potential was low, but it was increased thanks to the purified demonic energy obtained by Hiro.

As for Juvia, her potential was enhanced thanks to the influence of the Fantasy Crystal.

If not for these two incidents, these two women's ceilings would have been the peak of Tier-5 standards at best.

Hiro quickly filtered out a juvenile Nine-Tailed Fox with the bloodline potential of a Greater Demon.

"So damn expensive?" Hiro was stunned.

This servant would cost 80,000 achievement points, but it would still start as a Tier-9 demon.

To Hiro, this felt like a rip-off. However, he understood that the system was very fair when it came to prices.

If he wanted to impart her a level 6 skill, Hiro would need to invest 12,600 points on top of the earlier 80,000.

The thing is, Hiro couldn't guarantee that Asmir would take in this summoned servant as her successor even if he brought her up.

As a cautious ruler, just the mere fact that she wouldn't be able to see the servant's past would most likely throw her off.

Thinking about it, unless Hiro brought up the topic in a straightforward manner, he had zero chance of getting Asmir to trust the summoned servant.

Forget it, Hiro shook his head. I can't rely on servants and mindless followers to fill up the ranks of my generals, I'll try to conquer Asmir completely with my abilities.

Hiro made up his mind, cast a deep look into the depths of the Demon Tower, and left without a word.

…

Once Hiro returned to the secure office room in the tavern, he closed his eyes and entered the system space.

A familiar yet unfamiliar rush of colors surrounded Hiro's consciousness before he appeared in the vast hall once again.

"It's been such a long time since I appeared here," Hiro stretched his illusory body and looked around.

Nothing changed.

If not for Hiro's sudden urge to have a change of scenery, he might not have entered this space.

"Since I'm rich, I want to see what spells I can get my hands on," Hiro remembered that the system had universal spells, such as the Infinite Sword Matrix.

After experiencing the synchronization with so many characters, Hiro understood that power fell into three basic dimensions.

These dimensions were raw strength-oriented, energy-oriented, and consciousness-oriented applications.

Put simply, they were an expression of essence, energy, and spirit.

There was no concrete difference between spirit Qi, spirituality, demonic energy, nature energy, elemental energy, etc.

Just as there was no concrete difference between psychic energy, consciousness, mental power, soul power, etc.

As for physical attributes traits, an explanation wasn't even needed.

Otherwise, the concept of universal spells wouldn't exist in the system shop.

Why? Because at their foundation, all spells, skills, abilities, and magical arts represented an exquisite pattern of expressing energy.

If Hiro wanted to put it in layman's terms, a surface area could be measured with square miles or square kilometers—the different units are varying methods of expressing distance, but the distance remains constant.

Another factor confirming Hiro's conclusion was the existence of divine energy.

Any of the aforementioned energies, once fused with faith energy, evolves into the universal form of divine energy.

It doesn't matter if it was a Demon Lord or a Pope from the most holy of churches, both can use divine energy.

Once Hiro grasped this point, he no longer cared for the exclusive spells and abilities he learned in games and were brought about by the synchronization feature, but he would rather focus on universal spells.

In principle, any and all spells Hiro learned in his capacity as either a Sorcerer or a Demon can be modified to the extent of achieving universal application.

However, he was too lazy to make the necessary deductions.

Since that was the case, he might as well buy universal spells directly from the system shop.

With that in mind, Hiro opened the spells category and opened the {Universal Spells} menu.

Looking at the array of spells and their price tags, Hiro sucked in a cold breath of air.