Chapter One-Hundred-and-Seventy-Nine

The Covetous Vessel spell was quite complicated to pull off, and from how Sylvia had described its effect, along with his own understanding of how it should work, it was obvious the result wasn’t anywhere near as powerful. The System was clearly reducing its full effect, which, given that the spell technically had the ability to eliminate all of the bloodfiends or humans in Moonport in one go, was something to be expected. Allowing any player to have such devastating power at their disposal was clearly a bad idea.

The way to activate the spell was to first draw out a circle with a heptagram inside, then he needed to make an instruction in a language he didn’t understand, but which Sylvia apparently could read, since her melody shifted every time he made a mistake. Though she wouldn’t directly tell him when he screwed up, since apparently she wasn’t allowed.

If I could understand this language, then I would be able to fine-tune the instructions to be extremely precise, perhaps all the way down to telling the spell to target a specific person.

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