Lu Yao held a steaming cup of warm tea in his hand and observed every move in the simulator.
The Wishing Star was slowly rising.
Isabelle, as the assembler of this epic prop, had her entire body temporarily plunged into this blue sphere, but her words were still there, just above the blue sun.
Under the practical exercise, Lu Yao largely figured it out.
The Wishing Star could be seen as a satellite with special powers, and the Apostle was the pilot and operator of it.
The Apostle could drive the Star of Wishes into the sky, but without a pilot, the star was just a giant ball of mud that could float in the water – it was also the original prototype of the Water Nest.
Once the Wishing Star is activated, it will be covered with a layer of dense blue light, like a small sun, slowly rotating in the air.
A line of status bar was displayed above it [Prayer Moment 67/100000]
The numbers on the left kept soaring.
107
221
399
557
……
After about three minutes, the Prayer Moment display was full. The Wishing Star also stopped rotating and it hovered quietly, no longer receiving new prayers.
Lu Yao clicked on the number behind it.
The screen suddenly drew closer and entered the interior of the Wishing Star.
Inside was a tiny piece of the universe, and in the pitch-black space, thousands of stars twinkled. Numerous stars shone brightly, quietly floating in the darkness.
Lu Yao casually clicked on a star.
A dialogue box immediately popped up on top of it, with a bracket behind the box, a fire symbol inside, and the number 2 written behind it.
“Lord God, please bless me so that I can pass the seminary exams and graduate successfully …… Please, if I don’t graduate I’ll be kicked out and will have to go home and raise pigs …… (Fire Flame 2)”
Continuing to click on this paragraph, the viewpoint falls on a small person’s head.
The supplicant was a seminary apprentice who was begging for good luck towards the temple.
Lu Yao expressed his understanding, but it’s better to be on your own for things like exams, the gods are cheering for you remotely.
Then he clicked another star.
“Lord Yao God, it hasn’t rained for a month and a half this year, if it continues like this, all of the sour raspberries and berries will be ruined …… Our harvest this year depends on this land. Please, have mercy, please grant us a rain. (Fire 3)”
The supplicant was a farmer who lived by the sea.
The farmer planted a fruit grove, lived in a humble hut, and raised three children.
Although the Yao Clan’s three cities were growing in prestige, not everyone could live in them, and each pixelated villain had their own choices and dilemmas.
Lu Yao tapped Miracle and pulled the scope to drop a rain around the fruit grove.
An exclamation mark lit up above the farmer’s head, which then turned into a big smile, “It’s raining! Lord God has heard our begging …… Great, great! The berries are saved, saved!”
“Thank you, thank you! Thank you for your mercy and compassion!”
He fell to his knees and kept kowtowing.
The three children followed their father’s example and did the same.
Lu Yao noticed that a Faith +3 prompt appeared in the upper right corner.
In other words, behind each person’s prayer, the fire represented the Flame of Faith, and the number represented the extra Faith he could generate after his wish came true.
This caused him to have a doubt.
Could Star Ocean God really gain a large amount of faith by creating such a prop?
While ordinary believers could still offer some Flames of Faith, the number was very small, whereas to achieve their wishes, they usually had to consume at least one miracle.
From a purely numerical point of view, it was a complete loss-making business.
Lu Yao reset his viewpoint back to the inside of the [Wishing Star].
He soon noticed that there were two bright stars inside that far exceeded the surrounding area.
Lu Yao clicked on the biggest and brightest of them.
A long drop-down dialogue box popped up inside.
“Lord God, please grace us with a rain.”
“Yao City’s farms need a rain too much.”
“Yao City’s fruit forests need rain. ……”
……
All the people of Yao City were praying for rain, and the total value of the wishes stacked out, 4,211 points of faith, was given at the back.
The second largest wishing star on the other hand was all Yancheng people praying for rain, generating a total of 2,047 points of faith.
Lu Yao figured it out clearly.
The wishes of the believers would overlap, and the same wishes would gather into brighter and bigger wishing stars. By completing this wish with the largest intersection, the long-cherished wishes of many people would be fulfilled, thus obtaining a considerable amount of Flame of Faith.
On the other hand, Lu Yao also noticed that the water level of the East River had dropped so much that a large portion of the riverbed was exposed on the banks.
The Pixel World seemed to have entered a drought period recently, and both Salt City and Yao City had begun to lack water for rain.
Lu Yao had received two rains each in the area of Yao City and Yancheng.
This encouraged the citizens, and one by one, smiling faces surfaced above their heads.
“Lord God has seen our prayers! Thank you, Great God Yao!”
“Lord Yao God has solved the drought!”
“The omnipotent Lord Yao God, the Wishing Star is really working! Piety is the most important thing!”
……
Lu Yao saw the green numerical reminders of +4211 and +2047 floating in the upper right corner.
The increase in Faith was expected.
He looked towards the blue pixel sun suspended in the air and understood the significance of the [Wishing Star].
Not only could this prop dig deep and refine the needs of believers to gain a large amount of faith, it was also an information radar that could provide insight into the current state of existence of the little people.
It was worthy of being an epic prop.
There was just one problem.
Lu Yao found that the Wishing Star was suspended in the air, and the pixelated little people on the ground stared at it one by one and kept wishing …… It s not hard to understand, if wishing is useful, then why am I working? It’s much faster than labour, isn’t it?
I don’t care if I’m the next lucky one, it’s not a bad idea to try the lottery.
If you don’t use it carefully, this prop has a lot of side effects.
Lu Yao immediately put away the Wishing Star, and Isabelle flew out from it, a tired expression appearing above her head.
Upon asking, Lu Yao realised.
It turned out that the Apostle was not at all relaxed in the Wishing Star.
This prop, the Wishing Star, could only collect wishes and vows. It needed Isabelle to sort out those complicated wishes in there, sorting them into categories and gathering the same ones in a ball, similar to the role of a wishing informant.
That was what required the Apostle to drive it.
The Wishing Star disappeared, the pixelated little people on the ground initially felt disappointed and regretful, but they soon accepted the reality and continued their respective labours, life had to go on.
Lu Yao decided, for the time being, to release the Wishing Star once a day, so that he could harvest some faith and also get some realities from the believers.
For the little people, it was equivalent to making a wish once every ten years. This way, they wouldn’t become too dependent and affect the normal order of life.
Lu Yao jumped the map and temporarily placed the wishing star on the mountain behind the Dragon’s Nest, the wishes in the props were still there.
He clicked on some of the larger stars and started reading.
The same wishes of many believers were represented in these stars.
Apart from the immediate threat posed by the drought, there were two other wishes that had a great deal of resonance and shone extraordinarily brightly, and they were second-class stars that were second only to the request for rain.
One is for wealth.
The second was to pray for peace.
Then what made Lu Yao care was that the brightest of the third-class stars was actually the dwarves’ prayer.
“Great and ancient Lord Yao God, please turn your kind and wise eyes to us. The Fiery Cloud prays to you sincerely that you will bless my good friend, our princess, to brew the most perfect honey wine soon! I will recite your virtues and compassion day and night, spreading your well-being and kindness.”
“Please bless us, so that we can drink the honey wine brewed by the princess.”
“Honey wine, honey wine …… such a thing, and only a divine blessing can give birth to a wine that is truly passed down to the world. Please bless us! God-sama!”
……
The 42 dwarves actually generated a whopping 862 points of Flame of Faith.
Among the supplicants with the same wish was a human.
Hunting Rain.
She was also the princess the dwarves spoke of.
Lu Yao remembered this little person, who as a teenager had been made to cry by a snowman stealing a treasure chest at the Elf Lake, and then later followed Salt Long who seemed to be cultivating.
The problem was, this Honey Wine thing, he didn’t know how to build it either.
Lu Yao double-clicked on the dialogue box for Wish and the screen jumped to the Dwarf Fortress in the south.
Hunting Rain’s personal attribute panel did not differ much from the other villains, just one more special ability.
……
【Brewing LV3】：Excellent at brewing wine, with a certain probability of brewing a new fine wine.
……
And under the personal panel, there was another phrase.
[Princess of Honey Wine] [Hammer Endless Manufacturing] (Equipped): immune to drunkenness, morale +1.
She actually had a special equipment.
Slowly.
Lu Yao’s eyes steeply lit up.
In the Pixel World, there were already people who could create Transcendent Equipment!
