Chapter 1044: 1031 Really treating God as an omnipotent wishing machine? Chapter 1044: 1031 Really treating God as an omnipotent wishing machine? If they couldn’t have it themselves, they would simply destroy it. Many people hold this thought, and it applies to entire ethnic groups as well.

The human faction and the Celestials were both extremely restrained. The highest combat powers among the two groups were always in a state of mutual deterrence, never making a move.

Both sides had concerns. Treating this world as their own race’s place of prosperity and development, they would not act out. Because their battles would cause great destructive damage to the world.

But when one side neared extinction, the high-end combat powers of these ethnic groups would definitely fall into a final madness, and these legendary-level existences would bring catastrophic destruction to this medium-sized world that had not yet advanced to a large world.

And if someone could make the Celestials disappear from the Star Armor World at a minimal cost, the world would definitely not be stingy with source power as a reward.

Because the drawn-out war with the Celestials, whether for the world or for the human ethnic group itself, was a great burden.

“To make the entire Celestial race disappear,” Muria, who was pondering how to obtain source power, slightly narrowed his eyes, “it doesn’t have to be by extermination that this race disappears from the world. There are other methods.”

Muria, who had descended to this world from the Void, had different ideas from the humans within the world. Their approaches to solving problems were completely different.

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Stars Congregation, the seventy-sixth district
A girl with a look of fatigue returned home, her face full of dejection. When she reached her doorstep, she hesitated for a moment before opening the door and was greeted by two pairs of expectant eyes.

“How did it go, Veccia? Did you pass the exam?” asked the middle-aged woman sitting on a somewhat worn sofa as she looked at her daughter with some concern.

“No,” the girl shook her head with some disappointment in response to her parents’ gaze. She was job hunting, but a good job was really hard to find; it required too many preconditions.

All she had was a graduation certificate, which was not enough to secure a job. So, she had no choice but to resume her studies after college, attempting to obtain various certifications to increase her bargaining chips.

And now she was attempting to obtain a very valuable certification. The worth of this certification was such that one could find a job to meet one’s basic needs just by holding it, so naturally, the difficulty was also commensurate.

“Sigh!” Hearing their daughter’s response, the couple both let out a low sigh. They were just ordinary small business owners, barely maintaining a subsistence level, having put all their effort into providing for their daughter’s college education.

They had hoped that after their daughter finished her studies, she would be able to support herself. But now, the job market was really too difficult.

As one of the three dominant human forces, the Stars Congregation also implemented compulsory education. The accumulation of college graduates from higher education each year had become abundant to the point of being an issue, making it really difficult for ordinary college graduates to find jobs.

“I’m going to go upstairs to study,” said the girl, lowering her head and quickly heading upstairs after hearing her parents’ sighs.

“Veccia, don’t lose heart. If you don’t pass this time, we can try again next time. Don’t lose confidence in yourself…”

Bang—
But in response to her mother’s comfort, the girl could only offer a very muffled sound of closing the door. Seeing her daughter’s disheartened state, the middle-aged woman also helplessly put down her hand that she had just raised.

“This child…” The middle-aged woman smiled helplessly, a trace of bitterness in her smile.

“Let her be alone for a while. She’s also feeling quite upset; our words won’t reach her right now,” said the man sitting on the sofa.

“She is pushing herself too hard. There’s no need for her to rush like this; she’s still young. There’s no need to put such a heavy burden on herself.”

“Although we’re not very impressive, it’s not a problem to support her for another year,” the man said somewhat downheartedly, the frown on his forehead tightening slightly.

Upstairs in her room, the girl threw herself onto her bed, burying her head in the pillows, and began to sob softly, not wanting her parents to see her in this pathetic state.

After crying, she sat up, wiped her tears, and started preparing to study. But inadvertently, her gaze fell on the shrine placed in her room, housing an idol whose face and gender were indiscernible.

After seeing this idol, the girl didn’t know if it was a whim or something else, but she knelt before the shrine and prayed in the usual way.

To tell the truth, her prayer was just for show; she didn’t really expect to receive much help from this deity. The reason she had this shrine in her room was that it was the custom in her entire country—every household believed in gods and had one or two shrines.

As for her belief in gods, influenced by her parents, she still had some faith. After all, it was free, right? In life, one occasionally encounters things that are incomprehensible, and since they can’t be explained, they are attributed to deities.

“Great God, your devout believer Veccia prays for you to grant me a stable job,” she said.

After stating her final request, the girl respectfully knelt before the shrine. Unbeknownst to her, the ordinarily plain stone idol began to emit a faint light as she bowed her head.

Moreover, the formerly androgynous features of the idol, under the cover of this light, gradually became more feminine, and a barely detectable power was drawn from the girl’s body into the idol.

Unaware of all these changes, the girl simply stood up after praying and continued her studies.

Jobs are easy to find, good jobs are hard.

As the girl diligently studied, the eyes of the idol behind her started to shine faintly, a light that flickered for a moment and then disappeared without a trace.

This idol was merely transferring the weak faith power it had just absorbed from the girl to a domain that had just been formed.

Upon reaching its destination, this faith power was seized by a slender, fair-skinned hand and held in its palm.

“Looking for an excellent and comfortable job? Another such wish,” Golden Dragon Mother said, looking at the thin stream of faith power in her hand before casting it aside.

She had received countless similar wishes, and to be honest, she wasn’t able to fulfill such desires for her numerous petitioners.

After all, the main activities of her consortium were confined within the Zijing Federation, and the Stars Congregation had virtually no business penetration there. Thus, using her secular power to assist these job-seekers was quite difficult.

“These people must be out of their minds, why pray to deities for such things? Do they think deities are some kind of omnipotent wish-granting machines?” muttered the Golden Dragon Mother indignantly. She looked around the small space, a hint of smugness in her eyes.

This was a domain he had created by stealing the faith belonging to one of the church’s deities. Of course, calling this narrow space of less than one square kilometer a divine domain was rather generous.

Despite its small size, the domain had some basic functionalities of a divine kingdom, such as accommodating the souls of devout believers, and it could expand its area or change its topography through faith.

But given the amount of faith power Golden Dragon Mother had at her disposal, changing the topography was out of the question; all she could do was try to expand the area and possibly embellish it a little. After all, her newly constructed divine kingdom was quite humble.

“Hope your husband’s leg will recover? Well, this wish is not bad,” she said, satisfied, grabbing another notion contained within the faith power she had stolen.

The divine power she now controlled was actually weaker than the deities erased by the church, with lesser rights than a god, only able to roughly wield some aspects of faith power, like healing.

As for finding a job, using divine power would involve luck, which was not something she could influence, not having succeeded in stealing a deity’s position.

Of course, if she could expand her consortium into church territory, she might still achieve these job-seekers’ wishes through mundane means.

Now, what she could do was just heal diseases, and only minor ones at that. She couldn’t affect more serious illnesses or injuries.

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Lights flared up in the hospital shrouded in darkness, and in one dimly lit ward, a man lay on the bed emotionlessly staring at the spotted and worn ceiling.

Three days ago, he had been in a car accident that, unfortunately, left him paraplegic. Though the medical technology of the Federation could cure him, he couldn’t afford the medical expenses.

Because if he underwent treatment, it would bankrupt his entire family. The man contemplated whether he should just leave this world, so as not to be a burden to his loved ones.

Lost in thought, he suddenly felt drowsy for no reason, and with his eyelids growing heavy, he fell into a hazy sleep…

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