After the Roland Clan Leader of the Holy Domain said goodbye and left, Hanna’s tense nerves finally relaxed, and she slouched into her soft chair.
A cubic crystal rested on the desk before her, within which slept a small golden horse with ivory white wings—the Roland family’s secret Technique Spirit—the Heavenly Pegasus Technique Spirit. Once activated, the Technique Spirit would turn into a Two-winged Pegasus, possessing functions such as riding, aiding in combat, and fighting on its own.
This was an extremely rare Beast Taming Technique Spirit because summoning Technique Spirits for mages is based on knowledge as the foundation and inspiration as the timber, building Technique Spirits from nothing. Therefore, Magic Factions such as Fist Claw, Earth Magic, Water Magic, and gun technique, which are often encountered in daily life, are mainstream, or rather, the vast majority of mainstream magics originate from skills ordinary people can master.
Those high-difficulty Magic Factions like Prophecy, Fate, and Truth, which ordinary people can’t learn, touch, or understand, cannot possibly be initiated by common mages.
The Beast Taming Faction also belongs to this category of high-difficulty magic—how can ordinary people understand other creatures? You might be an expert horse rider, but that just means you specialize in riding; you might train dogs, but that’s merely mastering dominance; you may foster many stray cats, but that’s merely mastering abduction... Humans can only be experts in human skills, there’s no skill that turns people into other creatures!
Perhaps some might think, what if I impersonate another wild beast, acting like a dog, a cat, a horse... But can a dog’s stomach digest feces, can humans? Cats can lick their fur, but where can humans lick? Horses can sleep standing up, but can people?
Even if you successfully impersonate, you’re still most likely to summon a corresponding Beastification Technique Spirit, which is a far cry from a true Beast Taming Technique Spirit. The gap is as substantial as learning to cross-dress compared to finding a girlfriend.
The main way to acquire Beast Taming Technique Spirits currently, aside from them emerging from a mage’s projection, is to tame Void Realm creatures and have the Void Realm creatures turn into Beast Taming Technique Spirits themselves. But Void Realm creatures aren’t even afraid of death, how could they possibly submit to the lewd power of a mage? Mages at most can only enslave Void Realm creatures, it’s extremely difficult to make them willingly loyal.
The only exception is Goblin mages, as Void Realm creatures often do not have hostility towards Goblins. Although still slim chances, Goblin mages are often able to tame two or three Void Realm creatures in their lifetime, and they are the main source of Beast Taming Technique Spirits.
However, the Roland family is not a Goblin family, and their supply of Heavenly Pegasus Technique Spirits is stable, not reliant on taming Void Realm creatures. The mainstream speculation right now is that there is a Void Realm creature in the Roland family that accidentally escaped into reality. Every day it is served by a dozen mares in turn, and there is a chance that it produces illegitimate offspring recognized by the Void Realm, hence creating the ’Roland Heavenly Pegasus’ family brand.
Because Beast Taming Technique Spirits are difficult to summon, they are naturally hard to promote and almost exclusively rely on being fed Void Realm materials. Ordinary One-winged Heavenly Pegasus can already meet the mages’ transportation needs in the Void Realm, and a Two-winged Heavenly Pegasus even possesses short-term flying ability. The gift from the Roland family is sincere; the number of Two-winged Heavenly Pegasus Technique Spirits in their family wouldn’t exceed double digits.
However, Hanna was disinterested; she had her own moving Miracle and had little need for Heavenly Pegasus. Moreover, she was crazy for motorcycles and felt that mounts that weren’t made of steel and whose veins didn’t flow with black oil were just not cool.
She decided to keep it as a toy for Banjee, thinking this way, Hanna packed away the Technique Spirit sealing crystal.
In comparison, the Roland Holy Domain’s respectful demeanor towards her was more thrilling.
The just-departed Roland Holy Domain is the first on the "Holy Domain Combat Power Ranking", an undisputed top powerhouse! In a Legendary era without Nabistin’s emergence, he was the number one powerhouse actively involved in the Gospel!
Frankly speaking, Hanna had seen the Mercury Holy Domain, the Holy Domains of Casseray, Qinna, and her best friend Cleos tied together would not be a match for a Roland Holy Domain alone! Just sitting opposite him, Hanna felt her Technique Spirits trembling—Qinna and the others had never brought her such level of pressure!
To put it metaphorically, Hanna’s Technique Spirits are like well-trained veterans, Qinna’s Technique Spirits are experienced officers, then Roland’s Technique Spirits are fierce soldiers who climbed out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood! Hanna even suspected that Roland Holy Domain’s Technique Spirits all bore scars!
Such a Holy Domain powerhouse, a family leader, Hanna previously had no qualification to even meet. Yet now he took the initiative to visit, offering a family secret Technique Spirit as a gift, his attitude respectful and polite... almost to the point of ingratiating!
And it wasn’t just Roland Holy Domain. Mercury, Casseray, Vastino... These consortia families that govern the major cities of Gospel, all showed strong goodwill to Hanna, a mere Two-winged Mage. Hanna’s drawers were already stuffed with gifts, and even her name had amassed quite a few First-tier City properties.
It would be dishonest to say Hanna wasn’t secretly thrilled; she was the kind of person who enjoyed trampling authority. Running her office before, she inevitably had clashes with these consortium families, and now seeing each of them more subservient than the last made her feel as if she had inhaled the mists from Vatican Mura, refreshing her whole being.
But she wasn’t blinded by this vanity. She understood that it wasn’t her Hanna, they were truly in awe of, it was the Empress behind her.
The only sovereign of the future Gospel for fifty years, the one capable of interfering with the Gospel System—Empress Nyx!
Those close to power often mistake themselves for having it, and of course, Hanna would not make such a low-level mistake. She patted her face and continued to write the "Report on the Examination of the Gospel Cities’ Systems," aiming to finish within three days and submit it to Empress Nyx.