77: Is the divine authority broken?

Ronan's intuition was screaming alarms.

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Reason told him that something must have gone wrong with the female secretary before him.

The most likely possibility was related to the previous Spiritual Power fluctuation from the rune stone.

Watching her shed more and more clothes, revealing more and more snowy white skin.

Ronan immediately used a technique he learned in the dungeon, flinging his own Spiritual Power towards Arabella in the form of a shockwave.

The other party seemed to be under an illusion on the spiritual level; he could only hope this method would work.

Otherwise, he would have to directly use "Spiritual Fear" to fight poison with poison.

The above two methods were both root-cause treatments, aimed at eradicating the source of Arabella's abnormality.

If they had no effect at all, then Ronan would have no choice but... to use a symptomatic treatment method.

Back when he was being chased by the Goblin army in the Monster Forest, he had already developed a way to instant-cast "Scorching Ray" with low Spiritual Power.

This method lacked the power of the Ray, only able to obtain partial kinetic energy.

Its power was basically equivalent to kicking out with full force at a distance of one or two meters.

It was just right to use here.

It wouldn't injure the female secretary, and could also effectively stop her from approaching.

With the right force and angle, it might even physically knock her out.

This was also the last resort.

He couldn't very well let the Director return to his office and see the female secretary riding him while naked, could he?

However, symptomatic treatment was the last resort of desperation; right now, the main thing was to see if the root-cause treatments were effective.

When his Spiritual Power, in the form of a shockwave, was flung towards Arabella.

The moment it made contact with her, Arabella fell unconscious.

He immediately stepped forward, picked up the clothes on the floor, and covered the female secretary whose upper body was already completely bare.

Just then, the office door, which had been locked from the inside, was suddenly opened from the outside.

The Director of the Arcane Arts Society walked in, followed by a middle-aged man.

Taking in the scene inside, the middle-aged man immediately roared,

"What are you doing!"

This middle-aged man looked the picture of a bloated, gluttonous official, with sparse hair and a bulging belly.

Yet his roar at this moment was deafening, making Ronan involuntarily cover his ears.

"Director, Miss Secretary seems to have suffered a mental attack..."

Ignoring the middle-aged man's questioning, Ronan briefly recounted the events to the Director.

The Director first walked over to the female secretary and checked her condition.

Afterwards, as if lost in thought, he remained silent.

At this point, the middle-aged man couldn't sit still and was the first to point the finger at Ronan,

"I think it was you who took advantage of the Director's absence to make a move on Miss Secretary, but had to stop because we returned."

Faced with this baseless accusation, Ronan was just about to curse when the Director raised his hand,

"Director Dick, don't make rash statements without evidence."

Turning to Ronan, the Director said, "I've already contacted medical personnel. Wait until they arrive before you leave."

"Help me look after this child for now, in case she wakes up again."

"Okay." Ronan nodded, then remembered something and said,

"Director, Miss Secretary mentioned that her previous rune stone was lost, and the one used to open the door was borrowed from someone else."

Hearing this, the Director turned his gaze to the middle-aged man beside him.

He stood up and walked out, the middle-aged man hurriedly following.

Ronan could only hear their voices fading into the distance:

"I will conduct a thorough investigation of the secretariat..."

"It better be, Dick..."

"Rich from the Logistics Department has been eyeing your position..."

...Ronan looked at the female secretary lying unconscious on the floor. The administrative uniform couldn't quite cover her impressive figure; a pair of 'big thunderbolts' were faintly visible on her chest.

He simply took off his own green-collared uniform and draped it over her, nipping this 'spring scenery' in the bud.

A long time later, a team of female medical personnel barged in.

Seeing the female secretary lying on the floor with her upper body unclothed, and Ronan sitting beside her, also disheveled and looking dazed, they all held their breath.

The Director had only urgently notified them to come to the office to save someone; he hadn't specified what happened.

But looking at this scene, even a fool could guess what had occurred.

Several of them immediately stepped forward, surrounding the female secretary, while subtly but forcefully bumping aside the nearby Ronan.

Then, they carefully moved the 'injured' female secretary onto a stretcher and hurried away.

Ronan, having nothing to do, was running the Starry Sky Meditation Method.

Suddenly bumped like that, his frail body immediately felt a bit of a stitch.

"Where did these wild medical personnel come from, so rough..."

He complained, deciding that after completing the constant spell, he would start researching ways to enhance his physique.

Not aiming to transform into a muscle-bound hulk, but at least to have a normal person's body.

After the female secretary was taken away, the Director returned alone.

Ronan guessed that Director Dick had probably gone to investigate matters related to the rune stone.

"I've implicated you." The Director sighed. "That child has always been too naive, never understood the treachery of human hearts..."

"Director, who is Miss Secretary?" Ronan was very curious. Judging by the Director's tone, he seemed to be the female secretary's elder.

"Her parents were my close friends. Unfortunately, they passed away early, so I had to help take care of their only daughter."

Although Ronan knew the Director's aged appearance was due to burning his life force.

At this moment, he couldn't help but see him as an ordinary old man in the twilight of his years.

"I may sometimes be absent. You should spend more time with that child."

The Director said earnestly, "You are both of the same generation; you should be able to get along better."

Ronan wanted to refuse; he didn't have that kind of free time.

But then the Director continued: "As compensation, you will gain the qualification to purchase the vast majority of magical materials from the Logistics Department."

"You should know, some magical materials cannot be obtained with money or points."

"Unless you can skip a grade and become an Arcane Apprentice, this reward should still be somewhat useful to you."

"What do you say?"

At this point, what else was there to say? "I understand, Director." Ronan nodded sincerely, wishing he could have an all-night heart-to-heart with the female secretary right now.

After submitting the latest manuscript, Ronan hurried all the way back to residence 761.

His attention was completely focused on the panel.

In the three days without updates, the growth of the wish power acquisition progress had slowed down, with few sudden surges.

He looked at the storage column on the panel:

[wish power Storage: 9]

From the second update release until now, over three days, the wish power gained was 5 points, 2 points, and 1 point respectively, totaling 8 points.

Adding the original baseline of 1 point makes the current 9 points of wish power.

Ronan couldn't help but feel a sense of happiness, like 'sitting at home while wish power falls from the sky.'

Not long after, the updated chapter should have been posted to the 'Free Creation' section.

The panel suddenly flashed a series of notifications:

[wish power Acquisition Progress: 47%]

...[wish power Acquisition Progress: 100%]

[wish power Acquisition Successful]

[wish power Storage +1]

[wish power Acquisition Progress: 100%]

[wish power Acquisition Successful]

[wish power Storage +1]

...As expected, his conjecture was correct!

By updating chapters and fulfilling the readers' expectations.

These expectations, clearly directed at him, could be captured by the divine spark, eventually converging into the percentage of wish power acquisition progress, and converting into wish power.

Not only that.

Ronan discovered that because he hadn't updated for three days, the readers' expectations had greatly intensified.

So much so that after this update, the wish power acquisition progress was rapid, and the converted wish power was also greater.

In just this short while, he had already gained 4 points of wish power, and the increase in wish power hadn't stopped yet.

Ronan, looking excited, couldn't help but think:

If stopping updates for three days has this effect... wouldn't stopping for ten days cause an explosion?

The moment this thought arose,

The divine spark within his soul gave a strange shudder.

Immediately after, the entire panel fell into a dead silence, like a workshop after a sudden power outage.

Ronan's heart skipped a beat. Is the divine spark broken?