"Who the hell knows whether the Spirit Realm has patched that loophole in its Trials? It's a loophole that lets those deities pry entire blocks away!"
"If you're willing to listen to me, your best option is to suspend the blocks currently hosting Trials right now, even if you have to compensate the Spirit Realm and those Spirit Realm Travelers..."
Felicity gave a heavy snort through her silvery-white dragon head, blasting a visible stream of vapor from her nostrils.
"If that's all you wanted to say, I'm hanging up..."
"Felicity..."
Before the person on the other side of the screen could say anything else, Felicity swept her tail across the ground, knocking aside the stone glowing purple. The screen vanished with it.
"If I don't host Spirit Realm Trials, where am I supposed to get Spirit Crystals...?"
She had brought back far too many blocks lately. Integrating all of them into her domain would cost a fortune in Spirit Crystals.
Normally, adding blocks to a domain did not cost much. But the Spirit Realm had a rule: once the number of blocks in a domain reached a certain threshold, adding new ones required extra Spirit Crystals.
Clearly, this was meant to restrict the lords of large blocks, keeping them from spending all day scouring the Spirit Realm for more.
Felicity had once been constrained by this rule too, because the rate at which her returns from collecting new blocks grew was nowhere near proportional to the rising costs.
Unless she had some special use for them, the more blocks she collected, the less net profit she earned.
But after an Astral Realm entity took a dream from her last time, Felicity had seen the light.
It turned out that stealing other people's blocks felt incredible. And when she stole blocks