I felt regretful and planned to give up today's search for Miss Anat, but the receptionist still enthusiastically recommended other fortune tellers in the association to Shade.
The detective holding the cat thought for a while. If he turned around and left now, his behavior would appear strange, and it might lead to rumors about Miss Anat in the association, so he nodded pretending not to care:
"Of course it's no problem. I just want to find a reliable fortune teller to divine for me. It doesn't matter who it is... I have membership in the association. Can the price of fortune telling be cheaper?"
Probably because it was so comfortable being held by Shad, Mia the cat actually fell asleep at this time. This was the cat's nap time, and its life was much more comfortable than Shad's.
The receptionist of the association recommended to Shade a female fortune teller who was said to be very effective in divination. However, when Shade was about to go to the second floor, he happened to meet Vice President Mark who was walking down the stairs.
The two were considered acquaintances, and they chatted for a while. After learning that Xia De came to the association to conduct divination activities, the enthusiastic gentleman directly recommended another fortune teller to him without adding any money:
"Mr. Hamilton, although the association's Rhodes business has been getting bigger and bigger in recent years, divination is the most fundamental business of the association. You are very lucky. The association's most effective fortune-teller happens to be here today. Come with me, I'll come
Let me introduce you to each other."
After saying that, he called Sha De to go upstairs. Sha De followed the man who always seemed to be wearing formal clothes and asked curiously:
"Who is that soothsayer?"
"Our president, Mr. Addis Stein, he just came back this morning. Ha, Mr. Hamilton, I have to say that you are very lucky."
Shade stopped subconsciously, but quickly followed. Miss Anat said that characteristics "beyond fate" cannot be discovered by divination alone. She only understood this after doing divination at a price.
Not even the dean of the Astronomy College in St. Byrons could learn about Shad's special characteristics through divination, so he had nothing to worry about this time.
Not to mention, it wouldn't hurt to get to know more people, so he had no reason to refuse.
The two of them walked all the way to the third floor, but only passed by the door with the golden door number "President's Room", and finally stopped in front of the door with the door number "Accounting Room".
In such a sensitive place, Shade did not go in. Mr. Mark went in to find someone.
The discussion inside was very lively, and the general idea was that if the accounts were not done correctly, everyone could go begging on the street together. Then they shirk responsibility from each other, thinking that the accounts were not up to par because the "big city players" had not yet received the tickets for the preliminary preparations.
If we put it all together and wait until autumn, we will be able to prepare the accounts for the first half of this year.
The voice of Mr. Addis Stan, the branch president of the Tobesk City Prophet Association, was the loudest among the people. He was obviously threatening some of the guys who had obvious problems, and he was very familiar with these accounting figures.
Soon Vice President Mark told him that a guest was visiting, and Shade finally met this gentleman who had just returned to the city.
Mr. Addis Stan is about the same height as Shade, but he is slightly thinner, with a high nose and deep sunken eyes. His temperament is very much like that of a teacher teaching in a university. He wears a small pair of hats on his face.
Gold-rimmed glasses, this is also the first acquaintance of Shade who wears glasses in this world.
"This is Mr. Hamilton? Hello, it is an honor to invite you to participate in this fall's..."
Mr. Stein smiled and stretched out his hand to shake hands with Shade, and the moment the two came into contact, a voice came from Shade's ear:
[Circle Warlock, quite high level.]
“Expected.”
"Dacheng Players Rhodes Contest, do you want to do divination? Of course, no problem, please come here. Before I was the president, I have always been the best fortune teller in the Tobesk branch."
He boasted about himself with some complacency, and Shade smiled in agreement, looking forward to whether this cheap divination could give him some new revelations.
In order to reflect one's professionalism, divination must of course have a dedicated room. A large number of rooms on the second floor of the association that are unused and can be rented out as reception rooms are actually divination rooms.
Mr. Mark left first, and the president of the local association and Shade entered the room on the second floor. The layout of the room was very similar to that of an ordinary reception room, except that there were crystal balls and obsidian water on the shelves against the wall.
Weird things like pots.
The servants were preparing tea. When Mr. Stein saw Shade looking at the shelf, he casually introduced:
"The items there are all decorations, and every fortune teller has his own props. Starting decades ago, the association's fortune telling business has been getting worse and worse, while the Rhodes card business has been getting better and better. But in recent years, there have been many
Well, those reckless young people and idle ladies are very interested in this mysterious behavior that is not dangerous."
"So what's the dangerous mystery?"
Shade asked. Mia was probably woken up by the sound of talking, but she just made a sleepy "meow" sound and then fell back to sleep comfortably. The maids who were tidying up the room and preparing tea were all looking around.
As a cat being held by a young man, the young orange cat is indeed very cute...especially when it is asleep.
Mr. Stein asked Shade to sit down and answered Shade's question by counting on his fingers:
"Dangerous haunted house adventures, psychic skills obtained from unknown sources, staying in the cemetery at night, reading strange occult books... These things give the Zhengshen Church a headache, but it's okay to have a full meal.
People who do it love doing it.”
He shook his head and sighed, but Shade had some thoughts on this:
"Mr. Stan, you see, the great development of the steam industry has led to the emergence of a new class of wealthy people, but the corresponding entertainment methods have not kept up, which has led to these people who are rich but have nothing to do, to do such strange things.
Strange thing. This should be regarded as an imbalance between productivity level and spiritual construction."
The president looked at him in surprise and agreed with this view:
"That's it. So compared to those dangerous activities, wouldn't it be safer for people to participate in Rhodes competitions? Or come to a formal prophet association like ours for divination, and the noble ladies can talk about the stars and talk to others
Let’s look at the correlation between handprints and future fortune. This kind of activity is not dangerous at all.”
After the servants left, the two officially began to divine.
Although Shade was not worried at all that rashly divination would reveal his identity as a magician, but safety came first, so the divination he proposed had nothing to do with him:
"It's like this. I recently received a somewhat troublesome commission regarding inheritance and legal consultation. In order to protect the client, the specific information cannot be disclosed. I came here for divination, and I don't want to get the answer right away. I just want to
Looking for some vague guidance..."
He smiled sheepishly;
"Actually, I have always had doubts about the correctness of divination. Please don't mind."
"It doesn't matter, this view is very common."
Mr. Stan waved his hand and then asked seriously:
"So what exactly are you trying to divine?"
"Will my client, Mrs. Le Maire, be able to safely obtain a large sum of money in the near future?"
"It's no problem to divine the fortune of money. So, can you provide some information about the lady, otherwise it's impossible to divine."
Mr. Stein asked again.
Shade didn't really want to know the answer from here anyway, so he didn't hesitate much and described Mrs. Flamel's identity and age information, and also introduced her financial situation.
Mr. Stan nodded to express his understanding, looked around, and finally brought the teacup in front of him:
"There are actually many methods of divination, such as pendulums, crystal balls, water divination, bone burning, etc. This time why not let us try the relatively rare tea divination."
He took out some tea leaves from the tray, then closed his eyes and sprinkled it into the tea cup. After all the tea leaves fell from his hand, he opened his eyes and looked at the suspension situation, then poured the cup of tea away, and then looked at the tea leaves stuck to the bottom of the cup.
The condition of tea leaves.
"That's it."
Mr. Stan put down his tea cup.
Xia De did not feel any traces of elements during the whole process, which shows that the other party's "divination" is just the so-called divination of ordinary people.
"Then what's the result?"
he asked pretending to be curious.
"That lucky lady deserves a lot of money."
"That's good."
Shade smiled, actually feeling a little sad about the divination that cost him 2 shillings.
"By the way, I also did some divination for you."
Mr. Stein said again.
"for me?"
Shade said while observing the other person's expression, but it seemed that Mr. Stan did not notice anything strange.
Now he has the [Twenty-sided Dice of Destiny] in his pocket. He never touches this thing at home, but he always takes it with him when he goes out. Even if the other party uses the magician's ability to divine, there is a high probability that what he sees will be wrong results, and even more
Don't call it divination by ordinary people's means.
"What did you see?"
"The term 'seeing' is not accurate. It should be said to be feeling. Divination is a process that is difficult to describe. And for you, Mr. Hamilton, what is very strange is that I actually saw you become a person from the fog of the future.
A knight with a sword."
"knight?"
Shade felt baffled. The identity of "knight" had almost completely disappeared in the steam age. In the earlier era of the Sixth Age, knights belonged to the lowest level of the aristocratic class. They usually only owned a small fief, such as a manor. They were full-time soldiers.
, fight for the lord or king you are loyal to.
As firearms entered the army, the knight's fighting methods gradually declined, so that the entire class disappeared. As the times changed, even the inherited title of "knight" was few and far between. As far as Shard knew,
There are no more than 20 nobles with the title of "knight" in Delarian. Compared with the country's huge population and noble system, these people are almost nothing.
On the other hand, the "Knight of the Order of Delrayon with the Iris", the "Knightly Order of the Order of Delrayon with the Golden Ribbon" and the "Order of the Order of the Honorary Knight of Delrayon" derived from the knighthood, as extremely high kingdom honors, are more well-known.
These medals are usually only awarded to nobles who have made special contributions to the kingdom or royal family, and are rarely awarded to ordinary people.
Therefore, it is impossible for Shade to become a so-called "knight" in this era.