"I, Merlin VI, the last remaining member of the Merlin family, hereby make a prophecy!"
Andrew held the parchment book and turned to the last page.
Click.
The turned page of the book shattered in his hand, and before Andrew could be shocked, he felt a lightness in his hand.
The book originally wrapped in sheepskin in his hand began to rot quickly, and the broken pages flowed from the fingers.
Like a treasure that has been buried in the ground for thousands of years, the time that was originally frozen passed again after contact with the outside world, and changed into its original appearance within just half an hour of being unearthed.
All the other pages turned into fly ash, only the last page floated, and the prophecy written on it lit up with an ominous dark red blood light.
Following the feeling in his heart, Andrew slowly read out the [Prophecy] written in blood:
"[The Fool] is the beginning of everything.
[Magician] deceived everyone.
The self-righteous [Priestess] finally fell into her own prison.
The weak and incompetent [Queen] can only watch everything develop and can do nothing.
The [Emperor] whose son kills his father will eventually live in the past wearing his shackles and crown.
[The Pope] lost his faith and kept falling into the abyss.
【Lovers】Love each other in war, and part in peace.
The King's [Chariot] will crush everything.
[Power] that does not belong to you will inevitably get out of control.
[Hermit] hid in the dark and watched the ignorant crowd dancing wildly.
Under the guidance of the "Wheel of Fortune", we will go to destruction.
Powerless [justice] is not justice.
[The Hanged Man] looks at the world upside down and forgets about sacrifice.
[The God of Death] favors every soul fairly.
People in the world no longer control themselves, and the balance has long been broken.
[The devil] whispers in the depths of people's hearts, tempting the ignorant to death.
There are secrets hidden deep in the [Tower].
The [star] that everyone is chasing is hidden in the dark.
Ignorant people worship the [Moon], trying to gain power under the moonlight.
The benevolent [Sun] covers everything and gives false life.
The [Judgment] that belongs to everyone will surely come.
[The world] is the end of everything.”
When Andrew finished speaking the last word of the book, a cold wind suddenly blew in the hidden secret room.
!
Quickly closing the book, Andrew looked cautiously at the place where the wind came out.
It's the entrance to the secret room.
Because he was worried about being locked in, Andrew removed the old bed board to block the entrance when he came in.
The dark wind just now is just a normal phenomenon caused by air convection.
Scare yourself.
Relaxed, Andrew shook his head and sighed slightly with a self-deprecating smile:
"It's really embarrassing. It doesn't have the elegance of a nobleman at all."
Looking down at the book in his hand, Andrew's expression became slightly strange, and he paused before whispering:
"...It is said to be a [prophecy], but every word between the lines is full of [curses]!"
The last prophecy made by the last member of the "Chosen One" family turned out to be such a vicious curse.
This situation made Andrew silently sigh, but he also felt some empathy.
They both came from a declining aristocratic family, and they also faced a family that was about to collapse completely, but the two of them made different decisions.
Merlin VI chose to accept his fate after a symbolic struggle, and finally made a curse incompetently.
But Andrew is different. Unlike Merlin, who is a complainer who waits for death, he is an absolute hard worker.
Andrew's situation is better than Merlin's. His own talents allow him to make more substantive struggles, instead of complaining about being incompetent and furiously writing curses.
Talent and hard work have allowed Andrew to reach his current position step by step.
Originally, with his strength and position in the organization, he no longer needed to risk participating in this kind of competition, but Andrew himself had the mission of reviving the family, so he had to come.
This is not the first time I have participated in such a competition, and I am trying to win prizes.
In addition, he is still trying his best to make friends with some strong people and invest in some promising people.
Everything is the future of the family's revival.
Andrew is always trying his best to do everything well. No matter what it turns out to be, at least he has tried hard.
This is Andrew, a young nobleman with the mission of reviving a declining family.
The pages of the book floating in the air slowly fell down and fell safely into Andrew's hands.
The poem written in blood has long since faded away from its original color, and what remains on it are chilling dark red spots.
Even in the dark and cold secret room, it itself is the source of coldness, and the curse is so thick that it almost turns into reality.
Even if he just held it with his hand, Andrew would feel a cold force spreading through his fingers along his whole body.
A terrible curse.
Merlin VI, no, the resentment of the entire Merlin family is concentrated on this.
"Furthermore, is this prophecy...sourced from the [Major Arcana Card]?"
Tarot cards are an ancient divination tool that has been around since before the Dark Ages.
The specific origin of Tarot cards is unknown, and many occult experts have tried to find some clues from the documents of the Dark Ages.
The entire set of Tarot cards consists of twenty-two "Major Arcana" main cards and fifty-six "Minor Arcana" secondary cards.
The "Major Arcana Card" is used to explain the general fortune of fate, while the "Minor Arcana Card" is used to make up for the deficiencies of the former.
For ordinary people who just want to try to divine occult events here and seek excitement, generally speaking, they only use the "Major Arcana" for divination.
Tarot cards are widely spread, not only in the world of awakened people, but also in the world of ordinary people, some people use tarot cards for divination.
They make their own divination for different fields such as love, interpersonal relationships, work, etc.
However, ordinary people without magic power don't have to worry about causing any occult events.
Ordinary people's own spirituality or magic power itself is not enough to support the thorough performance of the ceremony. In the end, most of them will have nothing to do. Please feel comforted.
Even if some extremely special situations happen by coincidence, they will be discovered early and proactively stopped by the watch club's alarm.
In the world of the Awakened, the effect of Tarot cards is completely different.
For the ancient alchemists, the Tarot cards contained the secrets of nature, a collection of secrets that constructed and explained the universe.
For some spellcasters who specialize in prophecy, tarot cards will be the first choice for many people in divination and some attack methods.
[Prophecy] is not an unfathomable spell. There are spellcasters who specialize in it, and there are also some people who are born with prophecy-like abilities such as an extraordinary sixth sense.
In addition, the effect of prophecy is not as powerful as predicting the future.
The correct term for "prophecy" should be "limited prediction of the uncertain future".
First of all, the tributaries of destiny are not static and change all the time.
The future seen at the previous moment is not necessarily the final future, everything is constantly changing.
Even if the prophet sees a seemingly certain future, he can only say that it is possible to develop in this direction.
No one can say for sure how the future will develop.
nobody.
Moreover, prophecy does not come without cost.
The most common and intuitive one is to consume the prophet's lifespan.
The skin becomes old, the hair appears white, symptoms of serious illness appear, and even the body directly suffers some great pain.
This is still a superficial backlash, and the harm caused by the prophecy is more hidden.
Consuming personal luck may turn a prophet from a lucky person into a lone star.
In severe cases, it may even overdraft the luck of the relatives around the performer, or even the entire family.
According to Andrew's conjecture, the Merlin family in this world should be the kind of mortal family that is born with certain prophetic abilities.
With this ability, they have indeed gained a certain status and wealth.
However, during the hundreds of years of development that he had tasted the sweetness of talent, he used this power recklessly and recklessly, and in the end, the fate of the entire family was wasted.
In the end, he fell into the tragic situation of losing his family and his family.
【Those who play with miracles will definitely be counterattacked by miracles.】
This point has been confirmed by numerous people and events.
No longer thinking about this family, which in Andrew's opinion was self-inflicted but somewhat sad, he continued to think about the current situation.
"This prophetic poem mentions twenty-two cards and twenty-two intentions...what do they represent?"
Andrew is not a spellcaster who specializes in prophecy. He doesn't know much about Tarot and Major Arcana cards, and there is no way to directly divine anything from them.
Holding the paper of prophecy, he could only think and reason using the most basic methods.
The most reasonable explanation that Andrew can think of is that this prophecy symbolizes something or someone.
"Things are less likely, but people are the most likely."
"Could these images refer to twenty-two different people?"
Andrew's thinking this way is not a whimsical thought, because there was once a sentence of unknown meaning in some of the few remaining documents -
[Each card in the Major Arcana represents a god.]
And now that the gods have disappeared, Merlin VI's prophecy is unlikely to affect the level of the gods.
"Then...are they the contestants? Or are they among the undead?"
"And even if it represents the cards in it, what does it mean?"
Keep thinking, Andrew racked his brains.
Normal work is more of a no-brainer. Colleagues from other departments will take the initiative to prepare some information. All you have to do is just do it.
"No, I can't think of it."
After thinking hard for a long time, Andrew's handsome face was full of helplessness.
It’s over, and I have become the kind of person I despise.
A rude person who has a brain full of muscles and can't think for himself at all.
It's really inelegant.
"call……"
He took a long breath, and just as Andrew sighed self-deprecatingly, a voice sounded behind him.
call……
It was like a tired monster groaning in relief, and the cold wind blew on Andrew's neck.
There was a cold feeling on his neck, and the hairs stood on end. The horrified Andrew suddenly looked behind him!
!!!
A gray ghost with an old-looking face was looking at him with dull eyes, motionless.
"when!?"
Whoosh!
His body suddenly surged, and Andrew had no time to think. He quickly rushed towards the secret room and threw three daggers from his arms the moment he was far away.
Thumb thump thump!
The high-speed flying dagger was not blocked and went straight through the ghost's body and nailed to the wall behind.
Attacking with an enchanted dagger is not only a physical attack, but also has certain lethality against ghosts and spirits.
The dagger passed through, leaving three holes in the gray ghost's body.
Bo.
Then, as if the air was leaking, the originally vague ghost became more illusory, and the entire "body" began to dissipate inch by inch on the spot.
There was no resistance or escape. The ghost stayed where he was, looking at Andrew with complicated eyes.
no offence?
Quickly recovering from the sudden fright, Andrew stopped at the entrance of the secret room and stared at the ghost:
"Are you still conscious!? Who are you? Are you...Merlin VI?"
The most likely person to exist in this secret room is Merlin VI who left the vicious prophecy.
However, it seems that all the resentment has been left in the prophecy, and there is not even a trace of resentment left on the ghost in front of him.
The dissipation of the ghost spread to the head, and it finally responded.
The half-eyed ghost of God smiled.
That's a terrifying smile that makes people cringe!
The gray ghost stared at Andrew, and the intermittent voice echoed in his ears:
"You...you will be..."
"Next……"
Bo.
Before he finished speaking, the gray ghost completely dissipated, leaving nothing behind.
With a serious face, Andrew didn't change much because of the other person's last words.
"I wouldn't be you."
"never!"
The nobility and elegance of aristocrats flow in his blood, and he will not allow himself to fall into the miserable situation of the other party.
"But I have no enmity with him. Did he really show up in the end just to say something to curse me?"
Andrew couldn't figure it out and didn't understand the other party's motives.
After holding the pages of the prophecy and walking out of the secret room, Andrew looked out the window and towards the noisy night.
"His prophecies seem to contain some special meaning..."
After thinking for a moment, Andrew finally gave up thinking on his own.
"Forget it...let's forget about it. I think it's time to use this."
If you can be lazy, don't torture yourself.
If you can use an external brain, why not?
Sighing at his own depravity, Andrew touched his hand to the bosom of his exquisite clothes.
What he took out from his pocket was a silver-textured badge.
And the pattern on the badge...
It’s a purposeless crow!
…
…
On the cruise ship, the legends chatted in twos and threes, not only about the content of the "Star Chaser" competition, but also about other things.
It's just a game to kill time. With so many legends at the moment, it's even more of a good opportunity to communicate.
Except for Keynes, no one came close to Augustus, and no one came to disturb him.
Augustus was also happy with this scene and kept watching silently.
Finally, his calm blue eyes changed slightly when Andrew picked up the prophetic poem.
"Prophecy, prophecy again."
"...Sir, what exactly is the [Observed Project] looking for?"
A definite person?
Or, a hope?
"Now it seems that the greatest possibility..."
His eyes moved slightly, and Augustus looked at the young figure who was pulling the undead priest to express his feelings.