The good news was not that good, but the bad news came one after another. Even Xia Duo, who had long expected it, couldn't help but feel a little pessimistic at this moment.
The situation was already so bad. It would be too cruel if even a trace of negative emotions could not be generated. Xia Duo felt a little sentimental, and then adjusted his emotions to cope with the bigger challenges ahead.
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Yongle City.
Xia Duo looked at the Starry Badge that was sent with the entry permit, and felt better again. It seemed that Osmantus did some practical things after returning to the country, and it was not that he did nothing.
Judging from the current chaotic and treacherous situation in Yeerlan, Osmantus must have spent a lot of effort to find him high-level access to the Starry Library.
Of course, it is also possible that the crown prince of Erlan provided it personally, or that Philipa helped. Osmantus did not say it, and Shado could also guess some possibilities, but regardless of this, he still recognized Osmantus's favor.
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It stands to reason that now that he has obtained the entry permit, he should summon the divine envoy to Ye Erlan, or go to Ye Erlan first and then summon the divine envoy.
But because of these things that the Illuminati exposed one after another, Xia Duo felt uneasy. In addition, he made a judgment based on in-depth research on excited state instruments - without complete preparations, the Illuminati should not be overly forced to avoid sharing the same fate.
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So, he thought about it carefully and decided to make a prediction first to see the possibilities in the future, so as to provide more support for his next actions.
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In the detection room, spiritual light shines.
“After all, it’s still a bit worse!”
Although the later-built Yongle City itself was more advanced than Chang'an City, Chang'an City was still more complete in terms of the infrastructure in the floating city, including a secret room dedicated to prophecy rituals.
Now Xia Duo can only use ordinary scrying rooms to make prophecies. Fortunately, the scrying rooms and the secret rooms specially built for prophecy rituals still have quite a lot in common.
And the most important thing is that the environment only provides protection, avoids detection, enhances perception, etc. Sha Duo always carries the things needed for the actual prophecy ceremony with him!
Standing in the center of the magic circle, he took a deep breath, his expression became firmer little by little, and then he took out an altar about one meter wide from the portable space, with gold and fine gold as the base.
A large number of complicated but orderly fine grooves are carved on the surface of the altar, filled with high-purity mithril and used as energy-conducting material. This is a necessary measure to anchor the present world for the prophecy ceremony.
Originally in the projection plane, the Red Heart Alliance could directly call specific components of the Alliance Mystery Lock. However, in the main plane, there is no Red Heart Alliance, and there is no ready-made Alliance Mystery Lock, so Shado needs to prepare these by himself.
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When he came back from the Red Heart Alliance, the first thing he was busy with was almost to create a living anchor altar for prophecy rituals. Of course, it also included the design and planning of the Yongle City where he is now.
In the center of the magic circle, Xia Duo carefully placed the Anchor Altar in the World, and then briefly checked it to confirm that there was no problem, and then activated it directly.
In a sense, the guiding circle used by the eternal Holy Spirit from the star world of the anchor altar to the material plane is actually the same thing!
(The Eternal Holy Spirit is an advanced method for arcanists. It has an eternal lifespan. It needs to stay in the star realm most of the time. It exists in the present and the future at the same time. It needs to be guided by the magic circle to determine the time. Once it accepts the call from the future, it will return
No longer in the material plane of the past, but no matter what the choice is, as long as all the guiding circles are stopped now and in the future, the eternal Holy Spirit will most likely be causally isolated from the material plane of origin forever, similar to what is said on earth.
outside the light cone, so generally no matter which time the Eternal Holy Spirit goes to the material plane, he will leave a summoning spell or array information to maintain the connection with the material plane, even if it is a connection in the distant future.)
The prophecy spell, in the words of the Red Heart Alliance, is a typical case of applying the "uncertainty principle of the timeline", or to determine the status of the timeline, which in layman's terms is the past, present or future.
Or it is necessary to determine the historical details of a certain moment without being able to determine whether this moment belongs to the past, present or future.
This is for the same prophecy. An effective prophecy includes multiple specific prophecies, or multiple specific behaviors of perceiving the timeline.
You can first determine whether the past, present or future is the present world anchoring was born for this purpose, and then you can perceive the timeline details of the limited moment. For the past, of course it is history.
When it comes to the future, there are endless possibilities for the future.
The current moment does not exist. The current moment has been anchored and exists in a conceptual sense. It can only go forward or backward.
Regarding past prophecies or detection, Shado does not need to use this method, because there are many specific detection spells that can do this.
What prophecy spells really face is the infinite future, which conventional detection spells can never do.
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With all preparations in place, Xia Duo took a deep breath again and adjusted his emotions to avoid any interference. As the spell progressed, his perception also penetrated the barrier of the material plane through the anchoring altar in this world and entered a silver void.
This way of entering the star realm was completely different from the usual experience of traveling to and from the star realm. At this time, he seemed to be a complete outsider.
Even the occasional wind from the astral world could not cause any fluctuations in his spiritual consciousness that was supposed to form an entity in this special world.
To him at this moment, the mental storm of countless mixed thoughts was as illusory as a mirror, a flower in the water, and the moon. In fact, it was just a projection of perception and maintained a special state of perception.
Afterwards, Sha Duo began to trace back to the source of his consciousness, and the source point projected through the anchoring altar in this world became extremely clear at this moment.
In pure conscious perception without any assistance, the source is like a spring that continuously gushes out water.
Every drop of water is a possibility for the future, and that possibility continues to divide into countless possibilities, thus converging into a water surface that continues to spread outward.
If there is no prophecy inheritance, this step is the limit of what most spellcasters can do. Perhaps some people with outstanding perceptual abilities can perceive the vague direction of time passage.
This is how Xia Duo perceived it before he obtained the prophecy inheritance, but after obtaining the prophecy inheritance, he already knew how to observe more carefully and see more details.
At this moment, his consciousness—or attention, perception, etc.—was divided into two parts. One part was in the astral realm, in a special state of nothingness observation, and the other part was in the main plane, continuing the ritual.
As the ritual progressed, the part of Sha Duo's perception that was projected into the star realm was quickly modulated. The next moment, the water-like timeline that he could perceive just now collapsed instantly, and then countless broken images poured into his perception.