"Place your hands on the crystal ball, close your eyes, relax your body, and let fate decide."
Following the prophet's instructions, Anvis stretched out his pale, slender right hand and gently pressed it on the crystal ball.
A smooth and cold touch came from the palm of his hand, although his reason told him that the power of the wishing spell would most likely be arranged for him again.
But when it came time to actually start testing, Avis was still a little worried.
"Relax."
The prophet immediately noticed Avis's nervousness. In fact, most people who took the test had similar reactions.
"Don't be nervous, Lord Anvis, this is not scary. If you have talent, you will randomly see a small fragment of the future."
Anvis nodded, took a deep breath, closed his eyes slightly, focused all his attention on perception, and gradually entered a state similar to meditation.
At first, Anvis felt nothing except the hard touch of the crystal ball itself.
But as time passed, he was immersed in a trance and suddenly felt the existence of something!
It was a fog——
The moment Anvis felt the existence of this fog, in the study outside, the crystal ball emitted a gray-white light without any warning, and the image of a fog appeared in the crystal ball.
Seeing the changes in the crystal ball, the expressions of the two people present immediately changed. The prophet shrouded in gray robes was slightly startled, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.
The Duke was also slightly surprised, but this surprise immediately turned into joy.
Since the test had not yet been completed, Duke Carlot suppressed the joy in his heart and just stood aside quietly to watch. However, the slightly raised corners of his mouth revealed the true emotions in his heart.
"There have been changes..."
The prophet spoke slowly, with a hint of exclamation in his tone.
"Congratulations, Your Excellency the Duke!"
Hearing the prophet's congratulations, the Duke's mouth couldn't help but curl up. But when he was about to say something, suddenly——
"Crack-"
Suddenly, the light of the crystal ball flickered for a moment, and then exploded instantly!
The Duke's eyes suddenly froze, and countless flying fragments instantly froze in the air. The indoor space seemed to have suddenly pressed the temporary button, and it was like a photo that had been captured in an instant.
For a time, clear crystal fragments filled the study room, shining like stars in the night sky under the refraction of the sunlight outside the window.
Anvis looked at this scene with some surprise. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw this fantastic and beautiful "starry sky" scene.
The power of the crystal ball explosion was not great, and it did not hurt him under the protection of magic, but it woke him up from his state of perception.
The next moment, under the influence of magic, the countless 'stars' that were still in mid-air moved back along the same path at a seemingly slow but actually fast speed, and once again gathered into the original crystal ball.
Anvis could even see that some of the fragments that had been hit on the surface of the three bodies and bounced away by the magic power flew back along the original route.
After the second hit at the same point, it flew in the direction it originally flew from.
After the combination was completed, the cracks covering the entire surface of the crystal ball began to gradually fade away, close together, and shrink inward...
Finally, under Anvis's surprised gaze, countless cracks gathered at a point in the center of the crystal ball, and then disappeared after a faint flash of light.
The secret method of the eighth-level school of change—advanced reduction technique!
However, although the crystal ball was restored to its integrity, in Avis's perception, it had turned into an ordinary crystal ball.
All the mysterious power contained in it was lost and was not restored with the recovery of the crystal ball.
"What's going on, Irina?"
Duke Carlot frowned and looked at the seer's face hidden in the shadow of the hood. His slightly low words echoed in the study.
"What did you see just now?"
However, as the subject of the inquiry, the gray-robed prophet did not immediately respond to the Duke's inquiry. Instead, he immediately faced Anvis and spoke slightly hastily.
The ethereal and melodious tone brought obvious emotional fluctuations for the first time.
Anvis closed his eyes slightly, thinking about the scene just now, and spoke softly with some hesitation.
"A... starry sky?"
"Starry sky?"
Slightly stunned, the prophet named Irina turned to Duke Carrot, and the gray robe on her body wavered slightly.
"I'm sorry, Your Excellency Duke, this is the first time I've seen Anvis in this kind of situation, so I was a bit rude just now——"
Tapping the black dragon blood wood table with his index finger, Carlot looked at the prophet with some doubts.
"So, Irina, what does this phenomenon mean? Does Anvis have any talent for prophecy?"
"Theoretically, being able to cause strange phenomena to appear in the crystal ball means that the tester has the talent of a prophet, but the crystal ball will automatically explode during the test..."
The chief prophet's tone was hesitant, and she didn't know what this situation meant.
"I can't give a definite answer now, Your Excellency Duke. I'm afraid I need to seek answers from my teacher about this matter."
"Father, Your Majesty the Prophet, I have an idea."
At this time, Anvis suddenly spoke, attracting their attention.
"If you are not sure whether I have the gift of prophecy, can you open some prophecy magic books to me? See if I can learn and use them normally."
"Open prophecy books?"
After thinking for a while, Duke Carlot looked at the prophet.
"Is there any danger?"
The prophet Irina shook her head.
"Historically, there has never been any precedent for learning the art of prophecy to be dangerous. At most, it is impossible to get started."
The Duke nodded and turned to Anvis.
"In that case, give me your authority nameplate."
Anvis took out a metal plate engraved with the pattern of the howling crystal bird from the ring, held it up with magic power, and placed it on the table in front of the Duke.
The Duke reached out and picked it up. The heraldic ring on his finger flashed with a magical luster, and he lightly printed it on the surface of the nameplate.
"Take it, I have given you access to the prophecy school's classics."
………
The next day, the chief prophet bid farewell to the Duke.
She was planning to go on a long trip to the floating city of Orathian, the headquarters of the Magic Council located in the distant Federation of the Kingdom of Ittel.
Seek answers from her teacher, [Stargazer] Brunz, one of the three speakers of the Magic Council. See if you can get some residual information from the broken crystal ball.
After she left, Avis happily soaked in the large library, eagerly learning the newly unlocked magical knowledge of the prophecy school.
——Previously, they had been placed alone in a corner of the library, and the entire bookshelf was protected by powerful sealing magic.
Even in the past life, little Anvis, who was a seventh-level magician, could not get access to these books. Although Anvis is very greedy in this life, he has no way to start.
Now, he finally gained the authority to pass this seal.