Annan and Ghirlandaio were the first to leave the teahouse.
To be more precise... he fled the scene of the crime.
"Uncle, what do you think?"
Annan took a deep breath and made a heavy sound.
Beside him, the wizard Ghirandaio of the Prophet School gently patted his shoulder.
"It'll be okay."
The middle-aged man with black hair and black eyes replied firmly: "Because they can't fight."
He has thick curly hair, his eyes are as deep as if they were burned deeply, and his face is as profound as a statue.
"Are you so sure?"
"nature."
Ghirlandaio replied with great conviction: "That's why it's even more important to exclude variables."
"variable?"
"Well... you can understand it as variables in terms of nature, quantity, intensity, etc. on the basic phenomena that have been fixed..."
"No, it's not that I don't understand the word."
Annan shook his head and asked: "What I mean is, do prophecy spells need to eliminate variables?"
"...mostly, yes."
Ghirlandaio nodded and asked with some doubts: "Doesn't the Zedi Black Tower have a tutor in the prophecy department?"
Without waiting for Annan to answer, he explained, with a tone like a mentor: "To put it simply, the abilities and spells of the prophecy system can be roughly divided into two categories. One is prediction, and the other is perception.
"The ability to predict is to proactively search for event information in 'future recording points'.
"For example, you give me two numbers at will and ask me to calculate the result... Because I can definitely calculate this problem, and its result is uniquely certain. So I can skip the process now and predict it directly.
its result.
"Similarly, predicting ballistics, predicting answers, and predicting the heads and tails of coins are all very simple abilities, and you don't even need to cast spells. But predicting who I will meet today, and predicting where we will go next is much more complicated...
To put it simply, as long as predictions other than your own are included, the difficulty and consumption will suddenly increase, and the error rate will also increase."
“In general, the more fixed and unique the answer is, the easier it is to obtain the result. The more variable the process, the more difficult it is to predict.
"For example, I can predict what you just wanted to say..."
Ghirlandaio stared at Annan, thought for a while and said: "You want to say, 'Is human thought a variable', right? The answer is, 'Yes'."
--Yes.
Annan nodded.
Although there are some general differences...for example, what he wants to ask is actually "Do you want to exclude the variable of 'thought'?"
This slight error should come from Ghirlandaio's misunderstanding of Annan and Gerald.
"So, you can see the future briefly?"
Annan asked.
"We are seeing the short future," the uncle corrected, "what we can know is only the information 'what we can know'.
"As long as the uncertain nodes that affect the future are clear, we can see the results in advance...that is the future in my eyes."
As Ghirlandaio said, he glanced at the tea room, and then glanced at Annan with deep meaning: "As long as we all leave, they will definitely not be able to fight; and if you and Her Royal Highness Maria stay inside, they will
There is a high probability that there will be a fight...
"But I just took a casual look. I don't know what will happen next. But I personally prefer to follow the direction of the future that can be determined, rather than changing the future to an unknown direction."
"That's it..."
Annan nodded slowly.
A strange idea suddenly came to his mind.
To confirm this idea, he asked Ghirlandaio: "What about perception?"
"Perception..."
Ghirlandaio sighed in confusion.
His answer this time was simple: "To put it simply, the teacher suddenly sensed that he was about to die. This is perception. You cannot actively seek answers, and the answers may not be useful, but the results of perception are basically fixed.
"Because several key nodes anchoring the future have already happened, but we did not notice it... To put it simply, it is too late. It is absolutely impossible to change the future by our own strength. If you want to change what you get from perception,
To predict, a lot of variables have to be introduced.”
Annan generally understood.
The principle of prophecy spells is basically to obtain some fragmented information from your future self, either actively or passively.
This is indeed a very versatile spell.
The result of "prediction" is "future possibility", so it can be changed at will.
The result obtained in "perception" is the "next ending".
It's not that the perceived future cannot be changed.
But it is difficult to shake the tide of fate with your own strength alone.
Annan was silent for a while.
That being the case.
Is their ritual used to change the fate of "Michelangelo was killed"?
--Yes.
So far, there is no conclusive evidence that "Michelangelo is dead."
The reason why they think so is just because the stone statue said so to them when they entered.
But what if the stone statue told lies?
No, it's not necessarily a lie.
Because that stone statue never said, "Michelangelo is dead" from beginning to end.
Not a word was mentioned.
It only published Michelangelo's suicide note. Michelangelo only declared, "My murderer is among you."
But if what he said was not "the past".
——But what about "the future"?
"Hey, David. Did you...think of something?"
Ghirlandaio said softly.
Annan looked at him and was silent for a while: "What are you referring to?"
"You're into this ritual we're in."
The uncle stared at Annan and lowered his voice a little: "Do you have any special ideas..."
"What are you talking about?"
Just then, Maria's voice came.
She frowned slightly, crossed her arms and looked at Annan.
There was undisguised suspicion on the face that was young and delicate, like a top-grade doll.
The mute old man Merlin lowered his head and stood behind her listlessly.
But Annan could sense an inexplicable and strong sense of danger from him.
"——Three people discussing it."
Before the uncle spoke, Annan answered first: "As long as we all leave, the three of them will probably not fight."
"Prophecy?"
Maria Winter nodded thoughtfully, as if she had thought of something.
At this moment, Annan suddenly asked:
"Your Highness Maria, what do you think of our current situation?"
"what you mean?"
For some reason, Maria always seemed very wary every time she talked to Annan.
She was silent for a while and then replied seriously: "I don't think Melvin will be the only one who died.
"Someone will definitely die next... Everyone should think so. Everyone also knows that there is only one murderer, and it is impossible to kill two people, so they all hug each other... Like you, like us, like Claire
and gold.”
"So your idea is that Master Benjamin is the murderer?"
Annan asked.
Want to kill a gold level wizard.
This transformation sect master who is infinitely close to the gold level can undoubtedly do it. He has not formed a team with anyone yet, so he is the biggest suspect.
But the problem is...
Annan knew from the beginning that Benjamin was innocent.
The reason is the same as Gerald.
Because Benjamin did not die here, nor did he successfully advance. Instead, he returned to the Black Tower alive and recruited new students...for example, Salvatore.
Somewhat surprisingly, Maria shook her head firmly.
"No, I don't think he is the murderer."
she replied.
She looked at Annan and replied without hesitation: "I think...