Chapter 100: Tracing the Prophecy (1) Si Ling lowered his eyes and looked very good...
"Don't worry." The Fox Ancestor glanced at her and smiled slyly. "Satan won't miss any opportunity to cause trouble for Lucifer. Tell him that no matter how much he wants, we'll split it 70% and he'll take the lion's share."
This was a double temptation, so the Fox Ancestor was confident. His subordinates exchanged glances hesitantly several times, and finally found another fox demon of a high enough level to meet Satan.
When Fox Ancestor got the result an hour later, he was very surprised: "Did you tell him about the Ghost Academy? And did you say 30/70?"
"I said it, everything I said." The subordinate who came to reply shook his head dejectedly, "But he's not interested."
Fox Ancestor was very surprised by this, perhaps because Si Ling had just come to ask about the prophecy, and she immediately thought of the prophecy.
...The prophecy mentions a "reshuffle in the divine realm." Could this mean Satan and Lucifer are reconciling?
This thought flashed through his mind, and Fox Ancestor grimaced at his own imagination and shook his head, not wanting to think about it.
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Early morning, Goblin Academy.
Si Ling and Xuan Chi separated after returning from Lingbo City.
The atmosphere between the two people was filled with an inexplicable awkwardness, because although they didn't know what the other saw in Moloch's illusion, they knew very well what they saw.
Satan said that Moloch would manipulate people's hearts and create illusions.
...This is not a big deal for Si Ling. As a real evil spirit that has been floating around for 30,000 years, she is not an ignorant little girl.
Although subjectively, he cared more about the psychological comfort that Hyun Chi brought to her as a "peer", she was not unaware of the other feelings that arose in her heart.
But for her, this could be completely ignored, and should be. At her age, love itself was not worth mentioning. Hyun Chi's future was full of uncertainties. She could easily imagine many possible troubles, so indulging her feelings would be foolish.
Especially when she was about to become an immortal, something as illusory as love was not worth the risk.
But for Xuan Chi, the impact of the illusion is not that simple.
After returning to Hohenzollernburg, he locked himself in his bedroom. In the darkness, the scenes from the fantasy resurfaced in his mind. Si Ling's voice drifted faintly in his ears, and she asked him with a smile, "You like me, right?"
He also said: "Whether we become immortals or ghosts, we are all together."
He initially thought it was the residual effect of Moloch's spell, like the sequelae of human illness, but when he adjusted his breathing, the voice still lingered, and Xuan Chi soon realized that it was his inner demon.
In other words, from the very beginning, that illusion was his inner demon.
That was the most secret thought in his heart, so secret that he himself did not understand it before, until Moloch punctured the window paper.
After seeing all this, Xuan Chi felt ashamed. He felt that this was a blasphemy against the grace of saving his life.
So for the next two days, he locked himself in his room.
In the Ghost Academy, this is not a situation that requires attention. After all, these nominal students are at least hundreds of years old. Everyone is willing to stay in the school to give Lucifer face. Lucifer is content as long as they don't cause big trouble. It is impossible for him to require students not to skip classes like schools in the human world.
Si Ling had sent messages to Xuan Chi in the past two days, asking him what he was doing, but when Xuan Chi replied that he wanted to take a break, she didn't ask anything else because she had some small troubles to deal with: hiding from Lucifer.
So she didn't go out much these two days.
On the third day, people from Fox City came to the school with the things Si Ling needed. Out of respect, they went to see Lucifer first. This gave Lucifer another opportunity. He asked the people from Fox City to leave the information and said he would pass it on. The office workers in Fox City didn't want to have much contact with Si Ling, so they happily accepted this suggestion.
Si Ling had no choice but to go to Lucifer to get the information, and then Lucifer kept nagging at her.
The two walked through the castle corridor one after the other. Si Ling quickened his pace, and Lucifer followed suit. "We can always negotiate, right? As long as you are willing to teach me that spell and tell me what position you want, even though Satan won't agree in principle, I can directly move you out. You are the principle."
Si Ling: “…”
Lucifer persisted: "If the Ghost Academy can't satisfy you, I can also ask Satan for a position directly. As long as you ask, I promise to do it. I don't mind fighting with him for it."
Si Ling: “…”
Lucifer: "If all hell can't satisfy you, I'll go to Jehovah. Don't you want to become an immortal? Our Western gods are also immortals!"
Si Ling finally stopped, turned around and looked at Lucifer, and asked him a little collapsed: "Principal Lucifer, how can I make you believe that I don't know where that spell came from, and I was unconscious at the time?"
Lucifer looked at her silently, clearly showing that he didn't even believe the punctuation marks.
Si Ling spread his hands speechlessly: "I know what you're thinking - you're right, it's strange that I pulled Xuan Chi out of that pile of broken limbs while unconscious, but unconsciousness is unconsciousness. I might have done that because I subconsciously wanted to protect him, or maybe it was just because that pile of broken limbs looked really disgusting... I really can't explain it."
Seeing Si Ling's impetuous yet sincere expression, Lucifer finally gave up: "Okay." He sighed regretfully, then said hopefully, "But if you figure out that spell one day..."
"Then I certainly wouldn't mind teaching you, and we'll negotiate the price then!" Si Ling said firmly, finally ending Lucifer's entanglement.
After parting with Lucifer, Si Ling returned to the top floor of the dormitory and knocked on Xuan Chi's door. After knocking several times, a muffled voice came from inside: "Who?"
"It's me." Si Ling said straight to the point, "Fox City sent the information. Shall we take a look at it together?"
A few seconds later, the door opened, and Xuan Chi said "Come in" with his eyes lowered. Si Ling walked into the living room, sat down on the sofa, and spread out the documents in his hand on the coffee table one by one.
Xuan Chi looked at her silently, then sat down stiffly on the single sofa at the side, more than a meter away from her.
This distance was a bit inconvenient for them to look at the materials together. Si Ling moved over there. Although they were still sitting on two sofas forming a right angle, they were much closer. When she raised her eyes inadvertently, she saw that he had moved a little further away.
Si Ling understood, said nothing, and flipped through the papers on the table.
These pages can be roughly divided into four documents, namely A Ling's confession and several versions of the prophecy records in different languages that she wanted.
Si Ling read the confession first. A Ling admitted that she had sold the information to Morlock because she felt that the Fox Ancestor was too obsessed with the return of his mother and sister, and at the same time obsessed with the prophecy, which would put the Fox Clan in danger. So she wanted Morlock, who needed a summoned beast, to capture Hyun Chi and thus interrupt the prophecy.
But A Ling insisted that she had no knowledge of the fact that Moloch was in possession of the celestial artifact.
Fox Ancestor was obviously afraid of causing more trouble due to this result, so he attached a handwritten letter from Fox Ancestor to the confession.
The Fox Ancestor said in the letter that although she was disappointed by A Ling's betrayal, she believed what A Ling said was true, because even the Fox Ancestor herself had never seen the heavenly artifact, and the heavenly artifact was powerful. The more shallow the ghosts' cultivation, the easier it was to sense this powerful aura and fall for it.
This means that even if it only appeared briefly in Lingbo City, it would cause the little ghosts to become mentally unstable. However, this has never happened in Lingbo City, and A Ling has always lived in Lingbo City.
At the same time, Fox Ancestor also made a suggestion, asking Xuan Chi to think carefully about whether he had seen anything similar.
Fox Ancestor wrote: He was ordered to come to the West as a general, and this was not a short journey. Whether he came alone or led a large army, he always had to bring something with him. Any seemingly insignificant daily item scattered around could become a rare and precious magic weapon.
In other words, the fox clan thought that the thing might just be a bowl of rice or water used by a god.
When Si Ling read this quickly, Xuan Chi also read about the same point. He frowned with a complicated expression: "Do you believe her?"
"I don't quite agree with Fox Ancestor's speculation, but I believe A Ling when she says the artifact has nothing to do with her."
Si Ling lowered his eyes, hiding his emotions well.
She put aside all distractions and read the prophecies carefully. The Classical Latin and Ancient Latin versions only contained the prophecies themselves, and the content was similar to what the fox tribe said, with only some subtle differences in the details of the wording.
For example, the last sentence of both the version narrated by Fox Ancestor and the classical Latin version is "The guilty shall receive the judgment they deserve", while in the earlier ancient Latin version, this sentence is written as "The unfaithful sinner shall receive the judgment he deserves".
There is also what Fox Ancestor said, "The world of gods is about to be reshuffled." This is obviously a more modern statement. In the classical Latin and ancient Latin versions, this sentence is expressed as "Theocracy is about to change."
Then, in the original Celtic language, which was hundreds of years older than ancient Latin, Si Ling not only read the prophecy itself, but also saw two lines of footnotes:
"A classic prophecy circulated in Atlantis."
"The gods of Atlantis believed this so firmly that they took their followers and went into hiding to avoid disaster."
"...Disappearance?" Xuan Chi muttered this word, his eyebrows and mouth corners twitching.
Because if we translate this sentence into language, it means: In order to avoid being affected by the reshuffle of the gods, the gods of Atlantis chose to live in seclusion with their believers.
Slip away! Goodbye!
"Is this the reason why Atlantis sank?" He turned his head and looked at Si Ling with a complicated expression.
"It's hard to say." Si Ling shrugged and pondered, "I think we can ask Lucifer... Forget it, let's ask Thoth, she has existed for a longer time."
And Thoth wouldn't chase her to learn spells.
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