Chapter 109 Draw a card before leaving
"It sounds like you're about to do something very dangerous."
Mrs. Mina, who came over with tea and snacks, said with some worry: "You have to be more careful."
"Speaking of which, Madam Mina," Aiwass smiled as he heard this. "Do you have any good things to sell in your shop?"
Madam Mina was also a little confused: "Good stuff...Are you talking about the fortune-telling shop I opened?"
"Yeah. Do you have a business selling antiques or treasure maps or something?"
Aiwass is looking forward to it.
Madam Mina was amused by him. "How is that possible? This is just an ordinary fortune-telling shop. I do buy antiques occasionally, but they are my personal collection and I don't plan to sell them for the time being.
"Although Meia says my divination is inaccurate, that's actually because I sometimes deliberately misinterpret it to maintain a relatively normal hit rate. This is to prevent people from trusting me too much.
"It's impossible to accurately predict the future, not even by the most powerful prophet. Because the moment you make a 'prophecy,' the moment you share the predicted image with others, the future has already been changed. Therefore, if you place too much faith in divination, you might fall into the 'prophecy trap,' and actually fulfill the prophecy."
"Actually, Mina's divination is quite accurate," the bishop said. "Because although she came here to study art, she's not really on the path of beauty. Mina's true path is the path of adaptation."
"That's right," Mina nodded gently. "I left Iris because my divination told me that staying in Iris would bring me great danger, while going to Avalon would likely allow me to immediately meet the knight of my life. He would be my teacher, my sun, and my guardian... and sure enough, I really did meet Mathers."
"...a [Prophet] who is adapted to the Way?"
Aiwass was stunned.
That's a rare profession. Players can't even choose it; it's a purely NPC profession.
"Yeah, how about I tell you my fortune?"
Madam Mina smiled and said, "I will interpret it properly this time and will not intentionally interpret it incorrectly for you."
"Can you predict anything?" asked Aiwass.
"It's best to only perform divination once per person, per day, and for each matter," explained Madam Mina. "The more you repeat divinations, the easier it is to disturb the thread of fate. Conversely, the longer the interval between divinations, the more accurate the divination results. Therefore, at Iris, the simplest way to prevent the prophet from spying is to ask the prophet to perform divinations on you repeatedly every day, manually disturbing your own thread of fate.
"Since you've never had divination done before, the first one will definitely be the most accurate. Would you like to try it? I'll give it to you for free."
“…Excuse me.”
Aiwass hesitated for a moment, but finally made up his mind.
Since I'm already here, I don't have much to do today. I might as well draw a card before leaving.
If the goods are shipped, then say that you are now in a strong momentum and tomorrow's action will definitely go smoothly!
If the product doesn't ship, then this divination will give me a head start for tomorrow, and tomorrow's operation will definitely go more smoothly!!
"You go ahead, I'm going back to rest first."
Sherlock was obviously not interested in divination. He went back to the second floor to read.
Mrs. Mina took Aiwass and Lily to her fortune-telling shop.
"What do you want to divine? What method do you use?"
Mrs. Mina, who was already wearing a black veil, put on a hat. The black veil hanging from the wide-brimmed hat obscured her emerald green eyes. She looked at Aiwass, her tone full of calmness and confidence.
Aiwass didn't think he would be in danger on this trip to see York lawyer.
Although he was a little disappointed that Madam Mina didn't sell antiques or treasure maps, maybe her divination would reveal something good?
——It’s free anyway, so why not use it?
"Can I take anything?"
Aiwass finally confirmed.
"Anything."
Madam Mina affirmed, "Whether it's accurate or not is another matter...but whether or not one can predict this depends entirely on the fortune teller's skill."
"In that case, I still lack a handy weapon."
Aiwass clasped his hands together and said sincerely, "Please help me find where I can get it—"
"……ha?"
Hearing what Aiwass said, Mrs. Mina was stunned.
She thought that Aiwas would predict her fate, predict her future achievements, or ask her about love, career, health... or even ask her about some difficult binary or triple choices that she didn't know what to do.
But she never thought that what Aiwass wanted to ask was so straightforward and so... pure?
"No?" Aiwass was a little disappointed.
"...Why not? It will definitely be fine."
Madam Mina looked like she had a toothache. "I just didn't expect you to say that. Wait a minute. Let me think about how to divine this."
"How about this, I'll use the dream method to see. You sit here and wait for a while."
Then, Mrs. Mina asked Aiwass for a few strands of his hair, wrapped them up, and placed them on her chest.
Then he drank a silver-white, glowing alchemical potion and immediately fell into a deep sleep on the chair.
Aiwass sighed in boredom.
Seeing that Lily had her hand on his shoulder, he reached over and picked it up, gently squeezing Lily's hand to pass the time.
He carefully observed Lily's slender yet slightly rough fingers. Lily was clearly a little shy, her pinky curled up. But she didn't withdraw her finger. Instead, she asked calmly, "I thought you would ask where to get a new tantra book, Master."
"Because you just read a tantra."
Aiwass smiled and said, "That's why you think the tantra book is a good thing... Although it is true, I am not in need of mystical skills anymore."
Because later, Ms. Meia planned to give him a tantra on the path of devotion—she said it was a gift, but in reality, she was just lending it to him. After all, one could learn it with just one reading, and it was a treasured and beloved book. When the time came, Aiwass would definitely have to politely return the book.
I don't know what my grandfather hid, but it's most likely a skill book. Maybe even a tantra-level one.
Tantras are the highest level of esoteric books. The knowledge in them is alive.
It is a translation of the "nameless texts" written by the Guptas, and is itself a kind of "text." The Gupta texts are incomprehensible to all except those on the path of wisdom—they are dead, demonic texts, and the brains of those on other paths cannot remember even a single symbol of them.
As long as one is qualified to open and read it, and can withstand the knowledge contained in it, one can directly learn the mysterious skills contained in it.
A transcribed version of a tantra is simply a plain textual record, devoid of any mystical value. For example, the written version of the Shepherd Tantra is essentially just an ancient legend.
——To put it simply, the tantric book is a “limited pool”.
If you miss this one, you can only wait for the "limited pool reprint" in other languages.
The profession of the Curse Mage can only be obtained when one first enters the Path of Transcendence, acquires the mysterious skills of curses and rituals, and does not yet master demonology.
The ritual was easy to learn, but the curse was very difficult to learn, and the corresponding skill was the extremely difficult blessing technique.
Avalon has never had such a profound and mysterious skill passed down.
However, in the original "Scaleless Hand", so many ritual wizards were born all at once - there were so many excellent priests in the university, but they could not learn the blessing spell after several years. Where did those folk extraordinary people who had not received formal education come from so many highly skilled curse masters?
So Aiwass believes that the "Scaleless Hand" may have a secret book related to the curse.
It was with this book that they were able to mass-produce those Transcendents with a tendency to transcend the Dao into Mantra Masters. Otherwise, it would be hard to explain why they chose the long route instead of the short one... The only explanation is that there were shuttle buses for the long route.
But in the end, the Supervisory Bureau obviously didn't find the book. If the Iron Hook Demon's intelligence was not enough to find the book, it might still be in that village.
In this case, Aiwass will have at least two tantric books in the foreseeable future.
Pushing the level of mystical skills also requires experience and energy - he is now like a seal who has drawn a lot of good cards. The cards are good, but he can't afford to maintain them.
The two pieces of good equipment that Lily got made him a little envious.
This key would eventually have to be returned to Bishop Mathers—it was his unit key, after all. Was it reasonable for the Guardian of the Holy Sepulchre to not have the key to the Holy Sepulchre he was guarding?
It's like the doorman can't open the door. He asks why, because he borrowed the key from a friend.
...The Bishop would definitely be in trouble if he did that. His behavior might even be more serious than this, an absolute violation of the rules.
But Aiwass really didn't have the right equipment.
——So before returning the key, Aiwass had to find a way to get a handy weapon.
The makeshift team they have now is pretty cool.
As a wizard, Sherlock has no staff and no code; as a law mage, he has no dagger of discipline - his dagger is usually brought by Edward and lent to him temporarily; as an inspector, Haina has no griffin, but she has a sword but no gun; as a priest, Aiwass has no mitre and no scepter; as a demonologist, he has no grimoire and no ritual bag.
Among the three people, one stood out with nothing in his hands.
The only thing that could be called a weapon was the small-caliber women's pistol in Aiwass's hand.
The only one with a main-hand weapon was Lily, the lowest level. Her silk thread could be used as a weapon, free of charge. Later, when she reached a higher level, she could tie eagle feathers to the thread.
It's like three big characters are leveling up with their smaller characters, and then the three big characters go out without any weapons, while the smaller characters are fully equipped.
Although Aiwass also knew that this was a peaceful time, and in this version, few people carried weapons except for soldiers and law enforcement officers...it still sounded ridiculous.
After a while, Mrs. Mina slowly woke up.
She looked at Aiwass, hesitant to speak.
"Mrs. Mina, have you seen the future?"
Aiwas's eyes lit up. Looking at her reaction, he knew she had clearly seen something in her dream.
——Wow, can I really draw cards in the mall?
"...Although the content of your divination is very bizarre and I have never seen anyone mention it in my life. But I did see——"
Madam Mina shook her head helplessly and prophesied, "I saw you summon butterflies made of pure flames at will as a defensive weapon."
Upon hearing this, Aiwass immediately realized that this prophet was indeed quite valuable. Not only did he not say anything supernatural, he even saw his Phantom Card!
Ai Hua immediately showed great respect to Madam Mina and asked, "And then? Is there anything else?"
"There's another book," Madam Mina nodded, trying to explain to Aiwass. "Although it's strange, it really is a book. At least according to the content of the Dharma I dreamed of, the Sand Clock's response to your request, 'Where is the weapon that best suits you?' does point to a book in the future. But it's not a tantra."
That should be a magic book, Aiwass understood.
"What kind of book is that?"
Aiwass asked, "Can you please help me predict exactly where it is?"
Madam Mina wiped the sweat from her forehead helplessly. "I have to make it clear in advance...after this prediction, I may not be able to perform divination for you for a long time. I can't guarantee the accuracy of my divination.
"For some reason, the threads of your destiny are unusually tangled, the threads of many powerful beings entangled in you. It took me a long time to sort out which thread belongs to you, but your destiny seems to be otherworldly.
"You have to understand, Aiwass, I'm a fourth-level [Prophet], and you're only at the second level. Under this level of suppression, I can't even see your future clearly. If I were younger, or if you were stronger, I would probably have fainted right now."
After making a very detailed disclaimer, Mrs. Mina yawned deeply and became a little depressed.
As she stood up and packed her things, she answered casually, "The location is Eagle Point Village in Pastoral Bay County. I saw that when you found the book, Sherlock and someone I didn't know were with you. I vaguely saw the name of the book...
"It seems to be called The Book of Law."
Good news, at least my head doesn’t hurt anymore when I woke up.
Bad news, my sleep and sleep schedule is still messed up... Yesterday I wanted to wait until night to sleep together, but I was so sleepy in the afternoon that I couldn't help it and fell asleep again at four or five o'clock. I woke up at half past eleven and was still quite energetic.
What else can I do?
At least my headache is gone and I can write now.
I should be able to recover after I get some more sleep. I'll probably wait until the end of the month to take a day off and save the draft for a day before adjusting this Nine Yin Nine Yang schedule.
I need at least a day's worth of drafts saved before I can adjust my work schedule, because I can't do anything during those two days. And cats post as much as they write, so I can't save any of it. Once I have drafts saved, I'm itching to post them...
Anyway, I'll take a leave in advance until the end of the month. Today I will also update more than 7,000 words!
But according to the outline, the plot at the end of the month should be the advanced version of Beyond the Path, which seems to be difficult to ask (sad)
I'll try to finish this advanced course before asking—
(End of this chapter)
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