For ordinary people who just want to try their hand at divination and seek thrills in these mystical events, they generally only use the "Major Arcana" cards for divination.
Tarot cards are widely used, not only in the world of the enlightened, but also in the world of ordinary people.
They offer their own divinations for different areas such as love, interpersonal relationships, and work.
However, ordinary people without magic don't need to worry about actually triggering any mystical events.
Ordinary people's spirituality or magical power is insufficient to support the thorough conduct of a ritual, and in the end, nothing usually happens; they just seek psychological comfort.
Even if some extremely special circumstances occur by chance, they will be detected and stopped early by the Watchers' alert.
In the world of the Awakened, however, the effects of Tarot cards are entirely different.
For ancient alchemists, the Tarot cards contained the secrets of nature, gathering the secrets that constituted and explained the universe.
For some spellcasters who specialize in divination, tarot cards are the preferred method of divination for many and an alternative method of attack.
[Prophecy] is not some profound and mysterious magic. There are spellcasters who specialize in it, as well as some people who are born with prophetic abilities such as an extraordinary sixth sense.
Furthermore, the effect of prophecy is not as powerful as predicting the future.
The correct way to say "prophecy" is "to predict the uncertain future to a limited extent".
First of all, the currents of fate are not static; they are constantly changing.
The future you see in the previous moment is not necessarily the final future; everything is constantly changing.
Even if a prophet sees a seemingly certain future, he can only say that there is a possibility that things will develop in that direction.
No one can predict exactly how the future will unfold.
There is no one.
Moreover, prophecy does not come without a price.
The most common and obvious method is to deplete the prophet's lifespan.
Skin becomes aged, hair turns gray, symptoms of serious illness appear, or even one suffers extreme physical pain.
This is only the surface backlash; the harm brought by the prophecy is more insidious.
Consuming personal luck could turn a prophet from a lucky person into a cursed lone star.
In severe cases, it can even deplete the fortune of the practitioner's relatives or even the entire family.
According to Andrew's conjecture, the Merlin family in this world should be the kind of mortal family that is born with a certain ability to predict the future.
With this ability, they did indeed gain a certain status and wealth.
However, in the hundreds of years of development after tasting the sweetness of talent, they recklessly used this power without regard for the consequences, ultimately exhausting the entire family's fortune.
They ended up in the tragic situation of their families being destroyed and their loved ones dying.
Those who manipulate miracles will inevitably be devoured by them.
This conclusion has been reached after countless people and events have confirmed it.
Stopping thinking about the family that Andrew felt was both guilty and somewhat pathetic, he continued to consider the current situation.
"This prophetic poem mentions twenty-two cards, twenty-two different meanings... what do they represent?"
Not being a specialized divination practitioner, Andrew didn't know much about Tarot and the Major Arcana, and couldn't directly divinate anything from them.
Holding the prophetic paper, he could only use the most basic methods of thinking and reasoning.
The most reasonable explanation Andrew could think of was that the prophecy symbolized something or someone.
"The possibility of things is smaller; the most likely possibility is people."
"Do these images refer to twenty-two different people?"
Andrew's thinking was not a wild and unfounded fantasy, because there was a vague sentence in some of the few surviving documents—
Each card in the Major Arcana represents a deity.
Now that the gods have disappeared, Merlin VI's prophecy could not possibly affect the realm of the gods.
"Is it... one of the contestants? Or one of the undead?"
"Furthermore, even if it represents the cards themselves, what meaning would it possibly have?"
Andrew kept thinking, racking his brains.
Most of the work is not mentally taxing; colleagues from other departments will proactively prepare the information, and all I have to do is follow the instructions.
"No, I can't think of anything."
After racking his brains for a long time, Andrew's handsome face was full of helplessness.
That's it, I've become the kind of person I look down on.
He's a rude person whose mind is all muscle and who can't think for himself.
That's really inelegant.
"call……"
He let out a long sigh, and just as Andrew sighed self-deprecatingly, a voice sounded behind him.
call……
It was as if a weary monster had let out a relieved groan, and a cold wind brushed against Andrew's neck.
A chill ran down his neck, his hair stood on end, and Andrew, terrified, suddenly looked behind him!
!!
A gray ghost with a somewhat aged face was staring at him with a blank look, motionless.
"when!?"
Whoosh!
With a sudden burst of speed, Andrew rushed out of the secret chamber without thinking, throwing three short daggers from his chest the instant he was far away.
Ta-da!
The high-speed flying dagger was not hindered and passed straight through the ghost's body, embedding itself in the wall behind it.
Attacking with an enchanted dagger is not just a physical attack; it also has a certain killing power against spirits and vengeful ghosts.
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