Chapter 282: The Fortune-teller's Self-Cultivation |
Chapter 282 The Fortune-teller's Self-Cultivation
The students looked up at the sky, all shocked.
Not only was the moonlight dim when they climbed the spiral staircase, but when Professor Medea drove the pumpkin carriage into the classroom from the ceiling, they also noticed that the moon in the sky was not bright.
But in such a short period of time, the night sky seemed to have another background, and the moon as the center of the composition became bigger and rounder.
This gave students the illusion that Professor Medea had the ability to manipulate the stars in the sky!
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Dark squinted his eyes and observed the moon, thinking for a while.
Throughout the ages, many so-called "miracles" had been performed in this way.
But in fact, it was likely to be only a natural phenomenon of the moon appearing after the clouds dispersed.
A qualified fortune-teller could always utilize various opportunities.
Many times their "predictions" were not real "divinations", but accurate speculations on various phenomena relying on profound knowledge.
After all, every time they did a "divination", they would need to pay a high price.
If they needed to do a "divination" whenever they encountered something, then the real fortune-teller would have already gone extinct.
Dark vaguely remembered that a well-known magician once said that the core of magic lay in acting skills, and every brilliant magician was a qualified actor.
And after he gradually got to know the profession of a fortune-teller, he realized that the so-called fortune-tellers were also actors!
Thinking about it this way, Dark suddenly felt that this would probably make little Eevee, who was proficient in [Ultimate Copycat], a natural fortune-teller. "Emmm..."
"Vee?" The little Eevee in the magic card looked at the night sky, its little face was full of curiosity.
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All of a sudden.
A water-like transparent film appeared on the opened ceiling.
The strange rays of light emitted from the four sides of the classroom divided the falling moonlight into densely packed small pieces, which were scattered and projected in front of every student.
Professor Medea waved her wand, using special magic to fine-tune the effect.
Then a small night sky appeared on every student's desktop.
The bright moon rose and fell in the clouds, and the clouds gathered and dispersed.
Sometimes, the moon was submerged in the clouds, sometimes, it revealed its full brilliance.
The students were all amazed by the scene, shifting their attention from the bright moon in the sky to the projection on the table.
At first glance, it seemed that the scene in the sky had been transferred to their desktops, making students unable to help themselves but stretch out their trembling hands to touch the projections carefully.
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This amazing projection magic was far beyond what humans could do.
Just like the reflections on the water, they were illusory and fascinating.
"It's so beautiful!" All the girls exclaimed in amazement.
Although the boys' reactions were not as dramatic as the girls, they were all inexplicably excited.
They were still little kids after all.
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"The moon is the most important part of the stars."
"Since ancient times, people have observed the stars and worshiped the sun and the moon because the stars have divine power."
"To predict fate from the trajectory of the stars is a part of astrology."
Professor Medea's voice was like a calm stream in a quiet forest, flowing through the students' heart as she spoke, making people remember what she said unconsciously.
"Our topic tonight is to deduce the future from the moon and perform divination."
"Now, let's observe the moon carefully..."
"Mhm, Emma Mortis, what's the problem?"
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Emma raised her hand and asked: "Professor, is there no specific method? I mean, something like a Magic Charm?"
Medea couldn't help smiling: "Yes, of course, there is. But that's not something beginners can master. What we need now is to find that trace of feeling first."
She raised her hand, putting her thumb and index finger together to form a ring, and gestured slightly.
Actually.
Fortune-telling required talent.
Some people were born knowing the future, whereas some people were born with divine eyes that could see the future with a simple glance.
If one didn't have the above talents, no matter how hard they tried, they wouldn't be able to see anything.
But the potential of the human brain was unpredictable.
The talents related to this cannot be expressed intuitively like magic energy.
Therefore, it was difficult to determine whether a person had the talent for divination or not.
This gave people more room for imagination.
Some so-called "fortune-tellers" relied on such pitiful obsessions to support them until they grew old, but in the end, they achieved nothing and could only survive by relying on acting skills and deception.
Anyway, Emma sat down after getting the answer.
The students also widened their eyes and observed the bright moon on the table more seriously.
As for whether they could find that trace of feeling and see something from it, Dark wasn't sure. After all, he himself couldn't see anything from it.
He blinked his eyes, and tried his best to see the rough surface of the moon on the table, but the pixels of the moon was obviously not enough.
No matter how carefully he looked at it, he could only see the light and shade changes of the moon, the slight movement, the gathering and scattering clouds around, and the occasional stars that flashed in the quiet night.
He couldn't imagine how one was able to deduce the fragmented future from this bit of information.
Maybe he really didn't have the talent for it.
Or maybe it was because he had lost his childhood innocence and could no longer learn astrology.
But fortunately, he still had an adorable little Eevee!
Dark turned the stand around and placed it on the edge of the table, facing him.
Then he leaned [Phantom Magic Beast: Eevee] on the stand, so that Eevee could clearly see the change of the moon.
"Notice anything?" Dark injected magic energy into the tip of the magic energy pen, and prodded Eevee-chan on the forehead.
But Eevee-chan just shook its head, looking at him with its big eyes.
"No hurry." Dark was still very patient, especially when he was supervising others' work...
"Vee!!!"
"It's useless to act like a baby." Dark poked its little ear again.
It made little Eevee look sad.
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After several minutes of quiet observation.
The little magisters, who didn't notice anything, couldn't help whispering.
The originally quiet classroom gradually became noisier.
Medea's eyes swept across the classroom and finally landed on Eudora.
After observing it carefully, she found that the atmosphere centered on her was gradually changing.
She seemed to have been immersed in a certain feeling.
Professor Medea nodded slightly, cast a projection onto her desk, and clapped her hands: "The knowledge of divination is endless. Astrology is just one part of it. To learn astrology, imagination is very important. We must not restrain our imagination and learn to be able to see deers from horses, to see the color green on the sun, to see the star map from the man......"
"A fortune-teller is rational, but a beginner is perceptual."
"Let go of your mind, be as imaginative as you want, and make everything wonderful!"
Medea tapped the wand, and the night sky on the desktop changed suddenly. The pitch-black night background seemed to turn into ink, swallowing the night sky like a tide, and finally turning into a three-dimensional starry sky in a ball shape.
From the starry sky, a beam of moonlight shot out, connecting all the stars together, forming a twinkling star map, which was beautiful and magnificent.
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With just this, some people in the classroom suddenly entered the state, and the starry sky on many people's desktops had slight changes.
Professor Medea continued to point at the star map, lighting up nine stars one by one continuously: "Nine is the extreme number, and there will be nine stars shining brightly tonight."
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At this moment, Eudora's desktop burst out bright starlight!
The starlight that opened up the night and illuminated the darkness flickered frequently as if time was speeding up.
Eudora opened her hands, her tender and immature face was full of bewilderment.
Her eyes had been dyed pitch black at some point, dotted with twinkling stars, mysterious and profound.
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Professor Medea narrowed her eyes suddenly, and the silver moon in the depths of her eyes gradually rose.
The little magisters present were even more surprised.
The students around Eudora showed expressions of astonishment as if they just met her for the first time and then couldn't help but back away.
The focus of the entire classroom was on her all of a sudden.
Dark didn't forget to turn the face of the magic card to Eudora. Although he had expected it in his heart, he was also surprised.
Even if he had never seen it in person, he could still guess that this was a sign of "divination"!
Unlike Professor Medea's casual predictions during her first lecture, Eudora's "divination" was likely to be formal.
As her eyes filled the stars, she was observing fate!
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"Ah!" Suddenly, there was a scream, and Eudora's face twisted instantly, showing a painful look.
The stars in her eyes became disordered.
The starry sky in front of her was swept away like a storm, and a majestic and terrifying atmosphere suddenly broke out, quietly forcing away the surrounding Noble House students.
A commotion began to spread out.
Some students were flustered, and some were excited.
At this moment, almost everyone realized that Eudora was doing a "divination"!
The girl sharing the same desk with her was at a loss, looking at Professor Medea as if asking for help.
But the professor just raised her hand and pressed it down, signaling for silence.
Medea looked equally serious.
The "first prediction" of a fortune-teller was actually very dangerous.
Because no one knew what price she would have to pay for it.
The price that each fortune-teller needed to pay in each period was different.
Some fortune-tellers even needed to pay the price with their lives when they did their first fortune-telling!
Those people's "predictions" were their "last words"!
But if the "divination" was interrupted at this moment, it would bring backlash.
Of course, Medea couldn't do that.
Every real fortune-teller needed to experience the "first time", which was inevitable, and it was also the first step to becoming a successful fortune-teller.
Eudora was taking the first step.
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