Chapter 285 (2) |
"Professor." Dark broke the silence, "Can you tell us now?"
Professor Medea signaled Eudora to get closer, and then took out a mirror from the hidden compartment of the carriage.
The light emitted from the back of the mirror illuminated the entire carriage.
Seeing herself in the mirror, Eudora subconsciously lowered her head.
Professor Medea said softly: "A true fortune-teller must have the confidence to face everything. Raise your head and look carefully in the mirror."
Eudora's toes curled inward nervously, and her right hand grabbed the index finger of her left hand tightly. After taking a deep breath, she raised her head sharply.
What was reflected in that mirror was a cute girl with a pink doll head.
In terms of appearance alone, she had sufficient self-confidence.
"Keep your eyes open and observe carefully." Professor Medea's voice rang in her ears.
She widened her eyes as much as she could, and suddenly noticed a golden star flickering in her right eye!
"This is……" Dark, who had already looked over, immediately caught that shining golden star.
But he didn't know what it meant, so he could only ask: "Professor, is this serious?"
"I don't know if it's serious, but it's very tricky." Medea shook her head, "There are various prices that fortune-tellers need to pay in divination, but there is one price that is very tricky. We call it the [Death Omen Star]!"
Dark asked in surprise: "Death Omen Star?"
Professor Medea said: "The so-called [Death Omen Star] is a metaphor for the inauspicious star of death. It is not necessarily manifested in the form of a star. But every time a fortune-teller needs to pay this kind of price for doing divination, a part of their body will have an additional [Death Omen Star]! The greater the number of [Death Omen Star] is, the closer it is to death! We have no way of knowing what the limit number of [Death Omen Star] is. Maybe it's two, maybe it's three ......"
Dark quickly understood, and couldn't help gasping: "Doesn't this mean that every divination is a gamble?"
Professor Medea nodded and said, "It can be understood in this way."
Dark couldn't help but glance at Eudora, and then said: "Professor. If this is the case, then she should stay away from divination, not..."
Medea said helplessly: "I know what you mean. But after the first divination, a fortune-teller can no longer turn back. Sometimes sudden divination is not something that our subjective will can control. It's like inevitable guidance. We call it [Heavenly Enlightenment]!"
Dark: "Heavenly Enlightenment?"
Medea; "Yes, Heavenly Enlightenment! Many poor fortune-tellers spent all their lives trying to get the Heavenly Enlightenment once. But we who have the Eye of Stars will always be favored by fate. Heavenly Enlightenment is not a rare thing for the fortune-teller who owns the Eye of Stars."
Dark couldn't help but tighten his brows.
If one wants to wear the crown, one must bear its weight.
The Eye of Stars was a gift from heaven.
It was true that owning the Eye of Stars could make one stride forward on the road of fortune-tellers and touch the realm that ordinary people couldn't reach.
But they also needed to take on the responsibilities that the heavens gave them.
That was to accept [Heavenly Enlightenment]!
An uncontrollable [Heavenly Enlightenment] meant paying an uncontrollable price.
Especially for the fortune-teller whose price was [Death Omen Star], every [Heavenly Enlightenment] was a judgment of life and death.
Eudora had already embarked on this path, so there was no way to avoid it.
Under such circumstances, it was better to go with the flow and become a fortune-teller.
Rather than trying to survive in the shadows, it was better to devote oneself to glory.
But this was too cruel for a girl who was only eleven years old.
The reason why Professor Medea decisively announced in class that she would take Eudora as her disciple was probably because of this consideration.
Dark took a deep breath, and tentatively asked: "Since this is a problem that has been accumulated for a long time, haven't the fortune-tellers of Star Tower tried to solve it?"
Medea shook her head: "Apart from gradually mastering the laws of astrology in the course of study, and trying to avoid the use of divination outside of the Heavenly Enlightenment, there is nothing that can be done."
That being said, there were actually other ways.
And it was easy to think of.
Since the final price of [Death Omen Star] was "death", as long as one could successfully avoid "death", one could stand against [Death Omen Star] and enjoy divination!
In other words.
Becoming an "undead" was a solution.
Whether it was zombies, liches, or ghosts, they could perfectly ignore the price of [Death Omen Star].
But in fact, if one really turned themselves into an "undead" because of this, then the change in life form was likely to lead to a change in the cost of divination.
Fate was never friendly to the peeper.
...
"Am I going to die?" Just as Dark was thinking deeply about this, Eudora, who had been listening quietly from the beginning, suddenly burst out such a sentence.
Professor Medea quickly comforted: "Of course not. You will become a great fortune-teller!"
Eudora muttered: "I just want to be useful."
Medea: "You will."
…
Eudora and Medea chatted quietly.
Dark chose to listen without interrupting them.
Professor Medea would go to Sister Kaleid next and ask her to conduct a full-body examination on Eudora, in case there were some other hidden costs that hadn't been discovered.
Moreover, Professor Medea was going to ask Sister Kaleid to prepare a bottle of eye drops to cover up the golden star in Eudora's eyes.
But this cover-up was only superficial.
Professor Medea would probably start from another angle, which was to avoid [Death Omen Star] by artificially guiding the change of the cost.
But this was something that Dark couldn't participate in.
Moreover, it was not suitable for him to continue staying with them.
So at ten o'clock in the evening, Dark got out of the carriage and parted ways with Professor Medea and Eudora.
He hugged little Eevee tightly in his arms, watching the pumpkin carriage disappearing into the night again.
After heaving a long sigh, he turned around and walked back to his dormitory.
...
After returning to the dormitory, Dark wrote down all the predictions made tonight on one page.
Then he took a form for learning pronunciation, used the dumbest method of identifying one pronunciation at a time, and finally let Eevee-chan write out the "night" changes it saw tonight.
The change wasn't that dramatic.
To sum up, there were many tadpole-like pitch-black tentacles growing in the "starry night", squirming like kelp in the wind all over the projection.
As for what this scene meant?
Dark tried to interpret it, but felt that the meaning of the interpretation was not very significant, so he temporarily set it aside.
It was like writing down a whole page of the interpretations of the predictions tonight, it was of no use.
The only thing that was useful was Eudora's prediction.
And the more he thought about it, the more profound it became.
"The stars will fall, and the sky will collapse; there’ll not be light in the daytime, and there’ll not be darkness in the nighttime; gods will not be gods..."
"If I disregard the demon king resurrection interpretation for a moment, and interpret this prediction from another angle, then there's no doubt that this is a prediction about the Twilight of All Gods!"
...
But "the Twilight of All Gods" had already happened in an unknown era in the past.
According to the literature descriptions.
At the twilight of all gods.
All the gods were thrown into the ordinary world like dumplings, and were boiled in a few minutes.
In short, it was such an era.
...
"But if I interpret it this way."
"Before the twilight of all gods, is there a chapter called 'the Resurrections of all Gods'?"
Thinking of the Moon Goddess resurrection incident last semester, Dark felt that his scalp was tingling.
If there was such a chapter, it was something that was beyond the scale of the plot in the original work.
After all, the scale of the original work was just a Galgame confined to an academy.
But it didn't mean that the plot of the original work was the whole development of the world.
Assuming that the rise and fall of the demon god at the end of the original book was just the prologue of a great era...
Dark chose to sleep!
(～﹃～)~zZ
...
On the same night.
Although many first-year students said that they didn't care about Eudora's divination, or it was nothing, and so on, most of them had nightmares.
Instead, after being examined by Sister Kaleid and comforted by Professor Medea, Eudora, the person who made that divination, had a beautiful dream that she would be embarrassed to share with other people because she felt the unexpected level of concern and worry from Dark at night.Please vote for this novel at