In the town with thick fog floating under the night outside the window, the miserable howls of evil spirits made the deep night even more weird. The dancing firelight in the indoor fireplace did not make the two people talking feel happy.
Laplace Klein Howard, wearing a monocle, stared at Shad:
"So, are you Shad Hamilton?"
Shade still didn't answer:
"Is [Impermanence of Everything·Space] in your hands?"
The fortune teller shook his head again:
"I'm looking for it too, but don't have the honor, at least not yet. Want to play a round of Rhodes?"
This sentence is usually said by Shade to others.
"I came out to find someone this time, but I didn't bring my own deck of cards."
In fact, I brought it with me, but whether I use the spare blank deck or my real deck, my identity will be exposed.
"It doesn't matter, I can lend you a deck of cards. We will only play one round. No matter whether we win or lose, I can tell you a piece of news."
He handed the deck to Shade, which contained no special cards. However, his own deck actually contained 13 special cards.
There was no need to shuffle the cards or check each other, they just put the deck on the coffee table under the firelight of the fireplace, and then drew cards together.
The two of them didn't communicate, they just squinted at the suits of cards in their hands.
Laplace Howard drew two cards and then stopped:
"king."
He showed the second card.
Shade drew three cards:
"Blackjack, I won."
He showed 1 sun, 10 stars and 10 moon.
The fortune teller was not disappointed and threw his cards on the table:
"I want to tell you that the end is coming and the world is going to end. This is not a ridiculous prophecy, this is reality."
Shade asked dissatisfiedly:
"Is this why you came here to talk to me?
What kind of secret is this? You are not the first person I have met who thinks he has seen the future. Of course I have heard about the end of the world. The chosen ones who are crazy about knowledge and wisdom probably have a lot in common with you.
topic."
The fortune teller signaled him to be patient:
"Then do you know when the end will come?"
"I don't know, you know?"
"I don't know either."
"you"
"No one knows the specific time, but it is very close, really very close. Apart from you and me, there are many people who are silently preparing for that day. Even the world is at its last moment.
A special individual like the princess just now was born. Her existence is not a conspiracy of anyone or any existence. Her birth is just the last choice before the world faces the end. This is a natural phenomenon."
He looked at Shade, and there was no trace of madness in his eyes, so this was definitely not an ordinary madman:
"I have never considered myself a savior, just like you don't seem to simply want to change the world.
Apart from you and me, before you and I were born, preparations for the last day had already begun. We are not the only ones who can know the future, and we are definitely not the only ones who are willing to sacrifice and sacrifice, and have already taken action. Ring Warlocks
We pride ourselves on seeing more than ordinary people, but we don’t know that what they see is just the surface of the lake. We are the ones who can see the truth of the world.”
Shade frowned:
"Although you seem to have said a lot, there is no substantive content in it. I am not playing cards with you just to listen to what you say. Please tell me specifically what preparations the previous people made, Lesia
·What is so special about Cavendish?”
The fortune teller nodded:
"We can't say this now, but this is my bargaining chip when I face you. People only think that I am very powerful, but they don't know that as long as you want to, you can completely eliminate me even if I am not in front of you now."
This diviner is still quite good, but Shade is unwilling to waste his divinity. Moreover, he cannot rely on divinity for everything. It is not a power within the rules, and he should not interfere too much in this world. Besides, the twelve gods
The road to sexual sublimation still has a long way to go before it reaches the end, so outsiders have to be cautious.
"However, I can indeed say something substantive. Do you feel that this is really the sixth era?"
Shade looked at him, his eyes were very strong, but his expression did not change at all:
"You don't want to tell me that it's still the fifth era, right? If that's true, we are both witches?"
The fortune teller laughed at Shade's little joke:
"I didn't realize this at all when I was in the Thirteenth Ring, but when I listened to the truth from [The Door in the Bottle], and during the past two hundred years, I continued to make various attempts to communicate with time and space, I unexpectedly made a discovery.
."
The crackling sound of the burning flame was once again suppressed by the cry of the space distortion in the distance outside the window, and the two pairs of eyes looked at each other powerfully:
"I still have some talents. Of course, it is also possible that I followed my destiny and walked towards the path of the chosen one, so I saw more. However, I am still not sure whether it is an illusion, nor whether I am really crazy.
Already."
He smiled:
"Looking at your expression, you seem to think I'm really crazy. I don't have any evidence about the truth of time. I only rely on imagination and experience. I only discovered the fifth era and the world by accident.
In the middle of our current era, there seems to be a time and space that has been annihilated.”
"Hmm, so, you are actually the chosen one of time?"
"You have a great sense of humor."
He continued, looking at Shade with inquiring eyes, as if he wanted to see something from his expression:
"If my crazy and unprovable point of view is correct, then it means that someone has tried before, but unfortunately failed, so there is this second chance. The end of the world is bound to come,
It cannot be restored by the strength of one person, nor can it be solved by a completed poem.
Did those departed ancient gods and gods really just go to sleep? I know a lot, and precisely because I know a lot, I can't stop, I must do something, must, must."
His voice became lower and lower until it was drowned out by the crackle of the fire in the fireplace.
Both sides were silent for a long time before Xia Decai suddenly said:
"So, you actually want to cooperate with me?"
"Yes, and it's not us, it's everyone. The dangers in the future need to be borne by everyone. And my ritual, the Edwards Den Magic, will be my most important attempt."
"As long as you can give up being the chosen one in space and giving up fusing your descendants, I can consider cooperating with you. You know many things, and this is what I need."
What he said was half true and half false. Laplace Klein Howard shook his head in disappointment:
"I know you have your thoughts, but I also have mine. I won't say 'sacrifice is necessary', which is what only the villain in the story would say, but do you really think that change can save us without sacrifice?"
In this world, don’t you have to give anything? You don’t look like such a holy mother.”
"I just think that I'm on the right path and you're on the wrong path. Maybe you really want to save the world and do it in the form of becoming the Chosen One, Edwards Den Magic, but I don't think
This method is right. Without you, without your plans, I can do what you want to do."
The stranger pointed to the sofa where he was sitting:
"I have met many chosen people and all kinds of people. You know? Although I have been involved in everything, I still sit under the stage. I could have quietly watched everything happen. I
I could have done nothing, sold my most valuable property and enjoyed life in this era. But no, I saw a story I didn’t like, so I wanted to change it. Even if I couldn’t completely change it, I would never let those tragedies happen.
Keep happening.
Howard, today's conversation has changed my impression of you, but I don't agree with you, and I won't deny my path."
"Arrogance and arrogance are our original sins. People outside of destiny, I wish you success, because you and I have the same purpose. No matter who succeeds, it is our luck. But I will prove to you
, I was right, I saw everything and realized how naive your thoughts are."
He stood up and prepared to leave, but while looking down at Shade who was still sitting, he said two more words:
"Someone must have guided you and put you on the path of pursuing the chosen one. Maybe as you keep moving forward, you should slow down and think about whether the person who first led you really pointed out the right direction.
?”
Shade did not speak. The other party said this once on the night of hunting the devil, but Shade would not doubt Luvia. Even Luvia did not seem to know everything, but the person in front of him certainly did not know everything.
.
"There is another piece of information I want you to know."
His words continued:
“The Sixth Era has reached now, lasting for 1854 years, but it has already shown signs of decline;
According to the records, the Fifth Era lasted for 5,793 years. This is a fact recognized by the Five Gods Church and the three major academies. Even if there is an error, the error will not be very large;
Continuing to look back to the turbulent Fourth Age of Darkness, the most secret information of the Prophet Association usually uses "ten thousand years" to describe that sad and tearful era, but also full of various heroic legends;
I once asked my demon friend who was captured by you. He was a slippery man who helped me but was wary of me. Although he refused to tell me the time of the third era in detail, he told me that it was a long time of one hundred thousand years.
years.
The Second Era has long been unverifiable. As for the First Era, the original era."
He paused deliberately, and Shade sat there looking at him. The sound of crackling flames was so obvious in this situation. The pause was long, quite long, but Shade waited patiently.