Age of Adepts

Perhaps knowing that it was impossible to get the answer you wanted from Grimm, the skinny teenager turned away from the safe house without waiting for an answer.

An hour later, Grimm met the behind-the-scenes envoy in a slum at the foot of the hill.

a pale old man with eyes wrapped in black cloth.

On him, Grimm can “see” no signs of any magic flow, nor can he perceive any powerful spiritual fluctuations. But somehow, the moment Grimm saw him, there was an instant feeling of awe and admiration in his heart.

Sage? Prophet? Or a prophet?

The blindfolded man lived in a small, isolated shack of low grass.

Along the way, Grimm has seen many strange figures in the surrounding alleys. These guys all look just like the lean teenagers in the lead. They don't look eye-catching, but the weak bodies hide a powerful force of repression.

As you can see, those guys were hiding around the grass shed, protecting the blindfolded man closely.

And this blindfolded man is obviously a big man in this "evil man”!

Now Grimm finally knows how that skinny teenager can find herself so easily. There is such a one… at the back of the directions, I'm sure one's own arrival is also expected by the other.

Grimm hates these Shinto guys all day. Although they possess a strange ability to communicate with the heavens and the earth, they do not belong to common elemental witchcraft, and therefore their means and abilities to communicate with the heavens and the earth cannot be prevented and isolated.

So in the world of wizards, no one can sin against a wizard who possesses prophetic magic, otherwise he won't even know how to die!

“Welcome, exotic guest, I'm Mars! ”

As the master, the blinded old man opened with such a phrase. Instead of using the hostile term "intruder”, the more neutral term "Guest” was used in the language. This also amply demonstrates an attitude of eagerness to communicate!

“It's a pleasure to meet you here, Lord Mars. My name is Grimm, and I'm a wizard from the world of wizards. As for the purpose of my presence here, I'm sure your Excellency already knows something!” Grimm blew down his hood, revealed his face, and politely performed a bewitching ritual.

Looking at Grimm's young and handsome face, Mass had a bitter smile on his face.

“Your Majesty the Wizard in the camp, I have taught. The Gothic boy took the liberty of trying, and the remains of those who have been punished by your great wizards are gone. Even our people suffered a backlash and lost their eyes! Your Majesty the Wizard is able to fight back enemies thousands of miles away through the law level, such means are enough for me to wait for obedience! ”

And this kind of thing?

Grimm was also surprised, but his face remained unchanged and he still looked at the Prophet of Mass in good faith.

The wise, the prophet, the prophet, the different titles correspond to the same people, and the change of titles corresponds to their abilities.

Sage, almost every guy who starts practicing prophecy gets that title.

Not every time they couple with situational awareness they get the feedback they want, even if they do occasionally, it's messy and shattered. So people like this know vice and good and evil, and it's easier to avoid vice than ordinary people.

The prophet is stronger than the wise. Almost every divination prophecy they get feedback from a sense of position, but only limited to the pattern and field of view of the individual, and the amount of information they get from that feedback is also related to their strength.

These people have initially mastered the power of destiny and are able to spy on the future through the rule of position. So often they become leaders of certain races or tribes and enjoy pride.

As for the prophet, it's even scarier.

Often they are also practitioners of powerful power, able not only to pry into the future, but also to use their power to distort or change the course of certain tributaries of destiny in a limited way. So wizards with prophetic identities, even in the wizard world, are of the most terrible kind.

So Grimm, who came out of the world of wizards, although not endowed with any prophetic talent, did not prevent him from understanding the depth of the Mass in front of him through the superior knowledge level.

To be honest, in a small position, under such brutal and severe repression by the Hound Knight, he was able to grow up smoothly to be a prophet at the prophetic level, which was surprising to Grimm.

Such people, while not strong in enforcement, have a powerful ability to spy on the laws of the table. They are more like a pair of eyes hovering over a river of destiny, watching relentlessly and indifferently all those wrapped in it.

To the best of Grimm's knowledge, there are many prophets in the World League of Witches willing to give up all their witchcraft abilities for more and deeper gaze at the river of destiny. They hide in the High Tower of the Prophet of the Silver Alliance, barely enough to leave the house, but they know everything that happens in any part of the Wizard's continent.

They never intervene in disputes or abuse their abilities, and they do their destiny-eyed work, copying scrolls day and night, and organizing records. They work hard to keep track of everything they predict on the scroll, and then hide it in the high tower chamber.

So in order to understand some of the confusion of past history, many powerful wizards also often need to go to the door and visit these unbound “lunatics” and use their rarest and most precious knowledge and resources to get a chance to enter the High Tower of the Prophet to dispel the confusion.

But now, in another small position, a different version of the prophet is standing in front of Grimm, which makes him a little confused.

If I borrow the eyes of this heretic prophet, I wonder if I can see my way forward?

The blindfolded Mars prophet smiled faintly as Grimm turned some ridiculous thoughts into his head.

“Lord Grimm, don't expect me to help you. Every prophet is tied tightly to where he was born, and even if I exhaust all my strength, I cannot cast my gaze so far into the world of wizards. ”

“But didn't Your Excellency prophesy come to me?” Grimm asked puzzled.

“That's because you're in this position and left the Great Wizard!” The face of the Prophet Mars shows a slight expression of anguish: "If you have stayed with His Majesty the Great Wizard, then my gaze dares not bet there at all. But when you left the Greenland Forest, and your fate trajectory and I had some blending, I saw you, and I saw your mission! ”

“Lord Mars, don't you, as a powerful man in this position, reject my identity?” Grimm thought about it and finally asked the most difficult question to answer.

“Destiny! What is destiny? Many people mistakenly think that we are above destiny, that breaking through it can change destiny. But prophets with such ideas often have difficulty surviving.” Speaking of which, Mass paused for a moment and seemed to think of someone or something.

It took a long time for him to wake up from his memories and go on to say, "Actually, these people are wrong. Even the more powerful prophets of the world remain slaves to destiny and cannot be masters of destiny. Destiny is a shackle that securely locks each and every one of them. The fate trajectory of all things operates in silence according to certain laws and rules, and there is no chance of escape. ”

Grim listens silently.

“What is destiny?

This is an unanswered answer that all the prophets are struggling to find.

Some prophets believe that destiny is the inevitable result of the systematic operation of all the rules of the world. As long as all prerequisites are the same, the only result will inevitably be obtained. The result is much more cumulative, which brings us together into destiny.

And some prophets believe that destiny is a peculiar force independent of ordinary rules. It couples to a large extent with the existing world, but at the same time it constantly changes itself. The Long River of Destiny is tortuous and infinitely stretched, perhaps divided into different layers, full of unpredictable variables. So the course of Destiny River is constantly changing, and at the same time it is embracing new objects.

These views clearly place destiny in an extremely high position as one of the highest rules of power in the multiverse. Such higher rules are simply beyond the control and control of ordinary lower organisms; the only thing they can do is understand and accept them and make good use of them.

Seriously, every human being, every substance, every element living in a multiverse has its own unique destiny. And this fate can become stronger or weaker with the constant coupling of the host and multiverse.

But if a position chooses to close itself, everything in that position becomes fixed and predictable. Even further, by then, I'm afraid the fate of the whole face will be predictable!

So any position, if you don't want to turn into a pool of dead water, you have to constantly integrate some outsiders and add some variables to the destiny of the position. It's just that many times this variable is good or bad, and I'm afraid the power of destiny isn't entirely in control. ”

Listening to the knowledge of this heretic prophet, Grimm could not help but tremble slightly.

At this moment, he seemed to understand some of the reasons for his unexpected appearance in the wizarding world.

Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps, he is a “variable” drawn from outside the multiverse by the wizard world!