Chapter Twenty-Three: Cards of Fate
"You may be seated. ”
The soothsayer enjoyed Roddy's curious and admiring look and motioned for him to sit down, until the two sat down facing each other at the round table, then the soothsayer took out a bowl of water on his right hand side and placed his hands in a gently fluctuating water pattern, and then took out a deck of cards from his robe with his wet hands.
Roddy could clearly see the droplets of water in his hands disappear with the touch of the cards.
After the soothsayer placed the cards on the round table, the crystal ball in the center flickered on and off, and Roddy was once again struck by this mysterious phenomenon.
The soothsayer, however, frowned, and tapped the surface of the crystal ball hard, but it still flickered and flickered, and finally apologized to Roddy before getting up and twisting the ball off the table.
It's like turning a screw.
Then I changed a crystal ball and twisted it on, and the light finally stabilized.
Roddy stared blankly at the scene, not knowing how to express his emotions.
"Ahem, this item often needs to be replaced, but it doesn't affect the divination effect. ”
After comforting the odd-looking Roddy, the soothsayer changed into a pious look and cut the card three times and handed it to Roddy.
"Forty-three cards of fate. ”
"You don't have to be distracted, just cut three times at will. ”
Forty-three fate cards, it should be its name, how does the back look a bit like a certain horse monkey girl's Kuro magic card, this... Anyway, let's cut it three times first.
After a little thought, Roddy cut the card three times and handed it to the soothsayer, at this point he remembered the tarot card, a card divination tool from his previous life, and began to show obvious suspicion of the soothsayer.
The soothsayer held the cards in both hands, closed his eyes and muttered in a very small voice, and Roddy could only hear a few simple words with his ears pricked up:
"Listen .... Spirit..... Engraving.... Right hand.... Fate...."
The end of the whisper is also the end of the card placement, and Roddy doesn't even notice when the soothsayer places the cards in a semicircle.
The round table seemed to be hiding other mechanisms, as the cards had been transferred from the soothsayer to Roddy's.
Looking at the cards with the same pattern on the face down and the back, Roddy felt a sense of awe for no reason, and this ingenious method attracted Roddy again.
"Forty-three cards of fate, consisting of seven gods, each of whom is divided into six forms to form six cards. ”
Luo Di was slightly stunned, and subconsciously blurted out:
"But you call it forty-three cards of fate..."
The soothsayer nodded mysteriously.
"Because there's also a godless card. ”
Roddy felt that his thoughts were a little frozen, and he vaguely heard the voice of the soothsayer flickering far and near:
"From one to ten, choose a number, and take the corresponding cards from left to right. ”
"Eleven to twenty, choose a number, and take the cards together. ”
"Twenty-one to thirty, choose a number, and take the cards together. ”
"Thirty-one to forty, choose a number, and take the cards together. ”
"Forty-one to forty-three, choose one of the three, and take the cards together. ”
Roddy came back to his senses and had five face-down cards in front of him, and he didn't even know how he did it!
In this mysterious world, Roddy takes it for granted that the soothsayer in front of him is associated with mystery.
After clarifying this concept, Roddy once again showed great interest in this divination.
Once again, the cards shifted to the soothsayer, who looked at Roddy very seriously.
"Before you open the cards, you have to make it clear that forty-three cards of fate are not fortune telling, they are just divination. ”
Luo Di is a little confused, isn't divination a fortune telling... However, looking at the soothsayer's serious and serious attitude, Luo Di gathered his thoughts and meditated in his heart, this is not fortune telling, this is not fortune telling...
The soothsayer turns over the cards from left to right:
The first card depicts a man holding a wand aloof.
The second card depicts a man holding a codex.
The third card has two snakes drawn with heads and tails.
The fourth card depicts a man with his hands crossed over his chest.
The fifth card is an empty card without any pattern.
Roddy watched the soothsayer in silence and carefully observed the cards, which were different from the fifth card and the third card, which was clearly reversed with the other three cards.
"The first card belongs to the God of Truth and is called the Magician, the second card belongs to the God of Daybreak and is called the Magician, the third card belongs to the Lord of Mystery and is called the Voyeur, and the fourth card belongs to the God of Daybreak and is called the Guardian. ”
The soothsayer said, without mentioning the fifth empty card, and emphasizing it again.
"Well, please remember that forty-three cards of fate are just divination, they don't represent fate. ”
Roddy nodded, thinking that he was going to start asking himself certain questions, such as what you wanted to measure, but the soothsayer directly commented:
"The first card means that you have just passed through the end of a phase and started a new phase, and you should try to accept and integrate into the new phase. ”
"The second card indicates that you are stuck in a passive, engineered, and desired event. ”
"The third card is reversed, which means that the events foreshadowed by the second card will give you great difficulty. ”
"The fourth card is the solution, but... My interpretation of it is the power of the heart. ”
"You have to believe and use your strength. ”
The soothsayer still didn't mention the fifth card after reading the four cards, and Roddy suppressed the shock in his heart and tried to be as calm as possible.
This gave him a new definition of the mystery of this world, at least the soothsayer in front of him who could use forty-three fate cards to divinate greatly surprised him.
He had just undergone a change from Forsaken to Roddy, and was summoned for some unknown reason and purpose, which fits well with the second card's explanation, and such an accurate divination even gives Roddy a strong sense of identity.
As a result, Roddy's attitude towards soothsayers gradually became more respectful.
"So, what does the fifth card mean. ”
The soothsayer smiled and picked up the fifth card and placed it in front of Roddy.
"This is the superfluous card of the forty-three cards of fate, the godless card, which does not mean anything, but represents all meanings. ”
"Well, sir, would you rather pay sevenpence or one-halfpence. ”
Roddy took a slight breath, kept his composure, and reached into the pocket where the penny was kept, checking the seven pennies before handing it to the soothsayer.
"Sir, your divination has been an eye-opener for me, and I apologize for my suspicions. ”
Roddy's sincerity caused the soothsayer to smile slyly, but he did it covertly enough not for Roddy to notice, and then tapped his fingers lightly on the table.
Roddy looked intently and saw that the soothsayer was pointing to the empty godless card.
"You were the first to draw it, and for that I have to thank you, it made my destiny card perfect, and as a thank you, it was yours. ”
Roddy's face was overjoyed, and he was about to reach for it, but the soothsayer said:
"But we all hate free stuff, and we all agree on this, don't we?"
Luo Di's outstretched hand paused slightly, and said with some embarrassment:
"But now... There are no extra pennies left. ”
The soothsayer's disappointed look flickered, and then he looked at the bread in Roddy's arms, and after a little calculation, he looked inscrutable.
"Hehe, I told you, you were the first to draw him, and you were very lucky, so, for only a penny, it was yours. ”
Not to mention a penny, not even a halfpence Roddy, but what the soothsayer said immediately made his heart slightly happy.
"If you really don't have enough pennies, you may be able to compensate with the bread in your bosom, which is worth exactly one penny. ”
"Yes sir! It is indeed worth a penny, if you don't mind. ”
The soothsayer shook his head and smiled, holding out his hand to show that he didn't mind, and Roddy exchanged the bread for a godless card, and took a deep look at the soothsayer as he left.
Luo Di held the godless card in one hand, while thinking about this experience, with the cold wind and the precipitation of time, he gradually realized the true purpose of going out this time.
"Bread..."
Then he slowly frowned, took out the godless brand, and after carefully observing it, he finally determined that this was a very ordinary card, and even the patterns on its card surface and card back were all hand-painted.
His face gradually became gloomy, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, but there was no reliable speculation.
"At the end of the day... Can fortune telling be a lie?"