Chapter 687: The Wanderer of the Silver Sky (I.)
Roland took a gold coin from his pocket, clasped it together with his hands, and silently recited a prayer, asking the goddess of fate for guidance. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"My Lord is above! Please send down an oracle to clear the fog before me and foresee the flow of fate! ”
After completing the casting preparations, Roland proposed a divination theme:
"Is preparing for a holy storm today a better option than an axiomatic storm?"
"Divination" can predict events that will occur in the short term in the future, and can only provide two answers: "yes" and "no", without any details about the future.
Roland asked, then tossed the gold coin. Huang Chengcheng's divination props rolled in the air, shining with the brilliance of divine magic, and bounced a few times after landing, and when he came to a standstill, the back pattern was facing upward.
The coin has two sides, the obverse with the portrait of the Emperor of the Assanian Empire representing affirmation, and the reverse with the imperial coat of arms representing negation. Now that the back side is facing up, the results of the divination are clear.
"That is, should I prepare for the Storm of Righteousness and not the Divine Storm today?" Roland couldn't help frowning and muttering to himself. The divination results were diametrically opposed to his inner tendency to choose, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.
"Little guy, divination is actually borrowing the perception of the gods to predict and calculate what may happen in the future, the reason why the power of the gods is stronger than that of mortals is because we see more, think farther, and calculate more complicated, so that the conclusions reached are fed back to you through divination, in fact, it is still a simulation of the future, and it is not guaranteed to be absolutely accurate, but overall it is credible." Before her fall, Eltaran had two main priesthoods, one was travel and the other was observation, the latter of which was related to the fields of divination and prophecy, and her views were considered authoritative.
Roland pondered Eltaran's words and gained a deeper understanding of divination. Divine powers are in some ways like supercomputers on Earth, and when he uses divination, it is like getting permission to borrow a divine power computing center: Goddess Sindra dedicates a thread to help him with the problem of choosing spells. According to the current environment he is in, he inputs various variables, simulates and calculates what kind of result different choices point to, repeats it hundreds of millions of times to obtain a probability distribution map, and then selects a relatively more favorable result to feed back to him.
As Eltaran said, divination is the result of divine calculations, and the higher the godhead, the stronger the calculation ability, and the more reliable the conclusions reached, but for a specific divination, it is impossible to be 100% accurate, and the results of divination are only probabilistic. This divination may have given a false prediction, but if you do hundreds or thousands of divinations, you will find that the prediction is correct in the vast majority.
It's like a weather forecast, which occasionally predicts a sunny day only to have heavy rain, which doesn't mean that the weather forecast is worthless.
"Thank you, Ms. Eltaran, for your advice, I know what to do."
Roland used the last 3-ring magic position to prepare the "Storm of Axiom", no matter what, the goddess of fate always has much stronger foresight than him, and the so-called orderly camp is often reflected in the respect for authority and experts.
Next, there are 3 four-ring magic techniques, Roland wants to ask people for news, so he prepares "clever words" and "identifying lies", the former can act as a universal translator, and the latter can avoid being fooled by people with fake news.
There is still a 4-ring magic position left, Roland considers that he may encounter the Gisyankees next, these guys have a characteristic of running fast - they are born with a spell-like (ability-like) ability "Any Gate", plus the astral automatic instantaneous, rushing up to loot and immediately flash people, especially annoying.
In order to guard against this gang of bandits who come and go, Roland decided to prepare a "dimensional anchor", and if there is a conflict with the Griesyankees, he will directly paste it in the face of the other party to see where he can run!
Having prepared the day's magic spell, Roland finished his meditation and left Eltaran for the "Wanderer's Inn".
The silver sky is a transit point for plane travelers, and most of the adventurers who have the ability and courage to travel across planes are equipped with unique skills, and it is most taboo to be in the limelight in this kind of mixed place, otherwise it is very likely to end up with a "head to sleep, no head to get up".
Roland deliberately kept a low profile on this trip, Sputnia was too conspicuous, he included the beast taming bracelet, and used illusion to cover the magic aura of the "Black King Armor", and put a cloak without any magic effect on top of the armor, so as not to be found out that he was wearing the Parnian artifact, which would attract the coveted by the bandits.
Adjusting the direction of gravity, Roland landed on the streets of the central area of the Silver Sky. Looking up, a large vortex of five-colored brilliance was suspended at the end of the street, in the center of the entire star, with a diameter of 100 feet, like a colorful sun, which was the miracle created by the most prestigious teleportation array in the silver sky, the "Eye of All Worlds" Eltaran, condensed the remnants of divine power.
Roland stood on the street and watched the teleportation array, and from time to time someone flew into the multicolored vortex, diving into it and disappearing, while at the same time, figures kept emerging from the multicolored vortex—half-human, half-insect monsters, an indescribable mass of flesh and blood, gray-skinned and evil-looking dwarves, and structures dragging silver antennas.
These strange creatures are travelers from other planes, entering and exiting the silver sky through large teleportation arrays, entering nearby shops, exchanging information in dialects with various accents, and if you see two people staring at each other in a daze, it's likely that they're using telepathy to talk in secret.
Roland stood on the street of the silver sky, inexplicably feeling a sense of time and space disorder, as if he was returning to the earth and watching an old movie called "Men in Black".
If the Silver Sky is compared to an asteroid on the scale of a city, the surrounding mining area is like a sparsely populated wilderness, while the land plot around the Eltaran Teleportation Array is a bustling urban area, with all kinds of shops, and through the translucent star-like doors and windows, you can see that most of the shops are open, and the flow of people is quite considerable. After careful observation, Roland found that the operating income of a store in this prime location was at least three times higher than that of a store of the same size in the Baiougang business district.
This is not because the commercial scale of Silver Sky is more developed than that of Baiou Harbor, after all, it is just an "asteroid" with a permanent population of less than 1,000 people and an average daily passenger flow of only a few hundred, and its economic scale is far from being comparable with a free trade port with a population of 160,000.