Chapter 90: The Astrology Tower
The Astrology Tower, for me, is a name that is memorable, but it should have long since disappeared into the past.
They are currently an internationally renowned evil organization, and in the eyes of the world, they are like the famous Druid activist group Rendehui (Druid Society for Kindness to Animals) as a group of mad dogs who catch and bite whomever they want.
Just as every notorious organization originally had a tall banner, the Astrology Tower, originally built from lofty ideals.
Whether it is an astrologer who is proficient in stargazing, a witch who is good at divination, or a mage who is proficient in prophetic magic, they are all able to predict the future in a sense, so under the call of a respected archmage, the organization was established with the goal of "using prophecy to make life better and avoid disasters that can be avoided".
So, how did an organization with such a good intention turn into the infamous mad dog that it is today?
At that time, unlike the prophetic spells that are now at home, the prophecy spell system was still quite developed and effective, and the connection with the god of fate and the thread of fate allowed them to really avoid natural disasters and avoid disasters.
After a period of golden development, probably around AD200, the astrological towers had a problem, no matter how much they paid, they couldn't predict what would happen after a certain period of time.
In the end, they jointly came to a conclusion that the Ash continent was actually blank after a certain year or so.
If a single soothsayer only thinks of his own limited abilities, and when all the soothsayers come to such a conclusion, there is only one answer that makes senseβthe world is ruined. There is no such thing as a future at all.
All right. Prophecy of the end of the world is not a good thing. But at least knowing that it will happen to him, he should be able to find a way to overcome it.
But the result was in vain, no matter how they predicted and divined, in the end they only got one answer - there is no future in this world, and it is impossible to determine where the destruction of Miè came from.
Of course, I can understand the reason why I can't predict the prophecy, all life in this world originates from order and chaos, and you naturally can't predict that destruction comes from the mother of all things. It is not even possible to predict the exact time of the end times.
Well, this is like the torment period before the execution of the condemned prisoners, who can't get an answer and watch the end approaching day by day, falling into despair, and an accident gives them hope.
A prophesied young man who would become a hero had an accident because of the intervention of the astrological tower, and then that future became invisible.
Will the Prophet's actions have an impact on the future? Will the early fall of historical heroes and big names affect the whole of history? If the trajectory of the fate of the whole world fluctuates enough, will the world that is destined to be ruined survive?
Well, rush to the doctor. Under this indescribable logic, the astrological tower seems to have found the most direct way to change the future - to stifle heroes and historical figures in advance.
A normal soothsayer will try to avoid their prophecies affecting their targets. And the astrological towers, which went the other way, embarked on their own madness - hunting historical figures and making the future unknowable.
This is not easy, after all, it is difficult to come to a decent conclusion with targeted prophecy, prophecy is often a matter of luck, and the active participation of the prophet will make the prediction result messy, but if the unlucky guy is hit on the head...... Hehe, even if the future is a legendary hero, does it have the ability to resist in infancy.
The heroes who slay dragons to save the world were slandered as sons of demons, the master craftsmen who invented advanced technology were regarded as unforgivable villains, the saints who saved the country from danger were burned alive as witches, and the respected prophets of the past became liars, and the trajectory of fate became a mess under their misdeeds.
This is undoubtedly the equivalent of starting to flip the table in a game that is already doomed to lose, and in the end it is a death, and there may be variables, which is the hysteria of the prophets who have been cornered.
And because they really went too far, the fate thread of the god of fate became a mess, which alarmed the gods of order who did not interfere much with the mortal world, and sent down divine punishment, directly destroying the headquarters of the astrological tower, so that they could stop a little.
After the divine punishment, the god of fate withdrew most of the prophetic abilities and prophetic spells left in the mortal world, and cut off the connection between the temple of fate in his own divine domain and the prophets in the mortal world, causing the prophecy level of the entire world to drop sharply, which was more than 1,600 years ago.
And now, the prophesied end has not yet come, the crime of strangling the future hero has surfaced, and the astrological tower has naturally become a super big joke, but I know that they are really not wrong in their predictions, and the disaster is just around the corner.
At this point, predictions about someone's future have been regarded as the biggest taboo of prophets, and most of the modern prophets only predict things and not people, but obviously, the astrological tower has not been completely destroyed because of this, and they are still secretly engaged in past behaviors in the corner.
However, it is anyone's guess whether they are going mad now to save the world, or simply to take revenge on the gods of order and the world as a whole.
More than 300 years ago, they made the prophecy about me and Cavins, and we were forced into a corner by them all the way, and there are traces of their covert interference.
In my travels in the afterlife, I discovered their black hands in the shadows, and so, after incarnating as the Lord of the Night, I dug them out of the corners one by one, and killed them again and again.
But unfortunately, looking at the charred corpse in front of me, the stars on my fingers and the one-eyed emblem, it was clear that I hadn't done enough.
"The dead remnants of the astrological tower, you are brave enough to dare to appear in front of me!" ββ
In the dark room, the seats were lit up one by one, and the participants were as silent as ever, and finally, the person in the chair spoke.
"Dassault is already urging us, hasn't the spies returned yet?"
"Hmph, King of the Winter Wolves? Lord Rum's Eye, you actually want me to say it. We should be the first to wipe him out. And not to work with him. β
"Rest easy. Our goal now is to wipe out the Arashi bloodline, and we'll talk about that later. It's been a week, and there hasn't been any news? Dassos is already unhappy with us. β
It's not wrong to say that they are mad dogs, when the prophecy spell cannot be as developed as in ancient times, their target has become "future heroes and historical figures", and extended to "heroes and big shots", and any high-ranking people who cooperate with them must be wary, and they may be stabbed in the back at any time.
"You know. The Church of the True God belongs to the realm of God, and the prophecy spells of the human race will be greatly reduced, and our spies have encountered a little trouble. β
"Huh?"
"A few druids we sent who can turn into ravens"
In the church, Casio was napping under the tree, but a migratory bird passed in the air, a long golden line cut through the sky, and the geese fell in response, and several knights hurriedly ran over to pick it up, and this white game was just enough to add to the dinner in the evening.
"Although I don't know why Brother Luo Lan wants me to intercept all the birds, I can practice my archery skills."
"The crows were all shot down by the shooters. If you don't run fast, I'm afraid you will be served dinner. β
"It seems that we have been prepared for it. Our scout troops? Our master thieves are here. β
"It's all blown up into the sky, and the yard is full of goblin mines, and all kinds of serial bombs and sirens, and it's more heavily guarded than the goblin bank, and we suspect that there are at least four or five master engineers resident in the church."
In the corner of the yard, Green was doing something, but when he was halfway there, he pricked up his ears, then wrung up his basket and ran, when someone chased after him.
"Damn Green, how many times have you planted mines everywhere, engineering products are dangerous and cannot be littered at will, what should you do if you blow up passers-by? Even if you can't blow it up, it's not good for outsiders to blow up flowers and plants! You see how many times we have repaired the walls of the courtyard in the past few days, yesterday I saw the mason, he actually asked me if I want to get a monthly pass, you said that if I am a church of the God of Law is changed to the church of the God of Explosions, the sleepless man will not kill me with a thunderbolt, hey, listen to me, don't run. β
Dill (finally has a name!) The spell envoy who followed Coros as he wandered, the characteristics of well, everyone should have seen it, very verbose, but it seemed to be the natural enemy of the taciturn Green, so I did not hesitate to give him the task of taking care of the explosive maniac.
"Our master spy, Phoenix? He could easily disguise himself as a believer to enter, and with his experience, he should be able to fool the paladin who seemed to be hanging out at the door but was actually guarding. β
"She"
Feng Die is known as a man with a thousand faces, and he is especially good at disguised as various women, and this time, the noble lady he disguised was very successful, and he also succeeded in approaching the primary target, Princess Renee, just
"Guilty Strike!" With Jiao Jiao, it was a silver holy sword that shimmered with silver light, spun around, and flew out diagonally.
"Hey, I accidentally got rid of it." Even if Renee tries to pretend to be cute, she can't hide the reality that she actually turned a sword swing into a flying sword.
Kelly shook her head helplessly, although Renee's progress was very fast after switching to the Fair Knight, even if Roland's teaching was obviously quite methodical, but her swordsmanship talent that had already passed the growth period was too bad, at least for a short time, the swordsmanship was still so bad that people couldn't look at it directly.
And looking in the direction where the sword flew away, she immediately panicked when she saw that the Roland Holy Sword was actually inserted between the thighs of a noble lady.
"Priest, come on, there's an injured man, huh? Man? Spy? Knights, come here, let's contact the coffin shop first. β
Hearing that his most powerful spy was so inexplicably exposed, as the president of the Astrology Taoran Branch, Rum's Eye couldn't believe it.
"I feel that as long as I get close to that church, something will happen inexplicably, whether it is the Church of the God of Law or the Church of the God of Doom!"
"Damn! By the way, our stealth master? Dikya the Shadowwalker? There was never a place he couldn't enter, what's wrong with him, he's not an opponent who will be defeated by bad luck, is it that even he has failed? β
"He"
Dikya the Shadowwalker, who is very famous in some areas, is said to have no treasure vault that he cannot enter, and once stole the treasure of the Blue Dragon, he spent a lot of effort to invite him to join the Eye of Rum.
He himself was only a silver-rank thief, but what made him unscrupulous was a legendary treasure.
[Sewer Cloak, Legendary Artifact: The wearer turns into a rat and gains 95% physical immunity]
It was with this secret treasure that he could sneak into the treasure vault of any kingdom at will, and even if he encountered a super enemy who saw through his transformation, he could escape with the effect of almost physical immunity.
"Somebody's last communication was 'How can there be a cat that can do magic!!'."
It was time for the Church of the God of Law to be opened, and when a cat jumped on the table, I picked it up and tossed it aside.
"Go, play while you go, who knows if you ate dead rats and cockroaches,"
"Bastard, I'm not a real cat, and even if I'm a real cat, I serve big fish and meat every day, even if I go to catch mice, I just play with prey, how can I eat. Hmph, there was a baby I was going to show you, but I don't know the hearts of good people, forget it. β
"What treasure?" When I heard about the treasure, I was immediately moved.
"Hehe, a transformation cloak, it suits you very well, why don't you try it?"
"Hehe, when I'm stupid, you'll give me something good, it must be a cursed item, whether it's a mouse or a squirrel, it won't change into a slime, look at it like this, I guessed right, you dead cat, you don't have you for dinner, go eat a mouse!"
At the same time, in the courtyard, a short figure covered in wounds was struggling in the grass.
"Damn, what a terrible cat, he actually knows how to fight, and he actually has a dual cultivation of magic and martial arts, and he almost died at its hands. Cough, fortunately it took the cloak and left, cough, vomited blood again, it seems that the injury is not light, and it can't go over the wall and the main entrance. Then go down the sewers. β
He struggled to open the sewer entrance, reluctantly retracting himself, only to find that someone had already taken the lead and was waiting for him in the sewer.
"How can there be anyone here, if it's a companion. Trouble let me wait, it's not a real person, a goblin blew up a dummy!! Actually race sewers! Who is so boring! β
"Boom!!" "Boom!!"
This time there was obviously a lot of explosives, and the whole house was shaking, and when my eyes were on the dining table, Green immediately got up and reported.
"Report, case, your instructions, have all unstable explosives thrown down the sewer and disposed of."
"Sewers? Hehe, whose thief is so unlucky. It's okay, Green, you're doing a great job, keep up the good work. β
[Ding, congratulations on your plague aura scourge to the hundredth target, upgrade to broom star aura, the aura effect is increased by 50%, and priority starts with your enemies.] A hundred are there, and a thousand are still far away, please keep up the good work. - That kid is really unlucky, but you'd better go and talk about it, there's your old friend. At this time, the system was unwilling to run out lonely.
When I got to the scene of the explosion, I found the familiar astrologer's emblem, and I knew that I had met an old friend again, and I was immediately furious.
"Mad dogs have a litter when you see one, Kelly, I'll leave it, I'll leave it to you, Diana, Coros, come with me, let's go hunt mad dogs." (To be continued......)
PS: The new book needs support, continue to ask for all kinds of tickets. After relieving his breath, he continued to erupt.