Chapter 8: Cards of Destiny
In the same amazement, the two looked at each other with surprise in their eyes.
"Do you know the pattern on it?"
Quinine Carrick was the first to break the calm, his eyes revealing excitement and anticipation.
Li Tong smiled awkwardly.
"I just thought it was a little surprising that my blood was able to draw patterns, which was amazing."
His eyes, which had been full of excitement and anticipation, dimmed slightly, and Quinine Carrick let go of the hand that was gripping his wrist and stared at the pattern in the blood stain for continued silence.
Li Tong withdrew his hand and covered the wound on his wrist with the placket of his shirt to avoid more blood from flowing out, and also stared at the already clear pattern in the blood, his explanation was certainly not the real reason for the exclamation.
The real reason is...... This is not the first time I have seen this pattern!
"An old man with a hunched back, dressed in a black robe, clasped his hands tightly together, as if he was praying sincerely."
The first time I saw this pattern was the pocket watch from my previous life, and the pattern on the lid of the pocket watch was like this, exactly the same, vivid.
As he pondered, he saw the bounty hunter take out a page of poker-sized paper cards from his bosom, gently wipe it on his clothes, and then buckle it onto a palm-sized blood stain.
The pattern on the bloodstain happens to be covered.
"What is he doing?"
Li Tong temporarily pulled his thoughts back to reality and watched this scene curiously.
After a few moments, Quinine Carrick picked up the paper card that was attached to the blood and swung it in the air a few times, allowing the blood stains on the card to dry.
The cards are laid out on the table.
When the cards were placed on the table, the bright red glow of the setting sun quickly faded, and the candlelight took over the room again, and everything returned to normal.
Li Tong put his head up.
The pattern is rubbed onto the card, clear as printed, bright red, with some excess blood stains remaining on the edges.
Reach out and touch, there is some bumpiness, and the texture is quite good.
"The magic is really magical, much stronger than the watermark technology in the age of technology."
Quinin Carrick's originally stagnant expression gradually soothed, the corners of his mouth rose, and he shook his head and muttered to himself.
"It was unexpected."
Li Tong was confused by this muttering, why did he say it unexpectedly.
The bounty hunter looked away from the card for a moment, looked the young man in front of him up and down, and after a long time the whole person sat down in his chair and smiled dumbly.
"You know, your fate cards are new discoveries for my employer?"
"Huh?"
Li Tong subconsciously let out a response, his mind still stuck on the card.
"How can you have this thing in your blood?"
Quinin Carrick licked his somewhat parched lips and sat upright.
"I know you must have a lot of doubts in your heart now, if you were just an ordinary awakened person, I would have turned around and left without hesitation, but you are not, I have to explain it to you in detail."
"Wait......"
Li Tong realized that the next conversation was important, quickly got up and walked to the stove to fill some firewood to keep the room warm and comfortable, returned to his position, and nodded to start.
"Let's start by slitting your wrist just now."
The bounty hunter thought for a moment and decided where the conversation would begin.
"You treated me to a sumptuous and unique dinner, so I decided to show you if you have awakened after the teleportation magic ritual, and if so, what the special abilities you have gained will be in return."
Li Tong nodded.
"So am I awake now?"
"Of course, you're awake."
Quinin Carrick picked up the card on the table and shook it.
"This card is the best example of this, only the blood of the Awakened can form such a card pattern, which we usually refer to as the original destiny card."
"Fate cards?"
Li Tong stretched out his hand to pick up the card, and felt unbelievable that there was such a hidden card in his blood.
"And what are the abilities I gained after awakening?"
Quinin Carrick brushed the handful of hair that hung down in front of her eyes to block the view, looking a little lost.
"Originally, I was able to know the abilities you gained through the primordial fate cards that were created after awakening, because I had already seen ten different primordial fate cards, and named them according to our understanding: farmer, sailor, free man, artisan, trader, lawyer, hunter, gold digger, apprentice, thief. I know what each represents ability. But now it doesn't work on you. ”
"Invalid?"
"That's right, it's invalid, according to my employer's research for several years, there are only ten kinds of primordial fate cards, and you have an eleventh type here, this brand new primordial fate card has never been seen before, and naturally I don't know what the superpower of your primordial fate card represents."
Listening to the bounty hunter's explanation, and synthesizing what he had already understood, Li Tong probably had some eyebrows.
"There are two results of studying the mysterious power of the tablet, one is to study the curse of failure, such as Rensad, and the other is to study the awakening successfully, after awakening, you will get a mysterious ability, and at the same time, this primordial destiny card will appear in the blood of the awakened."
But the problem is that I didn't succeed in researching, but I accidentally avoided the curse through the magic ritual, and it stands to reason that I shouldn't have awakened and possessed this primitive fate card.
Quinin Carrick apparently had this in mind.
"There is only one explanation for the fact that you avoided the curse because of your failed passage through the magical ritual and eventually awakened."
"What's the explanation?" Li Tong wanted to know and asked urgently.
"Failure to pass through a magical ritual is itself a fateful event for you." Quinin Carrick was steadfast.
Li Tong heard a new term again.
"A fatalistic event?"
The bounty hunter's expression became extremely religious, as if he were a devout believer in some church.
"That's right, everyone has a predetermined fate, the wheel of fate is hidden in your blood and is in a state of stagnation, the occurrence of certain random events will activate the hidden wheel of fate, let it turn, and prompt you to embark on the path of destined fate, the name of the fate card also comes from this, and this random event that prompts your wheel of fate to turn, we call it a fateful event."
"Since fatalistic events are random events, they are not inevitable, some people will not activate them in their lifetime, but some people can encounter them unexpectedly, such as you."
When it comes to emotion, Quinin Carrick is as impassioned as a natural orator.
"Actually, the Mystic Slate is not your fateful event, it's just the fateful event of your companion Rensad, but he didn't complete the random event and was eventually cursed, unfortunately you were affected by his fateful event, in order to get out of the bad state, you performed a magical ritual, and the crooked hit just started your fateful event, so awakened."
In other words, he suffered from Rensad's unwarranted disaster, but if you think about it carefully, if it is not affected, Ronin Austin will not carry out the magic crossing ritual, so it is accurate to say that the combination of the mysterious stone tablet and the crossing ritual is his own fateful event, and it is even possible that the pocket watch of the previous life is also part of the fateful event.
Li Tong thought of a more perfect explanation, but there was still a suspicion in it.
"And what if I succeed in the Crossing Magic Ritual?"