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Grantham stood up with a sigh of surprise, took two steps back, and sat down almost on the ground, followed by a blur before him, and all the scene that had emerged dissipated. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When Grantham's vision returned to normal, everything was back to its original state, and he and Garlanor were still sitting cross-legged on their knees, as if what had just happened had never really happened, just a dream, but he knew in his heart that it was definitely not a hallucination.

Garlanod used for divination is a thing called a astrolabe, which is said to be an artifact specially reserved for the elves when they left the continent.

There are many types of divination, but the oldest and most effective is astrology, in which the gods are said to deduce the future of the world by observing the movement of the stars in the sky.

Some astrological studies believe that everything in the world is the result of complex forces between the stars, so it is possible to predict the future by deducing the trajectory of the stars. Even today, humans, orcs, and dwarves have their own astrological systems in operation, which are used to predict the rise and fall of nations and the rise and fall of families.

In addition to the unattainable stars, items such as turtle shells and cards can also be used as tools to predict good fortune and bad fortune in the future, and divination with turtle shells and cards is simpler and faster, and the results can be known immediately, unlike astrology, which requires observing the movement of the stars in the sky, which requires years of waiting, and then analyzes and calculates according to the results of observations, the complexity of which is not explained by even the most experienced astrologers themselves. Therefore, among the people, people prefer to use turtle shells or cards in the form of divination, although their accuracy is outrageously poor, but it does not affect the popularity of this form of divination.

The long time and complexity of deduction are only part of the problem of astrology, but there is an even bigger problem in astrology.

There are countless stars in the sky, not to mention human eyes, even the eyesight of elves can observe very little, and the accuracy of astrology is closely related to the number of stars that can be observed, the more stars observed, the more accurate the results of divination, and vice versa. It is said that the gods were able to predict the future accurately because they could see enough stars. And the appearance of the astrolabe is tailor-made by the elven god to help the elves solve this biggest problem in astrology.

In order to simplify the astrological method and integrate it into a simple astrolabe, the elven god took a section of the trunk of the World Tree, carved an extremely complex circle on it, and supplemented it with gems that could absorb the power of the stars, and finally took hundreds of years to refine.

The refined astrolabe can not only record the trajectory of the stars, but also deduce some special information according to these trajectories, such as some scenes or words, and then master the spirit of divination, you can interpret this information, this kind of divination using the astrolabe will be much faster than standing on the stargazing platform to look at the stars in terms of efficiency and accuracy. So later, some people in the human race also imitated tools similar to astrolabes, and it was this kind of imitation divination prop that the old man Hepburn used to tease a few ruffians in the West Street bar.

There is another explanation for the role of the astrolabe, they believe that the astrolabe is a tool that can communicate with the gods, and the astrolabe can get instructions from the gods, so in the elves, the great elder who holds the astrolabe is the one who can communicate with the gods.

Whether the role of the astrolabe is to record the secrets of the movement of the stars, or the medium of communication with the gods, the users of the astrolabe need extremely high talents, even if the elven gods are the most favored by the elves, there is only one person in each generation who will use it, and this person is the great elder of the elven race, when a generation of great elders will pass on the astrolabe and divination before they die, and the winner will naturally become the next generation of great elders.

The elves firmly believe that the elven god chose to leave the astrolabe and divination to the elves in the hope that the elves will last forever, so the divination of the great elder determines the future luck of the elves to a certain extent.

It is based on the above two points that the Great Elder has a supreme and silent prestige within the Elven Clan, and this prestige is sometimes even above the king.

The green astrolabe has been put back in its original position, and at the top of the rattan tent, a hole has been opened, through which you can see the sky above the forest all the time, and at this time, light shines through the hole, and it shines on the green wooden board, and the surface of the astrolabe immediately becomes a halo of light.

Looking at this magical scene, Grantham knew that the astrolabe was absorbing light, and these rays were coming from outside the sky with information about the movement of the stars. After each divination, the astrolabe needs to be left for at least seven days before it can continue to be used, and this seven days is considered to be a minimum period of the stars' movements, and in astrology, only information that is greater than the minimum period has deductive value. In order to commemorate this seven-day date, the mainland calendar uses seven days as a time node and calls seven days a week. And the seven-day cycle also has the same application in the Holy See, they take seven days as a cycle of worship, because the Holy See's scriptures record that the brilliance of God also changes according to the seven-day cycle, reaching a peak every seven days, and choosing this peak time to do the best effect, because at this time the consciousness of God is the strongest on the mainland, and it is easier to hear the prayers of believers, so the week is also called worship in the area ruled by the Holy See.

"Your Majesty, what did you just see?"

After a long silence, Garanord's voice sounded again, but this time it sounded older than before.

"Great Elder, I saw the changes in the history of the continent, when I wanted to see the future, there was a layer of fog in front of me, I wanted to clear the fog and look at the things inside, but I only saw a dazzling golden light, and then I returned to reality. ”

Grantham said truthfully.

"Your Majesty, divination is used to dispel that layer of fog, but that layer of fog cannot be dispelled, even if you remove one layer and another layer, even if you remove the layers and exhaust your vitality, the last thing you see is still faint, and the information extracted according to these vague observations may be completely opposite to the real future. And even if you guess correctly, then what you do is only the reason for all this, divination cannot change fate, he may only be a link in fate. ”

Garanord continued to persuade with a tired expression, and as a great elder who was proficient in divination, he expressed his disdain for divination, which gave him supreme prestige, and even regarded it as a waste of his life.

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