Chapter 11: Arithmetic Divination, Chaos Magic
"Time Hound?"
Again, this was a term Hermione hadn't heard of.
"That's right, it's a special existence that lives in the long river of time."
Clark said, recalling what he had seen in the book.
"'Time Hounds' are just another name for them, and these guys are neither hounds nor have any connection to animals in the conventional sense.
They are a conglomerate of concepts that exist only in space, and are called hunting dogs because of their special habit of chasing prey to the ends of the earth.
In other words, the title Hound is used as a description of their habits.
No one can describe their specific form, and some ancient texts only contain a few words about them.
But it is also known from this information that they will hunt down anyone who comes into contact with them.
And because they all live in the long river of time, those who intersect with them are often wizards who use magic to travel time. ”
"So these hounds are some white blood cells that maintain stability over time?" Hermione glanced at her time turner in surprise, and quickly understood the meaning of the existence of these "time hounds".
"That's right." Clark agrees with Hermione's analogy, "The best way to make history unchangeable is that there are no variables!" ”
"Then we'll ......," Hermione worriedly glanced at the time turner in her hand again.
Clark pulled it out and fiddled with it in his hand.
"Well, Professor McGonagall said before, the Ministry of Magic stipulates that a time-turner cannot be retraced for a maximum of five hours.
In other words, if it was just a short-term, low-frequency time travel, I don't think those time hounds would have been able to detect us.
After all, the vastness of time is beyond the imagination of us mortals, and trying to meet in such a situation is tantamount to two grains of sand in the desert touching together. ”
Hermione nodded, "No wonder the two of us were using the time turner at the same time and in the same place, but we didn't show up together. ”
"Can't say that," Clark smiled, "we can't be in the same place at the same time, after all, this thing turns too far off in one turn, far less accurate than the hands of a clock." ”
He looked at his pocket watch again and saw that half an hour had passed.
"Okay, let's talk about it again, I'm afraid that when the divination class ends, we'll bump into ourselves from an hour ago."
With that, he beckoned Hermione to lean over, and the two of them shared the same time turner.
As the little hourglass turned again, it was still a familiar feeling, only this time Clark didn't casually peek into the mysteries of time.
This time, Clark and Hermione appeared in an unoccupied corner not far from the auditorium.
"No one saw it twice, so it seems that 'time' will automatically help us choose the right place to appear." Clark made a joke.
The two of them didn't stop long, and ran directly towards the classroom of the arithmetic and divination class.
They hurried all the way to the classroom, and finally stepped into the classroom before the bell rang.
The professor who taught them arithmetic divination was a middle-aged witch about the same age as Professor McGonagall, her face tightened, and she looked very serious and old-fashioned.
The two of them sat down in the middle, and when the bell rang, the professor coughed lightly.
"Dear students, I'm glad you chose my class, I'm your arithmetic and divination teacher, Setima Victor.
In my class, I didn't have to look at a teacup to identify the occult meaning in those scraps, nor did I need to stare at a crystal ball to identify the blurry image in it. ”
Hermione remembered her experience in the divination class just now, and knew that the teacher meant something, so she couldn't help but chuckle.
"I will teach you how to use careful thinking to discover the occult information contained in numbers, to see through the nature of fate, and to predict the possibility of the future.
Of course, I think most of you will have a hard time understanding and falling in love with this extraordinary charm and strange magic hidden in numbers, but I will not lower my expectations of you for this......"
Professor Victor's monotonous tone contrasted sharply with Professor Trelawney's exaggerated style, which made Hermione feel fond of the professor.
They opened their textbook, Numeric Divination and Graphics, and watched as the professor wrote down numbers, symbols, and the symbolic meanings they represented on the blackboard.
Soon, under her narration, the mystery of arithmetic divination was lifted in front of Clark.
Contrary to Clark's initial guess, arithmetic divination is not a big data extrapolation in the wizarding world.
If you have to make an analogy, such a skill may be a little similar to Huaxia's name measurement, and it is also a little bit similar to Zhou Yi gossip.
The word "arithmancy" is derived from two ancient Greek words: "arithmo" and "mancy".
It is a divination method based on Pythagorean philosophy, Jewish mystical philosophy and the "Kabbalah" tradition, which has been used by magicians and shamans for more than 2,000 years.
Some sorcerers who are proficient in this way often use it to analyze their abilities, develop their wisdom and talents, and also use it to overcome difficulties and guide the way to a bright future.
Because of the magic that seems to be applied to numbers, this method is also called "mathematical numerology".
Legend has it that this divination technique originated in ancient Greece, when Pythagoras, the famous philosopher, mathematician, and great wizard, was the first to propose the theory that "the world is built on the power of numbers".
He believed that no language was as beautiful and concise as numbers, and that even the gods could not have left out numbers when they created them.
And each number, from 1 to 9, has its own unique personality that helps us understand everything in the universe.
In addition, the ancient Greek wizards of the time believed that "names" contained important clues to reveal their personalities and fates, so Pythagoras, who was proficient in mathematics and magic, blended these two concepts together and created the most primitive arithmetic divination.
Over the centuries, this arithmetic divination method evolved into a more comprehensive method, and many complex systems were developed, and names were converted into numbers, and the results were analyzed.
Professor Victor taught them one of the most widely used arithmetic divination systems.
"Both the ancient Latin alphabet and the current English alphabet can be converted into a series of numbers corresponding from 1 to 9.
What we need to do in arithmetic divination is to extract the three main numbers from a person's name, namely 'personality numbers', 'spiritual numbers' and 'social numbers', and then explain and elaborate the results of these numerical calculations according to a series of theories and methods of interpretation.
This method was already known in the Middle Ages and is still used today.
The tools it requires are simple, just a pen, a piece of paper, and the ability to spell, add and subtract.
Even Muggles can often be used in a good way.
But I would like to remind you that this does not mean that this method is simple. We are shamans, so we often have special skills when it comes to divination, and you need to use your magic to ......"
Clark listened to the professor talk on the podium, and felt that although the class was not as ridiculous as the divination class, it was indeed very boring.
After all, for Clark, who had just traveled through time and was fortunate enough to witness the long river of time, these tedious and complicated divination steps were not so necessary.
He just peeked into a little bit of the mystery of "time", and he knew that the so-called divination and prophecy are the most fundamental thing or perception! It's magic!
It is a powerful force that can briefly leap out of the long river of time and get a glimpse of the lower reaches of time.
is as strong as Grindelwald and Dumbledore, even if you don't look at the tea residue and don't count the numbers, you can still accurately grasp that wisp of inspiration and grasp the future direction in countless complicated information.
Of course, this may be what those professors call talent.
This 1 percent talent is more important than the 99 percent sweat.
Clark casually flipped through the book in front of him, reflecting the knowledge in it with his own experience just now, as well as the words he had obtained from the fragments of Godhead, and only felt that he was more sure of the "fate" in the dark.
What is Probability?
In terms of dimensions, it is a four-dimensional timeline determined at the five-dimensional level.
In terms of time, it is the possibility that the next second will happen.
The future is an endless range of possibilities and probabilities, and each different probability represents a new timeline.
Looking at the future from the present, it is all made up of probability clouds, a coin is thrown into the sky, according to the various possibilities of its fall, there are different futures, when the future becomes the present, and is seen by us, the probability cloud also collapses into the timeline.
And the power used by wizards, the magic of chaos, is the power to control probability.
Although this power is still weak, it can still help wizards choose the outcome of the collapse of the probability cloud, and let the world find the cause itself, which is a powerful ability that directly determines the future.
The power that can control cause and effect – that's chaos magic.
Chaos represents infinite possibilities, and magic is the force that makes this possible possible.
But that's exactly what the problem is, Clark remembered the [Chaos Infected] status displayed on the system panel when he first entered the school.
There is no free lunch in the world, and the powerful power of chaos magic is almost equivalent to a weakened version of [Godhead Ability: Changing Reality].
However, this kind of power involving [time], [fate], and [cause and effect] is said to have been mastered and passed down by the wizard himself, and he doesn't believe it when he kills Clark.
It's not that the wizard ancestors back then weren't powerful enough, but they were only famous and instrumental, and they couldn't be dummies.
This kind of power that is deeply involved in the authority of the gods, just thinking about it, you can feel the bottomless water in it.
What's more, for so many years, no wizard has been able to take the last step, not to mention others, just Dumbledore, and almost all the conditions for him to become a god can be said to be met.
When he defeated Grindelwald and saved the entire wizarding world, he should have been able to take that last step, but look at how old he is now, at a young age, he still has to worry about Voldemort, a junior.
Clark suddenly thought of two manga he had read, Naruto and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
With such a strong sense of déjà vu, he can't help but think about it too much.
Fortunately, he has now successfully changed jobs, and has also helped Hermione and Neville remove hidden dangers, and after that, as long as he develops steadily, it will be good to slowly spread the career system of the DND world.
At this time, the crisp bell rang in his ears, and Professor Victor assigned a long paper as an after-class assignment, and then left the classroom in a hurry.
Clark finally came back to his senses.
"Oh my God, it's so hard, it's so boring." The voice of a little witch came from behind him.
Hermione suddenly took a different opinion, "No, I think it's funny, much more interesting than the divination class. ”。
She said to Clark, "Divination class is!" ”
Clark smiled and began to pack up his things unhurriedly, then left the classroom with Hermione, found a place where no one was around, and continued to use the time turner.
This time, they rushed to a Muggle studies class again.
The teacher of this class was originally Quirrell, but when Clark and the others were in the first grade, Quirrell switched to teaching the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, so the class was taught by Professor Keredi Bubbaghy.
As a former Muggle who was fortunate enough to travel to the world of Harry Potter, it was indeed very interesting to take this course.
If he could go back to his past life, he might be able to answer the question of what it was like to take a Muggle studies class at Hogwarts.
Thank you, I'm at Hogwarts, and I've just fired a firebow bolt.
That's a good question, and it's a wonderful feeling from a wizard's point of view in the Muggle world.
How to put it, it's like listening to the feeling of listening to Chinese people teach Chinese English (/w\).
Sometimes it's right, sometimes it's plausible, and sometimes it's a very different perspective than ours.
Muggles, for example, know that the gun is a gunpowder weapon, but many wizards have replied, "The gun is a metal wand invented by Muggles in modern times for better killing." ”
There are other Muggle-related habits and customs that wizards and wizards have a hard time understanding.
They couldn't understand why Muggles were constantly changing their suits, sometimes wrapped so tightly, sometimes with their arms exposed.
And why can't you go out on the street in your pajamas?
However, if you put aside the prejudices, you will find that Muggle studies class has built a bridge between the wizarding world and the Muggle world.
It has played an indelible role in helping young wizards dispel misconceptions and prejudices about the Muggle world, and promote the integration of the two worlds.
This is a course full of humanities.
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