Divination is a well-known ritual that can be easily interfered with, so many people don't like to use it, let alone in academia, which is known for its rigor—sometimes an answer in the wrong direction is far more harmful than no answer at all.

However, in this document, the author proposes that for the macro question of "the source of the power of the witch's contract", on the one hand, the number of contracts covered must be very large; On the other hand, microscopically speaking, any kind of interference will have a different impact on the divination of different contracts.

Theoretically, then, if the object of divination is a sufficiently large sample, the interference effects of different contracts will cancel each other out, so that the whole presents a certain consistent result, and this result is likely to be the source of power of all contracts.

I have to say that this is a very ingenious idea. But when I took this document and asked the administrator of the nest tower if there was a follow-up, I got a negative answer.

I was told that this document was born more than 100 years ago, and that the authors of the document had put forward this idea, which aroused the interest of many great witches, but very few people were really willing to put it into practice—the cost of experimentation was so great that even according to the most conservative estimates, each divination would require at least 200 different high-level contracts as samples to counteract each other's influences and arrive at a consistent answer.

And 100 years ago, the cost of manufacturing contracts was much higher than it is now, and the total value of 200 high-level contracts was about 1 million mores.

Despite the lack of support, the author of this document did not give up—the caretaker of the Hive Tower told me—that the witch later became a great witch and actually spent 1 million moles to buy 200 different, unsigned high-level contracts as divination samples, and began the divination she had always dreamed of.

This is one of the most inspirational stories ever told by the Bibri Wosseka Islands, but it is also the most absurd. At that time, witnessed by hundreds of great witches and tens of thousands of viewers, the author began her attempt.

Soon after the divination began, black flames suddenly appeared in the mountains of crystals, burning the expensive contracts to ashes like firewood. Whenever a contract was burned, a prophecy of divination appeared on the paper, and a few minutes later, the author of the document was given a piece of paper full of prophecies.

According to post-mortem statistics, there were 144 prophecies on paper.

The projection contract that had been prepared for a long time went into effect, projecting the contents of the paper into the air so that everyone could see it—and then the audience fell silent for several minutes.

Everyone tried to understand the prophecies and search for so-called "consistency" in them, but they all failed. Gradually, more and more people realized the fact that this "great divination", which cost millions of moles, ended up with only a piece of paper full of gibberish, and the author's assumption was probably wrong from the beginning.

At first, perhaps out of awe of the Great Witch, or perhaps out of pity, everyone remained awkwardly silent, until one of the Great Witches present suddenly burst into laughter, and she laughed while pointing to the author:

"Look...... She doesn't look like that...... Hahahaha...... It's not like the undressed city lord in "The City Lord's New Clothes......"

In this way, the divination ritual turned into a farce completely. Soon after, the author, who became the laughing stock of everyone, left the archipelago and was never seen again.

"Is there a copy of the 144 prophecies left?" I asked.

The nest keeper didn't seem surprised by the question: "Of course, there are quite a few books that have copied it, such as ...... This, "Anecdotes of the Archipelago: One Hundred and One Ridiculous but True Stories". ”

As she spoke, she summoned a book, flipped to one of the pages, and handed it to me.

I quickly read the 144 prophecies that sounded like a dream.

"Although it is true that there are some nonsense, there seems to be some commonalities......"

"For example, most prophecies imply to some degree that the power of the contract comes from a single source, and while that sounds like nonsense, it also provides a bit of information, doesn't it?" ”

"Of course." The administrator immediately agreed with me.

I looked at her with some surprise.

The other party showed a teasing smile: "You are not the first to discover this, since the birth of these prophecies, there have been people who have been trying to interpret it, and everyone's research can also be described as 'fruitful', some people interpret the power of the contract from uniqueness, some people interpret the power of the contract from a grand war, and some people interpret the power of the contract from the past, present and future...... In short, there are all kinds of conclusions. Until about a decade ago, there were many scholars who liked to use the so-called 'interpretation results' to publish papers and earn points, until the academic committee banned this behavior completely. ”

……

With permission from the Nest Keeper, I returned to Debussota with a copy of the 144 divination prophecies. Despite this, I still trust my instincts, and I believe that the author of the document has found the right method, but lacks the ability to organize a perfect divination.

It just so happens that I have.

I am the lord of Debussota, and the resources of the entire city are at my disposal, and the cost of manufacturing contracts has been greatly reduced compared to 100 years ago, let alone 200 contracts, even if I can afford 2,000 contracts.

In fact, that's what I did.

Shortly after returning to Debussota, I immediately had 2,000 high-level contracts of various types purchased from the "Ether Package", which was not even counted as a company's expense, but was deducted from my annual budget for personal expenses.

Soon, I performed a divination according to the method recorded in the literature, and nothing changed except that the sample was 10 times that of the other party.

The divination ended without a hitch. As I expected, the failure of the divination 100 years ago was entirely due to the fact that the sample was too small for the interference to be properly counteracted internally, and so many prophecies that seemed to be gibberish-like were obtained. This time, I got much less prophecy.

There are only 14 of them.

Not only that, but the prophecy is much clearer than it used to be, and anyone can draw three important messages from it at a glance:

1) The source of contractual power is unique.

2) The source of contractual power spans the entire river of time.

3) The clue to the source of the contract power is in the city where the divination is located.

I can't put into words how excited I was, but I decided to start preparing for the next divination right away, but I didn't have a good idea of how to improve it so that I could get more accurate results.

So I found Victoria, who probably knows the most about witch contracts in the city. Her "adaptive theory" has been validated in many column systems; More importantly, she is one of the few directors on the board who has supported me from start to finish.

Listening to the ins and outs of the whole thing, Victoria also expressed interest and proposed an idea:

"Maybe we can do a divination on the signed contract." "To sign is to make a connection, and if the power of the contract comes from some kind of unique existence, then the contract after the divination is signed is obviously easier to trace back to that existence," she said. ”

"You have a point." I agreed, but at the same time cautioned: "But in this way, the 'material' of divination changes from a contract to a person, and since divination will lead to the destruction of a contract, the person who is the material may be in the same danger." ”

"It's okay, I'll be the 'material'." Victoria said nonchalantly.

In this way, with my covert support, Victoria began the "contract scrape" that made the uptown, the middle, and the downtown all jump.

Despite some minor twists and turns, she managed to collect all the contracts she could find in the entirety of Debussota and signed them all on herself.

(End of chapter)