in2ebook Chapter 174 Divination
Chapter 174 Divination
"Is this our first face-to-face communication?"
Cecilia thought about it, nodded, and said jokingly, "I just didn't expect it to be in a place like this."
The high priest brought the man out of the prison.
This was completely different from the last time when the young patriarch took her out secretly.
Cecilia followed the two mermaids, and the high priest suddenly said, "The clan leader wanted to introduce me to you guys back then."
Cecilia didn't ask why.
The end result was that he and the high priest did not know each other back then.
This is a pity.
They should have gotten to know each other in a relatively normal environment.
"You're not letting me out just to reminisce about the past, are you?"
The high priest brought the people out, and the mermaid guarding the prison expressed his disapproval, "Humans are cunning, and you alone are not good enough. Do you want to send more mermaids to protect you?"
Cecilia did not show any aggressiveness throughout the whole process.
So the mermaid said she was cunning and secretly reminded the high priest not to trust humans so easily.
The high priest did not answer him, but answered Cecilia's question, "I have something I need to confirm with you."
The mermaid hesitated to speak.
In the end, they respected the high priest's decision.
Cecilia hadn't looked human for a long time.
The mermaid couldn't kill Cecilia, so she just hoped she would starve to death in prison.
If the young patriarch had not suddenly appeared and helped Cecilia, even if Cecilia had the blessing of the ocean, she would have died in that cell by now.
The high priestess did not intervene in this matter before, not that she also blamed Cecilia for the death of the patriarch.
But according to her divination, this was a disaster for Cecilia, and the divination result was that she would escape death.
Since Cecilia had her own fortunes and misfortunes, there was no need for the high priest to intervene.
The three of them arrived at the patriarch's office.
Four hundred years have passed, and the clan leader's office no longer looks the same as before.
Even the location has changed.
If Cecilia's sense of direction was correct, this place was probably quite far from the original patriarch's office.
There was no question of whether to sit down or not in the water. After the three of them entered the office, the high priest went straight to the point, "I see that you have a good relationship with the young patriarch. She seems to be more willing to listen to you."
Cecilia was puzzled. "When did she ever listen to me?"
The high priest looked at Cecilia.
Cecilia thought for a while, then looked at the young patriarch in a daze, "Did you talk to her?"
The young clan leader was stunned. Before going to the prison, did she and the high priest have a heart-to-heart talk?
Cecilia just thought that her expression meant she agreed.
"How was it? Did you get the answer you wanted?"
The high priest frowned and looked at the two of them. She vaguely felt that what she said and what Cecilia said seemed to be different things.
The young patriarch responded, "No, we went to your place before I had a chance to talk to her."
Cecilia was stunned, then looked at the high priest, somewhat puzzled.
"Then you mean..."
The high priest rubbed his eyebrows and said, "I thought she came to me to release you."
Young Patriarch: ...
Wasn’t it the high priest who was looking for her?
And when did she say she wanted to release Cecilia?
She also looked at the high priest, but finally said nothing.
Cecilia looked at the changes in their expressions and had some guesses in her mind, but she didn't point them out. "Since you have already released me from prison, I should be a good mermaid and just put me back on shore."
The high priest glanced at Cecilia with a strange look in his eyes, and the young patriarch interrupted and said, "You are dreaming."
Cecilia spread her hands, "Then why did you let me out?"
"You can't be releasing me because you feel sorry for me in prison, right? That doesn't seem to be in line with the people's wishes."
The high priest glared at Cecilia.
Cecilia smiled.
The young clan leader could tell that the two men had something else to say, and she was tactful enough to find an excuse to leave.
After the young patriarch left, the high priest said, "The divination said that you would be saved. I thought I was the one who went to save you, but I didn't expect that the little girl would get there first."
Cecilia waved her hand, "It's the same no matter who comes."
The high priest shook his head. "It's different. She could have known you."
The smile on Cecilia's face faded a lot, and then she returned to her smiling appearance, "Mermaids have a long lifespan, she will soon forget me."
The high priest did not argue with Cecilia about this any further.
"I predicted something ten years ago."
As soon as Cecilia heard it, she knew what the high priest was going to say, but she didn't interrupt.
She just didn't know where Leonard's divination came from.
Cecilia never thought that this would be the result of Abeluna's divination.
There is a saying in her original world: "The secret of heaven cannot be revealed."
Humans want to use their abilities to predict the future, and perhaps they can predict some relevant things, but they will definitely pay a corresponding price.
It's the same even if they are dark magicians now.
Abeluna couldn't fulfill such a huge divination prophecy.
If it were the high priest in front of me...
Cecilia still had some faith.
"I predicted that the world will soon be in chaos. The demons will invade the territories of various forces. In the end, only the demons will be left on the continent of Swest."
This is somewhat different from the divination found in Reynard's manor.
"After the demons occupy the entire Swist continent, they will engage in an endless civil war. In three hundred years at most, there will be no more intelligent creatures on the entire Swist continent."
The second half sounds like it is somewhat similar to my mission.
only……
"How long do you predict it will take for the demons to occupy the entire Swist continent?"
The high priest gave an answer without hesitation, "Two years and seven months."
The time is almost the same as the remaining time of my task.
So his mission is to prevent the destruction of the continent. Does that mean he is trying to stop the demons from ruling the world?
If that were the case, Cecilia felt it would be a lot simpler.
"Will the ocean also be invaded by demons?"
The high priest nodded. "At least in the future that I have seen, the entire mermaid tribe has been destroyed."
"So you let me out because I am now the child of the human ruler? You want me to stop the demon invasion?"
The high priest nodded first, then shook his head, "I know why you came here. You want to know how to seal the black magician, right?"
Cecilia nodded.
The high priest sneered, "Do you think we don't want to?"
Cecilia reacted immediately.
Yes.
The black magician killed the chieftain and Ellal dismembered his body.
The mermaids would naturally want to get rid of the black magician as soon as possible.
Most of the information about the existence of black magicians comes from legends.
No one knows how the black magician appeared and how he grew up.
He has been sealed away ever since rumors of a black magician spread on this continent.
"Isn't there anything you can do?"
The high priest shook his head and said, "Yes, but it's very difficult."
The good news is that there is a solution.
"What do you think."
"According to the notes I found among the relics left by the patriarch, they are very old and I don't know how much authenticity they have."
A notebook suddenly appeared in the high priest's hand and he handed it to Cecilia. Cecilia opened it and said, "It takes the blessing of the sea, land, and sky to seal the black magician."
She looked at the high priest, who shook his head.
"Except for the blessing of the ocean, which we know very well, we don't know where to get the remaining two."
There are so many creatures on land. Humans, dwarves, giants, orcs, elves, and even demons all live on land.
Cecilia had never heard of the blessing of the land.
She thought again of the time when the patriarch bestowed upon them the blessing of the ocean.
At least she must have the strength of the clan leader back then, and also be recognized by the land before she can represent the land and receive the blessing of the land.
After thinking about it, Cecilia decided that most likely he was an elf.
But what is the blessing of the sky?
Apart from birds and some demons that can fly in the sky, what other creatures are there in the sky on the continent of Swest?
It can't be a dragon, right?
But dragons are only species that exist in legends.
She hadn't seen it four hundred years ago, and she hadn't seen it four hundred years later.
If you really need to find a dragon.
This task is not easy either.
After hearing Cecilia's thoughts, the high priest also showed a miserable expression, "You have already received the blessing of the ocean four hundred years ago. I can't help you with anything, and I can't help you with those things on land."
Cecilia was naturally aware of this matter. The mermaids here did not have the legendary magic that could turn their tails into legs.
She now just thought that the high priest released her in order to work together with her.
Just as we were about to discuss this further, we heard the high priest say, "I heard from the young patriarch that you suddenly went back four hundred years ago and then came back inexplicably for no apparent reason?"
Cecilia's heart skipped a beat.
This is just her excuse, and there is nothing wrong with it to scare others.
But the high priest in front of him had apparently reached the stage of knowing his fate, and it was obviously of no benefit for him to lie to him.
But Cecilia still wanted to hide it if she could, and she wanted to hide it from the high priest again.
Cecilia was afraid that the high priest would be entangled in this issue, but fortunately the high priest changed the subject and said, "I originally brought you out just to tell you this, but I saw that your conversation with the young patriarch just now seemed to have something I don't know."
The topic was changed and Cecilia breathed a sigh of relief.
After hearing the high priest's concern, he realized that the other party knew that he was hiding something, but just didn't care.
In comparison, the other party cares more about the young patriarch.
But yes.
The high priest watched the young patriarch grow up.
Children will naturally be concerned if they have little secrets that they don't know about.
Cecilia shook her head and said, "You shouldn't ask me this. You can go ask the young patriarch directly. She just needs to talk to you."
"If you use my words, the young patriarch will blame me."
The high priest looked at Cecilia and said, "Then I'll have to trouble you to stay here for a while."
Cecilia didn't care. "I want to know if the humans who came with me are still alive now?"
Cecilia jumped into the sea with the determination to die, and she didn't care about the fate of the people on that ship.
Later, after being scolded by the young patriarch, he wanted to care about the people who came with him, but the young patriarch knew nothing about anything he asked.
The high priest shook his head. "Except for you, the mermaids have never brought humans to the bottom of the sea."
She was ready to go find the young chief. "You can only pray that they don't encounter mermaids. If they do, they will most likely not survive."
Cecilia's heart tightened.
According to the situation at the time, the captain took his magic compass and set off for Mermaid Island according to the map he had drawn in advance.
Although the sirens' attention was attracted by me after I jumped into the sea, there was no guarantee that they would not turn back.
There is no guarantee that the ship will not encounter other sirens in the future.
The number of mermaids is not small.
Cecilia felt a little regretful. She should at least have settled those people before jumping into the sea to die.
She found it easy to give up now.
After hearing the cause and effect of the patriarch's death, she didn't want to continue the mission.
Now I find that I have implicated others again, and I am beginning to waver and want to give up.
Cecilia sighed.
She herself somewhat despises herself now.
"Ding - the tasker's negative attitude is detected, and the responsible system is recalled for supervision."
"The system is loading, please wait——"
Cecilia was stunned.
Is there such a function?
"I'm so sorry for leaving without saying goodbye last time. How come you ended up like this after just a few days of not seeing each other?"
Cecilia has not yet recovered from the news that the system has returned.
Until the system asked again, "Are you okay?"
Cecilia came back to her senses and asked, "Can you find out about Joyce and the others?"
The system started working quickly, and soon a video was projected in front of Cecilia.
That was what happened on the boat to Joyce and others after Cecilia jumped into the sea.
Not long after I jumped into the sea, the boat met another boat.
Cecilia calculated the time and realized that she was probably still being beaten underwater.
After seeing the appearance of the captain of the other ship, Cecilia began to blame herself for being self-righteous.
The captain of the other ship was the first ship Cecilia found before setting off.
They probably wrote down the maps they had drawn.
Although the drawings in the second half are wrong, there is no problem with the map in the first half.
The ship probably lost its direction when it entered the range controlled by the mermaids. It was unknown how long it sailed on the sea before it met the ship carrying Joyce and others.
The other party used a distress signal. After seeing it, the captain drove the ship towards the other party.
This is exactly the other party's trick.
They have been lost for some time.
I was lucky enough not to encounter any siren's. When I saw another ship, I immediately knew that this was the ship that bitch was looking for.
The other party must know the direction of the treasure.