Be dragged into the room by the succubus

"God has abandoned our kingdom!"

"God is not worthy of the honorable name of God!"

"I, Merlin VI, the last surviving member of the Merlin family, make a prophecy here!"

Andrew held the parchment and turned to the last page.

click.

The flipped pages shattered in his hands, before Andrew was shocked, he felt light in his hands.

The book that was originally wrapped in sheepskin in his hand began to rot quickly, with broken pages falling from his fingers.

Like a treasure that has been buried underground for thousands of years, the time that was originally fixed has flown again after being exposed to the outside world, and it has turned into its original appearance within just half an hour of being unearthed.

All the other pages were reduced to fly ash, only the last page floated up, and the prophecy written on it lit up with an ominous dark red blood light.

Following the feeling in his heart, Andrew slowly read the [prophecy] written in blood:

"[The Fool] is the beginning of everything.

[Magician] deceived everyone.

The self-righteous 【priestess】ends up in her own cage.

The weak and incompetent [Queen] can only watch the development of everything and is powerless.

The [Emperor] whose son killed his father will eventually live in the past wearing his crown of shackles.

【Pope】lost his faith and kept falling into the abyss.

【Lovers】Loving each other in war, and parting in peacetime.

The king's [chariot] will crush everything.

[Power] that does not belong to you will surely get out of control.

【Hermit】Hiding in the dark, watching the ignorant crowd dance wildly.

Under the guidance of the [Wheel of Fortune], we will go to destruction.

Powerless [justice] is not justice.

【The Hanged Man】Looking at the world upside down, forgetting to sacrifice.

[Death] Fairly cares about every soul.

The world is no longer [temperance], and the balance has long been broken.

【Devil】Whispers in the depths of the heart, luring the ignorant to death.

The depths of the [Tower] hide secrets.

The [star] that everyone is chasing is hidden in the dark.

The ignorant worship the [moon], trying to gain power under the moonlight.

The benevolent [Sun] covers all and gives false life.

The [Judgment] that belongs to everyone is bound to come.

[The world] is the end of everything. "

When Andrew finished speaking the last word of the book, a cold wind suddenly blew in the hidden secret room.

!

Quickly closing the book, Andrew cautiously looked towards where the wind came from.

It's the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets.

Because he was worried about being locked in, Andrew removed the old bed board to block the entrance when he came in.

The cloudy wind just now was just a normal phenomenon caused by air convection.

frighten yourself.

Relaxed, Andrew shook his head, and sighed slightly with a self-deprecating smile on the corner of his mouth:

"It's really embarrassing, it doesn't have the elegance of an aristocrat at all."

Looking down at the book in his hand, Andrew's expression became slightly weird, and he paused before whispering:

"...It is said to be [prophecy], but every word between the lines is full of [curse]!"

The last prophecy made by the last member of the "Heavenly Chosen One" family turned out to be such a vicious curse.

Such a situation, while making Andrew silently sigh, also has some empathy.

Also born in a declining noble family, they also faced a family that was about to collapse completely, but the decisions they made were different.

Merlin VI chose to accept his fate after a symbolic struggle, and finally cursed impotently.

But Andrew is different. Unlike Merlin who waits to die and complains, he is an absolute hard worker.

Andrew's situation is better than Merlin's. His own talent allows him to make more substantive struggles, instead of writing curses and complaining incompetently and furiously.

Talent combined with hard work allowed Andrew to reach his current position step by step.

Originally, with his strength and position in the organization, he was no longer needed to take the risk of participating in this kind of competition, but Andrew himself had the mission of revitalizing the family, so he had no choice but to come.

It is not the first time to participate in such a competition, and they are all trying to win prizes.

In addition, he is still trying his best to make friends with some strong people, and he will also invest in some optimistic people.

Everything is the revival of the future family.

Andrew is always trying his best to do everything well, no matter what it turns out to be, at least he tried.

This is Andrew, a young nobleman who shoulders the mission of reviving a declining family.

The pages of the book floating in mid-air slowly fell, and fell safely into Andrew's hands.

The poems written in blood have long faded the color of the time, and what remains on it are chilling dark red spots.

Even in the dark and cold secret room, it itself is the source of the coldness, and the curse that is so thick that it almost turns into substance is entwined on it.

Even if he just holds it with his hands, Andrew will feel a kind of icy power all over his body along his fingers.

terrible curse.

Merlin VI, no, the resentment of the entire Merlin family is concentrated on this.

"Also, is this prophecy... the source of the [Major Arcana Card]?"

Tarot cards are an ancient divination tool that has been around since before the dark ages.

The exact origin of the tarot cards is unknown, and many experts in the occult have tried to find a clue from the literature of the Dark Ages.

The whole tarot deck consists of 22 "Major Arcana" main cards and 56 "Minor Arcana" secondary cards.

The "Major Arcana Card" is used to explain the general fortune of fate, while the "Minor Arcana Card" is used to make up for the shortcomings of the former.

And for some ordinary people who just want to try divination for mystical events here and seek excitement, generally speaking, they only use the "Major Arcana Card" for divination.

Tarot cards are widely spread, not only in the world of the awakened, but even in the world of ordinary people, some people use tarot cards for divination.

They make their own divinations for different fields such as love, interpersonal relationship, and work.

However, ordinary people without magical powers don't have to worry about any mystical incidents.

Ordinary people's own spirituality or magical power is not enough to support the thorough progress of the ceremony, and in the end, mostly nothing happens, please feel comforted.

Even if some extremely special circumstances happen by coincidence, they will be discovered early and actively stopped under the alert of the watch society.

But in the world of the awakened, the effect of Tarot cards is completely different.

For the ancient alchemists, the Tarot contains the secrets of nature, bringing together the secrets that build and explain everything in the universe.

For some spellcasters who specialize in the divination system, tarot cards will be the preferred divination method for many people and an alternative for some attack methods.

[Prophecy] is not some unfathomable spell. There are spellcasters who specialize in it, and there are also some people who are born with prophecy-like abilities such as the extraordinary sixth sense.

In addition, the effect of prophecy is not as powerful as predicting the future.

The correct term for [prophecy] should be [limited prediction of the uncertain future].

First of all, the tributaries of fate are not static, but change from moment to moment.

The future seen in the previous moment is not necessarily the final future, everything is constantly changing.

Even if the prophet sees a seemingly certain future, it can only be said that it is possible to develop in this direction.

No one can say for sure how the future will develop.

nobody.

Moreover, prophecy does not come without cost.

The most common and intuitive way is to consume the lifespan of the prophet.

The skin becomes old, the hair appears gray, the symptoms of serious illness appear, and even the body directly suffers some kind of great pain.

This is still a superficial backlash, and the harm caused by the prophecy is more hidden.

Consuming personal luck may turn the prophet from a lucky person into a lone star.

Seriously, it will even overdraw the relatives around the caster, and even the luck of the entire family.

According to Andrew's conjecture, the Merlin family in this world should be the kind of mortal family born with a certain ability of prophecy.

With this ability, they did gain a certain status and wealth.

But in the hundreds of years of development that tasted the sweetness of talent, he recklessly used this power regardless of the consequences, and finally exhausted the luck of the entire family.

In the end, he fell into such a tragic situation that his family was ruined.

[Those who play with miracles will definitely be backlashed by miracles. 】

This point was confirmed by countless people and events.

No longer thinking about this sad but self-inflicted family in Andrew's view, he continued to think about the current situation.

"There are 22 cards and 22 intentions mentioned in this prophetic poem... What do they represent?"

Not a spellcaster who specializes in divination, Andrew doesn't know much about Tarot and Major Arcana cards, and there is no way to directly divination from them.

Holding the paper of prophecy, he can only think and reason in the most basic way.

The most reasonable explanation that Andrew can think of is that this prophecy symbolizes some kind of thing or person.

"Things are less likely, and the biggest possibility is people."

"Are these images referring to 22 different people?"

Andrew’s thinking like this is not out of the blue, because there was once such a sentence of unclear meaning in some of the few surviving documents——

[Each card of the Major Arcana represents a god. 】

But now that the gods have disappeared, it is impossible for Merlin VI's prophecy to affect the level of the gods.

"Then...is it a contestant? Or among those undead?"

"And, even if it represents the cards in it, what meaning does it have?"

Constantly thinking, Andrew racked his brains to think.

The usual work is more effortless. Colleagues in other departments will take the initiative to prepare some information, as long as they follow the instructions and just do it.

"No, I can't think of it."

After thinking hard for a long time, Andrew's handsome face was full of helplessness.

It's over, and I have become the kind of person I don't like.

A brain full of muscles, the kind of rude person who can't think for himself at all.

How inelegant.

"call……"

A long exhalation, and just as Andrew sighed in self-deprecation, a voice sounded behind him.

call……

Like a tired monster moaning in relief, the cold wind blew on Andrew's neck.

The neck was cold for a while, and the hair stood up, and the creepy Andrew suddenly looked behind him!

!!!

A gray ghost with a somewhat old face was looking at him with dull eyes, motionless.

"when!?"

Whoosh!

The stature was violent, and Andrew had no time to think, and rushed towards the secret room quickly, and threw three short daggers from his arms the moment he got away.

Deng Deng Deng!

The dagger flying at high speed was not blocked, it went straight through the ghost's body, and nailed to the wall behind.

Attacking with an enchanted dagger is not just a physical attack, it also has a certain ability to kill spirits such as ghosts and unjust souls.

The dagger passed through, leaving three holes in the gray ghost's body.

boo.

Then, as if there was an air leak, the originally blurry ghost became even more illusory, and the entire "body" began to dissipate in place inch by inch.

Without resisting or running away, the ghost stayed where it was, looking at Andrew with complicated eyes.

no offence?

Recovering quickly from the sudden startle, Andrew stopped at the entrance of the chamber, staring at the ghost:

"Are you still conscious!? Who are you? Are you... Merlin VI?"

To be able to exist in this secret room, the greatest possibility is that Merlin VI who left a vicious prophecy.

However, it seems that all the resentment has been left in the prophecy, and there is no trace of resentment left on the ghost in front of him.

The disappearance of the ghost spread to the head, and it finally responded.

The half-eyed ghost of the god who laughed.

It was a hair-raisingly horrible smile!

The gray ghost stared at Andrew, and the occasional voice echoed in his ears:

"You... you will be..."

"Next……"

boo.

Before he finished speaking, the gray ghost completely dissipated, and there were no remnants.

With a serious face, Andrew didn't change much because of the other party's last words.

"I wouldn't be you."

"never!"

The nobility and elegance of aristocrats flowed in his blood, and he would not allow himself to fall into such a miserable situation as the other party.

"But I have no grievances or enmities with him. Did he really appear in the end just to say something that cursed me?"

Andrew couldn't figure it out, and couldn't understand the other party's motives.

Holding the pages of the prophecy book and walking out of the secret room, Andrew looked out the window into the noisy night.

"His prophecy seems to imply some special meaning..."

After thinking for a while, Andrew finally gave up thinking on his own.

"Forget it... I don't want to think about it, I think it's time to use this."

If you can be lazy, don't torture yourself.

You can use an external brain, why not?

Sighing his own depravity, Andrew put his hand into the arms of his delicate clothes.

What he took out from his pocket was a silver badge.

And the pattern on the badge...

It's an aimless crow!

……

……

On the cruise ship, the legends chatted first in twos and threes, not only limited to the content of the "Star Chaser" competition, but also talked about other things.

It's just a game to pass the time. With so many legends now, it's a good opportunity to communicate.

But no one around Augustus approached except Keynes, and he didn't step forward to disturb him.

Augustus was also happy with such a scene, and has been watching silently.

Finally, his calm blue eyes finally changed slightly when Andrew picked up the prophetic poem.

"Prophecy, another prophecy."

"...My lord, what exactly is the [Project Observed] looking for?"

a certain person?

Or, a hope?

"Now it seems that the biggest possibility..."

His eyes moved slightly, and Augustus looked at the young figure who was pulling the undead priest to appeal to his heart.

"is it you?"

"What role do you play in the prophecy?"

"...【Devil】?"