Chapter 27. Final Preparations
Fulan arrived at the entrance of the Night Sky Book Club, a place she had not visited again since her first ti there.
She pushed the door open and imdiately saw Laiyi sitting at the front desk. Fulan walked over slowly and greeted her.
“Hey, Laiyi.”
Laiyi had noticed her long ago and looked sowhat puzzled about why she had co here.
“Fulan, hello… Why are you here?”
Fulan smiled.
“I am a mber of the Night Sky Book Club. What is wrong with coming to the club?”
Laiyi’s mouth twitched slightly as she replied helplessly,
“All right. Just tell directly—are you here to find soone or to withdraw from the club?”
In Laiyi’s view, those were the only two possible reasons for Fulan to co here.
“I am here to exchange for so spells.”
“…?”
Laiyi’s face filled with confusion. She did not quite understand what Fulan ant.
“Wait, you are soone from the Sword Chant School. Why would you co here to exchange for spells?”
“When did I beco soone from the Sword Chant School? Who said that?”
Laiyi’s expression grew even more puzzled as she slowly explained,
“Your story has already spread everywhere. They are saying that a first-year apprentice nad Fulan defeated John in the Swordsmanship Class—a man who has been teaching the class for six years.”
“People outside are now saying that you are preparing to cut in line and participate in this year’s apprentice examination…”
“Uh… that is all nonsense. Did Bella not tell you?”
“Has Bella not already joined the Sword Chant School? She has been extrely busy these past few days. No one can find her at all. I assud you were the sa.”
Fulan had no choice but to clarify,
“I did not take John’s recomndation slot. I want to look at other schools first and see what their spells are like, so I ca here to check out the spells.”
“Oh!”
Laiyi’s interest was imdiately piqued, her eyes lighting up.
“Are you planning to join the Astrology School? That is perfect. I have had so new inspiration recently. When the ti cos, we can join together.”
“No. I just want to look at the spells first. Show the spells that can be exchanged.”
Only then did Laiyi hand the list of spells to Fulan.
Fulan glanced at the paper. There were only three spells listed.
The first was called Star Orb. It was quite unusual. Depending on the current astral alignnt, the spell would summon one out of dozens of variations.
If the alignnt matched correctly, the damage would be high. If it did not match, it might deal no damage at all.
The second spell was called Adjustnt thod. If soone who frequently observed the stars suddenly lost the ability to sense them, this spell could recalibrate their perception and allow them to feel the astral alignnt again.
Neither of these seed useful to Fulan.
She felt that her sensitivity to astral alignnt was already at its maximum. Although that mont of foreseeing the future had never happened again, whenever she used divination calculations, she did not even need to perform the calculations—the answer would appear directly.
Then she looked at the third spell.
The mont she saw it, she could no longer contain herself and imdiately pointed to it.
“I want this one!”
Laiyi glanced at it and smiled.
“Are you sure about that? Most people here curse that spell after exchanging for it.”
Fulan looked puzzled.
“Divination? What is wrong with it? Does it not say that it can foretell upcoming events?”
“It does foretell events. That description is not wrong. The problem is that its predictions are… sowhat abstract.”
“According to Sister Haya, the spell actually requires you to imagine how the upcoming event will occur. The more specific and accurate your imagination is, the more the spell will automatically extend and develop from that imagined scenario.”
“But if your imagination is incorrect, the spell will simply fail. No matter how hard you try, it will not work.”
Fulan understood part of the explanation but still felt confused.
“Explain it again. I do not quite understand.”
“Let give you an example.”
“Suppose you notice that every ti I enter a doorway, I step in with my left foot. You decide to use Divination to predict what will happen next.”
“After casting the spell, you see a scene where I fall down. Later, when I enter the doorway, I actually do fall. Naturally, you would feel pleased and want to keep using the spell.”
“However, the spell will not succeed every ti. Sotis soone walks through the doorway together with , or we pass each other in opposite directions. These variables can cause the spell to fail.”
“But then one ti I fall again, and there are no outside disturbances—yet you still fail to predict it.”
“That is probably because you did not imagine whether my left foot stepped on the threshold or crossed over it. You also might not have imagined the correct distance between where my foot landed and the threshold.”
“Do you understand now? In theory, as long as you know what is about to happen, Divination can continue extrapolating what will happen next.”
“In reality, we can usually only see a short mont into the future. Predicting events far ahead like true prophecy is impossible, because it is extrely difficult to imagine events that far into the future.”
Fulan gradually understood.
She raised her hand, took out a gold coin, and handed it to Laiyi.
“I will buy it. Give the change for this coin.”
Laiyi swallowed nervously.
For an apprentice like her, a single large gold coin was an enormous sum. She almost wished the coin belonged to her.
At that mont, the president of the Night Sky Book Club, Haya, walked downstairs.
She glanced at the silver sheet of the Divination spell that Laiyi had taken out from beneath the desk and imdiately understood what had happened.
“You want to buy Divination?”
Fulan nodded.
“This is actually a prerequisite for Prophecy. If you can truly master it, you could join the Astrology School.”
“I will consider it. I am still deciding which school to join.”
***
Fulan returned to her dormitory.
She imagined the future scene she had once seen, gazed out at the night sky beyond the window, and soon a vision appeared before her eyes.
It showed the events after she killed Richter.
She buried the bodies at the scene and even carried a shovel with her.
After burying them all, she left with a relaxed and cheerful expression, showing no trace of anxiety or fear.
Just bury them and leave? That casually?
The vision had not ended yet.
It continued until the scene followed Fulan’s perspective to the entrance of a building within Cuilan Academy.
Now she knew exactly where she would ultimately kill Richter.
Then everything suddenly went dark, and she returned to reality.
A wave of fatigue swept over her, and her head throbbed with intense pain.
It seed that predicting events too far into the future had side effects, Fulan thought as she held her head.
But why was it enough to simply bury the bodies there?
The future version of herself looked extrely relaxed, as though she already knew that nothing would go wrong afterward.
Did she join a school and receive protection?
Fulan shook her head.
She did not really want to join a school right now. Although every school had its own spells, joining one would limit her to those spells alone.
With her ga-like panel, she would not be able to fully utilize her potential.
Returning to her earlier thoughts—
Why had she simply buried the bodies and left?
A bold guess suddenly appeared in her mind.
Could it be that she had already foreseen the future where she calmly buried the bodies? Even though she did not know the reason, she simply followed that future vision and carried it out, which was why she looked so pleased…
No.
Perhaps there was sothing special about that patch of land.
She did not think she was the kind of person who would act so blindly.
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