Chapter 579 Measuring the Stars <TOC> Chapter 581 Eye of the Mind Spell
Translator: SumTLMan
After leaving Phantom Island, Angel released Totoro. Riding the Gondola, under Sanders’ command, they headed to Maya’s residence together.
Totoro obediently sat in the back of the Gondola, while Angel and Sanders sat facing each other at the front.
This was Angel’s first time encountering a formal prophecy wizard, and he couldn’t help feeling nervous. His eyes occasionally glanced at his right hand, uncertain of the path ahead and feeling lost.
“What kind of wizard is a prophecy wizard?” Angel curiously asked in his uneasy state.
“Most prophecy wizards refer to themselves as the walkers who bear destiny,” Sanders pondered. “As long as they want to, you are basically transparent in front of them.”
Angel frowned: “Then, in front of a prophecy wizard, doesn’t everyone no longer have secrets… Do other wizards allow their secrets to be explored?”
“The higher their own strength, the harder it is for them to break through the fog of your destiny. Also, you can clearly sense when you are being watched by a prophecy wizard. Prophecy wizards won’t casually investigate other people’s destinies if they don’t want to cause trouble for themselves.” Sanders paused before adding:
“Moreover, every time a prophecy wizard investigates destiny, whether it’s for themselves or others, they may suffer backlash from destiny.”
“Backlash from destiny?” This was the first time Angel had heard such a saying.
“When a prophecy wizard learns about a certain predetermined destiny, even if they don’t try to change it, a slight change actually occurs in the grand scheme of things. It’s very likely that the changed destiny will backfire on them, which is a rule of the River of Destiny.”
Sanders gave an example: for instance, if a person foresees that they will find a large bag of magic crystals tomorrow, when you don’t know the premise, the unknown destiny will push you to that bag of magic crystals.
But when you know the predetermined outcome, trying to pretend that you don’t know, will destiny still push you to that bag of magic crystals? That’s uncertain.
Destiny often plays tricks on you; the clearer you know, the more blurred it actually becomes.
Good luck may turn into bad luck due to your change, while bad luck may not necessarily become good luck due to your foresight.
“In other words, it’s not a simple matter to figure out a clear context interwoven in the River of Destiny, as it involves a wide range of factors.”
Sanders explained by analogy: “Consider each person’s destiny as a line. From birth, every person you meet and every event you experience will involve other people’s destinies. Family, lovers, teachers, friends… their lines of destiny will inevitably intersect with yours, or even become entangled together.”
“If a prophecy wizard wants to clearly know all your information, it will inevitably affect me. Because our destinies are intertwined.”
“Because of this, prophecy wizards cannot determine the extent to which exploring destiny can influence and whether it will affect themselves. The most important thing is that they may not have such abilities,” Angel shrugged. “This means that prophecy wizards do not dare to easily dispel the fog but only get some keywords from the River of Destiny, and then use their magical formulas to deduce possible answers or throw them to you to guess.”
Having heard this, Angel probably understood the limitations of prophecy wizards.
When prophecy wizards become strong enough, they can indeed make you have nowhere to hide. However, they are constrained by various external factors and dare not do so. They can only dig out some fragments and details of unknown causes and consequences from the River of Destiny and speculate on their own.
This is also why destiny walkers always seem enigmatic. Sometimes it’s not that they don’t want to tell you the truth, but because they don’t even know themselves, they only know some vague perceptions.
Angel glanced at his right hand and whispered: “So the conclusions drawn from these ambiguous clues may not necessarily be true, right?”
“Don’t worry, regarding whether your right hand will have a negative impact on you, Maya’s judgment is basically correct. After all, it’s not really digging deep into your secrets, just peripheral stuff,” Sanders added. “Besides, the prophecy system is a huge and complex system, and what I just mentioned is just a tiny and superficial understanding. Many things I have not truly understood, such as many laws and probability calculations in the prophecy system, such as ‘The Conservation Law of the Unknown destiny’, ‘Guidance Probability Theory’, ‘The Main Melody of the Big Picture’ and so on… People who don’t understand are just guessing the scenery inside the door from outside.”
Angel listened to it vaguely, but after all, he was not a prophecy wizard, knowing that the result would not be wrong in general, that would be enough.
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Maya’s residence was far from the crowd. It was on the other end of the Eternal Tree, also on a cloud soil.
The distance from Phantom Island was about tens of miles. After a short flight, they arrived at their final destination.
Star Island.
At first, Angel didn’t understand the meaning of “Star Island” and thought it was named after his own name like Sanders’ “Phantom Island”. But when he saw the island floating in the clouds, he understood what “Star” meant.
Looking at the island in the distance, his eyes were full of admiration.
From afar, Star Island was covered with dense forests, overlapping green mountains, and cascading waterfalls. These scenes were not much different from those of Phantom Island, but there was one unique feature of Star Island… the fireflies all over the mountains!
Now, as the time approached dusk, the sky gradually darkened, and the horizon was burning with a reddish glow.
Star Island was situated below the red glow.
The greenish glowing fireflies, floating and fluctuating, densely covered Star Island, combined with the evening glow, made it dreamlike and truly like a starry sky.
Sanders: “The fireflies of Star Island are also a famous sight in the Savage Grottoes. However, Maya doesn’t like being disturbed, and those who come uninvited will be watched by misfortune.”
As he spoke, the Gondola slowly approached Star Island.
At the edge of Star Island, Angel saw a person dressed in white, waving at them.
When he recognized the person’s identity, Angel’s eyebrows twitched slightly.
Angel’s eyes showed a slight doubt, while Toby, nestled in his chest pocket, bristled immediately.
Angel gently stroked Toby’s fur and, seeing Sanders looking over, whispered: “The man on the island once tried to flirt with Toby, saying they were wearing set outfits…”
Sanders glanced at Toby, then looked at the man on the island, and said indifferently: “They do look like a set outfits.”
Toby: “…”
Angel: “…”
The man on the island was Hobson, a strange man who had tried to befriend Angel when they first met outside the Sky Tower. He liked to dress in a white bear costume and always spoke of strange phrases like “destiny led us to meet.”
Initially, when the white bear first approached Angel, he used the excuse of him and Toby wearing set outfits. At that time, Toby happened to be wearing a white otter outfit, with fluffy white clothes and exaggeratedly cute round ears, which indeed looked somewhat like a set outfit with the white bear’s attire.
Today, Toby was wearing a panda outfit.
It was made by Angel a few days ago using black and white bear fur.
Angel didn’t know if there were pandas in the Wizarding World, but he had seen images of Earth and had a strong impression of pandas, animals that lived by being adorable. Bored on the way back from the Eternal Night Kingdom to the Savage Grottoes, he decided to practice crafting alchemy clothing.
Thus, he made this practice piece.
After using up a lot of materials, he finally succeeded in making one.
The enchantment was a constant temperature rune, which was his first attempt at alchemy clothing.
After giving it to Toby, Toby was delighted. He had been wearing the panda outfit for a week in a row.
Compared to the white otter outfit, this one looked more like a set outfit with the white bear… Angel guessed that Toby probably wouldn’t want to wear this outfit again, especially after Sanders had said so.
They approached the island and disembarked.
White bear Hobson immediately greeted them, first respectfully greeting Sanders, and then whispering to Angel: “Angel, destiny has brought us together again.”
“…” Angel knew he would say that.
Then, the polar bear Hobson looked at Toby with amazement in his eyes: “This color combination is so interesting! Why didn’t I think of it?”
As he spoke, the polar bear reached out to touch Toby’s panda costume.
Toby responded coldly with a claw strike.
The polar bear was sent flying several meters away but luckily Toby didn’t use too much force, and the polar bear only appeared a bit embarrassed.
The polar bear straightened his clothes and walked sheepishly to the other side: “Mentor knew there were distinguished guests coming and specially sent me to greet you. Please follow me.”
The polar bear bowed respectfully to Sanders again, then took the short staff in his hand and tapped it lightly. The forest automatically parted, forming a winding path leading to the depths of the dense woods.
As Angel followed, he pondered: Judging from the polar bear’s tone, his mentor was the great Lady Maya?
It made sense, as his talent was also in prophecy, and there was only one prophecy wizard in the entire Savage Grottoes.
Angel glanced at Totoro behind him. So, from now on, Totoro and the polar bear would be fellow disciples? The polar bear seemed to have a good temperament, and Totoro should not be bullied by him… but he must not learn the polar bear’s nagging habits.
Before long, they had passed through the dense forest and stood in front of a massive tower.
“Mentor is on the top floor’s Star Observatory. I’ll take you up.”
Upon first seeing Maya, she appeared as a somewhat aged and skinny old lady.
Tap, tap, tap…
Maya, leaning on her cane, stood in front of the Southern Region’s Star Projection, using her cane to tap the ground while circling the stars.
Her hunched figure looked extremely frail and somewhat slow and unsteady.
After quite a while, Maya finally turned her head to look at everyone.
With eyes that seemed to see through everything in the world, wise and mysterious, she gently swept over everyone. Finally, she stopped at Sanders.
“Destiny truly favors Lord Phantom. There are waves and mists, such a fascinating future.”
The aged voice, gentle and soft, carried a convincing power.
“Instead of looking at my future, why not look at the others?” Sanders whispered with a smile.
Maya understood Sanders’ intention, and her gaze slowly shifted to Angel, with a gentle gleam in her eyes.
Chapter 579 Measuring the Stars <TOC> Chapter 581 Eye of the Mind Spell