Free Web NovelChapter 2422: Chapter 2423: Speculation
Doing the divination again, this time Gladys had Anna assist with more methods. After evolving into the Spirit of Prophecy, Anna could provide more help during divination, and it also allowed Gladys to foresee some particularly major events.
Compared to before, this round Gladys let the Divination Cards float in a ring around her. With her eyes closed, she pricked up her ears, listening to the voice of fate. Feng Yuan stared fixedly at Gladys’s hand, and as she reached out and drew a card from midair, he could clearly feel a special power acting on that card.
Unlike the deck, although there were many cards floating at this moment, each one’s specific position could be seen clearly. However, in Feng Yuan’s Divine Sense, as Gladys drew the card, under the effect of that power, a card abruptly appeared among the floating "deck." No—more accurately, the card Gladys drew was sent back into the deck by that special power.
As for the card drawn into Gladys’s hand, unsurprisingly it should be a card outside the deck, but what exactly it contained was unknown. It could be the same as before, or it might be something new.
Opening her eyes, Gladys let out a sigh. Even without looking to see which card she was holding, she could guess something had gone wrong again, because the feel of this card was completely different from that of the Divination Cards she owned.
The unique raised and recessed texture was definitely not from her Divination Cards. In other words, she had once again drawn a card that didn’t belong to her own deck?
"Is this... an unyielding fate? Or a revolt against an unfortunate fate? Same question, so why do I keep getting different results?"
Looking at the card in her hand, Gladys’s face was full of surprise. She hadn’t expected that not only did a card from outside the deck appear every time—which was already strange enough—but even the result would change. That was a bit too bizarre.
"One possibility is that the future has already changed. Another possibility is that this really is the answer to your question, but each divination can only show a part, never the whole picture."
Feng Yuan looked at Gladys and voiced his own guess. Whether it was prophecy or anything else, as long as it involved the future, absolute accuracy was extremely hard to achieve.
The future is inherently unfixed; any tiny change could cause unforeseen shifts in what is to come, or even lead to a completely different future.
What baffled Feng Yuan most about the Mordan Clan’s prophecy ability was precisely this: their accuracy rate already far exceeded normal prophetic abilities by a huge margin, yet because the results were relatively vague, it seemed to have limited practical use.
However, he couldn’t make sense of what exactly this mysterious power was. If the results were correct, could it be precisely this mysterious power that allowed the Mordan Clan to possess a prophecy ability far beyond what would normally be possible?
"The Mordan Clan’s power of protection?"
Staring suspiciously at the card in her hand, Gladys’s expression grew complicated. This weird situation inevitably led her mind down various paths, because what she was trying to learn by divination was exactly the situation of Empire Gladys. freewёbnoνel.com
Because she was crossing time lines, she hadn’t asked about something overly specific—she had simply asked whether Gladys in The Imperial Timeline would become a major threat.
Yet the answers from both divinations were extremely strange. From any angle, she couldn’t interpret what the spreads were trying to say.
"What exactly did you divine?"
Such a bizarre result made Feng Yuan very curious about what Gladys had actually been asking.
Before Gladys could answer, Agunas’s figure suddenly appeared. Its body condensed from illusory to solid, and with a flick of its tail it looked at Feng Yuan and Gladys and said,
"What are you doing here?"
It was currently winter break, so Agunas had no idea what trouble Feng Yuan was stirring up again—why he’d run back to spend the night in the Academy dorms, and was even chatting idly with Gladys at the dorm entrance.
"Uh, a bit of an accident happened. Isn’t Veronia with you?"
Scratching his head, Feng Yuan began to explain and briefly recounted what had happened over this period to Agunas. After listening, Agunas flicked its tail, glanced at the card in Gladys’s hand, and said,
"Maybe that’s not protection, but the result of divining something across time lines. Why don’t you try divining something else, for example... Qi Chen in The Imperial Timeline."
"A special result that inevitably appears when divining across time lines? That possibility hadn’t occurred to me."
Gladys pondered for a moment and began another divination. This time, however, the result came out very quickly. Looking at the Divination Card in her hand with its strange border, Gladys said, her expression hard to read,
"’Void.’ This is a card that exists in the deck, but this border pattern..."
"It’s probably the marker of a cross-time-line divination result—or rather, proof that the outcome really does correspond to a target in a different time line."
Agunas flicked its tail, muttering under its breath as it spoke. The divination for Empire Gladys had produced two results, but... remembering the Mordan Clan’s peculiarities, its gaze turned subtly complicated as it looked at Gladys.
"’Void.’ As far as I remember, that represents nonexistence, illusion, stuff like that. Pointing to a person, that would mean there is no Qi Chen in The Imperial Timeline?"
Rubbing his chin, Feng Yuan looked at Gladys in surprise. He truly hadn’t expected that kind of outcome, but it wasn’t exactly impossible to understand.
Different time lines don’t necessarily contain the same people as the Main World, or rather, just like the changes in the War Timeline, it’s perfectly normal for Qi Chen not to exist in The Imperial Timeline. As long as the general direction of history hasn’t shifted, such differences in detail have no real impact.
It’s just... what exactly is going on with Gladys in The Imperial Timeline?
If both divinations were describing Gladys of The Imperial Timeline, then what did they actually mean? A tilted scale and rebellion against fate—could it be that she is resisting an unjust fate?
Forget it. No point thinking about this; the more he thought, the more his head hurt.
Feng Yuan felt that Empire Gladys was probably not that simple either, or rather, that the situation of the Mordan Clan in The Imperial Timeline seemed somewhat special.
"Was the target of your divination actually Gladys of The Imperial Timeline, or the Mordan Clan of The Imperial Timeline?"
Something occurred to Agunas, and it turned to look at Gladys. She slid that special card back into the deck, and at the instant it was returned, the peculiar pattern that had appeared on its border vanished on its own.
"Of course it was the other-timeline me. What I want to confirm is whether they’ll make another move against Feng Yuan."
"If that’s what you want to know, why wasn’t the target of your divination the Mordan Clan in The Imperial Timeline?"
Agunas gave Gladys a doubtful look and flicked its tail as it asked. Gladys stared back at Agunas, baffled, and answered as if it were obvious,
"The one who moved against Feng Yuan was the me from The Imperial Timeline, wasn’t it?"
"Even the person who came after him today should have been sent by the me from The Imperial Timeline."
Frowning, Feng Yuan realized there was a problem. After a moment of thought, he said aloud,
"But there’s something I want to confirm. If I’m remembering correctly, in our time line, Lanadi is the chief of the Mordan Clan, right?" freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
"That’s right. Mm, that is indeed a problem."
Gladys understood what Feng Yuan meant. The deck unfolded yet again, but this time she was divining Lanadi of The Imperial Timeline.
Since she wasn’t asking something too specific—just whether Lanadi in The Imperial Timeline was chief of the Mordan Clan—it didn’t take much effort for Gladys to get an answer.
"Wisdom, great ruler, and guide? So she really is the chief of the Mordan Clan..."
The result caught Gladys off guard. She knew one thing very clearly: it was very hard for anyone who wasn’t the chief to mobilize the warriors of the Mordan Clan. As for a close friend?
Gladys wasn’t confident about that, but since she herself had already failed, whoever made a move next would definitely be stronger than her. Yet someone of that level, at least in the Main World, would definitely be a warrior of the clan.
It’s not that they were completely restricted in their actions, but under normal circumstances during major events they had to operate according to the clan’s arrangements.
Right now the entire Imperial Timeline was preparing to invade the Main World. At such a point in time, the Mordan Clan would never let those people run around as they pleased.
"Lanadi’s arrangement? But how could that be..."
A certain possibility came to mind, and Gladys spoke in shock. Feng Yuan’s brow furrowed. If that were true, it would mean the Mordan Clan in The Imperial Timeline saw him as a thorn in their side.
In other words, those people would probably keep coming to bother him. If that was the case...
"If you want to be safe, the best way is to infiltrate The Imperial Timeline and investigate."
Looking at Feng Yuan, Agunas finally stated its objective. Feng Yuan shot Agunas a glance and said irritably,
"I get the feeling you’re the one who wants to go to The Imperial Timeline for something."
