"God has abandoned our kingdom!"

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

"I, Merlin VI, the last remaining member of the Merlin family, hereby make a prophecy!"

Andrew held the parchment book and turned to the last page.

Click.

The turned page of the book shattered in his hand, and before Andrew could be shocked, he felt a lightness in his hand.

The book originally wrapped in sheepskin in his hand began to rot quickly, and the broken pages flowed from the gaps between his fingers.

Like a treasure that has been buried in the ground for thousands of years, the time that was originally frozen passed again after it came into contact with the outside world, and it changed into its original appearance within just half an hour of being unearthed.

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

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

"[The Fool] is the beginning of everything.

[Magician] deceived everyone.

The self-righteous [Priestess] finally fell into her own prison.

The weak and incompetent [Queen] can only watch everything develop and is helpless.

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

[The Pope] lost his faith and kept falling into the abyss.

【Lovers】love each other in war and part in peace.

The King's [Chariot] will crush everything.

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

[Hermit] hid in the dark and watched the ignorant crowd dancing wildly.

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

Powerless [justice] is not justice.

[The Hanged Man] looks at the world upside down and forgets about sacrifice.

[The God of Death] favors every soul fairly.

People in the world no longer have [moderation], and the balance has long been broken.

[The devil] whispers in the depths of people's hearts, tempting the ignorant to death.

There are secrets hidden deep in the [Tower].

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

Ignorant people worship the [Moon] and try to gain power under the moonlight.

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

The [Judgment] that belongs to everyone will surely 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 looked cautiously at the place where the wind came out.

It's the entrance to the secret room.

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

The dark wind just now is just a normal phenomenon caused by air convection.

Scare yourself.

Relaxed, Andrew shook his head and sighed slightly with a self-deprecating smile:

"It's really embarrassing. It doesn't have the elegance of a nobleman at all."

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

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

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

This situation made Andrew silently sigh, but he also felt some empathy.

They both came from a declining aristocratic family, and they also faced a family that was about to collapse completely, but the two of them made different decisions.

Merlin VI chose to accept his fate after a symbolic struggle, and finally made a curse incompetently.

But Andrew is different. Unlike Merlin, who is a complainer who waits for death, he is an absolute hard worker.

Andrew's situation is better than Merlin's. His own talents allow him to make more substantive struggles, instead of complaining about being incompetent and furiously writing curses.

Talent and hard work have allowed Andrew to reach his current position step by step.

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

This is not the first time I have participated in such a competition, and I am trying to win prizes.

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

Everything is the future of the family's revival.

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

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

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

The poem written in blood has long since faded away from its original color, and what remains on it are chilling dark red spots.

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

Even if he just held it with his hand, Andrew would feel a cold force spreading through his fingers along his whole body.

A terrible curse.

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

"Furthermore, is this prophecy...sourced from the [Major Arcana]?"

Tarot cards are an ancient divination tool that has been around since before the Dark Ages.

The specific origin of Tarot cards is unknown, and many occult experts have tried to find some clues from the documents of the Dark Ages.

The entire set of Tarot cards consists of twenty-two "Major Arcana" main cards and fifty-six "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 deficiencies of the former.

For ordinary people who just want to try to divine occult events here and seek excitement, generally speaking, they only use the "Major Arcana" for divination.

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

They make their own divination for different fields such as love, interpersonal relationships, work, etc.

However, ordinary people without magic power don't have to worry about causing any occult events.

Ordinary people's spirituality or magic power itself is not enough to support the thorough performance of the ceremony. In the end, most of the things happen, so I seek psychological comfort.

Even if some extremely special situations happen by coincidence, they will be discovered early and proactively stopped by the watch club's alarm.

In the world of the Awakened, the effect of Tarot cards is completely different.

For the ancient alchemists, the Tarot cards contained the secrets of nature, a collection of secrets that constructed and explained the universe.

For some spellcasters who specialize in prophecy, tarot cards will be many people's first choice for divination and some attack methods.

[Prophecy] is not an unfathomable spell. There are spellcasters who specialize in it, and there are also some people who are born with prophecy-like abilities such as an 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 destiny are not static and change all the time.

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

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

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

No one.

Moreover, prophecy does not come without cost.

The most common and intuitive one is to consume the prophet's lifespan.

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

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