Saint Laurent Prison Warden

Chapter 181 Divination Cards
"Ah?" Richard listened to the witch Nellie's prophecy, his eyes gradually becoming confused.

"Great star, what would be your happiness if you did not possess all that you shine upon? What would you shine upon if there were no land, no sea, no hollows in the past, no silhouettes in the future?
Every night you receive your overflowing light and bless the stars for it.

So you gain pity, favor and luck. 】

What does this mean...I am that star?"

"I don't understand either." Naili shook her head and said, "Our magic card witches' prophecies are like this, ambiguous.

Never try to fully interpret the prophecy and decide your course of action based on the results of your interpretation. If you do that, you will most likely get a wrong result that you will regret.

You just need to keep the prophecy in mind, and when the time is right, the prophecy will correspond to the reality you encounter, and let you know what you should do next. "

[But you have grown tired of the favor you have received, like a bee that has collected too much honey.

You need them to reach out and share your favor.

You have to give gifts and distribute them, even if they don't understand your gifts.

One day you will get your golden cup. Gold will overflow from the cup like water, carrying your high wisdom to all directions.

And your companions will also get the things of destiny that belong to them, and they will take their destiny to find the ship of destiny.

The ship of destiny is launched, and all those favored by the golden cup will survive, but you will be doomed. Doom is the price you pay for sharing your favor with others.

Richard chewed over this prophecy carefully, and felt that the future in the prophecy was magnificent and sad, like a stone pressing on his heart.

[When the bells ring, you stand on the top of the mountain, praising the favor with songs, laughter, tears, and whispers. The ship of fate capsizes and soars into the sky.

You walked past the heaven and waved goodbye, falling into despair and never coming back. 】

This part in particular made Richard feel uncomfortable all over.

At this time, Madam Naili said: "If this prophecy comes true, you will become extremely important in the Yasha world. The lives and deaths of countless forces and countless lives will change according to your wishes."

Madam Nellie smiled and shook her head:

“But I don’t think this prophecy will come true.

I prefer to believe the results of the subsequent divinations. Those divinations all show that you will have an ordinary and happy life - for example, you will become the husband of the Lord of Xingge City, take care of her household affairs, organize documents every day, flirt with the maids, occasionally sleep with Xingge and occasionally sleep with students, and finally be exposed and killed by Xingge's war magic, a worthy death. "

"You call this ordinary and happy?" Richard smiled bitterly.

"Humph. At least you were ordinary and happy before you died. That's enough, isn't it?" Madam Nellie took off the wizard hat on her head, placed it in front of Richard, and said to Richard:

“The results of the first prophecy were too grand.

If your divination prediction is true, then the cost of divination for you must be far beyond my ability to bear.

Not to mention me, even the humble saint who is best at prophecy in the Holy See cannot afford such a price.

But you see I am standing here perfectly fine, nothing has happened. This means my divination result is wrong."

Naili shrugged her shoulders and continued, "Of course, there is another possibility. Someone has paid the price for divination for me. A powerful being, after paying the price for divination, passed the divination result to me in some way, and told you the divination result through my mouth."

Richard's mind moved. He looked at Nellie and asked seriously, "You mean... Mr. Kappa?"

"It's possible. It seems like he can do anything." Naili said with a chuckle.

Richard hesitated for a moment and asked cautiously, "Dean Naili, Teacher Kappa...is he really dead?"

"Who knows?" Nellie shrugged and said, "He has always been mysterious. I have known him for nearly a hundred years. Every time I think I have known everything about him, he always surprises me. But I know his character very well. He is a very purposeful person. Everything he does serves a certain goal.

Since he chose to die, there must be a reason for his death."

Richard closed his eyes and thought for a while, with a wave of light in his eyes. After a long time, he nodded vigorously and said, "Okay, thank you Dean Naili, I understand."

"Very good. Then let's continue with the prediction." Nali smiled.

"Ah?" Richard was shocked: "Isn't the prophecy over?"

"End? Hahaha! It's just the beginning." Nali smiled mysteriously.

She waved her hand gently, and a deck of cards that looked ordinary but revealed an extraordinary luster appeared out of thin air next to the round table carved from twisted tree roots. The edges of these cards were yellowed, and the patterns were complex and varied, as if every stroke contained deep power and unsolved mysteries.

Naili slowly stretched out her hand, her fingers were slender and thin, as if they could touch the veins of time. She opened her red lips slightly and chanted a string of ancient and obscure spells, her voice was low and rhythmic, like an echo from ancient times, creating ripples in the air.

As the spell echoed in the room, the cards seemed to be activated by an invisible force. They floated into the air one by one and slowly rotated around the witch. Each card emitted a faint light, and the cards intertwined with each other to form a flowing illusion.

Angels, demons, shadow dragons, Titans...endless creatures are among them.

Naili's eyes became extremely deep at this moment, as if she could see into the deepest secrets of people's hearts. Her voice became ethereal and mysterious.

"Richard, if there is a chance in front of you now, allowing you to choose your own destiny, will you choose the unknown first prophecy, or choose a stable and quiet life?"

"I choose the first one." Richard said without hesitation.

He didn't come to live a stable life in his new life. For him, who had already lived a lifetime, his life didn't matter at all. What mattered was to live his life as wonderfully as possible within the limited life.

"Then with my ability, I can only provide you with one divination."

Nari pointed her finger, and the thick stack of cards spontaneously combusted and disappeared, leaving only the last seven cards floating in front of Richard.

"Choose."

Richard stared at the cards, he could feel that these cards were endowed with mysterious and powerful powers. Each card gave him a completely different feeling.

The first card made him feel like he couldn't breathe, a mixture of fear and anger, but the last card made him feel extremely happy and relaxed.

The middle card was somewhere in between, giving him a decreasing amount of emotions. "This is..."

“This is a prophecy card derived from your destiny. Your different feelings about the prophecy card come from the prediction of your destiny by the prophecy card.

The more uncomfortable you feel, the closer you are to a crisis; the happier you are, the closer you are to an adventure."

"I see..." Richard pointed to the first card that made him most uncomfortable without hesitation.

"I choose this."

"Want to see through the crisis? It's a very prudent choice." Nali smiled slightly.

She tapped lightly, and the first card slowly fell into her palm. The card depicted a pattern of thousands of stars and destiny. The light flowing on it seemed to be whispering, telling the interweaving of the future and the past.

Her voice rang out again, this time clearer and more powerful, and she began to interpret the information in the cards. Every word was like a sharp sword, accurately analyzing the context and possible turning points of the visitor's fate.

"I saw the deepest darkness and suffocation, and also saw bloody wounds. In the depths of the vast ocean, lurks the fate that will destroy you. To break the trap of fate, you must find the orb that can tear the ocean apart, and put the deepest darkness and suffocation to death."

Nari flicked her finger lightly, and the card representing fate slowly fell into Richard's hand. After a moment, the card turned into a completely black blank card. Richard held the card and found that it was blazing and hot, and there was a scent of burning grass and wood.

Nari looked at the card and said softly, "It seems that this child likes you very much. Keep this card close to you."

"What is this?" Richard held the card. He could feel that the card contained incredible power.

This is definitely not an ordinary card, but a treasure exactly the same as the Staff of Disintegration in his hand.

"This is a divination card, a treasure derived from the prophecy card of ancient times. It can increase the wearer's precious magic point limit by 10 points and 1 point of luck.

If we, the magic card wizards, want to break through the third ring, we must make a divination card to complete the ritual. But for me now, it is no longer of much use.

This little guy has always stayed in my deck, occasionally jumping out to cause trouble, but he has never shown any intention of leaving me.

You are the first person chosen by it, and you happen to be Kappa's apprentice, so you should take it away."

"Thank you, Dean."

10 mana points limit!
Richard tried it immediately, and sure enough, this divination card, like the disintegration staff, could store magic power!

nice one!
Richard happily put away the divination cards.

"Remember, divination is a very private matter. You'd better not tell anyone else the results of the divination, except for the two of us. The more people who know the results of the divination, the less accurate the results will be."

As Nari explained, she took out a blue letter with blue stars and moons printed on it, and said to Richard:
"This is what Kappa left for me to give to you. He told me that you can open it when you reach the master level. If you are not yet at the master level, you can open it if you insist, but he strongly advises you not to do so."

Richard held the letter and looked at it curiously. He could feel that the envelope was full of magical energy. The envelope itself was extremely expensive.

"Okay, just give me the letter of intent to invest, I'll stamp it for you, and then you can leave." Nellie smiled and stretched out her hand to Richard.

"Thank you, Dean." Richard took out the letter of intent to invest. Nellie took it, signed her name without even looking at it, and then gave it back to Richard.

"Ah? Just signed like that?" Richard was a little surprised. No matter how close Nellie was to Capa and how much she trusted him, it should be a personal relationship. But this letter of intent was about the investment plan of the entire wizard academy. How could it be so careless?
"Dean, don't you want to take a look at the contents?"

"Do you think I don't know the content?" Naili covered her mouth with a wizard hat, squinted her eyes and smiled: "Don't worry, before you came, I had already used divination to look over all the contents.

I have one more piece of information to tell you about that factory."

Richard: !!!

Richard looked a little dazed when he left Dean Nellie's cabin.

Dean Naili told him a lot about the Monster Factory before he left. These things were all about the problems and risks that the Monster Factory might encounter, as well as the solutions.

Dean Nellie described it in great detail, so detailed that Richard felt that even if he had really encountered these things, he might not be able to come up with such a good solution.

When he asked doubtfully whether these things were predicted by Dean Naili, Dean Naili smiled mysteriously and did not answer.

"Magic Card Wizard, is it so magical?" Looking back at Dean Naili's cabin, Richard's eyes were inevitably a little hot.

Anyone would want to learn the magic that can predict the future.

"Please come to Dean Naili's place more often in the future. There are many lovely maids in the City Lord's Mansion. If Dean Naili is willing, I can introduce one to serve Dean Naili."

Touching the prophecy card in his arms, Richard went straight to the monster factory area that was being prepared.

He called the general manager of construction of the Swamp Monster Factory and asked softly, "Is the person in charge of purchasing construction materials for the factory your student?"

"Yes. My apprentice. He has followed me for several years and is trustworthy." The person in charge replied.

"Then you don't have to work anymore, just leave." Richard shook his head and said, "Your apprentice is asking around about how much kickbacks the material suppliers can give. You actually think such a person is trustworthy, which means you have no vision at all, or you are also one of the participants in the kickback.

I'll change the person in charge."

"What!" The factory manager was shocked. "Mr. Richard, how could my apprentice do such a thing? I really had no idea! I have already planned and built three goblin factories, and there have never been any problems."

"That has nothing to do with me. Brute! You're the factory manager, you handle him."

"Yes! Lord Richard!"

Starting with the factory's general manager, Richard began to cut people off in a drastic manner, clearing out all the termites who might cause problems in the factory construction from the project team.

In just one hour, Richard cleared out the personnel in twelve key positions. These people were involved in corruption during the planning and construction of the factory.

Most of them were petty thefts, not serious actions, but they were still discovered by Richard and resolutely expelled, as if Richard had divine eyes.

This was a warning to the police. All the people in the factory project team who had ulterior motives dared not make any more moves.

(End of this chapter)