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“Tick, tick…”

Xi Sui'an walked slowly up the spiral staircase, with only the sound of his own footsteps echoing in his ears.

This is a nine-story tower, all gray and white, located on a high cliff. Looking down from the height, you can see the peaceful and sleepy Moonlight Valley.

It was just getting dark, the stars and the moon were just emerging from the deep night sky, fireflies were flying in the quiet Moonlight Valley, fairies were flying through the flowers, scattering a glowing light blue phosphorus powder, the scenery was beautiful beyond words.

Xi Sui'an retracted his gaze with a little regret: "The fairy's phosphorus powder is also a very good basic material..."

The system in the mind was speechless when it heard this: "Are all your romantic cells dead?" You don't praise such a beautiful scenery, and you actually think the material is a bit of a waste?

She lifted her foot and continued to walk up without caring: "I don't live in Moonlight Valley, so good looks have nothing to do with me."

Xi Sui'an's attention turned to the Astrology Tower. Her fingertips slid across the wall, and the touch was warm and cool. Ever since she had been to Wangjing Tower, she subconsciously paid a little more attention to these buildings to avoid being caught off guard by those alchemical lives.

Her perception sank into it, and she realized that there was indeed a core operating in the wall in front of her, but it did not have the spirituality of a living being.

"This tower is not an alchemical life, it is just an alchemical item." The ethereal voice sounded softly, as if it was by my ear.

Xi Sui'an stopped and looked surprised for a second before he suddenly realized that stepping into the Astrology Tower was equivalent to stepping into Catherine's territory. How could she not know what she was doing?

She curled the corners of her mouth, said nothing more, walked upstairs, and soon reached the ninth floor.

The wooden door in front of her was already open, books were scattered around the room, ghost crystals, yarrow, tortoise shells, and pendulum pendants were scattered on the ground, various complex star maps were hung on the wall, and an ancient star disk and a gorgeous celestial globe were placed on the table.

The base of the celestial globe is inlaid with silver and gold threads, and the sphere is inlaid with thousands of pearls to represent the Three Enclosures, Twelve Palaces and Twenty-Eight Constellations. There is a lower compass at the center of the globe. The overall design is extremely complex and exquisite, and Xi Sui'an was instantly attracted by it.

She looked at it for a moment and took a breath calmly. Those were not pearls, but mermaid tears, thousands of mermaid tears!

"The mermaid's eyes must have been crying blind..." Xi Sui'an twitched his mouth and complained in a low voice.

"I did cry, but I didn't cry myself blind." The woman's soft voice was as light as smoke and very pleasant to the ear. No matter which voice control person came, they would be satisfied.

She raised her head and looked straight ahead. The long-haired woman was wearing a long flowing gauze dress with sparkling beads scattered on the hem, like shining stars.

The woman turned around and took off a pair of gold-chain glasses, revealing a pair of lavender eyes whose light was slowly fading. There were some tiny scales of the same color at the corners of her eyes, extending all the way to her temples.

...Scales? Could Catherine be an aquatic creature? But she doesn't look like one.

Xi Sui'an's mind raced, and he saluted without showing any emotion: "Greetings, Professor Catherine."

"Come here, child." The woman waved at her gently with a smile.

Xi Sui'an walked towards her and stood about two steps away from her.

Catherine stood on the open-air balcony, leaning against the railing covered with flower branches. She turned half of her body to look at the human girl beside her whom she met for the first time.

"Hearing is believing, Xi Sui'an." Catherine's tone was extremely gentle.

Xi Sui'an smiled and said, "I'm looking forward to meeting you too." Catherine was curious about her, and how could she not be curious about Catherine?

"I agreed to your application to sit in on the class because I wanted to meet you. Why did you come?" Catherine asked with a smile.

"I want to understand destiny."

Xi Sui'an answered seriously.

"Understand destiny?" Catherine shook her head. "Destiny is too grand. I have been wandering in this maze for three hundred years, but I still cannot get a glimpse of the full picture of destiny."

Xi Sui'an pursed her lips. Yes, such broad words sounded like she was bragging.

"I can only help you understand divination, but I can't improve your own strength." Catherine sighed lightly, "I am considered the weakest teacher in the academy. My guidance to you can only be more inclined to the knowledge level."

At the bottom of the list?

Xi Sui'an glanced at her somewhat lost look and was silent for a few seconds. He was able to have an independent alchemy astrology tower in the academy, with a beautiful and quiet environment, no one to disturb him, and the inestimable items in the room...

Her fighting ability may not be as good as other professors, but her overall strength is definitely not weak.

"I have been curious about you for a long time, Xi Sui'an."

"On the first day you entered the academy, I noticed that the starry sky had undergone subtle changes. Some of the trajectories I had predicted seemed to have been deviated. I was puzzled as to where these changes came from."

"—until the Director came to talk to me."

Catherine smiled at the surprised face of the human girl in front of her: "It was then that I knew that the turbulence of this new era was about to begin."

"Come and look at the starry sky with me." Catherine smiled and made room for her.

Xi Sui'an was stunned for a few seconds, then walked to her side and raised his head. The starry sky was brilliant, mysterious and magnificent.

“In the beginning, only gods could use the stars for divination, and mythical creatures could only capture prophecies through various media under the starry sky, including humans.

"We stand in awe of the starry sky and dare not take a single step beyond the boundaries. However, humans are much braver than mythical creatures. In the face of death, they look up and peek into the secrets of the starry sky."

Xi Sui'an turned his head to look at Catherine's profile: "Is this the essence of divination?"

"Yes."

"The essence of divination is transgression."

Catherine stretched out her hand, the moonlight flowing through her palm: "'We embrace the stars, not kneel before the gods', this is what Iris told me. The human race is really a very attractive race. Her words made me decide instantly to stay at Damocles Academy for life."

Xi Sui'an twitched his lips slightly. Dean Iris used just one sentence to trick an alien who could live for hundreds of years to come to work in the academy?

Isn’t this too easy to deceive?

"She is so right. She hits the nail on the head with one sentence. The last thing fortune tellers should fear is gods. Gods shouldn't exist!" Catherine's eyes sparkled.

Xi Sui'an raised his eyebrows. This man seemed to be very disgusted with gods.

"you……"

"So Xi Sui'an, when I knew you could shatter the godhood and make the gods disappear forever, I was really happy, very happy!"

Xi Sui'an was a little speechless for a moment. It sounded like she really had no awe, but rather disgust.

"You hate God?"

Catherine nodded and said in a clear voice, "My race is called the Star Fish. We were born in the starlight. We have the instinct to chase shooting stars. We were once captured by the gods to collect shooting stars, and even made into divination materials because we are close to the stars."

Xi Sui'an was silent. To say she felt disgusted was an understatement. She should have felt more hatred, right?

She thought for a moment and said, "We can't just generalize them all. For example, the one in the academy..."

Catherine narrowed her eyes slightly and raised her index finger to interrupt her: "Who said he is a god?"

Xi Sui'an looked confused: Isn't it?

She snorted softly, "He's not a god now, he's just a director. As long as he doesn't admit it, I don't admit it, and everyone else admits it, he's not a god."

Xi Sui'an: "..." What's the difference between this and deceiving yourself and others and covering your ears and stealing the bell?

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"If it weren't for Iris, who would want to deal with him..." Catherine muttered softly.

Xi Sui'an was speechless. This seemed to be another story.

but,

In the past, the first dean Xue Ji relied on his "personal charm" to attract the first batch of teachers.

Later, the successor dean Iris tricked the aliens into coming to the academy to work.

The current students go to pick up the teacher and hand it in to the college.

This can be considered a kind of inheritance.

By the way, did Li Qing succeed in bringing the fox Vega back to the academy?

If Maorongrong were my teacher, I would feel happier during class.

As Xi Sui'an thought about it, his thoughts drifted to another side.

"What are you thinking about?" Catherine waved away the moonlight in her hand and lowered her eyes to admire the beautiful scenery of Moonlight Valley.

"I'm thinking about Fox!" Xi Sui'an blurted out, clearing his throat after a moment, "Well, I'm wondering if Lord Vega of Aurora City will come to the academy to be a teacher."

"Vega... No."

The smile on Catherine's face gradually faded and disappeared, and her eyes suddenly became vague and distant.

"The sirens' screams echoed from the tombs,

“The flames of hatred eventually turn to ashes;

"Old legends are continued by new stories,

"The storms on the sea will never cease."

She narrated this passage in a gentle and calm voice, as if she was reciting an ancient poem.

Xi Sui'an was stunned when he heard this.

She chewed on the meaning of these words carefully and frowned for a moment: "Is this a prophecy?"

Catherine nodded: "This is the prophecy I made not long ago using your human divination technique."

"The object of the prophecy does not seem to be Vega... No, it should be said that it is not just Vega." Xi Sui'an thought for a moment and said seriously.

Catherine smiled and nodded approvingly: "You are very perceptive and very suitable for interpreting prophecies."

Xi Sui'an curled the corners of her mouth. The leader of the Xuanmen Sect in the human world also praised her for her talent, although she didn't know whether it was just a compliment.

"The mermaids, the mermaids...ah..." Catherine let out a long sigh.

"The feud between the Mermaids and Poseidon has ended, and the generations of grievances with the Sirens will eventually be washed away by water, but the fire of hatred will not be extinguished so easily. Their hatred can even be rooted in their blood."

"The mermaids will always be engulfed in hatred, and the fire of hatred will eventually backfire on them."

Catherine looked sad.

Xi Sui'an wondered: "Who else are they going to take revenge on?" Aren't the objects of hatred already fed to the fish?

Catherine glanced at her lightly and said, "Which of the top tribes active today doesn't survive on blood and hatred? The alien races hold grudges much more than you humans do."

“It was Poseidon, the god of the sea, who made the mermaids become playthings of the gods, but he was not the only one who bullied the mermaids.

"What's more, in the Age of the Fall of Gods and the Age of Strife, the mermaids had many grudges with other races. The mermaids continued to live on the corpses of their enemies, and they created new hatreds along the way... What a sad fate."

Xi Sui'an fell silent. The mermaids were stuck in a cycle of revenge and being retaliated. This was not something that could be judged by a simple question of when the cycle of revenge would end.

Vega will not hide under the protection of Damocles. The mermaids will kill all the Sirens, and they still have an ancient hatred that has not been resolved, which will repeat itself in the past, present and future.

All I can say is... what a fucking fate.

She closed her eyes and was speechless for a moment.

Catherine extended her index finger, placed the cool tip of her finger against her forehead, and said gently, "You have the ability to destroy the godhead, the mermaids will eventually come after you, and probably more than just the mermaids.

"My child, the mission you bear is too heavy."

"To end God's mission?" Xi Sui'an lowered his eyes and said calmly.

Catherine curled the corners of her lips, her purple eyes were like the sky in the early morning before the sun appeared.

"No, ending the gods is just a means. Your true mission is to let the past become the past and create a better future."

Xi Sui'an was stunned for a moment when he saw the beautiful woman in front of him.

Another beautiful voice appeared in her mind.

——"Let the past flow into the future, and the forgotten flow into the forgotten."

It turned out that she had never understood what Medusa meant.

The past trapped both humans and aliens, and the gods were only the largest component of the past, and it had been like this for several epochs.

Only by ending the past can we move towards the future, otherwise we will just stay where we are.

Xi Sui'an gave a wry smile.

"Aren't your expectations of me too high?" She couldn't believe that she could do such a thing.

Catherine slowly put on her gold chain and crystal glasses, adding a scholarly air to her look.

"I will help you on this journey."

Xi Sui'an blinked, thinking back to her series of words, and couldn't help but probe: "Which god do you... have a grudge against?"

"Dionysus, the god of wine." Catherine's eyes flashed coldly.

"He directly made the starry sky fish into a snack."

"..."

"I can stop caring about other things, except Dionysus. As long as he dies, I can put an end to the past of the fish swimming in the sky."

Other gods merely utilize the power of the fish swimming in the starry sky. They consider themselves to be gods, so their status will not drop too much.

Only this lunatic ate ​​the star fish raw!

His behavior of embodying the law of the jungle directly led to countless tragedies in the early period of the Era of Strife.

Fortunately, time has passed so long that some things have been forgotten by time, and some have been covered up intentionally or unintentionally by various ethnic groups, otherwise the foreign land would still be in blood and rain.

"Dionysus... the object of the oath of the seventh oath-taker, Thorin." Xi Sui'an leaned against the railing and said thoughtfully.

"I promised... ahem, Director, I would end the Eternal Oath, Professor Catherine." She changed the words abruptly under Catherine's stern gaze.

Catherine said coldly: "That guy is quite a dog, using me as a prophet... Humph!"

Xi Sui'an pretended not to hear, she began to understand.

Catherine and the Director are in the same boat, but the Director hates every god equally except Dionysus.

"Xi Sui'an, look, a shooting star."

Catherine raised her hand and pointed in a direction to the sky.

Xi Sui'an looked over subconsciously, and after about six or seven seconds, a bright meteor disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Catherine propped up her chin, her purple eyes sparkling. She pushed her glasses and suddenly said, "Xi Sui'an, someone is going to die."

"Who?" Xi Sui'an asked in surprise.

"Thorin." She turned to look at him. "He will die on a snowy night."

But she couldn't see who killed him.

Her intuition told her that it was related to the girl in front of her.

Xi Sui'an raised his eyebrows. Snowy night? Such a sensitive time.

Is this what will happen in the alchemical materials fair later?

...Just mentioned him, and now predicted his death.

Tsk, is it such a coincidence?