Whispering Verse

I felt regretful and planned to give up looking for Miss Anat today, but the receptionist still enthusiastically recommended other fortune tellers in the association to Shade.

The detective holding the cat thought for a while. If he turned around and left now, his behavior would appear strange, and it might lead to rumors about Miss Anat in the association, so he nodded pretending not to care:

"Of course it's no problem. I just want to find a reliable fortune teller to divine for me. It doesn't matter who it is... I have membership in the association. Can the price of fortune telling be cheaper?"

Probably because being held by Shade was so comfortable, Mia Cat actually fell asleep at this time. It's nap time for this cat, whose life is much more comfortable than Shad's.

The receptionist of the association recommended to Shade a female fortune teller who was said to be very effective in divination. However, when Shade was about to go to the second floor, he happened to meet Vice President Mark who was walking down the stairs.

The two were considered acquaintances, and they chatted for a while. After learning that Shade came to the association to conduct divination activities, the enthusiastic gentleman directly recommended another fortune teller for him without adding any money:

"Mr. Hamilton, although the association's Rhodes business has been getting bigger and bigger in recent years, divination is the most fundamental business of the association. You are very lucky. The association's most effective fortune-teller happens to be here today. Come with me, I'll come Let me introduce you to each other.”

After saying that, he called Sha De to go upstairs. Sha De followed the man who always seemed to be wearing formal clothes and asked curiously:

"Who is that soothsayer?"

"Our president, Mr. Addis Stan, he just came back this morning. Ha, Mr. Hamilton, I have to say that you are very lucky."

Shade subconsciously stopped, but quickly followed. Miss Anat said that characteristics "outside of destiny" cannot be discovered by divination alone. She only understood this after doing divination at a price. Not even the dean of the Astronomy College in St. Byrons could learn about Shade's special characteristics through divination, so he had nothing to worry about this time.

Not to mention, it wouldn't hurt to get to know a few more people, so he had no reason to refuse.

The two of them walked all the way to the third floor, but only passed by the door with the golden door number "President's Room", and finally stopped in front of the door with the door number "Accounting Room".

In such a sensitive place, Shade did not go in. Mr. Mark went in to find someone.

The discussion inside was very lively, and the general idea was that if the account was not done correctly, everyone could go to the street to beg. Then there was a shift of responsibilities to each other, thinking that the accounts were not up to par because the "big city players" had not yet collected the bills for the preliminary preparations. By the fall, they would be able to complete the accounts for the first half of this year.

The voice of Mr. Addis Stan, the branch president of the Tobesk City Prophet Association, was the loudest among the people. He was clearly threatening some of these obviously questionable guys and was very familiar with the numbers.

Vice President Mark soon told him that a visitor was coming, and Shade finally met this gentleman who had just returned to the city.

Mr. Addis Stan is about the same height as Shad, but is slightly thinner, with a high nose and deep-set eyes. His temperament is very much like that of a teacher who teaches at a university. He wears a pair of small gold-rimmed glasses. This is also the first acquaintance of Shade who wears glasses in this world.

"Is this Mr. Hamilton? Hello, it's an honor to invite you to this fall's..."

Mr. Stein smiled and stretched out his hand to shake hands with Shade, and the moment the two came into contact, a voice came from Shade's ear:

[Circle Warlock, quite high level. 】

"Expected."

"Dacheng Players Rhodes Contest, do you want to do divination? Of course, no problem, please come here. Before I was the president, I have always been the best fortune teller in the Tobesk branch."

He boasted about himself with some complacency, and Shade smiled in agreement, looking forward to whether this cheap divination could give him some new revelations.

In order to reflect one's professionalism, divination must of course have a dedicated room. A large number of rooms on the second floor of the association that are unused and can be rented out as reception rooms are actually divination rooms.

Mr. Mark left first, and the president of the local association and Shade entered the room on the second floor. The layout of the room is very similar to that of an ordinary reception room, except that there are strange things such as crystal balls and obsidian basins placed on the shelves against the wall.

The servants were preparing tea. When Mr. Stein saw Shade looking at the shelf, he casually introduced:

"The items there are all decorations, and every fortune teller has his own props. Starting a few decades ago, the association's fortune telling business has been getting worse and worse, while the Rhodes card business has gotten better and better. But in recent years, there have been many Well, those reckless young people and idle ladies are very interested in this mysterious behavior that is not dangerous."

"So what's the dangerous mystery?"

Shade asked. Mia was probably woken up by the sound of talking, but she just made a sleepy "meow" sound and fell back to sleep comfortably. The maids who were tidying up the room and preparing tea were all looking at the cat being held by the young man. The young orange cat was indeed very cute...especially when it was sleeping.

Mr. Stein asked Shade to sit down and answered Shade's question by counting on his fingers:

"Dangerous haunted house adventures, psychic skills obtained from unknown sources, staying in the cemetery at night, reading strange occult books... These things give the Zhengshen Church a headache, but it's okay to have a full meal. People who do it love doing it.”

He shook his head and sighed, but Shade had some opinions on this:

"Mr. Stan, you see, the great development of the steam industry has led to the emergence of a new class of rich people, but the corresponding entertainment methods have not kept up, which has led to these people who are rich but have nothing to do, to do such strange things. Weird thing. This should be regarded as an imbalance between productivity level and spiritual construction."

The president looked at him in surprise and agreed with this view:

"That's it. So compared to those dangerous activities, wouldn't it be safer for people to participate in Rhodes competitions? Or come to a formal prophet association like ours for divination, and the noble ladies can talk about the stars and talk to others Looking at the correlation between handprints and future fortune, this kind of activity is not dangerous at all.”

After the servants left, the two officially began to divine.

Although Shade was not worried at all that his identity as a magician would be exposed if he rashly divined, safety came first, so the divination he proposed had nothing to do with him:

"It's like this. I recently received a somewhat troublesome commission regarding inheritance and legal consultation. In order to protect the client, the specific information is not disclosed. I came here for divination, not to get the answer right away, but just to Looking for some vague guidance..."

He smiled sheepishly;

"Actually, I have always had doubts about the correctness of divination. Please don't mind."

"It doesn't matter, this view is very common."

Mr. Stein waved his hand, and then asked seriously:

"So what exactly are you trying to divine?"

"Will my client, Mrs. Flamel, be able to safely obtain a large sum of money in the near future?"

"It's no problem to divine money fortune. So, can you provide some information about the lady, otherwise it's impossible to divine."

Mr. Stein asked again.

Shade didn't really want to know the answer from here anyway, so he didn't hesitate much and described Mrs. Flamel's identity and age information, and also introduced her financial situation.

Mr. Stein nodded to express understanding, looked around, and finally brought the teacup in front of him:

"There are actually many ways of divination, such as pendulums, crystal balls, water divination, bone burning, etc. This time why not let us try the rarer tea divination."

He took some tea leaves from the tray, then closed his eyes and poured them into the cup. After all the tea leaves in his hand fell, he opened his eyes and looked at the suspension situation, then poured the cup of tea away, and then looked at the condition of the tea leaves stuck to the bottom of the cup.

"That's it."

Mr. Stein put down his teacup.

Shade did not feel any traces of elements during the whole process, which showed that the other party's "divination" was just the so-called divination of ordinary people.

"Then what's the result?"

he asked, feigning curiosity.

"That lucky lady deserves a lot of money."

"That's good."

Shade smiled, actually feeling a little sad about the divination that cost him 2 shillings.

"By the way, I also did some divination for you."

Mr. Stein said again.

"for me?"

Shade said while observing the other party's expression, but it seemed that Mr. Stan did not notice anything strange.

Now he has the [Twenty-sided Dice of Destiny] in his pocket. He never touches this thing at home, but he always takes it with him when he goes out. Even if the opponent uses the magician's ability to divination, there is a high probability that what he sees will be wrong results, let alone divination using ordinary people's means.

"What did you see?"

"The term 'seeing' is not accurate, it should be said to be a feeling. Divination is a process that is difficult to describe, and for you, Mr. Hamilton, what is very strange is that I actually saw you become a person from the fog of the future. A knight with a sword.”

"knight?"

Shade felt baffled that the identity of "knight" had almost completely disappeared in the steam era. Earlier in the Sixth Age, knights belonged to the lowest level of the aristocracy and usually only owned a small fief, such as a manor. He is a full-time soldier who fights for the lord or king to whom he is loyal.

As firearms entered the army, knights' fighting methods gradually declined, leading to the disappearance of the entire class. With the changes of the times, even the inherited title of "knight" is not much left. As far as Shade knew, there were no more than 20 nobles in Delrayon with the title of "knight". Compared with the country's huge population and noble system, this number of people was almost nothing.

On the contrary, the "Knight of the Order of Delrayon Iris", the "Knightly Order of Delrayon with the Golden Ribbon" and the "Knightly Order of Delrayon with the Honorable Ribbon" derived from the knight's title, as extremely high kingdom honors, are more well-known. These medals are usually only awarded to nobles who have made special contributions to the kingdom or royal family, and are rarely awarded to ordinary people.

Therefore, it is impossible for Shade to become a so-called "knight" in this era.