Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1196 Foretelling the Authority of Death
"Yes."

Cliff nodded, as he answered Xia Duo's doubts, but what he said next made Xia Duo inexplicably surprised——

"It's true that I found out about it because Stern asked if he could tell you the details of that experiment, but in fact, I've been looking for you all along, and it's only because of this that I really found you!"

"Find me?"

Xia Duo didn't think he had anything worthy of Cliff's special search. If he wanted to read the Great Xia Code, he could just come to the Great Xia to get it, or ask Iolum to contact him, how could he not find it!

For Xia Duo's surprise, Cliff did not directly explain, but raised the golden scepter that was originally placed horizontally in front of his knees with the head of the rising sun upright to the height of his eyebrows, and chanted in a very ethereal tone:

"When the prosperity is in full bloom, deep in the ruins of the dream, the crimson brave man took away the scepter of death!"

Hearing such an ethereal voice, Xia Duo couldn't help but associate himself with the equally ethereal content in it. In a daze, he seemed to see a crimson figure from behind, holding something in his hand, and walking into the distance.

"Prophecy?" Xia Duo exclaimed.

This kind of spell can't be mastered by just anyone. It is said that there are only a few people in Netheril who have mastered this spell, and they all have one characteristic in common - they are all priests of the gods!
Among them, the only ones who are more famous and have accurate records of prophecies are the Archbishop of the Great Temple of Severton, and this one in front of him--Grand Arcanist Cliff!
Xia Duo was very curious about prophecy, which was more like a legendary spell, but he had never had the chance to see it, knowing that now——

"Is this the prophecy? And it's still a prophecy directed at me?"

Xia Duo looked directly at Cliff's eyes still shining with divine light, hoping to get an accurate answer from the other party.

After a long time, Cliff's eyes returned to the calmness and deepness before. He put the scepter in his right hand across his knee again, and then answered Xia Duo's question:

"Yes, this is the prophecy! And I also think that the target of my prophecy is you! Of course, I just repeated the previous prophecy just now. The real prophecy process is very complicated and very long."

Receiving an affirmative answer from Cliff, Xia Duo had mixed feelings in his heart. He had imagined countless scenarios where the prophecy would work, but he never thought that the prophecy would work on him.

He really didn't want to encounter such a bizarre, weird, and unreasonable spell.

If ordinary magic is an ordinary electronic computer, then divination is a quantum computer.

The former is based on definite calculations and obtains definite results. No matter how mysterious it appears, there are traces to follow, similar to pseudo-random numbers in electronic computers.

As for the latter, even if it calculates "1+1", it only gets a high probability of "2", and there may be other results, but the probability is low, almost out of nothing, and can generate truly random numbers.

Prophecy can draw multiple probabilistic results based on all pre-information, and choosing the one with the higher probability is the most likely future trend.

However, scrying spells in general magic can't get any results without pre-information. Even the fuzzy scrying that is closest to prophecy is actually realized by searching a large number of existing events.

If the caster is locked in a small black room so that he can never contact the outside world, then the detection spell will not work, but the divination spell will!

Xia Duo didn't want others to use the prophecy on himself, or be predicted by the prophecy, but he really hoped that he could master the real prophecy.

Not to mention mastering a certain degree of strategic initiative through prophecy, at least learn the possibility of avoiding prophecy from it.

It's a pity that all those who master prophecy are priests of the gods. Xia Duo suspects that prophecy is likely to be performed with holy power, or even consulted with the gods at all. The so-called casting of spells is just to contact their gods!

But in any case, now that I have indeed encountered a prophecy, how should I deal with this matter?
Time cannot be turned back, and encountering prophecy has become an established reality, so Xia Duo didn't think about anything else, but focused on the content of the prophecy.

It seems that Cliff wants him to go to a place called "Dream Ruins" and take away some death scepter!

But is this prophecy really me?

Out of aversion to this sudden and inexplicable mission, Xia Duo once again doubted the authenticity and accuracy of the prophecy:
"Your Excellency Cliff, can you explain the content of the prophecy? I know it will be in a few days, but the 'crimson brave' may not refer to me? And what is the 'death scepter'?" ? Is it related to me?"

"Of course, but it's a lot of trouble to explain. I need to start from the beginning."

In Cliff's view, the prophecy is very clear. It can even be said that this is the most accurate prophecy he has ever made. It is precisely because of its accuracy that he is full of expectations for the fulfillment of subsequent prophecies.

Therefore, he tried his best to explain any doubts Xia Duo had:

"Let's talk about the scepter of death first, which is actually the authority of death. Stern contacted me and said that you want to know the details of the Theremin experiment accident. That experiment is related to the authority of death!"

Xia Duo was silent, but he had more doubts in his heart, but he didn't ask immediately, but listened to Cliff continue to explain.

"Before that experiment, Theremin had actually been doing related research with me, but he overestimated his ability too much, and forgot my rules, so he conducted such an experiment in private and produced such a result. He asked for it entirely."

Having said that, Cliff glanced at Theremin blankly, and then continued:
"As for the content of the research and the purpose of the experiment, there is only one, and that is—to bring the dead back to life!"

"The resurrection of the dead?"

Xia Duo couldn't hold back, and let out an exclamation, a priest of the Lord of Radiance actually wanted to get involved in the power of death, which was really beyond his expectations.

If it is said that a certain Radiant Priest likes to study negative energy, that is fine, it can only be said that the other party has a special hobby; but if it is to study the resurrection of the dead, this will definitely violate the domain of the Lord of Death.

Not to mention what will happen if the Lord of Death finds out, but if the death priest finds out, it is very likely to cause a strong conflict.

I really don't know what Cliff Arcanist thinks!

……

At present, in Netheril, all the resurrection techniques are in the hands of the death priests. The High Priest Morton who dealt with the murloc tide in the southern border was a death priest who mastered the resurrection technique.

(End of this chapter)