Chapter 319
Chapter 319 The Art of Divination
There was an empty arcane room.
There was nothing else here apart from a remarkable and mysterious array on the floor.
“Not even a chair to sit on.”
Alice pouted as she grumbled. She slowly walked before the array and bent to examine the patterns.
It was a purely defensive array. Once it was activated, the entire room would be on lockdown. Alice didn’t need to worry about any interruption from the outside while she commenced with her advancement!
Alice inserted her magical emblem into the array. In doing so, she could obscure everything. Even Greem, the owner of the room, would no longer be able to sense or see what happened in here.
Everyone had their secrets. Even if Alice had already accepted Greem as her master, that didn’t mean that she would give up her rights and privacy.
In doing so, the legacies of the thirteen witch branches became part of the world’s laws. They no longer needed to worry about their legacy vanishing!
Thus, if Alice wanted to advance, she definitely shouldn’t go down the path of an ordinary adept. She shouldn’t accumulate knowledge, then strengthen herself, then form her adept core and communicate with the planar laws. The witches walked a completely different path of inheritance!
The laws of the world contained the knowledge and power they required. What they needed to do was use their bloodline to win the approval of the laws and receive recognition from the world consciousness.
As such, Alice prayed zealously before taking out a crystal dagger from the pile of items. She stabbed it into her open palm, then extended her arm forward and let the blood drip onto the altar to paint it scarlet.
A bright silver radiance covered the entire altar the moment her blood fell onto it.
The magic circle made of crystal dust caught on fire as well.
Countless silver chains reached out of nowhere and started to wrap themselves around Alice’s half-vanished body.
Alice trembled while her body started to shake intensely.
A flood of knowledge and witchcraft legacy started to surge into Alice’s mental world through the materialized chains of laws. The speed at which they moved seemed like it would rend Alice apart!
“Aaaaaah!”
Alice’s frail body shook and shivered. A trail of blood streaked from her eyes. Her facial muscles distorted from the endless agony.
A gigantic scale forged of concentrated silver light slowly appeared in her mind. It stood before her like a sacred and magnificent entity.
An unusually commanding voice boomed out in the air.
“Fate! ! ! Fate! ! ! Fate! ! !”
“Obey the laws of fate. Abide by the ancient covenants. I shall present unto you the legacy of fate.
“And what do you intend to exchange for this legacy?”
Countless books and knowledge crystals appeared on one side of the gigantic scale when the voice spoke. The scale instantly fell towards one end, leaving the other hanging high in the air.
Alice’s mental projection appeared before the scale. She looked at the massive hill-like scale and spoke firmly, “I am willing to exchange my everything for it.”
The very next second, her frail body appeared on the other side of the imbalanced scale.
Sadly, her existence was like a feather. It didn’t even shift the scale by a tiny bit.
“Your power is insufficient to take away all this knowledge, therefore…”
As the booming voice spoke once more, the books and knowledge crystals on the other end of the scale started to decrease at a visible rate.
The massive scale remained unmoved after removing half of the items.
They continued to decrease.
Every time one of them was removed, Alice’s heart would bleed in pain, but there was nothing she could do about it.
Soon, only a dozen books remained of the mountain of books.
Only now did the scale tremble. The two sides started to shift.
Eleven books.
The needle at the middle of the scale started moving.
Eight.
The needle was still moving, but there was still a sizeable distance before it reached equilibrium.
Four.
The needle slowly neared balance.
Quick, quick, quick. Please.
Alice gripped her fist tight and willed the scales to tip faster.
Finally, a blinding silver light flashed within Alice’s mental space when the scale returned to equilibrium.
“Congratulations, candidate of fate. You have successfully obtained a gift from fate. Please accept it graciously!”
At this point, only a single book remained on the other end of the scale.
The Art of Divination!