While waiting for his spirituality to recover, Tang organized a list of people he currently needed to inscribe.
"Moreover, inscribing unfamiliar people with high Sequences is very risky."
He pondered for a moment, "First is myself, to see what kind of fate this can see... then my mother, father, and Owen."
The fates of his own family members were naturally the important ones.
And the information given by these System-exclusive items was always very vague, only symbolically placing the extraordinary ability in the description. He needed to operate it specifically to understand it.
There was a limit to the number of stars this thing could inscribe. This could be seen from the extraordinary ability to actively summon meteorites, where using it multiple times in a short period would occupy a 'star' slot.
"Then there's the theater core, Olson..."
"There are many, and the priority must also be sorted... I don't know how many stars this astrolabe can inscribe at most."
After it was full, he didn't know if this limit would increase with the improvement of his own Sequence... Tang sighed. The System also had a 'cute and brainless' attitude towards this. It didn't have much information to use as a reference for items given by the main system, the Knowledge Wilderness.
After the spirituality consumed within Euclid's space had recovered, Tang took out the mosaic glasses and put them on, looking at himself through the telescope.
"This perspective is indeed a bit strange..."
When observing himself from a third-person perspective, he could see the System hidden within his body, and also see several spirit threads twisting and extending outwards.
Those were the spirit threads extending to the marionettes in the far distance through the 'Bionic Marionette' module.
Calmly observing for a moment, finding nothing unusual compared to before, Tang poured his spirituality into the astrolabe. On the astrolabe, following the flow of a strange power, a star slowly appeared and condensed.
It was a quiet celestial body floating there, about the size of a ping-pong ball. Its surface was illusory and hazy, with a crystal-like transparent luster, emitting a faint white light.
This celestial body didn't seem to exist in the real world. Tang tried to touch it, and unsurprisingly, his palm passed through the crystal star without touching anything.
It was more like being in a high-dimensional space. This star was just a projection of that high-dimensional space.
Was it because his star was special, or were all the stars like this?
Calming down, Tang continued to study.
As a Seer, he had also learned extraordinary knowledge related to astrology. Although he wasn't as good as a Sequence Seven Astrologer of the Apprentice pathway, in the field of divination, the essence of all divination and prophecy was the revelation of information from the spirit world to the real world, only with many ways of interpretation.
Tang's spiritual intuition told him that he could get more spiritual revelations about the future from this crystal star.
He took out a gold coin and performed a simple divination.
With a 'ding' sound, the gold coin flew up and then fell.
Tang glanced at it, his expression becoming somewhat strange.
The divination he performed was, 'Will I be in danger in the near future?'
And the revelation obtained from the divination was, yes.
Putting the astrolabe into the System space, Tang performed the divination again.
But this time, the revelation of the divination was, no.
As a Seer, daily divination for oneself was always a common practice. And Tang's spiritual intuition was unprecedentedly strengthened near the astrolabe, prompting him to perform this divination.
"Similar to the power of the gray fog, as long as you are within a certain range of the astrolabe, it can eliminate interference and create the most favorable environment for divining the fate of the person represented by the 'star'."
Tang took out the telescope again. Observing stars was originally one of the functions of the telescope. This time, he aimed it at the star on the astrolabe that belonged to him.
The next second, the scene Tang saw was not the symbols within the star representing the past, present, and future, but a man of medium build, with a gloomy face, pale as paper, but with a very upright posture, surrounded by faint black gas, and a huge mosaic behind him!
That was—
"The Dark Side of the Universe?"
Why did the figure of the Dark Side of the Universe's vessel of descent appear in the 'star' symbolizing his future?
Did his danger come from this ancient god?
The next moment, the field of view of the telescope suddenly rose, revealing the scene around the vessel of descent.
It was a wasteland.
On the wasteland, groups of vultures lay on the ground, pecking at something. Everywhere were the remnants of swords, spears, sticks, and clubs, indicating that a not-so-small conflict had occurred not long ago. The bloody smell seemed to pass through the telescope, with rotten corpses and chopped-up bodies, dark red and black chunks of flesh everywhere.
A very fierce conflict, Tang guessed.
In this scene, the vessel of the Dark Side of the Universe was standing in the center surrounded by corpses. He raised his hands, as if embracing something overhead, while chanting something, praying to something.
Tang's eyes narrowed.
"These are, Loen, Intis, and Feysac military armor?"
He identified the remaining weapons and armor on the bodies, his mind constantly recalling relevant knowledge.
The countries founded by Augustus, Solon, and Einhorn had different beliefs. These countries had been hostile to each other since the Fourth Epoch. Coupled with later religious wars such as the War of the Betrayers and the White Rose War, border conflicts were inevitable in the early years of their founding due to religious beliefs, territory, and resources.
The Dark Side of the Universe wanted to collect a large amount of sacrificial materials. Apart from densely populated areas, where else could a large amount of sacrificial materials be collected?
That was naturally, the national borders.
Years of war, changes in political situations, national conflicts, and religious opposition made the deaths of some people a very common occurrence.
However, he remembered that Owen's letter, which was full of abstract concepts, seemed to mention that he was currently in the Orkney Highlands?
The starting point of the Hornaches Mountains was a vast, arid plain.
It bordered the Kingdom of Feysac, the Kingdom of Intis, and the Kingdom of Loen, and was also a buffer zone between the three countries, secretly acknowledged by them.
However, in recent years, with the increasing friction between the three countries, small skirmishes had frequently occurred in the border areas. Even though large-scale wars had not broken out, such covert and overt struggles were not uncommon.
Refugees from various countries often smuggled themselves here to enter other countries to make a living.
Therefore, the foot of the Hornaches Mountains, known as the Orkney Highlands, had gradually developed due to the constant flow of people, food, and weapons. On the plateau, Fort Saga, jointly built by the Loen army and exiled slaves, became a military fortress of the Loen Kingdom on the front line.
Walking out of the spirit world, Tang, who had changed his appearance, and the disguised Traveler marionette entered it under the cover of night.
(End of this chapter)