[Protagonist POV]
Even after she finished, I sat there, replaying her words—
'The Divine Thief's stash…'
"Hey, I wanna test something—be right back!"
"Huh?"
Leaving her confused, I darted to the room she'd given me, pulling a blue orb from my cloak—
A treasure I'd swiped from Master's stash when I left the mountains—
I didn't know its full purpose, but I'd figured some out—
Its energy boosted my fortune-telling accuracy—
Or I could craft a virtual world inside it for precise info—
The latter drained my mind and was tricky, so I stuck to the former—
'…Could this work?'
Fortune-telling reads the heavens to peek at the future—us diviners can't nail it perfectly because fate's not a single path—
A butterfly's wingbeat sparking a storm—small shifts warp the future, making it fluid, unfixed—
Countless threads of fate weave the world—no human can read them all—
But flip that—sometimes divinations hit near 100% accuracy—
Past records—
