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Chapter 23: Counter Prophecy

  Raven and the two didnt leave the Golden City, when the carriage turned around a dark corner, Raven quickly took Karin and rope off the car.

  The carriage lightened, and the experienced coachman sensed it sensitively, but didnt show any expression. This was part of the agreement between Raven and old Jacob.

  The horse carriage drove for more than 200 meters before briefly turning into a small alley, and when it came out again, there were several hundred kilograms of real ropes and two substitute children on the carriage.

  Raven re-entered the slum without alarming anyone, as it was too easy for Raven to avoid civilians with his high perception. Moreover, most of the time he walked in the shadows of the slum and on the rooftops of wooden houses. For example, when passing between two houses, Raven walked on a rope bridge that changed from a rope, which felt almost like walking on a wooden bridge.

  As contact time grew longer, Karin also began to accept Tsunade, feeling that this giant magic doll was more like some kind of all-purpose tool and servant.

  Even a puppet with a soul connection to Raven doesnt need Ravens command and automatically completes Ravens tasks.

  Not far from there, Raven and his party temporarily settled down in a three-story abandoned house.

  "Where is this?"

  Levin didnt answer Carlin, pointing to a magnificent church building across the street. The black and white exterior walls and gates of the building had a crystal ball emblem with eyes all over it, indicating to passersby that this was the Church of the Prophet.

  Leiwens mouth curled up into a sinister smile: "That mongrel has been using prophecy to hunt me down, now that hes found out the person who left the city was switched, what will he do?"

  "Will he come again using prophecy to find us?"

  Lei Wen shook his index finger: "Not just that. Ive made such a big scene at the Adventurers Guild, and even this card has been revealed. The mastermind behind the scenes is so cautious, he must have used the Truth Spell to investigate my past first. If he dares to do so, then itll be fun."

  Levin maliciously imagined: I wonder if the bug that almost caused the game to crash at the beginning of the game can still be used?

  "So we just wait like this?"

  Levin shrugged: "Whether its divination or true speech, the best time to cast a spell is midnight, we still have a long time. As long as no one finds out that we are staying here, you can do whatever you want."

  Karin ran next door and changed back into her original coarse linen clothes, then hummed a tune of unknown origin as she began to clean the house like a mistress.

  In no time, the room was spotless, and then he took out the leftover white bread from the day before yesterday and a thermos.

  "Brother, since were going to be out late, why dont we have dinner first?"

  Levins eyelids twitched a few times, but in the end he still obeyed Karin: "Okay."

  Dont think that the empty houses in the slums of the Golden City are free.

  Many part-time thieves, children who often patrol the empty houses in the slums, once they find poor people secretly moving in, its time for the security guards to take action. The security guards will severely punish the poor with reasons such as violating the Golden City Security Management Regulations, squeezing out the last drop of oil from their bones.

  In fact, its very difficult to deceive these thieves during the day, of course, Raven also has a way to deal with them.

  Ravens extraordinary perception allowed him to easily discover a child approaching the house, without any pity, Raven directly cut open his wrist and gave him a small bloodletting.

  Fresh red blood splattered in front of the big gate of this house.

  In the eyes of that child, Ravens smile was as terrifying as a demon.

  "Listen up, kid. Ive got my eye on you. You get out of here right now and dont breathe a word about what happened tonight to anyone before tomorrow morning. And if things get too much for you, go tell Annalou that I said he should back off, or else even his boss Chai Yue wont be able to save him."

  He mentioned two names in a row, both of whom were big shots that the little boy didnt dare to aspire to. But in this mysterious crowd, they were nothing more than pigs and dogs. The little boy was really scared, a kind of instinctual fear had taken hold of his heart.

  "Alright, get out!"

  The little boy ran away with his pants full of shit and urine.

  Waiting was boring, and it wasnt long after nightfall that Karin curled up in Ravens arms and fell asleep.

  Sitting on a rope swing chair, Raven gazed quietly at the Prophets Church.

  As expected, near midnight, Raven saw a lavishly dressed male merchant hastily entering the gate of the Oracles Church.

  The house was just downwind, and Raven activated her eavesdropping skill.

  In the church, the merchant stealthily handed a large bag of gems to Huanito, the high priest of the prophetic church.

  Hua Ni Tu frowned: "Speak clearly, otherwise I dare not accept this money."

  "The last person you divined for... had a bit of an accident. That kid named Raven seems to have suddenly awakened the bloodline of a Machinist, so this time Id like to ask you to use your True Speech technique to look into his past."

  Huanito hesitated for a moment and pushed the gemstone back.

  "Your Excellency, what is this..."

  "Stop joking. Let me use the True Words to check the family with the Machinists bloodline? Do you want to kill me? Do you even know what the True Words are? You idiot, get out! Let the person behind you come and see me personally, otherwise forget it!"

  Twenty minutes after the merchant left, a mysterious man appeared in the shadows of the room.

  He handed over a large purse with his arm full of veins.

  "There are fifty gold coins of the gods inside. My request remains unchanged."

  Hua Ni Tuo hesitated for a moment, thought about it and decided to refuse.

  But he had just opened his mouth when the opposite side suddenly increased their bet.

  "One hundred divine gold coins."

  "True speech is to directly seek the truth of the world through divine techniques. If the content is simple, I only need to pay the price of spiritual power. If the content is more complex, I will have to overdraw my life force. If the content is particularly grand or profound, this would be to overdraw the masters divine power!"

  "Three hundred! With so much money, you could even afford to investigate the entire Thaumaturgy Department of the Nefarian Empire."

  Hua Ni Tuos body shook like a sieve, he was in too deep. The stance of the prophecy god was neutral, but those who could afford to pay for true words or prophecies were basically all evil camp guys. He also secretly investigated after completing the prophecy, and all the people predicted by his prophecy were killed.

  He found himself unable to refuse the dark mans request, after all, taking money for prophecies did not violate the Prophecy Churchs doctrine, but refusing would likely get him killed. In the end, he still accepted that bag of divine gold coins. He knew it meant paying a price of at least years of his life.

  Under the gaze of the men, Wanito began to cast his true word spell on his crystal ball. In the crystal ball, he first saw Ravens young face, and then Ravens face became younger and younger.

  In the sight of both, Ravens time began to flow backwards.

  Suddenly, an inexplicable divergence appeared, a cluster of fog that stuck stubbornly in the center of the crystal ball and refused to disperse. This unexpected event almost made Huani unable to control himself, his hands even trembling slightly!

  "Right! Its here! I want to see it clearly!" The dark man opposite almost couldnt contain his excitement.

  Hua Ni Tuo gritted his teeth and gathered his spiritual energy, forcing his way into the fog.

  The crystal balls screen began to move.

  The screen clearly left the main surface of the Oculus world.

  Huanito is not the first person to use True Speech to explore beings from other planes, even demons from the bottomless pit have been scrutinized, but never has anyone tried like today, exploring and directly crossing countless planes, pointing clues to the deepest part of the endless universe.

  No! This is simply another world with a multiverse.

  How is this possible!?!

  Huanitos face suddenly turned pale.

  The greater the span of time and space crossed by the True Words, the more astonishing his expenditure.

  If the spiritual power infused into the crystal ball was a huge wave, then it would be met head-on by a black hole that could swallow an entire ocean! The crazy suction easily swallowed this small wave, and then pulled Huanitos entire spiritual world over.

  Hua Ni Tuo only felt his entire body suddenly become light and floaty, spewing out a large mouthful of fresh blood. His line of sight instantly became blurry, only to see a withered spread from the tips of his fingers on both hands, growing larger in scope, within two blinks of an eye his hands had transformed into withered wood, dry skin cracked like parched earth.

  And the crystal ball continues to exact a price from Wanitoso without rest.

  His entire lifetime? Not enough.

  His entire soul? Not enough!

  The black hole in the crystal ball has searched for the past along the faith channel that connects the Shinto priest with the deity.

  "No——" Huani To let out a final scream of his life.

  The dark man stood there in stunned silence, he too had not expected that the Wanito opposite him would turn into a pile of ashes in just a few seconds, leaving only his beautiful priestly robe scattered on the table.

  Even if I had known from the start that Vanito would pay a price for this true word, I never thought the price would be so cruel - Vanito not only paid with his life, but also burned out his soul.

  This is not the end.

  The next moment, all the followers and priests of the Prophecy Church, as well as all the mages and wizards who understood prophecy, simultaneously heard the furious roar of the Prophecy God Safras in their ears.

  "What the hell is wrong with that idiot Wanito, using True Speech to scan a Black Hole Wretch! Does he want me to drop dead immediately!? Damn it! Moron!" Then followed a string of Heavens language that few people could understand, which was probably a bunch of profanity.

  It took Saphrathras half a day to recover from his great anger, and then he issued an oracle: From this moment on, it is forbidden to inquire about anything concerning someone named Raven using prophecy or truth-telling.

  The dark man was stunned by this result.

  Divination is very useful, but its not omnipotent. Generally speaking, high-ranking priests of various major churches, gods and legendary or higher strongmen cannot be detected by divination and true speech. If the object is obviously weak but cannot use divination and true speech, according to past rules, it only means one thing: the target object has a terrifying background.

  The dark man was baffled, why could he use it before, but this time even the prophecy god Savras couldnt figure it out? Was that little kids bloodline of machinery really that powerful?

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