Wasteland Echoer.

Chapter 532 Prophecy: Red Nightmare

"I think I have guessed who you are looking for. Based on my personal experience, the advice I can give you is that you should not be overwhelmed by the difficulties of reality and your inner cowardice. You should be like the dandelions dancing on the Nebsk Plain, fearless of rainstorms and strong winds, fire and ice, just for the dream in your heart, cross the 'Great Railway', cross the 'Ice Vein Mountain', cross the 'Ice Domain River', cross the 'Northern Forest' and the vast areas of the 'North and South Karlov Districts', and reach the surging ocean in your dream." "Big Brother" advised in an exciting tone:
"The meaning of every life is the life itself. People with 'wisdom' and 'divinity' should not be held back by the so-called 'fate' and 'rules', and hesitate to move forward.

"Those who claim to be manipulated by fate may have never truly resisted fate. Those who feel they have lost hope may have simply been in the dark night for too long and have long forgotten the true color of the sun. Luo Nie, do you know? I am actually an upper-level professional. My profession is [Prophet]."

"Have you been tested by the Sequence Cards?" Luo Nie blurted out subconsciously. After all, during the one hundred years when he existed in the world as a machine, and during the more than thirty years when he was born as a human being after obtaining the [Personality], he had never been recognized by the "Sequence Cards".

As a believer of the Orthodox Patriarch, he also approached Constantine Novayasnov, Patriarch of St. Ivan's Cathedral, and "Lei Ye", who had briefly worked for the "Federal Clergy Committee" and served as a "Sequence Group Fortuneteller", and asked these two former clergymen who were quite proficient in the "Sequence Group Divination Ceremony" to perform it.

The possible results are either a "nothing" card or three completely reversed cards.

According to the divination results of the "Sequence Cards", this means that one is temporarily not qualified to obtain the recognition of the Creator and cannot be promoted to a higher-level profession.

Luo Nie clearly remembered that the three reversed cards were "Love", "Chaos" and "Order", which meant that if he performed "sequence card divination" again in the future, the above three results would never appear again, and he would never step into the three professional ranks of [God of Love], [Chaos Causer] and [Orderer].

But once all the cards appear in reversed form once, it means that Luo Nie can no longer be promoted to any upper-level profession. He may only be able to exist as the incongruous identity of "the creation of the Lord of Machinery", relying on the not-too-weak "Light of the Mechanical Spirit" and some ordinary plant-based magic power skills to survive in this chaotic world.

Therefore, he develops an involuntary sensitivity to any career-related topic.

After thinking for a few seconds, Luo Nie smiled bitterly and apologized to "Big Brother":

"Please forgive my impoliteness. Since you have the Prophet profession, you have naturally been recognized by the sequence deck. What I am really curious about is, have you ever used some... um... exclusive skills of the Prophet profession?"

"Of course." The tone of "Big Brother" was full of pride as a top professional, but when he thought of Luo Nie's pain, he changed his tone and said in a relatively calm tone:
"I often use basic skills like 'Construction' and 'Analysis', but as the intensity of the war increases, the humans who survive are either half crazy or have terrifyingly high mental power. The mental world created by 'Construction' cannot effectively affect them.

"Especially Talia. When she was little, I often created a Central-style duel arena and a Sune-style mechanical city for her to train her fighting skills. But she became immune to these things when she was 15. The dangerous environment created by ordinary mental power is no longer enough to satisfy her training, so naturally, she can't continue to improve."

“I see… I originally thought that for upper-level professionals, especially the [Prophet] profession, a small skill could influence the world.” Luo Nie sighed.

"Haha, it's very difficult to influence the world. You have to reach at least the level of Sequence 2: Abandonment. You know..." "Big Brother" crossed his arms in front of his chest, leaned against an abandoned iron wall, and narrated:
"Now is the era of declining magic power. The overdevelopment of steam industry in the Third Era scared away animals with sufficient spirituality, such as white rabbits, elks, wolves, bears, etc. The habitable areas such as forests, cultivated land, lakes, and grasslands that provide raw materials for industry have been continuously and unrestrainedly plundered and destroyed, turning magic power from something that is easily available to a treasure that cannot be obtained without strong spiritual power.

"The great saint, Adari Sage, who is known as the 'Supreme Forerunner', once said: All 'existence' has a basis for maintaining its basic 'survival'. The universe relies on the most basic infinitesimal particles, humans rely on closely connected tiny living things, and all extraordinary things and magic rely on the magic source to ensure that they will never decay."

Hearing this, Luo Nie's eyes flashed with surprise. He looked at "Big Brother" and asked:

"I remember he was a human from the Second Era. From this sentence, I could actually hear the results of physics and biology discoveries from the middle and late Third Era. Could it be that he really glimpsed the 'future' but was unable to understand those abstruse terms in physics and could only describe them in relatively simple language?"

"Since you've asked this, I won't go into any more details." Big Brother's tone suddenly became more serious, and he said:

"Small abilities like 'Word Construction' don't provide much help to us [Prophets]. In fact, they are rarely used in combat, but more to help lost people escape from the sea of ​​​​mind." For us, no, for humans, the most difficult thing is actually to get the 'direction of the future'. We all hope that the 'heartless people' will disappear, the wasteland era will be destroyed, and the world will usher in a brand new era. Whether it is the 'restart era' proposed by the demon Vasily or the 'star era' imagined by our ancestors, it is a beautiful 'result'."

"What you want to say is that the 'process' is very important, but also very difficult to explore, and is full of confusion, mistakes, and failures, right?" Luo Nie continued to ask.

"Yes." Big Brother looked up at the night sky, which had become pitch black without even a glimmer of starlight, and answered:

"We don't know how to strategically besiege the Heartless, how to unite the Lost Ones on the road, how to bind the humans scattered in various strongholds through interests, and we have no idea what kind of organizational structure humans, the Lost Ones, and all intelligent humanoid creatures are united with.

"That's where we [prophets] come in. As long as the magic power is as abundant as it was in the Second Era, and we have a small room filled with divine objects, we can sacrifice our lives, physical strength, magic, and 'future' through simple magic circles and rituals. In the parallel time and space that may be intertwined or never intersect, we can eliminate wrong options and find the right path."

"This ability surpasses that of gods and is closer to what only the Creator can do." Luo Nie exclaimed, but there was still a hint of doubt in his tone.

"Our power may come directly from the Creator." Big Brother turned around, stroked the iron wall covered with mottled rust, and said:

"The outside world calls our ability 'prophecy'. In fact, if we can only see the past or predict what will happen in a few days, this weak ability can indeed be called 'prophecy'. However, we generally call this ability 'divination' when we use a large number of 'prophecies' to analyze and find the correct direction for the world to run."

"Bu Shi?" Luo Nie asked doubtfully.

"This is a term invented by the magic power practitioners among the Khitanris who call themselves 'immortals.'" Big Brother said, imitating the slightly poetic tone of the Orientals:

“Choosing a direction from the numerous and tiny branches like ants, and guiding the world along the right path. This is something that only the Creator can do. Therefore, many people will die in the pain and despair brought by [Divination] because they have never found the direction.

"And now, we will no longer feel confused. Saint Aidari Sage has already told us the true future through the Epic of the Future."

"What...'future'?" Luo Nie asked curiously.

"Before, we stole the materials kept by the Federation Committee from the 'Evolution Platform' in Joeigler, which contained the Aidari manuscript transcribed by the theologians of the Old Empire. After translating the obscure Central and ancient tribal languages ​​in the manuscript, we obtained the latter part of the 'H-203' prophecy translated by the Federation Committee." "Big Brother" took out a tattered notebook from his arms, opened the latest page, stared at the Cruz German text written in pen on it, and said:

"According to Marco and I's calculations, the content of the prophecy of 'H-203' should be what happened in our northern border a few months ago until now, specifically related to the ground battles between the 'Kushen Ruins' and the 'Honghuan Ruins'. The last sentence of the prophecy of 'H-203', which is 'Beidou's sacrifice condenses the ripples of the remaining flames', should be followed by this sentence. We named it 'Honghuan Nightmare'."

"Which sentence?"

"The loyal fire of hell abandons the weak gods, and the future of [Order] awakens among the ice; the old mecha creates a new world, and the surviving beasts pursue the groans of the dragon clan."

(End of this chapter)