When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 779 Divination and Difference Engine
What did Kerburn find out ten years later?
After hearing this speech, even though Horn was a veteran and had seen a lot, his brain froze for a moment.

Obtaining technology directly from the future, are the divination spells of the Dreamless Hermitage so powerful?

If you have this skill, why are you staying in Black Snake Bay as a secret party member?

To make sure he had heard correctly, Horn asked cautiously, "The research results you mentioned ten years later, are you referring to them as a metaphor?"

“No, it’s the research results ten years later.”

"I've never heard of a person or a witch who can predict information ten years from now in such detail."

"Just because others can't does not mean we can't." Seeing the confusion in Horn's heart, Estra explained, "Your Majesty, have you ever thought about why most divination spells are displayed with a pendulum star disk instead of directly transmitting the image to the brain?"

After coming to this world, Horn had seen many divination spells, both from witches and ordinary wizards.

Whether it is fortune-telling about the past or the future, most fortune-telling requires astrology, tarot cards or dice.

Only when fortune-telling about the present can you directly look at the picture.

He had always thought that one couldn't see the picture when predicting the future and the past. From what Estra said, did he mean that one could see it?

"Is it because divination without the use of this kind of prop will cause harm to the body?" Horn asked, recalling the past.

Estra smiled and nodded: "You are right, the essence of divination is the simulated deduction from the present to the past and future, not true foreknowledge.

For the witch who had faced the divination results, a million possibilities flooded into her mind in an instant.

The human brain obviously has its limits and cannot handle such a huge amount of information.

If it exceeds the tolerance range, the person may end up in a coma for life at best, or die from a head explosion at worst.

For the early astrologers, every divination was a risk to their lives..."

The witch, whose age was unknown, lowered her eyebrows, and the pure sunlight shone on her thick and trembling eyelashes.

Horn had his back to the sun, his expression hidden in the shadow of the backlight, only a pair of shining eyes staring at Istra who was talking.

"…So what should we do? The solution we came up with is to use crystal balls, pendulums, and tarot cards to replace and simplify things.

The information carried by Tarot cards is obviously limited, which can just reduce the damage to the brain.

But this also requires the analysis of the results of the props, and Tarot Club is a leader in this field. "

Seeing that Estra hadn't gotten to the point for a long time, Horn glanced at the clock next to him and said, "What does this have to do with your divination for ten years later?"

As Istria narrated, his mind gradually recovered from the shock.

What followed was greed and surprise about this magical spell.

If she could steal technology from the future, wouldn't she be able to reach the sky with just one step?

I just steal the results of what I will get ten or twenty years from now, and maybe I can steal hundreds of years of technology.

"Please listen to me patiently first." Estra took out a tarot card from his pocket, "This kind of use of props as a substitute is called Tarot School, and most of them are magic schools.

But their biggest problem is that they are too brief and full of randomness.

However, we, the Dreamless Hermitage, and the White Mountain Hermitage both use another method, which is a combination of mind magic and divination magic.

The White Mountain Hermitage uses the unconscious, while the Dreamless Hermitage uses dreams.

Astrologers use witches as the center and let psychics work together to construct dreams to mitigate the impact and obtain more sophisticated and complex divination results.

Under normal circumstances, divination cannot reach the level of text, but our dream divination can do it..."

Horn suddenly realized that they were relying on this trick to predict the future.

Even a layman like him noticed something: "You used dreams as a divination tool and got more complicated results. Don't you need more complicated interpretations?"

"Of course we need to," said Estra frankly, "Take the research results of this Kelben scholar ten years later as an example.

First, Novia brought back Bachelor Kerben's early research and a large number of paper drafts and ideas.

We used these things to perform dream divination and obtained a series of dream symbols.

If we decode these dream symbols normally, it will take at least 20 to 30 years. Maybe by the time we succeed in decoding them, not only will the research results have been published, but Maester Kelburn will have died."

"If that's the case, then how did you, wait!" When asked this, Horn had an idea flash in his mind.

At the end of last year, Black Snake Bay imported three boxes of hand-cranked calculators. Could it be that...

"A hand-crank calculator?"

"In addition to the hand-cranked calculator, there are also your mathematics and natural science books." Istria said slowly, "The students of the Holy See are happy to make extra money, and they are quite knowledgeable about semiotics and dream studies."

"There is also dream science?!" Horn blinked vigorously.

“This is a well-known philosophy inherited from the El Empire, and many scholars have dabbled in it to some extent.

There are also people who use dream science to treat diseases, claiming that they can cure diseases in dreams without injections or medication.

Sometimes, some aspects of this world were so advanced that even Horn himself ignored the fact that this was an era when civilization was in the early Renaissance.

He calmed himself down and said, "In this case, you probably don't know whether this note is true or false. How can you be sure that this result is correct?"

"In order to verify my conjecture, I re-divinated the analysis result." Estra said frankly, "It is correct, but also incomplete. Maester Kelben needs to complete it himself."

Sitting behind his desk, Horn crossed his fingers and placed them on his lips, but began to sort out his thoughts.

According to Istria, their divination is a simulation of the future.

Let’s take Kelburn’s method of orichalcum conversion as an example.

What Istra deduced was just that he spent the next ten years studying the method of converting mountain copper.

Is it possible that he went off to study something else during this period? Yes, but this possibility was ruled out by Istria.

The final result needs to be obtained through exhaustive decoding.

As the research results become more and more in-depth, the decoding speed will become faster and faster.

The final result is the two-way progress of research results and research progress.

The special situation of Kelben this time was that his foundation was too solid and all he lacked was time.

Since it was the first time that a hand-cranked calculator and mathematics such as functions were combined, Istra could not wait to face the future to verify it, which led to this result ten years later.

There is another situation, for example, the gun can replace the crossbow.

But their divination is to develop the crossbow to the extreme, but even if it is developed to the extreme, its upper limit is still not as high as that of the gun.

Simply put, it means clicking on the wrong technology tree.

It is equivalent to a technology acceleration card. How much to add depends on luck. The side effect is that technology will go astray.

The heat in Horn's heart dissipated a little, and he asked directly: "What price did you pay?"

"You are really perceptive." After being interrupted by Horn, Estra was silent for a few seconds before speaking, "The first divination cost us the lives of nine astrologers.

The second divination showed that the death toll was five times greater, and I was bedridden for three months.

Fortunately, I am a witch and my soul is much stronger than theirs, so I survived. "

“Will I have to pay such a high price in the future?”

"We have been fortune-telling for ten years this time, but we won't do that next time."

Horn nodded and put the notes aside. "You can't give these to me for free, right? What do you want?"

"Your Majesty, why can't I want to help our Holy Alliance win?"

"That being the case..."

"But!" Istria coughed, "I heard that you, the Holy Mechanical Court, have created a prototype machine called a difference machine?"

(End of this chapter)