Am I a god-tier talent in all my professions?

Chapter 206 Level 1 Prophet

When it comes to time travel, one inevitably thinks of novels, comics, anime, or at the very least, various TV series and short dramas.

After all, even if I didn't time travel, I had fantasized about being the protagonist of a book when I was young.

Not to mention, I've now traveled through time.

As a time traveler, Lu Cang had naturally thought about this question as well.

If this were a novel, what kind of text would it be?

If this were an anime, how many episodes would it have? Would it be a long series or a short series?
I guess I'm the kind of character who's arrogant and overpowered?

Am I the main character?
Or am I just a stepping stone for others to show off and get humiliated?
Or is he the kind of reclusive master who exists only in the world's background and appears only in later legends?

These were the thoughts that Lu Cang had occasionally had during his months in this world.

But now... may I ask?
What's the problem?
Could it be that I'm actually the male protagonist in a visual novel?
Lu Cang snapped out of his reverie and said, "Parie, do you know what you're saying to an eight-year-old?"

"I know."

Lu Cang said calmly, "Of course that's impossible."

Paris: "I think so too."

Swah——

Their positions changed again, and they returned from the mansion to the White Tower.

Pali returned to her seat exactly as she had been.

It seems unlikely that I'll be able to touch Pally.

If we launch a surprise attack, we might succeed.

But the other party happens to be a prophet, and a very powerful one at that, so it's really difficult to manipulate her.

Lu Cang: "Sister Pali, I offended you just now."

Parly, still holding her tea, said, "Are you apologizing for a future that didn't happen?"

"If that's the case, you need to apologize for more than one thing."

Paris put down her tea and turned her gaze back to her book.

"Parie, what will happen on the first of next month?"

Pali didn't look up at Lu Cang, but simply replied, "Are you asking about everything that happened throughout the day?"

"This price is very expensive."

Lu Cang: "No, it's not that. I mainly wanted to ask what might happen to An Zheng?"

Parly: "In other words, you're going to divine the actions of an 8th-level mage a month from now."

"If we're going to charge a fee, let's make it 5000 trillion gold coins."

"If it doubles, that's one trillion."

Lu Cang's lips twitched slightly.

Does the entire continent of Loren have that many gold coins?
And you calculated it by doubling it like this? Does the part exceeding the limit also need to be doubled?
Lu Cang: "Haha, then forget it."

Evil fortune teller...

Speaking of which, Los is also a fortune teller.

However, Ross is only a level 1 diviner, and her main profession is not diviner, so she will not adhere to the rules of diviners.

Sigh, I hope Los doesn't learn bad habits from the fortune teller.

But considering Ross's carefree personality, it seems unlikely that she would become a qualified fortune teller. After all, the first thing a fortune teller needs to learn is probably how to cheat and swindle.

Pali couldn't get any meaningful information, and Lu Cang didn't want to waste the rest of the day.

So he released his senses and quickly found Yuna's whereabouts.

Yuna was at another desk on the same floor.

There was a thick stack of manuscript paper beside me.

She was calculating something.

Swish!
Lu Cang used spatial manipulation to instantly appear beside Yuna.

The senses gently touched Yuna, without abruptly disturbing her focused state of mind.

Yuna was in a state of deep concentration when she gradually felt a sense of perception deepening. Only when she felt this sensation did she turn around and see Lu Cang behind her.

"Lu Cang? So you still remember me."

Yuna, have you gone astray?

It's only been a little over ten days, how come you've suddenly learned tea-related language?

Lu Cang ignored Yuna's tea talk and simply replied frankly, "It's not the Forgotten Month now, how could I not remember?"

“Master Iz told me to go find Anzheng, and I went to talk to them about the root cause.”

Yuna: "Oh..."

Lu Cang walked to Yuna's side and saw the rows of symbols and equations she had written on the paper.

If a mathematician from a previous life were to travel to this world, he would probably find it quite a headache.
Having been transported to another world, I still have to do math problems.

The mathematics in this world is no simpler than that in my previous life... As for which one has a higher ultimate difficulty, Lu Cang couldn't really make a judgment.

After all, Lu Cang wasn't a mathematician in his previous life, nor did he encounter the ultimate problems in mathematics.

And in this life...

Even Lu Cang, a scholar specializing in mathematical deciphering, couldn't help but feel a headache when he thought about the mathematical problems that needed to be solved.

Sometimes I just want to laugh it off and declare that I'm just a warrior, and I don't want to deal with these headaches anymore.

Warriors have it easy; they only need to enjoy the battles, while mages have to consider many more things.

So sometimes Lu Cang couldn't help but wonder, is this job balance?

The imbalance reveals a strange balance, and within that balance lie subtle deviations.

"Yuna, these... are final time projections?"

Yuna's voice was icy today as she whispered, "I was interested in it myself, so I just made these things along the way."

Lu Cang sat down with a smile: "Then I'll join in the research too."

“Oh…” She didn’t refuse, but let Lu Cang sit down next to her.

There are only two books on the subject of time studies.

Both were obtained from the seventh level of the White Pagoda: "On the Square of Time" and "An Introduction to Spacetime".

After various investigations and assessments, both books were confirmed to be free of any knowledge contamination... but they still contain extremely obscure and difficult-to-understand knowledge.

Time studies, future studies, destiny studies.

Lu Cang has already mastered futurology and destiny studies.

The three disciplines are related, but there are some lower-level textbooks for Destiny Studies and Future Studies, while only two books are available for Time Studies.

Fortunately, the theories contained in these two books alone are quite substantial.

That's enough to produce a lot of meaningful things.

Although it's difficult to understand the entire contents of both books, they are perfectly fine as reference books for time studies.

"Time is not absolute."

"Destiny is divided into true destiny and visible destiny."

"The future of time is not necessarily the future."

"Time is not continuous"

……

It relates to futurology, destiny, and time studies, and they are interconnected and mutually inferred.

One bizarre theory after another was derived.

Some theories even completely contradict common sense from previous lives.

Sometimes, having knowledge of past lives can be a good thing, allowing you to see things from more perspectives.

However, sometimes having knowledge from a past life can also lead to being misled in this world.

For example, one might subconsciously believe that the theorems of impulse, force, and kinetic energy apply in this world.

But in reality, it's completely different.

Many basic common sense facts from previous lives will change in this life.

However, some things remain completely unchanged.

For example, objects of different masses falling freely at the same time will all land at the same time...

Although the relationship between force and acceleration is different, some things lead to the same result. What's more interesting is that these theories are explained in different schools of thought, and even in magic and life sciences, different interpretations can be found that fit their respective schools of thought.

But upon closer inspection, it seems to make sense.

"I'll do these."

Lu Cang took the manuscript that Yuna was writing on with her right hand.

Yuna paused for a moment, then let Lu Cang take it.

They usually studied together like this: Yuna would analyze the thought process, while Lu Cang would be mainly responsible for verification and calculation.

Lu Cang is a codebreaker and is very good at this kind of thing.

Yuna is a polymath who is very good at divergent thinking, association, and connecting ideas from different disciplines.

The month of knowledge and wisdom.

All thoughts are extremely clear.

These questions that are usually difficult to understand can now be answered with just a few glances.

Lu Cang wrote down each of his thoughts.

The answer was handed over to Yuna, who then developed new ideas based on the answer and proposed a new conjecture, which was then passed on to Lu Cang for a solution.

Yuna initially had some minor emotions, but as she gradually became engrossed, her little feet started to lift, and she began to tell Lu Cang about her thought process and her ingenious conjecture about the final timeline.

They're so easy to coax.

Iceberg Yuna melted away in less than twenty minutes.

Time slipped away quietly like that.

There wasn't much time left on the 1st, and when I was engrossed in my research, I felt that time was passing by ridiculously fast.

When I came to my senses, it was already past midnight.

Working through the night on a single topic has become a daily routine for the scholars at the White Pagoda.

However, as the night wore on, Lu Cang could feel the fervent emotions that had permeated the entire white tower receding like a tide.

Inspiration vanishes, and thinking becomes dull.

Even though he hadn't lost his spirituality, Lu Cang still felt his thinking become sluggish.

The answer that I could have gotten with just a glance now feels like typing numbers in a dream; I can't seem to get it right no matter what I do, and a sense of frustration and anxiety wells up inside me.

But fortunately, it was inherently highly spiritual.

Lu Cang took a deep breath, slowly closed his eyes, and tried to calm himself down. The unease and anxiety caused by becoming dull-witted gradually subsided. Indeed... losing something after gaining it is often harder to accept than never having gained it at all.

One must never lose one's spirituality, for that would be far too painful.

Lu Cang opened his eyes again, his gaze regaining its composure and clarity, while Yuna, standing beside him, pressed her chest, appearing to breathe a sigh of relief.

Lu Cang smiled and said, "Fortunately, we solved it at the last minute."

Yuna nodded gently with a sigh of relief: "Mm."

At the last minute before dawn, the two finally completed their research on the current theories, integrating the theories of time studies into a complete set.

At this point, their knowledge of timekeeping had reached a high level, and they had become proficient.

As for what level of mastery qualifies as proficient...

Generally speaking, being able to explain one or more fundamental theories of a discipline and knowing the dozens of branches and variations derived from those fundamental theories is considered mastery.

"Yuna."

"Ok?"

Yuna lay back in the chair, gazing at the ceiling of the White Tower.

At that moment, her mind went blank.

I've entered a state of complete emptiness. I've been studying this complex theory for a while now, and I feel completely drained.

"Thank you."

Upon hearing Lu Cang's thanks, Yuna turned her face away, refusing to look at him.

She replied in a soft voice, "It's...it's not for you."

"I'm very interested in finding such a precious book. It would be a shame not to study it thoroughly."

Yuna's voice was soft, and her face was a little red.

She was telling the truth. Of course she was very interested in this valuable knowledge, but she didn't know why her heart was racing so fast when she received Lu Cang's thanks.

Lu Cang also had a smile on his face.

Yuna's parents are among the managers of this white tower.

It's better not to tell her that these two books were stolen from the White Pagoda.

……

I've also become an expert in time management.

In this way, he has mastered all of the ancient Ansu language, time studies, divination, future studies, destiny studies, and divination.

All preparations for the Prophet's class change have been completed.

Since receiving this secret scroll on October 6th.

Unexpectedly, it took a full five months before I was finally able to change jobs.

It's a pity about that puppeteer's secret scroll.

There are so many professions in this world, and each one can be of great use. If you switch to every profession you see, you really won't be able to keep up.

The next morning, they found Kumiloni.

Using Flying Light to change jobs is possible, but it's really unnecessary. Starting it up once is too expensive, and you also have to consider the time and manpower costs.

"Sister Kumironi..."

"I have deciphered the job change requirements of the Prophet's Scroll, and I feel that I have met them."

Kumironi: "Huh?"

"Am I going to change jobs again?"

It has only been six months since they found Lu Cang.

But Lu Cang already has 16 levels, and he has to level up 3 levels almost every month.

"Ah."

"After all, being a prophet is my only profession, so I still want to try."

Kumiloni: "That's true."

A unique profession is indeed more powerful than a regular profession. If a normal person gets a unique profession, they will choose to change professions if given the opportunity.

"But, are you sure there are no problems? You've already changed so many jobs."

Simultaneously mastering five professions without neglecting any of them is already unheard of.

After all, for a normal person to cultivate multiple professions simultaneously is simply to cultivate two professions at the same time, such as warrior mage, phantom assassin, and protection warrior.

"It should be fine."

Lu Cang felt that he could still meet the standards of each profession.

After all, I have a deep understanding of each profession, and using a mystery scholar as a benchmark is still within my acceptable range.

But the main reason is still greed.

Having a unique profession, and a prophet with a fate-based destiny, it's hard not to be tempted to try and get something for nothing.

"Ok."

"Then, now?"

"Yes, let's do it today."

Lu Cang came to see Kumironi early in the morning, as Kumironi was also on vacation today.

Rather, it's more accurate to say that Kumiloni doesn't actually have much to do most of the time and is probably on long-term vacation.

But ever since he started mentoring Lu Cang, they've always been discovering cults here and crises there.

I always feel like wherever Lu Cang is, cults just keep popping up...

The good news is that these cults have indeed been eradicated.

Promotion Hall

The rear hall of the original ascension hall has been rebuilt.

However, this time, Lu Cang and Kumironi will not be using the back hall. If it is just a simple level 1 job change, they only need to go to a not-so-spacious secret room.

Lu Cang and Kumironi entered the secret room.

Lu Cang brought the prophet's secret scroll to life in front of him and gently touched it with his finger.

The text on the secret scroll then detached from the paper.

They transformed into obscure cryptic texts, suspended in space.

Lu Cang glanced at it, then ran his finger across it again. This time, the secret texts began to rearrange themselves, each embedded in a different location in the space.

hum-

A golden aura unfolded around the secret scroll, perfectly enveloping the cryptic texts within it.

One tremor, and these arrangements become different.

hum!
Another tremor caused the arrangement to change once again.

Buzz—buzz buzz buzz!
With each tremor, countless secret texts flickered in different locations in space.

Looking at these cryptic texts, one still feels that no matter how they are interpreted, they appear chaotic and disorganized.

However, if we consider the preceding and following timelines consecutively, we will find that the arrangement of these words forms a complete sentence.

Once the text on the secret message is revealed, it will change in a specific order. Therefore, the first thing to crack is to figure out how each character changes at different times in the future.

The corresponding knowledge includes divination and prophecy.

"Precognition: Phenomenon prediction—predicting changes in upcoming events based on existing information."

"Prognostics: Divination and Prediction—Analyzing the meaning of divination results in the spiritual realm and using phenomena to infer predictions."

The characters in these cryptic texts are themselves the result of divination.

There's no need for Lu Cang to perform divination anymore. Now, all he needs to do is use these secret texts, which are like divination results, to make direct predictions based on the theories of prophecy.

Then, these secret texts were extracted from the secret scroll.

The moment it was removed, the scroll formed a special time field, and time became disordered according to a certain pattern.

I need to use some calculation methods to figure out how these characters should be sorted.

If the diviner is at level 5 or above, they can directly predict the result.

But Lu Cang wasn't a diviner, so he could only calculate it based on the theories of time studies.

Calculate in your mind how each character changes under different time flow rates, and then predict how different characters will behave under normal time.

These characters are embedded in different positions in space and arranged. With each vibration of the characters, a messy and unclear article is formed.

To the naked eye, they contain absolutely no information.

However, if we consider the time scale, looking from the future to the past, and then interpreting the "Ansu Secret Language", we can understand the meaning of the text.

Then you can read these words and form complete sentences in your mind.

Lu Cang had foreseen all the changes in the secret texts, from his initial speculations to the final moments of their future transformation.

Looking back from the future, we see the original form of these cryptic texts.

I already understand everything in my heart.

What needs to be done now is to chant these cryptic texts before they have fully evolved and before they have disappeared.

Lu Cang loudly proclaimed: "I will unveil the veil that blinds the eyes of the mortals, the thick curtain layered upon reality, called 'ignorance' and 'the present moment'."

“I know that foresight is not a gift, but a burden; insight is not an authority, but a shackle.”

"When the light of foresight illuminates the abyss of despair, the separation of loved ones, and the unstoppable calamity; the path of the forerunner is destined to be lonely. May this body slightly alter the course of the torrent and point the way for the lost for a moment."

"I will embrace the sense of turmoil that comes with anticipation—moving between the 'known' and the 'unknown,' between the 'possible' and the 'inevitable'."

"With clarity, embrace the chaos of the future; with insignificance, touch the grand blueprint of destiny."

"—Here, my name is..."

Call ~
As the last golden rune swirled like flames, the meaning expressed by the rune, which should have appeared at the very first moment, only revealed itself in Lu Cang's mind at the very end.

The interpretation of these two characters requires revealing destiny.

That's my own name.

His own name was already predetermined on the secret scroll.

This is the profession of a prophet.

To glimpse the destiny and inevitability of fate.

My name is Lu Cang.

"This is my prayer, this is my... ladder to the pinnacle of prophecy."

With a whoosh, as the last words fell, countless golden runes were imprinted into Lu Cang's body!
The pale golden light on the scroll gradually dimmed!

At that moment, Lu Cang sensed it.

I am already a level 1 prophet.

(End of this chapter)