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Chris glanced at the obsidian inside the small box again, his gaze shifting slightly.

He decided to give it a try, and also to demonstrate his abilities.

He narrowed his eyes, his gaze sharpened, and he suddenly activated his spiritual vision to examine the obsidian in front of him before quickly deactivating it.

Throughout the entire process of activating his spiritual vision, he did not check on Logan's condition.

His eyes opened fully again, and as he looked at the unremarkable obsidian in front of him, a strange light suddenly flashed in his eyes.

Just now, when Chris briefly activated his spiritual vision to examine the obsidian, he did see something unusual.

Inside the obsidian, the golden specks became exceptionally dazzling under spiritual vision.

A heavy feeling washed over Chris, making him feel as if the air around him had become thick and sticky.

He was slightly surprised; it turned out that the fragment of the Holy Body in the mouth of the Obsidian Tongue Church really did contain extraordinary and mysterious power.

But precisely because of this, Chris began to hesitate about whether or not to accept the gift.

If it were just an ordinary obsidian, he would naturally accept it.

But this is not ordinary obsidian.

Chris had to consider whether the other party had tampered with the fragment of the sacred body.

He didn't know if Logan was a Holy Path Walker.

He didn't know exactly how far non-holy path practitioners could go with their mystical methods.

After much hesitation, Chris decided to decline Logan's offer.

Just as Chris was about to speak, Logan seemed to sense Chris's hesitation and explained with a smile:

"If Brother Chris is worried, I can send this gift to you through the Imperial official postal system."

As he spoke, Logan gave a mysterious smile and whispered, "Trust me, anything sent through the Imperial Post Office will arrive without any problems."

Upon hearing this, Chris's heart stirred.

He knew about the Imperial Post Office; it was the official postal system of the Im Empire, through which almost all letters and items were sent.

Judging from Logan's words and expression, Chris understood that the Imperial Post Office was probably not a simple organization.

This also confirms his conjecture that there are extraordinary individuals at the official level of the empire.

Although he has not yet encountered the Torchbearer and the Hand of Eternal Silence who appeared in his dream, their authenticity is becoming increasingly apparent.

Perhaps this Deacon Logan knows something about the Torchbearer and the Hand of Eternity.

But Chris knew that his relationship with the other person hadn't reached the point where they could freely discuss these things.

"If that's the case, then thank you in advance, Deacon Logan," Chris said with a smile after a moment's thought.

Upon hearing this, Logan put away the fragment of the Holy Body in his hand.

"It's getting late, so I won't disturb you any longer, Brother Chris." Logan nodded slightly to Chris, then turned and walked back into the alley.

The other party was a deacon of the Church of Obsidian Tongue, and this gathering was clearly orchestrated by the Church of Obsidian Tongue. Chris could understand that the other party had other matters to attend to.

Chris watched Logan leave, then turned and continued walking outside.

Shortly after, Chris returned to his apartment.

He first washed up quickly, changed into some home clothes, and then sat down at the square table in the living room.

Two items were placed in front of him.

One was a stack of star cards, and the other was a booklet about astrology.

Chris picked up the old deck of cards and started looking at them one by one.

The designs on these star-shaped plaques were printed with black ink, and some of the images are so dirty that they are almost illegible.

He quickly found the key tag.

Place it separately from the other star cards on the table.

This key card is very simple, with only the outline of a key against a white cardstock background, completely different from the key cards he had seen at the fortune teller's stall before.

The three distinctive rusted details on the key are also missing.

You get what you pay for, and Chris didn't complain.

After carefully examining the set of star cards, he opened the booklet containing astrological information and began to study it.

This research went on until late at night.

Chris slowly closed the booklet in his hand.

His eyes showed a hint of fatigue, but also a touch of excitement.

This booklet on astrology contains very detailed procedures and interpretation methods for using star cards for divination.

Chris now roughly understood the names and symbolic meanings of these star cards.

But after reading this book on astrology, he felt that the methods of astrology recorded in it were somewhat too simplistic.

All you need to prepare for astrology is a complete set of star cards and a background image marked with the eight directions: east, south, west, north, and south.

Aside from fixed size requirements and the need to indicate the orientation, there are no other restrictions on the background image. Any paper, even a desktop or the ground, can be used as a background image for astrology.

If you are proficient in astrology, the background image can be omitted. All you need to do is know the position of each star card and their relationship to each other.

Ultimately, the actions will be adjusted based on the information you want to obtain through astrology.

In practice, it involves constantly asking the person seeking astrology various questions in order to fine-tune the position of each star card or to add or remove the types of star cards in the background image.

Although the Stars deck is primarily composed of cards featuring various celestial images, it also includes several Moon and Sun cards used to aid in divination.

After completing a maximum of three operations, the resulting star combination is the astrological result.

Then comes the most important interpretation.

Each star card has several interpretations depending on its orientation and its relationship to other star cards.

In Chris's view, the final interpretation of the results was greatly influenced by the operator.

Two astrologers may arrive at different interpretations from the same astrological combination.

Even the same astrologer may not interpret the same birth chart at different times.

This made Chris have serious doubts about the accuracy of astrology.

Having learned of the existence of truly extraordinary powers in this world, he still harbored some expectations for astrology.

But now, Chris felt that if that was all, this astrology didn't even have anything to do with the mysticism he understood.

The entire book on astrology makes no mention of anything related to spirituality.

There are no complicated rituals involved, and no runes need to be drawn.

There is no content about the Protoss world.

Chris had previously seen information about visions and the celestial world in the book that recorded several occult rituals.

However, these contents are not found in this book on astrology.

This struck Chris as counterintuitive.

He always felt something was missing.

But he did not suspect that the other party had sold him a fake book.

After all, Chris had also looked at several books on astrology at other stalls. Although he had only read the first two or three pages of each book, the content they contained was pretty much the same.

The content here mainly focuses on the introduction and interpretation of each star card.

"How about we give it a try?"

Chris lowered his gaze slightly, looking at the neatly arranged star cards in front of him, and suddenly had the idea of ​​doing astrology for himself.

The astrology manual didn't say that you can't do astrological readings for yourself.