Super Righteous Player
Chapter 114 - 112: Prediction and Perception ( - 1)_1

Chapter 114: Chapter 112: Prediction and Perception (Chapter 1)_1

Annan and Giralda were the first to leave the tea room.

More precisely... they escaped from the crime scene.

"Uncle, what do you think?"

Annan took a deep breath, emitting a heavy sound.

Beside him, the wizard from the School of Prophets, Giralda, gently patted his shoulder.

"It will be alright."

The black-haired, black-eyed middle-aged man confidently answered, "Because they won’t fight."

He had thick curly hair and his eyes were so profound they seemed like deeply etched marks, with facial features as sculpted as a statue’s.

"Are you sure about that?"

"Of course."

Giralda replied with utmost certainty, "That’s exactly why we need to eliminate variables."

"Variables?"

"Hmm... you can understand them as, on the basis of fixed foundational events, the changeable factors related to nature, quantity, intensity, and so on..."

"No, I don’t misunderstand the word."

Annan shook his head and pressed on, "What I mean is, does spellcasting in the prophecy discipline require the elimination of variables?"

"...In most cases, yes."

Giralda nodded, slightly puzzled as he asked, "Doesn’t Heath Tower of Black have prophecy discipline tutors?"

Before Annan could answer, he began to explain, speaking as if he were a tutor, "Simply put, the abilities and spells of the prophecy discipline are roughly divided into two categories: prediction and perception.

"The ability of prediction actively searches for ’future points of record’ and their event information.

"For example, if you give me two random numbers to calculate their result... since I can invariably compute it, and the result is uniquely determined, I can skip the process and predict the outcome directly.

"Similarly, predicting trajectories, predicting responses, predicting the flip of a coin, these are all simple capabilities that don’t even require casting a spell. Predicting whom I’ll encounter today or predicting where we will go next is much more complex... Simply put, predictions that include others besides oneself dramatically increase in difficulty and cost, with a higher error rate."

"In general, the more fixed and unique an answer is, the easier the result is to obtain. The more variables there are in the process, the more difficult the prediction becomes.

"For example, I can predict what you were just about to say..."

Giralda looked at Annan thoughtfully and after a moment said, "You were thinking, ’Isn’t human thought a variable?’ Right? The answer is, ’Yes’."

——Yes.

Annan nodded.

Although there were some differences... for instance, what he meant to ask was actually "Do you intend to eliminate the variable of ’thought’?"

This slight discrepancy likely stemmed from Giralda’s understanding of both Annan and Gerald.

"So, you can see briefly into the future?"

Annan pursued the question.

"It’s seeing a brief future," the uncle corrected, "What we can ascertain is only the information that ’we are able to know.’

"As soon as the uncertain nodes affecting the future are clear, we can foresee the results... that is the future I see."

As Giralda spoke, he glanced at the tea room and then meaningfully at Annan, "As long as we both leave, they definitely won’t fight; but if you and Princess Maria stay inside, then they are likely to begin a fight...

"But that was just a casual glance from me, I don’t know what will happen next. Personally, I prefer to follow a future that can be determined, rather than change it towards an unknown direction."

"I see..."

Annan slowly nodded.

A strange thought suddenly emerged in his heart.

To ascertain this idea, he asked Giralda, "What about perception then?"

"Perception, huh..."

Giralda sighed, a bit perplexed.

His answer this time was straightforward, "Simply put, the teacher suddenly perceives that he is about to die - that’s perception. It cannot actively seek an answer, and the answer may not always be useful, but the result of perception is basically fixed.

"This is because the pivotal nodes anchoring that future have already occurred, yet we were not aware... To put it simply, it’s too late, it is absolutely impossible to change the future with our own power alone. To change the outcome from a perceived prophecy, that would require introducing a great many variables."

Annan basically understood.

The principle of prophecy discipline spells is essentially about getting fragments of information from the future, actively or passively, from a future self.

This indeed is a rather omnipotent spell.

The outcome of "prediction" is "possibilities of the future," hence, can be arbitrarily changed.

Whereas the outcome obtained through "perception" is "the coming conclusion."

It’s not that the future perceived can’t be changed.

But on his own power, he was unable to shake the waves of destiny.

Annan fell silent for a while.

If that’s the case.

Was their ritual designed to change the fate of "Michelangelo being murdered"?

—Yes.

So far, there has been no concrete evidence to suggest that "Michelangelo is already dead".

They believe this only because the stone statue told them so upon entering.

But what if that stone statue was lying?

No, it might not necessarily be a lie.

Because the stone statue, from beginning to end, never said, "Michelangelo is already dead".

Not a single word was mentioned.

It only announced Michelangelo’s will—that Michelangelo had claimed, "The one who killed me is among you".

But what if what he said referred not to "the past"?

—But to "the future"?

"Hey, David. Did you... think of something?"

Giralda whispered softly.

Annan looked at him, fell silent for a while, "What are you referring to?"

"Your thoughts on the ritual we’re in."

The uncle stared at Annan, lowering his voice a few notches, "Do you have any special thoughts..."

"What are you all talking about?"

Just then, Maria’s voice came through.

She frowned slightly, her arms crossed as she gazed at Annan.

That youthful and delicate face, like the finest doll, showed undisguised suspicion.

The mute old man, Merlin, hung his head low, standing behind her listlessly.

But Annan could sense an inexplicable strong sense of danger emanating from him.

"—Discussing the three people in there."

Before the uncle could speak, Annan answered first, "As long as we all leave, those three should not start fighting."

"A prophecy?"

Maria Winter nodded thoughtfully, as if she had come to some realization.

At that moment, Annan suddenly asked,

"Your Highness Maria, what is your opinion on our current situation?"

"What do you mean...?"

For some reason, Maria always seemed extra vigilant when conversing with Annan.

She fell silent for a while, but still answered earnestly, "I think Melvin won’t be the only victim.

"Someone else will definitely die next... I think everyone has the same thought. Everyone also knows that there is only one murderer, and since they can’t kill two persons, they group together two by two... like you guys, like us, like Clare and Gold."

"So your thought is that Master Benjamin is the murderer?"

Annan pressed on with his question.

Wanting to kill a Gold-tier wizard.

This Master of the Transmutation School, who was infinitely close to the Gold-tier, was undoubtedly capable. He also wasn’t part of any team right now, which made him the biggest suspect.

But the problem was...

Annan had known from the very beginning that Benjamin was innocent.

The reason was the same as with Gerald.

Because Benjamin did not die here, nor did he successfully advance. Instead, he was alive and returned to the Black Tower, where he recruited new students... such as Salvatore.

Unexpectedly, Maria firmly shook her head.

"No, I don’t think he is the murderer."

She responded.

She looked at Annan, openly answering, "I think...

"The murderer is you."

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