Chapter 3115: Fate Weaving and Observation

"After more than ten years of exploration, the basic characteristics of this Angel-level relic are currently determined as follows:

Touching it displays the basic information of an individual, such as name, physical state, soul state, etc. This information cannot be changed, but it can influence the individual's fate by adding new information to the card."

The doctor said it very simply. It seems that the Academy did not inform the group leaders of the more detailed information about the relic. Priest Ao Gu Si also finished reading the content on the parchment at this time, and he asked Luweiya:

"Anat, have you heard of this relic at the Prophecy Association?"

Luweiya actually nodded:

"When this relic was first acquired, St. Byrons invited the Association to conduct a joint containment experiment. But the information about Angel-level relics is not public, and my understanding of it may not be as much as the doctor's. Because of some things last year, I learned that this card-shaped relic can have a significant impact on the 【Dice Story Collection】, which is also an Angel-level relic."

【Dice Story Collection】 is a special relic that allows players to control an ordinary person to complete an event by throwing dice and making decisions. Xia De participated twice, but both times he was the object of control.

The first time was during Margaret's visit to Tobesk last winter, when Iruna controlled 【Mortal's Luck · Xia De】 to capture "God Thief Jack" together with the True Truth Society professor and the cultist who believed in 【Mr. Bad Luck】; the second time was in Moon Bay this summer, when Bella controlled 【Outsider Traveler · Miss Charlotte】 on the "Belindell Big Ben" to conduct a daytime chase with the sorcerers of the Light Chaser Club.

The controlled objects in the story collection will display their own characteristics, abilities, and other information to the players, which is very similar to the 【Fate Weaver Card】.

The doctor then continued:

"The Academy only informed us of these contents about the characteristics of the 【Fate Weaver Card】. Of course, we will not directly touch the relic itself. After imprinting the 【Fate Weaver Card】 onto a blank card of the same size through a special method, it can form a derivative of this relic - 【Fate Observer Card】."

"I noticed the change in the name, so the derivative can only be used to observe information?"

Xia De asked while petting Little Mia, and the doctor nodded:

"Yes, the derivative can only display the information of the toucher and no longer has the ability to influence the toucher's fate by modifying information. In the experiment we are participating in this time, the Astronomy Academy hopes to determine whether there is an upper limit to the number of observer cards that can be activated at one time, and whether the accuracy of the information displayed by the derivative will be affected when the derivative leaves the relic itself and is at different locations.

If we accept the task, five unactivated derivatives will be sent."

Information about Angel-level relics is not allowed to be leaked, so the above information was not written on the paper and was directly conveyed by the doctor.

"Will the information displayed on the derivative appear on the relic itself? I don't want my privacy to be leaked."

Xia De asked again, and the doctor answered very affirmatively:

"No."

Luweiya also answered:

"According to the information I know, it won't. The derivative and the body belong to different items."

"Then does the task require us to activate the derivative card after obtaining it?"

Priest Ao Gu Si asked, and the doctor shook his head:

"This description is correct, but the process is not that simple.

After determining the locations of all task takers, the Academy will formulate a plan to let different groups activate the derivative effects in batches at fixed times and locations. After the effects are displayed, we also need to organize the accuracy of the reality information and submit a report.

These tasks are not cumbersome or dangerous. The only uncertainty in this task is that every time a derivative is activated, there is a one-fifth probability of giving birth to a spider-shaped monster called a 'Fate Weaver', which will tend to attack the activator of the derivative. We need to kill it and hand over the remaining limbs of the monster after death to the Academy. These spiders can produce precious spider silk materials.

By the way, if the body of that Angel-level relic is used, a 'Fate Weaver' will definitely appear once it is used, and this is just the mildest of the negative characteristics of the relic body. Relics related to fate have always been like this."

"Then what is the strength of the 'Fate Weaver'?"

"The Fate Weaver produced by the relic body is extremely strong. But the 'Fate Weaver' summoned by the derivative is at most the strength of the ninth ring. With preparation in advance, a five-person correspondence group is enough to deal with it."

After everyone asked about the information and discussed it, they thought this task could be accepted. Xia De and the doctor didn't need the 40 practical credits, and after giving them to the other three, they met the basic requirements for practical credits this year.

As for the cash and two relics, they could be distributed after the task was completed. But no matter what, Luweiya from the Astronomy Academy took the biggest advantage. After all, only she could improve her overall year-end evaluation, which would bring an improvement in rewards after the year-end assessment.

The deadline for applying to join the experiment was this Sunday, so after getting everyone's approval, the doctor sent the bounty order with the signatures of the five people back to the Academy through the poem manuscript page.

Half an hour later, when everyone was chatting about the review progress, the letter of task application approval was sent from the Academy:

"The Astronomy Academy wants to integrate information from all over the place, and the experiment is expected to start on Wednesday night next week. Come to me again on Tuesday morning, and there should be specific action arrangements by then."

The doctor instructed, not forgetting to ask Xia De:

"I remember you said that you still have a schedule to go to Moon Bay to participate in some activities recently. It won't delay things, right?"

"It won't delay things. Today is the 13th of this month, and the Moon Bay Bridge ribbon-cutting is next Sunday."

The detective holding the cat shook his head and looked toward the window in this warm room. Heavy snow was falling outside, and the city had completely turned silver-white:

"I just hope this heavy snow won't affect our task."

The blizzard that started this Monday didn't stop abruptly until Saturday night when Xia De and Dorothy were on a date. But according to Luweiya's divination, this was just the calm before a new round of bad weather.

And by Sunday, the King directly ordered the Tobesk garrison to bring professional equipment into the city to clear the snow. The so-called "professional equipment" was a portable small gas spray gun. Ten people stood in a row, and the gas spray guns in their hands were connected to the special carriage carrying the gas warehouse at the rear through metal hoses. As flames melted the snow on the ground that had already been sprinkled with snow-melting agents, a whole street could be cleared quickly.

This was probably one of the few scenes in this magical steam era that could make the Outsider feel amazed. As for the effect these special devices could exert in the war, at least the ordinary citizens who gained convenience wouldn't care.

Galina suddenly found that it was a very wise decision to let the renovation team move into No. 7 St. Theresa Square last week for renovation. Because after a week of heavy snow, the roof collapse caused by the snow accumulation made the local renovation industry welcome a large number of customers.

More than one neighbor had come to the house at No. 7, which was under renovation, to ask the workers if they could temporarily help them fix their roofs or deal with the dangerous icicles hanging under the eaves.

But the royal construction team ordered by Galina Cavendish to work here didn't dare to earn extra money before the work was completed.

And when the new Monday (the 15th) arrived, Xia De not only received the year-end gift from the gift box, which was a coin with a face value of 1 Jin Bang, but he also received good news from the Prophecy Association - the appraisal of 【Founding · Time】 had been completed, and that card was identified as genuine.

Because Xia De had expressed that he didn't mind the spread of the news, the big news of the appearance of 【Founding · Time】, which had never appeared before, had already spread everywhere before Vice President Mark came to the door in the snow to deliver the good news to him personally.

By the time Galina appeared in Xia De's home on Monday night, she even said that even Old Duke Lucas asked her where the card came from during his spare time at the House of Lords.

"Then how did you answer?"

"How else could I answer? The people of Saladir County offered it to me. The poor widowed woman with a posthumous child, whom I rewarded with a house, said that she found it in the wall crack of the basement of the ancestral home of her late husband, who had no relatives."

"Hmm... This is very reasonable."

The witch who was having dinner with Xia De at home poked in his direction with a silver fork:

"Pushing the source of the card to me, you can only do this kind of thing once. I'm curious how you will say it next time. You can't say the card was blown into your door crack by the wind, right?"

On the Monday night when the Duchess visited and stayed overnight, snow fell again from the sky over Tobesk. Although the new round of snowfall was far less exaggerated than last week, by the time they got up on Tuesday, St. Theresa Square, which had just been cleared over the weekend, had been dyed silver-white again.

Before leaving, Galina left the good news that the "Accordion Hotel" in the Woodlands had been initially taken by Sylvia and Flora, and the church required the buyer of the hotel to hire the three Bennett daughters to work. Only when the girls had a source of income could they be better confined in the Woodlands.

And since the hotel work was mentioned, Xia De thought of Little John, the boy who lived in a trash can with a puppy when he met him in the back alley of the Green Lake Hotel while adventuring in the Green Lake area this spring.

That child was now taken in by the Green siblings, working in the hotel and having a place to eat and live. Taking advantage of having nothing to do today, Xia De went to Green Lake to visit him and chatted with the Green siblings and their ghoul old father about the recent tension in the border area.

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