Demon Hunter and His Cabin-Chapter 225 - Gwent Divination
Chapter 225: Chapter 225: Gwent Divination
Chapter 225: Chapter 225: Gwent Divination
A quiet and elegant coffee shop.
Hmm… this way of communication seems a bit different from what Roger had imagined.
But, maybe it’s still early?
“Did you just mention that the Spiritual Energy Fraction is a force of Transcendents?”
Roger stirred the liquid in his cup and asked.
“How should I put it?”
Hathaway brushed back a lock of hair from her temple.
“It’s not like the Hunters Guild or the Voodoo Association, it should be counted as a more loosely structured scholarly organization.”
“Because most Spirit Mediums don’t have much powerful combat ability, they lack strong aggressiveness, and a vast majority of them have fixed scholarly identities in the real world.”
“Some Pioneers and leaders got together and founded the so-called Spiritual Energy Fraction.”
“They hoped to observe and explain the world from another angle by researching Spiritual Energy, and thus this organization came into being.”
“You can think of it as a university in the Transcendent World, exclusively for Spirit Mediums.”
“Although my mother has always been opposed to me getting involved with the Transcendent World, this is my own destiny, and I can’t run from it.”
“The organizer of this exchange meeting is a powerful Dream Diviner who excels at reflecting reality through dreams and performing divination for the future.”
Hathaway sighed.
“Divination has always been the core research of the Spiritual Energy Fraction, it’s just that this ability relies too much on talent. For an ordinary Spirit Medium, without an extremely high sensitivity to Spiritual Energy, it’s difficult to achieve great success.”
“My talent is okay, but I missed the best period for the growth of Spiritual Energy, and without a teacher’s guidance, so I haven’t made much progress in this aspect.”
Upon hearing this, Roger’s mind stirred.
“Do you still remember the Gwent Card I mentioned to you last time?”
“That strange method of divination?”
“Sort of.”
Roger smiled.
“How about trying it out?”
“You?”
Hathaway looked at Roger with doubt.
“You’re a Demon Hunter, and now you want to perform divination for a Spirit Medium?”
She couldn’t help but laugh, clearly somewhat unwilling to believe this.
“Why not give it a try?”
Seeing the look in Roger’s eyes, Hathaway was driven by a competitive spirit.
“Hmph, if you want to gain a lady’s favor, you need some real skills, otherwise, it won’t work.”
“Whether or not I have real skills, you’ll find out shortly.”
Roger smiled confidently, feeling quite sure of the Gwent Card provided by the Hunter’s Cabin.
But who knew, after hearing his words, Hathaway first froze, then her cheeks under the light turned slightly red, one couldn’t tell what she was thinking.
“Clack clack clack clack!”
Roger pushed the coffee cup to the side of the table and laid out four stacks of cards in front of him.
Hathaway wasn’t very interested at first, but she couldn’t help being surprised when she felt the Spiritual Energy emanating from the cards and glanced at Roger.
In this world, Spirit Mediums rely more on instinct when performing divination, and this causes the results to differ greatly between individuals.
Systematic summaries often require a vast number of complex and precise attempts. During the lineage of Spirit Mediums, the things obtained by talent are difficult to pass down intact.
Things that are too subjective vary greatly, and sometimes for others, they may be completely wrong.
It’s for these reasons that divination in this world has stagnated and has not formed a unified standard.
“Follow your instincts and pick a deck.”
Roger gestured invitingly.
“It does seem quite serious.”
Hathaway chuckled lightly, then closed her eyes, selecting one of the decks by following an indistinct guidance.
“Scoia’tael?”
She flipped open the entire deck and, seeing the name marked on it, Hathaway asked with some confusion.
“Symbolizing struggle and freedom, it does rather suit your personal aura,”
Roger explained casually.
“Say what you will.”
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Hathaway evidently regarded all this as Roger putting on airs.
She flipped through the deck in her hands with curiosity, noticing that the entire deck was certainly not printed using modern techniques, and the specific manufacturing method was completely opaque. Each card was infused with spiritual energy.
The patterns on the cards were both complex and simple, with a string of numbers in the upper left corner. The main information provided by each card was consistent, but the details varied due to the surrounding spiritual energy fluctuations.
“Where did you get this deck?”
Hathaway was beginning to find it interesting.
“What do we do next?”
“Next, it’s my turn.”
Roger rubbed his hands together, focusing his attention, and chose one of the remaining three decks, flipping it open.
“Nivagard.”
“And what’s that supposed to represent?”
Faced with Hathaway’s question, Roger didn’t answer but gave an awkward smile and gathered up the other two decks on the table.
“Nivagard is a powerful empire, symbolizing invasion and conquest.”
Of course, Roger would not dare tell Hathaway the related symbolic meanings.
“Is my intention toward this girl really so obvious?”
Roger examined himself, and after a second had to admit that the Gwent Cards concocted at the Hunter’s Cabin were indeed quite interesting.
“Now let me explain the game of Gwent to you…”
“Ah, no, I mean the principles of divination.”
“Each of us has a deck in hand.”
Roger took a piece of paper from the café waiter, “Write down your divination query, and I presume you don’t need me to remind you of the principle regarding questions.”
Hathaway couldn’t help but puff out her chest and stop.
“I am, after all, a genuine spirit medium.”
“Haha.”
Roger didn’t look at what Hathaway wrote, but instead folded the written paper and set it aside.
“A deck contains 22 unit cards, 10 special cards, and besides these, there are Weather Cards.”
Roger drew three horizontal lines simply on the table.
“The three lines correspond to the unit cards, special cards, and Weather Cards respectively.”
“The points on the cards represent their value, so please read the explanation carefully, especially for the special cards.”
With Roger’s guidance, Hathaway carefully examined the cards, but as she did, her expression grew increasingly strange.
“Roger, tell me honestly, this is meant to be a game, isn’t it?”
There was a hint of annoyance in the girl’s eyes.
“A game, how could it be?”
“This is true divination!”
“Although… it does look a bit like a game.”
Seeing Hathaway’s expression worsening, Roger felt compelled to offer a few explanations.
“Please believe me, traditional divination relies too much on the strength of the spirit medium, thus leading to highly variable results.”
“Expressing the general progression and outcome of an event using just three cards is very difficult from any perspective.”
Roger pointed to the cards in his hand.
“But Gwent Cards are different, we are simulating a process, each deck forms its own set of rules, with a certain predisposition.”
“Especially the special cards, under different circumstances, they can lead to different interpretations; best two out of three rounds, and the information left on the cards on the table after the final round, that’s the key to the interpretation of our divination problem.”
Roger shrugged his shoulders.
“Think about it, would you rather believe in three pieces of paper, or trust in the whole vast cyclic system and deduction process.”
“Casting aside the interference of manipulators, handing everything over to the innate fluctuations of spirituality, shouldn’t that be the core of divination?”
