Let's start over, Your Majesty.

Chapter 181 Divination
"What if I were a fortune teller from the Hellanells family?" the other person said calmly.

"Hmph? Is that so? Have you heard of the Frederick family?" Ita sneered.

But when she looked at Caesar's expression, she found that he had fallen silent.

“How can you prove that you are a fortune teller from the Hellanells family, and not a fraudster using the name?” Caesar asked.

Marlene bent down, wondering what she was going to do, when she took out a tattered wooden box from under the table, opened it, took out a badge, and slammed it on the table.

“This is our family crest, passed down through generations. Since you’ve heard the family legends, you should recognize this, right?” She pushed the medal forward so Caesar could see it.

Caesar released Xiaowu and stepped forward to pick up the badge.

The family crest is made of blue steel. Although traces of gilding can be seen, the gold leaf has long since fallen off over the years. However, it has not rusted. The triangular emblem is engraved with the pattern of the nine stars in the sky.

The Nine Stars of the Celestial Dome are a very well-known astronomical phenomenon in the world, similar to the Big Dipper. They were used in various ancient astrological studies and are also the representative symbol of the Hellanells family.

Given Caesar's familiarity with it, it's almost certain that it's correct.

"So, do you believe me now?" Marlene asked.

Ita then leaned closer, glanced at the badge, and whispered to Caesar, "Caesar, is this Hellanels family very important? I've never heard of them before."

Given her status, families she hadn't heard of wouldn't even rank her in the hierarchy, but judging from Caesar's serious expression, the other party seemed to be quite influential.

“This is a family that existed from the Bronze Age to the Eldaria Empire. You could say they were true diviners and prophets, and they once served the empire’s royal family,” Caesar whispered to her.

"That's amazing?" Ita exclaimed in surprise.

It's important to know that the profession of fortune teller has always been extremely mysterious, and 99% of them are frauds. After all, if such an incredible ability to predict the future were to become widespread, it would have a huge impact on society.

However, true diviners do exist, but they have long been monopolized and hidden by the ruling class, and are never made public.

For example, the Hellanels family, a family with the legendary ability to glimpse the truth of the universe, has been divining for several royal courts for the past three hundred years. Later, when the Eldaria Empire was established, the Holy Emperor also took them into his palace to divine good and bad fortune for the empire.

Their most proficient divination technique is to predict large-scale social models, namely the rise and fall of a dynasty. The larger the dynasty, the more conditions and time are required for divination, and in the end, they can only obtain some omens.

At the beginning of the empire's establishment, the fortune tellers of the Hellanels family presented him with the conclusion that the empire would surely prosper. Although in hindsight they were right, they did not seem to have foreseen the Shattered Moon event and the Great Destruction.

Or perhaps it was a prediction, but the omen wasn't accurately interpreted.

As for his ascension to godhood, because it involved higher-level beings, their divination could not predict it. In the end, relying on predictions of his personal fate, they obtained a rather vague result.

After he awoke, due to the absolute secrecy of the Divination Family, they left no record in history books, so Caesar was unaware of their fate after the fall of the empire.

Judging from the current situation, it doesn't seem too good.

In short, if the other party is indeed a member of the Hellanells family, then this divination will definitely be worthwhile. Their divination, even if it is not 100% accurate, will definitely contain crucial omens.

"How about that? Is that okay? Can you let me go now?" Xiaowu said with a grin from the side.

Caesar glanced at her, then turned his gaze to Marlene and spoke:
"I want it three times."

Marlene sighed: "As you probably know, being a fortune teller is very energy-consuming for me; twice a day is already my limit."

"Then twice."

The room was quiet for a moment, then Xiaowu said, "Wow, you really don't let anything slip by."

Caesar glanced at her, and the wolf girl immediately looked away and started whistling.

“Okay, as long as you can forgive Xiaowu, I’m willing to accept it,” Marlene said.

She turned off the incandescent bulb and turned on the dim, pinkish-purple light.

"Then, please have a seat."

She gestured with her hand toward the chair in front of the table.

Caesar said to Ithaca, "Wait for me a moment."

"Hmm." Ita nodded, took a step back, and remained vigilant, watching to see if the other party would try anything funny.

After Caesar sat down, Marlene asked:

"How would you like to have your fortune told? Cards, tea leaves, flames, spirits, a crystal ball, or a compass?"

“The crystal ball,” Caesar said.

Cards and tea are too varied and not accurate enough; the Star Compass is more of a prediction based on a large social model. In comparison, only the Crystal Ball is suitable.

Marlene wiped her hand across the crystal ball in front of her, and the transparent crystal ball was instantly filled with swirling mist before quickly returning to calm.

“Give me your hands,” Marlene said, placing her hands on the table and spreading them out.

Caesar placed his hand on it and immediately felt that the other's palm was so cold, definitely not the temperature of a normal person.

Marlene took his hands in hers and placed them on the crystal ball, pressing them tightly together.

"Now, following my voice, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and I will guide you into a meditative state."

"In my mind, I imagined what I was saying: snowflakes, bees, swan-neck bottles." As Marlene moved in sync with him, a sticky sensation entered Caesar's brain. He was familiar with this feeling; it was the same sensation the fortune tellers had given him during their readings.

The crystal ball glowed faintly, and Caesar could clearly feel that his consciousness was connected to the crystal ball.

He heard some faint static, a hissing sound that blocked out most of his hearing.
Marlene's voice seemed to come from a very, very far place:
"Now, think about the question you want to ask, be specific and precise."

Caesar kept replaying the prepared question in his mind:

"The current situation in the forbidden area of ​​the Royal Court of Eldarria."

This is his biggest concern right now. Actually, if he pointed to Grace or the Heart of the Uncrowned, the information he would get would be more accurate. However, considering that they are already in a high position, the divination might fail, so he chose a safer method.

As he silently pondered this question, a thick mist rose from inside the crystal ball, churning and changing endlessly.

Within this fog, something is gradually becoming visible.

At this moment, Caesar found his consciousness rising higher and higher, experiencing a feeling of flight.
But when consciousness ascended through the ceiling, what it saw was not the sky, but a seemingly endless darkness.

There was nothing in the darkness, resembling an endless void.
But he seemed to see something faintly in the darkness, and as he tried to see it clearly, it slowly appeared to him.

Soon, he saw a corner of the thing; it seemed to be a huge, gleaming white spine, segmented into many vertebrae, and at the top of that spine was a huge, disheveled head—

The connection was severed in an instant, and Caesar opened his eyes abruptly, finding himself back in the dimly lit room with its pink and purple light.

Marlene, still wearing a headscarf, sat before Caesar, watching him through the covering.

"You," she began, "what did you ask? My spiritual senses received a danger warning and disconnected in an instant."

The principle of divination is that the diviner projects their spiritual consciousness into a higher-dimensional spiritual space to find answers. However, this is also an extremely dangerous act. If one is not careful, one may be watched by beings from the spiritual realm or face unpredictable dangers from higher dimensions.

Therefore, fortune tellers add danger warnings to their spiritual consciousness, so that they can immediately disconnect and return to reality when they encounter dangers they cannot face.

That's what happened just now.

“I didn’t control the scale of the problem well,” Caesar sighed.

He clenched his hands and found that his palms were sweaty, and his forehead was also covered with beads of sweat.

What I glimpsed just now was clearly not something that could be understood by common sense. There was only one possibility: the forbidden area of ​​the royal palace was currently being controlled by something of a higher status.

And that thing, the head connected to the spine, seemed familiar to him, though he couldn't quite place it; he'd only heard the description.
The boss of the dungeon?
"Hey, hey, hey, that's your own problem. Anyway, you've already used this chance," Xiaowu shouted from the side.

"You have one more chance, do you want to continue?"

Marlene asked, but you could tell from her words that she was exhausted.

Caesar pondered for a moment, then turned his gaze to Ita behind him.

"Ita, this time you have a chance."

After testing it once, he was 100% certain that the other party was indeed from the Hellanells family, and that their divination skills were genuine.

“I don’t need it, Caesar,” Itha said, waving her hand and then smiling slightly at Caesar.
"I don't need any divination. In fact, some things are enough for me to know right now."

Caesar turned his gaze to Marlene.

Do you need a rest?

“This is my best condition right now. If I were to rest, my mind might just sink back into a quagmire of fatigue,” Marlene said.

"Then go ahead."

Then, his hand was once again held and placed on the crystal ball, and he once again entered that dreamlike state of consciousness.

After receiving guidance and reconnecting with the crystal ball, he silently asked himself the question:

"Do I still have any lingering effects from my high position?"

This question is directed at himself. After all, he still doesn't understand the dream he had as a baby, which makes him suspect that there is something left in him. Maybe he can take this opportunity to find out, or at least get a glimpse of it.

Soon, his consciousness began to rise, rise, and then suddenly everything went black.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself standing in a vibrant sea of ​​flowers, bathed in sunlight from all directions, with a gentle breeze causing petals to flutter in the air.

"here it is"

He suddenly realized something, raised his hand, and found that his once fair and clean hands had become broad and rough. When he touched his cheek, the strange yet familiar rugged lines told him that this was his adult body, or more precisely, Reantandin's body.

But wasn't this a premonition from the crystal ball? I was supposed to be just a consciousness, merely observing, but the feeling of the breeze on my face and the fragrance of the flowers felt so real.

A petal landed on the back of his hand; it was a pale pink petal. As he picked it up, a gust of wind blew it away.
His gaze followed the petals dancing in the wind to the distance, and suddenly he noticed a figure standing in the flower field in the distance.

Her white dress fluttered in the wind, and her long brown hair swayed in the breeze.

A familiar feeling welled up in his heart; it was someone he could never forget.
"Grace"

The name rolled out from his trembling throat.

(End of this chapter)