ALL NOVEL Chapter 30: Ritual
'The Fool...The Sun...The Death...' Lucas examined the various images and names on the cards on the table.
The cards, no matter how closely examined, gave off the impression that they were nothing more than ordinary cards. They didn't give the divine and mysteries aura like the previous card of blasphemy.
However, the eerie similarities that this card has with sequence pathways, for some of the names of the cards, such as the fool, directly states the sequence 0 names.
This alone caused Lucas' thoughts to wander, as if he could already see his lord's grand plan, which may even cause the world to change.
'The hermit...' Diana immediately focused on the card that was within 22 among them and then looked at the others. 'The fool? The sun? The death? The Hanged man? The moon?'
'The emperor should be related to the black emperor! and the wheel of fortune is self-evident. Temperance ought to be the chained pathway, and the judgement should be the justiciar.'
'These cards should be closely related to all of the pathways. Why is the fool at the start? Is there anything unique about the fool? Each of these cards also contains a deep mysticism reference...'
Diana's mind was racing with questions and thoughts as she stared at the cards. The more she looked, the more she realised how significant this was. Ordinary people may think the cards are insignificant, but in her eyes, they are priceless treasure.
'The hermit card was a card of blasphemy, so these cards as well...?'
As she looked at the cards, a terrifying thought passed her mind.
"These are not the cards of blasphemy." Aucuces chuckled, exposing their innermost thoughts as if he could see right through them.
Diana and Lucas were slightly disappointed, because they expected their lord to orchestrate the grand plan that would shake the world itself.
'Their imagination is truly amazing.' Aucuces found it amusing to see through their guesses. He wasn't going to do what Roselle did and spread the cards of blasphemy for destined people.
This would have disastrous consequences; he was almost certain that in the original timeline, Roselle became the enemy of all the gods simply by doing this. It makes no difference whether it was intended or not.
"Have you considered which knowledge you will spread for the ritual?" Without revealing what the cards were, Aucuces asked Diana.
"Milord, I am considering it, and I'm pretty sure I'd go with the second epoch." Diana responded, as she had given much thought about the ritual. However, she is unsure which knowledge would be ideal and acceptable to the rest of the world.
Ritual - Spread the most abstract and diverse knowledge from the forgotten era and let it be known around the world.
"You should be aware of this and proceed with caution, right?" Aucuces said this with a serious expression. "I don't want gods knocking on my door."
Nothing about the Second Epoch can be revealed to the public in this way. To top it all off, her ritual's knowledge requirements should be abstract and diverse. This kind of knowledge was plentiful in the second epoch, and it could also easily cause an ordinary person to polluted.
"That's why I'm still undecided, milord, and I was planning to seek your advice." Diana nodded solemnly, knowing that if she was not careful with her ritual, it could very well lead to her demise. Even her lord would be powerless to save her.
Aucuces was not surprised by her predicament; after all, strict requirements are what have kept archangels from being born in the hermit pathway until now, and not everyone is Roselle, who has knowledge of past civilization, so he didn't have to worry about this ritual in the least.
"Spread this!" Aucuces finally revealed his true intentions with a smile. "These are referred to as Tarot Cards. These meet all of your ritual's requirements."
He pointed the tarot cards in the table.
Then, Diana took the fool card in her hand, and a flood of information about its meaning and mysticism appeared in her mind. She knew this satisfied one of the requirements, but there was still one more.
"Milord..." Diana wanted to ask some additional questions about this.
"This will satisfy all requirements. You have nothing to be concerned about." Aucuces said it again, seeing her concern.
The significance of the tarot cards clearly fulfils the requirements of this ritual.
"Thank you very much, Milord." Diana accepted this with deep gratitude, knowing her lord would not put her in danger. Despite once again having the impression that this cards and her lord's motives were anything but simple.
Aucuces' intentions were not obvious simple; he is far from being generous either. He was using Diana's ritual to hide his true intention from being known by other gods.
This was an experiment to strengthen his control on the hermit's uniqueness. Even though he could use it, there are still a number of issues. He really wanted to strengthen his power in order to prepare for the future.
He devised this method after witnessing hermit's authority over "occultism". Even though the tarot cards on the table appear to be normal, they are not. He personally created those with the uniqueness, and if the tarot cards are speared now, they will be completely related to him under the authority of "occultism." As tarot cards gain popularity around the world in field of "occultism", this will have an impact on the authority, potentially increasing his control as well.
Aucuces could only hope that his plan would succeed.
Also, the Tarot Cards from a previous era being introduced by his angel will not reveal his secrets. As, tarot cards were not first introduced by Roselle after the cataclysm, but by ancient sun god.
Yes, the Ancient Sun God had a habit of generously imparting past civilization's knowledge to those close to him, but he never intended to impart all of it to mankind.
He and the other kings of angels had done a lot of tarot divination with Ouroboros. Ouroboros also most likely still has the tarot cards given to him by the creator.
"How about them, Milord?" Lucas inquired with concern, when he noticed that this topic had concluded. "Are they fine?"
He was referring to the angel of miracles and temperance.
"He's all right." Aucuces responded. "My messenger prayed to me in the midst of the chaos; he will return soon enough."
"As for the other, things are still complicated..." His voice trailed off as he considered the situation of the angel of temperance.
This immediately made Diana and Lucas' hearts sink, as the angel of temperance's condition had deteriorated, the last time they had meet him.
They've been together for a long time and have been through a lot. As they learned of his condition before, it caused them fell at loss and pain.
"Don't worry, his situation hasn't gotten that bad yet." Aucuces sighed, for, he once again felt powerless, as even he couldn't solve his angel of temperance problem right now.
'It's yet another bitch from the cosmos...' While drinking his wine, he thought with slight frustration.
But, at the very least, his words made those two feel better.
"Lets order! Shall we?" Aucuces finally put his thoughts about his angel and cosmos aside and said with a smile, to lighten the depressing atmosphere. "Its on me."
Diana and Lucas finally smiled as a result of his words.
They went on in the light of the sun that shone through the window illuminating their figures.