"Ancestor?" Roland blurted out subconsciously, "What the hell?" Seeing everyone's surprised expressions, he coughed twice, "No, I mean... Who knows if what you said is true."
Then he felt a slight pinching on his left shoulder.
"Your Majesty, this is absolutely true, and I have evidence to prove it," the chief bowed his head, "but I can only show it to you alone."
When the other astrologers heard this, they got up and left the room consciously. Roland thought for a while, then nodded to the witch and the guards, "You guys should go out first."
Of course, Nightingale would still stay by his side as the last line of defense in case.
The scattered star scholar walked into a small room next to the hall. After a long time, he returned to the long table with an iron box, and placed the iron box in front of Roland respectfully.
"what is this?"
"The instructions left by your ancestors, he had long expected such a thing to happen."
Roland said in surprise: "You mean... close the astrological station?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, this is not the first time this kind of thing has happened," the bachelor said with a wry smile, "Although we and alchemy are called the learning of the sages, we are not actually equal to the fact that alchemy products can bring richness to the kingdom. Income, and we need to invest a large amount of golden dragons every year to buy high-quality crystals and hire craftsmen, and the output is very small. In order to prevent future successors from dissolving the Astrological Society to save this cost, your ancestors will engrave their will come down and demand that no one should go against it."
Roland opened the box, and what caught his eye was a stack of gold flakes. It seems that in order to preserve this order, the Wimbledon family really spared no expense and chose gold with extremely stable properties as the base of the brief book.
He poured all the gold pieces on the table and counted them roughly. There were eight pieces in total. Each piece was about three millimeters thick and the size of two palms. It was heavy in his hands.
The first piece of writing is exactly what the chief astrologer said: No one can interfere with the astrological platform to stare at the starry sky, where the mystery of the fate of the world is revealed.
The second half of the sentence caught Roland's attention.
In fact, the association itself is very strange. If astrology is to be effective, Wimbledon III should not have been replaced by the church unsuspectingly, but should have hanged the high priest early. Moreover, even the Master of Scattered Stars mentioned that the astrological platform produces very little... That is to say, he did not regard divination as a product, and his helpless expression was completely different from the magic stick when he first met him. people.
In short, the ancestors spent a lot of money and manpower to establish such an organization, and at the same time, for fear that the descendants would shut it down because it had no prophetic ability, they did not hesitate to engrave their will on gold plates. Roland didn't quite believe that the other party was an astronomy enthusiast who was keen on astrology, or that he set his sights outside the planet during the reclamation stage. Obviously, astrologers have a task that has nothing to do with divination, and nine times out of ten it has to do with the second half of the sentence.
It's just that he rummaged through the gold pieces at the back and couldn't find any relevant descriptions. Instead, he recorded the history of some astrological associations and the basic methods of observing the stars. The last piece was even engraved with the principle of crystal lens magnification. The ancestor of the Wimbledon family seems to have been the chief astrologer here, and a higher-ranking ruler is also mentioned. However, Roland reviewed the family history a little and found that there was no such part in it.
He picked up the first piece of brief again and pointed to the last half of the sentence, "What does this mean?"
"I… don't know," the bachelor shook his head.
Before he finished speaking, Roland felt a pinch on his right shoulder.
He couldn't help but chuckle, "Listen, rules are dead, and people are alive, this instruction left by the ancestors was probably correct when he was alive, but times have changed, I don't feel like I'm being abused by a Hundreds of years of rules are bound. Now I am the king of Greycastle, I can do whatever I want, do you understand?"
The scattered star student widened his eyes, "What? No, you"
"Even you yourself know that you are wasting money in vain, and you don't know anything about the mysteries related to the fate of the world. You didn't even warn you when your father was murdered by the church. Why do I keep you here stupidly staring at the sky? The stars can't be exchanged for the golden dragon, pack up your clothes and prepare to go to the west with me."
Thanks to the bad impression that the fourth prince left in the capital of going his own way and acting recklessly, these words suddenly made the face of the scattered star become ugly.
After a long time, he gritted his teeth and said, "You will probably regret knowing this news."
"How would I know if you don't tell me?" Roland smiled and had to say that sometimes it's quite effective to intimidate others by pretending to be the fourth prince. Iron axe came to ask questions, and had to use this method to find the answer.
"We have a mission that has lasted for hundreds of years, and it has started since the original Lord Wimbledon arrived in this area." The bachelor calmed down and said, "This news is not impossible to tell the royal family, but it can only be revealed. To the heir who becomes king, and must wait until he is thirty years old."
"why?"
"Because your ancestors thought that letting the heirs know this news too early might make them panic and bewildered, leading to the decline of the kingdom," he hesitated for a moment, "We are looking for the Star of Destruction."
Roland was taken aback, "What is that?"
"A scarlet star, or a red moon, when it falls, the world will be plunged into utter catastrophe."
The prince felt his heart skip a beat. Whether it was the ancient book in the ruins or Agatha, who was affiliated with the Federation, they all mentioned the word "red moon coming". Why would a secular organization pay attention to this? Are astrological associations and federations inextricably linked? "Be more specific!"
"Everything I know comes from word of mouth from the previous chief," said Disperse Star in a deep voice, "It is rumored that a red star is floating in the starry sky. When it appears in the night like a crescent moon, the world will It will be destroyed. Our job is to find it before it becomes the moon, and if we can find its trajectory, we can predict the end in advance, which is also the original intention of astrology.”
"Become... the moon?"
"It's normal that you don't understand the stars," explained the maester. "The stars are always in motion, like the sun and the moon, appearing before us at a fixed time, and when they alternate, It doesn't mean they disappeared, just temporarily moved to a location we can't see. We call this moving path a trajectory. In fact, most stars have a trajectory of their own."