Chapter 360 Apprentice Stephen, Gem
Karma Taj is very different from Hogwarts.
But there is one thing that is similar.
That is the harshness of knowledge.
The harshness here does not mean that you cannot read, but that you cannot easily practice.
John, a former frequent visitor to the Forbidden Zone, expressed his affection for this point.
Another point is that they all have similar levels of care for books that cannot be easily put into practice.
As long as you put on the Invisibility Cloak, you can enter and exit the Restricted Area of Hogwarts freely, and those precious dark magic knowledge that can turn people into dark wizards only use a simple door bolt that is not even as good as your doghouse at home.
Sometimes John really wonders if Dumbledore did this on purpose to expose more people to the taboo.
But it could also be an ancestral door bolt left over from the era of the Big Four since the founding of Hogwarts.
There is an administrator named Wang in the library of Karma Taj, who plays the same position as Ms. Peace.
Too bad they don't have a curfew here.
John's ability to stay awake has already been taught to the king.
Facing this wizard who is as noble as the Supreme Mage, he will not be too presumptuous.
On the contrary, as a rule-abiding person, he will give John enough respect.
"Your Excellency the Witch King." Modu made some tea.
This outstanding mage is the most loyal follower of Ancient One.
John drank the tea, which tasted different from black tea, and his eyes fell on Stephen.
"He's not good enough now." Modu noticed John's gaze and said respectfully.
"You seem to think highly of him." John glanced at Modu.
Mo Du smiled sheepishly, "I studied with Master Gu Yi and I believe in her vision."
"He now lacks a little consciousness."
"He was too obsessed with his hands, which made him deviate from magic."
John raised his eyebrows, the atmosphere here is quite good.
At least there wasn't too much infighting.
After drinking tea, John did not go to Stephen.
He opened an ancient magic book, which recorded the sacred and ancient theory of destiny.
Magic has never been divorced from mystery.
The relationship between them is like fish and water.
Compared with the wizard's predictions, the methods used by the wizard rely more on external forces.
For example, the Ancient One used the Time Stone to survey future developments.
They themselves lack the ability to predict, so they are better at developing foreign objects.
There is also a weapons arsenal in Kama Taj, which contains magic weapons made by mages to deal with enemies.
There are also some things that have special functions and are used for things other than dealing with enemies.
For example, there is a large cauldron used to observe the world, and John also saw it.
Well, just observe the universe.
It seems that the mage also knows something similar to the centaurs' observation of the starry sky.
John also knew a thing or two, and through those changes, he could glean some insights into the future.
But this thing has a drawback in John's opinion.
The individual is small compared to the universe.
You want the stars to give you early warning to find out about changes in the future trajectory.
That's a very important thing.
Personally, you use the stars to observe Mars.
It would be more reliable to brew a cup of tea with an intoxicating concentration, then drink it and look at the tea leaves at the bottom of the cup.
Stephen wanted to borrow books from Wang.
About out-of-body magic.
The king drove him back.
Ever since Stephen was thrown into Mount Everest by Ancient One, he had become enlightened.
Like a clogged water pipe, it turns into a torrent when it is unblocked.
That night, John saw the king listening to music there.
This is the way they are used to getting along.
However, behind the king, Stephen came to the library through teleportation magic to 'borrow books'.
The king noticed something, but not much.
John wants to take that back.
The defense here is not much different from that in the forbidden book area after the curfew.
It seems that no matter whether they are mages or wizards, they do not exclude people from researching those forbidden knowledge.
This huge library doesn't even have any measures to counter space magic.
John suddenly understood that Wang's last librarian was hanged for a reason.
Originally, John didn't want to take care of it.
But now he was staring at the hand reaching out from the portal to grab the book in his hand, lost in thought.
The same is true for Stephen on the other side of the portal.
He saw the wizard who had guided him to Kama Taj.
"Mr. Wick." He still didn't know who John represented, so he retracted his hand angrily, "Don't you need to sleep?"
"I never sleep, Strange." John pulled out the book, glanced at Stephen squatting outside the library on the other side of the portal, and said, "This is a book of prophecy and destiny, not what you need."
Of course Stephen knew, he just wanted to see what books John, who had been in the library all day, read.
He silently wrote it down, nodded to John and said, "Then I really don't need it."
The portal is closed.
Who would have thought that not long ago this was an ordinary person who knew nothing.
It only takes one opening to enable him to easily master magic that others have been unable to master for several years.
Speaking of portals alone, Stephen has surpassed most of the mages who studied at Kama Taj.
It's no wonder that Gu Yi chose Stephen. It won't be long before Stephen will become a mage in his own right.
But before that, Ancient One still needs to inject him with some unforgettable teachings.
John stopped flipping the book, and there was a mist-like white aura in his eyes.
He blinked a few times and suppressed the mist.
"Is it because you know too much?"
Closing the book and putting it back, John frowned, "It actually triggered precognition."
John is a prophet and one of the few in the wizarding world.
He can see the future ending through his eyes.
The future we see will definitely happen.
It can be understood as Schrödinger's cat.
If the future is the cat, then John's ability is to open the box.
The originally uncertain future will become a foregone conclusion and cannot be changed.
John had used it a few times when he was in school, but he didn't use it after that.
A fixed future can make people feel powerless.
Once established, it cannot be changed.
You can only follow the steps.
His half-experienced professor of divination once predicted that the boy at the end of July would kill the Dark Lord.
This resulted in John having to follow the prophecy and let the boy do it at the end of July.
So John gave up the prophetic method of seeing the future.
Precognition is not a prophecy, but it also allows John to see fragments of what will happen at a certain moment in the future.
He can predict what will happen seconds or even hours later.
The difference is that foreknowledge can change, but prophecy cannot.
As his knowledge accumulated, his precognitive ability, which he had not used for a long time, began to take action.
This is also a kind of magic that is related to fate and destiny.
"Read some other taboos to digest." John took another taboo about time.
Only the Witch King would use taboos as a side dish to aid digestion.
After he turned around and left, Stephen, who had originally left, made a comeback and took away the book about fate and language.
the next day.
I heard that for some unknown reason, Stephen became a little distracted.
The specific performance is a bit like those Muggle fortune tellers who wear cloaks and tell everyone who meets them a bad omen.
After the king heard this, he strongly suggested to Gu Yi that Stephen should not borrow books without permission.
Even the king, let alone Stephen, couldn't understand those profound books on destiny and prophecy.
It is also the most profound magic book in the library, left behind by a great prophet.
It is not a simple divination, but a prophecy linked to fate.
In response, John said he was so unlucky.
Keep silent about the things you didn't stop the other person from doing to death.
Gu Yi glanced at John helplessly. Wherever this guy was, there were always so many uncontrollable things happening.
In the end, he had to undergo physical therapy and bury the person in the snow, leaving him frozen for several hours with no time to think about his profound fate. Only then did he successfully save the future Supreme Mage.
But giving up fate does not mean that Stephen will give up time.
in the following days.
Stephen is obsessed with learning magic, which reminds him of the pleasure he felt in his college days when the knowledge kept coming into his head.
On this day he came to the library, and Wang happened to be away.
He looked at the "Book of Cagliostro" with a few pages torn out, and simply took it down to read.
When he saw the Eye of Agamotto recorded in the book, he looked up and looked ahead.
John has said that the defenses here are as fragile as the Restricted Area of Hogwarts.
The Eye of Agamotto just sat there.
Stephen has a bold idea.
So he walked over and took the Eye of Agamotto.
That treasure that can control time.
A container that contains the Time Stone.
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