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Chapter 550 - 312: Seeing the World with Heart_3

Chapter 550: Chapter 312: Seeing the World with Heart_3

Next...Mu You looked around and found another ’Flying Club’. The flying here referred to magic brooms, but it wasn’t just about riding brooms for travel. This club trained to specialize in ’competitive flying’. That is, professional races where riders raced on brooms.

Mu You knew the flying spell and had just obtained a competition-grade magic broom, so he just about qualified.

With two clubs settled, the last one was a bit difficult to choose.

Apart from magic potions, he didn’t have any other special abilities.

After a look around, Mu You found that the only club he might be able to join was a ’Divination Club’.

He didn’t know divination now, but Vivian was there to help, and he got a diviner skin earlier. He could ask Vivian for a crash course in divination first, then join the club.

At this thought, Mu You immediately went to find Vivian.

"Vivian, could I learn divination now?"

"Divination..."

Vivian was by the creek grooming her feathers. At his words, she looked up and pondered: "Originally, I planned to teach you after you reached the third grade as a Magic Potion Master...but since you have the intention to learn, I can teach you in advance..."

Perhaps it was because Mu You had shown determination in studying magic potions, Vivian was clearly less resistant to teaching him divination now.

"Sure, let’s start now!" Mu You eagerly replied.

He didn’t dare tell Vivian that he was learning divination just to cram for a test. Otherwise, considering Vivian’s character, she would no doubt berate him.

"Hm...let’s start from the basics then."

Vivian nodded, spread her wings and drew in the air, opening her storage room. From there, she summoned a book which automatically flew to Mu You.

Mu You took over it, the book was called ’Introduction to Divination and How to Open the Inner Eye’, and it had...396 pages?

"So...that’s all?"

Mu You looked at the book in his hand and was a bit stunned.

He thought he would have to learn the basics and spend years studying just like when he was learning potions.

But Vivian just threw him a book, a regular book without the space magic to increase the volume.

The book of divination was surprisingly short, which made Mu You feel quite unprepared.

"Of course. The foundational knowledge required for divination is not as complicated as for making potions. Unlike potion concocting, divination relies heavily on talent. After I get you started, the rest will be up to you." Vivian said.

"I see..."

Mu You took a deep breath, didn’t ask further, handed his pocket watch to Vivian as usual, and started his studies in the Fool’s Space.

With the experience of having to memorize books for decades, this single book was not a challenge at all.

After a little over 700 repetitions, totaling around half a month, Mu You had successfully completed the divination book.

"What’s next?"

Mu You looked at Vivian. Now he’d understood the basic principles of divination, which basically meant shifting the perspective from seeing the world with physical eyes to seeing it with the inner eye. From there, one could see many things that were typically invisible.

"You can start trying to divine now...but before that, you need to prove you have the talent to learn it, otherwise, all this is pointless. The talent of a diviner cannot be sped up with your pocket watch." said Vivian.

Mu You was a bit anxious. He hadn’t forgotten that his potion-making talent had been judged by Vivian as ’extremely poor’. Without the power to defy fate from his pocket watch, he might never have become a potion master, and even being a potion apprentice would have been a ridiculous idea.

So what about his talent now as a diviner?

"How does one test for divination talent?" Mu You asked.

"Very simple, just find any sort of divination medium. Crystal balls, tarot cards, pendulums, star boards, and even ordinary mirrors will do." Vivian replied.

"Let’s use the tarot cards then." said Mu You.

He who had read the beginner’s book was well aware that a divination medium didn’t need to possess magical power and that ordinary objects would suffice. This’s because it was the mind’s eye that conducted the actual divination. The so-called medium was just an auxiliary tool.

Mu You went to the storage room and found a deck of tarot cards that he’d bought when he was younger. He dusted off the cover, opened it to see a brand new deck, clearly untouched since bought.

"What’s next?" Mu You came back with the tarot deck and sat down in front of Vivian.

"Shuffle all the cards and turn them over."

"Then close your eyes and use your inner eye to sort the 22 Major Arcana in order." said Vivian.

Mu You did as instructed.

He turned the cards face down, shuffled the deck thoroughly, confusing the order, then spread all the cards out before him.

Then, he closed his eyes, and according to the method in the book, opened his inner eye.

"Uh...I can’t see the cards?" Mu You frowned.

In his inner eye’s viewport, the sight around him became a grey expanse. He could faintly feel the outline of the dozens of cards on the ground, but each card seemed to be enshrouded by a blurry fog, continuously changing form, making it difficult to see clearly.

"No shit, if you could see the cards clearly, you wouldn’t be human, you’d be a god..."

Vivian’s voice came: "Try to feel the energy of every card and choose the one you think is most like the Major Arcana you want. Finally, based on the correctness of your picks, we can assess your divination talent."

"I see..."

Hearing this, Mu You immediately calmed down and started carefully feeling each card as Vivian had instructed.

A while later, he reached out and took a card back to look at.

"The Fool! I guessed right!"

The first card of the Major Arcana in tarot deck is exactly ’The Fool’.

"Hm." Vivian responded neutrally and gestured for him to continue.

Mu You took a deep breath, closed his eyes again, carefully sensed, and after a while, took another card.

"Magician! Right again!"

"Continue." Vivian’s expression didn’t change.

So Mu You silently continued.

After that.

The third card, Priestess, was correct.

The fourth, Empress, was also correct...

...

"The seventh ... The Lovers, hey, it’s right again!"

By the time Mu You picked the seventh card, the expression on Vivian’s face finally changed.