In a dim yet mysteriously furnished basement, Witch Lilia sat behind a divination table covered in velvet. A deck of divination cards lay on the table.
"Everything you want to know is here."
The slender pipe in Witch Lilia's hand pressed lightly against the divination cards. The deck had a strong sense of age. The patterns on its backs were simple yet far from plain, faintly resonating with the causal system of the World of the Tree.
Using her slender pipe, Lilia spread the divination cards across the velvet. At the same time, she let the purple embers within the pipe fall evenly onto each card, forming an arc together with the spread cards.
Glowing purple motes drifted from the embers. At the same time, stars appeared densely within Lilia's pupils, and countless tiny stars emerged in her glowing purple eyes.
"Only you know your past. Draw any four cards. They will give you the answer you want."
With that, the starlight in Lilia's eyes began to dim. Su Xiao, seated opposite her, reached out and drew four cards from the spread. Faint purple light sank into them.
Tap~
The slender pipe tapped lightly against the table. Muffled by the velvet covering, the sound was soft and dull. Almost simultaneously, the remaining divination cards on the table turned into smoke and sank into the slender pipe.
"Four Transcendents ambushed you last night. They were..."
Witch Lilia lifted the first card Su Xiao had chosen. The image on it represented a female sage.
Seeing the card, Su Xiao already knew whom it represented: Mage Sage Sephilia.
Lilia turned over the second card. Its image represented an aged scholar. After eliminating a few possibilities, Su Xiao realized that it depicted Dean Guya of the Arcane Eternal Star.
The third card was turned