After explaining the entire matter in detail, Shade shook the stone in his hand again:
"After obtaining it, I sought out a highly knowledgeable elder. He told me that the mark on this stone appeared widely in the notes and manuscripts of those mad Seers and Prophets who preached Doomsday theories.
Combined with what I know of certain stories from the Mythical Epoch, I came up with a rather bold guess—could the 'Destiny' that Lord of the Ring sealed within this snow mountain long ago, the thing known as the 'First Wrong Fate,' be..."
Shade paused and looked at President Lenormand. The diviner's eyes were an ordinary brown, but whether it was merely Shade's imagination or whether the other man truly possessed some other ability, those eyes seemed capable of seeing through Destiny itself.
The president of the Seer Association frowned slightly, then nodded amid the cold wind of the snow mountain and the firelight:
"Yes, that guess is correct."
Shade let out a long breath. This way, his earlier reaction of facing a formidable enemy had not been mistaken.
President Lenormand continued in the firelight:
"I never expected you to learn of this from that one symbol alone. For the survival of the world, the Ancient Gods sealed here the fate of the world's destruction and the coming of Doomsday at the end of the First Epoch—this matter is also recorded in the Serpent's Scale Prophecy.
Other than us, the legitimate inheritors of the Order of the Old Gods, I had thought no other individual or organization in the Material World knew of this. Yet you deduced the result from a symbol, and the Misfortune Order also seems to know some of the truth. It seems we were rather too arrogant."
The Serpent's Scale Prophecy was the most important