角色故事•一(解鎖條件:角色等級20)
一日,玉闕太卜司晨會之後,莊嚴靜謐的空氣中飄散著閒聊的碎語。
「缺席晨修也就罷了,她居然還跑去參加玉闕杯牌賽!」
「上次說了她幾句,她卻說什麼能得『牌聖』之名的都是深諳爻象之士,不信的話與她比試比試…」
「然後,你真與她比了不成?贏了沒?」
「……」
幾襲長袍在風中揚起,仿佛積壓了滿肚子的不滿。
「你還記得上回嗎?她在子夜時分召集了幾個青年卜者勾畫法陣,說是要試驗外邦的卜算秘術,學習百家之長,倒把巡夜的長老嚇了個魂飛魄散。」
「怎麼不記得?她在課堂上公然用自創的卜算方法挑戰老師,把先生氣得向太卜告狀,得虧太卜心慈手軟,不然縱然她有萬般天才,也免不了一頓重罰……」
「不過嘛…任她有百般不是,『十方光映法界』的布成有她幾分功勞,司內上上下下,誰能像她一樣,眼睛過一遍就能算準。」
「哼,你知道現在同輩都叫她什麼嗎?『爻總』,說什麼人算不如天算,天算不如她干——這哪還有玉闕樸素嚴謹的學風!」
不約而同的一聲嗟嘆,滌走了不少怨氣,二人的言辭終是趨於和緩。
「說起來,這丫頭又跑到哪裡去了?」
忽地傳來一陣歌聲,只見一位少女跨坐在房頂候風儀上,仰觀天象,她囅然一笑: 「師叔們,小心了。師傅今日給我算了一卦,說是什麼『震驚百里,不喪匕鬯』。你們離我太近,恐怕也要被雷劈了!」
是時,玉闕穹頂之上忽然雷聲大作,聲勢駭人;更有斑斕雷光飛綻,觸目驚心。
「如果躲不開的話,不妨安心享受這難得一見的奇景吧!」
她知道,這聲勢不過是玉闕掠過星雲時,星塵劃過船體產生的震動,自己會安然無恙——
但仍有一絲疑惑掠過她的心頭,此卦…當真應驗了麼?
——卦曰 :震驚百里,不喪匕鬯。
Character Story: Part I
• Unlocked at Character Level 20
One day, after the morning meeting at the Yuque's Divination Commission, the solemn silence was broken by snippets of idle gossip.
"First she skips morning practice, and now she runs off to the Yuque Cup tournament!"
"When I confronted her, she said only a true master of augury could be called a 'Master of Cards,' and I should play her if I didn't believe it."
"And you actually played against her? Did you win?"
"..."
Several robes fluttered in the wind, as if holding a bellyful of grievances.
"Remember last time? She gathered a few young diviners at midnight to sketch matrices, claiming she wanted to test foreign divination techniques and study their strengths. Nearly scared the elder on night patrol out of his wits."
"How could I forget? She publicly challenged her teacher in class with her own invented methods of divination, infuriating him so much he complained to the Master Diviner. If the Master Diviner hadn't been so merciful, she would've been in deep trouble, genius or not..."
"But still... for all her flaws, she did contribute to the formation of the 'Deca-Light Reflection Barrier.' Tell me, who else in the whole division can get the divination right with a single glance?"
"Hmph, do you know what her peers call her now? 'Boss Yao,' saying man's divination is no match for heaven's will, and heaven's will is no match for her. This is nothing like Yuque's simple and austere academic style!"
A simultaneous sigh washed away half their resentment, softening their tones at last.
"Speaking of which, where did that girl run off to now?"
A sudden song drifted in from above. A young girl straddled the rooftop wind vane, gazing up at the heavens. She flashed a bright smile:
"Heads up, seniors! Master did a divination reading for me today, something about 'thunder shakes a hundred miles, yet the ritual vessels remain.' You might want to keep your distance, or you'll get struck by lightning too!"
Right then, thunder instantly roared across the dome of the Yuque, deafening and fierce. Brilliant arcs of lightning unfurled, dazzling to the eye, yet horrifying to the heart.
"If we can't dodge it, might as well sit back and enjoy this once-in-a-lifetime spectacle!"
She knew this commotion was merely vibrations from stardust scraping against the hull as the Yuque passed through a nebula. She would be perfectly safe.
Yet a small doubt still flickered in her heart: did this divination... truly come to pass?
The divination reads: Thunder shakes a hundred miles, yet the ritual vessels remain.
