In class, the World History teacher was rambling on about the strange history of this world, which had many differences from Earth.
If he hadn't already crammed all the knowledge points into his brain through rote practice, Asakura would probably have been happy to listen to his lecture as a story.
But at this moment, Asakura's thoughts were no longer on the class, but had shifted back to the system and the Nameless Magic Book, which he hadn't finished looking at earlier—although in essence, these two things were one and the same.
First, there was the reward for the previous task that he hadn't had time to look at.
It was distributed in a way somewhat similar to the Essence of Dittany, three sets of materials and a corresponding alchemy note.
Asakura initially thought it was some kind of magic potion, but he almost couldn't hold back when he saw the name of the alchemy note.
[Weasley Brothers' Inspiration Notes (Instant Skip-Class Sweets Chapter)]
[Research notes privately recorded by the Weasley twins, which played an indispensable role in their later establishment of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes. This research note records recipes for instant skip-class sweets, including Nosebleed Nougat, Fever Fudge, Fainting Fancies, Puking Pastilles, and Blood Blisterpod.]
[Note: "The antidote for Nosebleed Nougat is done, it's the purple one… No, that's the Blood Blisterpod… Well, now I'll have to go find Madam Pomfrey."
—George Weasley ( "No, I'm Fred, the one bleeding is George." )]
Although it seemed useless at first glance, as a type of magical creation, the effects caused by these items, which in some sense could be considered prank props, were almost undetectable by modern medicine. Although Asakura hadn't yet thought of any other uses besides skipping class, it could at least somewhat improve his alchemy skills… right?
Asakura's fingers, hidden under his desk, lightly waved, closing the translucent screen, then he focused his mind on the Nameless Magic Book in his head.
On the emblem page that he hadn't examined closely before, a new emblem had indeed lit up, and by focusing his attention on it, he could see the corresponding description.
[Seventh Authority Clock Tower]
[Eye of Agamotto: The authority gained after completing the trial of 'Agamotto, King of Time-Eaters'. Future Vision, you can see the future 0 seconds later.]
Asakura:?
Isn't the future 0 seconds later just now?
If a card's effect is to fuse in the current turn, then it's not a future fusion, it's just a present fusion!
What kind of Future Vision is this?! It's just ordinary Present Vision!
After muttering to himself for a while, Asakura felt that as the authority of an evil god, it shouldn't be that simple.
So he tried to study it again and indeed discovered the trick.
The Future Vision, named Eye of Agamotto, just like the previous limited infinity, was a state that was completely permanently active on him, always in an activated state.
However, to truly achieve the effect of Future Vision, he needed to inject magic into it—Asakura felt that it wasn't just magic, any supernatural power should work, but he only had magic power so that's all he could try.
Once magic was injected, the scene in front of Asakura would begin to show double images: one was the scene of 'current' time, and the other was the scene of 'future'.
And as the amount of injected magic increased, the future that could be seen would also become further away.
Because of the existence of 'limited infinity', by investing this share of magic into it, Asakura could almost permanently maintain about 1 second of Future Vision with no loss.
But honestly, the double vision feeling was very uncomfortable, and even the sounds would overlap and become very bizarre, especially now that he was in class, with the teacher constantly lecturing in front of the blackboard, which further intensified this strangeness, giving him a sense of déjà vu like watching Journey to the West: The Journey Continues.
So Asakura wasn't prepared to permanently maintain this 1 second of Future Vision, after all, a mere 1 second couldn't affect much, and keeping it on was useless and would only torture him visually and audibly…
Of course, the research on Future Vision was not over yet. After class, Asakura planned to invest more magic, and after reading a slightly more distant future, he would start trying to go against what Future Vision saw, to see if the future seen by Future Vision could be changed.
It was a pity that the previous construction of magic consumed too much, almost depleting all the magic Asakura had painstakingly accumulated during this period, consuming seven or eight parts of it, so the Future Vision experiment could only go so far, and he couldn't do it to his heart's content.
'No, if I think about it carefully, the experiment doesn't need to wait until after class.'
A sudden thought flashed in Asakura's mind.
He estimated his remaining magic, which was about less than three hundred standard units, so he simply put all of his magic into Future Vision at once, maintaining about one second of Future Vision, and saw the future about six to seven seconds later.
'The magic invested and the time of the future seen are not simply directly proportional, but rather, the more distant the future, the more magic is consumed, increasing almost exponentially? Looking at it this way, the most cost-effective approach is probably to invest a limited amount of infinity and an additional one hundred units of magic to see about three to five seconds into the future?'
Although it might be quite useful in combat, after all, a miss by a hair is a miss by a mile, and a single move can decide the outcome between masters, but in real life, it doesn't seem to have much special use?
Asakura almost timed it with a stopwatch, waiting until the teacher by the podium was about to say what he had seen through Future Vision, when Asakura suddenly raised his hand and interrupted him: "Teacher!"
"Asakura?"
The World History teacher was stunned for a moment, but his attitude towards an excellent student was clearly not going to be bad, so he asked kindly: "Is there something wrong?"
"I'm feeling a bit unwell. If possible, I'd like to go to the infirmary to rest."
Asakura said expressionlessly.
At the same time, he also understood the future he had seen through Future Vision—it was clear that this seen future was not set in stone and could be changed through certain methods.
This reassured Asakura quite a bit, as he hated fatalism the most, and stories where people tried to resist a prophecy but ended up fulfilling it through their resistance. Such situations were truly unbearable for the person being prophesied about, as if life itself had no meaning and was utterly void.
And the World History teacher, after observing Asakura's expression for a moment, nodded: "Alright, do you need someone else to go with you?"
"No need, thank you, teacher."
Asakura nodded in acknowledgment, then hurried out of the classroom alone.
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