As a Seer, Roger had naturally considered how to further enhance his precognitive abilities.
He had basically gone through all the relevant books in the Hogwarts library.
This allowed his precognitive abilities to far surpass what they were in the Middle East, but it also made Roger discover a limitation.
While he had indeed learned prophecy and divination quickly, once he reached a certain level, progress became difficult. His other precognitive abilities were two to three orders of magnitude weaker than his crisis premonition.
It wasn't that they were unusable, but their accuracy was like that of the half-baked professor in Hogwarts' Divination class – sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.
Only when divining the past was it considered somewhat effective.
Roger had also dabbled in astrology.
As mentioned before, because all beings considered the sun, moon, and stars to be special, they possessed special mystical powers.
These mystical powers, operating along special trajectories, sometimes formed rituals that influenced the world.
This was the creation of destiny by the stars.
And as everyone knows, Earth's atmosphere interferes with the starlight seen by people's eyes, causing the stars to twinkle. Under the influence of destiny, the atmosphere would be disturbed, and the intensity of starlight would also change.
This was the observation of starlight's destiny trajectory.
Astrology represented the great trends of destiny created by the stars, while starlight belonged to the branches of destiny created by human actions.
If 'Heaven's Mandate' and 'Human Fortune' achieved a certain synergy, it could lead to terrifying developments.
The phenomenon the centaur had mentioned earlier was somewhat similar to what Roger had seen in an ancient book.
So, Roger pressed for details.
"Of course," the centaur Firenze replied respectfully.
As a race of astrologers who placed great importance on divination, centaurs held those with powerful precognitive abilities in deep reverence.
He naturally would not choose to argue with Roger.
After a brief exchange with Firenze about astrology, Roger confirmed that what their eyes, more sensitive to celestial phenomena than his own, had observed was precisely the phenomenon he had seen in the book.
In the East, it was commonly known as... Heavenly Mechanism Disorder! It usually foretold the imminent arrival of some major change or crisis, disrupting the originally stable order of the heavenly mechanisms and making the world's operating rules unpredictable.
Roger certainly didn't believe that his mere existence could cause the centaurs to see the phenomenon of Heavenly Mechanism Disorder.
Destiny had a certain degree of corrective power. His existence had altered the original destiny, only causing the celestial phenomena to reveal a new possibility.
Rather than pure chaos.
The reason for this was probably because...
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Returning to his laboratory, Roger looked at the rows of experimental records and books on his bookshelf with a complex expression.
"Could my choice actually be related to the future trajectory of the entire world?"
With the assistance of his crisis premonition and his Second Brain, Roger was conducting magical experiments at a speed thousands of times faster than ordinary wizards, continuously eliminating erroneous paths and identifying the correct direction.
Currently, Roger's Transfiguration-based body modification technology was nearing completion.
It would basically be finished within a month.
This was several times faster than Roger's original estimated time.
Once Roger's research was complete, he would gain an almost infinite lifespan.
Regarding soul lifespan and mental lifespan, Roger had not yet begun his research. He did not know the natural lifespan of a soul, but even without research, judging from Nicolas Flamel's life, Roger could live at least 700 years longer.
From the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, spanning the Jin Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, to the establishment of the Song Dynasty, that was only a little over 700 years!
This was not a short amount of time.
But Roger did not believe that the breakthrough in this technology could have such a significant impact on the world.
This was because Roger did not intend to popularize this technology.
Roger did not oppose the existence of other immortals in the world, but he did not want everyone who sought eternal life to follow his path.
Too much homogenization was not a good thing. For Roger, it was better for everyone to forge their own way.
Moreover, the heavenly mechanism could not possibly be in disorder because of something that would happen hundreds of years later.
It had a certain time limit, usually from a few days to a decade or so.
Therefore, it could only be for another reason.
Recently, Roger was planning to establish a future path that truly belonged to him.
Having studied magic for nearly half a year, even without activating his crisis premonition during combat, Roger's strength had already swelled to a level surpassing that of Hogwarts professors.
Although he couldn't be proficient in everything, in his areas of expertise like 'Life Modification' and 'Alchemy,' Roger's knowledge level surpassed that of most professors.
To advance further and reach the magical level of Voldemort, Nicolas Flamel, Dumbledore, and Grindelwald, Roger needed to establish his own 'Dao'! His own path was the entry ticket to becoming a world-class wizard.
Body modification techniques for Transfiguration? Those were merely 'techniques' Roger used to extend his lifespan; they couldn't be called a Dao.
Roger had already chosen the direction of his path.
However, what Roger chose was not just a single direction of magical development.
The possibilities of magic were infinite, but magic also had its limits.
This was because magic required a person to cast it, and human existence itself was the boundary of magic. The limit of imagination was the limit of magic.
The path Roger chose contained magic, but it was also more than just magic.
Roger pulled an ancient book from the bookshelf.
It was not a magical tome, but many Eastern magical practices were developed based on it.
Its name was... the I Ching! "All things are subject to change, only change itself is eternal!" All things in the universe would change, but only change itself would not change.
Roger didn't know how to achieve true Eternal Life.
But after much deliberation, this was the closest answer he had found.
Roger wanted to become 'change'! This was the path Roger had chosen! But choosing was not the end; it was merely the beginning.
It wasn't as if deciding to make 'The Ultimate of Soul and Emotion' your path would instantly turn you into Voldemort, the Dark Lord.
After choosing, you still had to walk the path.
This was the most difficult step.
How many children chose to become scientists or big stars, only for a few to actually become scientists or big stars?
It was the same for Roger.
He had chosen the path of "All things are subject to change, only change itself is eternal."
But how could he become 'change'? Doubt began to arise in Roger's mind, and various possibilities flashed through his thoughts, only to be rejected one by one by Roger.
It was this state of indecision that began to cause the Heavenly Mechanism Disorder! "This can't go on like this. I should ask others about their choices and see if I can get some reference."
For a moment, several names flashed through Roger's mind.
Professor McGonagall, Snape, Voldemort, Dumbledore...
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