Chapter 105: Oracle
"Hello World?" Zephyr leaned back and asked in confusion. He’d thought it would be something more...
Komi nodded, "A whole new way of communicating with these Hollows was then created. And not too long after, their uniqueness was discovered. These Hollows could make real world predictions about a lot of things with near-perfect accuracy as long as it existed in our world, or had something to do with it."
’Aegis, any thoughts on this?’ Zephyr asked inwardly. Aegis had suddenly gone silent after being vocal just a few moments ago.
...Well all I can tell you right now is that what she’s describing is similar to a ’supercomputer.’ An origin powered ’supercomputer.’ This is even more intriguing because of her earlier statement. If that was the first thing that was really said by these ’Hollow’, then it makes me question the true nature of origin even more...
’An origin powered supercomputer...’ Zephyr repeated. The word ’supercomputer’ translated to something along the lines of ’super processor’ in his mind, so he still had a very good idea what Aegis was talking about.
"These Hollows eventually became what we now refer to as Oracles." Komi finished.
Zephyr went silent for a minute, readjusting his understanding of this world based on the knowledge he just gained. The implications were staggering. An all knowing, all processing ’supercomputer’, plugged in to origin directly... whoever controlled such a thing...
"And these Oracles can be asked for information about anything at all?" He asked.
"Not anything. They usually don’t answer most questions. Not unless it has to do with something that might affect the world... but there is a period of every year when Oracles answer a few minor queries." She explained. "Here in Freehold, this chance is given to the Elders or people who have performed outstandingly well to further the cause during the year. Their requests are forwarded to the Elders, who then proceed to give their queries to the Oracle."
"Oh, yes! Back to why I’m so tall when my father is extremely short. Well that was his query to the Oracle. It was one of his most weighted criteria for selecting a wife from his many admirers," Komi shrugged. "He chose who was most probable to give him very tall children.
"...Uhh. Okay." Zephyr said. It was weird to him, but everyone had their own weird quirks and interests. He didn’t really care for why the Sage had such a specific criteria at all. His main interest now was the Oracle itself. He wanted to ask more questions. Where was the one here at Freehold? How did they create it? Someone had to turn into a Hollow for there to be an Oracle, right? So who was it? Was it voluntary? What were the limits of this... Oracle? And why were they not using it to create spell models and pathway inheritances on the fly?
He held his tongue though. Although Komi didn’t look like it, he could tell this was all she was willing to reveal at the moment. So he simply filed the information and questions about Oracles away and changed the topic to something else.