World Occult Usage Guide

Chapter 117 A Card

The moment the system was activated, Lin An's vision was filled with an incredible spectacle from "Comos".

It's been a long time since I've seen it.

Lin An couldn't help but look behind him. The five-pointed star proudly rotated against the dark night sky, and Hebrew characters flashed. Each line was composed of strange, hand-like patterns that were twisted together, but they were not as disgusting as the indescribable fleshy spheres in the Cthulhu Mythos.

On the contrary, it appears exceptionally sacred because the patterns are in the form of fire, lightning, and brilliant light.

This is also a form of angel.

In Hebrew, the word for angel is malakh, which also means messenger. They serve all living beings and all things in the natural world, traveling between various realms, carrying human prayers to heaven and returning with God's answers.

At the end of each pentagram, five different perfume scents swirl around: incense, myrrh, aloe vera, sulfur, and rosemary, their aromas converging and opposing his airflow.

It must be said that Hill's mystery is quite spectacular.

Unfortunately, Lin An only had a few moments to admire them before he had to say goodbye. Not only that, he also missed seeing their other forms and the battle scenes with the Dawn Association knights.

"System, you made me miss out on a lot of great things," Lin An complained.

"I'm sorry, dear Lin An, regret is also a bittersweet drink that one must taste in life."

Where did this "intellectualism" come from?

You only fixed the data corruption; are you still out of your mind?

Putting the research system aside for now, Lin An had not yet resolved the two thorny issues at hand. The ominous sign in his chest was growing larger and larger, having already eroded his entire torso and spreading to his limbs and neck.

Hill's mysticism also kept pulling him in the opposite direction, like a spider web, with flowing incense wrapping around every inch of his skin and bones.

Summoning the system's green code, Lin An further weakened Hill's energy, manipulating the airflow to land on the top floor platform of the MGM Grand Hotel, just a few steps away from Evancia.

The woman with heterochromatic eyes unconsciously retreated to the edge.

Ever since Lin An finished counting down the strange countdown, he seemed like a different person. His aura suddenly shifted, giving her a deadly and intense sense of crisis.

He stared intently at himself.

"You...aren't you going to run away?"

As soon as she spoke, she realized her voice was trembling badly.

Lin An was actually looking at the system data; the familiar panel was pasted on the sorceress's face.

[Names]: Ainx, Ianx, Crooked Neck Bird, Spell Wheel, Omen, Hope Diamond

[Rating]: Disaster Level B

Radiation level: 35.4%
[Pollution Level]: 48.7%
[Medium]: The seeker of knowledge

Although the senior student only received a disaster rating, she had quite a few nicknames because her rating was B.

“Senior, it’s okay if you don’t want to cooperate.” Lin An smiled gently, raised her wand and pointed it at that flawless diamond-like eye. “I will give you a condition that you can’t refuse.”

"What do you mean—"

Before she could finish speaking, Evensia felt an excruciating pain shooting through her eyes.

The first mystical spell she created based on this—Ominous Sign—is gradually collapsing and being forgotten uncontrollably.

"Yeah!"

With a piercing scream, Evensia covered her eyes with her hands, hot pus and blood dripping from the ripped-out area.

"System, use [The Art of Transcendence]."

A thought flashed through Lin An's mind, and he looked up to admire the energy transformation he hadn't seen in a long time.

Red sulfides, mixed with Evensia's life force, were like wool yarn pulled from a toy, twisted into a long, thin energy body centered on her diamond eye.

The "Strike" gem lights up, transforming into a center for absorbing energy.

As the fiery red rims moved inward, a curtain of mercury vapor flowed into the gemstone at its very core.

It rotates, absorbing the energy of the ominous diamond, gradually transforming from ordinary red into a sacred red, a color called "deep fire red," associated with a specific pigment—cinnabar red, derived from the Latin word "vermiculus," which literally means "worm."

A strange pattern appears at the center of the gemstone.

It was a shape that alternated between two circles and semicircles, appearing in the pool of holy blood's light. One side of the circle was higher, and the other side of the semicircle was lower, like a place where the sacred and the secular "dwell together".

The devotee dwells in the Body of the Savior, and the Savior dwells in the heart of the devotee.

"Mutual indwelling" is a key concept in the transcendental unity of the Trinity, representing the pinnacle of medieval mysticism's study of Heaven.

They believed that the path to realizing this lofty aspiration was through the humanity of the savior.

It sounds complicated, but it's not.

To give an analogy, originally gods and humans were two completely unrelated parallel lines. The savior descended into the material world through a human body, and was pierced in the ribs by Langnusky, bleeding profusely. Through his death and sacrifice, humanity began a path of ascension.

First, the mind was enlightened from darkness and decay, then the body was cleansed by holy dew, and then the spirit and soul received the help of the stars and ether.

The alchemist can finally unlock the ultimate formula leading to spiritual perfection.

It is both death and rebirth, flowing upstream along the crimson river opened with blood, passing through the wound beside the ribs, and entering the final sanctuary.

Of course, those struck by a ruby ​​cannot "ascend to heaven".

Because the next step in the spiritual transformation is the effect of the final golden gem.

When the five gems are combined, the five matrices of Paracelsus will reach their perfect state, and the Philosopher's Stone will be born.

Currently, Lin An has discovered that as long as the energy of the red gem surrounds another person, that individual will suffer from a mentally and rationally tormenting illness, rendering all healing abilities below the mythical level ineffective, and they will completely perish in about 3 days. This perishing is not only death, but also includes the decomposition of the physical body and the dissipation of the soul.

In other words, once a person is enveloped by the ruby's [worm curtain], they will disappear completely within 72 hours, leaving nothing behind.

It's convenient to destroy the body and cover up the evidence, but 3 days... is too long.

After a moment's reflection, Lin An realized that the most useful thing about the [Worm Curtain] was actually creating "diseases".

It can instantly cause people to contract all sorts of diseases, and switching gem types can interrupt an individual's state.

When I have time, I'll pick an unlucky person to experiment on.

As the essence was extracted, Evancia's radiation level dropped rapidly, eventually leaving only about 10%.

As a medium for seekers of knowledge, Lin An was able to not only remove her ominous signs when he used the Art of Transcendence, but also drain the radiation value that Evensia had painstakingly accumulated.

Let's leave her some for the sake of the alumni association and the professor.

I'm still useful.

Lin An approached Evancia, who was kneeling on the ground, and gently tapped her head with his wand, which was still inlaid with a blue gem.

"Senior, wake up."

"Wow..."

Evensia inserted her long fingers into her empty eye sockets, and she felt her eyeballs dissolve and turn into a pool of black, thick liquid, which dripped to the ground through her fingers.

Intense pain, loss of energy, and forgetting of mystical arts.

The series of tragic experiences that followed left Evensia feeling numb like never before.

She looked at Lin An with her remaining spotted brown eyes, who had a half-smile on his face. Behind him, the dazzling neon lights of Rasmedos bloomed, forming a brilliant sea of ​​light.

"I lost, I surrender! Junior, what do you want to do?"

"Marry me, darling."

"...?"

"Don't worry, it's just to get rid of my wife's marriage of convenience."

Lin An shook his wand, and Evancia's heart pounded as shadows fell over her undamaged eye.

"I'm sure you'll meet someone even better, but we need to get married first."

…………

In the monitoring room of Caesars Palace, the members of the inspection team turned pale as they watched the successfully transmitted signal.

The knights of the Dawn Society crossed their arms and spoke in a casual tone, posing questions with a rather ambiguous attitude.

"After this is over, the Dawn Association will need a detailed report. Please have you and Mr. Lin write down everything you have done during this period, down to the smallest detail."

"Is it only the Dawn Association that needs it?" Barry lifted his hands from the cumbersome system console, let out a long sigh of relief, and asked in a slightly helpless tone after a moment.

"This is your choice," the knight said. "After all, the St. Anilov Foundation did not participate in this incident, and although you used dishonest means such as deception, concealment, and betrayal, you ultimately made a great contribution. The Dawn Association thanks you for your efforts."

“No need, I just want to stay in the Eagle Nation.” Barry shook his head. “Why don’t you ask Lin if he’s interested in going to the Western Continent with you?”

“Mr. Fenton, you are very good at seeing through other people’s true intentions.”

“I used to be a ‘high roller’ next door for a few years,” Barry smiled slightly. “Now I’m just a ‘sentinel’ helping my partner get the small cards. The real ‘big player’ only needs to track down the Ace in the deck and bet on winning 50% of the time.”

As if conversing with him across time and space, Lin An gazed at the city lights of Las Meadows, where dazzling advertising signs never closed, their points of light forming a large Ace of Spades.

Evensia, pale as a ghost, stood beside him.

"I had a great time in Las Meadows this weekend and learned a lot of skills, but senior, you really shouldn't get involved in gambling, prostitution, or drugs."

Brushing the dust off his shoulders, Lin An casually flicked away the dissipating, annoying five-pointed star angels.

"For example, blackjack, like 21."

Hill, who was walking inside the MGM Grand Hotel, suddenly stopped in her tracks and stared unblinkingly at the long-haired man who had suddenly appeared.

“You might make a small profit, but the house never loses.” He spread out his two large, heavy hands. “The chips those two guys won at my casino today will all be squeezed back from you.”

"The Land of the Gods!"

Hill's pupils suddenly contracted. At the same time, she discovered that the marriage law had suddenly become completely ineffective. No matter how much energy she tried to activate, she could no longer sense Lin An's presence.

"The Western Continent families really do like to collude with each other, never thinking about the safety of all mankind!"

"The future of Titan is none of your concern," the long-haired man recited poetically. "Without enduring the suffering of the long, dark night, one cannot see the beautiful goddess of golden light."

"If you attack me, I have nothing to fear from Xi Yong—"

"Xi Yong won't fall out over a group of judges. Besides, I just received news that you've already been discarded."

"Eh?"

Hill Catherine froze in a daze as ancient Mediterranean script flew out, winding and twisting like a sky full of stars, merging her with her own mysterious legend, transforming her into a new chapter in an epic.

"ρεδ'μβρoτoναμαθεo, ιχρ, ooπερτερειμακρεσσίθεoσι."

(The immortal blood flowing from the gods seems to surge in the silence of the soul.)
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