World Occult Usage Guide

Chapter 174 Two parallel lines
The motivational message is good, but do you even know where the witch is?
Lin An glanced sideways at the others.

The "Paradise" created by the witch exists in a world between fantasy and reality. Even Lin An cannot freely board that small boat or freely enter and leave the lair of the free mystics.

Not to mention that the Foundation only narrowed down the witch's activities to the International Bridge, but didn't know the exact location of her stronghold.

Are they also going to hunt down free-spirited mystics?
How do you hunt?
The foundation quickly provided Lin An with an answer.

A girl with her upper face covered by a white cloth emerged, supported by someone. Her hair was almost transparently golden, curly and reaching her waist. She wore a white dress, and her slender, thin body seemed as if it could be blown away by a gust of wind.

“This is one of John Dee’s descendants,” Reagan introduced to the members stationed in the north. “She is one of the Foundation’s few ‘visionary’ mediums, and she has been hunting Beta-002 [Deer Girl] for some time now.”

Lin An had seen the name "Deer Girl" on the wanted list.

The Deer Maiden is a wondrous creature in local mythology whose behavior and character vary depending on circumstances and interpersonal relationships.

For parents who patiently raise their children, it is a guardian that brings love. However, when it discovers that someone is harming young children, it transforms into a vengeful and swift monster, immediately disemboweling and killing the abuser.

Sometimes it is a young and beautiful woman with deer feet, and sometimes it is a graceful deer.

The deer woman looks very similar to a gender-swapped version of the deer boy, but their behavior is completely different because there are many tribes in the area, each with its own unique culture and customs.

According to the foundation's records, "Sister Lu" was keen on "prison breakouts" and would occasionally go to prisons to kill a few pedophiles to vent her anger, causing a lot of headaches for police stations across the country.

Since Michigan does not have the death penalty, Sister Lu's actions led to numerous protests from local residents who believed that the prison had not upheld the verdict and had secretly executed the prisoner, violating humanitarian and democratic principles.

As a champion of the old order, the Foundation naturally became mortal enemies with the unruly Deer Woman.

"Unfortunately, for some reason, after fighting us tenaciously for several months, the [Deer Woman] suddenly disappeared without a trace." The captain who was helping the girl sighed. "We can only pray that she died from an outbreak of pollution, or that she moved to another place to break the law."

"The Deer Woman must have received a message from the four local gods and gone to the Golden Kingdom," Lin An thought to himself.

Without commenting further on the conflict between the foundation and the Deer Girl, he turned his gaze to the ethereal girl.

According to Reagan, she is a descendant of the renowned modern mystic John Dee.

After a brief investigation, Lin An connected John Dee's life story with her mystery.

[Name]: Enoch's Key
[Rating]: Disaster Level D

Radiation level: 16.3%
[Pollution Level]: 37.9%
[Media]: Dreamer

The prototype originates from an ancient occult skill called Clairvoyance, which means "clear vision" in French.

Since ancient times, clairvoyance has been an important element in the fields of divination, prophecy, and magic.

Legend has it that the ability to see far and wide can reveal things that cannot be seen. Later, different schools of thought emerged, such as telepathy, spiritual perception, telepathy, mind transmission, and psychometrics.

John Dee's research is one such field—remote viewing, in modern terms "traveling clairvoyance," which involves seeing distant, unknown places by visiting angels who represent the stars, drawing their attention, and communicating with them.

Dee was Queen Elizabeth I's royal astrologer, and he and Edward Kelly jointly created this communication ritual.

The language used to conduct the ceremony is called "Enochian".

The language was invented by Edward Kelly, who claimed it was the language of angels and the first words they spoke to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

The captain from the south helped the girl sit down slowly. Her hands were clasped over her chest as she chanted a complex and intricate incantation, the melody of which seemed to be a combination of Sanskrit, Greek, or Arabic.

In an instant, Lin An saw 30 golden keys floating around the girl.

Each key has a function in Enochian magic. The first two keys summon the Spirit Gate, and the next sixteen keys transform into the four elements, which form a rectangle and display different colors and states.

The 19th key pierced through the elements of earth, wind, water, and fire, and was inserted into the spiritual door representing the fifth element.

The foundation members held their breath, not daring to utter a sound, and Lin An watched intently as well.

This was the third "dreamer" he had encountered.

It must be said that the scene when they performed their mystical arts was quite dreamlike.

A scene beyond imagination appeared behind the door. Due to a lack of understanding, it degraded itself to a crystal ball, floating in front of the girl.

This is the etheric body of the angels.

The girl spoke softly to the crystal ball in Enochian, extending a stick that pointed to the remaining golden keys, their surfaces adorned with raised squares representing the written letters of Enochian.

“She’s on a black boat,” the girl said, enunciating each word carefully as she recited the key’s information.

Before he could finish speaking, the scene in the warehouse blurred.

The straight outlines of modern facilities are transformed into twisted lines reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland, while cables intertwine into wondrous, dark brown lines that are clear, elegant, and distant, outlining another supernatural world.

A creature with three heads, a human upper body, and a goat lower body appeared.

Space shattered around her, and distance lost its meaning.

Bavomet's Witch!
Everyone fell silent, never expecting that the witch could actually track them down using the coordinates of the "Dreamer".

With a slight movement of her soft, beautiful lips, the girl in white suddenly knelt down and wept bitterly.

“That’s right, I don’t want to capture the [Deer Woman]!…So, I’ve been constantly misleading my companions during the pursuit, which has caused me immense pain, but my captain and family keep pressuring me…” “The ‘Comers’ gift is a brick; it can be used to build a court of reason, or thrown out of a window of the real world.” The witch chuckled softly, her magical voice echoing in everyone’s ears, “Which path do you choose?”

"I am willing to follow you, Witch!"

With a shout, the two figures vanished in a flash, leaving behind only the Foundation members looking at each other in bewilderment.

Fuck!
How did one of them get turned before the fight even started?
This is a blatant provocation!
Lin An was filled with awe; even after a month apart, the witch's brainwashing abilities remained as powerful as ever.

Fortunately, the girl left behind crucial information before she left.

—The witch is on a black ship.

The department that lost an employee quickly contacted the facilities and, after receiving orders from the chairman and the three ministers, several team leaders, headed by Reagan, urgently launched an ideological education campaign.

"Imagine if national laws lost their binding force, if everyone could do whatever they wanted, the civilized order that humanity has built up to date would collapse..."

They were truly terrified of the witch.

The rule of law and ethics class lasted for a full two hours. After ensuring that every employee was in a stable mental state, the operation to hunt down the witch officially began.

Now that they know the witch's stronghold is located on a "black ship," the Foundation's next step is to contact the government to blockade the Eagle Nation's ports and inspect all black ships crossing the river.

No matter how well a witch hides her tracks, she will eventually give herself away.

Next, all you need to do is stay by the target's side 24 hours a day.

According to the investigation, the witch can only teleport through "coordinates." Apart from the fixed "Paradise," the other coordinates depend on the mystics who follow her.

While the witches lie in wait on one side, the Foundation will also send out a small team to hunt down the remaining free mystics in Dietrich.

When all her followers are teleported back to "Elysium" due to the crisis, the witch will lose her coordinates and be trapped on the ship, with no way to escape.

Although the Foundation could not find a way to enter the illusion, the followers of the witch could not stay inside forever without food and water. As soon as they left the illusion, they would be surrounded and attacked.

At this point, the struggle between the two sides has turned into a tug-of-war.

Clearly, the lone witch was no match for the Foundation, which had the support of an entire nation.

Moreover, when this beautiful dream is shattered, will this visionary lose his mind due to the surge in pollution, and even perish without the foundation's intervention?

Lin An believes that this possibility cannot be ruled out.

He absentmindedly followed his companion, secretly checking the surveillance footage on his phone.

Joshua, disguised as a homeless man doing odd jobs, asked if the Dream of Domondo needed help. His camera and headphones were hidden under a tattered hat, perfectly matching his demeanor.

Upon hearing this, the sailors exchanged words and actually got him to join the ranks of those carrying cargo.

Upon entering the bungalow, Joshua looked around.

The walls were mottled and covered with grease and dust, and a pungent smell filled the entire space. The rumble of the range hood and the roar of machinery were incessant.

Lacking experience, Joshua assumed no one was paying attention to him and quietly asked Lin An.

"Teacher, what should we do next?"

Before Lin An could answer, the sound of a bullet being chambered rang out from behind.

"Whether you were sabotaging our plans at someone else's request, or you genuinely wanted to get odd jobs, you're out of luck today. Nobody cares where a homeless person is. Go to hell!"

Lin An saw the scene behind Joshua through a shattered piece of glass lying on the ground. He saw the sailors who had pretended to agree to his request all pulling out their pistols and pulling the triggers.

"Ping——!"

Gunshots rang out, and sparks flew.

Joshua's pupils contracted as intense pain shot through the bloody hole, triggering his self-defense mechanism. A brass-colored snake coiled around him, swallowed the shrapnel, and his flesh writhed, returning to its original state.

He turned around abruptly, his amber eyes gleaming in the darkness.

Following Joshua's gaze, a bull-like mark appeared between the sailor's eyebrows, and a long sword cleaved down. Before the sailor could react, he fired a second shot. It wasn't until a full three seconds later that the man, who had been split in two, was cleaved in two.

Sliced ​​in two from skin, flesh, nerves to bones, the sailors fell silently to the ground, their blood splattering like fountains.

Joshua felt neither fear nor disgust as he watched the bloody scene.

As Lin An once said, they were just actors testing their "stunt double abilities".

Did you just barely pass?
Joshua touched the wound on his shoulder; the skin had long since healed and was as smooth as silk.

"Teacher, is this your first task? It hurts a little, but it's bearable." His tone was calm as still water. "So, what's the next step?"

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